Starmer is McSweeney 's Golem

 

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

Mandelson scandal

How long will the Mandelson scandal continue in the Ukay? 

Until Sir K. Starmer resigns, which he may well and good riddance, or something else happens.

Mandy was a good choice for Ambassador to Washington, did a good job and not dropping an old friend who went to prison is not something bad, but you'd think it was. 

What came out in the emails - giving Epstein market sensitive information - is very bad indeed. 

He might end up in the clink.

But British scandals are absurd. Recently we had the scandal of a Chinese spy working in the House of Commons. The House of Commons knows no secrets!

Why won't any Americans be damaged by the Epstein emails?

The Mandy scandal will keep the Epstein one going though it may distract from the point of the Epstein scandal, which is Israel. Anything that keeps Epstein in the news is good at this stage.

Interesting Israel connection to Mandy, a convinced Zionist: he via McSweeney (also Zionist) got Starmer to expel anti Israel MPs on false accusations of antisemitism. It made no sense to me at the time. There are glimmers of sense now.

Memory

"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?" Tennessee Williams

"He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because "Reading is backward immortality." Umberto Eco

"Gracious God, who was he, weak and friendless creature, that such a love should be poured out upon him? Not in vain--not in vain has he lived--hard and thankless should he be to think so--that has such a treasure given him. What is ambition compared to that, but selfish vanity? To be rich, to be famous? What do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under the ground, along with idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you--follows your memory with secret blessing--or precedes you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar--if dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me." WM Thackeray, Henry Esmond, Chapter 20

Bad men

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
George Bernard Shaw

It is not possible there should be peace where virtue is not already put in practice beforehand. Let us form, if you please, a city entirely of covetous men, give them equal privileges, and let no one bear to be wronged, but let all wrong one another. Can that city possibly hold together? It is impossible. Again, is there peace amongst adulterers? No, not any two will you find of the same mind.

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 9 on Ephesians

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men.
Paul Collier

Obviously Epstein worked for Israel - he might have done something for Russia but he said in the emails that he wanted to replace Putin

‘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? 

Ari Ben-Menashe 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 Mr. Ben-Menashe or his revelations?

A serious question.

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

 

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.