Alec launched a brutal broadside against Swinney as he accused him of “making independence impossible” in the General Election. And he also claimed that the First Minister was “reprising” his failed 2003 Holyrood campaign where he lost eight seats.
Alec was reacting to an interview Swinney did with ITV News in which he confessed that he would support Devo Max instead of gaining a second independence referendum.
The SNP strategy is to win a majority of the seats at the next General Election and then plead with the Prime Minister to give them the power to hold another vote. but Westminster has already rejected the notion of such an event.
Swinney was asked whether he would support more powers for Holyrood instead of a referendum, and admitted he would.
He said: “I have never, my record says that I have never resisted strengthening of the powers of the Scottish Parliament. I was part of the Smith Commission which brought more power, the very tax powers that you’ve asked me about, came from the Smith Commission, of which I was a member. So I will always try to build the powers of the Scottish Parliament. I’m a believer in independence, I think independence is the answer for Scotland, but I will always work constructively to strengthen the powers of the Scottish Parliament. The real challenge we face is over the last few years since Brexit the powers of the Scottish Parliament have been eroded by the UK Government.”
He was asked if he wanted to see these extra powers being offered in the Labour manifesto and confirmed he did, and wanted Scots to “have the opportunity to decide their own future.” But the interview was highlighted by Alec Salmond as proof that the SNP had given up the push for Scexit.
Alec said: “Now we know why independence is off the SNP ballot paper. These interviews from Swinney are so wrong on so many levels. All experience shows that the ONLY circumstances when Westminster offers more powers for Scotland, is when they are frightened of independence and since the SNP are not campaigning for independence then Labour have no need to concede anything. As Swinney told Nick Robinson, of the BBC, the SNP is campaigning for a ‘democratic effect’ forcing Starmer to permit a referendum to which he already knows the answer is “no”.
A timely reminder
In 2003, Swinney led the SNP to a calamatous result in the Holyrood election, losing eight seats and seeing the vote share drop by 4.9% which was the beginning of the end for his reign as he was forced to resign after another bad showing in the European Parliament elections and was replaced by Mr Salmond. Luddite as he is Swinney is destined to repeat his mistakes condemnimg Scots to many more years of Westminster abuse. Thank you Mr Swinney.
Summarised from an article written by the political correspondent David Walker,
Operation Diem – The Crown Office. The “sisting” process. Bypassing the Judicial Review.
D.C.S. Lesley Boal, was appointed lead officer of a Police Scotland enquiry furnished with unlimited financial resources to establish whether there was any criminality on the part of Mr Salmond. She had command of a team of 14 full-time experienced police detectives. The team carried out 386 interviews over a period of 2 years at the end of which Alex was charged with 14 offences of which he was subsequently cleared in the High Court.
Chief Constable Iain Livingstone, told Holyrood’s Public Audit Committee that: “A small dedicated team worked on Operation Diem from Fettes Police Station, Edinburgh, between August 2018 and April 2020. It was comprised of seven officers from August 2018 rising to a maximum of 14 during the months between October 2018 and July 2019 before steadily reducing in 2020. The indicative cost of this staffing profile is just over £810,000. In addition, there were non-staff costs captured in respect of operation Diem totalling just over £24,000.” And his report proved to be wishful thinking. The final cost was over £1million and only covered the police investigation.
Not long after Scottish devolution, following storms of protest from Scottish viewers and politicians the BBC agreed to transfer a significant amount of television production to Scotland greatly increasing Scottish content. Implementation of change would be achieved without detriment to existing staff employed in England or to operational routine.
Smoke and mirrors time:
The BBC in London, restructured its programme production contract with Mentorn (a small but growing subsidiary of the Tinopolis Group, an offshore registered media producer & and distributor).
Mentorn, set up a Glasgow office in 2002, in compliance with the BBC commitment to transfer finance and programme making to Scotland.
From then Mentorn expanded its programme production and distribution many times over, including the Unionist biased, Question Time.
Mentorn & Nickilai Gentchev
This is how the production of Question Time was (paper) transferred to Scotland.
Gentchev, in the employ of Mentorn, was transferred from London to Glasgow taking on the role of editor of Question Time.
In his new role he worked with Haley Valentine, who was appointed to a newly ceated post of Executive Editor. A Scottish face needed to be put in place comforting Scots licence holders and politicians
He remained in the employ of Mentorn for the duration of his tenure (2011-2016) reporting to Gavin Allen, the London based, Head of BBC Political News, who who continued to meet his salary.
He also wrote articles for the International Socialism Journal and Socialist Review. A revelation that led to attacks by Tory politicians saying that his background provided credence to their claims that the programme was a mouthpiece for left-wing politicians and activists.
The move was also openly criticized by its presenter, David Dimbleby, who insisted that weekly editorial meetings continue to take place in London. The programme also saw the resignation of its incumbent Editor, Ed Havard, who resigned rather than transfer to Scotland.
Hayley Valentine
Family: Born in Glenrothes in 1971. Schooling: Auchtermuchty High School & Edinburgh University. Career: Journalism: First worked in Dundee before moving on to work in commercial radio in Edinburgh. Progressed to producing television programming with Scottish Television then for BBC Scotland. Promoted and transferred to London taking up a post editing BBC Breakfast TV. Set her stall on working in radio and rewarded with her appointment as Head of News, for BBC Radio 5 Live.
2013: Message from: the Electoral Reform Society Scotland, to: Haley Valentine Executive Editor, Question Time. Date Jun 2013
The Electoral Reform Society in Scotland seeks to inform and improve Scotland’s democracy.
With that in mind, we have being undertaking an inquiry into what a good Scottish democracy looks like.
A major theme that has emerged from this year long, citizen led inquiry, is the importance of the media to instruct, publicize and inform the debate.
There has been support for a publicly funded media provider, but a strong sense that that body should be impartial and should seek to provide balanced and informed coverage of politics.
Clearly this is of particular concern in the run up to the 2014 referendum.
We were concerned therefore to see the line-up for the BBC Question Time programme to be held in Edinburgh this evening (Thursday 13th June).
Not only does the selection of panellists fail to represent the make-up of Scottish politics, but it also seems to be aimed more at pantomime than serious debate.
That this should be the case when the audience is, very pleasingly, to be made up of 16 and 17 year old’s in recognition of the extension of the franchise to that group for the referendum is worrying.
It seems to show a lack of respect for these young audience members – implying that they do not deserve serious political debate.
It also fails to allow them to hear from their elected representatives in this public debate forum which receives the widest of political attention.
Two of the parties which will be competing for their vote in 2014 are unrepresented and the Yes and Better Together campaigns are needlessly unequally represented.
Were this not bad enough, available spaces on the platform are taken instead by George Galloway MP and Nigel Farage M.E.P., two individuals and parties who are not represented in Scotland.
We welcome the decision to involve 16 and 17 year old’s in a public debate about the referendum, but the chosen panellists do those 16 and 17 year old’s a disservice as they will not be able to hear from the parties who represent them and who will be seeking their vote in 2014.
We would ask the BBC to urgently reconsider the panel, and at the very least to re-schedule a repeat of this edition of Question Time, but with a panel representative of Scottish politics that respects the BBC’s role to be impartial and equal.
Haley Valentine Jumps ship and transfers her employment to Mentorm
Mentorn Media Confirmed Hayley Valentine as its new director of current affairs.
She joined Mentorn from BBC Scotland where she was the executive editor of Question Time.
Based in Glasgow, she will continue to oversee the programme for Mentorn as well as BBC One’s The Big Questions and continuing the growth of Mentorn’s current affairs output across all broadcasters.
Chief executive of Mentorn Media, John Willis, said: “Hayley is the perfect person to head up Mentorn’s current affairs programming.
She has extensive knowledge and experience and we are delighted she will be responsible for developing even more programming from our ever-expanding Glasgow office.”
Valentine said: “I’ve been on the receiving end of the impressive editorial work that Mentorn has produced and I look forward to maintaining that level of commitment to BBC programming as well as developing new and engaging formats across all broadcasters.”
2016/17: BBC Forced to make changes
Repeated demands over nearly 20 years from viewers and politicians in Scotland, for news and current affairs programming to be produced in Scotland, for a Scottish audience fell on deaf ears in London.
But the Corporation was forced to respond to demands for change following widespread criticism of its referendum coverage.
It announced a new BBC Scotland channel which would broadcast from 7pm to midnight every day, as well as being available online and on iPlayer.
With a budget of around £30m it would feature acquired programmes and programmes from partners in the creative sector and from other countries and a selection of content sourced from other BBC services.
2018: Haley Valentine Returns to the BBC
Valentine, executive editor of the BBC’s, Question Time, the much criticized flagship political debate show, was appointed editor of the “integrated news hour” a key part of the BBC Scotland channel.
The new bulletin included national and international news and was broadcast between 9pm and 10pm.
Not much of a change really, since she was already the director of current affairs at Mentorn Scotland, the company which made the bloody programme for the BBC.
She said: “to be given the opportunity to launch a brand new programme at the heart of the proposed new BBC Scotland Channel is a real privilege and a rare treat.
We will be creating a really distinctive programme with a broad Scottish, UK-wide and international news agenda which has the priorities of a Scottish audience at the centre of everything we do.”
Gary Smith, head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland, said: “Hayley has an outstanding track record and I’m delighted she is re-joining us.
I’m confident that under her leadership we will produce an exciting, distinctive, and brilliant new programme for our audiences.
She also joind the management team, and undertook a key role in the running of the department and the recruitment of the 80 new jobs created through the BBC’s major investment in journalism in Scotland.” ( another story yet to be to be told)
2017/18: The New BBC Scotland Channel Takes Shape
80 new journalists were hired in the run-up to the launch of The Nine.
New appointments included James Cook, the BBC’s former North America correspondent, as chief news correspondent, innovation correspondent Laura Goodwin, David Farrell as entertainment reporter, Europe correspondent, Jean MacKenzie, and three new political reporters – Rajdeep Sandhu, Lynsey Bews and David Lockhart.
2018: Hayley Valentine – A voice from cloud Cookoo Land
Referring to her work with Mentorm as Executive Editor of Question Time and the Scottish Independence Referendum, she said:
“I was involved in our referendum programming and I will defend it agianst accusations of bias until my dying day.
I’m not saying the BBC or any other broadcaster was perfect.
It was a tricky time, but we were all doing the best we could.
I don’t know a single journalist who brought any bias to work with them.
I’m aware that there are trust issues, but I think they are sometimes overplayed.
The BBC is still trusted, and BBC Scotland is still trusted, more than most news organisations.
I don’t think we are universally dismissed on a trust basis.
Across the piece, the public looks at lot more sceptically at journalism than it potentially did ten years ago.
To be trusted, you have to give people things that they want and have a need for, and stories that they wouldn’t otherwise be told.
A key aim of “The Nine” is to move political journalism away from institutions and translate politics into how it affects ordinary people.
I hope “The Nine” will restore faith in BBC Scotland by shunning top-down journalism, reducing the use of jargon and making people feel we are for them and of them.
Our remit is to serve the audience better, ask questions that people want asked, explore bits of Scottish life that aren’t currently being explored and reflect their lives back at that them.
That will get people to like and trust our programme.
It can do a lot to make people feel that we are for them and of them.”
What a load of Tosh!!!! Her statement conflicts sharply with verified opinion polling carried out in the wake of the referendum which found that viewers in Scotland were more unhappy about the BBC’s output than any other part of the media.
Indeed one survey found that a third of audiences in Scotland believed that the BBC was biased against independence.
Sep 2020: New BBC Scotland Channel Is A Dud
launched in February 2019 average audience figures peaked around a satisfactory 60,000, but the honeymoon did not last long, figures had slumped to under 19,000 by the beginning of May 2019.
Over the period 21 shows recorded an audience of zero. and in one day in May only 7200 viewers tuned in.
The flagship “nine news” also recorded zero viewers on a number of occasions.
Channel content went from bad to worse in 2020, viewing figures plummeted and the channel eventually shut down.
It just didn’t deliver what Scots want which is Scottish news and current affairs delivered on BBC1 at 6 and 9.
Valentine and her large expensively salaried team was a waste of licence fee payers hard earned money.
And the transfer of £80m from London to Scotland didn’t happen. All of the production work was awarded to Mentorn whose profits end up with their parent company registered offshore. I’ll write about them next time.
Elon Musk will purchase Ryanair. Relocate its headquarters to the US controlled Free Trade Zone, near Edinburgh, Scotland adding airfreighting to the development.
Scapa Flo Orkney
Demand for Container Terminal Capacity in Scotland will increase markedly
Scapa Flow in Orkney provides the best available deep water port in Europe with the potential to handle any amount of major transshipment 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, transshipment 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Mar 2007: Council members bid to oust Jackie Baillie MSP
An outbreak of CDIF occurred at the Vale of Leven Hospital in West Dunbartonshire. This was the most recent failure in service delivery at the hospital abd the public are very unhappy about it.
Labour councillors turned on their local MSP yesterday, demanding her resignation over local hospital services.
Jackie Baillie, the Dumbarton Labour MSP and former communities minister, was attacked by four Labour members of West Dunbartonshire Council, including former leader Andy White.
They sided with the Scottish National Party and independent councillors at a full council meeting which brought the ruling administration to the brink of collapse. Martin Rooney, who replaced Andy White after his forced resignation.
In December, only six of the 16 people elected as Labour councillors in 2003 attended. Several stayed away while four rebels voted against the Labour line and sought revenge on Ms Baillie for her public attacks on them.
what arrangements were put in place to keep patient safe. If they were transferred to other hospitals this would markedly increase the travelling time for relatives and other visitors in already difficult circumstances. What was the final cost of the clean up to the Scottish public
Vale of Leven Hospital Context (2007)
The CDIF outbreak at Vale of Leven Hospital was part of a broader scandal involving poor infection control and management.
A 2009 public inquiry found that 53 patients died between 2007 and 2008, with C. diff being a factor in many deaths, though only 18 were directly attributed to the infection.
Failures included inadequate staffing, poor hygiene practices, and insufficient isolation facilities, which fueled the outbreak and public outrage.
Patient transfers significantly increased travel times for relatives and visitors. Vale of Leven Hospital is in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, approximately 20–30 miles from Glasgow’s major hospitals. Public transport options, such as buses or trains, could take 1–2 hours each way, and driving would involve similar time and costs, particularly burdensome for frequent visits.
The outbreak’s distressing nature—marked by severe diarrhea and loss of dignity—already placed emotional strain on families. Increased travel would exacerbate this, especially for elderly or frail relatives with limited mobility or resources, compounding the “already difficult circumstances” noted in the query.
Families also reported inconsistent communication from hospital staff, with “mixed messages” about C. diff, which would have made coordinating visits to transferred patients more challenging.
and he is well on his way to completing it within the next 4 years. But if he falls short the next administration will complete the business which will completely change the trading map of the World
The starting point is the Golden Dome
The US plans to dramatically boost its procurement of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors as it moves forward and develops its, “Golden Dome” for America.
The MSE missile, a critical component of the defense concept, is a “hit-to-kill” interceptor missile designed to destroy incoming ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft through direct impact.
The cost of one interceptor is around $3.871 milliona and, “The Army Requirements Oversight Council Memorandum (AROCM) approved a PAC-3 MSE AAO/APO increase from 3,376 to 13,773.
Finance required to complete the project will be around $2 billion including the which will include the funding of Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR), the US government initiative providing military assistance to Ukraine.
Next in line is Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Since the 19th century, the United States has made several attempts to purchase the island of Greenland from Denmark. After World War II, the United States secretly offered to buy Greenland; there was public discussion about purchasing the island during President Trump’s first term in 2019 and again In May 2025 after his 2024 reelection. On that occasion he stated that he would not rule out a U.S. annexation of Geenland.
The United States considers Greenland to be vital to its national security and in the early 20th century, it included it tgether with a number of European possessions in the Western Hemisphere to be preemptively seized and fortified in the event of a threatened attack on the US.
During World War II, the US invoked the “Monroe Doctrine” and occupied Greenland to prevent its use by Germany following the German occupation of Denmark. The US military remained in Greenland after the war, and by 1948, Denmark abandoned attempts to persuade the US to leave. The following year, both countries became members of the NATO military alliance. A 1951 treaty gave the US a significant role in Greenland’s defense, and, about 1953, construction began on Thule military base, now known as Pituffik Space Base, located in northwest Greenland.
The Department of Defense has redrawn its military combatant command responsible for defending the U.S. homeland to include Greenland. The change strengthens the Joint Force’s ability to defend the U.S. homeland, contributing to a more robust defense of the western hemisphere and deepening relationships with Arctic allies and partners. The adjustment will shift responsibility for Greenland from U.S. European Command to U.S. Northern Command. Aligning Greenland with NORTHCOM will mean that it is treated not as an outpost, but as a cornerstone of U.S. security posture in the High North. Announcing the change the Pentagon did not mention any intent to annex the territory, assuaging some Europeans’ concerns.
Why Greenland?
Global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global trade and security, and President Trump aims to make sure that the U.S. controls the mineral-rich country that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North America.
Climate change is thinning the Arctic ice, promising to create a northwest passage for international trade reigniting competition with Russia, China and other countries over access to the region’s mineral resources.
“Let us be clear: we are soon entering the Arctic Century, and its most defining feature will be Greenland’s meteoric rise, sustained prominence and ubiquitous influence,’’ said Dwayne Menezes, managing director of the Polar Research and Policy Initiative.
“Greenland — located on the crossroads between North America, Europe and Asia, and with enormous resource potential — will only become more strategically important, with all powers great and small seeking to pay court to it. One is quite keen to go a step further and buy it.”
The following are some of the factors that are driving U.S. interest in Greenland.
Arctic competition
Following the Cold War, the Arctic was largely an area of international cooperation. But climate change, the hunt for scarce resources and increasing international tensions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are once again driving competition in the region.
Strategic importance
Greenland sits off the northeastern coast of Canada, with more than two-thirds of its territory lying within the Arctic Circle. That has made it crucial to the defense of North America since World War II, when the U.S. occupied Greenland to ensure that it didn’t fall into the hands of Nazi Germany and to protect crucial North Atlantic shipping lanes.
The U.S. has retained bases in Greenland since the war, and the Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Force Base, supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance operations for the U.S. and NATO. The US will take over responsibility for monitoring what is known at present as the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) Gap,enabling it to moni all naval naval movements in the North Atlantic.
Natural resources
Greenland has large deposits of so-called rare earth minerals that are needed to make everything from computers and smartphones to the batteries, solar and wind technologies that will power the transition away from fossil fuels. The U.S. Geological Survey has also identified potential offshore deposits of oil and natural gas.
Climate change
Greenland’s retreating ice cap is exposing the country’s mineral wealth and melting sea ice is opening up the once-mythical Northwest Passage through the Arctic.
Greenland sits strategically along two potential routes through the Arctic, which would reduce shipping times between the North Atlantic and Pacific and bypass the bottlenecks of the Suez and Panama canals. The routes will become commercially viable an are attracting
Chinese interest
In 2018, China declared itself a “near-Arctic state” in an effort to gain more influence in the region. It also announced plans to build a “Polar Silk Road” as part of its global Belt and Road Initiative, which has created economic links with countries around the world. A Chinese-backed rare earth mining project in Greenland stalled after the local government banned uranium mining in 2021.
Independence
The legislation that extended self-government to Greenland in 2009 also recognized the country’s right to independence under international law. Opinion polls show a majority of Greenlanders favor independence, though they differ on exactly when that should occur.
The US will withdraw from NATO. There will be no US military presence in Europe. Indirect contributions to NATO’s common budgets and programs and direct costs such as U.S. military presence and spending in Europe will cease saving the US around $15billion annually.
The rapidly expanding political influence of Islam in the UK and Europe causes concern. The US nuclear umbrella will no longer extend to Europe and maintenance of the UK’s, ” nuclear deterrent” will end, forcing the closure of nuclear facilities at Faslane.
90% of Americans couldn’t point out the UK on a map and the “special relationship” will end
The balance of trade between the US and Europe greatly disadvantages the US and more equitable arrangements will be established initially through increased tarrifs.
The Altlantic Ocean, the backdoor to the US, will be monitored by a reduced in size but still powerful US naval presence.
And finally the US will fully commit its trading might to the Pacific
The US will fully commit its energy to the Pacific developing trade with the many countries that have access to it. This includes China which has an economy much larger the whole of Europe and GB combined.
Its naval fleet will be permanently deployed in the Pacific
Military bases will be established in strategic locations in the Pacific
So what is to become of Europe and GB ?
With the US no longer in the frame holding their jackets Europe and Russia will be forced to open their borders and establish trade beneficial to all parties.
What is to become of Scotland if it the Westminster Government refuses to set it free from colonial status.
It will drift into oblivion with the rest of the UK, destroyed by the imposition of impossible levels of personal taxation necessary but failing to reduce obscenely high levels of debt.
Or
Scotland can fight hard, regain its independence. Develop its trade with EFTA, the EU and the rest of the World, from a position of strength as a rich country well blessed with many types of renewable resources.
John Reid, “now Baron”, (Labour Party bulldog) recently resurfaced and, declaring himself, “a man to be trusted” attacked any persons who said they would vote, “Yes” to independence. He should hang his head in shame and take himself away from politics forever. A has-been who blatantly failed the nations forces.
April 29 2006 Afghanistan:
The UK deployed over 3,000 military personnel, tasked to create a safe base and to provide leadership of the Nato-led peacekeeping force.
In direct support a large US-led force was deployed throughout the country aggressively eliminating militants.
John Reid, Secretary of State for Defence, addressing the world’s press in Kabul, spoke of how Britain would remain in the Nato offensive, emphasising the importance of preventing the Taliban returning to power.
He further stated, “We’re in Helmand and the South to assist and protect the Afghan people reconstructing their economy and democracy” and, “we would be perfectly happy to leave in three years time without firing one shot.”
In private he told the military that the area to which they had been deployed was infested with nests of vipers which should be eliminated .
The military leader of the soldiers expressed surprise and disappointment and, warned Reid that his soldiers were not equipped nor trained to deal with problems such as indicated.
Reid blustered that they would havelearn quickly. He left the troops to their fate and removed himself to Westminster, well away from the conflict.
On his return to Westminster, he became embroiled in another government scandal.
1,200+ illegal immigrants, previously imprisoned for very serious crimes against UK citizens had not been deported on release and could not be traced.
The Home Secretary had been sacked for incompetence. Reid replaced him.
Casualties, in Afghanistan, quickly mounted up, as the British soldiers were constantly attacked
It was noted in the Press that a USA unit located with the UK force was suffering markedly fewer casualties.
Th Americans attributed this to the arming of soldiers with appropriate weaponry and equipmentt, effcctive protective clothing, specialst sniper kill training and back-up support.
Requests to Westminster for new measures to be introduced, were rebuffed, by the Treasury since finance for the mission had been previously fixed.
Casualties continued increasing and the UK media, appalled at the attrition level publicly voiced their concerns. This resulted in pressure being applied by the UK public who insisted UK forces should be properly trained and equipped.
Westminster reluctantly agreed to rectify matters and borrowed £ billions on the open market.
Major General Mackay
Britain Sent Troops Into Helmand Province With, “Eyes Shut and Fingers Crossed”
Greatly respected, Force Commander in Helmand, Major General Mackay,(in an interview in the Times), not long after he left the Army said;
“Labour’s approach to the Afghan mission had proved “very costly. The genesis of their approach is born of complacency, the thought that, ‘we can deal with it as and when it happens. It resulted, I believe, in the upper echelons of the Labour government going into Helmand with their eyes shut and their fingers crossed.For those who fought and died or suffered injuries in that period, this proved a very costly means of conducting counter-insurgency. The issue is whether or not our politicians, diplomats, intelligence services, civil servants and senior military have done enough, adapted enough, been innovative enough or courageous enough to make tough, and more often than not, unpalatable choices.My answer to that question is that they have not or have failed to do so too often. Muddling through seemed to be the default setting, along with the protection of individual and collective interests”.
Follow up – The disastrous legacy John Reid left the Army and the nation
446 British soldiers met their deaths – a higher figure than in Iraq, or the Falklands – most commonly from improvised explosive devices buried along the dusty roads of Helmand province. They have been killed at four times the rate of US troops, a statistical disparity which nobody at Westminster seems anxious to have explained.
The maximum acceptable level of Major Combat casualties is 6 deaths per 1000. USA forces suffered 3 deaths per 1000 in the same period.
UK forces suffered 13 deaths per 1000. (twice the normal rate).
3560 soldiers were wounded. A snapshot of non-lethal casualties showed that in one year alone, (between April 2012 and March 2013) 29 British soldiers had limbs amputated. Twelve of these were classified as “significant multiple amputees”. The average age of those who died was 22. Thirty-one were teenagers, 200 in their 20s.
Of the Afghan veterans who had made it home more or less in one piece, the most common cause of death in 2012 was suicide.
One reason for the very high British casualty rate – in the absence of written evidence – could be the ignorance and stupidity of British politicians and their carelessness about the lives of the young people they were sending into battle, the resultant failure to provide basic equipment and the deployment of personnel in ways which made no military (or any other sort of) sense.
Breaking! A director of the disinformation and hate crime org, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is in the Trump resistance!
Part 1 Simon Clark of CCDH was in the Trump resistance before CCDH was even an idea.
Joining his wife, Diana Shaw Clark, who began her nearly decades long Democrat fundraising in London for Obama. YES OBAMA! Diana was rewarded for her Obama efforts with a position within his administration for the Holocaust museum.
And Simon even attended a state dinner with his wife. Several days after the 2016 election of Trump, Simon and Diana Clark packed up and moved from London to DC to join the resistance. Diana: “To Resist President Trump, I Left My Home in London to Move to Washington, D.C.” “We weren’t planning to leave London. My husband and I love it there; it’s where we made our home and raised our children. But the outcome of the U.S. election has changed things. Irritable at being unable to do much from so far away, WE’VE moved to Washington, D.C. to try to protest acts that will weaken our democracy and put the fundamental principles of our Republic at risk.” Here’s another memorable Diana quote: “We need a landslide of avalanche proportions all down the ballot to, not only defeat Donald Trump, but to crush Trumpism beyond resuscitation.” (There’s tons more rabid comments that I’ll show later.)
Simon’s wife Diana has held multiple fundraising events, often in their home starting in London. (She was a leading UK Dem fundraiser.)
The first that I could find was Obama For America. But this one was held in the home of Elisabeth Murdoch. Simon often shows as a CHAIR. Jake Sullivan was even a guest speaker at her J-Street event for Andy Kim! Andy Kim was the founder of the radical, left-wing “resistance” group called RISE Stronger. Rise Stronger included folks like Linda Sarsour. So why was Jake Sullivan there?
Laura Rosenberger was at the Clark’s home too for Andy Kim. You know Hillary’s campaign manager, a Hamilton68 member, and a Brookings gal? She even once had Hillary’s VP pick Tim Kaine in her home, and he stayed the night!
Diana is also on the board of directors of J-Street (Jewish Dem activists) and Simon has participated there. J-Street, where they propagated Trump hatred and things such as the, “Very Fine People”, hoax.
J-Street is also partnered with the Serbian Trump Resistance group called, MoveOn. And although they say otherwise, they were funded by Soros.
Diana also was a member at Voices For Hillary for the 2016 election. And Simon Clark even donated $50,000 to Obama’s inauguration!
In the 2021, Biden Administration, First-Ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, Simon Clark sat alongside folks like: – Michael Chertoff – Olivia Troye – Mary McCord What’s even weirder is that Simon Clark actually built the Reuters website. And Reuters was in the Zinc Network. Which is linked to the Integrity Initiative.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) isn’t just another nonprofit, it’s the tip of a toxic iceberg, a foreign-orchestrated machine designed to silence conservative voices, manipulate public discourse, and push radical left-wing agendas under the guise of “fighting hate.” Through shadowy personnel overlaps, undisclosed campaigns, and alliances with progressive attack dogs like Media Matters for America (MMFA), CCDH has embedded itself in a network that weaponizes misinformation claims to target right-leaning narratives on everything from climate skepticism to election integrity. And at the center? Tom Brookes, the British operative who jumped ship from CCDH amid mounting scrutiny, leaving a trail of questions about foreign meddling in American affairs.
Brookes, a British national residing in Belgium, wasn’t some peripheral figure at CCDH, he was a director and board member for both its U.S. and U.K. arms from October 2020 until his abrupt resignation on Nov 14, 2025.
Why the sudden exit? Critics point to escalating accusations of CCDH engaging in a “foreign influence campaign,” as detailed in a formal complaint filed by America First Legal with the US Dept of Justice.
This isn’t baseless paranoia: Brookes’ dual role as CEO of the Brussels-based Meliore Foundation and leader of its Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) screams conflict of interest. GSCC, which Brookes hosts under Meliore, masquerades as a “green communications network” but functions as a propaganda hub, coordinating attacks on fossil fuels and conservative policies that dare question the climate hysteria narrative.
GSCC under Meliore allows it to funnel resources into entities like Fullbeam Media, a Dublin Ireland-registered outfit that’s essentially GSCC’s dirty-work arm. Ivan Cheung, GSCC’s Network Director for Digital Strategy, doubles as a director at Fullbeam, creating a seamless pipeline for opaque operations. And then there’s the Tilt Network, explicitly operated by Fullbeam (and thus under Meliore’s umbrella), which recruits social media influencers to peddle climate alarmism and anti-right smears. Tilt’s privacy policy lays it bare: It’s all about registering creators to amplify “fact-based” (read: left-leaning) messages on environmental and social issues.
CCDH’s fingerprints are all over this through Brookes, but the rot goes deeper with direct hits on conservatives. Take Abbie Richards, a senior researcher at MMFA—the notorious left-wing outfit that obsessively monitors and demonizes conservative media. Richards, whose work reeks of ideological warfare against right-wing “misinfo,” was caught red-handed with Tilt. Her TikTok videos (tofology) from 2021-2025, ranting about “fascist propaganda,” transphobia, and climate denial—code for bashing conservative viewpoints—originally carried disclaimers admitting they were “made with the support of TILT Network.” Those labels? Mysteriously scrubbed, but archived screenshots don’t lie. And in 2025, Richards dove headfirst into a Global Plastics Treaty campaign run by Pharos, in blatant partnership with GSCC and Fullbeam, churning out content that vilifies fossil fuels and ties into the broader anti-conservative playbook.
But the real scandal explodes with Fullbeam’s 2024 EU election meddling, a blatant anti-conservative hit job that reeks of CCDH-style interference.
Fullbeam bankrolled undisclosed ads in Politico’s Brussels Playbook, including a venomous open letter signed by oodles of NGOs, urging new MEPs to blacklist “far-right” parties like Germany’s AfD, Sweden’s SD, and the Dutch PVV. The letter, complete with cartoons portraying conservative leaders as puppets of Vladimir Putin, was a masterclass in hypocrisy: Signatories like Avaaz and Friends of the Earth Europe—many bloated with EU taxpayer funds—railed against “foreign influence” while hiding their own backers.
He is the CEO of the Meliore Foundation and a member of its Governing Board. In 2012, he founded the Global Strategic Communication Council (GSCC), building on his work as Executive Director of Strategic Communications at the European Climate Foundation (2009 – 2021). He is responsible for Meliore’s daily management.”
The Tilt Network is also Meliore: “The Influencer Lab for Tomorrow (TILT’), a project of the Meliore Foundation, attaches great importance to respecting the right to privacy of the visitors of its website.”
The Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH is partnered with the far leftist, and USAID PARTNERED Skoll Fndn. CCDH was also given nearly half a million dollars by Skoll too. Skoll is also partnered with the BBC. No wonder the
the Center For Countering Digital Hate is partnered with the Skoll Foundation and given nearly half a million dollars by Skoll. Skoll is also partnered with the BBC. Explains the media attack on President Trump.
Another Skoll Partner? Protect Democracy from the Times Election Fortification article. Funny how CCDH always meets up with them. Stay Tuned. It seemed to me that Skolls primary focus is leading foreign attacks on US big tech. So I peeked around on the Skoll site, and the Skolls disinfo program is called the Global Coalition for Tech Justice. Where they spew anti right rhetoric.
The Video Evidence See the video where they stated the need to protect democracy from the, disinfo superspreader Trump “far right”? Calling us authoritarian? And look, there’s the fake news on Elons non existent N*zi salute (aka waving in excitement)! No matter what they tell you, watch the video. They let the truth slip.
They list over 200 member orgs, but conveniently, some are left off for safety reasons. Not to hide em of course. Ha ha!
But it looks like someone let the cat outta the bag. See the print screen? CCDH PARTNER SKOLL
This is ran outside of the USA too.. The Global Coalition for Tech Justice, was convened by Digital Action. “Digital Action mobilized civil society and digital rights activist organizations to shape the landmark EU Digital Services Act. In 2023, Digital Action launched the Global Coalition for Tech Justice, bringing together more than 200 member organizations from 55 countries to call on technology platforms to better serve citizens within democracies, particularly those from marginalized communities.” Digital Action was a product of the Arabella New Venture fund, and its team of seven is located in Dublin, London, and Beirut. Arabella was the money handler for Soros Democracy Alliance.
To review the top to bottom Hierarchy of this Democrat org used to herald in censorship of conservatives:
Arabella New Venture Fund
Digital Action
Global Coalition for Tech Justice
Year of Democracy
Digital Action Funding Partners Skoll Fndn Soros Open society Ford Fndn Omidyar Luminate MacArthur Fndn
The global Coalition for Tech Justice ran the Year For Democracy in 2024. “Together with our members, we campaign, research, investigate and tell the stories of tech harm in global media, support and amplify the efforts of our members on the frontlines of tech harm, and build policy solutions to address the global impacts of social media companies.” “In 2024, more than 2 billion people will be entitled to vote as over 70 countries go to the polls, in the biggest and most significant year for elections globally this century.”
They say that Big Tech is creating an equity crisis. Well news flash, equity is illegal in the US. That’s foreign meddling there. “The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a global movement challenging the global equity crisis at the centre of tech accountability, whereby social media companies headquartered in the global north – and the regulators responsible for them – have been negligent when it comes to dealing with their impacts everywhere and particularly in the global majority.”
Stop the right “In Brazil, which is holding municipal elections in the fall of 2024, experts worry that Big Tech companies haven’t learnt their lesson from the January attack on government buildings by supporters of the far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, asking to overturn the results of the October 2022 presidential election. “The far-right now has a common enemy and they are organising themselves as never before to gain votes in those local municipalities, gain strength for the next national election,” said Nina Santos”
The Skoll Foundations STORYTELLING partners. Did the BBC tell a story when they spliced Trumps speech?
Skoll StoryTelling Partners – BBC – PBS – Harper – Sundance – NPR – TED – Plus more
Skoll partners with USAID and Protect Democracy. Leverahttps://t.co/nKpVKEsUGAging Government Partnerships: “The Skoll Foundation, USAID, Mercy Corps Ventures, and the Center of the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business have worked in partnership to create the Scaling Pathways series, sharing best practices and hard won insights in addressing scaling challenges from some of the world’s most successful social enterprises.” OCCRP is a member of the Expose network.
Skoll gave the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) $415,000.
Arabella New Venture funds Digital Action that Skoll is partnered with. Which runs the Global Coalition for Tech Justice. Digital Action launched the Global Coalition for Tech Justice, bringing together more than 200 member organizations from 55 countries to call on technology platforms to better serve citizens within democracies, particularly those from marginalized communities.”
“Digital Action is a project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates neThis shows that Digital Action is a product of Arabella New Venture Fund. And also shows their funders. Most importantly their team is foreign: “Our team of seven is located in Dublin, London, and Beirut.w and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs.” “Digital Action is supported by grants from the Open Society Foundations, Luminate, Unbound Philanthropy, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation, as well as having received support from the Media Democracy Fund, a project supported by the Wallace Foundation. “
Global Coalition for Tech Justice tells the STORIES of tech harm. And collaborate with stakeholders.
“Global Coalition for Tech Justice harnesses the power of collective action, fostering collaborations amongst members and maximising collective impact and effectiveness. Together with our members, we campaign, research, investigate and tell the stories of tech harm in global media, support and amplify the efforts of our members on the frontlines of tech harm, and build policy solutions to address the global impacts of social media companies. We actively collaborate with stakeholders who share our goals of safe online platforms for the protection of people and elections, including policymakers, electoral commissions, progressive technologists and shareholder activists, amongst others.
Far Leftist Arabella New Venture fund and their far left billionaire funders are big unhappy with Elon. He makes the lefts lives much more difficult when they can’t censure the truth. It’s a long letter if you care to read it. It brings up Brazil and Thierry Breiton. “Make Elon Musk accountable for not respecting our democracies and rights!“ “We, the Global Coalition for Tech Justice and other signatories of this present statement, are alarmed by the escalation of Elon Musk’s war on democratic institutions, reflecting a broader absence of accountability for Big Tech giants. Social media platforms are failing to protect the integrity of our democracies and rights, and escaping all accountability, particularly in the Global Majority far from corporate headquarters.” “We are deeply troubled by Elon Musk’s disdain for democratic laws and institutions; his ownership of it, mismanagement and misuse of a leading global social media platform, part of our collective online civic space, is reckless and dangerous. It is clearly generating harm for peace and democracy around the world. “
“2024 will be the make-or-break year for democracy and freedoms globally: Join our worldwide movement to demand Big Tech make online platforms safe for us all. The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products. In 2024, more than 2 billion people will be entitled to vote as over 70 countries go to the polls, in the biggest and most significant year for elections globally this century. This will include some of the world’s largest democracies like the United States, the European Union, India, Mexico and Indonesia, countries in active democratic decline like Tunisia, in conflict such as Ethiopia and in active oppression of citizens’ freedoms such as Egypt. But the relentless spread of online disinformation, hate speech, abuse and manipulation threatens to undermine efforts to advance democracy and freedoms. The Global Coalition for Tech Justice will catalyse a global movement – from civil society to national electoral commissions, legislators, activists and journalists – leveraging their power, influence and voice in favour of equitable and effective safeguards to protect democratic and human rights. The coalition is led by a Steering Group and served by Digital Action as coalition convenor and organiser.”
(CCDH) which has close ties to Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made headlines after a leak of internal emails revealed its top current goal was to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”
Morgan McSweeney, the top aide to Starmer, whose Labour party recently won a large majority, was inspired by the policies of the CCDH which, from its founding was a partisan project masquerading as a neutral non-profit.
Its earliest activities focused on undermining Starmer’s rivals inside his own political party, the left-wing populist supporters of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
McSweeney, along with Starmer’s Labour party, is accused of meddling in the 2024 presidential election. The Labour party paid for him to attend the Democratic National Conventiont, where he met with presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
The Labour party is also the subject of a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint filed by the Trump campaign, after sending nearly 100 party activists to campaign for Harris in battleground states.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its use of Antisemitism – the tried and trusted weapon of zionist activists
On May 23, 2024 US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt hosted a symposium to combat online antisemitism, which was touted as the “first of its kind.”
CCDH was, by then, well enough regarded by the State Department to warrant an invitation.
White House Domestic Policy Council Chair Neera Tanden, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger, as well as big tech platforms such as Google, Meta, and TikTok, other special envoys from Canada, Israel, and Germany, as well as NGOs such as CCDH, Cyberwell, and the American Jewish Congress attended the meeting.
One day later, a press release noted that big tech platforms promised to address antisemitism, “including establishing dedicated expert positions on policy teams, implementing antisemitism training for key personnel, and increasing transparency by publicly reporting on trends in antisemitic content.”
Combating antisemitism was the founding pretext of CCDH, before it broadened its approach to target other forms of alleged hate and “disinformation.” The purpose of this focus was political:
Morgan McSweeney, masterminded the takeover of the UK’s Labour party by the current Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, with the issue of antisemitism playing a key role.
Starmer’s rise to the top involved undermining the authority of the previous leader, left-wing populist Jeremy Corbyn, whose leadership of the party was marred by constant accusations of antisemitism. CCDH amplified these accusations at every turn, while McSweeney also sought to bankrupt the UK’s leading pro-Corbyn news site – as well as right-wing populist website Westmonster – through advertiser boycotts.
Antisemitism is no longer the sole focus of the CCDH, and it now enjoys influence not just with the current Labour Prime Minister, but also with the leadership of Starmer’s opposition in the Conservative party. Kami Badenoch, who was recently elected as leader of the Conservative party, praised CCDH’s work on “anti-Muslim hate” while she was a minister in the previous Conservative government.
CCDH’s board includes Damian Collins MP, who led the previous Conservative government’s efforts to regulate so-called “online harms.” Collins served as the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Tech and Digital Economy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS). He left his post in October 2022. He also served as the chair of the DCMS committee from 2016 to 2019.
Collins also met with the CCDH while he was drafting the government’s Online Safety Bill” as part of “stakeholder engagement.”
In October 2024, Collins joined Orbis Business Intelligence as a non-executive director; the founder of Orbis is none other than Christopher Steele, the creator of the Steele dossier against former President Donald Trump.
Collins has frequently commented on the need for social media companies to take action against content that allegedly incites violence and harassment.
Despite broadening its focus to cover “anti-Muslim hate,” “disinformation,” and other forms of “online harm,” CCDH’s original pretext of combating antisemitism remains an effective weapon for online censorship. One day after the State Department’s symposium, a press release noted that big tech platforms promised to address antisemitism, “including establishing dedicated expert positions on policy teams, implementing antisemitism training for key personnel, and increasing transparency by publicly reporting on trends in antisemitic content.”
The full article can be found here. It is a revealing expose of criminals posing as politicians. A murky world indeed.
Bad Kitty who posts on “X” gathered and posted the information I included in this article<> Adding confirmatory details to articles in the same vein posted by myself before.
The political left as an entity is powerful, extremely well financed and determined to reshape Western society. In this objective it has achieved substantial progress. In many European countries the immigration population in large towns and cities exceeds 50%
Obama, then a junior Senator, was broke and saddled with student debt. So how did he manage to purchase a $2 million house. He got his gangster friend to purchase the house and an adjacent vacant lot next door and give him the house
2005. A well known Chicago gangster helps Obama buy his first house.
A junior Senator, broke and saddled with student debt, Obama was able to buy a $2 million house. Obama got a 300k discount because his gangster friend overpaid for the lot next door.pic.twitter.com/1BGnQaIO9Dhttps://t.co/i5USyCWULe
Obama was a bought man who through his conduct, as President managed to alienate almost the entire world from the US. Within his own country he fostered division through a constant drive to divide American society into groups of “have” and “have nots”. Once proud and independent citizens were denied jobs and opportunities and in consequence were forced to become dependent upon the state for survival.
Obama’s relentless pursuit of a “Globalist” agenda polarised politics and redefined the social order transferring power from the many to the richest few, (who with support of many thousands of supporters recruited and supported in their careers by extensive networks such as “Common Purpose) are enabled to shape world markets (TTIP) and through use of superior military force bring about regime change (Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and others)
Obama and his regime was a reincarnation of “New Labour” and Tony Blair. A party of bluster and hype, led by a self promoted “Messiah” whose sole purpose in being was the advancement of a “Globalist” agenda meeting the wishes of bankers, hedge fund investors and media moguls (with offshore accounts) regardless of the needs and wishes of those who voted for them. In furtherance the agenda Obama took personal responsibility for the introduction of measures including: mass surveillance of US citizens designed to establish state control, curtailing civil liberties and extensive and unjustified covert surveillance of US citizens and government officials of allied nations world wide including: Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Austria and many others).
In his second term of office his foreign policy was determined by his backers who wished to further the process of a world control agenda consolidating the perceived role of the US as the dominant military power in the world. The major change in policy was that the foregoing had to be achieved with the minimum number of US forces, “boots on the ground”.
To facilitate this the use of missile laden drones was massively increased taking out targets in a number of countries. In the Libya regime change debacle he confined US involvement to the provision of air support to the allies (UK, France and Italy). The role of the CIA was greatly enhanced enabling an expansion of covert operations designed to create unrest within targetted nations. One such operation in the middle east was the so called “Arab Spring.”
His desire to reduce the influence of Iran in the middle east took him to Saudi Arabia (no friends of Iran or Syria) where he roped in the Saudis creating a Sunni Muslim force (ISIS) which he unleashed on Syria creating chaos and instability. ISIS gained early military successes and expanded rapidly gaining recruits worldwide (mainly through the internet). Emboldened by victory ISIS decided it would not follow dictates from Saudi Arabia and attacked weakly defended towns and cities in Iraq and Syria and established a “new” Islamic state.
Iraqi forces (post the 2003 US and UK invasion) were incapable of defending their country against ISIS and early capitulation was anticipated. Obama (mindful of his instructions from his masters) refused Iraq military aid, in the form of “boots on the ground” but undertook to provide air support to Iraqi ground forces (which they didn’t have). The Iraqi government turned to Iran who provided a large force of Shia Muslim soldiers who would integrate with Iraqi units providing the backbone necessary if ISIS was to be defeated. Four years later ISIS still controls much of Iraq and Syria.
US forces, (supporting a corrupt regime) are still engaged in military operations against the Taliban (and taking casualties) in Afghanistan 17 years after they invaded the country. Guantánamo Bay (which he promised to close at the start of his first presidency) remains fully operational with untried prisoners still incarcerated after 16 years.
The record of his government In Europe is appalling. CIA covert operations teams operating in the Ukraine created instability (with the assistance and financial backing of George Soros) leading to the overthrow of the elected government which resulted in a cesspit of killing as the country is polarised into two areas, the West (mainly Germanic, supported by NATO) and the East (mainly Russian supported by Russia). An extended period of military confrontation is unfolding daily (and Scottish soldiers are stationed in Ukraine providing training and support to forces in the West.
His conduct, at the time of the worldwide banking crash (caused by the US sub-prime mortgage scandal) was disgraceful. Not one banker was prosecuted, his answer to the problem being to stimulate the US economy through the unrestricted use of “Quantitative Easing” which had the effect of providing loads of cheap credit to the very people that had created the problem.
As recession took hold of the economy the number of jobless increased way beyond any acceptable level and standards of living decreased markedly. “Obamacare” became the new mantra. Millions would be cared for by the state in their lifetime. Great news but someone needed to pay for if the poor couldn’t. The bills landed on the doorsteps of middle class America. Not the rich. What a cheek!!! By increasing the tax burden of the middle class he drove their standard of living down
Addressing President Trump’s early use of “Executive Orders” Obama signed off more “Executive Orders” than any other president in history.
On immigration of Muslims from the middle east his record is poor. In 2015/16 a total of 1200 refugees were allowed into the US. Compare that with Germany who recorded admission to over 700.000 refugees!! Another example of Obama’s use of “smoke and mirrors.”
Obama’s eight years in office has been disastrous for Americans and the world. He will go down as the worst President ever of the United States of America
30 January 2017: Obama Moves to Undermine Trump Presidency After Only 10 Days
Even though Bush made no effort to interfere with Obama’s presidency, Obama has moved to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency after only 10 days in office. Ex-President Obama issued the following statement attacking Trump this afternoon through his spokesman Kevin Lewis:
“President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country. In his final official speech as President, he spoke about the important role of citizens and how all Americans have a responsibility to be the guardians of our democracy — not just during an election but every day. Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake. With regard to comparisons to President Obama’s foreign policy decisions, as we’ve hard before, the President fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith.”
Comments:
President Trump’s travel ban is not a Muslim ban and does not “discriminate against individuals because of their faith.” Obama knows this, that’s why he used vague language to imply it. You undermined real American values for eight years straight, that’s why we voted to restore these values by electing President Donald Trump.
President Trump restricted travel for 90 days from seven countries labelled by Obama as dangerous. Conversely Obama bombed the s**t out of five of the same seven countries resulting in the death and injury of countless thousands of women and children. The high moral ground is denied Obama although he constantly seeks to deflect blame upon others.
President Trump is honouring the pledges he made to the American electorate in the course of the campaign that saw him elected to office. Namely to protect Americans at home from “refujihadists” intent on causing havoc within the country. http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56200
Example 1:
16 Sep 2016: Somali Immigrant Behind Stabbing Terror Attack in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Mall – Officials Demand Tolerance From Residents
The attack in St. Clouds main shopping centre that left nine innocent people with stab wounds is being treated as an act of terror Federal authorities confirmed.In a media briefing St Cloud, Police Chief advised that the suspect had been fatally shot by an off duty police officer. The killer reportedly asked victims to confirm they were not Muslims before assaulting them, referring to “Allah throughout the attacks.
Jaylani Hussein, executive director in Minnesota of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Sunday afternoon: “we are definitely concerned about the potential for backlash in the community, both in the immediate run and the longer term. We are not in the least concerned about the harm Muslims cause, just the backlash against that harm,” Hussein added in a moment of rare candour. http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=55507
Example 2:
28 Nov 2016: Somali Behind Ohio State University Attack Should Not have Been in the Country
Artan drove his car onto the University campus and rammed it through crowds of students resulting in the hospitalisation of eleven people. He then pursued fleeing students attacking them with a large knife. A police officer shot the assailant dead preventing him from killing or wounding any more bystanders. Law enforcement officials advised that Artan was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-dead-after-ohio-state-university-car-knife-attack-n689076
Ohio State University attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan
Example 3
20 Jan 2016: Twenty Vetted Refugees Who Turned to Terrorism After Being Allowed Into America
Prior to the 1997 referendum William Hague said the official position of a UK government was to retain a right to reverse any or all aspects of power that might be devolved to a Scottish parliament.
The “no” vote in the referendum sent a resounding message to Westminster that Scotland wished to embrace all of the, “National” aspects of UK government policy.
This contributed to a creeping reversal of, “devolution” where any powers were at odds with the wishes of the Westminster government.
So much for Gordon Brown and his new set of devolved powers, details of which only Gordon knew.
What we know now is that there was absolutely no chance of anything more being devolved.
A Scotland capable of challenging the Status Quo could not be allowed to remain a threat.
Scotland has been neutered, powers removed and other methods of control introduced.
The last time Scotland stood up and said, “I want to be free” Thatcher moved in and removed Scotland’s powers over; Coal, Steel, Ship Building, Car Production, any manufacturing company employing more than 500 staff e.g. Caterpiller production at Uddingston.
Anything and everything that exuded power was removed from Scotland and transferred to England.
Scotland was well and truly knobbled.
Thatcher did what Westminster excels at. Subjugation.
So, here we were again; Echoing the words of a well loved figure from the past, Robert Bruce, who said to the Scot’s at Bannockburn, “Do you want to be free to decide your own future and that of your children, OR are you content to remain subjects of a political system that is corrupt and bloated with money stripped from your purses, leaving you at the mercy of, money lenders, wholly reliant on the English to feed your children”?
Devolution was not given freely to Scotland in 1997. Westminster was instructed to decentralize government as a condition of membership of the EU.
Even then it took Westminster MP’s, including those Scotland sent to London to fight for it 20 years to comply with the European Commission.
Englands MP’s fought tooth and nail to protect what they believed was theirs.
And devolution was designed and implemented in such a way as to ensure, through a hybrid, “hotch potch” electoral voting system of proportional representation that the Scottish National Party would never be able to have an overall majority in the new Scottish parliament.
Westminster cooked the books, so as to ensure continued dominance over Scotland.
But the civil servant’s and their masters got their planning wrong, (seems to be a bad habit picked up and absorbed by Westminster).
The Scottish National Party led by Alex Salmond turned devolution on it’s ugly head.
It would be foolish to believe anything Westminster politicians say in defence of retaining the status quo.
They lie, threaten and cajole our nation. Love bombing, hate bombing, promises, promises, everything the Westminster elite has in it’s formidable armoury is being used against Scotland with the single purpose of continued subjugation.
Scotland blinked and sucumbed to the Unionist subterfuge and elected to stay with the Union in 2014.
Control of assets of economic strength e.g. banking is being removed.
Delegated powers are being stripped away and taken back to Westminster e.g. Health, Energy policy, Planning, Welfare.
Holyrood has become a talking shop filled with a bunch of nobody’s.
Scots are unable to exercise their right as a nation to decide the nature, policies and governance they wish to be in place.
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