In 2018, at the height of the economic crisis in Venezuela through crippling sanctions, Kellogg’s announced the overnight closure of their Maracay factory with hundreds of redundancies – and massive knock-on effects in the local community.
The workers refused to accept the closure and, with government assistance, restarted the factory. It is still running eight years later, employing hundreds of people. Not only has it expanded production, it now uses 100% Venezuelan raw materials – not only local maize and sugar, but packaging also.
The head of the trade union council in the factory is now fulfilling the role of Managing Director.
This is how governments should deal with the whims of multinational capital, rather than allowing invaluable plants and equipment to go to scrap. If the Grangemouth refinery had been treated this way, when Ratcliffe decided he could make more profit in the Netherlands, then Scotland and the UK would not be facing potential jet fuel shortages now.
I hope you enjoy the video as much as I did my visit there.
This visit was of course before I was taken ill. I am extremely grateful to the Venezuelan medics who saved my life, and to all those many people who have been so kind in helping me. I should say that everything, from the qualifications of the medical staff to the facilities and the hospital services, has been really good. Again the stories of this country as a failed state so vividly and consistently painted by the West are shown to be a complete lie.
I today (20 April) had the pacemaker checked out and it is performing properly, operating at 21% (which I think means that one in five of my heartbeats is pacemaker triggered). The wound is also healing well, but doctors advise the internal healing takes longer and they are keeping me a few more days to make sure everything is OK before I fly back to Scotland.
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Glad to hear you are on the mend Craig!
Bless You Craig. You are a tough motherf*****r! Keep up the great journalism. If you ever need a place to stay in Devon, let us know.
Regards, Tony Plato.
Good stuff! I’ve let my MP and a few friends know.
It’s good that you’re recovering and writing your blog. Good luck with your campaign, but I hope you take it easy and let your assistants do the heavy lifting.
Just think yourself lucky, if you had been in Gaza – or Southern Lebanon or Iran, you and the hospital you are in – would’ve been bombed by now.
Take it easy.
Somewhat cynically, I’d say that he may have been fortunate to get caught needing urgent attention in Venezuela rather than South London NHS – no offence to NHS staffers!. Wouldn’t it be ironic if, by going to Caracas to cover the “asymmetric war”, he was in the right place at the right time to save his own life? Stranger things have happened. In any case, I’m delighted to hear you’re on the mend and hope you’re shortly back in Scotland to make life more difficult for the vulture capitalist politicians. 😉
Jorge
That’s what I thought.
Wes Streeting one of Mandelson’s pupils has plans for the NHS.
The main plan is being paid for advising the Privatisers how to do the plan.
He does alright now – maybe even better in the future.
Trump’s got ‘ plans ‘ for Cuba I think as spite for getting a kicking from Iran.
Lot of well trained Medics there.
Get well soon Craig – your reportage is welcome relative to the Sea of Lies called the MSM ( Mustn’t Say Much ).
Hard to remain calm with the state of world these days but, it needs to be done.
Streeting is unlikely to do any advising, and I doubt he could plan the proverbial pissup in a brewery. His job is to follow his paymasters’ instructions and implement their plans. Those paymaster being, of course, the private health corporations – the money he gets from us is peanuts in comparison.
Israel has that right in order to defend ‘herself’, says Sir Keir.
See also raping prisoners with dogs and posing with the toys and underwear of innocents they’ve just murdered.
I’ve written to my MP with the disturbing reports by B’Tselem, EuroMed and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights about this.
Reform, that great British party, now has their own ‘Reform Friends of Israel (RFOI)’.
The head of that group, Jason Pearman speaking from Israel, where he still lives, has claimed that Israel has not committed a single war crime in Gaza.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/no-war-crimes-in-gaza-says-nigel-farages-israel-tsar/
Anyone looking for an alternative party to vote for, should look elsewhere because Reform is yet another zionist infested shit show.
The RFOI had to happen. Pearman should get together with Michael Gove, who says the Zionazi “Defence Forces” should be nominated for a Nobel peace prize:
https://www.thejc.com/opinion/the-idf-should-be-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-xmppkld8
Perhaps the survivors in Gaza or the families of the young girls murdered in Minab should form a choir of thanks to the said “defence forces”? Gove could be their conductor.
Is Gove not aware that as a member of a state legislature in the House of Lords and Ladies, he is actually able to file the nomination he calls for? Or is he just so rabid about praising killers as helpers that he doesn’t think about such facts?
Incidentally he has been an advocate for the Zionazi entity for years, as is clear from his book “Fahrenheit 7/7” in which he essentially paints Muslim Arabs as fit for nothing more than pressing their noses to the window in awe at western and Zionist “achievements” that they will never deserve to have.
Of course, likewise Rupert’s Restore UK.
Zack Polanski has a questionable past but I like his fearlessness in speaking back against the ZOG and their media. If the Green Party disappears Genocide Labour that will be a positive. Virtually every Labour politician in Parliament today was handpicked by Mandelson/ McSweeney. Those two beloved figures of the British media-political class may have gone (for now), but that’s all the Labour Party will be for as long as it still exists.
I believe it’s the case that Zack Polanski has not condemned zionism or Israel. Need to be very careful what you wish for, remember a lot of people voted for Labour because they thought it couldn’t be any worse than the tories. How’s that working out ?
Personally, I don’t believe that there is any party in the UK that is not working against the country or its peoples, traitors and fifth columnists every single one of them. Greens, Reds, Blues, Purples, Oranges, Whites, ‘I can sing a rainbow’, but I won’t vote for one.
Jewish anti-Zionists send public letter of complaint to the Green Party
“we have some questions for Zack Polanski, for which we should have simple and truthful replies:
1. Is the Green Party now taking on the mantle of accusing Jews with antisemitism if they criticise Israel for its crimes”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/04/27/jewish-anti-zionists-send-public-letter-of-complaint-to-the-green-party/
Zack is a great confidence trickster and would like your vote because he’s so different from all those other parties, NOT.
So a rule is materialising before our eyes: the only political parties allowed to have relatively harmless domestic policies must be rendered toxic by support for “Israel”. A real test of practical ethics.
Although, to be fair, the option of “no support for Israel” is never on the menu. Let alone “prosecute Zionist crimes”, which should be the tolerable minimum.
I have just read Sven Lindquist’s 2018 book “Exterminate All The Brutes”. It is amazing how exactly similar today’s Zionist propaganda is to the effusions of 19th-century European and American racists who claimed that black and brown people would NEVER be capable of civilisation or self-government.
Reform? Harmless domestic policies???
Yeah. If centrists were to create a false flag as evidence for “horseshoe theory”, it would look a lot like the comments section of this website
Glad you’re recovering and able to expose more lies in the process.
That Kelloggs story is indeed a great one. Back home of course ‘we’ have a much more sensible approach. The grown-up political and media consensus has been to hand over all public assets and utilities to overseas vultures, with our NHS currently being bundled into the loving care of Palantir by the Labour ZOG.
Craig,
We all know that you have a larger than ordinary size heart. So pleased to note that the Venezuelan government’s health services had a larger than usual pacemaker to hand to treat you with.
Wishing the best for your recovery.
Take it very very easy, man. This crazy world needs you alive. And listen to the doctors!
A real feel good story. The Venezuelan workers have done really well.
Keep well! Sending lots of good energy your way.
I don’t recall many such stories, even though I live in the West. Unless marginal English-language reporting is thought to represent the entire continent.
However, when a quarter of a country’s population migrates abroad for livelihoods, as has been the case in Venezuela, then I don’t know how on earth one would call that country thriving. That’s as if 160 million Brits had to leave Britain just to make their ends meet.
Median wage in Venezuela is around £170 per month. Average cost of living is 2.5 times as much excluding rent, and 5 times as much including rent. People – except the upper and upper-middle class – need to juggle 2-3 jobs to make ends meet. That they still try to find resources for socialising and entertainment – is absolutely normal from the sociological point of view. But let smile on people’s faces not mislead anyone.
Being wary of war propaganda is one thing. But I’d be cautious about denying economy data.
My view is that a state that can’t feed its population is a failed state, irrespective of what its 1% may say.
Take good care!
“Failed state” is probably a CIA term, and you are giving it far too much weight in your analysis. Cf. “rogue state”. Both are definitely honky power terms.
Many find life tough in Venezuela. Many have left for that reason. No doubt about either of those observations.
But if you don’t support workers’ takeover of production facilities, or recognise that if the government supports such efforts that’s a good thing, your viewpoint has little in common with the viewpoint of those of us who do.
Just to riff on this concept of “failed”, does one call capitalism a failed mode of production or does one say it has been highly successful in ruining the world for profit? Personally I would say the latter.
I thought it was very interesting that the Financial Times published a piece a few days ago by Marxist critic of political economy, Adam Hanieh, entitled “The coming global food crisis”.
https://archive.ph/HikOH
Okay he’s at one of MI6’s favourite colleges, SOAS, but let’s give him a break for a minute. Deep down, the ruling scum know that us Marxist types are right. Otherwise why are they showing this to each other in one of their rags?
You dont recall many such stories, even though you live in the West…
Venezuela has been under sanctions from the United States and its allies, and among other things these sanctions have a heavy impact on importers and small businesses that rely on imported goods or materials, with results such as job losses and business failures.
By your definition of a failed state, most European nations, Japan and South Korea (which imports 85% of its food supply) would be failed states as they do not grow all the food needed to feed their populations.
“My view is that a state that can’t feed its population is a failed state, irrespective of what its 1% may say”.
In the case of Venezuela, Cuba, or any of the many other nations suffering from cruel and relentless American punishment, that’s analogous to saying of a harmless passer-by who has been knocked down by muggers and is being given a good kicking,
“My view is that a person who can’t defend himself is a failed person”.
Or you could do something to help the victim.
As a matter of fact, the UK can’t feed its population. According to government sources, about half the UK’s food has to be imported – and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was a deliberate underestimate.
So if foreigners, whom the British elite despise so much, were to choose to stop sending their food here… 30 million people would face starvation. Or all of us, if the well-off were generous enough to save the poorest at the cost of starving themselves, a little more slowly.
You may shrug and say that of course foreigners would never stop sending us their food. Just as Arabs would never stop sending us their oil and fertiliser… until they do.
“My view is that a person who can’t defend himself is a failed person”.
Indeed, it happened to my erstwhile boss, when a teenager. He was chased into a branch of Boots by a couple of skinheads who gave him a good kicking. As he lay there on the floor, he heard one woman who had watched him being beaten up without doing anything say to another, “I wouldn’t have let them do that, if I was him”.
Your former boss didn’t happen to be non-white, did he? Happened to me, too. There’s not a lot of defending oneself that one can do when set upon by half a dozen or more in a surprise attack – and that’s all those miserable, cowardly Nazi skinheads are brave enough to do.
“Your former boss didn’t happen to be non-white, did he?”
No. Sadly he’s dead now, so I can’t ask him what he did, if anything, to incur the ire of the skinheads.
“My view is that a state that can’t feed its population is a failed state” doesn’t imply it has to grow all the food people consume which is what you try to make it mean.
In theory, if the UK changed to a mainly vegetarian diet, it probably could. About 36% of UK agricultural land is croppable, about 15 million acres or about 0.2 acres per person. Growing potatoes and dried beans on 0.1 acres should provide about 2200kcal per day and you would still have 0.1 acres for onions, tomatoes, chard (rather than cabbage as wood pigeons leave it alone)…. I say in theory because you would also need a lot of fossil fuels or manual labour to cultivate the amount of land. I have also used my figures from growing potatoes and beans in Cheshire.
Meat, fish, and eggs have always been the core of a decent nourishing diet. Dairy is a useful addition for those who tolerate it.
Vegetables and fruit are OK, but not as nourishing as meat. As for seeds (including grains, nuts, and pulses)…
But you would not be able to feed everyone in the UK on meat, fish, eggs and dairy. Which is why we import so much. As soon as you include any animal products, the amount of land needed increases considerably – mainly for the animal feed.
“About 36% of UK agricultural land is croppable, about 15 million acres or about 0.2 acres per person.”
The rest is pasture, so, so long as the arable land isn’t used for something daft, like growing animal feed, there is a lot of extra protein that can be grown on it. Also the dung of the animals can be used to fertilise the arable land.
Regardless of the arguments. I read an article recently that mentioned that a huge solar farm was planned in a local area where wheat and Barley is currently grown. That resonated with our host’s story about home grown industry. We now have acres and acres of good farming land populated by Sun Mirrors and their polluting Battery units. We also have field after field of Rape Seed, for example, that is solely a cash crop that is no help in actually feeding people, albeit is good for profits and causing cancers.
So, a failed state, IMO, is one that doesn’t recognise and protect its strategic resources and instead sells them off to the ‘highest’ bidder. We will own nothing, and we won’t be happy …
Seems a bit of a dubious claim, SB. Care to source it?
I suppose the good ol’ common sense Trump/Truss way you favour, would have us turning massive areas into slag heaps and mine works, while giant coal-burning power stations provide electricity? Maybe you can grow barley on top of them, eh?
Never mind the acreage given up to housing development – no problem there either – right?
And land lost to coastal erosion is nothing but a hoax too.
You’re all concerned about “polluting Battery [sic] units”, but have no problem with fossil-fuel power and its extraction?
One might almost think you look at evidence very selectively. As in, only ever looking at one side of a problem, and ignoring the other side despite that being 1000 times larger.
Happily, though, your views coincide precisely with what the fossil-fuel industry wants you to think. Does that give you pause for thought? No? Not even for a single moment? How sad.
“One might almost think you look at evidence very selectively. As in, only ever looking at one side of a problem, and ignoring the other side”
As you have just done. It is bonkers to cover good arable land with solar panels, something you have pooh-poohed away with irrelevancies about coal-fired power stations. Solar panels should go over car parks, roofs, roads, railways, anywhere where sunlight is not essential as it is to grow food. Even someone like you who is very much pro solar panels should be pointing this out, not attacking those who do so. Fossil fuels and their energy density have allowed humanity to be very wasteful with energy. This extravagance is one of the major hurdles that renewable energy faces. Cutting down on food miles is one way to rein in this extravagance – do we really need beans flown from Africa in the UK? Growing more food in the UK is one way to cut down on food miles and hence energy use. Covering good arable land with solar panels is heading in exactly the opposite direction.
@ Glenn NL: You’re the one putting a narrative of fossil fuels versus renewable energies into SB and Alyson’s mouths. In their original comments, they made no mention of fossil fuels – only that farmland was being bought up by corporate interests to be used for something else (that happens to be renewable energy technology) that was potentially polluting and harmful to local communities, puts people out of work and forces them to move away (thus breaking up communities), and reduces food production and self-sufficiency and self-autonomy.
I can see you’re trolling those commenters and anyone else who defends what they say by reducing our arguments into an unnecessary and unwanted either/or issue.
Jen:
“@ Glenn NL: You’re the one putting a narrative of fossil fuels versus renewable energies into SB and Alyson’s mouths.”
One would have to be the most wide-eyed naif posting here, if they genuinely thought SB’s comments originated from a genuine concern about farmland and locals’ concerns, rather than a knee-jerk rejection of all things renewable.
I was hoping to see them consider a wider case for local democracy, but I didn’t get anything like that, only more arguments against renewables. Anyone not seeing that is unlikely to be posting in good faith.
Drive through Suffolk and large boards saying No to “solar farms” can be seen beside farmland. Look at these fields, flat to the ground with solar panel carpeting, and you can only wonder if they have poisoned the soil before covering it. Auctioning off prime farmland to energy companies raises local protests across the UK. The fact that urban communities are not aware of the distress experienced by rural communities tells me that algorithms are doing their job and containing the echo chamber to prevent wider awareness.
Giant wind turbines, x3 the height of Big Ben, need deep concrete bases. Best guess says they will be as geologically destabilising as fracking. The scale of these profiteering destructions of farmland, being auctioned, while farmers face trespass by companies which tell them they have the right to put pylons wherever they want, is another assault by globalists. The Chancellor is threatening tenant farmers and family farms with liquidation by land value tax and inheritance tax.
Bargain basement Britain is being screwed over by Brexit again.
That’s market forces for you, Alyson.
Cry about it all they like, fossil fuel companies and their lobbies cannot get around the fact that renewables are cheaper. If farmers get more money from housing solar panels than growing crops, they might well take the cash and run.
Two questions for you:
– What do you propose can be done about stopping monied interests overriding the concerns of local people?
– And why do you suppose – for the first time ever – the fossil fuel lobby is suddenly all concerned about such issues such as human rights, environmental considerations, and possible effects of pollution (like SB’s “Sun Mirrors and their polluting Battery units”) ?
Alyson
The main danger at the moment is this fascination with AI.
Yes it will have great uses if kept away from private ownership but, if you watch some US experts what they are discussing is the enormous amount of electricity needed to run these databases plus ( a very interesting facet ) you need lots of water to cool down the chips.
The theory at the moment is that us ordinary mortals – as usual, will have to bid for electricity and water against the bottomless pits known as Corporations ‘ need ‘ for the two to allegedly make our lives better.
The Solar Panels and Wind Turbines are useful but only when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining.
The key problem for all the world is (and always has been in the Electricity Supply Industry ) is over -generation whilst on line and storing electricity ( over supplied and from the Green input) which means finding a way of not losing as much of the energy generated by any means.
That means better batteries or a way of building massive batteries on a grand scale and linking everything thing up on a new type of Electricity Grid taking into account the already over generated supply.
For that you need invest Public/Private and the current bunch of Tiger Capitalists would rather buy back their shares than invest in anything material save for Weapons factories which seems to be the European Model of reviving an economy.
@ Glenn NL
I should say the issue that SB and Alyson are driving at is that, regardless of whatever resource energy technology is being installed in rural areas, it is being installed by corporations and for-profit organisations, enabled by government help (in the form of tax breaks perhaps or some other type of subsidy) and displacing local communities and their activities – such as farming – that could benefit the general public, and could encourage more self-sufficiency and help protect local ecosystems and the environment generally.
Constructing giant wind turbines that need deep concrete bases, and which are likely to pollute groundwater sources, add to tectonic instability and also disrupt local ecosystems by interfering with bird migrations and bat populations, in areas that used to be farmland, does not sound like a very good use of land. Likewise, the smothering large areas of land with solar panels by corporations to the detriment of farming, other rural activities and local ecosystems, and potentially disrupting local microclimates and poisoning the soil, is another version of the drive for corporate profit.
It’s possible to be critical of the damage caused by relying solely on fossil fuel energies but relying on renewable energy technologies can also have dangerous consequences, similar to those caused by fossil fuel industries – because the underlying political, economic and financial structures encouraging renewables are the same as those for fossil fuel energies – plus other issues, unique to renewable energy industries, affecting communities and ecosystems that should also be considered.
And if you dismiss this comment the way you have dismissed SB and Alyson’s comments, then it’s clear you have not understood at all what they are concerned about.
Windmills and solar farms are emphatically not cheaper. Take away all taxes and subsidies, and see what happens.
The fact is that you cannot manufacture and run sun mirrors, windmills and battery units without fossil fuels and rare earth resources. Also, the fact is that these so called renewables do in fact have to be renewed every eight to 15 years, so that is an awful amount of pollution that, very shortly, is going to have to be addressed – and there is currently no plan or money for that. As governments continue to prevaricate over nuclear energy, the only ‘green’ energy, we are more and more dependent on European interconnectors for our electricity, much of which is generated from fossil fuels. So, in reality our fossil fuel free, electrical power independence is at best a total fantasy and at worse a gigantic scam.
Jen: Unfortunately, I do understand their concerns, and was pointing out that such concerns they voiced are limited to those occasions which takes custom away from fossil fuels.
This is what I was trying to impress on Alyson – and I really don’t think you read my reply properly:
What can we do about it? When monied developers come along, I think it would be most appropriate for local interests to be taken into account. They seldom are – not just for solar arrays, but for anything. Mining, AI datacentre installations, a blight of housing development, a business park, you name it.
I very much doubt that people up North wanted massive coal power stations on their doorstep, but they got them alright. Nobody wants an incineration plant next to them either – funny how they always end up in poor areas.
Can you address or at least acknowledge any of this? Or is it just a question of thumbs up/down for renewables to you and SB and Alyson?
Far from dismissing them, I hoped they would think of the wider implications of their concerns – not solely as it pertains to renewables. Doesn’t look as if you understand that any better either.
Many solar farms are on productive agricultural land we will need for food production and any Government worth their salt would have by now inacted a law that requires all new houses to have a minimum of 4/6 solar panels, a law that demands retrofitting of solar panels on all NHS properties, as well as sll other public buildings.
In Norwich 1990 the Greens lobbied the developers and architecs designing the new greenfield NNUH to include solar panels on their roofs, their answer was ‘we are cladding the roofs in stainless steel’.
We estimated that they could have saved £90k per annum on energy costs, they had non of it.
The latest new build on that site is less than 2 years old and erected without solar panels.
It has to be law to do force them, saving value farmland for farming, not squander money on arming.
@stevieboy have a look at what is possible.
https://modvion.com/
I have heard that Ed Miliband is going to end the price matching of electricity from wind to electricity from gas. It was this incentive which caused the stampede to cover farmland with wind and solar electricity production. Interestingly Shell pulled out of an offshore wind farm they had agreed to build, to go instead for the oil, which I’m not sure was actually agreed was to be drilled, but which Trump told the King he intended would be.
Nevermind.
Re. “@stevieboy have a look at what is possible.
https://modvion.com/”
C’mon, really !
Cutting down mature trees, that absorb CO2, to build short lived windmills, that supposedly reduce CO2.
It’s BS isn’t it ? But a nice earner for the green meanies, like wood pellets from ancient woodlands to power Drax.
Fun fact – there is only one part of the so-called “UK” that can feed and power itself with no outside help whatsoever, and it currently exports oil, gas and electricity -for free- 24/7/365. Can anyone guess which part it is?
It’d be interesting if the YooKay regime was judged by the very standards they and their propaganda apparatus, regularly project onto others.
For example if the utterly corrupt HS2 saga was taking place in Russia for example, all money pissed-away & stolen. Witt no actual railway built for ten fecken years…
“I don’t recall many such stories, even though I live in the West. ”
Nor do I, but that is irrelevant. The stories don’t have to be frequently thrust down your throat by the MSM, it just has to be the case that, whenever the MSM runs a story about Venezuela, it (Venezuela) is represented in such terms. Nor does “failed state” mean “not having achieved perfection” as you imply.
Kacper
Venezuela’s problems are the result of the actions of the USA and its allies and Venezuela is bearing up well in the circumstances, better than the UK or USA would in similar circumstances.
Great to hear you are recovering well.
Glad to see you’re recovering well and that the Caracas hospital medical staff are forcing you to rest.
(This suggests among other things that the Venezuelan healthcare system isn’t as corrupt and decrepit as Western news reports would have us believe.)
Lovely to hear the good news.
Dear Craig,
Thank you for the fantastic work you do and I hope you recover well enough to continue doing it although it must be quite stressful. So get well soon and I hope to see much more of your excellent content. However your health must be a priority. Best wishes.
Get well soon Craig!
An; nspiring report and video, so will you be the importeur of socialist/communist Venezuelan products into Scotland? (Joke)
Best to hurry up before the world shortage of Jet fuel makes flying, as we know it, obsolete.
I think the Scottish election observers should watch out for constituencies were many postal votes decide the outcome..
All existing SNP representatives will try anything to stay in their respective jobs.
Also looking forward to see how many returns from the US orange pirate fleet, the Venezuelans will receive for their confiscated oil and the use of their facilities.
Hope you’re on the mend.
Of interest. A US army nuclear scientist | safety official, Andrew Hugg, has gone viral, after divulging top secret information to an undercover interviewer. Among other information related to nuclear silo sites, he also revealed the U.S. still possesses nerve agents, citing Sarin, which are , according to Hugg, stored at a top secret facility in Maryland. He describes the lethal effects of the agents and recalled an incident in which a US army scientist died after not following protocols. He suggested secondary exposure can also occur through exposure to contaminated surfaces like…door handles.
Why does it matter? Because these claims directly contradict the US government’s official position and declarations to the Oganisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that it destroyed all its chemical weapons stocks in 2023. Hugg was placed on administrative leave and escorted out of the Pentagon following the release of the now viral video(report below)
https://www.news18.com/world/us-army-nuclear-chiefs-big-revelations-on-iran-war-nukes-nerve-agents-going-to-kill-mojtaba-ws-l-10049404.html
This is absolutely disgraceful : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/23/foreign-office-unit-israel-potential-breaches-international-law-closed
Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts.
It is thought to be the largest database of its kind in the world and is used to monitor trends and make analyses possible.
Yasmine Ahmed, the UK director of Human Rights Watch, said it was damning that the government was choosing to cut the unit at a time when there were “continued significant violations of international law and atrocity crimes being committed across the world”.
“It makes me question the extent to which this government is complying with its obligations under the arms export criteria and its obligations under the arms trade treaty, as well as obligations that it’s meant to be discharging under the genocide convention,” she said.
Katie Fallon, the advocacy manager at Campaign Against Arms Trade, said closing the IHL cell would protect ministers and senior Foreign Office officials “who know that they have been manipulating the data on potential violations of IHL, beyond any logical interpretation, to obscure unimaginable violations and crimes committed against the most vulnerable people in conflict and sustain arms sales at any cost”.
Re. “a top secret facility in Maryland”
Here’s a long read about Japanese and German war criminals being relocated to the USA after WW2 to continue their research.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/24/a-picayune-detail-nazi-science-heads-west/
Note. “Ishii turned over more than 10,000 pages of his “research findings” to the US Army, avoided prosecution for war crimes and was invited to lecture at Ft Detrick, the US Army bio-weapons research center near Frederick, Maryland.”
Ft Detrick is where all the nasty stuff is done. It was heavily implicated in the Covid leaks stories. There are also many reports of leaks around this facility affecting people and animals. Go figure.
That’s interesting information about Shiro Ishii, the scientist who was head of Unit 731 in Manchuria, where the so-called medical experiments on Chinese civilians and Soviet, US and (posdibly) British Commonwealth POWs were done. There was a similar facility operated by the Japanese in Nanjing during WW2. Thanks for picking up that tidbit and highlighting it.
I looked up Frederick (Maryland) on a map and noticed it is close to Fairfax County (Virginia) where (in July 2019) there had been a mystery pneumonia outbreak among residents at an aged care home. Fairfax County is a wealthy part of Virginia, part of the metropolitan Washington area, and Langley is a city in that county, so one would think the residents in that nursing home could afford (and deserved, in their relatives’ opinion, if not ours) the best care.
The medical / biological research facility at Fort Detrick was shut down about the same time, in August 2019. There had been another shutdown of the facility earlier in the year over staff breaches in safety protocols.
Some of the soldiers at Fort Detrick were supposedly part of the US team sent to compete at the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019. The team was one of the larger teams participating, yet managed to pick up a very small number of medals – none of them gold.
“The team was one of the larger teams participating, yet managed to pick up a very small number of medals – none of them gold”.
Yes. They weren’t there to bring something away, but to deliver something. Whoops.
“Why does it matter? Because these claims directly contradict the US government’s official position and declarations…”
Your innocence does you credit, Goose, but surely you don’t believe a single word the US government utters? Remember Mike Pompeo declaring in public, “We lied, we cheated, we stole”… and the audience applauded.
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected President of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of soft illusion”.
– H.L. Mencken (“The Art Eternal”, New York Evening Mail 1918, as quoted in Alistair Cooke, “The Vintage Mencken”)
Came across the following article just now on msn – ie an International Business Times piece posted on Wednesday entitled ‘Israeli-Linked Project Reportedly Using AI to Generate Fake Iranian Victims, Manufacture Support for Regime Change’. Apparently it first came to light last year, but for obvious reasons, I suspected the MSM for the most part completely blanked the story, and a quick search seems to confirm that that’s the case. Needles to say, if Russia had done something similar in relation to Ukraine, it would no doubt have been headline news right across the whole of the MSM:
Israeli-Linked Project Reportedly Using AI to Generate Fake Iranian Victims, Manufacture Support for Regime Change
Citizen Lab uncovers Israeli-linked AI operation using deepfakes to destabilise Iran during conflict.
A network of inauthentic social media accounts, assessed by researchers as most likely operated by an Israeli government entity or contractor, spent months deploying AI-generated deepfakes and fabricated personas to incite Iranians into revolting against their government.
The operation, codenamed PRISONBREAK by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, was documented in a report published on 2 October 2025 and co-authored with Darren Linvill of Clemson University.
Running parallel to it, an investigation by Israeli outlets Haaretz and TheMarker exposed a separate but linked Israeli-funded campaign that manufactured fake Persian-speaking online personas to amplify support for Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s deposed Shah, as a regime-change figurehead….
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israeli-ai-deepfake-campaign-iran-1793045
And here’s another article posted by IBT, which I just this moment came across. And in this particular case, contrary to the above, I expect that much of the MSM covered it, what with the PTB wanting to have us all in a permanent war-footing mindset. Will we ever be rid of these war-mongering fear-mongering hate-mongering psychopathic scum of the earth!:
UK ‘Officially Preparing For War’ As Experts Warn ‘Last Days Of Peace’ Could Vanish Without Warning
The UK’s new ‘War Book’ revives wartime planning amid warnings that modern conflict may erase any clear ‘last days of peace’
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-warns-last-days-peace-may-end-without-warning-nation-begins-official-war-prep-1793052
And I just spotted this Sky News article from April 11th:
‘Warning lights for a coming war are flashing red – and Britain is not prepared’
Dr Rob Johnson, of the Changing Character of Conflict Centre at Oxford University, said 95% of indicators of a coming armed attack are flashing red.
Almost all warnings and indicators that a wider war is coming are flashing red and it is “breathtaking” that the UK government is failing to better prepare, a top academic has warned.
Dr Rob Johnson, director of the Changing Character of Conflict Centre at Oxford University, said China is taking the steps that would be expected to have the ability to attack Taiwan, while Russia could well be readying to launch military operations against a NATO country.
This comes on top of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which is in its fifth year, and the US and Israeli war against Iran.
Mr Johnson has compiled a list of 80 “indicators of conflict preparation and coming armed attack” by drawing on the lessons of history, including the run up to the Second World War.
The indicators cover the kind of military activity and hostile diplomacy demonstrated by a nation that is preparing to launch an armed attack….
https://news.sky.com/story/warning-lights-for-a-coming-war-are-flashing-red-and-britain-is-not-prepared-13530330
Yep, the just keep churning out their evil shite non-stop.
“This comes on top of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which is in its fifth year, and the US and Israeli war against Iran.”
Classic! Admittedly, they left out “unprovoked” and “brutal” from the description of the war in Ukraine, but still.
Well, we want peace. Julius Caesar said ‘If you want peace, prepare for war.’ So we’re doing that. Logical, eh? A 1975 war book (mainly admin matters) can be found here. The British War Blue Book of 1939 (largely a collection of speeches, including Hitler’s) is here.
“Julius Caesar said ‘If you want peace, prepare for war.’”
Well he would say that, wouldn’t he? After all he had made a career of attacking people all over western Europe, killing them and taking their land and treasure for no other reason than for his own aggrandisement and enrichment and then returned to Rome and made himself dictator. When you’ve made that many enemies, always being prepared for war is probably a good idea. Didn’t stop him ending up literally being stabbed in the back by his friends, though. A bit like Trump, now I come to think of it, although, when the knives come out for him, they will only be metaphorical ones.
Actually a quote by Roman author Vegetius which originated with Plato.
Greek city-states fought with armies of hoplites and navies of triremes. Modern states fight with supersonic aircraft, bombs and rockets, air strikes, and ultimately ICBMs.
That dictates a quite different calculus of preparing for war. Sparta and Syracuse were well prepared for war, and both defeated Athens when war began. But they did not start wars, and were reluctant to participate in them – like China and Russia today. Iran, too.
Today’s armed forces are on a hair trigger compared to ancient ones. Ever since 1914 – or earlier – heavy preparations for war almost guarantee that it will break out.
@Pears Morgaine
I stand corrected about Vegetius, but I didn’t know that the saying originated with Plato. Did he say something specific that was equivalent to this, and do you have the reference?
@Bayard – “when the knives come out for (Trump), they will only be metaphorical ones.”
I doubt Trump will stay in office until 20 January 2029.
No amount of subservience to ZOG is enough. There are politicians who spend decades helping out who then find themselves dropped as quick as a flash. This isn’t after they discover an unaccustomed sense of humanity. To use a crude metaphot, it’s when the owner of the ship tells the captain to do something, and since the captain believes he knows something about ships he says “Nah, that’s not sensible” (or “Nah, that’s too risky for Yours Truly”), and the owner (ably assisted by his “network” on the vessel) says “Goodbye Jose”. Or “you’re fired”, in the parlance.
Y’know the bit where Elon Musk, having not shaved for a few days, got filmed in the Oval Office with his clearly excellently-raised son who told someone to “shut your mouth”, and the whole Silicon Valley Mickey Mouse thing about the “Doge”, that we don’t hear so much about any more? Well that’s going to be different with Peter Thiel and his eyeliner-wearing puppet J D Vance.
Did anyone else here read the recently burped-out Palantir “22 point” summary (geddit?) of Karp and Zamiska’s book “The Technological Republic”? I considered reading that book, but a quick flickthrough was sufficient to realise it wasn’t worth it. From the summary you can see it’s about war and dictatorship.
A word from Frank Zappa now:
“At the point where the illusion (of freedom) becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.”
PS Trump is not going to pull a Putin and Medvedev trick. The guy is a bigmouth. He is nowhere near Putin in his level of helmsmanship. He’ll be remembered as a loser.
Britain’s participation in WW2 was entirely due to the government’s choice to declare war on Germany (not the other way round) along with France. This was done in fulfilment of a promise that they absolutely did not have to make, as the urging (among others) of FDR.
Other than that, Britain got into WW2 after making great efforts to prevent Germany from reaching any diplomatic resolution of the Danzig issue. Danzig was a city with 90% German inhabitants that had been taken away from Germany and given to Poland at Versailles, out of sheer spite against Germany.
Just as today, Britain got into a world war by sticking its nose into disputes that were none of its business.
“Needles to say, if Russia had done something similar in relation to Ukraine, it would no doubt have been headline news right across the whole of the MSM:”
You are forgetting Rule 3 of the rules-based order rules: Israel can do no wrong, because 6 million non-Israeli Jews were killed over 80 years ago.
Allan. Here’s another report on Israeli spying and interference in elections using AI and blackmail.
https://www.rt.com/news/638969-israel-black-cube-spies/
And another good report on the relationship between Mossad and MI5/6 dating back to 1947 and through to the recent false flag Ambulance attack. Not only is our government fully infiltrated by the zionists but also the security services are fully controlled by Tel-Aviv. This provides a degree of clarity regarding the secret arrangements between Westminster and Israel.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-secret-british-intelligence-war-on-iran
It seems to me that the relationship between the UK and Israeli secret services has been complicated. They might try to use each other in whatever they believe to be in their own national interest, but, for example, as your linked article indicated, the UK drew the line at Mossad attempting to use forged UK passports. I remember this being in the news.
Westminster used to sign a ten year, at a time “deal” with Israel – which covered many aspects including defending each other, the ten year period deal was ended a couple of years back – and now its a permanent thing, like it or not – Westminster like the USA, is tied at the hip with Israel come what may.
Add in the bought and paid for politicians – and the Epstein blackmailed ones, and you have a parliament, where no matter what evil atrocities or war crimes Israel commits – Westminster will do little more than to publicly denounce it, whilst aiding Israel via the back door.
Has Parliament ever denounced Israeli atrocities? Maybe 10 MPs out of 650.
I wonder, is there any political leadership in the UK capable of proscribing Friends of Israel as a terrorist organisation? They have infiltrated all the main political parties, the BBC, mainstream media, and the highest echelons of the Civil Service. Do they act in our national interest?
Both the leaders of Israel and the US are under investigation by their own countries’ legal authorities, for corruption and crimes against civilians, such as corruption and blockading other countries.
Here is the link to the police interview of Netanyahu:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVFUVAYDcUw
Netanyahu will never do a day in jail any more than Andreotti or Berlusconi did – or any more than any crook of a British prime minister has ever done after taking office.
Ex-prince Andrew won’t either, despite being caught bang to rights sending secret government information to a foreign power, for which George Blake got sentenced to 42 years.
Talking of which, part of the function of the Mandelson vetting story could be to avoid asking the vetting question about the ex-prince.
Who vets members of the royal family?
Who vets the “king”?
Those aren’t questions we can expect to see on the front pages any time soon.
Unfortunately there is no honest arbiter overseeing and refereeing British public life. Both wings of the political-media class (liberal and conservative) are united in silence over Britain’s participation in the Gaza Genocide and the Iran War. Before that they universally promoted the ‘Labour antisemitism crisis’ (and later the Maccabi Tel Aviv psyop). Anybody who has dared to point out the emperor has no clothes is presented as a ‘highly problematic figure’ (at best) or a demonic racist, as Zack Polanski is currently finding. Arguably the most important players in ensuring that zionist hegemony is regarded as completely normal and respectable are the ‘fearless, adversarial’ Guardian and Our ‘impartial, public-service’ BBC.
Tell me you don’t think Zack Polanski is a genuine guy causing problems for the ruling elite…
It’s a fair question. I doubt he is as radical as he is presenting but it’s clear enough that he has rattled the ruling elite. Not least by accusing the British Government of actively participating in the Gaza Genocide and the criminal assault on Iran. Also by criticising the BBC’s reporting of the Genocide.
Might I ask in turn if you believe the US Democrats you supported throughout the Gaza Genocide and everything else cause problems for the ruling elite?
I think Polanski is a Zionist plant and the Green party is fake.
The US Democrats cause no problems for the ruling elite, but it would still be preferable to have a Democrat president. (This may change so that it makes no difference whatsoever. In Britain I will never vote Labour while Starmer “turn off the water supply” is the leader.)
Rule changes mean there’s no possibility of anyone significantly different to Starmer ever being elected Labour leader. If they continue to exist it will just be as a mirror of the corporate/ zionist-owned US Democrats.
And if Gaza’s become a red line for you, it begs questions. Like what is this great distinction you see between Starmer’s participation and that of the Genocide Democrats? And why the forgiving attitude towards the latter yet intense hostility towards Zack Polanski – one of a tiny number of western political leaders who actually condemns the Genocide and everyone who took part in it?
The kindest thing anyone can say about the greens is that they are all raving mad.
The american political system is totally corrupt. Democrats and Republicans are just two cheeks of the same arse, if you think one is better, or worse, than the other you’re deluded. Biden, Clintons, Obama – say no more !
Consider.
“The US government has just admitted it is bombing Iran at the request of Israel.
‘the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally.’ ”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2026/04/25/trump-regime-admits/
And.
“the boss in the White House situation room that day was none other than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
‘Mr. Trump sat down, but not in his usual position at the head of the room’s mahogany conference table. Instead, the president took a seat on one side, facing the large screens mounted along the wall. Mr. Netanyahu sat on the other side, directly opposite the president. Appearing on the screen behind the prime minister was David Barnea, the director of Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, as well as Israeli military officials. Arrayed visually behind Mr. Netanyahu, they created the image of a wartime leader surrounded by his team.” ‘
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/israel-runs-pentagon
ZOG !
@ Brian Red
If Polanski is a Zionist agent, how do you explain his public statements as leader of the Green Party on Palestine?
“Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?”, Mandy Rice-Davies.
Brian
What in any case is the basis of your preference for a Democrat president in Washington?
The only thing Democrats themselves claim to offer ordinary people – certainly the only thing leftwing apologists like Chomsky ever mention – is their willingness to at least acknowledge and address (if only rhetorically) climate change.
Yet on that issue you are firmly in the Fox News-Donald Trump camp.
So if you hate Polanski and the Greens on that basis, should you not logically also hate the US Democrats, even if genocide wasn’t enough to put them beyond the pale?
What is the actual basis of your admiration for this distant bunch of genocidal, imperialist, zionist crooks?
Brian Red could be a North Korean plant going by his knowledge of Polanski, who knows, he might even got the hots for Kim’s sister.
Sarcalert…..🙂
@zoot – I don’t forgive anyone who has ever voted for the Occupation having the “right to defend itself” when it’s massacring Palestinians. So that covers the very large majority of Democratic congresspeople and senators. You may have a good point here.
Re. the Greens, though – I don’t believe Polanski. If the Greens ever get into government, watch their position on wars and austerity change. On nuclear power it changed long ago.
To see how totally mad and hypocritical the ‘friends of Israel’ infiltration is, just change the word Israel to China or Russia or Iran. What would be the reaction amongst ALL of our democratic party’s then ?
It wouldn’t be to say that a huge “learning centre” should be built in Victoria Tower Gardens, adjacent to the Houses of Parliament, to commemorate the Iranians who have died as a result of foreign state sanctions and acts of terror!
With “huge” meaning taking up about 27% of the park’s area.
Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby?
Because they’re part of it.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-media-mention-the-israel-lobby/
Hilarious how when shots are supposedly fired at the Washington correspondents’ dinner, some internet kiddies are saying it was a fake and a distraction because at that very moment, the noble journalists at the banquet were about to press Trump about Epstein. Seriously, I have just read that.
I believe, the shots were fired in the lobby where the assailant was apprehended.
The dinner was on the floor above.
No-one was in any danger – apart from the security guys, in the lobby.
Another day, another american nutter with a gun !
Latest shooter in Washington – wore Mossad T-Shirts, and he was previously a missile engineer, his sister works in Washington.
https://nitter.poast.org/TheSCIF/status/2048258874864541996#m
The authorities’ criminal complaint against Cole Allen includes only part of the purported text of his email, currently also being called his manifesto:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.291781/gov.uscourts.dcd.291781.1.1.pdf
Did he wear Mossad t-shirts as well as the IDF one? (He’s probably being called a “Walt” by the monarchist moral cowards on arrse.co.uk already.)
““When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians,” President Trump said on Fox News, speaking about the alleged culprit behind an attack at the White House Correspondents Dinner.”
https://forward.com/culture/821284/white-house-correspondents-dinner-suspect-bible-christianity/
Allen’s manifesto (seemingly unredacted) is (for the moment) here:
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/read-whcd-gunman-cole-allens-full-anti-trump-manifesto/
It sure seems easy to get a message out, these days, in the USA, as hero Luigi Mangione did for example, with “deny”, “defend”, and “depose” – or alternatively “delay”, “deny”, and “depose”, but in any case, barring such textual quibbles, THE MESSAGE GOT OUT.
I love this bit of Allen’s:
“Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.
Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.”
Forgot to add here is the lobby footage of “shooter” in action.
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/2048291471246152076#m
Already stories circulating that the shooting attempt is yet another false flag.
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/another-trump-shooting-false-flag
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/27/white-house-correspondents-dinner-fox-news/
As Mark Steyn reports:
“Let’s cut to the chase – the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?
I don’t think it’s possible to be this rubbish this often. If the object of a thing is, as they say, its outcome, then the object of the United States Secret Service these last two years is to enable the increasing number of Trump-deranged persons to take a potshot at him. But, even if you incline to cock-up rather than conspiracy, their dysfunction is unreformable.”
https://www.steynonline.com/16171/the-secret-service-makes-me-nervous
Strange that his “manifesto” includes a postscript that includes things like “the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance. I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.” When is he supposed to have written this? Hard to see how this could have been in the email he “scheduled” to be sent.
Just did a search re >starmer genocide< and this Canary article from November 2024 was the first in the list of results:
Here are all the other times Keir Starmer has used the word genocide – just not over Gaza
There have long been debates over where to use the word genocide. But in the past, Starmer:
Voted in 2016 “to refer genocide of Yazidis & Christians by Daesh to UN and ICC to start process to bring perpetrators to justice”. Daesh (Isis/Isil) killed over 5,000 people in its mass slaughter of Yazidis.
Wrote in 2021 about China’s treatment of its Uyghur community (for which there are no apparent reports of murder, except the roughly 200 deaths during the July 2009 riots). He said he’d be working “to ensure Britain never turns a blind eye to genocide”. Also in 2021, he insisted on sending a message to the Conservatives that “genocide can never be met with indifference, impunity or inaction”.
Marked the 2022 “anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica”, saying “we remember the 8,000 Muslim men and boys who lost their lives”. He marked the 2023 anniversary too. And in 2020, he called it an “inhuman genocide”.
Foreign secretary David Lammy had a similar record of speaking about genocide in the past. He even insisted correctly that “genocide does not start with genocide” but “with the denial of rights, attacks on truth, the rule of law and democracy”….
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/11/14/starmer-genocide/
I’d heard about him referring to Srebrenica as a genocide before, as I’m sure just about everyone who follows Craig has (and other REAL journalists), but I hadn’t heard about the other occasions he did so.
An update on the rent boy fiasco – oh to be a fly on the wall – to hear the link between those guys and Starmer.
“Three men charged in connection with arson attacks on two properties and a car linked to Keir Starmer will face trial starting on this Monday, 27 April, at the Old Bailey
The three men are Mr Lavrynovych, a Ukrainian, Mr Carpiuc, a Ukrainian-born Romanian, and Mr Pochynok, a Ukrainian. All pleaded not guilty”
Total media blackout on the Starmer rent boy trial starting today, including all ‘anti-Starmer’ conservative media.
Not a single mention that such a significant trial is underway.
zoot
April 27, 2026 at 12:28
This all sounds very odd (queer if you will).
Difficult to imagine Starmer (if he is gay) is mad enough to use rent boys while in frontline politics but what do I know..
He has an attractive wife and two children – yes I know that gay men marry women to avoid outing but these days the social stigma associated with being gay is largely departed?
Especially in the British Labour Party?
Could the 3 gentlemen be part of a smear/blackmail operation by Russia or Israel?
“Difficult to imagine Starmer (if he is gay) is mad enough to use rent boys while in frontline politics but what do I know..”
Well, an awful lot of people in similar positions had no trouble in being associated with Epstein.
It could have been a warning of what more was to come from Mossad if Starmer didn’t toe the line, though. Sounds plausible. After all, anti-semitism and sex scandals do seem to be the go-to tools of the Establishment for getting rid of UK leaders.
Ah Jakey, me ol’ White Russian, have to admire your dedication in finding ways to refer to Russia negatively.
What do you reckon are the chances of that country choosing – of all people – 3 Ukrainians to do some ” smearing ” on it’s behalf – and in such a cack-handed manner? Don’t all denizens of the Pure Land ( even if not actually resident ) hate Russians with an intensity only matched by their sanctity?
As for the risks involved from Gormless’s POV of ( alleged ) * fraternising * with such louche types, is it not likely that such is the arrogance and detachment from quotidian norms characteristic of both the upper echelons of the Legal Profession & Politicians generally he never considered he was ever at risk of being exposed and even if he was his position as a ” kosher ” member of the UK Establishment would ensure he would suffer no great injury and measures would be taken to prevent any serious investigation – as we’ve already seen is the case: imagine it was someone like Corbyn involved in this – very English – fiasco. The UK MSM lack of interest in this case speaks for itself.
Your other candidate for perp – Israel – is far more plausible, but it’s just as likely the prosaic explanation is accurate, ie a closeted politician gets outed.
I’m just a bit surprised it has actually got to court; and will be even more surprised if this – kinda farcical ( or should that be arsecal? ) – affair is not somehow spun to implicate……guess who?……yip PUTIN
Oscar Wilde, who was maybe three times as intelligent as Sir Keir, went right on consorting with rent boys when his name was on everyone’s lips. Then he prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel after Queensberry left a calling card on which he described Wilde as a sodomite. Wilde lost the case; was prosecuted for homosexuality; and spent two hard years in prison, which not only ruined his reputation but destroyed his health.
Even clever men can greatly overestimate their resources. And some men find it virtually impossible to give up their favourite people and pastimes.
Wasn’t Alan Turing, who would have been 100 times as intelligent as Keir Starmer, also prosecuted for homosexual crimes?
As punishment, Turing was given a choice of imprisonment or chemical castration – he chose the latter option, presumably on the grounds that this would force him to give up a favourite pastime.
Sadly, Turing was unable to give up another favourite pastime of his: doing experiments at home, using chemicals (such as cyanide) that could be dangerous.
Exactly so, Jen. Although Turing had been doing chemistry since he was a boy, and knew what he was doing.
I am inclined to think of his death as an early “project” of the spooks, UK or CIA or both. In spite of Churchill’s glowing praise (he said that no other single person had done as much to win the war as Turing) as soon as the war was over, politicians and civil servants began regarding him as a dangerous liability. “Too clever by half”, rebellious and cynical, and no respecter of persons – and an active, unashamed homosexual. Last but not least, obscure enough that no one would make a fuss over his death.
A perfect target for the wannabe James Bonds of the agencies. Error or suicide are ruled out by the coroner’s report, which stated that his tissues were saturated with cyanide.
Those in the British elite who don’t enjoy pederasty (I mean here the sexual abuse of boys, not relations between consenting men) condone it when they’re off-camera.
See for example the continued existence of boarding schools.
See also the 2023 documentary “Scala!!!”, which shows the famous cinema in the Kings Cross area of London in an admiring light. Practically the whole of London knew that the people who ran that place “allowed” runaway boys to “sleep” there as soon as they got off the train … just so long as they worked as rent boys. This is hinted at in the film but in a positive way.
Meanwhile hypocritical w*nkers talk about “safeguarding” (with petty officials treating working class parents as though they’re all potential abusers) and how dreadful it was with Jimmy Savile, who “hid himself in plain sight”, and how it must never happen again. Yeah right.
@JK Redux – “Could the 3 gentlemen be part of a smear/blackmail operation by Russia or Israel?”
Anyone supplying rent boys to men at that level is going to be of interest to several intelligence services and probably has a close relationship with at least one.
One interesting thing is how the trial starts (if it has in fact started) at the same time as pressure on Starmer over Mandelson, which means over Epstein, is building…
I meant to add – and Britain has some intelligence services…
@Mods – The editing function has disappeared…
Indeed, so if Starmer is so innocent on this one – why the total blackout
Republicofscotland
April 27, 2026 at 18:02
Looks like the trial begins tomorrow.
https://old-bailey.com/2026/04/27/whats-on-at-the-old-bailey-on-april-28-5/
Yes that right.
I posted the start date in my 16.11pm comment.
We need stuff to leak out – from someone who is in attendance.
I wonder if Starmer will be getting any advice from this lovely chap.
“Tzachi Braverman, a confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu and the wanted war criminal’s designated new ambassador to the UK, faces a sexual offences case in Israel. His alleged victim has notified Israeli police, supported by evidence and witness accounts. … Israeli psychotherapist and trauma expert Dr. Anat Gur, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program, has said that she believes organised child rape in Israel is widespread”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/26/israeli-new-uk-ambassador/
On numerous occasions the IDF bombed schools and hospitals and mosques etc in Gaza where civilians were sheltering and claimed their reason for doing so was because Hamas had a command and control center in the location*. But in Lebanon they’ve come up with an entirely different tack so that they can blow thousands of civilians to bits and maim thousands of others – ie that they are bombing/targeting ‘Hezbollah infrastructure’.
Needless to say it is just another falsehood, as with the Big nazi-type Lie that Hamas were using civilians as human shields, and it’s just a cover to terrorise the civilian population. Has anyone come across them explaining what the infrastructure they bombed was, cos I haven’t. But no doubt they’d come up with some complete shite if confronted and asked why they bombed this particular apartment block or whatever.
And as for Iran, the whole murderous reason for the US and Israel attacking the country is just one big massive lie, and one that Benny the Baby Killer has been repeating for the past thirty years or more – ie that Iran is just weeks or months away from developing a nuclear weapon. And as we all know – unlike hundreds of millions of people in the West who have been duped and deceived – Russia WAS provoked into military action against Ukraine.
*Israel was of course lying through its nazty genocidal teeth about Hamas setting up command and control centers in schools and hospitals etc where civilians were sheltering, but in a scenario in which they did DO so, then given that the IDF/IAF bombs the locations anyway, then OBVIOUSLY the civilians sheltering there DON’T act as a deterrent and a human shield, and so THAT is just another Zionist falsehood, because how can they be human shields if they’re NOT!
But, but Sir Qweer Starmer says ‘they’ have the right to defend themselves, and it cannot possibly be a genocide because the
targetsvictims weren’t jewish. Anyone tells you different is obviously an antisemite.Ah, that was an aspect I hadn’t considered: just as the definition of anti-semitic has been broadened to cover criticism of the state of Israel and that of terrorist to cover any dead Palestinian, the definition of genocide has been narrowed to only refer to the killing of Jews. Now all these denials from Starmer et al make sense.
And most of the peoples of the Middle East are Semitic, so how could they be anti-semitic?
That’s not what “anti-semitic” means now. Words change their meaning over time, e.g. a ship “sails” from a port, manned by “sailors”, yet there is not a sail to be seen on it.
The perpetrators aren’t Jewish either.
Agreed. Hamas don’t use human shields, and if they did it wouldn’t deter the Zionazis anyway.
Hamas is an armed resistance organisation and it wouldn’t survive if it treated civilians in that way, especially over an extended period of time. That is not how resistance organisations work.
The word “infrastucture” is supremacist wink-wink code for bombing hospitals, schools, desalination plants, water pipes, churches, mosques – whatever makes civilian life viable among the Palestinians. “Infrastructure of terror” means “what Palestinians need to survive”.
When one hears the Occupation view of hospitals in Gaza, one is hearing the view of supremacists, extreme racists who don’t think Jewish women should give birth in the same building as Palestinian women viewed as “mothers of future terrorists”.
There is also the point that wounded combatants who are out of action and receiving treatment in hospital have a right to protection under the laws of warfare, and even bombing a military hospital where they are being treated is a war crime.
Hamas are not terrorists. It’s the Zionists who are the terrorists.
Let’s recall that Israel treated wounded ISIS members, actual terrorists, in their hospitals and they were visited by Pritti Patel when she was secretely holding talks with Netanyahu.
Also, yet again demonstrating the duplicity of India in the genocide of Palestinians.
“Approximately 240 members of India’s Bnei Menashe Jewish community arrived in Israel on 24 April, marking the first phase of “Operation Wings of Dawn,” a government-supported initiative to expand Jewish settlements in occupied Palestine.”
https://thecradle.co/articles/first-wave-of-indian-migrants-lands-in-israel-to-expand-settlements-replace-palestinian-laborers
Incidentally, when Tehran targets Israeli military assets and command and control centres, its missiles often end up damaging civilian neighbourhoods in Israeli cities (Tel Aviv in particular) – because the Israeli govt and the IDF deliberately put those assets and centres in those residential areas, using their own people as human shields.
The last two parts of a report from an American in Iran:
“Episode 5, Bushehr” (Propaganda & Co, 17 Apr 2026) – video, 15m 14s: YouTube, Invidious.
“Episode 6, Bandar Abbas and the Strait of Hormuz”, including the aftermath of the destruction of the school in Minab (Propaganda & Co, 21 Apr 2026) – video, 28m 36s: YouTube, Invidious.
My wife and I visited Venezuela in 2003 and both owe lives to the excellent treatment we received from Venezuelan health services. My abiding memory of Venezuela will always the joyful expressions of many thousands of Warao Indians when Chavez came to visit and they got to thank him for finally giving the indigenous population legal iwnership of their natural resources. That and the tears of joy from a warao grandmother who thanks to adult education classes could finally read to her 12th grandchild rather than the other way around as had been the case with the previous 11… oo aa, chavez no se va
International
Journalists. Denied Access
To Gaza’s ceasefire.
Our lovely democracy under our lovely socialist government, the USSR would be so happy …
‘The Government “will impose some form of age or functionality restrictions” on social media for under-16s whatever the consultation says, Education Minister Olivia Bailey, …, “I can also confirm that consideration of restrictions such as curfews will be in addition, not instead of this.” ‘
https://www.gbnews.com/news/social-media-ban-labour-internet-restrictions-consultation
They’re really chasing the youth vote !
“Give me the child, and I will give you the man”.
Do you get a lot of your news and perspectives from GB news, SB?
‘our lovely socialist government’
How much more proudly in the pocket of Black Rock, Palantir, etc, would they need to be for you to regard them as rightwing?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-blackrock-letters-inside-labours-close-partnership/
https://www.politico.eu/article/britains-labour-government-feels-the-heat-over-palantir-contracts/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-given-4m-from-tax-haven-based-hedge-fund-with-shares-in-oil-and-arms/
Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
There you have it – do what I want or else.
“Keir Starmer will whip Labour MPs to vote against referring him to the Privileges Committee
It means any Labour MP voting for it risks being suspended from the party”
Good. Starmer won the 2024 election in a landslide, whatever one thinks of the electoral system, and it is outrageous that sinister forces are trying to oust him on such a flimsy pretext over the heads of the electorate. Look at how the same pathetic Guardian columnists who destroyed Corbyn’s leadership are now pitching in almost in unison against Starmer – who they themselves urged people to vote for two years ago. So much for the newspaper’s boasts of having courage, ethics and independence.
@Tom74 – Interesting info. Is it wider than the Guardian? If you have noticed common factors with how Corbyn’s leadership was destroyed, this suggests it’s more than cowardly coked-up creeps called “journalists” getting some kicks in against somebody they know is on his way out of the door in disgrace.
Interesting too how Lindsay Hoyle is doing his bit.
Personally I think Andy Burnham will become PM, maybe not directly after Starmer though. Is he known LFOI?
It’s the law, you have to be a FOI to get any role in government, having dubious sexual preferences and being corrupt also helps.
Continuing to be completely unaware of Starmer’s participation in genocide, Tom?
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/uk-israel-gaza-genocide-media
Keep going.
It’s only outrageous if you persist in believing the myth that the UK is a democracy and that Starmer is elected by the people to run the country. He wasn’t. 0.02% of the electorate voted for Starmer and they didn’t vote for him to run the country, they voted for him to be their MP, representing their interests at Westminster, which no doubt he does a rotten job of doing, seeing that he has a full time job. being PM. Moreover, there is nothing in the unwritten British constitution that says that the leader of a political party that has a majority of the lower house of the legislature should be the PM, nor that the members of that party who are MPs cannot change whoever is PM while they are PM. You may think it “outrageous” that “sinister forces” are acting on the Labour Party to get them to change their leader, who has made himself one of the least popular PM in history, but that’s just normal politics in the UK and I, personally, think that it’s good when people are reminded how the system really works.
Starmer and NuLabor got fewer votes in 2024 than Jeremy Corbyn and Labour did in 2019 and 2017. Starmer got more seats because Reform split the Conservative vote.
https://electionresults.parliament.uk/general-elections/6/political-parties
NuLabor got a greater share of the votes in 2024, but only just, because the turnout was lower.
As despicable as the unflushable Starmer is, the real problem is the labour party, and actually it’s worse than that because it’s the whole Westminster shit show. Any changes made in government, government roles, or political parties won’t change a thing for the country or the people. Rising costs, inequality and chaos will be our lot.
And the only landslide we’ll see in the corrupt voting system is the increase in the number of people who don’t vote.
In the latest news about the Sh*tclown regime that runs the island north of France, its billionaire “king” has once again visited the USA, where he has addressed Congress.
At a previous banquet held in Britain, he grinned like a stoner as he fawned to the deranged US president, expressing his admiration for “the principles of freedom which your great democracy has represented since its inception”. Yes, freedom.
This time, gobbing off to the assembly of AIPAC-funded crooks, he praised “this citadel of democracy created to represent the voice of all American people to advance sacred rights and freedoms.”
Freedom again. He keeps going on about freedom and freedoms. The truth is that the USA was established by slaveowners and the Capitol building was constructed by slaves. Lest anyone forget, slavery is the exact opposite of freedom.
I’ve listened to the speech by King Charles in Congress and his shorter, lighter speech during the State banquet. The one in Congress seems to have impressed everyone, a remarkable thing given the bitter party divisions in the USA. Apart from emphasizing shared values, he mentioned the need to protect the environment, and he mentioned Ukraine and the courage of its people.
IMHO he exerted the UK’s soft power and influence, and helped to conserve the ‘special relationship’ as well as anyone in his position could have, all the more remarkable given his illness, from which, may Heaven grant His Majesty a good recovery and many happy years to come.
“Special relationship”
Dont make me larf, MJ. If I may be allowed to quote the immortal words of Helmut Schmidt:
“A relationship so special, only one side is aware of its existence”.
The United States only has a special relationship with one country and that country is:- The United States. And before anyone says “what about Israel”, that’s not a special relationship, that’s an abusive relationship.
“The relationship between MI6 and the CIA is central to the special relationship between our countries. We endanger that relationship at our peril.” Sir Colin McColl, former head of MI6, as quoted by Richard Tomlinson, ex-MI6 agent in The Big Breach.
To use another famous quotation, “Well, he would say that wouldn’t he?”. After all, he’s only one pay grade down from Old Wingnuts (that’s His Maj in case you’re not familiar with the epithet) in the deep state pecking order. Now try and find me a quote from Sir Colin’s equivalent in the CIA expressing a similar sentiment about the so-called special relationship.
It’s truly amazing how many people believe in this “special relationship” when in reality it is and always has been a crock of shit.
Always remember what Henry Kissinger said about the USA’s foreign relations:
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.”
and
“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Straight from the horse’s mouth, as they say.
“and he mentioned Ukraine and the courage of its people.”
If ever a nation deserved the epithet of “lions led by donkeys”, it’s Ukraine.
“and helped to conserve the ‘special relationship’ ”
As far as I can see, the “special relationship” from the point of view of the US is “You do what we want you to do and we’ll be nice to you. Step out of line and you get the same shit as anyone else who tries to buck the system.”
‘If ever a nation deserved the epithet of “lions led by donkeys”, it’s Ukraine’.
Oh, I thought that referred to English football teams.
Completely agree M J. The King’s speech to Congress met the needs of every person who heard it, for a sane, rational, and compassionate leader of the free world. Perfect.
The King seems to have exerted a healing influence on America. His trip may thus have brought out more clearly our good fortune, that he’s our King (and of a number of other countries).
Freedom is meaningless without slavery. Being free means we aren’t slaves, but the only thing that has changed over the years is how one defines slavery. Government, taxes, the police, the media are all elements of modern slavery and the slave owners are the same people they always were, the establishment. Nothing really changes.
The boiling frog syndrome – which seems to be everywhere, as soon as you start to notice.
“The truth is that the USA was established by slaveowners and the Capitol building was constructed by slaves.”
The USA is a nation founded on genocide and slavery.