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Thursday, June 25, 2026

Western Propaganda Will Keep Saying Ukraine Is Winning As Long As The FUDsters Are Naive Enough To Believe It

In the opening speech at the European defence and security summit, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space Policy Andrius Kubilius said on Tuesday in Brussels that Ukraine is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield, in the air and at sea, while Ukrainian drones have stopped Russia’s ground advance and are causing serious disruptions to Russian logistics.

The commissioner also claimed that Ukrainian drones can paralyse the supply of the Russian army up to 300 kilometers from the front lines.

According to the EU commissioner, Ukraine is no longer just a beneficiary of international subsidies, but also contributes to the protection of other countries.

Kubilius said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is reacting to Ukrainian successes with increasingly desperate attacks. He cited last week’s attack on the Kyiv monastery as an example, which he called an attack on culture, religion and civilisation.

According to the commissioner, Russia continues to pose a threat to Europe’s security, and Moscow may be able to test NATO’s Article 5, which establishes collective defence. At the same time, he emphasised that Ukraine’s successes do not mean the end of the war, nor do they mean that Russia is weak. Casualty figures released by the United Nations expose the lies of NATO and the EU.

Unfortunately, the parade of uninformed and paid FUDsters will continue as long as EU member states are willing to spaff millions of Euros on keeping up the propaganda campaign which has broadcast the message that Ukraine is winning since day one of the war. The tacked on goal to the SMO is the formation of a buffer or security zone along the Russia/Ukraine border whose required depth keeps expanding with every advance in drone capabilities. Soon, all of Ukraine will need to be turned into a security zone.

Scott Ritter’s return from Russia and the experiences he’s related brings up the two schools of thought present within Russia that look beyond the SMO to NATO’s antics–and we must recall that the Outlaw US Empire remains in charge of NATO, which is crucial to our understanding of the situation. One school of thought says the EU portion of NATO is killing itself and thus doesn’t need to be shot dead now. The other school says the EU portion of NATO must be shot dead now to ease Russia’s situation. Both schools seem to agree that NATO’s efforts to improve Ukraine’s position on the battlefield are useless, thus it’s the issue of NATO’s aid in terrorism that must be halted.

Recently, Putin said to top graduates from military universities that Russia must prepare to shoot the EU dog dead, while Lavrov pounds the fact of the EU becoming Nazi, with both using the 85th anniversary of Barbarossa as additional weight for their remarks.

There is no shortage of data available to arrive at a more rational conclusion about what is likely to happen over the next few months. Russia’s attrition strategy will continue as that’s where it has the most decisive advantage.

The see-saw nature of drone advancements that provide each side a short window of advantage will continue. Russia’s massive advantage in total firepower will continue to exert its influence. It must be noted that Ukraine must fire a massive number of drones–up to 1000–just to get a few leakers that provide the black smoke used in its propaganda. Yes, Russian civilians do die on a daily basis from NATO terrorism, and that provides the kill the dog now school of thought’s argument. The validity of that argument means the nature and condition of EU/NATO leadership needs to be examined.

As he said, Russia is still able to produce weapons and drones in large quantities, so Europe must prepare to strengthen its own defence capabilities.

Unfortunately the parade of uninformed and ignorant keyboard warriors have made up their minds which side is wearing the white hat in this war, and are quite willing to believe every scrap of propaganda nonsense that tells them Ukraine is winning and turn their backs on the evidence of what Zelensky and his corrupt cronies are doing to Ukraine as they enrich themselves by skimming off the $billions being donated (mostly unknowingly) by European, American and British taxpayers.

Ukraine is not winning. It is doubtful that Ukraine will be able to exist as a nation after the war eventually ends, having sacrificed a generation of young men in a pointless war. Western weapons, aimed and fired by western 'support technicians have inflicted damage on Russia, but throughout most of that vast country it;s business as usual with the occasional whizzbang to liven things up as another Ukrainian drone swarm is destroyed by guys on the ground with sniper rifles.

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Risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,’ because of Ukie drone strikes warns IAEA“There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,” said Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following his visit on Tuesday (27 August) to the facility in Kurchatov, close to the Russian border and the area curenly occupied by Ukrainian troops. He added that he had been shown evidence of damage caused by Ukie drone strikes during his visit to the plant.

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We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

German voters’ unstoppable slide into the arms of the far Right? Or Something Else

Bernberg - not the kind of place for political earthquakes (Picture: stockphoto.com)

In Bernburg, a German riverside town about two hours’ drive south-west of Berlin, is holding its biennial festival. The streets are lined with market stalls selling tourist tat and side shows offering all sorts of fun, live-music stages have popped up in squares and public gardens, street-food sellers and mini-marquees touting tourism, handicrafts and community groups.

Bernburg is an unassuming sort of town in the AfD stronghold of Saxony-Anhalt, not a place you’d expect to find signs of a looming political earthquake that looks set to shake the German establishment to its foundations.

What has happened in Germany is that as centre - right or centre- left parties (CDU and SDP) have been forced into coalitions with extremists like Die Linke and the Greens, though these parties have been minority members of the coalition they have hijacked the government agenda by threatening to bring down the ruling coalition any time they were not getting their own way.

So while presenting themselves as defenders of democracy CDU and SDP have been so scared of a populist part breaking the old ruling duopoly they have delivered the country into the hands of Further-than-far-left-left extremists.

Which is why Germany is in such a mess economically and socially and why voters are turning to AfD

Germany's decline is being echoed all over the developed world of course, everywhere a burgeoning welfare bill is bankrupting national treasuries and insane energy costs are driving businesses (and jobs) away to the far east and the Americas although to be fair Trump has tuned things round somewhat in the USA (OK, I know a lot of people will hate me for being fair to Trump - bring it on.). This is what ` progressive` politics looks like...and the majority of working, and taxpaying people don`t like it.

We are witnessing across the UK and Europe the same unregulated mass immigration and out-of-control welfare spending ... and an undeniable link between immigrants and violent or sexual crime, but the majority have realised the need to get rid of `woke` policies, deport people who should never have been allowed in and are simply economic migrants, restore pride in national sovereignty and culture, reduce welfare benefits such that work is incentivised, idleness is not and that socialism or so called social democracy is the enemy of the working man. Every country has a globalist uniparty bunch of liars...they refused to listen to their own voters for the last 30 years...now comes the price to be paid.

The whole western world is in decline with its globalist , socialist and worse of all open borders agendas and the economically suicidal determination of ruling elites to pay all - comer generous benefits and provide free housing and healthcare. Germans were the most productive, hard working and efficient people amongst the European people, but making welfare so generous in Germany will eventually ruin even them.

And immigrants from poorer countries are far more likely to take advantage of a generous welfare state which encourages them not to work than to stay in their homeland and work long hours seven days a week for a far lower standard of living. We have known this for a long time but bureaucrats never seem to grasp the obvious.

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Double Blow To Irish Woke Wonks - Voters Reject ‘Progressive’ Reforms to the Constitution By Big Majorities
Simpering, limp wristed Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar whose government has faced protests because it is claimed they govern in the interests of the liberal elite and ignore the Irish people, suffered two blows to his ambition to turn Ireland into the wokest country in Europe last weekend. Varadkar admitted on Saturday that voters had delivered “two wallops” to the government, which, led by Leo himself, had pushed for a "Yes" vote on a pair of referendums.

Corbyn's Politically Correct Hypocrites Hate Sexism But Approve Of Muslim Sexism
On encountering my insense dislike of the Labour Party, people asume I am a Conservative. WRONG! I have never supported The Conservatives and have never voted either Conservative or Labour in my life. Politicians should never be trusted, I but what sets Labour politicians and activists above the rest in terms of being worthy of only contempt is the hypocrisy.

He's Not The Messiah, His Name Is Edymandias - Miliband's slab stunt goes down like a Lead Balloon Only two days campaigning left before polls open for the 2015 general election. Who will winn? Opinion Poll show no conclusive trends. But inside information tells us the reason conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has a smile on his face as the campaigning draws to a close. Farage is radiant, clegg liooks chirpy, only Ed Milband is down in the dumps.

Were Rotherham Abuse Victimes sacrificed To Save The Labour Party
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Miliband Promises Same Old Shite - Not A Word About Action Against Paedophile Sex Gangs
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The Left's Rhetorical Technique Explained
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The Hate And Prejudice The Bourgois Left Find Acceptable
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Ve Haff Vay Of Making You Konform. The Tide Is Turning against the Autoritarian Left
The left's self confidence has had a hint of desperation about it for a long time. From their constant whines about the sexism, racism and homophobia of the working class who happen to be the party's core constituency to the substitution of smearing UKIP for policies in the european Election this is a party of arrested adolescents throwing a hissy fit because people are laughing at them.

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These stupid laws insult the public and threaten free speech When the law forbids us to insult or offend somebody, to insult or offend a religion, race, skin colour or sexual preference, free speech and other important democratic rights are under threat. When the law then goes on to say that anyone accused of these offences has no right to defend themselves and the word of the accuser is sufficient evidence on which to obtain a conviction then we have abandoned justice and are ruled by fascists.

Monday, June 22, 2026

Meet The New Boss - Same As The Old Boss - Starmer resignes, Burnham crowned.

by Arthur Foxake, 22 June 2026 (h/t to The Who for my title)

Keir Starmer delivers his resignation speech outside the UK Prime Ministers official residence 10 Downing Street

So Keir Starmer is gone. The man who so piously hounded Boris Johnson out of Downing Street for eating cake, or something like that, has been undone by his own unfittedness for the job and yet was so out of his deth as a national leader has been deservedly kicked out after an even shorter time in office. There is some justice in the world.

About time, too. I predicted in February he would go this year, though this hardly required great prognosticatory powers on my part. And one of the main reasons Starmer had to go was demonstrated in his resignation speech in which the outgoing Prime Minister detailed his achievements while in office, needless to say all were of dubious provenance, while humiliations like the rout in local council elections by Nigel Farage's Reform, acts of treason like the Chagos Islands giveaway, the Chinese Super Embassy Scandal, Mandygate, Two tier policing and justice, the mystery of the three Ukrainian rent boys, the hamfisted attempts to whitewash the grooming gangs scandal, Southport killings, and the issue of illegal immigrants sex crimes were glossed over.

Anyone could see that the bond between Starmer and his party, always unromantic and transactional at best, was broken. Maybe it was the Mandelson affair. Maybe successive electoral disasters. Maybe frankly incomprehensible policies like handing over Chagos or scrapping jury trials. Or maybe just Starmer’s inability to read the room and show actual, directional, leadership without U-turning. Which of us outsiders may know the counsel of the Labour Party or the will of its members?

Whatever the exact cause, after a long list of failures in addition to those mentioned above, the oustng of Starmer had become inevitable. The necessary condition for stopping the Weekend at Bernie’s farce and ceasing to prop him up was lack of a plausible replacement. Finally despairing of such a figure emerging, the Labour Party has chosen to imagine one anyway in Andy Burnham, and to elevate him to Prime Minister.

Burnham,the man who was beaten in two past Labour leadership elections, the undistinguished Blair-era minister, the mayor who reinvented himself as The Prime Minister In The North, is going to be running the country? Seriously? It’s true that Manchester is a much improved city, though quite how much responsibility Burnham himself bears for the transformation is arguable.

To turn Britain round will be very painful, a lot more difficult that turning a faded industrial city around and can only be done if the right person is found to give us the painful medicine and for a long time. That person will have to be tough and relentless and there will be many obstacles along the road before things get better. I do not think that the British can tolerate such a situation as most are unable to understand the trouble we are in.

Economic collapse is probably what will happen as taxation has killed the incentive to invest, work or start new business. Many in business want out and it makes little sense to start a new one unless you have an exceptionally good idea.

The story of the left is always the same. To be Robin Hood, to take from the rich (by definition undeserving exploitative bullshit) and give to the poor (by definition hard done by paragons of love & virtue).
The reality of life and economies is very different.
The idea that the North can be revitalised by investing government money is a mirage. What is needed is to unshackle and encourage industry and business throughout this land. Not shut down whole industries with mad energy policies – the oil industry in Aberdeen, the Steel Industry, the Fishing Industry, the Car Industry. Not seek to centrally control the price of everything. Not hike the minimum wage so youngsters are forced onto the scrap heap. Not to artificially grow the economy by borrowing money to fund increased benefits for the ever ex[anding non-working class.

The problem that wuill cause the downfall of any future socialist leadr is that socialist are incapable of understanding that socialism just doesn't work.

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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Yes, Iran Has Actually Closed The Strait Of Hormuz Again

After a news pantomime last night and earlier today (Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz ... Oh no they haven't ... Oh yes they have,) it has finally been confirmed that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz once again over Israel's air strikes on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, which Iran describes as“violations” of the peace deal agreed with the USA, Tehran’s military has said. Technically Hezbollah is not part of Trump's war and the conflict between the terrorit organisation's forces in Lebanon and the Israelis is a separate issue.

The Iranian military command ‌stated the closure was the “first ‌step” in response to what it described as breaches of the ceasefire agreement, warning that further measures would ‌be taken if “aggression” continued, Iran's state media reported.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned vessels not to venture into the shipping lanes through the strait, saying their security would be at risk.

The US military immediately denied that Iran had control of the strait. A spokesman for Central Command said: “Traffic continues to move through the strait, and US forces are monitoring the situation ‌to ensure this remains the case.”

The reports emerged as JD Vance, the US vice-president, told Fox News that ‌he was confident the ceasefire agreed in Washington’s 14-point deal ⁠with ⁠Tehran would hold. He claimed there was no evidence that the strait was shut. That may well be true but it is equally true that there is no evidence it is open. What captain is going to risk his ship and the lives of himself and his crew trying to find out.

Independent reports reveal Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 16 people this morning, with the country claiming it was responding to attacks by Hezbollah.But these strikes are nothing to do with Trump or America.

Israel is not the USA. Israel is a sovereign state, whether Iran recognises its right to exist or not. (Spoiler, it doesn't.) Israel is not a signatory. to the Islamabad Memorandum. Hezbollah is not the government of Lebanon and neither are its commanders the IRGC.

Israel is not leaving the buffer zone south of the Litani river and is not allowing Hezbollah to rearm and return to the border to carry out another Hamas style, or worse, October 7th.Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist group and is widely recognised as an Iranian asset.

The Lebanese army are too weak to control the 90,000 strong Iranian proxy militia, Hezbollah.

UNIFIL (The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) set up in 2006 has not succeeded disarming Hezbollah and not keeping them north of the Lebanon / Israel border.Thus it is wholly disingenuous of Iran to use the Israel - Hezbollah conflict as an excuse for closing Hormuz again, and suggests the government of Iran had no intention of honouring the peace deal. No surprise there.

So much for treaties not worth the paper they are written on. So much for useless UN bodies which are actually in favour of the erasure of Israel.

UPDATE - Sunday 21 June, 22:00

Though White House and Pentagon sources have continued throughout today that contrary to Iran's claims The Strait of Hormuz remains open for business as usual, Windward on X has this:

Hours after the IRGC's closure announcement, AIS traffic through the Strait of Hormuz suggested business as usual. But overnight, the picture shifted: zero AIS transits were recorded through the strait, and only two non-Iranian commercial vessels were AIS-visible this morning. Hesitation is back in an already unpredictable corridor.

So as another round of talks, this time in Switzerland, breaks up it looks as though the war is still on

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Just How Close Are We To World War Three
Have you read or heard in your news supplier of choice of the recent massive troop movements in Israel, the massive build up of British, French and American warships around the approaches to the Persian gulf or just how badly the situations in Egypt and Libya have deteriorated since ...

Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,

"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its ~~Dupes~~ Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation

Labour leader Corbyn rejects bombing Syria, blames BRITAIN and the US for the rise of ISIS: because it will spark more ‘mayhem’
Though the story is from The Daily Mail which, we expect to be one of the new Labour leader's greatest critics, it's good to see Mainstream Media actually reporting one of the things Jezza is getting right. Obviously he reads The Daily Stirrer because we've been saying since ISIS were pulled out of ...

How Hillary Clinton Planned The Syrian Holocaust We bring you evidence that the destruction of Syria was planned by the USA and Israel long before the US engineered 'spontaneous uprising'known as The Arab Spring ...

Another Obama Sponsored Genocide - not Alawi or Christians In Syria but Yazidi in Iraq.
While the west has been distracted by events in Gaza and Ukraine, and the neo - fascist 'left' have suddenly discovered the joys of anti Russianism and anti Semitism, the FUKUS axis sponsored genocidists of ISIS have discovered another inoffensive minority to exterminate now that the Syriac Christians have fled.

More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...

Poison Gas Used In Syria Sparks Calls For Western Military Invasion
Claims circulating in Washington, London and Brussels that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict have prompted less conspiracy theories and more intelligent discussion that we might expect. Even so commentators in mainstream media have divided into two opposing camps – those who believe that President Obama's failure to ...

Islamic Cleric Announces Fatwah Allowing The Legal Rape Of Syrian Women By Anti Assad Rebels

An Islamic cleric has pronounced a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a "sexual jihad" that has so far involved girls as young as 14 being transported to remote areas of the country to service the needs of ...

France sends more troops to Mali as UN backs intervention

A contingent of 750 French troops has joined the offensive against Islamist rebels in Mali, French president Francois Hollande said in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday after France secured fresh UN backing for its military action

Over 4000 Civilians Have Died In Forgotten War. As attention has focused on Syria ans then on the efforts of the Obama administration, in its dying months, to avenge the defeat of the anointed successor Hillary Clinton and discredit the election victor and President - elect Donald Trump, and simultaneously demonize Russia and President Putin I Would Do anything To Get Assad Out Of Syria Says Cameron
Syrian president Bashar Assad could be allowed a free pass to flee his country if it would end the bloodshed, David Cameron said today. The Prime Minister said he would do ‘anything to get that man [Assad] out of the country’ but refused to offer Assad a safe haven in Britain. Mr Cameron is on the second day of ...

Will Egypt Seize Libya For Its Oil

If the conflict in Syria, currently showing signs of spreading to Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan were to escalate into a regional war, a proxy for east and west to butt heads without sustaining too much domestic damage, is Egypt likely to take advantage of the distraction and

Thursday, June 18, 2026

EU Parliament Votes For Toughest Ever Changes To Law OnIllegal Immigrant Treatment

Picture: Financial Times

Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday this week in favour of toughening migration rules in the EU. The result delighted the conservative and nationalist bloc but infuriated the left thus has highlighting a major rift between right-wing and left-wing MEPs.

The vote is a counterpoint to the European Migration Pact which came into force recently and angered the political right by imposing on EU member states a duty to accept quotas of illegal immigrants.

The new rules on deporting people who have no legal right to be in EU nations, which include speeding up the deportation of bogus asylum seekers, boat people, visa overstayers, fake students, and anyone else who entered Europe illegally whose claims for sanctuary have been rejected, were originally proposed by the European Commission last year amid growing public discontent with an influx of illegal migrants posing as refugees and asylum seekers. The issue has dominated the bloc’s political landscape since 2015 when roughly a million undocumented immigrants entered the EU.

By 2025, the EU migrant population had reached a record 64.2 million, including around 46.7 million people born outside the bloc, according to a recent Berlin-based study using Eurostat and UN data.

Against this backdrop, right-wing parties advocating tougher policies on migration have been steadily gaining ground in multiple member states, including Germany. The mainstream Christian-Democrats and centre-right have had to co-opt some of the rhetoric they had previously denounced.

Among the new measures included in new EU is a clause allowing controversial return hubs outside the bloc and home searches. These are the main points that aroused leftist anger, as conservatives who had previously been 'on message' voted with so called far-right groups to pass the legislation.

The vote confirmed the emergence of a right-leaning majority in Parliament on migration issues. The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) once again aligned with the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN).Several MEPs from the liberal Renew Europe group also back the bill.

The EPP continues to rule out formal cooperation with parties it considers too extreme, including the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and France's National Rally and Vox in Spain. EPP leader Manfred Weber has repeatedly rejected the prospect of formal alliances with such forces

But the EPP sees their votes as crucial for tougher migration legislation, creating an alternative majority to the traditional centrist coalition of the EPP, Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and Renew Europe.

Socialists and left-wing MEPs largely opposed the legislation, arguing that it could undermine migrants' fundamental rights.

European Commission Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said in a statement issued shortly after the vote: “Our citizens expect us to manage migration effectively. When people with no right to stay remain in the EU, the credibility of our entire migration policy is undermined … and [this] diminishes Europe’s ability to attract and retain talent and skills.”

With anti-immigrant sentiment boosting far-right parties across Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden, Europe’s center right — led by the European People’s Party (EPP) — is scrambling to prove to voters that the political mainstream still has migration under control.

The Commission’s initiative derives from a striking statistic: In 2023 over 480,000 people were ordered to leave the EU — but only one in five actually did so.

Syria's Dirty War Looks Set To Get Dirtier
'From unobtrusive, anonymous offices scattered around the middle east, in Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, CIA officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a programme of massive arms shipment to Syria's rebels. The western powers operation to support those trying to overthrow the Assad regime is officially denied and ...

Islamic Cleric Announces Fatwah Allowing The Legal Rape Of Syrian Women By Anti Assad Rebels

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

How America's Democrats Are Throwing Away A Winnable Election For The Sake Of Socialism

As campaigning starts to heat up for the USA's into the midterm elections due in November an uncomfortable truth facing the Democratic Party, which ought to be favourites to win and thus regain control of Congress, making Donald Trump a lame-duck president for the final two years of his term, an influential Left-wing movement is gaining momentum and increasingly appears capable of pulling the national Democratic Party further toward a socialist agenda, displacing the old liberal establishment entirely.

Last week, two Democratic Socialist of America members achieved successes in primaries, thus being selected to replace long serving Democrat representatives. These victories, and others, underscore the left movement’s growing ability to outcompete the party mainstream. In Maine, Graham Platner, who has described himself as a DSA member in online forums, clinched the nomination for the US Senate, besting the party’s preferred candidate, Gov. Janet Mills. On the other coast, Nithya Raman, the first DSA member elected to the Los Angeles City Council, advanced to a mayoral runoff against the establishment-backed incumbent, Karen Bass.

This swing to the left among America's liberals mirrors Europe's swing to the right in the wake of neo - liberalism's and Social Democracy's failures in Europe. In short political establishments on both side of the pond have lost sight of the people whose votes they rely on.

Both Trump's MAGA movement and the surging DSA movement share a common them. People are angry at the government and the neoliberal globalist establishment that has run it since the 90’s (or even WWII if you prefer). The anger towards the elites and the inequality that came out of the globalization era is very, very real. To the people, the social contract of the New Deal and post-war liberalism has failed. So long as nothing is done to restrain the multinational corporations and the billionaires, it continues to get worse, bringing even more radical, more disruptive, ideas to the surface. Eventually, the people will get what they want, one way or another.

There are basically two valid forms that change can take, one from the right and the other the left. The first is what has happened in both Trump terms, a strident nationalism that boils down to America first, a restoration of national sovereignty at the expense of international cooperation and dispensing with any notion of a world order. America’s government works for the American people, not for some ideal of global cooperation, not for international corporations or wannabe world governments like the Davos Gang. America first is the ideal in a nutshell.

The second form, though, is radical redistribution of wealth, a direct rejection of classical liberalism. Let the global economy take whatever form, but target the wealth of individuals directly through new forms of taxation and new policies. Break up large corporations. Restore competition. Extend unionisation to new classes of workers and pass new labour laws. It’s basically European style socialism with a fresh coat of paint and a set of explicitly named targets to shoot at (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, etc.).

This is a political reckoning that was guaranteed by the mistakes made during the neoliberal, unipolar era and even before. At this point the neoliberal establishment is, politically speaking, a dead man walking. The only thing keeping them in power is inertia and incumbency. Establishment Republicans have been dropping like flies in primaries due to anti-elite sentiment. Now the same thing is happening to Democrats. The end result will be either nationalistic competition on a global scale that forces companies and billionaires to ‘pick a side’ and care about where their physical assets, productive capacity, employees, etc. actually are located, OR an unapologetic redistribution scheme with some minimum pretence of socialism but is, in practice, simply keeping people fed, housed, and entertained so they won’t actually rebel against the overclass, basically a bread and games Roman Empire 2.0. The reckoning is at hand and it’s too late to save the old world order which has been a zombie for decades.

But the DSA is overplaying its hand. America might be angry and fed up with the old ruling duopoly but there is little evidence that American voters are ready for full on, authoritarian socialism.

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De - Dollarisation: China, Brazil Make Deal To Ditch US Dollar For Bilateral Trades
China and Brazil this week concluded a deal to conduct trade between their nations in their own in their own currencies, ditching the established reserve currency for global trade, US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian announced said on Wednesday. This is Beijing’s latest strike against the almighty greenback in its currency war aimed at shifting the balance of geopolitical and economic power from west to east.

NATO Rhetoric About Russian Threat is 'Absurd'
The reasons being given for the latest NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, the idea that the Russian 'Russian threat' to Eastern Europe grows every day is "simply absurd," according to former US diplomat and Senate policy advisor Jim Jatras. Effectively, Jatras says, the buildup is an attempt by the US to keep Germany and France on board with Washington's world domination agenda and ...

The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly
Significant moves in the global chess game have just rendered the huffing and puffing of warmonger Obama meaningless and will break Wall Street's monopoly in controlling oil markets. The move is part of Vladimir Putin's long-term strategy of decoupling Russia’s economy and especially its very significant export of oil, from the US dollar, in effect ...

Naked Bankers Go For Gold
... That gold sale in 2013 was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery (quite a lot of it belonged to the german government) In effect the naked shorting of gold could only work because really the right hand was selling to the left hand.

The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly In a move that went almost completely unreported in mainstream media, Russia has recently opened a market for the trading of physical and 'paper' oil (futures) in Moscow in Roubles. This is the most blatant challenge yet to the domination of the US dollar in world trade.

WMD in Mayfair
Recalling yesterday's Machiavelli Blog which commented on events surrounding the unfortunate death of the alleged former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it seems the murder investigation has now found evidence of many caches (well OK, traces) of radio active toxins in various fashionable establishments in London's West End frequented by former Russian intelligence agents.

China launches global yuan payment system
China’s Central Bank has started a global payment system which provides cross-border transactions in yuan. The China International Payment System (CIPS) intends to internationalize the yuan and challenge the US dollar's dominance.

Refugee Crisis Or Existential Battle With USA for Europe
It has been clear for some years now that the USA, backed by its main NATO and EU military allies the UK and France (the FUKUS axis has been trying to provoke Russian into firing the shot that will be heard around the world and recognised as the startiung signal for World War Three.
Nothing is ever as it seems to be however, and views from middle east and far eastern journals suggest the USA is also working at destabilizing EU nations in order to force their support in its wars.

EU and US talk of war with Russia
The European People’s Party (EPP) is the largest political group in the European Parliament, and they are unerringly supportive of America's efforts to start a war with Russia. “The time of talk and persuasion with Russia is over," MEP and Vice-President of the EPP told a meeting on Tuesday, 21 April, “Now it’s time for a tough policy, and concentration on defence and security ...”

The Mediterranean Boat People Crisis - How Does Europe Deal With The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a toxic issue which is fuelling the rise of anti EU parties from France to Finnland in the north and Hungary in the east. What can be done?

This Is Why The US Just Lost Its Superpower Status According To Larry Summers
As more and more countries flock to join the Chinese led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank after Britain, France Australia, India and other traditional US allies defied Washington to associate themselves with China's initiative, conservative economic pundit Larry Summers once a contender for the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve delivered a sharp rebuke ...

The True Debt Disaster America Faces - Only A Fraction Of Government Debt Is Known To The Public
Politicians and the media talk about the $17 trillion debt the US Government owes to creditors. They are lying, the $17 trillion is a fraction of what america owes. The real figure is $200 trillon. And Obama's loonytoons economics are driving that up at an accelerating rate.

U.S. versus Russia War: Top Russian Politics Scolar Stephen Cohen Tells The Truth
We have been blogging for four years about the US drive for war, provocation of Russia in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and elsewhere made it obvious. But I'm just a news junkie with a strong sense of curiosity and have wondered why the US seems set on this course. Good to see experts like Stephen Cohen, a prominent expert on, Russia are coming onside.

Does It matter If The Dollar Is Replaced?
"Without delving too deeply into Austrian economic and capital theory, just let me point out that money printing disrupts the structure of production by fraudulently changing the “price discovery process” of capitalism. Capital is allocated to projects that will never be profitably completed. Bubbles get created and collapse and businesses are suddenly damaged en mass, thus, destroying wealth. (Zero Hedge)"

What the BRICS plus Germany are really up to in the Currency Wars?
The move led by Russia and China to dump the Petrodollar has escalated into a currency war, not the kind of war we assciate Obama with but give him time. Some wars as in Ukraine, by proxy are not going so well. Others, like the one against Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL in the middle east are going worse. Disintegration of The American Economic Empire is manifesting itself in moves by wannabe global players towards creating a multipolar world ...

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Saturday, June 13, 2026

UK's Labour Government Goes The Whole Orwell, Launches Plan To Take Control Of Your Smartphone

Boggart Blog has been warning about this since our first incarnation in 2005. Socialism always leads to fascism, as economist Josef Schumpeter warned back in the 1930s and twenty - one years ago it was clear to us Boggart Bloggers, an IT consultant, an accountant and an aerospace engineer, that the government of the day, led by Tony Blair at the time, was intent on using internet technologies as a tool for social engineering and the destruction of individual liberty.

At the time the technology existed for tracking and electronic surveillance of our every action and movement via online technology, but it was not as advanced and did not have the ubiquity of the smartphone. To put a tracker device in the pockets of 90% of the population and set up the networks and data centres to gather, collate and store the data would have been prohibitively costly.

But not any more ...

In the article from which we reproduce an extract below the author discusses the UK government's plans, in collaboration with Silicon Valley black hat actors Google and Apple to introduce mandatory client side scanning on smartphones, giving tech companies and government agencies powers to read and record every message or internet session users are involved in. They justify this exercise in trampling on constitutional rights and liberties by claiming it is to protect children from accessing harmful material

It is no coincidence that simultaneously the Socialist government is working with tech firms on plans to make what they call 'misinformation and disinformation' (i.e. anything the government does not want you to see, hear or read,) posted online invisible to user. All levels of government deny this is a blatant attack on free speech of course.

And we must not forget, though it is on hold at the moment due to a public opinion backlash, Reichsfuhrer Starmer's favourite sacred cow project, mandatory Digital ID is still part of his manifesto.

Authored by Stephen Green via PJMedia.com,

In George Orwell's 1984, Great Britain was just a province of Oceania named "Airstrip One" as a none-too-subtle nod to the U.K.'s role as host to the heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II.

Four decades past the real 1984, and there's still no Oceania. But Britain looks more and more like Airstrip One as Parliament considers a bill opening up everyone's smartphone to government supervision — and jail time for tech execs who don't submit.

You had to figure this was probably coming, right?

Right.

Reclaim the Net reports that "Ministers are reportedly drafting a law that would force Apple, Google, and the rest to make it impossible for a child to send, receive, view, or share a single nude image, with the executives who refuse facing up to five years in prison."

That might sound all well and good, but as usual, For the Children™ is little more than the government's justification for total surveillance.

"You cannot block every naked picture someone might stumble across without inspecting every picture, every message, every video call, every streamed film, on every device, all the time," Reclaim noted, with nudity serving as "the excuse and the unbroken view into your phone is the actual prize."

The industry term is "client-side scanning," which sounds much nicer than "a government mandated app that looks at everything on your phone all the time."

And even that sounds better than "Big Brother is Watching You," which is exactly what it is.

As already required by Britain's Online Safety Act, Apple and Google forcibly install age verification on every iPhone and Android device in the UK via app store updates.

No, it can't be uninstalled.

As I reported in January, what this means in practice is that London's Office of Communications ("Ofcom" in Newspeak) mandates on-device software able to read everybody's "private" messages in real-time and scan their images, too, before any personal encryption tools come into play.

London pinky-swears that it'll only look for CSAM and terrorism-related materials, but as the Telegram's Zia Yusuf put it back then, "the slippery slope is obvious" and "mission creep is inevitable."

Worth reading in full

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