<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Website promoting working class politics and anti-imperialism.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LHl!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5e8b739-bacc-4cf5-abda-5865fb691eee_411x411.png</url><title>Council Estate Media</title><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:45:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[councilestatemedia@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[councilestatemedia@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[councilestatemedia@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[councilestatemedia@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[We are being told that fabricated terror group HAYI is responsible for the stabbing of two Jews in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golder&#8217;s Green, north London, but fortunately survived and are in a stable condition.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-are-being-told-that-fabricated</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-are-being-told-that-fabricated</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:12:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3k5D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10acaeb0-05ba-45cf-8dc0-36e8c0df41f8_637x646.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, two Jewish men were <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3ve2nr60xzt">stabbed</a> in Golder&#8217;s Green, north London, but fortunately survived and are in a stable condition. Everyone agrees the attack was appalling, but the political opportunism and manipulation we&#8217;ve seen is off the charts.</p><p>A British man of Somali descent with a known history of violence and mental health issues is now in custody. We were told he was caught by Shomrim (a Jewish community security group), but when police arrived at the scene, he was not restrained. He approached officers with a knife so they tasered him before pinning him down and taking the weapon. </p><p>Footage shows officers kicking the suspect in the head and stamping on him while he was restrained, prompting accusations of excessive force. Some have suggested that such criticism equals sympathy for the attacker, but it really doesn&#8217;t.</p><p>The footage of the arrest was shared by Tommy Robinson who called the suspect &#8220;invader scum&#8221; because he is an immigrant. The Met<a href="https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/2049524159118536742"> responded to Robinson on Twitter</a> to brag about how brave their officers were. Yes, they really thought amplifying a far-right coke-head who&#8217;s been jailed multiple times and wants to make this into a clash of civilisations was a good look for them.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png" width="694" height="237" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:237,&quot;width&quot;:694,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:29347,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/i/195977921?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9M5Z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e078a3-e0bc-4913-a5ed-7a4f1502ff00_694x237.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>You would hope the establishment would reject the likes of Robinson, but it seems they share his racist views. It seems they are comfortable with this attack being tied to immigration. It seems they want to push through Israel&#8217;s political agenda.</p><p>Nigel Farage is falsely claiming that terror groups are allowed to operate and raise funds in the UK (I&#8217;m assuming he means Muslim groups). Kemi Badenoch is demanding that Jewish security group Shomrim be funded by the police. Keir Starmer is suggesting our criminal justice system must be swift and agile, apparently hinting at his plan for trial without juries.</p><p>The BBC quoted a Jewish man saying: &#8220;The UK government is not hospitable for the Jewish community. They say they are but they do nothing. I don&#8217;t feel safe walking down Golders Green high street where I&#8217;ve lived for years.&#8221;</p><p>Politicians and journalists are so concerned about antisemitism, they have decided to attack the one Jewish political leader in the UK: Zack Polanski. Somehow, this stabbing was all Zack&#8217;s fault for not supporting genocide, I think. </p><p>Critics jumped on the fact that Polanski had previously said in an interview that we need to talk about whether British Jews face actual unsafety or the perception of unsafety, stressing that neither are acceptable. It was a fair comment. The UK is a safe place for Jews to live. That does not mean that attacks on Jews never happen or that violence against Jews is acceptable.</p><p>Polanski&#8217;s critics are claiming the attack in Golder&#8217;s Green proves him wrong, but it does nothing of the sort. If the attack was against two Muslims, these people would not be arguing the UK is unsafe for Muslims.</p><p>In 2024, we saw a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/19/uk-islamophobic-assaults-surged-by-73-in-2024-anti-hate-charity-reports">73% spike in violent attacks</a> against Muslims and I don&#8217;t recall the government&#8217;s terrorism adviser calling it "the biggest national security emergency" in a decade. An <a href="https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/west-london-imam-stabbed-police-32617410">Imam was stabbed</a> in Hounslow, West London, in late 2025, but I don&#8217;t recall the prime minister arranging a Cobra meeting. Yet, he has arranged a <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/politics/keir-starmer-cobra-meeting-golders-green-terror-attack">Cobra meeting</a> in regards to the Golder&#8217;s Green stabbing. It&#8217;s all a bit over the top, isn&#8217;t it?</p><p>Needless to say, the criticism of Polanski has nothing to do with tackling antisemitism and everything to do with silencing a Jewish critic of Israel&#8217;s genocide. Jews, it seems, are only allowed to have one set of opinions.</p><p>We are seeing a massive effort to turn the public against Muslims and boost sympathy for Israel by tying Jewish identity to Israel. Every time such an attack takes place, the narrative is steered in a direction that is beneficial to Israel. This case is no different.</p><p>The suspect was carrying a small knife so this was clearly not a carefully-planned terror attack, yet the new terror group called HAYI has claimed credit. Yes, we&#8217;re expected to believe a black Londoner with mental health issues is part of an Iranian terror network. Perhaps, he was in their Telegram.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3k5D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10acaeb0-05ba-45cf-8dc0-36e8c0df41f8_637x646.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3k5D!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10acaeb0-05ba-45cf-8dc0-36e8c0df41f8_637x646.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3k5D!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10acaeb0-05ba-45cf-8dc0-36e8c0df41f8_637x646.webp 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If you didn&#8217;t know, <a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/it-appears-mossad-has-activated-iranian?utm_source=publication-search">HAYI</a> is a Telegram channel run by Mossad that claims responsibility for any attack against Jews in Europe. I know, I know, people are going to call this another &#8220;antisemitic conspiracy theory&#8221;, but they&#8217;ve got this the wrong way around: HAYI is an Islamophobic conspiracy theory.</p><p>HAYI sprang into existence just a couple of months ago, claiming to be Iranian, but presenting <a href="https://icct.nl/publication/hybrid-threat-signals-assessing-possible-iranian-involvement-recent-attacks-europe">written materials</a> in Arabic, full of spelling and grammatical errors and non-native phrasing&#8212;the sort of thing you would expect from a bad translation. </p><p>Even worse, the group&#8217;s logo appears to be AI-generated and contains a glaring spelling error of the word &#8220;Arabic&#8221;. The name of the group&#8217;s Telegram channel is also misspelt. If you&#8217;re still not convinced, just know that HAYI refers to Palestine as the &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/lowkey0nline/status/2036081136837759387?s=46">land of Israel</a>&#8221;. Which Islamist group would do that?</p><p>It&#8217;s worth remembering that the group materialised after Israel spent weeks telling us a wave of antisemitic attacks was coming to Europe. We then saw the least convincing outbreak of terrorism in history. All of this helped Israel push a narrative that Jews are under attack, but it did not in any way help Iran. Clearly, Israel is using the horrible stabbing in Golder&#8217;s Green to manipulate the public.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Thank you for reading. All of my content will always be freely available, but if you wish to support my work, you can do so at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/cemedia">Ko-fi</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cemedia">Patreon</a>. 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I think we&#8217;re up to 13 now, but the number keeps rising, and it&#8217;s entirely possible that one or two might have slipped under the radar.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/what-on-earth-is-going-on-with-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/what-on-earth-is-going-on-with-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:48:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2411b64e-335e-4d43-b2e1-70b75954989f_1280x720.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A bunch of top US scientists, engineers, military personnel, and even, dare I say it, UFO researchers, have <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scientists-missing-dead-fbi-investigation-b2963785.html">gone missing</a> or <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/23/deaths-disappearances-of-us-scientists-see-the-list/89732321007/">died recently</a>. I think we&#8217;re up to 13 now, but the number keeps rising, and it&#8217;s entirely possible that one or two might have slipped under the radar.</p><p>The names are Michael David Hicks, Frank Maiwald, Amy Eskridge, David Wilcock, Carl Grillmair, Nuno Loureiro, Matthew James Sullivan, Monica Jacinto Reza, William Neil McCasland, Anthony Chavez, Steven Garcia, Jason Thomas, and Melissa Casias.</p><p>So what is going on here? Are these <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/missing-dead-scientists-congressman-raises-concerns-about-two-more-names-11854911">deaths and disappearances</a> just a tragic coincidence? Is a foreign power targeting US scientists the way Israel targets Iranian nuclear scientists? Could elements of the CIA or a rogue private contractor be silencing their own people? Or is something even stranger at play?</p><p>The first thing to note is that 10-11 of these cases have prompted a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/congressional-investigation-targets-string-u-230843108.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFAg2Tq2_7AFLj11jpQ-B631uODFKEtQ3dXOgo-JSUISBrcWK_31HGzXajH6432Mfx0pWEIfdD_-uGSL32VzeQ0uotaE7s6LORN5IYjuABLGesKV597CwSy5vppPKamk0hyXDYpjPkYshy1ruHKY6Sb-8E_Ur8uEKmHfkJ1-dTUq">congressional inquiry</a> from the House Oversight Committee because they were tied to sensitive aerospace, nuclear, and space research programs. We are told there is an <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fbi-probes-cases-of-missing-or-dead-scientists-including-four-from-the-la-area/ar-AA21qtkl?ocid=BingNewsSerp">FBI investigation</a> into the <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38889921/fbi-confirms-probe-missing-dead-space-scientists/">matter</a>, but whether that is a credible investigation, or an Epstein-style cover up remains unclear.</p><p>Officially, the FBI is calling this a &#8220;national security issue&#8221; and President Trump has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/11th-scientist-death-emerges-string-missing-dead-officials-access-us-secrets?msockid=3952fb8f8e156eee0c78eddf8f2c6ffa">demanded answers</a> so it doesn&#8217;t sound like they&#8217;re playing it down. All I know is that members of congress seem concerned about what they have been told and they are not mincing their words.</p><p>Rep Anna Paulina Luna <a href="https://x.com/realannapaulina/status/2046759212491944088">posted</a> on Twitter, following UFO researcher David Wilcock&#8217;s death: &#8220;If you are feeling uneasy about the amount of scientists that have gone missing, died, and recent suicides ref those scientists and others you are correct in your intuition. Something is up.&#8221;</p><p>Rep Eric Burlison demanded a full FBI probe and warned: &#8220;I would not be surprised if our adversaries, China, Russia, Iran&#8230; saw an opportunity to take out some of our nation&#8217;s top scientists.&#8221; He noted these researchers are &#8220;not hardened. They don&#8217;t have a security detail&#8230; so they would be a very easy target.&#8221;</p><p>House Oversight Chairman James Comer has said the pattern &#8220;doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test&#8221; and that the odds they are unrelated are &#8220;very slim.&#8221;</p><p>One of the most alarming threads involves NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories. JPL develops spacecraft, instruments, and planetary defence technologies which, as you can imagine, is driving UFO enthusiasts nuts!</p><p>Let&#8217;s just look at what we know about the missing JPL scientists:</p><p><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/the-nasa-scientist-whose-death-went-under-the-radar-meet-michael-david-hicks-who-played-a-key-role-in-studying-near-earth-asteroids-and-comets/articleshow/130116590.cms">Michael David Hicks</a> was a planetary physicist who worked at JPL for 25 years and published over 80 scientific papers. He worked on NASA missions, including Deep Space 1 and the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. His job was basically to protect the earth from asteroids! He died two years ago and the cause of death was never disclosed, but his family does not suspect foul play.</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/obituaries-shed-light-on-wave-of-dead-missing-scientists-as-white-house-probes-11841019">Frank Maiwald</a> was a principal researcher and senior radio frequency engineer who served at JPL for more than 25 years. He managed development of advanced instruments and contributed to the development of Earth-observing satellites, and other space projects. Maiwald died last year, and as with Hicks, no cause of death was disclosed.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Jacinto">Monica Jacinto Reza</a> is a metallurgist and aerospace materials engineer. She worked as a Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne where she co-invented &#8220;Mondaloy,&#8221; a nickel-based superalloy used in rocket engines. She has professional ties to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base projects which, some will tell you, is where the aliens are kept! </p><p>Reza was working as Director of the Materials Processing Group at JPL when she went missing while hiking in Angeles National Forest. What is weird is she was walking with friends and trailing behind, smiling and waving. They looked away and when they looked back, she was gone. No trace has ever been found, apart from a beanie in a ravine.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_McCasland">Maj Gen William Neil McCasland</a> is a colleague of Monica Reza who commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson. He has a BS in Astronautical Engineering, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. He oversaw multi-billion dollar classified aerospace programs, including Mondaloy-related projects. </p><p>Interestingly, McCasland had brief involvement with To the Stars Academy&#8212;a UFO group headed by Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 fame. Investigative journalists have noted McCasland&#8217;s role in earlier military UFO investigations. They have also linked him to work at Los Alamos where two other scientists&#8212;Anthony Chavez and Melissa Casias&#8212;have gone missing. In the case of Casias, her devices were reportedly wiped.</p><p>McCasland went missing in the outdoors and his story is suspicious to say the least. He was an experienced hiker who left home without his phone or prescription glasses, but took his hiking boots, wallet, and a 38-caliber revolver (another scientist called Steven Garcia went missing in similar circumstances). </p><p>McCasland has not been seen since, and at the time of his disappearance, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1rzp68g/james_fox_on_missing_major_general_mccasland_i/?solution=edf776632bfe0eadedf776632bfe0ead&amp;js_challenge=1&amp;token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861442f5422d7d37dc2ee045038bfa7292a&amp;jsc_orig_r=">members of congress</a> were actively <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1rzp68g/james_fox_on_missing_major_general_mccasland_i/?solution=edf776632bfe0eadedf776632bfe0ead&amp;js_challenge=1&amp;token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861442f5422d7d37dc2ee045038bfa7292a&amp;jsc_orig_r=">reaching out to him</a>. I understand many were eager to know what he knew and this made them immediately suspicious of his disappearance.</p><p>McCasland&#8217;s ties to Wright-Patterson make me suspect he knew something about alternative energy, but obviously I cannot prove this. One thing I can prove is that another scientist was vocal about her research in this field.</p><p><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amy-eskridge-update-ufo-scientists-old-texts-cast-doubt-on-cause-of-death-would-never-kill-myself-101776897906208.html">Amy Eskridge</a> was a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/who-is-amy-eskridge-scientist-death-queried-us-expert-mysteries-11843659">34-year-old scientist</a> who died three years ago from a gunshot wound that was officially ruled a suicide. Her father Richard is a retired NASA engineer who worked at Marshall Space Flight Center. I&#8217;ve seen some dismiss Amy as a crank, but she collaborated with her father&#8212;a plasma physics and fusion specialist&#8212;on experimental propulsion concepts. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085345294">Richard Eskridge</a> has authored 49 publications and numerous NASA Technical Reports.</p><p>Amy and Richard <a href="https://www.hal5.org/PDF/HAL5-Dec2018-Talk-AntiGravity.pdf">co-founded</a> the <a href="https://x.com/nic_moneypenny/status/2009881247569395715">Institute for Exotic Science</a> that focused on quantum gravity, metamaterials, and propulsion systems. Amy said she set up the Institute &#8220;as a public-facing persona to disclose antigravity technology,&#8221; stating that going public was a form of protection: &#8220;If you stick your neck out in public, at least someone notices if your head gets chopped off.&#8221;</p><p>One of the Institute&#8217;s employees was Government Affairs Director Sam Reid, suggesting it was possibly seeking official approval, funding, or declassification. Eskridge needed NASA sign-off for some of her presentations so I think it&#8217;s safe to dismiss the &#8220;crank&#8221; theory.</p><p>Eskridge publicly discussed her work in presentations and videos, and in one presentation, her father <a href="https://www.hal5.org/PDF/HAL5-Dec2018-Talk-AntiGravity.pdf">hinted</a> that the <a href="https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/tr-3b-black-manta-secret-us-aircraft-anti-gravity/">TR-3B</a> (a rumoured triangular aircraft) could have come from secret gravity-modification research.</p><p>Amy collaborated with figures like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning_Li_(physicist)">Dr Ning Li</a>&#8212;a deceased physicist whose anti-gravity research ended after a 2014 hit-and-run left her with brain damage. Dr Li&#8217;s research, involving rotating superconductors, grabbed media attention in the 90s, but she &#8220;went dark&#8221; in the 2000s and died in 2021.</p><p>Amy <a href="https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2045317011316654107">recorded videos</a> expressing fears that she and others were going to be killed and insisted she was not suicidal. She seemed highly stressed in a 2020 interview, stating: &#8220;I need to disclose soon, man. I need to publish soon because it&#8217;s escalating. It&#8217;s getting more and more aggressive&#8230; This has been going on for four or five years, and over the past 12 months, it&#8217;s been escalating.&#8221;</p><p>Retired UK intelligence officer Franc Milburn says Amy was preparing to expose the intimidation and planned to release her findings. He says he spoke with Amy hours before her &#8220;suicide&#8221; and nothing seemed unusual. Journalist Michael Shellenberger <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Written-Testimony-Shellenberger.pdf">highlighted</a> this to congress in 2024, alleging Amy was targeted for her UFO-related work.</p><p>Even if you are sceptical about the UFO links (and you should be), these individuals worked in areas with significant national security implications. We have no autopsies for some deaths, and in some cases, no dead body.</p><p>Politicians such as Rep Eric Burlison have suggested China could be behind the deaths and disappearances. I understand that at least nine <a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/unexplained-deaths-elite-scientists-us-china-fbi-investigation-1793418">Chinese scientists</a> have <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/nine-scientists-mysteriously-died-china-5HjdYFs_2/">gone missing or mysteriously died</a> in recent years. They were working in sensitive defence-related fields, such as military AI, hypersonics, space technology, microelectronics, and nuclear power. </p><p>The cases include military AI expert Feng Yanghe who died in an unexplained car crash, space expert Zhang Xiaoxin who also died in a car crash, drone specialist Zhang Daibing and hypersonics researchers Fang Daining and Yan Hong, who died from sudden medical episodes. The deaths have been described in Chinese media as &#8220;mysterious,&#8221; often with minimal official details released.</p><p>Media outlets like <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-scientists-have-been-dying-mysterious-deaths-too-11861806">Newsweek</a> are drawing parallels to the US deaths, asking whether a &#8220;<a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-deaths-scientists-us-china-silent-war-1793428">silent scientist war</a>&#8221; is underway. Another theory is that the same shady operators are behind the deaths in both countries. Both theories seem plausible, but I think it&#8217;s more likely the US deaths are the work of a rogue private contractor.</p><p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look at Amy Eskridge: one month <a href="https://www.bollywoodshaadis.com/articles/amy-eskridge-old-texts-question-her-and-david-wilcock-cause-of-death-78111">before her death</a>, she <a href="https://x.com/YourAnonOne/status/2046995944877490274">texted</a> a friend: &#8220;If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not.&#8221; She <a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/resurfaced-video-amy-eskridge-death-questions-1793252">said</a> any suggestion that she had overdosed or harmed others should be treated with suspicion. </p><p>In interviews and videos, Eskridge described death threats, surveillance, stalking, and phone hacking. She even discussed attacks with &#8220;energy weapons&#8221; that left visible burns and symptoms resembling Havana Syndrome (a brain condition which has been attributed to microwave weapons). She claimed this stemmed from private aerospace contractors opposed to her disclosures. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UV9P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01f60585-66ea-445a-b788-90c4eb92b762_680x474.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UV9P!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01f60585-66ea-445a-b788-90c4eb92b762_680x474.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UV9P!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01f60585-66ea-445a-b788-90c4eb92b762_680x474.jpeg 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Amy Eskridge reveals her hands which she claims were burnt by an energy weapon</figcaption></figure></div><p>Here is another death which was apparently suicide, but perhaps there was more at play. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilcock">David Wilcock</a>, the prominent UFO researcher shot himself in the head after a stand off with police. Like Maj Gen William Neil McCasland, Wilcock was linked to UFO group To The Stars Academy. Incidentally, Wilcock&#8217;s biographer <a href="https://x.com/TobyTurner/status/2047023101733716000">died just a few days before him</a> and he found out while on a live stream.</p><p>Wilcock was interested in advanced propulsion technologies and had <a href="https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2046995683920543869">publicly warned</a> just days ago about the growing list of missing and dead scientists, calling it &#8220;a little bit scary&#8221; and expressing relief that he was &#8220;still alive.&#8221; Could he have been told something sensitive by a whistle-blower that made him a target? </p><p>In a Twitter <a href="https://x.com/david_wilcock/status/1601966367498018823">post</a>, Wilcock stated: &#8220;I plan on LIVING. Not suicidal at all. Just concerned about what happens when you prove God is real.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what to make of that, but when someone tells you they&#8217;re not suicidal, expresses concerns about others dying, and then takes their own life, that makes me suspicious!</p><p>If you think we&#8217;re done here, we&#8217;re not even close. </p><p>Let&#8217;s take a look at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Grillmair">Carl Grillmair</a>. He was a world-renowned astrophysicist at Caltech&#8217;s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, which works closely with NASA JPL on missions including the NEO Surveyor for near-Earth object detection. Grillmair researched galactic structure, dark matter, and planetary systems.</p><p>In February, Grillmair was shot in the torso while on the front porch of his rural home in Llano, a desert community in LA County&#8217;s Antelope Valley. This first appeared to be a random murder from a local nut job, but the evidence suggests possible targeting.</p><p>Court documents revealed the suspect had trespassed on Grillmair&#8217;s remote property approximately two months earlier. When confronted, he claimed to be coyote hunting and the matter was reported to police. Online researchers and even congressional staff have pointed to the isolation of the home and the prior trespass to suggest there is more at play.</p><p>One killing that looked like an execution was that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Loureiro">Nuno Loureiro</a>&#8212;a theoretical physicist, professor in MIT&#8217;s departments of Nuclear Science &amp; Engineering and Physics, and director of MIT&#8217;s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. </p><p>Loureiro&#8217;s work earned international acclaim, including the Presidential Early Career Award, and helped guide major fusion experiments in the US and Europe. Now you understand why my leading theory is that this mystery revolves around alternative energy.</p><p>In December last year, Loureiro was gunned down in the foyer of his apartment building. He was killed by a former colleague who also killed two of his students and injured nine in a separate shooting, but no motive has been established.</p><p>It is impossible for me to say that all of these deaths are linked. Perhaps some are linked and others are coincidences. Perhaps none are linked, but I&#8217;m sure you can understand why the story is being taken seriously. There is clearly enough to warrant that FBI investigation that will officially lead nowhere&#8230;</p><p>While some deaths appear to be suicide, there could be more than meets the eye. People linked to alternative energy have been dying in mysterious circumstances and apparent suicides going back decades. Among them are Stefan Marinov and Stanley Meyer. Other researchers have described harassment and intimidation, such as John Searl, David Ladair, Paul Hill, and John Hutchinson.</p><p>If a new energy source could finish the fossil fuel industry, that would be a powerful motive to kill these people. One alarming possibility is that we are dealing with incredibly dangerous technology. Imagine harnessing more power than a nuke or travelling at extreme speeds&#8212;the potential for weaponisation could be huge. Perhaps keeping such technology under wraps is considered an existential issue.</p><p>Some have suggested the scientists were part of a loosely connected network, and while it sounds plausible, there is no suggestion they worked on a single breakthrough project. It could have been that they were coincidentally looking into related things that alarmed powerful people. Rep Burlison has highlighted that many worked on &#8220;cutting-edge nuclear, hypersonic missile, plasma, and UAP-related projects.&#8221; </p><p>One interesting point is that Frank Maiwald, Michael Hicks, Monica Reza, and Carl Grillmair were all located in Pasadena, just outside Los Angeles. Melissa Casias, Anthony Chavez, Steven Garcia, and William McCasland were all located in New Mexico.</p><p>Reps Comer and Burlison, along with the House Oversight Committee, are investigating potential connections to sensitive programs. The White House says it is reviewing &#8220;all of the cases together&#8221;, but I doubt we will ever be told the truth. What do you think is going on?</p><p>NOTE: <em>Since publishing this article two hours ago, <a href="https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2047574667649487034">another story</a> has come to light that I want to briefly cover. A NASA nuclear engineer called Joshua LeBlanc has been found dead so that's now 14 and rising.</em></p><p><em>LeBlanc didn&#8217;t turn up at his job and was reported missing by his family after his last contact with them on Tuesday. His Tesla Model 3 was tracked stopping for four hours at Huntsville International Airport, 12 minutes from his apartment. The car then drove west along backroads and crashed in Florence, Alabama. </em></p><p><em>LeBlanc&#8217;s body was found inside the vehicle, burned beyond recognition, however, his phone and other belongings were left in his apartment (a familiar story). His family says the route didn&#8217;t match anything he had planned and believe he might have been abducted.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><em>Thank you for reading. All of my content will always be freely available, but if you wish to support my work, you can do so at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/cemedia">Ko-fi</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cemedia">Patreon</a>. 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upheld the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s use of the system.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/live-facial-recognition-is-about</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/live-facial-recognition-is-about</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:47:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/37b38587-145a-460e-9b90-dd0f4ea19476_1200x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The UK government has announced <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/live-facial-recognition-technology-to-catch-high-harm-offenders">plans</a> to extend <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo">Live Facial Recognition</a> (LFR) across the country, following a High Court ruling that upheld the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s use of the system. </p><p>Chillingly, Policing Minister Sarah Jones welcomed the judgment, saying: &#8220;Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear.&#8221; Worse, she called anyone who opposes the technology &#8220;uncivil&#8221; and implied they are on the side of murderers and rapists. Apparently, it&#8217;s wrong to want privacy.</p><p>The High Court insisted there are adequate safeguards in place, but you can&#8217;t safeguard against the risks of function creep. The government plans to ramp up the number of surveillance vans in our cities, making LFR available to every police force in England and Wales. </p><p>Police officers are dragging people off the street and <a href="https://x.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/2045457320998806006">demanding their details</a> if they refuse to have their face scanned. Only a small number of actual criminals are being caught, with one trial resulting in <a href="https://x.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/2043729370049646902">zero arrests</a>, yet mass surveillance is being sold as the &#8220;biggest breakthrough since DNA&#8221; for catching violent offenders. Their solution to crime is to make your face become your ID card.</p><p>If we truly have nothing to fear, let&#8217;s put cameras in our homes, in our bathrooms even. Let&#8217;s give police remote access to our webcams. After all, we have nothing to fear, so who needs privacy, right? I mean it&#8217;s not like George Orwell warned us about this crap.</p><p>Who needs surveillance vans when we can give every police officer a pair of Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s creepy AI glasses that secretly record bikini-clad girls at the beach? Officers could pull information about hot chicks, I mean <em>suspects</em> in real time. If you&#8217;ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear from perverts with augmented-reality tech. I&#8217;m sure Wayne Couzens would have been a much more effective officer with AI glasses.</p><p>Met Police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said: "The question is no longer whether we should use live facial recognition, it's why we would choose not to." Well, there are quite a few reasons, actually, and I don&#8217;t remember being given a choice&#8230;</p><p>Youth worker Shaun Thompson was stopped and detained in 2024 after LFR wrongly matched him to his brother, and police initially refused to accept his ID. He described his experience as &#8220;stop and search on steroids&#8221;. As someone who has been stopped and searched many times, I do not want this to become the norm. It&#8217;s harassment.</p><p>Thompson brought a judicial review along with Silkie Carlo, director of the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch. The pair warned of arbitrary or discriminatory use, the potential for a chilling effect on protests, and the risk of cameras making everyday movement impossible without biometric scanning.</p><p>We are almost at that &#8220;impossible&#8221; stage. Already, we have to scan our faces or show ID to use many websites. How long until we must scan our faces to enter a public building, board a train, or attend a rally? How long until everyone who rejects this system is cut off from society? How long until there is nowhere to hide and dissent is impossible?</p><p>The US is <a href="https://x.com/LegendaryEnergy/status/2046232905165181015">banning people</a> from attending events like the World Cup if they have posted things on social media it disapproves of (such as criticism of Israel). Many countries are doing similar things.</p><p>History shows us that whenever a government introduces some kind of monitoring tool, &#8220;function creep&#8221; comes into effect. I remember during the Blair years when councils were using anti-terror legislation to monitor how people were <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-1082225/March-dustbin-Stasi-Half-councils-use-anti-terror-laws-watch-people-putting-rubbish-wrong-day.html">using their bins</a>. The point is that once a system is in place, authorities will come up with new ways to exploit it&#8212;ways we might not have thought of.</p><p>Consider how the government is <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-clamp-down-on-disruptive-protesters-come-into-force">banning repeated protests</a> to prevent &#8220;disruption&#8221; under the Public Order Act 2023. With LFR technology, they could limit the number of protests you attend. Protest too often and sorry, I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;re being disruptive. You&#8217;re under arrest.</p><p>Consider how Palestine Action protesters are treated as terrorists. It&#8217;s easy to foresee a situation where everyone at those protests has their face scanned and placed on a watchlist. Twenty years later that information is shared with an employer running background checks and their career is over because they are linked to &#8220;terrorism&#8221;.</p><p>Consider how police have contracts for pre-crime technology with Palantir, the evil AI company that intends to build a global panopticon, reintroduce a military draft, and use &#8220;hard power&#8221; backed by AI weapons to dominate the world. It&#8217;s all in their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps">recently published</a> &#8220;Technological Republic&#8221; manifesto, which has been compared to the ramblings of a supervillain and described as a blueprint for unchecked surveillance.</p><p>Palantir is behind many of the LFR initiatives in the UK, and MPs from multiple parties are now demanding reviews of the company&#8217;s government contracts.</p><p>Palantir has access to our <a href="https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/nhs-users-report-that-it-is-awful-to-use-palantir-could-be-forced-to-exit-nhs-after-pushback-from-staff-mps-unions-and-pressure-groups-over-federated-data-platform">NHS records</a> via the Federated Data Platform, works with the Ministry of Defence on <a href="https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/01/29/defence-and-security/mod-signs-240m-palantir-deal-as-ministers-insist-uk-defence-data-remains-sovereign/">live operational analytics</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/24/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations">helps police</a> forecast <a href="https://goodlawproject.org/uk-police-forces-dodge-questions-on-palantir/">potential criminal activity.</a> An <a href="https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-police-working-with-controversial-tech-giant-palantir-on-real-time-surveillance-network/">investigation</a> from Liberty revealed the company merges criminal records with health data, financial info, political beliefs, race, sexual orientation, and even union membership. Still think this isn&#8217;t political?</p><p>Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has expressed her own desire for a panopticon to none other than Tony Blair, one of the biggest cheerleaders for digital ID. In an interview, she <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/britains-home-secretary-wants-ai-so-the-eyes-of-the-state-can-be-on-you-at-all-times/ar-AA1V1VB0">said</a> her vision was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his panopticon: &#8220;the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.&#8221; It&#8217;s not hard to see where this is heading.</p><p>A government <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/legal-framework-for-using-facial-recognition-in-law-enforcement">consultation</a> asked whether <a href="https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/facial-recognition-consultation-have-your-say/">LFR</a> should be used to monitor &#8220;disruptive&#8221; protests in advance, meaning police would scan crowds near the protest site, as well as routes to the event, and known meeting points. LFR would check faces against police watchlists for potential disruptors and repeat protesters. Combine this with the new <a href="https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/the-real-impact-of-banning-face-coverings-at-protests/">face-covering ban</a> and it would have a clear chilling effect on assembly and expression.</p><p>The government consultation quietly admits police could access passport, driving licence, and future digital ID photos for LFR. Now add Palantir AI tools into the mix and you have a recipe for dystopia. It doesn&#8217;t matter what safeguards are in place because those safeguards can be removed at any point.</p><p>Everywhere you go, your face can be scanned without your knowledge or consent. If AI misidentifies you, you can be whisked away by police while you are quietly going about your daily business. Perhaps you are on your way to work or you&#8217;re having a nice family day out: suddenly you are a suspect and you are expected to prove your innocence. You have to demonstrate that you are not who the AI thinks you are, otherwise you are going to court.</p><p>Stores up and down the UK are using the <a href="https://www.facewatch.co.uk/">FaceWatch</a> live AI recognition system. Shoppers at places like Budgens, Sports Direct, Costcutter, Sainsbury&#8217;s, B&amp;M, and Home Bargains are being scanned without their knowledge and sometimes misidentified by AI.</p><p>Just yesterday, a <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38887870/roofer-59-arrested-cameras-wrongly-identified/">story</a> broke of a man who was held in custody for 24 hours and taken to court after being wrongly accused of stealing from IKEA when he was actually hosting an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting 11 miles away! One shopper found themselves on a watchlist over a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london">39p paracetamol dispute</a>. Some analyses put FaceWatch <a href="https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/the-spectator-has-your-local-shop-blacklisted-you/">false positive rates</a> at one in 40. Now the police are using a similar system to FaceWatch. What could possibly go wrong?</p><p>Imagine you are forced to have digital ID with a biometric passport photo, linked to a GOV.UK Wallet on your phone. It gets pitched as convenience, but you are forced to use it for public services, banking, purchases, and other daily tasks, leaving a digital footprint wherever you go. If that app has access to your location data, suddenly your every movement is monitored.</p><p>The most effective way to stop dissent is to monitor people and cut them off when they step out of line. We are rapidly entering a world where that is possible. If you read the 22-point Palantir manifesto and thought it represents a future we must avoid at all costs, you need to start resisting right fucking now. </p><div><hr></div><p><em>Thank you for reading. All of my content will always be freely available, but if you wish to support my work, you can do so at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/cemedia">Ko-fi</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cemedia">Patreon</a>. 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door.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/will-olly-robbins-testimony-over</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/will-olly-robbins-testimony-over</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:29:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/72c49649-6086-4fc1-9b8e-876ec5a0db46_1200x800.avif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After Keir Starmer&#8217;s woeful performance in parliament yesterday, it seemed that the prime minister was just one explosive revelation away from the exit door. Perhaps the evidence <a href="https://x.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/2046511859663028617/video/1">presented</a> by former head of the FCDO, <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/five-explosive-claims-olly-robbins-pressure-keir-starmer-4369041">Olly Robbins</a>, might be enough to push him out. We can but hope&#8230;</p><p>It will come as no shock that Starmer has not been forthcoming with the truth regarding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US. Robbins&#8217; <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce35qnexlv8t">testimony</a> before the Foreign Affairs Committee exposed that facts around procedure and protocol have been distorted to minimise damage and pass the buck. Robbins did not phrase it like that, of course, he was measured and polite, despite the fact Starmer <a href="https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/senior-civil-servants-back-olly-robbins-after-totally-unfair-sacking-by-keir-starmer">sacked him</a>, but the implications were clear.</p><p>Starmer&#8217;s line has been that the FCDO overruled advice to deny Developed Vetting to Mandelson&#8212;and the prime minister was kept in the dark. The reality is that when Robbins took the job in January 2025, he was walking into a pre-announced appointment. No. 10 had already committed to giving Mandelson the ambassadorial role, the King&#8217;s approval had been granted, and US agreement had been secured. In other words, the appointment was a done deal <em>before </em>the vetting process had taken place and against official advice to wait until after clearance had been granted.</p><p>The prime minister is now feigning indignation and insisting he would never have appointed Mandelson if he had known about the red flags, but Robbins painted a rather different picture. He described &#8220;constant pressure&#8221; and &#8220;non-stop chasing&#8221; from the prime minister&#8217;s office and a &#8220;dismissive approach&#8221; to vetting. He explained the focus was never on whether clearance <em>should </em>be granted to Mandelson, only <em>when</em>. &#8220;There was already a very, very strong expectation... the focus was on getting Mandelson out to Washington quickly.&#8221;</p><p>Robbins explained that the Cabinet Office <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/apr/21/olly-robbins-peter-mandelson-vetting-keir-starmer-uk-politics-latest-news-updates">suggested</a> Mandelson might not need full clearance at all, and that his predecessor, Philip Barton, had to be &#8220;very firm&#8221; to ensure the process proceeded. Starmer has told us every step of the way that the correct process was followed, but clearly he had zero interest in that process.</p><p>Robbins admitted that the vetting revealed high concerns, but that he had not seen the report where those concerns were highlighted. Instead, he received a briefing in which he was told those concerns could be mitigated. It seems likely that he buckled to pressure, but obviously he can&#8217;t admit to that. Absurdly, Robbins claimed he could not notify the prime minister of the vetting issues due to confidentiality.</p><p>To recap: we have a prime minister determined to push through the best friend of Jeffrey Epstein as ambassador to the US, who announced the appointment and sought Royal and American approval before vetting had been done (and before Robbins had taken the job), and who then could not be told of major concerns around his guy who was given clearance anyway. The story is a convoluted mess and is about the fifth or sixth version of events I&#8217;ve seen in the past few days.</p><p>Just look at the contradictions: Starmer says he was deliberately kept in the dark, but Robbins suggests that was normal. Starmer says clearance was denied and secretly overruled, but Robbins says he was told that concerns could be mitigated. Starmer says there was no political pressure, but Robbins says the pressure was constant. Starmer says correct process was followed, but Robbins says the appointment was already a done deal.</p><p>We know that the so-called &#8220;mitigations&#8221; around security concerns involved Mandelson not being left alone with key officials, suggesting he could not be trusted. We also know that <em>prior </em>to the vetting process, Mandelson was allowed into the FCDO building and trusted with low-classification IT access and even higher-classification briefings. We also know that Mandelson is now being investigated by the police for his links to Epstein. Shitshow isn&#8217;t the word&#8230;</p><p>If you thought these Mandelson revelations were bad enough, Robbins had even <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/starmer-mandelson-robbins-scandal-live-37045715">more to share</a>: the prime minister asked him to find an ambassadorial role for Matthew Doyle, his former communications chief. Damningly, it was revealed that Starmer asked Robbins not to tell the foreign secretary, presumably because he would have disapproved. </p><p>It just so happens that Doyle was given a peerage by the prime minister and is now a legislator for life, even though he lost the Labour whip, due to his association with Sean Morton, a former Scottish Labour councillor who was convicted of possessing indecent images of children. You couldn&#8217;t make it up!</p><p>Everyone seems to be overlooking the most damning point of all, one that exposes Starmer&#8217;s hypocrisy and lays bare his lack of interest in process: The prime minister, who is attacking the Foreign Office for failing to follow the correct process, was deliberately not following the correct process with Doyle. </p><p>That, as much as anything else, should be a resignation offence, but Starmer will cling on for as long as he can. I seriously doubt he is even allowed to walk away without permission. If it wasn&#8217;t abundantly clear to you before, it should be now: the Epstein class is calling the shots and they want their people in as many positions of power as possible.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Thank you for reading. All of my content will always be freely available, but if you wish to support my work, you can do so at <a href="https://ko-fi.com/cemedia">Ko-fi</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cemedia">Patreon</a>. 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many problems?]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/mandelson-was-not-made-ambassador</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/mandelson-was-not-made-ambassador</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:52:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6ab3a3c4-641b-446e-b6dd-d4750e8d5cc2_2048x1152.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who could have known that when Starmer put the Prince of Darkness in the UK&#8217;s most senior diplomatic role, it would end up causing so many problems? The answer is absolutely everyone, including Starmer himself.</p><p>Starmer has the look of a man who is not in control, who is tormented by every excruciating decision he makes, who knows he looks like a fool. It&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The absurdity surrounding the UK&#8217;s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/country-that-lectures-iran-on-democracy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/country-that-lectures-iran-on-democracy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:47:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/077eb5b3-44c1-4f12-9f48-c7bda3842f4b_768x432.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The absurdity surrounding the UK&#8217;s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows. On Saturday, 523 protesters were arrested in Trafalgar Square, simply for calling to &#8220;Lift the Ban&#8221; on the group. This is the same ban the High Court ruled unlawful back in February, calling it a disproportionate attack on free speech and assembly.</p><p>T&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA["Power Plant and Bridge Day" became the most humiliating military climb down in US history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday brought a new meaning to the term &#8220;doom scrolling&#8221; as we anxiously waited for Trump to fulfil his threat to end a 6,000 year old civilisation (and possibly the world).]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/power-plant-and-bridge-day-became</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/power-plant-and-bridge-day-became</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:35:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/add55fb7-4a38-44ea-9d58-818106cf7f81_1919x1075.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday brought a new meaning to the term &#8220;doom scrolling&#8221; as we anxiously waited for Trump to fulfil his threat to end a 6,000 year old civilisation (and possibly the world). Thankfully, the ceasefire we thought would never come was announced just before the deadline and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief.</p><p>We had witnessed a terrifying esc&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looks like the rescue mission in Iran was cover for an operation to seize uranium that ultimately failed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is hailing its latest Iran disaster as a roaring success, but the official story has more holes than a low-budget Hollywood movie, suggesting there is more going on than meets the eye.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/looks-like-the-rescue-mission-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/looks-like-the-rescue-mission-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:10:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/efea19ec-4764-493b-bed3-8249f39f4841_1684x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration is hailing its latest Iran disaster as a roaring success, but the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr41evk126go">official story</a> has more holes than a low-budget Hollywood movie, suggesting there is more going on than meets the eye.</p><p>We are <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/05/politics/american-airman-rescue-mission-trump-iran">told</a> that a few days ago, an F-15 was shot down over southwest Iran. The F-15E was hit by Iranian air defences (that we were told had been &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran pulling off regime change in the US as fighter jets fall from sky and generals revolt]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been a rough week for American airpower in the skies over Iran.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/iran-pulling-off-regime-change-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/iran-pulling-off-regime-change-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:10:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/56d7af61-609c-44e6-b261-dec6214e3c3c_675x429.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been a rough week for American airpower with the loss of F-15 and A-10 aircrafts, as well as damage to an F-16 and two Black Hawk helicopters (let me know if I missed anything).</p><p>On Friday, the Iranians <a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/iran-f-15e-downed-search-rescue/">shot down</a> another <a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/us-f-15e-fighter-jet-downed-by-iran-rescue-operations-underway/">F-15E Strike Eagle</a> with air defences that Pete Hegseth had insisted were completely destroyed. The gleeful Iranians broadcast <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/03/world/live-news/iran-war-us-trump-oil?post-id=cmnilz7yh00003b6tdz1rb67k">ima&#8230;</a></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump intends to "liberate" Iran by bombing it "back to the stone age"?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past week or so, it&#8217;s felt like we&#8217;re stuck in an airport lounge while the Trump-ocalypse unfolds, or more accurately, in a spaceport, hoping to escape the madness of the world.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/trump-intends-to-liberate-iran-by</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/trump-intends-to-liberate-iran-by</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:56:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f9127cae-7660-4b28-b4b1-3c0df920acf2_1858x930.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the past week or so, it&#8217;s felt like we&#8217;re stuck in an airport lounge while the Trump-ocalypse unfolds, or more accurately, in a spaceport, hoping to escape the madness of the world. Planet Earth, it seems, is a write-off.</p><p>The US troop buildup in the Middle East meant a ground invasion of Iran seemed imminent and anything I started writing would becom&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears Mossad has activated "Iranian sleeper cells" to pull Europe into war]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just as things start getting desperate for Israel, we are led to believe that Iran has done the one thing that might give Israel a chance of winning this war: launch attacks on Europe.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/it-appears-mossad-has-activated-iranian</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/it-appears-mossad-has-activated-iranian</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:03:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea4f1fec-c233-46c7-bb11-8fdb25156c50_768x432.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just as things start getting desperate for Israel, we are led to believe that Iran has done the one thing that might give Israel a chance of winning this war: launch attacks on Europe.</p><p>Overnight, a <a href="https://icct.nl/publication/hybrid-threat-signals-assessing-possible-iranian-involvement-recent-attacks-europe">new terrorist organisation</a> has cropped up called <em><a href="https://www.bicom.org.uk/iran-and-their-proxies/#post-6671">Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya</a></em> (HAYI), which roughly translates to the &#8220;Islamic Movement of the People o&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one told the Iranians that the F-35 is invisible]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, Americans without healthcare have been able to reassure themselves that although they may be denied life-saving cancer treatment, at least their country had fighter jets and aircraft carriers that could reduce cities to rubble.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-one-told-the-iranians-that-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-one-told-the-iranians-that-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:46:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c7507dc-a85b-4513-a1d1-15e59f10ac80_1658x1034.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For years, Americans without healthcare have been assured that although they may be denied life-saving cancer treatment, at least their country had fighter jets and aircraft carriers that could reduce cities to rubble. While America has always been rubbish at saving lives, it was easily the best at taking them. This was a real source of American pride. &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead Israeli prime minister is about to end the world. That's where we are now.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our fate lies in the hands of an AI-generated version of Netanyahu.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/a-dead-israeli-prime-minister-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/a-dead-israeli-prime-minister-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:17:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78967c63-40da-4a55-8cd3-3a640a3cac83_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our fate lies in the hands of an AI-generated version of Netanyahu. The fact that statement is barely an exaggeration shows what crazy times we live in. The latest <a href="https://x.com/mehdizafar/status/2034547340149940237">video</a> of Netanyahu contained two <a href="https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2034306332560404630">ear canals</a> for fuck&#8217;s sake&#8212;and we&#8217;re supposed to act like this is normal!</p><p>I&#8217;ve no idea if Netanyahu is gone or if this is the weirdest psy-op in human history.&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel keeps murdering every Iranian official who is willing to negotiate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel might have just committed the single most self-defeating act of this disastrous war so far.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-keeps-murdering-every-iranian</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-keeps-murdering-every-iranian</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:57:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fac87443-90dd-472f-9f49-963ffe1938ee_1744x1013.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel might have just committed the single most self-defeating act of this disastrous war so far. Yesterday, it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2026/mar/17/key-iran-leader-killed-what-does-it-mean-for-war-the-latest">took out</a> Iran&#8217;s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/5788673-ali-larijani-killed-iran/">Ali Larijani</a>, by bombing a crowded apartment building near Tehran. The explosion destroyed an entire neighbourhood in the Pardis area, as shown in the below footage.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Epstein Axis is set to carry out the most blatant false flag in history]]></title><description><![CDATA[All the signs are that the Epstein axis is about to carry out a false flag to justify ground troops in Iran&#8212;or worse.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-most-telegraphed-false-flag-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-most-telegraphed-false-flag-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:44:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2d46783b-5977-4af3-b5e9-2730af858930_503x275.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All the <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2031895027467628688">signs are</a> that the Epstein Axis is about to <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2031943343580860896">carry out</a> a <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/2031903283455889478">false flag</a> to <a href="https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2031933960574337474">justify ground troops</a> in Iran&#8212;or worse. They know they cannot achieve their <a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-intelligence-assessment-trump-ad20c1f1168d4318af516d7b19d372e7">regime change goal</a> through air strikes alone and the public won&#8217;t support stronger action unless there is a powerful justification, such as a mass casualty event that they can blame on their enemy.</p><p>My h&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epstein Axis unleashes apocalyptic attack on Iran's oil in revenge for burning of Baal effigy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US and Israel unleashed apocalyptic fury on Iran yesterday in revenge for Iran burning another effigy of Baal in Tehran.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/epstein-axis-unleashes-apocalyptic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/epstein-axis-unleashes-apocalyptic</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:08:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4oB2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57872ed6-c737-43bb-94f7-0ae5cfdc9d76_532x347.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US and Israel unleashed apocalyptic fury on Iran yesterday in revenge for Iran burning another <a href="https://x.com/NoahsArk1000/status/2030421147427229985">effigy of Baal</a> in Tehran. Not sure if you&#8217;ve figured this out, but every time someone burns Baal, the Epstein axis gets weaker, and angrier. The Iranians keep burning those effigies and the Epstein islanders keep squealing in agony. Even the Mexicans have &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like the US used Claude AI to strike the girls' school in southern Iran, killing 168]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a couple of days since comedian Omid Djalili launched a bizarre attack on Zack Polanski, accusing the Green leader of spreading &#8220;misinformation&#8221; on Twitter.]]></description><link>https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/it-looks-like-the-us-used-claude</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/it-looks-like-the-us-used-claude</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Council Estate Media]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:11:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b7105a4d-f9ad-4495-9d51-3df9c7a75bec_550x300.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of days since comedian Omid Djalili launched a <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/2178866/green-partys-zack-polanski-slammed-israel">bizarre attack</a> on Zack Polanski, <a href="https://x.com/omid9/status/2029580139013562704">accusing</a> the Green leader of spreading &#8220;misinformation&#8221; on Twitter. Polanski had called out the Epstein axis over the bombing of a girls&#8217; school in Minab, southern Iran. His post clearly upset Djalili, who offered a bizarre conspiracy theory that the Irani&#8230;</p>
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