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To be fair she tried to do something it is the others that threw up roadblocks or did not want to know. In 2002 after raising this she was, 'shunned by elements of her own party' As she says 'Why won't Yorkshire police or social services do anything about it?' What MPs from similar areas would say was she so brave in raising this yet only privately. Dennis McShane the former MP of Rotherham admitted he did not do enough about this, 'I think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat'. A lot of working class Brits that used to support Labour now feel they have become the party of minority interests.

I didn't look to find thought it would be too old yet here is one article https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/30/rotherham-girls-could-have-been-spared-ann-cryer

Here are two and surprisingly for me they are not Red Tops https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-asian-muslim-across-country-uk-girls-children-women-bradford-rotherham-newcastle-sexual-exploitation-a7987381.html and another https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/29/rotherham-grooming-gang-seven-men-convicted-of-sexual-offences

Well initially only from the Red tops and still is. The Guardian won't touch it and I doubt whether the Time or Telegraph will too. However occasionally I watch the Daily BBC politics show hosted by Jo Coburn and I guess 18 months ago Jo Coburn was questioning someone, don't think MP or police think it was the CPS and asking if this was a racially motivated crime, as there had been a number of cases in different locations. The CPS chap said he could not answer the racial crime point though they would look into it and determine if so what action should be taken. There are still people being prosecuted for this type of thing yet only the Red Tops carry the story though they carry they names of those being prosecuted for this type of crime. If they are wrong on this they open themselves up for libel.

Well we let Asians stay here when Idi Amin went all nationalist in Uganda and we also forced 250k Belgians to go home a couple of years after WWI finished. Lets also not forget in the North the collusion between Labour MPs and local police to hush-up rapes of English school girls by groups of Asian men. So far no vigilante gangs yet it will certainty affect how some people vote going forward.

I guess that is to keep Bidenenko happy.

Apparently we asked people to open their doors to Ukrainian refugees as B&B accommodation is choked up with over 50,000 that have made it here across the channel. Over 80% are young men. I know in my area there are three Permier Inns that have been constructed up in the last few years, we are not a tourist destination. Anyone know a good solution to the issue?

No I think Gore got more votes though he arguable might have won in Florida in the key swing state then yet Bush's brother Jeb, was police governor and allegedly locked up all ex-cons to stop them voting and win him the State. Gore protested yet eventually accepted it Even when Trump won he got less votes, it is the way the States are allocated seats. That is meant to be periodically reviewed to even things out.

I don't actually know example of bloodless coups unless you mean the election of Bush and not Gore which was very suspicious. It could be bloodless yet that is normally because your power is in place with armed guns and the others are not a threat so you offer them to walk free yet that is rare. Ireland broke from Britain because of armed martyrs taking the post office and most were killed. Public mood then shifted strongly against Britain. Iran got rid of the Shah and was coerced into a religious dictatorship because they were the most organised. Yet that was bloody. The Balkans- I recall a lady from Sarajevo taking about how her city was torn apart by snipers. She said the snipers went for people who looked most clearly identified with one community and then the next day shooting people who looked like another community so everyone became distrustful and broke into ethnic groups. She blames the snipers. This happened after the Soviet Union broke up with it experiment of exchanging benefits for shares and led to the rise of the Oligarchs. Now Yugoslavia was not part of the Soviet Union yet did have cultural links and was also socialist. Interested in your bloodless coups in case I missed some?

It was a protest to show people in the state building they can be got at. With people dying by accident we see this at football matches like at Hillsborough. If it was a coup attempt you would have needed staff from agencies like the FBI, DHS, CIA involved on the protestors side and you know you would have needed hostages. I also do not recall anything like sporadic gunfire which would have indicated a serious attempt at infiltration or a coup. I think rather it has been politicised. I have read links that 16 states are vulnerable to electronic states votes being hacked yet the Supreme court won't name them I guess due to political concerns. No word yet on how they plug this weakness in the electoral system.

The amount of fire power they could have brought instead of the pushing and shoving attempts at the doors suggests this was not a serious attempt. It seems to me you can get more killed by a disturbed young kid at a school with an assault rifle rather than adults trained to use firearms. I didn't see any protesters there firing guns, some coup!

There is no way Jan 6th was a coup attempt, there would have been dozens of dead, if not more. The only dead person I was aware of was the female military officer and protester who was shot by security. The coup attempt if a genuine one was just so pathetic, it looks more like a protest attempt to shout at some politicians that were not not there anyway. Now was this pushed by Trump or a splinter group who also supported Trump? For me much more likely the latter.

Following on from last week's piece on Davos and Kissinger. Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase updated his risk of the financial scene from stormy nine days ago to Hurricane. He added the Bank is preparing itself for 'a non-benign environment and bad outcomes' The Wests fiat currencies risk a mjaor upset if the commodity based nations come together. Higher interest rates following sactions to Russia are making the debt based Western currencies in danger of financial collapse as they are already over leveraged. His view as senior exec of the US major commercial bank was moderated by Bruce Kasman as chief economist of JP Morgan as a slow down ahead. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/protection-currency-collapse

No, not time for Fox News generally more interested in the articles cverng the Mums protesting about kids education in NY last year which they called indoctrination and worse A quick search and I find this https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mother-viral-slam-school-board-stop-indoctrinating-kids

For me having done A level history at school and having a friend that did a PHD who I discuss things with, there is a weird comparison. In the early 30s you had two aspiring senior soviet political communists, Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin wanted to build a strong Russia and Trotsky wanted to export communism around the world. In the USA Trump's slogan was MAGA - make America great again and then we have the Democrats exporting an extreme progressive agenda of pushing into the mainstream extreme sexual identity and rights that applies to a very small part of the population. Trotsky lost and was assassinated in Mexico of all places. How this is going to turn out am just not sure, though think it will not be pleasant.

Timing is a strange thing. I think if Trump had of won the last election then Northern Ireland would not have been so much a problem yet the wheels have turned and now we have a US govt hostile to British allegiance in Ulster. Strangely independence noise north of Hadrian's wall has gone quiet, now I know Nicola is supposed to have COV-ID yet just the other day the BBC announced a poll suggesting most Scots wanted to stay in the UK. Now a poll can be biased or skewed yet never thought the financial numbers added up to a cushy landing for Scottish independence more a struggle for those that lived though it for a generation. The UK Game of Thrones continues........

They have no viable replacement candidate that has a strong enough personality to deal with the current challenges. The two leading voices for the other camp were both in the Remain faction that may consequences that later on.

Can't see Johnson losing this though it may cause him to pause and perhaps a deal will be cooked up in the Tory party that he will not run for re-election.

I thought this was interesting - my bolding for interest only. Disquiet at Davos The unspoken fear disquieting Davos attendees is the fear of another débacle, following that of Afghanistan. Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world. Schwab’s target was the assembled crème de la crème of the world’s business leaders assembled there. Zelensky pitched big: “We want more sanctions and more weapons”; “All trade with the aggressor should be stopped”; “All foreign business should leave Russia so that your brands are not associated with war crimes”, he said. Sanctions must be all encompassing; values must matter. Disquiet ran through the Davos set: The WEF is high-octane globalist, right? Yet this Schwab line suggests a de-coupling ‘on stilts’. It precisely reverses interconnectedness. Plus, the western generals in charge are saying that this conflict may last not just years, but decades. What will this signify for their markets in parts of the world that refuse action against Russia, the moneymen were wondering? It is unlikely that this whiff of disorientation is what Schwab had intended. Perhaps the latter was more aligned with Soros’ later intervention that a quick victory over Russia was needed to save the ‘Open Society’ and civilisation itself – and that this was intended as the WEF 2022 message. The Davos ‘greater disquiet’ emerged however, from an unexpected quarter. Just before the WEF began, the NY Times had run a piece from the editorial team urging Zelensky to negotiate with Russia. It argued that such engagement implied making painful territorial sacrifices. The piece attracted indignant and angry push-back in Europe and the West, possibly because – albeit couched as advice to Kiev – its target was evidently Washington and London (the arch belligerents). Eric Cantor, a former whip in the U.S. House of Representatives (a legislator well versed on Iran sanctions), also at Davos, questioned whether the West would be able to maintain a united front in pursuit of such maximalist aims as Zelensky and his Military Intelligence Chief have demanded. “We may not get the next vote”, Cantor opined (in wake of the $40 bn vote ostensibly earmarked for Ukraine). Cantor said excluding Russia entirely would require secondary sanctions against other countries. This would place the West into a head on clash with China, India, and the almost 60 states which had refused to back a UN resolution denouncing Russia’s invasion. He warned that the U.S. may be in danger of overplaying its hand. Then spoke the redoubtable Henry Kissinger, also at Davos. He warned the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, saying that such would have disastrous consequences for the long-term stability of Europe. He said it would be fatal for the West to get swept along in the mood of the moment and forget the proper place of Russia in the European balance of power. Dr Kissinger said the war must not be allowed to drag on and came close to calling on the West to instruct Ukraine to accept terms that fall very far short of its current war aims: “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months, before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome”. What is going on here? In a nutshell, we are seeing the first inklings of fractures appearing in the U.S. stance on Ukraine. The fissures in Europe are already very plain, both on sanctions and mission aims. But Cantor’s comment that “we may not get the next vote” needs further unpacking. In an earlier piece, I argued that Senator JD Vance’s win in the Ohio primaries for a Senate seat could be telling. His candidature was backed by Trump, who later issued an ‘End the war’ call. Now the key tell-tale is Republican Senator Josh Hawley – ambitious and known to have leadership aspirations. Early in the Ukraine war, Senator Hawley was calling Zelensky, lauding him highly and egging him on. But then he pivoted. Hawley subsequently blasted the $40 billion in proposed aid to Ukraine, after voting ‘no’ on the procedural vote to move forward with the aid package “as not being in America’s interests”. At first, as some may recall, there were 6 House votes against the bill – then 60. And in the Senate, first there were zero then there were 11 votes. The Bill was rushed through as vote managers were concerned that the vote could crumble further. What is going on? Well, the Republican ‘populist’ current, never enamoured at foreign aid, was shocked at the $ 40 billion for Ukraine when the U.S. lacked baby milk, (and itself had to rely on foreign baby milk aid). This political current is becoming more significant and having more impact as a result of a structural shift. Political candidates, and now even some U.S. think-tanks are turning to crowd-funding as a principal source of finance – moving away from the ‘established’ donors. Thus, the broad ‘anti-foreign entanglement’ sentiment is gaining heft. Of course, the $40 billion is not all going to Ukraine. Not at all. According to the details of the Bill, the bulk will go to the Pentagon (for equipment already supplied by the U.S. and its allies). And a big chunk will go to the State Department, to fund all sorts of ‘helpful’ non-state actors and NGOs – i.e. it is a deep state budget with Ukraine packaging. The six billion allocated directly for new arms to Ukraine in fact comprises both training and weapons, so much of that will end in the pockets of states such as UK and Germany, giving ‘out of theatre’ training to Ukrainians in their own, or in neighbouring countries’ territory. Eric Cantor, and other Americans at WEF may frame their disquiet over western objectives in ‘polite company’ as simply articulating their uncertainties over America’s grand strategy – whether the U.S. is trying to punish Russia for its aggression, or whether the goal is a subtler use of policy that gives the Kremlin a ‘route out of sanctions’, were it to changes course. But behind the narrative lies a darker fear. The unsaid fear of failure. What does this mean? It means that the West’s ultimate war aims in Ukraine have so far been able to stay opaque and undefined, the details swept aside in the mood of the moment. Paradoxically, this opacity has been preserved despite the public failure of the West’s first statement of aims – which was that the seizure of Russia’ offshore foreign reserves; the Russian bank expulsions from SWIFT; the sanctioning of the Central Bank; and the broadside of sanctions would, in and of itself alone, turn the rouble to rubble; cause a run on the domestic banking system; collapse the Russian economy; and provoke a political crisis that Putin might not survive. In short, ‘victory’ would be quick – if not immediate. We know this, because U.S. officials and the French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire bragged about it publicly. So confident in a quick financial-war success were these western officials that there seemed little need to invest deep strategic reflection on the aims or the course of the secondary Ukrainian military thrust. After all, a Russia already economically collapsed, with its currency ruined and its morale broken, would likely put up little or no fight as the Ukrainian army swept across Donbas and into Crimea. Well, the sanctions have proved a bust and Russia’s currency and oil revenues are bountiful. And now, western politicians are being warned in the media, and by their own military, that Russia is ‘close to a major victory’ in Donbas. This is the unspoken fear disquieting Davos attendees – fear of another débacle, following that of Afghanistan. One made all the worse as the ‘war’ on Russia boomerangs into an economic collapse in Europe, and with NATO’s eight-year investment in building-up a successful proxy-army to NATO standards turning to dust. This is what Kissinger’s comments – decoded – urge: ‘Don’t procrastinate’; get a quick deal (even an unfavourable one), but one that can be dressed up, and somehow spun as a ‘win’. But don’t wait, and let events lead the U.S. into yet another unmistakeable, undeniable débacle. This is still ‘under the kitchen table talk’ in the U.S. for now, as the power of a narrative, invested with so much emotion, and bolstered by unprecedented info-war peer-pressure has masked such thoughts from public expression. Fractures nonetheless are beginning to be apparent. Something stirs – and Europe inevitably will follow wherever America leads. But for now, the hawks remain firmly in ‘the chair’ (in the U.S., in London, Poland, the EU Commission and in Kiev). The big question, however, is why Moscow would take such a ‘way out’ (even if it was offered it). A compromise deal would be seen there as simply Kiev given the chance to regroup, and to try again. Source: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/30/disquiet-at-davos-and-unsaid-fear-of-failure-the-first-shoots-of-us-ukraine-shift/ Attributed to Alistaire Crooke former diplomat

This interesting - Ukraine and Taiwan discussion

I agree it is a proxy war or has at least become one. Next steps are difficult to assess, the US has allegedly promised long range missiles and also a missile defence system for Kiev. Russia now seems to be focusing on the Donbas rather than trying to expand and take the whole of the Black Sea area including Odessa. Because of propaganda with both sides trying to encourage their preferred side it is difficult to know how effective the war of attrition is. The supplying of new long range weapons is either the US worried about Ukrainian morale or they are looking to battle test new equipment which they can then sell to other NATO allies. Russia by venturing deeper into Donbass will be closer to Kiev ominous if this remains a shooting war for a longer period. Re Finland and Sweden I would not be surprised if Russia is arming other countries which will make an announcement after NATO's announcement. Remember the US and UK gave nuclear material to India and Pakistan. The US was the first to use depleted Uranium. None of this bodes well for the future.

One of the videos I saw from the US during the BLM movement was thought provoking. On one march near one town centre was an impressive property with immaculate lawn and the owner and his wife were getting annoyed or worried that protestors were advancing towards his property showing pistols did not work they had pistols too, it was the AR15 type weapons that seemed to encourage the protesters to leave their property.

Recently the BBC showed one of the tunnels crime gangs had constructed under the US-Mexico border. It was 4ft wide with rails and carriages allegedly to transport drugs though easily big enough to carry weapons and even small children. I do agree the US has put economic stress on Mexico at times though they would be wise to stop illegal traffic of drugs and whatever else is being smuggled. I have read Mexican gangs operate in the US and they will use assault rifles or at least carry them for protection. Will take a lot of police to stop that and there is no political will to do it.

I recall Lee Child the Jack Reacher author talking about Montana where he now lives. He said there is not a police station for 200 miles. Now I could understand you wanting firearms being so remote though a pistol and hunting rifle is probably sufficient as opposed to an assault rifle. However if you live near the Mexico border with drug gangs coming across an assault rifle might be a better idea. To police those states that do want stricter laws you might need state border customs to confiscate guns from cross state traffic. No easy answers.

£35 million seems very cheap for Cucurella I would have thought £50m.