Mysterious men in black wearing hoods organised the Iranian disturbances - obviously it was an attempt by foreigners to overthrow the government

Kaveh Rostamkhani, an Iranian photographer and essayist wrote on Instagram about the disturbances in Iran and the role of highly organised mysterious men in black and how 'protesters' killed stabbed people to death. Obviously the protests were organised by foreigners. Kaveh Rostamkhani was promptly banned by Instagrm but has no been reinstated. Anyone who thinks the protests were spontaneous is uninformed but can be forgiven as true information is very carefully suppressed. 

Here he speaks to the invaluable Drop Site News.

The EU has been transformed by Gaza

Isabel Schnabel apparently is a German economist who has been on the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2020 and writes this today in the FT.

Yes. It is important to acknowledge that Europeans never had it nearly so good but the future is dark.

Women are not having nearly enough children. This is the overwhelming threat to Europe. All else is detail. 

After depopulation, the great threat to European democracy comes from the European Commission, inherently undemocratic because to be democratic you need a demos.

Its first priority, according to its president, is to restrict freedom of expression especially on the internet.

Already some pro-Palestinian and pro-Russian voices are being forcibly silenced. 

One man was prosecuted in Czechia for writing an article deemed pro-Russian and thereby committing the offence of justifying genocide. There are numerous examples - and the same thing happens in once neutral Switzerland.

The EC also wants to regime change the government of Hungary which as won three successive landslide victories but which is regarded by the unelected EC as undemocratic.

Another threat to European democracy is is that Europeans countries are ruled not by their voters but by the USA. 

They are dragged by the USA into a pointless proxy wars with Russia, a cold war with China, perhaps a hot war with Iran. Meanwhile the defence threat of war comes from terrorists, illegal immigrants and refugees.

Another more subtle threat is from Israel. After supporting Israel's actions in Gaza Europeans can no longer believe in its own human rights ideology, an ideology that had taken the place of the sacred in their public imagination and replaced Christianity as a unifying creed.

Americans have the Whiggery of their Declaration of Independence and constitution but what does Europe have any more?

Quotations

Thomas Fazi

@battleforeurope

Replace “Roman” with “American,” and you would struggle to find a more fitting description of US foreign policy. [From Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome]

Netanyahu the seer

Breaking news: Trump-Netanyahu meeting ends with no agreement on Iran strategy.


People whose judgment I respect including Larry Johnson think America will attack. I still place my hope in TACO.

Sir Keir Starmer is Morgan McSweeney 's Golem

 

Morgan McSweeney was not a creature of Sir Keir Starmer's. It was the other way around. 

McSweeney was a creature of Mandelson. 

McSweeney persuaded Sir Keir to seek the leadership as a way of getting rid of the far left leader Corbyn who had almost won the 2017 general election.

From an article in the Electronic Intifada about McSweeney and his fierce devotion to Israel:

In November, Health Secretary Wes Streeting – a stalwart in the pressure group Labour Friends of Israel – said that “there wouldn’t be a Labour government without him.” Journalist George Eaton wrote that the current Labour cabinet “more than ever, is made in McSweeney’s image.”

Young McSweeney did not act alone. I am sure Mandelson stood at his shoulder . 

It was a reprisal of his and Mr Blair's attempt to prevent Brexit. Mr Blair probably advised about this.

Probably MI5 were involved, perhaps closely.

Were the intelligence services of other countries involved? 

Of course.

Mandelson, we know, was feeding confidential information to Epstein, who was working for israel.

Corbyn represented an enormous security threat to lots of countries, as he was anti-American, anti-Nato and anti-Israel.

Westerners now live in an Epsteinian world and guess at the hidden hands of intelligence services.

Eastern Europeans always knew the world was like that.

Hypocrisy is the sea in which propagandists swim

Journalists like Ruth Dudley Edwards and others describe Iran as evil but the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is much worse. Saudi Arabia massacres its Shia subjects, murdered Khashoggi and many others, does not permit practice of any religion but Mahometanism, has no elections. Admittedly both Iran and KSA have recently become much less hardline but why does the British press fawn on the Saudis while beating the drums for war with Iran? 

It's a genuine question. 

Iran is no threat to the USA, Great Britain or Europe, while the Saudis found Wahhabii mosques and were to blame for the September 11th murders.

I suppose the answer is that NATO member states take orders from Washington.

Intelligence services control the mainstream and most social media - I find it best to dig on X to find out what is happening though it has biases and is not perfect

“Google — one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world — is filled with ex-CIA agents. An inordinate number of these recruits work in highly politically sensitive fields, wielding considerable control over how its products work and what the world sees on its screens and in its search results. Chief amongst these is the trust and safety department, whose staff, in the words of the Google trust and safety vice president Kristie Canegallo, ‘[d]ecide what content is allowed on our platform’ — in other words, setting the rules of the internet, determining what billions see and what they do not see.

Alastair Crooke thinks Epstein was an important geopolitical player and an intelligence service in himself

Podcast here.

'He was organizing geopolitics at a high level. I, in my view, I mean he was really not just a tool of Mossad. I think that's not correct. I think he was a sort of an intelligence service in himself. He was a peer. He was acting. He was making a lot of money. Yes. And he was operating between various people. But I think it's a mistake to sort of see him just simply as nobody. He had enormous intelligence resources of his own. He could talk to all sorts of people. I mean, we see in Britain, we've just seen how Mandelson was feeding him hugely market sensitive information which he could pass on to his friends, whether they were friends in the American financial system or other financial systems is immaterial. He had his own sources. Mandelson was just one of them. We know that there are probably many more.'

What they said

“I had propagandists all over the world. We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists [to the media]… We ran [faked] photographs that made almost every newspaper in the country … We didn’t know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure, raw, false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast.” John Stockwell ex-CIA man and author of In Search of Enemies, in which he described the dissemination of propaganda as a “major function” of the agency. 

I love aphorisms and now find X indispensable for news and views

 

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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‘What impressed most who saw [the Coronation] was the fact that the Queen herself appeared to be quite overwhelmed by the sacramental side of it. Hence, in the spectators, a feeling of (one hardly knows how to describe it) — awe — pity — pathos — mystery. The pressing of that huge, heavy crown on that small, young head becomes a sort of symbol of the situation of humanity itself: humanity called by God to be his vice-regent and high priest on earth, yet feeling so inadequate. As if he said, “In my inexorable love I shall lay upon the dust that you are glories and dangers and responsibilities beyond your understanding.”’ C.S. Lewis

This is exactly what I saw watching the film. I also saw how the British aristocratic establishment of the 19th century was assembled as part of a profoundly Christian hierarchy.

All this had changed essentially by the time our present King whom God preserve was crowned. England had become American, European, egalitarian and the television was king, not the King.

Why was it important whether Labour MPs were hostile to Israel? To whom exactly was it important?

 

Chris Mullin

@chrismullinexmp

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Promoting Mandelson was the least of Morgan McSweeney's sins. He, above all, was responsible for injecting all that poison about Labour anti Semitism when Corbyn was in charge. For details see Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund.

An Israeli created a biological weapons lab in Las Vegas

Why did an Israeli create a biological weapons lab in Las Vegas? 

The Canary, a left-wing British magazine that Morgan McSweeney tried to destroy, reports suggestions that the plan was to stage a false flag operation so that a Muslim country got the blame.

(Morgan McSweeney who is the big political story in Great Britain today said "we need to destroy The Canary – before the Canary destroys the Labour right". But he has been destroyed first.)

"One thing we know: Epstein was no Mossad agent." Not so fast, Mr.Simons

Jake Wallace Simons is wrong when he says no former Israeli intelligence officer says Epstein was Mossad. At least one former Israeli Intelligence Officer, Ari Ben-Menashe, has repeatedly done so but is not reported in the papers. 

Why not?

He said for years that he knew Epstein from when they were in Mossad. 

He also says that Israel blackmails US presidents. 

Now he says ‘Calling Jeffrey Epstein a Russian or a Soviet agent is NONSENSE. I’m sure the Israelis are putting it out that he’s a Russian agent.’

The Telegraph always sounds like MI6 and Israeli propaganda.

But Jake Simons is right that Epstein wasn't a spy exactly but something different. He was a geopolitical player of some importance according to Alastair Crooke, and certainly he considered that he worked in the interests of Israel not America or Russia.  

Edward Snowden, in a 2015 video interview with The Guardian from Moscow

"When you say 'I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide,' that's no different than saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say.'"

The elite revealed in the Epstein files wants war with Iran

The current president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, on Epstein’s island with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.

Have you considered that the people in Epstein's milieu, who now want a war, are not going to make Iran a happier place?

Here we have Epstein not sounding like a Russian spy. 

More quotations

“Do we really want to be allies with a country that kidnaps young girls for rape, just so they can have dirt on American politicians and control our foreign policy?” Ana Kasparian, star of The Young Turks

"The British Empire, which saw a little island smaller than Michigan command a quarter of the world's surface, is one of the most magnificent achievements of history." Will Tanner, the American journalist not the English politician.

"If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God." St. Augustine, in On Free Choice of the Will (De Libero Arbitrio)

Quotations

“I do not believe in what is known as the deep state, all these foundations acting behind the scenes or private groups that are allegedly ruling the world’s destinies. After all, people elected as presidents or prime ministers have what it takes to assert their own policy. But they steer a line that consists in deceit and implies immunity to feeling ashamed or blushing for lying to a partner. This is a fact and there are many people of this sort. Currently they have come into full view all over Europe and they are drawing no conclusions [from their mistakes].”

Sergey Lavrov three days ago

"Banjaxed though he is, it is likely that Sir Keir will stagger on for a while yet. Should this ultimately do for him, it will be a further irony if the first world leader brought down by the Epstein scandal is a British human rights lawyer who never met him." Andrew Rawnsley today

"This time we live in will go down in history as the time in which Western nations no longer had to get invaded by hostile armies in order to be conquered, the invader was actively invited in by a corrupt elite." 

Eva Vlaardingerbroek

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." 
C. S. Lewis

X suggested this to me. Whether paedophiles or chaste, foreigners should leave Iran alone.

dart

@poordart

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If you're from any Western country, i dont actually care about how you feel about the Iranian political system Have you considered that your sadistic pedophile overlords are *not* the guys who will improve Iran? Or any other country for that matter, including your own