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A country supporting genocide should not pretend it is a moral nation.
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Sir Keir Starmer faces a serious challenge to his authority after a number of Labour MPs backed a Commons vote calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Eight of his shadow ministers and two parliamentary private secretaries have either resigned or have been sacked after defying the party whip by backing the motion put forward by the SNP.
Comment: Note that Starmer had openly threatened his party earlier on in the week that if they voted for an immediate ceasefire he would sack them – that’s democracy in the UK.
Among the most high-profile resignations was domestic violence and safeguarding secretary Jess Phillips, who said she was leaving the Shadow Cabinet with a “heavy heart”.
MPs voted 290 to 183, a majority of 107, to reject Labour’s King’s Speech amendment calling for longer “humanitarian pauses” – as opposed to a longer-lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
The SNP’s King’s Speech amendment calling for “all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire” in the enclave was also rejected 293 to 125.
Currently, the following MPs have either resigned or been asked to step down from their posts in the Labour party:
Jess Phillips, shadow minister for domestic violence and MP for Birmingham Yardley
Yasmin Qureshi, shadow women and equalities minister and MP for Bolton South East
Afzal Khan, shadow business minister and MP for Manchester Gorton
Paula Barker, shadow minister for devolution and MP for Liverpool Wavertree
Rachel Hopkins, shadow minister for defence and MP for Luton South
Sarah Owen, shadow minister for housing and MP for Luton North
Naz Shah, shadow minister for crime reduction and MP for Bradford West
Andy Slaughter, shadow solicitor general and MP for Hammersmith
Dan Carden, parliamentary private secretary and MP for Liverpool Walton
Mary Foy, parliamentary private secretary and MP for City of Durham
In total, the division list showed 56 Labour MPs backed the SNP’s call for an immediate ceasefire.
Starmer said he regretted that party colleagues had not backed his position.
“Alongside leaders around the world, I have called throughout for adherence to international law, for humanitarian pauses to allow access for aid, food, water, utilities and medicine, and have expressed our concerns at the scale of civilian casualties.
“Much more needs to be done in this regard to ease the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in Gaza.
“In addition to addressing the present, every leader has a duty not to go back to a failed strategy of containment and neglect, but to forge a better and more secure future for both Palestinians and Israelis.
“I regret that some colleagues felt unable to support the position tonight. But I wanted to be clear about where I stood, and where I will stand.”
Sir Keir had met with some of his frontbenchers on Wednesday afternoon in a bid to persuade them to back the Labour’s amendment instead.
A Labour spokesman said: “This is a whipped vote and every MP knows what the consequence of that means.”
Comment: Twitter is ablaze with constituents calling out their MP for failing to vote for their to be an immediate ceasefire. Meanwhile, the UK military has wasted little time in showing its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, both in sending warships, spy planes, weapons, and troops to the region: UK’s elite forces training in Lebanon, US Embassy in Beirut becomes new regional intelligence HQ
The spokesman acknowledged that shadow ministers had been given some freedom to speak in favour of a ceasefire, but said a Commons vote was a different matter.
“There is an understanding that there is a difference when it comes to the space that we have allowed, given that we fully understand that this is a very challenging subject… in the debate that there has been up to this point, but at the point at which there is a vote in Parliament that clearly is something that has a significance to it that everybody understands,” the spokesman said.
The Middle East conflict has caused splits in the Labour Party, with the leadership backing the Conservative government’s position of pushing for “humanitarian pauses” in the Israel-Hamas fighting.
However, several shadow ministers have openly called for a ceasefire instead.
On Wednesday, protesters were removed from the Commons, after holding up “ceasefire now” signs during the King’s Speech debate involving shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.
A group of five or six people stood up and held aloft the messages as Ms Cooper turned to the Israel-Hamas conflict in her speech. Environmental group Extinction Rebellion has since claimed responsibility for the protest.
Comment: The ruling Conservative government isn’t faring much better, with 3 Prime Ministers in 2 years, and, in just the last few days the sacking on a top minister, alongside the reappointment of the widely despised former PM David Cameron.
Is it any wonder the UK is in the dire state that it’s in?
The debacle is the key reason why the “Biden combo” administration is now desperately trying to impose a ceasefire: a face-saving gambit as crucial as throwing the sweaty sweatshirt in Kiev under a double-decker bus.
Evidence keeps piling up, via leaked reports, of an across-the-board breakdown in the Ukrainian frontlines…
Previously, we focused on the southern Zaporozhye front. Now let’s focus on Kharkov, in the northeast.
The attached document, fully verified for authenticity, is a July report to the Chief of Staff of the operational-tactical group “Sumy”.
The report essentially says that it’s impossible to withdraw two-thirds of the A7383 unit from the battlefield to recover combat readiness because the remaining one-third is incapable of holding the fort – which happens to extend along 55.5 km.
In parallel, recruiting was proceeding very slowly.
As of four months ago, the 127th separate territorial defense brigade in Kharkov was still equipped with 72% of personnel – 2,392 soldiers and 256 officers. Yet, crucially, the moral-psychological condition of the unit was critical – just as in the previous instance in Zaporozhye.
So forget about recovering combat readiness: this is yet another case of a brigade – now in Kharkov – that cannot fight properly. The previous case was far from being an exception to the current rule.
The conclusion is stark: with whole brigades in critical condition, the entire Ukrainian frontline may be about to fall.
The Hundred Days Debacle
Facts on the ground point to the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) taking the initiative all along the SMO frontlines. This is recognized even by Polish and Estonian intel. Main battles are being fought on the Avdeevka-Marinka line in the DPR and the Kupyansk-Svatovo line in the LPR.
RAF has enough manpower and weapons to keep the Ukrainians under a 24/7 state of despair. Objectives remain the same: to capture the whole of DPR and LPR within their administrative borders.
In parallel, the ever-unplugged Dmitri Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, has announced a massive increase in the production of weapons and military equipment. Medvedev constantly stresses that the capabilities of the Russian defense industry have reached an unprecedented level – and much faster than expected.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, for his part, echoes what Foreign Minister Lavrov has been detailing for months now: Kiev – and its NATO handlers – better realize they cannot and won’t “win” in the battlefield.
Medvedev always relishes upping the ante: “The West must admit that not only Donbass and Crimea are not Ukraine, but also Odessa, Nikolaev, Kiev and practically everything else.”
That was a sharp response to former NATO Secretary- General Anders “Fogh of War” Rasmussen, who said that Kiev could be accepted into NATO “without lost territories,” referring to Crimea and Donbass.
That set Medvedev on a roll: “What then should we admit to NATO, you ask? Well, we can accept the city of Lemberg with its surroundings [the Lviv region] if they really insist there.”
This analysis focuses on “what the Russians are doing with their ongoing ‘mud season offensive’ in Ukraine, really a collection of local attacks across the length of the front line” – with the exception of Kherson.
Strategically, Russia has committed none of its own massive reserves while the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are pressured all along the frontlines – and the Russians silently prepare a surprise knockout blow elsewhere.
A Perfect Storm of dwindling financing, weaponizing and Western “support” has darkened Kiev’s horizon, while serial Ukrainian disasters on the ground are so obvious they are even being picked up by Western mainstream media.
This ain’t no “stalemate”.
The previous analysis is only one among many that matches the breakdown of Ukrainian brigades across the frontlines – consisting “largely of units already mauled in their disastrous Hundred Days Offensive.”
The Hundred Days Offensive should rather be qualified as NATO’s Hundred Days Debacle.
The debacle is the key reason why the “Biden combo” administration is now desperately trying to impose a ceasefire: a face-saving gambit as crucial as throwing the sweaty sweatshirt in Kiev under a double-decker bus.
It’s interesting that Australia is even having another wave of COVID-19, considering over 95% of people over the age of 12 are fully “vaccinated” in the country. In Victoria, it is recommended that the slave class take another booster shot.
Calls for mandatory face masks to return have surfaced once again in Australia, as the fully “vaccinated” county is seeing its eighth wave of COVID. Australian Medical Association Queensland president Dr. Maria Boulton says people should opt to wear masks in public places such as large crowds, planes, and medical settings to slow the spread of COVID before Christmas.
Dr. Boulton called on Queensland’s Chief Medical Officer (CHO) Dr. John Gerrard to provide guidance to the public on how to avoid a “disastrous Christmas” holiday. “The public should be encouraged to mask up in medical settings, planes, or in crowds in the lead-up to big Christmas gatherings,” she told The Courier-Mail. “Of course, a mask mandate would be the decision of the CHO but hospitalizations are rising and the health workforce is stretched to breaking point and cannot cope with another overload of patients over the holidays.”
Queensland is currently in its fourth week of the latest COVID wave to strike Australia with 122 people hospitalized with the virus, which is up from 74 people last month, if the ruling class’s numbers can be trusted.
Dr. Gerrard discarded the idea of another mask mandate saying this current wave will be over by Christmas, and people shouldn’t be too concerned. “Covid-19 is now an ongoing part of our reality, much like other acute respiratory illnesses such as influenza and RSV,” Dr Gerrard said, according to the Daily Mail UK.
It’s interesting that Australia is even having another wave of COVID-19, considering over 95% of people over the age of 12 are fully “vaccinated” in the country. In Victoria, it is recommended that the slave class take another booster shot.
Acting health chief health officer in Victoria, Dr. Christian McGrath has urged Melbourne residents to wear masks in some high-risk settings, and get another “vaccine.” Dr. McGrath said the best way for people to protect themselves amid rising cases was to wear a mask, get a booster jab if they’re eligible, and keep their windows open.
The push to get injected is still ongoing while mainstream media really tries to panic the masses into it. Who knows when this will explode, but it doesn’t look like it’s over just yet.
Americans should get ready for plane-loads of Gaza refugees arriving in their cities, funded by the American taxpayers who can now barely afford to keep up with the price of groceries. This will be sold as a “humanitarian” effort, but anyone who sees through the propaganda will see that it’s really all a cynical effort to please pro-Israel interest groups and Israeli politicians.
The United States regime has picked sides in the Israel-Hamas war and has committed to funding Israel’s ongoing bombing of non-combatant men, women, and children in the Gaza Strip. Northern Gaza’s infrastructure is now all but destroyed, with millions of Gazans displaced and homeless. Nearly ten times more Gazans than Israelis have now died in the conflict. Many Gazans have fled to the southern portion of Gaza, but homelessness and abject poverty await them there.
By employing what is essentially the carpet-bombing approach, Tel Aviv has made the choice of adopting a policy that is sure to produce hundreds of thousands of refugees—or perhaps even more than a million. Indeed, many in the Israeli regime are motivated to maximize refugees, and push Gazans out of the country altogether using the Orwellian phrase “voluntary migration.”
On a military and tactical level, the Israeli state will have no problem accomplishing this. Tel Aviv has an air force, a deep reservoir of American-funded weapons, and a nuclear arsenal. The Israeli military can easily reduce all of Gaza to rubble. But what is sure to result from this is a humanitarian disaster accompanied by a global debate over which foreign country will host the refugees.
Israeli mouthpieces are already at work pushing the cost onto foreign taxpayers, including American ones. This week, two Israeli politicians—one from the militarist Likud party, and one from the center-left Yesh Atid party—took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to demand that “countries around the world should offer a haven for Gaza residents who seek relocation.” According to these politicians, “[t]he international community”—i.e., not Israel—”has a moral imperative” to resettle Gazans somewhere outside Israel at not-Israel’s expense.
It is significant these claims appeared in an American publication. Tel Aviv is the latest welfare-queen regime—in the tradition of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky—repeatedly haranguing the American public with demands for free money. It’s no coincidence that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is now seemingly ubiquitous on American prime-time news programs. His primary job right now is to demand money and favors from Washington and from other Western regimes.
It will probably work. Americans should get ready for plane-loads of Gaza refugees arriving in their cities, funded by the American taxpayers who can now barely afford to keep up with the price of groceries. This will be sold as a “humanitarian” effort, but anyone who sees through the propaganda will see that it’s really all a cynical effort to please pro-Israel interest groups and Israeli politicians.
A Pattern of War and Refugees
This was all predictable from the minute the war started last month.
The US and its allies have settled into a predictable pattern in foreign policy over the past thirty years: force the taxpayers to pay for the regime’s wars which involve bombing various poor foreign countries “back into the stone age.” Then, once the refugees start pouring out—and the Americans have lost the war, of course—Western regimes then tell the taxpayers back home to cough up even more money to pay for the resettlement of all those refugees whose countries were needlessly destroyed by the bombs dropped by Washington and its allies.
Thanks to the distance from western Asia and North Africa, refugee totals have been smaller in the United States. Nonetheless, the total number of refugees has ranged from 50,000 to 90,000 per year in most years since the US began its war in Afghanistan. This has transformed a number of communities in the United States, however, since refugees often tend to concentrate in specific places along ethnic or religious lines. In the decades of the US’s endless on-again, off-again military meddling in Somalia, tens of thousands of Somali refugees have been relocated to Minnesota at taxpayers’ expense. Since 2018, Minnesota has hosted more than 40,000 Somalia-born migrants (many classified as refugees). Most of the refugees, of course, are concentrated within Minneapolis’ metro population of only 3.5 million. In democracies, this has political consequences.
It is also important to remember that migrants who enjoy the legal status of refugees are not normal immigrants. Ordinary immigrants arrive at the United States at their own expense. The vast majority must find work on their own if they wish to have an income. They are eligible for few social benefits. Those seeking legal residency, of course, must go through a lengthy administrative process. For example, Mexicans who obtain a work visa in the United States have to work. They don’t show up and receive “free” help from government-funded refugee agencies in finding jobs, apartments, and other government freebies.
In contrast, all of that is fast-tracked for people labelled “refugees” by the federal government, and most of these refugees are immediately eligible for a wide array of taxpayer-funded benefits. In total, this all costs the taxpayers nearly two billion dollars per year, or $80,000 per refugee per year in the form of federal and state programs including food stamps, child care, and public housing.
It’s not enough that you pay for the bombs that create the refugees, dear American taxpayer. You’ll also have to pay to resettle those refugees in your town.
A new era characterized by multipolarity has been taking shape, the Russian foreign minister told RT
“The West has been calling the shots in the world for over five centuries. And this era is over. It will take time for this era to be replaced by multipolarity, which has already started to take shape,” the Russian diplomat stated.
The Russian diplomat claimed that Washington invents rules which it insists everyone else must follow, as long these regulations serve US interests. As soon as other nations become more efficient than the US itself, the rules are changed, Lavrov said.
New centers of global economic growth have emerged to rival the West, and are seizing opportunities to cooperate and strengthen ties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT on Wednesday.
Lavrov named China, India, Iran, the Gulf countries, and groups such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as among the growing economic powers.
“The West has been calling the shots in the world for over five centuries. And this era is over. It will take time for this era to be replaced by multipolarity, which has already started to take shape,” the Russian diplomat stated.
Lavrov cited the suggestion by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who said CELAC should “really think about getting rid of total dependence on the US dollar and think about their own currency.”
Lula has also suggested an alternative payment platform for the BRICS group of nations, Lavrov noted. The Russian diplomat claimed that these ideas are a response to the way the US is “abusing the role of the dollar with unilateral sanctions, just canceling overnight all the principles they were basing their model of globalization [on], and inviting everyone to join.”
Lavrov argued that the same had happened at the World Trade Organization as soon as China gained more clout in global trade and investment. “As China was winning over the United States on American-made turf, immediately the WTO dispute resolution organ was immobilized,” he said.
The Russian diplomat claimed that Washington invents rules which it insists everyone else must follow, as long these regulations serve US interests. As soon as other nations become more efficient than the US itself, the rules are changed, Lavrov said.
“This era is coming to an end because of these new world centers of economic, military, political power, and influence,” he stated, adding that the process of shaping a new world order would take time.
Russian bank launches SWIFT transfers in major Asian currency — RT Business News https://t.co/qatdJeiEDL
The probability of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict spreading to other countries in the Middle East region is very high, Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov said.
“I can say that the level of confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians remains extremely high and the degree of the conflict’s expansion into the region is, unfortunately, very high,” the diplomat said during a Rossiya-24 TV broadcast when asked about the threat of the conflict’s expansion in the region.
The ambassador also pointed to the importance of not allowing the conflict to grow. “It is necessary to act against it, and immediately,” Viktorov added.
The Russian ambassador said that the US policy is one of the main reasons for such escalation in the region. “The current upsurge or escalation of the confrontation is largely the result of the failed policy of the Americans in the Middle East. They hijacked many processes, did not take into account the interests of states and regions, and pushed for some agreements that looked attractive,” Viktorov said.
In his opinion, the US actions are not aimed at resolving the conflict, but at escalating the situation in order to get an opportunity to dictate its terms. “Now, in my opinion, instead of recognizing their failures and joining, so to speak, collective actions in the region, they are once again continuing the line of unilateral actions and, it seems to me, pushing Israel to take some tough measures that should not have been taken in the current conditions,” the diplomat emphasized.
Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when Hamas militants staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing residents of Israeli border settlements and taking over 200 hostages, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel has announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and has been delivering air strikes on Gaza as well as some parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also underway in the West Bank.
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