Glaring omission in coverage exposed by group’s resignation letter
As Skwawkbox reported yesterday, twenty councillors in Broxtowe, Notts, have resigned from the Labour party in disgust at Keir Starmer’s betrayal of Labour values. The resignations have been widely covered by the so-called ‘mainstream’ media, but almost all have a huge omission in their coverage of the reasons.
The BBC, for example, states that the councillors left because they:
claimed the party had “abandoned traditional Labour values” and criticised policies such as cutting the winter fuel allowance for some pensioners… [and that] 10 of them had been blocked from standing for Labour at upcoming local elections for Nottinghamshire County Council after questioning the winter fuel policy.
But the councillors’ resignation letter, which the BBC would surely have seen, is clear that Starmer’s position on Israel’s genocide in Gaza was among the councillors’ reason for quitting:
The BBC makes no mention of this fact. Nor do Sky, the Murdoch Times or the Guardian, which both likewise return zero results in a page search for either Gaza or Palestine:
The Independent and GB News both do mention Gaza.
Israel has murdered more than 200,000 people in Gaza, overwhelmingly women and children. Keir Starmer has persistently denied Israel’s genocide and is waging war on UK journalists who expose it, providing Israel with political cover while the UK continues to provide direct military and logistical aid to the genocidal terror state.
The UK’s ‘mainstream’ media, likewise, have frequently ignored Israel’s atrocities or regurgitated the propaganda claims of the Israeli regime as fact.
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Oh dear did you think they would put it in when all media is far right owners
FWIW, I suppose the defence of the remissive media will be that gaza was at the end of a fairly long list of legitimate
(and domestic) grievances.
HOPE is the most potent ability we have. Our opponents have to deny us it. It exists through facts. A fact can be liberating, can be stimulating, can be edifying. When something is any of these things, or is kind and generous, it engenders hope. We see the potential for things to change.
That recognition – that things which seem solid and fixed can be changed – is empowering, infectious and energising.
This is why theSun, the BBC, the dump-able guardnog, et al, CANNOT explain the reasons why 20 councillors or 200,000+ former members are angry with their former party.
HOPE is irresistible, compelling and contagious. Share it widely. It only becomes powerful when it is shared for the many, not the few.
“A fact can be liberating, can be stimulating, can be edifying.”
Facts can also be censored, enclosed, privatised, and even denied existence to suit the needs of the Blob.
As revealed in the video of venture capitalist Mark Andressen embedded halfway down this piece:
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/ai-jumps-shark-fakes-alignment-in
“Biden’s administration flat out told him to not fund anymore AI startups because they had plans to allow only the top two or three AI companies to exist under total state syndication. The creepier implication was what he says next: the method of control would involve the government classifying entire swaths of AI mathematics in order to keep development in line with nuclear scientific restrictions during the Cold War.”
The Eric Weinstein video interview with Chris Williamson – particularly around the 42 minute mark is also enlightening:
“There is a category called restricted data which is never discussed, which is the only place in law where, if you and I were to work at a table at a cafe and I showed you something that could influence nuclear weaponry, the government doesn’t need to classify it, it is born secret the second my pen touches down. [It’s defined as] anything that impinges on nuclear weapons….
……“If you couple that with the 1917 espionage act which carries capital punishment, I believe it is illegal to seek information at a Q level, if you don’t have access to it. So there is a question, if you’re any good at physics, are you potentially committing a capital crime by advancing the field if it could influence nuclear weapons. We have no idea if it would be found constitutional. But the Progressive Magazine showed that at least a reporter through basically archaeology in Los Alamos library and things, could find this and put it together, then the only thing keeping the proliferation of weapons is the difficulty of producing fissile nuclear material, there is no nuclear secret per se…
…. The concept is not limited to nuclear weapons, and other ideas and technologies may be considered as born secret under law.
From Vox Political:
Starmer has been booed in Madeira for queue-jumping a famous ride
Prime minister Keir Starmer has been booed in Madeira for queue-jumping a famous ride.
The Portugal News tells us that Starmer, who has been on holiday with his family, was reportedly booed for cutting in front of a three-hour-long queue for the famous Madeiran toboggan ride.
It seems he
arrived in a limousine with his children, aged 13 and 16, who were promptly escorted straight to the front of the queue and sat in a wicker toboggan basket, sparking outrage amongst onlookers who reportedly booed and asked the Prime Minister to “move to the back of the queue”.
A witness from Ilford, who had been queueing for several hours, said Starmer
is obviously in a privileged position and has security concerns, but it was still hard to swallow seeing him jump the queue after we had been there for three hours.
The optics on this are appalling: a Labour prime minister using his privilege as a VIP to queue-jump past the hoi-polloi.
These are the people he is supposed to represent!
But he merrily grinds them beneath his heel in the name of his own enjoyment.
Coming after Freebiegate, it seems he has not learned his lesson and still thinks being in government is about stamping on the citizenry, rather than serving them.
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/01/03/starmer-has-been-booed-in-madeira-for-queue-jumping-a-famous-ride/
But, surprisingly, the Guardian did report that the Carter administration armed the rebels in Afghanistan
BEFORE the Soviet invasion of that country, a fact that was widely concealed at the time and ever since:
“Long after he left office, it emerged that much of the blame for the Afghan crisis could, in fact, be laid at his door. In February 1979 the US ambassador in Kabul, Adolph Dubs, was kidnapped and died in a botched rescue attempt by the local police. The Soviet Union was alleged to have been behind the kidnapping and, in retaliation, Carter signed a secret directive on 3 July 1979, authorising the CIA to fund and arm Muslim opponents to the Kabul regime, which the Soviet Union supported.
This decision was later described by Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, as “giving the Soviet Union its own Vietnam”. Its consequences, including the rise of the Taliban, have clanked unpredictably through the ensuing decades. As US-funded fighting spread rapidly across Afghanistan, the Kabul regime tottered and Moscow decided that the only answer to the destabilisation of its strategically vital southern border was to invade.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-obituary