Gareth Soughgate: Off With His Head!

In 2008 the World experienced a massive financial crisis.

Britain's response to this was to stage a coup in 2010. The Labour government was overthrown and in its place a coalition government made up of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties was installed.

One of the first acts of this new regime was to introduce the 2011 Fixed Term Parliament Act. To make sure it couldn't be voted out until 2015 at the earliest.

Already scheduled to host the 2012 Summer Olympics this new regime was convinced the World would endorse and support it by awarding it the 2018 World Cup.

Britain is already home to one of the World's leading football leagues. With that infrastructure already in place Britain hosting a World Cup is really just a license for it to print money.

The British regime was so sure it would be awarded the 2018 World Cup that in late November 2010 The Queen recorded her annual Christmas message. In it she spoke extensively about the power of sport and sporting events to; "benefit communities, companies and enterprises of all kinds." A reference to Britain profiting from hosting the 2018 World Cup.

On December 2nd 2010 (2/12/10) the 2018 World Cup was awarded to Russia. Which left the Queen looking extremely foolish when her recorded message was finally broadcast on December 25th (25/12/10).

Such was Britain's fury at this apparent snub that it launched an extensive revenge campaign against FIFA - World football's governing body. With help from the US this revenge campaign succeeded in regime change at FIFA when its head Sepp Blatter resigned on June 2nd 2015 (2/6/15).

Rather than the anti-corruption campaign it was billed as the objective was to institutionalise political corruption within FIFA. Turning the World Cup from a sporting event into a political spectacle such as the Olympics or the Eurovision Song Contest. A spectacle that would always show Britain in a favourable light.

At the same time as trying to bring about regime change at FIFA the UK was also trying to undermine domestic interest in international football.

So England crashed out of the 2014 World Cup at the group stages following defeats to Italy and Uruguay. Conveniently they were knocked out on June 19th (19/6/14). Just for days before the start of the UK hosted Wimbledon tennis tournament on June 23rd (23/6/14). This is a political event which as hosts Britain can control completely.

England also crashed out of the 2016 Euro Cup following a last 16 defeat to Iceland on June 27th (27/6/16). The same day that the Wimbledon tennis tournament began.

During the Euro tournament England striker Harry Kane was being forced to take corner kicks. Now he's on the receiving end of corners rather than taking them Kane is currently the leading goal scorer in the 2018 World Cup.

The other big event of this year has been the 2018 Winter Olympics held in the Republic of Korea (RoK/South).

Those games picked up the baton from the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Russia. Through things like the bombings in Volgograd, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the creation of Shamali Province within Russia's immediate neighbour Ukraine the 2014 Winter Olympics were controversial to say the least.

As such the big talking point at the 2018 Winter Olympics was the current hostility towards Russia. Particularly the way that it has been perpetuated by nations such as the US and the UK through rampant lies.

The claim that Russia influenced the US 2016 Presidential Election is considered one of the biggest Fake News Hoaxes. Even greater than the RoK's rigging of its 2012 Presidential Election by claiming it was guarding against foreign interference.

Britain's big contribution to this discussion was the March 4th (4/3/18) poisoning of two Russian citizens - Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal in the UK city of Salisbury. Sergei Skripal had spied on Russia for Britain's foreign intelligence service MI6.

Obviously as a big spectacular the Skripal poisoning encompassed a range of issues. For example the MI6 officer who recruited Sergei Skripal has gone on to be one of the sources of the Steele Dossier which is at the heart of claims that Russia influenced the 2016 US Presidential Election.

However keeping with Korea's traditional Animist religions its primary purpose was to serve as a sort of existential issue. With no blame being attributed people with an anti-Russian bias would blame Russia while people with a pro-Russian bias would blame absolutely anyone else.

The problem is that Britain screwed it up. They are currently governed by a minority Conservative government which is in a pay of a very seedy character by the name of Bill Browder.

In 1998 Browder fled the US claiming that he was being persecuted when the US government asked him to pay tax. In 2005 Browder fled Russia claiming that he was being persecuted when the Russian government asked him to pay tax.

Browder currently resides in Britain where he pays the Conservative Party vast sums of money to wage his personal vendetta against Russia and avoid asking him why he's not paying any tax.

Due to his financial clout Browder pressured the British government to blame Russia for the Skripal poisoning. This is despite Britain's own investigations clearing Russia of involvement.

Britain's decision to blame Russia without any evidence has caused a series of major scandals across Europe. Even if the British media refuse to report on them and the British government refuse to acknowledge them.

For example the head of Germany's intelligence agency recently appeared before the German Parliament to answer questions on the matter. When asked what evidence Britain had provided to support its claim he responded; "None at all."

There has been an even bigger scandal in the Czech Republic. The head of their intelligence agency announced that it had produced the Novichok nerve agent Britain has claimed was used to poison the Skripal. This triggered a Presidential Inquiry which confirmed that the Czech Republic had manufactured Novichok but resulted in the head of the intelligence agency being fired for making that information public.

That revelation is particularly important because the Czech Republic is the main source of weapons being supplied to Islamist forces fighting in Syria.

The decision to blame the Skripal poisoning on Russia has though provided Britain with an excuse to boycott the 2018 World Cup which it believes it should be hosting. No British politicians or Royals attended the Opening Game of competition and are not expected to attend the Final.

Here Britain has got itself a little problem. England actually have quite a strong squad for the World Cup. Unlike in previous years I can't point out the clear star players or the clear weak links. Everyone is as strong as each other. In Gareth Southgate England also has a skilled manager capable of getting this squad of players to function as a team.

Obviously I don't want to tempt fate. However at this stage it is not outrageous to say that England are one win away from the Semi-Final. And two wins away from the Final itself. Even if the same can be said about their opponents.

That has forced Britain to go to extraordinary lengths to send England crashing out of a tournament which is showing the British people just how much their government has been lying to them about Russia. Ideally before the Wimbledon tennis tournament began on Monday (2/7/18).

The Opening Game was played between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia on June 14th (14/6/18). Given Saudi Arabia's bombings of the Russian city of Volgograd in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics this tie was politically awkward to say the least.

June 14th 2018 (14/6/18) was also the first anniversary of the June 14th 2017 (14/6/17) Grenfell Tower Fire in the UK. Britain marked this anniversary with the campaign to wear; "Green For Grenfell." Even the Queen participated.

Saudi Arabia's national flag is the Islamic Shahada against a green background. So by trying to get everyone to wear green Britain was making it look like the entire nation was backing Saudi Arabia against Russia in the Opening Game.

The reason why Saudi Arabia's flag is green is because that is a very important colour within Islam. Martyrs or those who kill themselves in an act of religious war are said to be surrounded by green birds in heaven. As such the early choice of Green For Grenfell has fuelled suspicions that far from being an accident the fire was some sort of terrorist attack.

It came in quick succession following two other Islamist terror attacks intended to influence the UK's June 8th 2017 (8/6/17) General Election. The May 22nd (22/5/17) Manchester Bombing and the June 3rd (3/6/18) London Bridge attack.

Those were carried out by Qatar in an effort to weaken the UK government and the Manchester bombing in particular triggered a massive split between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Adding a whole extra level of political complexity to Britain's support for Saudi Arabia over Russia.

In the background to the World Cup the Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has continued. It has produced some shocking revelations.

For example the fire service have long said that it was an accident caused by a faulty fridge. The Inquiry's own investigation has not been able to support that claim. Under pressure of a criminal investigation the fire service finally admitted that they've not even examined the fridge to see if it was the cause of the fire.

The whole thing is starting to resemble the cover-up which followed Britain's worst football disaster at the Hillsborough stadium on April 15th 1989 (15/4/89). To really ram home the connection on June 29th (29/6/18) it was finally declared that there will be a criminal trial over Hillsborough.

Britain's objective with this constant noise was to irritate everyone at the World Cup to such an extent England get forced out. They had some success with the Colombian referee in England's June 18th (18/6/18) game against Tunisia. It was clear from the way that he was ignoring obvious and repeated Tunisian foul play he really wanted England to lose.

He was unsuccessful and England won the match. So immediately afterwards there were tense moments as news began to filter through of an explosion at the Southgate Metro (Tube) station in London.

Last night (3/7/18) England faced Colombia in the last 16 match. This prompted Britain to bring out the big guns by psyching out the England players in an effort to force them to lose.

Yesterday (3/7/18) morning it was announced that a medical practitioner had been arrested for killing new born babies in Cheshire, UK. Cheshire is a particularly wealthy area of the UK where many players from the top clubs in the northwest of England such as Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool live with their young families.

The thought of new born babies being killed is particularly likely to get into the heads of England players. Manchester City's Fabian Delph has left the World Cup squad to return to Cheshire for the birth of his first child. Although I doubt that particular 'Duchess of Chester' is being treated by the NHS.

While the World Cup has been going on the UK has been leading a campaign to reform the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The global regulator on Chemical Weapons. As of June 27th (27/6/18) the OPCW has been given the new power of not only investigating Chemical Weapons use but assigning blame to those responsible.

Particularly over the course of the conflict in Syria there has been growing concern over the integrity of the OPCW. It's Turkish head Ahmet Uzumcu has seemed far too ready to disregard scientific rigour in favour of the political desire to imply Syrian guilt.

The Skripal poisoning was actually a watershed moment. China stepped up to lead that investigation to make sure it was conducted with far more integrity than the Syria investigations.

The OPCW investigation into the Skripal case of course found the same things as the British investigation. They could not prove that Novichok was used. However they could prove that Novichok from the Russian Shikhany-2 facility was not used. In the process showing the intelligence the UK has used to blame Russia to be false.

The OPCW's findings of course seem to mean nothing to either the British government or media. They have simply continued to blame Russia despite the OPCW proving those claims to be false.

Obviously not being able to assign blame the OPCW has not been able to come out publicly and declare the British government to be liars. On May 4th (4/5/18) they did though take the unprecedented step of publicly declaring Ahmet Uzumcu to be a liar for his claim that 100g of Novichok was used to poison the Skripals.

Yesterday (3/7/18) evening saw the first UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the OPCW and its new powers.

So on Saturday (30/6/18) Britain had another mysterious poisoning. This time two people were taking ill in Amesbury. Amesbury is a small village just outside Salisbury. If you live there and want to do something like go to a bank or a shop you have to travel into Salisbury.

During last night's England v Colombia match Salisbury declared a major incident in response to the poisoning in Amesbury. This has triggered an anti-terror investigation in scenes with perfectly match the Skripal poisoning.

It seems clear then that Britain's plan was that England would crash out last night. No-one would mind though because they would be immediately consumed by another round of anti-Russian paranoia.

That of course calls the conduct of Mark Geiger the American referee of last night's match into sharper focus.

Watching the game I assumed he was just absolutely terrible at his job. Within all of two minutes he'd wrongly awarded a goal-kick for what was clearly a throw-in. I could go through the match minute-by-minute listing every mistake he made harming both teams.

His decision to award a yellow card for Colombia's Barrios' headbutt on England's Henderson though is utterly inexplicable under the rules of football.

This was not two players going to the same ball and accidentally clashing heads. Nor was it a player being overcome by the intensity of the match and going in for a tackle a little too hard. This was one player choosing to headbutt another player not just off the ball but when the ball was out of play and the game was stopped.

That's clearly violent conduct. You either have to issue a red card or pretend it didn't happen. Acknowledging it but only issuing a yellow card is simply not an option.

Although his performance did improve slightly in the second half referee Geiger seemed committed to issuing every Colombian player a single yellow card. Rather than issuing the worst offenders a second yellow card which adds up to a red card and a sending off.

Events in Amesbury along with some strange Tweets from US President Trump's account last night does you make you wonder if the US had teamed up with Britain to rig the game, dump England out and fuel the anti-Russian paranoia.

Of course despite this England went on to win. On penalties in a match shown on ITV no less.

So I'm beginning to wonder if people who actually poisoned the Skripals have ended up poisoning themselves in Amesbury.

16:10 on 4/7/18 (UK date).

Edited at around 08:20 on 5/7/18 (UK date) to add;

The Skripal poisoning very closely resembled the storyline from Season 7 of the US TV Show "Homeland" which was being broadcast on UK network television at the time. That centred around efforts by Russian spies to use an unnamed Novichok like contact poison to conduct assassinations.

The two individuals poisoned in Amesbury have been identified as Dawn Sturgess and Charles Rowley. Both are intravenous drug users in varying states of recovery. As a result it is likely that Britain will claim that came into contact with items such as syringes which were discarded after being used to posion the Skripals.

If that is the route Britain decides to go down it will very closely resemble the specific Episode 10 of Season 1 of the US TV show; "Blindspot." Which I have recently  started streaming online.

That episode; "Evil Handmade Instrument" features the crack FBI team trying to stop a network of Russian sleeper agents. Before they carry out an assassination using an unnamed poison held in syringe which at one point is discarded.

The reason I'm watching Bindspot is a bit odd.

On July 3rd 2016 (3/7/16) there was a mysterious explosion in Central Park in New York City, US. A plastic bag containing a mix of chemicals had been discarded in the park. When an 18 year old student stepped on it the chemicals exploded blowing his leg off.

This happened during the Euro 2016 football tournament. It also happened when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were at their most dangerous. It occurred just 11 days before the July 14th 2016 (14/7/16) attack in Nice, France which killed 86 people.

So immediately as the news broke I was all over it. Scouring the Internet for any and all information to try and piece together what had happened.

Initially all I could find was paparazzi pictures of Jaimie Alexander working out in Central Park. Or Tweets from people talking about who they'd just seen Jaimie Alexander working out in Central Park.

This was one of those names I sort of recognised. Yet couldn't immediately place. Which is obviously a bit frustrating when you're rushing to work out if there is any significance to a celebrity being present at the scene of an explosion. Or whether it's just a coincidence.

For some reason my brain has had a great deal of trouble associating the identity "Jaimie Alexander" with Jaimie Alexander the person. Which if you're familiar with the show is actually quite appropriate.

This has left me trapped in this sort of loop where every time I hear about Jaimie Alexander being on the red carpet or at some other event I find myself going; "I recognise that name. I just can't place it."

So finally having the opportunity to watch Blindspot that's exactly what I'm doing. Mainly to soothe a longstanding itch in my brain and forcibly encode the memory that Jaimie Alexander is the actress in Blindspot.

It turns out one of her big roles before Blindspot was a; "Lady Sif" in the Marvel Superhero movie; "Thor." A role she reprised in the sequel; "Thor: The Dark World" and the TV show; "Marvels Agents of Shield."

Something which was referenced in this particular episode of Blindspot. With jokes about someone needing to clear away their DVD copies of the Joss Whedon TV show; "Firefly."

The episode ends with the meme;

"Remember. You have done this to yourself."

O8:55 on 5/7/18 (UK date).