The Wrong Kind Of Outrage

In a Maronite Christian village in Lebanon, two Israeli soldiers from the invasion force were pictured destroying a statue of Christ on the cross.

This caused worldwide ‘outrage’. That led Netanyahu to become concerned about his large support from the White Christian Nationalists in the USA. So he had the two soldiers arrested and jailed.

*Where was that outrage when an Israeli soldier shot and killed this little boy in Palestine and faced no charges because the shooting was ‘justified’?

*Where was that outrage when Israeli tanks were driving over live, unarmed civilians in Gaza? Note the cable ties that had previously been used to tie his hands before he was placed on the road and driven over by an IDF tank.
(Photo pixelleated as too distressing to see. I have seen the undedited image.)

*Where was that outrage when on the first day of the war against Iran, US cruise missiles fired from a warship at sea killed 120 schoolgirls and 36 civilians by deliberately attacking a school because they were the children of ‘regime officials’?

*Where was that outrage when Israeli ‘settlers’ in the West Bank kill Palestinian farmers and steal their homes and crops?

Shame on all of you who were only outraged by the damage to a statue!

MAGA’s World History

Found online.

History of the world according to MAGA

In the beginning, God created America.

1492 – Italian-American Columbus discovers America.

1776 – American farmers defeat the entire British Empire alone. (The French were just on holiday.)

1918 – America single-handedly wins WW1. Arriving 3 years late counts.

1945 – America single-handedly wins WW2. Arriving 2.5 years late still counts.

1954 – America wins the Korean War. Alone.

1975 – America could have won Vietnam. Decided not to bother.

1991 – America wins Gulf War. 35-nation coalition was just there for the photos.

2001 – America wins Afghanistan alone. For 20 years. Then Biden.

2016 – Trump elected. Russia not mentioned.

2020 – Trump loses. Fraud. Obviously.

2024 – Trump wins. Landslide. Very different.

2025 – America generously threatens to invade Canada. Tariffs the entire world. Europe ungrateful.

2026 – America offer to liberate Greenland and closes the world’s most important waterway to demonstrate strategic genius. Europe refuses to fix it. Ungrateful freeloaders.

The Frenchman Nails It!

Claude Malhuret is a French physician, lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the Senate since 2014, representing the department of Allier. A member of Horizons (HOR), he has presided over the centre-right The Independents – Republic and Territories parliamentary group in the Senate since 2017. As you can see, this man is a long way from being a Liberal. In a recent speech he told the world exactly what most people in Europe (and the UK) think of Trump.

French Senator Claude Malhuret TORCHES Trump and his alcoholic, drug-addicted administration on the floor of the Luxembourg Palace: “Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!”

This might be the greatest MAGA takedown of all time. Nobody was spared…

“A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump’s presidency to Nero’s Court. I was wrong. It’s the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health,” he said, referring to RFK Jr.

Malhuret’s comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It’s said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump’s case, he’s building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames.

“A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces,” Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security,” Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar.

“A Turkish proverb says ‘When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus,” said Malhuret. “His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term.”

“Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction,” he continued. “Bomb more to win more.”

This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein.

“There isn’t a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar,” he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar “gifted” to Trump. “Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from.”

“Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused here an immediate procedure of impeachment. But we are not here. We are in MAGA’s America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests.”

Rarely have we heard such an exhaustive yet succinct distillation of the Trump administration’s rampant criminality and incompetence. By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them uniquely unfit for office and then expanding the aperture to the broader patterns of corruption and malignancy, Malhuret delivered a master class in political messaging.

Every mainstream outlet in the U.S. should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of our leaders.

Today Iran, Tomorrow The World!

I’m getting those 1930s vibes from Trump again. Reminiscent of the Nazi Hitler Youth song.

The chorus of the Hitler Youth song goes: “Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland, / Und morgen die ganze Welt” (“For today Germany belongs to us, / And tomorrow the whole world”).

He’s back rambling about Greenland again, and prepared to take on the whole of Europe to get it, so it seems. As he and Israel don’t seem to be able to defeat Iran, perhaps he should think twice.

We Remember Too

Cowards? We remember 1939, when most of the free world was embroiled in WW2, fighting the Nazis and their Axis allies.

Where was America then? Oh, I forgot. They were ‘Isolationist’. It was not ‘An American war’.

Not until 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and Germany declared war on America on December the 11th that year.

So, Mr Trump. You can stick your insults up your wobbly, leaking, incontinent, diaper-wearing, fat orange arse.
You draft-dodging piece of crap.

Because we remember too.

Finding The Light of America/ Mourning In America

My blogging friend Felicity sent me two posts by Robert Reich about the current situation in America.

I think they are worth reading, whether or not you are an American.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-tipping-point?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=185851035&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5waa&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mourning-in-america?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=185764972&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5waa&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Trump Insults NATO Troops

Trump has insulted all the troops who served alongside US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan including those killed and wounded in action. The backlash has been huge, and he has served to alienate even more people in Europe, including some who supported him previously. Newspapers and TV news channels have reported this, and social media platforms are awash with outrage. These excerpts contain swearing and bad language.

Make no mistake about it, Trump speaks for America in the eyes of the world. And whether or not you voted for him, this is the outcome.

Newspaper headline.

Donald Trump has been criticised for claiming NATO troops stayed “a little off the frontlines” in Afghanistan. In an interview with Fox News in Davos, the US president repeated his criticism of NATO, saying he was not “sure” the alliance would “be there if we ever needed them”. He added: “We’ve never needed them. “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan… and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines.” Sky News US correspondent David Blevins said the comments would be deemed “grossly offensive” by allies who fought alongside the US.

America’s allies suffered 1,160 deaths during the conflict – around a third of the total coalition deaths.

Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes
So it has become crystal clear for us from outside of America 🤷 there is nothing the strongest nation can do to remove a Corrupt demented unhinged pedophile who’s a traitor and a war Criminal that breaks domestic and international laws every single day 🤷 he has turned America in to a corrupt terrorist state in just 1 year and no one has done anything to stop the Trump administration 🤦 America is clearly not the country we thought it was 💔

RGill @robggill
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Draft dodging grandson of a draft dodger, from a family that hasn’t had one member in 4 generations serve in uniform, accusing soldiers from coalition countries of staying behind the lines. There are few families in the US that are more cowardly and self serving than the Trumps.

🇬🇧 Scottie @ksc4273
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Boils my piss…”they stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines” From a guy who dodged the Vietnam draft five times.
Here’s how many of my friends and colleagues who fucking never stayed a little off the frontlines you utter disrespectful bastard. 🇬🇧 457

Neil Lancaster @neillancaster66
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Fucking prick. My son spent 6 months in Iraq, and then two 7 month tours of Afghanistan with the Royal Marines. He fought hard in Sangin saw friends die, or be maimed. He bears scars of his own, and he did it because the USA triggered article 5. Risible, amoral fucking bastard.

Richard Woodruff @frontlinekit
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FUCK YOU DONALD 🤬Four hundred and fifty-seven 🇬🇧 British troops died, and you just spat in the faces of their families and stamped on their graves. You are a pathetic coward, unfit to serve the GREAT United States of America.

Macer Gifford @macergifford
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“They stayed a little back, little off the frontlines.”
@realDonaldTrump 457 British soldiers died in Afghanistan, thousands more came home with life changing injuries.
Where is America’s respect for British soldiers?

Larry the Cat @Number10cat
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11h
Trump is a coward who repeatedly dodged military service. He is not worthy of uttering the names of the brave men and women who were killed in Afghanistan after the US invoked article 5, requesting their assistance.

Farrukh @implausibleblog
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“President Trump said the troops NATO sent to Afghanistan stayed off the front line”.
Emily Thornberry (Member of Parliament) slams Donald Trump. “It’s an absolute insult”. “An insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan”. “How dare he say we weren’t on the front line”. “How dare he”. “How dare this man who has never seen any action, who somehow or another, when there was a draft for everybody else in the US managed to avoid it”. “And yet is in Commander and Chief and knows nothing about how America has been defended”.
“Seriously it is an absolute insult”.

Miss Chief 🤨@Midge1415
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Over 400 British service men & women died in Afghanistan, many more still live with life changing injuries & that’s just the UK. Donald Trump dodged the draft for the Vietnam War 5 times. Donal Trump made damn sure HE was never anywhere near any front line.

Deborah Meaden @DeborahMeaden
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10h
Can I check in again with those Trump supporters who keep popping into my timeline… do you still feel the same after his total disrespect for those Allies who fought, gave so much and sacrificed when the US called?

Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789
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12h
Coward who dodged the draft for Vietnam with some made up medical condition accuses European troops of staying “a little back, a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan.
A disgusting slur on the sacrifice of allies that fought for America.

A Short History Lesson

I have been compelled to return to this blog after a long absence because of current US policy under the Trump administration.

1) Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazis.

Following the Enabling Act on 23 March 1933. Hitler was granted plenary powers “temporarily” by the passage of the Act.[106] The law gave him the freedom to act without parliamentary consent and even without constitutional limitations.

Anschluss (March 1938): Germany annexed Austria, meeting little international resistance.

Munich Agreement (Sept 1938): Britain and France allowed Germany to annex the German-speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, hoping to avoid war.

Invasion of Czechoslovakia (March 1939): Hitler broke the Munich Agreement by occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia, proving appeasement failed.

War Declared (Sept 3, 1939): Britain and France, having guaranteed Poland’s security, declared war on Germany, beginning World War II in Europe.

2) Trump’s actions in 2025/2026.

He has openly discussed his fear of being impeached, causing many to believe he will cancel the mid-term elections and invoke the Insurrection Act. Many also fear he will not allow the next presidential election to happen in 2028.

He has told the world that he intends to take control of Greenland ‘by any means necessary’, ridiculed Denmark, and ignored or insulted his European and Canadian NATO allies.

America has taken control of Venezuela after removing that country’s leader by military force, and seized $500,000,000 of oil money that has gone straight into US controlled accounts in foreign banks. And he has openly stated that he personally now controls Venezuela. He went on to threaten Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia with a similar fate.

Following European push-back on his ambitions to take over Greenland, he is set to impose tariffs on any country supporting Denmark, and his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller has stated this recently.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Friday doubled down on the Trump administration’s argument that acquiring Greenland is “essential” for U.S. national security. “The new domain of international competition is going to be polar competition,” Miller told Fox News’s Sean Hannity, seeking to justify President Trump’s proposal to take over the Arctic island, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. “That is where more and more resources are being spent by our nation’s adversaries and rivals is the ability to control movement, navigation, lanes of travel in the polar and arctic region.” He added that because Denmark “cannot defend” Greenland, citing weaknesses in their military and economy, that it should not have claims to the land.

From this outsider’s viewpoint, the current Trump administration is ‘Nazifying’ the USA. Suppressing dissent, placing ICE agents on the streets to kidnap and kill people, and soldiers on other streets to ‘maintain order’. In addition, he is making clear his intention to take over any country or territory he wants, using force if necessary.

I never thought that I would see this happen to America in my lifetime, let alone the USA become the enemy of its former allies and a definite danger to the rest of the ‘free world’. Read the history comparison above, and you can easily work out what will happen.

To all my blogging friends in America who do not support Trump, I think it really is time to stand up and be counted.

I just wish I could live long enough to see how future historians deal with this terribly dark period in world history.

Israel: The Real World Power

If you ever doubt who is really pulling the strings, read more stuff. It’s out there in plain sight.

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A British-Palestinian professor called Dr Makram Khoury-Machool was detained at Heathrow airport for over four hours, under Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Regulations 2019. The Christian academic was interrogated on Good Friday in front of his 8-year-old son. His phone, laptop, and identification were seized under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act. He was released without charge but will have to present himself to police within seven days if required.

Professor Khoury-Machool runs the Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies. As former Bristol University professor David Miller would testify, the world of academia is a hostile place for pro-Palestinian voices, and the hostility is being driven by people who claim to oppose cancel culture. Their goal is a rightward, pro-Israel shift in all of our institutions.

Professor Khoury-Machool was arrested under suspicion of “preparing terrorism”, but if police had a shred of evidence, he would be in prison awaiting trial. Police are basically rummaging through his devices to find an excuse to charge him with something. Even if they don’t, the harassment still serves its other purpose of intimidation.

This is all intended to have a chilling effect on criticism of Israel. What I find chilling is that our police force, and even our academic spaces, have been captured by Zionism.

Professor Khoury-Machool is the latest in a list of influential figures who have been treated as terrorists by the state; a list that includes Richard Medhurst, Kit Klarenberg, and Sarah Wilkinson. None of these so-called terrorists have gone to prison for terrorism.

There is now a petition to repeal the Terrorism Acts of 2000 and 2006, and to stop politicising the law to silence dissent and protect Israel, something which has been called out by the United Nations.

You can be sure that part of the reason for Professor Khoury-Machool’s detention was that he spoke out when police detained journalist Richard Medhurst. They are sending out a message that if you call them out on their authoritarianism, you might be next.
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The Israel lobby in the United States comprises individuals and groups who seek to influence the U.S. federal government to better serve the interests of Israel. The largest American pro-Israel lobbying group is Christians United for Israel, which has over seven million members.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/congress-election-pro-israel-lobby-aipac

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