They are a core component, facilitating and supporting the genocide.

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel"

I agree, and all politicians or states people who support Trump, like King Charles visiting Trump, are condoning evil.

The only way to deal with evil like Trump is to isolate him.
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Israeli army investigates soldier seen striking Jesus statue in Lebanon IDF says sledgehammer image circulating online is authentic and is being viewed with ‘great severity’

We all know why the IDF is taking this seriously. It's because most Zionists in the world, are neither Israeli nor Jewish, but Christians in the US. This will not go down well with Israel's core support.
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2 Large Red Damselflies, Fenns Moss NNR. They're the only Odonata out at the moment. White-faced Darters and Four-spotted Chasers will be out in a few more days.

Yes, exactly. This is my point about Plausible Deniability, where you deliberately make yourself unaware of the facts, so if it blows up, you can just pretend you weren't aware of the facts. It takes far more conscious effort, not to ask the obvious questions, than to ask them.

Yes, I'm aware of McSweeney's prior involvement with Mandelson. But he resigned over 2 months ago, and this doesn't explain why Starmer has failed to ask any questions about the findings of the developed vetting.

What about his pathological lying and cheating at golf, his ridiculous false claims about things he invented, his petty, bitter vindictiveness and vendettas with anyone who criticises him?

But the main thing about Iran, is his whole strategy, was totally STOOPID, and he fucked up big time.
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Trump thought being ‘unstable’ in posts would encourage Iran war deal: report The president reportedly thought appearing off-kilter and dangerous would make Iranians hasten to end the war, a new report says

I'm fed up with the attempt to normalize Trump and make out his unhinged behaviour is part of some clever strategy, and he is not an unhinged lunatic.

Okay, so say his unhinged behaviour over Iran is part of some clever strategy. What about the rest?
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See this, where I raise the crucial issue that journalists need to be asking about the Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson issue, because it is being framed in the wrong way.
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Please see this.
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PS. For clarity, it maybe that Starmer was given a misleading answer, or senior civil servants SIMPLY refused to answer the question on need to know grounds.

However, the CRUCIAL ISSUE is whether he asked, not what he wasn't told.

This is the CRUCIAL ISSUE that journalists need to be asking, because if Starmer was so incurious, that throughout, he never asked about the findings of the developed vetting, then he is grossly incompetent and not fit for public office.
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As I say, it's inconceivable either Starmer or another government minister, wasn't curious about what the developed vetting turned up.

It may very well, be that civil servants misled Starmer or withheld information, but the CRUCIAL ISSUE, IS DID STARMER ASK, AND WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE?
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THIS IS THE CRUCIAL ISSUE HERE. As I say, it is inconceivable that Starmer did not ask about this, and if he didn't ask, it can only mean, that he didn't WANT TO KNOW, hence the PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY strategy, to insulate himself, from the process.
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However, cutting to the chase, the real issue, is why didn't Starmer, Lammy et al, ask what the conclusions of the developed vetting were.

It seems inconceivable, especially with hindsight, that they did not inquire into the details of the developed vetting, or curious about it.
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Whether this was what Mandelson failed developed vetting on, is impossible to know, as I doubt we'll be told. But those doing the developed vetting, would not have been doing their job properly, if they didn't delve into the unknown nature of this relationship with Epstein.
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The closeness of this relationship, means that at any point in time, there could have been further revelations, that raised serious questions about Mandelson, a scandal, that damaged the UK - as happened.

It was a very foreseeable scandal.
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Please note that I'm not engaging in any speculation about this relationship, such as were they in a physical relationship. I simply mean it's not clear why they were so close, that Epstein had a pet name for Mandelson, "Petie". He doesn't seem to have had a pet name for anyone else.
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Appointing Mandelson was a catastrophic failure in the making, that I and many others warned about, when the appointment was made. The true nature of Epstein's relationship with Mandelson is still unknown, and unexplained.
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I'm saying, this is broadly what we are seeing here, in this instance. Keir Starmer and other government ministers are denying all knowledge that Peter Mandelson failed developed vetting.

It all comes down to one CRUCIAL ISSUE, DID THEY ASK ABOUT THE FINDINGS OF THE DEVELOPED VETTING?
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Essentially, the way this works, is by leaving no paper trail to the senior people in charge, when actually, they gave their tacit blessing to this strategy, but not as a direct order, they just allow those lower down to make the decisions, so they can later plausibly deny knowledge of it.
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Plausible deniability - Wikipedia

I need to introduce the concept of "Plausible Deniability". This is supposedly a fully worked out strategy, developed by US intelligence, but clearly it is much older than this.

It enables those at the top to plausibly deny knowledge of something.
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I'd like to address the scandal of Keir Starmer, the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US, and Starmer's claim that he was unaware, Mandelson had failed developed vetting.

This is being framed in a misleading way by the media. I place this here to clarify matters.
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Irony is struggling to keep up.

Trump warns Tehran ‘can’t blackmail us’ as gunboats ‘fire at tanker in strait’: Live Iran had warned the strait ‘will not remain open’ if the US blockade continued and has now moved to restrict it

"Trump warns Tehran ‘can’t blackmail us’ as gunboats ‘fire at tanker’ in Strait of Hormuz"

But Trump has been telling us for weeks, that he's won. I guess he was lying as usual.
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I heard a Cuckoo again, on Whixall Moss NNR. I had my sound recording equipment with me, but it was too far away for a good recording, and didn't come closer. Just before I left, I saw this Speckled Wood, posing in a perfect position for a photo.

I see, so Jewish Bernie Sanders is anti-Semitic for criticising the murderous policy of the far right Netanyahu regime?

They are found on a variety of habitats, but they tend to be local i.e. have small local populations rather than be found everywhere.
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I agree, I have always said this. My big idea, is to set a level of moderate wealth, which a person can keep private, but any wealth or income over that level, becomes fully public, and to make it illegal to hide or conceal wealth over that level.