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July 31st 2024
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The 2024 police-state Olympics in Paris
The massive police operation in Paris is aimed above all at growing opposition in the international working class to the Gaza genocide, imperialist war, austerity and capitalism.
Bankruptcies soared in 2023 in Germany, with data showing that there were 18,100 bankruptcy cases, representing a 23.5 percent increase over the previous year. Read more…
Just 234,000 Ukrainian refugees out of a total of 800,000 of working age are currently employed in Germany. Read more…
“If the transit of Russian oil through Ukraine is not resumed shortly, Slovnaft will not resume the supply of diesel fuel to Ukraine.” Read more…
Ukraine’s hopes and challenges after long wait for F-16s.
Abdujalil Abdurasulov and Chris Partridge
In Kyiv and London
- Published26 July 2024
The first F-16 fighter jets are set to arrive in Ukraine from Nato member states, after many months of preparation and pilot training.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said they are essential to help Ukrainians push back against Russia’s aerial dominance and “unblock the skies”.
Russian forces have been preparing for the Ukrainian F-16s too.
They have targeted a number of Ukrainian military airfields and there are growing concerns that these long-awaited jets will be attacked and destroyed soon after they arrive.
In July alone, at least three airfields have come under attack: Myrhorod and Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine and one in southern Odesa region.
Moscow claims it has destroyed five Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jets and one MiG-29, along with a radar and valuable Patriot air defence launchers.
Kyiv authorities are keeping mostly silent and the air force has refused a BBC request for comment, claiming on social media that the destroyed jets and air defence system were in reality decoys that had cost Russia several expensive Iskander missiles.
Decoys or not, Ukraine’s allies, and many Ukrainians themselves, fear there may be insufficient protection for the US-built F-16s.
Until now the Ukrainian air force has largely relied on “dispersed operations” to ensure its warplanes are not hit on the ground, according to Prof Justin Bronk, senior research fellow for air power and technology at Royal United Service Institute.
Planes and equipment are regularly moved around within or between bases, he explains, so “if Russia does launch an airstrike, they’ll probably just hit an empty tarmac or grass”.
But that may have to change if Ukraine is to protect its valuable fleet of Western aircraft from Russian missiles.
F-16s require perfectly smooth runways swept clear of stones and other small items of debris, if they are not to run the risk of engine failure.
Any attempt to improve the infrastructure on existing bases will become visible to “Russian observation whether orbital or human intelligence sources,” Prof Bronk believes.
July 29th 2024
Censorship in Poland: “Przemysław Babiarz was suspended by TVP for speaking the truth about Lennon’s Imagine, calling it a vision of communism, a sentiment even Lennon himself admitted was a communist manifesto.”Read more…
July 26th 2024
Kalinak argues that the sale of Slovak ammunition to Ukraine, whether directly or through third parties, does not contradict the government’s anti-military aid stance to Kyiv. Read more…
July 24th 2024
Hungary stripped of EU meeting over Ukraine stance
Christy Cooney
BBC News
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borell, has stripped Hungary of the right to host the next meeting of foreign and defence ministers over its stance on the war in Ukraine.
It comes weeks after Hungary assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, a role in which it would normally host the event, and amid anger over a meeting Prime Minister Viktor Orban held with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this month.
Mr Borrell said Hungary’s actions should have consequences and that “we have to send a signal, even if it is a symbolic signal”.
Hungary described the move as “completely childish”.
Every six months, under each new council presidency, the EU’s foreign and defence ministers hold informal meetings to discuss the biggest global issues facing the bloc.
The next set of meetings will take place on 28-30 August and were to be held in Budapest, but on Monday Mr Borrell announced they would instead take place in Brussels.
Citing comments made after the meeting with Mr Putin in which Mr Orban accused the EU of having a “pro-war policy”, Mr Borrell told reporters: “If you want to talk about the war party, talk about Putin.
“I can say that all member states – with one single exception – are very much critical about this behaviour.
“I think it was… appropriate to show this feeling and to call for the next foreign and defence council meetings in Brussels.”
Of the 26 other countries in the EU, only Slovakia has backed Hungary in the dispute.
U.S Islamists & Liberal Sympathisers Protest Netanyahu While Democrats Boycott His Congress Address. Here is the BBC Account.
- Five people have been arrested and police used pepper spray on protesters on the streets of Washington DC
- Large numbers of people gathered to protest against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who spoke to US lawmakers today
- Netanyahu blasted the demonstrators, calling them “Iran’s useful idiots”
- Speaking to the US Congress, he said America and Israel “must stand together” and that “our enemies are your enemies”
- He recalled the Hamas attacks of 7 October – when 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage – calling it a day that “will live in infamy”
- Some Democratic Party lawmakers have made clear their opposition to Netanyahu’s address and did not attend the session
- The PM’s speech comes nine months into Israel’s campaign in Gaza. More than 39,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas run health ministry
As if to drive home the desperate plight of the hostages, a statement from Kibbutz Nir Oz – which saw about a quarter of its residents killed, injured or abducted on 7 October last year – said that the body of 56-year-old Maya Goren had been recovered from Gaza by the Israeli army.
Hamas announced her death in December, but the news served to remind Israelis that as the months drag on, the number of Israelis who may eventually make it out alive is slowly dwindling.
For those who blame Netanyahu for not doing enough to secure their release, his failure to offer any crumbs of hope in Washington will have represented yet another in a long line of crushing blows.
Germany: Journalist for pro-migrant Spiegel Magazine complains on X after being punched in the face by 13-year-old Syrian
One Spiegel journalist got a taste of the unfortunate reality that millions of Germans have experienced due to the immigration crisis
Last updated: July 23, 2024 16:55
By John Cody
A journalist for Germany’s left-leaning Spiegel Magazine, known for its pro-migration views and efforts against the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, stepped in to protect two elderly women near the North Sea coast, which resulted in a 13-year-old Syrian punching him in the face. Now, he is complaining about a lack of consequences for the youth.
Christian Neef is a well-known journalist for the outlet and has been working for many years for Spiegel. However, Neef himself said he “defended two elderly” women in Husum in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which resulted in consequences.
“Today, I had my own experience with a so-called refugee. In Husum, a Syrian punched me in the face. I had defended two elderly women who asked him to get off the back of a public bench on which they were sitting and not to continue to spit at their feet. The interesting thing: The police told me that it was a 13-year-old Syrian who was well-known in the city and who had been caught over 50 times for theft and violent crimes since the beginning of 2024 alone. Sanctions available: none.”
Heute hatte ich mein eigenes Erlebnis mit einem sogenannten Flüchtling. In Husum versetzte mir ein Syrer einen Faustschlag ins Gesicht. Ich hatte zwei ältere Frauen verteidigt, die ihn baten, von der Lehne einer öffentlichen Bank zu steigen, auf der sie saßen und ihnen nicht— Christian Neef (@christian_neef) July 20, 2024
The post led to widespread mockery on X as a case of a liberal journalist suddenly confronting what tens of thousands experience every year, with violence, sexual assault, and robberies skyrocketing in Germany due to mass immigration.
One X user wrote, “It could be that they learned more in this moment than in their 26 years at Spiegel.
If they’re lucky.”
Another wrote, “Individual case, as always,” with the user referring to the left-liberal tendency to describe the many cases of individual crimes involving migrants as “individual” cases that do not represent migrants as a whole. For many critics of this term, the “individual” cases accumulate into hundreds of thousands of crimes that have affected millions of Germans.
20 foreigners beat a German teen in the city of Gera on video. Germany’s federal government and mainstream media is remarkably silent about the crime. https://t.co/ohITVllLxR— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 21, 2024
Ex-AfD politician Tatjana Festerling wrote, “Oh well! The Big Thinking people in the Refugees Welcome whining editorial offices need their own ‘experiences’ before they realize that low-trust cultures can never be integrated into high-trust societies. When I explained this in Pegida speeches in 2015, the reaction was ‘Racist!’”
Some users said the problem would only get worse due to a general disregard for German laws from many within the immigrant population, with one writing: “German laws apparently motivate many Muslims not to comply with them. What is going on should actually be called what it is: terror against the native population. And of course, things are not getting any better, quite the opposite. The terror continues until the goal is achieved and dozens of countries have done that.”
One of the 10 “Southern” males who beat 20-year-old Philippos to death in the city of #BadOeynhausen has been identified as a Syrian national known to police. https://t.co/N529WglV6w— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 27, 2024
While speaking with German newspaper Junge Freiheit in response to what had happened, a police spokesman stated that they were aware of the incident.
“No information will be given about the identity of the suspect, who is still a child. The suspect comes from the district and has already come to the attention of the police due to similar crimes,” said the spokesman, who refused to provide any more details.
As Remix News reported in the past, the issue of underage migrants flagrantly conducting criminal activity in Germany is a major problem, as current laws do not allow for any type of punishment. Just this weekend, an 11-year-old Moroccan migrant leading a youth gang was arrested for over 70 burglaries in and outside Hamburg but will face no jail time. In some cases, even one involving the rape of an 11-year-old girl, the German state has refused to issue jail time because the criminal migrant was under the age of 18.
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Home » Is Hungary on the verge of an energy crisis? Ukraine’s blocking of Friendship oil pipeline represents major threat
Is Hungary on the verge of an energy crisis? Ukraine’s blocking of Friendship oil pipeline represents major threat
Hungary threatens legal action after Ukraine continues to block the flow of Russian oil, with a potential energy crisis looming
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, speaks with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a roundtable meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)
Last updated: July 23, 2024 16:29
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Hungary is facing a potential energy crisis over Ukraine’s continued blocking of the Friendship (Druzhba) oil pipeline, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turning up the pressure on Hungary like never before. Now, some members of the Hungarian government are openly speculating whether the move is not being pushed by Ukraine alone, but could be backed by “people in Brussels, or even the pro-war American Democrats.”
“They are punishing us for our support for peace, and now they are attacking our energy security. And it is quite possible that this was not initiated by Ukraine alone, but was helped by the people of Brussels, or even by the pro-war American Democrats. They want to destroy those who are pro-peace by all means. This is unfair, unacceptable and illegal. In any case, we will stand by our pro-peace position and defend ourselves against attacks in every possible way, with every possible means,” said Tamás Menczer, the communications director of Fidesz-KDNP, in a video post published on social media.
Currently, Hungary’s diplomats are scrambling to ensure the flow of oil resumes without interruption, but Budapest may find few in Brussels who are willing to press back against Zelensky, despite Hungary’s status as an EU and NATO member. Hungary is now pressuring the EU to take action against Ukraine, as Hungary relies on Russia for between 70 and 80 percent of its oil imports.
After Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó threatened court proceedings, Ukraine has responded that there has been no reduction in supplies, an outright lie as oil flows have been cut off for weeks.
Oleksiy Chernisov, the president of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s energy giant, stated at a business forum: “The tightening of sanctions against Lukoil in June did not affect the volume of oil transit through Ukraine.”
Ukraine’s foreign minister has also made similar claims.
“I spoke with the Ukrainian foreign minister yesterday, and he said they allow every oil transfer through, but it’s not true,” said Hungarian foreign affairs minister, Péter Szijjártó. “The commission has three days to execute our request, after which we will bring the issue to court.”
Also caught up in the energy crisis is neighboring Slovakia, which had its supplies cut as well. Russian Lukoil, which is now under sanctions from Ukraine, accounts for a third of Hungarian crude oil imports and about 45 percent of Slovakian crude oil imports.
The Hungarian government has taken a number of temporary measures to shore up its energy supply, but Szijjártó says these measures will not help in the medium term.
Last year, Szijjártó warned about plans leaked by the Washington Post detailing how the Ukrainian government had planned to blow up the Druzhba pipeline in the past, specifically to sink the Hungarian economy.
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July 23rd 2024
Pure British War Mongering Arrogance – R J Cook
British Army Chief General Sir Roly Walker acting typically of his class dicates ex cathedra that the UK has three years to prepare for war, mainly at the taxpayers expense who are already suffering from’ the cost of war crisis’. That crisis is actually a ‘cost of the NATO Ukraine War Proxy War On Russia’ Crisis.The army chief unveiled reform plans to deal with ‘geopolitical threats’ of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. By the way, Sir Roly was the SAS Chief respinsible for covering his army’s war crimes in Afghanistan.
Roly has gained support from another upper class British military man, Air Commodore Blythe Crawford who has said that British Military training is 5 – 10 years out of date. In other words he means they are no match for the Russians. But still these imbeciles persist in their land grabbing , resource grabbing culture wars.
The moment George Bush Snr dicated the age of ‘The New World Order’ and thus the age of the pious ‘Rules Based System’ that allows the likes of Roly to do exactly as they like, NATO was placed on a pedestal and the masses were doomed. Any objectors or whistle blowers will get the Julian Assange treatment. With Kamal Harris in charge, there is no hope. A female writer in today’s British ‘Daily Telgraph’ was less than polite when she wrote :’Kamala Harris, the giggling fool will doom America’
Good old upper class Roly is quite clearly making a statement to say that these offending nations are culturally not to their liking. So regime change is a necessity. As far as the British Ruling Elite are concerned, ‘China is too Chinese.’ The U.K leads the world and , notably through the BBC, exerting far too much influence over the United States, expecting to be a major influence over the outcome if the November election.
This elite via its educators, like me, and police officers pioneered multi culture. Their attitude to immigration, legal or not, is the more the merrier. Meanwhile, for the masses attending Britain’s politcally correct factory schools where Woke Teachers struggle to servive in its insane feral target failing swamp, their is little to inspire.
White school boys en masse are suffering such high levels of negative stereotyping, one wonders why any of of them outside of the upper classes, would want to fight Russians who have done nothing to harm them. However, their own ruling elites have driven many of them to madness, hopelessness and suicide. Even billionaire Elon Musk’s son has changed sex with his father’s reluctant agreement because he was warned that his boy would otherwise be a suicide risk.
I know how awful the education system was during my years of employment within it. The system was full of fads and fancies, most famously encouarging little boys down the road to sex change. It is no surprise that so many boys chose this route away from being villified feminist scapegoats. Then along comes billionaire TERF feminist J K Rowling, using her power to write off male to female transsexuals as aspiring rapists. So o why should Russia and China, along with their condemned allies accept that their historic and dignified cultures have to be diluted or obliterated and reformed by these cheapskate horse traders, hypocrits, liars and corrupt warmongering profiteering corrupt self serving cliques ?
I met the likes of Roly back in the early 1970s when my simple minded ambition was for a military career. The technology has advanced since then, but these ghastly peope are still in the British Imperialist Victorian heyday, marshalling its’ swelling Imperial troops who arrive daily from Africa and the Indian Sub Continent, in rubber dinghies. The elite epects these people to come together with the white underclasses to fight and die in another Crimean War. That was a war led by imbeciles and so is this one.
R J Cook
July 23rd 2024
U.K Mainstream Media & Chattering Classes Very Excited Now Stage Has Been Set For The Very First Blackish Female President Of The U.S.A. UKRAINE WAR IS SAVED – R. J. Cook
No Truth In The News, Faces Of Elite Liberalism – By R J Cook
The BBC are a global organisation with a U.K Establishment agenda. They did not want Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K, France’s National Rally or Afd anywhere close to power. Britain’s swamp dwelling elite faked Brexit in favour of a much nastier insidious influence over Europe, in harmony with its U.S English double speaking off spring. They reified this arrangement with their new European Political Union, giving Sir Keir Starmer his chance to bed in with the European political mafia at a big meeting at Sir Winston Churchill’s Blenheim Palace birthplace. It is all rather militaristic. Russia knows exactly where this is leading to.
These Mafiosi of Europe have a terrifying agenda. Anyone believing this is obviously a paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorist because our ‘democratically elected’ western leaders say so. They have an ever increasing number of on and off line police to make sure we accept their rule. Democracy means one person one vote. But this slogan fails to explain who we are allowed to vote for and by whose approval.
Because the U.S.A dominates the world’s political and economic system, those dark swamp dwelling forces have a problem with Donald Trump because he appears to think outside the box. The mildest defamation they offer on his case is that he is an isolationist just because he thinks the U.S and the rest of the world would be better off if his country looked to sorting matters out on the home front rather than poking their noses in every one else’s business.
But that won’t do for the global elite’s plutocrats who desperately need support for the NATO proxy war on Russia. They have a fortune invested in it. The global financial system, excluding Russia and their allies, is banking on it. Western arms manufacturers and dealers are making a fortune. The whole vile planet eating plutocrats want what’s underground and the militarily strategic Crimea.
Russians used to joke about their two newspapers. One was given the title Pravda, the other was called Isvestia. “Pravda” means “truth,” and “Izvestia” means “news.” Pravda was started in 1912, with the encouragement of Stalin & Lenin, its first edition running to 60,000 copies. So the joke was, “there’s no news in the truth and no truth in the news.”
The BBC, Sky and CNN see themselves as above all if that. Sky News U.K brands itself “ The Home of Independent News”. The BBC has its gimmicks : BBC Verified and The Context. Their staff ooze superiority, self righteousness and smugness. In one word, their ‘news’ people are supercilious. BBC ‘Liberal’ views overwhelm their news. So when they talk about Donald Trump, they routinely call him a convicted sex abuser and liar. They never discuss Biden’s and his son’s dubious conduct with and vested interest in the corrupt Ukraine regime or Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction. The BBC never questions the curious E Jean Carroll sex assault of over 30 years ago, where she agreed to model lingerie for him in a Macey’s female safe space, and could not remember the precise date or year. As for the fraud and dodgey Biden dealings, BBC verified just does not want to know.
BBC rolling news, excited about Kamala Harris, has spent hours denigrating Trump and how best to avoid his return to the Presidency. The whole multi billion mainstream media State Broadcaster has spent hours today applauding the black female saviour Kamala Harris, a woman of colour. What more could the U.S.A want to expand and develop the Biden legacy. The BBC are all over the United States and even has a designated Americacast. This morning they broadcast the former state prosecutor Harris smirking and preaching that in her former profession she came across and prosecuted Trump’s type of sex abuser and corrupt businessman many times. She said she was very confident of victory over him in November. Back to back to impress U.K female viewers, the BBC ran a story about how violence against U.K women has risen by 55%. A female expert was on hand to assert that Sir Keir Starmer and his government were going to have a major clampdown on men.
The print media is playing its part. In the U.K, the ‘Guardian’ newspaper has a history of denigrating Donald Trump. Here is an extract from Lucia Graves, one of their posh young girl writers :
“This is Sinclair, ‘the most dangerous US company you’ve never heard of’
“Sinclair is the largest broadcast company in America. But its partisan politics – and connections to the White House – are raising concerns.
Most Americans don’t know it exists. Primetime US news refers to it as an “under-the-radar company”. Unlike Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, virtually no one outside of business circles could name its CEO. And yet, Sinclair Media Group is the owner of the largest number of TV stations in America.
“Sinclair’s probably the most dangerous company most people have never heard of,” said Michael Copps, the George W Bush-appointed former chairman of Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the top US broadcast regulator.
John Oliver – host of HBO’s weekly satirical show Last Week Tonight – used a similar line when he introduced an 18-minute segment on Sinclair last month by referring to it as “maybe the most influential media company you never heard of”.
Behind the scenes of self congratulating western ‘democracies’ there is a powerful engine of anti conservatism, sneering at and vilifying dissent, marginalsiing who they call ‘privileged white males’, serving a class interest, dividing and fooling the masses. As Trump told Bob Woodward, who as a ‘liberal’ ( sic ), ‘Power comes from instilling Fear.’
Mainstream media is doing a great job with this. U.K and EU elections thrived on frightening the masses, though the game nearly came unstuck in France. There will be new legislation across Europe ensuring that what they contemptuously call the ‘far right’ are gone for good. These patronising manipulative authoritarian hypocritical elites have no interest in why these parties exist anymore than the same smug elites did when Hitler came to power. They are leading the masses back to the world of religious obedience, whether it be to Islam or the far more dangerous feminist tyranny – the latter supported by George Soros, which says it all.
R J Cook
July 22nd 2024
Russia-Ukraine war splinters Europe’s banking industry
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 continues to impact the financial sector. The war in Ukraine has prompted a rupture between the Russian and European banking systems, heightening risks for lenders on both sides of the divide.
The conflict has clearly affected global businesses, as well as consumers. Evidence from the stock market reveals that firms with strong ties to Russia, through trade or ownership, experienced a substantial fall in share prices following the invasion.
The findings indicate that the Russia-Ukraine war adversely affected global currencies. However, a regional analysis shows that while European currencies (particularly the Russian rouble, Czech koruna, and Polish zloty currencies) depreciated against the USD, Pacific currencies appreciated significantly.
The Russia–Ukraine war reduced imports from Ukraine by 47.3% until August 2022. Ukraine lost $19.4 billion in exports, while Russia gained $68.3 billion. Russia realized trade gains of $41.1 billion in Asia. The war had limited trade implications for not directly involved countries.
R J Cook
Majority of Hungarians oppose Ukraine’s EU membership, survey shows
The majority of Hungarians do not support Ukraine’s accession to the EU, according to a recent opinion poll conducted by the Nézőpont Institute for the Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
The survey revealed that a majority of 62 percent of Hungarians disagree that Ukraine should join the European Union, and just one in four (26 percent) agree.
Even 44 percent of left-wingers and 54 percent of those in the left-leaning capital of Budapest who generally oppose the government’s position do not agree with Ukraine’s accession. Less than a third (30 percent) of Budapest residents support Ukraine’s membership.
The majority of pro-government voters are united in their opinion, with almost four-fifths (78 percent) opposing Ukraine’s accession. However, the left-wing parties face a difficult task, as the same proportion of left-wing voters consider Ukraine’s accession to the European Union to be unacceptable (44 percent) as would support it (44 percent).
Meanwhile, the radical right-wing opposition, Mi Hazánk, also has a clear opinion on the issue, with 81 percent of its voters opposing Ukraine’s accession.
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Massive press crackdown in Germany: Government bans Compact Magazine in unprecedented move, police search publisher’s home in early morning raid
After the all-out assault on press freedom and the “show” raid by over 200 police officers wearing ski masks, legal critics are saying “Faeser’s actions are clearly unconstitutional”
Last updated: July 16, 2024 16:28
In what may be the most aggressive move against press freedom since the Second World War, Germany has banned Compact Magazine and had over 200 police officers raid the office and home of the publisher, Jürgen Elsässer, along with the homes of other employees and financial backers.
At 6:00 a.m., masked German police officers raided the home of Elsässer and confiscated hard drives and assets. The magazine has a large readership in Germany and a Youtube channel with millions of views and over 300,000 subscribers. The website and its social media channels have now been erased from the web.
Far-left German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser took to X to celebrate the banning of the publication, which she says she personally ordered.
“Today, I banned the right-wing extremist ‘COMPACT Magazine.’ It agitates in an unspeakable way against Jews, against Muslims and against our democracy. Our ban is a hard blow against the right-wing extremist scene,” she wrote.
While speaking about the incident, she stated: “We will not allow ethnic definitions of who belongs to Germany and who does not. Our constitutional state protects all those who are persecuted because of their faith, their origin, their skin color or their democratic stance.”
The press was informed ahead of time of the raid, and was on hand to photograph Elsässer in his night robe while he was surrounded by masked police officers. In addition, his video production company, Conspect Film GmbH was also banned.
It also marked the first time a media outlet of this size has been targeted in such an extraordinary manner,
Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leaders, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla issued a joint statement on X, writing:
“The ban on Compact magazine is a serious blow to press freedom. We are watching these events with great concern. Banning a press organ means denying discourse and diversity of opinion. A ban is always the most far-reaching step. Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser is abusing her powers to suppress critical reporting. We call on the minister to respect press freedom.”
Alice #Weidel/Tino #Chrupalla: Das Verbot des #Compact-Magazins ist ein schwerer Schlag gegen die #Pressefreiheit
Bundesinnenministerin Nancy #Faeser hat das Compact-Magazin sowie die Conspect Film GmbH verboten. #AfD-Bundessprecher Tino Chrupalla und Dr. Alice Weidel äußert… pic.twitter.com/0Enl8z6n9x— AfD (@AfD) July 16, 2024
According to Germany’s Welt, the ban came about because Compact allegedly violated the constitutional order in a “combative and aggressive manner.”
The private homes of various employees were also raided in Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt, including the home of Elsässer in Falkensee near Berlin. In addition, financial backers of the outlet also had their properties raided and digital and personal assets confiscated.
The Nöbeditz manor of former AfD politician André Poggenburg in Stößen near Naumburg was also reportedly raided.
What is Compact Magazine?
Compact has described itself as a “magazine for sovereignty.” As Welt notes, on the magazine’s website, which has now been deleted from the web, along with its social media channels, it wrote that “It does not prescribe a political line, but rather an attitude: That is walking upright, that is the spirit of freedom and pride in our history.”
Welt, which is a mouthpiece of the rival Christian Democrats party, clearly is against the magazine, writing: “What the editors meant by this could be seen on the front pages. Compact presented its readers with doomsday scenarios and racism, conspiracy theories and agitation against politicians from the hated ‘old parties’ — and as a way out of all this misery: the AfD.”
“Compact specifically addressed right-wing extremists, conspiracy theorists and opponents of democracy with well-known narratives: of the ‘lying press’ and ‘high finance,’ of ‘corrupt politicians’ and ‘powerful puppet masters in the background’ who were deceiving them.”
However, Welt does not note how any of this is illegal or even factually incorrect, as high finance exists, there are corrupt politicians, and in the background, there are powerful people who call the shots in many different scenarios. Calling them “puppet masters” may be a theatrical take, and some may take the phrase “lying press” as a harsh term to use against journalists, but the fact that many journalists have lied or distorted the truth has been proven to be correct on many occasions.
It is hard to address many of these allegations, as the entire website has been erased from the web.
Welt also goes on to detail how Compact became highly successful during the pandemic, and was making substantial profit margins on its merchandise sales, which allowed the team to “professionalize” the media outlet’s operations.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) placed the publication under monitoring in 2021, and was listed as a “confirmed extremist endeavor.”
The ban is sure to be met with legal challenges, and even some on the left are questioning the legitimacy of such a ban, as it appears to violate a number of provisions on free speech guaranteed in the constitution.
German media outlet Tichys Einblick writes that “The Compact magazine undoubtedly represents right-wing extremist positions and calls for the overthrow of the government. However, Article 5 of the Basic Law also protects these radical views.”
Speaking with constitutional lawyer and former Federal Minister of Defense Rupert Scholz, he said: “Freedom of opinion enjoys such a high constitutional status that it cannot simply be undermined by an executive decision. A medium can only be banned if it represents a revolutionary position, i.e., calls for the overthrow of the existing order by force. But that would then have to lead to criminal proceedings.”
In other words, Elsässer would first have to be prosecuted and convicted before his outlet could be shut down; however, there are so far no signs that he has even been charged with anything. Nevertheless, his entire publication was targeted for closure before any criminal proceedings even began.
Scholz also stated that in his opinion, the “ethnic concept of the people” that Compact uses, which makes a distinction between ethnic Germans and those simply with German citizenship, is also “not unconstitutional” and is protected constitutional speech. He added that “Faeser’s actions are clearly unconstitutional.”
Other top lawyers took to X to write about the unprecedented raid, including, Carsten Brennecke, a lawyer in the renowned Chancellor Höcker law firm. He stated that among other things, the presence of a press photographer for the raid was clearly a criminal act.
“The Compact magazine is banned and, strangely and of course purely by chance, there are images staged for press effect of the people being attacked, taken by surprise in their private lives and presented to the press. Such ‘coincidences’ are becoming more frequent. Just think of the Reich Citizens’ raid, the search of Zumwinkel or Cardinal Woelki. Of course, leaking search dates in advance by ministries or other authorities for the purpose of self-promotion is not only potentially punishable, it also represents an unlawful infringement of the general personal rights of those affected,” Brennecke writes on X.
Ist die Presse-Inszenierung der Durchsuchung zum Verbot des #Compact – Magazins eine Straftat?
Das #Compact Magazin wird verboten und es gibt komischerweise und natürlich rein zufällig pressewirksam inszenierte Bilder vom Zugriff auf die Personen, die in ihrer Privatsphäre…— Carsten Brennecke (@RABrennecke) July 16, 2024
In addition, journalists are also pouring on the criticism, including from various mainstream papers. For instance, Zeit journalist Lars Weisbrod wrote on X. “Freedom of the press is so important. I think that in Germany a court should always decide first about banning a medium, not the Interior Minister or the Office for the Protection of the Constitution,” wrote Weisbrod. He also questioned whether such a ban is even constitutionally possible
Mal juristische Fragen beiseite: ich finde das kein gutes werbeFoto für einen liberalen rechtsstaat. Sturmhauben-cops klingeln morgens rechtsradikale Publizisten aus dem Bett und bringen gleich presse mit die möglichst peinliche Fotos davon macht? Finde ich komplett verkehrt pic.twitter.com/lrr0xw64gV— @larsweisbrod@det.social (@larsweisbrod) July 16, 2024
Faeser herself famously wrote for Antifa Magazine, which was a publication supported by the VVN-BdA, which had been classified by the Office Protection of the Constitution (BfV) as “left-wing extremist.” She wrote the article shortly before she became interior minister.
As for the publisher of Compact, the 67-year-old editor, Jürgen Elsässer, originally aligned with the far left and supposedly coined the phrase: “Never again Germany,” a popular slogan shouted at Antifa events. He wrote for a variety of left-wing parties before he took on a far more right-wing oriented world view and founded Compact in the 2010s.
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July 21st 2024
Biden Retires From The Presidential Campaign.
US President Joe Biden withdraws from the race to be the next president, after weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats
He says it’s “in the best interest of my party and the country” – but will stay on for the final six months of his term
Biden endorses Kamala Harris, his vice-president, to be the new Democratic nominee; she says she’ll do “everything in my power to … unite our nation to defeat Donald Trump”
Former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hilary, who ran against Trump in 2016, also endorse Harris – saying Democrats must “fight with everything we’ve got to elect her”
Americans go to the polls in four months – on 5 November
Biden, 81, faced increasing calls to step aside since a faltering debate performance against Trump last
RNC chairs say Harris ‘hand-in-hand’ on Biden failurespublished at 21:4421:44
We’ve just received a statement from Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley and co-chairman Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law.
In the statement, the pair say that Trump will win the election “because he is the only person who will rebuild our southern border, restore our economy and secure our standing in the world.”
“Every single failure we’ve seen from Joe Biden – the Afghanistan withdrawal, a border crisis, crushing inflation, and America weakened abroad – has been delivered hand-in-hand with Kamala Harris,” the statement adds.
It goes on to say Harris would “be a disaster in the White House” and it accuses her of helping “Biden cover up his declining health while in office”.
‘We’re all finding out by tweet’ – White House staffers blindsided by Biden’s statementpublished at 21:3721:37
Like much of the American public –and many, many journalists – some White House staffers say they were caught by surprise, first learning of President Biden’s decision via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
I just briefly spoke to one acquaintance who works for the White House, who said he was out with friends when he saw the news on his feed.
“That was the first I heard,” said the staffer, who asked not to be identified by name. “It’s not totally unexpected I guess, but came quicker than I’d have thought.”
Similarly, Politico and other US media outlets have reported that even senior aides – including senior advisor Anita Dunn – were caught unawares by the announcement.
“We’re all finding out by tweet,” an unidentified Democrat was quoted as saying. “None of us understand what’s happening.”
Politico noted that a fundraising email from “Joe and Kamala” was emailed to supporters at 1354 EST (1754 GMT) – nearly ten minutes after Biden’s announcement was published on X.
Trump allies quick to criticise Harrispublished at 21:2321:23
Donald Trump Jr, the former president’s son, was one of the first to direct Republican attack lines towards Harris.
“Kamala Harris owns the entire leftwing policy record of Joe Biden. The only difference is that she is even more liberal and less competent than Joe, which is really saying something,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
Many on the right attacked her track record on the US southern border, as she was directed to lead America’s immigration policy.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, who has frequently been criticised for his hardline immigration positions, attacked her record on immigration.
“Joe Biden has now endorsed and fully supports his ‘Borders Czar’ Kamala Harris to be the Democrat candidate for president,” he wrote on social media. “I think I will need to triple the border wall, razor wire barriers and National Guard on the border.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican lawmaker known for making controversial statements, joined other Trump allies in dismissing any candidate who intended take on Biden’s mantle.
“Kamala. Michelle. Hillary. It doesn’t matter who they pick,” Greene says. “President Trump is the strongest he’s ever been and you can’t stop the TRUMP TRAIN.”
Biden Had To Go – a comment by R J Cook
Biden’s mysterious Covid outbreak was perfect cover for his obvious dementia. If I had checked into my employer’s driver’s office with Biden’s glcazed crazed expression, stumbling, shuffling and forgetting colleagues names, in the 12 years before Thames Valley Police finally fabricated enough ‘evidence’ to have me sacked as a paranoid schizophrenic delusional bi polar alcoholic after an 11 year smear campaign, I would have been sacked.
So why was Biden ever president in the first place, given the dubious origins of Biden’s presidency ? Questions should also be concerned with the Biden’s dubious lucrative dealings in Ukraine, manifestly involving his convict son Hunter, along with Biden stashing top secret documents in a basket next to his dog in the garage of his private luxury home.
Something had to be done to make it look like Biden had done the decent thing. In fact he had no choice. Now the liberal antifa Democrats will be able to invent a truck load of reasons for the U.S masses to vote for Harris on tried and trusted anti racist feminist grounds.
Anyone else but Harris would have the opposite effect unless they could find another woman with some better claim to African American identity. That is what this election comes down to 1) Democrats Fighting Racism 2) Democrats Fighting Sexism & Misogyny 3) Getting the profit driven NATO Ukraine Proxy War on Russia back on track, which will go nuclear in due course.
R J Cook
Poland: Illegal migrants sue Border Guard and win in court despite extreme violence facing Polish officers
Two migrants successfully sued the Polish Border Guard for injuries sustained while attempting to enter Poland from Belarus
Members of a group of some 30 illegal migrants are seen in Bialowieża, Poland, on Sunday, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Agnieszka Sadowska, File)
Last updated: July 18, 2024 10:52
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The Polish Border Guard recently lost two legal cases brought by migrants who were injured during their attempts to enter Polish territory illegally from Belarus. The rulings are controversial considering the extreme violence Polish soldiers and officers routinely face while protecting the border, including the recent stabbing murder of Polish border officer, 21-year-old Sgt Mateusz Sitek.
In the first case, the Polish Administrative Court in Białystok ruled in favor of an Afghan man who fell while trying to breach a border barrier on the night of April 3, 2023, resulting in a broken foot. After receiving medical treatment in a Polish hospital, he was taken back to the border with Belarus. Upon completing his treatment, Polish activists informed him of his right to file a complaint against the actions of the Polish officials.
The second case involved an Ethiopian man who broke his lower leg after falling from a ladder he was using to cross into Poland.
“He is from Ethiopia and is homosexual. In Ethiopia, homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment ranging from 1 to 15 years. He arrived in Moscow on April 12, 2023, and in the early morning of May 6, 2023, he and some others attempted to cross into Poland using a ladder,” the court’s judgment read.
The court sided with his account, stating that after his accident, he was not taken to a hospital but left on the Belarus side. He managed to write a note in English under the fence stating his desire for asylum in Poland. He spent a day under the fence before being transported to a hospital in the town of Siemiatychy.
Meanwhile, another case continues in Polish court involving three Afghans who are seeking 240,000 zlotys (€56,000) in compensation from Polish taxpayers. Two of them have since moved to other countries and are expected to be questioned by local services there.
In related developments, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksym Ryzhenkov recently stated that Belarus is ready to discuss the border situation with Poland — a shift in stance by the Lukashenko regime potentially linked to the stringent border controls Poland implemented, which have disrupted the transit of goods from China through Belarus.
The border crisis between Poland and Belarus began in the spring of 2021 when the Lukashenko regime brought thousands of migrants from Asia and Africa and facilitated their transfer across the border as part of a strategy to reach Western Europe.
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‘Cultural enrichment’ – First Muslim kindergarten arrives in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein
Muslim kindergartens are a growing trend in Germany and there are plans to open many more
The city of Neumünster in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is opening its first Muslim kindergarten in the city center, which, at 2,500 square meters, will have space for 60 children. While the Christian Democrats (CDU) describe the new daycare as “cultural enrichment,” a previous government report notes that the sponsor behind the daycare is “strictly Sharia-oriented.”
The Neumünster council backed the new Islam-focused kindergarten, which will cost €2.8 million, by a large majority, and the grand opening is planned for next year. The financial sponsor is a local mosque association that belongs to the umbrella organization known as the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers (VIKZ) based in Cologne. However, the VIKZ is a controversial organization.
The Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs commissioned a report from Ursula Spuler-Stegemann, who is an expert on Turkey, in 2004. Her report stated that student residences operated by the VIKZ were used “almost exclusively for Islamic teaching and for training in religious practice” and were “absolutely detrimental to integration.” In such educational settings, students were “indoctrinated into a strictly Sharia-oriented” form of Islam and “immunized against Christianity and the West, as well as against our constitution.”
Mass immigration has led to significant failings in Germany’s education system, review finds.https://t.co/xF0JRuIyKb— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 31, 2023
Politicians are well aware of the track record of the VIKZ, but nonetheless the Neumünster city council voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new daycare center, with 44 votes for it and only six against, and one abstention.
“In addition to Christian providers, there will now also be a Muslim provider of a daycare center. I see this as a cultural enrichment,” said Babett Schwede-Oldehus, the CDU chairwoman of the social and health committee, before the vote was taken.
The number of Muslim primary school pupils in Vienna has risen to 35 percent, overtaking Catholicism as the largest religious group.https://t.co/cW1pzUdiTY— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 12, 2024
The laws proscribed by Sharia and conservative Islam are radically at odds with what German liberals say they want for their nation, yet for the sake of promoting multiculturalism, most liberal groups and activists promote the idea of more Muslim immigration, cultural associations, and mosques being built.
The only parties to vote against the daycare were the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Heimat Neumünster (formerly NPD), which both have three seats.
The operators of the daycare say that the daycare center will also accept non-Muslim students and the language spoken by children in the daycare will be German — although enforcing this latter promise may prove to be difficult.
The controversial plans were recommended by educational experts and included in a draft new education program for the city. https://t.co/2wMMP8ROev— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 27, 2024
There is a daycare crisis across Germany, with many existing kindergartens struggling to fill daycare roles; however, this Muslim kindergarten already has 13 daycare workers
While the kindergarten will be paid for by the Association of Islamic Cultural Centres (VIKZ), the city will subsidize equipment with €250,000 and pay the annual rental costs of €180,000.
The VIKZ has ambitious plans to expand daycare centers across Germany, with a number of them already existing in Berlin and Dortmund.
A poll conducted in May of this year by Insa found that an absolute majority of 52 percent rather agree with the statement that “Germany should generally no longer accept refugees from Islamic countries.” Only 34 percent say they “disagree” or “tend to disagree” with this statement. The poll further shows that 54 percent of respondents said they were “afraid that Germans will become a minority in Germany.” On the other hand, 37 percent said they were not concerned.
In 2023, a poll conducted for Bild newspaper found that nearly two-thirds of all German citizens want the country’s federal government to impose a ban on migration from predominantly Muslim nations.
Polling conducted by INSA on behalf of the Bild tabloid newspaper showed that 61 percent of respondents now advocate refusing any more migrants from Islamic countries, with many explaining they no longer feel safe in their own country and believe an increasing number of new arrivals despise German society.
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Exceptional Exceptionalism.
Trump’s denial is the Second Big Lie
Millions of GOP voters are primed to distrust the midterm election results. But Democrats need to be honest about the consequences of their actions after the 2016 election.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton concedes to Donald Trump in New York on Nov. 9, 2016.Matt Rourke / AP file
Nov. 7, 2022, 11:00 AM GMT
By Lev Golinkin
With the countdown to the midterms ticking toward its conclusion, America awaits the electoral fallout from the Big Lie: Donald Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories about widespread fraud in 2020. The nation heads into Election Day with millions of GOP voters primed to distrust its results. For a country where faith in elections forms the cornerstone of democracy, it’s a terrifying situation.
But it’s even worse than that.
These actions, while certainly not as dramatic or as immediately damaging as the events leading to Jan. 6 (and today), helped bring us to our current situation.
Trump’s mendacity is arguably the Second Big Lie. Four years earlier, the Hillary Clinton campaign and leading Democrats refused to acknowledge the outcome of the 2016 election, by claiming Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. These actions, while certainly not as dramatic or as immediately damaging as the events leading to Jan. 6 (and today), helped bring us to our current situation.
“He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” ex-President Jimmy Carter said in 2019, continuing to deny Trump’s victory three years after the election.
“He knows he’s an illegitimate president,” said Clinton, also three years later. She repeated this sentiment in 2020, telling The Atlantic the election “was not on the level,” and again when she called Trump’s win illegitimate. She piled on to this by saying, “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” clearly referring to how she saw her 2016 campaign.
Of course, Russia did meddle in the election via Facebook ads and cyberattacks, among other things, but as the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian interference concluded, there was no “evidence that vote tallies were manipulated.”
The uncomfortable reality is that Trump became president because 62 million Americans elected him. Denying this helped lead us to today, where a 2016 Economist/YouGov poll found that half of Clinton voters thought a foreign power tampered with voting results, while over 50%, and at times as much as 75%, of Republicans said they think Joe Biden was fraudulently elected, according to a Washington Post analysis.
These two phenomena are inextricably linked: The 2016 election denial paved the way for Trump’s lies four years later. It’s far past time we acknowledged this.
The refusal to recognize Trump’s victory began early, when Clinton declined to give a concession speech on election night, waiting until the next morning, instead. (In contrast Trump waited until after the Capitol riot, months later, to acknowledge reality in a speech that did not ever actually mention Biden by name.) By then, her campaign was already formulating a strategy to cast doubt on Trump’s legitimacy.
Clinton was not shy in offloading responsibility for her catastrophic loss. She blamed Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and the media. She blamed racism, and she blamed Barack Obama; she blamed sexism while also blaming women. But all that was secondary to the overarching narrative: that Trump was an “illegitimate president.”
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Europe must be prepared for a decade of Ukranian war, the outgoing secretary general of Nato has warned.
Speaking to the BBC, Jens Stoltenberg said the “paradox” of the war in Ukraine is the longer the western military alliance commits to fighting the war, the faster a resolution will be reached.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Mr Stoltenberg, who ends his 10-year tenure as secretary general in October, urged European Nato members to boost their commitments amid fears that US funds could be slashed or even stopped if Donald Trump wins a second term as US president in November’s election.
Asked if Nato allies had to be prepared for the conflict in Ukraine going on for more than 10 years, Mr Stoltenberg said: “Yes.”
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Germany plans to halve military aid for Ukraine
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Reporting from
London
- Published18 July 2024
Germany is planning to nearly halve military aid for Ukraine next year, from around €8bn (£6.7bn; $8.7bn) to around €4bn, according to a draft budget approved by the government.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Ukraine’s financing was “secure for the foreseeable future” due to a G7 group of rich nations scheme to raise $50bn from interest on frozen Russian assets.
Germany is Ukraine’s second biggest military donor, after the US. In 2024, Berlin’s budget for Kyiv is set at nearly €7.5bn.
The planned aid cut comes amid fears in Ukraine and among its European allies that US funds could be slashed or even stopped if Donald Trump wins the presidency in November’s election.
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Top Russian general fired amid bribery allegations
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- Published18 July 2024
A top Russian general has been formally dismissed from his post after being arrested on bribery charges in May, according to Russian state media.
Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was arrested amid a wider crackdown on corruption in the defence ministry and was accused of taking “a particularly large bribe” from a telecommunications company.
Prior to his arrest he had served as deputy chief of the army’s general staff overseeing the signals corps and military communications.
Prosecutors have accused him of taking bribes between April 2016 and October 2023 to ensure an increase in orders from the company’s factory.
A military court in Moscow will decide later on Thursday whether to extend his pre-trial detention until October.
His lawyer, Igor Dyukin, told the RIA Novosti outlet that authorities had seized his client’s car – a Mercedes – and frozen his salary card.
Lt Gen Shamarin was arrested amid a wider crackdown on senior military officials. A host of senior defence ministry staff has been detained in recent months, including Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov and Lt Gen Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the defence ministry’s personnel directorate.
It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed his long-term Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in May. He was replaced by Andrei Belousov, an economist with little military experience.
Experts have suggested that the crackdown marks an attempt by the Kremlin to boost efficiency in the Russian military and tackle corruption.
The anti-corruption drive has coincided with Russia making some incremental gains in eastern Ukraine. Intense fighting has focused on the Donbas region, where Moscow’s troops are seeking to break through Ukraine’s defensive lines.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters that efforts to force the country into peace talks would fail.
Ms Zakharova rejected what she called ultimatums based on any formula proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
President Putin has set out hardline demands for any potential peace talks, demanding that Kyiv recognise Russia’s claim over four Ukrainian territories in the south and east of the country.
Zelensky urges PM to help lift Ukraine weapon limits
Zelensky asks Starmer to show leadership over weapons
Kate Whannel
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Sir Keir Starmer to “show your leadership” by helping to remove restrictions on how Ukraine can use weapons supplied by its western allies.
Addressing a meeting of the cabinet in Downing Street, Mr Zelensky said being able to hit Russian territory would help prevent attacks on residential areas in Ukraine.
Pressed on the subject earlier, Defence Secretary John Healey said the UK’s provision of weapons to Ukraine “does not preclude them hitting targets in Russia”.
However, he added that it “must be done by the Ukrainians and must be done within the parameters and the bounds of international humanitarian law”.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the UK was having “intense discussions” on the “complex questions”, but said he would not go into the details in public.
During his visit to Downing Street, Mr Zelensky also thanked the British government for its ongoing support, which he said would help bring an end to the war with Russia.
He was greeted to the cabinet room with a standing ovation from senior ministers.
It was the first time a foreign leader has addressed the cabinet in person since US President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Sir Keir promised to “double down” on support for Ukraine and told Mr Zelensky the “political resolve to stand with Ukraine was not just in Parliament, but across this country”.
He also said he had accepted an invitation to visit Ukraine in the future.
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In June, Ukraine was given permission to use Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia. Previously it had only been allowed to target occupied territories inside Ukraine.
However, the permission does not extend to long-range weapons, which could be used to hit military bases well inside Russia.
That means Ukraine is restricted to hitting targets near its border.
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You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down
Oh, Ruby
Don’t take your love to town
It wasn’t me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it’s true that I’m not the man I used to be
Oh, Ruby
I still need some company
It’s hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and the needs of a woman of your age, Ruby, I realize
But it won’t be long I’ve heard them say until I’m not around
Oh, Ruby
Don’t take your love to town
She’s leaving now ’cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I’ve heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move I’d get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh, Ruby
Don’t take your love to town
Oh, Ruby
For God’s sakes turn around
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Now that the Republican candidate has chosen Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate, those differences appear even more stark on prospects for the war in Ukraine, security and trade.
A vocal critic of US aid to Ukraine, Mr Vance told this year’s Munich Security Conference that Europe should wake up to the US having to “pivot” its focus to East Asia.
“The American security blanket has allowed European security to atrophy,” he said.
Zelensky: Trump would be hard work, but we are hard workers
We have to work with the United States – Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says working with Donald Trump if he is re-elected as US president will be “hard work, but we are hard workers”.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC in London, Mr Zelensky said he was willing to work with anyone who was in power in the US.
Just days ago, Trump announced Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate in November’s vote. The 39-year-old has in the past said “he doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other”.
The nomination has renewed fears that US commitment to Ukraine could fall away if Trump is returned to the White House in November’s election.
“Maybe he really doesn’t understand what goes on in Ukraine, so we have to work with the United States,” Mr Zelensky told the BBC.
The Ukrainian leader is in the UK to attend a meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), where he delivered a speech on Thursday afternoon.
The EPC, which includes the 27 members of the European Union as well as 20 non-members like the UK, is a more informal forum for co-operation.
Mr Zelensky earlier met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has vowed to stand with Ukraine for “as long as it takes” and has committed to spending £3bn on aid for the country.
He said he hoped Mr Starmer’s term in Downing Street would mark a “special” era in British foreign policy.
“I don’t think Britain’s position would change,” Mr Zelensky told the BBC. “But I would like for Prime Minister Starmer to become special – speaking about international politics, about defending world security, about the war in Ukraine.”
He added that Ukraine “doesn’t just need a new page, we need power to turn this leaf”.
On Friday morning, President Zelensky will address a meeting of the UK cabinet in person – the first foreign leader to do so since US President Bill Clinton in 1997.
He is expected to brief ministers about the situation in Ukraine and the need to ramp up Europe’s defence industrial base.
The two leaders will also sign a £3.5bn defence export finance deal.
Ukraine’s troops have faced a tough spring and earlier this week it was confirmed that they had withdrawn from the village of Krynky on the occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro river.
In recent months, the Ukrainian army has had to try and hold back Russian troops along a very long front line in the east of the country. The city of Kharkiv and the surrounding areas have sustained continued attacks as Russian forces attempt to make gains in the region.
Ukraine had hoped that its military efforts would be boosted by the arrival of F-16 planes promised by allies this summer. But Mr Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine had yet to see them.
“It’s been 18 months and the planes have not reached us,” he said, saying that he was thankful for what Ukraine had been given.
But he emphasised that new fighters were essential to help Ukrainians push back against Russia’s aerial dominance and “unblock the skies”.
With the war continuing for more than two years without an end in sight, questions have been raised as to whether there could be a negotiated solution.
Last month, Switzerland hosted a Ukraine peace summit but Russia was not invited. Mr Zelensky has since said that Russia should attend a second peace summit penned for November.
He told the BBC that the whole world will need to put pressure on Russia in order to persuade it to sit down and consider ending the war.
“It doesn’t mean that all territories are won back by force. I think the power of diplomacy can help,” he said, adding that a weaker Russia on the battlefield would put Ukraine in a stronger position on the negotiating table.
“By putting pressure on Russia, I think it is possible to agree to a diplomatic settlement.”
Mr Zelensky has been Ukraine’s leader since 2019 and throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion. While elections were due this year, Ukraine’s constitution rules out a ballot during the time of martial law.
The president told the BBC that he did envisage a time when he would step down as president.
“But not until the war is over,” he said.
Anonymous Comment
Russia never wanted to start this war in the first place. However the US and the EU alike wanted an all-out war with Russia sacrificing Ukraine and its citizens in the process. Trump will halt this war, he will suspend aid to Ukraine. Biden has no backbone and will lose our to DT in November. The World cannot afford to burn bridges with Russia.
Massive worldwide IT outage could take ‘some time’ to fix, cybersecurity boss says
- Major IT outages have hit industries across the world; almost 1,400 flights are cancelled and banking, healthcare and shops affected
- Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says a “defect” in one of its software updates hit Windows operating systems
- A fix has been deployed, the company says, but admits it “could be some time” before systems are fully back up and running
- The majority of GP surgeries in England are experiencing issues, the NHS says, with trains, shops and pharmacies in the UK also hit
Concern patients will turn to A&E for help as GP services disruptedpublished at 16:4116:41
There’s no doubting the severe impact of the IT disruption on GP practices in England and Northern Ireland.
Access to digital patient records including test results and bookings has failed. The usual electronic prescription system is also down so only written versions are being generated.
Pharmacists are sending patients back to their GPs to get alternative written prescriptions. For an already pressurised GP system this is the last thing doctors and patients needed.
Urgent and emergency care in hospitals is not affected but there has been disruption to administrative IT functions such as staff rostering. Some staff are working from paper for certain tasks.
The worry for hospitals in the days ahead is that more patients frustrated with GP problems will start arriving at A&E for help.
Crowdstrike customers ‘remain fully protected’, chief executive sayspublished at 16:3416:34
Crowdstrike’s chief executive George Kurtz said the company’s customers “remain fully protected” despite the ongoing IT outage.
“Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected,” he said in a post on X.
“We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on,” he added.
Earlier, he said a fix had been issued but that it could be “some time” before all systems are back up and running.
More than 3,300 flights cancelled worldwidepublished at 16:0516:05
Around 3,340 flights have been cancelled worldwide, or about 3% of all scheduled services, according to aviation data company Cirium.
This is the total number of cancellations, meaning some may not be due to the IT outage.
How could Crowdstrike’s update do so much damage?published at 15:3215:32
Joe Tidy
Cyber correspondent
There are suggestions, from the wording of the Crowdstrike CEO, that this dodgy overnight update was supposed to be small.
A “content update” is how it was described. So, it wasn’t a major refresh of the cyber security software. It could have been something as innocuous as the changing of a font or logo on the software design.
That would potentially explain why the software wasn’t as rigorously checked in the same way a major update would have been. And how it sailed through to all computers without being blocked.
But it also poses huge questions to the cyber security company: how could a small update do so much damage?
You can hear more from me on this issue in conversation with Adam Fleming and Faisal Islam on the latest Newscast.
Pay could be impacted, Global Payroll Association sayspublished at 15:0915:09
Workers may experience a delay in their pay following the IT outage that’s hit industries across the world, a body representing payroll providers says.
Melanie Pizzey, the Global Payroll Association’s chief executive, says the outage could have “serious implications for businesses” across the nation, particularly those who process payroll weekly.
She says the outage could lead to a backlog which may delay pay for employees who are paid weekly or monthly.
“At best, it will require those managing payroll to work overtime to rectify the issue,” she adds.
Aoife Walsh
Live page editor
As queues stacked up at airports, TV channels went off-air and medical appointments were postponed, anti-virus firm Crowdstrike quickly became a household name when it confirmed a bug in its software was to blame for IT issues on Microsoft devices across the world.
Here’s where things stand:
- Crowdstrike says it has fixed the erroneous update, but it could be “some time” before systems are back up and running
- Our cyber correspondent Joe Tidy explains here why it could take days to fix – Microsoft has suggested switching devices on and off again up to 15 times
- More than 1,300 flights have been cancelled and many others delayed
- Sky News spent most of the morning off-air as broadcasters also faced issues, with Australia’s ABC unable to function properly for six hours
- In the UK, trains, payment in shops, pharmacies and GP surgeries have been hit – supermarket Morrisons says its earlier problems have been fixed
- Crowdstrike boss George Kurtz says he’s “deeply sorry” for the disruption
After huge disruption, there are signs that some companies and services are beginning to get back up and running. We’re currently looking into the state of play in key areas and will bring you more on that when we have it.
Watch: Airport chaos around the world in 46 secondspublished at 14:1714:17
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July 18th 2024
Is it Covid or is Biden being poisoned to save the Democrats – How did it come to this ?
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how President Biden’s Covid diagnosis could impact him and highlights something to …
This story is an excerpt from The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World by Zack Beauchamp.
In April 1945, a young man named David Rubin was about to die.
A Jewish capmaker from a small town he called Pruzana, today known as Pruzhany in Belarus, Rubin had managed to survive the nightmare of Auschwitz for two years. Fearing the Allied advance, SS soldiers moved Rubin and 1,620 others to Buchenwald, a concentration camp in central Germany, and from there on a death march south into Bavaria……………………….
A 2018 paper by two German political scientists, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen, examined a survey that asked the same group of people their opinions on elections and immigration before and after the refugee crisis. They found that attitudes on immigration, on the whole, hadn’t changed much: The same people who disliked immigration before the crisis still did afterward. But their partisan allegiances had shifted dramatically; anti-immigrant voters who had supported Merkel’s CDU defected to the AfD in significant numbers.
This is the reactionary spirit in action. The refugee crisis heightened the stakes for culturally conservative voters, forcing them to choose between centrist parties that were more welcoming to migrants and potentially antidemocratic extremists who opposed it. Many of them chose the latter, prioritizing preserving the traditional white-dominant society over protecting their democracy.
Across Europe, far-right parties started to reap electoral dividends. In Hungary in particular, the surge in power of anti-immigrant politics allowed a government that had already moved in an authoritarian direction to push a new and potent propaganda line, harnessing the reactionary spirit to consolidate its hold on power.
Similar events took place outside Europe. Post-Cold War Israel went through multidecade struggles over its ethnoreligious identity and occupation of Palestinian land, ultimately creating conditions for the reactionary spirit to spread from a small handful of extremists to a significant portion of the population. In India, the reactionary right’s rise began with a staged crisis designed to bring out the Hindu majority’s unease with India’s vision of equality.
Fukuyama’s warning has proved prescient. Frustration with the dominant era of equality and liberal rights has kept history going, with the reactionary spirit threatening democracy even in its strongholds.
Britain’s Fairy Tale Facade by R J Cook
Comment The absurdity of this extract from Vox, is that it is the authoritarain liberal elite squealing about reaction to their self interested planet eating virtue signalling policies of oppression and self interest. The samae arrogant patronising mindset gave us World War One, a punitive non negitiated peace settlement on Germany in 1919 and Hitler. Our current Royal family’s close relatives also caused the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Britain is headed up by a man from a very colourful rampaging inbred horde who created modern Europe, ruined Russia and spread their hegemony across the globe. Their Imperialist legacy is everywhere in a more insidious oozing form of hypocrisy and smiling tyranny. Here an underclass of whites are their scapegoats – while they rally the black masses, religiously deluded and convince Latin Americans that they too are a vital part of their vitally important black underclass. For all the liberal talk of change, they need stasis for the fundamentals of divide and rule politics of class oppression. They also need to encourage and humour all the different religions in a mockery of diversity and tolerance which will always breed the conflicts that the ruling elite and their lackeys need to stay on top.
These people do not want change. They want the masses to change, by force if necessary fed anti psychotic pills or jailed if they do not conform to consensus and the need to be a gloroious part of war for war on Russia with their names recorded for ever on a memorial slab. They have died , giving the elite ever more freedom and thinning out the irksome whute population in the process. This is alreadyhappening in Ukraime.
This is demicracy U.K style, where the King’s Prime Miinister won a massive Parliamentary majority from just over 30% of the 60% who thought it worth bothering to vote. Other than being his wife, his queen is a distant blood relation. Like Diana and Sarah, Duchess of York she is descended from Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond one of the illegitimate children of Charles II, meaning that her last common ancestor with her husband is James VI of Scotland and then became James I of England. They are ninth cousins once removed.
R J Cook
July 17th 2024
Trump’s choice of running mate raises fears in Ukraine and EU
Jess Parker & James Waterhouse
In Berlin and Kyiv
- Published16 July 2024
European politicians and diplomats had already prepared for changes to their relationship with the US in the event of a second Donald Trump presidency.
Now that the Republican candidate has chosen Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate, those differences appear even more stark on prospects for the war in Ukraine, security and trade.
A vocal critic of US aid to Ukraine, Mr Vance told this year’s Munich Security Conference that Europe should wake up to the US having to “pivot” its focus to East Asia.
“The American security blanket has allowed European security to atrophy,” he said.
Nils Schmid, a senior MP in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, told the BBC that he was confident a Republican presidency would continue to stay within Nato, even if JD Vance came across as “more isolationist” and Donald Trump remained “unpredictable”.
However, he warned of a new round of “trade wars” with the US under a second Trump presidency.
An EU diplomat said that after four years of Donald Trump no-one was naïve: “We understand what it means if Trump comes back as a second-term president, regardless of his running mate.”
Portraying the EU as a sailing boat preparing for a storm the diplomat, who preferred not to be named, added that whatever they might be able to tie down, it was always going to be rough.
The US is Ukraine’s biggest ally, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week: “I’m not afraid about him becoming president, we will work together.”
“He has detailed and well-founded plans for this,” the letter states.
Mr Zelensky has himself said this week that Russia should attend a peace summit possibly next November, and he has promised a “fully ready plan”. But he made clear he had not come under Western pressure to do so.
Viktor Orban’s recent “peace missions” to Moscow and Beijing have sparked accusations that he’s abusing his country’s six-month rotating presidency of the European Council. European Commission officials have been told not to attend meetings in Hungary because of Mr Orban’s actions.
During the Trump presidency, the US imposed tariffs on EU-produced steel and aluminium. Although they were paused under Joe Biden’s administration, Trump has since floated a 10% tariff on all overseas imports should he get back into the White House.
The prospect of renewed economic confrontation with the US will be seen as a bad, even a disastrous, outcome in most European capitals.
“The only thing we know for sure is there will be punitive tariffs levelled on the European Union so we have to prepare for another round of trade wars,” said Nils Schmid, the Social Democrats’ foreign policy lead in the Bundestag.
JD Vance singled out Berlin for criticism of its military preparedness earlier this year.
While he didn’t mean to “beat up” on Germany, he said the industrial base underpinning its arms production was insufficient.
This is an edited version.
Trump the error of his ways by R J Cook
The United States have placed Russia in an existential crisis. It is a miracle that Donald Trump is still alive. But it should be a reminder that all life should matter and that we all die eventually. Soldiers matter too and are peoples loved ones. They should not be squandered by megalomaniacs and wealth grabbers. Nor should they be pawns in politicians games.
Anglo U.S Foreign Policy is motivated by hi tech boosted corporate capitalism that is the essence of climate change, overpopulation, famine,disease, mass migration and a new form of hi tech warfare that threatens the planet all life and all life upon it.
Trump and Vance took an oath to the Republican Party yesterday, to support United States Exceptionalism. That exceptionalism is generally taken to mean that the U.S is an exception to the rules that they make for the rest of the world. Hence the Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning affair.
For the sake of progress in the cause of world peace, that exceptionalism needs a gear change, away from policies where its corporations have been responsible for consuming 52% of all natural resources in every year since 1945. The U.S accounts for 6% of the world’s population. As a matter of fact, the U.S.A doubled its national wealth during World War II and has been a war economy ever since.
The U.S.A has an insatiable appetite for natural resources. But in spite U.S TV and movie glamour. The global situation is worsened and sustained by the fact that 3% of the world population own 62% of global wealth, thus empowering them to control everything else including the so called democratic system.
The future depends on whether the exceptional leaders of the exceptional western world, will restrain their Latin American, African and Indian foreign policies as well as their lust for Ukraine, Russia and China resources. I doubt that they will, even if Trump survives to win a second term of the U.S Presidency, until it is too late. Relying on their cloak of democracy and freedom – supported by their European acolytes, they will most likely carry on as always. If Trump and Vance make a move against supporting Ukraine, the President will face mutiny, another savage press campaign calling him a convict, traitor and sex pest. It would be another 4 years of impeachment proceedings.
The Anglo U.S elite mentality is incestuous socially and financially. Both elites are behind the political ‘coming together’ initiatives and the bland consensus created through oppressive authoritarian legal and punitive regimes. Meanwhile that elite, defining and directing laws, are enjoying very comfortable life styles, defining and directing the law.
Therefore any threat to that consensus, such as anti Royal protests and radical new political parties like Reform U.K, National Rally, and Afd have to be ritually denigrated and strangled at birth. Meanwhile the long established U.S Republican Party is a worry to corporate and Deep State America.
Donald Trump appears to have redefined his party. This is puzzling behaviour for a U.S billionaire. His old Democrat friends hate him for it. But his first term was of little consequence, hemmed in by Nancy Pelosi et al. The proof of the pudding will be if he gets a November victory. Will his near death experience on July 13th 2024 energise him toward bringing new life to the United States or set it up for Nuclear War.
As I write, Sky News are broacasting their angry concerns that Trump, influenced by former U.S Marine, Vance will cut aid to Ukraine. The Sky News panel of well paid upper middle class press pundits are hopeful that U.S born war mongering Churchill wannabe Boris Johnson will teach Trump the error of his ways – ensuring World War III goes Nuclear. Disgraced one time U.K Prime Minister Johnson and his government worked hard to block a peace deal at the outset of the Ukraine conflict. So he turmed up at yesterday’s Republican Party Convention to press his cause.
R J Cook
Comment : Oh dear ! According to William Hague, Putin will be empowered if Trump and Vance win says the elite ruling class who are currently empowered, as they were in 1914-18, 1919 – 39, 1939-45 and now, 1945 to date. The Ukraine is about them. This is a case of here we go again. The Hague line comes from Thatcher lover failed Tory leader William Hague. His heroine asset stripped the U.K increasing poverty, division and desperation. Please God don’t let this pompous prototype Tony Blair British Tory nonentity have influence over the United States.
R J Cook
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Jack Black axes tour over bandmate’s Trump comment
Bonnie McLaren
Culture reporter
Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.
He appeared to reply: “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
In a statement on Instagram, external, Black said he was “blindsided” by the comment.
“I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,” the comedian and actor wrote.
He said he didn’t feel it was “appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour”, and that the rest of the group’s “creative plans are on hold”.
Black added that he is “grateful to the fans for their support and understanding”.
The controversy had already led to Tuesday’s gig in Newcastle, New South Wales, being postponed.
Gass apologised for the comment on Instagram, external, saying it was a “severe lack of judgement”.
He wrote: “The line I improvised onstage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake.
“I don’t condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologise to those I’ve let down and truly regret any pain I’ve caused.”
Gass also split with his agent following the incident.
“Due to what occurred, we have parted ways,” Michael Greene of Greene Talent told BBC News.
While many in the Sydney crowd can be heard laughing in video from the concert, the comment launched an angry reaction on social media – with X owner Elon Musk calling it “evil”.
United Australia senator Ralph Babet asked for the band to be deported.
In a statement, he said the duo should “be immediately removed from the country after wishing for the assassination of Donald Trump at their Sydney concert”.
Trump was shot in the ear when a gunman opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
The FBI has identified the gunman who targeted Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, a kitchen worker from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who is a registered Republican.
A Secret Service sniper shot Crooks dead after he fired at the former president. One spectator was killed and two others were seriously injured.
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July 15th 2024
What really matters to them – by R J Cook.
Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer was in Germany in time to cast his political shadow over the European Cup Final. He had been involved in war council where he had been encouraging the use of German missiles inside Russia.
Sport is ever more political in gender and ethnically divided Britain. Here most people are concentrated, in white and ethnic ghettoes – and hopeless. Football is being cultivated to paper over the cracks of what is descending into Third World living standards and internecine life styles. Meanwhile the market value of England’s defeated team is £1.9 billion, the most expensive in the whole competition.
England’s Premier League Football is also the most expensive and lucrative in the world. In the build up to the cup final England had the best side of the draw with all the best teams. They were basically involved in a knock out scenario. England’s side of the draw was a pushover for them. In the previous U.K hosted tournament of 2020, it was also designed for their comfort, with all their matches held at home in Wembley. Obviously keeping virtue signalling England in the game as long as possible maximised beer and wine sales once again.
England manager Gary Southgate had made much of his “young really talented team” last week. He also said there were more important things than football. Southgate has been hailed for using football in a war on racism which has been demonstrated through his choice of players. It did not pass unnoticed that when, at the end of the game, he substituted the young white attacking player Cole Palmer, Palmer took only a few minutes to score. This begs the question of how many goals Palmer would have scored if he had been on the pitch sooner ? So why wasn’t he more than a subsitute ? There had been similar issues with the penalty taker choices in the final four years earlier, against Italy.
Mainstream media have been quick to blame Harry Kane for a lack lustre performance, with him even getting a yellow card just after the match started. But fair assessment would reveal that there are too many glory hunters in the current England squad,like Jude Bellingham who rarely passed the ball. Overall, England are poor on the ball. Historically, Southgate’s men have relied on diving for penalties where referees have given England benefit of the doubt, at every opportunity. Unfortunately for England, yesterday’s cup final was policed by a refereeing team not open to such bias.
England are not good losers in spite of all their practice. They had been so hyped up by the media that they seemed unaware that they were going to meet real competition yesterday. For all the U.K elite media agonising, the reality was that they were hopelessly outclassed by a Spanish team full of something better than so called talent. The Spanish displayed class. So nonsense coming from elite media’s interviews with downhearted fans who had paid a fortune to be there, were carefully edited .
Gary Southgate’s term as England manager ( I should say ‘head coach’ ) has been a political experiment as part of the overall purpose of bringing an inherently divided British people ‘together’ in an act of collective worship. This is also part of the ruling elite’s wider strategy conditioning their masses for a war on Russia and China. This is as part of the NATO alliance for U.S Elite dominated global hegemony. That is why there is a so called ‘cost of living crisis.’
Football is discussed on TV by a deity of former players, including women commenting on men’s games. So called democracies are heavily influenced by all of this. That is why U. K’s mass media has been full of slogans and drivel about ‘football coming home.’
This is why Russia was victimised for allegedly harbouring elite sports drug cheats. Evidence that this malpractice was and still is rife in the west, did not matter. That is because the west makes all the rules and international laws. The whole point was to shut Russia out of the glorifying sports achievements. The western masses were being trained to view Russians as unfit company and pariahs rather than to look at and respond to the state of their own countries.
As if U.K top lawyer and Prime Minister Starmer was not enough to ooze in the political message yesterday, Prince William the Prince of Wales was there with an offspring. And then, after disaster struck, William’s father King Charles III, sent a message to his subjects’ multi millionaire down hearted football team. He told them to hold their heads high. No doubt Gary Southgate’s knighthood is in hand. This is because the British Ruling class know what really matters to themselves.
R J Cook
What’s next for America after Trump shooting? The View From India.
“..[T]hen the worst President in the history of our country took over, and look what happened to our country,” said Donald Trump to a cheering crowd on Saturday evening in Butler, Pennsylvania. The former Republican President was talking about illegal immigration into the U.S. In two days, the Republican National Convention would begin in Milwaukee, in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where Mr. Trump would be crowned as the candidate of the Republican Party for the November Presidential election. “Probably 20 million people… If you really want to see something, take a look at what happened….” he continued to speak, pointing towards the massive video monitors that displayed figures of immigration, and then suddenly muffled gunshots were heard.
Trump, wearing a red MAGA cap, was seen clutching his right ear, and at the next moment, he was on the ground. People started screaming and scattering, and secret service agents rushed to cover Mr. Trump, while gunshots continued. Seconds later, Mr. Trump rose, surrounded by the agents and blood streaming down his cheek. While he was being escorted out of the stage, he punched the air with his right fist, an American flag fluttering in the background, shouting ‘Fight, fight, fight’, while the crowd erupted.
America is no stranger to political violence. Abraham Lincoln, the civil war era President, was assassinated by a Confederate sympathiser on April 15, 1865 at Peterson House Washington DC. James A. Garfield, the 20th President, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died two and a half months later. William McKinley, the 25th President and a tall Republican leader, was shot in Buffalo, New York, by an anarchist on September 6, 1901. He died a week later. Elderly Americans might still be remembering how the assassination of of John F. Kennedy, the charismatic Democratic President, shook the country. Kennedy, who took the country back from the brink of a nuclear showdown with Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, was killed on November 22, 1963 by a gunman.
President Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, but survived the attempt. America has seen countless attacks on other government functionaries and politicians, including the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a brother of President Kennedy and a powerful Senator and former Attorney General, on June 6, 1968. The bullets sprayed at the Trump rally, once again, shatter the sense of the nation’s security and expose the streak of political violence that hides beneath the civil facade of American politics.
The attack happened at a pivotal moment in contemporary U.S. history. The nation is divided. Mr. Trump was portrayed as a polarising figure by his opponents, while the former President attacked the incumbent, Democrat Joe Biden, as weak and incompetent. Mr. Trump, impeached, indicted, convicted and faced with several other legal challenges, has always accused of a conspiracy against his presidency and leadership. The Biden camp, on the other side, describes Mr. Trump as a threat to American democracy.
But Mr. Trump has a loyal base among the Republicans. He more or less enjoys the support of his party elites and rank and file for his candidacy. The Democrats, on the other side, are divided, especially after Mr. Biden’s poor performance in the June 27 debate with Mr. Trump. There are concerns about Mr. Biden’s age (he is 81, three years older than Mr. Trump) and health. At least 20 Democratic lawmakers have urged Mr. Biden to quit the race. But Mr. Biden has refuted such claims, saying he had beaten Mr. Trump once (in 2020) and that he could do it again.
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July 14th 2024
A Long Lost American Dream Becomes An American Nightmare by R J Cook
I have been watching BBC coverage and analysis of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Nigel Farage, leader of U.K Reform, has agreed with my view that the liberal media have fermented this situation by demonising Trump. The BBC condemned Trump for rising up after being shot and hit in his right ear, raising his fist while exclaiming “Fight, fight, fight”. The female news anchor commented: “Isn’t this the sort of inflammatory rhetoric” that has caused this situation. The BBC line was insinuating that Trump asked for it and was still asking for it.
The fact that for years Trump was defamed as a racist, misogynist and sex addict vulnerable to Kremlin blackmail because he was allegedly using Russian prostitutes, is of no interest to the self styled virtue signalling liberal elite media. BBC are shooting the line that Trump is basically responsible for a divided United States.
On 15 May 2024, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot and critically injured in the central Slovak town of Handlová, in front of its House of Culture after a government meeting. He was hospitalised and stabilised after emergency surgery. His pro Russia and anti war views were blamed for him being shot at near point blank range. Slovakia’s defence and interior ministers blamed rising hate speech and division for the political atmosphere in the country, which they said led to the assassination attempt.
In Pennsylvania yesterday, shots rang out at the moment the former U.S President was moving on to the matter of illegal immigration to which his rival Biden has shown scant attention. The shooting was two days before Trump’s formal nomination in Milwaukee is a city in the state of Wisconsin on Lake Michigan’s western shore, famousfor its breweries.
The BBC are developing the line that Trump and his supporters will use the shooting. which killed a man standing behind the former president. As always, mainstream media which has a heavy presence in the U.S, and is closely linked to CNN, are desperate to blame Trump’s very existence in U.S Politics for everything bad that has happened to him. Democrats spent his entire first term working to have him impeached. He was blamed for the Capitol Riots which evidence suggests had more to do with a disgruntled FBI than Trump himself.
The fact that Hilary Clinton, who called his supporters ‘the deplorables’ adding that “Human Rights are Women’s Rights”, is never mentioned, She could not accept her own election defeat in 2016. Her self righteous rhetoric inspired feminist and Soros backed protests against Trump’s victory. This is all forgetten by a media obsessed with Trump’s past.
While I write a BBC politics expert Professor Dunn, is repeating the mantra that Trump provoked the Capitol Riots. The truth doesn’t stick with the self styled well paid virtue signalling liberals. So they went on to resurrect New York gossip columnist E Jean Carroll who was by that time in her 70s. This fading star New York journalist said she was raped by Trump in a Bloomingdale ( now known as Macy’s ) ladies clothes fitting room, to which she had invited him in the 1990s,where she modelled lingerie for his pleasure. She said she could not remember the exact date or year. As a writer, and as the U.K Police have discovered through all their efforts to jail me, I have kept diaries since I was first given one in 1964. Writers do that sort of thing by instinct. In spite of there being no evidence other than Carroll’s hearsay, Trump lost her civil case against him. His lawyer was even admonished for harsh questioning. When Trump protested his innocence, his $4.5 million damages to the ageing Carroll were doubled.
This was all about damaging the famous womanising Trump, as if other rich powerful business men and politicians don’t obsess about glamorous women, fawning to their flattery. So out of the woodwork crawls one time porn star and fading beauty ‘Stormy Daniels’ who was persuaded to breach her non disclosure agreement with Donald Trump. This time it was more than sex. Convicted criminal and disgraced lawyer Cohen was key witness in a prosecution and foregone New York Democrat Prosecution case alleging that the former President instructed Cohen to fiddle company accounts to cover the Daniels pay off.
Anyone ever mentioning the role of conspiracies in political and elite life is now written off as deranged lunatics. It is a neat trick. Anyone one who argues with this conventional wisdom invented by a former FBI Chief, is offering further evidence of their insanity. It was the FBI’s first boss and transvestite J Edgar Hoover, who coined the phrase that every FBI target had a dirty sex secret, because every person had one. That has been their modus operandi with Donald Trump. There is no doubt that security at yesterday’s Pennsylvania rally was suspiciously lax. As with Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter and would be assassin was shot dead before he could talk. He is a known supporter of Act Blue and too young to know better.
BBC expert pundits are predictably calling for more laws without considering why the white western world is so divided or the consequential reality of their elite NATO proxy Ukraine War on Russia. There has never been so much money in so few hands. They are calling the shots with ‘respectable’ academics, politicians, police chiefs, feminists and other pressure groups supporting them as willing self serving lackeys.
Political strategy has always been about divide and rule. We are well into World War Three, though Western propaganda paints a different picture. However, the adage that power ultimately comes from the barrel of a gun, holds true. The powerful have total freedom to define and dicate our freedoms – the masses do not have freedom as such. The technology of war now involves much more than its’ very big guns but the ruling class mentality is the same. Wars are never about freedom for the masses. The United States escaped depression and doubled its wealth as a result of World War Two. They have been a war economy every since.
Now the war is back on their home ground. But the elite, backed by the U.K, needs it to be in Russia and then China. When they and their corporate and State media talk of freedom, it is their freedom they are thinking and talking about. Trump is a threat to that. When Trump shouted out “Keep Fighting”, he meant fighting for the people Hilary Clinton called ‘the deploarables’ and a world without nuclear war. He meant fighting for a long lost and forgotten ‘American Dream.’ The pampered over paid cosseted BBC editors and mouthpieces won’t help you to see it that way. The context they present is what is best for their patronising virtue signalling class, paymasters and ‘their values’.
July 14th 2024
R J Cook
Trump Gunman, 20 Year Old Thomas Matthew Crooks With AR 15 Rifle Carrier Was Supporter of Democrat Act Blue.
Thomas Matthew Crooks: What we know about the Trump attacker
Tom McArthur and Tom Bateman and Bernd Debusmann
BBC News in London and Pennsylvania
- Published14 July 2024, 12:11 BST
The FBI has named the man who shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally as Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Crooks is alleged to have opened fire while the former US president was addressing a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one audience member dead and two others badly hurt.
The 20-year-old kitchen worker was shot dead at the scene by a Secret Service sniper, officials said.
In a statement, the FBI said Crooks was the “subject involved” in the assassination attempt on the former president and that an active investigation was under way.
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Who shot at Donald Trump?
Thomas Crooks had not been carrying ID, so investigators used DNA to identify him, the FBI said.
He was from Bethel Park in Pennsylvania, about 70km (43 miles) from the site of the attempted assassination, and graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School with a $500 prize for maths and science, according to a local newspaper.
Crooks worked in a local nursing home kitchen just a short drive away from his home, the BBC understands.
State voter records show that he was a registered Republican, according to US media.
He is also reported to have donated $15 to liberal campaign group ActBlue in 2021.
According to US media reports, Crooks was wearing a T-shirt from Demolition Ranch, a YouTube channel known for its guns and demolition content. The channel has millions of subscribers featuring videos on different guns and explosive devices.
Law enforcement officials believe the weapon used to shoot at Donald Trump was purchased by Crook’s father, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, two officers told AP that Crooks’ father bought a weapon at least six months ago.
The day after the shooting, law enforcement sources also told CBS, the BBC’s US partner, that suspicious devices were found in Crooks’ vehicle.
According to CBS, the suspect had a piece of commercially available equipment that appeared capable of initiating the devices.
Bomb technicians were called to the scene to secure and investigate the devices.
What was his motivation?
Having established Crooks’s identity, police and agencies are investigating his motive.
“We do not currently have an identified motive,” said Kevin Rojek, FBI Pittsburgh special agent in charge, at a briefing on Saturday night.
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July 13th 2024
Trump rushed off stage at rally as bangs heard
Donald Trump ducks as loud bangs heard during Pennsylvania rally
Matt Murphy
BBC News
Secret Service agents have rushed former President Donald Trump off stage after what sounded like gunshots rang out at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Footage showed him grimace and raise a hand to his ear, before ducking as sharp cracks – apparently shots – broke out.
He was quickly swarmed by secret service agents and rushed off stage to a waiting vehicle.
In a statement Trump’s campaign said he was “fine” and was being “checked out” at a local medical facility.
“President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act,” spokesman Steven Cheung said.
The former president appeared to have blood on his right ear and raised a fist as he was led off stage.
Armed police took to the podium soon after.
In a statement, the Secret Service said Trump was safe and that measures for his protection had been implemented.
They added that an active investigation was now under way and that further information would be released when available.
The Republican candidate for president had been addressing his supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania – a crucial swing state in November’s election.
Multiple bangs rang out as Trump spoke about his successor, President Joe Biden, and his administration.
Several supporters holding placards and standing behind Trump ducked as the apparent shots were heard.
One witness, Jason, told the BBC that he heard five shots which went off in quick succession.
“We see the Secret Service jump on Trump to protect him. Everyone in the crowd dropped down very quickly,” he said.
“He shortly thereafter stood up and put his fist up in the air, said a couple of things.”
The White House said President Biden, who is in his home state of Delaware, had received an initial briefing.
Politicians of both parties have condemned the apparent attack.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said “violence targeted at any political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable”.
Former Vice-President Mike Pence said he and his wife were praying for Trump, adding that he urged “every American to join us”.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement: “My thoughts and prayers are with former President Trump. I am thankful for the decisive law enforcement response. America is a democracy. Political violence of any kind is never acceptable.”
Comment This shows how desperate the Deep State and other vested interests are to stop Donald Trump’s well deserved victory in November. It should be a big incentive for all working class Americans, black and white, to vote Trump. The sane working people of Europe, Africa, India, Pakistan and China need him too.
Intelligent Russians may prefer to sit back and laugh at another Biden victory. World War Three on Russia was planned back in 2008. Trump was never meant to win in 2016. A series of ongoing sex, fraud and Russian agent smears, combined with malicious prosecutions, were meant to stop his return, This assassination attempt shows the dirty despicable reality of U.S led Western psuedo democracy.
Elite Corporate mainstream media lackeys have so demonised Trump that they should share blame. I expect another attempt.
R J Cook
| America |
| Trump has mainstreamed the radical Right His politics feeds off the anger of the individual |
| A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, along with the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups. ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity.Read story |
The dark enslaving empire
Is built on massacres and money On puppet police and politicians On virtue-signalled violence On inversion and infection On blackmail and bombs On petroleum and predation On gaslighting and greedThe dark enslaving empire Is ruled by the demon they call development By the usury they call growth By the fabrication they call history By the theft they call law By the imposture they call authority By the occupation they call government By the dictatorship they call democracyThe dark enslaving empire Is stained with deceit beyond belief With hypocrisy beyond imagination With criminality beyond all limits With cruelty beyond understanding With the screaming deaths of children With the rituals of its terror With the evil oozing from its smileThe dark enslaving empire Is mortally afraid of our freedom from fear Of our angry authenticity Of our truth-telling Of the courage of our convictions Of our loving and our laughter Of the spirit of our soaring Of the resonance of our revolt[Audio version] |
July 12th 2024
‘Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin’ – Biden gaffe with Ukraine leader
‘Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin’ – Biden gaffe with Ukraine leader
US President Joe Biden mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” while speaking to reporters about Nato’s support for Ukraine. He later corrected himself, before Zelensky took the microphone.
“President Putin?” Biden said, correcting himself. “President Zelensky. I’m so focused on beating Putin.”
China hits back at Nato over Russia accusations
Tessa Wong
BBC News
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has hit back at Nato’s “groundless accusations” that Beijing is helping Russia in its war on Ukraine.
He has also warned the Western alliance against stirring up confrontation.
Mr Wang’s comments, made in a call with his Dutch counterpart, came hours after leaders of Nato member states gathered in Washington DC and issued a declaration that mentioned the war.
They accused China of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia, external through its “large-scale support for Russia’s defence industrial base”, in some of their harshest remarks yet about Beijing.
They called on China to stop “all material and political support” to Russia’s war effort such as the supply of dual-use materials, which are items that can be used for both civilian and military purposes.
Western states have previously accused Beijing of transferring drone and missile technology and satellite imagery to Moscow. The US estimates about 70% of the machine tools and 90% of the microelectronics Russia imports now come from China.
Beijing was also accused of conducting “malicious cyber and hybrid activities, including disinformation” on Nato states.
In a press conference on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said that he had discussions with other leaders about spelling out the consequences for China.
Beijing has accused the US and other Western states of pouring “fuel on the fire” by supplying lethal weapons and technology to Ukraine for its defence.
In recent weeks, several countries have gone a step further and allowed Ukraine to use their weapons to hit targets inside Russia.
During Nato’s three-day summit, which ended on Thursday, the alliance continued to underscore its commitment to Ukraine. Member states said they would support Ukraine on its “irreversible path” to future membership, adding that “Ukraine’s future in Nato”.
They also announced further integration with Ukraine’s military and support for its defence. The alliance has committed at least €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.
US cruise missiles to return to Germany, angering Moscow
Paul Kirby
BBC News
- Published11 July 2024
Long-range US missiles are to be deployed periodically in Germany from 2026 for the first time since the Cold War, in a decision announced at Nato’s 75th anniversary summit.
The Tomahawk cruise, SM-6 and hypersonic missiles have a significantly longer range than existing missiles, external, the US and Germany said in a joint statement.
Such missiles would have been banned under a 1988 treaty between the US and former Soviet Union, but the pact fell apart five years ago.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow would react with a “military reponse to the new threat”.
“This is just a link in the chain of a course of escalation,” he argued, accusing Nato and the US of trying to intimidate Russia.
The joint US-German statement made clear the “episodic” deployment of the missiles was initially seen as temporary but would later become permanent, as part of a US commitment to Nato and Europe’s “integrated deterrence”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgxq7lkj4vgo
Nonsense of Freedom, Equality & Democracy – By R J Cook
Comment This is absolute nonsense about “commitment to Nato and Europe’s integrated deteremce.” It is about U.S Elite hegemony. It is about the Anglo U.S Elite’e security and hegemony. European leaders are climbers and are sucking up to a their perceived historic betters.
For the United States these missile bases make Europe an immediate target. This is because Russia knows why the United States is so committed to a fellow insititutionally corrupt pseudo democracy in Ukraine. It is to progress along the road to Russian regime change by encirclement, infiltration and then on to China. Russia and China know, in the wake of the oligarchs and Poroshenko, the Chocolate King, that this is all about land grabbing, natural resources and the strategic position of Crimea on the Black Sea. The British have been here before.
The United States leadership, crowned by senile Joe Biden, believes it can survive a nuclear holocaust. Missiles close to the Russia feeds their confidence that they can rapidly hit Russia with limited material harm to themselves.
Paradocally it is strategically and psychologically easier to do this to developed countries because they have high population density targets where people are used to more comfortable lives than the masses of Afghanistan, Africa, India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Ignorant poor Third World Populations rely on Dark Ages religion to comfort them.
Their ultimate faith is in God and an afterlife. World War Three is beyond their comprehension. The Western Elite needs life there to stay that way. This is why their other war aim is to drive Russia and China out. That is why they are so patronising and angry with Modi meeting Vladimir Putin and Imran Khan is in jail.
The western elite media works as one to sustain mass ignorance. That is why they and their Democrats weaponised historic sex abuse claims to convict Donald Trump and jail Julian Assange without trial or legal basis. It is why they trumped up fraud charges against the former president when the U.S, like Europe and the Antipodes have been built and sustained on corruption, greed, human rights abuses, racism and genocide. The elite and their pressure groups work on the principle that they make the laws and the laws are their to keep the masses in their proper place.
Wars have always been about power and resources. The world’s poor pay the price. They are divided, ruled and fooled. Hitler and his Nazi backers were terrified of Russian Communism. The 1930s World Trade Depression fed his regime.The U.S and the rest of Western Europe came to see Germany as a bulwark against this ‘Red Menace’. They enouraged Hitler until he started to threaten their empires as Germany had done in the run up to World War One.
As the story of Samson in the Old Testament depicts : ‘The weak band together to pull down the strong. Taken by himself and his own account, Biden is weak. Taken by themselves, his supporters are not. They have the power of money. Billionaires rule the western pseudo political system. It would take a person earning £38,500 a year 27,000 years to earn one billion. That equation should tell us all about the nonsense of equality, the reality of power, freedom and democracy.
R J Cook
President Biden Shock Recognising President Putin As President Of Ukraine At Fellow Geriatric NATO 75 Year Summit – R J Cook
Obviously in Josephine Biden – whose other famous personas included being a visiting Irishman made good – current decayed mindset, she is sensing the future. This comes on top of a recent Biden announcement that Donald Trump is her Vice Presidential running mate. What a dream team they would make should the Democrat elite and their obedient running dogs, including mainstream corporate and BBC State media, to pull the U.S even further apart before Nuclear War finsihes us all off.
R J Cook
July 11th 2024
Keir Starmer says Joe Biden ‘on really good form’
11 hours ago — President Joe Biden mistakenly introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” on stage at the NATO summit at a …
Sir Keir Starmer has described the US president as being “on really good form” after meeting Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Washington DC.
Asked whether the president was senile, as an increasing number of people are implying, Sir Keir answered “no”, and praised the president’s understanding during their bilateral meeting.
The prime minister said his US counterpart had “shown incredible leadership”.
Mr Biden is coming under continuing pressure to step aside from the presidential race due to concerns over his mental fitness.
Earlier this week, the actor and significant party donor George Clooney became one of the most high-profile Democrats urging Mr Biden to quit the contest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x8w9pxwllo
China lashes out at NATO after the alliance said it was a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war effort – amid warnings over Donald Trump’s plans …
Trump vice-president pick: Who will be the Republican’s running mate?
Donald Trump will announce within days who he has chosen as his Republican running mate.
His vice-presidential pick will be formally nominated at the Republican party convention which begins on Monday in Wisconsin.
Trump himself said on Wednesday that he would like to make the announcement “close to the convention”.
There are three names getting a lot of buzz – JD Vance, Doug Burgum and Marco Rubio – and they are reportedly in the final three.
By Holly Honderich and Sam Cabral
BBC News, Washington
Donald Trump will announce within days who he has chosen as his Republican running mate.
His vice-presidential pick will be formally nominated at the Republican party convention which begins on Monday in Wisconsin.
Trump himself said on Wednesday that he would like to make the announcement “close to the convention”.
There are three names getting a lot of buzz – JD Vance, Doug Burgum and Marco Rubio – and they are reportedly in the final three.
But there are plenty of others who could spring a surprise.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68064809
5 hours ago — British-supplied missiles can be used by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia, the UK has told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
NATO leaders have pledged to provide Ukraine with at least $43bn in military aid within the next year to bolster its defences against Russia
Nato allies at their Washington summit have said Ukraine’s “future is in Nato” and its path to membership is “irreversible”, making the …
July 9th 2024
Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge
Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors.
A large portion of these contracts — one-quarter to one-third of all Pentagon contracts in recent years — have gone to just five major corporations: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. The $75 billion in Pentagon contracts received by Lockheed Martin in fiscal year 2020 is well over one and one-half times the entire budget for the State Department and Agency for International Development for that year, which totaled $44 billion.
Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying over the past two decades, employing, on average, over 700 lobbyists per year over the past five years. That is more than one for every member of Congress.
Numerous companies took advantage of wartime conditions—which require speed of delivery and often involve less rigorous oversight—to overcharge the government or engage in outright fraud. In 2011, the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan estimated that waste, fraud and abuse had totaled between $31 billion and $60 billion.
As the U.S. reduces the size of its military footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan, exaggerated estimates of the military challenges posed by China have become the new rationale of choice in arguments for keeping the Pentagon budget at historically high levels. Military contractors will continue to profit from this inflated spending.
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7 hours ago — Modi, Putin hold talks amid outrage over Ukraine strikes. AFP; Jul 8 … Tory mayor Ben Houchen reflects on first meeting with Keir Starmer
12 hours ago — Modi, Putin meet in Moscow amid outrage over Ukraine strikes. Modi landed in Moscow hours after Russia launched a massive barrage targeting …
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Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern joins pro-war US think tank
Jacinda Ardern will lead a new fellowship to train European political leaders, as part of a Democratic Party-aligned think tank specialising in imperialist propaganda.
Cuban government declares “war economy”, deepening austerity measures
Cuba’s economy deteriorates as Washington continues sanctions aimed at starving the country into submission.
NATO to announce creation of Ukraine “command” at Washington summit
The US-led NATO military alliance will establish a separate command dedicated to the war against Russia in Ukraine at next week’s summit in Washington, D.C., NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: Samsung Electronics workers to hold three-day strike for higher pay; Bangladesh university workers hold national strike over pension scheme; Sri Lankan public sector workers still on strike over wages; Australia: Victorian ambulance paramedics intensify industrial action; NSW child protection workers strike over staff shortages.
Australia: Victorian Labor government demands public hospitals slash budgets
Labor’s cuts will have a devastating impact on public hospital services and patients, as well as health workers’ jobs and conditions.
Record-breaking heat wave hits 150 million in the US
Temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) hit the West Coast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast during the July 4th weekend, with 150 million people facing a record deadly heat wave.
The WSWS recognized from the outset that the persecution of Assange was a spearhead of an assault on democratic rights and an attempt to criminalize opposition to imperialist war. Assange is free, and that is a victory, but the conditions that gave rise to his persecution—massive inequality and global war—not only persist, they have greatly expanded.
| Assange may be free, but the fight for democratic rights continues. Can you make a generous donation to the WSWS to make sure this work can be expanded? Donate In hundreds of articles, the WSWS exposed the right-wing witch-hunt against Assange. Our articles on Assange’s persecution were read hundreds of thousands of times. The WSWS and ICFI organized rallies around the world, involving hundreds of participants and leading journalists, such as John Pilger, as speakers. In 2018, we held the webinar “Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship,” to which Assange sent greetings shortly before his internet access at the Ecuadorian embassy was cut. The WSWS recognized from the outset that the persecution of Assange was a spearhead of an assault on democratic rights and an attempt to criminalize opposition to imperialist war. Assange is free, and that is a victory, but the conditions that gave rise to his persecution—massive inequality and global war—not only persist, they have greatly expanded. The assault on democratic rights associated with the war drive is deepening. In Ukraine, the fascistic Zelensky government has imprisoned Bogdan Syrotiuk, a socialist and internationalist opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia. Syrotiuk’s indictment on bogus treason charges refers to his writings for the World Socialist Web Site, in which he called for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against the war, all the governments and the capitalist system. Since Bogdan’s arrest on April 25, Ukraine has banned the WSWS entirely. In the US, the turn towards open dictatorship is rapidly developing. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the president cannot be charged for crimes committed in the execution of “official acts,” establishing in essence a presidential dictatorship. There is mass opposition to war, inequality and authoritarianism. But to go forward, it must be armed with a socialist and internationalist perspective, directed against the source of the deepening barbarism, the capitalist profit system itself. The role of the WSWS is decisive. To expand and deepen our offensive against the conspiracies of the ruling class, we need resources. This is why we appeal to you to give the most generous donation to the WSWS today, and consider an ongoing pledge. We must expand our coverage, our staff and our technical capabilities, to meet the challenges posed by the rapidly developing capitalist crisis. |
UPS to close facilities in Portland and Baltimore, threatening thousands of jobs
The warehouses are to be retooled as automated facilities as part of the “Network of the Future,” made possible by the sellout Teamsters contract.
Stellantis imposes “temporary” layoffs on over 4,000 in Michigan and Ohio in cost-cutting move
The new round of Stellantis layoffs is further exposing the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain as a tool of management.
IG Metall plans to use contract negotiations in the metal and electrical industries to slash corporate costs through lowering wages and cutting thousands of jobs.
July 8th 2024
Germany’s new austerity and war budget
Although the exact figures will not be announced until July 17, one thing is already clear: It is an austerity and war budget that intensifies the government’s anti-working class and militaristic agenda.
Racist attack leaves Chinese-New Zealand teenager badly injured
The rise in racist attacks coincides with escalating anti-China propaganda by the media and political establishment in line with NZ’s role in US-led preparations for war.
The Democratic Party crisis and the civil war election
Four months before the election, there are growing calls within the political establishment for Biden to step down as the Democratic Party candidate.
German historian Mario Kessler denounces persecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Mario Kessler is an expert in Jewish history and the history of the workers movement.
None of the competing factions of Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime has any progressive answer to the mounting imperialist aggression against Iran and Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinians.
Comment The U.S led west will only accept a Shah of Persia style relationship. Iran needs to look at U.S Foreign Policy toward Russia and China before they go too far in this direction.
R J Cook
Russian Spy Plot To Sow ‘Panic and Terror’ in US Leaked in Bombshell Report
Russian spies have dirt cheap strategies to manipulate Westerners
Explosive Russian Spy Plot Uncovered: Project Kylo’s Scheme to Incite Panic in the US
July 7th 2024
Un pas de plus vers l’enfer par R. J. Cook
Commentaire Les Français n'ont aucune idée de ce qui les attend. Cela se construit depuis des années. Les élites occidentales se voient toujours imposer les gouvernements qu’elles souhaitent voir donner aux masses blanches. Ils appellent ça la démocratie. Grâce au féminisme et à la guerre, le taux de natalité des Blancs est tombé en dessous du niveau critique. Toute opposition à une politique de consensus est déshonorée et considérée comme du sexisme et du racisme. Les jeunes, comme je l’étais à mon époque, sont naïfs, opiniâtres et faciles à manipuler. Les vieux sont des connaisseurs, cyniques, effrayés et généralement sectaires. Ce résultat n’est qu’un pas de plus vers l’enfer. L’élite britannique a des racines normandes. Ils savent protéger leurs énormes intérêts financiers et manipuler la France. C’est pourquoi ils ont manipulé le Brexit, sans aucune intention de contrôler l’immigration. Ils avaient besoin d’être officiellement hors d’Europe et aux côtés des États-Unis lorsqu’ils revenaient sur Minsk alors qu’ils se préparaient à cette guerre mondiale. Des avions militaires ont survolé ma ville tout l’après-midi. Ils ne sont qu’une ondulation avant le tsunami de destruction massive qui arrive bientôt si ces hommes industriels et militaires fous veulent obtenir ce qu’ils veulent. Comme l'a dit l'ambassadeur de Russie auprès des Nations Unies : « Peu importe qui est à la Maison Blanche ». Il en va de même au Royaume-Uni. Les élections britanniques et françaises visent à garantir des gouvernements en temps de guerre pour un conflit qui s’intensifie, soutenu par des fanatiques religieux, notamment des féministes. R.J. Cook
“Political Establishment Wins In Cause Of Preparing France To Lead Russian Invasion For Western Elite Ukraine Proxy War On Russia.” R J Cook
The New Popular Front (NFP), a left-wing alliance formed at the last minute to fight the election, appears to have won the most seats. But it does not have an absolute majority.
This means it’s still not clear who will run France.
Much will depend on the balance of power within the NFP. Its constituent groups range from social democrats to hardcore anti-capitalists. Some moderate socialists could be tempted to peel off and join Macron’s group to form a centre-left government.
If no working majority can be cobbled together, then President Macron can ask the largest party to lead a minority government. Alternatively, he could appoint a technocratic government but it is unlikely to survive for long.
Instability could ensue, especially as the president cannot call a fresh parliamentary election for another year.
- France’s far-right National Rally (RN) has failed to win a majority in the parliamentary elections, defying many political observers’ expectations
- All major French outlets are showing early projections of a victory for the left-wing alliance, New Popular Front (NFP)
- RN leader Jordan Bardella said France had been “deprived” of an RN victory and pushed towards “uncertainty and instability”
- President Macron is analysing the results, the Élysée Palace said in a statement, and is not expected to comment tonight
- This was the second round of voting in France’s snap parliamentary election, which Macron suddenly called a month ago
- After the National Rally did well in the first round last week, left or centrist candidates in many places withdrew from the race – a tactical move to allow anti-RN votes to be concentrated on one contender
- The election took place in a tense atmosphere, with 30,000 police deployed across France
- The picture will continue to become clearer as actual results come in.
One Step Closer To Hell By R J Cook
Comment The French People have no idea what is coming to them. It has been building up for years. The Wetern elites always get foisted the governments that elites want the white masses to have. They call it democracy. Thanks to feminism and warfare, the white birth rate has fallen below the critical level.
Any opposition to consensus politics is disgraced and dimissed as sexism and racism. The young ,as I was in my day, are naive, opinionated and easily manipulated. The old are know alls, cynical, frightened and usually bigoted.
This outcome is just one step closer to hell. Britain’s elite have Norman roots. They know how to protect their massive financial interests and how to manipulate France which is why they manipulated Brexit, with no intention of controlling immigration. They needed to be officially outside Europe and alongside the United States when they reneged on Minsk as they prepared for this world war. Military aircraft have been flying and rumbling over my town all afternoon.
They are just a ripple before the Tsunami of mass destruction coming soon if these industrial military mad men are to have their way. As the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations said, “It doesn’t matter who is in the White House.” The same is true of the U.K. The U.K and French elections are to secure war time governments for an intensifying conflict, underpinned by religious bigots, including feminists.
R J Cook
23 minutes ago — Conservative Party supporters in Canada are more exposed to Russian propaganda … disinformation said they believed the narrative that …
Comment This reminds me of a feminist study I read many years ago. A sample of men and women were asked whether they told lies. All of the women said they never lied. The men all said that they did. So how do you spot the liar ? This is a connundrum that was pumped out as the truth, with the headline ‘Women Never Lie.’
R J Cook
July 6th 2024
All sides aiming for a long war of attrition in Ukraine – Asia Times
Both sides are thus girding for an open-ended, long-haul conflict, analysts say. Ukraine’s Western allies believe Kiev can outlast Moscow’s assaults on civilian and military targets, so long as it receives enough weapons.
Comment Can anyone doubt that this is World War Three under the apparent command of President Joesephine Biden, the first black woman in the Whitehouse ? Biden who represents the deluded democrats seems to have dementia, working with her fellow black woman Kamala Harris, bungled the war in Afghanistan.
Nevertheless having two black women directing the U.S power centre, reassures us that the United States is a perfect democracy leading us all into heaven.
We should be grateful that they are taking humanity and all the lesser beings of the world toward Armageddon with full support from U.K Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer, former head of the still corrupt U.K Crown Prosecution Service. The cost of dying in this way will be very high, but at last our esteemed western leaders will have finally solved the cost of living crisis. They are worth every cent of their inflated salaries. It is a big WELL DONE to all of them.
R J Cook
July 5th 2024
9 hours ago — … threats, including death threats against lawyers who called for opposition to the RN — in a document published on a website hosted in Russia.
Comment
EU, UK and U.S pretend democracy but unite to discredit and block any alternative to the cultural destruction of their nations for the sake of their oppressive greedy grasping ideologies and absurd multiculture. Above all, these elites want war and hegemony over Russia and China. Their war has only just begun after years of subversion and preparation.
R J Cook
Listen: I’m proud to be first black woman in White House, says Biden
President’s latest gaffe comes as pressure grows on him to stand down from bid to be re-elected in November
5 July 2024 • 3:29am
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Joe Biden has said he is proud to be the first “black woman” to serve in the White House, in his latest interview gaffe.
The US president made the slip-up on Thursday night as he battled to save his re-election campaign, amid claims he is too old and confused to remain president after November’s election.
On Friday night Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, became the most high-profile sitting Democrat to publicly call for Mr Biden to consider his position.
“The best way forward right now is a decision for the President to make,” she said.
“Over the coming days, I urge him to listen to the American people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump.”
But at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Mr Biden gave a forceful speech declaring he would not stand down.
“I’m staying in this race,” he told a crowd of supporters. “I’m not letting one 90-minute debate wipe out three-and-a-half years of work.”
The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution of July 1, 2024
Issued days before the Independence Day holiday, two years shy of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the decision guts the American constitutional framework.
As calls mount for Biden’s withdrawal and resignation, White House pushes ahead with war policies
Crisis meetings at the White House and in the Biden campaign reveal the increasingly beleaguered position of the Democratic president.
Unable to brook any democratic challenge to their political dominance, the preferred parties of Wall Street and the Pentagon are trying to remove all third party and independent candidates from the ballot.
US puts military bases in Europe on second-highest alert ahead of Washington NATO Summit
The United States has put its military bases at the second-highest level of alert ahead of next week’s NATO summit in Washington, which is expected to see a significant escalation of direct NATO participation in the war against Russia in Ukraine.
Record breaking Hurricane Beryl is a warning of the consequences of unchecked climate change
Fueled by a warming climate, Hurricane Beryl became both the earliest Category 4 hurricane and Category 5 hurricane in history as it left Caribbean communities in ruin.
Ukrainian refugees talk about the war and the fight for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s liberation
Above all, the vast majority of the refugees wanted an end to the war. Many supported the WSWS campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and the call for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers.
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Problems mount in Russian economy as government tries to finance war machine
Moscow’s decision last fall to double military and security expenditures to 40 percent of the federal budget is unsustainable and requires a massive assault on the living standards of the working class.
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One of the enduring beliefs of modern times is that war and its associated military spending has created positive economic outcomes for the U.S. economy.
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How will the war in Ukraine affect the US economy?
The Russia-Ukraine war is likely to exacerbate and elongate global supply chain disruptions. Although the U.S. does little direct trade with Ukraine or Russia, certain U.S. businesses and industries face significant exposure from the war: energy, food, and semiconductors are likely to be most affected.
Xi, Biden and the $10 Trillion Cost of War Over Taiwan
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8 Jan 2024 — Bloomberg Economics has modeled two scenarios: a Chinese invasion drawing the US into a local conflict, and a blockade cutting Taiwan off from …
Transcript: Has the US declared economic war on China?
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15 May 2024 — This is an audio transcript of the Rachman Review podcast episode: ‘Has the US declared economic war on China?’ Gideon Rachman
July 4th 2024
The military-industrial guilt complex
The spectre of the Nazi regime and its crimes was also used to discredit political movements that could plausibly be accused of sharing some aspect of its ideology.
Any nationalistic tendencies – whether against US domination, European centralisation or the power of transnational corporations and institutions – could easily be demonised as a resurgence of the Hitlerian horrors.
This device was later extended to non-nationalist criticism of the international financial system – we were told that using the term “banksters” was hate speech and that any reference to a global financial mafia was clearly an anti-semitic trope.
Even environmentalism (the real, nature-loving, kind) has been depicted as a slippery slope to fascism, as I have previously described at some length.
This ridiculous claim is based on the fact that the Nazis, like today’s climate racketeers, used “green” language to initially sell their ultra-industrialist project to the public.
The “anti-semitic” smears have become increasingly far-fetched in recent years.
Anyone speaking up against the mass-murdering ethnic cleansing in Palestine, no matter how obviously non-Nazi and non-racist they are, is treated as if they were personally responsible for events at Auschwitz 80 years ago.
And any challenging of general official agendas is now likely to be met with the same hysterical response, as I reported at the beginning of this year.
There I described how the EU Strategy on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life (2021-2030) justified its claims that anti-semitism was on the rise by applying the label to questioning of the Covid “pandemic”.
The authors of that report, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (whose dubious connections I detailed in the article), is also one of several Zionist organisations behind a more recent document.
The “anti-semitic” smears have become increasingly far-fetched in recent years.
Anyone speaking up against the mass-murdering ethnic cleansing in Palestine, no matter how obviously non-Nazi and non-racist they are, is treated as if they were personally responsible for events at Auschwitz 80 years ago.
And any challenging of general official agendas is now likely to be met with the same hysterical response, as I reported at the beginning of this year.
There I described how the EU Strategy on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life (2021-2030) justified its claims that anti-semitism was on the rise by applying the label to questioning of the Covid “pandemic”.
The authors of that report, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (whose dubious connections I detailed in the article), is also one of several Zionist organisations behind a more recent document.
Conspiracy Theories: A Guide for Members of Parliament and Candidates basically warns that the rule of the global military-industrial complex is threatened by people finding out what it is and what it is up to.
It phrases it slightly differently, of course: “Conspiracy theories can pose a danger to democracies, public health, social cohesion, public safety and more; they reduce trust in democratic institutions, in governments, and in mainstream, regulated media outlets. Conspiracy theories can also reduce political participation and conformity to the rule of law”.
I won’t go into all the detail, because it is similar to that in the EU report, but it represents a startling culmination of the way in which allegations of “anti-semitism” are used to defend the dominant system.
Needless to say, it continues to plug the lie that even to challenge the activities and influence of specific Jewish individuals amounts to hostility to all Jews.
Thus, in a section describing anti-semitism, it states: “The Rothschild family, a wealthy Jewish family that rose to prominence for its success in banking, has also become synonymous in far-right and far-left circles, with corrupt Jewish power that seeks global domination and undermines governments and existing social order”.
But it goes even further by effectively coming up with an all-embracing conspiracy theory of its own – namely that anti-semitism lies behind all conspiracy theories!
It also triumphantly produces a diagram to show how it thinks this works.
As you can see, it regards questioning of Covid-19, The Great Reset, 5G, 15-minute cities, the climate agenda and global control as all revolving around anti-semitism.
The accompanying notes, unsurprisingly, do not justify this conclusion.
For instance, the category “The Great Reset” is awarded the anti-semitism tag on the basis of the following description: “Originally a plan by the World Economic Forum to encourage governments to move toward fairer and more sustainable policies. Highjacked [sic] by conspiracy theories claiming the plan is used to control populations and economies to benefit a small group of powerful people”.
Anti-semitism can only be identified here if the “small group of powerful people” is automatically assumed to be Jewish.
Given that the authors of the document would no doubt argue that this assumption is anti-semitic, why do they themselves make it?
Could it be because they are well aware that there is indeed a small group of powerful people behind the Great Reset agenda and that, while they are not all Jewish, they are all beholden to Rothschild-dominated (and thus Zionist) interests?
The same applies to the whole of their framing of anti-semitism as uniting all varieties of what they term conspiracy theory. When they hear people expose fake pandemics, smart cities and global totalitarianism, they know full well that their own Zionist mafia network is behind them and they therefore hear criticism of that entity.
So they simply wheel out the labels they always use to silence criticism, regardless of the fact that this criticism is not based on hostility to Jews but on hostility to criminocracy and that describing reality cannot logically be termed either “conspiracy theory” or “anti-semitic”.
I see this as an expression of their own guilt – and a projection of that guilt on to those whom they smear as conspiracy theorists.
The authors of the report know, deep down, that they themselves are liars with callous contempt for anyone not belonging to their in-group (including anti-Zionist Jews).
So they accuse their enemies – those they feel are threatening their control – of faults that are really their own.
In the grimy and distorting mirror of their own guilty consciences, those of us who seek to discover and share the truth in the interests of freedom and humanity are therefore depicted as spreading “misinformation” and being motivated by “hate”.
Although this gaslighting projection of guilt is not meant to be an admission, it effectively plays that role.
Because the guilt is projected, it is also inverted and thus their diagram labels the factor uniting all the various conspiracies as “anti-semitism”, the term they use to smear opponents of Zionism.
Try looking at it again, but imagining that the term in the central yellow box is “Zionism”, thus inverting the inversion.
Since October 2023, the Zionist affiliation of worldwide power has been plainer than ever to see and this kind of propaganda merely confirms what many already suspected.
As for the additional hypocrisy of dishonestly tainting your political opponents with a supposed ideological connection to a genocide from eight decades ago, while fervently cheering on one that’s happening right now in 2024… well, it defies description.
The louder the propagandists shout that talking about the global criminocracy is anti-semitic, the clearer the reality becomes.
Their desperate and panicky narrative does not speak of a confident and stable world governance.
Instead it tells us of a massive criminal endeavour that has arrogantly been pushed too far, too soon.
The greedy and over-fed globalist serpent has tied itself in knots of lies, has swallowed its own scaly tail, is choking on its own culpability and is spewing forth the awful truth that had to be kept hidden from its mind-manipulated victims.
July 3rd 2024
Putin ‘is prepared to SHARE Crimea with Ukraine according to new peace plan that has been presented by Russia to the US’
- Putin is ready to share Crimea with Ukraine, according to reports
- He sent interior minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to the US
- The plan will likely be deeply unattractive to Ukraine
By Will Stewart
Published: 14:07, 3 July 2024 | Updated: 14:59, 3 July 2024
Vladimir Putin is ready to share sovereignty of Crimea with Ukraine, according to an astonishing ‘new peace plan’.
The dictator sent his trusted interior minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to the US with new proposals to end the war that the dictator started, say sources in both Moscow and Kyiv.
Despite being sanctioned, Kolokoltsev was allowed into the US ostensibly to attend a UN meeting of police chiefs.
5 hours ago — Vladimir Putin is ready to share sovereignty of Crimea with Ukraine, according to an astonishing ‘new peace plan’.
Comment If I said what I really think about this deal, the U.K police, who moinitor this website 24/7, would arrest me as a traitor. Suffice it to say that I see no future for an independent Russia in this deal. Minsk proves that Russia cannot compromise with the Anglo U.S led western hegemony hiding behind the NATO fake peace keeping banner.
This war, if it is not to go nuclear, and no acceptable peace to both sides can be found, comes down to who has the most young working class men to waste. It is appalling, but we on this site cannot blame Russia for starting this war. If the west manages to neuter Russia, their hegemony will make this world even more like hell for the lower classes.
The Third World masses will go on wallowing in ignorance, religious bigotry, exporting its ever growing surplus population by fair means or foul, to Europe and the U.S.A where unscrupulous employers and confortable bourgeoise liberal virtue signallers will welcome them. Ukraine is already being earmarked for a big share of immigrants, who The Economist magazine called ‘The New Europeans’. to replace the genocide effects of the NATO Ukraine proxy war on Russia.
A grovelling Russian peace agreement may well save the doddering puppet U.S President Biden. Anything is possible in these exciting times where the politcal actors create their own satire everyday.
R J Cook
Putin, Xi Vie for Influence at Central Asian Summit
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2 hours ago — The leaders of Russia and China on Wednesday hailed their efforts to harden their anti-Western alliance at a summit in Kazakhstan, seeking …
Mounting pressure within Canada’s Liberals for Trudeau to quit as PM, party leader
The Liberal debacle in the June 24 Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election confirmed what polls have been indicating for well over a year: support for the Trudeau-led minority Liberal government has hemorrhaged.
Israel orders mass displacement of Palestinians from Khan Younis
Israel ordered the mass displacement of another 250,000 people from the city of Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday, in the latest stage of its genocide against the population of Gaza.
Why doesn’t western liberal media ever report that Palestinians have wanted and attempted Jewish genocide since the Balfour Declaration, and when the State of Israel was recreated in 1948.
October 2023 presented Israel with a stark choice in defending what is their historical homeland, not the Palestinian’s.
R J Cook
Biden campaign in free fall as Democrats privately and publicly call on president to withdraw
Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to withdraw from the race Tuesday morning.
The New Popular Front is setting a political trap for left-wing workers and youth, leaving them no perspective but a coalition government with France’s despised “president of the rich.”
Democrats downplay Supreme Court immunity ruling, while Trump doubles down on plans for dictatorship
The chilling implications for the working class of the Supreme Court’s legal counterrevolution have already begun to emerge in the immediate aftermath of the 6-3 ruling by the court’s far-right supermajority.
Comment When the Democrats convict Trump put of obvious bias, that is democracy. When the Supreme Court does not back their prejudice they are acting illegally and are therefore part of a fascist dictatorship that is rushing the west towards the horror of nuclear war. It is about their terrible greed, power mania and massive egos. It stinks.
The real fascists are in charge and rushing us towards the terrible horror of nuclear war. The U.S, EU and U.K are already ruled by dictatorships which is why oppressed white masses are looking for hope elsewhere. The smug in bred ruling elite are determined to put down opposition and overcome understanable apathy – which is the best the fascists ruling hypocrits deserve- through weaponising smug mealy mouthed speeches, condemnataions and self righteousness.
This patroniising attitude has created a powerful sense of non white ethnic entitlement and raised expectations, this promoting consequent mass immigration into the west out of the corrupt Third World. The powerful elite who define and legsilate the world of human rights have created a situation that can only get worse.
Their pathetic world of diversity has floundered on the bedrock of fascist feminism with their hate filled defamatory, but amusing attitidude to transsexuals. The fact that wealthy fantasy writer J K Rowling says she will withdraw her funding from the U.K Labour Party if they do not do as she tells them, is more evidence that the U.K has no right to advertise itelf as a democracy.
R J Cook
July 2nd 2024
Human Rights Are Women’s Rights by R J Cook
During her U.S Presidential campaign, in a rare moment of honesty for a top flight world class politician, Hilary Clinton told her feminist supporters in 2016 : “Women’s rights are Human Rights. Human Rights are Women’s Rights.”
Fantasy writer J.K Rowling is the Trans Exclusionary Feminists ( TERFs ) darling. She has opened up a whole new front in the Women’s Rights War on white men. Other ethnic males are currently immune from her attacks because TERFs regard them as automatically fellow victims and ‘survivors’ of privileged white male oppression.
Rowling’s calculated attitude to transsexuals reveals the true and absolutist nature of feminism. I have read and written much about transsexuals, as well as studying psychology at post graduate level in the years before British Universities were dumbed down to admit as many students as possible who had excelled at an equally dumbed down politically correct A Level system – and who thought it worth running up student debt because they had contacts to fit them into the professions, like law. I know this is the case because I had 18 years working in the education system, witnessing its decline.
This is the age of women. The sky is not just the limit for the ‘uni girls.’ It is the gateway to the stars and limitless future. Feminists are the trail blazers for humanity’s future. As the cover blurb on the ‘Barbie’ video makes clear; women can be anything they want to be. ‘Barbie is everything. Ken is nothing.’ These people set the moral tone. These people run western governments. So Rishi Sunak rushed to back J K Rowling’s demand for a change to the equality law and has threatened to withdraw financial support for the British Labour Party if it does not promise to do the same.
Sunak is representative of and an outcome of the Hindu Caste system where women are worshipped and poverty is seen as the rightful place due to past lives. He is typical of the Indian upper caste system that collaborated with and facilitated the British colonial elite’s exploitation of India. Gandhi was an upper caste lawyer and no saint. Gandhi had exactly the same patronising attitude as the British in looking down on the lower caste Indians but did not want to share the pleasure or profits of keeping them down with the British. His Congress Party governed India for years but did nothing for the poor.
If Modi dared to tax India’s rich to help the poor, he would very quickly get the same treatment as Imran Khan in Pakistan. Britain’s ruling class have never cared about poverty in their old empire, just happy with any dictator who serves their interests. Surplus populations are welcome in the U.K, the worst educated and religiously bigoted the better because they are a perfect fit for all the planned changes to modern Britain.
Have you noticed how Britain’s main party leaders always use the words ‘Vote for change.’ They
never say :’Vote for Reform’ because that is the last thing they want ?
Women have been vital to this policy of change, freedom and democracy in the western world. They are rampant in Eastern Europe. Their preoccupations are simplistic proclamations to fight against sexism, misogyny and racism. Their concerns are all about themselves. Women are hot on the need for sensitivity readers in the world of publishing and bleeping out words they don’t like on re runs of old TV Shows, dramas and documentary. They must never be offended.
At the same time it does not matter if white men feel offended. White actor Lawrence Fox destroyed his career because he offended a mixed race feminist college lecturer on BBC Question Time. She had denounced and rebuffed his response to a question by calling him a ‘privileged white male.’ Feminist Law, which has much in common with the Islamic Sharia Law , does not recognise differences between one white man and another. Their prejudice, as members of a protected gender status group, is more than just acceptable. It is sanctified.
So the sanctified protected female, so much more than just an equal gender, deserves safe spaces. That is the collision point for the TERFS and male to female transsexual ( mtf ). This an age many decades removed from those once famous mtf James Bond girls, April Ashley and Tula. J K Rowling has become a world leader when it comes to informing mainstream media, fellow feminists and political elite, that mtf transsexuals are all rapists in waiting for the opportunity to get into female safe spaces like sports changing rooms and public lavatories. This is assuming that they can find any left in the U.K outside of department stores.
Given the mtf’s inclination – for whatever of many reasons which I have discussed on the transexual archive pages and posts – they will lack the hormonal drive and eventually the equipment to commit rape. It is amusing that Rowling apparently believes that the average British woman is so desirable that mtf’s will overcome their disability and do it anyway. At the same time Rowling makes no mention of the far greater risk that lesbians pose for heterosexual women through grooming and assault. In my view, butch lesbians are transsexuals. Some lesbians even choose some form of limited gender reassignment surgery, though it cannot so far be made as fully functional and convincing as the mtf, but there is always the ever popular strap on.
It appears to me that the nonsense of mtf transsexuals, a term Rowling seems to confuse with transvestites. Her famous Potter books are a long winded circuitous politically correct ramble into her world of black and white, good and bad. That is how she sees mtf transsexuals. Lesbians are not on her agenda because whatever they do and however misguided, they will always be biological women and so fundamentally good. If they do anything bad it will always be a man’s fault somewhere back along the line.
Rowling’s world view sees no need to explain or understand the brutal degrading murder of teenage trans girl Brianna Ghey. Her mother seems to have been persuaded that this was all the fault of social media, so another reason for internet controls. That was absolute nonsense. Brianna and her killers shared the same space at their school. A teenage female brain was behind the plot to have and help her teenage boyfriend plan and commit the hideous crime. She noted in her plan that she wanted to see ‘how big its’ ( Brianna’s ) dick is.”
Whether she likes it or not, Rowling has contributed massively to transgender hate crimes across U.K and beyond. This is because she has demonised transsexuals as having serious potential and intent to assault and rape, by dint of transitioning Transgender hate crime England and Wales 2023 .
https://www.statista.com › statistics › transgender-hate-c…
11 Oct 2023 — The number of hate crimes committed against transgender people in England and Wales has increased in recent years, reaching 4732 offences in 2023. This phenomena is down to feminist authoritarianism which is preoccupied with the fascist idea of superiority by birth. In other words, being female is a high status awarded by God at the instant of creation. By feminist order, such status cannot be achieved by surgery and medicine.
White men outside of the upper and upper middle classes must know their place and face serious consequences if they think there is such a thing as sex change and dare to try that escape route from villified maleness,.
No doubt Rowling, as her admirers have told her, is very brave standing up to mtf transsexuals, one of the most vulnerable groups in western societies – where they are labelled sew perverts, fetishists and rapists. This is all in the name of women’s rights, which says it all about feminism.
Women’s rights have no meaning,like all human rights, outside the political system granting them and political structure created by a western world ancien regime fearful of its demise. This global ruling elite, with so much wealth and power in too few hands is mindlessly supported by a range of obsequious saluting old men, happily existing with romanticised memories of Dunkirk and D Day fantasy land, so supporting mindless nostalgia for a golden age delusion that never existed. The reality of these romanticising relics is that they choose to forget what was the massacre and genocide of millions of white men on both sides – a situation being repeated and developing in Ukraine. These deluded old fools are hypnotised and flattered by official lies and propaganda from a planet eating global elite. World War III is underway.
NATO must not lose and nor must Russia. But NATO is determined to inflict strategic defeat on Russia, so how will nuclear war be avoided ? Donald Trump recently declared that Ukraine should never have been offered NATO membership. He said “That is how the war started.” He said he had no love for Ukraine and even less for NATO. Feminists,with all their growing rights, privileges and ever expanding powers, seek to hog the agenda. They love the war for this vague cause of freedom in a country even more corrupt than the U.K , U.S and EU. Women have their rights because the ruling elite allowed them. This was and is to suit their vile deep state divide and fool agenda.
Ultimately, when the war comes west, these self obsessed self righteous feminists will sing a different song. At the moment, the white man is their only enemy with or without a penis, with or without breasts. White men must accept their place. That includes being cannon fodder in the cause of their sacred female rights. White men are privileged, so the story goes. They have no need of rights and will serve in the front line whenever the need arises.
R J Cook
Lockheed Martin, which is set to receive nearly $2.3 billion of contracts to restock depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, is the biggest recipient of contracts.
Comment More taxes and debt for United States white lower classes. More profits for the industrial billionaires and military mad men. R J Cook
6 hours ago — Sanctions imposed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine have failed to achieve any of their aims, the country’s ambassador has told Sky
1 hour ago — Ukraine will be told it is currently too corrupt to join Nato, in a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky. The alliance will request “additional steps” from Kyiv …
The Supreme Court’s disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained
The Court’s Trump immunity decision is a blueprint for dictatorship.
Jul 1, 2024, 6:10 PM GMT+1
Former President Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts before the 2020 State of the Union address.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Ian Millhiseris a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House. The Court’s three Democrats dissented.
Trump v. United States is an astonishing opinion. It holds that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution — essentially, a license to commit crimes — so long as they use the official powers of their office to do so.
Broadly speaking, Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion reaches three conclusions. The first is that when the president takes any action under the authority given to him by the Constitution itself, his authority is “conclusive and preclusive” and thus he cannot be prosecuted. Thus, for example, a president could not be prosecuted for pardoning someone, because the Constitution explicitly gives the chief executive the “Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States.”
One question that has loomed over this case for months is whether presidential immunity is so broad that the president could order the military to assassinate a political rival. While this case was before a lower court, one judge asked if Trump could be prosecuted if he’d ordered “SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival” and Trump’s lawyer answered that he could not unless Trump had previously been successfully impeached and convicted for doing so.
Roberts’s opinion in Trump, however, seems to go even further than Trump’s lawyer did. The Constitution, after all, states that the president “shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” So, if presidential authority is “conclusive and preclusive” when presidents exercise their constitutionally granted powers, the Court appears to have ruled that yes, Trump could order the military to assassinate one of his political opponents. And nothing can be done to him for it.
As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes in dissent, “from this day forward, Presidents of tomorrow will be free to exercise the Commander-in-Chief powers, the foreign-affairs powers, and all the vast law enforcement powers enshrined in Article II however they please — including in ways that Congress has deemed criminal and that have potentially grave consequences for the rights and liberties of Americans.”
Roberts’s second conclusion is that presidents also enjoy “at least a presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for a President’s acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility.” Thus, if a president’s action even touches on his official authority (the “outer perimeter” of that authority), then the president enjoys a strong presumption of immunity from prosecution.
This second form of immunity applies when the president uses authority that is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, and it is quite broad — most likely extending even to mere conversations between the president and one of his subordinates.
The Court also says that this second form of immunity is exceptionally strong. As Roberts writes, “the President must therefore be immune from prosecution for an official act unless the Government can show that applying a criminal prohibition to that act would pose no ‘dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.’”
Much of Roberts’s opinion, moreover, details just how broad this immunity will be in practice. Roberts claims, for example, that Trump is immune from prosecution for conversations between himself and high-ranking Justice Department officials, where he allegedly urged them to pressure states to “replace their legitimate electors” with fraudulent members of the Electoral College who would vote to install Trump for a second term.
Roberts writes that “the Executive Branch has ‘exclusive authority and absolute discretion’ to decide which crimes to investigate and prosecute,” and thus Trump’s conversations with Justice Department officials fall within his “conclusive and preclusive authority.” Following that logic, Trump could not have been charged with a crime if he had ordered the Justice Department to arrest every Democrat who holds elective office.
Elsewhere in his opinion, moreover, Roberts suggests that any conversation between Trump and one of his advisers or subordinates could not be the basis for a prosecution. In explaining why Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to “fraudulently alter the election results” likely cannot be prosecuted, for example, Roberts points to the fact that the vice president frequently serves “as one of the President’s closest advisers.”
Finally, Roberts does concede that the president may be prosecuted for “unofficial” acts. So, for example, if Trump had personally attempted to shoot and kill then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in the lead-up to the 2020 election, rather than ordering a subordinate to do so, then Trump could probably be prosecuted for murder.
But even this caveat to Roberts’s sweeping immunity decision is not very strong. Roberts writes that “in dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.” And Roberts even limits the ability of prosecutors to pursue a president who accepts a bribe in return for committing an official act, such as pardoning a criminal who pays off the president. In Roberts’s words, a prosecutor may not “admit testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing the official act itself.”
That means that, while the president can be prosecuted for an “unofficial” act, the prosecutors may not prove that he committed this crime using evidence drawn from the president’s “official” actions.
The practical implications of this ruling are astounding. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in a dissenting opinion, “imagine a President states in an official speech that he intends to stop a political rival from passing legislation that he opposes, no matter what it takes to do so,” it follows from Roberts’s opinion that the ensuing murder indictment “could include no allegation of the President’s public admission of premeditated intent to support” the proposition that the president intended to commit murder.
Monday’s decision, in other words, ensures that, should Trump return to power, he will do so with hardly any legal checks. Under the Republican justices’ decision in Trump, a future president can almost certainly order the assassination of his rivals. He can wield the authority of the presidency to commit countless crimes. And he can order a subordinate to do virtually anything.
And nothing can be done to him.
Demonic Democrats by R J Cook
Comment I am glad that nothing can be done to Donald Trump. The hypocritical Democrat Elite and their war mongering media big business and weapons industry backers made Trump’s first term impossible. There were huge discrepencies and issues relating to Biden’s 2020 election and no evidence that Trump orchestrated insurrection, The New York Justice system is a travesty of justice and the mainstream media, including the incestuous U.K, are a travesty of honest journalism.
The United States, like the U.K and EU, already has an authoritarian dictatorship. Trump is certainly a danger to them, just as Farage and Reform U.K threatens the same elite in U.K, as AFD does in Germany and Le Pen does in France.
This greedy sanctimonious clique of demonic democrats fear for their power and lifestyles. That is why they smeared Trump by weaponising historic sex allegations out of the blue with only hearsay evidence, to discredit Trump with women, and a production company working for Channel 4 conveniently recorded an actor, Andrew Baker pretending to be a UK Reform supporter, ranting vile racist abuse while allegedly representing U.K Reform in Clacton where party leader Nigel Farage is standing.
Consensus parties in Europe and U.K brazenly admit that they are working on strategies to deny any chance of what they patronisingly call the Far Right. Above all, they need the cheap migrant labour and consensus support for the global elite’s Ukraine Proxy War on Russia, whatever the consequences for the masses. While those masses struggle with the consequent cost of living crisis, they face a future where their young men will be slaughtered in that war, assuming there is no nuclear holocaust beforehand.
In the U.K, the UK Reform candidate, Georgia David, has resigned her candidature for West Ham because she has apparrently met all 600 U.K Reform Party Candidates and knows them well, judging them racist and sexist. All the mainstream nedia have to say about U.K Reform is : They are racist, misogynistic, Putin apologists and homophobic.
This is all the evidence and proof that I need, informing me that the U.K will never reform or progress. Unfortunately, because of its ruling elite, the U.K has massive influence of the wider world. They are the epitome of demonic democrats.
R J Cook
SCOTUS, Explained
19 Jun 2024 — While the infamous Internet Research Agency troll farm – linked to the late Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin – was reportedly …
The Coming Russian Escalation With the WestTime Magazinehttps://time.com › Ideas › world affairs
Vladimir Putin has proved quite reluctant to strike directly at the West over its support of Ukraine. But that may not change.
10 Jun 2024 — Is the risk of nuclear escalation rising between Russia and the west? … Putin’s views aren’t set in stone – no leader’s are – and can shift …
Comment The Western masses are deluded and high on Dunkirk and D Day nostalgia. My father was an NCO at the Dunkirk evacuation and the first man to tell me about the reality of war and incompetence of British leadership. He told me so much during his last days at home, when I stayed off school and he was on his deathbed, me 11 and my father 40. I learned how poorly valued working men were and still are in Britain.
R J Cook
EU, U.S & U.K Elite arrogance deserves the so called Far Right just as they did in Hitler’s Germany – by R J Cook
The smug fake democratic ruling western elite, who brought us two previous imperialistic world wars, pile misery upon misery, blame upon blame onto the white indigenous masses.
They do this as they focus their latest phase of Post Imperialist Enrichment & Virtue Signalling onto their White Underclasses.
Their claims to be acting in the interests of freedom and democracy are absurd and further evidence of their insults to the masses they govern.
By the way, what is the difference between the ‘cost of living crisis’ which is actually a ‘cost of war crisis’ and hyper inflation ? Macron has already stood down 60 of his party’s candidates to avoid splitting the anti ‘far right’ vote.
That is not democracy. It is election rigging as France plays its part in ramping up the elite’s war profiteering in the NATO Ukraine Proxy War on Russia. Meanwhile Europeans, including the pugnacious English, cling to the Euro Football distraction as they grope for a sense of identity.
This os all for their self interested policies
Working class resistance is treated and denigrated as ‘nationalism’ whch must be denigrated as far right then put down by the power of the elite political party consensus.
R J Cook
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France’s far right National Rally (RN) made big gains in the first round of the parliamentary election, winning 33.4% of the vote
Political leaders across the spectrum are now calling for tactical voting ahead of the second round to block RN from winning an outright majority
The left wing coalition New Popular Front came second with 27.9%
While Macron’s centrist alliance trailed in third with 20.7% of the vote
It is unclear if the RN will be able to garner enough support next Sunday to take full control of the National Assembly
The party’s co-leader Jordan Bardella, 28, aims to become the next PM
Voter turnout in Sunday’s poll soared – the highest in a parliamentary election since 1997
For Greens leader Marine Tondelier, she found herself on the verge of tears during a radio interview earlier, when she reacted angrily to a Macron minister’s call not to back the biggest party in the left-wing alliance.
She was responding to Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire’s comment, who said that voters should steer clear of France Unbowed, whose critics denounce it as extremist, as much as they should not vote for the National Rally.
Tondelier went on to say the Macron alliance had misunderstood the issue and had chosen dishonour and cowardice.
“Does National Rally have a chance of winning an absolute majority in the National Assembly? The answer is yes,” she said, adding that on the other hand France Unbowed are not in a position to win an absolute majority.
June 30th 2024
The Democrats who could replace Biden if he steps aside
Kamala Harris? Gavin Newsom? Pete Buttigieg?!?
by Nicole Narea
Jun 28, 2024, 7:10 PM GMT+1
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Constitutional Convention of the Unite Here hospitality union in New York on June 21, 2024. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
Nicole Nareacovers politics and society for Vox. She first joined Vox in 2019, and her work has also appeared in Politico, Washington Monthly, and the New Republic.
Following a disastrous performance in Thursday night’s presidential debate, President Joe Biden is facing a flood of calls from Democratic pundits and strategists to step aside and make way for a different Democratic nominee amid real doubts that he is fit to defeat former President Donald Trump in November.
Biden’s time at the debate was full of nonsequiturs, rhetorical errors, off-topic asides, and extended pauses to gather his thoughts. He spoke quietly and with a scratchy throat — his aides say he had a cold. Overall, his performance only added fuel to existing concerns about his age and ability to perform his duties.
To be clear, Trump’s performance was a horror too; it was full of outright lies and rambling incoherence as well. He once again made clear that he poses a grave threat to US democracy — which is, in part, why some Democrats are saying Biden must step aside and allow a stronger candidate to lead the party in November.
Replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee would be difficult, but not impossible, as my colleague Christian Paz writes. It would require Biden himself to direct delegates at the convention this summer to vote for someone else and hand over his campaign funds. No party operative can force him out.
On Friday, Biden indicated that he does not intend to drop out and remains committed to a second debate in September. But if Biden changes his mind, there is a roster of potential candidates who could replace him — the most obvious being Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris would be the most practical alternative to Biden
Voters have already grappled with the notion that Harris is just one 81-year-old heartbeat away from becoming president. Only a little over a third of voters said in a September CBS News/YouGov poll that they thought Biden would complete a second term.
Comment The U.S and Global Democrat nightmare looks set to continue with someone even more dangerous to world peace. But that is what she was selected for. She will be marketed as just your average black woman and testament to the wonderful world of U.S egalitarianism and social progress. She will also continue the march to all out nuclear war.
Her feminist credentials will be used to woo the feminist vote, her skin colour will be used to win over all the blacks. Nuclear Armageddon won’t feature in Harris and the Democratic manifesto, because all that stuff is national security and more about keeping women safe.
If the writer of the above found Trump incoherent, perhaps one should take his liberal left drivel for what it is. These people, across the western world are terrified of any alternative to their planet eating global corruption and hypocrisy.
R J Cook
June 27th 2024
Claim: Lifeguard/football player Joe Biden got five draft deferments for asthma during Vietnam
Claimed by: Marietta Mitchell
Fact check by USA Today: True
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Three-Five-Zero-Zero (3-5-0-0) – Hair (The New Broadway …
U.S. Supreme Court wades into gender-affirming care bans in states
The justices’ action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transge…
Comment On U.S Western Transphobia – By R J Cook
Republicans have a problem with transsexuals.
There is much wrong with the United States and much to applaud. The indistrial miltary complex with its self interested mad people are the big issue. On the battlefield this white dominated group fear no one. Not even Russia so long as NATO keeps expanding to do most of the dying. But when it comes to issues of race, sex, lesbians – who are effectively transsexual – and gender they tie themselves up on nots.
The white ethnic elite love black cheap labour and cannon fodder.They like them rapping, selling and taking drugs. As with the white working class, who are supposed to occupy themselves with internecine race wars on their, especially Biden’s Democrats, behalf, they serve the planet eating capitalist hegemony.
But deep in the average elite Republican mind, and many of their rank and file, they quite rightly fear the massive drop in the white birth rate, with white men often choosing black partners who are less likely to be hectoring, coercive and controlling competitors than white women.
So when the convincing white transexual woman comes along, Republican and TERF feminist bigots go into hysterical overdrive with hate speech about them simply being out to rape women. They would never say this about blacks or Muslim grooming gangs.
They have a hideous fantasy based on them over estimating their attractivness, esepcially as so many increasingly resemble and behave like the worst of men. Here in the U.K nurses are suing the NHS because they argue that treating trans women puts them at risk.
These people really don’t want to understand the rising western transsexual upsurge or what it has to do with aggressive feminism and single parent female dominated families. Their answer every time is calls for more laws to control and condemn all white men. It is all rather amusing in a black comedy sort of way.
As for the officially benign lesbians, they are angry hate filled people who blame men for everything, so cannot tolerate the political and economic threat of male to female transsexual, as favoured by an increasing number of men who are sick of women who call the police every time their partner argues with them or otherwise upset them.
The Transgender lesbian is far more of a danger to heterosexual women and her children than any male to female transsexual. Unfortunately moronic transphobes can’t or won’t distinguish transsexual women from transvestites.
R J Cook
More Dead On The Road To Ruin – By R J Cook
It was good news for Julian Assange and his family that he has been released. However, Do not trust enemies who bring you presents — they could very well be playing a trick. The saying is adapted from the words of Laocoon in the story of the Trojan horse .
Julian Assange sought asylum at the London Ecuardorian Embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied. It was a ploy to hand him over to the US because the corrupt ruthless British Ruling Elite were party to weaponising rape allegations, bailing him before extradition to Sweden.
His real alleged crime was espionage for receiving and publishing documents embarrassing to the Anglo U.S deep state – including war crimes in their illegal war on Iraq for control of theirs and ultimately Syria’s oil fields and oil prices. Syria became the ultimate clash point between the Anglo Americans.
For France, the big issue was Russia being seen as a threat to their covert African Empire. The masses only relate to football, which is why the western elite banned Russia from International competition. The western ruling elite have infected women with the same dumbing down foot ball virus
The 52-years old, Australian, Julian Assange was arrested in April 2019 when police entered the embassy in force, where he had been staying since 2012, having been granted Ecuador citizenship.
This brutal U.K government facilitated action became possible because the U.S deep state had arranged a coup in Ecuador in favour of a more U.S friendly regime. So, the British Government deployed their police troops and Assange spent the past five years in the nightmare Bellmarsh Prison. When he saw the light of day and boarded a plane to a U.S Island in the Pacific, a cursory glance suggested he has been tamed.
The reasons why the U.S and U.K are happy with the plea bargain is down to Australian Govenment pressure. The U.S gave way because they need a more powerful ally in the Pacific region than they have in Japan which could be wiped out by North Korea any time soon.
A Japanese White Paper, in 2023, stated : ‘”North Korea’s military activities pose an even more grave and imminent threat to Japan’s national security than ever before,” the document said.
“It is believed that North Korea has the ability to attack Japan with nuclear weapons fitted to ballistic missiles.”
The white paper, approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, came as North Korea ramped up the frequency of its missile tests.
NATO’s Ukraine proxy war on Russia was phase one of their World War III, on their way through Russia to Phase III. That is overt war on China. They expect to avoid a war on two fronts by beating Russia first.
All sorts of stupid analogies and inspirational diktats are being made by NATO’s press puppets, comparing this global nightmare and the NAZI phenomenon. Nazism was not simply about Hitler. It was created by western elite ancestors’ inter war policy on Germany. Germany was not supposed to rise and nor is Russia. That is why vengeful France worked hard to frighten pre Commnunust Russia into what became World War One.
The only analogy with more than a grain of truth, is that Exceptionalist NATO are behaving like authoritarian Hitler – a leader who would never have been beaten without Russia, a people who suffer, fight and die for their existential cause.
There is also the matter that since Anglo U.S led NATO, wanting to avoid being called to account for persecuting Assange while they are hypocritically moralising about Russia and war crimes. Assange was persecuted along with his U.S military intelligence source, Chelsea Manning. It was over their exposing Anglo U.S War crimes, which are normal excpetionalist practice on the Anglo U.S part.
So the U.S wipes the slate clean by releasing a suitably reconditioned Julian Assange, on a plea bargain of accepting guilt for espionage. There is no telling what hell British lackeys subjected him to in Bellmarsh and no doubt that he will be under a gagging order for the sake of western elite global policies and strategies.
One thing that no moral and thinking person can ignore is that, the U.S and U.K deep States had a lot of vile data and unscrupulous personnel to to hide when they went after Assange and Manning.
Releasing Assange now is also a warning to any other would be whistle blower, as Jake Txeira’s case exemplifies. If the west was democratic this would not be so. But it is not.
It is a world for the billionaires who are now out to extend hegemony into space. The Plutocrats are eyeing up the moon and Mars for their pleasure. It is all rather like the movie ‘Total Recall’. But this time there will be no happy ending and many more dead on the road to ruin.
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