- “Female hostages forced to wear Palestinian flag necklaces on release” – Hostages Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher were forced to wear Palestinian flag lanyards during their release and were given ‘gift bags’ with mementos of their time in captivity, the Mail reports.
- “After 15 months in tunnels, Israeli hostages see the light of freedom” – Their location in Gaza was unknown for months, says the Times, then their mothers were able to see video footage of their release.
- “Emily Damari’s mum: every day has been living nightmare – until now” – Mandy Damari has thanked officials for bringing her daughter home, reports theTimes, after she initiated a global campaign to secure her release as a hostage from Hamas.
- “To see Emily back with her mother is a starburst of pure joy – but the road to normality will be hard” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson celebrates the news that Emily Damari has been reunited with her mother.
- “The heinous crimes of Hamas’s Palestinian prisoners” – Convicted murderers serving multiple life sentences are among those who could be freed as part of a landmark ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, according to the Mail.
- “Trump’s plan to ‘save TikTok’ with executive order” – The president-elect has announced plans to give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find a buyer before ban comes into effect, says the Telegraph.
- “Is Mandelson’s ambassador job under threat from Maga?” – Donald Trump could yet block Keir Starmer’s choice for the plum role in Washington, the Sunday Times reports.
- “Starmer scrambles to secure trade deal with Trump” – Kier Starmer has set up a ‘mini-cabinet’ of senior ministers to pursue a trade deal with the U.S., but, according to the Telegraph, the meetings will be convened by Jonathan Powell, the architect of the Chagos Islands deal.
- “Sadiq Khan: Trump’s return brings march of fascism” – The Mayor of London says incoming U.S. President’s return to the White House marks a “perilous moment” for Western civilisation, the Telegraph reports, and he has called for lawmakers and regulators to “get tough” on social media companies.
- “Is the new $TRUMP Memecoin a way to send anonymous crypto bribes to the President?” – Is Donald Trump’s new cryptocurrency “a conduit for bribes”, asks Igor Chudov, “or a new way to make America great?”
- “‘DEI is dead’ as American businesses prepare for Trump presidency” – U.S. corporations are pulling back on diversity initiatives, says the Telegraph. It would appear they no longer want to go woke, go broke!
- “U.S. Suspends EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak after COVID-19 evidence uncovered by House Committee” – ZeroHedge reports that the U.S. Government has suspended funding to the EcoHealth Alliance and its former President Peter Daszak following scrutiny over their work in Wuhan.
- “Why do some vaccine-injured people wake up – but others don’t?” – Writing on Dystopian Down Under, Rebekah Barnett considers why some vaccine injured people can accept what happened to them while others remain in deep denial.
- “NESO’s Margin Call” – David Turver takes the National Energy System Operator (NESO) to task for its false optimism about the state of our electricity generation system.
- “Lord Frost joins Net Zero Watch” – Net Zero Watch announces that David Frost, the Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton, has joined its board.
- “How Pakistan’s rape culture led to the U.K. grooming gangs” – Writing in the Spectator, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid calls for a more robust response to the crimes of the grooming gangs from within the Pakistani community.
- “Grooming gangs: the making of a scandal” – Tim Black sets out how fears of social unrest and accusations of racism led the state to look away from industrial-scale abuse, in Spiked’s long read.
- “Brit, 19, describes harrowing sexual assault in Milan NYE crowd” – Imogen and her friends were out to see the New Year fireworks in Milan, the Mail reports, but finished the night fending off a mass sexual assault attack.
- “Britain at closing time” – “The corpse of the British state has attracted bottom feeders of every shape and size,” writes Clement Knox in the Critic. “But any understanding of how we got here should start and end with the rolling grooming gang scandal.”
- “Reeves must cut taxes or risk driving the economy off a cliff” – “Labour’s ideological state expansion is a major reason for surging borrowing costs,” says Liam Halligan in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Priti Patel: Starmer has put up the white flag of surrender over Chagos – his deal is an epic failure” – The Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner interviews Dame Priti Patel, one of the “friendliest front-line politicians in Westminster”, but also “perhaps the angriest”.
- “No 10 chiefs frustrated over how long Liz Kendall is taking to find benefit cuts” – According to the Sun, Downing Street chiefs are “pulling their hair out” over how long the Welfare Secretary, Liz Kendall, is taking to find benefit cuts.
- “My pick for economic hero of 2024 may be a surprise: Javier Milei” – “The Argentine president’s goal was to bring down inflation,” says Seema Shah in the Sunday Times, and “he has delivered, albeit with savage short-term ramifications for jobs and household income”.
- “Cabinet Secretary told to investigate Attorney General over conflicts of interest” – Robert Jenrick has called for an investigation into Lord Hermer’s potential conflicts of interest over past clients such as Gerry Adams, the Telegraph says.
- “Robert Jenrick: Attorney-General’s prior work threatens trust” – According to the Sunday Times, the Shadow Justice Secretary says there are at least four major areas where Lord Hermer KC’s “conflicts of interests” should be investigated.
- “Attorney General ‘blocked U.K.’ from sharing intelligence with U.S. about I.S. Beatles” – The Telegraph reports that Lord Hermer won a Supreme Court appeal which prevented the Government from sharing intelligence on El Shafee El-Sheikh, one of the I.S. Beatles implicated in the deaths of British and U.S. citizens.
- “Keir Starmer’s human rights law worldview is dying” – “Starmer is learning,” says Aris Roussinos in UnHerd, “that in a democracy the popular will counts for more than the approval of fellow human rights lawyers.”
- “Facebook’s free speech reforms fall short of the mark” – Dr. Frederick Attenborough warns Conservative Woman readers that Facebook’s ongoing reliance on ‘back-end’ machine-learning-based algorithms “casts doubt on the platform’s commitment to reform”.
- “We’ve always had free speech on campus. It’s vital to ‘disagree well’” – “Changes to the Freedom of Speech Act will help students rediscover the lost art of “hearing opposing views and disagreeing well”, says Dr Michael Spence, President of University College, London in the Sunday Times.
- “Ministers ‘foot-dragging’ over Telegraph sale because ‘they don’t want to upset the UAE’” – Sir Iain Duncan Smith is calling on the Government to enforce a ban on foreign state ownership of newspapers, the Telegraph reports, to ensure the paper is sold by Abu Dhabi fund.
- “Elon Musk doesn’t care if you hate him” – “Not since the days of Citizen Kane has anyone had so much power through media, let alone seemed to enjoy it so much,” writes Spiked columnist Simon Evans.
- “The West stands on the brink of destruction” – Jake Wallis Simons recommends Melanie Phillips new book on the role of Judeo-Christian faith as the foundation of the West to readers of the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell interviewed by police over pro-Palestinian protest” – Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell agreed to be interviewed by the Met under caution, the Telegraph reports, following a pro-Palestinian rally which allegedly breached police conditions.
- “That‘s all folks!” – The Patriot Oasis sees President Biden draw his time in office to an end.
That’s all Folks !
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https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/everything-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-greenland-gambit/
A whole new era in world history starts today.
‘Trump’s recently renewed interest in Greenland…..important aspect……..is the island’s rich mineral reserves and possible future as an alternative to China’s existing near-monopoly on rare earth minerals. Coupled with increased Russian activity in the region and China’s stated objective of becoming a near-Arctic state, the incoming administration undoubtedly views securing Greenland firmly within the US sphere of influence as a national security priority.
“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary said Monday that the concept of the U.S. and Canada merging into one country is “very interesting.’……’I went to Palm Beach for a couple of days. On Saturday, we discussed Canada…..what he said was, ‘Let’s get more powerful…because economic success is power in today’s world.’
‘On a deeper level, Trump’s threats of war and annexation speak to a way of thinking about power in the world that goes back to the nineteenth century and before—power through territorial conquest—and turns away from US grand strategy starting in the twentieth century.’
President Trump is saying to Europe that if you do not take your own defence seriously, and you do not, then the U.S. will take what it needs for its strategic security…..before someone else does……and that includes Greenland, Canada…….
This also sends a powerful message to both China and Russia. If China has designs on Taiwan, if Russia has designs on the Baltic States, America has designs on Greenland.
One move by any party will spark off a chain reaction not necessarily to China or Russia’s advantage.
So, all under the cover of a noble USA teaching us we should ‘take our own defence seriously’, you seem to support the idea of USA declaring two sovereign countries to be US territory.
There was an Austrian guy several decades ago who made such claims against other countries and that caused a great deal of upset in the world. Do you not think the world should be equally upset at Trump’s proclamations today?
As the Atlantic Council article writes:
While the president-elect’s desire to purchase Greenland outright may seem outlandish, former Trump administration officials have made convincing arguments for the island to enter into a free association compact with the United States in the event it decides to seek independence from Denmark, thereby securing its territorial integrity while achieving national independence.
I love the idea they think Greenland would benefit from “securing its territorial integrity while achieving national independence” when it would absolutely not be independent but yet another vassal of the United States.
To be fair, the report does state the following:
“Greenland is talking about becoming independent from Denmark, but no Greenlanders want to just switch to a new colonial master”.
The report closes with:
Trump’s threats may be bluster or tactical, but they reveal a dark side of power unworthy of any US president. Put into practice, they would reduce the United States to a mere bully that rules through force and fear, assuredly triggering a reaction against it, as well as ending US alliances. That’s quite a degeneration from the tradition that Trump inherits.
I personally disagree with the last sentence because invading countries for their resources is one of USA’s favourite pastimes.
The geological fact is that, looking at a map of the North Pole, Russia has the right to access roughly half of Arctic resources, whereas USA only has the proportion offered by the Alaskan coastline.
Well, sorry, but tough! That does not give anyone the unilateral right to declare other nations as being one’s own property.
Whereas I agree with many of Trump’s policies, I certainly do not agree with this one. USA has an economy which allows it to buy any required resources on the world’s open markets – as every other country must do.
‘I know that unpredictability can be very forceful when it comes to deterrence.’
Anders Rasmussen
Deterrence against whom? Has Russia threatened to take over Greenland? China? No, only USA.
‘We need Greenland. This is not a joke……We need it very much
Today, Spitsbergen, which is in the underbelly of our Northern Fleet, is extremely important to us, I think that we should move from joint development to Russian options, and there will be very good bases there, influencing the entire Arctic.
‘The main thing for us is to build a normal defence [system] there, to build it there in such a way that no one would even think of poking their noses into our Arctic’
Andrey Gurulev, pro-Putin MP and TV mouthpiece for the Kremlin
Yes, for example, Trump’s Greenland Proposal Fuels Russian Propaganda (https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/01/16/trumps-greenland-proposal-fuels-russian-propaganda/):
The statement by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump regarding his interest in purchasing Greenland has been actively exploited by Russian propaganda to discredit the United States and justify Russian imperial expansionism in Europe.
Wonderful how Trump is portrayed as making a ‘statement’, whereas Gurulev’s equally contemptible response is ‘discrediting propaganda’.
And what does the Kremlin think – not some unknown TV politician? According to https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1991801/#q8, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on 16th January:
Greenland’s right to self-determination is enshrined in the UN Charter. It is acknowledged and legally established within Denmark. The future of Greenland should be determined by the Greenlanders themselves, free from external interference.
The island’s leadership and representatives of Greenlandic parties have consistently reiterated that “Greenland is not for sale” and they find such terminology unacceptable. They prioritise the establishment of an independent state and view sale-and-purchase discussions as either a gross disrespect towards the people of Greenland and their aspirations for genuine independence, or as interference in the people’s will (which I believe amounts to the same). It is noteworthy that official Copenhagen has been remarkably reticent in responding to the relevant statements of the American President-elect. This is surprising, as the Danish authorities, among others, frequently invoke the term “Russian threat” concerning Western Europe, European security, and Denmark. Russia has never made, suggested, or acted in such a manner towards Denmark or those for whom Denmark claims to care …
Let us wish official Copenhagen the courage to perhaps muster a few words in defence of their sovereignty.
David Turver’s exposé of NESO wishful thinking is an enlightening read for future blackout recipients…
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/neso-margin-call
…The recent name change from National Grid to NESO tells us all we need to know – coming sooner or later to blackout near you and to be known thereafter as No Electricity Sod Off.
My knowledge about this specific subject is limited so perhaps others can shed some light. Was this foreseeable under the circumstances or is it unusual? Doesn’t this now mean it’ll be a walk in the park for the prosecution? Doesn’t it also mean that the Southport mass child-killer won’t be cross-examined and much information, such as his motives, all the mystery surrounding his father etc, will never be made public?
”On the eve of the trial, I can reveal to the public that:
The defence barrister revealed at the plea hearing that:
There will, however, be an application regarding the admissibility of evidence — meaning some items of evidence submitted by the prosecution are being contested by the defence.”
https://charliebentleyastor.substack.com/p/no-defence-to-be-presented-by-rudakubanas
What this means Mogs is that NO evidence will be released. The defence know he is guilty but they also know that the defendant’s background story would incriminate alot of other people so they are basically refusing to cooperate on the basis that the end result cannot be changed. The defendant cannot be forced to talk. Just how exactly they have guaranteed his silence is certainly interesting.
My view is that Starmer is up to his neck in this and is deeply implicated and so everything has been done to keep this toe-rag quiet. Perhaps he has been privately promised a way out. This event will hang around Kneel’s kneck until his death. The truth will out eventually.
I smell a rat
Well I did wonder why he didn’t just plead guilty after reading that, so lo and behold he actually has done so today;
”A teenager has admitted murdering three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport in July last year.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, from Lancashire, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on what was due to be the first day of his trial on Monday.
He refused to stand or confirm his name but then pleaded guilty to the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
He also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a kitchen knife over the attack in the Merseyside town on 29 July.
He further pleaded guilty to charges of producing ricin and possessing an al Qaeda training manual allegedly found in searches of his home in Banks, Lancashire, in the following days.”
https://news.sky.com/story/southport-attacker-axel-rudakubana-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-three-girls-at-dance-class-13292813
Pertaining to my post yesterday regarding the very lucrative business that is owning children’s care homes, I am coming across more posts online about ‘forced adoption’, which is a term I’ve never even heard of before. Probably naively, I assumed children were taken from parents only as a last resort and if there was evidence of abuse or neglect, but it seems this is not always the case. It’s not difficult to see how children that are in the care of the state can be targeted by paedophiles, you know, as if it’s actually all some sort of highly organized and covert child-trafficking/paedophile ring happening under our very noses, but you’ll be labelled a ”QAnon conspiracy theorist” if you say this out loud. After all, why would the state take kids from parents without any evidence of harm and therefore zero justification?
”Trafficked into the UK herself, Sam thought she had achieved safety and sanctuary in the UK, and she worked to rebuild her life here. When she approached her local Social Services for help, her children were taken. She has only ever loved them. She has never harmed or neglected them.
Sam said she thinks about her children every minute of every day. Sam described her ongoing fight, both inside and outside the secret Family Courts, to get her children back. She described the racket of secret Family Court hearings as well as court officials, local authority officials, and experts who demonstrate a conflict of interest. Sam talks of the psychological pressure and fear exerted on her to get her to back down, including threats of prison. Arrested for protesting in Whitehall, she was manhandled by male police and threatened with a strip search. Her letters to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other senior politicians have been ignored.
Sam told her story about her ongoing battle against the racket that Jack Frost described in his book The Gulag of the Family Courts. It is a government, legal, and local authority system that takes children without just cause. Every parent who loves their children needs to pay full attention to Sam’s story. She has analysed her story’s events in a quiet, direct, and dignified way.”
https://x.com/ukcolumn/status/1861422290094694545
Brian Gerrish interviews another mother whose kids were stolen. Whatever happened to ”Innocent until proven guilty”?
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/child-stealing-by-the-state-a-mother-criminalised-for-speaking-out-part-1
Thank God for the journalists of UK Column sadly ignored on here.
Some comments from the public on today’s shocking news that the Southport Stabber has pleaded guilty to all charges:
—“No mitigation and no reductions for a guilty plea. He made the entire court go through the cost and time preparing for a full trial.”
—“With the further evidence obtained after this horrific incident occurring, l can’t understand how it was not considered to have been classified as a terrorist act.”
—“Hopefully a maximum Whole Life sentence due to the nature of the crime but of course, all funded by us the General Public.”
—“There is usually a one third discount for pleading guilty at the first opportunity.”
—“[without the Death Penalty] “PM will release him in a couple of years to make space for someone who sends a Hurtful Text”
—“It should be 20 years minimum for each murder total 60 years. Plus whatever the mandatory attempted murder sentence is. Anything else is shameful.”
—“He should be getting Life for each of those he took away and then the sentence for the attempted murder of 10 more. I doubt he will get out but why should Taxpayers pay fortunes for him? Death Penalty should be bought back for this and others crimes like it! No real deterrent and costs us a fortune.”
—“I am still very confused as to why this is not being seen as an Act of Terror??? We all know that countries in Europe had heard about Taylor Swift concerts being targeted before Axel went to the children’s dance class. Seems very odd like they are trying to cover something up again.”
—“And as an added bonus the politicians don’t have to fear any inconvenient truths emerging in an open court.”
—“All contrived. He’s obviously been promised something.”
—“It’s a cynical move on his part to get a reduction on his sentence. don’t be surprised it he’s out in 15yrs with a new identity and a new life funded by you and me.”
—“I have less than zero confidence in our political court so called justice system. He WILL walk the streets again. Our human rights lawyers and system will see to that.”
Email to my MP regarding Climate and Nature Bill
The Climate and Nature Bill will destroy the UK economy and end private property
————- The Climate and Nature Bill has its second reading in Parliament on 24 January 2025. If it becomes law, it will bring in compulsory re-wilding of more than 30% of the UK and place controls on travel and consumption. It will cause starvation and economic catastrophe.
Net Zero already massively benefits Communist China which continues to build coal fired power stations and produce steel from blast furnaces, both now banned in Britain.
There is no climate crisis, or man made climate change. Carbon dioxide makes up only 0.04% of the atmosphere. Without carbon dioxide life on earth would end.
John Clauser won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics and has confirmed that there is no climate crisis. Unlike Greta Thunberg, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Al Gore or Ed Miliband, he is a scientist.