Key moments from 14 years of Conservative rule | The Labour Party won a parliamentary election that brought an end to 14 years of Conservative Party-led government that saw the country weather one of the more turbulent periods in its post-World War Two political history.

■ General election: Uneasy voters hand Labour a 'loveless landslide' shattering traditional voting patterns (Sky)
■ Starmer will become new PM as Labour landslide wipes out Tories (Telegraph)
■ Nigel Farage wins Clacton seat as Reform UK makes huge gains (The Independent)
■ UK election results live: Liz Truss loses seat to Labour (Telegraph)
■ Conservative Party suffers historic defeat, results of UK Parliament elections (TASS)
■ Keir Starmer: The man who would be prime minister (Oscar Rickett)

■ Labour's [Amanda] Hack wins the North West Leicestershire seat ahead of the Conservatives (Ashby Nub News) | It means Andrew Bridgen, the constituency's MP since 2010, lost his seat in what was technically a Labour gain from the Conservatives. Mr Bridgen won the seat as a Conservative but he was thrown out of the party for likening the Government's Covid vaccine policies to the Holocaust. He stood here as an independent candidate but was never likely to win the seat - polling just 1,568 votes this time around. In the 2019 election, Mr Bridgen won the seat with a majority of 20,400 ahead of Labour.

My election address to the people of North West Leicestershire and the nation. If you can share, please do. If you can vote, you must. Low turnouts benefit nobody but tyrants. Please share widely. Vote Bridgen on July 4th. pic.twitter.com/aCOnu8Jm5o

— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) June 27, 2024

■ UK election 2024: Millions head to the polls in high-stakes vote (MEE)
■ Keir Starmer: The man who would be prime minister (Oscar Rickett)

JOHN McEVOY | Israel is quietly financing assistants of British MPs, Declassified has found. | Israel has paid for at least a dozen UK parliamentary staff to visit the country on special delegations in the last five years. ■ A further 18 staffers have accepted funding or hospitality from pro-Israel lobby organisations in Britain such as Labour Friends of Israel and We Believe in Israel. Several worked for MPs in Keir Starmer’s front bench team, including shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson. ■ Our investigation found how the Israeli embassy in London, its ministry of foreign affairs and associated lobby groups seek to influence not only MPs but also their assistants. ■ Declassified previously revealed that one in four British MPs in the last parliament accepted funding from pro-Israel lobby groups or individuals.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit takes place in Astana from July 3-4 under the slogan "Strengthening Multilateral Dialogue - the Pursuit of Sustainable Peace and Development." | The SCO consists of India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Belarus and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan and Mongolia are observer states; Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bahrain, Egypt, Cambodia, Qatar, Kuwait, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Sri Lanka are dialogue partners. ● Following the summit in Kazakhstan, the chairmanship will be transferred to China for the term of 2024-2025.

■ Maintaining Security One of SCO's Main Tasks - Putin (Sputnik)

Israel’s continued war on the Gaza Strip is causing much escalation in the occupied West Bank, with Israeli losses mounting in both Palestinian regions. | On June 27, an Israeli soldier who served as a sniper squad commander in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit was killed and 16 other troops were wounded while conducting an operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. ● The troops were targeted by two large explosive devices, which were buried deep under a road. A Panther armored personnel carrier (APC) was also badly damaged in the well-planned attack, which was claimed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. ● On the same day, a soldier from the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion was killed in a Hamas sniper attack in the area of Rafah in southern Gaza. ● And on June 28, two other IDF soldiers, one from the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion and another from the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, were killed in separate attacks in Gaza City’s Shejaiya area in the northern part of the Strip. ● On July 1, another Israeli soldier from the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion was killed as a result of an attack in Rafah. ● Two other soldiers from the 8th Reserve Armored Brigade’s 121st Battalion were killed as a result of an attack in central Gaza on the same day.

■ 200+ rockets, swarm of drones: Hezbollah avenges cmdr. assassination (Al Mayadeen)
■ Two Israeli Soldiers Killed Fighting In Gaza, Another In Karmiel Stabbing Attack (18+ Videos) (South Front)
■ ‘Hamas has never been stronger’: Israel is stuck in a war it can’t win (RT.com)
■ Israel war on Gaza live: Hamas shares ceasefire plan, Israeli attacks surge (Al Jazeera)

Resolution in House of Representatives to Invoke 25th Amendment; Declare Biden "Unable to discharge duties of Office" | Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) filed a resolution (H.Res.1336) calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene the Cabinet and declare President Joe Biden as unable to carry out his duties as Commander-in-Chief. ● Representative Roy said, “I put forth a resolution calling upon the Vice President to immediately use her powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the Cabinet to declare the President of the United States is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office.” (PDF HERE)

■ Panicky White House Hits Post-Debate Damage Control Button As 80% of Voters Say Biden 'Too Old' (Sputnik)
■ Dozens of Democrat lawmakers want Biden out – Bloomberg (RT.com)
■ Trump caught on camera insulting Biden – media (RT.com)
■ The First Time Joe Dropped Out (Seymour Hersh)

NATO troop deployment near Belarus amid Russia-Ukraine conflict; India-Belarus hold first consular dialogue | Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, NATO has made a significant deployment of forces near Belarus. This move is likely to escalate tensions and expand the scope of the conflict. Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia, finds itself in a critical position due to its geographical proximity to Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. ● According to Pavel Muravienko, the Chief of the Belarusian Army and Deputy Defense Minister, ten battalion tactical groups of NATO, led by the United States, are currently stationed along the Belarusian border. These battalions comprise around 20,000 soldiers, with six of them being American. Belarus has vehemently opposed this deployment, expressing significant concerns over the presence of American troops near its territory.

■ Lukashenko: Thousands of volunteers are ready to join the army after the border situation deteriorated (BELTA)
■ Western talk of Ukraine peace just for show – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Ukraine Massing Troops Along Belarus Border (06/30/24)

Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett is the first Domino to fall; he has publicly called on Joe Biden to Withdraw from the Presidential Campaign.

💬 “I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw,” Doggett said in his statement. “President Biden should do the same.” “My decision to make these strong reservations public is not done lightly nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has achieved. Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so.”

Hal Turner Analysis | This is where it begins. I suspect this singular call for Biden to Withdraw, will rapidly become a Chorus. We've been waiting since debate night to see who was brave enough to say he has to step down first. Now that someone said it, others will follow. It's too late to replace him on the ballots. Only way they can do that is if he dies or MAYBE if they invoke the 25th Amendment, but that may not work in all states. If Biden steps down, he stays on the ballots but none of the votes he receives will be counted. The Dems screwed themselves.

The editorial board of the Columbia Law Review journal — made up of faculty and alumni from the university’s law school — shut down the review’s website on Monday after editors refused to halt publication of an academic article by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that was critical of Israel. | Al Jazeera reports that the student editors of the journal said they were pressured by the board to not publish the article which accused Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza and implementing an apartheid regime against Palestinians. The review’s website was taken down after the article was published on Monday morning and remained offline last night, reports AP news agency. A static homepage informed visitors the domain was “under maintenance”.

Lance D Johnson | UN declares war on FREE SPEECH to censor the TRUTH, subvert accountability, control populations | Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, (UN) just released the globalist’s latest game-plan for population control, surveillance and censorship. The game-plan, titled Global Principles for Information Integrity, seeks to put an end to “harmful misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech” online, all while “upholding human rights such as the freedom of speech.” ■ Guterres presented the game-plan with a sense of urgency, commanding governments, technology companies, the media and advertisers to take control and establish official narratives, while quashing opposition voices. The UN supports Big Tech’s algorithmic control over the information stream online and seeks to control online speech further. A global body of elites seek to delete what they believe is the disinformation, and they seek to discredit and demonetize the voices of dissent. All the censorship coming from global power systems is war on free speech, but it’s also a war on truth, so that these power systems cannot be held to account for their abuses.

How to achieve World Peace 🌍❤️🫂 pic.twitter.com/RnUMCujgVA

— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) December 28, 2023

■ NATO does everything to prepare for clash with Russia — senior diplomat (TASS)
■ Biden needs more bloodshed in Europe to stay in power — Russian diplomat (TASS)

Declan Hayes | Let’s hope Gerasimov gives Kallas, Rutte and Barcelona bellboy Borrell no opportunity for an encore. | I had not previously paid much attention to Rutte, as my eyes were fixated on a number of other useful NAFO idiots, chief amongst them being Estonian war monger Kaja Kallas, whom I have previously happily sneered at here, here and here, and who has recently replaced Fawlty Towers waiter Josep Borrell as Europe’s top diplomat. ■ Not only does Kallas hail from a pipsqueak country with no strategic relevance, except as an American cat’s paw to be used against Belarus and Russia, but Kallas has a personal bee in her pretty bonnet about her family doing jail time during the Stalin years.

Chris Hedges | The Gaza Health Ministry has so far recorded some 38,000 deaths and 85,000 injuries. This is a vast undercount. The Health Ministry only counts the names of deceased recorded by hospitals and morgues. | Given that Israel has bombed most hospitals, clinics and morgues into disuse and blocked medical supplies and fuel, given that there are tens of thousands of missing, most likely buried under the rubble, it is certain that the number of dead is in the tens of thousands, perhaps as high as 200,000. ■ The Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, Devi Sridhar, estimates half a million Palestinians in Gaza will die in 2024. (It’s not just bullets and bombs. I have never seen health organisations as worried as they are about disease in Gaza | Devi Sridhar). This is a far more realistic body count. As Israel continues its saturation bombing and shelling of Gaza, as Palestinians continue to succumb to the Israeli orchestrated famine as well as the spread of infectious diseases caused by a lack of clean water, food, sanitation and health facilities, the numbers of dead will skyrocket. ■ Hamas fighters, able to take refuge in the vast tunnel system in Gaza, have little interest in publicizing the huge numbers of civilians left above ground to die. The Israeli government is not anxious to make public the actual scale of the killing. But even the official undercount is too onerous for the mandarins in the two ruling parties, as the House recently passed a an amendment to the Department of State appropriations bill that “prohibits funds appropriated by this act to be made available for the State Department to cite statistics obtained from the Gaza Health Ministry.” ■ And so we blot out all numbers, as if the most heinous genocide in modern history, one that by the time it is over will take hundreds of thousands of lives, is not happening.

■ Day 239: Over 70 Bodies Found, including 20 Children, After Israeli Military Withdraws from Jabalia Camp (06/01/24)

A political row has broken out in Israel after about 50 Palestinian detainees from Gaza were released, including Muhammad Abu Salamiya, director of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. | Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right internal security minister described it as “security recklessness”. Haaretz reports that sources close to defense minister Yoav Gallant have said he was not aware that the release was planned, and that he was not involved. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that he had ordered an immediate inquiry, but noted that “the decision to release the prisoners follows High Court hearings,” and that releases were determined “independently by security officials.” [...] Upon his release, speaking from Nasser hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said:

💬 All the Palestinian detainees are suffering. I left them in a very dire condition. My message is that their issue must be part of any negotiations until all the Palestinian detainees are released. Al-Shifa Hospital will be rebuilt and it will be once again a beacon of healthcare for all the Palestinians, not only Gazans. I will resume my duties as soon as it is feasible. ● Israel arrests everyone, including medical teams. There are prisoners who died from torture, and there are physicians and medical staff members who are still being held and in need of treatment. We are happy about the release but we left behind thousands who are enduring indescribable suffering.

WEF : Klaus Schwab ‘We Must Force’ Humanity into ‘Collaboration’ pic.twitter.com/rarcBvBc2i

— Marcus Cottus (@cottusmarcus) June 26, 2024

Leo Hohman | World Economic Forum founder and director Klaus Schwab, speaking at the WEF’s recently concluded summer meeting in China, has informed his elitist followers that ushering in the globalist agenda will require humanity to be “forced” into a “collaboration” with the unelected organization. And the time for forced collaboration has now arrived. | Schwab made the declaration during his opening remarks at the WEF’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as the “Summer Davos,” in Dalian, China. ■ He praised China for its economic policies, which are seen by the globalists as the model of top-down centralized planning in a high-tech surveillance state run through smart cities, smart EVs, smart homes, smart appliances, smart meters, AI, digital IDs and CBDCs, all of which hold one thing in common — they come with on-off switches not under the control of the end user, which is we the people. In their ideal world, we live as slaves at the privilege of our masters. We get out of line, they can cut off our electric power, our electric car, our electronic digital money, everything. ■ Schwab told the elitist participants gathered in China that they must “force” humanity into a “collaboration” with the unelected WEF. why Schwab told his globalist comrades at a previous meeting two years ago to expect an “angrier world.”

The Israeli military says 18 soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, in a drone attack conducted by the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement in the occupied Golan Heights. | n a statement released Sunday on its X account, Israel’s Army Radio said the casualties came after “the explosion of a Hezbollah drone launched from southern Lebanon.” Hezbollah also announced that it had targeted the headquarters of the 91st Brigade north of the occupied territories in response to Israeli strikes against the resistance group. Earlier on Sunday, Hezbollah said three of its fighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a two-story building in the village of Houla.

Israel Security Minister Says Palestinian Prisoners Should be 'Shot in the Head" - Will Pass a Law to Allow it. | Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security of "Israel", calls for Palestinian prisoners to be shot in the head and announces that they will pass a law to legalize their executions. In a televised interview, he said "They ask me if Palestinian prisoners should be given food... and I say that Palestinian prisoners should be killed by a shot to the head. We will pass a law on the execution of prisoners."

The Mask Comes Off - Hal Turner Editorial — With his public remarks, Israel's Minister of Security shows how utterly Barbaric he is - and how Barbaric the Israeli government actually is! It gives you a sense of what Palestinians have had to endure for years. The mask is off. [...] What we have with "Israel" in the Middle East is a fraud. Zionists cleverly hide behind the Jewish religion to justify their political moves. Anyone who criticizes their barbaric actions, their outright theft of other people's lands, is smeared as an "Anti-Semite" or a "Jew Hater." They whine that they're hated "Because they're jews" but that is false. They're hated because of their behavior. [...]

Ilana Mercer | |Israel is engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions: denying genocide, while committing genocide, all the while demanding the right to genocide. | The Jewish State is genocidal not because it has been denounced as “genocidal” by ostensible “antisemites” and “terrorist sympathizers,” but by virtue of its actions. Israel is genocidal by virtue of what it has done to Gaza, the people and their land. [...] Thus, the labels “antisemite” and “terrorist sympathizer” amount to a blood libel leveled at millions, perhaps billions, in the Global South, in particular—although the wholesale slaughter carried out by Israel in Gaza has stirred hearts across the world.

■ US to unblock bomb shipments to Israel – Axios (RT.com) | The US has decided to release a shipment of 1,800 bombs to Israel that was suspended several months ago amid concerns over destruction in the Gazan city of Rafah, Axios reported on Thursday. According to unnamed US and Israeli officials who spoke with the news site, the administration of US President Joe Biden is willing to send a batch of 500-pound (226kg) bombs that were put on hold in April.

Russian specialists are studying the guidance and flight correction system of the US-made ATACMS tactical ballistic missile, an expert told Sputnik.

💬 "There are three ring laser gyroscopes [in the missile's guidance system]. They allow the missile to stay on a configured ballistic trajectory. [There is also] a GPS antenna, thanks to which correction [of the missile] is made at the primary and final stages of the ballistic trajectory. We can analyze the operation of the missile systems at the entire stage of the flight trajectory," the expert said.

The United States began providing ATACMS ballistic missiles to Ukraine in 2023. The missiles are manufactured by Lockheed Martin and have a caliber of 610 millimeters, a length of 4 meters, and a weight of 1.6 tonnes. The flight range of the Block 1 modification is 165 kilometers (102 miles).

Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) has topped the 1st round of France's parliamentary elections, winning 33.4% of the votes on Sunday. The New Popular Front leftist coalition came in second, securing 27.99%, while President Emmanuel Macron's center-right alliance Ensemble took third place with 20.04%. | President Emmanuel Macron’s center-right alliance Ensemble has been “practically wiped out” by Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) in the first round of the snap elections to the National Assembly in France. That is how the leader of the French right-wing National Rally party's parliamentary faction referred to the results of the first round of the parliamentary elections. After the second round, the RN could clinch between 230 and 280 seats - a relative majority - in the 577-seat lower house, according to national TV calculations. It had but 88 seats in the outgoing parliament. Macron's coalition is projected to lose over 160 seats, potentially winning only between 70 - 100 seats.