- “Zelensky ‘refuses to sign’ Donald Trump’s ‘problematic’ minerals deal” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly “not yet ready” to sign a controversial minerals deal with Donald Trump that may see him give away billions in critical elements and revenues, the Mail reports.
- “Trump to abandon Russia war crimes prosecution” – The US has signalled that it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Starmer considers faster defence build-up ahead of Trump talks” – Sir Keir Starmer is considering boosting defence spending sooner than previously thought as he prepares for talks with Donald Trump this week, the Telegraph reports.
- “We can pay for a rapid rebuild of our military might – by using the hundreds of billions Miliband is planning to splurge on his fatuous pursuit of Net Zero” – Some more common sense from Andrew Neil in the Mail, which will of course be completely ignored by this doctrinaire Labour Government.
- “Keir Starmer shrugs off Trump as he prepares to give new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russian oligarchs amid US President’s war of words with Volodymyr Zelensky” – Keir Starmer is set to announce a new package of support for Ukraine days after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian President a “dictator”, reports the Mail.
- “Why Trump doesn’t see Putin as a real threat” – Russia is not a direct threat to the US in the eyes of this administration, says Sam Olson in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s comments are out of order, but Europe’s inaction is unforgivable” – Trump’s comments about Zelensky are out of order, but the Continent has no excuse for past inaction, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Trump won’t make America great by wrecking NATO and the global post-war order” – Relentless optimism at home, but unyielding pessimism abroad: that is the disconnect in the President’s message, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Europe must be stronger, or it will die” – The Trump administration has caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator‘s Freddy Gray feels that Trump may have a point.
- “Russell Brand is now one of Trump’s inner circle in Florida” – Russell Brand, having avoided charges over sexual assault, has relocated to Florida, where he is now besties with RFK, says the Mail.
- “Trump sacks US military’s top-ranked officer” – Gen Charles ‘CQ’ Brown, who went viral with an emotional video about discrimination in the army, has been fired by Donald Trump less than two years into his four-year term as part of a major shake-up of the US armed forces leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “UK set to overshoot borrowing forecast despite £15.4 billion surplus” – Self-assessment income bolstered public sector finances in January but borrowing for this financial year is already £13 billion above last year, leaving Rachel Reeves with tough choices if she is to keep within her fiscal rules, reports the Times.
- “For Labour to avoid annihilation, it needs to cut spending now. Britain’s problem is that it won’t” – To defend itself, the UK needs to be rich. If we continue on our current path, penury and servitude beckon, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Business Secretary was warned against lying about legal career a decade ago” – In 2015, Jonathan Reynolds was told not to claim he used to work as a solicitor – but dismissed the concerns, reports the Telegraph.
- “What would my Labour CV look like? Well, I was a successful jockey, actress…” – ‘Rachel from Accounts’ will just have to put up with the name – she deserves it, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer’s Kenya case ‘fleeced taxpayers’” – Keir Starmer’s Attorney General led a case in which the lawyers involved were accused of “enriching themselves” at the expense of taxpayers, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Apple axes top security feature in Britain amid row with Yvette Cooper” – Yvette Cooper has been accused of putting millions of iPhone users’ data at risk after Apple removed its top security feature from Britain in a row with the Home Secretary, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour will use AI to snoop on social media” – The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour must not kowtow to AI giants” – One might think Labour would want to protect the creative sector, which generates billions and supports countless jobs, but the party is prostrating itself before Big Tech, warns the Mail in a leading article.
- “Keir Starmer is doing a Boris on immigration” – Keir Starmer is just the latest in a long line of Prime Ministers who says that immigration has been far too high in the past and needs to be greatly reduced while doing the exact opposite, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Asylum seekers allowed to stay in UK despite lying in claims” – Immigration judges have repeatedly ruled migrants can avoid deportation despite being found to have lied about their cases and the risks they face at home, the Telegraph reports.
- “Illegal immigrant who stabbed wife to death wins right to stay in Britain after arguing he might have to face wrath of in-laws back home in Turkey” – An illegal immigrant who savagely stabbed his wife to death has won the right to stay in Britain – after arguing that he might have to face the anger of his in-laws back home in Turkey, reports the Mail.
- “Make our judges stand for election – then they would deliver common sense decisions” – It’s time for a shake-up, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph, after a series of outrageous judgments shows just how out of touch our liberal judiciary is.
- “One killed and police seriously injured in ‘Islamist terror attack’ in France” – One person was killed and two police officers were seriously injured in what Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terror attack” in eastern France on Saturday, after an Algerian suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” before going on stabbing spree, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s True and False in One Health” – On Robert Malone’s Substack, Jeffrey Tucker sounds a warning about the WHO’s One Health agenda, which Deep State bureaucrats have already signed the Trump administration up to.
- “Energy Secretary Ed Miliband recruits Extinction Rebellion cheerleaders to Government roles to help push through costly agenda” – The Energy Secretary has quietly appointed the advisers who have all publicly expressed admiration for the radical action group which has repeatedly brought chaos to Britain’s streets, reports the Mail.
- “One last push before Germany goes to the polls: Final poll predicts large gains for AfD while frontrunner Friedrich Merz vows to lead Europe” – A final poll ahead of tomorrow’s German election has predicted that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will see a major increase in votes, but not enough to overtake Friedrich Merz of the CDU, reports the Mail.
- “A German Political Primer Ahead of Tomorrow’s Elections” – Eugyppius attempts to explain the arcane intricacies of Germany’s party system for clueless Americans and Brits.
- “How the humble heat pump pushed Germany to the far-Right” – The rigid Net Zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has become electoral dynamite, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “Focus on diversity and Net Zero if you want Government contracts, firms told” – Companies have been told to focus on Net Zero and diversity goals if they want to win public contracts under the Government’s new procurement rules, the Telegraph reports.
- “Hospitals hiring trans doctors unable to see their disciplinary records” – NHS hospitals hiring transgender doctors could be left unable to see their disciplinary records, senior medics have warned, according to the Telegraph.
- “Equalities watchdog issues warning to NHS board at centre of trans nurse row amid fears new ‘staff transitioning guide’ is unlawful” – The NHS Fife trans row ratcheted up further yesterday when the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reminded the health board and Health Secretary Neil Gray of their legal obligations surrounding single-sex facilities in the workplace, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s public sector is in thrall to trans ideology” – No one, says Tom Harris in the Mail, would have predicted that such a simple question would cause such anxiety and confusion among our politicians: what is a woman?
- “Law lecturer ‘sacked over gender-critical beliefs’ handed payout” – Law lecturer Dr Almut Gadow who was sacked by the Open University after expressing gender-critical beliefs has been handed a payout from the institution in an out of court settlement, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC hails drag queens as ‘inspirational mums’ on CBeebies site” – The BBC’s children’s website for under sixes has lauded two transgender activists as “inspirational mums” for International Women’s Day, reports the Mail.
- “Lawmaker’s attempt to be woke destroys her election chances” – Amanda Zavitz, a self-professed DEI advocate, was forced to drop out of Ontario’s upcoming legislative elections after shock audio of her remarks to a 2024 UN conference that “My secret is that I want to be a black woman” went viral, reports the Mail.
- “Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?” – In screening How to Survive a Warzone, the BBC served as a mouthpiece for one of the world’s most depraved terrorist organisations, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Politicians are bad at running trains, building cars and installing phones – why would they be better at running football?” – In the Sun, Daniel Hannan looks at why Labour’s Football Governance Bill would be a disastrous move for England’s national game.
- “Knock knock, it’s the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the ‘Hope you Die’ WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS” – Detectives were last night accused of acting like East Germany ‘s feared Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs” – A report commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has claimed that the fire service is “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Inside America’s ‘trans sanctuary city’ too busy shouting about Trump to focus on worst murder rate in decades” – The second-biggest city in New England is collapsing under the weight of its own wokeness, and convulsed by fears of Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House, residents told the Mail.
- “Britain is fast becoming an Orwellian surveillance state” – As is so often the case, Labour is simply pouring petrol onto a fire that was started by the Tories, writes Zia Yusuf in the Telegraph.
- “Within those fairly strict narrow limits, I would say that people should be permitted to say whatever they like, provided it’s not going to lead to violence. It’s not going to lead to a breach of the peace” – Watch Toby and John Benjamin discuss the limits of free speech on GB News.
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A bumper issue!
It is an extensive list of articles – but so, so depressing. The joie de vie is being sucked out of the country by the reckless decisions of our politicians.
Chin up. In an enclave of sanity distant from metropolitan pretence, recent experience of a care home, an estate agent, an undertaker and a new roof all suggest that real-life will rise above political chicanery and buffoonery, as it has since time immemorial.
“What’s True and False in One Health” – Jeffrey Tucker sounds a warning about the WHO’s One Health agenda, which Deep State bureaucrats have already signed the Trump administration up to
Exposé of WHO sophistry, treachery and word saladry…
“…Ecological equity, environmental justice, climate mitigation,” blah, blah, blah.
Humanity matters more than the rat; East Anglia is not Eritrea; dodgy WHO director go fester in your own patch.
And like a good little globalist, Sir Two-Tier will fall for it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qI0xQSn8Y0
“…Davos or Westminster?” Starmer: “Davos”
“Once you get out of Westminster, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future.”
Ringleader of Enemy Within interviewed brazenly two years ago in plain sight.
The Kommissars Must Fall.
This is what successful public health looks like. This example is Netherlands – similar to other properly developed countries.
Just in case the WHO needs this explained:
The improvement in health was caused by the benefits of industrialisation. We should be promoting this worldwide. Not the Net Zero lunacy of tree-hugging and caring for Mr Rat.
Absolutely spot on. That graph says it all. Engineers, plumbers, electricians, farmers, builders, materials scientists, etc, etc, etc, all saviours of humanity.
But what caused the rise of industrialisation, engineering, and technology? I think above all it was the dawning in the Netherlands and Britain, and then their neighbours, of a culture of freedom in which ordinary folk weren’t just required to do what they were told by the secular or ecclesiastical authorities but were able to make, buy, and sell what they wanted.
I was about to trot out the explanation that it was the emergence of the ‘middling sort’ – what we now refer to as ‘middle class’ but I realised that that is not a real explanation – just kicking the can down the road.
What is clear from many similar charts is that the Nordic and ‘old’ European countries all began to improve according to these measures at around the same time. Unfortunately we can’t show that other countries did not also improve at that time as they did not keep records. However, I think this latter point might be key – they didn’t value people’s lives enough to keep records of births and deaths.
But what caused the rise of industrialisation, engineering, and technology?
Underpinned by the thinkers and experimenters, who pioneered understanding of the physical world from the mid 17th century onwards – in England the likes of Boyle, Hooke and Newton, who founded the Royal Society in 1662 (motto: “take nobody’s word for it”).
And by the doers like Watt and Brindley, who rolled up their sleeves and through nous, intuition, perseverance and hard graft, designed and built the steam engines and canals that kick-started the industrial revolution.
And financed by aristocracy and businessmen wanting to make money. In other words, capitalism.
All good points! It reminded me of someone’s comment about the recent Toronto passenger plane crash, saying that even though the Diversity, Equality & Inclusion All-Female crew & pilots landed too fast and heavily, plunking it down, smashing the undercarriage, tearing off the wings and flipping the whole plane upside down, all the passengers and crew were saved by the excellent engineering design and construction of the fuselage and seatbelts (invented by privileged pale stale white males), and the superb firefighters (Firemen Are Too Male and Too White, Say Chiefs – The Daily Sceptic), who raced out to douse the aircraft to prevent the fuel from exploding before the passengers could unbuckle and escape.
I like and find very interesting the way Eugyppius describes the German political system as a cartel.
Really, I can’t think of any country in which politics isn’t a cartel. Everywhere that I know that calls itself a democracy, a small number of political parties dominate the political landscape and through a mix of formal and informal devices restrict competition.
In the UK, the first past the post system is the primary device to throttle competition. And the two major parties have all the necessary connections and loyalties in the media to send out an attack on anything that poses a threat. (Look at the last minute take down of Farage before the last election)
It’s not a perfect cartel system in Britain. Reform might break through. But it’s a powerful cartel nonetheless.
Katy’s Hoyer also explained their system as a cartel on Spiked podcast. It’s why PR isn’t always the answer people think to improve democracy.
It’s impossible to find now, but our saviour Farage called for the army to be put on the streets to crush the Southport unrest. A real man of the people. Why impossible to find now? Because they want you to believe he is the answer.
I hold Rupert Lowe in much higher regard than Farage. Although, because Lowe is very blunt and plain-speaking, I can imagine the Uniparty and supporters painting him as a literal neo-Nazi, despite the fact he speaks for the people and you know where you are with somebody such as him. This is why, unfortunately, I can never see him as leader of Reform.
I watched the conversation between Lowe and Black Belt Barrister and I found Lowe impressive.
Wow! That is absolutely staggering— thanks for telling the awkward truth.
Meanwhile the man Nigel once called “scum” is being starved in prison, in violation of his human rights:
Free Tommy Robinson!
Economies stagnate when high barriers to enter a market are erected to protect established interests. Polities are exactly the same with the first past the post system a huge barrier to new parties achieving success. Our political system is stagnant and decaying. There is no more important task for those who cherish freedom and prosperity than the destruction of the Conservative Party.
I have described it online as an oligopoly. That is like two globalist makers of (say) soap powder or liquid claiming to compete but in reality they are offering the same.
Among oligopolies the first priority is to prevent new suppliers in the market and the second is to avoid price competition.
“Energy Secretary Ed Miliband recruits Extinction Rebellion cheerleaders to Government roles to help push through costly agenda”
More treachery afoot. What3words: ///fallacy.failure.folly
From here on in I will refer to the people of the made-up land of Palestine: ‘Hamastinians’, because they are all terrorists and terrorist supporters, basically ‘barbarian sadistic savages’ covers it. These little boys were strangled just weeks after being stolen and taken hostage, then mutilated with rocks to make it look like a building collapsed on them so that the savages could blame an Israeli airstrike. Is this how you define ”resistance”? Shiri, their mother, has since been returned to Israel. So they can find the correct person they murdered when it suits them;
”The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that forensic examinations have revealed that Palestinian terrorists murdered children Ariel and Kfir Bibas “with their bare hands” weeks after their kidnapping on October 7, 2023.
“We can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, just 10 months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged four, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza no later than November 2023. These two innocent children were taken hostage alive, along with their mother, Shiri, from their home on October 7, 2023,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a televised statement.
“The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys — they killed them with their bare hands. Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities.”
“This assessment is based on both forensic findings from the identification process and intelligence that supports these findings. We have shared these findings, intelligence and forensics with our partners around the world so they can verify it,” said Hagari.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-captors-murdered-children-ariel-and-kfir-bibas-with-their-bare-hands/
Hamastinians is perfect.
And you, of course, believe every word the IDF says. And you promote their hatred of all Arabs (not just Palestinians) which is probably a lead up to cancelling the more-or-less cease-fire, so they can restart their genocide. Maybe Trump will prevent that happening, maybe not.
“Labour will use AI to snoop on social media” – The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action…”
…And the biggest peddler of state-sponsored disinformation is the Uniparty.
Look no further than the respiratory virus with an age-fatality profile that paralleled general mortaility – three weeks to flatten the curve, asymptomatic spread, Nightingale Hospitals, Don’t Kill Granny, Save the NHS, PCR testing, Test and Trace, died with and died of, safe and effective, vaccine passports, facemaskeradery, national social distancism, etc, etc, etc.
Fifth anniversary of that ides of March weekend coming up fast. Get those bonfires of the inanities and insanities burning. Still plenty of surplus PPE knocking about.
Might as well burn £400 billion quid in used notes while you’re at it.
Sir Two-Tier to lock down harder and faster next time. Lawyerly and judiciary chums, Hugo Keith KC and M’Lady Hallett, to advise.
I used to come on here and post after the Oct 7th massacre, asking why aren’t Egypt at least taking in the innocent women and children, those ”innocent civilians” that we keep getting told about. The same ”innocent civilians” that watched dead Israelis being paraded on trucks and who are watching and celebrating as little murdered kids are being carried in coffins to a huge fanfare. Then I went away and educated myself. They’re all there rejoicing. Here are your innocent Hamastinians that leaders and traitors want to send to Europe. These poor women and children ( max sarc );
”Palestinian woman CELEBRATES the murder of two Jewish children in Gaza.
Palestinian man:
“But today they are leaving in coffins.”
Woman:
“Victory, victory. You can’t believe it but we were victorious.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1892905226732019958
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1893311332524360189
”Gazan woman smiles as she poses with Hamas terrorists while holding a gun to watch Israeli hostages being paraded and taunted on stage.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1893320533124477294
The neighbouring countries know them too well to be fooled. They are Muslim countries but they don’t want ‘that sort’ of Muslims bringing their countries down to the level of Gaza.
Yes they are also used for the dual purpose of political pawns with perma-refugee status, to forever be a thorn in the side of Israel. Gaza is basically Mordor, churning out terrorists and their spawn like hate-filled mega-Orcs, hellbent on destruction and the assassination of Jews/Israelis.
Hamastinians and the Mordor and Orcs descriptors are very accurate. How people can support these murderers is beyond me, regardless of whether you support Israel or not.
Thank you for your constant highlighting of them and their atrocities. I just wish it was mainstream thinking. So many people are blinded by hatred.
Well the reason I’m posting this stuff is because DS are not. I don’t know if you’ve noticed? There’s seldom anything in the Round-up, no articles dropped, so I’ll fill the void with what I feel are things important for people to know. Especially in light of the bombshell that Hamastinians are going to be allowed to claim asylum in the U.K, and already have done in other parts of Europe. This here is the type of people they are, proudly broadcasting their true colours for all to see, and they do not just conveniently leave their jihadi mindset and hateful, hostile attitudes towards others over there, laughably intent on integration and assimilation into our culture, before they embark on their journey West. I think it’s insanity to grant such people asylum and ultimately citizenship. They are hostiles ( how much more evidence is needed? ) and should be treated as such. Rejects of the Arab world. But Project ‘Suicidal Empathy’ continues at pace over here and the sadomasochistic West hoovers them up.
You post every day your hatred of Palestinians so why should DS report more? Egypt and other neighbouring countries have already taken on hundreds of thousands of expelled Palestinians. These are not rich countries able to take on unlimited numbers of migrants, as the West pretends to be. And apparently there are discussions in Egypt on how to rebuild Gaza, prompted by Trump’s desire to open a new riviera there, although it was the Israelis using US bombs that destroyed the area in the first place.
Except i don’t post about this topic daily at all, do I? As a quick check back can affirm. However, whenever I do post about this conflict it certainly seems to trigger you without fail, doesn’t it?
I am just tired of the daily vitriol, primarily concerning Arabs or immigrants, and especially concerning the situation in Israel.
I am also against open borders and of course I am upset when immigrants commit crimes. It should not be possible but it is primarily our politicians who are to blame for supporting wide open borders.
And you rightly complain when women are attacked or raped, except you stop when the crimes are committed by Israelis. Israelis are allowed to do anything with Palestinians: rape or murder the men, rape or murder the women, murder children, blow up their universities, schools, hospitals, demolish whole villages, towns or city areas.
That is all OK because “they are all terrorists and terrorist supporters, basically ‘barbarian sadistic savages’, rejects of the Arab world”.
No, they are people, just like you and I. And Palestine is not a “made-up land”, it is an area that was once occupied to 90% by Arabs, living in peace with anything up to 10% of Jews. But the 10% grew and grew, and eventually the Arabs noticed they were being supplanted and even subjugated. Does that somehow sound similar? And numbers grew and aggressions grew, and suddenly there was never-ending conflict.
And so the UN stepped in and declared there should be two states living in peace together, but only one state was declared and that State of Israel has been mistreating and killing Arabs both internally and externally ever since.
As I wrote the other day, only in December did 159 of the world’s countries vote once again (it is an annual procedure) for a State of Palestine. 7 countries voted against, including Israel and USA, of course. But 159 against 7: what is there to discuss?
Or what is your solution, apart from killing all Palestinian Arabs and, as I wrote before, do you envisage killing all the Arabs in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Irak and Iran too, because they all support the Palestinians?
The Davos Deviants are intent on destroying Western civilisation.
Bad BMW! You should be willing to take one for the team! It doesn’t matter if you lose money. Just splash the cash for Net Zero!
“BMW has confirmed it is delaying the reintroduction of electric vehicle production at its Oxford Mini plant.
The vehicle manufacturer said “multiple uncertainties facing the automotive industry” had led to its decision decision to pause work on the £600m upgrade of its plant in Cowley.
It said it had decided not to accept a related £60m grant from the government but remained in “close dialogue”.”
Hmm – even with a £60million bung they don’t think they can make money.
Uncertainty my arse – they know they won’t sell the damn things and they will lose money.
Trump’s comments are out of order, but Europe’s inaction is unforgivable
‘Zelensky has suspended elections during war, but his high approval ratings are still numbers most politicians dream of. The balls of steel he displayed while Russian tanks rolled on Kyiv will go down in history.’
Trump also displayed balls of steel not so long ago.
He is negotiating with someone who didn’t
‘…..monitoring the movements of the Russian president during Prigozhin’s short-lived rebellion on June 24…….Putin left Moscow by plane……and most likely went to his residence in Valdai……….250 miles away…….the latest indication from multiple sources, including aircraft tracking data, that the Russian president was not in Moscow.’
President Trump and his team will have spotted that weakness.
Nobody believes these negotiations will succeed.
‘….the U.S. president has publicly invested too much in the Ukraine war to come away with nothing. This likely means he will reach some general agreement with Putin that stipulates a ceasefire, elections in Ukraine, and then a peace deal. However, Trump will entrust “lower levels” with the impossible work of determining how these stages are implemented practically. The U.S. president will tout his great achievement, citing its simplicity as its strength and genius — and wait for the initiative to fail slowly and quietly.’
A new German government, more and longer range ordnance for Ukraine, Zelensky re-elected, Russian energy infrastructure crumbling, its economy tanking…….
and Putin runs for the hills……..welcome to 2026…….
Netenyahu has said no more Hamastinian prisoners will be released until the barbarians stop these highly degrading propaganda ceremonies where the Israeli hostages are released. These poor men had to kiss their jihadi captors on stage, the other two hostages were being kept in a car to watch their friends get released while they are kept captive still. Anything to twist the knife and drag out the psychological torture to the max;
”In Hamas’ latest propaganda stunt.
They locked two more hostages, Evyatar David and Guy Dalal Gilboa in a vehicle and made them watch the DISGUSTING Gazan ceremony of their friends getting released from a distance.
Begging on camera to be released. Taunting and mocking them.
Hamas made Omer KISS a Hamas terrorist in front of them.
I feel utterly sick. Sick to my stomach.
If anyone still “supports” Gazan terrorists and defends them at this point, you know they are brainwashed beyond help.”
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1893432362345877714
https://x.com/HowidyHamza/status/1893304990350913955
Even Mark Dubowitz, who used to sympathize with the Hamastinians, has had a change of heart ( finally ) based on the recent news and footage coming out of that hellscape. They’re all demonstrably evil, irredeemable people ( yes, women and children also ) that must be kept well away from civilized society in the West at all costs;
”I deeply regret my decades of support for a Palestinian state under ‘land for peace’ and the ‘two-state solution.’ I was wrong—badly wrong. I misjudged a society that prioritizes murdering Jewish children over building a better future for its own. I apologize.”
What was once the village of Kfarkela—nestled along Lebanon’s border with Israel—is now a pile of ruins. Mounds of rubble, twisted rebar, and broken concrete are all that remain where houses once stood. Not a single structure was left untouched by the Israeli troops who had been occupying the area for months. The roads have been demolished; the Israelis bulldozed dirt paths through the middle of the village. As we drove through early on Friday, our driver showed us our route on the map on his phone. “We are driving over where houses once stood,” he said.
The Israeli military withdrew from Kfarkela and several others [villages] in southern Lebanon just three days ago, on February 18, after violating a “ceasefire” agreement for withdrawal that expired on January 26. Israeli forces remain illegally stationed inside Lebanon in five locations on hilltops near the border.
On Friday, only a few scattered families were seen standing near the rubble of their homes in an eerie quiet. In the days after January 26, as Drop Site reported previously, displaced residents gathered on the outskirts of the town in protest of the continued Israeli occupation. When they tried to return, Israeli snipers opened fire, killing at least one and wounding over a dozen.
Yet since the Israeli military left the village three days ago, it remains a ghost town. “There’s nothing left,” said Najeeb, a 45-year-old resident standing next to the wreckage of his home where he was born. He politely declined to give his full name. “No houses, no supermarket, no gas station. This is not a war, these are just war crimes.”
Hezbollah began firing rockets and artillery at Israeli forces one day after Israel began its genocidal assault on Gaza. Israel retaliated by bombing Lebanon, mostly in the south. The cross border attacks continued for nearly a year—with over 80% of the strikes coming from Israel. Over 110,000 people in southern Lebanon were displaced from their homes by September, before Israel dramatically escalated the war, carpet bombing large swathes of the country and launching a ground invasion, forcing more than 1.2 million to flee their homes. Over 4,000 people have been killed, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Najeeb was displaced from Kfarkela over a year ago and returned for the first time on Wednesday. Despite the total annihilation of his village, he struck a defiant tone. “When I returned, I felt victorious,” he said. “We can replace the stones of our houses. It’s only the land that matters and our presence here.”
Much of the destruction came during the 60-day “ceasefire” between Israel and Lebanon that went into effect on November 27. Troops used bulldozers, dynamite, and artillery to flatten the entire area. “This wasn’t a ceasefire. These agreements are not worth the ink they are printed on,” Najeeb said.
The above is from https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/southern-lebanon-after-israel-troop-withdrawal, just one example of Israel spreading its version of love and peace in the Middle East.
Photo: The village of Kfarkela in southern Lebanon lies in ruins after Israeli forces withdrew from the area on February 18, 2025. (February 21, 2025. Photo by Sharif Abdel Kouddous.)
‘In September 2015, pro-Assad Moscow launched airstrikes in Syria, starting in Homs and Hama, two cities north of Damascus. After that, Russian air power helped turn the tide against the various anti-government groups with a sustained bombing campaign on east Aleppo.
Walking in the city now, the toll exacted on its ancient streets by the war between pro-government forces, rebels and jihadis is evident, as is the human toll signified by the silence. Residents say they know the remains of their neighbours are still trapped under layers of rubble.’
“Europe must be stronger, or it will die”
Trump didn’t cause this, Europe didnt stop it,and now they’re running to keep up, to stay viable, Europe wanted to keep it going! Cha ching
I am surprised that anyone believes Zelensky’s high approval rating given the tight control and blatant propaganda generated by his little ruling coterie.
I received my vaccination against propaganda in January/February 2020. It was and is very effective and the only ‘side effect’ is it strengthens my convictions against media and politicians and their blather. I’d always had slight immunity but that booster has been very effective.
Nice metaphor.
Here is what Musk said on the topic ”
“Unfortunately, the government [of Ukraine] and leading media outlets are increasingly deceiving the public. We are working to correct the situation.
It is now completely obvious that the public opinion poll controlled by Zelensky, aimed at assessing the approval rating among the population, is not trustworthy!”
Lovely to see our “friends” at the Telegraph going on about the “far right” again. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Di you know anybody who is “far right” tof?
I know lots of political activists but nobody I could describe as far right. Plenty of far left but they are nasty, lying, thieving areseholes who I avoid where possible.
That’s a very good question. No I do not know anybody who is “far right”.
I was an avid Telegraph reader for over 30 years,,every day my primary news source.
I ditched it 5 years ago after it airbrushed the US Election steal, took the Covid Vax Danegeld, promoted the carbon zero scam and to cap it all had a front page transgender columnist.
Never again, I said.
Last week I tested my decision. Had it changed? I took the free week’s membership and monitored its ‘news’. It confirmed the fact the DT is a busted flush.
The same tired old commentators, Moore, Daley, AEP, Hannan, pushing outdated and disproven tropes.
My point? Why are half the links above channeling the DT? I expect better from the DS and don’t pay my £5 month for paywalled old world thinking.
2/10. Must do better Toby.
I dumped my print edition subscription about the same time as you, probably for similar reasons. Moore should have retired ages ago. AEP was always missing the mark and Hannan has lost the zing he had pre-Brexit. Alison Pearson was not worth the investment on her own and now we get treated to her on GB News.
I flirted with Guido for a while but Lockdown Sceptic hooked me and I have been here ever since.
I have posted disparaging comments about the Torygraph numerous times but it gets nowhere. The good news is that the Torygraph is paywalled and I am not even interested enough to apply the work around.
A year’s subscription is only £29 for the DT. It’s a shame as the DT’s comment section is excellent.
We can pay for a rapid rebuild of our military might – by using the hundreds of billions Miliband is planning to splurge on his fatuous pursuit of Net Zero”
Although this is true in terms of buying equipment, we also need young people who are proud of this country and want to fight to preserve its values and wealth. Good luck with that after the last 20 years indoctrination… There is also the small matter that the ‘big splurge’ was/is unaffordable anyway. We don’t have hundreds of billions sitting there with nothing to spend it on. Its all due to be borrowed money anyway.
They money will be wasted unless military planning is updated and a lot of the top and middle brass are retired. The Ukraine conflict has shown just how far warfare in the European environment has changed; it has been shaped over decades by desert environments and low grade opponents relying on third party weapons suppliers.
We have always been happy for USA to intervene in other countries to aid their people and stop internal conficts, but when Russia does the same, as in Ukraine, then they are villefied. I suspect that Biden’s real concern was to protect American interests like the bio-labs, Blackrock and his own son’s (his as well of course), as well as the US MIC.
Please can someone explain to me this? its a serious question. We as a Country are financially in the cart, the sums of interest we have to pay on our borrowings are in the billions, and every month Rachel from Accounts has to borrow more to keep the country from going bust. We then give some of this borrowed money to Ukraine, I have no idea what the terms are, if there is interest payable, or even if repayment is expected.
My Question is why doesn’t Ukraine borrow the money from an international lender on its own behalf? Why is this Government bankrupting this country, to borrow money to give to another Country? why is that Country not borrowing from the lenders?
Because the end game is to drive the country to economic ruin so that the state can come in and ‘rescue’ it with radical reform that will introduce CBDC and a social credit system.
In a nutshell.
The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right
Or not really…..
‘Professor Onuch – alongside colleagues Professor Henry Hale of George Washington University, Volodymyr Kulyk of The Kyiv School of Economics and Gwendolyn Sasse of Humbolt University and ZOiS – has conducted extensive surveys in Ukraine since 2014. Their work, carried out in partnership with the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, offers a clear picture of Ukrainian public sentiment.
According to their latest findings, 63% of Ukrainians approve of Zelensky’s performance as president, a notable increase from the previous year. Additionally, large majorities view him as a patriot (74%), an intelligent and knowledgeable leader (73%), and a strong figure guiding the country through war (65%).
The notion that Zelensky is deeply unpopular is not only inaccurate – according to the researchers, it is a blatant attempt to distort reality in favour of Russia’s geopolitical ambitions. Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine should hold new elections ignores the fact that democratic processes in Ukraine remain intact, and that Zelensky would remain a frontrunner in the most likely electoral scenarios.
Among likely voters, he commands 32-41% support – far ahead of rivals like former President Petro Poroshenko and Dmytro Razumkov, who trail in the single digits. Zelensky’s only strong contender would be Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander in Chief and currently Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, but he has not publicly voiced any political ambitions.’
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/trump-is-making-false-claims-about-zelenskys-popularity/
Well let him hold an election then.
There are learned opinions on both sides, but reality has no respect for learned opinions.
Reality is reflected by professionally conducted and academically objective opinion polls, not by a few random.posters on here.
‘The majority of Ukrainians appear to agree. Two of Zelenskyy’s main political rivals, Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, have publicly rejected the idea of wartime elections as impractical and illegitimate. Ukraine’s vibrant civil society has also voiced its opposition to the return of elections before a peace agreement has been signed. Meanwhile, a new opinion poll conducted in February 2025 found that 63 percent of Ukrainians are against holding any national votes until the war with Russia is over.
This lack of appetite for wartime elections is not the product of apathy or oppression. On the contrary, Ukrainians are fiercely proud of their country’s democratic credentials, which were hard-won during two separate pro-democracy revolutions in 2004 and 2014.
On both occasions, millions of Ukrainians took part in massive protest movements opposing Russian-backed attempts to subvert the country’s emerging democracy and place Ukraine on a trajectory toward Kremlin-style authoritarianism.
This grassroots embrace of democratic values has become central to modern Ukraine’s sense of national identity.’
Should there be a ceasefire, there will be an election in Ukraine, not before that as anyone who has bothered to read the Ukrainian constitution knows well.
Article 83 of the Ukrainian constitution states: “In the event that the term of authority of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s parliament] of Ukraine expires while martial law or a state of emergency is in effect, its authority is extended until the day of the first meeting of the first session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, elected after the cancellation of martial law or of the state of emergency,”
Words of horror don’t begin to describe the situation. If the west had retained some moral values we would not hesitate in giving total support for Israel snd condemnation of Hamas.
The west has every reason to help eliminate Hamas and we should be helping with that.