Obviously Epstein worked for Israel

‘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.’ Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe

Obviously.

How can people I greatly respect like Andrew Lownie and Andrew Marr suggest he was principally working for Russia? 

He said years ago that he knew Epstein was Mossad and that Israel blackmails US Presidents (Clinton over Lewinsky before that scandal became public, for example).

Why do the media never mention him or his revelations?

Because the CIA or MI6 would not like it? I'm not sure how it works but would love to.

Quotations

“Before ‘enlightenment’, chop wood, carry water.
After ‘enlightenment’, chop wood, carry water.”
Zen Proverb

Only after years did I realise that Romania's profound and profoundly Orthodox religiosity and mysticism were the biggest reasons I so love her

 

I hesitate to post this lest it hurt any of my beloved Jewish friends, but I feel it is important at the present time

An IDF soldier says here that he has killed a 12 year old girl and wants to kill a baby but has not yet found one. The internet has many similar things, though I don't like to search for them.

A woman once told me she dated an Israeli who told her that he had done similar things when in the IDF (it excited her) but he may have been lying or she may have been. She was a pathological liar.

An Israeli friend of  friend over dinner in Tel Aviv told me some IDF soldiers behaved like Nazis.

"The ideology of 'Jewish supremacy', which has become dominant in the Israeli government, resembles Nazi racial theory." Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Friday.

Quotations

"People's opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people, is a secondary consideration". Bertrand, Earl Russell

"Isaiah Berlin once denounced somebody for being “that rare thing – a genuine charlatan”. He pointed out that few people, even quacks and imposters, deceive and manipulate all the time. Boris Johnson is a prime example of Berlin’s rare breed, who does just that with his boosterism, false promises and lying." Patrick Cockburn, October 2021

"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up." Camille Paglia

The media's lack of curiosity is the big story

Instead of pushing conspiracy theories about Epstein being a Russian agent the media might investigate whether the disgraced "Lord" Mandelson and his protegé Starmer's Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney have kompromat on Labour colleagues and whether the way they use it is legal. 

Both have aways been dedicated to Israel and MM got Starmer to expel Labour MPs whose only offence was hostility to Israel.

This is an interesting story but the media are sublimely indifferent. 

It would be different if the pair were linked to Russia or China.... or to Donald Trump or Viktor Orban.

Russiagate redivivus

Put in Epstein blackmail in Google News. All the stories are about Russia. Who makes the media do this?

The last of the Romans

Virginia Giuffre, who worked at Mar-a-Lago, was poached by Epstein from the resort and became part of his grooming circle, an accomplice as well as a victim.

 
When she exposed the entire operation, naming Prince Andrew etc, she did not mention Trump, her former employer. 

In fact she voted for him.

Epstein said he had a lot of dirt on Trump.and Hillary. No doubt he had plenty but not enough because Trump fell out with him nevertheless.

Trump will suffer not from the contents of the Epstein files but the attempt to keep them secret.

The hero in all this is Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who succeeded in getting the files published. Massie is the last of the Romans.

Trump and AIPEC intend to ensure he loses his seat.

Thiel is the next scandal

I had enormous hopes for JD Vance after his speech at Munich but he is a creature of Thiel and Thiel is the enemy of the West. Vance is complicit in Trump's crimes and asinine mistakes. He went along with Venezuela and Iran and justified ICE killings. Rubio is worse, of course.

Caitlin Johnstone is right, of course - you knew that, I suppose

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz 9 hours ago:

Every news outlet, pundit and analyst who tries to tell you that Epstein was a Russian intelligence operative instead of an Israeli one is just telling you they're a propagandist. View it as a big flashing sign that says "Never trust anything from this source ever again."

Cenk Uygur:

A child given an assignment to figure out who Epstein worked for could do it in 15 minutes, but NOT A SINGLE REPORTER in legacy media has figured it out? They’re all covering up for Israel.

Russia and the USA have attacked numerous countries illegally. The USA is threatening Iran at the moment.

"In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia." Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Since 1945 the USA has bombed or invaded 29 countries, none of which had ever attacked the USA.

Afghanistan 1998, 2001
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Cambodia 1969-70
China 1945-46
Congo 1964
Cuba 1959-1961
El Salvador 1980s
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958

Laos 1964-73
Grenada 1983
Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-26
Iran 1987
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986, 2011-
Nicaragua 1980s
North Vietnam 1961-73
Pakistan 2003, 2006
Panama 1989
Peru 1965
Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-
Sudan 1998
Syria 2014-
Yemen 2002, 2009, 2025
Yugoslavia 1999

Bombing China and North Vietnam was legal.

She is pretty srupid, isn't she? Yet she was Prime Minister of tiny, corrupt Estonia.

The argument for Israel

"What the “stolen land” people don’t understand is that virtually all of the land on the face of this earth has been conquered at one point in time. That’s life." Alana Mastrangelo.

An intelligent young Jewish woman whom I met in a bar the Christmas before last told me that there was absolutely nothing to be said in favour of Israel, but there is this to be said in Israel's favour.

I found this writing prompt on the net

 

Instead of heaven and hell, when you die, you find yourself in a room with a six year old girl who invites you to join her tea party. It dawns on you, you’re her imaginary friend. https://writing-prompt-s.tumblr.com/post/186843972314/instead-of-heaven-and-hell-when-you-die-you-find

Life and death

“When I look back at my life, I feel pain not because of suffering, but because of wasted time. I see how carelessly I lived, how often I ignored the quiet voice of my soul, how rarely I understood the value of a single moment. Only when death stood before me did I realize that life is not merely existence—it is a miracle. Every minute is a treasure, and in every breath, there is the possibility of happiness.” Dostoevsky wrote this after being sentenced to death by firing squad for participating in the Petrashevsky Circle and then seconds before execution receiving a reprieve from Tsar Nicholas I commuted his sentence to four years hard labour in Siberia.

"There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?" A gypsy talking to George Borrow

Quotations

'The Trump presidency wasn’t normal even in his first term, but something is different now. Americans are increasingly unnerved by the president’s rambling appearances and late-night screeds.' Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal

This was posted today by the editor of Drop Site News on X. The book is a must read. Ari Ben-Menashe worked with Epstein in Mossad but what he has to say, though always fascinating, goes unreported in the media.

The Epstein emails brought these four quotations to mind

"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."
Logan Pearsall Smith

"Luxury requires an aristocratic setting to make it attractive."
George Santayana

"The West is being run by Satanic-Satanist paedophiles."
Vladimir Putin

"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." Revelation 3:17

U.S. House Judiciary Committee say that the EU interfered in 8 European elections including Romania and Moldova in 2024

Slovakia (2023)
The Netherlands (2023 & 2025)
France (2024)
Romania (2024)

Moldova (2024
Ireland (2024 & 2025)

Quotations

"The victim of mind manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free." Aldous Huxley

“One of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery”. Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, who was arrested while travelling with a convoy of patients in ambulances after the Israeli army told him to evacuate the hospital in November 2023.

Epstein worked for Israel - why are the media suggesting he was a Russian spy?

 Ari Ben Menashe, former spy for Israel:

"Epstein Island was entirely an intelligence operation aimed at controlling and bringing down officials, celebrities, media figures, and decision-makers, through sex, in order to turn them into Israeli assets"

Ana Kasparian:

Epstein worked for Israel. It’s all over the files and the media is actively attempting to bury it or muddy the waters. But make no mistake about it, Putin wasn’t staying at Epstein’s apartment. Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak was though!

Dr Vira Ameli, a don at Pembroke College Oxford, posted this on X today

She seems to be very far left, as dons these days often are. I therefore don't imagine she loves the Iranian government.

From the outside, it is understandable to read this as a large, nationwide protest crushed by force. Inside Iran, first hand accounts I have received from early participants describe something more complex: protests that were quickly hijacked by armed, organised actors.

What a lot of people are failing to understand is that there were more than 600 protests in 200 cities and towns. The scale of the tragedy in Iran reflects *both* the extent of the protests and the brutality of the crackdown.

In that context, security forces were forced to intervene to prevent escalation and protect civilians, including protestors. Accounts report that police did not initially use armed force, and that many participants left once the violent hijacking of protests were apparent.

There seems to be a real gap between internal realities and external narratives shaped by past assumptions and limited evidence. The sources of HRANA and other organisations that are producing alternative numbers are very opaque and remain unverified.

If we question incentives for under-reporting by the Islamic Republic, intellectual consistency requires us to also question the incentives, funding structures, and evidentiary standards of US-based and external groups whose higher figures neatly fit their political narratives.

https://x.com/viraameli/status/2015766298156826729

Quotations

'These Epstein files have cracked apart the entire structure of the world as we've known it. Where to from here? Anarchy and chaos?' Posted by a Facebook friend of mine 


'Women overwhelmingly value equity and emotional safety over the pursuit of truth and academic freedom. Men are the opposite. It's going to take more parents standing up for their sons and fewer CEOs being browbeaten by their wives to stop the feminization of universities and society at large.' Heather Mac Donald

Iran

"I came back to see him (a Pentagon general) a few weeks later (in November 2001) and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan I said are we still going to war with Iraq? - and he said oh it's worse than that. He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper and he said I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense's office, today and he said this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran."

General Wesley Clark in 2007

“The forces arrayed against Iran don’t actually care about the Iranian people. All they care about is taking out an independent state, stealing its oil and preventing it from supporting Palestine.”
Max Blumenthal on Sunday on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

A pedant notes

Epstein is always described as a paedophile. I have absolutely no wish to palliate his offences and interfering with adolescents by older men does lifelong harm to the victims but the word paedophile is misused.

From Wikipedia

Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14 and showing Tanner stages 2 to 3 of physical development.^[1] It differs from pedophilia (the primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children), and from ephebophilia (the primary sexual interest in later adolescents, typically ages 15–18)

Rex Tillerson said in 2017 Iran has “the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and to take the world along with it.” In 2026 it is Israel and the USA that resemble North Korea

I posted this article in April 2017.

Obviously, the USA and UK should never have invaded Iraq. They should have launched a short punitive expedition into Afghanistan in 2001, restored the monarchy and then allowed the Taliban to come back. Nation-building was always (a liberal) folly: Afghanistan and Iraq were not post-war Germany, as should have been clear.

But having broken it, as Colin Powell warned, the USA bought Iraq. Leaving it alone led to ISIS. So what is the solution?

I don't know. Unfortunately, the USA may now back the Israeli-Saudi-Sunni alliance against the Shia crescent (Iran, Syria, Hezbollah). I hope Mr. Trump resists this temptation.

Almost all the terrorist atrocities against Western Europe and the USA are committed by Sunnis, yet we are constantly told that Iran, which is fighting ISIS and Al Qaeda, is the great threat. Why? 

Because Iran is a great threat to Israel?

I have no animus against Israel but don't want the UK to fight wars for Israel. Israel is not our business. 

We are constantly being lied to - the media are not our friends

Instagram has “permanently disabled” the account of Tehran-based independent essayist and photographer Kaveh Rostamkhani, days after he spoke to Drop Site News about the protests, riots, and violence he witnessed in Tehran, and just one day after he published an op-ed with Al Jazeera about the death tolls in Iran’s January unrest.

In his op-ed for Al Jazeera on January 31, Rostamkhani warned that unverified casualty figures were being used to “manufacture global consent for an attack on Iran” while helping to “downplay the official death toll of the genocide in Gaza.” He described the rush to circulate extreme figures as a “Death Toll Olympics.”

Here is another story that exposes the way we are being talked into war as if the 2003 invasion of Iraq never happened. 

Pray God Trump chickens out

BREAKING: Senior U.S. officials told Axios that it's really the Israelis who want a strike on Iran. President Trump is just not there, he really doesn't want to do it'

The Republicans on the United States House Judiciary Committee just posted this on X.

Things I said for years that sounded crazy but are now obvious

Iran is not a threat to the West. America is. The UK, US and Europe have no interests in Asia, east or west. Europe's huge defence threat is illegal immigrants not state actors. Nato causes wars rather than deters them. It should have been disbanded in 1992. The UK should trade with the world and quiet quit Nato, as it would invite US retaliation if we leave altogether. Woke is a religion. Castrating boys is wrong. 

A view that remains unfashionable: freedom is very important and its corollaries are tradition, hierarchy and inequality. 

Everything went very badly wrong in the 1960s and then got worse. Is that obvious?

Pompeo says the CIA were involved in the attempt at Iranian disturbances. They are now spreading absurd figures about dead protesters.

The link is here. It was in fact a CIA Israeli psychop. They are now spreading absurd lies about the number of dead protesters.

Israel got on fine with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran

The Ayatollah Khomeini’s former president and close friend, Bani Sad says in this clip that Khomeini issued a secret fatwa authorizing buying weapons from Israel. As a result, 80% of Khomeini’s weapons came from Israel.

Israel got on fine with Iran until it the early 1990s when it chose to pretend Iran was a threat. It did so to get American support to continue because the end of the Cold War meant the US no longer had a strategic interest in supporting Israel. The Israelis then believed their own propaganda.

The media protect Israel and vilify Russia, China and Iran - the Daily Telegraph is an extreme example of a general trend

The files show that Epstein worked for Israel but the mainstream media avoided discussing this like Victorian maiden aunts avoided talk about indecent topics. They are now being forced to in England. According to Cenk, not in the USA.

Brilliant

 

Nothing will ever be the same after Gaza and Epstein

Epstein and Gaza are the news stories that transform the world. This is why the media work very hard to suppress both but they have, mercifully, partly failed.

By backing Israel's actions in Gaza the West has lost all its moral authority. It did have quite a lot, despite Iraq, Libya, Syria and the rest.

And moral authority matters even if it's partly or largely rests on deceit. 

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue (La Rochefoucauld).

Epstein lifts a little corner of the veil that hides how the world works. Can Israel's support in the USA survive Epstein and Gaza? 

Yes certainly but perhaps not indefinitely.

The BBC and the left-of-centre papers like the Guardian also push the UK's official line. Jonathan Cook explains interestingly here how 'The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump’s'.

This media disinformation is why people don't know that the failed revolution in Iran was a CIA Mossad operation and the 2014 revolution in Kiev was largely CIA too.

Are we the baddies in the Iran crisis? Yes the Americans are the dangerous potential aggressor, obviously. England, France and Germany obey their master's voice

Are we the baddies in the Iran crisis? 

Yes of course the Americans are the dangerous potential aggressor here - as so often since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago - and the craven Europeans and Starmer back them, as they always do except over dear Greenland, sacred Danish territory.

I am praying that Taco (Trump always chickens out) will save the world from war. 

I think it will but I was wrong when I thought Russia would not invade Ukraine.

But everyone sees who is threatening an unprovoked, unjust war: the USA and Israel.

Scott Horton, an American libertarian, says most of what I want to say.

Quotations

"A moronocracy." An anonymous Administration official describing the Trump administration to court historian Michael Wolff. The ones who are not morons, like Marco Rubio, are sometimes as bad as the ones who are unfitted to be in the government like Pete Hegseth.

"If you got Maduro and his wife so bloody what?" General GD Bakshi, Indian military analyst. Actually I think Venezuela will obey the USA but Venezuela has not been conquered and is not now ruled by Rubio, as Trump pretended. We shall see. 

”Mass immigration will lead to the destruction of any country that allows unfettered mass immigration." Elon Musk

“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard "having children" as a question of pros and cons, the great turning-point has come. For Nature knows nothing of pro and con.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

"A discussion with a convinced ideologue on matters covered by his ideology is sure to be a waste of time, unless you share the ideology. What is there to discuss? His ideology is proof against the shock of any seemingly conflicting facts which you might bring forward. He will either reinterpret these facts so that they become consistent with his ideology, or deny them." James Burnham

“Liberalism was, in origin, criticism of the old established order. Today, it is the voice of the establishment.” George Grant, Lament for a Nation [1965]

The Hannibal Directive. Israelis have said that some Israelis were killed by the IDF on 7 October 2023 but not how many.

The Hannibal Doctrine, which Israel admits was at one time its policy, requires the IDF to kill Israelis rather than let them be taken prisoner. I learnt about it from Gilad Atzmon on Facebook on October 7, 2023 but it was not mentioned at all in the Western media for more than a year afterwards and then it was mentioned in passing.

Are we the baddies? Yes the Americans are the dangerous aggressor here - as so often since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago - and the craven Europeans and Starmer back them.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant In his first interview since being fired November 2024,said the Hannibal Directive was implemented in some places but not consistently.

Israeli Captain Bar Zonshein, admitted here to “firing tank shells on vehicles carrying Israeli civilians.”

Haaretz reported that a military helicopter arrived at the site of the festival and opened fire on gunmen but also wounded festival participants.

This is a screenshot of the devastation at the car park beside the pop concert from a broadcast on November 5, 2023 on i24NEWS, an Israeli 24-hour news television channel. The Hamas attackers were armed with small arms, so the official story that Hamas are responsible for these burnt cars was questioned in Israel, but scarcely discussed at all outside Israel.

The Decline of the West

Dr Robert Tombs taught me history at Cambridge. His book The English and Their History is the work of a genius. His politics are moderate Tory, which means he is far to the right of most Cambridge dons these days.

Pat Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (2008): “In a single century, all the great houses of continental Europe fell. All the empires that ruled the world have vanished. Not one European nation, save Muslim Albania, has a birthrate that will enable it to survive through the century. As a share of world population, peoples of European ancestry have been shrinking for three generations. The character of every Western nation is being irremediably altered as each undergoes an unresisted invasion from the Third World. We are slowly disappearing from the Earth. Having lost the will to rule, Western man seems to be losing the will to live as a unique civilization as he feverishly indulges in La Dolce Vita, with a yawning indifference as to who might inherit the Earth he once ruled.”

The Middle East

"The BBC has a political agenda that says it is fine to headline a made-up, inflated figure of the dead in Iran because our leaders have defined Iran as an Official Enemy. While the BBC has a converse political agenda that says it’s fine to employ endless caveats to minimise a death toll in Gaza that is already certain to be a huge undercount because Israel is an Official Ally.

Romanian real incomes rose much more than in any other country in Europe since 2004 but how very little growth there has been in Western Europe! The euro has been a disastrous failure for especially for Italy and Greece

The EU has been a great failure in general, economically and in foreign policy. 

He nothing common did or mean

On this day 30 January in 1788 died in Rome Charles Edward Stuart, King Charles III of England, Scotland and Ireland to Jacobites, known to history as the Young Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie. 

He died due to a stroke at the age of 67. 

His brother Prince Henry, Cardinal York who was at his deathbed arranged for the official record to state that he died on the morning of 31 January, because he considered it inauspicious to declare his brother dead on the same date as the execution of their great-grandfather, King Charles I.

The Chesterbelloc

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus, some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus, some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful." GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy.

“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.” Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith

There is no doubt that the Iranian disturbances were organised by Mossad probably with CIA and MI6 help

To my great surprise, as I do not get my news from the BBC or the papers, I discovered that many people do not know that the disturbances in Iran were a CIA Mossad operation in which many unidentified men murdered innocent people and set fire to mosques and public buildings in order to provoke a violent reaction by the authorities. This failed due to the Russians and Chinese showing Iran how to read the communications organising the violence on Starlink. Then the secret services then turned to a campaign in the media throwing around very high death tolls without any evidence, blaming the deaths 'of protestors' on Iran without mentioning the violent men who started it all, many of whom are now dead. Asked for evidence from unbiassed sources I came up with these things.

This I posted before is from the Financial Times on 15 January.

Scott Besant said in an interview at Davos that the US engineered the vertiginous fall in the Iranian currency to provoke disturbances.

From Chas Freeman's speech last month called Ceding the Future to China

The whole speech is here.

China has many problems, but most of them do not conform to those that career anti-China polemicists have predicted. China shows no sign of collapse. It is not growing old before it grows rich. It is instead growing rich through automation and offshoring those labor-intensive industries that cannot be manned by robots. Negative population growth plus steady economic growth and gains in productivity foretell higher per capita incomes for the Chinese people. Most Chinese do not share our distaste for their political system. Unlike us, China is not at war with other countries. It may yet be able to conclude its civil war through shows of force – assimilating Taiwan by making the island an offer it cannot refuse rather than through outright warfare. We better hope so. Our current mindless drive toward war with China over Taiwan can end only in tragedy for all concerned.

It is, of course, not inevitable that China’s progress toward greater affluence and global leadership will continue without interruption. Many things have gone wrong for China in the past. Much could again go wrong for it. But hoping that China will suffer unanticipated setbacks is not a strategy.

The fact is that the United States does not have a plan for dealing with the most probable scenario before us – a world in which China has returned to the preeminence of past millennia. We need to conceptualize one. This means we must nurture a realistic understanding of China and the Chinese, not indulge in spurious reasoning by analogies.

China does not seek to conquer or abridge the sovereignty of its neighbors. It is not engaged in a search for Lebensraum or foreign colonies. It has no theory of “manifest destiny.” Its “warring states” period – in which it resembled Europe or India in the viciousness of its internal rivalries – is long past. It is unlikely to follow either our path or that of other civilizations.

Oliver North married Fawn Hall in September, after she was widowed. Readers who remember them are no longer very young.

Seen on social media today.

The Iran Contra scandal which led to North going to prison involved the Reagan administration secretly persuading Israel to pass military equipment to Iran. 

Only when the Cold War ended did Israel demonise Iran and use the Iranian threat as a means to keep the Americans supporting Israel. Israel then started to believe its own propaganda and the consequences have been fateful for the world.

Jeffrey Sachs speaking to George Galloway about Europe, Israel, the assassination of Kennedy (Sachs blames the CIA), etc

'Europe is of course falling to pieces in the process. It can't tell whether it's going to be invaded by the east or the west. It's guessed wrong. Russia is not its threat. The threat is the United States, which is the more imminent invasion that's likely. They lost all sense of diplomacy. They lost all sense of economics. If it wasn't enough that they had put sanctions on Russia, which didn't matter so much for Russia but crushed the industry of Germany and Europe, well they had to put the cherry on top of that a couple of days ago by declaring that permanently they would stop any imports of energy from Russia and only buy LNG at six times the cost from the United States. So these people don't even think for a moment about their own citizens or their own voters. And it's not surprising that Starmer has 11% approval ratings. I don't know who's lower. Macron is maybe in single digits by now. He's absolutely detested by the population. Mertz is in a free fall. They all are not only pathetic from the point of view of Europe's interests, but they're not even decent politicians from the point of view of keeping any public support at all.'

'But the background to this war that is about to take place is itself a 30-year effort by Israel to create this war. Israel's created just about every other war in the region. It's created the wars in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, Sudan because Mossad was very active in breaking apart Sudan, in Somalia, in Libya.'

The conversation is here.

I was very surprised to hear him say John F. Kennedy was almost certainly killed by the CIA.

I had always completely dismissed this conspiracy theory - at least I did until I learnt recently that Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's brother and the US Attorney- General at the time of the murder, was sure that the CIA did it.

Quotations

 

"When we deserted the God of our fathers we were bound to go whoring after strange gods, of which socialism in its various forms was a prominent choice." Sir Alfred Sherman. He also said "To be a Jew in 1930s Britain was to be alienated. The world proletariat offered us a home." He was a poor boy and a Communist who later became very right-wing.

"I heard about the formation of the peace summit, and I was like, is that p-i-e-c-e? You know, a little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela. All we want is peace." Elon Musk at Davos

"The Greenland paradox is interesting. If the U.S. sent 100,000 American immigrants there, elected an American prime minister, and then voted to join the U.S., liberals would cry foul. Yet this is exactly what is happening to Europe through mass immigration" Elon Musk

"BBC News presenters never speak of the capitals of Italy, Austria, or Russia as Roma, Wien, or Moskva. Why should the rules be any different for India?" Nigel Biggar

"Satan has three steps to steal our peace:- 

Regrets about the past; 

Fear for the future; 

Ingratitude for the present." 

St Anthony the Great

War fever

If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you it will have an enormously positive impact in the region." Benyamin Netanyahu

"Unbelievable that hundreds of trucks of food are flowing this morning to the 'uninvolved' in the Gaza Strip. Haven't you understood yet that there are no innocent people there?" Emily Damari, a British-Israeli ex-IDF soldier and former hostage held by Hamas, posted this yesterday. I suppose her hatred and murderousness is understandable.

Holocaust Memorial

 

Without evidence

 

Do not trust the BBC

BBC news item about Iran today:

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) says it has so far confirmed the killing of at least 6,159 people since the unrest began, including 5,804 protesters, 92 children and 214 people affiliated with the government. It is also investigating 17,000 more reported deaths.

Skylar Thompson, from Hrana, told the BBC the confirmed number of dead was very likely to rise.

"We are really committed to ensuring that every single piece of verified information that we report on sits next to a name and a location," she added.

The Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA front organisation. The CIA is trying to achieve regime change in Iran. Hrana is presumably lying. That's what it's for.

The BBC should not repeat Hrana's 'information' but it does so without mentioning the CIA connection, something the Beeb knows about or should know about.

Someone in the BBC should be fired for this but won't be.

Quotations

"Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?" Voltaire's Candide

“We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life… This is the real crisis.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"When you return to your homes, when you return to your counties and your cities, you must tell to all those whom you can influence that the time is at hand, that, at least, it cannot be far distant, when England will have to decide between national and cosmopolitan principles. The issue is not a mean one. It is whether you will be content to be a comfortable England, modelled and moulded upon continental principles and meeting in due course an inevitable fate, or whether you will be a great country...." Disraeli, in his famous speech in 1872 at the Crystal Palace.

Politics

“The number one threat to free speech in the West and in the United States are Israel loyalists trying to monitor and police the discourse of Americans to forcibly expel from the discourse criticism of this foreign country...” Glenn Greenwald

'In this light, it is particularly revealing that Carney used his speech to reaffirm Canada’s commitment both to NATO and to the proxy war in Ukraine. ... How can one credibly claim to seek “independence” from the United States while remaining firmly embedded in NATO — the primary instrument through which Washington has long militarily subordinated its Western “allies” — and while actively supporting a proxy war that has been the central driver of Europe’s economic degradation and geopolitical hyper-vassalisation? How can decades of provocations along Russia’s borders, the transformation of Ukraine into a Western proxy, the destruction of the country itself and the massive bloodshed of the past nearly four years be presented as a shining example of “value-based foreign policy”?' Thomas Fazi

What they said

The Iranian Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands, quoted with approval by Max Blumenthal: 'When U.S. police say, “If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at our deputies, we will kill you,” it’s called law enforcement. But when hundreds of Iranian police & thousands of innocent civilians are killed, Western media calls the perpetrators “peaceful protesters".'

Ralph Schoellhammer: "Why everyone cares about Greenland remaining Danish but barely anyone talks about Belgian cities no longer being Belgian is beyond me. The relevant territory for Europe's future is in Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, etc., but not in Nuuk. That's worth fighting for." 

Professor Jeffrey Sachs: ‘I cannot recall worse political leadership in Europe than now. There’s not one single figure in the major countries of the European Union or Britain that has any intellectual stature or honesty… You had people like Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Mitterand. These were substantial people. Now there’s Kaja Kallas. Are you kidding?! Von Der Leyen, are you kidding?! Merz, oh my God.’

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

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So basically Reform UK is now Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, just led by Nigel Farage.