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Rotherham – Scam? Half-Truth? Truth?

December 6, 2025/2 Comments/in General/by Nick Griffin

Nick Griffin has an excellent blog. Interesting that the problem has shifted more to other immigrants, like Africans. Notice that, like Tobias Langdon, he singles out Dennis MacShane, the Israel-first, Rotherham last Labour politician representing Rotherham.

Vital Questions Over a Powerful Film Trailer

A powerful trailer for a film about the grooming scandal is doing the rounds on social media. It’s called Rotherham and, judging by the trailer clips, it certainly doesn’t pull any punches. Indeed, it looks like a film that could have made a huge difference for the better if it had only been made and released twenty years ago.

As it is, there are some questions we have to ask:

First, is it ever going to be made as a full-length film? The trailer is a fund-raiser, asking for donations to help get it made. This is somewhat odd to say the least. For a start, would-be producers, Unhinged Labs, seem to be totally new. Unheard of, and with a newly established social media presence which is still all-but invisible.

Where have they come from? Who is involved? Where have they developed the skills, got the equipment and found the actors to make such an important but very ambitious effort realistic?

At present, it isn’t. This isn’t made with real actors, it’s AI-generated. The girl is voiced by a posh southerner, not a working class lass from Rotherham. The dad’s accent wavers, but is basically Sean Bean. The angry man in the pub is a Londoner, not a Yorkshireman.

Second, if by chance this is a genuine plan and not a scam, why haven’t they simply teamed up with one of the individuals or organisations who, in recent years, have sought to ‘own’ the grooming issue? Regular readers will know I have no time for Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, Lawrence Fox, Ben Habib, etc, but if you really wanted – and had the capability – to make a film on the grooming scandal, you could approach any one of them and they would bite your hand off to help.

They all have the contacts to get proper funding, and they would all (with the exception of Farage if the intention is to hammer Muslims rather than the British state) relish the extra publicity they’d get for helping make it happen.

So one must ask: is this trailer may be a simple scam. Make a dramatic trailer, put it out, ask for money, grab the cash, disappear. Unless or until we see some solid evidence, perhaps interviews with the production team, this has to be a very real ossibility.

Third, this could be genuine. If it is, it could be a tremendous film. Without a doubt, the girls or Rotherham and so many other places deserve to have their stories told. Not just once or twice, and by mainstream TV companies which tiptoe round the issues, but by independent and fearless teams who refuse to pull any punches.

Only when this has been done, over and over again, will the horror and evil of the whole scandal sink deep enough into the public psyche that parents and future generations of girls will be so aware of the danger that they are protected from it.

But we could still only get the half-truth. Probably the version of reality preferred by those vested interests who are trying to push Britain into civil war.

The VITAL Character in the Whole Rotherham Story – Marlene Guest

ANY film about Rotherham and the grooming scandal which doesn’t feature the absolutely crucial role played by the late Marlene Guest and the BNP in exposing and fighting the whole thing. would be a LIE and a grotesque distortion of the truth.

Marlene was a LibDem campaigner until she gave up on them over their cowardly refusal to take up the growing evidence of racist grooming of young white girls by Pakistani gangs in her home-town. She joined the British National Party and became a super activist, candidate and all-round tireless heroine.

When the Muslim grooming scandal broke and the Labour Party’s South Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright denied any knowledge of the matter, it was Marlene’s documented evidence that proved him a liar and forced him to resign in disgrace.

She had spent years campaigning on the matter, writing to him as head of Children’s Services, speaking at meetings in his local pub and leafleting the streets around his home.

While 1,200 young girls were abused and gang-raped in his constituency, immigration-loving Denis MacShane was so busy campaigning for Israel and against ‘antisemitism’ that he never even noticed what was happening in his own backyard. This needs to be in the film, or Rotherham will miss the mark.

Marlene also played an important role in the downfall in 2012 of Labour criminal tax-thief Denis MacShane (whose real name is Josef Denis Matyjaszek. As the town’s MP from the institutionally anti-English Labour party, he had claimed that not a single one of his constituents had ever raised the grooming issue with him.

“I am shocked and saddened that the BNP has won its three-year campaign to destroy my political career as a Labour MP,” said MacShane.

Marlene won the highest ever vote by a BNP candidate in the subsequent Parliamentary by-election coming thir and beating the Tories.

Marlene faced not just official apathy,but wall-to-wall hostility. Death threats, police harassment, smears and lies. The BNP fought whole election campaigns on the issue, the local team which Marlene helped to build putting out tens of thousands of leaflets, constantly speaking with parents and victims.

While the Powers That Be were still refusing to accept that we were in any way right. Marlene was in touch with dozens of families and victims. One young teenager had become pregrant after being repeatedly raped, but had had a miscarriage.

The remains of the baby were in medical storage, but the utter scum at the top of south Yorkshire Police refused to order the DNA test which could lead to at least one of the vile predators being brought to justice. They hid behind the excuse that the investigation they claimed to be running could not afford the £500 test fee.

My £500 ‘Fraudulent Payment’ to a Grooming Victim

Marlene came to me and asked if I would pay for the test, from the fund I had set up to use the surplus from my European Parliamentary travel and attendence allowance for good causes. Rotherham, of course, is not in my North West constituency, so this should have been paid by Andrew Brons, our MEP for Yorkshire.

Brons, however, had reneged on his promise to set up a similar fund, because he was worried that the Eurocrats would deem this improper use of these funds. Actually, he was right about that, I was in the end accused of fraud for having given thousands of pounds of that month to good causes, rather than spending the money on myself.

The chief investigator literally admitted that, had I spent the money on flash hotels, champagne and prostitutes (as per the habits of most MEPS) everything would have been in order. As it was, the internal tribunal found me guilty of fraudulent use of EU funds and made me repay thousands of Euros from my own money.

Among the payments I made for which I was punished was the £500 I gave to Marlene so that she could pay for the DNA test to be done privately.

The result – which confirmed the girl’s allegation against the abuser – at least made possible the successful prosecution of one of the paedophile rapists. This set something of a precedent and helped begin the process whereby the police and courts did finally take some action against the grooming gangs.

I reiterate the fact that Marlene endured terrible pressure and constant worry and fear in order to drag the scandal into the light. She was an elderly widow, living alone at an address known by every grooming gang member, hate-filled/Muslim-vote-grabbing Labour councillor, and bent copper in the whole rough town.

If this film is made and doesn’t feature Marlene and the BNP, it will not be a true account of what went on.In that case, the odds are that it will be a sensationalist piece of war propaganda. That’s not what it should be; it should set the record straight, hammer the Powers That Be for their criminal failure, honour the courage of the the victim,s and to warn the future.

Let me be very blunt: The grooming gangs back then were overwhelmingly Muslim, but it was never all Muslims. Yes, their community should have done far more to stop it – but so should ours!

Today, a very significant number of the criminals and perverts still molesting and raping young girls are Muslim, but others are Africans from Christian or animist backgrounds, still others are Roma from Eastern Europe.

If Rotherham is made and it fairly shows what happened in that town back then, it could become a classic in grass-roots, resistance film-making. But if it focuses on what long-term resident members of one community did twenty years ago, it could lead people to fail to see that the perpetrators today are largely from other immigrant communities – and that they tend to operate in smaller groups, or alone. That could leave potential victims unaware of how this crime has mutated and, to a very significant degree, ‘changed hands’.

On a different angle, a true film about Rotherham woud have to put those terrible events in the context of the far wider grooming scandal. This should include the way in which South Yorskhire police pressured Channel 4 not to show an important documentary exposing part of the scandal.

The political police openly did so on the grounds that it could help the BNP win council seats – when many of our local campaigns in places such as Rotherham, Keighley, Bradford, etc were specifically on this issue, and the refusal of the authorities to do anything about it.

Who Most Deserves Hatred and Punishment?

Everyone should remember too that only a MINORITY of the Pakistani community were ever involved in the grooming and the rapes. I have always believed that the guilty ones — that minority — should have faced execution.

But the ENTIRE police forces of South and West Yorkshire, the ENTIRE BBC, and the ENTIRE political elite (with the exception of Anne Cryer in Keighley and MacShane’s successor Sarah Champion) were guilty of helping the official cover up. Not one of THEM has ever faced a trial for that crime, let alone a single day in prison.

If this film is made, and makes people hate anyone, let it make them hate the ‘respectable’ members of our community who betrayed all those girls. Judging from the clips in the trailer, though, that may well not be the aim.

These potential pitfalls could be avoided completely – and the inevitable questions about authenticity and good faith answered – by one simple move by Unhinged Labs. They just need to get in touch with me, and involve me as an (unpaid) expert consultant.

I can put them in touch with local BNP veterans who knew Marlene and were involved at the time, as well as giving them the benefit of my own first-hand experience.

My advice to anyone impressed with the trailer, in the meantime, is don’t give them a single penny, unless and until I tell you that it’s a genuine effort with a realistic chance of being made.

I really hope that this film venture is genuine, and that it is made. And that it pulls no punches. But I also hope and pray that it lands punches on all who deserve them, that the messages that come out of it include the duty of the men of our community to stand up and do the right things, and that it finished with a full-screen dedication:

“In memory of Marlene Guest — who fought so hard for the abused girls of her Rotherham. RIP”.

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Excerpt: Mark Wauck: The Art Of No Deal

December 4, 2025/12 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Good blog…

Mark Wauck

This is the day after. The day after Trump sent his chosen Jewish Nationalist cronies, neither of whom has a clue about the real Russia—a real estate lawyer from Manhattan and his own son in law—to Moscow to do a deal with Vladimir Putin. OK, why do I note that Witkoff and Kushner are Jewish Nationalists? We know that they are because of their role in support of the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and their interest in real estate deals both in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East, using Trump’s leverage as POTUS. The relevance to Russia is that the war on Russia is fundamentally an Anglo-Zionist war of revenge—Money Matters—just as the US or Anglo-Zionist wars in the Middle East and elsewhere are fundamentally Jewish Nationalist wars. Here’s how Doug Macgregor put it yesterday, without using my chosen term, in conversation with Danny Davis:

So, someone needs to tell [the Euros], “Shut up. Sit down. Here’s the answer.” That is what President Trump should do. But he’s not doing it. Now, we can speculate on his donors, the people that really control him, and I think that Witkoff and Kushner are very representative of those donors and their desire to keep this war going with Russia.

But they’re not legally legitimately in charge. Hell, they don’t even hold appointments in the administration. They’re not part of the State Department. And if Trump and Rubio can’t come to an agreement, then he should fire Rubio and put somebody else over there that understands what the hell’s at stake. It is our relationship with Russia that counts.

Trump can either help manage this and control it and drive it in a positive direction, or he can do what he’s doing right now. Worry about the optical illusion that he wants to create. Send Witkoff and Kushner over there to help him create good optics for him.

Here’s Mac talking about how a mission to get Bin Laden turned into a 20 year war in Afghanistan. After naming the usual Neocon suspects like Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby … Remember the seven regime change wars in five years that General Wesley Clark told us about? This is where it started. And then came Russia, the Big Enchilada. These people are insanely hubristic:

“The political leadership in Washington had gotten to W and convinced him, well, [Afghanistan] is a sideshow anyway, boss. We just need to keep the lid on there and we’ll go to Iraq next. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. And in retrospect, I’m sure several historians will dissect this and you’ll eventually get something reasonably close to the truth and they’ll all say, “How could anyone have ever reached these conclusions?”

The history of post Cold War America is essentially the history of Neocons using America’s military for purposes that had little or nothing to do with US national interests. The Neocons were acting as agents of a foreign power, or for non-American interests. For those who don’t recall what Wesley Clark said:

In September 2007 Clark’s memoir A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country. In the book Clark alleged that during a visit to the Pentagon in the autumn of 2001 after 9/11, a “senior general” told him that the Office of the Secretary of Defense had produced a confidential paper proposing a series of regime change operations in seven countries over a period of five years. He had made the allegation a number of times in public and media appearances in 2006 and 2007. The book also described a conversation Clark had with Paul Wolfowitz in May 1991 after the Gulf War, quoting Wolfowitz as lamenting the non-removal of Saddam Hussein, but also telling him that “…we did learn one thing that’s very important. With the end of the Cold War, we can now use our military with impunity. The Soviets won’t come in to block us. And we’ve got five, maybe 10, years to clean up these old Soviet surrogate regimes like Iraq and Syria before the next superpower emerges to challenge us…”.^[135]

I repeat all that because it’s the background to the mission to Moscow. The Russians—I guarantee you—are fully aware of that background, and much more. They know exactly who they’re dealing with and who Witkoff and Kushner represent. The easiest way to get at what transpired is to quote two short passages from a longer article by Larry Johnson (Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations):

The media is reporting that the core agenda was the updated U.S. peace framework, which emphasizes:

A potential ceasefire and de facto border recognition, possibly involving Ukrainian concessions in the Donbas region to meet Russia’s territorial demands.

Security guarantees for Ukraine, coordinated with European allies like France.

Broader steps for implementation, including front-line adjustments and restrictions on Ukraine’s military capabilities.

Putin reportedly agreed with some elements of the proposal but reiterated Russia’s non-negotiable positions, …

…

… Putin indicated that the negotiation process is being conducted through professional channels, explicitly pointing to Lavrov and the Foreign Ministry as those leading the work on possible peace arrangements. He stressed that he is regularly briefed by Lavrov on these discussions, including on US-drafted peace ideas that Moscow says draw heavily on earlier Russian proposals.

While Putin was meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, Sergei Lavrov held warm bilateral talks with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Lavrov’s absence from the Witkoff/Kushner meeting was a clear signal from Russia that the foundation for actual negotiations was still not in place. Putin’s goal was to explain — politely and firmly — what Russia’s fundamental positions are with respect to settling the war in Ukraine.

Read that carefully. I haven’t the least doubt that Witkoff was hoping to be able to do some general sort of “deal” with Putin. It was the same “deal” that has been offered to Russia before, this time in slightly altered wrapping, but just as unacceptable to Russia. The Anglo-Zionist plan for a “ceasefire” and only “de facto recognition” of the new realities in the Russian zone are a transparent subterfuge for not really ending the war. It’s a “deal” that is only temporary and would be easily broken. What it is not is a legally binding treaty, which is at the top of the list of Putin’s demands.

I also don’t doubt that Witkoff once again attempted to present carrots to Putin, to sweeten a deal that Putin doesn’t want. The primary carrot is, of course, “sanctions relief”. The Anglo-Zionists are trying to extract concessions from Russia—Russia should accept a temporary cessation of hostilities that only strengthens its enemies, and renounce any binding settlement—in exchange for the withdrawal of illegal and ineffective sanctions. Putin has already made his position on sanctions clear: The sanctions are illegal. America is welcome to do the morally and legally right thing by scrapping its sanctions regime, but Russia can live with the sanctions and will certainly not give up anything of value in return for America returning to the rule of international law. To do so would be to implicitly grant a degree of legitimacy to America’s lawless hegemoniacal actions, and that is unacceptable to Russia, because Russia knows America is quite capable of returning to its sanctions. Russia demands to be treated as a sovereign equal in the light of international law. Nothing less.

But even more fundamentally, Putin made it clear that he isn’t interested in any sort of “deal”. He wants a fully spelled out and legally binding treaty settlement. Recall the two draft treaties that Putin presented to the Anglo-Zionist West in December, 2021.

Continues…

ANN’S 1-STEP GUIDE TO SAVING NORTH CAROLINA

December 3, 2025/1 Comment/in General/by Ann Coulter

Forget blue states, Mr. Trump. Save the Tarheels!

Although the media are not typically interested in helping Republicans win elections, they seem awfully concerned that Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Charlotte, North Carolina, could hurt the GOP’s electoral prospects. The New York Times reports, for example, that the raids “brought one of the Trump administration’s showiest crackdown strategies into a purple state … creating a rare test of one of his core priorities in fiercely contested political territory.”

Hold it right there. A purple state? When did North Carolina become a purple state? The state of “Senator No” (Jesse Helms) and other staunch conservatives like John East?

Here’s a clue! From 1900 until around 1980, North Carolina’s foreign-born population was less than 1%. Today, it’s 15% — and that’s not including third-generation immigrants. The immigrants are mostly Hispanic and Asian, groups that block vote, 70% to 30%, for the Democrats.

In Mecklenburg County, where Charlotte is located, 65% of new residents were born outside of the country. Talk about a sanctuary: The Mecklenburg County Sheriff, Garry McFadden, is a Black man who not only thinks “Black Lives Matter,” but also “Illegal Alien Child Rapist and Murderers’ Lives Matter.”

Ignoring ICE detainer requests — and common sense — he promptly releases those accused of committing such minor and inconsequential infractions as car theft, drunk driving, rape, child molestation and murder onto the streets, never to be heard from again. [ATTENTION SEN. MARK KELLY: Sheriff McFadden’s underlings are being forced to comply with illegal orders!]

Arguably, the state isn’t turning blue because enforcement of immigration laws has been too aggressive, but rather because it’s been nonexistent.

The Times quoted “moderate Republican” Edwin Peacock III — because he agreed with the Times — saying the GOP is in BIG trouble if these Charlotte raids continue. This is classic Republican math: We’re losing 10 cents on every apple we sell. To make up for it, we’re going to have to double our sales.

At least when California flipped from Reagan country to The Poop State, it wasn’t Californians’ fault, but resulted from the evil machinations of Carter-appointed District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer [Jewish] and Democratic Gov. Gray Davis (later recalled — but not soon enough) [Davis refused to appeal Pfaelzer’s decision].

North Carolina, by contrast, is being destroyed by some people’s greed. Following in the footsteps of their slave-owning forebears, the state’s biggest employers demand cheap labor, and they don’t care what they’re doing to the country. Their grandkids will be living in Uganda — but they can make a pile NOW.

With all the money employers are saving by hiring low-wage illegals, they have lots of money to lavish on politicians — and the politicians are happy to accommodate them. (See amnesty-happy Sen. Thom Tillis and former Rep. Renee Ellmers.)

Sure, the employers’ taxes will go up. They aren’t paying illegals enough to live on, so somebody’s got to subsidize all that cheap labor. But taxes are paid by everybody, whereas the profits go only to the illegals’ bosses. (It’s estimated that “undocumented immigrants” cost North Carolina taxpayers several billion dollars a year.)

The immediate pain of mass third world immigration is borne not only by the state’s taxpayers, but also by its little girls.

For years, North Carolinians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement (NCFIRE) has been keeping lists of illegal immigrants arrested in the state only for sex crimes against children. (August seems to be a banner month for child rape, with 169, 131 and 107 assaults on children in 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. What is the harvesting season for soybeans, corn and sweet potatoes?)

We always hear about the “valedictorian” illegal alien or the one — featured on the Times’ front page this week — arrested by ICE while flying to have Thanksgiving dinner with her family.

The Charlotte raids produced tales (probably apocryphal) of illegals “approached or arrested” while “putting up Christmas decorations,” or helping with a “church cleanup.” NBC, CNN, The Hill and the Times all reported on the (unnamed) church guy and the Christmas decorations guy.

But none of these news outlets, nor any national media, ever got around to mentioning this illegal: Francisco Marquez Martinez — despite the fact that he was a 38-year-old married man who preached at his church and provided Winston-Salem, North Carolina, residents with cheap lawn care.

As Marquez Martinez was mowing a family’s lawn one day, it began to rain, and he asked to come inside the house. The two daughters, ages 8 and 12, home alone, declined, telling him to stand under the outside awning. Whereupon the illegal forced his way in, chased the 12-year-old to the bathroom and raped her in the tub.

But it’s all worth it, as long as North Carolina farmers can make an extra buck!

I guess it’s fine for Trump to send ICE agents to the blue states, even though they want to become third world hellholes. Illegals can travel, a fact well-known by everyone killed by an illegal alien truck driver who got a commercial driver’s license from Gavin Newsom’s California.

But I’d really rather he round up illegals in North Carolina, so maybe we could have a shot at preventing this “purple state” from becoming California.

Diversity is our greatest strength in Minnesota

December 2, 2025/16 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Watch: Somali Enclave Standoff; ‘No English, No Women On Camera’

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

In a tense street encounter captured in Minneapolis’s Somali-dominated Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, filmmaker Nick Shirley attempted to interview residents about life as Muslims in America—only to face demands to delete footage, refusals to speak English, and claims that women can’t appear on camera, highlighting the cultural chasm.

Shirley’s video, part of his documentary series probing U.S. migration impacts, shows him approaching locals in the area dubbed “Little Mogadishu,” asking “What’s it like being a Muslim here in the United States?”

The responses quickly escalate to hostility, with demands to “delete the footage.”

The clip, shows a man insisting “I’m not speaking English, only ONE Somali language.” Another echoes, “I’m not speaking English.”

When Shirley asks, “Can women speak on camera?” the response is blunt, “No.”

The footage, filmed amid empty storefronts, captures the enclave’s insularity, raising assimilation alarms in a diaspora resettled since the 1990s under refugee programs.

This standoff exemplifies the “Somalification of America” Trump advisor Stephen Miller has decried, turning elections into “clan rivalries.”

Minnesota’s 100K+ Somali population surged under Obama-Biden, fueling Dem dominance and electing Ilhan Omar amid feuds.

But as we’ve also detailed, it’s bred fraud. Feeding Our Future’s $250M COVID heist saw Somali-led nonprofits indicted, while child care and autism scams bilked millions—Rep. Kristin Robbins fuming: “We’re at the tip of the iceberg.”

Trump’s recent Temporary protected status termination branded it a “hub of fraudulent money laundering,” with gangs “terrorizing” and billions missing.

It’s hardly integrating into America when the mayor of Minneapolis feels the need to conduct speeches in Somali.Jacob Frey’s recent Somali speech—“This is our city”—drew “pandering” blasts.

In a recent Newsmax segment, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons discussed President Trump’s push to revoke TPS for Somalis in Minnesota amid the allegations of widespread immigration fraud, including marriage scams, visa overstays, and forged documents uncovered in DHS’s “Operation Twin Shield.”

Lyons emphasised that deportations could target cities like Minneapolis or Philadelphia, emphasizing ICE’s focus on removing those who entered under false pretenses, fueling reported panic among Somali and other Muslim migrant communities as stricter enforcement looms.

Zelensky’s Sacked Top Aide ‘Escapes’ To Front-Line To ‘Hide’ From Corruption Investigators

November 30, 2025/6 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

For months, the U.S. has been split between the neocons clinging to fantasies of a battlefield reversal, and the rising bloc of realists (JD Vance et. al) who have finally accepted what the frontlines have shown for over a year, Russia has already won. Ukraine’s army is shattered, NATO’s ammunition reserves are exhausted, and American voters are done with a war that offers no victory and no strategy.

The realists now want a controlled, face-saving diplomatic exit, that locks in territorial losses quietly while Washington claims it “secured peace.” Zelensky has resisted every inch of this pivot because peace ends his power. And Yermak was the immovable pillar of that resistance, insulating Zelensky from any pressure to negotiate, the filter preventing unwanted messages from reaching the president. By purging him through a NABU raid, the U.S. has isolated Zelensky.

ZeroHedge: Zelensky’s Sacked Top Aide ‘Escapes’ To Front-Line To ‘Hide’ From Corruption Investigators

After his home and offices were raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators Friday related to the ongoing massive energy sector kickback scandal, Yermak announced by text message to The New York Post, “I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals.” He followed with, “I am an honest and decent person.”

The Post added further, “He then apologized if he no longer answers calls. He did not say when or how he intended to go to the frontlines of the war against Russia.”

He appears to still be rejecting allegations he was involved in the graft probe, centered on at least $100 million being siphoned off by corrupt Ukrainian officials amid a series of payoffs and kickbacks.

The narrative in his defense is being spun by the same NY Post report, which suggests this is all merely ‘political’ due largely to jealously and growing rivalries related to the enormous decision-making influence Yermak was coming to wield:

Despite his towering frame, you might not always have spotted him. Yet, wherever President Volodymyr Zelensky was, Yermak was often not far away.

As his chief of staff, Yermak wielded enormous power at the top of government and was even trusted to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf at peace talks with the US.

But as his influence grew, so did public resentment of the power this unelected official held. His political career came to an abrupt end on Friday, hours after anti-corruption investigators raided his home in Kyiv.

But clearly his dramatic declaration of “going to the front lines” is meant to signal a sense of self-sacrificial patriotism and induce feelings of sympathy.

Oleksandr Dubinskyi, a rare and controversial oppositional lawmaker in Ukraine’s parliament who has long called for Zelensky’s impeachment, has a very different take based on his sources. He detailed in an X post a series of specific claims, the chief of which is that Yermak is ‘hiding’ from anti-corruption investigators:

I have learned where exactly he is going to “serve.”

Fact: Yermak, with his security detail, was brought to the location of commander nicknamed Madjar – one of the most media-prominent Ukrainian fighters, known for harsh Telegram rhetoric and the “Drone Wall” project. Unit commanders refuse to assign Yermak to their ranks.

He is physically present but has no tasks, no role, and no assigned position. Yermak is hiding from NABU anti-corruption investigations in a zone where detectives cannot serve him a notice of suspicion or court summons.

Separate detail: Madjar accepted Yermak only after a personal request from Zelensky. For Yermak, the front is not service. The front is a hideout. And it is interesting how people will meet Yermak – the man who organized the forced rounding-up of people in the streets of Ukraine.

Interestingly, when the teams of NABU and SAP agents searched his office on Friday, this was just meters away from President Zelensky’s own office.

As a reminder, Andrew Korybko recently opined that Yermak’s removal could prompt some progress in peace talks:

He’s Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power, thus pressuring him into peace, especially if his warmongering grey cardinal is no longer pushing him to keep fighting.

One geopolitical source, known on X as The Islander, agrees: this is largely the result of the Trump administration finally bringing real pressure to bear on the Zelensky regime at a moment a clear, workable peace plan is on the table — which much to Kiev’s chagrin features territorial concessions in the Donbass and Crimea.

According to the lengthy analysis [emphasis ZH]:

The fall of Andriy Yermak – Zelensky’s fixer, enforcer, gatekeeper, and indispensable ally, isn’t a “corruption scandal.” It’s Washington slapping the table. NABU, the U.S.-trained attack dog of Ukrainian politics, didn’t raid the Presidential Office by accident.

It raided to remind Zelensky that the war isn’t his to command, the peace process isn’t his to veto, and the leash around Bankova Street is held in Washington, not Kiev and certainly not European chihuahuas. Because the real story isn’t Yermak’s resignation. The real story is the West turning on itself over how to end a war Russia has already won.

The fall of Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s most loyal ally and the de facto power manager of Ukraine, is not a scandal. It is a strike from above. NABU, the U.S.-funded, U.S.-trained anti-corruption bureau, didn’t raid the home and office of Ukraine’s most powerful unelected official by coincidence. And in any other country, his resignation after a corruption raid would be a political scandal. In Ukraine, it’s a geopolitical detonation.

Yermak wasn’t just a chief of staff, he was the shadow architect of the regime, the man through whom every appointment, every oligarchic negotiation, every Western request, and every wartime decision had to pass. And the speed of his resignation makes clear this was less about corruption, and more about pressure — engineered, timed, and executed by the one actor that can pull such a lever, Washington.

For months, the U.S. has been split between the neocons clinging to fantasies of a battlefield reversal, and the rising bloc of realists (JD Vance et. al) who have finally accepted what the frontlines have shown for over a year, Russia has already won. Ukraine’s army is shattered, NATO’s ammunition reserves are exhausted, and American voters are done with a war that offers no victory and no strategy.

The realists now want a controlled, face-saving diplomatic exit, that locks in territorial losses quietly while Washington claims it “secured peace.” Zelensky has resisted every inch of this pivot because peace ends his power. And Yermak was the immovable pillar of that resistance, insulating Zelensky from any pressure to negotiate, the filter preventing unwanted messages from reaching the president. By purging him through a NABU raid, the U.S. has isolated Zelensky.

Meanwhile, the EU is panicking. European leaders fear peace more than war because peace forces accountability… why did they destroy their own industries, torch their energy security, plunge their economies into recession, and funnel hundreds of billions into corruption for a war Washington itself is now preparing to fold?

Brussels supported Zelensky unconditionally not out of conviction but out of sheer self-preservation. If the war ends, they must answer for the ruin they inflicted on their own populations. Europe needs perpetual conflict to postpone the political reckoning. Washington, by contrast, wants a face saving offramp. This is the real EU–US divide: Brussels wants to delay the inevitable, Washington wants to manage it, and Kiev wants to deny it. Only one of them has the power to dictate the timeline, and it isn’t Europe.

Moscow sees the Western fracture, senses the desperation, and understands its advantage. Putin’s message has been cold and consistent: either negotiations occur on terms that reflect the battlefield reality and address the root cause of the conflict, or Russia will continue grinding down NATO’s proxy forces until nothing remains to negotiate with.

For Russia, both paths lead to victory. Russia has no reason to rush, it is the West running out of time, weapons, unity, and credibility. And when European publics finally realize their leaders sacrificed prosperity, stability, industry, and geopolitical autonomy for a war that ended exactly where Moscow predicted it would, the political reckoning will be seismic. Yermak’s fall is not the end of an era, it marks the beginning of the collapse for the EU.

Already, President Zelensky has on Saturday announced a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to Washington continue talks on the Trump-proposed deal to end the war.

Umerov has been put in charge of the Ukrainian delegation at a moment Yermak is on the run toward the front lines. This is all happening very fast, and the White House can now more easily impose its will on an increasingly disunified and somewhat panicked Zelensky government.

Censorship of Israeli Media

November 29, 2025/7 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Working under pressure, threats and censorship

As of November 28, 2025, 12:35 PM

Freedom of the press – that’s a thing of the past in Israel. This is the report of several journalists working in the country. Their work is accompanied by smear campaigns, hatred, and even death threats.

By Ivo Marusczyk, ARD Tel Aviv

“Dissenting voices are to be silenced.” Reporters Without Borders has been leveling this accusation against the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for months. The prime minister strikes a similar tone to US President Donald Trump when speaking to journalists.

At a press conference, Netanyahu confronted a female journalist, saying: “You spread these lies all the time. Now listen to me. Listen to me. This is the truth, but you spread this lie every single day.”

Reporter reports on government smear campaign

Guy Peleg, an Israeli television reporter who exposed the Sde Teiman prison camp scandal, is particularly targeted. “The ruling party, Likud, has been waging a campaign against me, comparing me and my friend Amnon Abramovich to Nasrallah and Khamenei – the ‘modern Nazis.’ That’s how they described Netanyahu,” Peleg said.

The journalist had published the video on Channel 12, which shows the alleged mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners in a detention camp. It also serves as evidence for allegations that prisoners were raped there.

Threatening messages and death threats

And since then, the hostility has increased, with threats of violence becoming commonplace, Peleg reported in his radio show on station 103fm:

I don’t just receive one threatening message. I receive dozens of threatening messages, with explicit death threats. Let me read the latest message I received this morning: ‘Your only chance of survival is to resign from your job and leave the country. Otherwise, all that will remain of you will be a gravestone.’

Peleg sees these threats not only as hate messages from political dissidents, but as the result of a political campaign fueled by the government.

Soldiers threaten the ARD team sitting in a car in the West Bank

Minister Ben-Eliahu: Media not a “protected species”

The Israeli government has nothing but scorn for such accusations. Amichai Ben-Eliahu, the minister responsible for cultural heritage, told the state broadcaster Kan that Peleg should stop whining. He would simply be harassed. “The media shouldn’t think they are a specially protected species in the State of Israel. Anyone who incites hatred and participates in violating public order will have to pay the price. Wherever he goes, the word ‘shame’ should be written on his forehead,” Ben-Eliahu said.

There are further examples of Israel’s government attempting to control or even silence the media. Government agencies are officially prohibited from cooperating with Haaretz, the country’s most important left-liberal voice.

Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi accuses the Israeli media as a whole of acting in concert and blocking political projects of the right wing and the national-religious camp. He claims they are therefore partly responsible for the Hamas terrorist attack in October 2023. He said this in parliament in early November:

If the media had not been fully mobilized to promote refusal of reserve service and to incite ruthless resistance to judicial reform, such a division in the nation would not have occurred, enabling the enemy to seize the opportunity on October 7th.

Expressions of opinion are unwelcome.

The government intends to take action: Defense Minister Israel Katz plans to close Army Radio, one of the most listened-to radio stations in Israel. The reason given is its sometimes critical political reporting. Katz stated that Army Radio should not express opinions. The government also intends to cut the budget of the state television broadcaster KAN and ultimately privatize it – a move that will likely lead to its closure.

Not only because of these increasing attacks by the government, but also because of them, Reporters Without Borders now ranks Israel in the lower half of its press freedom ranking , in the unflattering position of 111 out of 180. Even behind countries like Chad, South Sudan or Haiti.

Dems: Follow Our Illegal Orders, Not Theirs

November 26, 2025/in General/by Ann Coulter

This thing about illegal orders could be trouble for them

If you’ve been buried in Jeffrey Epstein’s emails advising Harvard professors how to cheat on their wives, you may have missed the video put out by six Democratic lawmakers last week, somberly instructing members of the military to “refuse illegal orders” from the commander in chief, one Donald J. Trump.

At least I think that’s the point they were making. Here’s the gist of their public service announcement:

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.: “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders.”

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo.: “You can refuse illegal orders.”

Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Penn.: “You can refuse illegal orders.”

Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.: “You can refuse illegal orders.”

I’ve watched it several times, listened to it backward, showed it to friends, and I think the subtle message they’re trying to convey is that members of the military can refuse illegal orders.

Trump and a slew of Republicans accused the six of sedition for encouraging troops to stop before following orders, mull over the directive, then decide whether, in their considered opinion, the order is “legal” or not. (Admittedly, Trump may have gone too far in suggesting all six should be put to death.)

Any normal person sees a video like this and thinks, There must be a problem if they’re doing PSAs about it!

The Democrats reacted with wide-eyed innocence. That’s the law! Are you saying troops should follow illegal orders? We even got the inevitable Holocaust comparison, with CNN’s Jake Tapper delivering this little sermon:

“The Nuremberg defense — this is the war crimes tribunal after World War II — was that these Nazis were only following orders, and the Nuremberg defense was resoundingly rejected in international law. Carrying out illegal orders is not a defense because you were being obedient.”

This is a classic Democratic cheeseball attack: Make baseless accusations while pretending not to be making baseless accusations.

Here are some other classics:

“Hate has no place here.”

Wait a minute. Are you talking to me?

“Stop racism!”

Who are you calling a racist?

Then-Sen. Kamala Harris grilling Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination hearing: “Be sure about your answer, sir.”

I guess his other answers were careless lies.

Needless to say, the lawmakers were unable to cite any illegal orders from Trump or anyone else in the military’s chain of command. (Nor, for the record, did Kamala produce any lie told by Kavanaugh.)

When pressed to name an illegal order, the not-terribly-bright Rep. Crow indignantly informed Fox News’ Martha McCallum that it was unreasonable to expect Democrats to be referring to anything at all. “Here’s a novel idea,” he said. “How about we actually prevent things from happening before they become a problem, right?”

I can think of millions of ways Democrats are breaking the law if I don’t need a single example.

But, unlike them, I do have examples of illegal orders issued by Democrats. Democratic presidents, Cabinet officials, mayors, governors and members of Congress have issued illegal orders that have been followed, or are being followed, even as we speak.

For example:

President Joe Biden ordered border patrol agents: Don’t do your job.

Mayors in blue cities around the country ordered (and are ordering) police: Don’t do your job.

Governors in “sanctuary” states are ordering law enforcement officers, voting officials, prison administrators, department of motor vehicles workers and others: Don’t do your job.

All of these employees also take oaths to faithfully perform their duties. Republicans should run the Democrats’ exact video — with the same termagants doing the hectoring — but with a new intro, directing the announcement to state government employees who are following illegal orders right now.

With any luck, Tapper will give us another lecture on the squalid inadequacy of the Nuremberg defense.

Apart from Democrats doing the exact thing they are falsely accusing Trump of, their smarmy video gives me some great ideas for other public service announcements.

Here’s one.

Despite the best efforts of liberal think tanks, charitable trusts and Michelle Obama, “food deserts” are a huge problem in this country, depriving mostly poor Black people of access to healthy food. The main cause of the problem is that grocery store chains simply can’t afford to locate in certain neighborhoods on account of the industrial-scale shoplifting.

Here is my proposed PSA, to be delivered by the CEOs of Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Publix, Target, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Sam’s Club:

“Inner city residents: You have to pay for stuff. We know that’s something new for you, but it’s against the law to take items off the shelf and walk out without paying for them.”

Would anybody have a problem with that?

What? We’re just saying that it’s the LAW to pay before leaving a store. Are you guys in favor of shoplifting?