Friday 3rd July 2020

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BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers continues online after being ‘rested due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 by BCfm managing editor Pat Hart. The Internet only BCfm Politics Show is now available 17:00-19:00 live Drivetime Fridays.

We are ready to go live on BCfm’s FM server remotely. Initially we were told ‘In the light of government and Ofcom guidance’ his team have decided not to broadcast discussion or political shows that ‘might put the FM licence at risk, and don’t want the burden of dealing with potential Ofcom complaints. Now we’ve been told a wider ‘reorganisation’ is underway and if we’re lucky this show may be allowed to return to FM in November 2020.

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour News Review: Mayor steals public dockside land to sell it off to his speculator chums – The Great Bordeaux Quay Robbery: with former Bristol mayor George Ferguson – Lockdown eases further on Saturday – will it work?

Known Crooked Outsourcing firms Serco and Deloitte get private Covid contracts – Serco boss defends its work on setting up NHS test-and-trace system – Rupert Soames says criticism largely motivated by ideology amid calls for £45.8m contract to be cancelled – The boss of the outsourcing firm Serco has defended its “extraordinary” work in setting up the NHS coronavirus test-and-trace system, amid calls for the £45.8m contract to be cancelled. Critics of Serco’s involvement have pointed to its mixed record on public works, the use of subcontractors and a blunder last month in which it inadvertently revealed the email addresses of contract tracers recruited to assist in the UK government’s “test, track and trace” strategy. Rupert Soames, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged the scheme was not perfect but said criticism was largely motivated by ideological opposition to private companies running state services… Labour slams ministers over Deloitte virus testing deal – Pressure increases on government over amount of data given to health and local authorities – The opposition Labour party has attacked ministers for awarding one of the key coronavirus testing contracts without obliging the private provider to share the results of tests with public health bodies in England. The revelation about the deal with consultancy Deloitte, which set up the system that conducts the vast majority of tests in England, has added to the criticism of the government’s approach after it ordered the city of Leicester into lockdown. Leicester’s mayor said he only knew a few days before the lockdown was ordered on Monday how bad the situation was in his city as the government had only just begun sharing national data from dozens of drive-through testing sites and home kits provided by the Deloitte system… “We are paying hundreds of thousands of pounds if not millions to a private company to help with testing for coronavirus, and it appears no one commissioning that service thought to make sure they share the results with health authorities and councils when they find a positive case so they could do something with that data,” Ms Creasy told the FT…

Bristol City Council faces ‘catastrophic’ £82million blackhole due to coronavirus – “It is urgent for government to engage in conversations with local authorities”  Coronavirus could leave Bristol City Council with a “catastrophic” £82million blackhole that would threaten frontline services, civic chiefs have warned. Head of paid service Mike Jackson said the authority’s vital income, such as from parking charges, council tax and business rates, will be severely damaged by the pandemic and that – without a bailout from Whitehall – the council would be forced to tear up its budget and plunder its reserves to stay afloat. He told the council’s overview and scrutiny management board: “We really need to make sure the Government understands the impact on our income streams. “The Government does understand the additional costs associated with responding to the crisis but I really don’t think they have grasped that for some authorities the loss of income streams is significantly greater than the direct cost associated with responding to the crisis… 

EXCLUSIVE: Selling Our City Off To Speculators In Secret – Mayor’s secret planning deal with private speculator for public land – Interview with former Bristol Mayor, George Ferguson: place making and a good balance of mixed uses; Bristol Arena project; Mayor Marvin’s cult-like regime and secrecy over proposed development on Bordeaux Quay in Bristol Harbour; Western Harbour development group, ‘pliable friends of former Merchant Venturers master John Savage and mayor Marvin Rees’ appointed to oversee development; Mayoral system problems; more secrecy over Temple Island development. PMQs local government and procurement fraud. Intu shopping centres gone bust.  

Hotel with more than 150 rooms planned for Bristol’s Bordeaux Quay and Millennium Square – The land is owned by Bristol City Council, with London-based property company Bell Hammer set to be the developer of the proposed scheme. AHMM says the Waterfront Place site is the only one in the area which remains empty since the site regeneration, listing Watershed, Bordeaux Quay, WeTheCurious, Bristol Lab and Arnolfini as the buildings retained from the industrial era that have been reinvented. It adds the development, planned where there is a “void in the townscape,” would “unify and bind together the collection of substantial buildings around the Meeting of the Waters: Bordeaux Quay, Narrow Quay+ Arnolfini, M-Shed, Wapping Wharf and LLoyds”. For these reasons, it says, the scheme can “rightfully provide a central building of Bristol, not just as part of the dockside at a location to where ships from around the world have travelled, but to express the contemporary strength of the place, combining work and leisure, in this location at the heart of the modern city”. A development agreement has been signed and the applicant is currently in pre-application discussions with the council.

December 2011 – former Merchant Venturer master John Savage’s 2011 vision book for the West of England ‘City Region’. 2050: High in Hope – Since its conception, The West of England Initiative has recognised the need for a long term plan for the Bristol City region. In 2011, The Initiative published 2050: High in Hope – A Business Vision for the West of England City-Region. – Inspired by the influential 1909 Plan of Chicago, which provided the city with a direction of development, 2050: High in Hope is a visual and written interpretation of a business vision for the West of England city-region. It is a strategic master plan. 

September 2019 – Mr Rees said the council’s plans to build houses in a redesigned Cumberland Basin was driven by the city’s housing crisis and climate emergency. “We do have to take advantage of city centre locations because that reduces car dependency,” he said. – Council chiefs also want to take the opportunity to free up land in the area, which they have rechristened Western Harbour, for up to 2,500 new homes for Bristol, as the city faces a huge housing and homelessness crisis. The initial feasibility studies came up with 10 possible options, but they were shortlisted down to three by the Mayor’s Office, and then shared with the public in an early engagement exercise. This is not the same as a consultation process, which is a formalised procedure seeking the public’s views on a specific proposal in advance of a formal decision by the mayor or cabinet. 

Boris Johnson’s ‘Build Build Build’ speech – how is this different from FDR’s New Deal? – Boris Johnson’s £5BILLION promise: PM puts forward radical ‘new deal’ for COVID recovery – BORIS JOHNSON has promised a £5billion “new deal” to kick start economic recovery and get Britain back to work after the coronavirus crisis. In a major speech, the Prime Minister has set out plans for an “infrastructure revolution” to modernise hospitals, schools, roads, prisons, the courts, high streets and town centres. And he urged the country to pull together to “build, build, build” its way out of the economic downturn caused by weeks of lockdown. “If we deliver this plan together, then we will together build our way back to health. We will not just bounce back, we will bounce forward – stronger and better and more united than ever before,” the Prime Minister said. Mr Johnson travelled to Dudley, in the West Midlands, to make his keynote speech on the UK’s future, deep in the so-called “Blue Wall” territory captured from Labour at last year’s general election…

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Second hour International News Followed By Investigative reports:

Ghislane Maxwell arrested: Were Epstein and her agents working for Israeli Mossad secret service?  – Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israeli Intel – Ghislaine Maxwell played ‘critical role’ in helping Jeffrey Epstein groom underage victims, US investigators say – Ghislaine Maxwell is an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison as he awaited trial over sex trafficking charges – Mafia entrapment? Mint Press..Witney Webb – Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal – The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations. – While Part I and Part II of this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have focused on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in recent American history and their ties to the heights of American political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key aspect of Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants examination is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.” The Mega Group’s role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as Epstein’s main financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and ethno-philanthropy (i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group). However, as this report will show, another uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime, specifically the organised crime network discussed in Part I of this series, which was largely led by notorious American mobster Meyer Lansky…

Who was on the Lolita Express? Original article Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet – Who exactly rode in Epstein’s private passenger jet? Well, former President Bill Clinton, for one, was a “Lolita Express” passenger, according to flight logs obtained by Fox News in 2016. Those records show that Clinton took at least 26 trips aboard the private vessel from 2001 to 2003, traveling with fellow passengers, who were identified with their initials or first names, including the name “Tatiana,” according to Fox News. Epstein also financed a private plane that took Clinton, the actor Kevin Spacey, and the comedian Chris Tucker to Africa to tour HIV/AIDS project sites, according to a 2002 New York magazine profile on Epstein that cited Page Six. A 2003 Vanity Fair profile of Epstein also said that the supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and the sports and entertainment agent Casey Wasserman, the grandson of the Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, were on that trip. Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, told The Associated Press that the former president took four trips on Epstein’s plane between 2002 and 2003, with staff and Secret Service always onboard. He added that Clinton “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York … He’s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.” Other former passengers include the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who has defended Epstein in court; Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president; the supermodel Naomi Campbell; and the scientist Steven Pinker, according to flight logs of the jet obtained by Gawker in 2015…

All aboard the ‘Lolita Express’: Flight logs reveal the many trips Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz took on paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with anonymous women – Flight logs for Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’ were published for the first time on Thursday – They show that former President Bill Clinton boarded the plane with women believed to have been involved in creating underage sex slave ring – Alleged victim Virginia Roberts says she was recruited as a slave when she was 15, and that she was forced to have sex with both Prince Andrew and Harvard law profession Alan Dershowitz – The latter, she says, molested her mid-flight on the private jet – When confronted with the flight information by Gawker, Dershowitz admitted that he had known Epstein since 1997 and rode on the banker’s jet to attend Limited Brands CEO Les Wexner’s 60th birthday. And the ride up to Wexner’s birthday wasn’t just a one off thing. The logs show Dershowitz continued to fly on Epstein’s plane including a October 1998 flight from Massachusetts to New Jersey and a 1999 trip from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard. A 2005 jaunt from Massachusetts to Montreal shows Dershowitz traveled with Epstein, a woman named ‘Tatianna’ and others. Despite telling Gawker that he has a ‘very clear, unequivocal recollection’ of never being on a plane with ‘young women’ he has a hard time explaining who the single-named females are who scatter the flight logs. He said he doesn’t know who ‘Hazel’ or ‘Claire’ were, and that ‘Tatianna’ may have been a twenty-something woman who was friends with Epstein’s girlfriend, but that he never flew with her. And he also finds it hard to explain why his wife doesn’t appear to join him on the flights, who he publicly said accompanies him nearly everywhere in statements issued in the wake of the lawsuit….

New constitution vote in Russia. China and US’s possible coming war, and the role Russia would play. – Putin orders constitution changes allowing him to rule until 2036 – The longtime president’s move comes after voters approved the controversial changes during a week-long plebiscite. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered amendments that would allow him to remain in power until 2036 to be put into the Russian Constitution after voters approved the changes during a week-long plebiscite. According to a copy of the decree released by the Russian government on Friday, the amendments will come into force on Saturday. “The amendments come into force. They come into force, without overstating it, at the people’s will,” Putin said after he signed a decree to have the constitution revised. “We made this important decisions together, as a country,” the Russian president said during a video-conference with legislators who worked on drafting the amendments. The changes allow Putin to run for two more six-year terms after his current one expires in 2024, but also outlaw same-sex marriages, mention the “belief in God as a core value” and emphasise the primacy of Russian law over international ‘norms’…

Coronavirus Covid-19 denying priest – The Russian Orthodox Church has defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken control of a monastery with armed guards. A church panel in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg ruled to defrock Father Sergiy, who has attracted nationwide attention by urging believers to disobey church leadership and defy church closures during the pandemic. The monk did not show up at the session and dismissed the verdict. In a video posted by one of his supporters, he urged his backers to come to defend the Sredneuralsk women’s monastery where he has been staying since last month.  The church banned the monk from ministry in May, but he has continued preaching and last month took charge of the monastery outside Yekaterinburg that he had founded years ago. Scores of volunteers, including battle-hardened veterans of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, helped enforce his rules, while the prioress and several nuns have left. Father Sergiy has declared the coronavirus pandemic non-existent and denounced electronic passes introduced in Moscow and some other regions to stem the outbreak as “Satan’s electronic camp”… 

High Court recognises Guaido as Venezuelan president not Maduro even though he didn’t stand in the 2018 election. Bank of England refusing to hand over gold to Venezuela  – UK court denies Venezuela’s Maduro access to gold in bank vault – The UK recognises Guaido as Venezuela’s president, a judge says in a case over gold bullion held at the Bank of England.  A judge in London has said the UK government had “unequivocally recognised” opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s president, in a battle over gold bullion held at the Bank of England. The case was brought by the Banco Central de Venezuela, asking to release $1bn in gold reserves to help fund the cash-strapped country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. The Bank of England said it was unable to act on instructions because it was “caught in the middle” of competing claims for the presidency after disputed elections in 2018. A BCV board appointed by the government of Nicolas Maduro wants the gold released while a rival ad hoc board appointed by Guaido asked for the release to be denied. Commercial Court judge Nigel Teare, sitting at the High Court of England and Wales, was asked to rule on who was authorised to make the demand – Guaido or Maduro. In his judgement, he said on Thursday: “Her Majesty’s Government does recognise Mr Guaido in the capacity of constitutional interim president of Venezuela and, it must follow, does not recognise Mr Maduro as the constitutional interim president of Venezuela.”…

SNP MP calls on Johnson to deliver justice for murdered police officer at PMQs – An SNP MP has urged Boris Johnson to “reopen the criminal inquiry into the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher”. The question from Allan Dorans – a former inspector in the Metropolitan Police – came just days after John Murray, the former police officer who cradled WPC Fletcher as she lay dying in 1984, launched a civil legal action in a bid to get justice for his slain colleague. Fletcher was gunned down by shots fired from the Libyan embassy. Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk – a senior member of the “revolutionary committee” that ran the embassy – was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in 2015 but the case against him was controversially dropped in 2017 on the grounds of national security. Last week it was revealed that the UK Government had secretly barred him from Britain. He was reportedly “excluded” from the UK by the Home Office in January 2019. Raising the issue at Prime Minister’s Questions, Dorans, the MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, said: “On 17 April 1984, I was a serving police officer in the Metropolitan police, when WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty policing a demonstration outside the Libyan embassy in London…

Murder In St James’s – watch the full April 1996 two-part C4 Dispatches documentary HERE Investigation into the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot whilst on duty during a protest outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984. The two-part documentary suggests that she was killed, not by someone inside the Embassy as originally claimed, but by a gunman in an adjacent building used by the British security services. [2 x 40mins]

YVONNE FLETCHER MURDERED BY OUR SPOOKS In 1984, in London, Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan people’s Bureau. – On 24 June 1997, Tam Dalyell MP questioned Prime Minister Tony Blair about the death of Yvonne Fletcher. Dalyell made particular reference to a Channel 4 documentary about the murder: “With the agreement of Queenie Fletcher, her mother, I raised with the Home Office the three remarkable programmes that were made by Fulcrum, and their producer, Richard Bellfield, called Murder In St. James’s. “Television speculation is one thing, but this was rather more than that, because on film was George Styles, the senior ballistics officer in the British Army, who said that, as a ballistics expert, he believed that the WPC could not have been killed from the second floor of the Libyan embassy, as was suggested. “Also on film was my friend, Hugh Thomas, who talked about the angles at which bullets could enter bodies, and the position of those bodies. “Hugh Thomas was, for years, the consultant surgeon of the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast, and I suspect he knows more about bullets entering bodies than anybody else in Britain…

A decision was announced in May 2017 that for reasons of “national security” Yvonne Fletcher’s murder suspect, Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk, would not be taken to court. Senior policing sources told The Telegraph that the case against Mabrouk was dropped after a decision taken at the “highest level”. The source added: “Number 10 was involved.

Interview with Amy and Tom, two Hong Kongers living in Bristol, who are campaigning to keep their freedoms in Hong Kong, and are appalled by the new National Security Law just brought in – they explain how the new law effects protesters and anyone defying the authoritarian rule of China: media in China and lack of freedom of speech; China supporters in Bristol spying on the protesters; is it safe for them to go back to Hong Kong? Huawei head held in Canada, precipitated China’s actions? 

Details of China’s new Hong Kong National Security laws, which were both made public for the first time and came into affect on Wednesday 01 July 2020. Crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison. – The activities of a new national security agency and its personnel in Hong Kong will not be under the jurisdiction of local government. – The central government in Beijing has an overarching responsibility for national security affairs in Hong Kong. – Anyone convicted of violating security legislation will not be allowed to stand in any Hong Kong elections. – Rights and freedoms, including freedom of speech, of the press, of publication, of assembly and demonstration, will be protected in accordance with the law. – Companies or groups that violate a national security law will be fined and could have operations suspended. – Damaging certain transportation vehicles and equipment will be considered an act of terrorism. – Authorities can surveil and wiretap persons suspected of endangering national security. – The law will apply to permanent and nonpermanent residents of Hong Kong. – The law says the management of foreign NGOs and news agencies in Hong Kong will be strengthened. – The leader of Hong Kong will appoint judges for national security cases – Property related to crimes under legislation could be frozen or confiscated – Mainland authorities will exercise jurisdiction in “complex” cases such as those involving a foreign country, or serious situations that pose a major or imminent threat to national security…

China forcing birth control on Uighur women to curb Muslim population, major report finds – One expert says the evidence uncovered shows the state is engaged in “genocide, full stop”. The Chinese government is forcing Uighur women and members of other minorities to take birth control as part of a campaign to curb its Muslim population, according to a major investigation. A report issued by the Associated Press said government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees and a former detention camp instructor indicated efforts to slash birth rates was far more widespread and systematic than previously known. The alleged programme has been conducted by the state even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children and was described by some experts as “demographic genocide”…

Zheng Yanxiong: China appoints hard-line Hong Kong security chief – To understand Zheng Yanxiong you need to know about a Guangdong village called Wukan. In 2011, disaffected locals forcibly expelled government officials from the area, accusing the officials of grabbing their land in a series of corrupt deals with developers. A blockade ensued and, as part of a negotiated settlement to defuse tensions, the locals were given the right to elect their own council. It became a grass roots democratic exemption in China. Five years later, the residents – angry that no money had been paid for the stolen land – started marching in the streets again. The situation escalated after their elected leader was taken away by the authorities on what are thought to have been trumped up charges. The empowered locals were in charge of their own affairs and they believed they could achieve justice. But when the Communist Party became fed up with this rebellion it was over to senior cadre Zheng Yanxiong and others to deal with it. Hundreds of riot police were ordered in to seize control, making mass arrests and crushing the “Wukan experiment”. Since then this Cantonese-speaking enforcer has moved up through the ranks with a reputation for doing whatever is necessary. Now he’s in charge of a new security agency in Hong Kong which operates without any legal restraints whatsoever, and which no other agencies can touch.

Interview with Edwin Black, author of ‘IBM and the Holocaust’, about algorithm ghettos and ‘Newgenics’: China’s Social Credit system; RFID, chipping and a cashless society. Award-winning author Edwin Black joins us to discuss “Newgenics” and the Chinese-style “Social Credit Score” system which he believes will ultimately come to every nation on earth and which has been greatly accelerated by Covid-19. He describes how a person within such a system will become relegated to the “Algorithm Ghetto” with a “Non-Entity” or “Zombie” status. He looks at what this means for the future and what, if anything, individuals or nations can do to mitigate such a dystopian scenario.

Show Notes – “Digital ghetto,” “cashless society” pose threats even beyond Orwell, journalist contends – One of the biggest threats facing the U.S. today is the “algorithm ghetto, the digital ghetto, the electronic ghetto,” Chicago journalist and Jewish historian Edwin Black told a group of Flint residents Friday while on a statewide tour as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12. Alluding to recent studies suggesting that memories of the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews during World War II are fading, especially among American youth, Black said the “electronic ghetto” means that facts, history, even accounts of personal travails can be controlled, deleted with the click of a button. Black’s appearance, to a group of about 30 at the Knob Hill Bed and Breakfast, was part of a visit sponsored by the Flint Jewish Federation that also included a speech at Mott Middle College later in the day. He had spoken earlier at Grand Valley State University and at the Michigan State University Law School…

‘Living In a Algorithm Ghetto’ Glen Beck – When your life belongs to the state…Save Baby Alfie Evans…UK court sets date for toddler’s life support to end…Pope Francis is willing to help, but he’s not allowed to? …Author Edwin Black joins Glenn in studio to discuss his new book ‘The War Against the Weak’…more than one lens of eugenics to look through?….undesirables vs. those intending to craft a superhuman race…it won’t be about our skin color; it will be about our corporate worth?…the algorithm ghetto?…the rewriting of history is under way…China moves to rate its citizens by 2020

The Edwin Black Show Episode 1: Nuremberg for COVID-19 – Is a Nuremberg-style tribunal needed to determine guilt and consequences if the COVID-19 pandemic indeed arose out of a deliberate Chinese government cover-up? Famed civil rights jurist Nathan Lewin, in Washington, DC, and Richard Heideman, international jurist specializing in terror cases and author of The Hague Odyssey: Israel’s Struggle for Security on the Front Lines of Terrorism and Her Battle for Justice at the United Nations, also in Washington, DC, joined Edwin to explore this issue…

Edwin Black https://edwinblack.com – The Edwin Black Show https://theedwinblackshow.com – Twitter https://www.twitter.com/EdwinBlackBook  Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author of 200 award-winning editions in 20 languages in 190 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe and Israel. With more than 1.6 million books in print, his work focuses on human rights, genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, philanthropy abuse, oil addiction, alternative energy and historical investigation. Editors have submitted Black’s work thirteen times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years he has been the recipient of a series of top editorial awards. He has also contributed to a number of anthologies worldwide…

5G, the new track of the arms race – While Canada has just authorized the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of one of Huawei’s leaders, to the United States, the U.S. Congressional Research Service exposes the military component of the G5. – A Congressional Research Service paper (see below) explains that this fifth-generation mobile data technology can have “many military applications. One such application is for “autonomous military vehicles,” that is, robotic air, land and naval vehicles capable of autonomously performing attack missions without even remote control. This requires the storage and processing of an enormous amount of data that cannot be carried out solely on board the autonomous vehicle. The 5G will allow this type of vehicle to use an external data storage and processing system, similar to the current Cloud for personal file storage. This system can make possible “new military operational concepts”, such as “swarming”, in which each vehicle automatically connects to the others to carry out the mission (e.g. an air attack on a city or a naval attack on a port). 5G will make the entire command and control system of the US armed forces more powerful on a global scale: currently – explains the document – it uses satellite communications but, because of the distance, the signal takes some time to arrive, causing delays in the execution of military operations. These delays will be virtually eliminated by 5G. It will play a decisive role in the use of hypersonic weapons, which, also equipped with nuclear warheads, travel at more than 10 times the speed of sound. 5G will also be extremely important for the secret services, making possible much more effective control and espionage systems than the current ones. “5G is vital to maintaining America’s military and economic advantages,” the Pentagon said.

Public trust in media plummets in UK with just 28% trusting most news – research – Trust in news in the UK is among the lowest in the world, according to the data.   Just 28% of people in the UK said they trust “most news most of the time”, according to a poll in January this year, down from 40% in January 2019. Trust in news in the UK is among the lowest in the world, according to data in The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Digital News Report 2020, which found that overall trust in the media continues to fall globally.

Covid-19 has prompted boom for TV news, dip in media trust worldwide and surge in misinformation – 2020 Digital News Report – “Consensus has already started to break down as normal activities resume and disagreements resurface about the best way to manage the recovery. Any ‘trust halo’ for the media may… be short-lived.” But as the coronavirus broke out, the report said overall levels of trust in the news globally (across 40 countries) were at the lowest point since it had begun to track the data, with 38% saying they trust news overall. In the UK alone this fell to 28%. The authors offered the explanation that “divided societies seem to trust the media less”, perhaps because news outlets “carry more views that people disagree with”. In the last five years Britain has faced the Brexit vote and what the report described as a “toxic political campaign” in December 2019 that returned Boris Johnson and the Conservatives to power. Splitting the UK sample of more than 2,000 adults by political leaning, only 15% of those on the left agreed with the statement: “I think you can
trust most news most of the time,” compared with 36% for the right….

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Friday 26th June 2020

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
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BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers continues online after being ‘rested due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 by BCfm managing editor Pat Hart. The Internet only BCfm Politics Show is now available 17:00-19:00 live Drivetime Fridays.

We are ready to go live on BCfm’s FM server remotely, awaiting the go-ahead from the managing editor. ‘In the light of government and Ofcom guidance’ he says they have decided not to broadcast discussion or political shows that ‘might put the FM licence at risk, and don’t want the burden of dealing with potential Ofcom complaints.

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour News Review:  Sacking of Rebecca Long Bailey for liking ‘anti Semitic’ article: pre-emptive strike by the Israel lobby for the annexation of the West Bank

Amnesty US – army training with; WITH WHOM ARE MANY U.S. POLICE DEPARTMENTS TRAINING? WITH A CHRONIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR – ISRAEL – Baltimore County Sheriffs officers gather after Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. was acquitted of all charges in his murder trial for the death of Freddie Gray at the Mitchell Court House June 23, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray, a young African American, was transported before he died was acquitted of all charges including second degree murder and manslaughter. When the U.S. Department of Justice published a report Aug. 10 that documented “widespread constitutional violations, discriminatory enforcement, and culture of retaliation” within the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), there was rightly a general reaction of outrage. But what hasn’t received as much attention is where Baltimore police received training on crowd control, use of force and surveillance: Israel’s national police, military and intelligence services. Baltimore law enforcement officials, along with hundreds of others from Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state as well as the DC Capitol police have all traveled to Israel for training. Thousands of others have received training from Israeli officials here in the U.S…

Steve Sweeney Morning Star Israel. Minnesota cops ‘trained by Israeli forces in restraint techniques’. OFFICERS from the US police force responsible for the killing of George Floyd received training in restraint techniques and anti-terror tactics from Israeli law-enforcement officers. Mr Floyd’s death in custody last Monday, the latest in a succession of police killings of African Americans, has sparked continuing protests and rioting in US cities. At least 100 Minnesota police officers attended a 2012 conference hosted by the Israeli consulate in Chicago, the second time such an event had been held. There they learned the violent techniques used by Israeli forces as they terrorise the occupied Palestinian territories under the guise of security operations. The so-called counterterrorism training conference in Minneapolis was jointly hosted by the FBI. Israeli deputy consul Shahar Arieli claimed that the half-day session brought “top-notch professionals from the Israeli police” to share knowledge with their US counterparts. It is unclear whether any of the officers involved in the incident in which Mr Floyd was killed attended the conference…

Is pointing out links between ISRAEL and today’s NAZIS antisemitic? Obviously not: US funded fascist training in Ukraine – EXPOSED! ‘Nazi’ Azov Battalion Receives Armaments From ISRAEL. This explains Azov’s continued presence on ‘anti-hate’ Social Media. – An investigation into Ukrainian and Israeli armaments show a deep connection between the Zionist entity and the Nazi-Banderist Battalion, that is also now part of the police forces of the oligarchic and pro-Atlanticist regime of Kiev. Israeli armaments are being sent to the Ukrainian Nazi-Banderist Azov Battalion that is part of the security forces of the post-Maidan oligarchic-Zionist government (ally of the West and enemy of Russia). Even Azov’s online advertisement does not hide the connection, as they does not shy away from exposing photographs of militiamen carrying Tavor rifles , weapons licensed by Israel. That’s probably why they’re still allowed on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and more, while normal, healthy, radical dissent of the left, right, and center are now routinely banned from the – yes – Zionist loyal online multi-media platform complex. – ed JF On the Battalion’s own Youtube channel, for example, a video review shows copies of two locally produced Israeli Tavor rifles, as can be seen below: A photo on Azov’s website also shows a Tavor at the hands of one of the militia police. Tavor rifles are produced under license from Israel Weapon Industries and as such were manufactured and exported authorized by Israeli government bodies. IWI markets Tavor under the umbrella of the Israeli Special Forces’ “primary weapon,” and Fort, a Ukrainian state-owned arms company, owns a page on Tavor on its official website (the Israel Weapon Industries logo , bottom of the site in the company’s partner section)…

Maiden Square court case; Ukraine’s Maidan Snipers Were U.S Assets From Georgia – Referencing the piece run here at Fort Russ on 27 October “Confessions of Maidan Snipers” by Darrol, here is the original confessions given to Italian journalist Gian Micalessin which transcript should closely match the testimony provided in the Belarus’ courtroom On the 20th, in the morning, the plan came into action. “It was supposed to be dawn,” Zalogy remembers, “when I heard the sound of the shots … they were not bursts, they were single strokes … came from the next room. At that same time, the Lithuanians opened the window. One of them fired one shot while the other closed the window. They have fired three or four times everywhere.” Alexander, admitting he was involved in the shootout from the Conservatory building, claims to have understood very little. “Everyone started shooting two or three shots at a time. We did not have much choice. We were ordered to shoot both the Berkut, the police, and the demonstrators, no matter what. I was totally outraged. It went on for fifteen minutes … maybe twenty. I was out of my mind, agitated, under stress, I did not understand anything. Then suddenly, after 15, 20 minutes the shooting ceased and everyone has put down the weapons. ” As wounded and dead arrived in the Ukrainian Hotel’s reception, the snipers fled from the rooms. And so the victims found themselves next to their assassins. “Inside, recalls Nergadze, “there was chaos, you did not understand who was who. People ran back and forth. Someone was hurt … someone was armed. Outside was even worse. There were so many injured in the streets. And the many dead.” Alexander says he left in a hurry. “Someone was shouting that there were snipers, I knew what they were talking about,” he said, “my only thought was to disappear before they knew about me. Otherwise, they had me. At that time, however, I did not realize, but now I understand. I do understand. We’ve been used. Used and discarded.”

Ben Ritchie from BHAM discussing an eviction of Glenfrome Road old gas works squat in Bristol owned by privatised Wales and West Utilities. Tony’s article ‘Bailiffs in Balaclavas’ BAILIFFS IN BALACLAVAS Paramilitary eviction squads, High Court injunctions, deportations, torched dwellings – these are the legacy of the 2012 anti-squatting laws, writes TONY GOSLING, reporting from Bristol. Before dawn on 23 November 2016 around 25 men dressed in black with masked faces, turned up equipped with sledgehammers, crowbars and dogs at a squat in a commercial building in Barton Hill, Bristol. They broke in through a window and two doors and once inside ordered the six petrified Spanish residents to “get on the floor”. Eventually, the squatters were ordered to leave the premises with their hands up in the air. When the police turned up in response to the squatters’ 999 call they spoke to the bailiffs only, before driving off. This was the first strike by the firm Graham Rose Consultants (GRC) who see themselves as “entrepreneurs” opening up a new market in illegal evictions. They claim to help landowners use so called “Common Law” to evict gypsies and travellers trespassing on open land, and will remove squatters “without the need to go through a lengthy court process.”…

Two EU politicians deliver damning report on EU’s 5G regulators ICNIRP – but will this report overcome the telecom lobby or be ignored? The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: Conflicts of interest, corporate capture and the push for 5G – Two politicians, members of the European Parliament, Klaus Buchner (@Dr_KlausBuchner) and Micheile Rivasi (@MicheleRivasi) have published a report that critically analyzes the expertise and the independence of the ICNIRP – International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: “…The findings of this report (‘The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: Conflicts of interest and the push for 5G’) give us an uncomfortable déjà-vu: many facts and processes that lead to the actual situation whereby European authorities – from the European Commission to most of the member states – simply close their eyes for real scientific facts and early warnings. We have seen exactly the same scenario in the debate on Tobacco, asbestos, climate change and pesticides….” “…That is the most important conclusion of this report: for really independent scientific advice we cannot rely on ICNIRP. The European Commission and national governments, from countries like Germany, should stop funding ICNIRP. It is high time that the European Commission creates a new, public and fully independent advisory council on non-ionizing radiation. The funds currently allocated to ICNIRP could be used to set up this new organisation. And given the overall rise in R&D funding via Horizon Europe, with a foreseen budget (for 2021-2027) of between 75 and 100 billion euros, funding should in no way constitute an insurmountable hurdle to setting up this new, truly independent, body…”

Phillipa Winkler on the installation of 5G masts in Bristol and peer-reviewed studies of health effects of 5G: 5G regulators ICNIRP; report by 2 MEPs; 5G and Corona Virus; 5G masts attacked?;

‘Cutouts’ for mayor Marvin Rees: Military and Telecoms Networks taking public money to lobby in Bristol City Council for 5G – Bristol Smart City chief  Freyja Lockwood used to work for privatised military research firm Qinetiq; Bristol is Open boss Julie Snell used to work for BT Networks; Qinetiq’s US equivalent is arguably DARPA, Qinetiq, 5G and the military – https://stop5g.co.uk/bristol/

PMQs Brexit and Northern Ireland border? Brexit: Port of Larne preparing to become border control post, says Wilson – DUP MP questions Boris Johnson’s plans after producing letter about preparations

Paul Knaggs from Labour Heartlands on traditional Labour opinions and Brexit. No Deal Brexit, Corona Virus and global economic crash. DENNIS SKINNER MP – HOW THATCHER FORGED THE CAPITALIST EU – ‘When I hear Tories and the purple-faced UKIP go on now about Poles, Romanians and Bulgarians coming to Britain to work, I think back and remember what Mrs Thatcher did. She signed the 1986 Single European Act to create the free market of people. She was championing the eastwards expansion of the European Union into the former Soviet satellites. She wanted the EU to embrace that part of the world to roll back the Iron Curtain, and stick it to Mikhail Gorbachev and Communists. The Single Market was designed deliberately to allow employees to transfer cheap labour across national borders. It wasn’t principally about letting workers decide where they’d look for jobs. That’s a by-product. The Single Market’s main aim was to supply cut-price workers to capitalism. A capitalism with an insatiable appetite for the dozen-a-penny workers she created by stripping away employment rights, by shackling trade unions. The problems we wrestle with today can be traced back to her door.’…

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Putin’s speech about Russia’s involvement in WW2 – delayed 2020 traditional parade through Moscow displaying military hardware – they lost 20x more soldiers than US and UK combined: Operation Jubilee Dieppe raid in 1942 to convince Moscow the Allies were ‘trying’ to open a Western Front against the Nazis which they eventually did four years later on D-Day 1944, a year before WWII ended; John Ainsworth Davies’s book ‘OPJB’ contains details of Allies sabotage of Dieppe raid; Cold War; WW3.

Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II – The Russian president offers a comprehensive assessment of the legacy of World War II, arguing that “Today, European politicians, and Polish leaders in particular, wish to sweep the Munich Betrayal under the carpet. The Munich Betrayal showed to the Soviet Union that the Western countries would deal with security issues without taking its interests into account.”…

Fort-Russ.com – Africa section – World Bank and Covid 19 – debt slavery in Africa – Burundian President Nkurunziza Poisoned? Dies Suddenly Aged 55 After Expelling WHO For ‘False Pandemic’. Jun 16, 2020 – President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza, 55, has died “following a cardiac arrest”. The sudden death comes as a surprise as he had been evaluated recently as being in good overall health. But controversy has emerged in the African country as local pundits have suggested that his death could have been the consequence of poisoning. Less than a month ago, the Burundian government ordered the expulsion of experts from the World Organization of Health (WHO) responsible for ‘advising’ on the false pandemic COVID-19….

Hong Kong satire forced off air as China clamps down on free speech – ‘Headliner’ poked fun at authorities for 30 years until police force objected. HONG KONG — It was not the first time “Headliner,” a popular political satirical show in Hong Kong on the RTHK public broadcasting channel, had pushed the boundaries of taste and political speech. In one of its first episodes in 1989, the hosts bitterly lampooned the country’s leaders for their actions in the recent Tiananmen Square massacre. “Chinese Premier Li Peng said the troops fired on June 4 because the military did not have enough rubber bullets and tear gas.” Why is China out of rubber, asked the other host. Because it had all been used up in rubber stamps, said the first — a jab at China’s government unimaginable today. And in a segment just before the U.K. handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, producers depicted Lu Ping, the Chinese official who oversaw the transition, as an angry mother who pulled down the underwear of colonial governor Chris Patten and spanked his bare buttocks with a table tennis racket. But this time was different. Amid public uproar over police brutality, the show introduced a new segment, a parody of the police’s public affairs program. In the opening, Wong Hei — a former cop-turned-actor — jumped out of a rubbish bin with garbage bags around his neck, suggesting the police were trash. First came an avalanche of 3,300 complaints from the public, shortly after the segment debuted on Feb. 14. Then the police chief himself wrote letters to Leung Ka-wing, RTHK’s director of broadcasting, accusing “Headliner” of misleading the audience. On May 19, the Communications Authority issued a warning to the public broadcaster for denigrating the police force, prompting RTHK to apologize and suspend the show…

Catherine Austin Fitts on Covid 19: US Army study shows flu vaccine increases vulnerability to Covid 19; Bill Gates’s business model – who controls Microsoft? – Microsoft and intelligence agencies; Solari . Solari is a private company founded by Catherine Austin Fitts. Our mission is to help you live a free and inspired life. This includes building wealth in ways that build real wealth in the wider economy. We believe that personal and family wealth is a critical ingredient of both individual freedom and community health and well being. We publish The Solari Report. The Solari Report offers subscriber access to private briefings via weekly audios with Catherine Austin Fitts and her guests as well as interviews conducted by a select number of Solari hosts. The Solari Report review of news and events is summarized in Quarterly and Annual Wrap Ups. Also, special reports focused on current financial and precious metals markets, geopolitical events as well as risk issues and opportunities impacting personal wealth, health and happiness…

Ex US Army Officer Mike Sparks discusses Albert Pike, who’s statue was torn down in US by Black Lives Matter: Freemasonry and powerful secret societies; D.C. protesters pull down, burn statue of Confederate general – The Albert Pike statue has been a source of controversy over the years. Protesters toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the nation’s capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States, amid continuing anti-racism demonstrations following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot statue of Albert Pike — wrapped with chains — wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. Protesters then set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and “No racist police!”  Eyewitness accounts and videos posted on social media indicated that police were on the scene but didn’t intervene. President Donald Trump quickly tweeted about the toppling, calling out D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and writing: “The DC police are not doing their job as they watched a statue be ripped down and burn. These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country!”…

Is the letter by Albert Pike predicting the future a fake? A third world war, according to Mr Pike, will be fought against the West and leaders of the Islamic war. Mr Pike warned the third war would be “the most bloody turmoil”. The document, revealed by the Daily Star, features heavily in the book Satan, Prince of this World, by former naval officer William Guy Carr. Mr Pike is said to have written, according to Mr Carr’s book: “The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Tsars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism.” The document suggested WW1 was planned to overthrow the Tsars in Russia. The Second World War was sparked as a catalyst to destroy Nazism, according to the letter It was reportedly sent by Pike, a freemason, to Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini and was dated August 15, 1871. The letter allegedly said: “The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. “The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. “Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion….

DARPA worked with Wuhan lab on bat Corona viruses ” . . . . the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), began spend­ing mil­lions on such research in 2018 and some of those Pen­ta­gon-fund­ed stud­ies were con­duct­ed at known U.S. mil­i­tary bioweapons labs bor­der­ing Chi­na and result­ed in the dis­cov­ery of dozens of new coro­n­avirus strains as recent­ly as last April. Fur­ther­more, the ties of the Pentagon’s main biode­fense lab to a virol­o­gy insti­tute in Wuhan, Chi­na — where the cur­rent out­break is believed to have begun — have been unre­port­ed in Eng­lish lan­guage media thus far. . . . For instance, DARPA spent $10 mil­lion on one project in 2018 ‘to unrav­el the com­plex caus­es of bat-borne virus­es that have recent­ly made the jump to humans, caus­ing con­cern among glob­al health offi­cials.” Anoth­er research project backed by both DARPA and NIH saw researchers at Col­orado State Uni­ver­si­ty exam­ine the coro­n­avirus that caus­es Mid­dle East Res­pi­ra­to­ry Syn­drome (MERS) in bats and camels ‘to under­stand the role of these hosts in trans­mit­ting dis­ease to humans.’ . . . For instance, one study con­duct­ed in South­ern Chi­na in 2018 result­ed in the dis­cov­ery of 89 new ‘nov­el bat coro­n­avirus’ strains that use the same recep­tor as the coro­n­avirus known as Mid­dle East Res­pi­ra­to­ry Syn­drome (MERS). That study was joint­ly fund­ed by the Chi­nese government’s Min­istry of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, USAID — an orga­ni­za­tion long alleged to be a front for U.S. intel­li­gence, and the U.S. Nation­al Insti­tute of Health — which has col­lab­o­rat­ed with both the CIA and the Pen­ta­gon on infec­tious dis­ease and bioweapons research.. . . .”

Israel was warned by USA of a coming pandemic last November – US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report – White House was reportedly not interested in the intel, but it was passed onto NATO, IDF; when it reached Israel’s Health Ministry, ‘nothing was done’ US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israeli television reported Thursday. According to Channel 12 news, the US intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of that month and drew up a classified document… 

Wikipedia and psychological warfare online – Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Ayn Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher. Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO =- Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher. This is part 2 in a series of investigative reports on the systemic problems with Wikipedia. Read part 1 here: “Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing“ Internet encyclopedia giant Wikipedia has listed The Grayzone as a “deprecated source,” censoring the independent organization, alongside several other news websites, on an official blacklist of taboo media outlets. The blacklisting is the result of a long-running campaign run by a coterie of regime-change activists who have effectively hijacked Wikipedia, scrubbing the site of information that runs counter to their sectarian agenda and editing their political adversaries out of existence….

German housing scheme force-quarantined like a ‘Covid Prison’ after Covid 19 outbreak. UK street parties broken up by police.

Dave Emory, from Spitfire List, interviews Peter Manning, son of Paul Manning, author of ‘Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile’ – he discusses his Dad’s difficulty in getting his book published, their family being surveilled and harassed, the murder of his brother Gerry, the 4th Reich, and Nazis infiltrating the CIA.  The interview concerned the remarkable and deadly Bormann flight capital organization (the main economic and political component of a Third Reich gone underground) and Paul Manning’s work in documenting that organization in his text (originally published in hard cover by Lyle Stuart, copyright 1981. There is a new cloth-cover edition available from the Carol publishing group.) A member of the CBS radio news team that covered World War II in Europe, along with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, Manning diligently began researching the Bormann flight capital organization that spirited the Third Reich’s capital out of Europe for later use in the German “economic miracle” of the post-war years. The focal point of “Operation Safehaven”, an abortive allied intelligence operation aimed at interdicting the flight capital program, the Bormann group dominates the corporate economy of Germany and the European Union.   The Bormann Organization may prove to be the decisive element in human affairs world wide. In the interview, Peter Manning echoes the analysis of the political and historical importance of the Bormann Organization. Peter endorses Emory’s stated view that the Third Reich is as real in the late 1990s as it was during World War II, that it will prove triumphant (barring decisive intervention) and that whenever one sees a major German corporation, one sees the Third Reich. Of particular interest is Peter’s moving account of the troubles his father and the family experienced as a result of his father’s work on the book….

Skripal wanted to return to Russia ..Saker.. LINK**. Russia vote on changing Terms for Presidents.

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First hour News Review – Retired BBC West of England Home Affairs Correspondent Steve Brodie takes us inside the gas chamber at Porton Down, near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The UK Chemical weapons research facility that, by international treaty, shouldn’t exist.

Black Lives Matter row: racism in old TV dramas; Skippy the slave’s grave in Bristol vandalised by far right; hardening of the sides and strategy of tension; Mayor Marvin sent racist letters; electioneering in US. ‘The Salisbury Poisonings’ drama on TV – propaganda. Anthrax in US.

James Boswell – Whitney Webb’s Dark Winter’s tale of smallpox, Amerithrax and Covid-19 – Is the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 a naturally occurring variant or was it deliberately engineered? The question is straightforward and finally there can only be one answer. However, governments in the West and the media seem determined to have it both ways. On the one hand they have repeatedly denounced reports that Covid-19 may be a bioweapon as “fake news”, discrediting sources as “conspiracy theorists”, while on the other hand, they are slowly planting the idea that the virus may indeed have escaped from a top level biosafety (BSL-4) lab in Wuhan. As far back as April 7th, Sky News Australia was already muddying the waters with a news story entitled “Evidence mounts COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan”. The evidence it presents is scant to say the least and the supposed “revelation” that “bat was never a food source in Wuhan” was not a revelation at all, but an established fact. Host of the show, Andrew Bolt, leaps from here, however, to the conclusion that “‘a nearby laboratory just 300 metres from the market’ was more likely responsible for the outbreak.” While “another nearby lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, bragged about discovering and identifying ‘a large number of new bat and rodent viruses’”…

– Covid 19 a biological weapon? Beijing believes COVID-19 is a biological weapon. Chinese spokesman’s speech removes hypothesis of biological war from the list of “conspiracy theories”. From conspiracy theory to geopolitical realism, the possibility to treat COVID-19 as a biological weapon has been finally accepted in the public sphere. The recent statement by the Chinese spokesman Zhao Lijian, formally accusing the US of bringing coronavirus to China, has highlighted a series of new opinions about the pandemic. The hypothesis of biological warfare behind the global pandemic had already been raised by Russian experts some weeks ago. Like any opinion that is slightly different from the official version of Western governments and their media agencies, the thesis was ridiculed and accused of being a “conspiracy theory”. However, as soon as the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the second largest economic power on the planet publishes a note attesting to this possibility, it leaves the sphere of “conspiracy theories” to enter the scene of public opinion and official government versions….

Review of this week’s appalling BBC propaganda drama ‘ The Salisbury Poisonings’ and a look at what an intelligence insider has to say about the credibility of the official story – it’s only for the stupid people! –  Skripal case: Israeli expert on the work of the special agents – If you need someone to eliminate, then this is a very serious operation, which is being prepared for a long time. A very significant material and human resource is allocated. We are talking about dozens of employees. On the territory of this state, an “advanced command post” is being created. In the operation, a technical support group, a logistic group, a cover group, an external surveillance group and a group of performers are involved. The performers themselves appear at the very last moment. They do not go anywhere, lighting up on cameras, do not use public transport, but move on rented cars, which they do not rent themselves. And the more they will not stop in hotels, but will live on safe houses provided by the logistics group. Such groups do not come under the passport of their country, do not go to the embassy for obtaining a visa, leaving fingerprints. This is complete nonsense. Professionals do not work that way. If the GRU acted, both the killers and the other participants in the operation would come to the UK on the passports of other countries that have visa-free relations with it. Here, two alleged GRU officers go to the embassy, ​​leave their fingerprints there, get a visa, stop at the hotel, pass under all the cells. This you will not find even in ladies’ detective novels….

Another Perspective on the supposed ‘nerve agent’ poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripal on 4th March 2018 in Salisbury by the Saker  —  The Alternative Skripal Narrative by Michael Antony for The Saker Blog –  …The thing that proves this was a British crime not a Russian one is the fact that Yulia was a prime target. The Russians had no motive to eliminate her, but if they had, they could have done it in Russia with a simple road accident with no questions asked. Only the British had to do it in Britain, since they didn’t have the resources in place to do it in Russia. And if she was not a prime target but collateral damage, why was Sergei not attacked when he was alone? Why wait for her to visit him? The fact they were both targeted the day after she arrived in Britain puts MI6’s signature all over it. She was a danger to MI6 because she knew of Sergei’s plan to return to Russia and trash the Steele Dossier, and she had to be stopped from revealing this to the world when he was killed. Silencing her at the same time was just as important to MI6 as silencing him… 

Were the 2018 Salisbury poisonings’ part of MI6/CIA Operation Beluga? BOMBSHELL: French Counter-Terror Boss: ‘I Have Proof Who Killed Litvinenko – It Wasn’t Russia’ He says it was done by US and UK secret services and that he is going to go public with the evidence – A former French official who has had senior roles in internal security and terror fighting has come forward with a remarkable statement: that he has documentary evidence proving that Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy who died from polonium poisoning, was killed by US and UK special services. In a lengthy interview which is soon to be published, he goes further, saying that Litvinenko’s murder was a special sevices operation designed to defame Russia and Vladimir Putin, that the notorious Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was involved, and was himself killed by MI6 when he became a liability. He even says he knows the code name of the operation: “Beluga”. News of this broke on Sunday, March 27 in an article by William Dunkerley titled “Operation Beluga: A US-UK Plot to Discredit Putin and Destabilize the Russian Federation….

Exclusive interview with Steve Brodie, former West of England Home Affairs Correspondent for the BBC, about his ground-breaking investigations into the UK Chemical and Biological Weapons Centre at Porton Down near Salisbury, Wiltshire – Porton Down scientists, like Nazis, experimenting on unwitting humans with Sarin nerve gas post WW2, causing the death of Ronald Maddison, and severe health damage to others: The first Inquest in to this behind closed doors; Gordon Bell damaged; later Inquest in 2004 found verdict of Unlawful Killing; Porton Down phrase ‘never apologise, never explain’; 750 Porton Down secret operations over the UK; Gulf War Syndrome; gas chamber in Porton Down; Salisbury poisonings – near Porton Down; privatisation of Porton Down.

Porton Down Government Scientist David Kelly murder in 2003 – books: The Strange Death of David Kelly (2007) by Norman Baker MP – Open Verdict: The Mysterious Death of David Kelly (2018) by Miles Goslett

Final agony of RAF volunteer killed by sarin nerve gas – in Britain – As the inquest into the death of a ‘human guinea pig’ at Porton Down opens, a witness breaks 50 years’ silence to recount the horrors he saw ‘I had never seen anyone die before and what that lad went through was absolutely horrific… it was awful,’ he said. ‘It was like he was being electrocuted, his whole body was convulsing. I have seen somebody suffer an epileptic fit, but you have never seen anything like what happened to that lad… the skin was vibrating and there was all this terrible stuff coming out of his mouth… it looked like frogspawn or tapioca.’ Thornhill recalls a number of scientists standing around Maddison. ‘You could see the panic in their eyes – one guy looked as if he was trying to hold his head down. There were four of us who picked him off the floor and put him in the back of the ambulance. He was still having these violent convulsions and we drove him to the medical unit at Porton.’ By the time he reached the unit, it had been cleared of other casualties and there were men in white coats standing around a bed. Thornhill was told to carry Maddison over and it was then that the young ambulance driver saw a second image that would haunt him for decades. ‘I saw his leg rise up from the bed and I saw his skin begin turning blue. It started from the ankle and started spreading up his leg. It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up. I was standing by the bed gawping. It was like watching something from outer space and then one of the doctors produced the biggest needle I had ever seen. It was the size of a bicycle pump and went down onto the lad’s body. The sister saw me gawping and told me to get out.’…

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Spat at border between China and India. Galwan Valley: China and India clash on freezing and inhospitable battlefield – North Korea bombing negotiation centre. North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South in Kaesong – John Bolton’s book on Trump. US and China. Bolton, Trump and Iraq. Dig Bando …

Arctic seed vault – BILL GATES GLOBAL SEED VAULT SVALBARD – Scientists want to build a Noah’s Ark for the human microbiome – The project aims to safeguard the beneficial microbes living in and on the human body An international team of scientists wants to safeguard humanity’s long-term health by creating a Noah’s Ark for microbes. Taking inspiration from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which protects the world’s crop diversity from natural or human-made disasters, the team proposes to create the Microbiota Vault to preserve human microbiome collections that may one day be used to prevent disease. – On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along with, – the Rockefeller Foundation – Monsanto Corporation – Syngenta Foundation – the Government of Norway, among others, – …in what is called the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ – What’s Going On With the Arctic ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault? – A virtually inaccessible seed vault under the control of some of the world’s foremost advocates of eugenics and population reduction is definitely remarkable. With more than a million of the irreplaceable seed heritage of the world locked inside the Svalbard Seed Vault, could this be a way for GMO agribusiness giants like Bayer-Monsanto or Syngenta to illegally gain access to those seeds in a time of global crisis? It sounds very far-fetched, yet there are far-fetched goings on in our world. We could say, “He who controls the world’s crop seeds, controls the world.”

Seattle and Black Lives Matter – David Pidcock discussing the film ‘The Maltese Double Cross’ about the Lockerbie bombings, that he made with Alan Frankovich. 

The latest instalment of the sordid tale of King George VI and Winston Churchill’s alleged collaboration with Hitler’s private secretary and leader of the Nazi party who disappeared at the end of World War Two – Martin Bormann. The prize being their share in a billion or so US dollars worth of Nazi loot. The biggest cover up of the twentieth century uncovered – lie by lie? This week two more layers of the Bormann cover up stripped away. Book ‘Quest’ by Frank Brandenberg, including information about the fate of Martin Bormann after WW2.

– Frank Brandenburg’s 1990 book, Quest, Searching for Germany’s Nazi Past, A Young Man’s Story where he tours Germany and Austria interviewing former Nazis about the Holocaust and the fate of Reichsleiter Martin Bormann. Interviews with eleven former SS Nazis: Dr Wilhelm Hottl; Prof. Hermann Gresler; Richard Schultz-Kussens; Rudolf Jordan; Artur Axmann; Dr Robert Kempner; Heinrich Heim; Hans Miller; Medard Klapper; Franz Lechner; Hans Bauer; Joachim Tibertius and Karl Wolff. The majority confirming Bormann DID survive the war, with most of the rest blowing their top when the question was asked. In the 1980s two of these former (or was it current?) SS men claimed to have personally met Bormann after the war, one, Medard Klapper, then running a gun shop in Karlsruhe, said he met Bormann as recently as 1982.  –  Here is a true story of a young German’s investigation into the years of the Third Reich, into the events that made Hitler’s Germany a synonym for evil an d destruction. A dramatic, suspenseful account with all the gripping thrills of a masterful detective story.

Former SS officer now running a gun shop in Karlsruhe – Medard Klapper quoted talking to Frank Brandenburg in ‘Quest’: Klapper nodded. “The name is, of course, an acronym. Mari from Martin, bor from Bormann, and sol, the Spanish word for sun.” Again, he smiled. “The rising sun of our cause,” he said, “Mariborsol.” And – the purpose?” “To insure that the future will be ours,” Klapper said earnestly. “The financial matters, for instance. And they are considerable, even on a world scale. Real estate. Manufacturing plants. All kinds of profitable investments and business ventures, controlled by our people, the people of Mariborsol, both old and new.” Again he smiled his disconcerting smile. “Such as you nicht wahr?” Not so? Frank treated it as a rhetorical question and said nothing. “And to guard the papers and documents handed down to us from from the Fuhrer and the Third Reich to guide us.” Klapper went on. “Such as the contents of the crates recovered from concealment in Dresden. The reporters of the popular press have coined the phrase ‘The Fourth Reich.’ We do not mind. It will be our reich. The future will be ours. Martin Bormann himself may not live to see the organisation that bears his name become triumphant,” he finished. “But triumphant it will be!”

Ex New York Times investigative journalist and publisher Thomas Lipscomb: Once ensconced in South America Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann created a powerful secret business empire: He “Seems to have been playing a very strong hand, from what I’ve learned from my contacts, not so much from Ladsi (Ladislas Farago). He was working like an investment banker. He was directing other people’s funds, German funds, that were already overseas. There are all kinds of arguments about how much the Nazis got out of Germany before they went. And where the money went. But I suspect the money was everywhere from Switzerland to the usual places. And Bormann was in a position to make investments. So he proceeded to put Germans together, and in effect create interlocking directorships and corporate interests that created quite a powerful business empire. And he was having a ball, making a lot of money staying out of sight and doing this.” A front for organised crime… Thomas Lipscomb – – Thomas H. Lipscomb is one of the few executives with high-level experience in both conventional broadcast and print media and the world of electronic media. He has been both a magazine publisher of consumer magazines such as The Ladies Home Journal and a CEO in book publishing, where he was responsible for bestsellers by authors as diverse as Agatha Christie, Susan Isaacs, Craig Claiborne, Jack Anderson, and William Safire. Books he has published have won literary awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards. His most recent publishing position was as founder and President of Times Books — The New York Times book division. He is the author of articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harpers, The Nation as well as The Readers’ Digest etc., front page stories in The Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Sun, and articles in internet sites such as TechCentral Station and the Jewish World Review. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005…

Author of ‘Aftermath, Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich’ Ladislas Farago’s publisher, old school New York Times investigative journalist and former head of the new York Times book publishing arm Thomas Lipscomb gives us his long view, after fifty years of investigative journalism, on whether or not Bormann survived. Interview with Tom Lipscombe, editor of ‘Aftermath’ by Ladislas Farago, and worked for the publishing arm of NY Times – he discusses Martin Bormann being alive in South America after WW2, his business enterprises, and how he worked with the West: – It can not be ignored that there were those, that were determined to keep the 1945 Bormann death myth in force. But not everyone ignored Farago’s book. The content and evidence produced by Farago was so compelling, that it attracted the attention of German born American Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, a former Nuremburg trial attorney , who decided to reopen the Bormann investigation, based on Ladislas Farago’s documentary evidence of Martin Bormann’s survival. 

Jonathan Cook – Zionism exposed in pages of New York Times! – Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has been wandering in the political wilderness since he pointed out a few months ago the early sympathies between Zionists and Nazis. Although this has been well documented, discussion of it has been taboo for decades. Now Boehm has addressed it in the NYT: The “original sin” of such alliances may be traced back to 1941, in a letter to high Nazi officials, drafted in 1941 by Avraham Stern, known as Yair, a leading early Zionist fighter and member in the 1930s of the paramilitary group Irgun, and later, the founder of another such group, Lehi. In the letter, Stern proposes to collaborate with “Herr Hitler” on “solving the Jewish question” by achieving a “Jewish free Europe.” The solution can be achieved, Stern continues, only through the “settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish people, Palestine.” To that end, he suggests collaborate with the German’s “war efforts,” and establish a Jewish state on a “national and totalitarian basis,” which will be “bound by treaty with the German Reich.” It has been convenient to ignore the existence of this letter, just as it has been convenient to mitigate the conceptual conditions making it possible. Is this the start of a tentative trend? Might we see heavyweight enforcers of liberal Zionist orthodoxy in the British media like the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland reconsider their positions – or at least let a few more rational voices, even if only Israeli Jewish ones like Boehm, enter the fray? Don’t hold your breath quite yet.

‘No evidence of fraud’ in Morales poll victory, say US researchers – Researchers enter row over legitimacy of ex-Bolivian president, who quit after violent protests. A row over the legitimacy of Bolivia’s longest-serving leader, Evo Morales, has been reignited after researchers in the US questioned allegations that fraud was used to help the country’s leader of 14 years win the last election. Writing in the Washington Post, the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s election data and science lab have entered what has become a fraught debate about Morales’s legacy and whether he was forced to step down due to an attempt to manipulate the vote or, rather, pushed out as part of a military coup. “There is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find,” wrote John Curiel and Jack R Williams, both from MIT, adding that the conclusions of an audit by the Organization of American States “would appear deeply flawed”. Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, resigned in November under pressure from the police and army, following weeks of violent protests over alleged voter fraud and an OAS report that said it had found “serious irregularities” in the vote and “clear manipulations” of the voting system.

29 Sep 1960 – Priest Martin Bormann, Jr

Have some of the world’s multi-generational evil people been hidden within the Catholic Church? Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann himself was discovered by Ladislas Farago living in a Bolivian Convent. Son of Hitler’s deputy accused of abusing young boy while he was a priest – The eldest son of Hitler‘s deputy Martin Bormann has been accused of sexually abusing a young boy when he was a priest 50 years ago. Martin Bormann Jr., 80, who has struggled to come to terms with the murderous past of his father all his life, is said to be ‘destroyed’ by the allegations. A 63-year-old man said his mistreatment at the hands of Bormann took place in the early 60s when he was a Catholic priest teaching at the Hearts of Jesus monastery in the Austrian city of Salzburg. The man, a pupil at the monastery, claims the abuse went on for more than a year. Austrian media reported on Monday that the man is seriously ill and incapable of giving interviews. But his lawyer said that his condition is related to what happened to him all those years ago – and the fact that no-one believed him when he complained, not even his mother and grandmother. Through his lawyer he said; ‘I was so badly injured that for four weeks I could not go to the toilet properly.’ ‘This abuse ruined his life,’ said his lawyer who wants to remain anonymous. ‘Both his private and professional life was overshadowed by what happened to him. He has no self respect and no self confidence. ‘Although this man has marvellous gifts – to paint, to carve wood – and he can appear to be so very cultivated, his experiences as a child can destroy his mood in a second.’…

Elected President Evo Morales is sent out of Bolivia even though no evidence of fraud: Evo Morales resigned in November under pressure from the police and army.  – A row over the legitimacy of Bolivia’s longest-serving leader, Evo Morales, has been reignited after researchers in the US questioned allegations that fraud was used to help the country’s leader of 14 years win the last election. Writing in the Washington Post, the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s election data and science lab have entered what has become a fraught debate about Morales’s legacy and whether he was forced to step down due to an attempt to manipulate the vote or, rather, pushed out as part of a military coup. “There is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find,” wrote John Curiel and Jack R Williams, both from MIT, adding that the conclusions of an audit by the Organization of American States “would appear deeply flawed”. Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, resigned in November under pressure from the police and army, following weeks of violent protests over alleged voter fraud and an OAS report that said it had found “serious irregularities” in the vote and “clear manipulations” of the voting system….

Son of Martin Bormann; James Files assassinated JFK.

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First hour News Review with Irish Republican Labour Activist Martin Summers. Bristol in the news around the world all week after the much-disliked statue of Edward Colston is pulled down in Bristol City Centre and thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest. Protests aren’t an affront to democracy – they’re liberty rampant – The greatest risk is not that a statue may be toppled, but that the authorities might overreact with curbs on civil liberty. Two widely reported acts of civil disobedience took place in Britain this past month. One was on the streets of Bristol and led to the toppling of a slave-trader’s statue. The other was on the Dorset coast at Bournemouth and Durdle Door, where thousands flagrantly breached the government’s social distancing law and, in the government’s words, “risked lives”. In both cases, the police arrived and did not intervene. Public space is the stage of political last resort. Where consent to rule fails, where constitutional redress collapses, people will treat the law with contempt. You may call it civil disobedience, protest, trespass, a mob or a riot. It is political action with the objective of securing a change supposedly unavailable by other means….

Who funds Black Lives Matter? BLM has been funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy –  these ‘philanthropists’ therefore effectively get to choose the leaders and BLM is not a grassroots campaign – As such will it campaign against Apartheid Israel? Or generally against all poverty and destitution, black and white? 

PCC candidate hits out at police for “surrendering control” of Bristol’s streets – Tory candidate Mark Shelford said frontline officers were “furious” at their “weak” leaders’ orders to stand by as protesters “took the law into their own hands”. The Conservative candidate for crime commissioner has slammed the police for “surrendering control” of Bristol’s streets and allowing a “mob” to pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston. Mark Shelford said frontline officers were “furious” at their “weak” leaders’ orders to stand by as protesters “took the law into their own hands”. The former Bath councillor warned that the force risked losing the faith of the people of Avon and Somerset unless there was an overhaul of how future protests are policed. Mr Shelford, who had planned to stand in last month’s cancelled election for police and crime commissioner, said: “The pulling down of the statue of Colston in Bristol was a shocking example of what can happen when police effectively surrender control of our streets…

First black woman Merchant Venturer – The Bristol Mafia – who are the Merchant Venturers? Documentary about The Merchant Venturers by James Garrett

Madge Dresser, on BBC 5 Live, on the foibles of Edward Colston; Bishop claiming Colston’s links to slavery ‘spurious’; funding of Black Lives Matter; Kimberley Jones’s viral discussion of black history; looting in Wall St and on the street; George Soros, who funds Black Lives Matter, as a 14 year old in Nazi Hungary;

Pepsi Cola Marketing Man becomes BBC Director General, Tim Davy, discusses BBC and trust; Tony Hall praised the energetic talents of his newly anointed successor Tim Davie, who will take up the role formally in September. He is the 17th holder of the job since Lord Reith defined the public-service remit of the national broadcaster in 1927. Reith’s was the longest and most defining stay of a DG at just over a decade. The shortest, in the wake of the Corporation’s failings over presenter Jimmy Savile’s predatory paedophilia, was George Entwistle’s luckless 54 days, followed by a temporary stint by Davie at the helm between 2012-13. It’s a reminder that the job is both the pinnacle of British broadcasting — and a place where banana skins are plentiful and grand careers can topple. The try-out for the role whetted Davie’s appetite for the top job, after a stint as head of BBC Radio. Teased about his bouncy pursuit of power at New Broadcasting House ever since, he has joked that he was “like one of those insurance company ads: ‘Emergency DG? Call Tim Davie on an 0800 number…’”

Prince Charles on how the pandemic could be used as a reset for change for the better; Royal seal of approval for return to Davos: Prince Charles unveils theme of 2021 event named ‘The Great Reset’. The meeting of the world’s self-styled elite in the Swiss town of Davos will go ahead next January despite the pandemic. Prince Charles, a long-time supporter of organiser the World Economic Forum (WEF), yesterday unveiled the lofty theme of the summit – ‘The Great Reset’. Founder Klaus Schwab said ‘a great reset’ was needed, and insisted the meeting could ‘build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being’. He added: ‘The global health crisis has laid bare the unsustainability of our old system in terms of social cohesion, the lack of equal opportunities and inclusiveness. Nor can we turn our backs on the evils of racism and discrimination.’ Davos has gained a reputation for missing some of the most important issues of the day….

Extracts from Arena documentary about Princess Diana’s Panorama interview;

NZ National party MP Simon O’Connor on new policing powers; lockdown and civil liberties;

Five questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national security establishment links – The public deserves answers about the UK’s new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security establishment, including the MI5 and the Times newspaper, his former role in the Julian Assange case and his membership in the intelligence-linked Trilateral Commission. 1. Why did you meet the head of MI5, the domestic security service, for informal social drinks in April 2013, the year after you decided not to prosecute MI5 for its role in torture? – 2. When and why did you join the Trilateral Commission and what does your membership of this intelligence-linked network entail? – 3. What did you discuss with then US Attorney General Eric Holder when you met him on 9 November 2011 in Washington DC, at a time you were handling the Julian Assange case as the public prosecutor? – 4. What role did you play in the Crown Prosecution Service’s irregular handling of the Julian Assange case during your period as DPP? – 5. Why did you develop such a close relationship with the Times newspaper while you were the DPP and does this relationship still exist?…

Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, on how Covid 19 could be an engineered virus, according to peer reviewed studies; Exclusive: Coronavirus began ‘as an accident’ in Chinese lab, says former MI6 boss – Sir Richard Dearlove tells Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast that new scientific report suggests key elements of the virus were ‘inserted’.. A former head of MI6 has said he believes the coronavirus pandemic “started as an accident” when the virus escaped from a laboratory in China. In an interview with The Telegraph, Sir Richard Dearlove said he had seen an “important” new scientific report suggesting the virus did not emerge naturally but was man-made by Chinese scientists. The apparent discovery will raise the prospect of China paying “reparations” for the death and economic catastrophe wreaked upon the world, the former intelligence chief said. It comes as Beijing faces growing pressure to explain precisely how coronavirus first began to spread late last year…

Beginning of Feb – New Delhi University study Sun 02 Feb 2020 – Coronavirus Contains “HIV Insertions”, Stoking Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon – by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-bioweapon

Twitter bans Zero Hedge Mon 03 Feb 2020 – Twitter bans Zero Hedge after it posts coronavirus conspiracy theory – by Kate Gibson, CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-bans-zero-hedge-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/

In May 2017 at AV8 – a talk by Dr Graham Downing entitled ‘The ‘Bill Gates’ Agenda’ – on Universities and Pharmaceuticals revolving doors – Virus ‘fanatic’ Bill Gates speculates about man made virus being accidentally or deliberately released. According to Wikipedia – Davos is host to the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of global political and business elites.  That is where Mr Gates chose to deliver a dire warning as reported across the world’s Press: ‘Bill Gates warns world is ‘tragically unprepared’ to stop global pandemics such as ebola or zika.’ – (Daily Mirror) ‘Bill Gates warns tens of millions could be killed by bio-terrorism’ – (The Guardian) Mr Gates’ public Health approach has been challenged in many countries including, most recently, India where his organisation was asked to leave that country. Are Public Health measures helping or hindering the Human race; are they preventing illness or, as some contend, causing more harm than good? Well, let’s take a look at the scientific evidence! Recorded at AV8 – May 2017

Israel Times: CIA told Israel/NATO abt China virus in Nov. – US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report – White House was reportedly not interested in the intel, but it was passed onto NATO, IDF; when it reached Israel’s Health Ministry, ‘nothing was done’ – US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israeli television reported Thursday. According to Channel 12 news, the US intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of that month and drew up a classified document. Information on the disease outbreak was not in the public domain at that stage — and was known only apparently to the Chinese government. US intelligence informed the Trump administration, “which did not deem it of interest,” but the report said the Americans also decided to update two allies with the classified document: NATO and Israel, specifically the IDF. The network said Israeli military officials later in November discussed the possibility of the spread of the virus to the region and how it would affect Israel and neighboring countries. The intelligence also reached Israel’s decision makers and the Health Ministry, where “nothing was done,” according to the report. Last week, ABC News reported that US intelligence officials were warning about the coronavirus in a report prepared in November by the American military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence. It was unclear if that was the same report that was said to have been shared with Israel. Colonel Shane Day, the NCMI director, denied last week that any such report existed. “As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters,” he said. “However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists.”…

Former US Naval Intelligence rating who predicted the 9/11 attacks William Cooper on how we’re losing the war against New World Order power-mongers;

Black Cube How an Israeli intel firm allegedly harassed pro-democracy activists in Ukraine – In allegedly targeting Ukrainian reformers, Psy-Group served Russian interests, raising troubling questions about who a firm staffed by ex-Israeli intel officers was working for…

Manufactured Perception and the COVID-19 Pandora’s Box – As intelligent (or lucky), and intuitive as John Rendon is, he just knows too much too soon. The tweet below is part 1 of 5 he shared January 31st, weeks before most people even understood what COVID-19 was. “What should be known about contagions, is first, the psychological size of the contagion will be at least 5x greater than the contagion itself, thus timely, truthful and transparent reporting is essential-which is a challenge for Boys in #Beijing”. The second tweet in the series foretold of collapsing medical infrastructure and the need for the military to step in. Third, Rendon uses his crystal ball to predict travel stoppage, infrastructure, and supply chain breakdown. Next, he predicts economic recovery will be 2x to 3x longer than when the contagion danger has passed. Finally, the PR spook nails exactly what has happened in the international response to the pandemic. In my view, John Rendon is either a direct descendant of the soothsayer “Carnac the Magnificent” made famous by the late Johnny Carson, or he’s some knowledge of pre-planning and contingencies for this pandemic. The news cycle the average American sees contained no such in-depth analysis in the timeframe January 1st through 31st. Put another way, the New York Times was in reaction mode in January, and there was no mention of wide-reaching economic impacts like Rendon prophesied. Given the level of John Rendon’s connections, it’s obvious he’s got a line on COVID-19 few others have. Connections with his past employees like CIA clandestine operative Linda Flohr, twist the truth pointer toward theories the Pentagon/CIA is more involved than most people are led to believe. Flohr was the CIA’s and the White House’s liaison with Rendon in the post-9/11 months, but there are surely other information sources the Rendon has access to at the CIA, the Pentagon, at USAID, and beyond. At the end of a new Great Depression such as Rendon insinuated, and the IMF leadership now predicts, the supply chain will be dramatically affected. Everything will be negatively affected. This is where former clients of Rendon Group, such as Monsanto, will want to play a key role in feeding the masses with their GMOs. The notion the CIA’s former war propagandist knows more than you and me lends credence to those who say SARS-CoV-2 was made in some lab. Factor in that influentials want Bill Gates to take over the White House Coronavirus Task Force from royal son-in-law Jared Kushner, and eugenics conspiracy theorists may be the truth-tellers. Gates’ investments in malaria virus vaccines, his plays with Monsanto, and combine to create a fearsome Big Brother fantasy. But, after all, we’ve seen, is this really fantasy?…

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Second hour International News Followed By Investigative reports: With Dr Judith Brown on Yemen and the UK lockdown https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/category/region/middle-east/yemen/  Interview with Dr Judith Brown, former nurse and UN Refugee Worker in Yemen: why is Yemen being destroyed? Saudi Arabia’s national wealth has been reduced by 1/3 in the last 5 years since the Yemen war began; UAE and Saudi Militias; history of Houthis and Yemen; British involvement in Yemen; Militias working on both sides for money;

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Sanaa Centre for Strategic Studies https://www.sanaacenter.org/news

Covid 19 and the mass media hype; excess deaths in lockdown not related to Covid 19; censorship on Facebook;

Hydrochloroquine disinformation; Hydroxychloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread

Virologist Judy Mikovits and Epidemiologist Dolores Cahill – doctors censored and smeared by the mass media;

Dr. Dolores Cahill on Immunology, Antibodies, CVD19 – Interviewed by Computing Forever’s Dave Cullen – The brilliant researcher and instructor Dr. Dolores Cahill is interviewed by the sagacious & critically informed Irish thinker Dave Cullen from “Computing Forever”. This is reposted with permission from Computing Forever:

HIV/AIDS Research Pioneer Dr. Judy Mikovits Blows Whistle on Dr. Fauci – In 2006, Dr Mikovits became director of Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, collaborating again with Dr Ruscetti to search for the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). She discovered that 67% of women with CFS carried a virus—called Xenotropic Murine Leukemia-Related Virus (XMRV), which only appeared in 4% of healthy women. XMRV is associated with prostate, breast, ovarian cancers, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Many women with XMRV have given birth to children with autism. Mikovits and Ruscetti published their findings in 2009. Other researchers had previously linked the first CFS outbreak to an experimental polio vaccine given to doctors and nurses that resulted in a 1934 outbreak among Los Angeles County hospital staff. That polio vaccine was cultivated on pulverized mouse brains. Dr Mikovits’ studies suggested that the highly-infectious XMRV virus was present in the MMR and Polio vaccines given to American children and the Japanese Encephalitis vaccines given to US military personnel. In 2011, their research strongly indicated that XMRV had entered the human virome through a contaminated blood supply and vaccines. Mikovits says, “We recognized that this mouse retrovirus was causing an alarming national health crisis. That is, if the blood supply and the vaccines were heavily-contaminated with mouse viruses of many strains.” Before she could warn the public, Fauci used his power to silence her. She says, “What Tony Fauci, Ian Lipkin, Harold Varmus did was pressure me to be silent and to withdraw our manuscript.” When she refused,”Dr Fauci stepped in and ordered that my computers and notebooks be confiscated. And he orchestrated the retraction of our science paper. He then removed all my funding and prevented me from getting a job in government research from 2012 forward.”Hundreds of millions of Americans may have received vaccines contaminated with XMRV. Judy’s latest book, Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science….

Covid 19 ‘man-made’ question censored;

NHS says ‘Covid 19 Only’ deaths total ONLY 1300 over four months in UK: c. 300 a month! Reader Christopher Bowyer has once again at the digital coalface making graphs, which he has sent to me. Some are based on NHS England data, and some on the ONS week 21 release. (Bear in mind that ‘with Covid-19’ deaths includes any death where the deceased was suspected of having Covid-19, even if it was not thought to be the cause of death, so these numbers are probably inflated.) 

Is the Coronavirus Scare a Psychological Operation? – If COVID-19 has been co-opted for manipulation of the public, through hyping the threat and pushing exploitive solutions, who is behind it and who benefits? Let’s first review what features and outcomes the “coronavirus scare’ shares in common with the “red scare” that drove the perceived threat of communism and the “Muslim scare” behind the perceived threat of terrorism. Here are a dozen characteristics that these perceived threats share:  1. Fear-based and globally directed – 2. Media saturation with bias toward fear – 3. Data manipulation and propaganda – 4. Censorship of opposing views – 5. Intelligence agency control of information – 6. Preceded by exercises mimicking the threat – 7. Series of claims made that are later proven false – 8. Response threatens democracy – 9. Large increase in wealth and power for a few; increase in social inequality – 10. Increased government control of the public and reduced individual freedoms – 11. Response kills far more than the original threat – 12. Evidence for manufactured events (see below) – There are also differences between the COVID-19 pandemic response and the “wars” on communism and terrorism. One difference is that, for the virus, agencies dedicated to public health have taken the lead. Although the central characters that hyped the communism threat and the terrorism threat were sometimes the same people, they tended to represent military, diplomatic, or intelligence agencies. The primary actors driving the coronavirus lockdowns and associated control mechanisms are political leaders. However, the directives being acted upon come from the World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations ostensibly responsible for international public health. Others controlling the coronavirus scare are national health agencies, most notably the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). Are these agencies acting solely in the interest of public health?…

The Left and Unions wanting lockdown to continue; Google search results biased; new masks and self isolation measures; multiple vaccines dangerous – Gulf War Syndrome;

Commuters can be fined for not wearing masks, Grant Shapps reveals – River bus service Thames Clippers will return to service from 15 June as lockdown measures continue to ease and more commuters return to work. Those using public transport without wearing a face covering can be fined and refused permission to board, transport secretary Grant Shapps said today. Speaking at the government’s daily coronavirus briefing, Shapps said he will be taking steps through the Public Health Act this weekend to ensure powers are in place before the ruling comes into effect. From Monday, it will be mandatory to wear face masks on all public transport, and strongly advised in close spaces such as shops. They do not have to be surgical masks, and can be made at home…

UK’s mandatory mask regulations are anti-scientific, extrajudicial and unenforcable – The Science and Law of Refusing to Wear Masks: Texts and Arguments in Support of Civil Disobedience.  – –  On 30 March, former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption, QC, in a widely-reported condemnation of the abuse of legal regulations by UK police forces in enforcing Government guidance on social distancing, reminded the British people that: ‘Policemen are citizens in uniform. They are not members of a disciplined hierarchy operating just at the Government’s command. The police have no power to enforce Ministers’ preferences, but only legal regulations, which don’t go anything like as far as the Government’s guidance. This is what a police state is like. It’s a state in which the Government can issue orders or express preferences with no legal authority and the police will enforce Ministers’ wishes.’ Two-and-a-half months later, it is time to remind ourselves that, despite the announcement last week by the Secretary of State for Transport that from 15 June the wearing of face masks on public transport will be ‘mandatory’, there is nothing in existing legislation, neither the Coronavirus Act 2020 nor the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, that empowers a police officer to compel a UK citizen to wear a mask, on public transport. Relying on the mass compliance of the British public to the extralegal imposition of these measures, both the Secretary of State and the the Chairman of Network Rail have said that British Transport police will enforce these Government guidelines. However, on 4 June, BTP issued the following statement clarifying its powers in relation to this lastest attempt to violate our civil liberties:

WHO stands by recommendation to not wear masks if you are not sick or not caring for someone who is sick.  – (CNN) World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick. Masks may actually increase your coronavirus risk if worn improperly, surgeon general warns – “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. “There also is the issue that we have a massive global shortage,” Ryan said about masks and other medical supplies. “Right now the people most at risk from this virus are frontline health workers who are exposed to the virus every second of every day. The thought of them not having masks is horrific.” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the WHO, also said at Monday’s briefing that it is important “we prioritize the use of masks for those who need it most,” which would be frontline health care workers. “In the community, we do not recommend the use of wearing masks unless you yourself are sick and as a measure to prevent onward spread from you if you are ill,” Van Kerkhove said. “The masks that we recommend are for people who are at home and who are sick and for those individuals who are caring for those people who are home that are sick,” she said….

US Military evidence suggests flu vaccine may be causing coronavirus deaths – Influenza Vaccination and Respiratory Virus Interference Among Department of Defense Personnel During the 2017-2018 Influenza Season – Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference. Test-negative study designs are often utilized to calculate influenza vaccine effectiveness. The virus interference phenomenon goes against the basic assumption of the test-negative vaccine effectiveness study that vaccination does not change the risk of infection with other respiratory illness, thus potentially biasing vaccine effectiveness results in the positive direction. This study aimed to investigate virus interference by comparing respiratory virus status among Department of Defense personnel based on their influenza vaccination status. Furthermore, individual respiratory viruses and their association with influenza vaccination were examined….

Common Cold Research Centre; Harvard Hospital Salisbury – Porton Down; Steve Brodie reported murder by Porton Down; dangers and limitations of vaccines – mutation of viruses, ‘side effects’; Yellow Vests have been crushed; India National Law resistance crushed; Lord Haw-Haw, Nazi propagandist on Radio Luxembourg William Joyce was never censored by the British in WWII; Hector Drummone website https://www.hectordrummond.com

Corruption Of The World Health Organisation – a book By Logan Christopher http://loganchristopher.com/pandemic/

I am not happy to have written this. I wish, truly wish, that the WHO was a shining beacon of health practices and humankind coming together to support each other. Alas, that is not what I find when I look at the data. Many people choose to stick their head in the sand about such issues. I get that. It’s not fun to look at. It is tremendously disruptive to a calm, consensus worldview. Yet, I look for the truth…wherever it leads me. In my health journey, I saw 70 year old’s in amazing health as an ideal worth emulating. I found that simple things like changes to diet, elimination of environmental toxins, various lifestyle practices were all that was needed to cure many diseases. There were plenty of people that were bucking the standard medical system and were so much healthier for it. Personally, I would have been fine to go down this road myself. To continue building my businesses and teaching others who wanted to be taught. But they went too far. They started taking away rights. They made mandates on what I knew to NOT be in my own best interest for health. For me and my family. I knew I had to start to fight against this. Furthermore, they began to censor anyone who spoke up against this in subtle ways. With that happening, I knew I had to fight NOW before it was too late. So I started writing. I revealed the corruption hiding in plain sight. I named names. I wouldn’t pull my punches any longer. Contrary to the public perception, the WHO and related organizations do not want us to be healthy, sovereign individuals. But I do. And I will fight for it. What follows is about 40 hours of research. While fairly comprehensive, it certainly doesn’t cover everything but will give you an overall glimpse into the WHO and how they operate. This is extensively referenced. I am not asking you to take my word for it. Perhaps that is why I quote people so much! Dig in yourself and verify these things. If I am wrong, if you can refute anything you see here, I would love to hear it. You can reach me directly at logan@legendarystrength.com. But I think if you do look, you’ll find everything I say is backed up. The WHO is held up as the worldwide authority on health. Based on their track record, they should not be. They’re not my authority. I do not consent. If you agree with me and find this useful, please share this report freely. Send it to the people you’ve been talking to. Post it online. Do anything with it you choose, as long as you keep it intact. You can link to it at http://loganchristopher.com/who And there is much more. I am writing regularly on all things related to this Pandemic going on right now. My main focus is health, but I’m talking about economics, government and more too. You can find my other articles, and signup to receive notification of new ones, at http://loganchristopher.com/pandemic/

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February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour News Review: with Lancashire Post journalist Henry Widdas – Covid 19 lockdowns; attempt to arrest a black man in St Pauls, Bristol – Arrest of man in St Pauls was ‘correct and proportionate’, police say. The officer assaulted has a triple fracture of his cheekbone. Police chiefs and key community figures have agreed that the actions of police officers who arrested a man following an assault in Bristol last week was ‘correct and proportionate’. Further meetings have taken place between police and community leaders following the incident on Friday evening, which saw a teenager assaulted by a baseball bat in a disturbance, and a 30-year-old man was arrested by police. Video footage of the aftermath of that arrest was shared widely on social media, and showed a crowd gathered around the police at the scene. Community leaders, including the mayor Marvin Rees, spent time in the St Pauls area of the city where the incident took place, to talk to local people, and have held a series of meetings with senior police officers to assess what happened, view videos of the incident, including the body-worn cameras carried by the police officers involved… 

Black Lives Matter demonstrations; Where are Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the West Country this weekend? A number of Black Lives Matter protests and marches are set to take place across the West Country this weekend. Those taking part in protests are encouraged to wear a mask, and social distance as much as possible. This week has seen Worldwide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in America. Public buildings across the region were lit up in purple to show support for the people of Minneapolis…

Bristol Energy Report cost £198,000: City council paid consultants £198K for Bristol Energy report, as Mayor Marvin Rees clashes with opposition during angry meeting. Bristol City Council is to sell the debt-ridden company. Mayor Marvin Rees clashed angrily with opposition councillors over Bristol Energy, as it emerged consultants were paid almost £200,000 for a report recommending its sale. A row erupted during the public forum at a city council cabinet meeting before members went into exempt session where they agreed to sell the debt-ridden company. Insults were hurled and both sides of the political divide pinned the blame on each other for the business’s “failure”. The Labour mayor singled out Tory Cllr Geoff Gollop, who was cabinet lead for finance in 2015 when the decision was made under former mayor George Ferguson to create Bristol Energy. Mr Rees said it was “reprehensible” the Conservative had “totally ignored the part you played in putting this city in this situation”. Cllr Gollop hit back, branding Mr Rees a “dictator”. Bristol Energy has soaked up £36.5million of council taxpayers’ money since it was formed but has posted losses to date of £32.5million. Earlier this year, Bristol City Council commissioned consultants Ernst & Young (EY) to conduct a full assessment of the firm’s structure and future viability. It confirmed on Wednesday (June 3) that it paid the company £198,000 for the report (£165,000 plus VAT) that was discussed behind closed doors because of commercial confidentiality at cabinet the night before, where it was agreed to seek a buyer for the energy business…

Interview about censorship during the pandemic with Henry Widdas. Henry chairs NW Lancashire Branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and reports for the Lancashire Post: how Covid 19 has affected journalism; civil liberties issues with lockdown; mandatory vaccination; Black Lives Matter protests; Contact Tracing using military software; US Presidential election; SAGE encouraging media to increase sense of risk of Covid 19;

Simon Dolan – the science behind the lockdown. Government faces legal action over refusal to publish Sage minutes. Businessman Simon Dolan says ministers must disclose science behind lockdown. A millionaire businessman is launching legal action against the government after it refused to disclose minutes of the Sage meetings that informed its decision to impose the coronavirus lockdown. Simon Dolan, who owns Jota Aviation, said he received an unsatisfactory response to his challenge over the legality of the lockdown in a “letter before action” sent two weeks ago. He and his lawyers intend to go to the high court to seek permission for an urgent judicial review of the background to the lockdown imposed on 23 March. He had sought to obtain minutes from meetings of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)…

AI writing stories; lockdown and surveillance state; Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots. Users of the homepages of the MSN website and Edge browser will now see news stories generated by AI. Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs. Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media – formerly the Press Association – were told on Thursday that they would lose their jobs in a month’s time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select, edit and curate news articles on its homepages. Employees were told Microsoft’s decision to end the contract with PA Media was taken at short notice as part of a global shift away from humans in favour of automated updates for news. One staff member who worked on the team said: “I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs, and here I am – AI has taken my job.”..

US billionaires $0.5 trillion richer from the lockdown: American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic @ROBTFRANK – Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the biggest gains.Bezos added $34.6 billion to his wealth and Zuckerberg picked up $25 billion.;

Covid-19 around in Dec 2019; New coronavirus spread swiftly around world from late 2019, study finds. LONDON (Reuters) – A genetic study of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year, scientists said on Wednesday. Scientists at University College London’s Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads. “Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans,” the research team, co-led by Francois Balloux, wrote in a study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution. Balloux said the analysis also found that the virus was and is mutating, as normally happens with viruses, and that a large proportion of the global genetic diversity of the virus causing COVID-19 was found in all of the hardest-hit countries. That suggests SARS-CoV-2 was being transmitted extensively around the world from early on in the epidemic, he said. “All viruses naturally mutate. Mutations in themselves are not a bad thing and there is nothing to suggest SARS-CoV-2 is mutating faster or slower than expected,” he said. “So far, we cannot say whether SARS-CoV-2 is becoming more or less lethal and contagious.”.. lockdown politicised – Unions against easing lockdown;

Bill Gates subject of conspiracy theorists – Coronavirus: why Bill Gates is the bogeyman of conspiracy theorists. Dozens of anti-Gates rumours have circulated online since start of Covid-19 crisis. One popular theory is that Gates wants to eliminate 15 per cent of the global population. False claims targeting billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates are gaining traction online since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, with experts warning they could hamper efforts to curb the virus. Doctored photos and fabricated news articles crafted by conspiracy theorists – shared thousands of times on social media platforms and messaging apps, in various languages – have gone as far as accusing the Microsoft founder of creating the outbreak. Gates, who has pledged US$250 million to efforts to fight the pandemic, is the latest in a string of online targets despite the World Health Organisation’s efforts to fight what it called an “infodemic” – misinformation fanned by panic and confusion about the virus…

Kath Viner, Editor of The Guardian, on The Media Show, saying she will never take Seumas Milne back – Making ‘the news’ free to the world, or marketing pretending to be news?  – BBC Radio 4 – The Media Show – Katharine Viner is editor in chief of The Guardian. In this extended interview with Amol Rajan she talks about her mission to build one of the world’s leading “progressive news organisations”, why The Guardian is “not a Labour paper” and reveals the backstory to their Dominic Cummings exclusive…

Examples of TV/Radio media just repeating a press release from Amazon – US local news stations air segments on Amazon penned by company’s PR team

At least 11 stations present story offering ‘glimpse inside’ Amazon, after company apparently sent material to reporters. Nearly a dozen local US TV channels aired segments about Amazon that included footage and a script produced by the retailer’s public relations team. The segments, which, according to the news outlet Courier, appeared on at least 11 local news stations, praised Amazon’s response to the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the company’s shareholder meeting on Wednesday. The meeting takes place following weeks of controversy over the company’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Amazon has been accused of denying workers sick leave, failing to provide adequate protection in warehouses, and retaliating against workers who speak out against these conditions. It appears the language and footage in the segment were part of a pre-written story Amazon sent around to some reporters in the US. Zach Rael, a reporter at the Oklahoma City station KOCO, tweeted on Sunday that he had received an email containing footage of Amazon facilities and a script for the news anchor, which included phrases praising Amazon, including: “For the first time, we’re getting a glimpse inside Amazon’s fulfilment centres to see just how the company is keeping its employees safe and healthy.” Courier found at least 11 local news stations had used the Amazon script verbatim, including outlets in West Virginia, Miami, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. A Courier video shows anchors at the stations repeating the same phrases, including “the company is keeping its employees safe and healthy”…

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Second hour National and International News Followed By Investigative reports: A look at the implications of Prince Charles’ becoming British and Commonwealth head of state as Prince Regent if Queen Elizabeth II ‘retires’ in April 2020.   

Russian space race: Russian strategic document names strike weapons deployed in space as key military threat – RIA – MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin approved a strategic document on Tuesday naming the creation and deployment of anti-missile and strike weapons in space as one of the main military threats to Russia, the RIA news agency reported. The document outlining Russia’s policy on its nuclear deterrent was published online amid arms control tensions between Russia and the United States over the future of New START, the last major pact regulating their nuclear arsenals.

More evidence of the Nazis testing the world’s first atomic bomb in October 1944 described in the book ‘Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy’ (1975) by Louis Kaufman, Barbara FitzGerald, Tom Sewell. Nazi Werewolf Guerrilla Units managed by Nazi party chief Martin Bormann at the end of WW2: 

Amazing 1945-7 exploits of British MI6 intelligence flushing out some of the post war SS Resistance units across Europe – the so-called ‘Werewolves’ Book: ‘The Last Nazis, SS Werewolf Guerrilla Resistance in Europe, 1944 to 1947’ (2000) by Perry Biddiscombe; book – ‘Werwolf, Winke Fur Jagdeinheiten’ SS guide to guerrilla warfare and sabotage (1945)

Nazi structures turning into NATO; ‘Operation Gladio’ – Book explaining how these NATO units carried out hundreds of terrorist attacks on European citizens for geopolitical gain in the post war years, mainly in Italy in the 1980s – ‘NATOs Secret Armies’ by Daniele Ganser.

The secret US CIA plan to embroil the Soviet Union in an unwinnable Afghanistan occupation by arming and training Islamic militants: Operation Cyclone; Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken; funding officially began with $695,000 in 1979, was increased dramatically to $20–$30 million per year in 1980 and rose to $630 million per year in 1987…

Israeli air strikes in Northern Syria: Israeli Airstrikes Pound Northern Syria, Killing at Least Nine – Attack reportedly targeted ‘weapons factory’ – Syrian state media reported an Israeli attack against the northern area around al-Masyaf, with missiles hitting a weapons factory. The attack was said to have caused massive damage, and killed at least nine people. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed this was roughly the case, saying four killed were Syrian and the others are of unknown nationalities. They expected the death toll would rise because of the extent of the damage. As usual, Israel refused to talk, but they did chime in on a 2019 attack on Syria, denying media reports that Israeli ground troops had entered Syria without permission. The incident killed one Syrian civilian. Israel constantly attacks targets in Syria, and generally does try to kill foreigners, labeling them Iranian in most Israeli media outlets. The slain are generally Shi’ites from other countries, but very rarely are they actually from Iran.

Covid 19 as a bio weapon and the consequences: US bio-weapons from Nazis – The Nazi Origins of US Bio-laboratories – The United States openly uses the COVID-19 pandemic to address its geopolitical and geo-economic challenges. Therefore, without waiting for an investigation to be carried out by the World Health Organisation, other countries are accused of spreading coronavirus. At the same time, the US itself does not want to say anything about their 400 biological laboratories? These bio-laboratories are scattered across the planet and their activities are not regulated by any international agreements. What are they engaged in? What experiments are carried out? In order to answer this question, it is enough to recall the history of the origin of these bio-laboratories. Their origins should be sought in the period of German-American cooperation of the 1920s-1930s. Within the framework of this cooperation, American and German scientists carried out joint research in the field of medicine and the development of bacteriological weapons. This process continued until the United States entered the war in December 1941. At the same time, American colleagues were not embarrassed by the fact that the Nazis used concentration camp prisoners for “experiments”.In particular, the prisoners of the oldest concentration camp of the “Third Reich” Dachau were experimented on with malaria and tularemia. The latter was discovered, and actually created, by virologists from the California anti-plague station located near Lake Tulare in the United States. From the name of the latter came the name of an infectious disease, the causative agent of which was bacterium tularensis……  These examples alone are sufficient to state that our people have been the target of one of the largest biological wars in history. But this fact did not embarrass our “allies” – the American partners of the Third Reich. They did not stop financing Nazi projects until the last days of the Great Patriotic War. Some of these funds were spent on the implementation of inhuman biological “experiments”. Thus, none other than the Americans became the sponsors of the Nazi bacteriological warfare. They received almost all Nazi documentation in the field of biological weapons, as well as patents for German inventions. This happened after the surrender of Germany and became the basis for the launch of the American bacteriological program. Its continuation can be observed today in the form of US bio-laboratories. These laboratories scattered around the world are a direct continuation of Nazi projects.

Signs we are heading to WWIII: Iraq threatened by Trump not to do deals with the Chinese – Iranian General Qasem Soleimani assassinated. – How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump’s True Motives in Iraq. The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may be shaping America’s new Mideast strategy…  While recent rhetoric in the media has dwelled on the extent of Iran’s influence in Iraq, China’s recent dealings with Iraq — particularly in its oil sector — are to blame for much of what has transpired in Iraq in recent months, at least according to Iraq’s Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, who is currently serving in a caretaker role…

Ambassador Lindstedt accused by Sweden of risking security – Sweden: Ex-ambassador to China Anna Lindstedt is on trial for negotiating with China for release of Swedish bookseller based in Hong Kong – Anna Lindstedt has not spoken publicly but has received the support of 21 ex-ambassadors – For the first time in modern Swedish history, an ex-ambassador has gone on trial and faces a possible jail term. Anna Lindstedt is accused of going beyond her remit by holding unauthorised talks with a foreign power to gain the release of a Chinese-born Swedish citizen. Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller, was later jailed by China for “illegally providing intelligence overseas”. The prosecutor said Ms Lindstedt had put relations with China at risk. She had acted in violation of Swedish foreign policy by arranging the negotiations, he told the court on Friday. The former ambassador’s defence lawyer told the court in Stockholm she denied the charges…

‘The Truth About Vaccines’ film, by Ty and Charlene Bollinger: Robert Kennedy discussing Google partnering with vaccine makers and anti vaccine information censored on the internet ; why we must stop mandatory vaccines. Today’s debate about vaccines is leaving parents with a troubling question: Do I vaccinate my child… or not? So we brought together more than 60 of the world’s foremost health experts to investigate both sides of this contentious debate to give you the science, the history, and the untold story… the REAL information you need to make an informed decision on how to best protect your child. This groundbreaking documentary series gives you all the essential proven facts, studies, and data you need to be fully informed about one of the most important decisions a parent has to make today. Take a journey with us to study the history of vaccines, smallpox, and vaccine safety. Understand the reality of the current CDC schedule. Learn more about what’s inside of a vaccine. Are they really effective? Take a closer look at the MMR and DTaP vaccines, the flu vaccine, and the concept of “herd immunity”. Get the facts about the HPV & Hepatitis B vaccines, and the real truth about SIDS & Shaken Baby Syndrome…

Queen ‘to retire in 18 months’ for Charles to become Prince Regent? But is he up to the job? – Wednesday 27 Nov 2019 – Queen Elizabeth is reportedly handing over her duties to her son Charles, the Prince of Wales, when she turns 95 Prince Charles is preparing to take over leadership of the Royals when the Queen turns 95, it has been reported. The Queen’s oldest son met with his father at Sandringham yesterday to discuss the continuing fallout from his brother’s disastrous TV interview about his links to Jeffry Epstein. Prince Charles’ key role in ‘retiring’ Prince Andrew from public life has fed speculation he is preparing to become ‘shadow King’, which would see him control day-to-day royal affairs while his mother remains monarch. Her Majesty will turn 95 in 18 months – the same age at which her husband Prince Philip withdrew from his public duties…

Is Prince Charles set to become Prince Regent in April 2021? Queen ‘could retire in 18 months’ with Charles ‘set to take over as Prince Regent’. The Queen turns 95 in 2021 and some insiders believe she may use this milestone to make her son Prince Charles Prince Regent –

Massive PR drive to improve Prince Charles’ image, appearing on Classic FM and Prince Charles discussing the ‘Pick for Britain’ campaign. 

Trailer for ‘Unlawful Killing’ film by Keith Allen, 2011, about the inquiry into the death of Princess Diana. Keith Allen’s full 1hr 20m documentary, We have no idea what is going on because we – whom the establishment regard as the ‘little people’ – don’t matter.” A letter, written by Diana to her butler Paul Burrell three years before the death crash, flags up her fears of being killed in a car crash. She wrote: “My husband is planning an accident in my car – brake failure or serious injury.” Investigator Kitty Kelley alleges that then Met Police commissioner Paul Condon – now a Lord – withheld the letter for three years after Diana’s death. Unlawful Killing is a 2011 British documentary film, directed by Keith Allen, about the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997. It was financed by Mohamed Al-Fayed and Associated-Rediffusion and shown in Cannes while the 2011 Cannes Film Festival was in progress. 

John Morgan, author of ‘The Shocking Truth: how they murdered Princess Diana’, discusses ‘The Way Ahead Group’ – that deals with Royal Family issues and appears to have ‘signed off’ the assassination – also anomalies at the crash scene and Princess Diana’s note predicting the way she would die and saying Prince Charles would be responsible if it happened. “My husband is planning an accident in my car – brake failure or serious injury”.

Paul Burrel’s 2002 court case stopped because of contents of Princess Diana’s Mahogany Box Of Secrets, Her ‘Crown Jewels’: When Princess Diana died in 1997, her “box of secrets”, containing 10 never-before-seen video tapes and audio cassettes she covertly recorded, disappeared from Kensington Palace – and have never been recovered. In Diana: Case Solved, authors Dylan Howard and former detective Colin McLaren claim the lost tapes contained a “record of her knowledge of scandals that could finish Britain’s monarchy” and that she “stashed them in a box called the ‘Crown Jewels'”. They were kept under lock and key in her Kensington Palace apartment along with a signet ring belonging to her former lover James Hewitt and photographs that show her ex-husband Prince Charles romping naked with a male lover, their informants claim.

Prince’s Trust, The Fairbridge Society, and abuse of 2,500 young boys who were sent to Australia by Prince Charles’ charity. Former child migrants sent from the UK to Australia by the Fairbridge Society may be a step closer towards receiving compensation for sexual and physical abuse, after the Prince’s Trust said it was providing funds to allow survivors to make claims. Many of an estimated 2,500 child migrants sent to most Australian states by the Fairbridge Society between 1912 and 1970 were sexually abused, as well as regularly beaten…

May 2020 Royal rebel: How Princess Diana ‘stood up to Philip’ in furious letter exchange – PRINCESS DIANA stood up to Prince Philip in a furious letter exchange back in 1992, unearthed reports have revealed

Mystery royal ‘was part of suspected paedophile ring being investigated by Scotland Yard but the inquiry was shut down for national security reasons’. Officer said royal and MP both identified in child abuse inquiry in late 1980s – Investigations into allegations ‘shut down for national security reasons’ – Scotland Yard accused of engineering 14 cover-ups of VIP child sex abuse –‘The detective sergeant said he had just had a major child abuse investigation shut down by the CPS regarding a royal and an MP. ‘He did not mention names, but he said the CPS had said it was not in the public’s interest because it “could destabilise national security”.’  The news comes after it was revealed that Scotland Yard has been accused of facilitating 14 cover-ups of VIP child sex abuse. Over 35 years, officers are said to have protected ‘untouchable’ figures by shutting down inquiries that reached the heart of government. The 14 alleged cover-ups were referred to watchdogs by the Metropolitan Police Service itself yesterday. It threatens to be the biggest investigation into police corruption since the 1970s. The allegations were uncovered by detectives probing claims of historical sex abuse first raised by Labour MP Tom Watson in October 2012. Those on the inquiry, known as Operation Fairbank, are understood to have raised concerns after studying files kept in storage…

The lonely death of Kanga Tyron, Charles’s other mistress 15 Nov 1997 –  The lonely death of Charles’s other mistress. She was the Australian who married a peer and became a prince’s lover. But the affair broke her heart and unhinged her mind. The name is largely forgotten. The big hair, the luscious lips, and the constant partying have so faded in memory that they might never have existed. When Kanga Tryon – once a household name and a central figure in the life of the Prince of Wales – died almost three months after Princess Diana, in 1997, she was quickly forgotten. Nobody ever quite understood how she fitted into the royal jigsaw. For most people, the battle for Charles’s heart was a straight playoff between two women – married Camilla, his one true love, and virginal Diana, a knee-jerk response to a nation baying for a royal bride. But, for a time, Kanga was just as important to Charles as Camilla. Yet the story of how she came to love and lose her prince has never been fully told. Until now. For the first time, a Channel 4 documentary reveals the extraordinary bed-hopping antics of the heir to the throne in the years leading up to his marriage to Diana. High Society reveals how, for a period during the 1970s, when both women were married to friends of his, HRH bounced from the bed of Camilla to that of Lady Tryon, then back again… 

Charles Camilla 2005 Marriage Illegal says 1836 Marriage Act – Royal culprit in a divorce cannot legally remarry. The argument hinges on Section 45 of the 1836 Marriage Act, which specified that nothing in the Act “shall extend to the marriage of any of the Royal Family”.,,,,”Unlike the 1836 Act, the 1949 Act does not say Royals cannot marry in a civil ceremony. In 1949, Parliament clearly intended that members of the Royal family could, if they wished, get married in a civil ceremony.” But others have pointed to a provision of the 1949 Act which says that nothing in it should affect “any law or custom relating to the marriage of members of the Royal Family.” When Princess Margaret wanted to marry a divorced commoner, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 50 years ago, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, advised the Prime Minister that: “Marriages of members of the Royal Family are not in the same position as marriages of other persons. The statutory facilities for civil marriages are not available in England, but are available in Scotland.” Dr Stephen Cretney, emeritus fellow of legal history at Oxford University, said the Prime Minister should issue a “full and proper” statement about the situation. “To put it mildly, the fiasco of the town hall wedding puts in question the competence of some of those on whom the Royal Family, the Government and others relied.” The couple were forced to move the wedding from Windsor Castle, because The Queen would had to have made it available for other couples planning civil marriages. It is also rumoured that the Queen has insisted that Charles cut the guest list for his wedding party. She is also reported to have said that she does not want to meet Mrs Parker Bowles before the wedding, and has insisted that the reception is over at six o’clock “at the latest”.

March 2008 – Camilla police bodyguard Richard Fuller found dead – A POLICE officer who headed the security for Prince Charles’ wife Camilla has been found dead at his home. Sergeant Richard Fuller, 55, was married with three grown-up children. The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles were told of the death while on board the yacht Leander during a Caribbean tour. A spokeswoman for Clarence House said: “The Duchess of Cornwall was very saddened to hear of the death of Sergeant Richard Fuller.” Sgt Fuller, a trained armed response officer with Wiltshire Police, was found dead at his home at Bremhill, near Calne on Sunday…

June 2009: Why did husband of Prince’s personal florist kill himself? Mystery as body is found at sea. The husband of Prince Charles’s personal flower arranger has been found dead amid reports that their marriage was falling apart. Friends claim that David Lowe, 52, who apparently committed suicide, spoke openly of how he and his wife Sarah Champier-Lowe, who works full-time at Highgrove, had been leading increasingly separate lives. Two months before his body was recovered from the Bristol Channel on May 25, he told one close confidante: ‘Sarah says she wants her freedom.’…

‘REPORTER WHO EXPOSED BBC PAEDOPHILIA COVER UP FOUND DEAD’: ‘…Liz MacKean, the former British investigative reporter who exposed Jimmy Savile and the culture of pedophile protection at the BBC, has been found dead. She was 52.

14 Jan 2020 Friendship with Prince Charles made paedophile bishop Peter Ball ‘impregnable‘. BBC2 documentary shows how establishment figures rallied round cleric. Prince Charles told Ball in a letter in February 1995, two years after the bishop had accepted the police caution, which was read to the inquiry: “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.”. Charles later arranged for the Duchy of Cornwall to buy a house to be rented by Ball and his identical twin, Michael, also a bishop…

Highgrove tribute to woman who died after falling into a garden well. Irena Nadiotis worked in Prince Charles’ garden at Highgrove in Gloucestershire. A woman who fell to her death down a 49ft (15m) well in her garden was a “cherished” member of the team at the Prince of Wales’ Highgrove Estate. Irena Nadiotis, 57, was in her own garden in Church Street, Tetbury, on Saturday when the accident happened.

Plots, backstabbing, infighting and the goings on at Highgrove: Prince Charles’ secret life revealed in new book.  The Tom Bower book ‘Rebel Prince’ labels the Royal as ‘petulant’

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BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers continues online after being ‘rested’ mid-March 2020 by BCfm managing editor Pat Hart. internet only BCfm Politics Show now available 17:00-19:00 live Friday Drivetime. We are ready to go live on the FM server remotely, awaiting the go-ahead from managing editor Pat Hart and his team. In the light of government and Ofcom guidance they decided not to broadcast discussion or political shows that ‘might put the FM licence at risk’ and don’t want the burden of dealing with potential Ofcom complaints.

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First hour News Review With former communities minister and LibDem MP for Bristol West, Stephen Williams: Steven’s experience as Communities Minister; Grenfell Tower Inquiry;

Bristol MP Stephen Williams was warned over tower block fire safety four years before Grenfell Tower tragedy – but said changes were not ‘urgent’ – Mr Williams told those warning him not to “wait for another tragedy” before reviewing regulations that he hadn’t seen or heard anything to suggest that changing them was “urgent”… In March 2014, the parliamentary group wrote: “Surely… when you already have credible evidence to justify updating… the guidance… which will lead to saving of lives, you don’t need to wait another three years in addition to the two already spent since the research findings were updated, in order to take action? “As there are estimated to be another 4,000 older tower blocks in the UK, without automatic sprinkler protection, can we really afford to wait for another tragedy to occur before we amend this weakness?” The correspondence continued between the group and ministers before Mr Williams wrote back: “I have neither seen nor heard anything that would suggest that consideration of these specific potential changes is urgent and I am not willing to disrupt the work of this department by asking that these matters are brought forward.” The group of MPs then fired back to Mr Williams, saying they were “at a loss to understand how you had concluded that credible and independent evidence, which had life safety implications, was NOT considered to be urgent”. They even warned him they would go public with the Government’s inaction if there was another “major fire tragedy,” saying: “As a consequence the group wishes to point out to you that should a major fire tragedy, with loss of life, occur between now and 2017 in, for example, a residential care facility or a purpose-built block of flats, where the matters which had been raised here were found to be contributory to the outcome, then the group would be bound to bring this to others’ attention.”… 

Labour Mayor Marvin Rees was hoping the disastrous Bristol Energy report would come out after the May 2020 election that never happened, so now he has to ‘keep a lid on it’. £35m upwards of public money wasted on Bristol Energy; Call for independent inquiry into Bristol Energy voted down – Opposition groups united to support the motion, but were “bitterly disappointed” when it was voted down by Labour members -‘A bombshell about to explode in this city’s finances’ – Conservative group leader Mark Weston described the company as “haemorrhaging money” as he brought his motion to the extraordinary full council meeting. Cllr Weston said it was time for the administration to accept Bristol Energy was a “dead weight” on council finances that should be “released”. “What we want is an inquiry,” he said. “Let us investigate exactly what happened, when it happened, the funding that goes with it, because I fear we have a bombshell about to explode in this city’s finances that is going to cost us millions.” Seconding the motion, Lib Dem group leader Gary Hopkins said it was obvious more than two years ago that Bristol Energy was in trouble and accused the mayor of a “cover up” once he realised the company was beyond rescue. Speaking on behalf of the Green group in support of the motion, councillor Jerome Thomas said the council had acted with “inappropriate secrecy” in relation to Bristol Energy and the public knew more about the finances of British Gas and Scottish Power than they did about the energy company their council tax had paid for. “Greater openness would have meant that problems with Bristol Energy would have been identified and communicated earlier and suitable corrective action could have been taken,” he said. Labour member Estella Tinknell called for the opposition councillors to withdraw their “completely counterproductive” motion and instead work together to ensure Bristol Energy has a “positive and constructive future”…

Lakota nightclub proprietor Marti Burgess agrees to become the first black Merchant Venturer, a notorious former slave trading group. Does she stand any chance of opening its accounts to public scrutiny? Marti Burgess appointed first black member of Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers. The secretive society known locally as ‘The Bristol Mafia’ was founded in 1552.  The Merchant Venturers have been the dominant force in Bristol civic life since at least the 16th century. The organisation effectively ran the city for hundreds of years, its members set up the Bristol part of the transatlantic slave trade and the forced transportation of hundreds of thousands of the poor from Britain, while it represented the interests of businessmen and the rich merchants. Now, the organisation runs many of the city’s state-funded primary and secondary schools, as well as fee-paying schools, and also has many of the city’s nursing homes as part of the St Monica Trust charity and the Cote Charity, as well as having a role in things like the Downs Committee. Its members include multi-millionaires and business leaders from across the city and wider region, and is largely now a charitable organisation with a behind-the-scenes role in funding numerous major third sector organisations in Bristol. Marti Burgess’ appointment is the first of 2020, and is the first time the organisation has ever included a black person in its ranks…

Covid 19 – Boris explaining up to six people can now meet outside; Boris Johnson announces new lockdown rules allowing six people to gather from Monday. FAMILIES and friends will be allowed to reunite following months apart after Boris Johnson eased lockdown rules. The Prime Minister announced that outdoor gatherings of up to six people will be permitted from Monday as long as social distancing rules are still observed. Barbecues and garden parties got the green light, as well as get-togethers in parks, beaches and other outdoor venues. And grandparents will finally be able to see their grandchildren again, although shielding advice for the most vulnerable to coronavirus remains in force. The PM said: “I know that for many this will be a long-awaited and joyful moment.” Mr Johnson also confirmed that primary schools and nurseries will start some classes for the children of non-key workers from Monday. Secondaries will follow a fortnight later. NHS dentists will be encouraged to reopen from June 8. Outdoor markets and car showrooms have been permitted to start trading on Monday with other non-essential shops reopening from the middle of the month…

Ex-Ambassador Craig Murray suggests Dominic Cummings may have gone to Durham to see GSK who are bidding for vaccine production; Why Barnard Castle? – Dominic Cummings specifically stated now in the press briefing that he had been eager to “get back to work to get vaccine deals through, move regulations aside” and that is why he drove to Barnard Castle to test his driving ability. Now it may be entirely a coincidence that the place to which he chose to drive for his eyesight test happened to be the site of the major factory of GlaxoSmithKline. It may be an entire coincidence that two days later, on the very day Cummings actually started work back in Downing Street he has stated was “to get vaccine deals through”, GlaxoSmithKline announced an agreement to develop the vaccine. It is however plainly not crazy to ask the question…

Emily Maitliss taken off Newsnight for breaking impartiality guidelines – she said Cummings broke the lockdown rules; Emily Maitlis replaced for Newsnight episode after Cummings remarks. Katie Razzall stepped in after BBC reprimanded host over ‘breach of impartiality rules’ 

SAGE ‘we will use the media to increase the sense of personal threat’; but this is terrifying some of the most vulnerable and sensitive people in society – Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said ‘Use media to increase sense of personal threat’ in their ‘Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures  22nd March 2020′

The final Thursday ‘clapping for the NHS’ <<BUT>> 13,000 unexplained deaths due to lack of NHS treatment; Almost 13,000 unexplained deaths in England and Wales since coronavirus crisis began, figures show – Fears grow that thousands died of non-virus causes at home or in care homes because they could not access medical treatment – Nearly 13,000 more people than expected have died in England and Wales since mid-March from causes other than coronavirus amid fears that a lack of medical care is responsible. Data compiled by The Telegraph shows that there have been more than 23,000 excess deaths in care homes or at home, not linked to Covid-19, since March 13. During that time, hospital deaths fell by more than 10,000 as many dying patients were sent back into the community to free up beds ahead of the pandemic building to a peak. But even after allowing for the numbers who would ordinarily have died in hospital, some 12,818 deaths are left unaccounted for… 

George Floyd – black man killed by police in US; Federal Agents sex with enslaved prostitutes; Federal agents engaged in sex acts with victims – PHOENIX — The women were forced to live and work in filth and near darkness, the federal agent said, surviving on only the tips they received from performing massages and sexual favors. – Lon Weigand, deputy special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Arizona, described them as “Asian females” who may be sex-trafficking victims. He praised the joint operation between federal agents and local police in western Arizona that led to their rescue and credited “investigative techniques” with helping to crack a “transnational criminal organization.” What Weigand didn’t say at that September 2018 press conference – although HSI documents show some supervisors knew – was that federal undercover agents repeatedly paid for and engaged in sex acts with suspected victims…

Protests against the lockdown in US;  Hundreds demand justice in Minneapolis after police killing of George Floyd Protesters clash with police, who deploy teargas and stun grenades, following death of black man at hands of white officer        Shocking moment effigy of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is hanged from a tree outside his mansion by Second Amendment supporters during Covid-19 lockdown protest –A group of people first gathered outside the Kentucky Capitol building – They were said to be celebrating their Second Amendment rights in Frankfort The gathering soon turned into a protest against Kentucky’s Covid-19 measures  – Organizers led the group to the governor’s mansion where the hanging took place as a crowd of people, including children, watched on..    Anti-lockdown demonstrators trade guns for scissors at Michigan ‘haircut’ protest – Demonstrators in Michigan gathered for “Operation Haircut,” the latest in a string of protests against the state’s stay-at-home order.  Husband of ‘Reopen North Carolina’ leader says he is ‘willing to kill’ in fight against lockdown Adam Smith says America must stand up to ‘new world order’ – The husband of a leading protester campaigning to “reopen” North Carolina has said he and his fellow protesters are “willing to kill people” as they fight to overturn their state’s lockdown order.   Coronavirus: Madrid Anti-lockdown car protest draws thousands

Zara Saltana MP – maiden speech of Labour MP for Coventry; 

Open letter to Campaign Group of Socialist Labour MPs; David Miller suspended; Israel Lobby’s influence in politics: Open Letter to the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs – Reject the New McCarthyism – Reject the Board of Deputies 10 Pledges – … For over four and a half years there was a sustained campaign of vilification and defamation alleging that the Labour Party was overrun by ‘anti-Semitism’. It was a campaign initiated by that well known opponent of racism, the Daily Mail in an article written even before Jeremy Corbyn had even been elected, alleging that he had associated with a holocaust denier. This campaign was fronted by the Jewish Chronicle under far-Right editor and founder of the Henry Jackson Society, Stephen Pollard. In the words of its editorial of 8 November 2019 ‘Throughout his career, he [Corbyn] has allied with and supported antisemites.’ When Israel’s Education Ministry bans a book depicting a teenage romance between a Jew and Arab from the High School syllabus it does it because it undermines students’ understanding of their ‘Jewish identity’. Opposition to sexual relations between the races was fundamental to South Africa, the Deep South and Nazi Germany.   We are asking you to:    1. Join us in opposing the continuation of the anti-Semitism witch-hunt. It is aimed at anti-racists and anti-imperialist supporters of the Palestinians not anti-Semites.   2. Oppose the Board of Deputies 10 Pledges whose aim is to close down discussion and debate on Palestine and Zionism.   3. Recognise that Keir Starmer represents the hard-Right in the Labour Party. His attempt to bury the leaked Labour Report with a Whitewash by appointing a panel of Progress supporters confirms that. He has made it clear that he is returning Labour to the austerity-lite politics of Ed Miliband.   4. That we should do what the Right did for the duration of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. We should oppose the attempt by Starmer to return us to the era of New Labour.    We believe that no member of the Campaign Group should serve in the Shadow Cabinet and provide Starmer with ‘left’ political cover. Starmer is a member of the British Establishment and the Trilateral Commission alongside such luminaries as Henry Kissinger. Starmer is the darling of the Tory press. He has even been endorsed by George Osborne…

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Second hour International News Followed By Investigative reports:  Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Chief Financial Officer, is still under arrest in Vancouver; US China boat ….STORY LINK**;

Covid 19 – is it biological warfare?

If Given OK, US Could Conduct a Nuclear Test in a Matter of Months, Pentagon Official Says – This comes as senior national security officials are reportedly discussing whether to conduct a test. The United States could conduct an underground nuclear weapons test within months of being given an order to do so, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. But there has been no change in the U.S. policy to not test nuclear weapons, said Drew Walter, who is performing the duties of deputy assistant defense secretary for nuclear matters. He spoke four days after the Washington Post reported that “senior officials representing the top national security agencies” discussed conducting a nuclear test during a May 15 meeting.  “[I]f the president directed, because of a technical issue or a geopolitical issue, the system to go test, I think it would happen relatively rapidly,” Walter said Tuesday at a Mitchell Institute event.  Walter said the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the maintenance of U.S. nuclear weapons, “has a requirement to retain the ability to resume testing on particular timelines. Reviewing those timelines for the readiness posture regularly is always prudent.”  NNSA officials “maintain the capability to do all of that underground work,” Walter said, meaning they have a location suitable for an underground nuclear test.  A nuclear test could be conducted “with limited diagnostics…within months, probably not years,” he said. But he added that the time to prepare for “a fully diagnostic” test that generates “lots of data, all the bells and whistles, so to speak, might be measured in years.”…

US nuclear test in months Trump Administration Discussing New Nuclear Test, First Since 1992 Officials believe test would push Russia, China in negotiations How does the US get Russia and China to the negotiating table? Senior administration officials came up with the idea of carrying out the first US nuclear test explosion since 1992, and this conversation is still ongoing.  Carrying out nuclear tests is a hugely provocative move on the global scale, and yet the Trump Administration thought it could “prove useful” in trying to get Russia and China into trilateral nuclear talks.  This probably was also informing the administration in accusing, without evidence, both Russia and China of conducting nuclear tests in secret. Global monitoring makes secret tests all but impossible, but alleging such tests would be cover for the US to do it too…

Covid preps military for war ….  US Military Using New Data Collection System Designed For War in Pandemic Response – Pentagon sees new JADC2 system as vital for beating China, Russia in military confrontations – US Northern Command is using a new data collection system to track the spread of Covid-19. The Joint-All Domain Command & Control, or JADC2, is a project in its infancy designed to collect information on all aspects of military operations using artificial intelligence, data to be shared between all branches. The idea is to connect every piece of military hardware to the network.  Another aim of JADC2 is to give commanders the ability to swap out weapons in the middle of a war. Meaning, commanders will be able to simultaneously control every tool on the battlefield, making it harder for enemies to prioritize defense. For example, if a target sets up a defense for an incoming fleet of bombers, the Pentagon could see that and quickly change the plan of attack. According to Defense One, Northcom received a briefing on April 14th that said Stamford, Connecticut was about to become a Covid-19 hotspot. The briefing used data and predictions collected by a sub-system of the JADC2, which Northcom developed with Apple, Google, Palantir, and the intelligence company ESIR. The system uses AI to make predictions based on analyzed data…

Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein discusses Julian Assange and the shocking injustice of him being in Belmarsh Prison. Trump Aid, Roger Stone, had exchanged messages with Assange, about Democrats rigging the nomination in favour of Hillary Clinton to fight Trump.

UK endangering Assange’s life …  UK endangers Assange’s life by imprisoning him during COVID-19 – On April 12 Julian Assange’s partner Stella Morris revealed that the couple have had two children.  Ms Morris had been part of Assange’s legal team, who regularly visited him in the Ecuadorian Embassy and they began an affair in 2015.  She said starting a family was “a deliberate decision” to give Assange a light at the end of the tunnel while he was a prisoner in the Ecuadorean embassy.  She spoke passionately about the hard decision to reveal herself as Julian Assange’s partner:  I understood that the powers that were against Julian were ruthless and they had no bounds and that is why I feel now that I have to do this.  I feel like Julian’s life might be coming to an end … It’s been ten years of breaking someone down trying to destroy his life and it is a well-known pattern: whistle-blowers, people who expose the powerful, they destroy them and we know when this happens.  Somehow everyone has failed Julian. They have all failed Julian. They have taken every negative angle they can. You can do that to anyone you can destroy anyone like that. The mainstream media reported on Julian Assange’s new family in their typical prurient fashion, fascinated by the sexual details, while ignoring the fears that Assange’s life was put at risk in an over-crowded prison in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic…

India and China put more troops into border regions – ‘All-out combat’ feared as India, China engage in border standoff – Indian media says thousands of Chinese troops are believed to be inside the Indian territory along the de facto border.  On May 5, a scuffle broke out between Indian and Chinese troops at the Pangong Tso lake, located 14,000 feet (4,270 metres) above the sea level in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. A video shot by an Indian soldier and shared on social media showed soldiers from both nations engaged in fistfights and stone-pelting at the de facto border, known as Line of Actual Control (LAC). The incident, which continued until the next day, resulted in 11 soldiers being injured on both sides…

Who is behind the ‘Covi-Pass’?  Sir Ronald Cohen – HIS POLITICS –  In 1974 Cohen stood as the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party in Kensington North, and in 1979 he stood as its European candidate in London West.  In 1996 he switched allegiance to the Labour Party, becoming a supporter of Tony Blair. In 2004, Cohen was the Labour Party’s fourth largest financial supporter, after Lord Sainsbury, Sir Christopher Ondaatje and Lord Hamlyn.

It’s been nicknamed the ‘Mark of the Beast’, and its been launched by a British venture capitalist.  Blairite Venture Capitalists Sir Ronald Cohen’s ‘Covi-Pass’ A passport linked to health status is discriminatory & should be illegal. “This is how they will get everyone on the planet onto a digital ID blockchain registry. Where they can tag you, track you, tax you, sanction you, quarantine you and even punish you if you do not comply with global standards or metrics. This is part of the 4th Industrial Revolution that is being rolled into place; our economic reboot. You will not leave, eat or sleep anywhere without state approval. Are you beginning to see the pattern?” ~ Joseph Gonzalez

It may be the Mark of the Beast, but at least its British! SIR ROBERT COHEN’S OWN WEBSITE Sir Robert Cohen, the Blairite investment fund donor behind the Covi-Chip ID2020 ‘way out of lockdown‘  Covi Pass – the new proposed ID card – Biometrics website – funded by Sir Ronald Cohen – he discusses his ethical investments.

ID2020 and partners launch program to provide digital ID with vaccines – The ID2020 Alliance has launched a new digital identity program at its annual summit in New York, in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh, vaccine alliance Gavi, and new partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief. The program to leverage immunization as an opportunity to establish digital identity was unveiled by ID2020 in partnership with the Bangladesh Government’s Access to Information (a2i) Program, the Directorate General of Health Services, and Gavi, according to the announcement.  Digital identity is a computerized record of who a person is, stored in a registry. It is used, in this case, to keep track of who has received vaccination.  “We are implementing a forward-looking approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over their own personal information, while still building off existing systems and programs,” says Anir Chowdhury, policy advisor at a2i. “The Government of Bangladesh recognizes that the design of digital identity systems carries far-reaching implications for individuals’ access to services and livelihoods, and we are eager to pioneer this approach.”  Gavi CEO Seth Berkley says that 89 percent of children and adolescents who do not have identification live in countries where the organization is active. “We are enthusiastic about the potential impact of this program not just in Bangladesh, but as something we can replicate across Gavi-eligible countries, providing a viable route to closing the identity gap,” he says.  A partnership was also formed earlier this year between Gavi, NEC, and Simprints to use biometrics to improve vaccine coverage in developing nations.  “Digital ID is being defined and implemented today, and we recognize the importance of swift action to close the identity gap,” comments ID2020 Executive Director Dakota Gruener. “Now is the time for bold commitments to ensure that we respond both quickly and responsibly. We and our ID2020 Alliance partners, both present and future, are committed to rising to this challenge.”  ID2020 also announced new partnerships and provided progress reports on initiatives launched last year. Since last year’s summit, the ID2020 Alliance has been joined by the City of Austin, UC Berkeley’s CITRIS Policy Lab and Care USA.  The City of Austin, ID2020, and several other partners are working together with homeless people and the service providers who engage with them to develop a blockchain-enabled digital identity platform called MyPass to empower homeless people with their own identity data…

New documentary series out ‘The Truth About Vaccines’: but with some inaccuracies – kids taken away; fake news footage on C4;

Andrew Wakefield warns against mandatory vaccines, saying it is similar to the Nazi approach.

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Friday 22nd May 2020 – Friday 58th of Lockdown

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BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers continues online after being ‘rested’ mid-March 2020 by BCfm managing editor Pat Hart- internet only BCfm Politics Show now available 17:00-19:00 live Friday Drivetime. We are ready to go live on the fm server remotely, awaiting the go-ahead from managing editor Pat Hart and his team. In the light of government and Ofcom guidance they decided not to broadcast discussion or political shows that ‘might put the FM licence at risk’ and don’t want the burden of dealing with potential Ofcom complaints.

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First hour news review with Conservative councillor for Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze Steve Smith: 

Universities say Labour Mayor Marvin Rees has brought public trust in Bristol politics to an all time low – Elected mayor in Bristol ‘harder to hold to account’, researchers find: “There is an over-concentration of power in the hands of a single leader” – The researchers concluded the mayoral model had not improved public trust in local decision-making, a long-standing issue in UK local government. In fact, they found that fewer residents trusted the council to make good decisions or thought they were made in a timely way under the mayoral model, down from 19 per cent and 13 per cent in 2012 to 15 per cent and eight per cent, respectively, in 2018.

Covid-19 BBC Fake News 1: Pediatrics Today: Kawasaki disease and vasculitis associated with immunization [not Covid-19] – Arthur Chang and Shamim Islam. Pediatrics Residency Program and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), New York, USA. Abstract The etiology and pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease (KD) remain poorly understood. Among the diverse infectious and environmental factors examined to be triggers for, or be associated with, KD, are immunizations. In this report, We first describe the case of a Caucasian girl who presented with classic KD shortly after receiving her routine 4 months vaccination series. Prior published case reports and large epidemiological studies, which explore potential associations between immunization and KD and other vasculitides, are then comprehensively reviewed. The methodologic challenges that complicate analysis in this area are also considered…

Religious Jews get ‘opt-out’ from today’s new UK ‘organ-snatching’ law. Chief Rabbi welcomes new provision for Jewish organ donors – Addition to Organ Donation Act,, which changes system from “opt-in” to “opt-out” in England, means halachic considerations will be taken into account and families consulted – The Chief Rabbi and Board of Deputies have warmly welcomed a remarkable caveat to the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act, which came into effect this week…  Israeli mastermind behind organ trafficking ring is arrested in Cyprus – Poor people from Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey were paid thousands of euros for their kidneys. A prosecutor said they were left without proper medical care and were treated “like waste.”  – 

NYT Finds ‘Disproportionate Role’ of Israelis in World Organ Trafficking. NYT identifies six patients who underwent kidney transplants in Costa Rica and three Israeli men it says are involved in trafficking. – A report Sunday in the New York Times sheds light on the role of Israelis in international organ trafficking. Through the story of Ophira Dorin, a 36-year-old Israeli woman, the report demonstrates how easy it is to illegally buy a kidney in Israel. New Details Emerge on Organ Trafficking Ring Between Israel and Costa Rica – Israeli Suspected of Luring Women Into Organ Traffic Ring – Report: Israeli Suspected of Running Ukraine Organ Trafficking Ring – Five Israelis Charged With Organ Trafficking – Costa Rican authorities announced last year that they had uncovered an international organ trafficking ring that specialized in selling kidneys to Israeli and eastern European patients. The Times said it was able to identify 11 patients – six of them Israelis – who underwent kidney transplants in San Jose, as well as two other Israelis who arrived to the Costa Rican capital with donors for procedures they said would not have been approved back home. The report puts Dr. Francisco Mora Palma, head of nephrology at the large Calderon Guardia Hospital in San Jose, at the center of the operation in Costa Rica…

Covid-19 BBC Fake News 2: Triple-drug combo of anti-malaria pill hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and ZINC improved coronavirus patients’ chances of being discharged and cut death risk by almost 50%, study finds – Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine looked at 932 coronavirus patients hospitalized between March 2 and April 5 – Half were given a combination of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulfate and the other half did not receive zinc – Patients receiving the triple drug combination were 1.5 times more likely to recover enough to be discharged and 44% less likely to die – The team believes hydroxychloroquine helps zinc, which has antiviral properties, get into infected cells

Labour Purges Bristol University’s ‘Spinwatch’ editor, Prof. David Miller and other Israel lobby critics – The UK Labour Party has launched a new purge of the left and the Palestine solidarity movement still remaining in its ranks. A noted academic expert on the Israel lobby and two leading members of a Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) branch were among those whose party membership was suspended on Monday. Professor David Miller of Bristol University, as well as Becky Massey and Pam Page of Brighton PSC all received letters from the party within hours of each other, they told The Electronic Intifada. Along with the summary expulsion of another local member in October, the suspensions seem to add up to an attack on Brighton PSC – one of the UK’s most active branches of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The new purge commenced only hours after Labour’s new right-wing leader Keir Starmer held a virtual meeting with the leadership of the Jewish Labour Movement, a pro-Israel lobby within the party. A sociologist, Miller is an expert on the propaganda operations of state and corporate lobbies. He has documented the methods and history of the pro-Israel lobby for years. “This latest round of suspensions continues the targeted harassment of socialist members,” Miller told The Electronic Intifada. A book Miller co-wrote about Labourwas censored during the party’s conference last year, after Israel lobby pressure. Under the guise of Labour’s “anti-Semitism crisis,” the party bureaucracy has accelerated this trend in recent months under the new right-wing leadership. But it is merely a continuation of asimilar policy under Jennie Formby, theoutgoing pro-Corbyn general secretary, Miller said. He argued that the suspensions were designed to target members who understand the racism of Zionism, “which is very obviously incompatible with membership of the Labour Party.”..

Number of benefit claims soars by 69% as it rises by 856,500 to 2.1MILLION after lockdown – despite furlough scheme that kept millions in work.  Unemployment figures show a rise of 50,000 people in three months to March – Estimates for April show number of paid employees fell 1.6 per cent from March – New report by the Resolution Foundation finds younger people facing pay cuts = The report also warns older workers face risk of being made involuntary retired – The number of people claiming benefits has soared by a record 856,500 to 2.1million in the first full month of the coronavirus lockdown – despite the furlough scheme keeping millions in work. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that claims under Universal Credit sky-rocketed by 69 per cent in April, as the country begins easing out of the draconian lockdown measures imposed in late-March. Today’s newly released figures also revealed that unemployment jumped by 50,000 to 1.35 million in the three months to March. The dire numbers come despite Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s job retention scheme that currently has 7.5 million people on furlough in efforts to prop up the economy during the pandemic. Without the scheme, designed to help employers keep staff during the crisis, the benefits claims would likely be significantly higher. Thousands of people have started making their way back to work this week after the Prime Minister eased lockdown restrictions last Sunday. Mr Johnson emphasised last week he wants to kickstart the economy and get back to work, after dire forecasts last week that saw the economy shrink by 2 per cent. It also announced that early estimates for April 2020 indicate that the number of paid employees fell by 1.6 per compared to March, as firms began to feel a greater impact from the lockdown…

Brexit warning: EU’s ‘nonsense’ demands may force UK to seek extension at ‘crunch point – ‘THE EUROPEAN UNION’s “unprecedented” arguments in Brexit negotiations are increasing the likelihood of an extension. THE EUROPEAN UNION’s “unprecedented” arguments in Brexit negotiations are increasing the likelihood of an extension being a “sensible” option, the former governor of the Bank of England has warned. Brexit talks are on the verge of collapse after rows have broken out over each party’s red lines between UK Chief Negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier. The UK has six weeks until a legally binding deadline ruling out an extension to the transition period. Lord Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England, suggested to LBC that an extension may be more likely as the coronavirus crisis goes on. He said the EU’s arguments don’t “make a great deal of sense”. He said: “So far it seems that there is an understandable disagreement between the UK and the European Union. “The UK voted to leave the EU and one of the reasons was so the UK could then decide its own regulations that would apply to our economy. “The European Union is arguing that even though we will leave the EU, we should still follow their rules and regulations in order to have a free trade agreement. “That is unprecedented, there is no real parallel for that.”…    

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NPC: China moves to impose controversial Hong Kong security law – China’s ruling Communist Party has set in motion a controversial national security law for Hong Kong, a move seen as a major blow to the city’s freedoms. The law to ban “treason, secession, sedition and subversion” could bypass Hong Kong’s lawmakers. Critics say Beijing is breaking its promise to allow Hong Kong freedoms not seen elsewhere in China. Pro-democracy activists have called for mass protests against what they see erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy. Anger was already apparent on Friday, as a group of protesters descended on China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong…

Pompeo Lays Out the Case For Cold War II With China – ‘The regime is ideologically and politically hostile to free nations.’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed China as “hostile to free nations,” portraying Beijing as fundamentally opposed to the United States, on Wednesday. Tensions between the United States and China have reached a fever pitch during the coronavirus pandemic. Pompeo’s speech at a Wednesday morning press conference laid out a vision of a global clash between two fundamentally different societies. “China’s been ruled by a brutal, authoritarian regime, a communist regime since 1949,” he said. “We greatly underestimated the degree to which Beijing is ideologically and politically hostile to free nations. The whole world is waking up to that fact.” He added that a focus on the coronavirus pandemic “risks missing the bigger picture of the challenge that’s presented by the Chinese Communist Party.”..

How US empire undermines criminal justice in ‘puppet regimes’: phone calls between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Poroshenko leaked; Details $1 Billion “quid pro quo” to fire Burisma prosecutor –  Leaked phone calls between Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko explicitly detail the quid-pro-quo arrangement to fire former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin – who Poroshenko admits did nothing wrong – in exchange for $1 billion in US loan guarantees (which Biden openly bragged about in January, 2018). The calls were leaked by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach, who says the recordings of “voices similar to Poroshenko and Biden” were given to him by investigative journalists who claim Poroshenko made them. Shokin was notably investigating Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that hired Biden’s son, Hunter, to sit on its board. Shokin had opened a case against Burisma’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, who granted Burisma permits to drill for oil and gas in Ukraine while he was Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. In January, 2019, Shokin stated in a deposition that there were five criminal cases against Zlochevesky, including money laundering, corruption, illegal funds transfers, and profiteering through shell corporations while he was a sitting minister. The leaked calls begin on December 3, 2015, when former Secretary of State John Kerry starts laying out the case to fire Shokin – who he says “blocked the cleanup of the Prosecutor Generals’ Office,” and sated that Biden “is very concerned about it,” to which Poroshenko replies that the newly reorganized prosecutor general’s office (NABU) won’t be able to pursue corruption charges, and that it may be difficult to fire Shokin without cause. Later in the leaked audio on February 18, 2016 – less than three months after the Kerry conversation – Poroshenko delivers some “positive news.” “Yesterday I met with General Prosecutor Shokin,” says Poroshenko. And despite of the fact that we didn’t have any corruption charges, we don’t have any information about him doing something wrong, I specially asked him – no, it was day before yesterday – I specially asked him to resign. In, uh, as his, uh, position as a state person. And despite of the fact that he has a support in the power. And as a finish of my meeting with him, he promised to give me the statement on resignation. And one hour ago he bring me the written statement of his resignation. And this is my second step for keeping my promises.”..

CRISPR Dr Mengele Gene Editors Making A Mess Of ‘Playing God’ 1: Latest ‘Smart Vaccines’: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) -> The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day – The alleged creation of the world’s first gene-edited humans was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details. Before last week, few people had heard the name He Jiankui. But on November 25, the young Chinese researcher became the center of a global firestorm when it emerged that he had allegedly made the first crispr-edited babies, twin girls named Lulu and Nana. Antonio Regalado broke the story for MIT Technology Review, and He himself described the experiment at an international gene-editing summit in Hong Kong. After his talk, He revealed that another early pregnancy is under way. It is still unclear if He did what he claims to have done. Nonetheless, the reaction was swift and negative. The crispr pioneer Jennifer Doudna says she was “horrified,” NIH Director Francis Collins said the experiment was “profoundly disturbing,” and even Julian Savulescu, an ethicist who has described gene-editing research as “a moral necessity,” described He’s work as “monstrous.”

CRISPR Dr Mengele Gene Editors Making A Mess Of ‘Playing God’ 2: Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) – A flurry of recent findings highlight a contentious question in this area. From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits genomes—snipping DNA—creates an unholy mess: Cellular repairmen frantically try to fix the cuts by throwing random chunks of DNA into the breach and deleting other random bits. Research published on Monday suggests that’s only the tip of a Titanic-sized iceberg: CRISPR-Cas9 can cause significantly greater genetic havoc than experts thought, the study concludes, perhaps enough to threaten the health of patients who would one day receive CRISPR-based therapy. The results come hard on the heels of two studies that identified a related issue: Some CRISPR’d cells might be missing a key anti-cancer mechanism and therefore be able to initiate tumors. The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that should be active and activate genes that should be silent, including cancer-causing genes…

Censored by Terrorism Complicit YouTube 1 – CENSORED Prof Dolores Cahill Debunking the Narrative

Censored by Terrorism Complicit YouTube 2 – CENSORED Professor Knut Wittkowski II Journeyman Pictures – another interview with the prof. still available on youtube Okay. If we had herd immunity now, there couldn’t be a second wave in autumn. Herd immunity lasts for a couple of years, typically, and that’s why the last SARS epidemic we had in 2003, it lasted 15 years for enough people to become susceptible again so that a new epidemic could spread of a related virus. Because typically, there is something that requires cross-immunity, so if you were exposed to one of the SARS viruses, you are less likely to fall ill with another SARS virus. So, if we had herd immunity, we wouldn’t have a second wave. However, if we are preventing herd immunity from developing, it is almost guaranteed that we have a second wave as soon as either we stop the social distancing or the climate changes with winter coming or something like that.

Censored by Terrorism Compicit YouTube 3 – Max Igan Banned From Youtube For Exposing Evidence of Team Aiding Christchurch Mosque Massacre shooter – 369 – Max Igan / Christchurch – How They Did It – Max Igan – Surviving the Matrix – Episode 369 – American Voice Radio, March 29, 2019 – All credits to thecrowhouse 

Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA : A Confession from the Profession – The eagerly awaited English edition of “Bought Journalists” was suppressed for three years under the title “Journalists for Hire”– and still got 24 five-star-only Amazon reviews from would-be readers. 18 months on the bestseller list in Germany. Now it’s finally here! Ever get the feeling the media tries to manipulate or lie to you? You have plenty of company! And you are right — the facts are in. A world-class media insider has blown the whistle on what really goes on inside the media industry. Author Udo Ulfkotte was a respected journalist for 17 years with Germany’s newspaper of record, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He begins this explosive exposé by first owning up to his own career, where he had to sell out to have the job. He then reveals the deceptive tricks and secret networks of power within the media. How perks are used to bribe journalists and opinion makers to twist their reporting. How the tone of corruption is set from the top — play along or quit. How the long arm of the NATO press office enrols the media to get Europe to support more foreign wars. The elite owners of the media feel it’s their right to think for us, and to mould public opinion to their agendas. Their Freedom of the Press is Freedom to Censor the news. Our nation depends on the media to understand our world, just as each one of us depends on our eyes and ears. The media are our senses. When they hide the truth, or lie to us, they put us all in danger. A million people died in Iraq, Libya and Syria because the press didn’t just report the news, didn’t just lie about the news, but they invented and sold the events that served as pretexts for wars. The author spent years in the Middle East, surviving an attack with chemical weapons supplied by US and German firms. This book is a veteran’s guide to the media spider’s web. It shows how the system works, sharpens your common sense scepticism, and increases your immunity to the controlled media’s attempts to do our thinking for us.

THE BLACK SUN HISTORICAL TRUTH · by Arith Harger We have all heard about the Black Sun Symbol. Is it really a pagan symbol? Or a Contemporanean fabrication?

Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History – Atom spy Klaus Fuchs – By Frank Close. ‘Everything about this story is astounding’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times – “Trinity” was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb’s metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR. Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the following Cold War, the book traces how Peierls brought Fuchs into his family and his laboratory, only to be betrayed. It describes in unprecedented detail how Fuchs became a spy, his motivations and the information he passed to his Soviet contacts, both in the UK and after he went with Peierls to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944. Frank Close is himself a distinguished nuclear physicist: uniquely, the book explains the science as well as the spying. Fuchs returned to Britain in August 1946 still undetected and became central to the UK’s independent effort to develop nuclear weapons. Close describes the febrile atmosphere at Harwell, the nuclear physics laboratory near Oxford, where many of the key players were quartered, and the charged relationships which developed there. He uncovers fresh evidence about the role of the crucial VENONA signals decryptions, and shows how, despite mistakes made by both MI5 and the FBI, the net gradually closed around Fuchs, building an intolerable pressure which finally cracked him. The Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear device in August 1949, far earlier than the US or UK expected. In 1951, the US Congressional Committee on Atomic Espionage concluded, ‘Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of nations’. This book is the most comprehensive account yet published of these events, and of the tragic figure at their centre…

Reich of the Black Sun : Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend : [video presentation by author Joseph Farrell] – Why were the Allies worried about an atom bomb attack by the Germans in 1944? Why did the Soviets threaten to use poison gas against the Germans? Why did Hitler in 1945 insist that holding Prague could win the war for the Third Reich? Why did US General George Patton’s Third Army race for the Skoda works at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia instead of Berlin? Why did the US Army not test the uranium atom bomb it dropped on Hiroshima? Why did the Luftwaffe fly a non-stop round trip mission to within twenty miles of New York City in 1944? This book takes the reader on a scientific-historical journey in order to answer these questions. Arguing that Nazi Germany actually won the race for the atom bomb in late 1944, the book then goes on to explore the even more secretive research the Nazis were conducting into the occult, alternative physics and new energy sources. The book concludes with a fresh look at the Nazi Legend of the UFO mystery by examining the Roswell Majestic-12 documents and the Kecksburg crash in the light of parallels with some of the super-secret black projects being run by the SS. This book is must-reading for the researcher interested in alternative history, science, or UFOs.

THE WAR ON CHRISTIANITY, PART II: THE ABOMINATION AND BLASPHEMY OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISM by James Perloff. (Note: For those who would prefer to read this post in hard copy, it is Chapter Ten of my book Thirteen Pieces of the Jigsaw.) Foreword: This post is long. It is long because Christian Zionism is based on a multitude of lies. The bigger the onion, the more the layers we are forced to peel off. I should also note that my paternal ancestors were Russian Jews (see photo below, taken about 1900). My great-grandfather’s name was Abraham Perlovsky. People who criticize Zionism are frequently accused of being motivated by anti-Semitism. As I’m half-Jewish myself, let me be clear that no such feelings impel me. I am unequivocally opposed to racism in any form. Part 1 of this series explored how the Rockefellers were instrumental in orchestrating the Modernist movement, assaulting every fundamental doctrine of Christianity, for the long-range ecumenical purpose of absorbing it into a one-world religion. The Fundamentalist movement rejected Modernism, intending to stand by the faith’s original tenets.  Unfortunately, as we will now see, Fundamentalism was itself infiltrated and hijacked, consistent with the Rothschild strategy of funding both sides of wars. Fundamentalist churches were targeted to enlist their support for the Zionist agenda. The two principal agents in this scheme were John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and Cyrus Scofield (1843-1921). What Darby planted, Scofield watered and disseminated. The theology they developed served the agenda by making several claims: • God wanted the Jews to return to, and take over, Palestine. • God has two plans of salvation—one through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the other a guarantee reserved for Jews, his “Chosen People.” • Christians should not involve themselves in politics, education, business or the arts, as these are “worldly” matters that should be left in the hands of “worldly” people. (The consequences of this doctrine are very visible in American culture today.) • God deals with mankind differently during different historical time frames or “dispensations,” of which there are seven. The current one, “Grace” under Jesus Christ, is merely the sixth of the seven dispensations. • The Christian Church is doomed to inevitable failure, which will bring the Dispensation of Grace to a close. • The end of this dispensational age will be marked by the Tribulation—worldwide persecution under the Antichrist for a period of seven years; however, Christians need not concern themselves with this, since Jesus will “Rapture” believers off the Earth and they won’t be around to experience it. • Earth will then experience a Jewish era; Jewish ritualistic animal sacrifices will be reinstituted; Jesus will reign for a thousand years from Solomon’s rebuilt temple in Jerusalem…

“Population control as a substitute to war is the progeny of the bipolar world order that followed World War II. Killing Us Softly: The Global Depopulation Policy – by Kevin Galalae – Our progressive philosophy calls for more freedom and more prosperity for more people. Yet author Kevin Galalae says you can’t always have more. Overpopulation is making us victims of our own triumphs over nature. Lacking a popular consensus to control population, the ruling elite have resorted to covert means. Their depopulation project has had considerable success, but at a terrible cost. “Strict secrecy and deception have been necessary to prevent the masses from discovering the bitter truth that for the past 68 years they have been the object of a silent and global offensive, a campaign of attrition that has turned the basic elements of life into weapons of mass infertility and selective death.” “The birth of nearly two billion people has been prevented and the death of half a billion hurried. While these goals have been intentional, the architects of the Global Depopulation Policy have unintentionally undermined the genetic and intellectual endowment of the human species and have set back eons of natural selection.” We are adding a billion people every 10 – 15 years, while consumption per person has skyrocketed – placing unsustainable demands on resources like water and fuel. The only decent alternative is voluntary population control to reduce world population. Here are the methods actually being used. – Contraception and abortion. Chemical sterilization: Flouridation, BPA-contaminated plastic and metal food packaging. Drawbacks: increase in chronic illnesses and lowering of IQ will lead to massive degeneracy in a couple generations. – The coercive one child policy — overall a success story for China; surgical sterilization in India. – Biological: synthetic HIV virus in Africa, flu viruses, GMO crops. Lowering human fertility, while weakening the immune system to increase mortality. – Psychosocial: weakening the family, forcing women to work, high divorce rates, youth unemployment, countercultures, drug, tobacco and alcohol abuse, incarceration, accelerated urbanization. Successful in Europe where population has started to shrink. Political drawbacks: a secret state conducting genocide against its own people; sham democracy; a culture of deception. Endangering the gene pool and the ecosystem. Even so, it is more humane than the alternative of another world war to reduce numbers. Social costs: economic decline, collapse of social safety nets. Sustainable development policies don’t mention the risks of covert sterilization that underpin them. “Population control as a substitute to war is the progeny of the bipolar world order that followed World War II … they agreed to wage a demographic war on their own people, and on those within their spheres of influence, rather than risk their mutually assured destruction in a nuclear confrontation.” The way forward: broad popular understanding of the issues. Yet politicians don’t want to open up to a policy based on popular consensus, because that would undermine their power, which is based on manipulation. Aside from his writings, the author’s efforts to awaken the world have included hunger strikes, imprisonment and legal battles.

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Labour’s proposals a ‘debt bomb’ for Bristol renters – Labour’s proposed policy of deferring rent payments has been criticised for unfairly punishing renters and creating new debt.  Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire today announced her first policy as Shadow Housing Secretary to lobby the government to implement a system whereby tenants who fall into rent arrears during the COVID-19 crisis will have to pay back the debt in full on top of their monthly rent payments.  Ms Debbonaire’s comments that the arrears will be “small” has attracted much criticism from renters as “out of touch” with the economic situation currently being faced by renters. The plan has been widely criticised on social media including by Labour members and housing rights group ACORN Bristol.  Bristol has one of the UK’s largest rental markets with 58,000 households (29%) in private rented accommodation and 36,000 households (18%) in social rented housing. Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Bristol West James Cox said: “What both Labour’s proposals and the Conservative’s policy on renters have in common is a complete lack of awareness of just how bad the economic picture is and how much worse it is likely to get. “Labour’s proposals are nothing short of a debt bomb for Bristol renters. This policy would put thousands of renters into arrears add to the financial uncertainty being faced. Sadly Ms Debbonaire seems more concerned with protecting landlords during this crisis than tenants in our city. “Homeowners have rightly been given the option of a mortgage holiday during this crisis. It is vital that rather than pushing renters into further arrears that we encourage the government to offer more comprehensive support to those privately renting, including expanding housing benefit or implementing a rent holiday for the duration of this crisis.”

Nightingale hospitals largely empty as NHS weathers the storm – Facilities were launched with a fanfare but medics complain they lack equipment for complex Covid-19 cases – Temporary hospitals set up around the UK to handle the surge in coronavirus cases are almost empty, with at least one of the hastily constructed facilities expecting never to open its doors as the NHS weathers the crisis better than many had feared. Seven Nightingale hospitals — named after the pioneering Victorian nurse — have been erected at unprecedented speed across England in recent weeks, with logistical support from members of Britain’s military. Similar facilities have also recently opened in Scotland and Wales. But the majority have only taken a handful of patients. NHS leaders reject any suggestion that they have become “white elephants”, casting the dearth of coronavirus sufferers at the Nightingales as a mark of how well the health service prepared for the biggest public health emergency in a century. The UK has avoided the wrenching scenes in Italy where dying patients were treated in corridors after some hospitals ran out of beds….

A bigger issue than Professor Ferguson’s private life is the accuracy of his model. When applied to the Swedish policy it forecast 40,000 deaths by now, over 15 times the reality.

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WORLDOMETER PANDEMIC STATISTICS: Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance – The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. The day is reset after midnight GMT+0. The list of countries and territories and their continental regional classification is based on the United Nations Geoscheme.

Neil Ferguson: Coronavirus response adviser’s previous epidemic mistakes revealed PROFESSOR Neil Ferguson, the Government’s senior coronavirus science adviser, yesterday resigned after flouting his own advised lockdown rules – but it is not the first time the epidemiologist has made a serious blunder as adviser, with several other epidemics having been blown out of proportion through his work. Yesterday evening Professor Neil Ferguson, one of the Government’s most senior coronavirus science advisers and member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) resigned. It came after the Daily Telegraph revealed how the epidemiologist had broken his own lockdown rules by meeting with his married lover at his London flat. Prof Ferguson’s prediction models prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to enforce the current lockdown towards the end of March. His modelling of the virus’ transmission suggested 250,000 people could die without drastic action. As it stands, nearly 30,000 people have died from coronavirus, with a further 200,000 confirmed cases. Many credit Prof Ferguson’s initial 250,000 deaths figure and subsequent lockdown as having prevented further catastrophe. However, attention has been drawn to his previously botched predictions concerning epidemics and virus outbreaks of the past. For example, in 2001, he and his team at Imperial College produced prediction modelling on the UK’s foot and mouth outbreak. Their work suggested animals in neighbouring farms should be culled, even if there was no evidence of infection. Government policy soon took on board the modelling, leading to the subsequent culling of more than six million cattle, sheep, and pigs – a cost to the UK economy that totalled some £10billion. Michael Thrusfield, professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University, later claimed the model was “severely flawed” and the event a “serious error”. Fast forward to 2002, Prof Ferguson predicted between 50 and 50,000 people would likely die as a result of exposure to mad cow disease (BSE) in beef. He said the number could rise to 150,000 should there be an outbreak among sheep – there have since only been 177 deaths from BSE.

‘Life-saving’ ventilators are destroying coronavirus patients’ lungs, doctor says [video]. Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell, who was treating critically ill coronavirus patients at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, says “Covid-19 is not a pneumonia and should not be treated as one”. An American doctor says ventilators are doing more harm than good and damaging the lungs of coronavirus patients based on how they’re currently being used. Medics in the UK and around the world have been using the breathing machines, which pump the lungs to send oxygen into the bodies, as a vital tool to keep critically ill patients alive. But Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell, who was treating Covid-19 patients in New York, said high pressure is inadvertently causing harm and his beliefs have led him to step down from his position in an intensive care unit. In a YouTube video, he says: “I fear this misguided treatment will lead to a tremendous amount of harm in a very short time. Covid-19 is not a pneumonia and should not be treated as one.” He has said that Covid-19 lung disease “is not a pneumonia” but appears to be “some kind of viral-induced disease most resembling high altitude sickness”. He added: “It is as if tens of thousands of my fellow New Yorkers are on a plane at 30,000 feet and the cabin pressure is slowly being let out. “These patients are slowly being starved of oxygen… and while they look like patients absolutely on the brink of death, they do not look like patients dying of pneumonia.” The danger, he said, lies in the amount of pressure used to open the lungs, and he believes ventilators should be programmed “differently” for patients with coronavirus…

Trade Deal Must Be Delayed! Brexit trade negotiations leave Germany furious as Merkel ally lashes out at UK tactics. ONE of Angela Merkel’s closest allies has launched a scathing attack on the UK over its refusal to extend the Brexit transition period, with Germany warning Britain it can not continue to move away from key points in the agreed political declaration. Britain and the European Union began post-Brexit talks on a free trade agreement in March after the country’s departure from the bloc was finally made official on January 31. But negotiations have already got off to a turbulent start, with significant distance separating the two sides on several key areas. The UK has until June 30 to request an extension from the EU for thew transition period beyond December 31. But despite the coronavirus pandemic sweeping throughout Europe, Boris Johnson still wants a full free trade agreement struck before that deadline. He has even threatened to walk away from the negotiating table if sufficient progress has not been made over the coming weeks. This stance has left the EU furious, with senior figureheads, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, openly critical of the UK negotiation strategy. Germany is becoming increasingly fearful of a disastrous hard Brexit, and Foreign Minister Heiko Mass said without an agreement on the future relationship between the UK and EU, it would be a “journey into the unknown”…

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Trump says uninterested in talking to Xi, could sever China ties. US President Donald Trump says he is not interested in talking with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in what seems to be a further degeneration of Washington-Beijing ties amid the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast on Thursday, Trump said that he might even decide to sever relations between the two countries. Trump, who has repeatedly accused China of failing to contain the highly contagious disease, said Beijing’s failure had cast a pall over his January trade deal with the world’s second largest economy. “They should have never let this happen,” Trump said. “So I make a great trade deal and now I say this doesn’t feel the same to me. The ink was barely dry and the plague came over. And it doesn’t feel the same to me.” “I just – right now I don’t want to speak to him,” Trump said in the interview taped on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Li Yong, deputy chairman of the Expert Committee of the China Association of International Trade, said that “(China) still hopes that economic and trade issues will not be politicized because that is not good for either side.” “The hope is that both sides will resolve the challenges through communication rather than finger pointing,” Yong said. When Trump was asked about a Republican senator’s suggestion that US visas be denied to Chinese students seeking to study in fields related to national security, he said, “There are many things we could do. We could do things. We could cut off the whole relationship.”

World Spent $73 Billion on Nuclear Weapons in 2019; US Spent Half of That. Pandemic may force a rethink of priorities for costly arms. A new ICAN report shows that in 2019, the world spent about $73 billion on nuclear weapons. The US spent roughly half of that by themselves, at over $35 billion. This is an increase of over $7 billion from 2018. With focus shifting to the coronavirus pandemic, spending billions of dollars on nuclear weapons likely is going to make less and less sense going forward, with nations all having budget consequences from the pandemic. The expectation, with the US and Russia not likely to extend New START, was that there would be increased spending going forward. Budget deficits are likely to force a rethink, on the futility of buying expensive nuclear arms. No nuclear weapons use in generations means this money is going into a black hole, and US talk of making low-yield nukes with more utility seem unrealistic. This means billions that could be better spent on almost anything, and in the Covid-19 era, no shortage of things to spend it on…

The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society – If Gates represents a net negative force in world politics, why does he receive such good press? For starters, he makes sizeable donations to a host of mainstream corporate media outlets.  by Alan Macleod Last month Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates surpassed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to once again become the world’s richest individual, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Buoyed by an enormous 48 percent increase in Microsoft’s share price this year, Gates has retaken the title he last held in 2017. That outcome is partially owed to the whims of Donald J. Trump. Microsoft recently surprisingly defeated Amazon’s bid for an extremely lucrative $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract that sees the company instantly become one of the world’s most important military and security contractors. This decision, Amazon alleges, was due to interference from the president who holds a personal grudge against Bezos, whose Washington Post has maintained a campaign of “resistance” against him. Gates was also recently in the news attacking the wealth tax that Democratic presidential nomination candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed. “I’m all for super-progressive tax systems but when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I’m starting to do a little math about what I have left over,” the Seattle native said. (For the record, he would still have over $6 billion)…

Bill Gates Partners With DARPA & Department of Defense For New DNA Nanotech COVID19 Vaccine! [VIDEO] In this powerful interview, Spiro is joined by Whitney Webb and Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond, as they discuss the rollout of a new system of control the likes of which the world has never seen. It has been said to never let a good crisis go to waste, and it appears the ones pulling the strings are taking full advantage of the current crisis as more and more evidence emerges contradicting the official story that suggests this crisis is no accident. The fact that Bill Gates has teamed up with the Department of Defense and DARPA, which is the special project research and development arm of the Pentagon, to develop a brand new type of vaccine which is being rushed into production is alarming to say the least. Especially considering this new kind of DNA / RNA vaccine would normally take 15-20 years to roll out, while this one is being rolled out in a matter of months and is already undergoing human clinical trials. The urgency and rolled back regulations to streamline this new vaccine is, of course, justified by the crisis.

Bill Gates offered Nigerian House of Reps $10m bribe for speedy passage of compulsory vaccine bill – before any vaccine is invented CUPP alleges. The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), on Monday, alleged that it has intercepted a human intelligence report that the Nigeria House of Representatives leadership was poised to forcefully pass the compulsory vaccine bill without subjecting it to the traditions of legislative proceedings. In a statement issued and signed by the spokesperson of the opposition political parties, Barrister Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere and sent to DAILY POST in Abuja on Monday, the body urged lawmakers in the lower chamber to rise against impunity. The body in the statement alleged that a sum of $10 million was offered by the American Computer Czar, Bill Gates to influence the speedy passage of the bill without recourse to legislative public hearing, a development they averted as anachronistic, adding that the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila should be impeached if he forces the bill on members.  The statement read:  “Opposition Coalition (CUPP) has intercepted very credible intelligence and hereby alerts Nigerians of plans by the leadership of the House of Representatives led by Femi Gbajabiamila to forcefully and without adherence to the rules of lawmaking to pass the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 otherwise known as the Compulsory Vaccination Bill which is proposing a compulsory vaccination of all Nigerians even when the vaccines have not been discovered. “This intelligence is coupled with the information of the alleged receipt, from sources outside the country but very interested in the Bill, of the sum of $10 million by the sponsors and promoters of the Bill to distribute among lawmakers to ensure a smooth passage of the Bill. “This will manifest in a wishy-washy public hearing which the promoters still insist on cancelling under the pretext of containment of the spread of the coronavirus. The intelligence is that the House will under whatever guise pass the Bill tomorrow 5th May, 2020 upon resumption. “The Nigeria opposition rejects the Bill and urges opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives to confront the Speaker of the House with these facts tomorrow at plenary and resist every plan to illegally pass the Bill. “We have been informed that the alleged deal on the passage of the Bill was struck during a trip to Austria a few months back while the financial support for the promotion of the Bill was allegedly received last week to mobilize for a push leading to the hurried attempt to pass the Bill by any means necessary….

Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds – A flurry of recent findings highlight a contentious question about so-called ‘gene editing’ therapies – By Sharon Begley, STAT on July 16, 2018 – From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits genomes—snipping DNA—creates an unholy mess: Cellular repairmen frantically try to fix the cuts by throwing random chunks of DNA into the breach and deleting other random bits. Research published on Monday suggests that’s only the tip of a Titanic-sized iceberg: CRISPR-Cas9 can cause significantly greater genetic havoc than experts thought, the study concludes, perhaps enough to threaten the health of patients who would one day receive CRISPR-based therapy. The results come hard on the heels of two studies that identified a related issue: Some CRISPR’d cells might be missing a key anti-cancer mechanism and therefore be able to initiate tumors. The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that should be active and activate genes that should be silent, including cancer-causing genes. Leading CRISPR companies scrambled to play down the latest threat to what they hope will be a multibillion-dollar business—and to their stock prices, but investors reacted with alarm. Within the first 20 minutes of when the study was released, the three publicly traded CRISPR companies lost more than $300 million in value.  The companies questioned whether the CRISPR-caused DNA damage reported in the new study applied to the kind of cells they’re planning to CRISPR. They emphasized that if genomic scrambling is at all common then it should also be seen in earlier forms of genome-editing such as zinc fingers and TALENs (but apparently isn’t). And they insisted they’re on the case…

The nuclear spy who leaked the bomb plans to the Soviets, Klaus Fuchs, studied physics and mathematics at the University of Leipzig and in 1931 he joined the German Communist Party (KPD). He fled the country when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. He taught in Paris before moving to England. He settled in Bristol and studied under Nevill Francis Mott, the Melville Wills Professor in Theoretical Physics at the University of Bristol. Soon after he arrived in the city he was the subject of a police enquiry. “The German Counsul in Bristol named him as an extremist left-wing agitator. Not a great deal of credence was given to the allegation because such denunciations were fairly frequent and anyway the young physicist was just one of thousands of Germans who fled their homeland for ideological reasons…  In 1946 Klaus Fuchs returned to England, where he was appointed by John Cockcroft as head of the theoretical physics division at the newly created British Nuclear Research Centre at Harwell. Fuchs approached members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in order to get back in contact with the NKVD. On 19th July, 1947, Fuchs met Hanna Klopshtock in Richmond Park. Klopshtock arranged for Fuchs to meet Alexander Feklissov, London’s deputy station chief for scientific and technical intelligence. Fuchs explained to Feklissov the principle of the hydrogen bomb on which Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller were working on at the University of Chicago. [link to article]

Munificent Transatlantic Rockefeller/Rothschild empire built by tax-free Foundations on Cecil Rhodes’ CFR/RIIA model? Niall Ferguson paints a bizarre geopolitical picture after WWII, with a wise and benevolent U.S. taking over the British empire. Here Ferguson explains his 2018 book: ‘The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook’, on the power of social networks throughout history and their influence in the present. – Well there you have the conspiracy theory that we were talking about earlier. That they say they’re meeting in order to improve the world and improve economic policy coordination, but actually they’re hatching a plan to erase national boundaries and establish world government under David Rockefeller.  So, the stated objectives are the objectives and the notion that there is going to be a world government at the end of it is the fantasy. Now, I can’t speak for the Trilateral Commission, I’m not involved with that. But I can assure you that although the meetings of the Bilderberg Group are closed, nobody ever mentioned world government to me at those meetings. On the contrary, I’m always struck by the extent to which at such gatherings the discussion is reactive. You know, here’s another fine mess the world is in. Is there anything we can do about it. You don’t have a strong sense of there being control. Even the word power seems strangely inappropriate. This network is commenting on the world, exchanging ideas. I’m sure there’s an element of business involved, too. But we shouldn’t exaggerate the power of even the most exclusive networks. What’s striking to me when I interact with these groups is not their power, but often their sense of powerlessness. If you think about the events of 2016, just to take an example. Not many members of the supposed world government planned that Britain would vote to leave the European Union and that Donald Trump would become president of the United States. Donald Trump is definitely not somebody who gets invited to those meetings. So then — or for example, take the financial crisis, the events of 2008, ’09. Nobody said there are the Bilderberg meeting in 2008 saying, I think what we really need for the world government is a massive financial crisis. No, what’s striking when you spend time in these rarified circles is the lack of power. Influence, yes. These people, the people who are involved with the Schwarzman College are very influential people. But I think that power tends to be exaggerated. And if there is a world government being put together, it’s not doing – it’s not doing very well. It’s not going very well…

The Merger: How Organised Crime is Taking Over the World – by Jeffrey Robinson. In the spring of 1990 some twenty men of different nationalities met for the first time in a massive hotel and leisure complex called The City Club on the outskirts of Vienna. The purpose of their meeting? They told hotel management that they were members of an organisation called “The Italian Association” and that the subject of their meeting was how European countries could help South American countries develop their economies in Europe…. International crime has been the top headline grabber in recent months, and this is the only book that tells the inside story that until now only top CIA, Interpol, and other global crime fighters knew. In The Merger international crime expert and author of The Laundrymen Jeffrey Robinson uncovers the intricate network of connections between such infamous organised crime rings as the Sicilian Mafiosi, the Camorra from Naples, the Ndrangheta from Calabria, the Chinese Triads, the Russian, Hungarian, and Czech Republic “Maffiyas,” and organised crime groups from Columbia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Vietnam–just to name a few. In this meticulously researched book, Robinson pinpoints the factors that led to these global crime cartels–digital communication, world markets, the internet–and reveals how they have changed the face of crime forever. It’s not only the free market that is being globalized, but illegal markets as well: transnational crime expert Robinson sounds the alarm in this well-researched and genuinely chilling treatise. Veteran author Robinson (The Laundrymen, etc.) pursues a provocative thesis: where the general public has perceived the influence of traditional crime syndicates as waning, disparate developmentsAprimarily the end of the Cold War and banking’s growing reliance on computersAhave made it possible for discrete criminal entities to merge, much like legitimate corporations do. Robinson begins by recounting how “Lucky” Luciano used decentralized business techniques to create La Cosa Nostra in the 1930s; this, the author argues, allowed American organized crime to flourish through the early 1960s, with only sporadic law enforcement victories for years thereafter. Then Robinson plunges into a sordid history of global crime, identifying key players and the labyrinthine attempts by international law enforcement to play “catch-up.” Chapters detail the nefarious activities of the Russian “Mafiya,” Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, Asian Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Nigerian confidence rings, Hell’s Angels, rogue factions of the St. Regis Mohawk tribe and the surviving, leaner and meaner Cosa Nostra (and its Italian relatives). He presents a wealth of evidence that these groups have found ways to accommodate one another in numerous activities worldwide. in identity theft, credit card fraud, smuggling, bribery and counterfeiting, all of which are underwritten by enormous drug profits. More importantly, he explains, the cartels have been able to refine their money laundering, tax evasion and offshore banking crimes. All the while, Robinson provides an exciting and unsettling glimpse of our future as a wired and globalized paradise for thieves.. 

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Big Tech Tyrrany – Censored by YouTube: Video of US author James Perloff interpreting the Covid-19 Pandemic in Biblical terms with Sean of the 600k subscriber SGT Report channel – SGT Report website – Covid 1984 & Their Beast System On The Record James Perloff – Mirrored

Truth Is a Lonely Warrior: Unmasking the Forces behind Global Destruction – Twenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political history, and takes you places where the mass media won’t. • Who benefited from the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine? • Why did President Woodrow Wilson order the manifest of the torpedoed Lusitania hidden in the archives of the U.S. Treasury? • After the official inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, why did Admiral Kimmel and General Short – the commanders at Pearl Harbor – want to be court-martialed? • Why was the Soviet Union given control of North Korea after World War II, when the Soviets did nothing to win the war in the Pacific? • What did Congressional Medal of Honor recipient James Stockdale reveal about Tonkin Gulf (the event used to justify intervention in Vietnam)? • How did “Operation Rockingham” lead America into the Iraq war? • Since its founding in 1921, what small organization has produced 21 Secretaries of Defense/War, 19 Treasury Secretaries, 18 Secretaries of State, and 16 CIA directors? • How did Jimmy Carter go from a generally unknown figure to Presidential nominee in just seven months? • Why has America had decades of destructive inflation (understated recently by the Consumer Price Index), when there was zero net inflation from the days of the Pilgrims until the early 20th century?  • Why did the Vietnam War last 14 years – and end in defeat – when it took us only 3 and ½ years to win World War II? • What did the head of the Ford Foundation tell Congressional investigator Norman Dodd that made him “nearly fall off the chair”? • Is it possible that many kings and other monarchs of past centuries were not as evil as they’ve been portrayed?  • What American capitalists were given landing rights for their private jets in Moscow – at the height of the Cold War? • What KGB defector predicted glasnost five years before it happened – yet was ignored by the major media? • Who is at the top of the pyramid on the back of the one-dollar bill? • Why was the USS Liberty attacked in 1967, and why was there no Congressional investigation? • The official explanation of 9-11 – where do we begin to name the holes? • Who financed ecumenism and the decline of Christian faith? • What are world elitists saying about population control? • What are courageous doctors revealing about vaccines that the major media won’t report? • Does weather control go beyond seeding clouds? What is behind the recent spike in weather disasters? • How did the Establishment trick conservatives into supporting its “free trade” agenda, destroying millions of U.S. jobs? • Who’s pouring billions of dollars into the “green” movement? • 1984 – the amazing ways in which Orwell got the future right. • And how does ALL this tie together? If you are one of those who senses that something just isn’t right with the explanations we are given for wars, our dying economy, and other world events, this book may be just right for you. Countless lies have been planted in the corporate-controlled media to benefit the rich and the few; these lies have become “fact” through the mechanism of frequent repetition. Refuting such lies with credibility requires in-depth analysis.

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Tory councillor John Goulandris: ‘Bristol Is Not, And Never Should Be, A One-Party Dictatorship’ – Changes to Bristol City Council’s constitution have been branded a “shameless power grab” that will “effectively neuter local democracy”. The Labour administration insists that the move will make the democratic process fairer and more transparent, as it effectively gives elected councillors from the ruling party more opportunity to make their voices heard on behalf of their constituents. Under the changes, Labour will increase the number of its backbench councillors taking chair roles in committees and decrease opportunities for opposition parties to put forward ‘golden’ motions for debate – which will reflect the proportionality of the chamber instead of working on rotation.

Labour’s Bristol Mayor Candidate Marvin Rees In 2016: ‘I Want To Share My Power As Mayor’ – Marvin Rees has vowed to welcome politicians of all parties into his cabinet if elected mayor of Bristol, in a significant move away from his unsuccessful last campaign. Following his selection by the Labour Party to run against George Ferguson for a second time, he said he is now open to a “rainbow cabinet” – considered a major sticking point at the last election – and wants to give more power to his cabinet members. In his first extensive interview following his selection in September, Rees also said he wanted to give councillors the job of reviewing residents’ parking zones which he said were “too expensive to scrap”. He also pledged his support to newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, “a good man” who Rees said he would work with to bring greater powers to Bristol to build houses and improve the city’s transport. Speaking to Bristol24/7 following his selection in a tight contest with councillor Mark Bradshaw, Rees said his campaign was in the “early stages”, but some changes had already been made to his approach at the last election in 2012. Most notably, the former BBC Radio Bristol journalist said he had changed his position on who would be part of his cabinet. “We would have people from other parties in our cabinet. The key is to work with the city to set out a Bristol agenda.” He added that he wants to give his cabinet “real political power” instead of treating them “essentially as an advisory room”. “My approach to cabinet is to genuinely share power with them so that you don’t end up retaining all the executive power and it all being about the self,” he said, asking: “Do we share power or do we hold power with a sole individual?” He said he wanted to extend his approach to decentralising the power of the mayor by also giving councillors more of a stake in the democratic process….

Bristol Mayor George Ferguson Denies ‘Dictatorial’ Slur – Mr Ferguson, an architect, was elected as an independent in 2012 – Bristol’s mayor George Ferguson says he will be “more consensual” should he win a second term in May’s election and has denied being “dictatorial”. He told the BBC he had “taken flak” for his residents’ parking zones (RPZ) but successful cities had to be prepared to make “brave decisions”. RPZ opponents drove a tank through Clifton while his city-wide 20mph limit roll-out has also been criticised…. “I’m not that dictatorial person that people try to paint me as,” he said. “Occasionally I may have lost my rag with people….it may have been once a year….but it gets repeated and repeated and that becomes my image….

Ex-Mayor George Ferguson: ‘The Mayor’s Office’s Decision-Making Process Seems To Have Broken All Seven Principles Of Public Life’ I do not doubt mayor Marvin Rees’ honesty, or question his personal integrity. I am absolutely sure he believes he is doing the right thing for Bristol. However, I do strongly question the motives of some of those who advise and influence him. In particular, his political head of office who seems to have been driving council policy; and YTL, the Malaysian company that seeks to relieve Bristol of our hard-won £53m grant towards the arena project. I have been listening to statements from the mayor’s office with increasing concern over the last couple of weeks, compounding a confused decision-making process that seems to have broken all seven principles of public life: 1. Selflessness: It is evident that the decision making has been driven, at least in part, by personal resentment rather than by what is best for the people of Bristol who have been clear as to their preference. 2. Integrity: Accepting thousands of pounds worth of hospitality from a company seeking advantage from a mayoral decision is not “normal”, as claimed. 3. Objectivity: Freedom of Information requests have revealed clear bias in consultancy appointments and decision-making ever since Marvin’s first trip to Malaysia to meet with YTL in December 2017. 4. Accountability: The mayor, presumably advised by his head of office, has refused to submit himself to the council’s scrutiny process. 5. Openness: The mayor’s office has grossly underplayed the significance of thousands of pounds of expenses paid by YTL, listing them inconspicuously with minor gifts or meals, without declaring even an estimated cost. 6. Honesty: Misleading figures have been quoted regarding project costs to make false comparisons, and the people of Bristol have been misled that the mayor was yet to make up his mind. 7. Leadership: Marvin has allowed his office and other interested parties to drive what has been a fiasco of a decision making process and to lose their moral compass….

Mayor Marvin Rees blasted for ‘truly shocking’ attack on democracy by claiming opponents play ‘ping-pong’ with issues. He said ‘one of the death-knells of getting things done in Bristol is to begin to get people on these benches to play ping-pong with it’. Marvin Rees has been criticised for launching a “truly shocking” attack on democracy in Bristol. The city’s mayor blamed inaction over major decisions on “political shenanigans” in the council chamber and accused councillors of playing “ping-pong” with issues. His comments, during a debate at full council on the proposed multi-million pound revamp of Cumberland Basin, have alarmed opposition leaders. Explaining the creation of two unelected advisory groups which will progress the plans for the area rebranded as Western Harbour, Mr Rees slammed members’ right to debate controversial topics on behalf of the residents they represent as counter-productive. The leaders of the three city council opposition parties have blasted the Labour mayor’s statements, accusing him of “attacking democracy”, “losing contact with reality” and being unable to take criticism. Rounding off the Western Harbour debate at the full council meeting on November 12, Mr Rees said: “Historically this organisation has failed to meet the challenges of the city because of political shenanigans. “They have not made decisions, they haven’t delivered homes or transport solutions and we are dealing with the legacy of that today.” He said he was taking the Western Harbour advisory groups “out of politics”. One of the working groups will include local people, residents’ groups and businesses, set up to “influence early plans” for the area. Alongside that will be a “reference group” comprising “individuals and organisations that enables local groups and the community to be engaged and informed about what is happening and how to participate with the proposed scheme development”.“I’m not on it. No cabinet member is on it. After the meeting, Lib Dem group leader Gary Hopkins said: “It is a symptom of the mayoral system that the further they get up and up the ivory tower, they lose contact with reality and see anyone who doesn’t agree with them 100 per cent as an enemy. “He actually uses the public disquiet with politicians, which undoubtedly has grown over the past two or three years because of what’s been going on in Parliament, to prevent scrutiny, and sees people asking relevant questions as acting irresponsibly. “It is an attack on the democratic process. “The majority of Bristol’s public are well-informed and do not like what they’re hearing and seeing. “The mayor trying to pull the wool over their eyes on everything is not a good way to proceed. “Clearly the mayoral system has got to go. “In the meantime we will be trying every means possible to uphold the democractic process and raise issues so the public can actually see what is going on and get involved. “But the mayor has bent the constitution, he’s got all the power on his side and it’s quite difficult to do that now.”…

Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees’ Bullying Breaks All His Own Rules: Why Bristol mayor Marvin Rees’ jokes are no laughing matter – Today, Bristol Live is standing up for a reporter targeted for public ridicule by our city’s political elite. This is why… – Look at this line-up of the most powerful politicians in our city. Mayor Marvin Rees, and, to his left, his deputy Craig Cheney. In front of them, ex-council leader Helen Holland and the housing lead Paul Smith, both of whom are laughing gleefully at a joke by the mayor. “Just joking, that’s just a joke,” smiles Mr Rees as he starts a public meeting of the city’s cabinet. And they all smile. “All very nice,” adds Mr Rees, as he turns on his microphone. But all isn’t very nice. Because the mayor is ridiculing another human being. In fact, some of those in front of Mr Rees are sneaking a look at the target of this so-called humour. He is sat on his own on the other side of the council chamber, trying to do his job while being publicly humiliated by Bristol’s political elite. That person is Adam Postans. He is a journalist. And, today, Bristol Live is standing up for Adam. The meeting began with what the mayor, still laughing at his own humour, called “a jovial start” – made, coincidentally, with the recording microphones switched off. Seeing Adam, Mr Rees had joked: “Be great to have a journalist here”. And how they laughed. This from a mayor who, in the same meeting, bemoaned the “downward spiral of the quality of our civic discourse”. Civic discourse? In another context, Mr Rees’ attempt to publicly tarnish Adam’s reputation could be seen as slander. It was certainly a breach of the council members’ code of conduct which, under a section entitled “Respecting others”, advises members that they should “Always treat people with respect, including the organisations and public you engage with.”…

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Venezuela says eight killed in foiled ‘invasion by sea’ Interior Minister Nestor Reverol says ‘mercenary terrorists’ launched attack from Colombia. 3 May 2020   Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the group landed early on the coast of La Guaira, about 32km from the capital Caracas [Reuters] Venezuela’s government has said it foiled a marine incursion by “terrorist mercenaries” who attempted to enter the country on speedboats from neighbouring Colombia, adding security forces killed eight of the fighters. The group landed early on Sunday on a beach in the port city of La Guaira, about 20 miles (32km) from the capital Caracas, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said in a televised address. 

World War 3: How Japan could be ‘glove over US fist’ in fight against China – WORLD WAR 3 fears have intensified as Donald Trump ramps up his coronavirus rhetoric against China – but an unearthed documentary suggests Japan, in a strategic sense, could be “the glove over Washington’s fist”.

US Pulling Patriot Missiles, Warplanes Out of Saudi Arabia Amid Dispute. US wants Saudi oil production cut to ensure stable prices – The Trump Administration has been annoyed at Saudi Arabia’s inability to stabilize oil prices at a level high enough to ensure US producers a profit, and in a move that appears to be retaliation based on those tensions, the US is starting to pull military assets out of Saudi Arabia. Officials announced on Thursday that the US will be withdrawing two Patriot missile batteries, along with a number of warplanes from the Saudi desert, along with other air defenses. The assets were placed in the area in recent months to “counter Iran.” The US buildup in Saudi Arabia began after a Yemeni missile hit oil-producing regions. Saudis blamed Iran, and the US sent forces there to “deter” them. US-Iran tensions over Iraq ultimately led to more deployments into the area. Putting troops there appears to have given the US the leverage to pull troops out of there, and with Saudi efforts to try to get oil prices back up largely unsuccessful, the US appears to have decided that this will coax them into action…

Senate fails to override Trump’s veto of Iran war resolution that would have curbed his ability to launch a strike. – WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday failed to override President Donald Trump’s veto of an Iran war powers resolution that would have curbed his ability to launch a military strike against that country. In a 49-to-44 vote, supporters fell short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to overturn Trump’s veto, which came Wednesday evening. The resolution would have barred Trump from using military force against Iran without explicit congressional authorization. In his veto statement, Trump called the resolution “very insulting” and leveled unexpectedly harsh criticism at Republicans who supported it. He argued that Democrats were using the issue to divide the GOP in an election year. “The few Republicans who voted for it played right into their hands,” Trump said. Sen. Tim Kaine, the chief author of the resolution, blasted Trump for bringing electoral politics into a debate about war.”It was not introduced to divide the Republican Party. It was not introduced to affect the election. It was introduced to stop a rush to an unnecessary war,” Kaine told reporters in a conference call before Thursday’s vote. “But the president can’t see that because all he can see is himself and the prospects for his own election.”

VE Day Secrets Exposed 1: BBC Scotland (available for 25 days) Eminent Monsters – MK Ultra: US Human Experimentation, Picking Up Where The Nazis Left Off – Documentary tracing the shocking truth of our governments’ love affair with torture. In 1950s Montreal, Scottish-born psychiatrist Dr Ewen Cameron experimented on his unwitting patients. His techniques included sensory deprivation, forced comas and LSD injections. His work was covertly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA and since then, his techniques have been used in Northern Ireland, Guantanamo and 27 countries around the world. Featuring extraordinary first-hand testimony from Guantanamo Bay survivors, the Hooded Men from Northern Ireland and senior American psychologists and military personnel.

VE Day Secrets Exposed 2: Evidence emerging since 2017 that Hitler tested an atomic weapon in October 1944, nine months before the Manhattan Project’s Trinity Test on 16th July 1945. Daily Express: Secret documents reveal Germans tested nuclear bomb in 1944 as doodlebugs pounded London: “A cloud shaped like a mushroom with turbulent, billowing sections (at about 7000 metres) stood, without any seeming connections over the spot where the explosion took place. Strong electrical disturbances and the impossibility to continue radio communication as by lighting turned up.” He estimated the cloud stretching for nine kilometres and described further “strange colourings” followed by a blast wave which translated into a “strong pull on the stick” – meaning his cockpit controls. The report concurs that Hitler’s scientists failed to achieve a breakthrough in nuclear technology An hour later a pilot in a different machine took off from Ludwigslust and observed the same phenomenon. According to other archival documents, the Italian correspondent Luigi Romersa observed on the ground the same explosion. He had been sent by dictator Benito Mussolini to watch the test of a “new weapon” of the Germans. He was ordered to report his impressions back to Mussolini….

Discovery of radioactive metal points to ‘success’ of Nazi atomic bomb programme. Oranienburg was reportedly the location of Adolf Hitler’s secret uranium enrichment facility – An amateur treasure hunter in Germany has stumbled upon what could be radioactive material from a secret research facility dating back to World War II. 64-year-old Bernd Thälmann was exploring the ground in Oranienburg, north-east Germany, with his metal detector when it gave an unusual ‘bleep’. After bringing the mysterious object home, the pensioner alerted the authorities about his discovery of a shiny lump of metal. Police discovered the find was radioactive, leading to the evacuation of 15 residents from several houses by emergency services. Specialists in hazmat suits searched Mr Thälmann’s home and removed the suspicious object in a lead-lined container which was then placed inside a protective suitcase. Mr Thälmann is now being investigated for being in possession of “unauthorised radioactive substances”, according to the Berlin Courier. German authorities have revealed that the area of Oranienburg was the location of Adolf Hitler’s secret uranium enrichment facility. The research centre was tasked with enriching uranium oxide imported from South America, to make weapons-grade plutonium. The ultimate aim was to create a Nazi atomic bomb. 

VE Day Secrets Exposed 3: The falsification of evidence as the truth was emerging in 1972 and 1998 that Hitler’s private secretary and treasurer Martin Bormann died on May 1 1945 fleeing the Berlin Fuhrerbunker: Firstly in 1972 as Daily Express journalist son of Jewish emigree parents Stewart Steven discovered Martin Bormann alive in Buenos Aires with Hungarian journalist Ladislas Farago. Just after this front page lead in the Daily Express the Body of the Bormann double ‘Gunther’ was unearthed. Secondly in 1996 on the publication of Op JB The Last Great Secret Of The Second World War about Ian Fleming, Desmond Morton, Winston Churchill and King George VI’s secret operation to rescue Bormann from the ruins of Berlin to do deals with him was published. The Establishment and press responded with derisive sneers and fabricated evidence that a skull had been DNA tested (quite how was not clear) and proven to be Bormann’s despite having red clay on it from Ita, Paraguay where Bormann is thought now to have lived out his days to a ripe old age as a Fourth Reich Mafia Kingpin.

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Part 1 news review – Hustings for Bristol’s cancelled local elections, with Libdem candidate Mary Page, Conservative candidate Samuel Williams, Trade Union Socialist Alliance Candidate Tom Baldwin and Green candidate Sandy Hore-Ruthven. Apologies from Labour candidate Marvin Rees. – Labour party: incumbent mayor Marvin Rees (apologies)

Participants: Liberal Democrat party: Mary Page – Conservative party: Samuel Williams – Trade Union & Socialist Alliance: Tom Baldwin – Green party: Sandy Hore-Ruthven

Subjects Covered: Only mayor candidate not to join us: apologies from incumbent mayor who may have been removed next week, Labour’s Marvin Rees – Rights and wrongs of postponing Bristol’s elections for 12 months – The office of mayor, does it work and how will its future now be decided? – Covid-19 Pandemic: facts about the disease, rights and wrongs of the lock-down and physical distancing, effects on family life, the unbelievable lack of testing, death, funerals and contacts with sick loved ones in hospital and care homes, devastating economic effects of the lock-downs – The homeless in Bristol are now being put up in hotels, why had it taken a pandemic to help them off the streets and what will happen when things go back to ‘normal’? – what are candidates’ visions for a post-lock-down Bristol?

Mayor Rees calls for Government bailout to plug £82m blackhole. Mayor Marvin Rees is pleading with the Government for an NHS-style bailout for local authorities as he warned it will take Bristol years to recover from the coronavirus. Bristol city council faces an £82 milllion blackhole that will threaten frontline services. The pandemic is having a devastating impact on income vital to maintaining these services, such as from council tax, parking charges and business rates, as people lose jobs or stay at home. Mayor Marvin Rees is now pleading with the Government for an NHS-style bailout to support local authorities, similar to the one received by the NHS. Earlier this month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced NHS trusts would have £13.4 billion worth of debt written off to help them fight the outbreak. “We have lost revenue of £80million through this crisis.” Mr Rees says the Government must now do the same for city halls because some local authorities face “going to the wall”, although he insists the city council is in a better position than most.

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Letter of apology from office of Bristol’s Labour mayor Marvin Rees Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:35
Dear Tony
I am sorry but the Mayor is unavailable at that time.
He is already regularly speaking about Covid-19 on BCFM and so additional interview requests will not be prioritised.
Kind regards,
Simon Cowley – Mayor’s Office Policy Manager

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Part 2 Investigative reports: Swedish Epidemiologist Prof Johan Giesecke says no evidence of any reinfection. False Positives: Recovered Patients Who Tested Positive for COVID-19 Likely Not Reinfected.  This phenomenon is likely due to the shortcomings of the coronavirus test, experts say. More than 260 COVID-19 patients in South Korea tested positive for the coronavirus after having recovered, raising alarm that the virus might be capable of “reactivating” or infecting people more than once. But infectious disease experts now say both are unlikely.

Prof. Kari Steffanson from DeCode Genetics of Iceland, ‘virus came from The Alps and Great Britain’: Prof Stefansson said that in the beginning, almost all of the cases came into Iceland from the Alps, from people who had been skiing in Austria and Italy. The authorities responded by trying to contain the spread of infection from those high risk countries. He added: “But as they were doing this, the virus was actually sneaking into the country with people from all kinds of other countries. “And the most notable there is Great Britain. So it looks like the virus had a fairly wide spread in Great Britain very, very early in this epidemic.”

Swedish Epidemiologist Johan Giesecke: Why Lockdowns Are The Wrong Policy – Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks: UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based. The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only. This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product.” The initial UK response, before the “180 degree U-turn”, was better. The Imperial College paper was “not very good” and he has never seen an unpublished paper have so much policy impact. The paper was very much too pessimistic. Any such models are a dubious basis for public policy anyway. The flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as the lockdown. The results will eventually be similar for all countries. Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people. The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%. At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available…

Trump says China’s Wuhan virology lab is source of Covid-19 – Coronavirus: Trump stands by China lab origin theory for virus. US President Donald Trump has appeared to undercut his own intelligence agencies by suggesting he has seen evidence coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. Earlier the US national intelligence director’s office said it was still investigating how the virus began. But the office said it had determined Covid-19 “was not manmade or genetically modified”. China has rejected the lab theory and criticised the US response to Covid-19… 

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research. Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells. An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks… The findings reinforce suspicions that bat coronaviruses capable of directly infecting humans (rather than first needing to evolve in an intermediate animal host) may be more common than previously thought, the researchers say. But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says…

World Economic Forum Looks to Blockchain to Restart Global Economy. The World Economic Forum believes DLT supply chain solutions can help reboot the global economy, launching a blockchain deployment kit. The World Economic Forum published a report looking at how the deployment of blockchain-based solutions can address the supply chain inefficiencies and failures that have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the report, the WEF has released a blockchain deployment toolkit intended to assist government and businesses in adapting their supply chains to the current economic climate and to “accelerate an economic rebound post-COVID-19.”

Former ambassador who lost his career because he refused to back torture in Uzbekistan charged AFTER Salmond trial with contempt. On Tuesday morning, a large Police van full of police pulled up onto the pavement right outside my front gate, actually while I was talking on the phone to a senior political figure about the raid on my friend. The police just sat in the van staring at my house. I contacted my lawyers who contacted the Crown Office. The police van pulled away and my lawyers contacted me back to say that the Crown Office had told them I would be charged, or officially “cited”, with Contempt of Court, but they agreed there was no need for a search of my home or to remove my devices, or for vans full of police. On Thursday two plain clothes police arrived and handed me the indictment. Shortly thereafter, an email arrived from The Times newspaper, saying that the Crown Office had “confirmed” that I had been charged with contempt of court. In the case of my friend whose house was raided, he was contacted by the Daily Record just before the raid even happened!

Iran condemns German ban on Lebanon’s Hezbollah TEHRAN, May 01(MNA) –Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has strongly condemned the German government’s blacklisting of the Lebanese Hezbollah as a measure serving the objectives of the US and the Zionist regime of Israel. In a statement on Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi vehemently condemned the German government’s move to accuse the Lebanese Hezbollah of “promoting armed struggle with terrorist means.” “It appears that certain countries in Europe are adopting their stances without considering the realities in the West Asia region and by paying regard only to the objectives of the propaganda machine of the Zionist regime and the confused US regime,” Mousavi added. “The German government’s decision has been made with complete disrespect for the Lebanese government and nation, as Hezbollah is an official and legitimate part of that country’s government and parliament, and has always been an influential political party in the arena of creating political stability in that country,” he said, adding that Hezbollah enjoys massive popular backing in Lebanon and in the region.

Banks targeted in Lebanon’s ‘night of the Molotov’. At least a dozen banks torched and vandalised as fiery protests against economic hardships continue across Lebanon. Beirut, Lebanon – At least a dozen Lebanese banks across the country were torched and vandalised during the second consecutive night of angry protests fuelled by frustration over the national currency’s unfettered depreciation. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets from Beirut to southern Sidon along with Nabatieh, the Bekaa Valley, and Tripoli and Akkar in the north. While it was unclear how many civilians were hurt, 81 security personnel were injured across the country during attempts to contain the riots, including 50 in Tripoli, the military said…

Will Trump go to war with Iran to save America’s oil industry? by Scott Ritter. It’s believed that a US-Iran war would disrupt the flow of Middle Eastern oil and, as such, should be avoided at all costs. With US oil futures trading in the negative, has the risk of such a war suddenly become attractive? Last week, nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) vessels harassed a formation of US Navy and Coast Guard ships operating in international waters in the northern Persian Gulf. According to the US Navy, approximately 11 Iranian fast patrol boats conducted “dangerous and harassing approaches” of a flotilla of six vessels, repeatedly crossing the bows and sterns of the American ships at high speeds. Such maneuvers are not uncommon in the Persian Gulf, where the US and Iranian navies have faced off against each other several times over the years, employing similar harassing tactics, but always stopping short of actual confrontation. As such, President Donald Trump’s tweet on Wednesday, instructing the US Navy “to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” seemed like an unnecessary and dangerous escalation, especially given the history of the US-Iranian confrontation in the region and the potentially devastating consequences of such. Almost immediately after Trump released his Tweet, the price of oil rebounded. Futures contracts for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spiked to $13.49, after previously dropping to historic lows, bottoming-out at nearly negative $37. Likewise, Brent futures, which benchmark around 60 percent of global crude purchases, jumped $1.20 higher to $20.53 per barrel, after trading as low as $15.98. Normally the cause-and-effect relationship between the threat of war and the rise in oil prices would be viewed in a negative light. But these are not normal times…

Dress rehearsal: British police prepared for the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, four days in advance – Armed British police, plus ambulance and medical crews, drone and helicopter pilots, firefighters, and the head doctor of the Salisbury District Hospital’s emergency department were preparing for the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal just four days before Russian military assassins arrived from Moscow allegedly carrying a lethal chemical weapon in a perfume bottle. Not counting the Skripals and the Russians, the British forces numbered at least two hundred. They were mobilized through the afternoon and night of February 27 until the morning of February 28, in the centre of Swindon, Wiltshire; that is a city 70 kilometres (40 miles) north of Salisbury, also in Wiltshire. The Skripals collapsed at 4:15 in the afternoon of March 4, in the centre of Salisbury. At least two of the paramedics who arrived at the scene to evacuate them to hospital had been practising in the Swindon operation. “There is no intelligence that Swindon is at risk,” a senior police officer had warned, “but I hope members of the public understand we need to be ready and prepared for any eventuality. This is Wiltshire Police getting ourselves – along with our colleagues in the fire and ambulance services – in the best position so we’re ready for anything.” Until the Skripals are released by the British authorities and permitted to speak freely to their family, their lawyers, and the press, it is not known whether they too were warned in advance to be “ready for anything.” The British Government narrative of what happened to the Skripals is that they were taken by surprise and poisoned by a Russian-made nerve agent which British government and military officials call Novichok. Two Russians have been identified by name and charged with attempted murder and other crimes, including what then-Prime Minister Theresa May said on March 12, 2018, was “an unlawful use of force by the Russian State against the United Kingdom”…

The raw truth about the UK’s special relationship with Israel – Israel is seen as an ally against Syria and Iran – Britain’s two main enemies in the region – and the Palestinians are the expendable unpeople. Britain has a special relationship with Israel that is little recognised in the mainstream media but unmissable in light of the killings in Gaza. With more than 110 protesters dead, Britain is in effect defending Israeli actions. The British government has not, as far as I have seen, actually condemned Israel for the killings. Rather, it has simply “urged Israel to show restraint” while recognising its “right to secure itself” and also blaming Hamas for the violence. When British Prime Minister Theresa May phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 10 May, by which date 40 Palestinian protesters in Gaza had already been shot, it appears she did not even raise the issue. Meanwhile, the government infers it will not even review UK arms exports to Israel after the Gaza massacres which have only been discussed once in the British cabinet. That Britain is supporting Israel over the Gaza killings is true to form. The UK’s relationship with Israel is special in at least nine areas, including arms sales, air force, nuclear deployment, navy, intelligence and trade, to name but a few…

UK Supreme Court rules against government attempt to curb BDS. The British government has suffered a major defeat in its attempt to curb the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in a long running legal battle with the UK’s largest organisation campaigning for Palestinian human rights. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) won the landmark case in the Supreme Court today in its challenge to the government regulations which restrict Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) from divesting contrary to UK foreign and defence policy. The regulations limited the possibility of divestment from companies involved in or profiting from Israel’s human rights violations. In bringing the legal case, the PSC had raised concerns about threats to freedom of expression, government overreach in local democracy and the right of pension holders to have a say in the investment and divestment of their funds…

Galloway’s Rogues’ Gallery: Latest Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – so wooden, birds try to nest in him – So monotonously ‘forensic’ was Starmer as a QC, he was appointed the public prosecutor by the Blair-Brown gang of which he was a member. But his time as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is littered with crimes. He declined to prosecute the paedophilic rapist BBC ‘star’ Sir Jimmy Savile (another Knight of the Realm) despite police recommendations to do so. If he had done so, many children, mentally disabled people and even cadavers would’ve been spared Savile’s subsequent attentions. He was relentless in his persecution of Julian Assange, on the other hand, with his Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) office reportedly demanding, in writing, that Sweden not “get cold feet” in pursuing the fake rape charges against the publisher. He implored them not to send a team to London – as they’d done many times in other cases – to interview Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy. They must continue to demand extradition, he advised. It’s not hard to work out why. During Starmer’s role as DPP, the CPS declined to prosecute MI6 agents for involvement, during the War on Terror, in alleged crimes of torture and illegal acts of extraordinary rendition, despite the advice of Scotland Yard. Politics being a transactional business, however, Starmer did at least get an unprecedented invitation to cocktails with the head of MI6 in return…

Planet of the Humans: How Environmental and Green Energy Movements Have Been Taken Over By Capitalists – Watch on YouTube – The promise of green energy, embraced by President Barack Obama, airline owner Richard Branson, philanthropist Michael Bloomberg, 350.org founder Bill McKibben, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations, and a large percentage of the public. Electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines were to be the alternatives to a reliance on fossil fuels, but it hasn’t turned out to be that simple. An electric car is charged from an outlet powered by the local company that relies on coal and natural gas. A site for wind turbines in Vermont requires that a forest be cut down, a mountain-top removal similar to what seen in coal country. In an upsetting sequence, we see all the materials that have to be mined, transported, and processed to make solar panels. And still, both solar and wind power requires a backup system for rainy and windless days — which turn out to be power generated by burning fossil fuels. Gibbs asks: “Can machines made by industrial civilizations save industrial civilizations?” When solar and wind did not provide the answer, biomass became the energy alternative — most often the burning of wood chips made from trees and waste wood, like old railroad ties. But just because trees can be planted and harvested, does that make them a sustainable form of energy? What about the fuels used to power the machines cutting down the trees and converting them into chips?

Martin Bormann was vital to Hitler. Bormann made Hitler, and the Third Reich, rich through thinly veiled extortion schemes such as The Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry. He also came up with the idea of charging royalties on Hitler’s image on postage stamps – and so made his Fuhrer personally wealthy. He became so close to Hitler and the running of the war that Hitler once screamed “To win this war, I need Bormann!”. More sinister was Bormann’s involvement in ensuring the progress of the final solution . Himmler had to report back to Bormann on the extermination of the Jews.Bormann, Hitler’s doctor Stumpfegger and Artur Axmann (the Head of the Hitler Youth) all left the bunker in Berlin together after Hitler’s suicide on 30th April 1945. After Axmann left them at the Lehrter Station Bormann and Stumpfegger disappeared. This led to one of the longest Nazi hunts in history.

BBC pauses plans to cut jobs amid coronavirus outbreak. Proposal to axe 450 jobs and pay for the licence fee for over-75s put on ice. The BBC has paused plans to cut 450 journalism jobs because of the coronavirus outbreak, leaving staff who were expecting to be made redundant unsure if it is a long-term change in policy or merely a stopgap during the pandemic. The redundancies were announced at the end of January in an effort to save £80m from the BBC’s budget, with shows such as the Victoria Derbyshire programme axed and hundreds of roles due to go across the rest of the organisation…

In a week’s time a conference on fake news and conspiracies called ‘Alternative View’ 11 was due to take place in Milton Keynes (AV11). Despite the organiser Ian R. Crane being critically ill in hospital during the lockdown he and the team have reorganised it as a series of online web screenings to which conference goers can subscribe.

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