Economy tanking – population out of control – public services dying – Russia victorious ? Time for ‘strictly ‘ … seriously – events are just head spinning . It’s one of those times which will be looked on one day as just ‘wow ‘ . It’s even beyond the BBC propaganda machine .. verify very quiet …
Midweek 19th February 2025
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Given the new restrictions about to be imposed on the sale and purchase of knives – including domestic kitchen variety – I’m oddly reminded of a line from the movie Hardcore Henry [2015] – a science fiction action film – in case you were worried…
“Each year one hundred thousand baseball bats are sold in Russia, and at most 50 baseballs. Gives an idea for great Russian pastime.”
The gov have to seem acting – doing something – jabbing someone – taxing someone – banning the other person – just anything!
“Unthinking cross over from analogue to the digital.” 6:20
47 misspoke at a press conference ( a long one ) about Ukraine having started the war – msm – desperate with TDS jumped on it …
Maybe he is doing too many press conferences = almost every day …. So leave it to karoline to kick the msm at the White House ….
As far as I am aware Fedup, I understand that Ukrainian militia heavies were carrying out anti-Russian aggression against Russian speaking people in border areas of Ukraine/Russia well before the Russians started to move on Ukrainian territory.
Thus in fact you could deduce that Ukrainian aggression did indeed spark the Russian retaliation and thus the conflict, in which cast DT is absolutely correct!
Digg – you may well be right – tonight 47 really has laid into zelensky bigly …. And I think Americans want to know where the money went …
I was rather hoping DJT might have some stuff on the pointless parasite offspring of an assortment of politicians (of all stripes) that were filling their pockets with cash in Ukraine – not just Hunter Biden.
Apparently BMW-Rolls-Royce have been doing brisk business in Kiev for the last few years…. the tale surfeced and just as rapidly, nobody’s followed up…
Zelensky’s polling figures with the natives are dire – the BBC reported on that?
Absolutely classic textbook tactics from the Islamic Broadcasting Corporation
Webshite front page headline
Anti-Muslim hate at record level in UK, charity says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyjlx2e4l8o
And what, pray is this said charity?
You have to get to paragraph six to find out
Quote
The charity, which describes itself as the leading agency on monitoring anti-Muslim hate crime…..
It’s Tell Mama. Let’s see how impartial they are….
https://tellmamauk.org/
So about as ‘impartial’ a source as we have come to expect from the BBC.
“Anti-Christian hate at record level in All Islamic Countries, charity says”
By 2050 we will be muslim-majority country. Ask your liberal friends, if they are Christian, won’t they mind the Government (which will be Islamic) hating them.
The government already hates us.
Bet they get taxpayers ‘ aid money ….looks like TTK sees the next election to be fixed by the Islam postal votes …
Video: IRAM RAMZAN: Why footage of Angela Rayner grovelling for votes from a room full of Muslim men – with hardly a woman to be seen – shows Labour is pandering to misogyny
Leaked footage of Labour’s Angela Rayner shows her ‘pleading’ for votes in a Muslim meeting in Ashton-under-Lyne.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/angela-rayner/video-3198475/Video-Labours-Angela-Rayner-pleading-votes-Muslim-meeting.html
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BLM protesters confronts woman who won’t raise her fist in solidarity
……postal votes.
Which are never separately announced.
Almost as if there might be something to hide…..
I recall a BBC business programme long ago, which had such as the FT and The Economist as input, and it was fairly interesting.
Then they started wheeling Rosey in to flog M&S like a barrer boy whilst dissing the Tories. Then Brexit.
But I still keep abreast of their headlines on X, if only to watch how far they have fallen.
The Economist today
The best of our journalism, handpicked each day
Donald Trump’s assault on Europe
The nightmare of a Trump-Putin deal shocks Europe
Still, it could be worse…
https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/guardians-of-da-troof?
“researchers were able to create what they described as an aggregate “factuality score” for each politician and each party.”
I wonder if the gold standard that is Springster’s X feed was involved?
“Event the BBC are platforming a climate denier and allowing for alternative views.”
More AI, more intelligence…But are we getting dumber? | Michael Shellenberger@11:00
I have an ongoing interest in FOI, because the BBC demands it applies to guys in harm’s way in hostile territories (and to a degree, should) but not them, on anything especially toilet rolls.
https://informationrightsandwrongs.com/2025/02/19/foi-doesnt-need-a-purpose/
And in the DECUT (Droid ECU Trust) and now (just ECU so go fish, fascist) BBC world, this was deployed a lot when they ran out of excuses:
“on the issue of a vexatious request”
Judges, eh… what are they like?
The BBC and other far left MSM outlets constantly attack Pensioners as hoarding all society’s wealth and being ‘too rich’.
Let’s face it, today’s Pensioners worked in an era when the economy was generating real wealth, when there was no money for wokery, windmills, BLM, Trans, net zero, less benefits etc etc.
Everyone ran to empty the cash till quickly or sell the land to foreign owners…..
17 November 2022, received £261,652.34 from Hindustan Times, HT Media Ltd, Hindustan
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/boris_johnson/uxbridge_and_south_ruislip/register
Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
Noticed this from the perps this morning.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/19/aaas-trump-tracker/
Put me in mind on various ‘follow ups’ the BBC and staff conduct on folk who have prevailed with the public by saying and doing stuff the blob does not like.
The experts from Verify feel they need to inform us of their spin:-
Fact-checking Trump claims about war in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9814k2jlxko
“US President Donald Trump has appeared to accuse Ukraine of being responsible for the war with Russia” – Appeared?
Thats enough, couldn’t be bothered to read the rest of the Verify bs
“The NHS, responsible for 4% of England’s emissions and 40% in the public sector, receives a £329 million government boost for over 20 hospitals to enhance energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprint, anticipating £463 million savings over 5 years. Collaboration among stakeholders is crucial to maintain top-tier patient care while achieving carbon neutrality goals.”
https://events.nationalhealthexecutive.com/nhs-net-zero-2024/register
receives a £329 million government boost ** TAX PAYER MONEY
The government accountants that came up with those numbers presumably were the same ones who also estimated the cost of HS2 and the immigration rates after the EU accession of the Eastern bloc.
Starmer flies to paris … ha ha ha … Civil Service hold Carbon Literacy Conference.
Click to access Civil-Service-Toolkit-Overview-Pack.pdf
A return trip from [London] to [Manchester]
BEIS Net Zero target date of 2050 at the latest
The UK government is the largest landowner in the UK, with the public sector estate accounting for approximately 9%[footnote 9] of building emissions. It is essential we show leadership in this area and drive down our carbon emissions by utilising credible and consistent approaches to decarbonise the estate.
In the absence of information people looking at the Canada are crash are deducing that the aircraft was ‘unmanned ‘ in the sense of a women crew – leading to the suspicion of DEI …
To leave gaps leads to information / dis information. Eh ? The truth will out …
“£22bn for ‘unproven’ green tech could raise bills, MPs warn”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8jpj3z3n2o
But on Friday, the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee raised serious concerns that the government had not properly assessed the financial impact on households and businesses.
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……but the lunatic that is Ed Milliband doesn’t want us to use gas. So there will be nowhere for the CO2 to go.
Maybe Ed could hide it underneath all the solar panels that will replace farm land when the farmers Inheritance Tax bites.
And the thought of Rachel from Accounts getting to grips with the phase diagram for CO2 is absolutely hilarious.
Supercritical fluid anyone?
Question: Is the BBC proud to be British?
I have never thought it was .
How can you like something and then say it does not represent your views? By highlighting that you have now removed those “likes” does nothing but show either you are lying or you have no control over your brain.
Caught out – that is all.
Problem with knives ?
What happened to “stop and search”?
What happened to the Birch ?
Our new foreign secretary says “David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’ Published 3 October 2012”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-19815831
“The moral factors and the values of this country have completely changed significantly,” he added.
How is Rory Stewarts wife still working in Afghanistan?
“In the latest crackdown on women’s rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban have announced they will no longer allow any national or foreign NGOs that employ women to operate in the country. In a letter published on social platform X on Sunday night, the Economy Ministry said NGOs that do not comply with the new rule will lose their licenses to operate.”
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20241230-ngos-employ-afghan-women-face-closure-new-taliban-rule
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Charity run by Rory Stewart’s wife has $1m funding cut after Musk reforms
Turquoise Mountain, an organisation that works in Afghanistan and the Middle East, is no longer receiving aid despite having a contract
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/13/charity-run-rory-stewarts-wife-1m-funding-cut-musk/
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Turquoise Mountain has now built over 50 small businesses in Afghanistan, Myanmar, and the Middle East, supporting a new generation of artisan entrepreneurs who will not only drive economic development, but also preserve their unique cultures and traditions.
Turquoise Mountain was founded in 2006 by His Majesty King Charles III to revive historic areas and traditional crafts, to provide jobs, skills and a renewed sense of pride.
https://www.turquoisemountain.org/about
Our Supporters include:
The Afghan Future Fund
Sir Alan and Lady Parker
Alwaleed Philanthropies
The Asfari Foundation
Australian Aid
Ayenda Foundation
Mr & Mrs Benjamin M. Rosen
British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund
Foodspeed Limited and The Bawa Family
Gallifrey
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Heritage Commission
International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH Foundation)
JJJ Charitable Foundation
The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Justin S. and Hilarie V. Huscher
King Charles III Charitable Fund
Lund Trust
Nancie Massey Charitable Fund
Michael & Angela Cronk
Ministry of Culture
Monsoon Trust
The late Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah
Olayan Holding Company
Qatar Fund for Development
Reid Hoffman Foundation
The Rockcliffe Trust
Royal Commission for Al-Ula
The Royal Institute for Traditional Arts
Saïd Foundation
Schooner Foundation
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Swarovski Foundation
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
The Wyfold Charitable Trust
I notice that Wikipedia has edited Jonathan Reynolds bio and removed solicitor from his occupation. It was there yesterday I wish I had taken a screenshot. But also it seems they have removed almost immediatley the refrence to the Telegraph item which reported on this dishonesty. Aparently it was removed because of “Early life and career: Removing references that are contentious, potentially libellous, and probably politically motivated.. ” You can see what was taken out here
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Reynolds&diff=1276568800&oldid=1276566908
Hmmm sounds like sense to me, but TDS runs deep… and of course talk about “missing money,” “gravy trains” and regret about war dead is verboten, unless it is November 11th :
Mail online:
“Trump goes to war on ‘dictator’ Zelensky in extraordinary, brutal insult-laden attack after Ukrainian vowed not to ‘sell out’ and accept peace deal for minerals”
On GB News now.
Hair Salons warn of mass closures. (Rachel from accounts fault)
Do the Turkish Barbers have the female equivalent of their men’s barber shops.
There seems to be a big opportunity opening up for several thousand more of these types of shops to do what they do.
On the upside, you never have to wait for a haircut in the Turkish Barbers (unless they have to go and find an actual Barber) so the wimmin will appreciate that part.
Cash only..preferably in brown envelopes and even better, dropped off to the mercedes outside with the blacked out windows.
And they need a specialist barber with the skills of a gynaecologist for the wimmin, to be able do their hair under their niqab.
One that can wallpaper his lounge through his letterbox.
It saves money on the mirrors though.
EG see my post earlier re ladies hairdressers. Few now go as the price averages around £100 whereas you gents are a bit cheaper, although I would baulk at exiting a Turkish barbers with an horrendous hair trim looking like an Albanian thug- and, do you still get asked “something for the weekend Sir ?”
New correspondence from TV Licensing.
Your IN01O0.
Dear Legal Occupier,
An IN01O0 code has been issued against your address. We use it to terget unlicensed homes like yours that require a visit from our Enforcement Officers.
You could be visited any time, day or evening, weekday or weekends.
We need to check you are not breaking the law.
Yours faithfully.
Scott Robson
Regional Manager – Enforcement.
These threatening letters are wrong on so many counts that it’s hard to know where to start. But here goes!
(1) You can’t prove a negative, i.e. that you don’t watch live TV or record from it. It’s up to them to prove a positive; which they might do using your IP address (if you watched online) or by direct vision, if you either let them in or are watching in e.g. a ground-floor front room of a terraced house, in which case they could see/hear what’s on your TV from the pavement outside (without access) and record it on a mobile phone.
(2) They have no right of access to your property, unless they get a warrant, which itself would require reasonable grounds for suspicion. “Psychic doesn’t count” as someone once told the fictional Harry Callaghan in an Eastwood film, when arguing that he should have got a warrant.
(3) Not paying the telly poll tax is NOT illegal, even if you own a TV; only watching live or recording from live is, provided you avoid BBC catchup. ITVX, C4 and Five catchup services are perfectly legal without the telly tax. Besides, you might use a TV set merely to watch old videos (showing my age a bit here!)
(4) “Dear Legal Occupier” will not do, as they need to address you by name.
(5) A visit from the goons wouldn’t per force prove or disprove anything. Suppose your employer let you use a company laptop for work trips and evening study at home. You might not have it with you at home on any given evening but might watch it on occasion, using remote access and not a personal IP address specific to your property.
(6) That code is non-specific and bogus; I’ve had ones like it and it means nothing.
(7) The threatened visits never seem to materialize in any case.
Man jailed for sending ‘utterly deplorable’ email to Mz Jess Phillips
https://gettr.com/post/p3hpru50d2b
Yet another man criminalised for communicating with a wimmin MP. It is no longer safe to communicate with an MP if they are wimmin. Best to get a divorce from your MP in this case and choose another. I would like to have Rupert Lowe.
But, you can advise throwing battery acid at Nigel Farage on the bbc and nothing will be done, or throw milkshake over him and get a slap on the wrist.
A woman who threw a McDonald’s milkshake over Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the general election campaign has been given a suspended prison sentence.
Victoria Thomas Bowen hurled the drink at Farage as he left a JD Wetherspoon pub in Clacton-on-Sea on 4 June, having just launched his candidacy for the Essex constituency.
Thomas Bowen has been given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, must pay the MP £150 compensation, complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs.
Following her sentencing, Farage posted on social media, external: “We now live in a country where you can assault a Member of Parliament and not go to prison.”
In August, Josh Greally, of Clowne, Derbyshire, was given a suspended sentence for throwing a coffee cup and another item at Farage while he was campaigning in Barnsley.
During a campaign walkabout in Newcastle in 2019, the former UKIP leader and Euro MP had a banana and salted caramel milkshake thrown at him.
Regarding the latest in a very long line of initiatives to try to control “youths” stabbing, shooting or hacking their peers to death. To be honest, I’m not optimistic…
We’ve had mothers marching against knife crime. We’re had “amnesties” and “knife bins” outside the local cop-shops (blimey, we don’t even have police stations now) and there have been calls by idiot actors to make knives blunt. FFS, yes, that’ll work.
Even my old dad took his wartime Beretta hand gun to the local nick when they had yet another of these cretinous campaigns. He had had it in his demob suitcase since he left the Royal Navy and would on occasion bring it out on the kitchen table and oil it, but he listened to some waffling wally on the box and thought it would be best to hand it in. Sad, because I’d have liked that gun, just as a memento…
So, all I have to say is it’s not the knives, guns or cars that are the real problem. It’s imported violent, third-world trash.
Perhaps we can have bin for them…
Talking of police:
“Two police officers face ‘gross incompetence meetings’ after standing outside home for 35 minutes while husband beat his wife to death with son’s skateboard.
‘Ruthless’ Olubunmi Abodunde strangled his wife before using his son’s skateboard to cave in her skull, repeatedly hitting her during a frenzied attack in November 2023.
Two officers – one on probation and a PC – remained outside the home while the jealous wife beater launched his cold-blooded onslaught against Taiwo Abodunde.
The pair of cops had been discussing with their supervisor, an acting police sergeant, whether they had the grounds to storm the property after hearing the ‘disturbance’.
The pair of Suffolk Constabulary officers finally entered the home after 35 minutes where they found Mrs Abodunde, 41, dead at the scene ‘with her skull smashed in’.
The day before the killing, Abodunde was arrested after officers arrived at the couple’s home in Newmarket, Suffolk, and found his wife with a split lip.
He was freed on police bail later the same day with a condition to stay away from the marital home and not to approach his wife, a court heard.
But he went back to the property the following morning after working a night shift at Tesco, claiming he wanted his mobile phone.
Two police officers arrived at 9.20am to take a statement about the previous day’s incident but didn’t enter the property until 9.55am – despite the commotion inside – after permission was granted. They immediately confirmed she was ‘obviously dead’.
A post-mortem examination found she had been throttled until she fell unconscious, then stamped on until her ribs were broken.
Her husband used the skateboard to finish off the care home worker with blows that were so violent it was damaged in the process, with officers telling the court they heard ’50 bangs’ while they waited outside.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14412805/police-officer-gross-misconduct-standing-outside-home-woman-killed.html
Must have been an interesting discussion between the 3 plod as to whether they could force an entry whilst she was being beaten to death …
Maybe they’d be better on the internet trawls to find hurry words ….
Might be a criminal offence of not acting ….
Clearly concerns about being labelled racist outweigh such humdrum police activity as protecting people from violent attack and saving lives.
Funny how it took some other plod seconds to snap an old (white) woman into handcuffs for holding a placard.
I think it’s called going after the low-hanging-fruit…..
umm … 60 Minutes are getting sued
Might as well go down fightin!
I wonder if the BBC might get a pasting from the present administration in the US – that’d be amusing.
Newsnight replies are worth a quick look
That BBC sneer is so common now – it’s not interviewing …
“Fact-checking Trump’s claim about Zelensky not holding elections”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62e2158mkpt
16 45
‘In Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social post that we reported on, he claimed President Zelensky “refuses to have elections”, calling the leader a “dictator”.
In November, all parties in Ukraine’s parliament backed postponing elections until the war end and Zelensky has vowed to hold a new election once the conflict ends.’
For context:
BBC missing out that
== Eleven Ukrainian political parties have been suspended because of their links with Russia,
Most of the parties affected were small, but one of them, the Opposition Platform for Life, has 44 seats in the 450-seat Ukrainian parliament.==
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia
So the unanimous “all parties” is after Zelensky suspended the opposition…
And BBC doesn’t ask why martial law is even needed.
Main plank of it seems to be men 18 to 60 can’t leave the country …
Good job Britain regularly holds elections eh? Or maybe they get ‘cancelled ‘…
elected….
The current alliance with O’Brien is… nauseating.
Road to Mecca is one way – the Islam way!
“In Mecca, only Muslims are allowed, while non-Muslims may not enter or pass through. Attempting to enter Mecca as a non-Muslim can result in penalties such as a fine;[52] being in Mecca as a non-Muslim can result in deportation.[56]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_segregation
And…another one:
“2 small planes collide in midair at regional Arizona airport, leaving 2 dead”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2-small-planes-collide-midair-regional-arizona-airport-leaving-2-dead
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – so essential the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dl93l7w2go Narrative re-inforcing the narrative. Gotta have drag on the BBC!
Anti-Muslim hate at record level in UK, report says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyjlx2e4l8o
As usual, the BBC will present most biased of sources as ‘fact’ when it fits their anti-white, anti-right agenda.
What the BBC print:
‘In its report the organisation said there had been a “surge in rhetoric that falsely portrays Muslims as terrorists or terrorist sympathisers” following the Israel-Gaza conflict and Southport murders.’
What the BBC don’t print:
’46 percent of UK Muslims support Hamas, majority skeptical of atrocities – poll’
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/artc-46-percent-of-uk-muslims-support-hamas-majority-skeptical-of-atrocities-poll
You should be ashamed of yourself for churning out this blatant anti-white propaganda Jessica.
But of course we all know you were told to because you are not a real reporter. You are a BBC reporter : you report what you are told to report in the way you are told to report it. That’s why they employ people like you : you know you only got that job because of BBC sexist quotas and will do anything to keep it.
From the SUN:
In a statement on Thursday, the BBC said: “Since the transmission of our documentary on Gaza, the BBC has become aware of the family connections of the film’s narrator, a child called Abdullah.
“We’ve promised our audiences the highest standards of transparency, so it is only right that as a result of this new information, we add some more detail to the film before its retransmission.
“We apologise for the omission of that detail from the original film.”
The BBC revealed that the additional text added to the film will state: “The narrator of this film is 13 year old Abdullah.
“His father has worked as a deputy agriculture minister for the Hamas-run government in Gaza. ”
Does anyone believe that the BBC were not aware who this boy was? Not one of the thousands of so-called programme makers thought to ask? Pull the other one. They knew but tried to hide it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33466025/bbc-gaza-doc-apology/
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1892283653176115280
“Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle .
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his partners in comedy production owned a network of offshore companies related to their business based in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Belize.
Zelensky’s current chief aide, Serhiy Shefir, as well as the head of the country’s Security Service, were part of the offshore network.
Offshore companies were used by Shefir and another business partner to buy pricey London real estate.
Around the time of his 2019 election, Zelensky handed his shares in a key offshore company over to Shefir, but the two appear to have made an arrangement for Zelensky’s family to continue receiving money from the offshore.
https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle
“Zelensky’s Cash Haul.
Of all the gifts that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled across the world to thank American lawmakers for in-person five days before Christmas, one stood out. It wasn’t the Patriot missile system that he was receiving to counter Russian attacks on civilians or the humanitarian aid for refugees, though he was grateful for both. It was the cold, hard cash.
While much of the world’s attention has focused on military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, a large part of the help the U.S. is giving goes straight to Zelensky’s government as cash support for its operations. “Financial assistance is also critically important,” Zelensky said in his speech to Congress Wednesday night. “Your money is not charity, it’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.”
Just how much cash is the U.S. “investing” in the Ukrainian government? A spokesperson for the United States Agency for International Development, which is responsible for disbursing the funds, puts the direct-to-budget number at $12 billion so far since the start of the war. Tim Rieser, the long-time foreign policy aide to the Senate Appropriations chief, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, says the next tranche in the spending bill that his boss just shepherded through Congress adds another $9.9 billion. That means of the $14 billion in new non-military aid the U.S. is providing Ukraine, most is cash to support Zelensky’s government, not humanitarian assistance.
Cash infusions directly into the financial coffers of needy countries are frowned upon by foreign aid experts, in large part because the money is most susceptible to misuse. That’s a particular concern for officials on both sides of the aisle in Washington, given the history of corruption in Ukraine. “There is concern about oversight,” of the direct-to-budget financial support says Rieser, because “Ukraine has a history of corruption.””
https://time.com/6243285/zelenskys-cash-haul/
“The $ 500 million that the head of the Kiev regime offered to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico for agreeing to accept Ukraine into NATO is not a significant amount for Vladimir Zelensky. This was stated by Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko.
“According to my information, Zelensky’s team is exporting corrupt money in cash through the Odessa port. Dollars travel in containers as diplomatic cargo to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. No one knows the exact amounts. But one container holds up to 2.5 billion dollars,” wrote X Panchenko on the social network, quoted by RIA Novosti.
Note that, according to Fico, it was about 500 million euros.
As reported by EADaily, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, actually offered the Slovak Prime Minister 500 million euros from Russian assets if he voted for Ukraine’s membership in NATO. This was stated by Robert Fico after a closed meeting in Brussels, which was attended by the leaders of the EU countries.
At a private meeting in In Brussels, where even European leaders were not allowed with mobile phones, Zelensky asked Fico if he would vote for Ukraine’s membership in NATO if he received 500 million euros from Russian assets.”
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/12/21/500-million-is-not-money-zelensky-takes-cash-out-of-ukraine-in-containers-panchenko
The Kyiv Independent
“2 Ukrainian regional officials alleged of corruption, nearly $6 million found.
According to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) two Ukrainian officials from western Khmelnytskyi Oblast alleged of corruption were holding at home nearly $6 million in cash.
The homes and workplaces of the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Center for Medical and Social Expertise and her son, a senior official in the main department of Ukraine’s Pension Fund in the region, were searched in another case when the cash was exposed.
The case concerned the forging of official documents to illegaly register a disability for men attempting to evade military service. At first, the law enforcement found $100,000 and forged medical documents with the names of men with non-existent diagnoses, according to the SBI.
“Law enforcement officers found money in the apartment in almost every corner — in wardrobes, drawers, niches,” the statement read.”
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-officials-exposed-on-alleged-corruption-nearly-6-million-found/
Isn’t it just amazing what the BBC will turn a blind eye to when it suits them ?.
‘Impartial and unbiased’.
My arse.
Inflation jumps on food, air fares and school fees
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l18pzrz00o
Poor BBC BAME women suffering so much in the racist British economy that they have to take pictures of tins of food so they can sit at home starving and look at what they can’t afford.
As a white male, all I can say is thank God that all the ‘victims’ in our country are BAME or Women. We get everything for free and laze around all day eating grapes.
Captain America: Brave New World
New film
Captain America: Brave New World: A Hero Looks Like You
He doesn’t look like me.
Captain America is white. His success has been hijacked by the racist Left to try and rub his credit onto blacks.
It’s another example of cultural appropriation by the Left for their own anti-white racist agenda. Just like Dr Who at the BBC.
Just imagine the outrage of these same shameless hypocrites if a successful traditionally black character was cast with a white person. Heck – they even get their knickers all twisted if a straight person plays a gay person these days.
Basket case Britian.
Pensioner, 74, becomes the first person to be charged in Scotland under new abortion buffer zone law.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14415495/pensioner-person-charged-scotland-abortion-law.html
Taken away to the NHS assisted dying project…..
“‘I had anti-government views so they treated me for schizophrenia'”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr46npx1e73o
And they handcuff her too. Do they think she is going to run away or attack them.
“The police are the public, and the public are the police”
Would this police woman handcuff her granny? The police in this country no longer the “public” They are far removed from the public.
Jonathan
They became an army of occupation so quickly . I bet that girl wouldn’t be so brave with a 6 ft coloured 16 year old ‘boy ‘…
Absolute disgrace – and it seems only one politician voted against the law – not many Christians left in Scotland by the looks of it – over to you JD – save up – please
Basket case Britian.
“Jailing an asylum seeker, 39, who sexually assaulted a teenager after driving around looking for vulnerable drunk women could breach his human rights, court hears”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14415567/Jailing-asylum-seeker-39-sexually-assaulted-teenager-driving-looking-vulnerable-drunk-women-breach-human-rights-court-hears.html
Trump is wrong
Trump is wrong
Trump is wrong.. no need to read the following as the bbc can only find a selective few to comment
Starmer backs Zelensky after Trump calls him ‘dictator’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrnjrjrr5o
Trump has a point, but in the bbc bubble we aren’t allowed to have those thoughts
Good luck with your visit to the USA starmer 🙂
The continuity between the X Jerks of the msm is too blatant to ignore.
Only now in the comments do I learn stuff about our cheeky chappie from Kviv that makes this a lot more nuanced than the sledgehammer propaganda they used to think works.
The BBC….
bbc promotion for more people to stay
The temporary UK visas worrying Ukrainian refugees
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdlyj1m5z5o
No doubt bbc studios could house all these people you are keen on staying.
PS bbc anyone else to interview or just people who are keen on the world staying in the British Islands