The perils of transitioning were ignored by the WOKE driven SNP leaders and their acolytes and many young Scots will spend their lives in constant pain and regret.
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Hillary Clinton and Nicola Sturgeon were cut from the same cloth. Clinton’s chickens will come home to roost very soon. Nicola must be sweating
Sturgeon’s admiration and support for Hillary Clinton was badly misplaced as was her stealthy imposition on Scots of the LGBTQ agenda for change, conduct foreign to the beliefs of the vast majority of the population of Scotland.
Political opportunists
In her first years in politics, it was evident Hillary Clinton lacked any credible political skills and her political career would be wholly reliant on the support of her husband President Bill Clinton who opened many doors for her.
Following her husband’s retirement, she decided to take her political career forward without him and failed badly.
The career of Nicola Sturgeon fits the same pattern. She failed in her chosen career in Law then followed up with nearly 10 years of failure in politics only succeeding when Alex Salmond gave her a political “leg up” mentoring and protecting her from her many inadequacies then handing over to her the leadership of a thriving SNP at the end of 2014.
Mirroring the career of Clinton, Sturgeon failed. leaving the SNP members despondent and divided.
2003: Hillary and the Whiney women
The “The Hillary Papers.” was a document compiled from the records of Diane Blair, a friend of the Clintons’ who kept journals describing her many conversations with Hillary and their work on the Clinton campaigns.
Blair’s husband donated the papers to the University of Arkansas and although available to the public they had not been examined until the “Arkansas Free Beacon” published extracts from the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign the bumpy first years of the Clinton Administration and the Monica Lewinsky saga.
In the papers, there is information that is telling and unappealing as repeatedly women’s groups are referred to as bodies to be managed rather than listened to.
Blair often complained about how underappreciated Hillary was, repeating Hillary’s view that much of the blame lay with the press: a bunch of “complete hypocrites” with “big ego’s and no brains.”
Indeed, Hillary seemed to think that a lot of people were just dumb, or annoying and she should be forgiven for calling Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom her husband became sexually involved, a “narcissistic looney tune” who they had tried to “manage” without success.
Blair’s comments on a conversation from December 1993, in which she and Hillary “discussed books, movies, Packwood”. Senator Bob Packwood, was accused of sexual misconduct involving women who worked for him.
Blair noted: Hillary is tired of all those “whiney” women, she needed to back Bob so he would be with her on health care). Serial female abuser Packwood was subsequently forced to resign from the Senate, in 1995.
2016: Hillary and the Ukrainian Oligarch
A word can mean the difference between night and day and the inclusion of the word “family” in the “Clinton Foundation” name provides just that distinction. The “Clinton Family Foundation” is a charitable organisation that has, over many years, given millions of dollars to people in need in Arkansas.
But then there is the “Clinton Foundation” an organisation whose political influence is funded by the financial contributions of oligarchs, corporations, foreign groups and governments, to the tune of many hundreds of millions of dollars. Foreign influencers include the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Brunei and Algeria.
Corporations include American companies such as Coca-Cola and ExxonMobil and Britain’s Barclay’s Bank. The list is not exhaustive and there are many donors who have given millions to be sure of gaining the support of the foundation in their activities.
Some financial donations are suspect, such as those of Victor Pinchuk, a notorious Ukrainian oligarch who contributed between $10m and $25m to the “Foundation”, and loaned his private jet to the Clintons and attended President Clinton’s 65th birthday extravaganza in Los Angeles. He also attended around a dozen private meetings with State Department officials between September 2011 and November 2012.
Public statements in support of Pinchuk, issued through the “Clinton Foundation” closely mirror American foreign policy when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and the American public and Clintons political opponents are keen to gain sight of the Clinton emails which she saved at home onto an illegal server allegedly to deny prying eyes the details of her many intrigues.
Additional information here: https://relayto.com/matt-politicano/clinton-foundation-foreigner-donations-1t8cnvbp
2016: Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Presidential election
The New York Times reported that Clinton and her aides had decided on a strategy making the Trump-Russia allegation a “theme” of the campaign.
The Times wrote. “Even at the height of the Cold War, it was hard to find a presidential campaign willing to charge that its rival was essentially secretly doing the bidding of a key American adversary. But the accusation is emerging as a theme of the Clinton campaign, as part of an attempt to portray Trump not only as an isolationist but also as one who would go soft on confronting Russia.”
The Clinton campaign engaged a political research firm Fusion GPS who, in turn, hired a former MI5 British spy, Christopher Steele, to compile what became known as the Steele dossier in which he claimed there was a “well-developed conspiracy” between Trump and Russia and that a low-level campaign adviser named Carter Page was at the centre of it.
Steele claimed that the Russians had offered Page billions of dollars, to end U.S. sanctions if Trump became president. In a follow-up, Steele said Trump fixer Michael Cohen had secretly met with Russians in Prague to work out the details of the collision.
In conclusion, he included the piece de resistance that became known as the “pee tape.” Thee allegation that, in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, Trump had watched as prostitutes performed a kinky sex act while Russian spy cameras captured the whole scene on video.
It was all rubbish. The supposed master spy Steele had no current sources in Russia and it was revealed later that his many “Russian Contacts” was in fact one man, Igor Danchenko, who worked at liberal Washington think tank the Brookings Institution.
Danchenko simply regurgitated allegations passed to him by a Clinton-related PR man named Charles Dolan, who sent in stuff that he had read in the newspapers claiming it had come to him from people closely linked to Trump. The dossier was an elaborate joke.
Yet incredulously Clinton’s operatives got a willing FBI to take the report seriously. Bureau Director Comey included extracts from the dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment, an ongoing investigation into claims of Russian hacking and the FBI then used the dossier to win court approval to wiretap Trump’s campaign offices.
The FBI’s Deputy Chief in his evidence to Congress stated that without the Steele Dossier the FBI would not have sought the wiretap so it is a fair assumption to conclude that Hillary Clinton played a critical role in pressing the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign.
But coupled with the foregoing Clinton’s real goal was achieved in that she attracted a great deal of public discussion of the allegations just before the election.
Clinton’s tactics finally came unstuck in January 2017, when President-elect Trump was first informed of the “pee tape” allegation.
Hints of the scandal were selectively leaked to the media by Clinton’s campaign team in an attempt to further compromise Trump.
Buzzfeed screwed the Clinton move on Trump by publishing the complete Steele Dossier.
The “sh*t hit the fan” when political conversations throughout the States and other parts of the world derided its scurrilous contents.
A recap:
A special counsel, Robert Mueller, conducted a two-year investigation into the Trump-Russia charge, which came to be known as the “collusion.”
With unlimited financial resources and all the power of U.S. law enforcement, Mueller could not establish any collusion and did not allege that a single American, from Donald Trump down, took part in any such scheme.
The infamous Steele Dossier proved that Clinton had placed false and/or unverified scandals about Trump with a compliant media. Without evidence or corroborating facts, her team roped in the nation’s most powerful intelligence and law enforcement agencies into the Clinton opposition research team.
An effort that continued after the election and by any measure, the dossier was a smashing success. The damage it inflicted on President Trump lasted the entire length of his term of office.
2017: Sturgeon’s tour of the US and her meeting with trailblazer Hillary
A heavily criticised Sturgeon tour of the US was judged by some to be a “selfie Queen” jaunt at the Scottish taxpayer’s expense. Sturgeon insisted the visit had been trade-focused, although without tangible evidence of any deal saying: “there is, I detect, a real desire to strengthen economic links between the United States and Scotland. That’s been the focus of the trip.”
In the course of the grand tour, Sturgeon and Hillary Clinton both addressed the “Women in the World” summit and, prior to meeting “trailblazer” Clinton, Sturgeon exclaimed “I’ve got to be careful I don’t act like a fangirl.” before posing for publicity photos together. Journalist Tina Brown, who founded the event, also shared a photograph of herself with the political “power couple”, calling them “two women I admire most anywhere”. So all bestie friends together.
In conversation with Brown on stage, Sturgeon said: “I look at Hillary and she has been a trailblazer for women. Her sheer resilience I find utterly amazing, she has made it easier for women like me in politics, and I think that I and women across the world really owe Hillary a debt of gratitude.”
2019: LGBTQ Advocate ‘Disappointed’ With How Hillary Clinton Denied Lesbian Rumors
Shock jock Howard Stern pushed more than a few of Hillary’s buttons when he asked rather forthrightly on his radio show if she “Swung for the other team”
“Contrary to what you might hear, I actually like men,” Hillary told Stern.
“Raise your right hand and confirm you’ve never had a lesbian affair” he responded.
A laughing Clinton said “never, never, never! Never even been tempted. I dated a lot of different people, and I liked a lot of them. I was pretty popular. I was OK popular……. boys were not my problem.”
Reporter Trish Bendix, a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and winner of the 2015 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for excellence in LGBT media, said: “I do not appreciate her salacious comments about lesbianism, in particular her use of the word “tempted” It’s so frustrating when public figures like Hillary feel the need to dispel lesbian rumours in a way that equates lesbianism or queerness with salaciousness, and that’s ultimately what I dislike about the way she phrased it. I think there’s a way to refute untrue ideas about one’s own identity without saying something damaging to others.”
Gabriel Hays of the Media Research Center had fun with Hillary getting scolded for not being “woke enough” when talking about her sexuality. with her comment: “Tsk tsk, Hillary. The former presidential candidate is taking heat for her response to old rumours about her being a lesbian,” And while we’re not bashing her for her sexuality, it’s a hilarious predicament for the woman who fancies herself a de facto leader of the LBGTQ agenda.”
Summary:
Sturgeon’s admiration and support for Hillary Clinton are badly misplaced as is her pursuit of the imposition by stealth on Scotland of a minority LGBTQ agenda for change which is totally foreign to the beliefs of the vast majority of Scots.
Her progress is attributable to the apathy of many members of the SNP who have allowed narrow-focused groups to hijack party policies and to the support for the Scottish National Party (SNP) cause of seeking independence from England which has protected Sturgeon from exposure to the more challenging environment of international politics.
Her conduct and that of her agenda supporters in the Party, Government and the Crown Office, brought with it a realization within Scotland that she lacks the experience, wisdom and sound judgement necessary to be the leader of an Independent Scotland.
President Obama’s abuse of power – The Malicious RussiaGate collusion
During the 2016 presidential campaign former CIA Director John Brennan, the FBI, and the Justice Department identified 26 Trump associates for targeting by the multinational “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance (U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K. and New Zealand) who spied on and reported on their activities in support of the 2016 Trump campaign team leading to false allegations that Trump had colluded with the Russians, an act of treason!!
The ruse was orchestrated by President Obama to cover-up illegal foreign financial donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Details of the operation were retained in a binder and reputedly stored in a secret room in Washington.
Soon after taking office President Trump ordered the affair to be declassified but the binder was allegedly not found.
Trump’s residence at Mar a Logo was raided by a team of CIA investigators at the start of the 2024 presidential campaign searching for the binder. It was not found.
“The whole Trump-Russia collusion story was a giant hoax started by Democrats. The FBI knew it was a hoax. The CIA knew it was a hoax. And Barack Obama knew it was a hoax. Everybody knew it was a hoax the whole time. But they acted like it was real. The CIA knew Hillary started the Russia collusion story and then went in and told Barack Obama all about it. That she was trying to link Trump with Russia to distract from her email scandal…
And the Durham report revealed that the FBI had shut down investigations into the Clintons after three separate FBI field offices reported the Clinton Foundation to be a foreign money laundering scam. Andy McCabe, married to a Clinton donor intervened and told the FBI to butt out.
Prosecutor Durham was appointed to urgently investigate the allegations but took over 2 years to produce a report and then followed attempts to impeach President Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee, in a later report stated that Obama’s deputy chief of staff, FBI Director James B. Comey had targeted Trump in June 2015 in an “off the book” operation and deployed two female FBI undercover agents who infiltrated the Trump 2016 campaign and acted as “honeypots” while travelling with the Trump campaign team. and Obama and his CIA initiated the Russia Collusion Hoax.
It also reported that Obama had planted around 2500 personnel to the 2017 Presidential transition team with the objective to undermine the transfer of power.
Challenged on the matter Obama characterized the conspiracy as “absurd.” and rambled on about “foundations of democracy” being so sacred that you “do not allow the politicization of the criminal justice system, the intelligence system [or] the military.”
So there it is fraud, racketeering, obstruction of justice, election interference, and conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. But will there be a reckoning after Trump takes office in January 2025? Assuming he is allowed to do so!!!
Keir Starmer – The Christian Zionist – Exposed
Extract: Starmer became head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Britain’s very politically correct overseers of the law, under Tony Blair.
In other words, he is a lawyer. And that’s a very bad sign for working-class Whites whom the Labour party was explicitly founded to defend.
Like the lawyer Tony Blair and the lawyer Barack Obama before him, Starmer heads a party that supposedly champions the downtrodden workers against the greedy bosses.
But Labour long ago abandoned the workers to side with the bosses. And that means that they side with Jews against Whites.
Blair and Obama both rose to power on a tide of Jewish money and media support. Starmer hopes to do the same. He married a Jewish woman and performed the goy grovel enthusiastically at the Jewish Chronicle:
He revealed he participates in Friday-night dinners with his family, at which his proudly Jewish father-in-law says prayers. The Holborn and St Pancras MP said he felt comfortable attending family and communal “bar mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals”.
He also said he had “no issue” with standing for the traditional toast to the president of the state of Israel at Jewish weddings or with any of the traditions.
Full article here:
Starmer to Sell Off the UK to BlackRock on the Cheap – Be Warned
What is BlackRock? It is one of the largest vulture funds ever to gain control, by stealth of the financial affairs of entire countries and the people that live there. Its mode of operation is to buy up the debt of troubled organisations/companies and in doing so establish absolute control over the resources and land of nations. Any profits gathered to the pot are transferred to the many transnational companies who invest in BlackRock. The name of the game is profit which is largely achieved through the ruthless pruning of labour costs and the evasion of taxes through the use of a maze of subsiduary companies headquartered in offshore locations. Those who monitor the activities of hedge funds such as BlackRock need only to reflect on past/present turmoil in Ukraine, Greece, Nigeria, Congo, Argentina, Ecuador,, Panama, Peru, Indonesia and many other countries.
Who runs the USA government? Those who thought that Obama and Biden ran the country are deluded. BlackRock pulled all the strings!!
Larry Fink’s BlackRock dicatated the foreign and financial policies of President Obama’s and Biden’s governments. To achieve this he placed his investment executive Brian Deese in government to lead the National Economic Council, (NEC) effectively serving as the top economic advisor to Obama and Biden. Fink also added his former chief of staff, chief executive and longtime Democrat, Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, to serve as one of the top official’s at the US Treasury Department.
And the UK is in BlackRock’s sights. Starmer, a devotee of Obama and Fink has had recent meetings with both of them discussing the expansion of “Freeports” and similar ventures which will remove the power of the voting public forever. No more unncessary elections to Westminster. BlackRock will appoint them. But faced with reality many voters chose to act like fools.
Contrast the as yet undisclosed agenda for the future of the UK; with Norway which nationalised oil and gas exploration and its production and refinement ensuring the control of all profits remained with the electorate. and Poland which introduced control measures, against the wishes of the EEC ensuring 90+ % of land would be owned in perpetuity by Poles.
Mark Twain said; ‘it’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled’
Blairite Sarwar’s loyalty was rewarded with the Party Leadership role in Scotland- but things are not going well for him. GROK provides a view
Anas Sarwar, joined the Zionist backed British American Project (BAP) in 2018 and praised it as his “special family”. His register of interests included £2,000 in costs paid by the BAP for a four-day trip to attend its annual conference in Seattle in 2018. Sarwar said the trip was “to develop and grow professional transatlantic relationships with a focus on technology and the rise of prejudice and hate.”
He exalted Tony Blair and called on Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for the “antisemitism crisis” that rocked Labour under his leadership.
His commitment to the Starmer led London based Labour Party ensured his future political career in Scotland would most likely land him a peerage and lifetime in the House of Lords.
This is how things are done in Starmers Party:
Quote from Socialist Resistance article 16th January 2021:
‘On the evening of Wednesday January 13, Starmer hosted a secret online meeting to which Leonard was not invited, though private millionaire Labour donors and Ian Murray were.
A deal brokered by the GMB saw Leonard resign the next day with immediate effect, but guaranteed him a place at the top of one of Scottish Labour’s regional lists for the Holyrood elections in May – in apparent contradiction of the Scottish Labour policy of putting women at the head of all lists. Guaranteeing Leonard one of Scottish Labour’s dwindling number of seats in the Scottish Parliament and an MSP’s salary of £65k for the next four years.
While Leonard went along with the pretence that this was a personal decision taken over Xmas in his vacuous resignation statement, the shoddy ‘deal’ produced outrage from Leonard-supporting left wing MSP Neil Findlay who attacked Leonard’s opponents as “flinching cowards and sneering traitors” ( (a reference to the words of the “Red Flag”, the longstanding anthem of the Labour Party ritually sung at Labour’s conferences but completely ignored by Labour leaders other than Corbyn).
And Scots end up being governed by a Scottish Labour Party controlled by Blairites’ Ian Murray and Anas Sarwar, with Starmer, yanking their strings from London.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (middle) with journalist Ayesha Hazarika and comedian Matt Forde at the 2021 BAP conference in Glasgow, which Sarwar organised.
Recent events in Scotland, such as the closure of Grangemouth give lie to Sarwar’s pre-GE statement that the refinery would be safe in Lanour’s hands. Is his political future assuredar will he suffer a fate similar to that meted out to former Labour Party First Ministers?
Grok provides a view here:
https://twitter.com/i/grok/share/pHatnjfY6lciWqrzjkglRK2SA
The Obama’s-Biden’s-Clinton’s and their Crony’s Exposed as a Coven of Dangerous Mobsters
Obama Inspired the coup against Trump
Declassified documents confirm beyond the shadow of a doubt that Barack Obama personally authorized one of the greatest criminal conspiracies in United States history, the Russian collusion hoax to tie Donald J. Trump to the Russians in an attempt to overthrow the United States government in 2016 and then later attempting to overthrow a sitting President in 2017.
General Michael Flynn knew about Barack Obama and his mistress Susan Lice, their crimes and illegal activities, Including bribing Stephen Halper to target and tie Donald Trump and his campaign to the Russians.
Obama maliciously, unmasked, targeted and framed the General, a three-star United States Army veteran with 33 years of service, 4 Bronze Stars, 5 Commendation Medals.
Obama approved the United Kingdom [5 Eyes Intelligence Alliance] to execute PROJECT FULSOME seeking intelligence gathering on the Trump Organization and Donald J. Trump for President Inc.
Throughout his years in politics Obama and those who think with him have enveloped politics in a blinding mist of false information and mendacity contrary to his statement:
” The “foundations of democracy are so sacred that you do not allow the politicization of the criminal justice system, the intelligence system [or] the military.”
I reported
1 Feb 2017: https://caltonjock.com/2017/02/01/obama-the-worst-president-in-the-history-of-the-united-states-of-america/
14 Apr 2018: https://caltonjock.com/2018/04/14/dirty-tricks-trumpgate-and-skripal-all-roads-lead-to-london-and-mi6/
A Wee Sniff Around those That Destroyed Corbyn and Why
The British-American Project (BAP) was set up in the 1980’s amid CIA concern about ‘anti-American’ drift in the Labour Party.
It describes itself as “a transatlantic fellowship of over 1,200 leaders, rising stars and opinion formers from a broad spectrum of occupations, backgrounds and political views.” It cultivates pro-American political positions among the British left. Work to create the BAP began in the early 1980s when Labour was headed by Michael Foot, the first non-Atlanticist Labour leader to emerge since World War Two. The BAP’s aim was to push British progressives into a pro-American political position at a time when the CIA was worried about the strength of the Labour left and its ‘anti-American’ views.
Labour MP Rushanara Ali sits on the project’s advisory board alongside former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers. Many senior UK military officers have been members with two joining this year without the knowledge of Ministry of Defence. Project funders include BAE Systems and BP. Three senior Labour politicians recently joined a secretive lobby group set up in coordination with the US embassy in London to further cultivate the British left.
Labour leader Keir Starmer and Labour shadow minister Alison McGovern joined the project in Sep 2022. She is the former chair of the Blairite campaign group Progress (now Progressive Britain) and quit her role in shadow chancellor’s John McDonnell’s team in 2016. She went on to become a vocal critic of Corbyn’s leadership. She is close to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, serving as his shadow minister for sport and culture before her current role. She attended a fully funded (the project paid £1,776 for her presence) at the annua conference in Minnesota in 2022.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (middle) with journalist Ayesha Hazarika and comedian Matt Forde at the 2021 BAP conference in Glasgow, which Sarwar organised.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, joined the group in 2018 and organised its annual conference in Glasgow in 2021. He spoke of his “unparalleled enthusiasm” for the event and referred to the BAP as his “special family”. His register of interests included £2,000 in costs paid by the BAP for a four-day trip to attend its annual conference in Seattle in 2018. Sarwar says the trip was “to develop and grow professional transatlantic relationships with a focus on technology and the rise of prejudice and hate.” He described the BAP as a “not for profit leadership network” adding: “I do not consider that this visit meets the prejudice test or the political activities test.” In June, he praised Tony Blair and called on Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for the “antisemitism crisis” that rocked Labour under his leadership.
James McMahon, Labour’s shadow minister for the environment, declared he was a member of the BAP in 2015, listing it under organisations whose “principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion”. He served as leader of Oldham council from 2011-2016. In his declaration to the council, he wrote that the BAP had paid for him to attend its conference in Philadelphia in 2010 at which time he was a 30-year-old Labour councillor. Soon after becoming MP for Oldham in 2015, he hosted BAP personnel in a discussion in his constituency. He is also a member of Progress and supported Owen Smith, Corbyn’s challenger from the right, after the failed coup against the latter’s leadership in 2016.
Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Benthal Green and Bow, joined the BAP in 2004 as a 29-year-old Home Office staffer working on community cohesion. She now sits on the project’s 13-strong advisory board, alongside the former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers. In 2016, Ali backed the coup against Corbyn’s leadership, saying he should “do the decent thing” and quit as Labour leader. In the resulting leadership election, she also campaigned for Owen Smith. The following year,” UpRising Leadership” a mentoring charity which helps “leaders better reflect and represent the communities they serve”—paid £595 for Ali to attend the BAP conference in Manchester.
Joanne Anderson, Labour’s Mayor of Liverpool, joined the project this year where the 2023 BAP conference titled “You’ll Never Walk Alone” will be held. Anderson became Labour’s candidate for Liverpool Mayor in controversial circumstances in 2021. Then led by Starmer, the party scrapped a shortlist of three candidates selected by the local party with no explanation and imposed two local councillors, including Anderson. The original, locally selected shortlist included socialist candidate and the city’s Lord Mayor Anna Rothery, who was backed by leading figures on Labour’s left, including Corbyn.
Another figure involved in the project is Claire Kober the former Labour leader of Haringey Council who was paid £2,000 by the project to attend its November 2016 conference in Houston, Texas. Just over a year later, Kober quit her position on the council citing “bullying” and “sexism” from followers of Corbyn, who opposed the £2bn joint venture deal her council had struck with private developer Lendlease for a controversial housing project.
British-Nigerian poet Ben Okri, a celebrated figure in post-colonial literature, joined the project in 2014. He wrote that British children, “should be taught about the empire and colonialism but they must also learn about the legitimate voices against its cruelties and how people fought for their independence.” Oddly he sits on the project’s advisory board alongside Sir John Sawers, head of MI6 from 2009-14, who was a foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair at the time of the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Blair appointed Sawers Britain’s a special representative to Iraq in May 2003, two months after the US-UK invasion. He is now a director of BP, which returned to Iraq in 2009 after a 35-year absence. He made £699,000 in his first four and half years on the UK oil giant’s board, which he joined a year after stepping down from MI6.
Ruth Smeeth, an honorary captain in the UK military, is now CEO of Index on Censorship, Britain’s most important free expression group. She was appointed by Trevor Phillips, chair of Index’s board, who was close to Tony Blair and has been a prominent figure within the project for decades. In June 2015,
Phillips spoke at a BAP event at which Peter Mandelson also spoke. She was an outspoken critic of Corbyn’s leadership of Labour, particularly around his alleged toleration of antisemitism in the party. A US diplomatic cable, published by WikiLeaks in 2010, named her as a “strictly protect” informant for the US embassy in London.
From 2016-21, Index received £603,257 from the National Endowment Democracy (NED), a “democracy promotion” organisation established in 1983, two years before the project, and funded by the US Congress. According to the New York Times, the NED was established “to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] has done surreptitiously for decades”. Ruth Smeeth’s husband Michael Smeeth, is the UK chair on the project’s executive committee and one of its three directors.
Tony Blair won the 1997 election and appointed no less than five BAP members to ministerial posts in his first cabinet. He later said the BAP had direct access to his ministers and arranged meetings for them. “The British/American project aims to strengthen the vital and long-standing relationship between the US and UK,” he told parliament, adding “as part of that process, it arranges meetings, including with [UK government] Ministers, for young leaders from…the two countries.”
Jonathan Powell, Blair’s chief of staff, was a BAP member while in government and commented in 2007: “The lasting relationships that are built up [in BAP] are the only way to underpin an enduring Special Relationship. Takes the working out of networking.” Powell is now part of a conflict mediation group, Inter Mediate, which he wrote in a private email “works closely” with MI6.
Another member of the BAP, since the 1990s, is Peter Mandelson, who held various ministerial posts under Blair, and in 2015 spoke at one of its events. Two years later, Mandelson said: “I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of [Corbyn’s] tenure in office.”
Financial support for the BAP has also come from Britain’s largest corporations. In 2000, the BAP was funded by British arms manufacturer BAE Systems and oil giant BP as well as cigarette company Philip Morris and mining giant Rio Tinto. By 2004 funders also included Monsanto, Coca-Cola and Saatchi & Saatchi. Three years later, funders also included investment bank JP Morgan and phone company Vodafone, in addition to BAE Systems and BP. These companies were still funding the group at the last available record, in 2011.
Summary of a lengthy article by Matt Kennard. Published in “Declassified” on 22 Nov 2022
The Dutch Declared Their Independence from Spain in 1648 -Scots Can Awake Late and do the Same in 2025
In 1581. The Dutch had been under Spanish rule for over ten years.
The Spanish King, Philip II, had conquered the Netherlands which was subsequently governed by the Duke of Alva, a Spanish nobleman. The Dutch suffered.
Their rights were taken from them, heavy taxes were imposed, some were enslaved, and they suffered hardship, torture and murder.
On the 26th of July 1581, the representatives of the seven northern provinces met and agreed upon the following statement:
“When a king does not obey his duties, but, instead of protecting his subjects, tries to oppress them as slaves, then he is no longer a king, but a tyrant. In that case, his subjects, have a right to denounce him and choose another leader.”
The first-ever statement also listed all the cruelties to the Dutch people, and the tyranny of Alva, and laid down the arguments for the far fetching decision.
It called upon the Dutch people to reclaim their rights.
The statement had made the case for human rights, sovereignty of the people and freedom of thought.
The Dutch declared themselves independent from Spanish rule and called for the inception of the first-ever republic in the world, eventually winning their battle for independence in 1648.
Scottish-Independence-Another Key Factor Supporting My Assertion That Liberation Scotland Should Submit an Application for Membership of the Global South and Non-Aligned Movement. Now! No more Pussyfooting about!!!!
Scapa Flo Orkney
Container Transhipments and Demand for Container Terminal Capacity in Scotland
Scapa Flow in Orkney provides the best available deep water port in Europe with the potential to handle any amount of major transhipment of today’s mega-size container ships.
The container port market in Northern Europe is expected to continue its upward trend, demand more than doubled over the 2001-2015 and is expected to double again between 2015-2030.
With container traffic increasing faster than output, transhipment growth will be even more rapid as carriers, due to ship upsizing, reduce the number of direct port calls and move towards hub and bespoke services.
For the fast growing Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, New Zealand, other Asian markets and existing European and North American Authorities, the efficiencies and economies will be matched by the opportunity to achieve through use of the Orkney facility, the secure gateways required.
Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland will benefit directly from economic spin-off, cheaper transport and a major stimulus to the development of sea and water-borne alternatives to the UK road network.
Full details here:
2003: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmtran/783/783we23.htm
2004: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2004/09/19885/42553
2004: http://www.napier.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/impact-case-studies/the-greenest-port
2011: https://www.computescotland.com/scapa-flow-crossroads-for-container-terminal-4184.php
2014: http://container-mag.com/2014/05/02/the-orkney-floating-container-terminal-alternative/
The Impact of Global warming on World Trade
As the seas around Russia are released from the grip of the Arctic ice studies are projecting: “remarkable shifts in trade flows between Asia and Europe, diversion of trade within Europe, heavy shipping traffic in the Arctic and a substantial drop in Suez traffic.
Russia has not been slow to recognise the new opening for trade and is building nuclear powered ice-breaker ships well capable of keeping sea channels open to commercial traffic.
Cost savings achieved using a new “Northern Channel” are eye wateringly high and joint development, with Russia or China of a new trans container facility, at the southern end of the channel, in Orkney would bring significant benefits to participating countries.
Presently the channel is freely navigable in the summer and autumn months, ice breaker support is required over the winter period but a report by the Copenhagen Business School found that large-scale trans-Arctic shipping will become economically viable by 2040.
6 Sep 2017: The Northern Sea Route is completely ice-free and shipping thrives
As Russian Arctic ice shrinks to this year’s lowest, a big number of ships are moving in. In waters normally covered by thick ice, ships are today sailing easily and without escorts.
Ice data from Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute show that the whole Northern Sea Route now is ice-free.
Even in the waters between the Kara Sea and the Bering Strait, normally a highly complex and ice-covered area, shipping appears smooth and easy.
The ice edge in the East Siberian Sea is now retreating to north of the 75th parallel and practically the whole Laptev Sea is ice-free.
There is only some scattered ice around the Vilkitsky Strait, the area separating the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea.
The Northern Sea Route – The Russian Perspective
Due to global warming, it will become viable to deliver goods from Europe to the Pacific throughout the Arctic as ice floes melt.
There is reason to believe that China would be interested in participating in the development of the NSR, as the waterway will save time and can help China find a way out of the Strait of Malacca dilemma that has long plagued importers and exporters.
Efforts to open up the NSR would help pump fresh investment into the country and would benefit the development of Russia’s Far East.
The NSR has the potential to become a significant new area for cooperation between China and Russia. It is expected that the Belt and Road initiative will create an opportunity for Russia’s NSR ambitions to turn into reality.
https://sputniknews.com/infographics/201709051057097124-northern-sea-route-suez-canal-alternative/
The Northern Sea Route – The Chinese Perspective
The Northern Sea Route, one of three Arctic shipping routes that connect East Asia and Europe along the Russian coastline, is now subject to more attention than ever before. The Northern Sea Route Administration notes that in 2016 traffic volume on the Northern Sea Route reached 7,265,700 tonnes – an increase of 35 percent in comparison with 2015.
As the world’s third largest ship-owner, China has a strong interest in Arctic shipping, especially in the Northern Sea Route. That was reflected in China’s decision to include the Arctic in its Belt and Road Initiative.
On June 20, 2017, China’s National Development and Reform Commission and State Oceanic Administration published the “Vision for Maritime Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative” (the Vision). The Vision officially incorporates the Arctic into China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Moreover, before attending the G20 Summit in Hamburg, President Xi Jinping visited Russia and signed the “China-Russia Joint Declaration on Further Strengthening Comprehensive, Strategic and Cooperative Partnership” (Joint Declaration) on July 4, 2017.
Described as the Ice Silk Road, the development of the Northern Sea Route is a key area of cooperation between China and Russia.
The Ice Silk Road can be seen as a further step in shaping China’s Arctic policy. The three main pillars of this policy are: respect, cooperation, and sustainability.
Moreover, the BRI now officially extends to the Arctic, which could help achieve the objectives of China’s Arctic policy. It is now very clear that China is keen to play a role as a user of the Northern Sea Route.
As elaborated in the Vision:
China is willing to work with all parties in conducting scientific surveys of navigational routes, setting up land-based monitoring stations, carrying out research on climatic and environmental changes in the Arctic, as well as providing navigational forecasting services.
China supports efforts by countries bordering the Arctic in improving marine transportation conditions, and encourages Chinese enterprises to take part in the commercial use of the Arctic route.
So why is China keen to use the Northern Sea Route?
It is commonly known that the Northern Sea Route could shorten the distance of transportation between China and European ports.
China also sees the opportunity of resources development in the Russian Arctic. But perhaps more importantly, China believes that the Northern Sea Route is strategically important for its energy security.
China is facing the dilemma that energy from Africa and the Persian Gulf passes through waters dominated by strategic competitors (the United States and India), threatened by piracy, or bottle-necked at the Strait of Malacca. It would therefore be helpful to have an alternative shipping route along a politically stable area.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/07/china-russia-trouble-on-the-arctic-silk-road/
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