Monday 18 March 2024

Blood Language, the Abuse Thereof?



There is currently a confluence of contrasting currents, one more angry and dangerous, another niggling away at the former. Meanwhile the ocean rages, threatening to subsume an entire nation! Where to look? What to say?

Genocide rages over Gaza! A Genocidal current that narrative dictates we may not yet observe for what it plainly is. Genocide! Journalists, doctors, farmers, bakers, grandmothers, mothers, newborn babies, men, women and children wiped from the land! Buried under rubble, torn apart, atomised by UK enabled missiles, ruptured, frozen, dehydrated, starved, consumed by disease! But, do watch what you dare to observe or to say, lest you should make another 'uncomfortable!'

The road to understanding is paved with narrative that we might better grasp the world within which we reside. Tread carefully lest you should misstep! Circumvent those deep pools of anti-Semitic Trope. Careful, MSM determines from which angle one is permitted to observe. Or, at least, the manner in which one may speak of one's observations. Such is the ragged curtain behind which nations seek to hide an ongoing Genocide!

Recent Christmas saw Marks and Spencer swiftly remove one of its seasonal adverts. To the 'innocent' potential consumer the image simply disappeared- one day it was there, the next 'poof!' to be replaced by another. To the curious, not only was it removed, its removal was followed by a carefully penned apology to the 'Jewish community.' Turned about-face the mere targeting of any apology to a homogenous , quote, 'Jewish community' might, in and of itself, wrench forth yet another bended-knee apology. But, it wasn't and it didn't. The fireside image with the 'offensive' flame was swiftly esponged and Marks and Spencer penned its obedient apology and jumped back into line.

The cited 'offense' was that the candle flame borrowed 'shamefully' from the Palestinian flag, thus potentially threatening the shop's Jewish customers, making some of them feel 'unsafe,' allegedly. Or not? Likely, not! The offending flame might, instead, have born too close a resemblance to the Indian flag, thus threatening the store's Pakistani customers, but no! No such complaint was levelled. Most of MSM chose to let the news slip under its radar. Thankfully, no such blue flame upon white background was removed otherwise Hell might have rained down upon the store!

An anti-Semitic moment averted. Except, it wasn't for two very clear reasons. Firstly, the flame wasn't based upon the Palestinian flag. Secondly, the Palestinian flag is a nation's flag and not an anti-Semitic symbol! But Marks and Spencer complied anyway.

Post Christmas witnessed University of East Anglia's campus quietly grubbing out all of its Red Robin bushy evergreen shrubs. Although no injuries had been recorded the Vice Chancellor's office allegedly reported that 'students' had been tripping over the shrubs- not any other shrubs, just those very specific ones. Quickly, they were removed and no more was said. As far as I'm aware, no instances of anti-Semitic planting were cited- as far as I'm aware.

One could argue that the act of removing all of UEA's Red Robin bushy evergreen shrubs remains entirely outside of the anti-Semitism topic of debate; one could. Except the university- ideally, a seat of rigorous and wholesome debate, upon a whole wealth of topics- has form. That is to observe that it's senior management team do. On 12th March 'Concrete,' the University's 'official student newspaper,' offered this story on page 3: "Deep concern" expressed over UEA antisemitism statement." The opening paragraphs rather echo the sentiment of the headline. Vice Chancellor David Maguire was quoted, "In recent days we have sadly witnessed a rise in instances of antisemitism across our community, including graffiti on our campus walls, comments made during a university event, and inappropriate comment made on social media. This is unacceptable and we are taking action to ensure that perpetrators are dealt with swiftly." The VC goes on to explain that there could be a, "police investigation," laying out that, "The comments made do not reflect the views of the University and do not meet our values." If one reads to the end of the whole page article there is more balance but it is not until the seventh paragraph that use of the label 'antisemitism' is, in any way, challenged. In fairness to the Senior News Writer, Jamie Bryson, the article does go on to cite various counter arguments, including an elaboration upon 'From the river to the sea.' But not until seven paragraphs in do we break away from the thrust of the VC, the "intimidatory" and "antisemitic" thrust from the senior team.

There is a photograph, '29,000 Gazans Killed.'
Other instances of graffiti are listed:
'Zionism = Colonialism'
'Judaism opposes Zionism'
'End Apartheid; 26 journalists killed in Gaza'
'(UEA) Banks with Barclays- finances genocide of the Palestinian people'
'Macron, Sunak and Trudeau war criminals'
And a quote from the late Nelson Mandela:
"Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."


None of which appears as anti-Semitic. One might take issue with the number of Gazans and journalists killed, both statements significantly understating the death toll. Barclays does fund the genocide, through multiple ties with culpable arms manufactures. One merely has to listen to any from a list of significant political figures from inside Israel to understand that the Zionist colonial project continues at haste! The cited Presidents and PM have all argued for the continued funding of Israel and the IDF, despite those nations' massive demonstrations against further funding of the Genocide. If anyone who has observed even a tiny fraction of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is not moved, perhaps to anger, then one could readily question their humanity. We could debate but would any such conversation also need to comply with the values of senior management and the VC?

A week past, two Conservative apologies and two Conservative payouts made the small-time news. Firstly, during one round of University Challenge, Christ Church- Oxford's Ms Gorgianeh was wrongly accused of displaying the colours of the Palestinian flag alongside one of the most anti-Semitic tropes, the 'evil' blue octopus, except she wasn't doing either! The accusing Tory peer, Baroness Jacqueline Foster, paid £15,000 in damages and carefully penned her apology. Thing is, she didn't just make the accusation, Baroness Foster also demanded that Ms Gorgianeh be immediately expelled for supporting Hamas, and that she be arrested! Secondly, Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan accused Professor Kate Sang, Herriot-Watt University, of expressing sympathy for Hamas. Donelen's unfounded allegations went further in demanding UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) cut its ties to the academic as well as to colleague Dr Kamma Patel. Suspensions were immediate, as the Institute 'carried out' its investigations. MP Donelan has apologised and agreed to pay an undisclosed sum via the taxpayer, that's you and me! UK academic society, riddled with anti-Semitism! Except, it isn't!

Any coincidence with which both wrong accusations were levelled, following so very hot on the heels of statement(s) made by Policy Exchange, should lead the observer to conclude that either Government Ministers respond to the directions of Policy Exchange with trigger-happy abandon, or else they may be responding to 'other obligations.' Careful, anti-Semitism trap lies in wait!

From his GB News temple of 'truth' and 'dignity,' Nigel Farage has accused Jeremy Corbyn of subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory... There is a pattern emerging here!

Not only are Israel and the IDF armed to the teeth- weapons care of the UK and US, via Cyprus- narrative will now readily and shamelessly deploy the whole deck. Blood Libel has been levelled! Used by the Times of Israel to debunk the internationally accepted belief that Israel intentionally targeted a Gazan Hospital. Which, of course, Israel did! Since the claim of the targeted attack Israel and the IDF, or the Times of Israel, whoever, rarely refers back to the initial strike! Swiftly moving on, Israel next spoke of huge Hamas infrastructure needing to be targeted. Hastening onward, when this also proved unfounded. Now, no hospitals are left that have not been targeted by Israeli fire. Now the IDF are involved in the torture of hospital staff. Where might this 'accusation' fall? There is already footage circulating. Another accusation of anti-Semitism in the barrel! What unGodly depravities remain in the IDF arsenals? Will these also transpire to be US and UK enabled? Anti-Semitic Tropes cited! Right there!

Curiously, there is a full Israeli-narrative-complient Team to conduct the BBC et al through an entire lexicon. Which member of the IDF shall we ask, which member of the Israeli Government? Or, in tight reserve, the Telegraph's political correspondent, the Spectator's Katy Balls, the Sun's Harry Cole? One of many from a number, signatories of the October Declaration! Where's cuddly Mel? And, lest you should consider voicing your absolute horror at any of these multiple Crimes of Genocide there's always Government Adviser on Political Violence, Lord Walney. Or Baron Mann, of Holbeck Moor, Government Advisor on Anti-Semitism. Or Baron Austin of Dudley. Careful! Blood Libel! Right there!

Amidst eaponised disease, amidst weaponised starvation US President Biden is planning to build a port on the coast of Gaza, wholly compliant to Israeli President Netanyahu's very precise stipulations. What will the tide wash in? Should be ready in about two months. As certain Americans do so love to tell the globe, 'You do the math!'

Thursday 22 February 2024

Hidden behind Fact.



Working at the avant garde of national and international 'journalism,' the BBC (15th February) headlined with the shocking news that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have risen by 589% since the Hamas attack of 7th October 2023. 'Brave journalists' (Harriet Sherwood) at the Guardian went with the same day headline, 'Huge rise in antisemitic abuse in UK since Hamas attack, says charity.' The referenced charity is the Community Security Trust (CST), tasked with monitoring anti-Jewish abuse and attacks and providing security for UK Jewish communities. CST went on to cite the 7th October attack as a "trigger event."

The Guardian reporter dipped a toe, twice referencing 'something' vaguely labelled as 'subsequent war.' We must presume that this aside (subsequent war) is one and the same series of War Crimes, the enabled slaughter of tens of thousands of innocents, the ECJ recently described as "plausible Genocide!' I listened to the BBC Radio 4 'news' report, several times on the day, which repeatedly neglected to draw upon any other possible triggering event, subsequent or prior to 7th October. Listeners were led to conclude that 7th October was, not merely the 'trigger event' but, more specifically, a wholly isolated 'trigger event.' No reference, by either party, was made to the recent ICJ hearing at the Hague.

With headlines contrived to shock the nation one might deduce the sole incident specifically described in the Guardian report to be at the more extreme end of all those 'anti-Semitic incidents.' "A vehicle with a Palestinian flag attached, and with the occupant shaking their fist in the air through an open window, had driven past a synagogue in Hertfordshire." Opting to cite no examples the BBC was content to go with the road-tested, non-specific wording, 'anti-Semitic' incidents. Obediently EHRC compliant.

The day after (16th February) the headline news became the death of Alexei Navalny. Most reports on 16th were pointing the finger at Putin, to which we were likely being invited to sagely nod our agreement. Much has passed, in recent years, to suggest that Navalny's death is unlikely to have occurred 'unprovoked.' He did, after all, presented as a well and fit middle-aged male fewer that 24 hours previously. Deaths inside Russia, or inside of Russian political reach, happen far too often in Putin's favour to always be mere happenstance. Even in the absence of ultimate proof, Putin's regime seems most likely to warrant the blame.

Incontrovertible proof may forever remain elusive yet, most persuasively, one more crime might now be tacked upon Putin's lengthening list of pending War Crimes. Maybe, just maybe, Navalny did die of a heart attack but there are many, many causal interventions that may hasten such an attack, such as Novichok poisoning or sustained beatings- also denied by the Russian leader. (Western) political figures are eager to search out the spotlight and to roundly condemn Putin, to impose sanctions, to pin terms such as 'Genocide.' Maybe we should reserve a place second in line at the ICC, the Hague?

The (Western) message is clear, Putin is neither a leader to be trusted, nor is he likely to be beneficial to Global betterment! What's to be disputed? Well, nothing really...

Two news headline items. If we wanted to labour the point pending, we might next shine a light upon Kemi Bandenoch's condemnation of Henry Staunton. It's not so much that the stories aren't newsworthy, more it's what they're not doing and what they're not saying!

Concerning the 'shocking' news that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have increased 589%, the story was more shocking by virtue of what the report elected not to cover than what it elected to dwell upon. In May 2022 I walked to Cinema City in Norwich to view Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawaf's gut-wrenching 'Eleven Days in May.' I mention this because the days inside Gaza that the film documents precede 7th October 2023 by almost thirty months. Neither the BBC, which did not even acknowledge the film's existence, nor the Guardian, which did, just, elected to refer to the documented deaths of all the Palestinian children murdered by Israeli targeted missile strikes during those eleven days as a 'trigger event.' Nor has either 'news' team opted to dwell upon the recent ICJ ruling that 'plausible Genocide' is ongoing inside Gaza and the West Bank.

It will be interesting, more horrifying, to see, in the years to come, how the ICJ adjudges the roles of the UK and it's political master, the US of A, in their support for Israeli conducted Genocide. Anyone who has braved the harrowing footage of Israel's attacks, and consequent celebrations inside Gaza's borders (South Africa's collected evidence), will be under no illusions. An Israeli orchestrated Genocide is happening! Take the trouble to find out what has transpired inside of Occupied Palestine and one is given to conclude that 'triggering events'- ongoing since 1948 (or 1967)- occur so frequently as to trace an unbroken history of the lands. In such light "A vehicle with a Palestinian flag attached, and with the occupant shaking their fist in the air through an open window, had driven past a synagogue in Hertfordshire," might be argued to be an understandable reaction, perhaps even an underreaction? At worst, maybe, misdirected. If a similar incident, substituting the Ukrainian flag, was to occur outside of a Russian orthodox church much of the UK's media would report the incident as a natural reaction; these same outlets are eager to bypass international ruling and to name Russia's actions inside Ukraine as War Crimes, maybe even Genocide. This is way beyond inconsistent?

But, that's not even the point here being made. UK's MSM seems eager to jump the gun regarding Putin's Russia. The BBC is asking the question, 'Is Russia committing Genocide?' whilst continuing to pretend that there is not another and far greater crime being orchestrated elsewhere- orchestrated with the aid of £millions in UK weaponry! Where is the consistency?

Upon the second news item, the death- almost certainly the murder- of Alexei Navalny, headlines were proving similarly slippery. Alexei Navalny, with known white supremacist associates, did not wish, nor did he deserve, to die. Russia deserves better and Navalny could have done no worse. MSM rightly mourned his death yet they also sought to work with it. Death is not yet redeemable but reputation, rightly or less so, may yet flourish!

Navalny's Family and the Russian nation may still benefit. But, chief amongst those yet hoping to steer the narrative would be the good ol' US of A and its subject nations. Putin remains both monster and distraction. Globally however, he is not such a stand-alone threat as may be painted. The US of A currently operates something in excess of 1,000 overseas military (capacity) bases. Russia operates maybe a dozen. Overseas military campaigns are similarly skewed in the US's favour- pick a continent and they are there, imposing, dictating! One might go so far as to list the UK as one of the State's more covert projects, certainly its bases imposed or otherwise. One might!

It was not that long past that Alexei Navalny was speculated as yet another potentially, dangerous Russian figure! His outspoken views upon racial supremacy are readily accessible. Yet, similarly 'convenient,' 'skewed' or 'weaponised,' although upon no such immense a scale, Navalny's death has served to yet again further particular narrative. Now, it suits to regard Alexei, even in his absence, as a rallying-focus, a national folk hero. Undeniably the man was brave beyond reason but a folk hero? Again, I was able to listen and re-listen to the BBC news reports of Navalny's death and to read the Guardian's 'canonising' words. Neither source opted to reference the huge elephant in the corner; maybe it was being obscured by the former elephant?

Navalny has been increasingly lionised by UK MSM, his less savoury racial opinions fading from discussion in inverse proportion. Russia's invasion both served his reputation, whilst (as seems highly likely) also hastening his demise. Navalny was serving his questionable imprisonment somewhere in the freezing regions of Siberia- as did Solzhenitsyn in his time- his health worsening. He spoke of fevers, back pains, numbness of legs and severe sleep deprivation. Biden is eager to force greater and greater sanctions upon Russia; "We're looking at whole number of options." Predictably quick to judge. Oh, how Palestinians might benefit from such swift interventions on the part of the US of A! Oh, how Julian Assange's health and future wellbeing might benefit from more honest debate!

What the nation wasn't being reminded of was that Navalny, prior to his death, was but one amongst many political prisoners, some of whom Navalny himself might once have labelled 'cockroaches.' Ally of the UK, Israel, continues to ram its prisons with whomsoever it chooses, ever in contravention of international law. Closer, at home in the UK, Assange is one political prisoner with whom, until very recently, we were most definitely not being encouraged to concern ourselves. Ongoing legislation endeavours to labour the fact. Past master, the BBC, comfortably managed to negate any cross-referencing between Navalny and Julian Assange. Under Katherine Viner's editorship the Guardian had refrained from mentioning Assange for many years, although both 'news' sources, now and far far too late, appear more eager to document the UK's tame surrender to it's overseas landlord. Curious, considering that it was the Guardian that initially helped to platform, thus sought to benefit from, Assange's cutting-edge journalism. Navalny the martyred folk hero: Assange the sacrificial lamb! The narrative speaks!

Assange hidden behind the death of Navalny! Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank hidden behind the UK's 'inexplicable' 589% rise in anti-Semitic incidents! All praise to our great and noble 'free press!'

Tuesday 6 February 2024

Politicians And Their Lies.



Anyone able to stomach viewing the evidence compiled on the Israeli orchestrated Genocide upon the citizens and international workers in Gaza- nobly compiled on the part of South Africa- will not have been surprised to learn that the ICJ has ruled Israel immediately take steps to protect innocent civilians inside Gaza. Nor will they have been surprised to learn that there is a 'plausible risk' of Acts of Genocide occurring. Filmed footage presented cannot have failed to illicit a sense of absolute dread! Likely also physical revulsion, a sense of terror, something beyond anger at the actions of both Government and Opposition Parties and, perhaps also, tears of deep, deep sorrow!

Anyone who has taken a fearful interest in the multiple acts of violence conducted by Israel State and the IDF over the years, even here, must have been shocked at the hateful disregard for life orchestrated by both members of Israeli political class and militia. Demonstrably, here in the UK, certain individuals have not been permitted to speak this truth but, as a more noble retelling of history must and will eventually record, Israel is now conducting itself far too closely to those 'unmentionable' acts it repeatedly pretends to warn the globe not to repeat. Is there not a curious twist to UK parliament that, whilst one may utter such musings within the UK's more ultra-right political party, one may not make similar observations within the British Labour Party?

Be asurred, or rather do not, the UK has taken up arms in a conflict it has not the courage (or honesty) to represent to its citizens.

I have titled this five part work, 'May we please now call it Genocide?'

In 2018, when MP Jeremy Corbyn was roundly condemned for commemorating the loss of around 70 Palestinian and Tunisian lives- approximately 100 also wounded- in Hamman Chott, Tunisia, 2014, none could have predicted where we might have found ourselves just six short years later. The Israeli airstrike upon a third party sovereign state was roundly condemned at the time by the UN. Calculatedly, the USA abstained.

The United Nations, charged with maintaining international law, has never been friend to Israel. For historical reference, during the years of Apartheid in South Africa, Israel was supportive of the South African Government, thus apartheid. The nation routinely and freely morphs between vociferously favouring State Oppression to that of an Adopted State of Victimhood, ably assisted by the US and other colonists riding the slipstream. But it is unlikely that the UN would then have imagined quite the extent to which Israel truly held international law in utter contempt, a contempt which has yet further morphed into one which might yet light the touch paper to an international conflagration, the like of which few of us are old enough to recall. Approaching the wick the flickering light in Israeli hand has seldom been a shy one; should things worsen and follow their current trajectory history's more honest scribes will have much evidence from which to conclude the early signs.

In 1939 the US elected to stand apart and to observe. In the UK the Daily Mail and Oswald Mosley numbered amongst the avant guarde of Hitler's most vociferous admirers. History, we are so often told, does so like to repeat itself. Disingenuous governments very much tend to hide their intentions behind clever quotes and pseudo-compassionate words. But strip away the glitter and judge the actions and the consequences and superficial prettiness is frequently observed to dissolve, revealing the greater, overriding ugliness within!

Even so, it must have come as something of a shock, on the morning after the ICJ's ruling, not to have witnessed a greater respect for international law within the UK's MSM. An almost entire population displaced, in excess of as many as 40'000 slaughtered civilians, although the sheer scale is forever being massaged downwards, with untold numbers buried under rubble, tens of thousands injured, children undergoing multiple amputations without anaesthetic, all at the behest of a culpable political class cheering from the sidelines, culpable militia routinely downloading footage seeking to glorify the death and destruction of a people and its infrastructure, and there is 'plausible' Ethnic Cleansing, 'plausible' Genocide? However bad you think Israel is, it's worse! Labour duly suspended MP Kate Osamor for drawing undue attention to the ruling. Had she been in the Conservative ranks she would likely have been afforded greater freedom to highlight the 'plausible' Genocide!



Instead, the UK chose to sit on the 'plausible' expanding Genocide and muse until the following day, when its citizens were expected to properly sit up and pay attention. Israel, ever the reliable conveyor of truth to the watching world, had a different tale to tell, it's own particular spin! 'Allegedly,' not 'plausibly,' 'hearsay,' not 'extensively documented,' 'Israeli spokesperson claims' not 'the Globe witnesses,' '12 members of staff,' not an 'entire national militia and political class,' one questionable dossier seeks to pretend links to 7th October, yet to be seen outside of IDF circles. Israel barks "Jump!" and the West springs forth! And the 'plausible' Genocide is duly further enabled!

The dossier containing beheaded babies on 7th October never did materialise, although Biden dreamt he'd seen it- an awake member of his staff later clarified, 'he hadn't!' The observer would do well to consider Israel's historical distain for the truth before raising any expectations of another dodgy dossier ever seeing the light of day. It does not exist! Yet the US of A and poodle UK have opted to suspend funds to UNWRA's 13,000 staff, thus further seeding and enabling weaponised disease to spread amongst thousands of victims of 'plausible' Genocide. Consider: does this action make certain Western nations also culpable? Enabling 'plausible' Genocide!

Fortunately all nations are not so gullible, or culpable as is the UK, as to swallow the Israeli narrative, with its decades long record of proven falsehood and distain for international law. Belgium did not immediately suspend funding for UNWRA. Within hours the Belgian Aid Office inside Gaza was flattened under the US and UK enabled Israeli blitz. Yet further evidence for the honest history scholar- the record of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza grows clearer by the day.

The UK (and USA) already continues to send £$millions in arms to the Rogue State, arms enabling a 'plausible' Genocide. When 'plausible' Genocide is promoted to actual Genocide will the evidence be so particular as to statistically differentiate which weapons garnered most deaths. Will historians be able to break down 'slaughtered via UK supplied arms,' as opposed to 'succumbed to (say) cholera due to withheld UK funds,' or 'died in agony in surgery due to withheld UK aid'? Sanitised history and glorious empire- that which is permissibly taught in schools- will wish to follow the 'Operation Legacy' route but the unedited version will speak the fuller truth. On the pathway to a purer form of Educide the UK still has much to learn from it’s non-European and covert partner. Still, the truth will be so much louder this time! The images will be clearer! There cannot be a bonfire of files, not these ones, not the hours of footage of Israeli War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide, the footage exists in the aether, in the minds and the memories of millions, in the records of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, the United Nations and multiple other groups and organisations.

If the enablers have no respect for those lives overseas what price your's?

As international law and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, contests, a recognised Genocide does not necessarily only regard the actors (the killers, the murderers) as culpable but also the enablers (the USAs, the UKs), those who assisted from the sidelines. The actual Genocide may have taken place overseas but the war-footing of the UK and the USA has never been neutral.

Dame Margaret Hodge, smiling in the dark shadow of 'plausible' War Criminal Israeli PM Isac Herzog, posing, without need for any Daily Mail edited message. Something for her other face to get truly angry about! Here she is! Go on Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, strike with your sword of truth! Or are we at war? To which side are you committed, Sir Keir, upon our behalf? Sky News's Belle Donati makes the obvious comparison, the one that's screaming to be heard from invariably just out of camera shot, in an angry exchange with Israeli spokesperson Danny Danon, daring to question the stated Israeli drive to Ethnic Cleansing. Overdue, Sky dares to observe that 'voluntary emigration' at the point of a gun is essentially Ethnic Cleansing, that those fleeing UK and US enabled carpet bombing are not fleeing 'voluntarily,' that similar 'choices' have been made in 'the past.' Never have those mass migrations of people, at the point of any gun, been classed as 'voluntary.' Until now, apparently- Sky, not Israel, withdrew. Retreated! Just as in a war. 'Voluntary Emigration' or Ethnic Cleansing, decided upon your behalf.

Are we to honestly accept the premise that Israel will invariably be given a free pass to commit it's own particular War Crimes; 'mowing the grass' such actions are termed by the IDF? Yet equating Palestinian lives to blades of grass is somehow okay, thankfully not labelled anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim? Vociferous supporter of Israel, former MP Mike Freer, freely adopts the victim role yet never does he seem to quite comprehend the complete picture. Violence invariably reaps more violence! Acts of 'plausible' Genocide cannot occur in some sort of hermetically sealed protective bubble. Sometimes, cloaked within BBC's selectivity, it is easy to forget that there are still real journalists out there, individuals such as Craig Murray. The story, fake as it transpired, of Palestinian supporters chanting "Gas the Jews!" is shocking. Yet, more shocking is the speed and credence with which the original non-story spread, when viewed alongside the sluggishness and obstructiveness with which any effort at correction, retraction and equal air-time apology is met. Efficiently enabled and then actively defended as a known falsehood. Such is the power of certain (Australian Jewish Association) MSM! Enabling 'plausible' Genocide!

Another beyond elderly Statesperson didn't quite let slip that the US has placed us all on a war footing at the behest of the Rogue State. "I don't even call it aid!" Ms Pelosi beamed, "our co-operation- with Israel." Be under no illusions, "That's who we are." 'We'? Did she say, 'We'? Pelosi might not be pushing the actual buttons- if there's a list her name's on it- but she's all for naming the targets, named, implied or imagined. Watch her in her fatigues, "Russia!" "China!" anyone at all that Israel names in the Middle East. "Putin's message! Putin's message!" the woman frothed, jabbing her finger at the interviewer At the Rogue State Independence Day 'celebrations'- not everyone was celebrating, even then- Biden made clear, "Were there no Israel, America would have to invent one." He concluded, "You protect our interests like we protect yours!"



Meanwhile Israeli Military, not content with having bombed and flattened schools, mosques, refugee compounds, hospitals, families, communities, murdered and maimed thousands of children, the Rogue State is now in the process of excavating Palestinian Graveyards. 'Best not film there,' 'best not even view with your eyes,' 'best believe the IDF.' with their proven record of impeccable honesty. Repeatedly, MSM in the UK conveys the Israeli narrative, the one that curiously never seems to have the evidence to back up outrageous claims. "I'm not going to be able to show you any evidence here," 'clarified' another government mouthpiece, yet enough to justify further enablement of the war. The footage just keeps on coming yet never does it seem to lessen the ICJ's 'plausible' Genocide ruling. '30 bodies discovered, dumped in school yard,' in black plastic bags, legs and arms tied, blindfolded, 'plausibly' Executed! So as not to lower ourselves to the depths of Israeli (dare we say) 'propaganda it should be stated that it is (not yet) proof. But, consider, if the discovery was anything else other than evidence of more Israeli War Crimes, Israel would already be referencing the discovery on national TV. Already and uncharacteristically there is evidence of sorts- the smart money's on further proof of 'plausible' Genocide. There is footage of members of the IDF, dressed as hospital staff, entering a Jenin Hospital in the West Bank in order to summarily execute 3 targeted individuals. Perfidy! More War Crimes? How will the incident be packaged by Western Media? Terrorism?

Although in no way can the slaughter inside Gaza be described (accurately) as any sort of war, make no mistake Israel is on a war footing, essentially 'at war.' The US of A - "You protect our interests as we protect yours,"- almost exists upon a war footing, covert dabbling, regime changes, Middle East, Central America, Asia, conducts the bloodshed from afar! The UK arms and enables- flights from Akrotiri in Cyprus pending- covertly, the nation may have already committed troops to the slaughter. Rulings from the ICJ do not yet seem to have dinted its cause, the flagging economy may yet intervene. Arming others in Ukraine, Britain much prefers to commit via the troops of others. The Chinese Front thankfully remains a Trussian wet dream! On some sort of power-feedback overload, the fleeting PM (Cheesy Liz) in her time at the helm, seemed to imply that the West is already at war with Russia.

War, actual war, costs! It imposes financial costs, it imposes human costs and it imposes moral and reputational costs! Hence the UK's covert investment in projects like 'Operation Legacy.' Another, often unspoken cost of War- as invisible as Government is able to make it- comes in the loss of integrity certain Governmental figures and players undergo. Likely, it matters not to their financial worth, quite possibly those individuals reap rewards (or blood monies) for the misinformation they sew. Check out Blair's Institute for Global Change (TBI). 'Global change,' in such context absolutely chills the blood! No longer the inconvenience and time constraints of waiting upon the next election for TB. The seeds bloom like the 'weeds' and grasses pushing up through the cracks in our pavements, they are evident everywhere. And, like those pavement adornments, they have become so immured in UK infrastructure that we almost no longer notice; they waft about our heads and our minds much like autumnal breezes. Where they make contact we may not even surmise the connection. Everywhere war imposes its costs!

Incrementally, covertly or semi-covertly War may spread! Incrementally, through false messaging and disingenuous spokespeople (that may title themselves 'journalists') disinformation spreads and truth withers on the vine. In keeping with the formula the UK has opted to follow the US narrative that it is the Houthis who risk fanning the flames of war, the same UK and US that continues to fund the 'plausible' Genocide in Gaza, whilst continuing to liberally shower the wider region under a blitzkrieg of sprayed missile strikes, threats to terror, and a well honed narrative of assumed dominion! Increasingly though, the globe observes that it is USA and certain factions of the West who would fan the 'flames' and fuel the 'fires' that public audience is neither invited nor encouraged to observe. And yet we do! US and its poodle sprays 85 approximate targets in Syria and Iraq- the same Iraq within which the US et al imposed yet another of its many overseas regime changes (2003- 2011). Absolutely, we are fed, 'it is the Houthis who are risking a regional conflict.' Absolutely, the narrative follows, do not draw any connection with 'plausible' Genocide in Gaza! Listen to our spokespeople upon your mighty BBC! "We have Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari of the IDF on the line... " The ever available "Katy Balls from the Spectator Magazine, what should we in the UK be making of all this?" 'Carpet-bombed Yemini Houthis, targeting solely Israeli related trade, in support of Palestinians,' or 'further US (plus poodle UK) carpet bombing of the whole region, pretending that a 'plausible' Gazan Genocide isn't happening, or being funded, or even related?' It's becoming daily more implausible to even imply that the US argument is worthy of the air time it is so often afforded. "A final word from Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari... ?"

Intermittently, I listen to 'Any Answers' on BBC Radio 4. Too often, the panel on 'Any Questions,' I find to be wholly 'of a kind.' During a recent broadcast, I think it was Saturday 27th January, one caller concluded with, "If the IDF had just killed my daughter I think I'd join Hamas." I don't think any of the callers was still wishing to be openly associated with the line "Israel has the right to defend itself."

There's the US/Israeli/UK derived narrative and then there's the truth! So, now we know who are the Mad Dogs who accompany the Englishmen. It seems the UK is at war but, as yet, not officially, in defence of St George, the Neoliberal Economy and Israel's right to commit 'plausible' Genocide!

Friday 26 January 2024

The Greatest Injustice in Modern Times?



The Greatest Injustice in modern times?
Having only just watched ITV's 'Mr Bates and the Post Office,' as with so many other citizens, I was given to certain reflection. I knew of the docu-drama well in advance of the transmission of the four-parter so was also well armed with the considerable weight of MSM-projected public outrage. 'The greatest injustice in modern times,' I was given to expect. ITV was certainly making a strong case in support.

Duly, I enjoyed the showing, semi-binge watched over two nights; the ubiquitous Toby Jones is frequently enough to draw attention. Whether it be political subterfuge or the search for buried relics there is invariably a great deal of Lance in his given role but then Lance was an amiable character. The viewer is soon enough on side with any of his stated aims, fictional or otherwise. But, is this now indisputable miscarriage of justice, as perpetrated by the Post Office and other complicit ministers, here on to be regarded as the 'greatest' of its ilk? The greatest injustice in modern times?

It's certainly a contender! But, I am going to suggest that the citizen, perhaps, views this sudden and towering elevation in light of the UK's current social hierarchy and its imbedded inequality, when coupled with the nation's present systems for delivering 'justice,' or 'injustice.' After all, just to remind the citizen, many of those who are most invested in our current UK social hierarchy of inequality will have, until very recently, featured amongst those most fervently wishing not to have 'Mr Bates and the Post Office' regarded as this argued 'greatest injustice.'

The working title has changed to: 'May we now call it Genocide?'

If not specifically care of ITV, then of the wider MSM, 'Mr Bates and the Post Office' has been presented, via the medium of evening 'entertainment,' as somewhat uncontested. That is to say that the story of injustice meted out to the sub-postmasters is now to be regarded as unparalleled in modern times.

In quieter circles, although not those occupied by closer associates of Paula Vennells, 'Mr Bates' might also be regarded as
'A jolly good day within which to hide bad news:'

in the light of much current political subterfuge, very much 'a convenient distraction behind which to hide a great deal!'

Step, momentarily, away from the 'Mr Bates' and the signs are clear; 'King Charles has developed a bodily ailment routinely associated with hundreds of thousands of males of a similar age' is really not headline news. In fact, in many families, it is not even news within the pertinent family. A worthy talking point on an issue of men's health, certainly, but yet another royal distraction, no thanks! If the MSM was slightly more involved with actual journalism and less mired in selling the agenda of a shrinkingly miniscule minority the queues for the headline slots would be full to bursting... and the royals would, more fittingly, be afforded the sort of publicity usually given to such matters. That would be, none!

So, 'Mr Bates and the Post Office,' the greatest injustice in modern times? Over 900 sub-postmasters, almost all of whom, wrongly prosecuted for theft, only just over 90 overturned, 33 have since died under a shadow of assumed guilt, four have committed suicide, several have served time in prison, many have lost their homes, some also their families. Paula Vennells, then CEO of the Post Office, awarded a CBE. Was this the greatest injustice in modern times? The argument is a strong one!



Here are some other contenders:
Windrush Injustice (2018):
British nationals denied legal and other rights, 83 individuals wrongly deported to a country unknown to the victim, loss of jobs, homes, denied national and (consequently) human rights, second and third generations denied a national identity, families, subjected to a deliberate 'hostile environment' by then Home Secretary Teresa May.
1995 Pension Act, WASPI women:
Nearly four million women, born in the 1950s, denied five years state pension, thus made tens of thousands of pounds poorer, ushering many into a state of pensioner poverty until death.
2019 Grenfell Fire:
72 residents burned to death in a residential tower known to have been constructed with dangerously inadequate cladding, 120 flats and communal spaces poorly maintained to a standard known to be potentially injurious to health. Compensation and liability legal cases continue to crawl through the courts. Guilty parties continuing to operate with impunity. Attempts to trace various culpable groups and politicians continues to encounter multiple obstructions.
2008 Banking Crisis:
Under regulation of banks 'causing' millions of people to lose businesses, homes, jobs, prompting governments to impose years of austerity upon those lower down the chain, those who did not cause the crisis. Millions of people suffer, in consequence premature deaths soar. The banks are bailed out with the monies (formerly businesses, homes, wages, livelihoods, amenities, social infrastructure) stripped away from ordinary working people and communities.
Ongoing Refugee Crisis:
Fossil fuel exacerbated climate crisis, international arms sales enabled wars and conflicts and Western (UN) imposed regime changes continues to fuel a spiralling refugee crisis. Colonial and other culpable countries fight to deny and turn away consequent asylum seekers.
2015 Anti-Semitism 'Crisis:'
A weaponised and majorly falsely manufactured anti-Semitism crisis within the British Labour Party is deployed in order to wholly undermine and deplete that same British Labour Party, thus enabling a certain reconfiguration of British and wider Western societies. Keir Starmer's own review (Forde Report) into his party's 'crisis' is buried and ignored amongst the Labour front bench, ably assisted by British MSM. A semi-covert Western coup of societal infrastructure further weakens already inadequate restraint upon an increasingly rogue Israeli state. A Middle Eastern conflagration, currently widening to incorporate several West Asian, North African and Middle-Eastern countries.
Ongoing International Arms Trade:
An international military arms economy that continues to fuel multiple international conflicts, including an ongoing Genocide in Palestine. An arms trade that has assisted and enabled several Western and US imposed regime changes, costing millions of international lives. British and US arms are currently enabling/assisting multiple international War Crimes and Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. US and UK arms enabled carpet-bombing of Yemen. Victims fleeing resultant atrocities are treated as pariahs by nations arming the conflicts.
1989 Hillsborough FA Cup Semi-Final:
97 deaths and 766 injuries, several of which subsequently brought about premature deaths. A crowd-crush incident caused through inept police action. The incident and resultant inquest was lied about and to for years, via multiple false testimonies given by the pertinent police authorities. Further cover and misinformation was conducted via Kelvin MacKenzie and Rupert Murdoch's Sun 'newspaper.'
Ongoing undermining and otherwise degrading of the UK's political processes and accountability:
Quite a mouthful; the manner in which the cogs of pseudo-democracy often now turn counter-to-societal-benefit. The manner in which MPs who call out the liars are the ones being held to account. Lobbiests hold far greater sway over certain MPs than any weight of constituents. A perfect example would be PM Sunak's schoolboy reply to Zarah Sultana's urgent call for pressure to be put upon Israel to cease with its Genocide against Gaza. Following on, MP Andrew Percy first deploys a racist trope, then lies to parliament during his pseudo-retraction in which he diminishes and equates attempts to curtail Genocidal Intent as 'silliness.'

The above listed contenders spring readily to mind. They are but seven, likely seven amongst a great many more. Take your pick.



Other injustices are plentiful. It's contested that none of the available injustices is yet as 'great' as is that of the sub-postmasters. Arguably though, some may be equally unjust. If one factors in fuller international consequences and lives lost then one or two are so immense as to dwarf 'Mr Bates.' Other contenders include:
Orgreave (1984 miners strike):
We already know that newsreel footage of the miners confronting police was manipulated in order to present the miners as perpetrators of violence, instead of the police. In other Miners Strike confrontations many of those purporting to be police officers wore uniforms without identification markers. Thatcher's subsequent crushing of the UK Miners enabled widespread attack upon the wider British Union Movement and UK workers' rights. The resultant UK power base, away from working people, has 'better' enabled several of those injustices here listed.
Lawfare and Slapps (a legal system that embraces, seeks to exploit and to further inequality):
Lawfare has been used by various public figures as an assault upon the freedom of others to speak truth on certain political issues. The practice has been afforded due cover (of course) by MSM and has been exploited by employees of the BBC.
Carillion Public Sector contracts (2018):
Nearly seven billion pounds of debt accrued before liquidation, wreaking serious financial harm upon the Public Sector. Former CEOs Keith Cochrane and Philip Green CBE walk free when it is decided it is not in the 'public interest' to prosecute. The losses are recovered via UK Tax System- working people again foot the bill.
Unaccountable IT systems being woven into fabric of UK life:
Palantir [data analytics] operates in both NHS and [Genocidal] IDF). Fujitsu's Horizon System brought about the wrongful prosecutions of the sub-postmasters. Israel's Pegasus IT Systems has woven a web into the infrastructure of multiple other countries; a known list of covert and undemocratic uses to which the spyware has been used is immense, but then there's also the as-yet-unknown instances of use. In 2020 and 2021 the system was used to target staff at the head of UK politics, 10 Downing Street.
Media stranglehold (an incestuous and ongoing tight control of information):
Stranglehold on UK'S MSM is well documented, the small circle of controlling 'families' continues to tighten, BBC routinely now deploys a Spectator spokesperson (Katy Balls) or an IEA representative (funding unknown) in order to 'contextualise' news reports.
Gradual privatisation of all aspects of UK life and beyond (lobbiests hanging from the rafters at party conferences):
It is increasingly now recognised that many aspects of the UK's former public sector may now be damaged to the extent that disingenuous opposition MPs (also heavily lobbied) are semi-openly preparing to further privatised the remnants of what is left.
Unexpected deaths of 8,440 people, April 2019-October 2022, all of whom were, or had recently been, under the care of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS foundation Trust:
One of the latest injustices to come to light. Curious, another 'trust?'



If one has the mind to do so it is easily possible to find multiple connections between the UK's considerable list of major injustices, weaving something of a mycelium of interconnectedness. One might cite certain individuals or certain organisations, trusts or other groups. Some of these individuals and/or bodies may appear to have silently woven a pathway through many of the listed injustices, likely alongside others yet to be discovered. Rest assured that those who are not apprehended, challenged or otherwise curtailed will, thus emboldened, continue to offend. To cite, for example, the earlier Zarah Sultana- Sunak/Percy encounter: whatever one's politics it can be observed that only one Member of the House (Zarah Sultana) conducts herself in a manner befitting to democratic debate, whilst the other two, including the nation's current PM, conduct themselves in a manner more befitting of low level playground quips. Two of the three know they will get away with their falsehoods and have clearly given no consideration to the likelihood of being held to account.

'Mr Bates and the Post Office' is, perhaps, currently the 'greatest injustice' because several of the other ones have been covered up, significantly or in major part. Or else MSM has worked to downplay their significance; perhaps a spokesperson from the Spectator or IEA has 'contextualised' them 'for us?' If those injustices that have also spilled over into international territories are to be discounted then, maybe, 'Mr Bates' is a contender. But, is any appointed hierarchy, here on, always going to have to depend so very heavily upon the medium of TV drama in order to even wake the sleepy nation to the pertinent details? Such power in the hands of MSM! Maybe not quite the greatest but, even here, is there yet another national injustice lurking in the shadows?

Posted on the date of the ICJ's ruling upon Israeli War Crimes and Genocide upon Palestine.

Wednesday 10 January 2024

What If?



'What if?'
It's a short question that's frequently being asked about all manner of things, from the trivial everyday white-noise, the societal minutiae, perhaps, right up to the national and international giants of the age. 'What if?'

What if we painted this wall burgundy and moved the table over to the window?
What if we moved the sound speakers over to that wall and pushed the sofa up against the opposite one?
What if we fled the Genocide and instead tried to join our cousins in the UK?
What if we had broccoli instead of sprouts with the Christmas dinner this year?
What if we attempted to pretend that the growing numbers of homeless people weren't really there and just carried on with an active program of steepling housing inequality?
What if I cut my hair really short and bleached it snowy white?
What if we replaced the Labour Opposition with a bunch of lobbiests who would continue with the same raft of neoliberal policies as the Tories?
What if the oceans rises another foot this decade?
What if we keep on burning oil until all the wells run dry?
What if the mega wealthy elites really don't much care which ills befall the rest of us?




'What if?' What if they really don't care?
Not about the rest of us, anyway?


It's a valid question. A mite over direct and to the point but then, for those who have been taking an interest, it's just one amongst many questions that are not being put to our (so called) democratically elected representatives. Or, should the odd pertinent question manage to squeak through the barricades, then it's one of the more pertinent questions that is not being answered. Not honestly, not with any due attention to detail or seriousness, evasively at best.

What if they really don't care?
What then?

Because- pause for thought- if 'they' really don't much care about the same sort of questions that are beginning to overwhelm the rest of the thinking minions then what? What sort of responses might we then expect from 'them?' Assuming that 'they' even deign to respond? What if 'they' really don't give a damn?


Who would know better than the oil baron, that fossil fuels really are to blame for the coming climate emergency; who would know better than those who have been covering up the evidence for the last fifty years, than those who are in the very best place to have properly accessed all of the available data? If they truly wanted to respond in a manner likely to benefit the majority and the planet they'd have done so long before now. If they were going to tackle the climate crisis they'd ensure that there were fewer lobbiests working hand-in-glove with government. Surely. And, if this is the situation, as absolutely it must be, what else is being allowed to slide?



Precisely how much research into the cancers being wrought, had tobacco baron, Philip Norris, done into the more harmful effects of smoking, decades before Priti Patel broke the Ministerial Code, lobbying for reduced regulations on tobacco sales? Well, that and for the misappropriation of international aid, into Israeli coffers? Ms Patel must be so very proud, in the unlikely event that she is ever given cause for reflection! Just how far ahead of that curve, were the tobacco barons? And, what about the gambling cartels; quite how many lobbiests for this blackened melanoma are still pretending that they serve their constituents?

Finger pointing might vary in intensity, or waver in terms of direction, yet the oft speculated opinion that our globe has become overpopulated with the human species seems never far from the surface. There are too many 'other' people out there, we are regularly reminded. The 'culprits' are either left vague, paley sketched in, or they are non-specifically elsewhere. Never quite precisely 'here!' Although, even the hereness of here bears considerable elasticity so, rather dependent upon precisely how much racism the messenger is currently being permitted. Whatever the wording, whoever the speaker, the surplus is never quite 'us!'

So, when Putin broke with global expectations in February 2022 and actually drove his tanks over the border, the puppet-masters in the US of A must have been beside themselves with joy! They'd poked and they'd poked at the Old Bear and, finally, he'd bitten! Jackpot!

The US of A went into overdrive, organising the severance of Europe's fuel supply, via Nordstream2. Cornering the replacement petro-chemical market. Good ol' US of A! The US arms trade needed no such help, being so well practised at enabling all manner of dubious regimes to unleash their wrath upon other human beings! Good ol' US of A!



So, the same glorious US of A must have been absolutely crestfallen when, in the spring of the same year (2022), Ukraine and Russia were upon the cusp of a peace deal, threatening to cut dead all those glorious arms sales! The US needed a veto and they needed one fast! The UK duly rolled over, almost as if someone-(or someones)-upon-high really didn't much care about the human cost! Other humans, the not-quite-us humans, the elsewhere ones.

There's the Western narrative and then there's an alternative narrative, one that generally comes without a US accent. One that doesn't require a US spokesperson's tale to be spun upon a BBCesque platform. One that fits more credibly with the manner in which events have befallen the globe.
'What if?' What if they really don't care,
we might more informedly muse.

In that clearer light, we move on. In that light, it would be reasonable to contemplate a world in which those with greatest monetary resources are able to garner the greater access to scientific research. Understand then, that, in light of such volumes of greater data coupled with this post's opening premise, access will not necessarily equate to more egalitarian thought or action. Resources, we are told, are limited. Yet, also we are expected to worship the concept of continual growth. Two contentions! They may feature within the very same news update, one may even follow hot on the heels of the other. And yet never are we encouraged to hold one in either hand and then together weight these juxtapositions. Further, neither does any from a selection of characters who would wish to be termed 'journalists' ever seem to make that small extra step. These being 'journalists' who would also have access to significantly greater quantities of the pertinent data than does the average citizen. Curious, maybe! Unless it hints at something far more weighty, far more concerning!

'What if?' What if they really don't care?




If those being routinely murdered by the IDF, in the globe's largest and most well-documented genocide, really are just numbers upon a far larger and covert tally then who's next? The floods, the fires, the rising oceans, will account for some of the non-specific excess populations and yet, if resources really are going to be so very unevenly distributed... well, as the US so loves to instruct,
'you do the math!'
Or rather, 'maths!'

Imagine, for a moment, that we find ourselves upon the greedier side of the divide. We might think to question from whence will the workforce be sourced? Diminishing resources may be marked up for those currently drowning in wealth but there will soon come the need for a change in pace, or trajectory, or valuation... or something...

They may not care, or they may well care for the wrong things and yet, sooner rather than later, even 'they' may find their elected pathway to be structurally compromised. Or blocked! Likely, they'll burn every bit as brightly as will we, should the flames catch in the wrong kinds of winds. Or drown just as readily. Or starve!

An increasingly bankrupted housing market cannot sustain an infinite number of pretended rethinks. When people cannot any longer afford housing what value then for the empty shells? A cost-of-living crisis may only sustain a limited number of rebrands; when costs are too much the black market thrives, citizens simply opt out from those aspects of the 'society' that has left them behind. The streets may only sustain a certain number of tents and sleeping bags, councils and disingenuous politicians may only sweep the canvass to another corner whilst there are corners still available, unless the puppeteers are already contemplating yet more sinister 'solutions' to their problems. Before it becomes clear to enough people that the system is broken, corrupted, bankrupt!
Searching for a more drastic solution!


This polyptych has a working title, 'When may we dig out the corpses of our dead children?'

'They really don't care! They really do not!
Not about us!

Even as we watch and we wonder, another poorly concealed lie has slipped its anchor. Another from the elite side of the tracks has bolted and handed back her CBE, hoping to stay ahead of the curve. Never mind that the correct narrative was freely available before the turn of the century. Watch as the conflagration spreads, watch the pertinent ministers and other miscreants dance their dances! They care no more but now they will need to work out which other ones to thrust into the flames that the flare will dazzle enough that we do not notice also the owner of the dispatching hand.

'They' really do not care!
They cannot. Even if they might once have (half) cared, or cared with certain reservations, neoliberal greed has now seriously impaired their vision. Greed has dazzled them!

War will certainly deplete some of those other-not-us-humans. That's why the arms trade is so very powerful! Wars! But, how to contain the spread? Kill just those other humans, the not-us-ones! Contain the spread! Hate the refugees, whilst creating new refugees! Hate the homeless, whilst creating more homelessness!

'They really don't care! They really do not!


'First they came for somebody else, who wasn't me, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not yet that somebody else...'

Thursday 14 December 2023

Inhuman Animals!



I've always struggled with the idea of certain 'monsters' being described as, 'like animals!' or 'inhuman animals!' I look at the news, and see what fellow human beings are doing to one another, the supposedly okay ones, and to the habitat, the environment, the creatures with which they share this Earth, the planet they (supposedly) want their children and grandchildren to inherit and I think, 'really?' Ultimately, most non-human species behave much as they have always done, if left to their own devices, left alone in their own environment. Some appeal to our whims and tastes more than others. But, a great many of those real non-human animals actually look and behave quite beautifully. Non-humanly, beautifully so!

So, I consider the contemptuous remark to be very wide of the mark!

'Inhuman animals!' is what all Palestinians are currently being labelled as by various Israeli spokespeople, barely scraping out an existence in the rubble of Gaza and (more covertly so) the West Bank. Look at them scrabbling through the dirt and debris or sitting in rows, no better than 'inhuman animals,' as if awaiting slaughter and processing at an abattoir! Why, they're wearing clothes, fewer items, some of them. Their faces look human enough, if they're permitted to look up. They sound human enough if permitted to speak... But, they're 'inhuman animals!' Described by various Israeli spokespeople as such, when interviewed by the BBC and other Western 'news' outlets, often unquestionably so. Or, if questions are proffered, there are far too few of them, far, far too enablingly couched. Complicit!

'Inhuman animals!' So inhumanly animalistic that they (probably) deserve the treatment being meted out to them. Or, if not them, then someone they know, or someone they're hiding. Children too! 'Inhuman animals!' Easily told apart from the actual humans. The actual humans are the ones with the body armour, the tanks, and they're the ones flying the fighter jets and firing the missiles. The missiles provided, at least in good part, by other, more remote, real humans. Except, some of those more remote, real humans, hidden amongst them there are other 'inhuman-value-holding-animals.' 'Inhuman animals,' taking part in the wrong demonstrations, angry at the 'wrong' types of violence, because there's bad, 'inhuman violence,' and then there's, if not quite 'good,' then justifiable violence, or the violence of justice! Violence of the kind being meted out by the Israeli Defence Force.

The Times of Israel has called for a Genocide against those 'inhuman animals!' But then, that's okay because the Times of Israel is peopled by actual humans and the one's they're calling for a Genocide against are the actual 'inhuman animals!' Whoever Jeffrey Camras is (Chicago-based blogger) we know he's one of the actual humans because he has called for the Genocide against the 'inhuman animals.' "In order to make peace and move forward, Palestine must be obliterated," he wrote. And who could possibly argue that that isn't a 'peace' worth fighting for?

Israel (and you the reader) needs to put its faith in the Torah and Hashem in order fulfil our destiny. Establish sovereignty over Har HaBayit. Do this today! .. Conquer remaining biblical lands in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Do this diplomatically or militarily.” Good ol' Jeffrey Camras, an actual human, on the side of the angels. Or maybe not!

Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped upon Gaza.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Zipi Hotovely has said all Gazans should vacate their homes and walk, under unrelenting Israeli missile onslaught, to an empty strip of wasteland, al-Mawasi, where there is nothing, and they will presumably just huddle and await whatever Israeli justice deems fit.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said "There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything will be closed!" Just to clarify, he means 'closed for every man woman, child and baby.' "We are fighting against human animals!" the real human went on to say.
"Netanyahu, finish them, finish them (…) finish them!” Nikki Hayley of Fox News has ranted.
“We are in a religious war here. (…) Do whatever the hell you have to do. (..) Level the place.” US Senator Lidsey Graham preached.
Israel has been identified firing shells containing white phosphorus, white phosphorus missiles marked as supplied by the USA, along Lebanon's southern border (10th- 16th October 2023), more specifically at the town of Dhayra (16th)
Israeli troops routinely shoot at and murder unarmed children in Gaza and the West Bank.
Human rights groups continue to compile evidence of IDF military executions inside Gaza.
Where Israeli colonisers continue to murder and dispossess residents in the West Bank Israeli Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has handed out thousands of rifles to speed the Ethnic Cleansing. "We're the landlords here, remember that, I am your landlord!" he has been filmed shouting.
With emblem from Yitzhak Rabin’s car clutched in his raised fist, Itamar Ben-Gvir shouted "We got to his car, and we'll get to him too!” Israeli President Rabin was assassinated on 4th November 1995. Ben-Gvir is now Minister for National Security.
Confusing! It's a (sort of) blessing that we have our high calibre of journos to assist us with navigating quite who are the real humans and who are the 'inhuman animals!' Otherwise, we could have too many of the wrong sorts of deaths occurring.

'Inhuman animals!' Identified as all the more 'inhuman' as of 7th May 2023. After which many actual humans have called for a better, a more just form of violence. Notice the difference! 'Inhuman animals' in sandals or loose shoes and ragged, non-military clothes, or else already buried under rubble, as opposed to actual humans in body armour, in ranks behind tanks, fighter jets and £millions in US and UK provided missiles and other violence-of-justice weaponry. Pick a side, or better, just accept that your government, on your behalf, has picked the actual humans over the 'inhuman animals.'

Arabs are like "drugged cockroaches in a bottle," Israeli Chief-of-Staff, General Rafael Eitan stated. One of the actual humans! Except General Rafael Eitan spoke these words in 1983, speaking at an Israeli Parliamentary Committee.
Israeli former President Isaac Herzog once stated " They are legitimate targets, simply because they “could’ve risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime.” He does not elaborate upon precisely which 'evil regime.' Presumably the Palestinians had elected to stand up against the wrong kind of 'evil regime.'
In 1969 Golda Meir proclaimed that “Palestinians did not exist.”
In 1982 Menachem Bagin described Palestinians as like “beasts walking on two legs.”
2013 saw Eli Ben Dahan describing the 'inhuman animals' as, "Palestinians are like animals, they aren’t human”
And yet it was 7th May 2023 that ushered in Gaza's 'inhuman animals!' Until that moment it was as if Paradise upon Earth had blossomed! Thank you Western Media, for helping us to see the light. The righteous light that we simply have to believe lies just the other side of all the smoke and dust and the atomised 'inhuman' flesh, blood and other body parts. Have faith. Do nothing, lest you too are deemed guilty of 'inhuman thought.'

Indeed there are monsters out there. They're not inhuman because Israel has and continues to demonstrate just how very human the most unspeakable types of violence can be! Israel continues to do so every day. And we are not even permitted platform to speak this truth!

I have considered and I strongly favour a course that's going to label me as guilty of 'inhuman thought, voice and sympathies!' Again and again, and again and again... I've identified those who have undertaken monstrous acts and they're not the ones currently dying in their tens of thousands.

Boycott Divest and Sanction!

Saturday 9 December 2023

The Pariah State



Of course, Israel is not the only nation that might 'boast' the label, of 'Pariah State.' Heaven knows that the globe is far more 'richly' populated by non-democratic nations than it is by those wishing to be thought of as democratic.

Being a subject that concerns the vast majority of global citizens- sadly not all of them- much work has been undertaken in identifying where democracy succeeds and where it does not. Various sources are in general agreement, more or less, regarding the ideal criteria required, although not necessarily upon the precise ordering of the nations concerned. Let's go with the idea that there are currently 195 nations upon the globe, although this is liable to certain variation and the totals to be open to dispute. Recent, ongoing and pending crises are likely to both alter the number of (disputed) nations as well as to amend the criteria by which nations are (currently being) adjudged.

The 'worldpopulationreview' site surveyed 167 of the 195 possible nations, gathering quantities of data. Other sites have either undertaken independent work or else have colluded in order to draw helpful conclusions and comparisons. The following data has been sourced from the above, Wiki and other concerned sites. When last updated there were 72 nations adjudged to be either 'full' or 'flawed democracies,' Ongoing current events seem highly likely to cause some serious 'backsliding.'

There are multiple theories about the specific elements required for any government to qualify as a democracy. The following six would seem to constitute a bare minimum:
* A pluralistic system in which at least two legitimate-but-different political parties coexist
* A free and fair electoral process that enables the people to choose between candidates from those parties
* A government that operates openly and transparently, works for the good of all the people, respects its own rules, has proper checks and balances, and gives its citizens free choice and control over their lives
* Politically engaged citizens who support democratic principles, 'fight fair', vote regularly, accept the will of the voters, and commit to a peaceful transfer of power after each election
* An emphasis on preserving civil liberties and personal freedoms of both the majority and minorities
* A free and independent media unhindered by government interference, influence, or intimidation

Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond has compiled a similar list, maintaining that any democracy must include four key elements:
* A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections
* The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life
* Protection of the human rights of all citizens
* A rule of law in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens


Concentrating upon the UK, because that is the citizenry amongst which I number, there would appear to be a few teething troubles with regards to the nation's aspirations at featuring amongst the countries claiming 'full democracy.' So, skipping lightly over a couple of minor, yet obvious, lesser glitches, there are significant hurdles to be overcome with points 3, 4 and 5 upon the former list, whilst criteria 3 and 4 upon the second list also fall somewhat short of the ideal. And yet, still, the UK was last adjudged 'full democracy,' listed 16th, with a score of 8.54 out of a maximum 10. It would seem that an update to the site is now overdue.

Using 60 separate signifiers only 72 nations were adjudged 'democracies,' with just 23 of these managing to attain 'full democracy' status. Norway was top, with a score of 9.81 and North Korea was bottom, with a score of just 1.08. Both the USA (25th at 7.92) and Israel ( 27th at 7.84) were deemed to be 'flawed democracies.' The latter will have nose-dived, no doubt considerably, in recent weeks. Currently, it is difficult to imagine a route back to the 'heady days' of 7.92 for the Pariah State.

Upon a globe that many regard as slipping, with regards to any sense of democratic ideals, the UK, the USA and Israel have all been adjudged guilty of backsliding! They're not the only culprits. The UK was identified 'falling short' on several counts, by Human Rights Watch, first during the premiership of PM Johnson. The 'flawed democracy' of the US has been identified, by political scientists, as backsliding over several decades, up to and including the present. Multiple scholars have found Israel to be "facing a crisis," and at "risk of right-wing populism," "fuelled by significant 'democratic' decline." The inverted commas about 'democratic' are mine. When 'backsliding' is factored in it seems likely that several nations will have to be seriously downgraded! It also seems beyond doubt that Israel will have done far more than others to warrant a major downgrade!

Both the USA and its puppy UK would have it that the globe's foremost Pariah State is that of Putin's 'authoritarian regime' of Russia (3.31), that is unless the USA switches to targeting China (2.27), jerking the leash such that the UK soon falls into dutiful line, curiously not Israel! Why, it's almost as if neither nation has yet clocked footage of what's been happening inside Gaza! Even though we know that they most certainly have.

When the incomparable Nelson Mandela was still with us he spoke up for freedoms and for democracy, stating that "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
At that time South Africa was busily climbing up the rankings. Nelson knew when to buck with the US-centric narrative and he knew how to recognise a Pariah State when he saw one!

Up until his release in February 1990 Nelson Mandela was referred to by former UK PM Thatcher as "a terrorist." As President of the African National Congress Mandela fought, and then campaigned, to topple the apartheid political regime in his country of South Africa. In 1993, apartheid duly dismantled, widely circumnavigating any Thatcher ideology, he was justly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Whilst travelling through southern parts of the African continent I met several caucasian individuals who one might reasonably have termed 'a bit racist' in their outlook and respective hopes for their countries, yet none seemed to have a bad word to say about Nelson Mandela.

In recent days, weeks, months, many of Nelson Mandela's former colleagues and friends, fellow countrymen and former members of the ANC, have spoken out about Israeli Occupied Palestine.
Amongst the voices a consensus has arisen that compares the former apartheid South Africa to that of current Occupied Palestine,
damning the latter by comparison. Never did South Africa's white government seek to Collectively Transfer
its black population to another nation! In amongst its many crimes against humanity, never was a Genocide
against its own citizens orchestrated! And ne'er did the South African regime cut off water, power, food and seek to seed disease amongst a cowering population, a form of biological weapon! WHO has recorded over 44,000 cases of diarrhoea and 70,000 respiratory infections. But the real numbers will be significantly higher! Under Mandela's tutelage the former Pariah State shook off the curse of apartheid and managed to claw its way up and in amongst the 'democratic nations.' Since his death it has sadly slipped, 'backsliding' to a rating of 7.05 (flawed democracy). But, even under the shadow of apartheid, never did it sink to where Israel now lays claim, to being the sole Western apartheid state. That crown of thorns is Israel alone's to bear!

Shamefully enabled by other 'Western-claiming' nations, Israel increasingly seeks to set itself apart. Although situated in the Middle East, erected upon Palestinian lands, Israel would have the world regard it as a Western Nation. When sporting or other international events suit, it seeks to be regarded as honorary European, lobbying for European status. Anyone who paid attention to the outrageous regime-changing and covert actions of the USA, in Central America- conducted openly so under Regan- will have been able to draw clear conclusions as to why so many $millions in arms continue to be invested in the Pariah State of Israel. Even in the spotlight of Genocide the transport of military arms does not slow. In many senses Israel is the USA's pawn in the region. And much like the US and several other Western nations Israel operates, expects and increasingly demands, it's own very specific hierarchy of racism!
One could almost regard the damning indictment currently as Israel's top export.

But Israel is not European. Nor is it a democracy! It cannot be both a democracy and an apartheid state. Setting itself apart in its contempt for human life, conducting Genocide, Collective Punishment
and Forced Transfer
on a scale unparalleled now in living memory, Israel has to be the globe's utmost Pariah State!