Martin and Tony are
joined by Radical Cartoonist Stella Perrett and Independent
Councillor for Knowle, Gary Hopkins. Bristol mayor Marvin Rees
refuses to be interviewed or even reply to requests. New
transgender bill in Scotland. The more that I saw you burning –
Posted on January 17, 2023 by Rev. Stuart Campbell. The
recently-restored Wings Twitter account has a little over 56,000
followers, the vast bulk of them accumulated at a time when this
site had far less reason to criticise the SNP or the Scottish
Government. So
while this poll isn’t scientific, the indy-friendly nature of
the respondent base makes it pretty interesting. Those numbers
closely mirror what every actual proper poll tells us about
Scottish people’s opinion of the GRR itself – they oppose it by
margins of between 3:1 and 4:1. So if the Scottish Government is
counting on the UK’s intervention to increase support for
independence, frankly it looks like they’re onto a massive
loser. This hasn’t stopped some commentators intelligent enough
to know better (but whose previous detectable interest in the
gender issue has been nil) from rushing out with little nuggets
of comically ill-informed analysis: Really? Being dragged out of
Europe against our will didn’t move the indy dial. The rolling
farce of Theresa May then Boris Johnson’s reigns as PM didn’t
move the indy dial (not even Liz Truss’s “WTAF?” month in 10
Downing Street did). The cost of living crisis didn’t move the
indy dial. Indeed, other than a temporary blip during the peak
of COVID when Nicola Sturgeon was live on national TV literally
every day, nothing has moved the indy dial in her entire term as
First Minister. Perhaps most pertinently, the Internal Market
Bill – where the UK government literally invented brand new
legislation in order to trample all over Holyrood’s devolved
powers – didn’t move the indy dial. Yet Prof. Qvortrup
apparently thinks the people of Scotland will rise up in
revolutionary fury over the UK legitimately using law that
already exists, because apparently the people of Scotland are so
desperate to let rapists identify as women and be held in
women’s prisons. Hmmm. And let’s not lie to ourselves – the
deployment of Section 35 is perfectly legitimate. Indeed, it’s
the exact reason Section 35 was included in the Scotland Act for
in the first place (and not by the dastardly Tories, but by
Labour, and voted for by the SNP).
Rent controls in
Bristol. Evan Davis interviews Marvin Rees on Thursday’s BBCR4
PM – housing in Bristol – not enough student accommodation.
Cramped student accommodation. New mall for Knowle. Bristol
renters and landlords barred from speaking in council debate
on rent controls – Evan Davis interviews US accented
snake-like Evelyn Welch, aloof Vice-Chancellor of University of
Bristol, about housing for students, she asks for more
government money. Bristol Arena – old area near Temple Meads and
new plan. By election in Hotwells and Harbourside. Evan
interviewing Marvin – Mayoral position voted out in Bristol.
Levelling up grants. “No more landlords”: students take housing
matters into their own hands As student housing reaches crisis
point in the UK, one organisation is determined to break the
mould – and the grip of rogue landlords – by creating
co-operatives to run accommodation.
Student housing in crisis – Housing for university students is
in chaos. As the Guardian reported, charities are saying it’s
the worst crisis since the 1970s. It noted that the company
StuRents did research that: suggests there is a shortfall of
207,000 student beds, and 19 towns and cities where there is
more than a 10% undersupply of beds, ranging from 28% in Preston
and 25% in Bristol to 10% in Birmingham and Swansea.
purpose-built student accommodation has stopped expanding to the
extent it was, and we don’t think that’s going to change. At the
same time we think there’s a significant decrease in shared
houses – [landlords] are moving back to renting to professionals
or leaving the market. The reason for the chaos is fairly
obvious: government-driven privatisation of the sector. As a
report by the Higher Education Police Institute noted: Student
housing no longer sits within the control of universities.
Private sector involvement used to be confined to shared student
housing in the community. Universities, for their part, owned
and ran halls of residence. Now, almost half of residences are
owned by private providers, working independently or alongside
university partners. However, students aren’t taking the chaos
lying down. In Manchester, a rent strike is currently ongoing.
Meanwhile, one group is helping students take direct control of
their homes. A co-operative way. Student Co-op Homes (SCH)
launched in March 2018: It acts as an umbrella for student
housing co-operatives. SCH explained in a press release that: A
student housing co-operative is a not-for-profit alternative
housing model, whereby the tenants have control over their home.
This enables the students living in them to learn and share
skills to create homes where everyone collaborates for mutual
benefit. The group works with external people and organisations
to build portfolios of properties for lease to local co-ops. So
far, it’s had some success. SCH says on its website that: We
raised over £300,000 through our first community share offer,
allowing us to start buying properties and help create a
thriving student housing co-op movement.
Electric cars. Green
energy schemes. -> Man drives electric Volvo 350 miles to see
REAL cost and ‘numbers just don’t add up’ – Steven Smith wanted
to find out just how easy it is to charge an electric car and
what it costs but found that using the ‘eco-friendly’ vehicle
came with a hefty price tag Steven said: “The whole day had been
a bit of a brain melt in all honesty, constantly
working out how far I could travel and where the best places to
stop were on both legs of the journey. All in all I felt
relieved to get home, but also like someone had emptied my
wallet while I wasn’t looking.” With a full charge at home, a
fast top-up at services, a slow top-up in Bristol and a
super-fast top-up on the way back, the entire journey cost
Steven £88.07. Meanwhile, he calculated that the diesel cost for
the same journey would have come to £50.24, “assuming 55mpg and
173.9p per litre”, while the petrol cost would have been £53.28,
“assuming 45mpg and 150.9p per litre”. Concluding his
experiment, Steven said: “I wanted this to work, I really did.
But after what I hope you will agree was a pretty comprehensive
real-world test, I couldn’t make the numbers add up. “Whichever
way I looked at it, the return trip had taken me 90 minutes
longer than usual and cost me nearly £40 more. I
certainly didn’t expect that. “Helping to save the planet with
zero-emission vehicles comes at a personal cost, it would seem,
certainly given the spiralling cost of energy in the past year
or so.” He added: “The criticism lies with the cost of
on-the-road charging, not with the car, which is excellent. My
only beef with the car was not getting anywhere near its claimed
on-paper range, which ultimately added to the cost because I
wasn’t getting as much bang for my buck as I would have hoped
for. “Getting more like 220 or 250 miles for a full charge would
have felt much better. Until such a time as on-the-road chargers
return to costing closer to what charging at home currently
does, long journeys are a difficult equation. Had all of my
charging been possible at the same rate as at home, the day
would have cost me roughly the same as, or probably a little
less than, the diesel. But it wasn’t possible, because on a long
journey you are beholden to public chargers and what they cost –
and that cost has rocketed. “That leads me to conclude that the
arguments for and against electric cars as it currently stands
are complex – even more so with the cost of electricity having
risen substantially. If, like most people I suspect, you do
mostly local driving (to work, the shops, out for dinner, etc)
with the occasional long journey mixed in every few weeks, it
makes a lot of sense when you can do most of your charging at
home, especially if you’ve got a proper 7kw home charger
installed and aren’t running an extension lead out of a window
like I was.
BRI NHS rally Saturday
at 2pm. PMQs Starmer – state of NHS. But he has no solitions
except let Davod banksters run it all…. SOUTH-WEST HEALTHCARE
WORKERS MARCH – 2pm, SATURDAY 21st JANUARY 2023 IN BRISTOL
Meet
outside the BRI at the corner of Upper and Lower Maudlin Street,
Bristol, BS1 2LY. We will march up past the BRI and Park Row,
going down Park Street to finish on College Green where we will
hear from some healthcare speakers. TIME TO PAY OUR NHS WORKERS
FAIRLY! Join us in Bristol, outside the Bristol Royal Infirmity
on the corner of Upper and Lower Maudlin Street at 2pm on
Saturday January 21st, as we march to College Green and raise
our collective voice to say: “PAY NHS WORKERS FAIRLY AND FIX THE
STAFFING CRISIS”! Join us, as representatives from BMA, Unison
and other healthcare unions take to the streets to demand that
the government meets with unions, acknowledges the scale of the
problem and the need for urgent resolution of the staffing
crisis so the public receive the healthcare they deserve. The
NHS has seen an exodus of staff. Real-terms pay has been
steadily eroded. Trained professionals are forced to leave the
profession that they love. Patients suffer as workers tirelessly
take more on and to provide the best care they can under
unmanageable duress. The same workers who were clapped as heroes
by the government- and yet the government stick their heads in
the sand and issue empty platitudes. It’s time to say “ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH!”.
Davos – Greta Thumberg criticising the big companies and big money inside. NZ – Jacinda Aherne has resigned. Kier Starmer in Davos on the energy crisis. Bitchute – carbon credit cartoon. Klaus Schwab at Davos. Kier Starmer at Davos.
Tony Blair calls for WEF
and WTO to introduce “digital infrastructure” that monitors
vaccination status – “You need the data. You need to know who’s
been vaccinated and who hasn’t been.” Former United Kingdom (UK)
Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for global organizations
such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Economic
Forum (WEF) to push national governments to introduce “digital
infrastructure” that monitors who has been vaccinated and who
hasn’t. Blair
pushed for this government-controlled digital vaccine database
during an appearance at the World Economic Forum’s 2023 annual
meeting — a yearly event where powerful business leaders,
politicians, and other influential figures meet in Davos,
Switzerland to discuss the agendas they want to advance. The
former Prime Minister emphasized the importance of “technology
and digital infrastructure” and data collection for surveilling
the status of the vaccinated and unvaccinated. “You need the
data,” Blair said. “You need to know who’s been vaccinated and
who hasn’t been. Some of the vaccines that will come on down the
line will be multiple, there’ll be multiple shots. So you’ve got
to have, the reasons to do with the healthcare more generally,
but certainly, for a pandemic or for…vaccines, you’ve got to
have a proper digital infrastructure, and many countries don’t
have that. In fact, most countries don’t have that.” Blair
continued by suggesting that his digital vaccination status
surveillance dragnet should be pushed through by the WTO (an
intergovernmental organization that regulates international
trade), the WEF (an unelected global organization that seeks to
“shape global, regional and industry agendas”), and
intergovernmental forums such as the Group of Twenty (G20) and
the Group of Seven (G7). “Who are the people that can make this
happen?” Blair said. “How do you get the right partnerships in
place?…That should happen in the G20 particularly, I think,
which is…G7 is an important forum, but the G20 is the broader
forum…You’ve got to work out what is it that you want to achieve
in order to make sure that any future pandemic is properly
handled and what are the partnerships that you’re going to
create in order to ensure that the answers you get are the right
answers. And then you’re going to have the mechanisms of
implementation. And those mechanisms will be partly through the
formal institutions that you have, like the WTO, and they’ll
also be through organizations like yours [the WEF] which…I
think…have many advantages because they don’t get landed with
the same bureaucracy and frankly small pea politics around
them.”
John Wedger, former MET
Police Officer, on corruption in the Police. Protection for
whistle blowers needed. Tony Roach on Police Professional
Standards. John Wedger on when he was in the MET and later
lowered entry standards. How did the Met fail to stop the sex
monster within its ranks? Scotland Yard missed nine chances to
catch rapist cop David Carrick as he attacked 12 women over 17
years – and failed to suspend him when he was arrested for rape.
Carrick was repeatedly accused of rape, domestic violence and
harassment. Yet faced no criminal sanctions or misconduct
findings from 2000 to 2021. Activists called Met’s ‘horrendous’
failings evidence of ‘institution in crisis’. Scotland Yard
failed to stop David Carrick despite nine incidents being
reported to police over two decades – including allegations of
rape, domestic violence and harassment. The
48-year-old Met firearms officer faced no criminal sanctions or
misconduct findings over the incidents between 2000 and 2021 –
eight of which involved women victims – leaving him free to
attack 12 women in a 17-year campaign of torture and abuse.
Carrick passed vetting procedures to join the Met in 2001
despite allegations of malicious communications and burglary
against an ex-partner the previous year. He was accused of
harassment and assault against a former partner while still in
his probationary period in 2002 but the matter was not referred
to the Directorate of Professional Standards. Today, campaigners
said the Met’s ‘horrendous’ failings were evidence of an
‘institution in crisis’, while Downing Street admitted public
trust in the police had been ‘shattered’. On one of the darkest
day’s in the Met’s 194-year history – David Carrick, from
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has pleaded guilty to 49 charges
relating to 12 women between 2003 and 2020; Include the rape of
nine different women but some of the charges are multiple
incident counts, meaning they relate to 71 serious sexual
offences, including 48 rapes; Fiend was nicknamed ‘B***ard Dave’
by colleagues and showed one of his victims his warrant card;
Force failed to stop him despite nine incidents, including
claims of rape, domestic violence and harassment, coming to
police attention over two decades; Rishi Sunak’s spokesman
called the case ‘appalling’ and said that high-profile incidents
had ‘shattered’ public trust; Sadiq Khan says he is ‘absolutely
sickened and appalled’ by Carrick’s ‘truly abhorrent offences’;
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb will sentence Carrick over two days
from February 6; Met is now reviewing more than 1,600 cases of
alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving officers
and staff; Campaigners said the Met’s failure to stop Carrick
showed it was an ‘institution in crisis’; Force said it’s
confident Carrick would not have passed vetting procedures to
join today; Police warned Carrick may have had more victims who
are waiting to come forward; Baroness Casey, who is conducting a
review of the Metropolitan Police’s standards and internal
culture, . Carrick would flash his warrant card to lure the
women into a false sense of security and tell them: ‘I’m a
police officer, you can trust me’. After the attacks, he would
taunt his victims by saying they’d never be believed because he
was a policeman and it was his word against theirs. The monster
took delight in humiliating his victims, whom he branded his
‘slaves’ – with some locked in a small cupboard under the stairs
for ten hours without food, whipped with a belt, or forced to
clean his house naked. He was the subject of five complaints
from members of the public between 2002 and 2008, including
rudeness, incivility and the use of force, with two of the
incidents dealt with by management action. Carrick passed checks
to become a firearms officer in 2009 despite at least one
further domestic incident involving the Met in 2004 and was
re-vetted in 2017 – the same year he was spoken to by Thames
Valley Police officers after being thrown out of a Reading
nightclub while drunk. By then he had also been the suspect in a
2016 Hampshire Police investigation following an allegation of
harassment but he was not arrested. The PC was given ‘words of
advice’ after being accused of grabbing a woman by the neck
during a domestic incident investigated by Hertfordshire
Constabulary in 2019 over informing his chain of command about
off-duty incidents but found to have no misconduct case to
answer. He was placed on restricted duties after he was arrested
on suspicion of rape in July 2021 but the restrictions were
lifted after the criminal probe was dropped in September.
Carrick has now admitted two charges of rape, two of sexual
assault and one count of controlling and coercive behaviour in
relation to the woman. However, Carrick never returned to full
duties because he was arrested over another rape allegation in
October after another woman came forward. The investigation
prompted another dozen women to make allegations against
Carrick, many of whom said they had been scared to speak out
because of his position. No police colleagues ever complained
about Carrick’s behaviour but following his arrest some officers
confirmed he was known as ‘the bastard’ or ‘Bastard Dave’
because he was ‘mean and cruel’.
John Wedger, on child
sex abuse rings in the Police, and Satanic abuse. Secret
services and blackmail. Senior Met police officer facing child
porn charges found dead at home. Chief Inspector Richard
Watkinson was also accused of having pairs of boys’ underwear
and sex toys stashed away in a secret room. Concerns
were raised for his welfare last week after he failed to turn up
at the police station where he was due to be charged. A senior
Metropolitan Police officer facing child porn offences has
reportedly been found dead at home. Chief Inspector Richard
Watkinson had been arrested in July 2021 after a raid on his
address in Buckinghamshire uncovered a stash of indecent images,
pairs of boys’ underwear and sex toys hidden away behind a trap
door at the property . The shock discovery followed a joint
investigation into Watkinson by the Met and force watchdog the
Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). The images
uncovered on his computer equipment were said to be Category A
and B, meaning they depicted abuse of the worst levels. The
49-year-old’s initial arrest was on ‘suspicion of misconduct,
sending obscene messages, corrupt exercise of police powers and
data protection breaches’. He was subsequently re-arrested 11
days later on suspicion of further offences which included
conspiracy to ‘distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism
and misconduct in public office’. His body was discovered last
week after he failed to turn up at the police station where he
was due to be charged, raising concerns for his welfare. A
spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said, “Officers were
called to Saunderton, Princes Risborough, at just after 3.35pm
on Thursday, January 12. “Sadly, the body of a man was located
inside a property at that location. The man’s death is
unexplained but not suspicious. A file will be prepared for the
coroner. “His next of kin have been made aware and our thoughts
are with the man’s family and friends.” A source told The Sun
nerwspaper it is suspected Watkinson, apparently nicknamed ‘Sir
Smashy’ after a Harry Enfield character by colleagues, was under
“huge mental strain” due to the case.
Crash of Ukranian
helicopter. Kissinger says Ukraine should join NATO. Tanks to
Ukraine from Germany. Russia’s gains in Ukraine war. Ukraine
helicopter crash: Elites struggle for power as Zelensky’s days
are numbered – The struggle for power in Ukraine has been
escalating lately. The helicopter that crashed on a kindergarten
in Brovary on January 18 comes as a living proof of this.
The
Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, may impeach President
Zelensky, whereas the task of the Russian Armed Forces is to win
the Key to Kyiv. Ukraine helicopter crash: Elites struggle for
power as Zelensky’s days are numbered. Ukraine’s Minister for
Interior killed in Brovary helicopter crash – A Super Puma
helicopter with the Ministry for Interior on board crashed on
the morning of January 18 near a kindergarten in the town of
Brovary, a suburb of Kyiv. Denis Monastyrsky was assassinated –
It appears, however, that Denis Monastyrsky, who did not have
the habit of traveling by helicopter, was assassinated. Who
wanted him dead? There are two options. The first one is
Zelensky himself. This version can be confirmed by the visit of
the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny to
Poland for a meeting with US General Mark Milley without the
consent of Zelensky’s Office. According to Legitimny Telegram
channel, Zelensky has no confidence in the Americans as everyone
knows that they can easily change players when needed. Denis
Monastyrsky may have taken the side of Zaluzhny, and this cost
him life. The version of Avakov’s involvement untenable – Image
of the Future Telegram channel believes that Ukraine’s former
Minister for Interior, Arsen Avakov, could be interested in
killing Monastyrsky. Avakov started his own game before the
split in Ukraine’s military and political leadership. Allegedly,
Arsen Avakov is one of Zelensky’s guys: “He received his
position at the request of Andriy Yermak and a group of
influential smugglers. He aims to replace Monastyrsky,” the
authors of the Telegram channel assume. Supposedly, it was
Avakov, who gave an order to shoot down the helicopter from a
MANPAD. Yet, Avakov has been out of work for a long time. There
is a false lead here, but Ukrainian investigation cling to this
version. Redistribution of power in Ukraine – The following
events indicate that something has changed in the political
attitude of Ukrainian elites: Aleksey Arestovych resigned from
the position of an adviser to the President’s Office in order to
start his own political project. The West gives many verbal
promises to supply heavy arms to Kyiv, but takes little action.
Germany does not give permission for the export of Leopard
tanks. Ursula von der Leyen emotionally urged EU leaders to give
Kyiv any weapon that can be used there. There is clearly no
consensus among EU member states on this issue. Meanwhile,
Washington calls on to seek dialogue with Moscow. The situation
on the fronts of the special operation has changed dramatically
in favour of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The
Russian forces continue their offensive after taking Soledar.
Mobilisation in Ukraine does not bring any results at all. It
appears that the Kyiv regime can see that it’s getting really
tough. The Ukrainian economy is falling into abyss. The EU has
transferred 3 billion euros for budgetary needs. This is enough
for only a month to pay salaries and pensions. The Russian
Aerospace Forces have destroyed Ukraine’s energy system.
Military supplies have been disrupted. Events in Ukraine develop
rapidly. In a few weeks, we may probably see Ukrainian MPs
impeaching President Zelensky. His political career is drawing
to an end. The goal of the Russian Armed Forces is to take
advantage of the moment and get the Key to Kyiv.
Barnaby Jack died
exposing CIA Heart Attack weapons: David Halpin – on the strange
death of Robin Cook – former Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
was opposing US policy on the illegal Iraq war when he died
mysteriously Robin’s GP said Robin’s heart was fine – other
suspicious deaths. Heart attacks induced by hacking pacemakers
and other medical equipment Barnaby Jack was a hacker in San
Francisco who died of a ‘multiple drug overdose’ the day before
he was due to give a presentation showing how easy it is to hack
into a pacemaker and kill someone. Hacker found dead just days
before he was due to demonstrate how to kill someone fitted with
a pacemaker at conference. Barnaby Jack had said he could kill a
person from 30 feet by using the hack. Gained
infamy after demonstrating how to hack cash machines. Mystery
surrounds the death of a celebrated computer hacker who claimed
to know how to remotely kill someone fitted with a heart
pacemaker – as happened in the fictional TV spy drama Homeland.
Barnaby Jack died in San Francisco on Thursday, just days before
he was due to give a speech revealing how implanted heart
devices were at risk from fatal hacking attacks. The San
Francisco Medical Examiner’s office confirmed the death last
night but did not give any further details. New Zealand-born
Jack, 35, was scheduled to be one of the star guests at the
Black Hat hacking convention in Las Vegas next week. In a
presentation called Hacking Humans, he was planning to highlight
the shortcomings of commonly used pacemaker machines by
demonstrating how he could hack into them and kill the heart
patient from 50ft away with a deadly power surge triggered by a
wireless transmitter.
An
episode of the acclaimed US series Homeland, starring Damian
Lewis and Claire Danes, showed a terrorist using a computer to
hack into the Vice-President’s pacemaker and speed up his
heartbeat until it kills him.
In Homeland, the killer needed the serial number of the
pacemaker, but Jack argued that in real life it was even simpler
and knowing the code was not necessary. In a recent blog, he
said: ‘The only implausible aspect of the hack was the range in
which the attack was carried out. ‘The attacker would have had
to be in the same building or have a transmitter set up closer
to the target. With that said, the scenario was not too
far-fetched.’ He said some pacemakers could be commanded to
deliver a deadly 830-volt shock from someone on a laptop up to
50ft away, the result of poor software programming by medical
device companies. Jack claimed it was possible to infect the
pacemaker companies’ servers with a bug that would spread
through their system like a virus. ‘We are potentially looking
at a worm with the ability to commit mass murder,’ he added.
‘It’s kind of scary.’ The possibility of such attacks is being
taken so seriously by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
that it has asked manufacturers to ensure greater protection for
newer pacemakers which use wireless technology. Jack became one
of the world’s most famous hackers after a 2010 demonstration of
‘Jackpotting’ – getting cash machines to spew out money. At the
time of his death, Jack was director of embedded-device security
for Seattle information-security firm IOActive. The company said
in a tweet: ‘Lost but never forgotten, our beloved pirate,
Barnaby Jack, has passed.’
PMQs – Nadhim Zahawi not
paying tax. Zahawi part of Le Circle now called Pinay Circle.
Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi ‘pays millions to settle tax
row’ after investigation. Former Conservative chancellor Nadhim
Zahawi is said to have agreed to pay HMRC several million pounds
in tax following an investigation into his financial affairs
that was first revealed by The Independent last year. The
Tory chair has agreed to pay a seven-figure sum to HM Revenue
and Customs (HMRC) to settle a tax dispute, according to
reports. Labour says there are now “serious questions to answer”
for Mr Zahawi and the prime minister. The Independent reported
in July that HMRC officials were examining the tax affairs of
the senior Tory figure after an inquiry was launched by the
National Crime Agency (NCA) in 2020. This is how The Independent
reported the investigation at the time – In summer last year,
when Mr Zahawi was chancellor and while he was running for the
Tory leadership, a senior Whitehall source confirmed that the
tax matter being investigated by HMRC was “unresolved”. The
initial NCA inquiry was codenamed Operation Catalufa and is
understood to have involved the agency’s International
Corruption Unit. The Tory chair gave HMRC a “seven-figure” sum
to settle a tax row related to Gibraltar-registered Balshore
Investments – used to hold shares in the YouGov polling company
he co-founded – according to The Sun on Sunday. A spokesperson
for Mr Zahawi did not deny that the tax bill amounted to several
million, and told The Independent: “As he has previously stated,
Mr Zahawi’s taxes are properly declared and paid in the UK. The
senior Tory claimed to be the victim of a “smear” campaign after
details of the tax investigation were revealed, but vowed to
“answer any questions that HMRC has of me”. “Why did Nadhim
Zahawi claim last summer that he had paid his taxes in full, and
that he wasn’t aware of an investigation?” she asked. “When was
he made aware of an investigation? Was the prime minister aware
of an investigation when he appointed Nadhim Zahawi to the
cabinet?“ Finally, why did Nadhim Zahawi claim he was not a
beneficiary of his family trust – Balshore Investments – when
records show that the money he owed YouGov was paid from the
trust? “Not for the first time, Rishi Sunak’s judgement has been
called into serious question. The question remains: is he strong
enough to sack Nadhim Zahawi?” The 55-year-old was born in Iraq
and came to the UK as a child when his Kurdish family fled
Saddam Hussein’s regime, before becoming the MP for
Stratford-upon-Avon in 2010. Mr Zahawi made his fortune with
online polling company YouGov and was also chief executive of
Gulf Keystone Petroleum until 2018.
Nadhim Zahawi’s Pinay
Circle (also called the Cercle Violet) is an international
right-wing propaganda group which brings together serving or
retired intelligence officers and politicians with links to
right-wing intelligence factions from most of the countries in
Europe. Canadian researcher on Satanism and The Occult, David
Livingstone, describes Le Cercle, as the pivotal centre of the
centuries old Satanic conspiracy today. The intelligence
community has been represented by SIS Chief from 1978-82 Arthur
‘Dickie’ Franks, SIS Department Head Nicholas Elliott, CIA
Director William Colby, Swiss Military Intelligence Chief of
Provisions Colonel Botta, SDECE chief from 1970-81 Alexandre de
Marenches, and, last but not least, the man who took over the
running of the Circle when Pinay got too old, Jean Violet, a
Parisian lawyer who worked for the SDECE from 1957-70. Violet
became so much an ’eminence grise’ in the SDECE that Alexandre
de Marenches had to dispense with his services in order to
assert his authority as new SDECE chief in 1970. This episode
has however not prevented them from working together within the
Circle. At the time the Langemann papers were written, Franks
and Marenches were serving heads of British and French
intelligence respectively. On the political side, Pinay – a
former French Prime Minister – forged links with Nixon,
Kissinger and Pompidou. The Circle’s present members include
Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese
putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and
senior Opus Dei member Silva Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND
agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul Violet, Jean Violet’s son, is
one of Chirac’s closest advisors, nicknamed ‘the adjutant’ by
Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports that Sir Arthur Franks
and Nicholas Elliott were invited to Chequers for a working
meeting with Mrs Thatcher, after her election. But perhaps the
key political figure was the late Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian
Premier and Langemann’s boss. The Pinay Circle has a wide range
of contacts and its members interlock with the whole panoply of
rightwing/parallel intelligence and propaganda agencies – WACL,
Heritage Foundation, Western Goals, ISC, Freedom Association,
Interdoc, the Bilderberg Group, the Jonathan Institute, P2, Opus
Dei, the Moonies’ front CAUSA, IGFM (International Society for
Human Rights), and Resistance International. Lowenthal, for
instance, is a member of IGFM, Resistance International, WACL,
CAUSA, the Jonathan Institute, Konservative Aktion and the
European Institute on Security. The Pinay Circle’s significance
lies in the fact that it is a forum which brings together the
international linkmen of the Right like Crozier, Moss and
Lowenthal, with secret service chiefs like Franks and Marenches.
Through such contacts it can intervene by media action or covert
funding whenever and wherever a political friend is in need of
support.
Greg
Lance-Watkins – document found for the Nazi plan for a European
Economic Community –
Nazi European Economic
Union NSDAP Economics Minister Walter Funk 1942 EWG – Klaus
Schwab and WEF – Greta Thunberg. Churchill had plan for a
European Union too but it was democratic, the EU and the EWG are
dictatorial. Europaische WiertschaftsGemeinschaft (1942 Nazi
European Economic Community) in English by Hitler’s Economics
Minister Walter Funk: – Around the end of 1939, most of Europe
was either consciously or unconsciously under the influence of
the economic concept of England. Over
recent years, however, it has been swept out of European
countries, politically, militarily and economically. Politically
the three-power pact has given honour once again to the ancient
figures of life, people and room. It has also established a
natural order and a neighbourly way of co-existing as the ideal
of the new order. The foundation of English economics, which is
the basis of the balance of powers, has been militarily
destroyed. And economically, a change has come about following
the political and military development, the shape of which is
easy to describe, but whose final significance is very difficult
to evaluate. I can only repeat, that the changing order that is
happening now has to be ranked as one of the greatest economic
revolutions in history. It signifies a reversion of the economy
of Europe to a time before the English concept of building an
overseas Europe, i.e. an awareness of one’s own country. The
Discussion so far and its Results – Discussions about questions
relating to Europe started as the power of the NSADP grew. At
the Congress of Europe in Rome from 14th to 20th November 1932,
Alfred Rosenberg developed, for the first time in front of an
international forum, thoughts and ideas that have moved us
since. No one, who fights for a new economic order in Europe,
can ignore these perceptions and conclusions. The economic and
political wheel was set in motion, when the NSDAP declared the
militarisation of the German economy. It is to the credit of the
journal ‘Germany’s Economy’ that it first seized these questions
in 1932, kept on bringing them up and stuck doggedly to those
original perceptions. The idea of German economic self-
sufficiency in the new political sense and the German economic
militarisation are synonymous with this journal. Besides this,
Daitz, the ambassador, has earned the special credit of being
the first to have related German economic history to the present
time. Part II of his selected speeches and essays, which
appeared in 1938 under the title ‘Germany and the European
Economy’, summarizes his concepts formed between 1932 and 1938.
The Italian, Carlo Scarfoglio, delivered with his book ‘England
and the Continental Mainland’, a decisive historical
contribution to the consciousness of the European continent.
Meanwhile German and Italian economic policy drew the political
consequences from the historical lessons that were learnt during
the blockade and learnt again during the sanctions. The speech
made in Munich in 1939 by the leader of the Reich’s farmers, R.
Walther Darre, at the 6th Great Lecture at the Commission of
Economic Policy of the NSDAP, takes a special place in the
discussion at that time. Its theme was “The market order of the
National-Socialist agricultural policy – setting the pace for a
new foreign trade order.”
Protest to keep wild
camping on Dartmoor Saturday – Guy Shrubsole, author of Who Owns
England, on wild camping. ‘Nothing can take its place’: dismayed
Dartmoor wild campers share memories – Lovers of the national
park mourn loss of right to camp – for some a balm for their
mental health, for others a rite of passage Visitors to Dartmoor
and local people have reacted with dismay to the loss of the
right to wild camp in England and Wales after a high court
ruling against the pitching of tents in the national park
without the landowner’s permission. Campaigners have
vowed to fight the ban. Here, readers share their memories of
camping on Dartmoor and what the national park means to them.
Growing up in Devon, camping on Dartmoor was a rite of passage,
accessible to all. We spent every Boxing Day eating turkey
sandwiches huddled out of the rain. We spent countless weekends as
grumpy teenagers being dragged around letterboxing, and then, at
secondary school, joining Dartmoor society for lengthy ambles
across the moor on weekends. On one trip, a group of us decided to
camp near Okehampton for a couple of nights. It rained constantly,
and we spent the entire time playing Bop It. In a complicated and
overwhelming world, we had a space where we could enjoy the very
simplest pleasures. As an adult, I have often come back to wild
camp on Dartmoor. Bring the right kit and the right attitude, and
this wild and rugged place was yours for the taking. I refuse to
believe that the isolationist attitudes of individuals should
change this great communal offering for us all. Sarah Mitchell,
38, Guildford. The experiences I had on Dartmoor wild camping with
friends are integral to my love of nature and adventure today. I
have great memories of my late mum telling me about her walks
across Dartmoor with my dad when they first met. I recently found
my Duke of Edinburgh logbook from 1992 and had a good laugh at the
photos of bedraggled teenagers. I also remember building bivouacs
one night before Christmas with a group of friends from Venture
Scouts in the woods near Sheepstor and having Christmas dinner
cooked on stoves. I no longer live there, but feel sad that this
link to nature could be lost to future young people. If they have
less access to nature, how can they learn to love and respect it?
I hope people talking about it will lead to a successful appeal
that permits something like the model here in the Écrins that
allows wild camping from between 7pm and 9am (and at least one
hour’s walk from the park limits or nearest roads). Kate Maddison,
47, now living in France
David Livingstone on how
the occultists have changed their objectives, shape shifting
over the centuries since the Knights Templar, the modern Satanic
aims of the ‘Fourth Reich’ Transhumanists. Ordo Ab Chao – by
David Livingstone – 11. Techno-Libertarianism – Linking up
online with the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Curtis Yarvin,
creator of the Urbit computing platform, Nick Land helped
develop the doctrine of “neoreaction,” or NRx, essentially an
argument that democracy had outlived its usefulness. The
NRx subculture started amongst the Bay Area technolibertarians,
particularly including the transhumanists. In 2007 and 2008,
Yarvin, writing under the nom de plume Mencius Moldbug,
articulated what would develop into Dark Enlightenment thinking.
NRx, or the Dark Enlightenment as it is also called, is an
anti-democratic and reactionary movement that broadly rejects
egalitarianism and also draws influence from philosophers such
as Thomas Carlyle and Julius Evola.[103] “The label blends
together straight-up white supremacists, nationalists who think
conservatives have sold out to globalization, and nativists who
fear immigration will spur civil disarray. But at its core,”
says Dylan Matthews of Vox of the alt-right, “are the ideas of a
movement known as neoreaction, and neoreaction (NRx for short)
is a rejection of democracy.”[104] According to Land: NRx
doesn’t think the Alt-Right (in America) is very serious. It’s
an essentially Anti-Anglo-American philosophy, in its (Duginist)
core, which puts a firm ceiling on its potential. But then, the
NRx analysis is that the age of the masses is virtually over.
Riled-up populist movements are part of what is passing, rather
than of what is slouching toward Bethlehem to be born.[105] In
September 2021, Yarvin appeared on “Tucker Carlson Today,” where
he discussed the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and
his concept of the “Cathedral,” which he claims to be the
aggregation of political power and influential
institutions.[106] Yarvin says that real political power in the
United States is held by something he calls “the Cathedral,” an
amalgam of universities and the mainstream press. According to
him, a so-called “Brahmin” social class dominates American
society, preaching progressive values to the masses. Yarvin and
the Dark Enlightenment movement assert that the cathedral’s
commitment to equality and justice erodes social order. The
movement favors a return to older societal constructs and forms
of government, including support for monarchism and traditional
gender roles, coupled with a libertarian or otherwise
conservative approach to economics. The general goal of the
neoreactionaries is the restoration of all culturally European
countries to their pre-liberal, pre-democratic, pre-feminist,
pre-multicultural state, effectively, to the state of Europe
prior to the enlightenment.[107] Neoreactionaries want to see a
captain of industry installed as a de facto king of America,
often identifying Thiel or Elon Musk as that most appropriate
person. Recently they have also taken to voicing support for
Presidential candidate Donald Trump. As MrAnon for The Daily Kos
explained: “A lone billionaire seizing the power of the
executive branch for himself, and proceeding to run the
government like they would a private corporation is the
embodiment of their goal.”[108] Yarvin had reportedly opened up
a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his
aides through an intermediary, Politico reported.[109] Bannon
reportedly read neoreactionary literature, and Peter Thiel’s
fund supported Yarvin’s tech startup Urbit. In emails to
alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos obtained by Buzzfeed,
Yarvin claimed to be “coaching Thiel,” telling Yiannopoulos that
he “watched the [2016] election at [Thiel’s] house … He’s fully
enlightened.”
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