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The Ukraine is being dismantled to satisfy the greed of the rich

President Zelensky in his campaign for the Presidency, declined to align himself with any political policies in preference for popularist addresses to the public in which he said that he represented a fresh start for Ukraine and he would end the graft, criminal influence and power of corrupt politicians and oligarchs who illegally transferred the wealth of the nation to personal off-shore accounts and properties all over the world. He failed to follow through on his rhetoric indeed the reverse is true.

Zelensky and the rich have got richer and poor Ukrainians are being sacrificed on the false honour of dying in their thousands to protect the State.

More here:

https://caltonjock.com/2022/03/02/oligarch-president-zelensky-was-elected-to-office-on-a-vow-to-end-dismantle-the-power-of-corrupt-ukrainian-oligarchs-who-illegally-transfer-the-wealth-of-the-nation-to-personal-off-shore-accounts-and/

Oligarch’s and millionaires Control the wealth of Ukraine.

The top 5 richest Ukrainians in 2021 were:

Rinat Akhmetov, $11.54 billion: The ironworks and energy tycoon was born in the Donbas and is the country’s wealthiest person. His assets in the metallurgical sector have shown excellent results this year on surging steel and iron ore prices. Strong demand for coal and electricity have added weight to his fortune.

More on him here: https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/video/ukrainian-oligarchs-rinat-akhmetov-video

Viktor Pinchuk, $2.6 billion: Assets span from steel works to media, saw his net worth almost double in 2021 from $1.4 billion to $ 2.6 billion. Interpipe, his main business asset which produces steel pipes and railway wheels, is worth $500 million. He also owns Star Light Media Holding, which controls nearly 20% of Ukraine’s television market.

Pinchuk sits on the “International Advisory Board”. See here: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/international-advisory-board/ , of the “Atlantic Council.” that recently launched “UkraineAlert” which publishes daily pieces on deterring Russian aggression.

A recent article, “Survey: Western public backs stronger support for Ukraine against Russia,” notes it was commissioned by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and Yalta European Strategy, which Pinchuk founded; without giving mention to his foundation being a large contributor to the “Atlantic Council”, donating up to $500,000 annually.

Between 2009 And 2013 including the period when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the “Clinton Foundation” received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation who is a proponent of closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union.

Sturgeon claims she speaks for Scots with her warning to Putin

She said: “The West has to keep its mind open to every way in which Ukraine can be helped. I understand and I share the concerns about a direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO that a no-fly zone may lead to. Nobody wants to see an escalation of that nature. But on the other hand, Putin is not acting in any way rationally or defensibly. We have a situation right now where perhaps the only thing nuclear weapons are deterring is the ability to properly and directly help Ukraine. All of these things must be considered on a daily basis right now because the world cannot stand by and watch Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty be extinguished – that would be morally wrong from Ukraine’s perspective, but the implications of that for the rest of us in terms of the values we hold dear would be severe too.”

Links between Nicola Sturgeon and Clinton: https://caltonjock.com/2022/03/04/nicola-sturgeon-and-her-bestie-friend-hillary-clinton-are-political-opportunists-cut-from-the-same-cloth-part1 and https://caltonjock.com/2022/03/07/sturgeons-admiration-of-hillary-clinton-is-as-badly-misplaced-as-her-pursuit-of-the-imposition-on-scotland-of-a-minority-lgbtq-agenda-for-change-which-is-totally-foreign-to-the-dearly-held-beliefs-o

Vadym Novinsky, $2.4 billion: Originally a Russian millionaire he acquired Ukrainian citizenship in 2012 from then-President Viktor Yanukovych. Rapidly increasing prices for ore and metal have increased the value of Akhmetov’s Metinvest steel holding and the wealth of minority shareholder Novinsky.

Petro Poroshenko, $1.5 billion: Ukraine’s fifth president, currently a lawmaker and leader of the 27-member European Solidarity faction in parliament, owns Roshen, the country’s top confectionary company. Poroshenko is also the official owner of opposition TV channel “Pryamy.”

Kostyantyn Zhevago, $1.4 billion: Majority owner of London-listed Ferrexpo ore mining group, the 47-year old cannot set foot on Ukrainian soil.

In 2019, the Prosecutor General’s Office declared him internationally wanted for embezzling $90 million through his bank Finance and Credit. Since then, the businessman has run affairs remotely. In 2020, Ferrexpo’s earnings increased by 46% to $859 million.

The full list of Ukrainian billionaires and millionaires also includes:

Oleksander and Halyna Gerega: Epicenter-K – $1.5 billion
Igor Kolomoisky: Privat Group – $1.4 billion
Vlad Yatsenko: Revolut – $1.3 billion
Gennady Bogolyubov: Privat Group – $1.2 billion
Dmitry Firtash: Group DF – $1.7 billion
Serhiy Tigipko: TAS – $833 million
Yuriy Kosyuk: MHP – $581 million
Viktor Medvedchuk: Energy and metallurgy – $569 million
Maxim Polyakov: Firefly Aerospace – $540 million
Andriy Verevsky: Kernel – $514 million
Alexey Martinov: Privat Group – $505 million
Vladislav Chechotkin: Rozetka.ua – $472 million
Alexander Yaroslavsky: DCH Investment – $462 million
Alexey Vadatursky: Nibulon – $459 million
Vitaliy Khomutynnik: Cascade-Invest – $404 million
Vagif Aliyev: Mandarin Plaza Group – $394 million
Vladimir Kostelman: Fozzy Group – $388 million
Dmitry Lider: Grammarly – $386 million
Maxim Lytvyn: Grammarly – $386 million
Oleksiy Shevchenko: Grammarly – $386 million
Alexander Konotop: Ajax – $380 million
Yevhen Yermakov: ATB – $378 million
Victor Karachun: ATB – $378 million
Gennady Butkevich: ATB – $378 million
Dmytro Zaporozhets: GitLab – $375 million
Georgy Skudar: Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant – $355 million
Stepan Chernovetsky: CIG – $346 million
Mykola Zlochevsky: Burisma Group – $338 million
Fila Zhebrovska: Farmak – $333 million
Pavlo Ovcharenko: Agrein – $331 million
Adnan Kivan: Kadorr Group – $302 million
Oleg Roginsky: People.ai – $279 million
Igor and Hryhoriy Surkis: Dynamo Kyiv, Ukrenergoconsulting – $275 million
Volodymyr Popereshnyuk: Nova Poshta – $ 73 million
Vyacheslav Klimov: Nova Poshta – $273 million
Yevhen Chernyak: Global Spirits – $249 million
Taras Kitsmey: Softserve – $245 million
Vasyl Khmelnytsky: UFuture Investment Group – $223 million
Valery Kiptyk: Olvia Corporation (Varus, Eva) – $220 million
Gleb Zagoriy: Darnitsa Pharmaceuticals- $217 million
​​Vitaly Antonov: Universal Investment Group (UKCO) – $211 million
Alexander Petrov: Industrial Milk Company – $208 million
Kateryna Kostereva: Terrasoft – $207 million
Serhiy Lyovochkin: Inter Media Group – $202 million
Vadim Nesterenko: Ristone Holdings – $202 million
Yaroslav Lyubinets: Softserve – $199 million
Alexander Kosovan: MacPaw – $196 million
Oleksiy Dubilet: Monobank / Fintech Band – $196 million
Alexander Spector: Blockbaster Mall – $187 million
Serhiy Krolevets: Eridon – $186 million
Victor Polishchuk: Eldorado, shopping center and BC Gulliver – $183 million
Oleg Vyshnyakov: Cosmopolitan shopping mall – $179 million
Roman Chigir: Fozzy Group – $175 million
Oleg Sotnikov: Fozzy Group – $175 million
Vadim Yermolaev: Alef Estate – $173 million
Vladimir Galanternyk: Odessa (Arcadia City) – $172 million
Leonid Yurushev: Hotels InterContinental, Fairmont and Alfavito – $170 million
Taras Vervega: SoftServe – $167 million
Ruslan Shostak: Varus, & Eva – $165 million
Taras Barshchovsky: T.B.Fruit group of companies – $165 million
Viktor Yushkovsky: Megamarket, Manufactory, Butterfly Cinemas, Terminal Mall – $156 million
Konstantin Grigorishin: Energy Standard – $155 million
Vitaliy and Volodymyr Klitschko: Klitschko Management Group – $154 million
Vyacheslav Boguslaev: Motor Sich – $152 million
Zinoviy Kozytsky: Zakhidnadraservis, Next Bike – $145 million
Sviatoslav Nechytaylo: Bayadera Group of Companies – $143 million
Andriy Ivanov: Quarter Partners – $143 million
Spy Family: Dairy Alliance – $137 million
Roman Lunin: Retail Group (Big Pocket), Equator Mall – $136 million
Pavel Fuchs, East Europe Petroleum – $134 million
Nver and Artur Mkhitaryani: Taryan Group – $133 million
Yuriy Vasylyk: SoftServe – $131 million
Oleg Denis: SoftServe – $130 million
Victor Ivanchyk: Astarta – $130 million
Mykola Rudkovsky: Naftogazvydobuvannya – $129 million
Serhiy Labaziuk: Vitagro – $128 million
Valery Khoroshkovsky: Inter Media Group – $125 million
Maxim Yefimov: Donbasenergo – $122 million
Boris Kaufman: Tedis Ukraine, Vertex United – $118 million
Boris Muzalyov: Tavriya B – $115 million
Andriy Adamovsky: OLEDO Group – $114 million
Yegor Grebennikov: TIS – $114 million
Andriy Stavnitser: TIS – $113 million
Boris Kolesnikov: APK-Invest & Konti – $112 million
Dmytro Kravchenko, LNZ Group – $111 million
Stanislav Ronis: Comfy – $111 million
Oleksandr Pylypenko: Kowalska – $107 million
Andriy Biba: BRSM – $105 million
Anatoliy Skriblyak: Budhouse Group – $105 million
Rafael Goroyan: Prometheus Group of Companies – $103 million
Vitaliy Haiduk: Hyatt – $103 million
Eduard Mkrtchan: Wind Parks of Ukraine, United Transport Holding – $100 million
Oleg Gorokhovsky: Monobank / Fintech Band – $100 million
Yevhenia Kryvenko: Monobank / Fintech Band – $100 million
Mykhailo Rohalsky: Monobank / Fintech Band – $100 million.

The Atlantic Council

The Council was formed as an offshoot of NATO and maintains extremely close connections to the military alliance.

It continues to receive major funding from Western governments and weapons contractors, and its board of directors is filled to the brim with former American foreign policy officials. Also appearing on the board are no fewer than seven former CIA directors and a number of top military generals.

Council employees have penetrated deep into big tech and social media organizations. In 2018, it announced it had partnered with Facebook to aid in the curation of Facebook news feeds of users worldwide, giving it considerable power over what sort of views to highlight and which to demote.

Its Deputy Director of Middle Eastern Strategy was appointed recently to the position of Director of Policy at Reddit, the eighth-most visited website in the United States. And it is not just Russia that is in the Council’s crosshairs.

The Council recently published an anonymous, 26,000-word report stating that its goal for China was regime change and advising President Biden to draw a number of “red lines” around it, beyond which the U.S. would respond militarily. Meanwhile, the head of STRATCOM, Admiral Charles A. Richard, wrote that the U.S. must prepare for a potential nuclear war with Beijing.

The military escalation has been mirrored by an intensifying online propaganda war, where the U.S. has attempted to isolate China economically and stop advancing Chinese technologies such as Huawei’s 5G network, mobile phone, and semiconductor manufacturer Xiaomi, and video sharing app Tik-Tok.

And the Council is guilty of ramping up suspicions of nefarious Chinese activity online, claiming the existence of a wide-ranging pro-Beijing bot network encouraging Americans to believe that China has handled the COVID-19 pandemic far better than the United States. That Americans might have come to that conclusion on their own appears not to have been considered.

There are on-going Western government efforts seeking to convince their populations of the existence of (foreign) government efforts to manipulate their opinions online.

Western governmental organizations point the finger at their enemies, all the while securing greater access and control over the means of communication themselves, to the point where it is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins. (The Grayzone)

2019: Misinformation published by the “Atlantic Council” and “Integrity Initiative” helped destroy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party

The “Integrity Initiative’s” official “Twitter” account posted numerous tweets and links to articles attacking Labour and Corbyn.

The agitator in chief was Ben Nimmo a senior fellow of the “Atlantic Council”, who repeatedly claimed the Labour leader was being supported by the Russian state through various means, including a “twisted cyber campaign”, without any supporting evidence whatsoever.

The public need to be very wary of anything “researched” by Nimmo. Any theory about Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign which has the “Atlantic Council” at its heart (and which may also involve the now largely moribund “Integrity Initiative”) is liable to be cobblers.

(https://twitter.com/Ian_Fraser/status/1201646096897978370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

2019 Nimmo gerrymandered the general election enabling the success of the Tory party

Jeremy Corbyn revealed secret Conservative Party documents showing negotiations the Tory government had with the U.S. over the privatization of the National Health Service (NHS).

With just days to go before the general election, the scandal could have toppled the government and brought into power the most radical anti-war, anti-establishment government in the country’s history.

Corporate media went into overdrive to spin the news, and Nimmo was a key part of this, immediately announcing, without evidence, that the documents “closely resemble…a known Russian operation.”

His supposedly expert conjecture allowed the story to become “Corbyn’s links to Russia” rather than “Tories privatizing the NHS in secret.”

Nimmo’s work helped the Conservatives to an election victory and consigned Corbyn to the scrapheap. Much to the relief of the “Atlantic Council”, who through Nimmo had successfully branded Corbyn the “Kremlin’s Trojan Horse” — someone pushing Moscow’s agenda abroad.

And a British Army general was of a similar opinion, claiming that if Corbyn were to win the election, the military would respond. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said that the U.S. government was “doing its best” to prevent a radical leftist from winning power in the U.K.

Feb 2021: Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist

Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the “Atlantic Council”, announced Facebook had hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” He specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the platform.

His announcement was greeted with joy by several NATO officials but was not met with such enthusiasm by others. “More censorship on the way as the former NATO press officer turned Pentagon-funded ‘researcher’ who labelled real people as Russian bots and peddled disinformation to link Jeremy Corbyn to Russian active measures moves to big tech,” responded investigative journalist Max Blumenthal.

Nimmo’s questionable past certainly raises questions over whether such an official having a substantial say in what 2.8 billion Facebook users worldwide see in their feeds is such a positive step for the free and open exchange of information.

Other relevant links

https://www.demdigest.org/tag/ben-nimmo/

https://graphika.com/posts/graphika-welcomes-industry-expert-ben-nimmo-to-the-team/

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/ben-nimmo

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/474945-nhs-corbyn-russia-nimmo/

Click to access resrep25326.4.pdf

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/07/28/from-russia-with-leask-good-morning-scotland-and-interference-after-

2014/https://www.socialgrep.com/search?query=ben%20nimmo

https://wingsoverscotland.com/author/blair-graham/

https://infobrics.org/post/32850/

https://external.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=12175&i=109965&c=2184355

http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2022/02/17/the-metazuck-shuts-down-iranian-accounts-posing-as-scottish-nationalists/

Click to access disinformation-in-scottish-public-life-june-2021.pdf

Click to access CCS207_CCS0221966010-001_Russia-Report-v02-Web_Accessible.pdf

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4wP0LzRpchQJ:

Scottish Civil Service Justice

“DeeAnn Kirkpatrick, a civil servant employed in Marine Scotland, made allegations of sexual harassment, racism, bullying, and assault against some of her male colleagues.

An employment tribunal decided that her allegations were time spent after three years.

DeeAnn’s sister issued a statement through the Daily Record saying: “my sister has been left absolutely devastated and feeling betrayed. How can this be justice? It’s a disgrace. She can hardly bear to look at the photograph of herself gagged and taped to a chair. It suits Marine Scotland to say DeeAnn made it all up. She has been broken by this. My sister used to be strong, brave, and outgoing. Now she is a recluse who is afraid of her own shadow.”

The “Chair” incident

Nicola Sturgeon issued a statement saying that she was appalled at the revelations and pictorial evidence published in the Daily Record and ordered Leslie Evans, to personally investigate the incident involving the chair and to report back to her.

Leslie Evans reported: “A comprehensive internal review concluded that the Scottish Government has robust disciplinary procedures to address behaviour that falls below expected standards and I am satisfied that these have been followed thoroughly and objectively in relation to this incident. A broad set of actions are underway in Marine Scotland to ensure a working environment that meets both the Civil Service Code and Scottish Government Standards of Behaviour. I do not normally comment publicly on staffing matters but I am issuing this short statement to update the public record given the previous parliamentary and wider interest in this issue. My unwavering commitment to ensuring a positive workplace for all employees in the Scottish Government remains.”

Another one bites the dust

Mar 2019: The internal investigation revealed that the fake victimhood photo DeeAnn Fizpatrick virilised through the BBC and social media was actually taken a year earlier than she claimed, in 2009, not 2010 and was simply an office prank that bored staff in the Fisheries Office played and DeeAnn is said to have been a willing participant.

It seems DeeAnn Fitzpatrick saw the “MeToo” movement as an opportunity to succeed through the victimhood industry and she became the poster child for the much hyped issue of workplace harassment, misogyny, and patriarchy.

Oct 2019: DeeAnn was ordered to appear before a disciplinary hearing to face allegations that she gave dishonest accounts of events, made false representations, concealed material facts and submitted documents which she knew to be fake. She was also accused of using “deception with the intention of obtaining personal gain and causing loss to others.” including “false statements”.

She was unable to attend because her father had only recently died and her doctor had said she was not fit to travel. The hearing was conducted in her absence and she was dismissed.

The notice of dismissal procedure served on her was bizarre since it was carried out by two civil servants who despite travel restrictions being in place because of Covid-19 journeyed by car on a 16-hour return trip from Edinburgh to her home in Caithness to hand-deliver her dismissal letter.

Lawyers acting on LeeAnn’s behalf confirmed she would sue the Scottish government for wrongful dismissal, based on a defence of workplace stress and damage to her mental health and wellbeing.

Comment:

Deeann’s dismissal hardly compensated her male colleagues whose names she wilfully maligned, nor society who had accepted her misleading statements as truth. Her false victimhood began with what became popularly referred to as “the chair incident” in which she was widely portrayed as being punished by her male colleagues for speaking out against male bullies and misogyny, and perhaps as planned it became a “MeToo” sensation which morphed into the damaging Scottish civil service “chairgate” scandal. One fake photo was all it took to create an atmosphere of hysteria within the Scottish Government. The damage cannot be undone and yet DeeAnn, showing no remorse still claims to be the victim.

Civil servants and Spads and their false witness statements against Alex Salmond

Outstanding is the matter of the untrue allegations of sexual harassment alleged by a number of civil servants and Spads against Alex Salmond. As in the case of DeeAnn they also bore false witness against a colleague and should be dismissed from their employment with the Civil Service.

Politicians are comfortable with the truth as they tell it

Unravelling and reporting on the many plots and subterfuges of politicians is difficult but not impossible.

It is sadly often the case that they enjoy long and successful political careers within which the finger of fate may be pointed in their direction but never sticks.

This article highlights a small group of players who’s influence and machinations have shaped Scottish politics to their advantage but to the detriment of Scotland.

Malcolm Rifkind and

1986: One of the architects of the hated “Poll Tax”

1994: When Minister of Defence decimated the regular army transferring responsibility for the defence of the nation to “Cruise missiles” and the Territorial Army

1995-2000: As Foreign Secretary had charge of Britain’s secret services

1998: Founder of Better Together

2002-2004: Out of government. Took up executive roles in a number of security, defence, medical companies outside parliament.

2004: Rifkind, Armour Group, Executive Director awarded multi-million security contract in Iraq, by Jack Straw, Labour government Foreign Secretary .

2005-2010: Returned to Westminster, retained and expanded on a number of executive roles in private companies. Appointed Chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons

2008-2011: Andrew Fulton, ex MI6 senior spook appointed Chairman of the Tory Party in Scotland. Ruthlessly axed anyone not on board with Cameron’s government in Westminster. Gerrymandered the appointment of Ruth Davidson as leader of the party in Scotland.

2010-2015: Rifkind, Appointed  Chairman of the British Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which oversees MI5, MI6 and GCHQ – (the most important position in the UK intelligence community) takes charge of the disinformation campaign.

2015: Craig Murray (ex British Ambassador) confirmed the Security Services had been active in Scotland throughout the Scottish Referendum campaign.

Jack Straw & Rifkind embroiled in “cash for access” scandal. Rifkind forced to retire from politics. Straw denied place in the House of Lords.

April 1998: Rifkind calls for pact to block nationalists

Rifkind called for the formation of a cross- party movement to protect the Union and prevent the SNP taking power.

The former foreign secretary’s comments were the first clear indication that the Tory party north of the Border believed that Labour, the Tory’s and the Liberal Democrats needed to make common cause in an attempt to halt the rise of the SNP.

He said: “I think there will be a need for a non-party movement in Scotland to support the Union.”

Scots soon got the message when “Better Together” was sent into action at the time of the 2014 Scottish Referendum.

Rifkind accused Labour of fostering the mood of nationalism within Scotland by exploiting “nationalist language” during its spell in opposition.

He said: “The genie is out of the bottle and, like all genies, once they are out of the bottle they are difficult to put back in.”

 
2004: Rifkind secured new role in Armor Group

Rifkind became the non-executive chairman of Armor Group, the biggest private security company currently working in Iraq.

Rifkind, said: ”The work that the company does is of great importance at the moment. It is necessary to provide proper protection for people in dangerous locations.

A spokesman for the Institute of Directors said: ”It’s all about contacts. That’s the one thing former cabinet ministers bring to big companies, particularly a former foreign secretary. He’s going to be an invaluable asset.”

 
2004: Former Foreign Minister Rifkind cashes in on Iraq invasion

A private security company headed by former Foreign Secretary Rifkind is making millions from a contract to protect Foreign Office staff working in Iraq, it emerged last night.

Armor Group, the biggest ‘mercenary’ security firm working in Iraq, is one of two companies that have raked in a total of £15m between them for providing round-the-clock cover in the treacherous environment of post-war Iraq during the past year.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw admitted the UK government is financing the company to the tune of £50K each and every day providing protection to British bureaucrats stationed in Iraq.

Furious MPs condemned the outlay as “appalling value for money”, and claimed the Labour government should not be ploughing money into a controversial industry that is making huge profits as part of the reconstruction effort in Iraq.

 
2007: Armour Group recruit former MI6 spymaster

Fulton (formerly MI6) became the first high-profile former spy to join a listed British company when he was appointed adviser to the Armor Group. 

The company has more than 9,000 employees in 50 locations, (including 500 Gurkha’s and other ex UK and US military) providing security services in 38 countries.

It says its work is to ” identify, reduce and resolve exceptional risks in complex, sometimes hostile, environments”.

Early 2008: Increasing strength of the SNP in Scotland attracts the attention of the secret services

The continued growth in nationalist support in Scotland alarmed the US and Westminster. The Labour Party was in meltdown and it was entirely possible an SNP government would be in place at Holyrood in 2009.

This would bring with it calls for Scottish independence and a referendum. An anti-nationalist strategy was needed designed to neutralise any potential problems.

There were also on-going problems within the Scottish Tory Party, which had suffered yet another bad election defeat.

Voices within the Party in Scotland had begun to raise the spectre of a split from Westminster control so that the Party in Scotland would revert to its former Unionist Party status forming its own distinctly Scottish policies whilst retaining a more hands off relationship with the Conservative Party at Westminster.

Fulton, (former MI6 senior agent and close colleague of Rifkind’s for many years) was identified as the most effective “agent for change” available.

It was agreed he would apply himself and his extensive resources to the tasks of completing a root and branch reorganisation of the Tory party in Scotland, removing any person, (no matter how senior) who did not fully commit to Westminster Conservative Party ideals.

He would also design a long term strategy undermining the SNP government ensuring any referendum for independence would fail. It was believed that the SNP would fall apart in the aftermath of a failure to gain independence.

An informed insider wrote; “Fulton is a major player in the military corporate nexus. He has been placed in an overtly political position because the UK government is extremely worried about Scottish secession. He is there to coordinate the destabilisation of the SNP government. Golf and cappuccinos are just distractions, he is a very dangerous individual.”

http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/andrew-fulton-is-he-professor.html

Autumn 2008: Former spy takes top Scottish Tory post

Fulton a former high ranking MI6 intelligence officer who served behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War is in line to become chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party.

Fulton, whose last posting was “Head of Station” in Washington, has emerged as one of the favourites for the post that fell vacant when Peter Duncan, the former MP for Dumfries, stood down last summer.

The appointment of the former intelligence officer, will be seen as an attempt by senior Tories to inject fresh blood and new thinking into the Scottish party, which has struggled to recover from its 1997 wipe-out when it lost all its Scottish MPs.

Last year, he became the first high-profile former spy to join a listed British company when he was appointed as an adviser to the Armor Group, a firm that provides security services to national governments and large corporations. Its chairman is the Tory grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

Fulton has operated in Scotland before. He was unmasked as a former spy in 2000 when he was forced to step down as a member of the Lockerbie Trial Briefing Unit which provided media briefings on the trial in Holland of the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing.

His cover was blown soon after he was included in a list of MI6 officers published on the internet by a disaffected agent in 1999.

The revelation raised concerns that he may have been in a position to influence the way the Lockerbie trial was being reported to ensure the minimum of criticism of the British and American intelligence services.

In his MI6 days, Fulton reportedly had been posted in East Berlin, Saigon, and New York.

He also served as “Head of Station” in Washington, D.C., and at the peak of his career he was the sixth-most powerful official in the organization.

In 1992, Fulton became the security officer who headed up European operations and was one of the MI6 chiefs handed the plans to kill Serb President Slobodan Milosevic.

He is presently the Senior adviser to the (All-Party Parliamentary MENA* Group at Westminster)

*The term MENA is an English-language acronym referring to an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including all Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries.

Fulton is the senior intelligence person advising the most senior political group in Westminster on all matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/1578128/Former-spy-in-line-for-top-Scottish-Tory-job.html

June 2009: Is Andrew Fulton, Tory Chairman still an MI6 Asset?

The former MI6 Station Chief, is currently Chairman of the Tory Party in Scotland.

He is also listed as an advisor to a number of organisations involved in intelligence matters.

He has history in Scotland. He was placed by the UK government with the Glasgow University Lockerbie Briefing Unit.

The title, “Visiting Professor” was awarded to him by then Glasgow University Principal, Graeme Davis who held membership of, “The Scottish North American Business Council” (SNABC), chaired by Fulton. (1)

The unusual thing about Fulton’s Professorship was that he had never worked in the legal profession in any capacity, had never taught classes and did no research at Glasgow University. So it beggars belief how he qualified as a Visiting Professor of Law?

Did Graham Davis permit MI6 to plant Fulton in the University Media unit. The American ambassador to the UK, Philip Lader was also a member of the (SNABC) at the same time. Useful front for meetings to discuss Lockerbie without attracting the attention of the UK press.

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/is-andrew-fulton-tory-chairman-still.html

(1) The (SNABC) is a little known but well connected atlanticist body aimed at fostering closer relations between business in Scotland and the US. It is the Scottish chapter of the British-American Business Council. It has interesting intelligence connections.

The current Chairman is former MI6 man Andrew Fulton, who was exposed as having been a former MI6 agent whilst working inside Glasgow University based Lockerbie Commission. The former US ambassador to the UK Philip Lader (also chair of the board of spin conglomerate WPP) is also on board.

The Council retains Media House International for PR and its executive chairman Jack Irvine is a former board member.

http://powerbase.info/index.php/Scottish_North_American_Business_Council

July 2010: Veteran Rifkind Chairman of Westminster MPs’ Watchdog

Former foreign secretary and defence secretary Rifkind is to chair the Commons committee on intelligence and security.

For five years until 24 February 2015 he was responsible for the security service MI6.

He fully supported NATO military intervention in Libya and supplying arms to the Libyan rebels.

November, 2011: Scottish Tories elect Fulton’s protégé as new leader.

Order is restored in Scotland. The threat of a Scottish Unionist Party breakaway is extinguished.

Conservatives on-side with Cameron have been placed in all key posts.

Scottish Unionists told behave or to get on their bikes.

Joyous new party leader Ruth Davidson said, “This is the first time that our members have been asked to elect a leader for the whole party in Scotland and I’ve met our members from Selkirk to Shetland and all points in between.

They’ve been engaged, they’ve been enthusiastic, they’ve been welcoming and they’re excited about our bright future too.”

 
2013: Margo Macdonald wrote to the Head of the UK’s Security Service seeking an Assurance that MI5 Spies would not interfere in the Independence Referendum.

In a letter to MI5’s director general, Andrew Parker, Margo MacDonald wrote: “I will be obliged if you can give me an assurance that UK Security Services will not be used in any respect in the lead-up to the Scottish referendum on sovereignty, unless, of course, the Scottish police have sufficient evidence to justify normal responses to potentially overtly criminal acts.

I do understand that the Security Services are vital to all the countries and regions of the British Isles and the potential for law-breaking may be heightened during the forthcoming campaign.

As action on the Security Services’ part is calculated to keep communities safe and aid cohesion, I would welcome an assurance from you that this will continue, and that no other consideration will inform your Department’s work.”

At interview Margo said the recent comments of former chancellor Denis Healey, who said the Labour Government of the 1970s had underplayed the value of oil revenues, underlined her concerns.

She said: “The influence of the security services was insidious. If the opportunity came up to depress the self-confidence of Scots, then the opportunity was taken.”

Asked if she believed the SNP and the wider Yes movement was currently infiltrated, she said: “Of course the security services have people in the SNP.”

A former intelligence adviser to the Joint Intelligence Committee, said he believed MI5 would monitor the independence debate.

There’s definitely a national security angle to Scottish independence that the security services would be aware of and the agency would have a concern about the knock-on effect of independence on Northern Ireland.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13108551.MI5_spies_told_stay_out_of_referendum/

Early 2013: Rifkind Controlled the Secret Services Throughout the Scottish Referendum Campaign

An ex-MI5/6 agent said: “Rifkind, known as “Malcolm the poof” is Chairman of the British parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which oversees MI5, MI6 and GCHQ . The most important position in the UK intelligence community the ISC reports first to the prime minister, who retains – and uses – the right to censor material in ISC reports before parliament views them”.

 
2015: Craig Murray provides an informed insight into MI5 Activities

Is it not strange that such a broad spectrum of the mainstream media react with instant vitriol to the very notion that the security services are active against the Scottish independence movement, when we know for certain that environmental campaign groups have been heavily penetrated by agents and agents provocateurs?

When such tactics have been used against the Irish Republican movement for decades?

When our intelligence services were up to their ears in torture and extraordinary rendition and repeatedly lied about it?

When Edward Snowden revealed the massive scale of surveillance by GCHQ?

In the days when the corporate media had a monopoly on the dissemination of information, simply shouting “conspiracy theorist”, “tinfoil hat” and “lizards” at somebody, excluding them from corporate media access, would be enough essentially to prevent anybody from reaching the public with information. But that no longer works in the age of new media, and especially it doesn’t work in Scotland after the referendum experience.

For the avoidance of doubt, let me spell this out. I have certain knowledge from an inside source that disruption of separatist activity in Scotland now features in MI5 tasking.

The “tasking” of the security services – and that is what it is officially called – is a very formal written exercise conducted by the Joint Intelligence Committee on an annual basis, though it is possible (but very difficult) to insert new tasks in-year.

I have personally taken part – often – in Cabinet Office meetings of JIC sub-committees determining tasking, though in my case more for MI6 than MI5.

2015: Julian Assange says SNP right to be concerned about MI5 spying

Speaking via video link from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he said that Scottish nationalists were not paranoid to be concerned that they were under surveillance.

He told the Commonwealth Law Conference in Glasgow: “They are correct for a number of reasons.

The attitude of the UK government is that this is a national security issue, that Scottish independence is, in effect, a threat to the state. This means that the full capacities of the GCHQ, for example, will be deployed.

There is also the conduct of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office communicating secretly and extensively across the world lobbying other States to get involved influencing the Referendum result against the nationalists.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/julian-assange-says-snp-right-be-concerned-about-mi5-spying-1496574?webSyncID=2abcddc7-90d7-29c2-405c-074c772d5731&sessionGUID=25b97e31-2bd9-144d-d116-3635c84ea357

Funding The White Helmets

the organisation is funded through the UK Government’s £1bn Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)

They are used as:

1. A means of supporting and lending credibility to opposition structures within Syria.
2.  A supposedly impartial organisation that corroborates UK government accusations against the Russian and Syrian states.

There has been controversy regarding the CSSF, as details of some of the projects it funds are secret and even senior MPs are not told what they are.

The 2017 Annual Report provides revealing details:

Click to access conflict-stability-security-fund-annual-report-2016-2017.pdf

The Jo Cox Memorial Fund

One million pounds raised in her honour in just three days. The scale and speed of the public response was overwhelming and showed how powerful her story was. Finance raised was to be used to support causes she believed in, including: The White Helmets: Volunteer search and rescue workers in Syria. Unarmed and neutral, these heroes have saved more than 51,000 lives from under the rubble and bring hope to the region. 

Who are the White helmets?

The murder of a rising star in UK politics, Jo Cox, MP  sent shock waves across the world. Within hours of her death, a special fund was established in her name to raise money. One cause supported was the Syrian White Helmets.

But credible allegations soon surfaced that the plea for financial support was a cynical exploitation of Jo Cox’s murder to revive the flagging credibility of a US State Department & UK Foreign Office asset on the ground in Syria.

The alleged “non-governmental” organisation received funding from at least three major NATO governments, including $23 million from the US Government and $29 million (£19.7 million) from the UK Government, $4.5 million (€4 million) from the Dutch Government. In addition, it received material assistance and training funded and run by a variety of other EU Nations.

The White Helmets were established as a crucial component of a US, UK and NATO shadow state operation inside Syria.  The group was essential to the propaganda stream that prosecuted a merciless media and political campaign against the elected Syrian government and permitted the US and NATO to justify their regime of crippling economic and humanitarian sanctions against the Syrian people.

The ‘NGO’ blueprint was successful and might well be deployed in future destabilizing operations providing a direct intra-venus line into the field of battle and acts as a conduit for information, equipment and medical support.

The foregoing matches the projected future of warfare, described as “swarming” and is outlined in a report produced by the RAND Corporation entitled: Swarming and the Future of Conflict.

“The emergence of a military doctrine based on swarming pods and clusters requires that defense policymakers develop new approaches to connectivity and control and achieve a new balance between the two. Far more than traditional approaches to battle, swarming clearly depends upon robust information flows. Securing these flows, therefore, can be seen as a necessary condition for successful swarming.”

Relevant articles and interviews are provided below.  There needs to be a serious public and political re-evauluation of the morality of funding US,UK and NATO groups established to further “regime change” objectives.

White Helmets exposed as US , UK agents embedded with Al Nusra and ISIS

“Behind the Headline,” investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley pulled back the curtain on anti-Assad ‘freedom fighters’ and ‘moderate rebels,’ revealing a carefully calibrated propaganda campaign to drive the US / UK intervention in the war-torn country.” Watch:

Mint Press: US Propaganda War in Syria: Report Ties White Helmets to US Intervention

“White Helmets primary function is propaganda” reported an independent journalist, who tied the group to George Soros and the controversial advocacy group Avaaz.”

Sputnik: Soros Sponsored NGO in Syria Aims at Ousting Assad not Saving Civilians

“One of the largest humanitarian organizations operating in war-torn Syria – the White Helmets – has been accused of being an anti-government propaganda arm that encourages direct foreign intervention.”

21st Century Wire: Syria’s White Helmets, War by Way of Deception Part 1

This piece examines the role of the Syria Civil Defence aka,’The White Helmets’ currently operating in Syria and take a closer look at their financial sources and mainstream media partners in order to better determine if they are indeed “neutral” as media moguls proclaim these “humanitarians” to be.

21st Century Wire: Part II. Syria’s White Helmets, “Moderate” Executioners

The NGO hydra has no more powerful or influential serpentine head in Syria than the Syria Civil Defence aka The White Helmets who, according to their leader and creator, James Le Mesurier, hold greater sway than even ISIS or Al Nusra confabs over the Syrian communities. This article explores the White Helmet involvement in terrorist executions of civilians particularly in Aleppo.

21st Century Wire: Humanitarian Propaganda War Against Syria – Led by Avaaz and the White Helmets

“The White Helmets in their haste to point the finger of blame at Moscow, managed to tweet about Russia’s air strikes several hours before the Russian Parliament actually authorized the use of the Air Force in Syria.” ~ Sott.net

Eva Bartlett: Human Rights Front Groups Warring on Syria

This page will continue to expand as more so-called “Human Rights” groups are outed for propagating anti-Syria war rhetoric and false allegations against the Syrian government and Syrian Arab Army.  As it is, the list of players is quite extensive.  Below, I’ll list the known HR front people and groups (many, if not most, with links to the US State Department and criminals like George Soros).

Ron Paul Institute: Syria the Propaganda Ring

We have demonstrated that the White Helmets are an integral part of the propaganda vanguard that ensures obscurantism of fact and propagation of Human Rights fiction that elicits the well-intentioned and self righteous response from a very cleverly duped public. A priority for these NGOs is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone scenario which has already been seen to have disastrous implications for innocent civilians in Libya, for example.

We will add to the above articles and interviews as they become available.  Vanessa Beeley has just completed a speaking tour of the UK and Iran during which she highlighted the role of the NGO complex in general and the White Helmets in particular as a new breed of predatory humanitarianism being unleashed against target nations. Videos of her talks will be published as soon as they become available from the AV7 conference and Frome Stop War.

Author Vanessa Beeley is a contributor to 21WIRE, and since 2011, she has spent most of her time in the Middle East reporting on events there – as a independent researcher, writer, photographer and peace activist. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Syria Solidarity Movement, and a volunteer with the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. See more of her work at her blog The Wall Will Fall.

http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/06/21/who-are-the-syria-white-helmets/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/human-rights-front-groups-humanitarian-interventionalists-warring-on-syria/

Mortality age by region

Up to the early 1950’s, Scottish mortality rates were broadly comparable with the rest of the UK. But from that time, attributed to increased levels of deprivation life expectancy, in Scotland hardly increased over a period of 60+ years whereas in England age survival rates increased year on year and there is now a very significant gap in life expectancy between England & Scotland.

England Home Counties & London

Male pensioners, in affluent areas of London & the South East of England enjoy a life expectancy of around 80 years. Female life expectancy is about 84 years.

Scotland

In Scotland, male life expectancy is 72 years. Female life expectancy is 78 years.

Scottish pensioners subsidise their English counterparts in the South of England

Pensions to Scots men before death. £8k x 7 years £56K

Pensions to English men before death. £8K x 15 years £120K

Pensions to Scots women before death. £6k x 13 years £78K

Pensions to English female before death. £6K x 19 years £114K

Conclusion

Scottish pensioners heavily subsidize pension payments to much longer living English pensioners.

The Office of National Statistics recorded age expectancy in the period 2010-2012:

London & SE England: Males 80y Females 84y.

Glasgow & West of Scotland; Males 73y Females 78y.

Percentage of newborns in Glasgow & West of Scotland who reach age 65y; Males 73% Females 79%.

27% of males and 22% of females in Glasgow & West of Scotland will contribute to a pension all of their working lives and get NOTHING in return by way of pension.

So as to be fair, I selected one, (similar in population density) conurbation in each country: Glasgow & West of Scotland & London & S/East England.

Conclusion

Scottish pensioners are badly served by the Westminster government. Our people die much earlier in life than the English. Indeed the life expectancy for 25%+ of Scottish children indicates they may not survive beyond age 65y. A damming indictment of the so called fair and equal distribution of resources in the UK. Time we were out of it.

Pensions were severely eroded when New Labour changed the rules and tied state retirement pension increases to the rate of inflation.

Gordon Brown, with his insider  knowledge was aware that all was not well with the UK economy and the punishing adverse impact his change on pensioners income. In the first year the state pension increased by a miserable 14p.

Bailing out fraudulent bankers and austerity– pensioners driven to despair and early death

The 2008 financial crisis had a negative impact on pensions and pensioner poverty and continues unabated due to Westminster government fiscal policies.

Uk taxpayers, including pensioners are in debt to money lenders to the tune of nearly 3trillion. Interest payments are horrendous and it is doubtful the prime sum  of loans will ever be repaid.

But UK bankers who plunged the nation into financial crisis escaped unpunished. Indeed many bankers and associated politicians have been appointed to high office as peers of the realm and sit in judgement over the many millions of citizens they ripped off.

Bankers who remained in the “bailed out by the taxpayer banking system”  have been and continued to attract bonus payment measured in the hundreds of £millions. The rich have got much richer and old age pensioners and many disadvantaged members of society are dependent on charity being faced with a lack of support from an uncaring welfare state just to remain alive.

Apart from invidious severe cuts in welfare benefits the weapon favoured by successive Westminster governments has been the retention of interest rates at or near zero. The effect has been to reduce the value of pensions by around 35% over the past 10 years resulting in ever increasing numbers of pensioners requiring the assistance of means tested welfare benefits which cannot be guaranteed.

The final straw for pensioners is the removal of the triple lock which resulted in 60,000 of the UK’s least well-off pensioners, with partners of working age losing thousands of pounds a year as a result of benefit changes designed to save £1bn over the next five years.

The Langley Intelligence Group Network (L.I.G.N.E.T.)

Is a fully independent intelligence and forecasting service whose mission is to analyse and report on geopolitical risks.

Langley Report on the British Defence Industry – Trade Over Principles

Relations between London and Moscow may be strained over Ukraine, but that didn’t stop the British defence industry from selling more than £150m in arms to Russia.

Remarkably, at the same time Britain sold armaments to Ukraine it disguised the sale of “sniper rifle parts” by relabelling the shipments “parts for hunting rifles”.

NATO and the Nuclear Umbrella – A View

“One of the ironies in the whole debate about nuclear weapons in the UK is that Scotland, who have them, don’t want them, and England who don’t have them, want Scotland, who don’t want them, to keep them”

George Robertson and the Unionists Scaremongering

Robertson, his Unionist politician colleagues and “better together” campaigners spread their “we’re all doomed” lies and warned that should an independent Scotland instruct an early removal of Trident from the Clyde it would be denied NATO membership.

Absolute piffle!! and they knew it! In 2010, Robertson criticized a German government instruction to remove US long-range nuclear weapons from German territory as damaging not only to Germany but to the NATO alliance as a whole. He said that the proposal was driven more by populist sentiment than any long-term strategic goal. But the weapons were removed and Germany remained its membership of NATO

Tactical Nuclear weapons in Europe

U.S. and Russia bilateral negotiations to reduce long-range weapons did not cover weapons in Europe and it has around 150 tactical nuclear gravity bombs stationed in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Turkey.

There is a NATO agreement in place allowing the bombs to be transferred to the control and use by a NATO nation in time of conflict.

In 2001 the Greek air force ordered a new fighter jet and chose a model that could not carry nuclear gravity bombs which forced the U.S. to withdraw its weapons. Greece is still a member of NATO.

The U.S. still stores gravity bombs in Turkey, but the Turkish air force is no longer involved. Turkey is still a member of NATO.

Canada gave up its support of nuclear weapons many years ago. Canada is still a member of NATO.

UK aircraft cannot carry tactical nuclear bombs

The UK decided upon replacing its Tornado, tactical nuclear bomb carrying fleet before the end of 2020. The chosen successor aircraft, the Eurofighter (Typhoon) a joint European venture, is in service in, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, and has been sold worldwide in ever-increasing numbers. It is not capable of carrying tactical nuclear bombs. And not one country has been threatened with expulsion from NATO.

A spokesperson for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies commented: “NATO’s hidden nuclear arsenal is unpopular, potentially unsafe and a hindrance to global nonproliferation efforts and it’s time for it to be removed”.

Political opportunists Hilary and Nicola

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 on taking her 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. The SNP membership is despondent and badly divided and there is a great danger it will descend into anarchy.

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 supporters in the Party, in Government and the Crown Office, has 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.

Hillary Clinton

2022 is a midterm election year in the USA. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be up for grabs. The Republican Party is predicted to retake the senate. If affirmed it is likely that efforts will be made to jail Hillary Clinton and others closely associated in their near 5-year false and malicious disinformation campaign accusing President Trump of working with President Putin devising and implementing plans to subvert American voters enabling Trump to defeat Clinton. November 2022 might well be a pivotal period in political history.

1996: President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, (DOMA) a law that defined federal marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

2000: Running for the Senate she said: “Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

2004: In a Senate debate she said that she believed that marriage was: “a sacred bond between a man and a woman and she took umbrage at anyone who might suggest that those who worry about amending the Constitution are less committed to the sanctity of marriage, or to the fundamental bedrock principle that exists between a man and a woman.”

2007: Hillary Clinton answered a questionnaire for the Human Rights Campaign. About whether marriage should be made legally available to two committed adults of the same sex she entered that she was “opposed” though she supported civil unions. In a follow-up debate, she was asked “What is at the heart of your opposition to same-sex marriage?” Her reply was: “I prefer to think of it as being very positive about civil unions. You know, it’s a personal position. How we get to full equality is the debate we’re having, and I am absolutely in favour of civil unions with full equality of benefits, rights, and privileges.”

2012: President Obama reversed his previous position and announced his support for same-sex marriage

2013: Announcing she would run for President in 2016 she announced her support for same-sex marriage stating: “LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones. And they are full and equal citizens, and they deserve the right to citizenship. That includes marriage. That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law, embedded in a broader effort to advance equality and opportunity for LGBT Americans and all Americans.”

2013: At St. Andrew’s University in Scotland in her first foreign visit since she announced she would run for President in 2016, she received a doctor of laws degree for her work as a politician and diplomat in championing the causes of education, human rights, democracy, civil society and promoting opportunities for women around the world.

2014: She was grilled about her ever-changing positions on gay marriage and was asked: “Would you say your view evolved since the ’90s or that the American public evolved, allowing you to state your real view?” She replied: “I think I’m an American and I think we have all evolved.”

2014: Scottish Independence Referendum: She told the BBC’s Jeremy Paxton: “I would hate to have England lose Scotland. Rebutting her unwelcome interference Alex Salmond said Scotland: “was not England’s property to be lost it is one of the oldest nations in the World deciding its own future.” Sturgeon made no comment.

2015: On the day of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments about same-sex marriage bans in a handful of states in April, she changed her “H” logo to rainbow-coloured and tweeted the message: “Every loving couple & family deserves to be recognized & treated equally under the law across our nation.”

2016: Her current support of gay marriage and the LGBT community is based on nothing more than political expediency. She had zero interest in supporting gay rights until it was no longer risky to be an LGBT advocate.

2016: It is unusual for political leaders to express their opinion on other country’s elections while campaigning is still underway. Neutrality is usually observed but Nicola Sturgeon broke with political tradition and ‘fervently’ endorsed Clinton’s bid for the American Presidency saying: Hillary Clinton would be “a great president.”

2016: Clinton released a video to the UK media attacking Donald Trump’s credibility at the time he was visiting his newly revamped Turnberry course. The video which was set to bagpipe music featured Sturgeon who said Trump was not welcome in Scotland and Michael Forbes, who challenged Trump’s bid to build his Meanie Estate golf course in Aberdeenshire.

Comments: Ever the political opportunist she opposed same-sex marriage as a candidate for the Senate, while in office as a senator, and while running for president in 2008. She expressed her support for civil unions starting in 2000 and for the rights of states to set their own laws in favour of same-sex marriage in 2006. Then as polls showed that a majority of Americans supported same-sex marriage, Clinton’s views changed, too. She announced her support for same-sex marriage in March 2013.

Andrew Sullivan, former editor of The New Republic, in a 2014 blog post wrote: Clinton opposed gay marriage until public opinion shifted in its favour. Supporters have focused on the argument of her having an evolving stance, but as a high-profile Democrat for the past few decades, Clinton played a role in obstructing progress for LGBT rights. In addition to DOMA, her husband Bill Clinton signed the HIV travel ban into law, which disproportionately discriminated against the LGBT community. He also signed the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “As long as marriage equality hurt the Democrats, they were against it. Now it may even hurt Republicans, they’re for it. So Hillary is for it now.”

She voted for and strongly supported the Iraq War for years until she finally apologized and admitted in 2014 it was a mistake. But she has not learned. An apology isn’t enough when she continued with her war hawk tendencies, invariably pushing for regime change and perpetuating U.S. military conflicts abroad. As one of the most high-profile Democrats in the Senate, Clinton’s Iraq stance played a central role in manufacturing consent for a war we now know was launched from baseless accusations. During her service as secretary of state, Clinton supported every war demanded by the military-industrial complex.