March 3rd 2025
Putin unleashes Iskander-M missile attack to ‘sink …
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Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles hit the Panama-flagged container ship MSC LEVANTE F – reportedly Swiss-owned – soon after it arrived in Odesa …
Putin launches ballistic missile to ‘sink ship carrying UK …
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An Iskander-M ballistic missile hit a Panama-flagged container ship called MSC Levante F in Odessa, according to reports.
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It was a meeting to kick off a day of joint engagements – but Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s sit-down saw White House schedules hastily redrawn.
The pair met in the Oval Office to discuss a minerals deal – which was supposed to be signed later on – and negotiations over ceasefire agreement with Russia.
It started politely enough but around 35 minutes in, the meeting took a quick and unexpected turn. Its demise was fuelled by comments from the man beside the US president: JD Vance.
A long-time critic of American support for Ukraine, the vice president berated Mr Zelenskyy for airing disagreements in front of the media – and as he did so, he made a number of claims about topics including the Ukrainian military, official visits to Kyiv and Mr Zelenskyy’s political affiliations.
Here, we look at the VP’s comments and additional context surrounding them.
Ukraine is ‘forcing conscripts to the frontlines’
Tensions began to rise as Mr Vance called the Ukrainian president “disrespectful” – an accusation Mr Trump repeated as the exchange hit its most intense moments.
Mr Vance added: “Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
“You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict.”
His statement that Ukraine is relying on conscription is correct. With some exceptions – such as health issues – Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving the country and anyone who reaches the age of 25 is conscripted unless they have already volunteered or are exempt.
Conscription is not unusual for armies locked in warfare. It was used by multiple countries during World War One and World War Two, and during the Vietnam War, the US government drafted men to fight via lotteries.
Russia is not using conscription to specifically recruit troops for the Ukraine war. But, with a few exceptions, all Russian men aged between 18 and 30 must complete a year of military service – and some of them have been sent to areas such as the Kursk region during the conflict.
‘Propaganda tour’
In response to the conscription comment, Mr Zelenskyy asked the VP: “Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?”
The answer, as Mr Zelenskyy knew, was no.
Ignoring the suggestion that he should visit, Mr Vance countered: “I’ve actually watched and seen the stories, and I know that what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr President.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, dozens of world leaders have visited the country. Among them are Joe Biden and Sir Keir Starmer, along with then British prime ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
The world’s media – including Sky News correspondents – have also reported from the frontlines.
It’s unclear why Mr Vance considers these trips “propaganda tours” but it’s a term our Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett has encountered frequently: he says it’s a phrase “one hears on Russian state media on an almost daily basis”.
‘Zelenskyy hasn’t said thank you’
Another sticking point for Mr Vance was whether Mr Zelenskyy was thankful enough for the US’s help.
“Have you said ‘thank you’ once this entire meeting?” he asked. “Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who’s trying to save your country.”
March 2nd 2025
President Trump said to warmonger Zelensky and all those like former head of corrupt Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) U.K PM Starmer, who earned his knighthood for his CPS failings; “You are gambling with World War III”. Starmer is the loudest voice for those who voted for him and all those World War II fantasists who think he is wonderful. It is going to cost them big time.
Trump to Zelensky “You’re gambling with World War Three”. Food For Thought. More Later – R.J Cook
That is what NATO vested interests want, with or without Trump. CIA will fill in the gaps.
Image Caption White House February 28th 2025. Trump commented in front of the world’s press, as he greeted Zelensky : “Look, he’s all dressed up.”
February 28th 2025
US family in Kyiv mourns son killed in war, upset by …Yahoo News UKhttps://uk.news.yahoo.com › us-family-kyiv-mourns-so…
Ethan Hertweck died in December, 2023, after he rushed to help an injured friend near the besieged town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine. He had …
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Ethan Hertweck’s family and friends said the 21-year-old had given his life fighting for freedom. Hertweck, from California, travelled to …
Comment I know from the experience of my ex wife and her police chief brother’s ruining the lives of my sons for their own advantage, the youngest now probably dead, but my other son and I not allowed to know. But my sons did not volunteer to lose their lives.
The dreadful and apparently senile President Biden, with Britain’s posturing Churchill wannabe suitably voluminous Boris Johnson, with his war mongering Defence Secretary Sir Ben Major Wallace of war on the Irish working classes fame, fanned the furious flames of war. They encouraged the wealthy former clown Zelensky, to believe his own foolery. Young Ethan Hertwick, a harmless medic, got caught up in a war that was engineered by the CIA and Mi6. It was provoked by the vested interest of NATO which should have gone the same way as the Warsaw Pact countries.
I am not being patronising. I made my foolish bid to join the military back in the 1970s and did not give thought to how much my widowed mother needed me. For all of my elite university education, I had no idea what wars were really about and maybe I had a death wish. Looking back, I am glad that little career plan did not work out.
Old men have been sending men off to war for too many years and are not going to stop anytime soon. Trump is infuriating war profiteering parasites, morinic congressmen and stupid U.K MPs getting off on thoughts of an orgasmic Russian defeat.. Churchill wannabe former PM Bulky Boris Johnson may have shared his hero’s shape but not his brains, He rushed to Kiev back in February 2022 to ensure the arrogant dictator and head of a corrupt regime, Zelensky from making a deal. The Biden’s and Boriss saw the money to be made from legalised murder. Zelensky has a very deep rabble rousing voice. The EU, UK and the barmy Bidens saw all the money to be made.
Trump is these menacing morons worst nightmare. Britain’s Starmer is rabble rousing. Starmer headed a bunch of crooked Crown Prosecution lawyers who persecuted and prosecuted the likes of Andrew Malkinson and the post masters. In spite of his illustrious career’s demands on the public purse, Starmer’s excuse for his corrupt barrister and solicitor underlings is that he did not know what was going on. These prosecutors worked with equally ambitious and corrupt U.K Police to jail innocent men. No surprise that Starmer, who appropriately looks like an undertaker, plans more police and laws for the U.K Police State, ironically all in the name of freedom and democracy.
Starmer has made himself chief EU warmonger even though the U.K is allegedly no longer in the EU. He was not fit to lead his country’s Crown Prosecution Service let alone his country. His record at the CPS makes him unfit for public office because corruption was the last thing on his mind. It is the last thing on his mind now. Starmer’s record at the CPS and his attitude to expenses and privileges makes him very much at home with super rich Zelensky and the EU Gravy Train.
So this existential war in Russia continues. The horrible reality for men like U.S volunter Ethan Hertweck is that his death is no excuse for Russia to stop the war which his poor father begged him to avoid. When I faced a Royal Navy flying commission board in the early 1970s, it was made quite clear to me that the job was about killing without questions, accepting that the other side would take the same view of me.
Today’s showdown between Trump and Zelensky is being ridiculed and trivialised as a Trump tantrum. These jingoistic journalists are selling the vested interests of their state and big business career masters. The only judgement they are meant to have is how to twist and turn the truth in a more important war on Donald Trump. They please the old farts in Congress and rancid ranting rampant Alpha Male White men hating feminists in the U.K Parliament and the so called elite media. We are all supposed to be on message.
Already the Geman election results, increasngly favouring the AFD, are being blamed on Russian manipulation, not hard working and forgetten white Germans lived experiences. This arrogant dismisal of ordinary Germans is so reminiscent of what caused the rise of Hitler. Their lives and prospects will be even worse when warmongers tax them out of existence to pay for this appalling war that we are all supposed to die for. At this moment of writing, the BBC’s overpaid comfortable news people, who are not fit to be called journalists, such is their bias, are livid at Trump’s dismissal of Zelensky. The European media does not like it. They are in anti Trump and anti Putin propaganda overdrive.
We are not supposed to know the truth about the Bidens and Zelensky. EU member leaders remain almost unanimous in their support for the Zelensky dicatorship. Starmer has invited him to an anti Russia meeting and banquet at Downing Street on his way back from Washington. Trump saw straight through Zelensky’s performance in front of the media. Starmer, however, is the same breed of opportunistic politicians. He only sees what he wants to see. He will make all the necessary cuts in native’s benefits to help fund his esteemed enhanced contribution to the EU’s World War Three. Starmer and Zelensky are very dangerous men.
Starmer looks forward to entertaining Zelensky with other European leaders on Sunday. Dmitry Medvedev described Zelensky ‘as a proper pig who got a proper slap down,’ NATO fat cats can’t survive if the U.S elects any more imbeciles and parasites to lead the once great U.S jump off a cliff. Trump and Vance must hold their nerve. Mainstream media is going to give them hell.
R J Cook February 28th 2025.
Devolving Into Mushroom Clouds
From Cabaret
‘Money money money money
Money money money money
Money money money
… If you happen to rich
And you feel like a night’s entertainment
You can pay for a gay escapade
If you happen to be rich and alone
And you need a companion
You can ring (ting-a-ling) for the maid
If you happen to be rich
And you find you are left by your lover
And you moan and you groan quite a lot
You can take it on the chin
Call a cab and begin to recover
On your 14-karat yacht! What!?
… Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
Of that we both are sure
On being poor!’
by John Kander and Fred Ebb and adapted by Ralph Burns,
Cabaret was based on the work of English teacher Christopher Isherwood who wrote the classic ‘Goodbye to Berlin’, which I read when I was sweet 16 and never forgot. Gay Isherwood was enjoying the rakish world of interwar Germany’s freedom loving fringe world while the seeds of Hitler’s Nazism were busy growing. Those were the days of hyper inflation and allied victors parasite reparations. They, not Hitler, caused World War Two. The same leeching lying class of parasites caused the Anglo U.S NATO led war on Russia. The age of rolling wars was approaching its apogee.
The western global media elite’s puppet reporters have trotted out all the World War Two metaphors and analogies to explain away Vladimir Putin as Hitler, unanimously applauding showman Zelensky as the overrated Churchill. Zelensky is the ring master for current carnage. The latest warning from the EU, dutifully clarion called across the world, is the danger of Putin’s rising Eurasian Empire. We worker ants are not supposed to notice that the U.K & EU monolith represents the real imperialists. There are also astonishing similarities between these people’s social organisation and ants. Every ant colony has one or more queens. Even though the worker ants are female, the queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. They have highly evolved social systems with three different castes ~ queens, males, and workers. The workers are female, but cannot reproduce. The latter are the feminists in human terms. In the human ant colony, the likes of J.K Rowling are the queens. The workers must do as they are told. They wouldn’t know how to do anything else.
The latest edition of ‘The Atlantic’ has a front cover illustration depicting Trump as Neville Chamberlain returning from Munich. The writers think they are very clever. The analogy is very simple and straightforward to suit State conditioned simplified minds. Of course human nature has not totally changed. The herd instinct and female hive minds are still there, but confused by social engineering and diversity training. But these are not the 1930s and Nazism did not start World War Two. As Mark Twain said; “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” That is true of the human masses. Too much money is the root of the rich people’s war mongering. As I have said many times before, if NATO, U.S and EU/UK don’t come out on top over Ukraine, there will be a world banking crisis. That is why Trump is demanding pay back. Wars are more about gory than glory. Afterwards, music is used to mask the misery. The workers get high on this hypnotism while the rich count the financial cost, tot up the balance sheet and laugh all the way to the bank.
Outgoing President Biden boasted that he had served Corporate America well. Trump aspires to do better. He is more flexible and already seems to have back tracked over calling Zelensky what he is. That is not a good sign. Putin is no fool and will have noticed it too. Russia’s war is existential and has been from the outset. It remains associated with communism. Rich people don’t like that. Putin faces enemies within and without. The CIA and MI6 are rampant in their efforts to undermine his regime and any like minded successors to his leadership. We are supposed to mourn Navalny while forgetting Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Jack Teixeira.
Airman Jake Teixeiria jailed for leaking the truth of U.S involvement in the Anglo U.S led proxy war on Russia. He got 15 years so as to protect U.S western style democracy.
Trump admits his solutions are all about deal making. But he also has enemies within. Playing the great statesman, he faces Lincoln’s conundrum about ‘Who is it best to fool?’ Morality has little if anything to do with it. Russia was conned at Minsk and knows the dangers of being conned again.
Human ant like nature and hierarchy is being taken for granted, but intense social engineering has made the western masses less predictable. The much loved diversity culture may not deliver the cannon fodder. Germany’s Scholz caretaker government, like PM Starmer who enjoys special status as former head of his country’s corrupt Crown Prosecution so knows about hiding the truth, wants an army of 500,000 to get ahead of the game. EU women who protest that as 54% of the population they merit 54% of the best jobs, will not be queuing up for the Lions share of the infantry when they bring in conscription.
Starmer and Macron have been pleading with Trump to ramp up the Ukraine War, using the Hitler analogy. But as I keep saying, this is not the 1930s. This is the nuclear age. The West may occupy the moral high ground in media fantasy land. Reality is another matter and may devolve into mushroom clouds. Expecting Russia to live next door to NATO peace keepers and give up territory will keep their hand on the nuclear trigger. There is more to Russia than Putin and more to the U.S than Trump. There is no balance of power, everything to play for and whole world to lose if this war goes nuclear. We may soon be devolving into mushroom clouds.
R J Cook February 28th 2025
February 27th 2025
After 3 years of war in Ukraine, imperialist war propaganda collapses
Three years after the start of the Ukraine war, the narrative used by the imperialist powers to justify their provocation and escalation of the war is being exposed as a pack of lies.
Australian radio DJ Marty Sheargold taken off air after ‘ …Sky Newshttps://news.sky.com › story › australian-radio-dj-marty…
23 hours ago — The comments, made on a live Triple M radio show, were condemned by the Matildas and the governing body of football in Australia.
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Australian radio host Marty Sheargold has been fired after going on a misogynistic rant about the country’s women’s soccer team.
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Luis Rubiales stood accused of sexual assault and attempting to coerce Jenni Hermoso into declaring the kiss, which happened after the …
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Former president of Spanish football federation kissed player after team won women’s World Cup in 2023.
February 26th 2025
“Europe needs to step up” by R J Cook
Updated 23.37
Yesterday’s BBC Hard Talk TV Interview with hard-man Stephen Sacha was typical of their role in the U.K Police State. He was up to tame Ukrainian born Congresswoman Victoria Sparz. Patronisingly he expected her to join in with his condemnation for President Donald Trump calling Zelensky a dictator. She forcefully and emphatically reminded him that she was born in the Soviet Union where she grew up. He almost jumped out of his chair, anger in his deep authoritative deep toxic masculine voice, questioning how she dared to say that Zelensky was a dictator. He said “There will be a lot of people in this country very offended by what you have said.”
Spartz is nobody’s fool. She gave this pompous bully, Sacha, a hard stare back, machine gunnig him with words he did not like.. She is obviously the wrong kind of woman in this feminist age because she was off the consensus message. So she reminded a constantly interrupting Sacha, who kept lurching forward in his chair, arms waving, glowering over his expensive glasses and finger pointing, that Zelensky was the latest in a line of corrupt Ukrainian politicians. She wondered where all the money had gone. Steadfast under his withering male gaze, she reminded Sacha that elections were long overdue, there were too many political prisoners and that Zelensky shared some responsibility for the war.
But Sacha, like the rest of the BBC and the bulk of ignorant masses who are taught to see all experiences as separate events, had no time for lessons on the Maidan, Minsk Agreements, and NATO’s desperation to recruit Ukraine as well as the coveted EU Imperial membership. As for Ukraine’s genocide of ethnic Russians in the Don bas, as far as Sacha and the BBC seem to think, is that this is best forgotten because it never really happened.
Image Caption: Stephen Sacha, giving Victoria Spartz the evil eye because she would not disagree with Trump’s assessmemt that Zelensky is a dictator, BBC ‘Hard Talk’ Broadcast February 25th 2025. The taxpayer funded BBC are the polite face of the British Police State which masquerades as a place of freedom and democracy for which young men should be forced to fight and die in a rich man’s war against Russia. These young men have endured years of being called privileged white males and toxic. Why should these men fight for such a vile dictatorship currently led by PM Starmer, the former head of the still corrupt target driven Crown Prosecution Service ( CPS ). With such a record, I dread to think what he will do to Britain. R J Cook.
Congresswoman Sparz responded to Sacha urging her support to to restore pre war Ukraine borders with Russia reminding this bombastic smug armchair warrior, “Russia are not exactly losing the war.” Having described herself as a loyal Trump supporter, she said in response to the U.S providing European security; “Europe needs to step up. NATO membership was never on the table. Europe has been taking our money and needs to strengthen its borders.”
Comment; I read the above pictured books last week. It was well worth the effort.
I read this yesterday and thoroughly recommend it. World War Three is inevitable with the likes of posturing Starmer, Macron and the rest of the EU Glory hunters. EU Empire Builders and Virtue Signallers. R J Cook
A privileged white male, winter 2024. Image Appledene Photographics/R J Cook.
R.J. Cook February 26th 2025.
Ukraine war: Arms made at pace ‘highest since Cold …Euronewshttps://www.euronews.com › … › My Europe Series
25 Nov 2022 — Eastern and Central Europe’s arms industry is churning out guns, ammunition, and other military supplies at a pace not seen since the Cold War.
February 25th 2025
A war to end the world – By R J Cook
Europe and the U.K elite want as much third world immigration as they can get. They have a production line of laws and lawyers to deal with any arguments here. Europe is not a country any more than Africa is. It is a chaotic expanding empire in a long tradition of tyrannical empires that came to no good, notably Rome, Ottoman, Hapsburg and British.
Britain’s Imperial history is full of atrocities, including their contribution by founding colonies that became the United States . Russia is a federation like the United States and is no more repressive or oppressive than that run by the the self righteous British elite and their grovellers. Human nature is what it is and pays dividends to liars and hypocrites.
So I absolutely agree with Russia’s refusal to accept European peace keepers and Trump’s view that Ukraine started that war way back with the Maidan in 2008, backed by the CIA, and their atrocities against ethnic Russians in the Don bas . The so called ‘free world’ has 3% of its population owning 62% of global wealth and controlling the rest of it. Merkel admits, in her memoir ‘Freedom’, that the Minsk Agreement was for the purpose of lying to Russia, gaining time to build up arms and military training.
Britain is number one war monger and cutting welfare to pay for their greed. If the EU was so bad that the Johnson government propaganda machine persuaded its people to vote leave, why was Johnson first in to support Ukraine joining the E.U? Answer is that the U.K elite never left. They just didn’t want their masses to have a voice in Europe. Hence the Starmer war mongering rampage. Johnson et al simply wanted to exclude the lower orders from any EU benefits and protect the profiteering City of London from impending regulation that they felt unable to block. There was a similar issue when Thatcher was overthrown, because she did not want to be part of the ERM and exchange controls. She has been reinvented as a freedom loving feminist goddess rather than the hard faced capitalist tyrant she actually was.
New figures reveal that only one in three school age children read for pleasure. As a former secondary school teacher with a substantial academic background in psychology among many other things, I know that poor literacy and illiteracy stifles the development of brain pathways. The opposite is equally true.
White boys increasingly fail because of feminist school reading books. Black boys fail because they are given too many excuses and tend toward an urban gang culture. It is all quite deliberate with over achieving girls receiving a feminine friendly curriculum ideally suited to the mindless soporific autophagous culture of the mainstream masses. That us why feminism has no need to make sense because the U.K & European elite does not want them to. Nor does the U.S ruling classes.
The masses are there to slave away in offices, with all their politically correct and personal space rules to protect women from men and jobs in what is left of their national industries. Women are brainwashed into what are called careers, trained to waste their money on consuming rubbish, showing off and junk, getting into debt. Young men struggling to find a home and get married when women will feed off them– if men are that stupid that they marry. Then the men will get arrested for domestic violence on the word of their partner. Then its more money for divorce lawyers, the men losing everything and ending up living on the street or a deadbeats hostel if they are really lucky.
With all that in mind young white men are expected to fight for Europe because they assert that Russia has to be stopped by the full force of NATO led by Starmer, former head of his country’s corrupt Crown Prosecution service which routinely withheld evidence and used fabricated evidence to convict innocent people- Lucy Letby will hopefully be proven a case in point-simply to get convictions and or because the did not like the accused.
Why should young Germans, French and British men (stop pretending that front line soldiers are men and women) fight, get crippled, blinded and killed for another rich man’s glorious war for power, profit and privileges that the lower orders will never share. But, as I explained,poorly educated people , with stupid robotic WOKE teachers ( who are not so WOKE when it comes to transsexuals LOL ) won’t be able to make the connections. And, as with Zelensky’s dissidents, they would face social ostracism, especially from women and jail if they don’t answer the call.
Over here in the U.K, Vladimir Putin is being used as a hate figure by the likes of Keir Starmer to rally the troops in a war to end the world. It is these people who are stuck in the past, not Trump, Ping or Putin.
By the way, in the last 5 years, 800,000 Third World Illegal Immigrants have been given indefinite leave to remain in ( ILR ) in WOKE U.K, costing £340 billion to date, with more on the way.
R J Cook February 25th 2025
In the space of an hour – by R.J Cook
Comment In the dark days of the Soviet Union which was never allowed to prove communism could work, and is why the U.K led international efforts to kill Lenin and wreck the dream, there were two news papers, Pravda ( Truth) & Isvestia ( The News ). The resolute Russians joked that there was no news in the truth and no truth in the news. That is now the model for the Anglo American dominated western news media. BBC boasts that everything is verified – but by who? It insists that their reports are ‘unspun.’ This is real Soviet style. Meanwhile ‘Sky News’ boasts being ‘The Home of Independent News.’ Independent of what, may I ask.
I live in a police state in Thames Valley Police jurisdiction, where the Chief Constable James Hogg has been allowed back on duty in spite of being under investigation for gross misconduct. The Police Federation had kicked up a stink that he should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. They did not say that about State nuisance Rssell Brand and all the others police called out the ‘me too’ bad character movement.
Hogg was Thames Valley Police Deputy Chief Constable in 2014 when I presented compelling evidence that one of his forces former Chief Superintendents, now a Chief Constable and my ex brother in law who taught me a lot about the police, was guilty of a) Perjury b) Conspiracy to pervert the course of Justice c) Misconduct in Public Offce. He even appeared viluntarily in my 2001 book; ‘Milton Keynes in the News.’
Bearing in mind that it took me from October 2008, when my then brother in law’s new police force in West Mercia started a secret criminal record that I was an insane violent alcholic wife and child beating sex fiend, until taken to court in 2011 to receive a restraining order, to get any idea of the police criminal misconduct that had ruined mine and my eldest son’s lives ruined and my youngest son sectoned.
Hogg’s police force chose to prosecute me rather than investigate my request for an investigation in 2015. They lost in May 2016 and I again asked for an investigation into my ex brother in law’s corruption.
So they started a hate campaign, passing their malice to my GP, the local mental hospital and the Gender Identity Clinic, adding defamation that I am a perverted tranvestite. Pervert police obviously can’t tell the difference between a transsexual and transvestite. They are all pervs who should be locked up as far as they are concerned, very much in tune with feminist guru J K Rowling and her feminist fighters. Maybe transsexuals are mentally ill. The GIC have stated that 90% of their patients have mental illness. In that case so is homosexuality and lesbianism – so better tell Sir Ian McKellern.
Hogg’s police hate campaign included fabricating evidence that I was a gay whore working for my eldest son and his criminal associates in a home based brothel. Techically the investigation is still open over 7 years later. This is to mantain their insanity records and block damages claims.
On the verge of gender ressignment surgery in 2019, I was referred to a Thames Valley Police directed and informed psychiatrist, Dr C R Ramsay, head of adult mental health care (AOH) at the secure Whiteleaf Centre, Bierton Road, Aylesbury Bucks. This ‘expert’, in the space of an hour during a surprise vist with two henchmen after I had just returned from an overnight trucking shift, Ramsay concluded that I was a paranoid schizophrenic, deluisonal, bi polar and long term alcoholic. His report recommended my referral to MAPPA as a violent sex offender.
I have some idea about the science behind behind transsexualism. But it may just be a state of mind engendered by such early to end of life negative stereotying of white males, reinforced by state police monitoring, fascist feminist school teachers and the ruling elite who must keep the sexes fighting each other, just as they want the masses figting Russia. It is a tried and tested divide and fool confidence trick.
However, I was discharged by the GIC as unsuitable, after over two years with the London Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) . This was for not accepting Ramsay’s diagnosis and anti-psychotic drugs for a condition, which 4 years later it was confirmed that I never had.
The issue of transgender is very relevant to the current hate campaign and rubbishing of Putin and Trump because they quite rightly do not want it continuing along with all the other brainwashing of children in school. Rather than, as in the hypocritical fake liberal U.K, allow the likes of Rowling to preach trans hate, calling them all rapists in waiting, creaing an enviroment where you transition at your peril and your gender remains at the mercy of the state and baying media,Trump and Putin just say “No. It is not good.” I am not taking sides, but I saw the divisive transgener issue coming.
That is why I wrote my book ‘Man Maid Woman’ back in 2003. It is a very important issue, but Thames Valley and West Mercia Police intruded their institutionaly corrupt selves into my life, destroying my credibility in more ways than one. Any of my readers trying to reconcile my lack of politcal correctness with concerns about transgender, should understand that I am concerned with the struggle for truth, not bigotry and not following imbecile politicians because I can’t think for myself. There may be a lot wrong with Russia, but pompous patronising media folk pretending to be healing world ills, should go back to the bible which the west pays lip service. Read the bit that says ‘healer heal thyself.’
The following is another example of BBC broadcasting, outraged and across the world and across the U.K
R J Cook February 25th 2025
US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine
Diplomatic correspondent
Patrick Jackson
BBC News
Updated 1 hour ago
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration’s change of stance on the war.
First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity – voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict, but contained no criticism of Russia.
The Security Council passed the resolution, but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed.
The UN resolutions were tabled as French President Emmanuel Macron visited President Donald Trump at the White House in an attempt to address their sharp differences over the war.
On Thursday, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will likewise visit the new American leader.
Trump’s White House has upended the transatlantic alliance, currying favour with Moscow and casting doubt on America’s long-term commitment to European security.
That rift was laid bare on the floor of the 193-member UNGA on Monday as US diplomats pushed their limited resolution mourning the loss of life during the “Russia-Ukraine conflict” and calling for a swift end to it.
European diplomats tabled a more detailed text, blaming Russia for its full-scale invasion, and supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“We need to reconfirm that the aggression should be condemned and discredited, not rewarded,” said Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa.
UNGA members backed the European resolution by 93 votes but, extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states, with 65 abstentions.
The UNGA also passed the US resolution but only after it was amended to include language supporting Ukraine, which led to the US abstaining.
Republican Senator John Curtis said he was “deeply troubled” by the vote “which put us on the same side as Russia and North Korea”.
“These are not our friends. This posture is a dramatic shift from American ideals of freedom and democracy,” he wrote on X.
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February 24th 2025
Ukraine is too powerful to be sold out, Polish official says – Xx.comhttps://x.com › politico › status
1 day ago — POLITICO on X: “Ukraine is too powerful to be sold out, Polish official says https://t.co/SbMNydqgvN” / X.
Comment What they really mean is that Ukraine has too many valuable resources to give up and strategic positions that they will not give up, most notably Crimea. France and U.K are the leading EU war mongers and imperialists. It remains to be seen as to whether or not Putin et al stands up for the sacrifices of its soldiers and young people – and the suffering of the Russian people.. If the EU comes out of this on top, there will be no end to its tyranny. Iran and China will be next and interesting things are happening in Africa.
As always, the little people pay the price while elite media spins yarns about truth, censoring or condemning alternative opinions. The global elite run the fake western democracies and must win at all cost. Police are here to protect them and jail dissidents. The white working class males are their cannon fodder and scapegoats. The afd know that. The English are rather more compliant and face immediate consequencs if they do not toe the line.
R J Cook
US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine
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Watch: US votes against UN resolution condemning Russia aggression against Ukraine
Diplomatic correspondent
Patrick Jackson
BBC News
Updated 1 hour ago
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration’s change of stance on the war.
First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity – voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict, but contained no criticism of Russia.
The Security Council passed the resolution, but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed.
The UN resolutions were tabled as French President Emmanuel Macron visited President Donald Trump at the White House in an attempt to address their sharp differences over the war.
On Thursday, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will likewise visit the new American leader.
Trump’s White House has upended the transatlantic alliance, currying favour with Moscow and casting doubt on America’s long-term commitment to European security.
That rift was laid bare on the floor of the 193-member UNGA on Monday as US diplomats pushed their limited resolution mourning the loss of life during the “Russia-Ukraine conflict” and calling for a swift end to it.
European diplomats tabled a more detailed text, blaming Russia for its full-scale invasion, and supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“We need to reconfirm that the aggression should be condemned and discredited, not rewarded,” said Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa.
UNGA members backed the European resolution by 93 votes but, extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states, with 65 abstentions.
The UNGA also passed the US resolution but only after it was amended to include language supporting Ukraine, which led to the US abstaining.
Republican Senator John Curtis said he was “deeply troubled” by the vote “which put us on the same side as Russia and North Korea”.
“These are not our friends. This posture is a dramatic shift from American ideals of freedom and democracy,” he wrote on X.
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‘Russia doesn’t hold all the cards’, Starmer says, as he tells …lbc.co.ukhttps://www.lbc.co.uk › world-news › starmer-ukraine-r…
4 hours ago — The West can only defend Ukraine if it is united, Starmer said as he called for increased military and economic pressure on Russia. And Ukraine …
Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › politics › feb › keir-star…
2 days ago — In a further sign of the UK government’s resolve, it will announce on Sunday that it will impose the largest package of sanctions against Moscow …
Issue brief: A NATO strategy for countering Russia
Atlantic Councilhttps://www.atlanticcouncil.org › in-depth-research-reports
4 days ago — Russia’s decisive defeat in Ukraine is essential to return stability to Europe and to reinforce the credibility of the Alliance’s deterrent …
Right now NATO could not win a war with RussiaResponsible Statecrafthttps://responsiblestatecraft.org › Europe › NATO
29 Jan 2025 — … NATO was defeated by the Taliban, a rag-tag group of poorly armed insurgents. How can NATO’s humiliating defeat and Austin’s view be reconciled?
New German leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations
Katya Adler
Europe editor
Reporting from
Berlin
- Published24 February 2025, 06:27 GMT
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting didn’twait for the final results of his country’s election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe.
Declaring the US indifferent to this continent’s fate, Friedrich Merz questioned the future of Nato and demanded Europe boost its own defences. Quickly.
This tone from the close US ally – and from Friedrich Merz who is known to be a passionate Atlanticist – would have been unimaginable even a couple of months ago.
It’s a seismic shift. That may read like hyperbole, but what we are now experiencing in terms of transatlantic relations is unprecedented in the 80 years since the end of World War Two.
Big European powers have been shocked to the core by the Trump administration, which suggests it could revoke the security guarantees to Europe in place since 1945.
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Banning Germany’s AfD misses the pointFinancial Timeshttps://www.ft.com › Europe › Germany › World
10 Feb 2024 — A debate is now raging in Germany over whether the AfD should be banned. A large number of Germans are in favour: 45 per cent according to polling by INSA last …
Merz’s conservatives celebrate, far right enjoys record resultBBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › articles
Friedrich Merz will try to form a coalition after his Christian Democrats won less than 30% of the vote.
Alice Weidel took the German far right to new heights. Here’s …politico.euhttps://www.politico.eu › article › german-election-202…
One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.
German Election: AfD Surge Shocks Jews in Germany …The Times of Israelhttps://blogs.timesofisrael.com › german-election-afd-su…
For Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors, the result is a chilling reminder of Germany’s dark past, compounded by a surge in antisemitism …
Leaders hail Merz for German election win amid warnings …Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com › News › Elections
Global leaders congratulate conservative leader Friedrich Merz, but others focus on the success of the AfD.
February 21st 2025
UK premier reaffirms support for Ukraine in talks with EU’s …Anadolu Ajansıhttps://www.aa.com.tr › russia-ukraine-war › uk-premier…
Meanwhile, in his discussion with President Zelenskyy, Starmer reiterated the UK’s “ironclad support” for Ukraine and stressed that any …
Volodymyr Zelensky rages at Donald Trump and demands …Daily Expresshttps://www.express.co.uk › News › World
4 days ago — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky raged at the idea of Ukraine not being involved in the peace talks, days after Donald Trump announced …
Sununu urges Zelensky to ‘be careful’ not to anger TrumpThe Hillhttps://thehill.com › policy › international › 5159120-c…
“He makes it very hard to make deals.” Zelensky has expressed frustration with Ukraine not being involved in the process. After Trump suggested …
Zelensky ‘refuses to sign Trump deal’ on Ukraine war after …The Sunhttps://www.thesun.co.uk › News › World News
Zelensky ‘refuses to sign Trump deal‘ on Ukraine war after White House insiders rage he’d be ‘six feet under’ without US ·
Zelensky ‘refuses to sign’ US surrender deal as Trump …The Mirrorhttps://www.mirror.co.uk › … › Donald Trump
Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly not ready to sign the agreement, despite Donald Trump asserting that a deal was close at hand.
Europe ‘will almost certainly be at war with Russia’ if Trump’s …YouTube · Times Radio1M+ views · 1 day ago
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Europe ‘will almost certainly be at war with Russia‘ if Trump’s Ukraine chaos continues … UK greenlight Gravehawk systems to Ukraine.
Europe must secure Ukraine’s future if US won’t, ex-Army head says
Ben Hatton
BBC News
Maia Davies
BBC News
Updated 21 February 2025
European nations may need tooffer reliable security guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia if the US will not, the former head of the UK armed forces has said.
Retired General Sir Nick Carter said ensuring Ukraine’s sovereignty was fundamental to a fair deal, and that Europe mustset out its vision of peace that deters Russian aggression.
He said the UK could take a lead in doing this, ahead of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s meeting with US President Donald Trump next week.
US efforts to bring the war in Ukraine to an end have recently caused a growing rift between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and sparked discussions among European leaders.
The US has announced it will soon begin direct negotiations with Russia on a peace deal as the Trump administration seeks to take a smaller role in securing Europe.
However some of Trump’s recent remarks about Ukraine and its leader have caused concern about the direction those talks may go. On Thursday night, Zelensky said Ukraine needed “reliable and well-defined” security guarantees.
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Comment Vladimir Putin made Russia’s position very clear well before his invasion, repeating this when his troops were parked 15 minutes away from Kiev and Britain’s Boris Johnson told Zelensky not to make a deal because his nation and resources were four square behind Ukraine. Yes, Ukraine and Anglo U.S led NATO on senile Biden’s watch did cause the Ukraine War and it is all about western empire building and resource grabbing. Freedom and Democracy for the masses has nothing to do with it. NATO works like a very lucrative protection racket creating danger and damage and charging the lower class tax paying masses accordingly. They work by promoting fear.
R J Cook
Feminism Fools – By R.J Cook
Emma Radicanu’s traima at a Dubai tennis tournament, her tears and running for cover after seeing a man who had appaently been following her, stands in sharp contrast to how Donald Trump responded after a sniper, with intent to kill him, clipped his war with a high velocity bullet.
Image Caption Having just mised death by a fraction of an inch, Trump would never have got re elected if he had burst into tears. That is a reality that feminism does not want to discuss. Unfortunately female leaders rise, rule and fall by their emotions. In recent years we have seen two U.K Female Tory leaders forced out of office and then burst into tears. That is reality. That is why these women did so much harm and men took too long to hold them to account, risking opprobrium when they do. We see mainstream broadcast media heavily fronted by women whose moralising judgements are harmfully sanctimonious and self righteous. They do much to prolong the agony of the world outside their privileged bubble..
The BBC version of a gender balanced panel casting judgement on Donald Trump’s first weeks in office. Their expressions say it all. The token male was carefully chosen, tolerated, patronised and kept in his place.
When the Anglo U.S led NATO provoked proxy war on Russia seemed imminent because U.K’s PM Boris Johnson and Churchill wannabe discouraged Zelensky from making a deal with Russia, Ukraine’s women flooded west while their men folk were locked in awaiting conscription. This reality makes a mockery of female equality. Leaving aside a minority of highly and naturally gifted sly snipers, women do not make effective front line soldiers.
The case of high earning privileged Raducanu, in spite of her masculinsed sports person appearance, emotionally and physically she would be no match for any motivated battlefield opponent. Normal women naturally cry and run for cover expecting male authority figures to protect them and the children. That is why women make such an issue of safe spaces for them and the right to deny men the same privilege.
Feminism fools men and conservative women. It does not have to make sense because it serves a ruling elite political purpose of oppressing white men and dividing and ruling the masses. Feminism is political using an ascribed status for unquestioned authority. That is a major reason feminists like fantasy author J K Rowling who says trans women are potential rapists, hate transsexuals. This is because such saintly God given status cannot be an achieved status by pills, lavish make up, perfume, surgery and particular sex signalling power clothing.
The U.K and France have no right to preach about Imperialists. Nor do the fake U.S liberals. These elites continue to exploit Africa’s mineral wealth in collusion with black African elites. These harsh realities are apparently beyond the comprehension of average female voters and their doting father figures in family or officialdom.
So we have U.K Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who made abusive tweets about Trump when he was certain that his boss and New New Labour Party had done more than enough to assist U.S Democrats and tame media to block Trump’s election, along with U.K Defence Secretary Healey, comparing Zelensky to Churchill. Every U.K Prime Minisister since Thatcher revived Churchill’s ghost when she provoked the 1982 Falklands War, has wanted to be another Churchill. So we have war mongering Starmer rushing off with Lammy, to Washington to frighten Trump into changing his mind.
The U.K has infected Europe with the same delusions about the glories of World War Two. These people hate Donald Trump for his realism which threatens their road to the luxury fallout shelter and command & control centre, glory, war profiteering and quick road to election winning economic growth which will make mass African immigration more affordable. Ongoing war also makes a perfect cover for censorship, not doing anything to help voters lives and protecting feminist fools along with their father figures who claim the right to direct U.K and EU Democratic Dictatorship.
Trump, Vance, Musk et al need to understand what Starmer’s Government, U.K Mainstream Media, especially the BBC and their EU Colleagues, want to do to the U.S.A. They want the same divided and fooled fragmented chaos that they call Western Liberal Democracies. They want the same for Russia and China as soon as Ukraine has been sorted out.
R J Cook February 21st 2025
Trump ‘very frustrated’ and Zelensky must strike minerals deal, says adviser
Anna Lamche
BBC News
James Waterhouse
Ukraine correspondent
- Published20 February 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said.
On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals – a “deal” Trump said would reflect the amount of aid the US had provided to Ukraine during its war with Russia.
The comments, made at a White House briefing on Thursday, overshadowed a meeting in Kyiv between Zelensky and Keith Kellogg, the US chief envoy to Ukraine.
Waltz said the White House was “very frustrated” with Zelensky after he levelled “unacceptable” insults at US President Donald Trump earlier this week.
Ukraine holds huge deposits of critical elements and minerals, including lithium and titanium, as well as sizeable coal, gas, oil and uranium deposits – a supply worth billions of dollars.
Earlier on Thursday, Waltz suggested US access to rare minerals in Ukraine could be exchanged in return for aid – or even as compensation for the support the US has already provided.
“We presented the Ukrainians really an incredible, and a historic opportunity,” the adviser said, adding that it would be “sustainable” and “the best” security guarantee Ukraine could hope for.
But Zelensky had refused the offer, saying: “I can’t sell our state.”
Waltz’s comments in the White House news briefing came shortly after the conclusion of Zelensky’s meeting with Kellogg in Kyiv, after which the Ukrainian leader announced he was ready to make an “investment and security agreement” with the US to end the war in Ukraine.
The meeting was hailed as “productive” by Zelensky – but it more closely resembled an awkward political date.
As the senior members of Donald Trump’s team continued to engage directly with Moscow, the retired general had said he was in Kyiv to “listen”.
But it soon became apparent he wouldn’t speak, publicly that is, after a news conference was cancelled at the last minute.
The BBC understands it was a US decision, with Ukrainian sources claiming they believed Kellogg had been “sidelined” by the White House.
The meeting with Kellogg had been of huge importance to Kyiv, given that officials are relying on the special envoy to relay its needs to Washington.
In a post shared on X, the Ukrainian president said he and the US special envoy had “a detailed conversation about the battlefield situation, how to return our prisoners of war, and effective security guarantees”.
He added: “Ukraine is ready for a strong, effective investment and security agreement with the president of the United States.”
Later on Thursday, Zelensky said he had spoken to the leaders of Canada, Finland, Norway and South Africa. “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” he wrote in one post on X.
The possible reasons for Kellogg not wanting to face questions are mounting.
Kellogg’s meeting comes in the context of a war of words between his boss Donald Trump and Ukraine’s leader, which culminated in the US president referring to Zelensky as a “dictator without elections”.
Trump also blamed him for starting Russia’s invasion.
Now there are reports that the US is refusing to recognise a UN resolution which labels Moscow as the aggressor while recognising Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Earlier this week, Zelensky was excluded from talks between senior Russian and American officials who met in Saudi Arabia to discuss the possibility of ending the conflict.
The war began when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, following its earlier annexation of Ukrainian territory.
Trump, who has been in office for one month, believes US involvement in the war is not in America’s interest – and in a radical reversal of previous US foreign policy, he has chosen to negotiate directly with Russia to secure a quick end to the conflict.
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio emerged after more than four hours of talks with Russian diplomats in Riyadh to declare that the first steps towards negotiations had been agreed, with teams to be formed on both sides.
After the meeting in the Middle East, Trump suggested Zelensky had “started” the war with Russia – claims which led Zelensky to describe the US president as “living in this disinformation space” governed by Moscow.
Trump hit back with his “dictator” attack and claimed Zelensky had low popularity ratings among the Ukrainian electorate.
Looking forward, Ukraine will be concerned by the prospect of Russia-US talks continuing without the direct involvement of Ukraine.
“Nothing is off the negotiating table,” claimed US Vice-President JD Vance.
The problem for Ukraine is that it isn’t even sitting at it.
Comment This is what the NATO provoked proxy war on Russia has always been about. Since the Maidan, the Ukraine regimes have been vile, corrupt, dictatorial. With EU, UK and Biden U.S backing, their behaviour has been intolerable towards Russia. Trump quoting only 4% support for Zelensky was sourced by U.S intelligence. However, communicationg the truth to the masses is impossible as I doscovered yet again on my travels yesrterday in affluent North Buckinghamshire yesterday. Middle Class white British women are particularly enamoured with Zelensky; a megalomaniac Zelensky who said he is not going to be replaced any time soon.
R.J Cook
Russia SNUBS Lammy at G20 summit as Putin’s foreign …GB Newshttps://www.gbnews.com › politics › politics-news-latest…
15 hours ago — Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov snubbed David Lammy at a G20 summit today, “leaving his seat” before the Foreign Secretary could …
Don’t be fooled by Putin’s ‘imperialism dressed up as …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › politics › feb › dont-be-…
16 hours ago — The west should not be “fooled” by Vladimir Putin’s attempts to dress up imperialism as pragmatism in advance of any talks over the future of …
Comment We are not supposed to see EU and UK Imperialistic intentions over Ukraine or the fact that Lammy is a lame curmudgeon. He and his government along with the EU, is a threat to world peace. Now Reeves wants to raise taxes for defence spending covering a threat the U.K and EU have created.
R J Cook
In ominous post, left-liberal MEP Verhofstadt says Trump is ‘NATO’s greatest threat’
Trump labeled the “greatest threat” to NATO sounds like a threat in and of itself
Last updated: February 20, 2025 13:35
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In an incendiary post on X, Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt called U.S. President Donald Trump the “greatest threat” to NATO, marking a sharp escalation in rhetoric, and potentially a threat to Trump himself.
“Trump is Putin’s puppet, and he’s making it clear: NATO’s greatest threat isn’t abroad, it’s sitting in the White House. Blaming Zelensky for Russia’s war is outright Kremlin’s propaganda. He’s not just betraying the Atlantic alliance—he’s working to dismantle it. Europe, wake up NOW before it’s too late,” wrote Verhofstadt.
The remarks come after an increasing war of words between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who Trump has now labeled a “dictator.” The U.S. president is seeking a peace deal to end the war in Russia and has sharply turned against Zelensky. Trump said he had “4% support” in the country and needed to call new elections. He has also raised questions about what he says is $350 billion in missing funds.
Zelensky was known to keep offshore accounts before the war and was named in the Pandora Papers. Accusations have swirled about Zelensky’s assets but much of it remains hidden in offshore bank accounts. Officially, he has approximately $4 million in assets.
As for Verhofstadt, the very wealthy left-liberal politician is known for his deep hatred of politicians who oppose his agenda, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán one of his top targets.
The remarks come after an increasing war of words between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who Trump has now labeled a “dictator.” The U.S. president is seeking a peace deal to end the war in Russia and has sharply turned against Zelensky. Trump said he had “4% support” in the country and needed to call new elections. He has also raised questions about what he says is $350 billion in missing funds.
Zelensky was known to keep offshore accounts before the war and was named in the Pandora Papers. Accusations have swirled about Zelensky’s assets but much of it remains hidden in offshore bank accounts. Officially, he has approximately $4 million in assets.
As for Verhofstadt, the very wealthy left-liberal politician is known for his deep hatred of politicians who oppose his agenda, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán one of his top targets.
In 2022, for instance, Verhofstadt called Orbán a “traitor” for his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
However, labeling Trump the “biggest threat” of NATO has borderline militaristic implications and calls into question what Verhofstadt thinks Europe should do about what he believes to be the biggest “threat” to the largest military alliance in history.
The comments section to his post is lively, with some asking if Verhofstadt’s comment constitutes a threat in itself. Others point out to the incredibly lopsided amount of American military spending in comparison to Europe.
February 20th 2025
Woke Broke Britain Calls For More War – R.J Cook
Comment The smug smirking faces of two female BBC opinion makers and a guest nerd. They purport to set the ‘context’ for the news, asserting that their reports are unspun.
Comment: Trump is a realist and hopefully will not revert to playing the EU & UK puppet. U.K manstream news is playing as I write. He has logically pointed out that ‘Russia holds all the cards.’ The upper middle class news class are so angry and opinionated about the President they worled so hard to impeach during his first term and jail Trump pathetice sex and fraud charges to stop is chance of a second one. Meanwhile, the U.S gets ever closer to bankruptcy as its national debt is measured in trillions. Why should the hard pressed U.S working class pay for EU imperialism. It sickens me to hear that Putin’s existential war is Russian Imperialism. .
Comment : Rare minerals and the strategic importance of Crimea and the Black Sea are what the NATO provoked proxy war, with the Minsk betrayal, are what young MEN have been crippled and killed for. Freedom is only for the rich planet eating parasites.
Comment President Trump is spot on. Here in the U.K, we endure the Anglo EU Mantra that we must suffer higher prices and more taxes to profit arms makers and dealers because Russia intends to invade all Europe, even though the keep telling us Russia is losing against the so called sovereign Ukraine which did not exist before the CIA backed Maidan uprising.
Comment U.K PM Starmer who headed the corrupt Crown Prosecution Service whose lies jailed innocent people, but he does not want to talk about it, says Zelensky is no dictator. Well that is a fine compliment from one dictator to another. Starmer the smarmer has promised Ukraiine a 100 year alliance and £3billion of tax payers money per annum to keep up the fight. In the U.K the poorest pay the bulk of th taxes as I know from my years working for the U.K’s Inland Revenue.
AfD-supporting lawyer fined €3,000 for criticizing German government, has gun license revoked and complaint filed with bar association – By Thomas Brooke
Markus Roscher, a German lawyer, was fined €3,000 under a controversial speech law for criticizing government officials on X, highlighting growing concerns over free expression and political dissent in Germany
The debate over free speech in Germany has taken a new turn following the case of Markus Roscher, a 61-year-old lawyer from Braunschweig, who was fined €3,000 for criticizing the government’s heating law.
Roscher described Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock as “malicious failures” in a post on X back in 2021. He was subsequently issued a penalty notice under the controversial Paragraph 188 of the German Criminal Code, which criminalized defamation against individuals engaged in public political life.
Roscher, who has been active on X for over 14 years and is well accustomed to the legal boundaries surrounding political debate, insists that his post was within the bounds of political criticism.
“I actually know myself to be quite well within the red lines,” he told Bild. “You have to formulate things pointedly to be heard. The lines of freedom of opinion have slipped with the red-green government (ed. the coalition of Social Democrats and Greens).” He further described his hefty fine as a “scandal for freedom of expression.”
Paragraph 188, introduced in April 2021, criminalizes insults against politicians if they significantly hinder their public work. It was initially passed under a coalition government of the CDU and SPD but has been increasingly enforced under the current administration. The law has led to numerous prosecutions against individuals who have criticized government officials online.
In Roscher’s case, the penalty order claimed that his statements portrayed politicians as “corrupt, stupid, and arrogant,” constituting “abusive criticism” that allegedly impeded their political activity. Following the charge, authorities also moved to revoke his gun license, citing “unreliability.”
Furthermore, his case was forwarded to the Kassel and Braunschweig Bar Associations, raising concerns that he could face professional sanctions. “If I now claim the same or something similar and get another conviction exceeding 90 daily rates, I can lose my license,” Roscher warned. “Then you get a job ban as a 61-year-old lawyer!”
Roscher believes that his support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has played a pivotal role in his prosecution. He asserts that the penalty order was politically motivated, arguing that he stood little chance in a legal battle, which led him to pay the fine without challenging it in the courts.
The scrutiny of political affiliations within Germany’s public sector was also highlighted by a leaked memo last month revealing that federal police officers who join or actively support the AfD could face disciplinary action, including dismissal. The memo cited a decree by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, explicitly stating that officers suspected of affiliation with the party could see their employment terminated.
The controversy has drawn international attention from U.S. billionaire Elon Musk and most recently from U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who labeled Germany’s online speech laws this week as “Orwellian.” Responding to a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with German prosecutors, Vance argued that Germany was effectively “criminalizing speech” and urged Europeans to “reject this lunacy.”
Germany’s strict laws on online speech have drawn criticism from U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who described them as “Orwellian” and warned that they could severely impact European-U.S. relations. His remarks were made in response to a “60 Minutes” interview with German prosecutors, in which they confirmed that insulting someone in public or online is … Continue reading
Roscher’s case is part of a broader pattern of speech-related prosecutions in Germany. Other recent incidents include a Lower Saxony man, Daniel Kindl, who was fined €1,800 for allegedly insulting Green Party MP Janosch Dahmen in an online post. Kindl’s remark, which dismissed Dahmen’s concerns about an alleged attack on Robert Habeck, was deemed criminal by prosecutors.
Several other individuals have faced legal consequences for online speech. A pensioner was fined €800 for a satirical comment about Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, joking that she had hit her head too many times on a trampoline. Another was arrested for retweeting a meme that called Economy Minister Robert Habeck an “idiot,” classified as a “politically motivated right-wing crime.” A Bavarian woman was fined €6,000 for calling Baerbock a “hollow brat” but was later acquitted after a lengthy legal process. Additionally, a civil engineer was sentenced to 30 days in jail after failing to appeal a fine for calling SPD politician Manuela Schwesig a “storyteller.”
Police officers affiliated with AfD face dismissal under government decree, leaked memo reveals
Officials who are involved in the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will be removed from service with the federal police, according to an internal memo leaked to the German newspaper Junge Freiheit. The memo refers to a decree issued by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, of the Social Democrats (SPD). Faeser has warned federal police … Continue reading
Comment This is what the EU and U.K mean by democracy and freedom. R J Cook
February 19th 2025
British volunteer Eddy Scott lost an arm and a leg in UkraineThe Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk › World › Europe
7 hours ago — Eddy Scott suffered horrific injuries in a Russian blast – but he still wants to help Ukraine secure a better future, Askold Krushelnycky writes.
Comment Thanks to dinosaur imperialistic NATO and EU propaganda, men like Eddy Scott need to believe that losing limbs and lives were worth the sacrifice. Zelensky is a backguard and ruthless opportunist who has served the corrupt EU and corrupt Ukraine elite very well. There are millions of dollars and euros unaccounted for in aid to Ukraine and their NATO orchestrated and funded proxy war on Russia. Zelensky has done very well out of the carnage. The EU UK excuse for not accepting Trump’s request for long overdue elections is that Russia will rig them. The EU are using that trick wherever they fear any deviation from the Democratic Dictatorship elite consenus.
R J Cook
Why more young men in Germany are turning to the far right
Jessica Parker
Berlin Correspondent
Kristina Volk
“What my parents taught me is that they used to live in peace and calm, without having to have any fear in their own country,” says 19-year-old Nick. “I would like to live in a country where I don’t have to be afraid.”
I meet him in a small bar on a street corner in the ex-mining town of Freiberg, Saxony – where he is playing darts.
It’s a cold, foggy night in February with just over two weeks to go until Germany’s national election.
Nick and his friend Dominic, who is 30, are backers or sympathetic to Alternative für Deutschland – a party that has been consistently polling second in Germany for more than a year and a half, as the far right here and elsewhere in Europe attracts an increasing number of young people, particularly men, into its orbit.
One particular reason why Nick – and many other young German men – say they are afraid is the number of attacks in Germany involving suspects who were asylum seekers – most recently, the fatal stabbing of a toddler and a man in a park in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Immigration is now Nick and Dominic’s main concern, although they don’t oppose it in all forms.
“The people who integrate, who learn, who study here, do their work – I have no problems with them,” says Dominic, though he is critical of anyone he sees as taking advantage of the asylum system.
“But these days such statements are seen as hostile,” says Dominic. “You’re called a Nazi because of Germany’s past.”
The AfD – which has long been accused of anti-migrant rhetoric – is celebrating endorsements from tech billionaire, Elon Musk, who owns the social media site X. He has hosted a live discussion with party leader Alice Weidel on the platform and dialled into a party rally.
Read More https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy082dn7rkqo
Comment Fat cat elites, notablly Britain and France caused World War One against the upstart Germany and to defend the British King’s decadent Russian Romanov cousins who were oppressing their starving masses. Their victorious punitive measures against the German people created the Nazis. That is how the post 1919 Versailles gloating Peace Makers’ caused World War Two.
So now we have pathetic comparisons with the age of Hitler to denigrate the white masses while the western global elite fight to defend their power and privileges by denigrating the massess, moralising from the flourishing abundant high ground while their white masses suffered, name calling, dividing and ruling regardless of ongoing cost to the planet as we stroll through the foothills of World War III.
R J Cook
Give Ukraine nuclear weapons, says Zelenskyy – Politico EUpolitico.euhttps://www.politico.eu › article › give-ukraine-nuclear-…
4 Feb 2025 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested Tuesday that Ukraine should be given nuclear weapons once the hot phase of the war with Russia …
Blame for the current hell on earth – By R.J Cook.
Comment Zelensky has repeated his demands for nuclear weapons as the U.K and its elite BBC and Sky media go into a frenzy of rage against U.S President Trump’s wise choice of dealing with Russia one to one. The U.K and EU have taken it for granted that the U.S must fight its self inflicted battles for them. An overpaid BBC elite panel this evening, sneered at Trump’s reponse to Democrat biased overpaid comfortable patronising journalists when he called for Ukraine to hold elections before a peace agreement. They were outraged by his figures regarding the previous government’s financial chicanery and disbelieved his statement that Zelensky’s popularity is down to 4%.
They had no response to him stating the truth that Ukraine could have avoided this war. The BBC elite panel of mainly well turned out women argued that elections should not be held because Russia would interfere so a pro Russian government would be elected. They had nothing to say about the fact that Ukraine is under martial law. However, Trump’s comment that the EU could have intervened to avoid a war that they obvously wanted as empire building, sparked outrage. He said that the EU had the last three years to stop the war. So it was too late for them now. I totally agree, but EU fat cats, which super rich former comic actor wants to join, exude moral indignation. This war is all about power, privilege and money. It has nothing to do with freedom and democracy.
With Starmer and Healey leading U.K warmongers and war profiteers, the EU is calling for a U.S backstop using the threat that Russia is going to invade the EU and U.K before moving on to openly invade the United States. Trump wisely warned of World War III if the EU carries on like this. He stated unpalatble facts that many Ukraine cities were worse than Gaza and he wondered how people were living in them. He noted that Putin could quickly flatten Kiev if he wanted to. He said if Putin decided to do that “it will happen very fast.” He said that this was a war that would never have happened under his presidency, adding that Biden was absolutely appalling during his term and much to blame for the current hell on earth.
R J Cook February 19th 2025.
February 17th 2025
What key players want from Ukraine war talks
- Published5 hours ago
This could prove a defining week for the war in Ukraine, with two sets of hastily arranged talks taking place in Paris and Riyadh.
European leaders are meeting in France as they scramble for a response to Donald Trump’s plan to open negotiations with Vladimir Putin for an end to the conflict.
On Tuesday Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are due to meet in the Saudi capital.
Ukraine is not attending either set of talks.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently controls more than a fifth of its territory, mainly in the south and east.
BBC correspondents analyse what key powers hope to gain from two days of intense diplomacy.
Monday: European leaders in Paris
The UK
By Harry Farley, Political Correspondent in London
Sir Keir Starmer is hoping to be a bridge between European leaders and Trump’s White House berating them about their defence spending.
Starmer’s offer to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine is part of that role he wants to play.
The government used to say the terms of any peace deal was up to Ukraine. That has shifted with the new US administration signalling that a return to 2014 borders was “unrealistic”.
Instead Sir Keir will be hoping more European nations in Paris join him in offering their forces to secure a deal – and prevent Russia invading again.
But while the prime minister is in Paris, in Westminster the debate goes on about how much the country should spend on defence.
Labour has promised to “set out a path” to increase defence spending from 2.3% of GDP now to 2.5%. Defence sources say that would be a significant rise.
But there is no date for when that would happen – and many argue it is now urgent.
Read More https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwypy119yzno
February 16th 2025
US isolation threatens global democracy, warns Major
By Luke Mintz
The World This Weekend
Chas Geiger
Politics reporter
- Published5 hours ago
Sir John Major has warned that democracy is under threat as the United States steps back from its leading role in the world.
The former prime minister told the BBC that US President Donald Trump’s policy of American “isolation” was creating a power vacuum that would embolden nations like Russia and China.
Sir John, who was PM from 1990 to 1997, said the gains made since the collapse of the Soviet Union were now being reversed – and that there was “no doubt” Russia would invade elsewhere before long.
He said that “ugly nationalism” growing concurrently was making for a “very unsettled time”.
His comments come as European leaders prepare for an emergency summit on Monday on the war in Ukraine.
US and Russian officials are due to open peace talks in the coming days despite concerns European nations including Ukraine were being locked out.
Sir John also rejected US Vice-President JD Vance’s recent criticism of Europe’s record on free speech, suggesting the remarks should have been directed at the authorities in Moscow or Beijing.
He told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend: “It’s extremely odd to lecture Europe on the subject of free speech and democracy at the same time as they’re cuddling [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.
“In Mr Putin’s Russia, people who disagree with him disappear, or die, or flee the country, or – on a statistically unlikely level – fall out of high windows somewhere in Moscow.”
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Sir John said the world was changing and “may not be reshaping in a way that is congenial to the West”.
He continued: “Many of the gains we made over recent years, when the Soviet Union collapsed, are now being reversed and you see a very aggressive Russia again in Ukraine.
“And if they were to succeed with their venture in Ukraine, no doubt they’d be elsewhere before too long.
“There is no doubt in my mind that democracy has been in modest decline over the last 18 years.
“There is an ugly nationalism growing, mostly from the intolerant right… So it is a very unsettled time.”
PM ‘ready’ to put troops on ground in Ukraine to protect peace
- Published16 February 2025, 22:37 GMT
Updated 11 minutes ago
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, external, the UK prime minister said securing a lasting peace in Ukraine “is essential if we are to deter Putin from further aggression in the future”.
Ahead of an emergency summit with European leaders in Paris on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK was prepared to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by “putting our own troops on the ground if necessary”.
“I do not say that lightly,” he wrote. “I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with potentially putting British servicemen and women in harm’s way.”
The prime minister added: “But any role in helping to guarantee Ukraine’s security is helping to guarantee the security of our continent, and the security of this country.”
The end of Russia’s war with Ukraine “when it comes, cannot merely become a temporary pause before Putin attacks again”, Sir Keir said.
UK troops could be deployed alongside soldiers from other European nations alongside the border between Ukrainian-held and Russian-held territory.
Sir Keir’s announcement comes after the former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, told the BBC the UK military is “so run down” it could not lead any future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
The PM has previously only hinted that British troops could be involved in safeguarding Ukraine after a ceasefire.
He is due to visit President Donald Trump in Washington later this month and said a “US security guarantee is essential for a lasting peace, because only the US can deter Putin from attacking again”.
Sir Keir is meeting with other European leaders in response to concerns the US is moving ahead with Russia on peace talks that will lock out the continent.
Those who are part of the problem and those who are part of the solution. By R J Cook
Comment The likes of Major and Starmer have no mind for or recognition of their own intolerance or what their kind, in ignoring the white working classes and their virtue signalling positive discrimination has done to promote what they patronisingly call the far right. The west’s greedy scamble for Ukraine and beyond has made very clear what they mean by democracy when the EU ordered a fresh election because they did not approve the winner. Western elite plans for Major’s ‘Global Democracy’ are in fact plans for ‘Democratic Dictatorship. ‘The more Eastern Europe States they can seduce into their fold, the stronger their ideological control and WOKE censorship. The elite need this war as a great distraction from immigration and other internal issues and as a great investment. The western banking system won’t tolerate a Russian victory.
There are, to borrow from Black activist Eldridge Cleaver, two types of people in the west’s precious democracies; ‘those who are part of the problem and those who are part of the solution.’
There are far too few of the latter. But if Trump, Vance, Musk and Kennedy hold their nerve, they will be part of the solution. Malcolm Bradbury got it spot on in his early 80s satire on the Europeran Economic Community as it was then called. He named his book and TV Series ‘The Gravy Train.’ Post 1991 the whole of Eastern Europe has been seduced by Anglo U.S Plutocat sanctimonious media, the CIA and MI6 dirty tricks, into the sexy fantasy of Western Europe’s mindless consumer society.
That world is anything but a community outside of Von derLeyen’s self serving patronising sneering supercilious power structure. They rely on censorship with severe punishments including social ostracism when any event threatens to upset their applecart. The EU is riddled with contradictions and failures which have to be covered up or denied for their greater good. These toffee nosed snobs don’t care how many of the lower orders they kill to protect their pampered class and there are plenty of uniformed psychos to lead the charge into oblivion.
That attitude is exemplified by the disaterous Thatcher wanna be, former Tory PM John Major, lover of his sleek stocking and suspender wearing cabinet colleague Edwina Currie. He is the man who privatised British Rail to help the asset strippers and wreck the rail network. He was a Major Disaster. So Trump et al should be warned. His mentality dates back to Portsmouth’s so much loved nineteenth century fellow Tory; Lord Palmerston (see ‘Lost Portsmouth’ by R J Cook and K C Close) and his ‘gun boat diplomacy.’ MacDermott’s War Song from 1877 is just as relevant as ever.
The ‘Dogs of war' are loose and the rugged Russian Bear Full bent on blood and robbery, has crawled out of his lair It seems a thrashing now and then, will never help to tame That brute, and so he's bent upon the ‘same old game' The Lion did his best to find him some excuse To crawl back to his den again, all efforts were no use He hungered for his victim; he's pleased when blood is shed But let us hope his crimes may all recoil on his own head. We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men' we've got the money too We've fought the bear before, and while we're Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople. The Turk has got his faults; of crime he bears the taint The Russians like sly Reynard, pretends to be a saint ‘Tis all for Christianity the heathen Turk he'll fight Although' when told, and pretty plain, two wrongs don't make a right As peacemaker Old England her very utmost tried The Russians said they wanted peace, but then the Russians lied Of carnage and of trickery they'll have sufficient feast Ere they dare to think of coming near our Road unto the East. The misdeeds of the Turks have been ‘spouted thro' all the lands But how about the Russians, can they show spotless hands? They slaughtered well at Khitva, in Siberia icy cold How many subjects done to death will ne'er perhaps be told They butchered the Circassians, man, woman, yes and child With cruelties their Generals their murderous hours beguiled And poor unhappy Poland their cruel yoke must bear Whilst prey's for Freedom and Revenge go up into the air. May he who ‘gan the quarrel soon have to bite the dust The Turk should be thrice armed for he hath his quarrel just ‘Tis said that countless thousands should die thro' cruel war But let us hope most fervently ere long it will be o'er Let them be warned, Old England is brave old England still We've proved our might; we've claimed our right and ever will Should we have to draw our sword our way to victory we'll forge With the battle cry of Britons, ‘Old England and Saint George'.
R J Cook
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Tucker Carlson says Ukraine is not a democracy. …
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Claim: “You can’t say it enough, Ukraine is not a democracy. … In American terms, you would call Ukraine a tyranny.”
Claimed by: Tucker Carlson
February 15th 2025
NATO is a dinosaur organisation, run by dinosaurs and their rampant greedy offspring. It will take us back to the age of the original dinosaurs and end life on earth as we know it. – R J Cook
Britain’s ruling class with numerous vested interests like arms manufacturers with their highly profitable dealings, fronted by political minions led by the former head of the corrupt target driven moralising CPS, Sir Keir Starmer, are leading the clamour for all out war on Russia. They have excellent publicists in so called independent news source Sky TV and State Broadcaster BBC with their creepy slogan ‘Broadcasting across the world and across the U.K.’
So I just watched SKY TV’s lisping and unctious defence correspondent, Deborah Haines, giving Zelenensky Sky’s officially approved easy time. This was after his gruff angry warning speech at the Munich Security fat cat gathering. He won rapturous applause in stark contrast to VP Vance when he told them too many home truths in reponse for their dinosuar demands to go on feeding of the United States and making them a target for Russian Nuclear missiles because Putin is running out of options.
Haines spoon fed EU idol Zelensky, easy questions so he could tell everyone about Russia’s threat to freedom across the western world.. She concluded yet another mindless piece by saying that the problem with Zelensky’s proposed new European Army was getting enough people ( she meant men ) to fight ( she ,meant die or be disabled ) for it and ‘our freedom’ ( sic ). Given how fake democracies lie, defame and treat them, why on earth should they ?They shoot this line all the time, while telling us that Russia cannot even defeat Ukraine without a never ending supply of westen hard pressed taxpayer’s funding the latest, biggest and best envronmentally destructive weapons. One Storm Shaddow missile is currently priced at £2,2 million. Think of how many EU, U.K and U.S homless people could be saved by the cost of one Storm Shaddow missile. Trump and Vance must ignore fat cat and their feminists lackey mainstream media.
Pressure to get us all to accept corrupt Ukraine’s membership of the NATO mafia is stepping up because Trump and Vance are perceived as not sufficoently stupid to progress this planet eating war so that global capitalism can rape yet another chunk of the planet before moving head on into Russia to have another go at raping them, while debasing their culture to match that of the western underclass, with appropiate moralising regime change before moving on to do the same to China.
R J Cook February 15th 2025
NATO headquartersWikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NATO_headquarters
NATO was established to contain and undermine the Soviet Union and has continued its fundamental work since 1991 when they successfully collapsed the Soviet system, hated because it was communist.
It has been headquartered in Brussels since 1967, in a complex in Haren, part of the City of Brussels, along the Boulevard Léopold III/Leopold III-laan.
The NATO headquarters is the political and administrative center of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). After previous locations in London and Paris, it has been headquartered in Brussels since 1967, in a complex in Haren, part of the City of Brussels, along the Boulevard Léopold III/Leopold III-laan.[1]
The staff at the headquarters is composed of national delegations of NATO member states and includes civilian and military liaison offices and officers or diplomatic missions and diplomats of partner countries, as well as the International Staff (IS) and International Military Staff (IMS) filled from serving members of the armed forces of member states.[2] Non-governmental citizens’ groups have also grown up in support of NATO, broadly under the banner of the Atlantic Council/Atlantic Treaty Association movement.
There are many NATO bases, which are divided into four major categories. The first category is deterrence and defense, with 48 bases. The second category is operations and missions with 19 bases. The third category is projecting stability and fighting terrorism with 22 bases. They control around 3.5 million soldiers and Zelensky, with other war mongers, today demanded the formation of a European army to fight Russia. He made his latest speech at the Munich Peace conference, noting that the war against the NATO proxy war on Russia must ontinue even if the United States under Trump and Vance, has thde good sense to withdraw support for the Ukraine dictatorship installed by the CIA and the Maidan, empowering oligarch ‘Chocolate King’ Poroshenko, a U.S Deep State Puppet, like Zelensky.
So far, NATO has engaged in eight missions in, or the vicinity, of Africa. Three missions focused on support to the African Union peacekeeping endeavour. Interoperability is the ability to operate to- gether using harmonized standards, doctri- nes, procedures and equipment.
Edited by R J Cook
NATO in Africa – Pražský studentský summit
February 14th 2025
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3 hours ago — “Confirmation that the Trump administration wants to destroy the EU! He knows it’s a nest of deep state, corruption and war! In fact, Vice …
Comment Keep up the good work President Trump and VP Vance. Woke and political correctness along with the U.K EU pseudo democracy dictatorships, are destroying western culture and masculinity – witb a devastating effect on women who are not part of the patronising self serving virtue signalling upper middle class feminist Soros et al funded female hive – or should one say ‘covern’ ?
R J Cook
February 13th 2025
But you can’t talk sense to nonsense – By R J Cook
There has been an elite media and U.K Parliament frenzy regarding President Trump’s Ukraine anticipated peace proposal.
These people are smug overpaid, patronising, supercilious arrogant know alls. Trump, Vance and Musk need to ignore Britain’s war mongering officer class and their delusional military minions who haven’t a clue about global economics and politics. When I went for a commission as a Royal Navy Helicopter pilot, I was asked if I could kill. When I hesitated, the female psychiatrist on the board snapped; “That’s what is is all about, in the last analysis. You don’t ask questions.”
I can understand that as battle field thinking. But from the outset, it means that military personnel have to be conditioned or brainwashed. That is all well and good, but such minds offering opinions on Ukraine, with nostalgic attitudes to theirs or others battle experience, are not worth listening to before war starts. That situation requires more balanced minds.
Prevailing U.K opinion, from high to low, conflates the rise of Hitler’s 1920s Nazi Party and Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement with the contemporary so called ‘rise of the far right.’ These smug comfortable self righteous feminist and feminised male self appointed judges have no empathy with the post 1918 victimisation and ruin of the German working classes. Nor do they have empathy with the plight of the white European underclass and what they might do today.
These elite people aren’t interested that three interbred branches of the British, German and Russian aristocracy had been fighting and slaughtering their exploited underclass, 1914-18 because they were competing for ever bigger shares of empire. That is why we had world wars one and two. That is why the U.K revolting despicable elite, led by the likes of PM Starmer, former head of the corrupt Crown Prosecution Service, want a World War III with Russia and its allies. Once again it is sold to European and U.K masses as being about freedom, democracy and preventing evil Putin from taking over Europe. They say this while at the same time telling us that Putin has been defeated in Ukraine and should give up.
God help Russia if they do give up because Western Europe’s elite idea of culture is really exclusive where it actually matters. For the masses, of whatever race, religion or peculiar sexual identity; cultural life, when these ‘diverse groups’ are not fighting each other, is no better than the Roman Empire’s ‘bread and circuses’. The Anglo U.S led western elite are only interested in power, rare resource and land grabbing. They are answerable only to the wealthy global elite. Zelensky is just one of these ghastly planet eating people. But he is the dynamo for the Anglo U.S led NATO proxy war on Russia
No good telling the masses any of that. As far as Ukraine is concerned, the media is still shouting about Trump betraying Ukraine. The EU wants Ukraine and Ukraine wants the EU. So with or without Trump, the war will go on. The posturing idiot U.K Government Defence Secretary John Healy has pompously assured Zelensky, that U.K, using hard pressed tax payer’s money,will always step up to defend saintly Ukraine-which happens to be one of the most corrupt countries in the western world. Some of us have not forgotten the CIA backed Maidan and Chocolate King Poroshenko. But you can’t talk sense to nonsense.
R J Cook February 13th 2025
China ‘happy’ that US, Russia talking more after Ukraine …
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Victoria Derbyshire clashed with a senior White House official as she grilled him over Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Sebastian Gorka, senior director of counter-terrorism in Donald Trump’s administration, at one point asked the BBC Newsnight presenter if she was “ashamed” during the heated exchange.
Derbyshire had kicked off the interview by asking him if the president had “just handed victory to President Putin on a plate”.
The pair locked horns just hours after President Trump and Vladimir Putin held a 90-minute phone call in which they agreed to “immediately” kick-start peace talks to end the war nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of its neighbour.
But the breakthrough came without the involvement of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, leading to fears that he will be forced to give up land seized by Russia in order to bring the war to an end.
Derbyshire began the interview by telling Gorka that a Ministry of Defence source had told Newsnight “the bastards are doing it” in reference to Trump’s peace plan.
Gorka replied: “I hope that’s fake news or not from somebody who actually cares about the special relationship between our two countries.”
The presenter then asked: “Have you just handed victory to President Putin on a plate?”
He said: “After 100,000 casualties and the fact that Ukraine will remain an independent nation, that’s just an asinine statement. It’s absolutely absurd and really irresponsible.”
Undeterred, Derbyshire told him: “President Putin invaded a country. He took a load of land. He killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians. And now it appears the US is saying to him ‘yeah, you can keep the land that you’ve taken and stolen from your neighbour’.”
Gorka then hit back: “I like the fact that you think you know what the US is promising to anyone. We’ve been very clear on the campaign trail. President Trump and his team has been adamant since we came into this building three weeks ago that the number one priority is to stop the bloodshed.
“And you don’t have to tell me, the son of those who literally escaped a Communist regime, what the reality of the Russian Federation is today. So please stick to the facts.”
British military chiefs rage over fears of Trump sell out …
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Reality of The Situation by R J Cook
Comment Trump has made a big mistake dismissing J D Vance. Vance was a big factor in swinging the election in Trump’s favour and has done nothing to be trivialisesd in this way. Old men in power, wherever and even in the family, have a nasty tendency to patronise and dismiss the young.
Trump needs to understand that he can’t play the big shot, hiring and firing in his presidential role. He failed the last time,making many enemies. But in his current post, he does not own the company. Ideally he is accointable to the electorate. In reality he is in the hands of the Deep State and totally disposable by fair means or foul..
He has been quite brutal, hiring and firing. Trump, like Vance, is a money man. Hence his obscene proposal, so admitting what the Anglo U.S led NATO proxy war on Russia was always all about; that is raping Ukraine for its valuable resources.
Perhaps Trump has already lined up fellow money man Elon Musk to take over his mantle. That will be a very bad move. The U.S, like its ailing paren and equally corrupt U.K, is a class divided society and Trump is basically a snob. He won the election as the lesser of evils. So far Trump has done nothing to suggest he has anything useful or constructive to say about Ukraine or recognise the reality of the situation.
R J Cook
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February 10th 2025
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I know what I would do if were Vladimir Putin – by R J Cook
Comment This makes a farce of the Democrats and nauseating self styled billionaires and western state media, most notably Anglo U.S BBC / CBS ongoing hysterics over the 2020 Capitol Hill protests that turned into a riot thanks to FBI infiltration and provocation. Today the BBC news called Trump and Musk’s DOGE unofficial and awaiting court judgement.
U.K and EU have been listening carefully to Zelensky, who has made a fortune from the NATO proxy war on Russia. They have rejected Trump’s plan to accept Russia’s gains in their native Donbas. Here Zelensky and his predecessor Poroshenko had carried out genocide of ethnic Russians ever since the CIA toppled Ukraine’s pro Russia Government in the name of EU Democratic Dictatorship. The EU and NATO are collaberating on a plan of their own to force Russia into accepting total defeat.
This is, like World Wars One and Two, a war to further enrich the super rich planet eating minority. These people believe that they have the right to kill as many lower order privileged white males as they like. All this to preserve their real privileges, power and pleasure. I know what I would do if I were Vladimir Putin after I had finished vomiting over the west’s pampered self righteous ruling elite’s hypocrisy.
R J Cook
Authorties & Mainstream Media Should Admit That Democracy In Germany Means ‘Liberal’ Conceited Consenus New Left Elite Rule, Elections Only A Formality – R J Cook
German lawmakers can’t agree whether to seek ban on far …politico.euhttps://www.politico.eu › article › alternative-for-germa…
30 Jan 2025 — Many mainstream leaders worry a pre-election debate on banning Alternative for Germany will only boost the party ahead of a national …
Scholz urges firewall against far right after election winBBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › articles
2 Sept 2024 — The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has urged mainstream parties not to lend support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won a big …
As Germany braces for election, backing the far-right AfD …Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com › News › The Far Right
7 days ago — The hardline party has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.
Comment NATO is being readied as the front line massing point for war on Russia and slaughter of its ‘privileged young white men’.. The EU are the real Nazis but only they are allowed to legally award that epithet.
My problem is not the EU tyranny assembled to take over Russia with U.S help, regardless of the cost. It is the hypocrisy that sickens me, with all the lies about fighting for freedom, democracy and lower class white men’s obligation to fight for a system that treats us like rubbish, jailing innocent man and fawning to fascist feminsim.
The established parties across Europe and the U.K are the parties of the rich. They all want more African and Islamic migrants for lower wages, higher prices, especially housing, world war, more profits, higher taxes for the masses and lower taxes for the rich. The afd, National Rally and U.K Reform frighten these patronising political parasites.
They have no anwers to the systemic and endemic problems other than more laws and banning what they don’t like.
R J Cook
February 9th 2025
Zelensky says North Korean troops back on front line
Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News
- Published7 February 2025
Ukraine’s president says North Korean forces have returned to the front line in Russia’s western Kursk region, after reports they were withdrawn last month due to heavy casualties.
In a video address on Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian army had “brought back in North Korean soldiers” who were carrying out “new assaults” in the region partially occupied by Ukraine.
He added “hundreds of Russian and North Korean military” personnel had been “destroyed”.
In January, Western officials told the BBC they believed at least 1,000 of the 11,000 troops sent from North Korea had been killed in the past three months. North Korea and Russia have not commented.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The fighting has led to heavy losses on both sides.
A spokesman said it was probable they had been pulled out after suffering heavy combat losses.
Read More https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cednp7q41l2o
Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies
Oliver Smith & Faisal Islam
BBC News
- Published27 January 2025
Poland’s president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, “should be dismantled”.
This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy.
“I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline,” he said.
The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European countries should resist pressure from companies to re-establish business links.
The Nord Stream gas pipelines were built by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom and run between Russia and northern Germany.
Nord Stream 1 was shut down in 2022 and Nord Stream 2 was never used, following the invasion of Ukraine. Both were damaged by explosions in 2022.
Gas prices in Europe surged after the shutdown and, in recent months, politicians from Germany’s far right AfD party have suggested the Nord Stream gas pipes should resume operations.
Germany will hold federal elections at the end of February.
“I believe the Nord Stream pipelines should be dismantled,” Duda said. “This pipeline causes a very big threat to Ukraine, to Poland, to Slovakia but also to other Central European countries.”
He added: “It is a threat from the point of view of energy, from the point of view of the military but also it is a huge economic threat because it means a domination of Russia over Europe in the economic sense.”
On the prospect of a deal between Ukraine and Russia now that US President Donald Trump has taken office, Duda insisted that no peace talks could take place without the participation of Ukraine.
“I’m saying that in my capacity as president of the Republic of Poland, as a neighbour to Ukraine and also as president of a country who has had very hard historic experiences itself,” he said.
“I’m speaking here and referring to World War Two and to Yalta where we were not included in those talks, where certain agreements were made beyond our heads and then we found ourselves behind the Iron Curtain, where, for almost 50 years, we were part of the Soviet sphere of influence,” he said.
- Trump tells Putin to end ‘ridiculous war’ in Ukraine or face new sanctions
- Published23 January
- ‘War will last as long as Russia does’: Ukrainian talk of victory fades as Trump returns
- Published17 January
February 8th 2025
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE access to critical Treasury payment system
By Ray Sanchez, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 10:26 AM EST, Sat February 8, 2025
A demonstrator holds up a sign at protest of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency outside the US Treasury Department on Tuesday.Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images CNN —
A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.
The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability payments and federal employees’ salaries.
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer ordered the destruction of any downloaded information from the payment system by anyone given access to it since January 20, citing “the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking.”
Comment The U.S. U.K and EU Deep State alliance will never admit to their dirty dark anti democratic reality. Smear and fear the likes of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage is their way of protecting their Democratic Dictatorship. Now the U.K’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Smarmer, the former head of the Corrupt Crown Prosecution Sertvice (CPS) is preparing legislation to give his hideously Corrupt U.K Police State access to everyone’s I Phone records. Obviously that measure excludes members of the U.K ruling and corporate elite. This is a lot more than the thin end of the wedge. R J Cook
Read More https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/08/politics/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-system/index.html
February 7th 2025
USAID freeze hits independent Ukrainian and Russian mediaThe Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com › World › Europe
KYIV — The suspension of USAID has had a dramatic effect on both Ukrainian and Russian independent news outlets that relied on the grants to …
Comment USAID has been and still is a major part of the war in Russia and covert CIA regime change funding. Why does Putin’s Government tolerate so called independent media ? As soon as the NATO proxy war on Ukraine was on the startng blocks, the hypocritical U.K Tory Government, along with the rest of the west, banned RT. The French switched off the satellite transmissions and the smug European elite, where the U.K still holds dangerous exaggerated influence.
President Trump made it very clear that the war is about land, natural resources and the Black Sea. There is too much money involved and Zelensky has made a fortune from the carnage, destroying young lives on both sides of the battlefield. The longer the war continues, the more brutal and animalistic it will become.
NATO is an aggressive imperialistic alliance and so are the EU elite. The state of the U.S and EU underclass is appalling. Elite politicians response to the disaffected white masses is to dish out patronising labels and admonishments that dissidents are all far right racists promoting civil war. They make bogus ignirant comparisons to the very different 1920s and 30s where the only similarity was the arrogant profiteering elite who drove the hopeless masses into supporting Hitler, Mussolini and Sir Oswald Mosley.
One is not supposed to notice that this global western ruling class are the real culprits of today’s living hell. We are supposed to forget why so many black Africans and Muslims make a bee line for Europe and the U.K. We are not supposed to know why they think getting to Europe is worth risking their lives. We are not supposed to know what the United States, U.K, France, and Beligium capitalists, in cahoots with the black African aristocracy ruling elite, have been doing in covert imperialist expolitation ever since the official end of colonialism in the 1960s.
This black elite is more than happy to see the back of its young men. The western elite are more than pleased to see them under cover of asylum seekers welcomed by white middle class virtue signalling social workers, teachers and politicians, but not the white underclass.
In Ukraine, the war is working wonders slaughtering young white men. The elite are creating a world, where once upon a time white European progress to labour laws and decent wages was the legacy of so much fighting and sacrifice, it is now a race to the bottom.
I have worked in this cheap labour economy. I learned more there than I ever did at my two universities.The consensus politicians and academics have no concern for that reality and living with ‘the cost of war crisis.’
Former U.K Chief Prosecutor, in charge of the corrupt CPS, now turned Prime Minister Starmer, showed the lower orders what would happen to future dissidents by having Stockport rioters quickly jailed, blaming those riots on social media and far right agitators.
The dreadful dumbed down education system ensures the underclass will not be able to understand or defend themselves. Justice costs money. In the U.K, all the lower orders will get is the likes of appalling Legal Aid lawyer; Criminal Defence Milton Keynes. They appear to work on the principle of guilty until proven guilty. Accept that and they will do a plea bargain. The U.K is gutter politics, police state justice and the promise of World War III. We have to accept the propaganda that Russia is even more evil than the EU/UK Police State. So you have to be grateful you live here, fight the Russians for its ruling elite and the benefits of life under democratic dictatorship.
R J Cook
NATO chief has ‘secret’ ideas for Ukraine peace talksThe Kyiv Independenthttps://kyivindependent.com › putin-will-never-try-agai…
NATO Chief Mark Rutte has said he has ideas about potential peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow that are a “little secret” but will …
February 5th 2025
From Reporters Without Boundaries
Trump with AI leaders, January 2025. His latesr shock is announcing that the U.S should take over Gaza and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East.
| Over the past two weeks, United States President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress to support “independent media and the free flow of information.” Since the new American president announced the freeze of U.S. foreign aid, USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has been in turmoil: its website is inaccessible, its X account has been suspended, the agency’s headquarters was closed, and employees were told to stay home. Elon Musk, whom Trump chose to lead the quasi-official Department of Government Efficiency, called USAID a “criminal organization” and said, “We’re shutting down.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was named acting director of the agency, suggesting its operations were being moved to the State Department. USAID programs support independent media in more than 30 countries, but it is difficult to assess the full extent of the harm done to the global media. Many organizations are hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks. In Ukraine, 9 out of 10 media outlets rely on USAID funding. In Cameroon, the funding freeze forced DataCameroon — a public interest media outlet based in the capital Douala — to put several projects on hold. An exiled Iranian media outlet – who preferred to speak anonymously – was forced to suspend collaboration with its staff for three months and slash salaries to a bare minimum in an effort to ensure its survival. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges President Trump to reverse this decision, which has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing vital work into chaotic uncertainty. RSF calls on international public and private support to commit to the sustainability of independent media. In these difficult times for press freedom and democracy, we need your help more than ever. Every donation helps us protect the freedom to inform and be informed all around the world. |
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February 4th 2025
On globalism and immigration
Secondly, as a kind of declaration of personal interest, I should add that I have several friends, both in the UK and France, who are partly or wholly of non-European immigrant descent.Thirdly, I would add that as an Englishman living in France I do not feel that my presence here constitutes any kind of attack on my host nation, but is rather a reflection of my deep love and respect for the French people, its country and its culture.Having said all that, it is certainly true to say that moving large numbers of people from one part of the world to another does form part of the global mafia’s modus operandi. One of the worst examples of this, alongside the horrors of the African slave trade, was the shipping of hordes of Europeans to America and Australasia, where they were used as human battering rams for the empire of Global Capital. With the indigenous peoples cleared off the land, there was nothing in the way of it becoming a giant greenfield site ripe for profitable development opportunities and, in the case of North America, the construction of a brave new world where commerce was king and old customs and values could be swept away by the glorious advance of Progress.Well, theoretically anyway, since it has become clear to me in recent years that many contemporary Americans are very attached to old-fashioned values, not least that of freedom from tyranny.Perhaps that is why China is now considered a better bet as the foundation for a totalitarian New World Order? Anything traditional or grassroots that speaks of social cohesion and cultural autonomy is despised by our overlords, who prefer rootless, disorientated and divided populations with no sense of history – the perfect prey for their propaganda and control.So we could certainly see the successive waves of immigration into Europe after the Second World War, along with the “Americanisation” or “modernisation” of our society, as part of that cultural bulldozing. But there is a big difference between these new arrivals and the “settlers” that took over Turtle Island and Down Under – and indeed those that have occupied Palestine.They do not generally arrive convinced of the inferiority of the indigenous people and of their God-given right to massacre them and steal everything they have! While there have obviously been problems over the decades, these immigrants have generally submitted quietly to their status in European society, often as cheap labour, undercutting what had become an expensive unionised workforce thanks to decades of hard social struggle.Recent tensions regarding Muslims have largely been stoked by Zionist-funded pseudo-nationalists whose role is to facilitate divide-and-rule for the system and also to diminish solidarity with indigenous Muslims in the Middle East being wiped out by Jewish immigrant settlers .I don’t suppose many folk of indigenous extraction in the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand want to send all white people back to Europe.Likewise, we Europeans, while protecting and preserving our own distinctive cultures and traditions, have little choice but to recognise both the reality of the immigration that has already taken place and, importantly, the humanity of those who have come to live in our lands. |
I do hope, though, that all this displacement comes to an end and we can settle once more into stable and culturally-cohesive societies.
This will be one of the big benefits from the collapse of the globalist system, which I continue to insist is not too far away now, if we keep up our resistance!
As centralised world power disintegrates, and returns increasingly to the local level, so will the wounds caused by all the dislocation begin to heal.
Communities, with their own specific land, climate and food sources, will begin to differentiate once again, developing their own habits and stories, which will in time become customs and myths.
Within two or three generations they will start to speak slightly differently, dress differently, see the world in slightly different ways.
Eventually they will be identifiable tribes or nations, distinct cultural entities, and the grim grey years of global cultural levelling will be nothing but a half-forgotten nightmare.
3 Feb, 10:10Updated at: 10:51
UK continues to push for war, ignoring battlefield realities — Kremlin
“However, the reality on the ground makes it clear that the situation is not in the Kiev regime’s favor,” Dmitry Peskov noted
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov
© Gavriil Grigorov/Russian Presidential Press Office
MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. London continues to promote the idea of prolonging the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but developments on the ground are unfavorable for Kiev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Commenting on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plans to call on EU leaders to tighten sanctions on Russia, Peskov said that “the British leadership continues to follow a rather consistent policy.”
“The British persist in advocating the idea that Ukraine should keep fighting until the last Ukrainian remains. However, the reality on the ground clearly shows that the situation is not in the Kiev regime’s favor. Even many Western officials and experts acknowledge this, including in Western Europe,” the Russian presidential spokesman noted. “We are well aware that Great Britain is among the countries that push to impose this confrontational policy on their European partners,” he added.
Starmer said in a statement ahead of the February 3 informal summit of the EU heads of state and government that the British government would continue to work with European Union countries in order to expand energy sanctions on Russia. The British premier’s office pointed out that while in Brussels, Starmer also planned to discuss boosting security and defense ties between the United Kingdom and the European Union. In particular, London is interested in strengthening cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration.
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Trump says he wants Ukraine to supply US with rare earthsMining Weeklyhttps://www.miningweekly.com › article › trump-says-h…
5 hours ago — US President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth minerals as a form of payment for …
Comment This is what the NATO UKRAINE Proxy war on Russia has always been about. The U.K leads the world in Democratic Dictatorship and the charge for all out war on Russia. Any western nation, espcially in western and eastern Europe electing non Democratic Dictatorship candidates and governments, will have the outcome overruled because it will all be down to Russian infiltration. The elite consensus must be upheld. That is why Trump, Musk and Kennedy are such a worry.
R J Cook
Trump demands Ukraine give rare earth minerals to US as …The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk › Indy TV › News
5 minutes ago — Donald Trump has issued a demand to Ukraine in which Kyiv guarantees supplies of rare earth minerals to the US as payment for war aid.
Ukraine war briefing: Trump demands rare earths from Kyiv …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › world › feb › ukraine-…
US reportedly briefly paused weapon shipments into Ukraine; Russian forces continue to gain ground as Ukraine struggles with manpower.
February 3rd 2025
Why Do Ukrainians Oppose Lowering The Conscription Age?Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertyhttps://www.rferl.org › ukraine-russia-war-conscription
The 18-25 age group is the weakest of Ukraine’s working age demographics. A dramatic fall in the birth rate in the 1990s, following the collapse …
Zelensky obliged to enter 17-year-old Ukrainians in the …Известияhttps://en.iz.ru › zelensky-obliged-enter-17-year-old-uk…
“Zelensky signed the law, according to which annually from January 1 to July 31, young men who turn 17 years old are taken to the register of …
Comment This is the reality of white make privilege in western style Democratic Dictatorships like the U.S, U.K and EU.
R J Cook
February 2nd 2025
Air traffic control staffing ‘not normal’ during DC crash – officials
Mallory Moench
BBC News
- Published2 February 2025, 16:48 GMT
Updated 3 hours ago
Air traffic control staffing was “not normal” at the time of a mid-air collision between a military helicopter and passenger plane in Washington, DC that killed 67 people, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has acknowledged.
US media reported that Reagan National Airport tower was understaffed during Wednesday’s crash, according to a government report.
One air traffic control worker was managing helicopters and some planes from the airport, a job normally done by two people, two sources told CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner.
“I’ll take the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at their word that it wasn’t normal,” Duffy said when asked about reports during the FOX News Sunday programme.
Duffy said “that was part of the review process that we have to do”.
He explained there was a “consolidation of air traffic controllers an hour before it was supposed to happen during the time of this crash. And so was, what was the appropriateness of that?”
Duffy raised questions about whether controllers did “appropriately direct traffic, consistent with procedures at the FAA”, as well as the elevation of the helicopter.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Board Member Todd Inman said preliminary data revealed the helicopter was flying at about 200ft (60m), CBS reported. The flight ceiling for helicopters in the area near Reagan National Airport is 200ft.
Duffy also questioned the timing of its flight.
“Why would they fly a mission at nine o’clock at night through really busy air space… as opposed to flying that mission at one o’clock in the morning, when there’s very little traffic”? he asked.
“I want our military to be trained up and ready to go, but I also want air travellers to be safe as well, and there’s a time and a place to do it, not at nine o’clock at night when there’s heavy traffic.”
Investigators are considering a number of factors, including height, in determining the cause of the crash, but have not yet made any public conclusions, NTSB officials said on Thursday.
There were 64 passengers aboard the American Airlines flight when it collided mid-air with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.
Read More https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5gyx09pj8o
January 31st 2025
From New Left Liberal Left & Literary Hub
The first days of the Trump administration have seen an unprecedented attack on the democratic rights of the entire population.
Trump is picking up where he left off on January 6th, 2021: attempting to establish a dictatorship. He’s trying to sideline Congress in violation of the Constitution, declaring that he has the power to unilaterally override laws that have been in effect for decades.
He’s declared a fraudulent “invasion,” peddling the Big Lie that immigrants—including people who are attending American schools, married to American citizens and working side by side with American coworkers—are engaged in an act of war against the US.
The World Socialist Web Site is fighting to mobilize the working class against these attacks, which are ultimately aimed against the entire population.
How Trump’s unconstitutional federal funding freeze put libraries (and everything else) at risk. • And despite the short-term reprieve, Trump’s strategy could have long-term effects on the separation of powers. | Lit Hub Politics
Comment I was talking to a plumber, working for me this morning, about the war on white comservatives. He told me that his daughter had done the politically correct sex education aged 8. Now the teachers had moved on to the Empire Windrush generation. There was no mention of Holocaust memorial day. Remember Whoopie Goldberg’s supressed comment that Jews had never experienced racism like herself and black ancestors because they are white people.
R J Cook
January 30th 2025
Man who burned Quran ‘shot dead in Sweden’
Maia Davies
BBC News
Danny Aeberhard
BBC News
- Published30 January 2025, 09:19 GMT
Updated 8 hours ago
A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden.
Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told the BBC.
Unrest broke out after Mr Momika set fire to a copy of Islam’s holy book outside Stockholm Central Mosque in 2023.
Stockholm police said in a statement that five people had been arrested after a man in his 40s was shot dead overnight.
Officers were called to a suspected shooting at an apartment in Hovsjö around 23:11 local time (22:11 GMT) on Wednesday.
The man, who has not been named by police, was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital. The force announced he had died on Thursday morning.
Local media reported that Mr Momika had been livestreaming on social media around the time he was shot.
Mr Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, was charged in August alongside one other with “agitation against an ethnic group” on four occasions in the summer of 2023.
The verdict, due to be delivered on Thursday, was postponed after it was “confirmed that one of the defendants had died”, Stockholm District Court said.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sweden’s security services were involved in the investigation because there was “obviously a risk that there were links to foreign powers,” SVT reported, external.
Mr Momika carried out a series of anti-Islam protests, sparking outrage in many Muslim-majority countries.
Unrest took place at the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice, while the Swedish ambassador was expelled from the city amid a diplomatic row.
Swedish police had given Mr Momika permission for the protest in which he burnt the holy book, in accordance with the country’s free-speech laws.
The government later pledged to explore legal means of abolishing protests that involve burning texts in certain circumstances.
“Religion Brings People Together” Sir Keir Smarmer
Comment There is a lot of good in the Koran, which derives from the Old Testament. In both cases, there is a great deal of violence. All is a matter of interpretation. The hustory of the Abrahamivitch religions is full of violence, with Jesus appearing as the peace keeper. He is recognised as the ninth prophet of Islam. All three of these religions became highly politicised with a history of schisms and bloodshed. Ireland was the U.K’s religio/ political battlefield. Now the mass immogration of Muslims into Western Europe has added a new dimension. Islaminc iolence in Europe, and U.K terrifies many people. Since the Muslim religion has been granted the status of being a race rather than a belief, U.K leads the western world in classifying being anti Islam as racist, and even a mental illness called Islamophobia.
That is the reason U.K’s Prime Minister’s heavy handed aggravating reponse to the Stockport massacre of childrem, playing down the young killer’s racism and sexism. They did that, along with his parents claiming asylum as members of Rwanda’s persecuted Muslim minority, where genocide is a major issue.
Multi culturalism as preached by comfortable professional and student types, mainly white is no solution. Hate does not come from nowhere and isn’t just a white or male phenomena. Preaching agaisnt the Afd, National Rally and Tommy Robinson makes the elite and their middle class acolytes makes these people feel better. It does not solve the problem. Their moral superiority makes matters worse.
The big questions are :why is religious bigotry and escapism is so popular in what we used to call the Third World and why is it being imported into the west? The interesting thing about this latest tragedy is, like Salman Rushdie, that the victim of Islamic hate crime is from an historic Muslim background. Because western white virtue signalling has appeased Muslims with the excuse that all they do for good or ill, is racially based, so they are beyond reproach. For them, there is nothing worse than harming the Koran. So if they choose to burn Rushdie’s work and use the knife on him, that is O.K.
So here is another man from a Muslim background in multi cultural Europe. Sweden to my memory was a very nice place. I gained a place at the Stockholm University International Graduate School many years ago. It is very different now. I will never go back there. England is no better. My forebears London is also a hell hole unless you are very rich. I know it well and had a great deal of business there from 2008-2020 when Thames Valley Police joined forces with West Mercia Police to get professional support for their vested interest that I am clinically insane.
To date, my ‘fellow white people’ have caused me more harm than Muslims. The latter have so far caused me none. I am not stupid enough to think that Muslims are the worst people in my world. Police, like religious groups et al, function on prejudice and bigotry in uniform and hierarchy.
In my world, there are men, women and individuals, like me. We are a menance to the elite consensus and their diversity mass deluded minions. As Sir Keir Smarmer said, “I don’t believe in God, but I believe in religion because it brings people together.” The crusades did that too. It is what happened next that thinking people should be worried about.
R J Cook
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Backed by dozens of ultra-right anti-vaccine zealots in the audience, Kennedy engaged in over three hours of lies, half-truths, and disinformation in his effort to become the top general in Trump’s war on public health.
January 29th 2025
Trump’s spending freeze: A direct attack on the working class and the US Constitution
Trump’s attempt to block previously approved Congressional funding not only threatens social programs that benefit millions, but is blatantly unconstitutional.
| Trump Medicaid freeze seems to lock 72 million Americans out of their health insurance |
| President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal funding for a massive number of government programs seems to have impacted Medicaid payment systems across the country, potentially locking 72 million Americans out of their health insurance. |
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As columns of destitute Palestinians return to northern Gaza, US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” the war-ravaged strip and relocate its inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has ignited a firestorm of criticism across the Middle East.
More noteworthy is that America’s firmest Arab allies have joined in the condemnation.
While Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — the region’s two economic heavyweights, and seen as being closest to Trump — have officially remained silent, they have telegraphed their displeasure.
Media outlets in both countries known to be close to the state have been replete with articles and op-eds condemning the president’s comments.
Abu Dhabi normalized ties with Israel during Trump’s first term, and Riyadh has expressed readiness to do so under certain conditions. Yet for both, his proposal is tantamount to a direct national-security threat.
Besides destabilizing Egypt and Jordan, US talk of driving out Palestinians from their homeland after the 15-month Israel-Hamas war is seen as vindication by those that have long lambasted the UAE and Saudi Arabia for selling out the Palestinian cause.
That includes Iran and militant groups Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, all of which were quick to lash out at Trump for his proposal.
Israel’s government floated a similar plan after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault. It’s likely to resurface when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week.
| Global Must Reads |
| Less than four weeks before Germany’s snap election, conservative challenger Friedrich Merz is raising the stakes in a campaign dominated by immigration and domestic security. Merz’s center-right bloc is trying to win support in parliament for a hard-line push on tackling irregular migration, even if that means the far-right Alternative for Germany will back its proposals — a strategy Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats say compromises a firewall designed to keep the Elon Musk-backed, anti-immigrant party out of power.Trump’s announcement Monday night that he would halt trillions of dollars in federal spending sowed panic in Washington and across the US. Before the directive was temporarily put on hold by a judge, lawmakers fielded calls from concerned constituents, Democrats decried what they saw as an unconstitutional power grab and even some of Trump’s GOP allies expressed unease with the scale and suddenness of the moves.For critics of Trump’s threatened trade tariffs, the domestic concern raised most often is that they will boost inflation and lead to higher interest rates. The biggest lesson from his trade war during his first term, though, may be that it’s the hit to growth that matters more.The European Union is proposing a phased ban on imports of Russian aluminum as part of a broad sanctions package as the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine completes its third year next month, sources say. The package also proposes measures that would cut more banks off from the SWIFT messaging system, and actions targeting more than 70 dark-fleet vessels involved in shipping Russian oil.The US called for an immediate truce in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a top United Nations official said the city of Goma is straining under the assault of a Rwanda-linked rebel attack. The assault by the M23 group on the key trading hub in a mineral-rich region raises concerns about a wider conflict between the central African nations. Rwanda denies backing M23. |
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said confrontation with hostile nations is “inevitable” and called for a ramping up of the country’s “nuclear shield,” just days after Trump indicated a willingness to reach out for renewed talks.
Turkish authorities detained three journalists from opposition-linked Halk TV over their coverage of a legal investigation into Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, intensifying a recent crackdown on dissenting voices.
Syria’s new government pressed Russia for compensation during its first talks with a Kremlin delegation in Damascus since the ouster of Moscow’s ally, President Bashar al-Assad.
Greenland’s population is overwhelmingly against leaving the Danish realm in favor of the US, according to a new poll, dealing a blow to Trump’s insistence the island’s inhabitants are keen on the idea.
January 28th 2025
Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies
Oliver Smith & Faisal Islam
BBC News
- Published27 January 2025
Poland’s president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, “should be dismantled”.
This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy.
“I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline,” he said.
The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European countries should resist pressure from companies to re-establish business links.
The Nord Stream gas pipelines were built by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom and run between Russia and northern Germany.
Nord Stream 1 was shut down in 2022 and Nord Stream 2 was never used, following the invasion of Ukraine. Both were damaged by explosions in 2022.
Gas prices in Europe surged after the shutdown and, in recent months, politicians from Germany’s far right AfD party have suggested the Nord Stream gas pipes should resume operations.
Germany will hold federal elections at the end of February.
“I believe the Nord Stream pipelines should be dismantled,” Duda said. “This pipeline causes a very big threat to Ukraine, to Poland, to Slovakia but also to other Central European countries.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m5p21pmy2o
‘War will last as long as Russia does’: Ukrainian talk of victory fades as Trump returns
Orla Guerin
Senior International Correspondent
Reporting from
Kyiv and Dnipro
- Published17 January 2025
Anastasiia Fedchenko, 36, wails in anguish – her agony echoing around the gilded walls of St Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv.
She sits with her hands resting on both sides of her stomach. She is heavily pregnant with her first child, a baby girl. Her husband Andriy Kusmenko is just inches away, in uniform – in an open coffin.
The marine commander was killed in action in eastern Ukraine on 4 January this year. He is now and forever 33. While Andriy fought in the war, Anastasiia wrote about it, as a journalist.
His brothers in arms file past, dropping red roses into his coffin. As funeral prayers come to an end, Anastasiia leans forward and gives “the love of her life” one last kiss.
Outside the cathedral she pays tribute to her “most handsome husband” who died for his country.
“I am sorry my daughter will never see her father,” she tells the BBC, “but she will know that he was a soldier, an officer, and that he did everything he could for Ukraine to exist for her and for other generations.”
“This war will last as long as Russia does. I truly fear our children will inherit it from us and will have to go and fight.”
Not according to Donald Trump, who famously claimed he could end the war in a day, and who returns to the White House next week. He is already pushing for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
That would dishonour the dead, according to Sgt Dmytro, call sign “Smile”, who fought alongside Andriy and came to the cathedral to mourn him.
“Let the people in power decide, but I don’t think the ones who fell would want them [Ukraine’s leadership] to sit around the table,” he says.
“After the funeral, we are heading back to work. We will fight for every Ukrainian who fell.”
Plenty here believe – like Anastasiia and Dmytro – that far too many Ukrainians have been killed to try to do a deal with Russia. But public opinion is shifting, and others believe there is too much death and destruction not to do a deal.
As Ukraine battles through its third winter of war, one word is now little spoken here – “victory”.
In the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, we heard it everywhere. It was a rallying cry for a nation suddenly confronted by columns of enemy tanks. But the past is truly a foreign country – and one with more territory.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj48vp1r51eo
Trump’s first 7 days: The framework for presidential dictatorship
In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.
Comment Is Trump’s version of dicatorship, assuming he has one, any worse than his predecesors. or the EU and U.K ? I don’t think so. It certainly could not be any worse in the prevailing culture of democratic dictatorship, EU and U.K Police State Governments where everything so badly wrong and sick is all Russia’s fault..
R J Cook
Understand foreign affairs from the Indian perspective! This week, the newsletter is written and curated by Stanly Johny, The Hindu’s International Affairs Editor.
| How Trump shifted America’s policy in a week. |
| Donald Trump did not waste any time. As soon as he took office as the 47th President of the U.S., the Republican issued a flurry of executive orders remaking America’s policy. He announced the U.S.’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, which could be a blow to the global efforts to fight climate change. In 2016, when Mr. Trump won the election and had moved to withdraw the U.S. from the pact, the exit did not formally take place, thanks to the way the Paris Agreement rules were framed. However, this time, the U.S. can exit within a year of formally conveying this to the UN. The President has also swung America’s energy policy largely in favour of fossil fuels. He asked the Energy Department to resume allowing reviews of gas export facilities and instructed federal agencies to stop issuing leases and permits for all new wind projects pending a new environmental review. Mr. Trump has ordered that the U.S. government would, from now on, recognise only two “immutable” genders — male and female. He also issued executive orders ending government diversity programmes, breaking with what he and his supporters call “woke culture”, and ended birthright citizenship (which has been temporarily stayed by a court). He took the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, and pardoned some 1,500 people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020, claiming that the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden won, was stolen from Mr. Trump. The U.S. government is now referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. And the administration has begun a mass deportation programme aimed at deporting undocumented foreigners who are now called “aliens” in government releases. Mr. Trump has also threatened to impose tariffs on several countries, including Mexico and Canada (which is likely to take effect on February 15). He plans to put tariffs on China as well, but signalled in an interview last week that he would hold the decision on China for now. Mr. Trump is yet to make any major move in foreign policy. During the campaign, he had promised to bring the Ukraine war to an end. His ‘envoy for the Middle East’, Steve Witkoff, had played a constructive role in the finalisation of the three-phase Gaza ceasefire. But Mr. Trump’s statement as President that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinian refugees from Gaza “to just clean out” the strip has triggered angry responses from the region. Throughout the 15 months of war in Gaza, in which over 46,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 wounded by Israeli attacks, Egypt had refused to take Palestinian refugees. Palestinians in Gaza themselves have said many times that they were not leaving the enclave, citing the past experience of Palestinians who fled to other countries as refugees during conflicts and were never allowed to return. With regard to Ukraine, Mr. Trump has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war through negotiations or face more sanctions and tariffs. The Kremlin has said that Mr. Putin was ready to meet Mr. Trump but was yet to get any signal from Washington on peace talks. But one development that exposed Mr. Trump’s handling of foreign policy was his fall-out with Colombia. When Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to give permission to two American military planes carrying Colombian immigrants to land in his country, a furious Mr. Trump immediately threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods. He also threatened the South American country with sanctions on its banking and financial sector and vowed to impose visa restrictions on Colombian government officials and associates. Mr. Petro initially responded in kind threatening to impose counter-tariffs on American goods but eventually folded. This gave an opportunity for Mr. Trump to claim that “America is respected again”. But Mr. Trump’s coercive ‘America First’ foreign policy, with little regard for America’s alliance systems and global competitions, has already irked and alarmed U.S. allies, from the Pacific to Europe and South America. Such concerns are expected to mount in the coming months with Mr. Trump pressing with his plan to take over Greenland, which is owned by Denmark, one of the founding members of NATO. The Top Five 1. Is France’s influence in West Africa over? Why did Chad, Ivory Coast, and Senegal ask for the withdrawal of French troops? What does the withdrawal signify for Europe’s waning influence in Africa? How has Russia benefited from this? write Padmashree Anandhan and Anu Maria Joseph. 2. An enduring commitment to the Indo-Pacific Under the new Trump administration, the Indo-Pacific is likely to regain prominence but with a sharper focus on hard power dynamics, write Harsh V. Pant and Pratnashree Basu. 3. Following backlash, ‘Jaffna’ restored in India-built Cultural Centre’s name in Sri Lanka On January 18, the Indian High Commission announced the renaming of the Cultural Centre in Jaffna as ‘Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre’; the omission of ‘Jaffna’ sparked strong criticism from locals, reports Meera Srinivasan. 4. India should be an ‘essential and important’ part of Gaza reconstruction: Palestinian envoy As hopes grow that the ceasefire will hold, the Palestinian government considers Gaza reconstruction plans; invites Indian government and private sector to participate in the rebuilding of the enclave, reports Suhasini Haidar. 5. Marco Rubio: Secretary of faith The Republican who once challenged Donald Trump in primaries and called him a ‘con artist’ is now the President’s diplomat-in-chief, writes Varghese K. George. |
ICE escalates raids across the US after Trump demands 1,500 immigrant arrests per day
The Trump administration’s quota of 1,500 immigrant arrests per day was implemented on Sunday by Department of Homeland Security agencies in cities across the US.
Trade war could erupt between US and EU over Trump’s threat to seize Greenland
US imperialism has long viewed Greenland as critical for geopolitical and security reasons. Its Thule air base was a key operational centre for its ballistic missiles and served as a store for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
DeepSeek shock wave hits Wall Street
Shares in Nvidia, the leading US AI firm, dropped by 17 percent yesterday, the biggest one-day loss to the market capitalisation of a company in history, after the announcement by Chinese firm DeepSeek that it had developed a cheaper way of producing AI technology
The CIA joins the anti-China bandwagon on COVID origins, despite lack of any evidence
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Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Australia’s opposition leader unveils Trump-oriented shadow cabinet reshuffle
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
Signal workers at Canadian National Railways could strike from Tuesday over contract issues, while the Association of Flight Attendants has told its Alaska Air members to vote “yes” on new contract or face dire consequences.
Maryland’s Democratic governor proposes austerity budget for next fiscal year
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Trump pardons Washington, D.C. police officers convicted for murder of unarmed motorist
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Lockerbie: A Search for Truth: TV series dramatises Lockerbie relatives’ campaign for justice
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China’s DeepSeek AI shakes industry and dents America’s swagger
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd643wx888qo
Lily Jamali
North America Technology Correspondent, San Francisco
The speed at which the new Chinese AI app DeepSeek has shaken the technology industry, the markets and the bullish sense of American superiority in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been nothing short of stunning.
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen may have said it best. “DeepSeek-R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted to X on Sunday, referring to the satellite which kicked off the space race.
DeepSeek was the most downloaded free app on Apple’s US App Store over the weekend. By Monday, the new AI chatbot had triggered a massive sell-off of major tech stocks which were in freefall as fears mounted over America’s leadership in the sector.
Shares of AI chip designer and recent Wall Street darling Nvidia, for example, had plunged by 17% by the time US markets closed on Monday. Or to put it in even starker terms, it lost nearly $600bn in market value which, according to Bloomberg, is the biggest drop in the history of the US stock market.
President Donald Trump with A1 Industry leaders a few days ago. (EPA)
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January 26th 2025
Who was behind the vaccine bonds?
As historians Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty explain, it in fact amounted to “one of the world’s greatest con jobs” with Hoover being “a confidence trickster and a crook”. [398][399]
“The American-born mining engineer lived in London for years and was a business colleague of the Rothschilds,” they add.
“Financial muscle was never far from his center of power. The Morgan/Rothschild axis was wrapped around the entire project”. [400]
Today USAID continues that fine tradition of working with “financial muscle”, as it spells out on its website.
“USAID partners with the private sector where there is a strong alignment between business interests and our development objectives. Today, we find these two aims increasingly intersecting”. [401]
Or maybe it is just becoming increasingly obvious that they amount to the same thing?
In any case, Shah has played a key role in this corporatist “intersection”. His Rockefeller Foundation profile says that while at USAID he “reshaped the $20 billion agency’s operations in more than 70 countries around the world by elevating the role of innovation, creating high-impact public-private partnerships”. [402]
USAID says it is involved in “engaging with the private sector as strategic partners” in the areas of “food security”, “global health”, “climate change” and “energy”. [403]
It could have added “war” to that list.
As journalist Saheli Khastagir writes: “In the 2000s, while the US military was bombing Iraq and Afghanistan, USAID was tasked with ‘rebuilding’ the two countries.
“More than a month before Iraq was actually invaded by American troops, USAID began soliciting bids for rebuilding the country from a few ‘pre-qualified’ corporations”. [404]
An August 2024 article on the Bloomberg website notes that USAID is often accused of being a front for the CIA and “has faced its fair share of scandals over the years”.
It reveals that in Iraq, child labour was used by the recipient of a $9 million 2021 USAID grant to provide critical water, sanitation and hygiene services to 200,000 internally displaced persons.
And there were “multiple cases involving the sexual exploitation and abuse of children” at African charities that were awarded tens of millions of dollars in USAID contracts. [405]
Continuing the financial neo-colonialism theme, Shah is the founder of Latitude Capital, “a private equity firm focused on power and infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia”. [406]
In 2020 he was part of The Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, “a historic new partnership between some of the world’s largest investment and business leaders and the Vatican”, headed by Lynn Forester de Rothschild. [407]
Shah sits on numerous boards including the International Rescue Committee, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Trilateral Commission and the Atlantic Council – he is also a member of the much-aforementioned Council on Foreign Relations. [408]
And in January 2024 he was appointed a Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for a three-year term ending on December 31, 2026. [409]
In order to fully understand the context of all these roles – and indeed of his presidency of the Rockefeller Foundation – we need to look back to the early years of his career.
As a young man, in 2001, Shah went to work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was responsible for developing the International Finance Facility for Immunization, which has raised more than $5 billion for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). [410]
This basically uses government pledges to support the issuing of “Vaccine Bonds” sold to institutional and individual investors so as to ensure and accelerate funding for Big Pharma jabs. [411]
The origins of this device are fascinating. In the text of a 2018 speech, Arunma Oteh, then vice-president and treasurer of the World Bank, describes herself as “a pioneer board member of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), which was founded in 2006”. [412]
She sheds some interesting general light on the financial-imperialist development agenda that has been so visible throughout this essay.
Oteh says: “Global growth is going to come from emerging markets, which of course relies in part on development finance. From an investor’s perspective, emerging markets often offer high returns on a risk‑adjusted basis as well as opportunities for diversification.
“To foster growth, we need to connect investors to products that build human and physical capital. We need to fill infrastructure gaps and improve health and education outcomes. Like the previous speaker said, we need to increase female labour‑force participation.
“The UN estimates that of the $3.9 trillion needed annually for developing countries to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, only $2.5 trillion is being invested per year.
“This means we need to bridge this $1.4 trillion annual gap, and I believe we can do so by leveraging the capital markets to complement what public‑sector resources already do.
“Specifically, I believe we can mobilize more private‑sector resources. We can focus more on sustainability, as earlier speakers have alluded to. I think we need to continue to think about innovative financing solutions”. [413]
Oteh’s speech was addressed to the 50th general meeting and conference in Madrid of the International Capital Market Association, known as the ICMA, which played a key role in creating the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, IFFIm.
Explains a 2017 “Innovative Finance” update from IFFIm, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance and the World Bank: “The International Capital Market Association in 2017 issued guidelines for socially responsible investments.
“The result: ICMA’s Social Bond Principles (SBPs), which were recognized by GlobalCapital’s Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards this year as the Most Valuable Innovation for the Green/SRI Bond Market”.
It quotes René Karsenti, who is both IFFIm’s board chair and ICMA’s president, as describing ICMA’s latest work in this area as “a big and valuable step ahead for the field that IFFIm has been part of since 2006”. [414]
ICMA is set up as a “not-for-profit association” (Verein) under the Swiss Civil Code and headquartered in Zurich, with offices in London, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong.
It explains on its website: “For over 50 years ICMA and its members have worked together to promote the development of the international capital and securities markets, pioneering the rules, principles and recommendations which have laid the foundations for their successful operation.
“ICMA currently has over 620 members active in all segments of international debt capital markets in 70 jurisdictions globally.
“Among our members are private and public sector issuers, banks and securities dealers, asset and fund managers, insurance companies, law firms, capital market infrastructure providers and central banks”. [415]
And who could possibly be behind such a massive and powerful global financial institution?
Oteh reveals in her speech: “ICMA started as an organisation of 19 bond dealers in NM Rothschild & Sons London office in 1968”. [416]
That was hard work to put together (and possibly to read!) but I think it had to be done.
It is plain that the Rockefeller entity, as reflected by the profiles of its president and the trustees of its Foundation, is not in the least distinct from the Rothschilds’ empire.
It is part of it.
They are the same thing.
What is revealed by following the threads of the activities and affiliations of these 14 individuals is a single interlocked web of exploitation and control, implicated in the Zionist genocide in Palestine and intent on profiting from a vast wave of industrial neo-imperialism in Asia, Latin America and, in particular, Africa.
There is only one global mafia and here we have seen its ugly face all too clearly.
The only question that remains in my mind is what on earth the rest of us – the overwhelmingly vast majority of humankind, after all! – are going to do about this horrible reality.
The above article is an extract from Paul Cudenec’s new 100-page booklet, The Single Global Mafia: The Rockefeller Foundation’s multiple links to Zionism and military-industrial-financial neo-imperialism, which can be downloaded free here for reading, safekeeping and the widest possible sharing.
[395] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[396] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
[397] Ibid.
[398] Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty, Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2018), p. 233.
[399] Macgregor and Docherty, Prolonging the Agony, p. 204.
[400] Macgregor and Docherty, Prolonging the Agony, p. 204, p. 231.
[401] https://www.usaid.gov/partner-with-us/corporations
[402] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[403] https://www.usaid.gov/partner-with-us/corporations
[404] https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/03/aid-for-profit-the-dark-history-of-usaid
[405] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-23/usaid-records-detail-child-labor-abuse-and-social-media-threats
[406] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[407]
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-council-for-inclusive-capitalism-with-the-vatican-a-new-alliance-of-global-business-leaders-launches-today-301187931.html
[408] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Shah
[409] https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/aboutthefed/2024/20240105a
[410] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[411] https://iffim.org/sites/default/files/library/publications/iffim-updates/iffim-update-12/IFFIm%20Update%2012.pdf
[412] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2018/06/01/leveraging-capital-markets-for-sustainable-development
[413] Ibid.
[414] https://iffim.org/sites/default/files/library/publications/iffim-updates/iffim-update-12/IFFIm%20Update%2012.pdf
[415] https://www.icmagroup.org/About-ICMA/
[416] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2018/06/01/leveraging-capital-markets-for-sustainable-development
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January 23rd 2025 The US admiral in the globalist axis of evil
A. used MilAir for unofficial travel without obtaining approval on one occasion in connection with his travel to Dijon, France;
B. claimed and collected per diem expenses to which he was not entitled in connection with seven instances of overlapping TDY travel;
C. authorized his wife on two occasions to claim and collect per diem associated with official travel for TDY to which she was not entitled;
D. failed to use his GTCC for travel-related expenses incurred during TDY travel;
E. accepted gifts on three occasions from foreign governments and on two occasions from NFEs without timely reporting or disposing of them;
F. permitted family members to accompany him on MilAir without properly documenting their unofficial travel or reimbursing the Government for such travel at the full coach fare;
G. permitted a employee and family member to accompany him on MilAir in connection with travel to Dijon, France, without requiring the employee to reimburse the Government for the family member’s unofficial travel at the full coach fare;
H. used a Government-provided cellular telephone for unofficial purposes, permitted staff members to use Government-provided cellular telephones for unofficial purposes, and permitted his wife to use a Government-provided cellular telephone for unofficial purposes; and
I. failed to obtain proper authorization to transport his spouse in Government-provided vehicles for official and unofficial travel in Belgium. [377]
But the scandal of Stavridis’s abuse of his position, and the initial cover-up of the report’s findings, pale into insignificance next to the fact that he is a managing director-partner of The Carlyle Group. [378][379]
I have been aware of this insidious organisation for many years now.
In 2002 I protested outside its London offices as one of a dozen anarchists from Worthing, up in the big city for the day to take part in the broader Mayday protests against what we called “the way ordinary people’s lives are ruined by the ruthless greed and power hunger of global big businesses and the puppet governments that serve their agenda”. [380]
We put up a banner reading “The Carlyle Group – Axis of Evil” and handed out hundreds of leaflets to the public.
We summed up The Carlyle Group as “an extremely dodgy US finance firm that links the US government, the American defence industry, the UK Conservative Party and the Bin Laden family”.
Our spokesman (that was me, I can now safely reveal!) said: “The Carlyle Group is at the heart of a global scam to enable a powerful elite to get rich from the horrors of war, while pretending to serve some kind of public interest”. [381]
The full text of the leaflet can still be found on the internet, but 22 years later I again tried to sum up the enormity of what The Carlyle Group represents in my May 2024 article looking at Chatham House and at one of its presidents, former UK Prime Minister John Major.
I wrote: “Not mentioned in Major’s Chatham House profile is that in May 2001 he was appointed European chairman of The Carlyle Group, the US-based multinational private equity, asset management and financial services corporation, founded by William E. Conway Jr., Stephen L. Norris, David Rubenstein, Daniel A. D’Aniello and Greg Rosenbaum.
“In one of history’s great coincidences, Carlyle’s investor conference later that year took place in Washington on September 11, with Major in attendance.
“In the weeks following the meeting, it was reported that Shafiq bin Laden had been the ‘guest of honor’, and that the Bin Laden family were investors in Carlyle-managed funds”. [382]
As I noted, an article in The Economist (of all places!) commented that you did need not be a ‘conspiracy theorist’ to be concerned about what lay behind Carlyle’s success.
It added: “Can a firm that is so deeply embedded in the iron triangle where industry, government and the military converge be good for democracy?
“Carlyle arguably takes to a new level the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower feared might ‘endanger our liberties or democratic process’”. [383]
Stavridis is also, like so many of the Rockefeller crowd, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and, needless to add, a regular at the WEF. [384][385]
In 2021, Stavridis joined the national security advisory board of venture capital firm Shield Capital, as a senior advisor. [386]
In 2022 this business formed a strategic partnership with L3Harris Technologies which “will enable Shield Capital portfolio companies to more quickly develop and deploy new technologies in its core cyber security, artificial intelligence, space sensing and autonomy markets”.
It will also “foster emerging defense and commercial technologies that address customers’ growing requirements for innovative, agile solutions that can be rapidly fielded”. [387]
The use of the word “agile” here made me immediately think of Klaus Schwab of the WEF and his calls for Fourth Industrial Revolution “agile governance” which “seeks to match the nimbleness, fluidity, flexibility and adaptiveness of the technologies themselves and the private-sector actors adopting them”. [388][389]
Stavridis is also on the board of Ankura, a consulting group dealing with the likes of cybersecurity, digital forensics, compliance, mergers and acquisition services and which describes itself as “nimble, agile, and fluid”. [390][391][392]
It’s that word again! Uncanny!
Stavridis is a regular TV pundit in the USA, but one of his less publicised appearances was in April 2021 at the wedding of CNN news anchor Natalie Allen and Emory professor Jeff Rosensweig, an associate professor of international business and finance at Emory-Goizueta Business School, Atlanta, and director of the Global Perspectives Program. [393]
The wedding was held at the Jekyll Island Club Resort and the Atlanta Jewish Times explains: “The venue was chosen because the Federal Reserve System was formed there by J.P. Morgan, among others. Rosensweig began his career at the Federal Reserve.
“Adm. James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and currently chairman of The Rockefeller Foundation, shared wonderful reflections on ‘service and commitment’ during the ceremony”. [394]
The above article is an extract from Paul Cudenec’s new 100-page booklet, The Single Global Mafia: The Rockefeller Foundation’s multiple links to Zionism and military-industrial-financial neo-imperialism, which can be downloaded free here for reading, safekeeping and the widest possible sharing.
[375] https://admiralstav.com/about/
[376] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/us-admiral-cleared-of-misconduct-in-pentagon-probe/
[377] https://media.defense.gov/2018/Jul/25/2001946777/-1/-1/1/ADMSTAVRIDISROI(FINAL)_REDACTED.PDF
[378] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Stavridis
[379] https://www.carlyle.com/about-carlyle/team/james-stavridis
[380] https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/05/29864.html
[381] Ibid.
[382] https://winteroak.org.uk/2024/05/15/power-and-corruption-the-public-private-imperial-mafia/
[383]
https://web.archive.org/web/20051212013149/http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1875084
[384] https://www.cfr.org/bio/james-stavridis
[385] https://www.weforum.org/people/admiral-james-g-stavridis/
[386] https://shieldcap.com/advisors/senior
[387] https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/press-release/2022/03/l3harris-and-shield-capital-form-strategic-partnership-accelerate
[388] https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/
[389] Klaus Schwab with Nicholas Davis, Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide to Building a Better World (Geneva: WEF, 2018), e-book. 82%
[390] https://ankura.com/news/admiral-james-stavridis-joins-ankura-board-of-directors
[391] https://craft.co/ankura
[392] https://ankura.com/about
[393] https://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/jeffrey-rosensweig
[394] https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/the-professor-and-tv-anchors-earth-day-wedding/
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Ukraine Was Always Just Anti-Russian ‘Battering Ram’ to US – Ex-Pentagon Analyst
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The Trump administration has little interest in wasting money on Ukraine, retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, former analyst for the US Department of Defense, tells Sputnik while commenting on Trump’s decision to suspend US foreign aid programs.
Withholding monies to Ukraine is a “starting point in explaining to Zelensky that the gravy train is over,” the expert thinks.
It has become increasingly obvious that the United States “doesn’t care for Ukraine,” regarding the latter merely as a “battering ram,” a “tool” to be used against Russia, Kwiatkowski remarks.
“So if Ukraine is a tool, it’s now a tool that is no longer very useful. It’s a tool that is hard to maintain. It’s not worth it. So we’re going to throw that tool away,” she says.
US Senator Lindsey Graham’s declaration about fighting Russia “to the last Ukrainian,” however heartless it may sound, “reflects how the Senate and how the politicians and the oligarchy in the United States really feel about Ukraine,” she added.
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The Kiev regime’s pursuit of the so-called ‘Ukrainization’ policy that “limits the use of non-Ukrainian languages” in the country has a negative impact on minority groups.
“When you enter a store, for instance, you have to speak Ukrainian. If you start speaking in some other language, then you are liable to be fined. In all sorts of ways, this Ukrainian migration policy violates minority rights,” Szamuely emphasizes.
The rights of national minorities living in Ukraine have long been a bone of contention, and since the onset of the Russian special military operation, this matter has gained renewed attention.
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Day One of Donald Trump’s second term as US president made clear to many of America’s friends that they face a rocky road ahead.
He threatened tariffs of up to 25% by Feb. 1 on neighboring Mexico and Canada, both fellow signatories of the USMCA trade pact negotiated during his first term. He accused them of doing too little to stop drugs and migrants flowing into the US, calling Canada “a very bad abuser.”
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Trump has often expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s eager for talks on a deal to end his war in Ukraine. Europe’s leaders risk having the continent’s future security decided over their heads.
Like Canada and Mexico, they must now reckon with a US president who has no qualms wielding power against longstanding allies, and whose interests may no longer align with theirs.— Tony Halpin
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In the lead-up to the handover of power in Washington, our correspondents dissected these changes in the regions where they were.
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He cut through the delaying tactics that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in alliance with his ultra-nationalist coalition partners, had used to avoid accepting the ceasefire deal that Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden put on the negotiating table last May.
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Comment This is so Vietnam except rampant capitalist media are cheer leading plans to draft 17 year old young men into their filthy resource grabbing planet eating enslaving Anglo U.S led NATO Ukraine proxy war on Russia. Western media forcefully ignores mentioning the reality that this process is men only. It has become the norm to refer to service persons not service men because that is sexist. Women have always had roles as back home support staff and spies. They also make good snipers, as those of us who have suffered the anti male divorce process know very well. But the average woman is not built physically or mentally for the msieries, carnage, disabling and daily death of front line combat. The other thing women have excelled at during war is prostitution and stealing men’s money.
That is also the essence of western politcal elites who have seduced Eastern Europe, with its rising female leaders, into a fake world of glamour that reminds me of the pre Captain Kirk pilot episode of Star Trek. Here the ‘Enterprise’ landed on a planet where a previous ship had crashed. The ‘Enterprise’ crew were mesmerised by the beauty of the Caucasian crash victims, with romance blooming until the plot twist when their superior alien hosts revealed to the ‘Enterprise’ crew, that the crash victims had been hideusly disfigured.
What they were all seeing was an outcome of the superior alien intelligence that nursed them back to life. Then they created a cloak or what we would now call a virtual world. Here everyone and everything looked beautiful, but it would all fall apart if they ever left.
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My winter holiday rambling in the U,K was as fascinating and mind growing a are all of my ramblings in this small island. Here is a winter vignette from Ripon in North Yorkshire where real men used to live:
Sunday morning, 9.15 a.m. There’s been snow – about 4 inches. Outside Wetherspoons sit a couple (on small heat pads they’ve brought with them), dressed in Arctic weather gear and drinking espresso martinis. Inside Wetherspoons, the duty manager – a stately lady of mature years – comes into view. She stares out of the window, observes the martini couple, and says to the assembled company ‘I’m going to swear. FUCKING HELL! I mean, JESUS CHRIST! Really?!’
Happy new year. F.S January 17th 2025
How to survive “The Great Taking”
“The Great Taking” is a plan by central bankers to confiscate all securities, bank deposits and debt-financed property, as revealed by former hedge fund manager David Webb.
The plan involves exploiting the global debt accumulation super cycle, rehypothecation of assets, and the centralisation of control over financial institutions.
To survive “The Great Taking”, Nick Giambruno suggests people should aim to be debt-free and own unencumbered assets within their direct control, avoiding fiat currency in bank accounts and unsecured liabilities.
How To Survive “The Great Taking” in 2025
It’s a “scheme of central bankers to subjugate humanity by taking all securities, bank deposits, and property financed with debt.”
David Webb, a former hedge fund manager, and Wall Street insider, has blown the lid off a diabolical plan more than 50 years in the making in a shocking new book. He calls it ‘The Great Taking‘. I consider it an urgent must-read (available for free HERE).
Biden and the American oligarchy
In his “farewell address” Wednesday, Biden warned of the growth of an oligarchy in America which his own administration has helped to foster and strengthen.
It is about the taking of collateral (all of it), the end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle.
This scheme is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass.
Included are all financial assets and bank deposits, all stocks and bonds; and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment; land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property.
Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will likewise be taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses which have been financed with debt.
If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.
Private, closely held control of ALL central banks, and hence of all money creation, has allowed a very few people to control all political parties and governments; the intelligence agencies and their myriad front organisations; the armed forces and the police; the major corporations and, of course, the media. These very few people are the prime movers. Their plans are executed over decades. Their control is opaque.
To be clear, it is these very few people, who are hidden from you, who are behind this scheme to confiscate all assets, who are waging a hybrid war against humanity.
Webb shows how the dark forces behind central banking have spent the last 50 years meticulously putting the legal structures in place worldwide to sever property rights for securities.
Gone are the days of physical paper share certificates and bearer securities, where you had control and ownership of the asset.
Today, your control and ownership have become increasingly distant as stocks, bonds and other investments have been centralised away from account holders and rehypothecated – a slimy practice where financial institutions reuse an account holder’s asset for their own purposes, creating multiple claims on the same asset.
Contrary to what most brokerage account holders believe, they only have the appearance of ownership. If their broker goes bust, the stocks and bonds they think they own will be used to satisfy the other more senior creditors of their broker.
Webb shows how, during the 2008 financial crisis, a small broker in Florida went bankrupt. Instead of sending the clients’ securities to another broker, as had traditionally been the case, they were swept up by the bankruptcy receiver.
But it’s not just some isolated small broker.
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers set the case law precedent for secured creditors to take client assets in the case of insolvency.
The most senior secured creditors are the most powerful financial institutions closest to the central banks – JP Morgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, etc.
The net effect of The Great Taking will be the biggest centralisation of money and power in history as they take everyone’s securities during a future crisis. Though it’s not just securities, they will also take ANY asset financed by debt – like real estate, cars and small businesses – as people become unable to service their debts.
Webb provides all the details and proof in his book. Here’s the bottom line.
The most powerful people in the world have succeeded in subverting the property rights of securities and ensnaring most of the world with debt.
The trap has been set, and the legal plumbing is in place.
All that is needed is a big crisis that will cause a tidal wave of bankruptcies and the hidden forces behind the world’s central banks will be able to take everyone’s stocks, bonds and any property financed by debt.
All the assets people think they own in brokerage accounts, bank accounts, pensions and other financial accounts could vanish overnight.
Webb says, “There will be a game of musical chairs. When the music stops, you will not have a seat. It is designed to work that way.”
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The Coming Collapse Is by Design
Webb makes a compelling case that the next financial crisis won’t be an accident; the global elite are making it happen to proceed with The Great Taking. In short, it’s not plausible that such an intelligent, deliberate plan executed with persistence for more than 50 years could happen by accident.
Further, the forces behind central banking and (fake) money creation undoubtedly understand the dynamics of the boom-bust cycle they create by expanding and contracting the money supply. They know the Everything Bubble they created will lead to a massive bust. That’s when they will execute The Great Taking.
Further, consumer debt is at record highs. After many years of being encouraged to go deeply into debt, many Americans have reached their maximum debt saturation. They will be ripe for the picking. As Webb explains:
“Debt is not a real thing. It is an invention, a construct designed to take real things.
The bottom line is that debt has for centuries had the function of dispossessing, of taking away property, capital and investments from someone.”
What You Can Do About It?
Nobody knows the future or how The Great Taking will play out. The best you can do is to make yourself a hard target and not be among the low-hanging fruit.
You can do that by being debt-free and owning unencumbered assets within your direct control.
You don’t want to own something that is simultaneously someone else’s liability. That’s because the legal structures are already in place to take it from you during the next crisis. Crucially, this includes fiat currency in bank accounts.
Remember, fiat currency is the unbacked liability of a bankrupt government. Further, once you deposit currency into a bank, it is no longer yours. Technically and legally, it is the bank’s property, and what you own instead is an unsecured liability of the bank.
As The Great Taking unfolds, you won’t want to be on the other end of unsecured liabilities or IOUs of any kind.
I believe The Great Taking could happen sooner than most realise – and it won’t be pretty for many. Most people have no idea how bad things could get – or how to prepare. That’s why I’ve published a detailed guide called ‘The Most Dangerous Economic Crisis in 100 Years: The Top 3 Strategies You Need Right Now’. Click here to download the free PDF.
About the Author
Nick Giambruno is a renowned speculator and international investor known for his expertise in identifying geopolitical and economic trends. He specialises in finding lucrative investment opportunities in overlooked markets and advises on reducing political risks through international diversification.
He is the founder of The Financial Underground, a platform dedicated to uncovering truths about money and markets. He frequently speaks at investment conferences worldwide and has been featured in various publications including The Economist, Forbes, Zero Hedge and MoneyWeek.
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The weight of the Middle East is bearing down on the most fragile of ceasefires. For Iran, it’s a brittle and bitter denouement to a highly destructive war that’s dramatically upended its political fortunes.
The Islamic Republic’s flagship ally, Hezbollah, hangs by a thread and Syria’s Assad dynasty – the other pivotal partner in Tehran’s web of friends in the eastern Mediterranean – has gone.
With Donald Trump days from affirming his second US presidency, Iran has a lot to be worried about.
The country needs to protect its remaining allies — the Iraqi government and the Houthis in Yemen — and shore up the strategic ties that will probably make or break Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s ability to withstand another four years of Trump.
To that end, Iran’s reformist president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today to sign a strategic deal.
It’s likely to be Iran’s best hedge against the uncertainty that Trump’s incoming administration will bring and the hostile, “maximum pressure” approach he’s likely to revive.
At the same time, Pezeshkian has a mandate from the clerics to pursue sanctions relief and engagement with the US, knowing that it’s the only viable, long-term solution to Iran’s myriad economic problems.
All of this comes as the country’s theocratic regime faces widespread unpopularity and a major energy crisis that officials are struggling to control, deepening Iran’s economic distress.
It’s an unenviable situation that presents few easy moves for a country that’s credited with being an early pioneer of chess.
With Iran sure to be in Trump’s sights, the rooks on the Persian chessboard have their work cut out. — Golnar Motevalli
Germany’s economic and political difficulties are well documented going into snap elections on Feb. 23 that offer a chance for a fresh approach to tackling the challenges in Europe’s dominant power. This piece shows where the main parties stack up on core issues including the economy, energy, debt, defense and migration that will determine whether Germany can climb out of its torpor.
China’s economic growth was exactly in line with the government’s goal last year after an 11th-hour stimulus blitz and export boom turbocharged activity, although looming US tariffs threaten to take away a key driver of expansion. Gross domestic product expanded by 5% in the world’s second-largest economy, official data showed today, after President Xi Jinping said on New Year’s Eve that China was expected to meet the target.
TikTok is poised to win a reprieve from a law that would ban the popular social-media app in the US from Sunday, thanks to a holiday weekend and a pledge from Trump’s incoming administration to give its Chinese owner more time to divest. Two Biden administration officials said Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday essentially leaves enforcement to the new president.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer and those of two of her lieutenants were infiltrated and unclassified files were accessed as part of a broader breach of the agency by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, sources say. In the latest hack attributed to the government in Beijing, the attackers appeared to focus on Treasury’s role in sanctions, intelligence and international affairs, but didn’t penetrate the department’s email or classified systems, according to a report we previously reviewed.
Between the thicket of the Darien Gap on Panama’s border with Colombia and the treacherous ganglands of Mexico, there’s a stretch of Central America where the trek northward for migrants is normally done by bus, encouraged by governments that don’t want them to linger. This represents a challenge for Trump, who needs the cooperation of other countries to achieve his goal of stopping the flow of undocumented immigration.
South Korean investigators sought a new warrant to extend for as long as 20 days the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration.
Former central banker Mark Carney kicked off his bid to replace Justin Trudeau as both the head of Canada’s Liberal Party and the country’s prime minister, saying he has the experience to deal with Trump’s return to the White House.
Nigel Farage said Reform UK isn’t anti-immigration and advocated a mixture of tax and spending cuts as he sought to put a more moderate face on his insurgent party.
Kenya plans to reinforce policing of social media amid a vicious online onslaught chiefly targeting President William Ruto, as criticism mounts of government efforts to stifle dissent.
Trade tensions between the US and China, the two biggest economies, are already heating up; the question now is how quickly things escalate once Trump takes office.
January 14th 2025
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Why 2025 will be the year of the Alpha Male
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According to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Brazil has been identified as a strategic partner in Latin America, which includes military cooperation. Both President Bolsonaro and aspiring president Lula da Silva sought close relations with Russia on all levels of government. There are c 1.8 million ethnic Russians living in Brazil.
Comment NATO are militarising the Baltic, with a swathe of Biden initiatives and weapons to make sure Trump can do nothing to stop this war. So much money and big egos have been invested in provoking and promoting this Ukraine proxy war on Russia, the Western banking system would crash if they lost. So that cannot happen even if it leads to battlefield nuclear weapons with all the associated burns and cancer, before the big stuff starts flying. This a clash of empires that has nothing to do with human rights, freedom or democracy.
R J Cook
Los Angeles braces for dangerous winds
Strong winds are expected to return to Los Angeles, threatening to reverse some of the hard-fought gains that firefighters have made in battling the devastating blazes there. Here’s the latest.
Officials issued a rare fire-danger alert for today through tomorrow afternoon, when the heaviest gusts are expected. The same kind of alert was issued a week ago, before the start of the Eaton fire, which has burned parts of Altadena and Pasadena, and the Palisades fire on the west side of Los Angeles.
In anticipation of the new threat, fire crews and resources are being deployed to at-risk areas, officials said. Winds in the coming days might not be as strong as those last week, but their duration could increase the danger.
Death toll: The Eaton fire has killed at least 16 people, making it one of the deadliest in California’s history, and at least eight people have died in the Palisades blaze. Another 23 people have been reported missing, and officials have warned that the number of fatalities is likely to rise. Here’s what we know about the dead and the search for the missing.
Evacuations: About 92,000 people are under evacuation orders, down from more than 100,000 on Sunday. The largest fires have damaged more than 12,000 houses, cars and outbuildings, among other structures.
Comment California is famous for its Gold Rush. That mindset has not changed. Los Angeles is hideously overdeveloped. It is the epitome of J K Galbraith’s ‘private wealth and public squalor.’ There is a Grand Canyon divide between rich and poor in a fake democracy where mainstream media works with defence and other big businesses to keep the masses divided, deluded and in their place. Careers come first, before accountability, in the United States, just as they do in their parent nation; the United Kingdom. U.S doesn’t need terrorism while it is run by greedy morons. Its dangerous infrastructure, like the electricty’s companies, were the most immediate likely cause of so called ‘wild fires.’
R J Cook
Intense fighting in Russia’s Kursk region
Five months after Ukrainian forces swept into the Kursk region of Russia, the two armies are engaged in some of the most furious clashes of the war there, fighting over land and leverage in the conflict.
The territory could play an important role in any cease-fire negotiations. Facing the prospect of an unpredictable new U.S. president who has vowed to end the war swiftly, Ukraine hopes to use Russian territory as a bargaining chip, while Russia hopes to knock it out of Ukraine’s grasp.
In recent days, on a road in Ukraine approaching the Russian border, a steady stream of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles rolled past broken-down and blown-up equipment. Russian bombs and rockets exploded with thunderous force in border villages, and Ukrainian missiles could be seen streaking across the sky in the opposite direction.
North Korean troops: An estimated 11,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed to help Russia in the conflict. They are taking heavy casualties in unfamiliar territory, and their government has not told its people about their deployment.
U.S.-Russian relations: Suspicious cargo fires in Germany, Britain and Poland over the summer led White House officials to question whether Moscow had a much bigger plan in mind: bringing the war in Ukraine to American shores.
Liberal Media Have Warned Him – By R J Cook
Comment I am sick of hearing our pampered global media and fat cat priggish parasite, pleasure bent politicians telling us that this war is all Russia’s fault and is being fought for democracy. As a former maths teacher, I know that the numbers don’t add up. The western fat cats of Anglo U.S led Nato started this war in 2014 and Putin was way to slow to react. Putin was supposed to continue Yeltsin’s process of neutering and dismembering the Russian Federation. In return he would be treated like all the other Russian and Ukrainian oligarch whores like former corrupt Ukraine President Poroshenko, ‘The Chocolate King.’
I have worked with and discussed the situation with a lot of East Europeans, as well as studying and teaching East European politics. Post communist corruption under EU auspices has been off the scale. The EU is a corrupt gravy train causing misery across and outside its boundaries. Real opposition parties like AFD are effectively banned. Their youth party has been declared a terrorist orrganisation. The wrong man won the Roumanian Presidency so the EU declared it null and void because they ‘just knew’ the Russians rigged it.
Yesterday lefty Saint Joe Biden was having a laugh when he said he had stopped World War III. He was and still is a rich sly dangerous idiot. World War III has only just begun. We are in the foothills of destruction and despair. It remains to be seen whether Donald Trump will put his money where his mouth is. If he tries, he will face a lot of opposition, as the Democrats and Liberal media have warned him.
R J Cook
January 13th 2025
No Hidden Meanings In That One – By R J Cook
Posh Boy Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State, reading his speech introducing his much loved President Biden. Blinken showed his grasp of U.S Cultural reality and diversity when he joined in with a Ukrainain Rock Band. He strummed and shouted along to one verse of Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World and the chorus, smirking at the video camera for an internet sensation. He seemed oblivious of what should have come next, about a young woman, cowering in a dirty alleyway, dumping her kid to get another hit. Bob Dylan was asked by a hardened sneering patronising Time Magazine journalist, did he know what reality was. This was during the making of the legendary documentary ‘Don’t Look Back’ by D A Pennebaker who was covering Dylan in England during his 1965 tour-his last as an acoustic artist. Dylan replied :’Sure I know what reality is. It’s a tramp vomitting into a sewer.’
Back in December 2010, before the Police had me banned from the BBC because of a criminal record created by a corrupt senior police officer and one time family member, I was being interviewed live on Radio Solent, where I had previosly established my broadcasting entertainment value. There were two other musicians in the studio, though Captain Sensible had been asleep for 14 hours and didn’t make it. I was there to talk about my CD ‘Seventh Child’, produced with my musician and song writing partner, vocalist Christine Halpin. I talked about my long time hero ‘Bob Dylan’ as an inspiration. The others mocked me, my obvious enthusiam for Dylan. So a former member of ‘The Glitter Band’ said that nobody knew what Dylan’s songs were about, not even Bob Dylan.
I had to correct this man. I told him that back in 1974, Dylan faced the same accusation from a young female ‘Rolling Stone Magazine ‘ journalist, that he did not know what his songs were about. He replied ‘Sure I know what my songs are about. Some are about 3 minutes, some are about 5 minutes and believe it or not, some are about 15.’
However, it was perfectly obvious from the smirking Anthony Blinken, posing with his well polished Gibson Les Paul guitar, that he had no idea what Neil Young’s ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ was about. It was about the forgotten white American underclass that Blinken and Biden are not interested in knowing about unless they need them for cannon fodder, as in Vietnam.
So on came Biden, to be hugged by Blinken in a nauseating to long a moment of mutual self congratulation. The interesting thing about Biden on this occasion was that he spoke for nearly an hour without looking down at his notes while steadily scanning a room full of his adoring staff and lefty media folk. Had he done that before Harris was brought in to giggle and smirk her way to victory, cavorting on stage, to scavenge for the assumed stupid female and black vote, Biden could have had it in the back. The fact that there are 5 times more homeless people since he took over, is no matter. The massive goverment debt and borrowing costs don’t matter either or World War III. This is because nice comfortable men and women care only for national security, all the wars that go with it, fighting racism and keeping women safe.
Biden had the cheek to present Afghistan as a victory rather than a rapid withdrawal because his goverment were preparing for the Anglo U.S Ukraine Proxy World War III on Russia. Biden boasted how much warfare the U.S had contributed to the world, without putting American boots on the ground. American mother, sisters and wives should listen to Dylan’s’ John Brown went off to war.’ There are no hidden meanings in that one.
Blinken Awful
R.J Cook January 13th 2025
What’s the latest on Los Angeles wildfires and how did they start?
Visual Journalism Team
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Firefighters are battling to control huge wildfires in Los Angeles that have killed at least 24 people, devoured thousands of buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
It’s a rapidly changing situation – these maps and pictures show the scale of the challenge, where the fires are and the damage they have caused.
The largest blaze, in the Pacific Palisades area is the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history. More than 23,000 acres have now burnt.
Placing the area affected on to maps of New York and London gives a sense of how big that is, stretching from Clapham to Greenwich in the UK’s capital, or across large areas of lower Manhattan and Queens.
James FitzGerald and Tom McArthur
BBC News
At least 24people have died in the Los Angeles fires as two major blazes continue to burn across the sprawling Californian city.
Firefighters made progress over the weekend in containing the Palisades and Eaton fires but warn that the return of high winds – forecast until Wednesday – could see them spread again.
They are already among the most destructive in LA’s history in terms of buildings destroyed.
What’s the latest?
The largest fire is in the Palisades and it has burnt through more than 23,000 acres. But over the weekend thousands of firefighters made progress in containing about 14% of it.
The blaze is moving east, threatening the exclusive neighbourhood of Brentwood, home to the Getty Center, a world-famous art museum that has now evacuated its staff.
A red flag warning – indicating a high level of fire danger – will be in place until 18:00 (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday, with the strongest Santa Ana winds expected on Tuesday.
The other fire, Eaton, is more deadly than Palisades so far – responsible for 16 of the 24 dead, with many more still missing.
