The “Russia Report”: Deep State reinforcing delusion to spread fear and seize power
“Suppressed” report should be a lesson to those who begged for its release – be careful what you wish for.
Kit Knightly
The “Russia report” is an action plan for the intelligence agencies to hand MI5 direct control over the mechanisms of British democracy, and give the government legal power to control social media.
Nobody in the mainstream will tell you this. The media are going to tell you it’s a “shocking condemnation Britain’s vulnerability to hostile state actors” or something similar, the Remainers will tell you it’s cast iron evidence the Brexit vote was rigged, and Luke Harding will tell you it means “they” are all around us and you should buy a copy of his book.
The truth is it’s just the latest of the Deep State’s plays to secure as much power as possible as quickly as possible. If anything, it already feels old-fashioned, being authored in a pre-Covid world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be put to use in service of the world’s “new normal”.
In terms of actual content, there’s nothing new here. It’s just a collection of familiar proven lies and unproven accusations in the service of four primary agendas:
- Invalidating the result of the Brexit referendum
- Boosting funding/resources for the UK’s “Cyber Offensive capabilities”
- Ceding more powers to MI5 to oversee and “protect” our democratic processes
- Creating a “protocol” that empowers the government/intelligence agencies to force social media companies to censor and/or ban certain material, opinions, websites or users
You can plow through the whole thing here if you really feel the need.
For those outside the UK, who may not be aware of this story, sometime last year it was “leaked” that the UK parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee had prepared a report on “Russian interference” in UK politics. In a brilliant piece of PR manoeuvring, Boris Johnson refused to make the report public.
This decision manipulated those who consider themselves “the left” in British politics to clamour for the release of the “Russia Report”, believing there would be something in it that Boris didn’t want us to see. This was an act of pure naivety by Corbynista influencers, and deliberate public manipulation by the “leftist” media.
Yesterday Boris Johnson’s government finally “caved” to this pressure, and released a “confidential report” which tells us nothing we haven’t been told a million times before. This apparently secret testimony has been blasted across headlines in every broadsheet and tabloid for years.
Russia is accused of poisoning the Skripals, leaking the DNC emails, using “bots and trolls” to influence public opinion…and so and so on.
The witnesses called are all either actual spies (Christopher Steele), or “journalists” heavily involved with the Integrity Initiative (Edward Lucas). No evidence is supplied, save the tired old links to “academic studies” conducted by bought-and-paid-for NATO shills like Ben Nimmo and Bellingcat (whose direct funding from the likes of the Atlantic Council and National Endowment for Democracy represents a massive conflict of interest that is never once mentioned in the report).
In that way, the report is massively dated. Its lies, worn smooth through repetition, are dry and stale.
But that’s not the point of this report. That’s the first part of the Hegelian Dialectic. The “problem”, long since mythologised, created by force of repetition without ever being evidenced. This report is far more concerned with generating a “reaction”, and the procuring consent for a pre-planned “solution” (the report doesn’t shy away from this obvious structure – using the terms “threat” and “reaction” instead).
In short, buried in the 55 pages of waffle, repetition and bureaucratic double-talk, are key suggestions to take a more warlike stance against Russia and parlay this into a simultaneous crackdown on dissent at home, all while securing shiny new powers for MI5.
Firstly, the UK plans to strike a new attitude on “attribution” of alleged cyber attacks, claiming, apparently with a straight face:
The UK has historically been reticent in attributing cyber attacks – as recently as 2010, this Committee was asked to redact mention of Russia as a perpetrator of cyber attacks, on diplomatic grounds.
But the UK’s “reticence” to blame Russia for cyber attacks is over, they now intend to “name and shame” foreign actors who carry out cyber attacks:
there has to now be a cost attached to such activity. When attacks can be traced back – and we accept that this is in itself resource-intensive – the Government must always consider ‘naming and shaming’.
[NOTE: This section on “attribution” would an absolutely ideal time to mention that other state player – namely the US military – have the technology to carry out cyber attacks and make it appear to have come from somewhere else. We know they know, because of the Wikileaks Vault 7 leaks, but they don’t mention it.]
Oh, and they’re going “leverage” their diplomatic relations to force those countries who would rather not start a new cold war based on the testimony of lunatics, fraudsters and underwear salesmen, to publicly blame Russia for…pretty much everything:
it is apparent that not everyone is keen to adopt this new approach and to ‘call out’ Russia on malicious cyber activity. The Government must now leverage its diplomatic relationships to develop a common international approach when it comes to the attribution of malicious cyber activity by Russia and others.
This is dishonest, and potentially dangerous, but this kind of geo-political positioning is very much the long game. It’s the short term stuff, the local stuff, we should really worry about.
Like handing over powers to “monitor” and “protect” the democratic processes of the country to MI5 [our emphasis]:
Overall, the issue of defending the UK’s democratic processes and discourse has appeared to be something of a ‘hot potato’, with no one organisation recognising itself as having an overall lead. Whilst we understand the nervousness around any suggestion that the intelligence and security Agencies might be involved in democratic processes […] that cannot apply when it comes to the protection of those processes […] Protecting our democratic discourse and processes from hostile foreign interference is a central responsibility of Government, and should be a ministerial priority. In our opinion, the operational role must sit primarily with MI5
They recommend this, based on MI5’s pre-existing “relationship built with social media companies”. They don’t mention, at this stage, how social media companies have “built a relationship” with MI5, or what role they might serve in “protecting democracy”, but it’s not hard to guess.
Social Media is an important theme in the report, actually, being mentioned fifteen times in 47 pages.
Firstly, we’re told that social media companies must bear the brunt of the blame for “hostile state activity” being at all effective:
we note that – as with so many other issues currently – it is the social media companies which hold the key and yet are failing to play their part
Before they add the government must seek a “protocol” by which social media companies remove any material the UK government deems “hostile state use” of their platform:
The Government must now seek to establish a protocol with the social media companies to ensure that they take covert hostile state use of their platforms seriously, and have clear timescales within which they commit to removing such material
Any companies who refuse to do this will be “named and shamed”.
You might think “well, this protocol could easily be used against people with no state affiliation whatsoever”, and you’d be right. It could. The government admits as much, but doesn’t seem to have a problem with it:
Such a protocol could, usefully, be expanded to encompass the other areas in which action is required from the social media companies, since this issue is not unique to Hostile State Activity
This would be a good time to note that the Atlantic Council employees this report cites have, in the past, labelled people “bots” who are definitely, provably not bots. This includes noted independent journalists and a world-renowned concert pianist.
The proposed “protocol” opens up an avenue for the state to silence dissident individuals by similarly “mistaking” them for state-backed agents.
Another thing the report is keen on is boosting the UK’s “Offensive Cyber” capabilities:
this is an era of hybrid warfare and an Offensive Cyber capability is now essential. The Government announced its intention to develop an Offensive Cyber capability in September 2013, and in 2014 the National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP) […]The UK continues to develop its Offensive Cyber capability.
What their offensive cyber capabilities ARE, and how they use them, is never described. Are they used solely against other states, or against domestic politic parties, organizations and individuals too? They don’t say.
Is cyberwarfare even legal under international law? Well, no. In fact, the way the report dances around the idea that cyberwarfare is actually potentially illegal under international law is a thing of beauty:
While the UN has agreed that international law, and in particular the UN Charter, applies in cyberspace, there is still a need for a greater global understanding of how this should work in practice […] Achieving a consensus on this common approach will be a challenging process, but as a leading proponent of the Rules Based International Order it is essential that the UK helps to promote and shape Rules of Engagement, working with our allies.
The fact that people out there can even begin to cite this report in earnest when it describes the UK as a “key defender of a Rules Based International Order” just boggles my mind.
The real scary stuff comes later though, in the “legislation” section.
The UK is already one of the most surveilled countries in the world, and the report happily mentions that last February, the UK police/intelligence agencies got [our emphasis]:
new powers to stop, question, search or detain any person entering the UK gained Royal Assent in February 2019; it is not necessary for there to be suspicion of engagement in hostile activity in order to use these powers.
Following on from this, the report recommends a new Espionage Act and a Foreign Agent Registration Act, to “crackdown” on espionage.
Hearings resulting from these acts could be “closed material proceedings” to protect national security.
For those who don’t know, in UK law a “closed material proceeding” is a hearing where a prosecutor presents some evidence directly to a judge which is kept secret from both the public and the defense counsel.
Until this new legislation is passed, the report warns, “the Intelligence Community’s hands are tied.”
To sum up, the long-awaited Russia report is – surprise surprise – not a trove of secrets and corruption which could bring down the Johnson government. It was never going to be that, despite what all the fake-left “journalists” were saying, and what all the Labour supporters who should know better were tweeting.
It was actually sickening to watch so many people, especially in Corbyn’s camp, cry-out for this report and not realise they were getting played. It’s the oldest trick in the book. Cheap reverse psychology that doesn’t work on children past the age of about five, but apparently does work on the majority of the members of the Labour party.
Thanks to their gullibility, no one is questioning the honesty, providence or intentions of a report which finds, in short:
- MI5 should have more control over our democratic systems.
- We should spend more money on developing cyber attack ability.
- We should investigate and maybe overturn the Brexit vote.
- We should pass authoritarian new legislation
- Social Media companies should take down whatever the government says they should take down.
People who are supposed to guard against tyranny and hold power to account have abandoned their posts to take part in anti-Russia hysteria which endangers what remains of our civil liberties.
As a result, we’re getting headlines like this:
GUARDIAN: Report dans number 10 and spy agencies over Russia #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/iCpPx7RgrL
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) July 21, 2020
And this:
MAIL: Now tame the Russian bear #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/AiIEXOvI0D
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) July 21, 2020
And this:
THE TIMES: MI5 to get more powers #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/SwGzDiT0id
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) July 21, 2020
It’s the same old lies, on the same old topics, told by the same old people, for the same old reasons. The only difference is, this time, they managed to trick some of the gullible “woke” left into begging for it.
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At various places in Off-Guardian the compliant behaviour of much of the left is noted in relation to Covid. There is even more of it in relation to China and Russia. This contains an interesting Youtube interview centring in that subject.
Although the interviewee does not go there, I suspect quite a lot of left outfits are simply infiltrated sufficiently so that they can easily be steered if state actors so desire.
They’re now trying to ban RT like they did Press TV.
That must be the media freedom I hear so much about.
I’d just like to see Johnson “take a more warlike stance” and slug it out with Putin on a field in, say, Germany. Our representatives are now certifiably stupid and they’re gradually making the rest of us just as stupid. We used to have intelligence tests way back when I was at school, and ALL the teachers were clearly intelligent people. That is apparently no longer the case, and at this rate the human race will soon be worthless, not only in God’s eyes, but even by its own decrepit standards. We have opened the door to the devil, and he has entered, smiling and ready to do some more deals with us, while “the authorities” compel us to listen to him. If I were a headmaster, my school would be closed down because the first thing I would insist upon would be classes in critical thinking, including criticism of… Read more »
And this: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/putin-plans-to-make-the-west-destroy-itself Conflating the actions of the Soviet government 100 years ago with the Russia of today, complete with horror stories of interference in elections by use of social media etc. Poor Mr Bloomberg, who spent 1.2 Billion dollars advertising on social and other media, had name recognition beyond almost anyone in the USA, was opposed to anything that Mr Trump advocated, had an army of campaign workers ended up winning a handful of delegates, the most notable being four from Western Samoa. He could have definitely benefited from a few tips from Vladimir, (or perhaps it was a few Russian citizens posting memes) who spent something like $150,000 on Facebook and won the 2016 election for Trump. A moment’s reflexion reveals that nobody need plan to ‘make the West destroy itself’; we are doing a fine job of it, and anything other than observer status may interfere… Read more »
Anyone reported on MSM or BBC that Steele ordered recently in UK. Court to pay damages to 2 Russians in their libel case. Steele named them in his M25/6 lieing dodgy dossier and they took him to court and they won. Also Steele confessed in court that the dossier was unverified and paid for by Clinton and DNC through Lawers perkin Cole. Will be UK court records if anyone cares to look. Now probably have a return email to the address I provide OF from some 77 brigadier. Don’t give out my email OF so how come get a reply. Anyone the same
TruLab, True Jew, Sir Gerald Kaufman’s 2009 speech. For ‘fearless’ Sir Kier Starmer and all Left/Lib/Right/Wrong anti-Palestine PC/Pure Cowards, to repeat at every opportunity. In January 2009, at the time of yet another Israeli Gaza outrage against humanity. British Jew, Sir Gerald Kaufman Labour MP, made a speech to the House of Commons. He stated his Jewish Zionist credentials and then equated the actions and rhetoric of the Israeli state and its State actors with the actions and rhetoric of the Nazis. Full transcript: The Speaker, “Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab).” ” I was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist. On a shelf in our kitchen, there was a tin box for the Jewish National Fund, into which we put coins to help the pioneers building a Jewish presence in Palestine. I first went to Israel in 1961 and I have been there since more times… Read more »
Actually I don’t think Remain voters would say the referendum was rigged by Russia. I voted Remain and it seems to me far more likely the United States rigged the Brexit referendum. Just look at the number of Leave politicians wth very close links to the US – Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Douglas Carswell and many others. Of course, you also have Brexit cheerleader Rupert Murdoch, and owner of much of the UK media, in hoc to the US.
Russia – and Israel, come to that – are simply smokescreens for the real actors here. The US ‘deep state’ controls the political process in the UK, and also has its fingerprints all over the December general election, which Boris Johnson ‘miraculously’ ‘won’.
Credible open source material – the intelligence agencies get their assertions published by their agents in the media and then represent their assertions as “intelligence” (thus obviating the need to identify the source and thus preventing any critical evaluation) and present that “intelligence” to compliant MPs, who repeat the evidence-free assertions as established facts that support the intelligence agencies strategy, demanding more powers and resources for the intelligence agencies. And we are all supposed to find the assertions completely credible. They really do think we are all stupid and gullible.
The alleged assassination in 2006 of the former Russian agent who made allegations against the Russian intelligence service (of bombing campaigns against their own people) is not the reason for the “war on Russia” as the report claims. In 2012, David Cameron was sitting amicably beside President Putin at the London Olympics watching judo together, Mr Putin of course being a big judo fan and blackbelt. In seeking an alternative explanation, I found this headline easily enough, news of this apparent event easy to find on numerous sites if you Google it: “RUSSIAN JETS SCRAMBLE TO STOP ISRAELI STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN INSTALLATIONS IN SYRIA” in an article dated 10 Dec 2019. I say “apparent event” as God only knows what the truth is of anything these days, unless you were there personally, when it appears “fake news” is as often or not being put out by… Read more »
The ancient Athenians had the answer: give power to the average citizen. Representatives in the Council and most officials were chosen by lot from the whole citizen body. The Assembly which all citizens could attend had the power to pass or defeat legislation. And it worked. For centuries.
I was very interested in reading you comment until you came out with Galloway, this is the prick who called protesters outside Cummings house after the covid Barnard Castle affair as ‘scum’ he also is calling for world wide ban , punishable by jail ,I guess , on anyone commenting on the holocaust other than the version we’ve been told over the last 70 years, no time for the man and as others on here I don’t think he is what he makes out to be.
Geoff, I bet you are a diehard Zionist scumbag like rest of the Likudniks scumbags! Anyone speaks the truth about genocidal Israel is a scumbag. All the Goyim are fair games for they are only the cockroaches and filthy slymes! All the Talmudic Zionists are the scums of the earth! Read their history to find the truth.
What on earth is that about? I’m a zionist scumbag ? how the hell do you arrive at that? I have nothing but contempt for Israel and everything it stands for, I think you best read my comment again and then maybe apologise
There’s a hilarious piece today in The Guardian’s sad little cousin, The Irish
Times. It shreiks that ” Russian intelligence could exploit Irish Border poll.”
Good people of Ireland beware!! The Professor and Putin’s niece will be
at large shortly persauding you to vote for or against , a united Ireland…
So is Putin a Nationalist or a Unionist? 😉
Payback for the Skibbereen Eagle keeping an eye on the tsar of Russia – Russia will keep an eye on the Irish border poll (which, unless I missed something, has not been announced and is not planned on being announced).
On the topic of Keir Starmer, I know it would never happen – and I have stopped caring – but, purely for the sake of experiment, I would love to see him put his foot down and refuse to apologise for non-existent Labour anti-Semitism. I would also love to see him advocate the mild reformist Left programme that Corbyn advocated. All of this not to see how far such a position would go (it would clearly go nowhere), but to see how far the reaction against it would go i.e. to see the increasingly vehement claims of anti-Semitism, the increasingly frothing BBC denunciations, the accelerating manufactured paranoia, the tsunami of phoney outrage, the deafening yelps of the “victimised”, all accompanied by visual representations of Starmer as Hitler, Labour as Nazi etc.
That’s certainly never going to happen !
This seems a bit odd (emphasis added):
“it is apparent that not everyone is keen to adopt this new approach and to ‘call out’ Russia on malicious cyber activity. The Government must now leverage its diplomatic relationships to develop a common international approach when it comes to the attribution of malicious cyber activity by Russia and others.”
Why “attribution”, which suggests trying to lumber an accusation on someone, rather than “discovery” which would suggest uncovering something that was already there? Are the PTB actually telling us they are at it and seeing if we’ll notice?
Super Sleuths and Spies save us from the lies! Well if this story was not so “Hackneyed” it would be a joke. This long hidden report turns out to be as fake as an Orbis brief, and they are pretty well the Sh*t Standard when it comes to Fake News. However it has served its purpose. Rather like reading the Guardian it is what is omitted which indicates its true intention. From Harding to Steele to Dr Strange but Dearlove onward to the modern myths perpetrated by Bellingcat and the Integrity Initiative we see that battle is between two competing futures for capitalism. There is the old imperial model represented by the spooks and stuffed shirts we see constantly haunting the WMSM or there is the new emerging productive global order of the BRI including China, Russia and various emerging economies who are tired of being ruled over… Read more »
What is omitted is not just the truth from the newspaper story but truth, honour, self-respect and probity from the people. We can’t blame ‘them’. Our society is rotten to the core. An epidemic of corruption surfaced 30 years ago, in politics and the church, twin pillars of the establishment. By then the rot was well underway in the civil service. It began with a revolution in pay under Margaret Thatcher. Politicians bought the loyalty of the top judges and civil servants but it soon filtered down, every next layer of bureaucrats demanding their performance-related pay and their bonuses for turning up. My father worked in Whitehall at the time and saw duty and institutional pride replaced by venality. Shortly before he retired he found that his boss, the thrusting young professional who had been inserted above him, and who had begged him to share her work burden… Read more »
Absolutely 100% correct,but it’s all so entrenched throughout all parts of commerce/society that almost everyone is unwittingly part of the system .
It will take huge convulsions to make people realise what has happened . Hard to see anything improving . Things will get much worse before they get better
Capitalism is an economic system that precedes the political systems trying to harness its productivity for their own ends. In that respect, saying ‘this crisis for capitalism’ is a misnomer. What we really have is a crisis of democracy. In majority rule, ordinary people or the demos have a real choice between competing political agendas and can peacefully remove failed or corrupt leaders, so limiting the power and ambition of elected representatives, who must at least try to deliver what they promise or else lose office. Against this model in which people control government stands the alternative: government which controls people and whose elite rulers voters can not remove or even influence. The deep state works to build and preserve this second, autocratic model, with the battle to escape EU control of British sovereignty and voters being the current example. The deep state or swamp is the elite, establishment enemy… Read more »
Capitalism is a system that could not exist without a political system that upholds the conditions necessary for it. The previous system – feudalism – had to be destroyed for capitalism to emerge. And the state has to maintain these conditions for capitalism. Furthermore, capitalism follows its own logic irrespective of the desires and outlook of the individuals concerned.
It’s getting closer to the time when we will need to shoot our sheep before they lead us to slaughter
Sheep do not lead. It is the shepherd, in this case a wolf.
Disingenuous response. Even if you took out a few wolves (there are many), the sheep will turn on you. You will be carried along or trampled on by unthinking masses.
Time for the non-sheep and non-wolves to disband.
A RACKET For nearly four years warmongering against Russia was advanced as a reactionary way to attack Trump by the corrupt Democratic Party working hand-in-glove with the security state and mainstream media news promoting Russiagate, Ukraine-gate, and most recently Bountygate all for the purpose of instigating a new Cold War and hence providing justification for intensifying internet censorship and heightened surveillance. Provoking a Cold War whether with Russia or China gives the rationalization for fattening the already bloated military budget. And that’s why just yesterday “the House of Representatives rejected an amendment from Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) to cut the Pentagon’s budget by 10 percent on a vote of 324-93. While Republicans voted in lockstep against the amendment, the Democrats were split, with 92 voting for the amendment and 139 voting against it.” https://readsludge.com/2020/07/22/dems-voting-against-pentagon-cuts-got-3-4x-more-money-from-the-defense-industry/ “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and… Read more »
Who controls men like this = the answer to the only problem facing humanity.
They’re uncontrollable, that’s why the planet is a mess. Sociopathy might be baked into the Homo sapien DNA cake…….
We’ve never really tried. As long as 99 percent of the world is scared of being labelled an anti summat, they will be uncontrollable.
You have to start by naming WHO is oppressing you. If you’re too scared to do that you deserve everything that’s coming.
Good luck on that one. 😆
Let me describe a pattern of human behavior noticed thousands of years ago it’s termed the anacyclosis cycle.
“Governments rotate through three basic forms: democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy, and the three degenerate forms of each of these governments: ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny. Originally society is in ochlocracy but the strongest figure emerges and sets up a monarchy. The monarch’s descendants, who lack virtue because of their family’s power, become despots and the monarchy degenerates into a tyranny. Because of the excesses of the ruler the tyranny is overthrown by the leading citizens of the state who set up an aristocracy. They too quickly forget about virtue and the state becomes an oligarchy. These oligarchs are overthrown by the people who set up a democracy. Democracy soon becomes corrupt and degenerates into ochlocracy, beginning the cycle anew.”
True but largely irrelevant to the problem at hand.
To elaborate on my response..
This would be like explaining to a handful of bullied kids, the circumstances around bullies and how they come into being. How they will always be present within any human hierarchy.
That’s great, but later that day those kids got their heads kicked in again, money and bike nicked.
Name the bully. Take on the bully. Or suffer under the bully – as we all are.
In your opinion.
To what do you object?
Yes you’re right the W.H.O
I agree that Russia makes an excellent tool for sabotaging Orange Man Bad and thus blocking or overturning the agenda Americans voted for in 2016. The Russia bogeyman is also excellent for distracting us all from the much more serious threat of Chinese communist supremacism. But must we see capitalism as intrinsically evil, and as more evil than the political system called communism? And can I be ‘a gangster for communism’?
Gangsterism is prevalent worldwide on every continent. Communism does NOT exist–your choice is either fascism or a capitalist dictatorship–pick your poison.
Big claims. Have you asked those living under the Soviets, Kim Jong Un, the CCP and many others if communism is their fantasy rather than their poison? Maybe terminology causes our disagreement. I’d say that fascism, nazism, communism and Islamism are all forms of autocracy or totalitarianism in which individual opinion and freedom must be surrendered to the ruling elite, supreme leader or party, often mystically but falsely referred to as embodying ‘the collective will’. This is government which controls people, whereas functioning democracy allows people to control elites by replacing them periodically. As an extreme form of autocracy, dictatorship is political rather than something economic. As Hitler did, dictators like today’s Jinpeng take over the economy (and so control of all citizens) by intimidating and enlisting great capitalists and huge corporations. The point is that capitalists and their capital don’t dictate, dictators do, according to their ideological beliefs. Love… Read more »
Democracy can only exist when the entire population is financially secure well-educated and the government is totally free of political corruption.
No human institution, nevermind persin, is free of corruption. We can resist its influence, nothing more.
I could write volumes on this topic. The actual report appears to be a nothingburger of innuendo, a recycled “Reds Under the Bed” scare whipped up into a froth. But there is more serious material bubbling away just under the surface. I came across this in the Guardian today:- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/22/ai-system-detects-posts-by-foreign-trolls-on-facebook-and-twitter There is much to be read from this including an expansive definition of ‘troll’. Brieftly you can tell where this is coming from because it lumps together Venezuela along with Russia and China as the adversary. It also suggests that these trolls may partake in innocent discussion about arts, music and the like ‘to build up traffic’ (not all trolls are machine posts). The problem for me is that it lumps together 1.3billion Chinese, 150 million Russians and however many others as a faceless ‘them’, all acting in concert with the single and overriding aim of ‘undermining Western… Read more »
It reminds me of John Cleese making a parody of a holiday advertisement film, with one clip showing dancing Bulgarian peasants and adding that it is hard to believe they were dedicated to destroying Western civilisation as we know it. He continued by saying that they would wire electrodes to your genitals if you took a picture of the wrong building. The film was made in the late 1970s – it is hard to be sure whether Cleese was parodying the Cold War mindset or adding to it. Perhaps a bit of both.
Cleese is back with more:
https://www.johncleese-uniquelives.com/
The irony is that the Russians are not even “Reds” anymore. Perhaps we should refer to “Beige Under The Bed”?
Yellow Man Good is a very dangerous red
It’s not so much Cold War as Soviet. The ultimate destination foreshadowed by The Guardian is that you must be an accredited member of an authorized (and internally policed) professional organization before you can comment on, say, arts and music.
Otherwise you may be a troll.
In the future your ID2020 tattoo will be linked to your membership of a professional organization such as:
Congress of British Journalists
Association of Proletarian Writers
All-Oceania Union of Accredited Composers
People’s Teacher of Oceania
Unless you are a member of the All-Union Scientific and Research, Planning and Design Technological Institute on Electric Locomotives Building you will not be allowed to voice your opinion on trains.
From the perspective of establishment power, independent critics or free thinkers with opposing opinions are evil trolls. They must be deplatformed and silenced, as happens in all oppressive systems and states. Ask the many great voices no longer permitted on Twatter and Fakebook. Such ‘trolls’ also can not exist in places like communist China or Islamist Iran. In freer contexts, these trolls-as-independent-critics encounter their poor imitation: the superior, sneering kind whose aim is to demean authentic posters and inhibit or prevent free debate on public fora. This type is often accused of working for powerful interests who fear real democracy and freedom of expression, such as the EU or George Soros. I meet them constantly on fora at Daily Express, Spiked, Conservative Woman and ConservativeHome, often with the same handles. All avoid evidence and reason; very few respond to any question; all sneer at and insult those with opinions they… Read more »
What’s a puzzle for me is that I interact regularly with friends and colleagues who grew up in places like the Soviet Union and Bulgaria and while they’re not over fond of that world it was both nothing like the way we’ve been taught it was and at the same time it had bizarre elements that were beyond our imagination. This suggests that the picture we’ve been taught is essentially bogus, its a fiction like a child’s fairy tale. Unless we get our perspectives right then we are going to be at the mercy of people who deploy those stereotypes — you can see this with the way that the propaganda has seamlessly segued from communist USSR to post-communist Russia. Two vastly different entities but in our mind they’re one and the same. As for the ID2020 tattoo, it might be convenient to ‘chip’ people like we chip pets… Read more »
There is no point developing plans today that will immediately become irrelevant. We must be two steps ahead in our thinking.
despots working at the highest levels of power….what a surprise, democracy (or the illusion of it) is dead, see: Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 : 45r emergency procedure. backed by nothing, no data revealed – without being put to either House for scrutiny or debate – this isn’t about your protection folks – but it is about your destruction…the muzzle being your compliance. What year was that again ?
Undoubtedly, this is another major ‘coup’ for integrity initiative and the usual anti-Russia crowd – Steele, Dearlove, Cadwalladr etc – the labour party ‘fuss’ by Trilateralist Starmer is unsurprising coming as it does with the anti-Corbyn/anti-semitism trope – we have to be continually afraid of everything, all the time, forever … leading to yet another power grab – everything is like the Bond films to these people – unelected, narcissistic,power mad and utterly stupid but dangerous – what’s the plan- install Starmer as the next PM without a vote – we can’t have elections because of a virus – Johnson is toast for all sorts of reasons, including the most easily blackmailed leader possibly on the planet! Who needs to see and clean the American swamp when we have these vile individuals swimming around in the glorious UK??? In a real country this lot would hang!
It’s amazing how such brave critics never stop accusing Putin’s Russia of outrageous actions and intentions without any conclusive evidence, but never start accusing Chinese communists of anything at all. Yet the evidence that Chinese communists are dangerous militarists and supremacists, deny human rights to all they rule over, and oppress, terrorise and imprison entire minorities such as Uigyur Muslems, Tibetans, and Chinese Christians, is incontrovertible. The moral I take from all this is that brave Russia critics are either very, very ignorant or very false, probably in return for political and/or financial benefit. Either way, they make me trust Putin and his ability to make rational judgement much more than I trust them.
There are many of hard copies of this report available now all over the UK: in every loo.
They are actually more useful than the original.
How deep has British “intelligence” fallen……
From the “Russians are coming, the Russians are coming” to they’re already here. That’s real progress.
The Russia news perceptive….
https://notpublicaddress.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/news-amplifies-unconsciousness/
One could reasonably think that the ‘the same old lies, on the same old topics, told by the same old people, for the same old reasons’ would be wearing a bit thin by now, even with the general public. Don’t people actually think and wonder about whatever happened to the Skirpals? We have heard nothing about them or, their welfare, despite it being such a huge story not so long ago. Surely, people are not that stupid to believe all the BS anymore, with so many obvious inconsistencies. Like, on another topic, the fact that Dr. Fauci said on 60 Minutes several months ago that ‘there is no reason to wear masks’ because they do little to stop us getting infected and even exacerbate the problem as fiddling around with it spreads germs to our hands from which they get spread elsewhere. Yet, now, the same Dr. Fauci is telling… Read more »
Dr. Fausti has much to answer for…
Many of these ‘scientists’ seem to be just priests for one orthodoxy or another. It is like having a discussion about Jesus with a hard-core fundamentalist Christian. It doesn’t go anywhere because the discussion isn’t based on reason but on belief. Either you believe or you don’t and that seems to be the crux of the matter.
He needs to understand science as “belief in the ignorance of experts” (Richard Feynman). Meaning that science is endless scepticism, never an unquestionable authority like the Oracle of Delphi. At present, Fauci’s (and Whitty’s, and Ferguson’s) failure to admit to any incompetence, failure and endless contradiction suggests only a mystical faith in the omniscience of experts.
I always assume that corrupt deep state operatives treat truth as a malleable servant for their vain political objectives. Remember the old refrain that ‘all truth is relative’ (except this truth I’m now expressing!)? My assumption avoids any surprises when self-serving toads like Fauci or WHO self-contradict for the umpteenth time, as scientific knowledge keeps advancing but they don’t and must somehow update. Like Soviet bureaucrats (did you see their extraordinary inaction in HBO’s marvellous ‘Chernobyl’?), these arrogant elitists think truth and reality won’t ever reveal their doomed ideological agenda, and that their credibility hasn’t been reduced to a sick joke for us proles and gammons
Kit you are correct it is a power grab now. I don’t think it would have been used as such if published on time. I have long said we live in a coup state. Pompeo promised it. He visited his minions yesterday. They still believe he is their infallible leader. Hard BrexShit is not cancelled. You say: “ Remainers will tell you it’s cast iron evidence the Brexit vote was rigged” No they won’t. There is no evidence of Russian interference. There is no evidence of anything because NOTHING was investigated! That is in the report.If it had been it would have to have looked at Bannon, Fartage and US Billionaires – the Robert Mercer and daughter at least. You further write about the non release: “ …those who consider themselves “the left” in British politics to clamour for the release of the “Russia Report”,” NO : the biggest pressure… Read more »
You obviously know of no remoaners because they ALL blame everyone else Russia included for us breaking free from the evil EU! Are you a corbynista? It shows, because you have no brain he couldn’t realise his mild social reforms because the EU makes it illegal to nationalise anything! Sheep
Lying BrexShit headery instantly on display there Koba. The EU does NOT make it illegal to do anything of the sort – how exactly would the EU ENFORCE any such imaginary crime? Eviction? 🤣🤣 Have you actually paid ANY attention to what the EU decided last weekend? A massive grants and loans effort for the benefit of the whole EU – another thing the BrexShitheads claim was ‘illegal’ under the EU. Corbyn was right at the referendum when he said the EU was not perfect but was 7/10 good. Well that certainly improved to at 8/10 with Muttis wisdom / regardless of the Atlantic Bridge moles trying to derail such a unified action. Yes the EU can operate its fiat currency the Euro just the same as any countries own national fiat currency – it can be created out of thin air by the EU – and helicoptered to where… Read more »
It was glaringly obvious that Labour’s promise of a second EU Referendum would destroy Labour’s election chances. It was designed to guarantee a Labour loss.
So, when I saw Saint Corbyn endorsing Labour’s second EU Referendum I knew he was a liar, like all the rest of them.
The Labour Party (and all politicians) will always betray the working class.
It was not down to Corbyn to decide that policy.
You know it. And lie about it.
Starmer was the architect and the blairites pushed it.
What lost the election was the dirtiest election in my lifetime or for a century. Including much internal Labour sabotage by the same blairites.
And a very suspicious postal vote.
And don’t forget the foreign powers interference in our election – up Pompeo’s Gauntlet.
Trying to forget that?
“In a brilliant piece of PR manoeuvring, Boris Johnson refused to make the report public.”
Er … “brilliant”?
That’s not a word that I associate with that prick, Kit.
It certainly shouldn’t be “brilliant”. However, I’m afraid my opinion of public opinion has dropped drastically. You would think that anyone with a brain could see through this phoney “scandal” psy-op whereby a report gains a spurious authority because the powers that be supposedly writhe with embarrassment when it appears. (“Oh no! We didn’t want you to read that!” etc.) But alas it does seem to work.
Russia is the new Witches. Blame them for anything and everything. Burn them at the stake.
Actually the Russians are old witches – reheated as it were.
Russia should do what Isreal does (quite a lot) and sue for being anti Russian
there new powers M15 ayy.
that psychoboddle sold to the general public
So what is meant with the above
they will, now shut the internet down parts of it big storys or anti story’s like maybe the new prik a dik healthy jection happening soon or if they want to do 600 local lockdown for ever so lets not get any conflicting terrorist view on it or why.
and say it is a terrorist threat that is why one cannot see or visit certain sites pod casters
forums or watch certain videos
believe it or not it happening already
And consistently, the “woke left” are the biggest cheerleaders for the lockdown and the almost complete abrogation of what remained of civil liberties. Maybe the “woke left” are the deep state? Maybe that is the psy-op scaffolding holding up the coronavirus Big Lie?
‘Socialist’ George Galloway comes to mind, who, when he’s not posting photos of restaurants, gushing about Marks and Spencer, berating atheists, championing Piers Morgan or hugging fascists (Steve Bannon) works overtime to extend the lockdown and secure authoritarianism. Does he endorse Blair’s ID 2020 scheme I wonder.
George Galloway is a silver tongued fox masquerading as a socialist. His, clipped, con trolled, a way, of a, talking, is, very, suspicious, to, eh, me, and, a , to, a, many, others. Very duplicitous man
I agree – however, he and a couple of others who write for Russian media outlets could be in trouble if this thing escalates. Perhaps they are the only ones who would give him the time of day but the New Cold War could get really cold, and even turn hot. Then such people might go from being a pain in the ass to enemy propagandists deserving internment or prison.
Galloway is a total tosser. I’ll never forget his comment on 9/11 i.e. that, as soon as it happened, he “just knew it was that bastard Bin Laden!” If so, you could have left the whole official pseudo-explanation for 9/11 up to George.
smoking to much fairy deep state amyl nitrate with your muzzle on all exciting this secret war sssshhhhh Real truth and accepted truth are two very different things. Q is for the CQUEless RE: Epstein trump was there on a secret mission to bust the deep state cabal sssshhhhhh don’t tell anyone we are winning the latest lock-down was too get the cabal arrested and the trillion gazillions given away is so we got money in the future to live in paradise , i am travelling to USA to become a secret maga votter. TRUST THE PLAN we are on the winning side although we have to wear mask latex gloves local lockdown this is all a part of the plan to get rid of the deep state. but sssshhhhhh dont tell anyway as it is so secret. hashtag M<A GA drain the swamp for the clue less United States… Read more »
What is all this shit with hundreds of crappy photos to access the site?
.?
Julian Lewis who is chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee was also Research Director of the Coalition for Peace through Security which was a sub-group of The 61 and was in operation in the 1980`s.This group also had CIA involvement in its operations not
forgetting the CIA also interfered in other countries democratic processes including our own and have done so for decades.The interfered in the 1975 EEC referendum along with the IRD via Norman Reddaway using propaganda to manipulate the people to vote for the EEC.
While they muzzled Wilson and threatened with a coup if he didn’t acquiesce.
Well, if impeccable and reliable sources like Christopher Steele and Elliott Higgins and Luke Harding and Bill Browder say it’s all true, then that’s good enough for me.
Who could argue with that?
I’m confused – is Oceania currently at war with Eurasia or Eastasia?
yes
all
Actually, given the state of the Royal Navy (near miss with channel ferry, etc), we’d have trouble going to war with Estonia.
But we could give them a seriously good trolling on social media.
We’ll make the next Bond villain an Estonian.
See how they like that.
A few years ago a Russian newspaper article I read noted that the Royal Navy is now smaller and less capable than that of France. How have the mighty fallen! And what would Nelson think? A lot of bloated chauvinist bullshit in the UK is designed to obscure such realities.
There’s a reason the British military boasts that it has 3-4,000 desk-bound trolls and, available at short notice, another 20,000 bloggers-at-arms…
That’s yer lot.
Years of cliché-driven waffle about “punching above our weight” and it turns the spearpoint of military power is cybertrolls while the Air Force can’t keep the F35s in the air and the navy is holed below the waterline.
Now whether that’s being run down in anticipation of a European defence force is another question, https://www.ukcolumn.org/series/eu-military-unification
A EDF guarantees end of NATO and the MIC.
It is that simple. UKC is another psyop alt-media.
Agree with the rest of your post.
Don’t worry. They’re sending our 65,000 ton aircraft carrier (minus planes we cant afford and don’t work) to sort out Johnny Chinaman. That should put the fear of God up those damned Chinks.
Yes – oh wait, no – no, yes – possibly – oh just hang on and watch that roundabout go!
Needing no help from OPENLY stated totalitarian regimes.
Totalitarian tabloid UK media is 80% owned by five Right-wing billionaires paying no UK tax. While backing a fake deMockracy Brex$HIT and HIDING-not-stating that a LARGE majority 62%, 29.1 of 46.5million DIDN’T vote ‘Leave’. In a typical totalitarian tabloid UK fake deMockracy referen-dumbed-down – DOH!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum
Maybe we should all assume that any non voters were all actually fervent Leavers.
The Talmudic casuistry of the Brussels Groupies increasingly resemble a game of Find The Lady.
Come again? I think I didn’t get it the first time.
The CIA interfered in the 1975 EEC referendum along with the IRD via Norman Reddaway using propaganda to manipulate the people to vote for the EEC.
You did so well until you went anti working class full guardian reader! Never go full guardian. Go full retard before you do that
see we could tell you were dumb when you kept repeating DeMockracy! And we can tell you’ve literally only heard of it and now think you’re oh so fucking clever for using it! The EU is not your friend you small minded middle class yuppie cunt
I was asked to enter the site was I a robot and some click the boxes which are cars in the pictures?
What’s going on?
Ur in just another average day-and-nightmare in totalitarian tabloid UK.
Needing no help from OPENLY stated totalitarian regimes.
Totalitarian tabloid UK media is 80% owned by five Right-wing billionaires paying no UK tax. While backing a fake deMockracy Brex$HIT and HIDING-not-stating that a LARGE majority 62%, 29.1 of 46.5million DIDN’T vote ‘Leave’. In a typical totalitarian tabloid UK fake deMockracy referen-dumbed-down – DOH!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum
Who are the 5 billionaires?
Where are you pulling this 62% figure from? Your arse?! And please name the five billionaires! Rupert murdoch is one the rothermeres are the other and dirty Desmond is another who’s the other two!?
The Barclay brothers?
Pull ya head outta yer ass and smell the real $hit.
The 80% Righturd $hit media masked answer is: Barclay x 2, Murdoch, Desmond, Harmsworth-Rothermere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harmsworth,_4th_Viscount_Rothermere
Pull ya head outta yer ass and smell the real $hit.
1) The 80% Righturd $hit UK media masked answer is: Barclay x 2, Murdoch, Desmond, Harmsworth-Rothermere.
2) The UK fake deMockracy Brex$hit choice was another Righturd $hit media made false-binary, ‘Leave or Stay’. When a Grade Schooler can see it should have been just ONE easy ‘Vote ONLY To Leave’. The 4-decades default status was stay-at-home to remain, no vote=no leave. Any pre-Schooler can check the vote on a Wee Willy Wiki-Wanka eye-fone: 62%, 29.1 of 46.5million DIDN’T vote ‘Leave’.
Referen-dumbed down – DOH!
v
v
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum
Ur in just another average day-and-nightmare in 80% Right-wing owned totalitarian tabloid UK.
And…those billionaires? We’d like to know, please.
‘We’ or Watt.
The 80% Righturd $hit media masked answer is: Barclay x 2, Murdoch, Desmond, Harmsworth-Rothermere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harmsworth,_4th_Viscount_Rothermere
Many thanks!
It’s not personal.
Probably something to do with DDOS attacks.
I note the lady at the top of the page is holding the placard ‘Russia /Report. What caught my eye was the archaic hammer and sickle emblem. Communism ended in Russia in the 1990s. But the good lady doesn’t seem to realise this. Apparently she does not know what century she is living in. This is the mind set of the Russophobes, Using propganda which is approx thirty years out of date. Moreover, Russia is ruled over by centre-right government mostly composed of members of the biggest party, ‘United Russia’, duly elected with luminaries including Putin and Medvedev, who are no friends of communism or even socialism.
Ignorance is Strength.
Ah the big Soviet bogie man was the best designated enemy the bold West ever had. But as Gore Vidal said, Soviet Russia’s biggest crime was to go out of business. Well, not quite – they were forced out of business by the West’s relentless nuclear build up, keeping up with which wrecked the Russkies. But then the West just couldn’t help it: the military accumulation just had to keep going. And for some time there has been a desperate search for a new Big Bad. The lapse into the old hammer and sickle may indicate the Western media has finally admitted defeat and is basing its hopes on the ignorance of a new generation.
And a resurgence of Stalin porn may be a nice balance to the resurgence of Hitler porn re: Labour’s anti-Semi-Demi-Ding Dong “problem”.
Josef Stalin is the most lied about man in history
So the great purge / terror never happened and Solzhenitsyn wrote fiction? Bollox.
Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Angela Merkel, all had moustaches.
Very bad sign, that.
Watch out for anyone with a moustache.
Dead giveaway.
Well you seem to be a fan.
OT but I couldn’t believe this shit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53489611 There isn’t much that makes me feel speechless and barely able to breath with rage but this did it. The pathetic anti-Corbyn smear bullshit goes on and on. But then again – it’s par for the course. It was the BBC who commisioned this wretched Panorama outrage porn in the first place. So it’s hardly surprising when we get the vomitable patronising little explication at the end: Analysis by BBC political correspondent Helen CattFor Labour, this is an expensive and embarrassing outcome. As proclaimed by yourself and it is YOU after all who are writing the script. The leadership may hope that is a price well worth paying if it signals the beginning of the end of the anti-Semitism row that has caused real division in the party over the last few years.But will it? Of course not –… Read more »
The BBC, ‘vomitable’ ! Fantastic !
Ch 4 outdid them with a crawling interview of Smeeth riddled with lies.
Just glanced that on the C4 website. No, I’ll be keeping well clear of that. Oh the infinite tedium of ferociously recycled bullshit that was rumbled AS bullshit long ago but continues to be manically slapped in your face like a century old corpse that’s falling to pieces and yet they still thrash it at you.
Vulnerable people will die from the BBC’s obsession with neoliberalism. It usually takes the form of austerity.
Watched? He doesn’t need watched he’s everything one side of the elite have wanted since Blair ducked out of public life because he’s massively popular. Hence his peace trips to the Middle East in armoured convoys.
You are perfectly correct and I don’t know why I bother to get annoyed. Labour are dead. They’ve been dead for decades. Corbyn was like a cruel little hopeful mirage that didn’t have a chance. Still – I suppose it was helpful to have the true extent of Labour’s betrayal so brilliantly illuminated.
Who was the ‘well-known concert pianist’ accused of Russian bottery? (I must have been out shopping when that happened).
I don’t know but I DO know that Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman was incredulous when the good old American customs people were disturbed by the smell of the glue holding his piano together. Suspecting terrorist material (like you do) they ordered his instrument to be destroyed. He decided that would be his last trip to the Land of the Twee and told the US govt to fuck off in his last appearance there.
He must have been annoyed – it probably costs a fortune to ship a grand piano, only to have it sledgehammered.
Story here:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/05/zime-m11.html
The audience reaction is interesting:
The concert pianist may be Valentina Lisitsa. She has been outspoken in the past in supporting the Donbass rebels and this has affected her career, in that symphony orchestras are under pressure from govts not to perform with her.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-09/ukrainian-pianists-pro-russia-tweets-get-her-barred-torontos-orchestra
Thanks, all of you, for the information. It appears it was Lisitsa who was described as the ‘bot’. Both these ring a bell now and we (partner and I) remember the hooha about Valery Gergiev at the LSO and elsewhere. Private Eye or maybe their spook friends had a real thing about him at the time.
Oh well, it seems live music is cancelled now even for the woke. We really appreciate BBC Radio 3 presenters’ breathless excitement about the record-fest that the Proms has turned into starring ‘BBC Proms Composer, Ludwig van Beethoven’!!
I hope you were wearing a mask. It’s selfish not to 🙂
You wag – of course we were, We’ve been wearing them since before ‘Coronavirus’ was a twinkle in Gates’ eye!
And the yapdog playacting in HOC goes on: https://www.rt.com/uk/495512-johnson-starmer-parliament-russia/ Dear oh dear, let’s see if we can stop RT broadcasting again? Have the fuckwits not realised that the vast majority of RT programming now is Americans talking about America, not Russians talking about Russia? I wish it were not, but it is. I watch it less and less. Quite clear that neither Johnson nor Starmer ever watch RT, so it is quite clear that both should refrain from discussing that which they know nothing about. As for ‘disinformation’, Starmer needs to sign his own career death warrant if he is in the pay of the US/Israeli axis to ‘misinform the UK public about what is going to happen to them’. There is no place whatever for paid stooges of Israel in the House of Commons. He can resign, emigrate and live out his days in… Read more »
‘There is no place whatever for paid stooges for Israel in the House of Commons.’ I’m afraid there is mate – hundreds of them on the payroll.
Labour Friends of Israel
Conservative Friends of Israel
Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel
Beat me to it! In other words there is ample room, but I do appreciate and applaud the sentiment that Rhys expresses above. The political zionist creed fits the legal status for proscription, I believe.
wrong way round
Israel Labour
Israel Conservative
Israel Liberal Democrat
if you disagree it anti semetic
Having married into a family with links to Israel, Starmer is perhaps qualified to live in Israel.
Let Israel vote for him. Nobody else should. Labour is a waste of space, a dead end, a waste of time, effort and
energy.
Everything it has done, culminating in the virus hoax and the lockdown, strongly suggests that this government’s mission is to destroy the UK as a functioning nation.
But it must be admitted that starting a war with Russia would drastically speed up the process. Just imagine: 93,628 square miles of bluish, slightly iridescent, gently smoking glass.
So that is where THE ROYAL MAFIA CRIME FAMILY intends to get the material for its planned GENORMOUS new crystal palace over what was once Piccadilly.
The Russians wouldn’t nuke us Tom. They are decent human beings.
I agree they wouldn’t nuke us if they had any option, John. They seem pretty live-and-let-live folk.
But if we seriously attack them or try to harm them, they can swat us easily.
And if we ever fire any of our “nuclear deterrent” weapons at them… Well, Mr Putin did ask rhetorically, “Who would want to live in a world without Russia?”
My basic point is that you should never start what you can’t finish. Why annoy and injure Russia (and China), when we can’t do them any real harm (and would be crushed if tried)?
The answer, of course, if obvious. The people who have wound up running our countries couldn’t organize a fish fry, so they are desperate to distract attention from their own incompetence. And the blame the consequences on someone – anyone – else.
lol, good one !
One of my all-time Far Side favourites. Funny, well drawn, and with a vitally important moral lesson.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4222180/where-to-buy-home-uk-nuclear-attack-war/#
The ‘news’ really is comedy capers, but then without the fun. Why grown-up people watch it or read it is something that I cannot really understand… But then it took me something like 10 years to unlock myself from the news, and I have only been capable to totally ignore/scrutinize the news since 4-5 years.
Watching or reading the news is like an addiction, with the additive element of being promised to get some sort of kick out of it, but that kick usually fades the moment you stop reading the news and you develop withdrawal signs like fear and insecurity, which can only stop when you read more news, etc.
And as where in smoking the tar and added carcinogens to tobacco kill, in the news it is the gullibility of the reader that kills.
Even the ‘funny’ bit at the end of the news broadcasts now remind you that you’d rather be dead.
Not just the news but almost everything on the box, including the constant dribble of self-serving drivel coming from the so-called “A-listers”… https://www.corbettreport.com/who-cares-what-celebrities-think-propagandawatch/
Part Two: UK Column News – 22nd July 2020 DOCUMENT UNVEILS UK SECOND WAVE The Academy of Medical Science (est 1998) has issued the document: Preparing for a challenging winter 2020/21 This lays out the Second Wave of COVID. Guidance comes from and Expert Advisory Group led by Prof Stephen Holgate, who founded Synairgen whose own product is competing in NHS tests. In addition the document is funded by George Soros, NGOs associated with the NHS, the UK Department of Business etc. “July and August must be a period of intense preparation for our reasonable worst-case scenario for health in the winter that we set out in this report, including a resurgence of COVID-19 which might be greater than seen in the spring. The assumptions that we have made should be tested as new evidence emerges (including analysis of the evidence from the first wave) to enable… Read more »
The one and only, much appreciated UKColumn. Never was news delivered in such a fashion, and with such a vibrant staff. Each one unique, well informed and with such a variety of genuine, trustworthy delivery styles, ‘the news’ becomes real. Happy day! Good post. Right on the Money.
PS..Vitally necessary viewing for all!
Absolutely! (As Mike would say).
The Russophobia is all yapdog BS to appease the major Tory Donors in London (all of whom are enemies of Putin after salting their riches out of Russia to live in London). It is just complete and utter BS. The first assumption anyone should ever make about any Intelligence briefing from the UK version of Liars United is that they have an agenda and make up whatever lies are necessary to push it. They have to find one that the sheeple will swallow of course. It is very important that MI5 officers are exposed for who they are if they start thinking they are going to run the Government. That will undoubtedly put their personal security at risk, something they absolutely deserve and should see as a warning as to their future conduct. There needs to be absolutely public forensic accountancy carried out on all MI5 spending,… Read more »
Those characters ran the Northern Ireland death squads for 30 years.
Isn’t it ironic that the uk Govt is citing some form of mind control on the UK public by Russia, when they have just pulled off the biggest mind control experiment ever and gosh the stats are worrying.
It’s the oldest trick in the book.
Amazing they will not release the details of the repulsive things that MI5 got up to in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, is it not? They openly let children be sexually abused for the sole purpose of being able to blackmail politicians and diplomats. They then fitted up an honest officer who wished the abuse to stop and wanted to brief the Press. They fitted him up on murder charges, forged forensics and got a bent judge to convict him. And for another 35 years, they have been preventing any release of files, they have been shredding files and generally showing contempt for legal due process, the Rule of Law and public accountability. And this is an organisation you want to give more powers to? MI5 is a fascist organisation utterly lacking public accountability. It should be run with military court-martials and firing squads for miscreant officers,… Read more »
That is what happens when one becomes an “enforcer” for the mob. THE ROYAL MAFIA CRIME FAMILY needs to go. It needs to go NOW!
https://twitter.com/AVDCAreScum/status/1143627206868054016
And they’re still doing it now – the woman journalist who was shot dead in Derry in April 2019 had just signed a contract for a book about young boys who disappeared during The Troubles. Contradictory information has followed: that she was killed by the ‘New IRA’ but the subjects of her book, Lost Boys, were not believed to be victims of the IRA or the UVF. Just children who left for school one day, never to be seen again. The book was unfinished and the content remains in dispute – we don’t know for certain if it concerns the disappearances of Thomas Spence and John Rodgers or different victims. Somebody, however, wanted the author dead. Lyra McKee was not shot by rioters at random. She was in crowd, away from the heat of the action, yet you can see a gunman single her out. Journalists filmed the… Read more »
The UK Government urged to be more vigilant just in the nick of time. Mark my words. “Anti-vaxxers” to be blamed on Russia in an operation to sell the Oxford snakeoil muck (which made the monkeys ill anyway [did you know they engineered the sample virus so that it “looked more like SARS-COV-2” – not surprising as that’s never been isolated]).
Besides which, British military intelligence has already got alternative/social media covered. They’re just making it official?
Although, unaccountably, Russia is emitting exactly the same vaccine nonsense.
Almost seems that it is a sales-marketing-advertising campaign for competing “brands” of toxic viral brews.
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UK Column News – 22nd July 2020 looks at the Russiagate UK report. RUSSIAGATE ALL ABOUT BREXIT UK Government’s Russiagate report is released by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament. Although the allegations of Russian interference remain in the realm of “appear to suggest… someone didn’t look”, the press was quick to use the report to attack targets from social media to Brexit. Social media is failing to tackle hostile foreign states and government must deliver legislation against online harms, says Julian Knight MP. The Daily Express says Boris Johnson should hold a new investigation into the Brexit vote – so the Russia report is re-energizing the remain campaign. Stewart Hosie MP of the Intel Committee said the government had failed to protect the referendum. Luke Harding says Theresa May and Johnson did not “seek evidence” of Russian interference during the 2016 EU membership referendum. The report… Read more »
“We don’t need no steenkin’ constitution”.
You think it would make any difference? Ever heard of the United States?
My point exactly, John!
Sorry, lol – irony doesn’t always translate well to “print”.
Oh my gawd, give me the smelling salts and laudanum on my lace handkerchief as I lay sweating on my chaise lounge whilst reading Proust.
A good piece, Kit.
A la recherche du temps perdu
Oh, forgot to mention, the discussion about Proust’s book starts at 2 mins 30 seconds in the above link.
It requires signing in unfortunately.
In English please. I only do English and Russian. The latter badly.
Reading that so-called ‘report’ leaves a feeling of despair, on various fronts. The abysmal writing style is typical of a woke twentysomething. Either that or it is deliberately written in woke speak, replete with repetative phraseology in an informal, chatty prose. The agenda driven opinion delivered as fact is jaw-dropping in parts, to the extent that is comes across as a spoof piece. Yet it will pass unchallenged in any real sense. Meanwhile they get the peasantry to concentrate on the more pressing issues of the day.
Now, where did I put that mask??
I think you’d look good in one Borncynic.
Apropos Christopher Steele: It also seems that British Intelligence plays a fundamental role in the coup d’etat against the elected president of the USA:
“NYT, FBI, SPY INSIDE WH. NEW DOCS PROVE COUP PLOT TO REMOVE TRUMP”
EVERYONE in the global establishment hates and despises Trump. He broke the system by getting elected the old-fashioned way: with a majority of the voters.
The political parties thought they had prevented that 150 years ago (or more).
http://fair-use.org/randolph-bourne/the-state/
(See especially the last few paragraphs).
He didn’t have a majority of the voters – he had a majority in the electoral college. Since the Democrats do not dispute the electoral college they did not officially challenge Trump’s election.
Personally I think the electoral college is an archaic and undemocratic system but that is a matter for the Americans.
THIS posted on facebook a couple of hours ago: Richie Allen Howya friends. Little bit of news. I’ve a couple of mates who work for Google. They both must remain anonymous of course. They drip feed me bits of information from time to time. Around four years ago, one of them told me that the demonetisation of alternative news channels would become standard. He was right as I learned when my original YouTube channel, which had nearly 100,000 subscribers, was deleted for no reason, three years ago. I heard from him this morning. He told me two things. He said that when the covid vaccine is ready, or shortly before then, Google/YouTube is planning to take down thousands of channels that have traditionally hosted open discussion around vaccine safety. They will do this he said, in tandem with Facebook and Twitter. According to him, discussions between all three have… Read more »
What about Bitchute?
If all independent content creators migrate from YouTube, Facebook and Twitter over there, it would be a great bit of commercial suicide, would it not for those three bought corporations?
That may explain Google’s little test tantrum yesterday. Perhaps it is time to start organizing now for a large body of well prepared concerned humans to pay Google Corporate a visit if they attempt the same stunt again.
Anyone know who’s behind Brand New Tube that seems to have popped up recently? Haven’t looked in depth but not much about who they are on the internet.
UK based no censorship platform attracting some good people ( Ryan Dawson , Shaun Attwood , Judy Mikovits among others ) who have been persecuted by Google and YT.
It was set up as a direct response to the censorship . I support it … hope others will too.
Perhaps many across the ‘woke left’ would be willing to overlook all other implications of this report for any slight scent that it might help Brexit be overturned.