Haklyut steer Starmer? Inside the UK housing racket; USAF Fairford folly; ISI hiring UK thugs? BP behind Iran's 1979 revolution?

[Tony Gosling]

– Starmer in trouble over Mandelson appointment. Iran war and economy.
– Key official Refuses to Face MPs Over Mandelson
Vetting, Foreign Office official Ian Collard will
not appear in person before a committee of MPs
– Demo for rent controls in London over weekend – opinions of some attendees.
– LiveWest housing association – can’t put rents
up much, but can put up service charge.
– The National Housing Demonstration took place
in London today and thousands of renters turned
out to protest the rising costs and declining conditions of their properties
– Stats on rent, mortgages, and tax on landlords.
Paul Smith, who now runs a housing association,
was in charge of council house building under
Marvin – he found it impossible to get anywhere. Housing developers
– Jeremy Corbyn on Mandelson in 1980s killing the
Labour Party via Kinnock with private public partnerships
– How Peter Mandelson destroyed the Labour Party | Jeremy Corbyn
– Universal Basic Income introduction as AI takes
jobs. Progressives sceptical of tech billionaires’ UBI support
– Tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman
are advocating for universal basic income as a
solution to unemployment caused by AI
– Shadow UK Housing Minister IS BEING EVICTED!
James Cleverly blames new Renters Rights Act (not
his 2020 Tory landlord taxes)
– Financial institutions taking over houses as
distressed assets and becoming landlords
– Biobank collected medical data on UK citizens
for research – found for sale in China! UK Biobank health data
– Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, 22 part manifesto
on how Military Industrial Complex needed to defend Western capitalism.
– Bilderberger Alex Karp has criticised the
belief that all cultures are equal and called for universal national service.
– Palantir boss Alex Karp also called the
disarmament of Germany and Japan after World War
Two an “overcorrection”, backed AI weapons and
condemned “ruthless exposure” of the private lives of public figures
– Kemi Badenoch on Starmer’s failings in
appointing Mandelson. Mossad controlling Mandelson via Epstein and Rothschilds.
– How pro-Israel money captured Starmer’s Labour
– Trevor Chinn money for Starmer. Powerful Zionist lobby.
– Publisher De Gruyter released an essay by
Rainer Liedtke titled Agents for the Rothschilds:
A Nineteenth-Century Information Network
– The paper describes a system in which agents
were placed in locations where the Rothschild
banks did not maintain a permanent presence
– Diane Abbott having a go at Starmer. Morgan Mc
Sweeney pushing appointment of Mandelson.
– Gerald Ronson, convicted Zionist fraudster and
owner of Rontec petrol stations, sacking local staff and bringing in migrants.
– Ed Milliband clueless on stupid appointment of Mandelson.
– “Why didn’t the Prime Minister ask?”: Diane
Abbott’s question to Starmer lingers unanswered
In the cavernous theatre of the House of Commons
– Zarah Sultana MP told ‘you have no duties, I
have the duty’ by Speaker Hoyle and ordered to
leave Parliament for calling Starmer a liar.
– Matt Kennard on US military bases in UK. Chris
Cole from Drone Wars on how AI not as good as claimed. Iron Dome running out.
– Chris Cole on RAF Fairford being a drone launch point.
– The use of Fairford air base in Gloucestershire
by United States military forces to conduct
strikes against targets in Iran has highlighted
important issues surrounding the UK’s role in the
current conflict in the Middle East
– Protest at RAF Fairford Join CND, Stop the War,
and Fairford Action for a demonstration against
the use of UK bases in Trump’s disastrous war on Iran.
– CND, Stop the War Coalition, and members of
Fairford Action will hold a demonstration at RAF
Fairford on Saturday, 25 April, over concerns the
base is being used to commit war crimes.
– Nigel Day tracking US nukes in UK. NukewatchUK
Watching Britain’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
– Nukewatch monitor and track the movement of
British WMD’s from AWE Aldermaston and AWE
Burghfield in Berkshire to RNAD Coulport on the West coast of Scotland
– Hakluyt working with MI6. Who was Richard Hakluyt – British Empire history
– Wikispooks Hakluyt, The MI6 connection,
revealing details on the background of Hakluyt’s founders.
– Christopher James and Mike Reynolds are both
former members of the British foreign service
– Israel behind the 7/7 London Bombings: Tony
Gosling’s documentary, and article
– Tucker Carlson apologises for promoting Donald Trump.
– US Nuclear Chief, Andrew Hugg, fired after
disclosing national security information to pretty lady he fancied.
– Top U.S. Nuclear Chief LEAKS Sensitive National Security Information
– Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is the War Over? Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
– Michael Hudson on the economic consequences of
the Iran war – great depression, crash coming.
– US economy is based on Ponzi scheme that could
collapse, warns economist Michael Hudson
– King Charles’s visit to Trump. Prince Harry is
weighing in saying Trump is going soft on ‘necessary’ Ukraine war.
– THE HUNGARY EU/NATO TILT EFFECT: Al Jazeera – new President in Hungary
– Effect on oil,gas pipeline. Will Ukraine war
intensify after EU’s $105bn loan to Kyiv?
– The oil revenues will bolster Moscow’s war
chest. So, is this complex EU deal going to intensify the conflict?
– BBC: Lebanese journalist killed by Israelis.
Israel deliberately targets Lebanese journalist
killed in IDF air strike during ‘ceasefire’ Amal Khalil
– The strike killed Amal Khalil, who worked for a
Lebanese newspaper, and injured freelance photographer Zeinab Faraj.
– They were deliberately targeted as they sought
shelter in a home after an initial air strike hit the vehicle in front of them
– US official suggests Italy (who didn’t qualify)
may replace Iran football team (who did) at US based World Cup.
– Shahzad Akbar, anti corruption Minister under Imran Khan in Pakistan
– Paid thugs have attacked him and his house in
UK, and how attacks on dissidents from other countries is common in UK.
– Three men charged after ‘highly targeted
attacks’ against Pakistani dissidents
– Were BP behind the 1979 Iranian revolution? William Engdahl book on Shah.
– At the time, the Shah was negotiating a 25-year
oil agreement with British Petroleum (BP), but talks broke down
– Trained US and UK agitators exacerbated them by
fanning religious discontent and overall turmoil
– Strait of Hormuz documentary. Press TV. Hormuz,
the untold story of the Strait – Iran’s Press TV
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Part One – Local and National News Review

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Starmer in trouble over Mandelson appointment.
Iran war and economy. Foreign Office Official
Refuses to Face MPs Over Mandelson Vetting
Foreign Office official Ian Collard will not
appear in person before a committee of MPs to
answer questions about the vetting process for
Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK
ambassador to Washington. Dame Emily Thornberry
had requested that the civil servant speak to the
Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, but
confirmed on Saturday he would submit written
answers instead.
<https://britbrief.co.uk/politics/policymaking/official-refuses-mps-over-mandelson-vetting-questions.html>Background
of the Vetting Controversy Sir Keir Starmer’s
former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is due to
appear on Tuesday, and the committee has already
heard from sacked Foreign Office chief Sir Olly
Robbins and Cabinet Office permanent secretary
Cat Little. Mr Collard is a former ambassador to
Lebanon and Panama and was appointed the Foreign
Office’s chief property and security officer in
March 2023. It was Mr Collard who Sir Olly said
briefed him on the vetting findings that deemed
Lord Mandelson a borderline case and leaned
towards recommending that clearance be denied.
Dame Emily has asked Mr Collard to detail his
recollection of this meeting and whether it lines
up with Sir Olly’s evidence, in a letter to the
Foreign Office setting out questions to be answered by 5pm on Monday.

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Demo for rent controls in London over weekend –
opinions of some attendees. Liv West housing
association – can’t put rents up much, but can
put up service charge. Thousands of renters
protest their landlords Politics-JOE The National
Housing Demonstration took place in London today
and thousands of renters turned out to protest
the rising costs and declining conditions of
their properties.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFe2MpsAC7E>The
National Housing Demonstration is a large,
organised protest in which tenants, housing
campaigners, and community groups come together
to highlight problems in the housing system,
especially rising rents, lack of affordable
homes, and increasing homelessness. The
demonstration aims to pressure the government to
take action by introducing policies like rent
controls, stronger tenant protections, and
greater investment in social housing. The protest
follows the passing of the Renters’ Rights Act is
a major piece of proposed legislation aimed at
improving conditions for tenants across the
United Kingdom. It seeks to abolish “no-fault”
evictions under Section 21, which currently allow
landlords to evict tenants without giving a
reason, and replace them with a more secure
system. The bill also proposes stronger
protections against unfair rent increases,
ensuring tenants have greater stability in their
homes. In addition, it introduces a new ombudsman
to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants
more quickly and fairly. Landlords would be
required to meet higher property standards,
helping to improve living conditions. The
legislation also aims to make it easier for
tenants to keep pets, subject to reasonable
conditions. Overall, the Renters’ Rights Bill is
designed to create a fairer balance between
landlords and tenants while addressing
long-standing issues in the private rental sector.

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Stats on rent, mortgages, and tax on landlords.
Paul Smith, who now runs a housing association,
was in charge of council house building under
Marvin – he found it impossible to get anywhere.
Housing developers. Tax changes for landlords
come into force The start of the new tax year
brings changes to mortgage interest tax relief
and capital gains tax for buy-to-let landlords.
Landlords face enormous tax increases from April
6 2020, with the end of mortgage interest tax
relief and an increase in capital gains tax.
<https://www.zoopla.co.uk/discover/property-news/tax-changes-for-landlords-come-into-force-capital-gains-mortgage-interest-tax-relief/>The
start of the new tax year has seen mortgage
interest tax relief scaled back further, while
landlords who sell a property also now have less
time in which to pay capital gains tax. People
who previously lived in a property that they
later rented out have also seen tweaks made to
the tax reliefs they can claim. The changes to
mortgage interest tax relief, which were well
flagged in advance, have been blamed for many
landlords exiting the sector in the past couple
of years. These are the main changes landlords
need to know about: Mortgage interest tax relief
The government has been in the process of
tapering down mortgage interest tax relief since
2017 and gradually replacing it with a new
system. Before April 2017, landlords could claim
mortgage interest tax relief on 100% of their
mortgage interest costs. The amount they could
claim was gradually reduced to 25% last year. But
under the new system, which comes into force on 6
April 2020, the relief has been phased out
completely and replaced with a 20% tax credit for
mortgage interest. Changes to mortgage interest
tax relief will affect around 55% of landlords
who have one or more buy-to-let mortgages.
Coronavirus: Get the latest property news and
information Capital gains tax payments Capital
gains tax is paid on the profit people make when
they sell a property that is not their primary
residence. The tax is charged at a rate of up to
28% on the difference between the property’s
purchase price and its sale price, after
deduction of the personal allowance. This
personal allowance is £12,300 in the 2020-2021
tax year. Landlords have previously had to
declare capital gains tax liabilities in their
annual tax return, giving them more than a year
in which to settle the bill. But from April 6
2020, they will need to declare and pay the tax
within 30 days of selling a property…

Jeremy Corbyn on Mandelson influencing the Labour
Party in to private public partnerships such as
Palantir monitoring NHS data.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ledr25x_CKU>How
Peter Mandelson destroyed the Labour Party |
Jeremy Corbyn PoliticsJOE Ava spoke to former
leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn a few
weeks ago about the downfall of Starmer’s
government due to the psychodrama surrounding
Peter Mandelson’s appointment to Washington. In
this clip, Corbyn breaks down his experience
dealing with Mandelson as far back as the 1980s,
and how the former Business Secretary managed to
single-handedly bring down the party.

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Universal Basic Income introduction as AI takes
jobs. Universal Basic Income: Progressives
sceptical of tech billionaires’ UBI support Tech
billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are
advocating for universal basic income as a
solution to unemployment caused by AI, but House
progressives are sceptical of their motives.
House progressives are looking askance at the
recent embrace of universal basic income by tech
billionaires like Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam
Altman.
<https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/progressives-skeptical-tech-billionaires-ubi-091219635.html>Musk
has lately posted about the need for a “Universal
HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal
government” as “the best way to deal with
unemployment caused by AI.” And Altman has voiced
some support for universal basic income proposals
or even a “Universal Basic Compute” plan to give
Americans a share of AI productivity. But as the
left grows increasingly distrustful of big tech
companies, progressives aren’t convinced of the
moguls’ sincerity. “It’s always that the devil’s
in the details where that comes from,” said Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “I am skeptical
about their willingness to pay or incur the taxes
necessary to sustain such proposals, which would
have to target AI.” Such schemes would create
guaranteed income for adults and children and
have gained some traction in recent years, amid
concerns that AI will substantially disrupt the
workforce and result in increased unemployment.
But Musk’s role as the head of DOGE in the Trump
administration has poisoned the well among many
Democrats, who are increasingly wary of AI and
the companies developing the technology, too.
“Somewhere deep down in the recesses of their
hearts, some love must exist to come out in
support of something like that,” said Rep. Bonnie
Watson Coleman, D-N.J., who introduced a UBI
pilot program bill this Congress. But she too was
doubtful of the tech billionaires’ motives: “I
don’t think it’s out of charity. It’s out of
business.” Another progressive wasn’t immediately
dismissive. “Welcome on board,” said Rep. Ilhan
Omar, D-Minn., who has previously

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Shadow UK Housing Minister IS BEING EVICTED!
James Cleverly blames new Renters Rights Act (not
his 2020 Tory landlord taxes) for his landlord
selling up. Financial institutions taking over
houses as distressed assets and becoming
landlords. Shadow Housing Secretary Blames
Labour’s Rent Reforms For Eviction From His Home
<https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/james-cleverly-blames-labours-rent-reforms-eviction-home>Conservative
MP James Cleverly has revealed that he is being
forced out of his rented home in his
constituency, blaming government reforms to the
rental sector that will take effect next month.
Speaking to PoliticsHome, the shadow housing
secretary, himself a former landlord, said that
the Renters’ Rights Act was forcing “good
landlords” like his in Essex out of the market.
The reforms, which ministers describe as the most
significant changes to renting brought in by a UK
government, include the banning of “no-fault”
evictions, meaning landlords must provide a valid
legal reason for eviction, the ending of
fixed-term contracts, and putting a stop to
“bidding wars” which result in tenants paying
more than the advertised price. Secretary of
State for Housing, Communities and Local
Government, Steve Reed, has called the
legislation “the biggest leap forward in renters’
rights in a generation”, saying it is “levelling
the playing field between renters and landlords”.
However, Cleverly, the Tory MP for Braintree,
claimed it was forcing landlords nationwide,
including his own, to sell their properties,
creating a “spate” of evictions. The former
cabinet minister, who told The House magazine he
is considering running for London mayor,
explained that he rented a property in the
northern part of his Essex constituency after
selling his old home of 10 years. “The key bit of
this is the arrogance with which [Labour]
approached this process. They just refuse to
listen to the points we’re making because it was
we who were making those points,” he told
PoliticsHome. “Unfortunately, now the people who
are suffering are the people who could and should
have a decent supply of properties in the private
rented sector, and they don’t. “The people who
they claim to want to protect are the very people
who are being disadvantaged by this and it didn’t
have to be like this. If the Labour Party weren’t
so arrogant and unwilling to listen, it wouldn’t
be happening.” Legal advice firm Landlord Action
this week reported a sharp rise in landlords
asking for help with tenant evictions ahead of
the legislation coming into effect on 1 May. “As
Section 21 is phased out, landlords are acting
now while they still have certainty, because many
are not confident in what replaces it,” said
Landlord Action founder Paul Shamplina. Critics
of the reforms say new costs and regulations
facing landlords will ultimately result in fewer
rental properties, which in turn will likely lead to rent going up….

Biobank collected medical data on UK citizens for
research – found for sale in China! UK Biobank
health data listed for sale in China, government
confirms Nurse taking blood from person as
biobank logo appears on screen in
background.Image source, Getty Images Medical
information of 500,000 participants of one of the
UK’s landmark scientific programmes, UK
Biobank,<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o>
were offered for sale online in China, the
government has confirmed. Technology minister Ian
Murray said information of all members of the
database was found listed for sale on the website
Alibaba. Murray told MPs the charity which runs
UK Biobank had told the government about the
breach on Monday. He said the information did not
include names, addresses, contact details or
telephone numbers. However he said it could
include gender, age, month and year of birth,
socioeconomic status, lifestyle habits, and
measures from biological samples. The Biobank is
a collection of health data offered by volunteers
which has been used to help improvements in
detection and treatment of dementia, some cancers
and Parkinson’s. It has collected intimate
details – including whole body scans, DNA
sequences and their medical records – from
hundreds of thousands of volunteers for over two
decades. The project has led to more than 18,000 scientific publications.

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Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, 22 part manifesto on
how Military Industrial Complex needed to defend
Western capitalism. Bilderberger Alex Karp has
criticised the belief that all cultures are equal
and called for universal national service.
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjkj7975po>Alex
Karp also called the disarmament of Germany and
Japan after World War Two an “overcorrection”,
backed AI weapons and condemned “ruthless
exposure” of the private lives of public figures.
Karp’s views matter – his company’s growing
roster of UK government contracts include the
NHS, the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Financial
Conduct Authority and 11 police forces.
<https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-manifesto-alex-karp-technological-republic-summary-2026-4>Not
to mention its multimillion dollar deals with the
US and other powerful governments. But as the
firm increasingly embeds itself in public bodies,
the opinions and influence of its leaders leave
some fearful. “Every alarm bell for democracy
must ring,” Prof Shannon Vallor, chair of ethics
of data and AI at Edinburgh University, told the
BBC. Palantir’s 22-point summary of Karp’s book:
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the
country that made its rise possible. The
engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an
affirmative obligation to participate in the
defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against
the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our
greatest creative if not crowning achievement as
a civilization? The object has changed our lives,
but it may also now be limiting and constraining
our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not
enough. The decadence of a culture or
civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will
be forgiven only if that culture is capable of
delivering economic growth and security for the
public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring
rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of
free and democratic societies to prevail requires
something more than moral appeal. It requires
hard power, and hard power in this century will
be built on software. 5. The question is not
whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who
will build them and for what purpose. Our
adversaries will not pause to indulge in
theatrical debates about the merits of developing
technologies with critical military and national
security applications. They will proceed. 6.
National service should be a universal duty. We
should, as a society, seriously consider moving
away from an all-volunteer force and only fight
the next war if everyone shares in the risk and
the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better
rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for
software. We should as a country be capable of
continuing a debate about the appropriateness of
military action abroad while remaining
unflinching in our commitment to those we have
asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants
need not be our priests. Any business that
compensated its employees in the way that the
federal government compensates public servants
would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far
more grace towards those who have subjected
themselves to public life. The eradication of any
space for forgiveness­a jettisoning of any
tolerance for the complexities and contradictions
of the human psyche­may leave us with a cast of
characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is
leading us astray. Those who look to the
political arena to nourish their soul and sense
of self, who rely too heavily on their internal
life finding expression in people they may never
meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society
has grown too eager to hasten, and is often
gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The
vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause,
not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One
age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and
a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to
begin. 13. No other country in the history of the
world has advanced progressive values more than
this one. The United States is far from perfect.
But it is easy to forget how much more
opportunity exists in this country for those who
are not hereditary elites than in any other
nation on the planet. 14. American power has made
possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many
have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that
nearly a century of some version of peace has
prevailed in the world without a great power
military conflict. At least three generations ­
billions of people and their children and now
grandchildren ­ have never known a world war. 15.
The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must
be undone. The defanging of Germany was an
overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a
heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical
commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if
maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of
power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who
attempt to build where the market has failed to
act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s
interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires
ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching
themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine
interest in the value of what he has created is
essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from
beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley
must play a role in addressing violent crime.
Many politicians across the United States have
essentially shrugged when it comes to violent
crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address
the problem or take on any risk with their
constituencies or donors in coming up with
solutions and experiments in what should be a
desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless
exposure of the private lives of public figures
drives far too much talent away from government
service. The public arena­and the shallow and
petty assaults against those who dare to do
something other than enrich themselves­has become
so unforgiving that the republic is left with a
significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels
whose ambition one would forgive if there were
any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19.
The caution in public life that we unwittingly
encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing
wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The
pervasive intolerance of religious belief in
certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s
intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of
the most telling signs that its political project
constitutes a less open intellectual movement
than many within it would claim. 21. Some
cultures have produced vital advances; others
remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures
are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are
forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the
fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures
. . . have produced wonders. Others have proven
middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22.
We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant
and hollow
pluralism.<https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-manifesto-alex-karp-technological-republic-summary-2026-4>
We, in America and more broadly the West, have
for the past half century resisted defining
national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250926-how-pro-israel-money-captured-starmers-labour/>
[]

Herzog Centenary, London, UK – 18 Oct 2018

Kemi Badenoch on Starmer’s failings in appointing
Mandelson.
<https://www.facebook.com/reel/1453487943000165>Mossad
controlling Mandelson via Epstein and Rothschilds.

Trevor Chinn funding of political parties.
Powerful Zionist lobby. How pro-Israel money
captured Starmer’s Labour –
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250926-how-pro-israel-money-captured-starmers-labour/>The
UK Labour Party has been rocked by yet another
scandal and is facing scrutiny over revelations
that its leadership has been captured by a
network of unelected funders and lobbyists with
deep ties to Israel and Zionist organisations. At
the centre of the controversy is Morgan
McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s powerful chief of
staff, and his long-time association with
billionaire businessman Trevor Chinn. Documents
and leaks show that between 2017 and 2020,
McSweeney oversaw Labour Together, a factional
project that secretly accepted more than £730,000
(around $930,000) in undeclared donations,
allegedly in breach of electoral law. Much of
this money is said to have come from Chinn, a
figure whose involvement in Labour politics has
for decades been bound up with the defence of
Israel and the advancement of Zionist networks
inside the party. Chinn is no ordinary donor. A
director of Labour Together until 2024, he has
bankrolled both Conservative and Labour Friends
of Israel (LFI) throughout his career. In early
2025, he was awarded the Israeli Presidential
Medal of Honour by President Isaac Herzog for his
services to the apartheid state. Chinn’s
commitment to Israel has been described as one of
his “animating concerns” over three decades of
political donations. An investigation by Jody
McIntyre, who stood as a candidate for the
Workers Party in the last general election, shows
how deeply enmeshed Chinn became with McSweeney’s
project. McSweeney reportedly concealed donations
“to protect Trevor” from scrutiny, according to
McIntyre’s investigation. Labour Together,
however, later dismissed the failure to declare
the funds as an “administrative error,” a line
advised by solicitor Gerald Shamash, another
Labour figure with a record of blocking debates on sanctions against Israel.

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Agents to Rothschilds article – Rainer Laidtke.
The Light disinformation paper – La Monde
Diplomatique. Agents for the Rothschilds In 2016,
the publisher De Gruyter released an essay by
Rainer Liedtke titled Agents for the Rothschilds:
A Nineteenth-Century Information Network1.
Drawing on the Rothschild Archive London ­
correspondence from over one hundred business
agents working for the various Rothschild houses
­ Liedtke documented a recruitment and
intelligence operation that spanned the European
continent and reached into Latin America for most
of the nineteenth century.
<https://escapekey.substack.com/p/agents-for-the-rothschilds>The
paper describes a system in which agents were
placed in locations where the Rothschild banks
did not maintain a permanent presence. These
agents carried out business transactions,
gathered political and economic intelligence, and
forwarded information that enabled the family to
make decisions ahead of competitors and,
frequently, ahead of even governments. Liedtke
notes that what we now would consider insider
trading ‘was commonplace in nineteenth-century
finance and part of the salary package of
employees of financial institutions’. The agents
were not merely tolerated in this practice ­ they
were compensated through it. The recruitment
criteria tell their own story. Trust was
paramount, and two principal routes existed for
earning it: being a relation of the family, or
having worked within one of the houses for a
considerable period. Marriage was the preferred
option, and these marriages ensured that
important business locations were ‘covered in the
long run by trustworthy representatives’. Liedtke
is explicit about one boundary: … such men never
gained access to the decision-making circle of
the family but instead maintained their own
business interests separately, albeit profiting
significantly from contacts to the Rothschild
network. The agents were operationally essential,
but they remained permanently outside the core.
Only born Rothschilds were fully trusted. The
‘quintessential criterion’ for whether a
Rothschild bank existed in a given city was
whether a Rothschild was willing to move there.
He also documents a deliberate policy of
heterogeneity. Despite being Jewish, the
Rothschilds employed non-Jewish agents as a
matter of strategy. A homogeneous network,
Liedtke explains, would be ‘self-referential’ ­
limited to the social circles its members already
moved in. Diversity of background expanded the
network’s reach into drawing rooms, ministries
and trading floors that a uniformly Jewish
network could not access. Agents sent to
locations where they had no prior ties were
valuable precisely because they lacked local
loyalties ­ their ‘foreignness’ meant their
primary allegiance remained with the principals
abroad, uncompromised by existing relationships
in the places where they operated. Liedtke
records a shift over time in what the principals
expected. In the early decades, the network’s
value lay in raw market data ­ commodity prices,
exchange rates, shipping movements. After the
telegraph commoditised this kind of information
in the mid-nineteenth century, the agents’
importance shifted towards strategic political
assessment: who was likely to form a government,
which minister could be cultivated, what policy
was being contemplated before it was announced.
Only one vulnerability recurs in the archive.
August Schönberg, dispatched to New York and
later known as August Belmont, declared himself
the Rothschild agent on Wall Street without
authorisation. The distance between New York and
London made control impossible. Belmont could not
be dislodged, and the family was forced to
tolerate an agent who had, in effect, gone rogue.
Liedtke treats Belmont as the system’s one significant failure.

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Diane Abbott having a go at Starmer. Morgan Mc
Sweeney pushing appointment of Mandelson. Gerald
Ronson, Zionist owner of Rontec petrol stations,
sacking local staff and bringing in migrants. Ed
Milliband on stupid appointment of Mandelson.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhrx4IAy9o>“Why
didn’t the Prime Minister ask?”: Diane Abbott’s
question to Starmer lingers unanswered In the
cavernous theatre of the House of Commons on 20
April 2026, amid two and a half hours of
choreographed indignation and procedural
deflection, a single sentence cut through the
fog: Why didn’t the Prime Minister ask?
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/04/23/why-didnt-the-prime-minister-ask-diane-abbotts-question-to-starmer-lingers-unanswered/>Diane
Abbott’s question hung in the chamber for a
moment and was then, with practised establishment
efficiency, allowed to evaporate. The press and
broadcasters moved on. By the evening bulletins,
the discourse had reverted to its most
comfortable ruts: was the Prime Minister a liar,
or was he merely, as the Conservative leader
suggested, “grossly incompetent”? The nation was
invited, once again, to choose between flattering
explanations of its own government. Abbott’s
question does not belong to that debate. It does
not accept either of its premises. It points,
with the clarity only outsiders retain, at
something both parties of the Westminster duopoly
have an interest in not examining too closely:
the possibility that the Prime Minister
appointed, to the most important diplomatic post
in the world, a man under active criminal
investigation for having passed sensitive
government data to a convicted to a convicted sex
offender – and simply did not bother to ask
whether his security clearance had gone through.
There is an answer to Abbott’s question, though
it is not the one the Prime Minister offered. It
was supplied the following day, in much plainer
language, by the very civil servant Starmer has
publicly undermined. Olly Robbins, the
recently-dismissed permanent secretary at the
Foreign Office, told a parliamentary committee on
Tuesday that he would “absolutely not” have
considered it appropriate to inform Starmer that
the United Kingdom Security Vetting service had
recommended Mandelson be denied developed vetting
clearance. He had not considered it, he
explained, because decisions of that kind “must
remain confidential.” This sentence received no
attention. What Robbins described – and one
suspects he described it honestly, which is
precisely why Number 10 briefed against him so
briskly – was not a breakdown in communication.
It was the system functioning exactly as
designed. The British security-clearance
architecture is constructed so that Prime
Ministers are not told which of their appointed have failed security vetting…

Zarah Sultana MP told ‘you have no duties, I have
the duty’ by Speaker Hoyle and ordered to leave
Parliament for calling Starmer a liar. Zarah
Sultana MP kicked out of Commons, Keir Starmer is
a bare faced liar over Mandelson (20Apr26)
Liarpoliticians Security Vetting Statement:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOGKEK78fpA>Your
Party MP Zarah Sultana is kicked out of the
commons for saying dictator PM Keir Starmer is a
bare faced liar and covering up over the Peter
Mandelson scandal. Mandelson a spy working for Russia and China.

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Matt Kennard on US military bases in UK.
<https://dronewars.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Briefing-Use-of-Fairford-for-Strikes-against-Iran-Martch-2026.pdf>Chris
Cole from Drone Wars on how AI not as good as
claimed. Iron Dome running out. Chris Cole on RAF
Fairford being a drone launch point. The use of
Fairford air base in Gloucestershire by United
States military forces to conduct strikes against
targets in Iran has highlighted important issues
surrounding the UK’s role in the current conflict
in the Middle East. Following an initial refusal
in February 2026, the UK government has
authorised the use of certain military bases for
what it terms “specific and limited defensive
action” against Iran.
<https://dronewars.net/>This decision has raised
major questions about the nature of this military
support, its legal basis under international law,
and the extent to which the UK can verify and
control operations launched by the US from its
sovereign territory. The UK has shown a
reluctance to recognise Iran as the target of
illegal acts of aggression under international
law or to criticise attacks by the US and Israel.
At the same time, anti-Iran rhetoric from
Ministers has led some to question whether the
government is refraining from “wider involvement
in the broader ongoing conflict”, as it claims,
or is instead quietly providing material support
for US offensive operations. Fairford air base
supports the deployment of US bomber task forces
in Europe. Its proximity to the Middle East,
compared to US bases in North America, allows for
quicker flight times to targets, facilitating
logistics and increasing the intensity of the
bombing campaign. Eighteen US Air Force B1-B and
B52 bombers arrived at Fairford over the period 6
– 13 March 2026 and commenced bombing operations
on 10 March.1 Diego Garcia air base in the Indian
Ocean, under the control of the UK government,
has also been mentioned as a potential base for
US bomber strikes on Iran. At the time of writing
it is not known whether US aircraft are using
Diego Garcia. This briefing analyses the UK
government’s position, the command and control
structures governing US strikes on Iran, and the
significant challenges the UK faces in ensuring
its involvement remains within the legal and
policy boundaries of “defensive” operations that
it has established. The UK government’s stated
position and its legal basis The UK government’s
position on the use of its bases for attacks on
Iran has evolved under significant pressure. In
late February 2026, Prime Minister Keir Starmer
reportedly denied a US request to use bases such
as Fairford and Diego Garcia for pre-emptive
strikes, citing concerns over international law.2
However, following the onset of US and Israeli
strikes on Iran on 28 February and subsequent
Iranian retaliatory attacks on regional allies,
the government altered its stance.

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Protest at RAF Fairford Saturday 25th April at
12pm – Chris will be there. ‘No War on Iran’ –
demonstration at Fairford base Join CND, Stop the
War, and Fairford Action for a demonstration
against the use of UK bases in Trump’s disastrous
war on Iran.
<https://cnduk.org/us-out-of-british-bases-send-the-bombers-home-campaigners-to-protest-at-raf-fairford-against-its-use-in-illegal-war-on-iran-25-april/>CND,
Stop the War Coalition, and members of Fairford
Action will hold a demonstration at RAF Fairford
on Saturday, 25 April, over concerns the base is
being used to commit war crimes. Protesters will
call on the British government to end its support
for the illegal US-Israeli aggression and shut
down the US bases in Britain used to attack and
support attacks on Iran. The protest comes as
Trump announces an extension of talks, whilst
simultaneously escalating US military deployments
to the region – with USS George HW Bush aircraft
carrier, three destroyers and another 5,000 US
troops heading towards Iran. Donald Trump had
also threatened to conduct further war crimes
against Iran if his demands aren’t met by
destroying every bridge and every power plant. It
follows a previous, thinly veiled threat by Trump
to use nuclear weapons in Iran before the
ceasefire came into effect. RAF Fairford has been
a critical base for US attacks on Iran. Before
the ceasefire took place, huge long-range B-1,
B-2, and B-52 bombers had been carrying out
twice-daily bombing missions from the base,
dropping 2,000lb bombs on Iran, before returning
directly to Fairford. Thousands of civilians have
been killed in Iran and infrastructure destroyed
by heavy bombers including bridges, hospitals,
schools and residential areas. Other British
bases that have also been used in the attacks on
Iran include refuelling and logistical support
from RAF Mildenhall, and the transit of F-35 and
F-15 fighters, and A-10 ‘tank buster’ aircraft
via RAF Lakenheath to bases in the Middle East.
There is also mounting evidence that Lakenheath
now hosts US B61-12 nuclear weapons. CND General
Secretary Sophie Bolt said: “The British
government is complicit in these illegal attacks
on Iran. As targets are often assigned or updated
during a bomber’s flight, the British government
cannot confirm that these planes aren’t leaving
to commit war crimes when they’re rolling down
the runway. While Trump makes nuclear threats and
promises to attack civilian infrastructure if his
demands aren’t met, Starmer has been shamefully
silent, whilst enabling war crimes. Bases like
RAF Fairford and RAF Lakenheath are the physical
embodiment of Britain’s military alliance and
nuclear subordination to the US. That’s why we
need as many people as possible supporting our
call to send the bombers home, shut down the
bases, and kick out Trump’s nukes from Britain!”

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Nigel Day, Nuke Watch, on tracking US nukes in
UK. NukewatchUK Watching Britain’s Weapons of
Mass Destruction Nukewatch monitor and track the
movement of British WMD’s from AWE Aldermaston
and AWE Burghfield in Berkshire to RNAD Coulport
on the West coast of Scotland.
<https://www.nukewatch.org.uk/about-us/>Nukewatch
is not a membership organisation. It is a network
of individuals who campaign against nuclear
warhead convoys, mainly because they are part of
a system of Weapons of Mass Destruction, but also
because we believe that communities potentially
affected by the convoys should be aware of their
existence and the risks they pose. Nukewatch
compiles an annual list of warhead convoy
movements to help in monitoring the overall state
and deployment of the UK’s arsenal of nuclear
weapons. The Resources page has a summary of
recent convoy movements. Sharing Information We
think that it is important that Nukewatch
continues to monitor the safety of UK nuclear
warhead convoys, and that Convoy dangers are
highlighted to the general public and those along
its routes. We only put out detailed convoy
movements in advance to our own network. As so
many people are posting to social media about
convoys they have seen Nukewatch now puts some
information on Facebook and Twitter but not exact locations in real time.
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<https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Hakluyt_%26_Company_Ltd>Open<https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Hakluyt_%26_Company_Ltd>
Democracy on X – Hakluyt working with MI6. Who
was Richard Hackluit – British Empire history –
Wikispooks. Patricia Opulenza poem. Hakluyt – The
MI6 connection News clippings provide revealing
details on the background of Hakluyt’s founders.
Christopher James and Mike Reynolds are both
former members of the British foreign service.
<https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Hakluyt_%26_Company_Ltd>Ex-MI6
chief Spedding is said to have given his blessing
to Hakluyt as a company, as is the foreign
secretary..[12] Reynolds founded MI6’s
counter-terrorism branch and was the foreign
service’s head of station in Berlin. This
explains his impeccable spoken and written German
and may also be the way he got to know Manfred
Schlickenrieder. The newly appointed head of MI6,
Richard Dearlove, is a close friend of his. James
led a section of MI6 that liaised with British
firms. Over his 20-year career he got to know the
heads of many of Britain’s top companies. In
return for a few tips that helped them compete in
the market, he persuaded them to pass on
intelligence from their overseas operations,
industry sources told Management Today. After the
Cold War, James argued that MI6 should expand
this role. But others in the organization feared
this could be mistaken for ‘economic espionage’.
He left MI6 in 1995, taking his intelligence work
private. Hakluyt’s management board is a display
case for the kind of reputation the company is
aiming for. One member was Ian Fleming’s model
for James Bond­the former soldier, spy and
diplomat Sir Fitzroy Maclean. And the company is
linked to the oil industry through Sir William
Purves, CEO of Shell Transport and chairman of
Hakluyt; Sir Peter Holmes, former chairman of
Shell and current president of the Hakluyt
foundation (a kind of supervisory board); and Sir
Peter Cazalet, the former deputy chairman of BP,
who helped to establish Hakluyt before he retired
in 2000. BP itself has longstanding ties to MI6:
its director of government and public affairs,
John Gerson, was at one time a leading candidate
to succeed Sir David Spedding as chief of MI6. It
is important that NGOs and other pressure groups
trying to assess possible threats remember the
close ties between risk assessment companies and
the government intelligence community. Some
larger and older companies, such as Control
Risks, may have grown away from direct links to
government, which could explain the market for
new agencies with more recent connections, like
Hakluyt. Such firms have the necessary knowledge
and techniques at their disposal, either through
their own experience, their staff ‘s experience,
or direct contacts. This can have consequences
for the way they investigate their clients’
adversaries; as in the Schlickenrieder case, they
might use infiltrators posing as activists or
dedicated journalists, and they might have access
to classified intelligence information. The
specialty of privatized spying shops goes beyond
PR consulting or spin doctoring into the rather
vague terrain of intelligence operations, which
can be used in both gathering information and
setting up stings. From the Financial Times to
Hakluyt According to Intelligence Online, Mark
Huband joined Hakluyt in the summer of 2006,
after a long career in journalism in the United
Kingdom – he worked for the Guardian, Times and
Financial Times. Huband had long specialized in
Africa and the Middle East, where he was based
for years for the Times and Guardian (he was one
of the few newsmen to cover the American
intervention in Somalia in 1993). Since 2003 he
had reported on defense, security and “terrorism”
for the Financial Times. Huband, who left the
newspaper last year, won’t be the first
journalist to work for Hakluyt, Intelligence
Online knows. A number of former British and
Australian newspaper and television
correspondents are – or have been -on its payroll.




Israel behind the 7/7 London Bombings: Tony
Gosling’s
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfC2DfCTjdo>documentary,
and
<https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2015/08/521252.html>article
| <https://rumble.com/user/TonyGosling>Videos of
full shows | Economic essentials:
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/AH8pJ8vLnpQQ/>Michael
Hudson |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/mlGKutbgByo4/>Blackrock/Vanguard
|
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz9Md0d76Y>Why/how
Israel Assassinated JFK & RFK |
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzWF2791gAM>Operation
Gladio | Tony
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAq1q1_swyM>on
Brexit &
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsxxlpLccE8&pp=ygUWVGhlIFRyYWl0b3JzIG9mIEFybmhlbQ%3D%3D>(4th
Reich) Traitors of Arnhem |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/s3keNigJaj63/>Creation
vs. Evolution |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/Yhv9ZMby68Ig>God
vs. Lucifer |
<http://www.itsuandi.org/itsui/downloads/Itsui_Materials/Albert_Pike's_Plan_for_Three_World_Wars.pdf>‘Great
Plan’ for 3 World Wars |
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RNijNuvrBQ>Devil
Worship: The Rise Of Satanism |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/OKOlmnHDyQ0U/>Nuclear
Armed IDF Doomsday Cult |
<https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/>Aanirfan |
Armageddonists I have known:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXKz4uwZC_k>Nick
Land (1976-8) |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/pkIIeuailaUt/>George
Monbiot (1995-7) | Manna for the Revelation
Generation:
<https://www.radio4all.net/program/108328>CONSPIRACY
CLASSICS, longer interviews/lectures


Part Two – International news review,
Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations

<https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z_wF-xjlitI>Tucker
Carlson apologises for promoting Donald Trump.

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BUT WAS THIS STING JUST TO REMOVE A DECENT GUY?
US Nuclear Chief, Andrew Hugg, fired after
disclosing national security information to
pretty lady he fancied. Top U.S. Nuclear Chief
LEAKS Sensitive National Security Information
O’Keefe Media Group BREAKING NEWS: Top U.S.
Nuclear Chief Caught LEAKING Sensitive National
Security Information to Stranger, Reveals Army
Chemist Was Exposed to U.S. Chemical Nerve Agent,
Confirms U.S. Strike Killed Children in Iran,
Discloses U.S. Plans to ‘Kill Iran’s New Supreme
Leader’ “If he [Mojtaba Khamenei] doesn’t change
his ways, yeah, they’re [United States] going to
kill him.”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePTbCwXIek>“The
easiest way to get intelligence…send a pretty
girl, talk to the guy…I have to resist your
eyes.” “Your eyes have mesmerized me so
much…Almost like you’re an intelligence.” Andrew
Hugg, a U.S. Chief of Chemical Nuclear Surety,
was caught on hidden camera casually revealing
sensitive information to a stranger in a public
restaurant. Andrew Hugg, Chief of Chemical
Nuclear Surety, in charge of nuclear and chemical
safety was caught on hidden camera releasing
information regarding the U.S. Nuclear
Information. He claims the U.S. still possesses
nerve agents and says a U.S. Army chemist
recently died from exposure. He also acknowledges
U.S. airstrikes have killed children in Iran,
calling it “collateral damage,” and revealed to
the journalist how nuclear launch decisions are
made in real time. Hugg described how the United
States could assassinate Iran’s next leader if he
“doesn’t change,” while admitting the U.S. has no
plans to use nuclear weapons: “We’re not going to
nuke anybody.” All of this was casually revealed
to an undercover journalist in a restaurant. This
raises serious questions about this official’s
judgment, security, and what’s really happening
behind closed doors. We have reached out to the
Pentagon and U.S. Army for comment and they are working on a response.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA1YCYflWeg>Jeffrey
Sachs on the Iran war. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is
the War Over? Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is the War Over?


Michael Hudson on the economic consequences of
the Iran war – great depression, crash coming. US
economy is based on Ponzi scheme that could
collapse, warns economist Michael Hudson [China
sponsored] Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy
Report
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blv49u3Q230>There
are growing signs that the United States may be
on the verge of another major financial crisis,
one that could start in the $3 trillion private
credit market, which is already seeing
significant turmoil, before spreading to other
sectors. Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben
Norton interviewed economist Michael Hudson to
discuss the serious problems on Wall Street.
Hudson warned that the US economy is built on a
Ponzi scheme that depends on continuing to pour
money into a bloated, bubbly financial system
based on unsustainable speculation, not industrial production.

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King Charles’s visit to Trump. Prince Harry is
weighing in saying Trump is going soft on
‘necessary’ Ukraine war. CNN: Trump dismisses
Prince Harry’s comments on Ukraine ahead of royal
visit
<https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/politics/trump-prince-harry-ukraine-intl-scli>President
Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off remarks by
Prince Harry asking the US for more action to end
the war in Ukraine, saying the British royal does
not speak for the United Kingdom. “I know one
thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK,
that’s for sure. I think I am speaking for the UK
more than Prince Harry. But I appreciate his
advice very much,” Trump said, before quipping:
“How’s he doing? How’s his wife?” “Please give
him my regards,” Trump added. Harry recently
visited Ukraine, where he called on the US to
increase support for Kyiv and urged Russian
President Vladimir Putin to “choose a different
course.” King Charles III and Queen Camilla are
scheduled to visit Washington next week,
including stops at the White House and the US Capitol.

THE HUNGARY EU/NATO TILT EFFECT: Al Jazeera – new
President in Hungary and the effect on oil,gas
pipeline. Will Ukraine war intensify after EU’s
$105bn loan to Kyiv? | Inside Story Al Jazeera
English A loan drama tied to geopolitics. Kyiv is
getting a much-delayed lifeline from Brussels, as
it fights Moscow’s invasion with nearly empty
coffers.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ilFFxbxqkg>That’s
after Ukraine repaired a pipeline carrying
Russian crude to Hungary, Slovakia. The oil
revenues will bolster Moscow’s war chest. So, is
this complex EU deal going to intensify the
conflict? And, considering the mistrust between
the parties, will the agreement even last?
Presenter: James Bays Guests: Marina Miron ­
Researcher in Defence Studies at King’s College
London Maximilian Hess ­ Author of ‘Economic War:
Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia
and the West’ Pieter Cleppe ­ Editor-in-Chief, BrusselsReport.eu

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BBC – Lebanese journalist killed by Israelis.
Israel deliberately targets Lebanese journalist
killed in IDF air strike during ‘ceasefire’ Amal
Khalil was a journalist with the Lebanese
newspaper Al-Akhbar Lebanon’s prime minister has
accused Israel of war crimes after Israeli air
strikes killed one journalist and wounded another
in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvn036evlo>The
strike killed Amal Khalil, who worked for a
Lebanese newspaper, and injured freelance
photographer Zeinab Faraj. Officials in Lebanon
say they were deliberately targeted as they
sought shelter in a home after an initial air
strike hit the vehicle in front of them, killing
two men. The officials also accused the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) of intentionally targeting a
marked ambulance as it tried to reach the
journalists in the village of Tayri. The IDF
denied that it was preventing rescue teams from
reaching the area and said it did not target
journalists. Journalists Khalil, 43, who worked
for Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, and Faraj, a
freelance photographer, were travelling together.
The two men who died have not been named by
officials. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam
said: “Targeting journalists, obstructing access
to them by relief teams, and even targeting their
locations again after these teams arrive
constitutes described war crimes.” He accused
Israel of repeatedly targeting media workers in
southern Lebanon in what he described as “an
established approach”. Salam offered condolences
to Khalil’s family and said that Lebanon would
“pursue the crimes before the competent
international forums”. In a statement, the IDF
said it “does not target journalists and acts to
mitigate harm to them while maintaining the
safety and security of its troops”. The IDF said
it identified two vehicles that had “departed
from a military structure used by Hezbollah”. One
of the vehicles had approached Israeli troops in
a manner that was an “immediate threat” after
crossing a “forward defence line”, violating a
ceasefire, the statement said. The IDF said the
Israeli Air Force then struck one of the
vehicles, and that the “structure from which the
individuals had fled was also struck”. The
Lebanese health ministry said the IDF “pursued”
Khalil and Faraj, “who had taken refuge from the
first raid in a nearby house, targeting the house
where they had sought shelter”. When a Lebanese
Red Cross ambulance arrived to treat the wounded,
Israeli forces directed a stun grenade and
gunfire toward it, preventing it from reaching
them, the ministry said in a statement. “This
constitutes a blatant double violation:
obstructing the rescue efforts of a citizen known
for her civic media activism, and targeting an
ambulance clearly marked with the Red Cross
emblem,” the health ministry said. Clayton
Weimer, the executive director of Reporters
Without Borders, said the IDF had received
messages from the organisation, as well as
journalists, asking that it allow ambulances to
get to Khalil. “The Red Cross signalled they were
unable to get through because of ongoing Israeli
bombardment. So that is callous disregard, on top
of what appears to be a deliberate and targeted
killing of a journalist.” Faraj was eventually
evacuated along with two of the dead, the
statement added. Khalil’s body was later
recovered by emergency teams, according to
Lebanon’s civil defence agency. On Thursday
morning, journalists gathered at Martyrs Square
in Beirut to remember her in silence.

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy813gy08v2o>US
official suggests Italy (who didn’t qualify) may
replace Iran football team (who did) at US based World Cup.

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Shahzad Akbar, anti corruption Minister under
Imran Khan in Pakistan, on how paid thugs have
attacked him and his house in UK, and how attacks
on dissidents from other countries is common in
UK. Three men charged after ‘highly targeted
attacks’ against Pakistani dissidents Alleged
attacks took place in Cambridgeshire and
Buckinghamshire against two prominent supporters
of jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran
Khan Three men have been charged after a series
of “highly targeted” attacks against two
Pakistani dissidents living in Britain.
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/23/three-men-charged-after-highly-targeted-attacks-against-pakistani-dissidents>Police
carried out a series of seven raids and arrests
this week in London, Essex and the Midlands after
four attacks, which began on Christmas Eve. The
attacks took place in Cambridgeshire and
Buckinghamshire against two prominent supporters
of the jailed former Pakistani prime minister
Imran Khan. One of the victims, human rights
lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar, a former member of
Khan’s cabinet, told the Guardian he had been
punched up to 30 times by a man who knocked on
his door and checked his identity. Counter-terror
police (CTP) said it took over the investigations
from local police because of the “highly targeted
nature” of the attacks. On Friday, CTP London
said three men had been charged, and all are
British nationals. Karl Blackbird, 40, from
Bedworth, has been charged with conspiracy to
assault occasioning actual bodily harm in respect
of two alleged attacks on 24 December. Clark
McAulay, 39, from Coventry, has been charged with
conspiracy to assault occasioning actual bodily
harm over an incident in Chesham. Doneto Brammer,
21, from Wood Green, London, has been charged in
connection with the alleged attack on 31 December
at Akbar’s home in Cambridgeshire. Brammer is
charged with possession of a prohibited weapon,
conspiracy to commit arson with intent to
endanger life, and conspiracy to commit arson
being reckless as to whether life would be
endangered. All three men were charged on Friday
and will appear at Westminster magistrates court
on Saturday. Police had arrested a man aged 34 in
Essex on 5 January, who was released on bail. On
Wednesday, five more people were arrested,
including three of those now charged. Other
arrests took place of a man, 30, in Birmingham
and a woman, 40, in north London, both of whom
have been released on bail. The seventh arrest on
Friday was of a 25-year-old man who was arrested
in Warwickshire and remains in custody in a
London police station. Counter-terrorism
detectives say they also carried out a series of
searches, with four in Birmingham, one in
Coventry, one in Warwickshire and two at sites in
London. Police said the investigation continues
and added: “Detectives are keeping an open mind
as to any potential motivation behind the
incidents. Officers are also keeping an open mind
as to whether any of the incidents are
potentially linked, and this remains an active
line of inquiry being considered.” Akbar, 48,
told the Guardian he was in hiding after the
attacks: “They are trying to scare and intimidate
me, and I am pretty scared. I fear for my life
and for my family’s lives.” The human rights
barrister added: “I am a Pakistani dissident
living in exile here. I am an open critic of the
Pakistani regime, which is backed by the
military. “I cannot say who did it. However, one
thing is certain: it was a targeted attack and
the people who attacked were probably hired by someone.”

Emacs!

Were BP behind the 1979 Iranian revolution?
William Engdahl book on Shah. At the time, the
Shah was negotiating a 25-year oil agreement with
British Petroleum (BP), but talks broke down in
October. BP demanded exclusive rights to future
Iranian output but refused to guarantee oil
purchases. The Shah balked and was on the verge
of independently seeking new buyers with eager
ones lined up in Germany, France, Japan and
elsewhere. Washington and London were alarmed and
acted.
<https://countercurrents.org/lendman190208A.htm>They
implemented destabilization plans, starting with
cutting Iranian oil purchases. Economic pressures
followed, and trained US and UK agitators
exacerbated them by fanning religious discontent
and overall turmoil. Oil strikes as well were
used. They crippled production and made things
worse. American security advisors recommended
Iran’s Savak secret police use repressive tactics
to maximize antipathy to the Shah. The Carter
administration cynically protested human rights
abuses, and BBC correspondents exaggerated
anti-Shah protests to rev up hysteria against
him. At the same time, it gave Khomeini an open
platform to speak and prevented the Shah from
replying. Things came to a head in January, 1979
when he fled the country, and Khomeini returned
to Tehran and proclaimed a theocratic state.
Chaos was unleashed, and by May the new regime
cancelled plans for further nuclear reactor
development. At the same time, Iran’s oil exports
were cut off, and the Saudis inexplicably cut
their own in January. Spot prices skyrocketed,
and a second oil shock ensued that was as
deviously conceived as the first one. Then it got
worse. In October, newly appointed Fed Chairman
Paul Volker unleashed a new scheme that turned
calamity into catastrophe by design. It was a
radical new monetary policy on the pretext of
“squeezing inflation out of the system.” In fact,
it was made-in-Washington fraud to preserve
dollar hegemony, make it the world’s most sought
currency, and crush industrial growth to let
political and financial power prop up dollar
strength. Volker succeeded by raising interest
rates from 10% to 16% and finally 20% in weeks.
World policy makers were stunned, economies
plunged into the deepest recession since the
1930s, and the dollar began an extraordinary five
year ascent. The combined effect of oil and
Volker shocks took “the bloom off the nuclear
rose” and ended its threat to Anglo-American oil
supremacy. And if more was needed it came on
March 28, 1979 in the middle of Pennsylvania at a
place called Three Mile Island. Conveniently, at
the same time The China Syndrome was released
that fictionalized the ongoing event. The
combined effect was public hysteria, and later
investigation revealed critical valves had
illegally been closed. In addition, FEMA
controlled all news to create panic. The scheme
worked, and Anglo-American supremacy was
reasserted over the industrial and financial
world. Nothing is stable forever, however, and
within a decade new rumblings would be felt.

Strait of Hormuz documentary. Press TV. Hormuz,
the untold story of the Strait – Iran’s Press TV
The Strait of Hormuz, together with the
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca,
forms the world’s energy transit triangle.
<https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2026/04/19/767144/strait-of-Hormuz-Iran-Bab-el-Mandeb-colonialism->Two
of these three straits are under the control of
the Axis of Resistance against colonialism. But
the Strait of Hormuz alone has a story worth
hearing ­ a story of occupation by the Portuguese
and the British, and of the Iranian people’s
struggle to reclaim and dominate this vital global trade waterway.





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