There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence prosecutions of anti-Genocide journalists and protestors, and the repudiation by the UK of United Nations querying such prosecutions. The UK has rebuked the UN for “outside interference”.
I cannot state enough how unusual it is for the UK to give direct access to the Israeli Embassy to the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, in order for the Israeli government to influence the prosecution of UK citizens. This is not about extradition, in which case there may be treaty arrangements for direct contact between prosecutors. It is just not normal nor right for an Embassy to be involved with domestic prosecutions in this way.
This is one of a series of heavily redacted emails seen by the Guardian, Middle East Eye and lawyers for Palestine Action. They show the Israeli government being granted direct influence with UK police and prosecutors, to urge the prosecution of UK citizens protesting in the UK, against a genocide for which Israel stands accused at the International Court of Justice, with her leaders indicted before the International Criminal Court.
There is no British precedent for this situation and it is very much against international practice, although comparators may be found in influencing prosecution decisions in Vichy France or the Eastern European communist bloc by Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union – though there were instances of pushback even there. By contrast the UK system is openly influenced by the Israelis.
There is no reticence from the UK government in forwarding Israel influence. Although all released correspondence has been heavily redacted, it is plain that individual cases have been discussed with the Israelis, including those of Palestine Action.
The United Nations has written to the UK on the subject of its treatment both of pro-Palestinian protestors and journalists and the abuse of anti-terrorism legislation. It is almost certain that some of the same cases the UN cites are those the Israeli Embassy has been involved in. The contrast between the UK’s treatment of the Israelis and of the United Nations could scarcely be different. The Israelis are invited in, while the Starmer regime has repudiated the United Nations.
This is stunning hypocrisy. It is characterised as being in the interest of those being persecuted by the UK and Israel, to prevent “interference from international organisations” such as the United Nations. This is beyond the pen of Orwell or Kafka. You can imagine the authors sniggering as they wrote it.
But the truth is the exact opposite of the UK government line. Unlike the Israeli Embassy, the United Nations really does have a right to interfere. The Special Procedures mechanisms by which the United Nations approached the UK are a well-established part of international law, and the UK is a party to them. These are instituted by the Human Rights Council, and it has always been the position of the UK that all nations are subject to them.
In addition the UK is since 1971 a full party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is monitored by the Human Rights Committee and to the provisions of which the UN Special Rapporteurs specifically referred in querying the UK’s actions in this matter.
So the Israel Embassy has no right to interfere, and the United Nations has a direct right to interfere; yet the UK has encouraged the illegitimate while repudiating the legitimate. This is a classic example of the way that Zionism has fundamentally poisoned public institutions in the UK, and also of the profound Zionist capture of New Labour.
Yesterday’s revelation that David Lammy has lied to parliament and the country about suspending trade talks with Israel, while UK “trade envoy” Lord Austin is actually there, should be no surprise.
The hypocrisy does not even end there. The UK has been the most vociferous of countries in weaponising the UN Special Procedures against its own designated enemies, such as Russia and China. For the UK now to repudiate these UN investigations as “interference” is precisely to adopt the position of those states it has long argued against.
I have no doubt that this has been duly noted by any dictatorship the UK may seek to criticise in future.
You will recall that I am among a number of journalists about whose detention under the Terrorism Act and the seizure of whose electronic equipment, and thus correspondence, the United Nations interrogate the UK. You can read the UK government reply in full here.
Since the UN wrote, there have been further high-profile arrests of journalists, including Sarah Wilkinson and Asa Winstanley. The basic UK response is that the UN should not interfere, but one point of detail the UK states is particularly worth noting. Detentions and confiscations such as mine under the Terrorism Act specifically do not require the police to have any “reasonable grounds of suspicion”.
What kind of state makes a point of empowering its police to act unreasonably?
But read this further from the UK government reply:
I was detained and my electronics seized under Section 7. That means the UK government is claiming that I was “concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”. Just digest that for a moment.
I might say that nothing in my questioning – which was roughly equally split between the subjects of Wikileaks and Palestine – related in any way to the potential commission of any acts of terrorism. Is the government really pretending that, in travelling home from an Assange campaign meeting in Iceland, they truly suspected I was preparing to commit terrorism? This is ludicrous.
It has often been noticed that despite Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley, Richard Medhurst, Johanna Ross, John Laughland, Vanessa Beeley, Kit Klarenberg, Ernest Moret, Richard Barnard, Tony Greenstein and Natalie Strecker all being swept up under the Terrorism Act in a campaign against journalists this last two years, there has never been a single mention in UK mainstream media of the UK’s arrest of journalists under the Terrorism Act.
Even following the United Nations intervention to question the UK on the arrest of journalists the UK did not mention it. Even the UK’s tiny number of licensed anti-genocide voices in the mainstream media, such as Owen Jones, have never mentioned it.
Yesterday Asa Winstanley won an important legal victory at the Old Bailey where a senior judge ruled that the police raid on his home and seizure of his equipment was unlawful. That is an important and rare legal victory, and I am tempted to attribute it partly to the turning of the tide of Establishment opinion against sacrificing all principles of law to the interests of Israel.
You may perhaps not be surprised to learn that this victory, too, has not been covered by the mainstream media. This conspiracy of silence over extreme abuse of police power against journalists is deeply troubling.
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When you get guys like Prof John Mearsheimer saying in blunt language (on the Daniel Davis youtube channel) “we are screwed on a number of fronts” it reassures me that I am not overreacting to what I am seeing unfold in the world right now.
(I don’t agree with some of his views here but he is always worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMSn0Y1jgs&ab_channel=DanielDavis%2FDeepDive)
People in Europe need to tune into Col Doug MacGregor and in a hurry. We are in real danger here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsjQZHUvg-M&ab_channel=GlennDiesen
“NATO is not a dead man walking anymore it is a dead man standing, someone should push it over”. Trump is clearly not in control. So who is. An interesting question.
This is looking fantastically fucked.
“US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on 10 June that Washington is not committed to a Palestinian state as a policy goal, calling on “Muslim-controlled countries” to “carve out” land for Palestinians.”
https://thecradle.co/articles/not-in-our-lifetime-us-rejects-palestinian-statehood
Here’s an idea, why doesn’t the west carve out some land for the Jewish occupiers of Palestine ?
Why not transport them all to Ukraine, then we’d have all the nazis in one place, or New York state, or Florida ?
If you are looking for “a land without a people for a people without a land”, really the only option is Antarctica.
Plenty of room in Wyoming.
I wonder if the jackbooted, heavy armoured police in London – will run over protestors with them, as the Zio-Monsters have done with Palestinian women and children in Gaza.
“UK Police to Use Israeli Armoured Vehicles Battle-Tested on Palestinians in Gaza
This week, Londoners spotted the City’s Metropolitan Police trialling new ‘Sandcat’ armoured vehicles across the capital.
The SandCat is manufactured by Israeli defence company Plasan which for over three decades has been a key supplier of deadly equipment to the Israeli military.
According to Israel Defence, Plasan supplied up to 700 SandCats to the Israeli military following the start of Israel’s ongoing genocide on Gaza.
Sandcats are reportedly going to be used by the Met Police for “serious public disorder”, a Met spokesperson recently told the BBC.
The Met has purchased 18 SandCats to replace its older Jankel models”
You have to ask what the f the Met need with these vehicles; apart from being able to cruise round looking hard. The Jankels were deployed twice in as many years yet they’re buying 18 of these things at £300,000 apiece. That’s enough to put another 130 coppers on the beat but catching muggers, ‘phone snatchers and shoplifters isn’t as glamorous and macho as preparing for “serious public disorder” which might never happen.
I suspect, like far too much of our public spending, the object of the exercise is to put public money into private pockets. What the country gets in return is of secondary importance. At least it’s not completely useless PPE, or, indeed, nothing at all.
They forget this is our country. Proscription orders appear to be a sweeping abuse of power, when used to curtail free speech of British citizens.
Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s beef, is clearly purely with Israel i.e., it’s parochial; unless Israel is seen as officially part of the UK, I fail to see why British citizens have been legally dragged into their dispute?
You’ve got it back to front. Israel is not seen as part of the UK, rather the UK is seen as part of [greater] Israel. One nation under ZOG.
The UK government proscribed Hamas in its entirety in 2021, this following Hezbollah in 2019.
Hamas were proscribed by the then Home Secretary, Priti Patel, who’d previously resigned as UK international development secretary amid controversy over her unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials in 2017.
Not suggesting graft or corruption were involved, but it makes you wonder.
“They forget this is our country. ”
It’s increasingly the case that we forget that it is now their country.
All US bases in the ME have been put on full alert – Al Udeid base in Qatar, in now in a full state of combat readiness – Trump has convened a security meeting with top military officials in the Whitehouse. Us tankers are airborne over Iraq.
Al Udeid airbase has begun non-essential base personnel.
Experts reckon crude could hit $150-200 per barrel should Iran be attacked and were they to carry out their plausible threat to destroy oil & gas production in the ME in response to any attack. Trump would become a lame duck president in under a year and a half post the midterms. Economically painful for the US, EU and the UK….Great for Russia though.
MAGA were promised no new ME wars, so the backlash will be brutal electorally. Iran will likely pull out of the NPT too. The crazy thing is, is the fact the CIA and MI6 et al are all in agreement on the fact no decision has been taken in Iran to create nuclear weapons. Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has issued a fatwa expressly forbidding their development, and such decisions matter in a theocracy.
Correction : the current Supreme leader is Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Ruhollah Khomeini.
Having recklessly ripped up the hard-won JCPOA, Trump is now presenting Iran with new ‘deal’ terms that no country of Iran’s size could ever accept. Iran has a legal right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, which it joined in 1970, to build a peaceful nuclear energy program. Trump wishes to ignore this right and is demanding all nuclear research be halted with zero enrichment activity permitted in Iran.
Outrageous really.
50 minutes ago.
An attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities – or an attack on Gaza?
“A squadron of Israeli jets have lifted off from Nevatim Air Base right now.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1932871268123935163#m
Is something big about to happen?
“The US ordered the evacuation of family members and non-essential personnel from Bahrain and Kuwait – the American Embassy in Baghdad is preparing for an evacuation due to heightened security risks in the region. Should Israel attack Iran, Iran will immediately strike Israel’s secret and undeclared nuclear weapons facilities, which are now known to Iran after receiving classified information about Israel’s nuclear program.”
https://nitter.poast.org/IranObserver0
Based on past attacks, Israeli jets would release their armaments from outside iran’s borders: Eg. Iraq; Syria; Jordan; Persian Gulf. This is because iranian radars are more than capable of detecting F35s, plus iranian air defences could, at least, decimate Israeli jets who strayed over Iran.
Bottom line, Iran is not Iraq and Israel has never fought a serious, equal foe. F35s might be effective against tribesmen and women and children but I’d suggest in real combat it’s going to be found wanting.
Time to sell those Lockheed Martin shares.
Stevie Boy.
Can’t confirm this.
“The attack on Iran is planned as early as Sunday,” – Israeli Channel 14 – this as well.
“Do not travel outside Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva until further notice,” – US Embassy in Israel.”
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu cancels his plans of visiting the north of Israel, including the Golan region”
And this.
” An emergency session of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council will be held today with top military and IRGC Commander.
According to reports, Iran has developed a full-scale retaliation plan involving a massive missile and drone counterattack in the event of an Israeli strike.
Iran’s Response May Include:
Launch of hundreds of medium-range ballistic missiles, including:
▪️ Emad-1
▪️ Fattah-2
▪️ Khorramshahr-4
▪️ Sejjil-2
▪️ Shihab-3B/C/D
Deployment of 1,500–2,000 kamikaze drones, including the:
▪️ Shahed-136
▪️ Jet-powered Shahed-238
All IRGC and Iranian Army units have reportedly been placed on high alert”
Here’s more.
“An Iranian journalist with links to the country’s security establishment has released what he says are the first details from the thousands of sensitive documents on Israel, which Tehran announced it obtained days ago.”
https://thecradle.co/articles/irans-intel-breach-involves-israeli-nuke-plans-surveillance-organ-trafficking-report
Cue a UK carrier strike group’s arrival : Operation Highmast. Convenient huh? I’d be pleased to be wrong.
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/june/03/20250603-carrier-strike-group-completes-suez-and-red-sea-passage
HMS Prince of Wales – with her deck filled with F-35B jets and Merlin and Wildcat helicopters.
These things have to be planned months in advance. No party in parliament will even ask questions, or seek assurances they’d play no role.
Reality check.
1. The UK does not have enough ships to form a carrier strike group. It must rely on foreign powers: European or USA.
2. The UK does not have enough (any ?) F35Bs to fill a carrier. It relies on USA planes.
Conclusion. HMS Prince of Wales is an expendable USA asset. Hope those Jack tars can swim.
To coin a phrase:
It takes an awful lot of chutzpah for Israel to call the Madleen effort ‘ a stunt’
From burnt and dead babies to alleged rapes and a denial of the Helicopter Gunships
in their Hannibal Directive Mission which killed a lot of their own people at the Music festival where all the cars are now ‘ buried ‘ as a Memorial to people Israel killed themselves.
Read: We have buried the evidence.
That is Ultra Chutzpah.
The current hangers on like Russel Brand who call it a stunt also have a terrible track record.
He became a Corbyn Supporter when it was popular – then a Conspiracy theorist and now he’s found God.
Not any old God – a MAGA God.
He’s not he only on-line Profile Builder who leap from Populist Lily Pad to Lily Pad to grow either a waning audience or to add to the credulous audience they already have.
I suspect Piers Morgan’s temporary -conversion to the cause of The Palestinians is that his audience is dis-appearing.
Note carefully the trepidation within the MSM.
Why, after all the terrible crimes that have happened to the Gazans for ore than a year would they know be lightly critical of the Zionist led Israel government and its policies now?
I suspect those in the know – know, or are sniffing the wind of some kind of change.
Macron is allegedly in support of a Palestinian State.
Why is he saying this now?
Do some people know something we don’t know?
‘ They’ve gone too far ‘ is a dodgy position to take – being as the only country that can stop this is the US.
Only the USA.
Then again – if Netanyahu ( who seems to be in a very desperate position ) is mad or desperate enough ( I believe he is) to try and attempt an Israeli only attack on Iran, in the hope that once they are getting a kicking that the US will automatically come in and save Israel’s backside may be a bit optimistic?
Hence the low level criticism of Israeli Policy for now.
There may be any guarantees that US Military Personnel will be put at risk on behalf of Israel.
Plus Donald won’t get his big plane and Saudi Arabia will not be able to fulfil its Fighter Jet order with US due to its ( and others ) Oilfields being bombed to crap by Yemenis and of course Iran.
Plus, plus; The possibility that Tel – Aviv may be flattened too.
No Tel Aviv – no Israel?
Evidence guccifer 2.0 is the DNC. Somebody (maybe Craig) sue the USA Intelligence Services:
https://mrkeconomicsmmtgeorgism.blogspot.com/2023/08/evidence-russian-interference-based-on.html?m=1
A rising curve?
Northern Ireland: native Protestant thugs are attacking immigrants in Ballymena. At least six homes have been torched in the past two days, and the authorities have established an “Emergency Rest Centre” to give shelter to the displaced families. The ERC is at the Larne Leisure Centre. Let’s hope it too isn’t attacked.
Perhaps we’ll be hearing more of these “ERCs”… “Rest” centres?? Well, that’s what they’re calling them.
https://www.loveballymena.online/post/emergency-rest-centre-activated-in-larne-to-support-families-displaced-by-disorder-in-ballymena
Salford: rioting, probably minor as of yet. The far-right pro-Reform outfit “GB News” are quoting police as saying “We are aware of speculation online that this incident is linked to immigration, this is categorically incorrect.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/salford-riot-greater-manchester-disorder-police-burn-vehicles
That could be a case of what is called paraleipsis – both by GB News and the police.
In any case
* remember last summer’s riots in Britain, which started off (in Leeds) as not involving ethnicity or immigration at all but which the authorities and the media tried to frame in that direction
* the authorities will have learnt a lot and be itching to apply it
* it could be a long hot summer
Daily Heil report on Ballymena:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14797233/Riot-ballymena-houses-Romanian-teens-attempted-rape.html
I’m not sure where the notion of “paedo protectors” comes from. Two 14yo boys have been charged with the attempted rape of a teenage girl. Teenage starts at 13, so whatever occurred does not seem to have had anything to do with paedophilia.
Incidentally a useful word for the kind of house-burning terror against immigrants that is happening in Ballymena is pogrom, but no British journalist who values their career will dare to use it.
More on “Emergency Rest Centres”:
https://www.re-act.org.uk/news/emergency-rest-centre-exercises/
“Such centres hold immense significance, particularly given the stark statistic that 5.2 million properties in the UK face flood risks, impacting over 5 million residents.”
R-i-i-i-i-i-ight.
Hasn’t Britain got an army that can give assistance to the population during floods and other civil emergencies? I thought that’s one of the things the army was supposed to be for.
Immigrants are responsible for a significant proportion of all recorded crimes. Albanians control the drugs trade and pakistani grooming gangs still operate unopposed by the authorities. The government is determined to allow uncontrolled immigration in the hundreds of thousands each year. Regardless of how liars like Khan in London may massage the figures the majority of Immigrants are unskilled and will never realise a positive contribution to the UK economy.
Meanwhile the indigenous population are expected to just suck up the destruction of the country,
The irish appear to be less forgiving of perverts, grifters and foreign criminals. Good on them.
Two tier Britain gives judicial preferences to immigrants, meanwhile over 80 sharia courts currently operate in England.
The rioting and destruction is entirely due to political decisions. Know who the real enemy is.
“Meanwhile the indigenous population are expected to just suck up the destruction of the country,”
Not at all. They are expected to object, violently. Then the objectors can be crushed, also violently. In the mean time, people are too busy objecting and being crushed to worry about public money being siphoned into private pockets, both at home and abroad and the increasing possibility that the UK will soon be at war again.
Stevie Boy would you prefer that UK criminals control the illegal drug trade ?
Look at who facilitated the drug trade in Afghanistan and who helped fund the Contras in the 1980s.
I recollect ( perhaps mistakenly) that Vance Packard observed that the illegal drug trade is the sixth biggest industry in the world , and therefore on this basis it is unlikely that political elites are not heavily involved or implicated in this trade.
With regard to grooming gangs and the sexual exploitation of children this has been a feature of UK society since at least the 19th century ( see contemporary accounts of London). The artist and journalist Low-key has done some good work highlighting that the research on sexual exploitation evidences that statistically members of the Asian community are no more likely to engage in this behaviour than other groups.
The most vulnerable and marginalised young people and children are those the state cares for in its local authority institutions. The evidence for their abuse and exploitation from 60s, 70s and 80s is a matter of growing public record as are the cover ups that attended it. These crime were perpetrated by “natives” who were often people in a position of trust. Please do not fall for the race baiting as it feeds into wider geopolitical narratives used to dehumanise people subject to Genocide.
P.S. sadly children are most likely to be abused by those they know either as family members or as family friends/associates. The fact that millions of children endure poverty and depravation in this country also makes them vulnerable to be preyed upon.
I don’t disagree that the CIA controls the world drugs trade. However, their agents in the UK are currently Albanians, and government policy facilitates that. If the government wanted to stop drugs in the UK they could, but they don’t want to. The war on drugs is a scam, and part of our GDP.
Many of the white peados and woke apologists continue to push the narrative that pakistani rape gangs don’t exist or are not a real issue – it is, IMO, and plenty of evidence exists to show the compliance of the state and its servants. Yes, we have white abusers: Catholic church; Saville; Huw Edwards. However, denying the obvious is short sighted, at best. And, again it’s government policy to ignore and cover up the facts.
@SB:
Remind me…. who did Huw Edwards abuse, again?
At 10.35 pm yesterday, Wednesday, I wrote: “The (Emergency Rest Centre) is at the Larne Leisure Centre. Let’s hope it too isn’t attacked.”
Unfortunately since the location of the shelter for the displaced people was publicised by the local council, the building has indeed been attacked, and parts of it have been set alight:
https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2025-06-11/fire-at-larne-leisure-centre-following-vandalism
This may indicate that the British authorities are deliberately stirring up ethnic violence. That is no cheap political point. People could get killed.
General Mike Flynn has warned:
“The Deep State is now acting outside of the control of the elected leadership of our nation … These persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States”.
Tulsi Gabbard releasing the video warning us of people driving us towards nuclear war is as clear an alarm bell ringing as you are likely to get. I just don’t think enough people in the West understand what is happening.
The UK in particular is probably the ‘leading’ Deep state. As bad as Flynn thinks it is in the US (and he would know) Britain and most of the EU is worse IMHO. That is what lies at the heart of the articles on here of late, it is different heads of the same beast. Starmer in particular personifies them…
The whole world is sick to the back teeth of them.
What Gabbard video?
It gets mentioned starting 17.10, then they play the clip of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7vvciK-ho8&ab_channel=DialogueWorks
This is Trumps Director of National Intelligence. As the interviewer then goes on to ask his guest… why has she released this video now. This is extremely alarming.
George Galloway also talks about it in his opening monologue in his latest MOATS episode. She talks of people ‘inciting’ nuclear war while knowing they will be ‘safe’ in their bunkers.
We are in a lot of shit here.
Full video on twitter.
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1932368919039459348
thanks!
While Gabbard is warning of WWIII Germany´s new SoS Johann Wadephul has been spreading lies about Germany not promising USSR non-expansion of NATO.
The issue is discussed here by German site NACHDENKSEITEN in machine-translation:
““It didn’t happen…” – Disinformation from Foreign Minister Wadephul to the Bundestag”
by Florian Warweg
https://archive.is/PTxs5
German original:
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=134374
The press conference excerpt with Q&A here:
“(…)
Excerpt from the transcript of the government press conference of 11 June 2025
Question Warweg:
During the last question time in the Bundestag on June 4, when asked why the Kohl government’s promise to the Soviet Union not to expand NATO eastward was broken, Foreign Minister Wadephul explained that such a statement had never been made. Now, in the real world, in addition to all the documented statements by Genscher and Baker, there is the recorded statement by the then Political Director of the Foreign Office, Jürgen Chrobog, dated March 6, 1991, after the so-called reunification, in which he stated, I quote – – –
Chairman Detjen:
Be brief, please!
Follow-up question Warweg:
Very briefly! – “We made it clear in the Two Plus Four negotiations that we will not expand NATO beyond the Elbe. We therefore cannot offer NATO membership to Poland and the others.”
I’m curious to know: Is the minister aware of this official statement by one of the highest-ranking German diplomats at the time? If so, why does he maintain that these promises never existed?
Hinterseher (AA):
I don’t think I have a place to comment on the minister’s statements at this point. I don’t want to. But I believe that NATO’s eastward expansion was not a matter for Germany, but rather a matter for the states that, as part of NATO’s eastward expansion, sought precisely this protection in a defensive alliance, and it was their sovereign decision. In this respect, this sovereign decision was then unanimously adopted within the NATO alliance, and I believe that still holds true.
Supplementary question Warweg:
Okay, but my question was about the fact that the incumbent German Foreign Minister expressed something in very absolute terms to the Bundestag that is simply untenable in that form. There are other statements as well. For example, I can cite the then top US diplomat———
Chairman Detjen:
you’re making a huge fuss! There’s a lot of literature on this!
Addition Warweg:
Yes, but that’s no small matter!
Chairman Detjen
Yes, but we are now in the last two minutes of the government press conference!
Hinterseher (AA):
Mr. Warweg, you’ve already provided the interpretation. So I’d leave it up to you to interpret it. As I said, the statements speak for themselves. You’re free to interpret further, and you’ve already done so here. We don’t share that, of course.
(…)”
Of course the totally stupid thing is that ‘they’ won’t be safe in their bunkers. When they crawl out into a nuclear winter there won’t be FA left for them. The lucky ones will die instantly. MAD.
Strangely, there seems to be no NATO fear of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, which logically, should set alarm bells ringing in Russia. For if Russia’s nuclear defence has somehow been compromised or sabotaged, Russia may be vulnerable to attack. This would explain the seeming impetus for a war now. Deterrence obviously only works when M.A.D is actually assured.
The brazen attack on Russia’s strategic bombers and nuclear-capable submarines, suggests something has changed and provocation now has no red lines. Russia alleges the UK was involved; unlike every other western democracy, uniquely, the UK’s special forces(SAS, SBS) have no democratic oversight. So parliamentarians wouldn’t know if they were conducting incredibly risky operations deep inside Russia- operations that could trigger total war.
I think they do know what WMDs mean.
They just believe at the literal brink RU will not dare use them and instead give in to what NATO wants. That´s what it´s all about – lead us down that slippery slope to where there is either something to “win” or everything to loose.
However for that to work they need – and that´s what all the terrorist acts, all the idiocy, all the moronic sanctions, the insults, the moves against Russians in the Baltic states etc. are about – RU to feel so provoked and threatened that they attack NATO territory so to offer a legal pretext to strike.
That´s the “playbook” here. Because NATO as of today has no other competence left but to blow up the world.
Meanwhile in Mildenhall all is quiet. As in quiet. For the last fifty years and more the sound of planes of great power or strength would resound across the town in the early morning, taxiing and revving, reminding the country they were there. Who was it here posted the livestream last year of the early morning activity? The planes had come from Canada and the US and a magnificent display of the very finest military hardware produced a truly deafening racket. And then they all left. Assumed to have gone to Cyprus.
Musk pronounced that there would be civil war in the UK. The depopulation agenda of the great and greedy has no boundaries of race or creed. If everything stops, as in no transport, electricity or internet, then we will need to ‘Dig for Britain’ as they said in WWII and grow food in parks and gardens. Local government infrastructure matters. All under ZOG will not be gentle. We have seen colonialism in action in the ME and we have seen armies advance in Ukraine. It is not pretty.
Be kind. We are all in this together.
Alastair Crooke on Judge Nap said at the time when Sunak called the snap election that the reason he had called an election that he knew he was bound to lose badly (effectively committing political suicide on his PM’ship) was that in the UK the PM does not decide when to go to war. He said Sunak was told (by the top brass) we are going to war with Russia and he needed to call the election now and get it out of the way. He did what he was told and got slaughtered in the election.
They wanted Starmer in place. Starmer is their man according to Kit Klarenberg (one of the Grayzone journalists targeted with terrorism laws). He did not really ‘win’ that election even though he got a ‘landslide’ and huge majority. It was more like the opposition laid down for him. He is so lacking charisma and charm they had to make themselves as unattractive as possible, and they did. Starmer won because there was literally no one else left standing to compete against him.
And then the most worrying thing. As soon as he wins he completely burns all his political capital within the first year… like he does not care about re-election. Almost like they are not planning on another election…. like they are in ‘who gives a fuck’ mode knowing what is coming our way.
Absolutely right. Unfortunately, the next step for the UK is a landslide victory of Farage and his minions. Probably with funding from the one and only richest man in the world.
that’s what WW3 means. It’s already started. No nukes required…
Mac
June 12, 2025 at 09:04
Mac,
I’m not English and don’t live in England.
But your claim “in the UK the PM does not decide when to go to war” is puzzling.
Before Britain joined the USA in the futile and criminal war against Iraq, there was a vote in parliament, no?
So if the British PM doesn’t decide when to go to war, surely parliament does.
Or if not parliament, who?
“I’m not English and don’t live in England.”
It makes no difference whatsoever. None of the entities you mentioned make declarations of war nowadays. The very word WAR is carefully avoided, unless they want to scare the populace. Even our friend Vladimir calls the butchery in eastern Ukraine a ‘special military operation’! Wow, very special…
But the markets meanwhile rule the world, more effectively than any artillery or ballistic missiles…
Ask Donald or Elon. They may have split, but they still play the same game…
“Before Britain joined the USA in the futile and criminal war against Iraq, there was a vote in parliament, no?
So if the British PM doesn’t decide when to go to war, surely parliament does.”
That was an exception, not the rule, as was made clear at the time.
Looks like Israel really is about to launch an attack on Iran, and with or without US support.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/12/israel-ready-strike-iran-tehran-nuclear-programme/
You’d think parliamentarians would be seeking urgent clarifications; making sure UK military assets won’t be involved in aiding any illegal strikes. Starmer pledged no more illegal wars, even promising a Prevention of Military Intervention Act.
Parliamentarians, with virtually no exceptions, have been fine with UK military assets aiding the most debased crimes of your lifetime for 20 months.
They could argue of course that genocide was not something Starmer forswore.
OTOH. Good article from the Moon.
“There is some noise that an Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran is imminent. I regard this a propaganda which hopes to put pressure on Iran and not as serious war planning.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/trumps-attempt-to-scare-monger-iran-into-nuclear-restrictions-will-fail.html#more
Social media is rife with reports that Trump is in the early stages of dementia – he’s been spotted wearing a catheter under his trousers, a “Foley catheter. Urinary incontinence is a symptom of late stage Prefrontal Temporal Dementia.”
If its true – these are the characterisations of it.
“Frontotemporal dementia is characterised by abnormal protein clumps within brain cells, thought to impair their function significantly.
This condition can result in alterations to personality, behaviour, and communication abilities, including language and speech.
Incontinence in individuals with this type of dementia may be due to a range of symptoms such as disinhibition, compulsive actions, distractibility, and reduced self-awareness.
A Foley catheter is used to drain urine from the bladder into an external collection bag.”
There should be an enforced retirement age of 75, for all politicians imho.
The US in particular, seems to have had a glut of octogenarian politicians, causing all sorts of mayhem; yet they’re typically too conceited or arrogant, to recognise their failing faculties.
No. Politicians should abide by same rules as Joe public regarding retirement age (66 or 68). The only difference IMO is that the Retirement age should be a mandatory stop work, for everyone.
There again, I believe no-one should be allowed to enter politics before age 45.
Prince Andrew, I am pretty sure, was wearing a nappy for the last occasion he needed to be on parade for a prolonged length of time. Older men develop enlarged prostate glands, usually benignly, but this enforces increased urination, so unless you want to be caught short, when delays are foreseen, than it is advisable to prepare for the lack of access to bathrooms.
Trump is being sidelined. Calling out the National Guard at least demonstrates there still is one. Biden’s AIPAC plans are still being followed, if indeed they involved him in the planning, in the first place. He was certainly wholly committed to them anyway. So essentially there is nobody at the helm, unless you think Obama is still calling the shots. It seemed to me he may have been speaking Biden’s speeches into his ear, or someone else was. This has all been decades in the planning. Trump is the great disrupter. Kennedy is the good guy – aren’t all the short lived Kennedy’s? His stance is against Big Pharma and Fauci and Bill Gates. Good luck to him anyway.
Turmoil at the top, but some plans are very solidly in place.
US Vice President, JD Vance, raised concerns over attacking Yemen’s Houthis in those leaked Signal app messages:
“3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary.”
“The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”
His revealed doubts went down well with Trump’s MAGA base. Maybe he would make for a better POTUS? At least he seems capable of reasoning things through.
Dear ALYSON.
Your comments are very enjoyable. Meanwhile, it’s just the opposite of what you said that’s true.
In older men, enlarged prostate leads to difficult and limited urination. Ask the blog owner, or any urologist
But it’s always entertaining to have friendly people like you talk about things they don’t really know.
“Trump is the great disrupter. Kennedy is the good guy”
Trump is a moron, the good cop, bad cop routine is usually done by two people as you say, in Trumps case it is done with him alone, sometimes in the same sentence, example… The Iranian people are wonderful, but unless they do as I say they will be obliterated, bigly.
I wouldn’t describe Kennedy as a good guy. The whole clan has been heavy with sleaze and corruption.
OK, how about a “not quite as bad as the others guy”?
Much less brazen and on a far lesser scale than the Bushes, the Bidens etc.
Unlike them too JFK had to be dispatched – and not for reasons of sleaze and corruption.
Are they all dead – or have the Zio-Monsters cut-off communications to and from Gaza – to carry out another atrocity.
“We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off.
This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, “good morning” and “we are fine/alive”.
We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.”
It’s sometimes a life-saving matter to be a British citizen, as apparently is the case for the single survivor of the Boeing plane crash in India, named Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.
If it’s Boeing, I’m not going…
Melrose.
British is often just another word for English – which is probably still seen in this light – in some quarters.
“…you are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.” said by Rhodes to Lord Grey. Michell, Lewis (1910). The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2. New York and London: Mitchell Kennerly. p. 178.”
Thanks for your sympathy. But never resign from your Google search account!
Melrose
June 12, 2025 at 18:42
Very good.
Then there were three.
Stevie Boy
June 12, 2025 at 19:31
NATO (yes, yes) HQ in Bruxelles has asked us collaborators to mask our collaboration by occasional disagreement.
Par example:
NATO Stooge #1 directed me (NATO Stooge #3) to avoid disparaging remarks about tankies.
I mean, what is he/she/they like?
Then NATO Stooge #2 jumped in saying that I should be respectful to Russian forum members and stop that stupid Tolkien shite.
From now on I am identifying as a Scottish pensioner, surviving on oatmeal and Laphroaig…
Let’s see how that goes.
As an athlete once remarked, “If you win gold, you are English, if you win silver you are British, if you win bronze, you are West Indian and, if you are caught cheating, you are black”.
Whatever Israel do, whether it is blantly starve 2 million people, to gunning down people waiting to get food at the humanitarian zones, to kidnapping westerns on a humanitarian ship (without a word of condemnation by the EU which would be livid if Russia kidnapped a humanitarian shipment going to Ukraine!), the attitude by the world is that: Israel should be able to to anything they want. Now Netanyahu is bored with killing and maiming children so next up Israel wish for a new grand war, with Iran, based on phony intelligence provided by… Israel itself. Just like the Iraq WMD hoax that was based on israeli “intelligence”.
“Much of the IAEA report is based on evidence from the Mossad.”
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-857003
And the arab world is equaly nasty. 20+ arab nations that do the bidding for Israel, what a pathetic people. Why do they not succumb, in total, and let Israel build Eretz Israel?
“Egypt deports dozens of activists before planned march to Gaza border
Activists from around the world have been planning to march to Gaza in a bid to end Israel’s blockade”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/egypt-deports-dozens-of-activists-before-planned-march-to-gaza-border
Why say the Arab people when you know very well those states’ policies are enacted by ultra-repressive despots under western control?
Personally I am done with that distinction. I say arab people just like I say western people that, in majority, support and approve the genocide in Gaza. It is not longer about “western leaders” or “arab leaders”, call out the rotten population, that make this genocide possible.
Palestinians say Arabs not doing enough to help devastated Gaza: poll
More than two-thirds of Palestinians believe the Arab world has failed to do enough to support people in Gaza amid Israel’s brutal military offensive
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinians-say-arabs-not-doing-enough-help-gaza-poll
It is no longer about the nasty pro-western/israel leaders of the arab world it is the lackluster attitude by the arab world at large.
Every group of people that watch on what is going on and accept it, is complicit.
Israel could only act like they do with a complacement and passive outside world.
“Rotten” population? What exactly would you be doing yourself if you were living in Egypt or Jordan? Taking it to the Mukhabarat?
Do you expect never to be asked that question?
Someone earlier in this comments section mentioned a security services or military op named Shrike.
Aside from this being a bird that impales it’s victims on its beak it is also the name of a bogey man or ultimate destroyer from a sci-fi book series by Dan Simmons. The four books being Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion. It’s a kinda obscure but interesting series of books to read for those with a sci-fi bent. In the series the Catholic church has taken over the universe and can resurrect people in a gruesome manner.
I mention this as it’s weird or maybe intentional that such imagery as the Shrike is used and may illustrate a mind set.
https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/Shrike
A good read as far as older classic sci-fi goes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c93ydeqyq71t
Friday the 13th; what a day to choose.
Strikes on the capital suggest the nuclear facilities weren’t the target unless it’s a diversion.
Assassinations with the usual Israeli disregard for whomever else in the blast radius.
Iranian nuclear and missile facilities are buried under mountains, to make them neigh impervious to most strikes. Unless you can level that entire mountain.
Oil prices shot up and we can expect the Red Sea to get “hotter”, with all that entails. Since the Houthis seem impervious to any military pressure, short of the terrible idea of actually invading Yeman
Thanks Bibi…
Sigh, multiple high-ranking generals, multiple nuclear scientists murdered on top of it it seems Israel managed to successfully target the military and nuclear targets without Iran being able to protect itself. Very sad and humiliating how Israel manage to surprise and penetrate Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran leadership etc
Just like Ukraine manage time and time again surprise Russia with blows it is sad that Iran was not better prepared for this attack.
I never understood why Iran kept engaging with Trump or the West in general regarding their, inherent right, to produce nuclear energy, what is it to talk about?!
Besides who would not want to have a nuclear deterrence with neighbors like Israel and their western allies?
Just watch how quickly West stopped threatening North Korea when they got their own deterrence.
Jack
June 13, 2025 at 08:28
Jack, I have to disagree with you re “Just like Ukraine manage time and time again surprise Russia with blows it is sad that Iran was not better prepared for this attack.”
It certainly isn’t “sad” that “Ukraine manage time and time again surprise Russia with blows” .
The Iranian regime is a brutal theocracy and the Iranian people deserve better.
And Israel is a brutal racist settler state.
As Kissinger was supposed to have said about the Iran Iraq War, “it’s a pity that both sides can’t lose”.
Good coverage on Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/13/live-explosions-reported-in-iran-amid-israel-tensions
“The Iranian regime is a brutal theocracy and the Iranian people deserve better”
By now “brutal” just means “of a country opposing the hegemony of the West” does it not? Would you not agree that the Ukranian regime is brutal and that the Ukranian people deserve better?
Yes, there does appear to be a degree of complacency. However, we don’t know the full story. I would hope Iran delivers on their promise of massive retaliations, but I see that the USA has already said they would defend Israel from any retaliations. Obviously, the mad dogs of Israel can attack and kill who they want but you’re not allowed to respond. Turn the other cheek ? Fuck that.
The USA has many weaknesses and it is not as strong as it tells iits own population.Not militarily, not economically. Iran triggered the 1987 crash and the fragile US economy should be hit now, fast and hard, by a dumping of bonds and dollars. The time for Brics to price oil in the globo is also now. It’s unlikely to do this off its own bat, but perhaps it will do it reactively. Better late than never. The Arab Gulf is likely to do nothing or even to help out the US if asked.
I would not be surprised if the Air India crash was a provocation.
Triple witching day on the derivatives markets is next Friday. This is the time when financial info and the ability to pull levers has maximum effect. It happens once every three months.
Dunno why you’re conflating Israel with Ukraine, the situation isn’t really analogous.
For one thing the occasional inflated success doesn’t alter their overall doom-spiral or worse outright backfires like the Kursk incursion.
Plus Israel is still bogged down in Gaza and is suffering a lot of internal stresses. That’s partly why they’re lashing out
As for the Iranian negotiations, most likely for effect as they weren’t ready to produce nuclear weapons in bulk. Even the theoretical capacity exists.
The fraudster/killer in charge of occupied Palestine is setting the middle east alight without anyone telling him to stop.
This maniac must be stopped before he causes more humanitarian suffering.
Iran will retaliate and this will force Trump to use his Diego Garcia based bombers, setting us up for a nuclear first strike scenario, imho.
We are never going to be asked whether our grandchildren should endure the psychopathic moves of western leaders, we are designated canon fodder.
The grownup powers i.e. Russia and China must step in.
Russia did not defend Armenia, and in the end it failed Syria, but it must defend Iran.
Brian Red
June 13, 2025 at 10:10
Brian, Russia couldn’t defeat its much smaller neighbour despite three years of trying.
What makes you think that they have military resources to help defend Iran against Israel?
JK Redux.
By the same logic then – how on earth are they going to invade Europe?
Do you think making arms that will never be needed is good waste of money or a bad one?
Particularly at the expense of their populous – the rich – (who’s assets are being protected from Russia) will not be paying anything themselves towards their own defence of their own assests.
Not over yet by all means but, unless Putin say’s have your 20% of your former land back – I’m sorry – please forgive me, then this war goes on.
For how long I don’t know but on it will go.
We now have a new War ( Lest We Forget – remember?) and this may go on similar to Ukraine.
As in all wars one country has to win – even temporarily.
I think most people here knew this, but …
“The UK government have admitted that the Ministry of Defence is “currently training” Israeli soldiers in Britain.
… No wonder the UK government can’t admit Israel is committing a genocide because it will be charged with aiding and abetting”
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/12/israeli-military-training-britain/
Iran stated if their nuclear facilities were attacked that they would make nuclear weapons. Being a ‘nascent’ nuclear state they are apparently able to build half a dozen of them in a matter of days if they decided to do it. I guess we will find out now.
I considered a range of different Trump 2.0 presidencies from the very good to the really bad as we just had no clue which version of Donald Trump would manifest.
But this Trump is far beyond the worst Trump I ever imagined. I believe he is well intended but he is not in control of anything it seems. He surrounds himself with mostly terrible people, does not read anything himself, has apparently had only 14 or so intelligence briefings so far where most presidents had it daily. Elements of the intelligence agencies are basically rogue and running circles around him. They will box him in and force him down the path of war. As soon as his massive ego gets pricked by anything he will become an absolute psycho…
Meanwhile Lavrov the highly respected Russian Foreign minister has said they are ‘100%’ certain of the involvement of the British in the attacks on their nuclear triad. They know.
Gosh it does seem like someone is very desperate to see WW3 start… they have so many flash points going now it hard to disagree with John Mearsheimer that we are screwed. This lunatic attack by Netanyahu is to save his rotten political carcass, war is his way out. He is forced up the escalatory ladder by the growing political fire at his feet. The PM’s nuclear bunker looks a lot better than a jail cell.
Leaders of the Occupation regime in Palestine have been known to scream at each other like banshees, but they have always been super-united whenever there is a conflict with other powers, which has been all the time. (This is totally unlike the Palestinian leadership.)
This is what $100Mn buys.
Mac
June 13, 2025 at 10:02
Mac, some may “highly respect” Lavrov – a willing tool and mouthpiece for a brutal dictator – but many despise him.
“a willing tool and mouthpiece for a brutal dictator– but many despise him.”
Well, you, do obviously, but there’s that word again. It does tend to be a flag for the trotting out of propaganda.
On the subject of “brutal”, here’s Our Donald on the Israeli attack on Iran ““The next already planned attacks being even more brutal.” Would you agree that “The Israeli regime is a brutal theocracy and the Israeli people deserve better.”
This plan is decades old. Remember DW singing Barbara Anne? The list of countries he drew up for regime change before the Arab Spring? The continuity, contiguity, between Bush’s and Clintons? The incisive diplomacy of Obama? The ambiguity of Saudi? How can we be surprised at this late juncture? Trump has to buy into the plan or be ousted and his bluff and bluster is a side show to prepare Americans for uncertainty. We in the UK are now turning out asylum seekers, from who knows where, expecting cash strapped local authorities to have surplus housing for them, while Ballymena shows the country what is expected of them.
Apologies for being so cynical. The only thing to be said for it all is that up until now it has all gone to plan…
Couldn’t agree more. I noticed well over a decade ago a sudden major uplift in the (Anti Russia/Putin) propaganda. It has been relentless ever since. Clearly to ‘engineer consent’ for war. And it works. Just like commercial propaganda works (i.e. ‘advertising’). This has been planned for a long time is my strong impression. At least 15 years.
Don’t apologize for being cynical. I am so ‘black pill’ at this point light cannot escape its surface. Evil seems to be very real.
“As soon as (Trump’s) massive ego gets pricked by anything he will become an absolute psycho…”
Tomorrow, on his birthday, Trump is holding an enormous military parade in Washington DC, including along “Constitution Avenue” near his slave-built presidential palace.
It’s the largest military parade in the USA since 1991 and before that, 1865.
Remind me what follows hubris.
Brian Red
Wouldn’t surprise me if Trump didn’t burn a copy of the US Constitution.
Plus he has the un- patriotic habit of standing between the Israel Flag and The US Flag.
He may as well put the Israel Star into the middle of the US Flag and that would be more honest.
Israel eventually will contribute to the end of the US and their version of Democracy.
It will take time but ,with Trump’s antics the US people will soon want his head.
When he doesn’t deliver on his promises, they will be burning effigies of him in the streets.
Starting with the MAGA supporters and then Liberal voters will follow.
It would be sweet irony if The Whitehouse was stormed.
Could happen.
Billions of us around the world will think “Yeah!” if “something happens” to tomorrow’s big birthday show in the Great Satan’s capital city. That regime has got it to coming to it for sure.
But I don’t hold much hope of a contribution from gun-toting, phone-carrying wrestling-watchers locally. Theoretically one can believe in redemption, but the appearance of brain cells in the minds of Trump voters seems unlikely. Even if they had to eat vomit every day, they’d probably still think the USA was “the greatest country in the world”.
“Israel eventually will contribute to the end of the US and their version of Democracy.”
If they succeed in that, it will be one good thing they have done in their whole rotten existence, but I doubt it.
Goose
June 12, 2025 at 11:27
“Strangely, there seems to be no NATO fear of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, which logically, should set alarm bells ringing in Russia. For if Russia’s nuclear defence has somehow been compromised or sabotaged…”
I have wondered about this myself. Have they developed ‘ace up their sleeve’ technology which would be able to destroy Russia deterrence somehow. And now they are trying to engineer the cause to use it… definitely a possibility, completely psychotic and insane, but definitely a possibility.
Personally they don’t seem that competent to me but they do seem that delusional.
The overthrow of Assad’s government in Syria was fast, efficient, and a surprise for Russia.
Brian Red.
Brian, from what I’ve read Putin did warn Assad not to listen, Assad was lulled by the Gulf States – who whispered sweet nothings into his ear, which turned out to be lies, the plan was to put daylight between Assad and Putin, and it worked – thats why Putin, when Syria came under a full-scale attack, he only carried a very limited counter attack.
Assad knew he had made a huge mistake, but it was by then too late to do anything significant about it – Assad is said to have fled to Russia.
@RoS – Assad was lulled into making what huge mistake?
Brian Red
Brian if memory serves, it was to do with Syria rejoining the Arab League – the likes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar – the latter very reluctantly embraced Assad – it also had something to do with, Syria openly supporting Russia against Ukraine, Zelensky was furious that the Arab League allowed Syria in – but it was ruse to weaken the Syrian/Russian bond – the US felt that Syria didn’t merit getting into the Arab League – maybe they were in on it all along.
He (Assad) was given a warm welcome, receiving a hug from his Saudi host, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi Arabia – had for years supported rebel groups fighting to overthrow President Assad, with money and arms. However – this was reduced as jihadist groups, became more powerful and Mr Assad crushed the rebels following Russia’s intervention in 2015.
Surprise for everyone actually including HTS.
The Baathist’s were a lot more brittle than everyone thought, that’s why Syria is such a clusterf*ck right now and all sides started scrambled.
Nope, if there was no fear Ukraine wouldn’t be currently facing inevitable defeat.
It couldn’t be fully compromised, nor is there a magical tech silver bullet either and NATO wouldn’t “engineer” anything they just make sh*t up.
Even the ballyhood strike on the “nuclear bombers”, was largely a hoax. Against a handful of planes that were conventional-arms carriers.
Basically its the EU/UK/USA and possibly Canada, New Zealand and Australia against Iran – it reminds of the Boer war.
” Israel’s Home Front Command announces that civilians are no longer required to stay near shelters.
This indicates that the army handled the Iranian Shahed-136 drones that were headed towards Israel”
Germany once more leaving one rather speechless:
“Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies Jewish association as extremist because of critical stance towards Israel”
by Florian Warweg
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=134433
The German version can easily be translated by C&P into google-translate (what I usually do, provide it as archived link didn´t work this time).
https://translate.google.com/?hl=de&tab=TT&sl=auto&tl=en&op=websites
It concludes with this very, very brief response by the government official (MoI):
“(…)
Excerpt from the transcript of the government press conference of 11 June 2025
Question from Warweg
On the major topic of Israel/Gaza in relation to German domestic politics: In the current report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, an organization of Jews living in Germany, the “Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East,” is listed as engaging in foreign-related extremism and is therefore classified as a confirmed extremist endeavor. The reason given is that the group supports BDS and speaks of alleged Israeli apartheid. I would be interested to know: What does the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which as a ministry exercises both administrative and technical supervision over the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, have to say about the fact that for the first time in over 80 years the German domestic intelligence service has classified a Jewish organization committed to peace in the Middle East as extremist?
Dr. Ata (BMI)
We will not comment on these matters beyond what is stated in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution report.
Supplementary question:
When presenting the report on June 10, Interior Minister Dobrindt declared that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is an indispensable protective barrier against enemies of democracy of all kinds. Am I right in assuming that the German Interior Minister also described the Jewish group in question as enemies of democracy?
Dr. Ata (BMI)
I stand by what I said.
Addition Warweg
Unfortunately you said very little, but at least you gave a little historical context.
(…)”
AG
So – in Germany if you watch a Mel Brooks Movie or Airplane, the watcher (as well as Mel Brooks)
could be locked up?
Even Jackie Mason?
All the above have built careers on taking the piss out of Jews.
Sometimes lovingly and in the case of Lenny Bruce not so lovingly.
Absolutely no sense of humour the Germans.
Is that a trope?
German humour? It went overboard 2020+
Somehow suddenly.
Phenomena not unlike the US as far as I could see from afar. (There it´s slowly crawling back into limelight.)
There was a very lively anarchist milieu of comedy and comedians here.
Things which you mention, and the various British Classics were among the most popular comedy content in Germany for decades.
I have given up to understand what in particular caused this recent change (it can´t just be Covid and RU).
But as jokes about Jews and Israel are concerned I assume those were mostly left to other Jews to do.
That would be a trope, yes.
On the other hand there is this typical German trope of “Jewish humour” which makes me sick to hear because it is such a huge cliché filled with Philosemitism of the most embarrassing kind.
Of course there used to be serious comedians who would make fun of that, hitting on well-meaning Germans who would love “Klezmer” all the while completely oblivious of the fact that German establishment before 1933 that happened to be Jewish, and who became the main target of the Nazi persecution, hated all that ethno-kitsch, which today happens to be part and parcel of “Jewishness” in the eyes of too many clueless Germans.
It has very little to do with what Jewish identity once used to be, which developed between the 18th and 20th century. (if such a monolithic thing as “identity” at large does exist. I am always wary of those big chunks of world building all-inclusive ideas.)
Maybe time for a few million of us to become “co-publishers” of a short text asserting the right of armed resistance against occupation? It wouldn’t even have to refer to the UN or law. It could just say “We assert that there is a right to armed resistance against colonial occupation regimes such as Israel.” AIUI if saying such things isn’t against the law in USA, Germany, Britain, etc., it soon will be.
Unfortunately, all of this was rather predictable. Iran, like previously Hamas or Hesbollah is only a paper tiger. Gone is the axis of resistance. Too bad.
Criminal regimes such as the one currently in power in Israel couldn’t care less. A miserable hundred of drones sent in retaliation, when most of the Iranian chiefs of staff have been killed in a few hours? Reminds me of the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”: it’s only a scratch…
If anyone ever hopes to topple these criminal regimes, the first step should certainly be to abandon wishful thinking. And this applies to everyone here, everyone…
It is sadly true that Iranian government statements reported at http://www.presstv.ir do have a feeling of the Black Knight about them, but let’s hope they can muster a stronger response.
Some Sunni Muslims have a bit of a strange view of Iran, but there still exists an “Arab street”. I have no doubt that if Iran manages to strike effectively at the Zionist entity they will gain a lot of well-deserved goodwill among ordinary people in Arab countries.
Melrose
We have to remember the Zio -Monsters possess nukes and if committing a genocide doesn’t faze them then nuking Iran wouldn’t either.
Netanyahu has to open up a war front with Iran to try and garner public support for Israel – for right now most of the world is against the genocide – and a war with Iran would give the Zio-Monsters a fake reason to claim Israels very existence is at stake.
With regards to nukes – I fail to see why an occupying force committing genocide in Gaza/Palestine can have them but Iran cannot.
I remember a lot of things.
Including the dozens of times I read on this blog seasoned commenters prophesying “If Israel ever dares attack Iran, they will instantly regret it bitterly”. And yet…
In a perfect world, no country would have nuclear weapons. But, once again, this is not the point. Stop the wishful thinking. Let’s try to be effective without playing a chicken race…
The strategic aim is unlikely to be either the disarmament of Iran (which would mean the end of the “Iran doctrine”) or the wellbeing of Netanyahu (who is 75, even if he has obviously had plastic surgery and looks much younger). The answer to the question “then what?” will tell us the aim.
The Occupation’s “Iran doctrine” which started in the late 1980s has been about the growing power of “Zionist” money in the US and the bumsniffer countries. Taking it to the next stage will likely mean
1. Large-scale population reduction.
2. An increase in the openness of the wielding of power, and its brutality, by those who wield it – and not only at the top level.
Is it unlawful to make a list of journo-scum and politicians who refer to Netanyahu as “Bibi”?
Red, you’re still in the blue. Bibi was used as the nickname for Netanyahu ON THIS BLOG this very morning by Urban Fox. So what?
As I said, nothing good can happen until people here stop chasing ghosts…
Some 80 iranians killed. Israeli sources say they are “nowhere near” the end of the attack and claim it will go on for another 14 days, Iran seems paralyzed.
Meanwhile there are reports that Jordan and perhaps Iraq claim opened their airspace for Israel to attack to Iran.
Meanwhile in the west, France condemn…Iran:
“France has repeatedly condemned Iran’s ongoing nuclear program and has taken all appropriate diplomatic measures in response.
In this context, France reaffirms Israel’s right to defend itself and ensure its security.
To avoid jeopardizing the stability of the entire region, I call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to de-escalate”
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https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1933491906144526764?
The last sentence is the most nasty one^^, so after Iran is attacked full on, they are called upon to “de-escalate”!? The western thugs have no shame, they look upon persians and arabs as monkeys, disposable people that have no rights whatsoever.
Iran should quit the NPT treaty, quit IAEA, enough of this humiliation they have endured for too long!
Days ago the IAEA boss Rafael Grossi made an interview with israeli media where he basically gave them tip on how to take out iranian nuclear facilities. Could you imagine if an IAEA boss gave iranians tip on how to take out israeli nuclear facilities?!
IAEA chief’s remarks on Iran nuclear sites ‘devoid of legality’, echo Israeli psyops: Eslami
“Eslami was referring to Grossi’s interview with i24NEWS, an Israeli TV channel, in which the latter had said the Israeli regime could not “destroy” Iran’s nuclear facilities with “a single surgical strike. “Disrupting them (the facilities) would require overwhelming and devastating force,” the IAEA chief had also said.”
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“Grossi had issued the remarks, despite lacking all jurisdiction to comment on such issues. Eslami noted that the international law and precautions that concerned such matters essentially robbed the IAEA director general of any entitlement to intervene in affairs of such nature.”
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“Grossi had also said, “Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon at this moment,” but claimed that “it has the material” to make one, echoing the Israeli regime’s and its Western allies’ unfounded allegations”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/10/749576/Iran-Israel-nuclear-attack
There are also reports in iranian media that collaboration between IAEA and Israel on Iran go much deeper. I.e:
Disclosed documents reveal Grossi link to Israel (+PHOTO)
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/232999/Disclosed-documents-reveal-Grossi-links-to-Israel-PHOTO
“There are also reports in iranian media that collaboration between IAEA and Israel on Iran go much deeper.”
It’s pretty obvious by now that the word “international” in an organisation’s title means “controlled by the US” and, by extension, Israel.
“France reaffirms Israel’s right to defend itself”. Where have I heard that before ? They speak with one voice, the voice of the morally defeated, on the wrong side of history.
Pity France never defended itself the last time the Nazis were at the gates, though they showed their true colours at Thiaroye in 1944.
This is a hiatus. You see… [sotto voce] … the original agreement brokered by Kissinger and Putin was for Putin to promise to protect either Israel from Iran, or Iran from Israel, and he took his responsibilities seriously to maintain the peace between the two countries. He acted to closely monitor the Golan Heights after Netty renegotiated the original agreement to allow for their occupation. He therefore needed to be weakened so that he could not support Iran, in the event of a first move by Israel. Iran will understand that Putin’s planes have been taken out of action by the recent strike on the planes that were out on the tarmac in compliance with nuclear non proliferation agreements.
Sometimes I wonder if Kissinger is still alive, hooked up to an endless supply of rejuvenating young virgins’ blood…..
Holding our breath….
I thought Alex Christoforou hit the nail on the head in his Duran video yesterday when anticipating subsequent events – this is all about effecting regime change – no different from Iraq, Libya, Syria and the rest.
Cut out the crap to obscure what this is all about.