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Suspended Leicestershire police officer killed by train

Published19 October 2012

A senior Leicestershire police officer who had recently been suspended from the force has been struck and killed by a train.

Police said Assistant Chief Constable Gordon Fraser died on Friday. His death is not being treated as suspicious.

Mr Fraser, 49, and his wife Teresa appeared in court in July charged with perverting the course of justice over a speeding incident in Scotland.

Mr Fraser and his wife were due to appear in court on Monday.

Leicestershire Police said Mr Fraser was struck on the railway line at Aston Magna, Moreton-in-Marsh.

It is understood the couple claimed she was the driver of a speeding car in Scotland in September 2011, when it was alleged her husband was actually at the wheel.

Speaking after the charges were brought, chief Crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service, Baljit Ubhey, said: “The essence of the charge is that Mr Fraser, having allegedly committed a speeding offence, falsely informed the investigating authorities that Mrs Fraser had been the driver of the vehicle in question, and she falsely accepted responsibility for the speeding offence.”

Earlier this year a spokesman from West Midlands Police confirmed Mrs Fraser, also a serving police officer, had been suspended from duty pending the outcome of court proceedings.

Mr Fraser had been suspended from duty since December 2010, pending a separate investigation being carried out by Merseyside Police.

They confirmed earlier this year that they were investigating Mr Fraser in connection with allegations of misconduct and fraud.

Leicestershire Police said they were deeply shocked and saddened and their thoughts were with his family and friends.

It also said Mr Fraser had been offered welfare support during his suspension.

British Transport Police said it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident and would be preparing a report for the coroner.

Police officer and wife in court over speeding allegation

Published20 July 2012

A senior Leicestershire Police officer and his wife have appeared in court charged with perverting the course of justice over a speeding incident.

Assistant Chief Constable Gordon Fraser, 48, and his wife Teresa, 42, also a serving officer, appeared at St Albans Magistrates’ Court.

They are accused of falsely claiming she was the driver of a speeding car in Scotland in September, when it is alleged her husband was at the wheel.

image captionTeresa Fraser has been suspended from West Midlands Police

Both were bailed until 22 October.

The speeding is alleged to have happened in Strathclyde, but the couple live in Ansley in Warwickshire.

Mrs Fraser works for West Midlands Police but has been suspended from duty.

Mr Fraser worked for West Midlands Police for 22 years before moving to Leicestershire in 2010.

Leicestershire Police said he had been suspended from duty over a separate matter.

The couple were asked to stand outside the dock at the court as the charge was read out.

Neither of them spoke during the hearing.

The next hearing will be at St Albans Crown Court.

No wonder women love divorce, they squander their husbands money, keeping their won for themselves, then take at leat half his estate – more if they can pull off the domestic violence con, with all that ‘he tried to kill me’ equality talk ( sic ).

From Daily Mail June 18th 2006

***From Daily Mail, February 11th 2006. This is the man behind London’s infamous Centre Point building which stood empty for years, exempt from what was then called rates, now council tax.***

Robert Cook the voice of North Bucks

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Covid The Fall Out June 13th 2020

Protests London June 13^th 2020

Protesters in London have been told by police they must be off the streets by 5pm today.

The restriction is an attempt to avoid a repeat of last week’s violent clashes with police during Black Lives Matter protests.

Statues in Parliament Square have been boarded up to prevent them being targeted, as some were in recent days.

And protesters will have to keep to the planned march route, which runs from Hyde Park to Whitehall.

At Whitehall there will be a police barrier, with protesters asked to stay on one side and counter-protesters on the other.

The conditions have been set under section 12 of the Public Order Act.

Metropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid said he understood the depth of feeling of protesters but asked people not to come to London while lockdown rules are still in force.

“If you were planning to come to London, I again would urge you to reconsider, but if you are still intent, please familiarise yourself with what the conditions are,” he said.

“Please keep yourself safe by complying with government guidance on social distancing.”

He also promised a “robust” response to any disorder at protests this weekend.

“Protecting property, protecting people, particularly police officers, is really important and criminality will not be tolerated,” Mr Javid said.

“The reality is it was a very, very small number of people last weekend that resorted to violence.

“But quite naturally that’s what seems to get the traction on social media and in the media.

“A large, large number of people who came to London were peaceful. They demonstrated in a very peaceful and sensible way, under the current circumstances.

“But those who come along with the intention of, or they are able to be drawn into, violence when they come to London, that just won’t be accepted and it won’t be tolerated.”

The protests were sparked by the killing of American George Floyd, a black man who died in

Minneapolis last month after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.

The UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council said on Friday that more than 130 people have been arrested during almost 200 demonstrations across Britain since the death of Mr Floyd.

More than 60 police officers have also been injured.

Black Death June 13th 2020

Streams of mourners lined up early today outside a Baptist church in Raeford, North Carolina to pay their respects to George Floyd.

The state’s governor, Roy Cooper, ordered all flags to be flown at half mast on Saturday as mass demonstrations continued over racial injustice and police brutality following his killing.
Mr Floyd, 46, died on Memorial Day in Minneapolis after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee to his neck for almost nine minutes.

Though Mr Floyd spent most of his life in Houston, Texas, he was born in Fayetteville and much of the family still calls North Carolina home.
A private family service was scheduled for 3pm after the public viewing.

The Raleigh News & Observerreported that mourners were allowed in 20 at a time to view Mr Floyd, and had been arriving from dawn.
The local sheriff’s office expected that between 30,000 and 40,000 people would come to pay their respects.

Dressed in a tan suit, his body lay in a gold, open casket. Although his family had asked for no flowers, mourners left numerous floral tributes.
A memorial service was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thursday. On Tuesday, a further memorial will be held in Houston. Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to attend.

In a statement, Governor Cooper said: “The unjust killing of George Floyd combined with many other recent and distant events broke open painful wounds. Racism. Excessive use of police force. Health disparities. Poverty. White supremacy. These are wrong. They are ugly, but they are present. We must deal with them. We will deal with them. George Floyd’s sister, Bridgette, lives in Hoke County, North Carolina. While I cannot bring her brother back, I can work for justice in his name. I assured her that’s what we would do.”

***U.S Police, like Britain, equiped to keep the population down – I mean the different parts of the underclass.***

What a surprise ! June 12th 2020

Conveniently the British news agenda has moved away from police brutality to the issue of getting rid of statues commemorating the colonial past. Oxford’s pampered elite students are leading the charge with an attack on Cecil Rhodes.

***U.S Students , backed by Democrats, want to remove Civil War Statues as they re write history to placate Black Lives Matter campaign. When will it be slave owner GeorgeWashinton’s turn ?***
***When will Washington be renamed Martin Luther King City ?*** ***To have real moral force, this campaign must go all the way. The British Royal Family must have an historical ca***se ***to answer, and I am not talking about Prince Andrew and the sex slaves.***

Half of Oxford’s student population come from the 5 % who attend our top public schools. Another large proportion come from wealthy overseas families, many from what we incorrectly describe as ethnic minorities.

It is very easy to fool people of the masses. So the trick is, here, to encourage them to believe that pulling down a lot of old statues is a cure for the rot and corruption that infests western countries like Britain, and the world beyond. There is no evidence or reason to believe in the Judaic Christian Islamic versions of creation.

They were clearly political movements still used to divide rule manipulate and mislead people today. It is utter vanity and absurdity to perpetuate the myth that we were created by a God in ‘his’ own image. If God was our creator and a super version of ourselves, then no wonder the world gets more unpleasant by the day.

Few ponder the true definition and history of human slavery – least of all the rampaging student and hard done by ethnics, with their white sympathisers.

Slavery is part of the human condition. At this moment in human history, never have there been so many people and never has so much of the worlds’ wealth been in so few hands. They call the tune, lie that we have democracy, use their state powers to watch and police us, divide and rule. Posh whites and posh students joing the call to remove statues is a big part of the con and a serious distraction.

When I started school in 1955, there was a house system. The names were Rhodes, Clive and Penn. I knew nothing of the British Empire or God. So I knew nothing about the men the school houses were named after. I was taught to know my place – see Junius School days page.

My father had been wounded in the last Great Imperial World War Two.

After the war, he moved from London to the countryside with my mother. By the time I was born, he was a lorry ( truck ) driver.

He used to get up at 2 a.m and bicycle 10 miles to the brickyard and back in all weathers. He was a slave, paid a pittance. Our house had no central heating, was very draughty and no running hot water. The job killed him in the end, when I was 11. We were condemned to extreme poverty, looked down upon by the better off.

The British Empire was built on the backs of oppressed white working classes at least as much as slavery. Does anyone ever wonder how so many black slaves came to be loaded on to ships by men who was at least as oppressed as they were. The answer is, that black tribal chiefs sold them off. The slave trade could not have worked without powerful blacks getting rid of those they did not want. White men were being forced to fight for vile Britannia right up to the post colonial wars in Africa and Malaya. Women forced the British Government to punish Germany for World War One, leading to World War Two.

Under the weight of mass immigration over many years from third World Countries and consequent under investment in health care, the system failed to cope with the bio engineered Covid 19, across Europe.
Still this is an elite victory because the fear has created compliance with further absurdities. We are being ruled by vain arrogant over paid over protected idiots who will bring far worse yet. Our corrupt dishonest secretive money grabbing elite seem unaware of the law of unintended consequences.

Tearing down statues is just another way of re writing history, covering up for the bloodshed that created the modern industrial world of even worse slavery. Cheap goods require cheap labour. The modern slave masters are the George Soros’s and microsoft folk. There is massive evidence that Corona is man made and part of the Western Global elite’s war to take power away from China and Russia. I suspect they expected the virus to do more damage to a wider range of lower class people than it has done. That hasn’t stopped them exaggerating it, made easy because Western Countries have not expanded health care to match the massive imports of cheap Third World Labour.

Humouring the Black Lives Matter protesters and backing removal of statues is what Parsonian functionalists would call latent tension management. In plain English, diverting all the social energy and tension built up by ludicrous lockdown into General Robert E Lee’s record making it look as something good is being done for the stupid ignorant masses- including the conceited fakes of pompus overblown Oxford University. As I conclude this piece, news has come in that a London Street is in lockdwon due to a stabbing. What a surprise ! Robert Cook

General Robert E Lee’s Statue to be removed. June 12th 2020

In recent days, amid an extraordinary outpouring of grief over Floyd’s death, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has pledged to remove the Lee statue, while city leaders have also committed to taking down the other four Confederate memorials along Richmond’s prestigious Monument Avenue.
The changes amount to a reshaping of how one of America’s most historic cities tells its story in its public spaces — and a rethinking of whom it glorifies.
“It’s been a long time coming. … We’ve tried marches, petitions, protests, going to city council” to get the Confederate monuments removed, said Phil Wilayto, a longtime community organizer and activist with the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality. “And it took what is in effect a mass uprising of the community to say these things are not acceptable.”
Republican lawmakers, Confederate heritage groups and a Monument Avenue preservation group have criticized the decisions. Some have warned it could impact tourism, and many have equated the monuments’ removal to erasing history.
“Attempts to eradicate instead of contextualizing history invariably fail,” Senate GOP leaders said in a statement.
Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, died after a white officer jammed his knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes as other officers watched. Video captured Floyd’s arrest and final moments, and his death has sparked protests around the world that demonstrators have vowed to turn into a sustained movement focused on addressing racial injustice.

Comment Interesting how no media trendy ever mentions the Red Indian genocide or what the Romans and Normans did to the Celts. Time to banish Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror to name but a few. What about ‘Bloody Mary ? She murdered a lot of white people because she was a religious nut case. the queen is head of the Anglican Church because she is descended from these murdering religious lunatics.

Oh I forgot, just being white is a privilege. It will be so much better for me dying in the gutter r looney bin knowing I am a privileged white male. Why aren’t the 15% South African white population represented in the hierarchy ? When are we going to stop talking about Muslims as a race. They are a religious group who believe only they have the truth. . In particular, I would like to see the statie of vile Margaret Thatcher removed and the record of her damage done put straight. Robert Cook

***Police racists at work. Focus on what matters, not statues. Focus on the vile corrupt British Police and the Establishement they work for and represent.***

Donald Trump: a universal scapegoat?

Trump is possibly the worst US president in history, but does that give other politicians a get-out-of-jail-free card?

by Khaled Diab 6 Dec 2017

Even though Trump's tendency to blame the political establishment for everything is legendary, less well-known is other politicians' tendency to blame everything on Trump, writes Diab [Reuters] — Even though Trump’s tendency to blame the political establishment for everything is legendary, less well-known is other politicians’ tendency to blame everything on Trump, writes Diab [Reuters]

JK Rowling addresses anti-transgender criticism with freedom of speech stance
Famous author not backing down from her recent transgender comments

“Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling said she refuses to “bow down” to criticism about her recent comments on transgender people.

Rowling published a lengthy post on her blog website Wednesday in response to the backlash and her concerns over “new trans activism.” She has been under hefty scrutiny about her thoughts on transgender identity from the LGBTQ community along with Eddie Redmayne and Daniel Radcliffe, who starred in the Harry Potter film franchise.

‘HARRY POTTER’ STAR BLASTS J.K. ROWLING OVER TRANSGENDER COMMENT

On a Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, author and Lumos Foundation founder J.K. Rowling attends the HBO Documentary Films premiere of “Finding the Way Home.” (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

“I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it,” she said.

Rowling drew outrage Saturday on Twitter when she criticized an opinion piece published by the website Devex, a media platform for the global development community, that used the phrase “people who menstruate.” Rowling implied it should have said “women.”

JK ROWLING CRITICIZED FOR TRANSGENDER COMMENTS ON TWITTER

The famed author continued with another thread speaking about the concept of biological sex. She said she felt compelled to tweet her thoughts about her experience with domestic abuse and sexual assault.

“I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who’re standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile teenagers, and women who’re reliant on and wish to retain their single sex spaces,” she said in her post Wednesday.

JK ROWLING CLAIMS SHE HAD CORONAVIRUS, RECOVERED AFTER DOING THIS BREATHING EXERCISE

Rowling’s tweets caused a firestorm of responses from the LGBTQ community and others who were upset with her words. A Harry Potter fan group tweeted its disapproval of Rowling’s post and encouraged followers to donate to a group that supports back transgender women.

Redmayne, who starred in two “Fantastic Beast” films of the “Harry Potter prequel series, disagreed with Rowling’s comments on Twitter. The Oscar-winning actor said that his transgender friends and colleagues are tired of the “constant questioning of their identities.”

“Trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid,” said Redmayne, who played a transgender woman in the 2015 film “The Danish Girl,” which earned him an Oscar nomination. He joined Radcliffe who also disapproved of Rowling’s thoughts on transgender identity.

Comment J K Rowling got lucky with the dreadfully cliched Harry Potter series, over hyped by the media, as she has been herself. She recently c;laimed to have been a sex abuse victim, and now pleads she has had Corona.

This is a woman who also said she attempted or thought of suicide. If she can be free with her views on transsexuals, then I will be free with my views on her. She appears to be a self obsessed attention seeker of such limited talent that she has locked on to the issue of feminism and poor ‘oh so equal little women’ who must have safe spaces. Modern women seem fixated on the notion that all men want sex with them and will have sex change treatment to get a better opportunity.

Now she pursuess a line of transgender hate. Why don’t the police visit her and question her thinking as they did an ex cop turned business men who said transexuals are not women. Rowling is one side of the female obsessed coin,male to female transgender is the other – the idea that female is best so why not have the surgery and conditioning at London’s absurd NHS Tavistock Clinic. They will welcome you.

It is time for a very serious debate and inquiry into the sex change industry, but it should not be led by the likes of Rowling whose only claim to fame is creating an absurd retro Public School world with irritating upper middle class excuses for actors, like Robbie Coltraine. Nor should the debate and inquiry be led by the likes of Germaine Greer or any other bitter nasty pea brained man hating feminists.

The human brain- any species brain come to that -is a complex structure. For all of my training in psychology and the social sciences, I have no idea whether there is such an entity as a female brain in a male body. What I do know is that there are such things as male bodies and surgery can fake a change, but that does not make a biological female body.

If Rowling is the best women can offer, it begs the question why any right minded male would want to be one. I think our feminist dominated society, with inveitable increase in failing one parent families, has a lot to do with it.

It is a tragi comedy. effectively castrating males, frustrating women, leading the likes of Rowling to scapegpat them anyway. A lot of women enjoy the fantasy that they must have their safe spaces beccause all white men are rapists according to their undisputedly female brains.

Robert Cook

My views on the truth about trannsgender are clear from my novel, where the main character fails as a man, and so becomes his own girlfreind. Liberal lefties didn’t like it and killed it off. Rowling does not give an intelligent critique of trannsexualism because she is obsessed with female superiority, safe spaces and her Goddess/victim mentality. Robert Cook

All Things Wise & Wonderful The Lord God Made Them All June 11th 2020

***A drone used to help police the George Flloyd Police Murder protests.***

***Trump’s response to something he probably doesn’t understand.***

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The UK may need local lockdowns. But can it make them work?

In parts of the country, the R number is creeping above one, raising the prospect of localised lockdowns. But enforcing local restrictions is fraught with difficulties

By Sabrina Weiss

In parts of the country, the R number is creeping above one, raising the prospect of localised lockdowns. But enforcing local restrictions is fraught with difficulties

Tuesday 9 June 2020

The UK is currently in the middle of a difficult balancing act. As lockdown measures are relaxed, they bring an increased chance of fresh spikes in coronavirus infections. In parts of the country, the balance appears to be swinging in the wrong direction. In the northwest and southwest of England the R number – a figure that measures the rate of transmission of the virus – is now likely to be above one indicating that the spread could start to increase exponentially in those areas.

But elsewhere in the country, the R number is more comfortably below one. According to a model from the University of Cambridge and Public Health England, in the midlands the R is likely to be around 0.9. When asked about the differences between regions at the daily press conference on June 8, health secretary Matt Hancock said that the task now is to squash outbreaks at a more local level – raising the prospect that parts of the country will face lockdown measures while other regions are relaxed. But putting that in practice may be a lot harder than that sounds.

To keep on top of local outbreaks, the government is setting up a Joint Biosecurity Centre, an independent body made up of civil servants that will sit alongside the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). The group will monitor the spread of coronavirus across the country and run an alert system, advising the chief medical officers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who in turn will advise ministers on how to deal with regional spikes in infection. How exactly the alert system will work has not yet been outlined.

Other countries can give us some hints about how local lockdowns might work, however. Germany has been closely monitoring regional flare-ups and some cities are already considering reimposing the recently lifted restrictions if the number of new infections exceeds their threshold. The city of Göttingen in Germany has seen a number of local outbreaks in recent weeks, including after families gathered on the Pentecost weekend and after 30 people in a high-rise block celebrated the end of Ramadan together, breaking social distancing rules. Because there are children among the new confirmed infections, schools have already been temporarily closed and a strict city-wide lockdown is on the table.

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Black Lives Chatter June 8th 2020

This white senior British Police Officer was allowed to breach lockdown because his main home was 200 miles from his job. If we can’t hold the police to account it is more evidence that we live in a British Police State which picks on the weak and vulnerable, whatever their colour. They have culture of lying, hypocrisy, brutality and corruption. Cressida Dick was respondsible for the police killing of an innocent unarmed Brazillian at Stockwell Tube Station. She is now in charge of London’s police.

Black lives Matter protests continue across the Western World in the wake of a U.S police officer murdering a black suspect in broad daylight and on camera.

There is a campaign in the U.S to cut funding for corrupt police. A white police union rep said this would be insane with Lockdown created unemployment at 40 million, and climbing. He said more crime is inevitable so they need more police. Money must be taken from the poor in taxes to look after tax dodging rich. The better off must be protected from the increasingly down trodden poor who feel they have a right to live.

Some of us have been saying that lock down creates more problems, sickness and death than whoever created/caused Covid 19 could have dreamt of.

Yesterday we saw the badly led and badly organised London Metropolitan Police go into panic mode. They sanctioned a mounted police charge in Whitehall reminiscent of the 1980s miners’ strike by workers fighting for survival against Tory cuts that had no respect for their white lives.

The order was given because there were fears that the government’s No 10 Downing Street Bunker was at risk. This was a clear demonstration that the elite are the number one police priority. The outcome was angry protesters hurling missiles, including a Boris Johnson bicycle at the horses. A young female police rider then lost control and was thrown from her horse. The horse bolted, struck a female protester causing more injury. One wonders how much more damage would have been done to the public if the charge had not been impeded.

***Police incompetence at work when police cavalry charge goes wrong.***

People in Britain have had months of mushy propaganda portraying lockdown as a wonderful way to experience the romantic delights of Britain’s mythical ‘Dunkirk and Blitz Spirit.’ There has been all the ludicrous hand clapping to cover up for just how inadequate the NHS is to cope with any real emergency – which Covid 19 had been hyped up to be.

***War was such fun! Image from ‘Portsmouth Past & Present by Robert Cook/The News. A statue of the venerable Churchill was desecrated yesterday on the grounds that he said and did racist things.***

The public were lied to that Covid killed everyone who contacted it. We were told lock down was to save lives, while elite people flouted it. We had the curious case of Boris Johnson getting it. Then the touchy feelie white liberals started a quest for brownie points by pitying the ethnic minorities who were most likely to get it and die. So national paranoia and state induced panic went off the scale. Well now it has backfired because the hard done by blacks are up in arms.

These protesters have been bottled up in tower blocks and poor neighborhoods have been encouarged by our incompetent elite leaders and pampered advertising and media cronies, to belive they are going to die of Covid19. They put theselves on a par with murdered George Floyd. They think they are the only victims of the corrupt police and global capitalism.

Meanwhile the government and mainstream media cronies – who get paid regardless – promising a second spike and a need for even more Draconian lockdown because protesters are not obeying the 2 metre rule. What a laugh, what a disaster, what dreadful lying elites. More police they will scream at uus, ‘We need more police.’ They won’t listen so won’t get the message.

Charles Close.

Comment The lockdown has caused the protests. one suspects there is worse to come. Britain’s media, public servants and political elite love lockdwon. over 20 years in public srvice taught me that the British are the Great Bureaucrats of Europe, which is why so many of them fear leaving it as a fish might fear leaving water.

Their interests come first, which is why the police boss gave the order for the ridiculous cavalry charge to protect Boris and Co. The charge was to strike fear.

It is the mentality of welligton and the Peterloo Massacre. As other countries leave lockdown, Britain drags its feet, with the proviso that the protesters will have provoked a second spike. What bulls-it. the original figures were exaggerated for eleiet ends. The cost of lockdown will take years to recover from or or measure.

Black Lives Matter protesters tear down Bristol statue of 17th century slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston, cover it in red paint and and throw it in dock – while huge crowds descend on in London where Churchill’s statue is defaced

Crowds have gathered across Britain as protests continue following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
Groups of demonstrators seemed to ignore social distancing measures in London, Bristol and Edinburgh
Protesters in Bristol have now torn down a controversial statue to 17th century slave trader Edward Colston
A statue of Winston Churchill has been defaced with the words ‘was a racist’ in Parliament Square, London

***Bristol Slave Trader Colston about to hit the water.***

By Henry Martin and Luke Andrews For Mailonline

Published: 16:16, 7 June 2020 | Updated: 18:18, 7 June 2020

Rev. Jesse Jackson, ContributorFounder and president, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Female police officer suffered a collapsed lung, broken collarbone and shattered ribs after being thrown from her horse when Black Lives Matter protesters pelted them with missiles – including a BIKE

Riot police were forced to guard Downing Street last night after red flares were hurled over security gates
Horse bolted when it was hit by a missile; its woman rider was knocked unconscious when it hit traffic lights
After that groups of men hurled two Boris bikes at police horses, startling the terrified animals
Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she is ‘saddened and depressed’ that 14 officers were injured
Police revealed they made 29 arrests for a variety of offences, including violent disorder yesterday
Protests come amid warnings that coronavirus remains threat and social distancing measures are essential
Both Priti Patel and Matt Hancock had said people should not gather in large groups for safety

Cressida Dick has said she is “deeply saddened and depressed” that officers were injured in assaults during clashes with a minority of protesters in London.

The Met Police Commissioner said the number of assaults at the Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday “is shocking and completely unacceptable”.

It comes as violence in the capital left 10 police officers injured and 14 people arrested after the Metropolitan Police said the crowd became “angry and intent on violence”.

Superintendent Jo Edwards said police understood “people’s passion to come and let their voice be heard”, adding that most members of the public protested without incident.

Speaking on Saturday, Cressida Dick said: “I am deeply saddened and depressed that a minority of protesters became violent towards officers in central London yesterday evening.

“This led to 14 officers being injured, in addition to 13 hurt in earlier protests this week. We have made a number of arrests and justice will follow. The number of assaults is shocking and completely unacceptable.

***Runaway Police Horse in Whitehall London. it strikes protestor.***

Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race

08/11/2015 12:49 pm ET Updated Aug 11, 2016

After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one year anniversary of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo., yet another African-American man was shot by police there. While the facts are still unclear, the tragedy will surely add to the national protests challenging our racially biased structures of criminal injustice.

A week earlier, a young, unarmed man was shot to death by a police officer in Seneca, South Carolina. Only this young man was not black, but white.

According to CNN, Zachary Hammond was fatally shot while in a Hardee’s parking lot. He was 19 years old and on a date. The police officer was conducting a drug investigation and claims that he shot Hammond in self-defense when the unarmed teenager drove his car at him.

A small amount of marijuana was found in the front passenger compartment. Police said the target of the investigation was not Hammond but his date. An independent autopsy showed, however, that Hammond was shot in the back, not the front, contradicting the official story.

“He was a 19-year-old, 121-pound kid killed basically for a joint,” the family attorney Eric Bland said.

CNN reported that if this had been an African-American victim, it would have received national attention. That is true now, but only because an active movement of demonstrators have made it so. In fact, virtually the only protests to Hammond’s death were issued by #BlackLivesMatter activists on social media.

One year after Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, unarmed black men are still seven times more likely than whites to die by police gunfire, according to a new study by the Washington Post.

So far this year, the Post reports, 24 unarmed black men have been shot and killed by police — one every nine days. The Post reports that 585 people in total have been shot and killed by police through August 7. (The Guardian database reports that 700 have been killed by police.)

There is no question that African-American men are at greatest risk. After the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, national protests have forced reform of the police and of mass incarceration policies onto the national agenda. The names of those who died from police violence — Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Samuel DuBose, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Freddy Gray, Sandra Bland and more — are etched in public memory because demonstrators have demanded justice for them.

The non-violent protests of demonstrators and the black church have forced community after community to respond. After Ferguson, and with the spread of cameras that have caught the police in lies, the police are no longer completely immune. In 24 states, reform measures — many focused on requiring body cameras — have been introduced. These are merely the first stirrings of change. But the killings haven’t stopped.

While African-Americans are at disproportionate risk from the structural and human biases of our criminal justice system, we should not forget that working and poor people of all races suffer from police excessive use of force. Police kill more whites than blacks. ( And police lies and malpractice )

Of the 700 killings it has recorded, the Guardian reports that 340 were white, 179 black and 101 Hispanic. The Post reports that African-American men were 40 percent of the unarmed deaths, but whites and Hispanics made up the majority.

The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An investigation by Alternet’s Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five months of this year, 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods with median family incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighborhoods with median family incomes of $200,000 or above.

Not surprisingly, lower-income whites are more likely to say police abuse of authority is on the rise than middle- or upper-income whites.

Excessive force puts white lives at risk, as well as those of blacks and Hispanics. But the silence of the white community and of the white church is deafening. The victims of police abuse are left to seek justice on their own.

We need people of conscience in the white community to join with the growing movement grounded in the African-American community to demand reform. Too often, police don’t live in the communities they patrol. They are armed to the teeth, but often receive too little training in how police can help build a community rather than simply occupy it.

People of all races and all incomes care about safe streets. They want their children protected; their parents able to walk outside with security. This is as true of impoverished African American neighborhoods as it is of upscale suburbs. But one year after Ferguson, it’s clear we all have a stake in dramatic reform of the American way of policing, if the police are to be trusted as protectors and not threats.

This post originally appeared on CounterPunch.

Race Riots, The Far Right and Protests are an outcome of Covid19 which is an outcome of global capitalism and lockdown is a smokescreen. Worse is to come according to Robert Cook June 6th 2020

Westminster London today Only Wealthy Lives Matter. This is Covid 19 and police treating the masses like scum is normal which is why they got so upset when a cabinet Minister called them ‘Bloody Plebs.’

The police are on all of us lower class peoples’ backs, and more. The elite take us all for fools and want more brainwashed police to oppress us, including watching our internet activity in the name of fighting sex crime, terrorism and protecting women.

If they can’t get the evidence against us they will make it up and the media will report it all as fact. I have had 12 years of hell from lying bullying corrupt British police, I am white, or should I say ‘pinkish’. ?

There are some decent ones at the bottom of the pile. One saved my life after I overdosed because of them in December 2016 – after surviving yet another long terrifying High Court attempt by the police to have me jailed for telling the truth about a corrupt senior officer , his police officer wife et al.

The blacks seem to think they are the only ones. They certainly get more attention than whites. There were no riots when the police murdred Ian Tomlinsorn in broad daylight, on camera at G7 in 2009. His killer was found not guilty of anything wrong. I got beaten up outside a Milton Keynes pub frequented by off duty police, after singing a song about Ian’s nurder. . Robert Cook

Oh my goodness, look at all those high risk ethnic minority people violating lockdown in Westminster today ! If ‘the science’- has got it right then thousands will die. Think of that sacred R rate of infection. Where are the police when you need them ? Soon there will be no one outside of the cloistered pampered rich elite left to protest.
***Robert Cook***

Euler Hermes announces that 18 country risk ratings have been downgraded in the first quarter in 2020 due to the risk of a prolonged recession and a wave of bankruptcies caused by the Covid-19 outbreak
The world leader in credit insurance also lowered 126 sector ratings across automotive, transportation, electronics, and retail in numerous countries

Already weakened by numerous factors of uncertainty (Brexit, trade tensions, electoral deadlines), the global economy now faces a new challenge: the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only do we witness a heavy human cost, it is also taking a toll on businesses around the world, disrupting supply chains and business operations, affecting household and market confidence, and severely limiting international trade.

Therefore, according to Euler Hermes, global economic growth in 2020 will register a strong slowdown, reaching only +0.5% (+2.5% in 2019). In parallel, international trade will contract this year at -4.5%. As a result, the risk of non-payments will rise significantly. Euler Hermes expects insolvencies to increase by +14% in 2020. In this weak international landscape, numerous countries and sectors will be hit hard.

Country risks: a compass for anticipating “sudden stop” risks (brutal interruption of capital flows)

Every quarter, Euler Hermes publishes its country and sector risk ratings to measure the development of non-payment risk in trade receivables. We monitor and evaluate a total of 242 countries and 18 sectors every quarter through continuous tracking of 40 short-term and long-term economic and financial indicators. The defaults in Argentina and Lebanon these last few months confirm the necessity of the country risk model in order to measure the vulnerabilities that a crisis, such as the Covid-19 outbreak, can expose.

In the first quarter of 2020, Euler Hermes lowered the grade of 18 countries: Ecuador, Thailand, Indonesia, lndia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, Mauritius, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Ireland, Slovakia, and Lithuania. This list includes both developed and developing economies. For instance, Brazil is paying dearly in this global economic and health crisis, despite initial hopes that dynamic reforms would accelerate growth. Similarly, Japan, which was already fragile at the start of 2020 following several shocks last autumn, now sees its weaknesses made worse with the Covid-19 pandemic. India is also on the list: The country was already facing numerous structural and cyclical challenges, and these are now being amplified by the current situation.

Ludovic Subran, Chief Economist of Euler Hermes and Allianz warns:

“The visible and potential consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are integrated into our country risk analysis. We are still paying attention to the situation of other developed countries, notably France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. These countries have the necessary means to protect their businesses but their situation could rapidly become more complicated should their measures of isolation and the freezing of their economies last longer. ”

A record number of changes to sector ratings since the methodology’s launch

Euler Hermes has downgraded 126 sector risk ratings across the world. This is a new historic level, never seen before: The previous record was in Q1 2016, which saw a total of 70 sectors risk ratings downgraded. It is important to highlight that in 60% of cases, these changes have led to the sector rating going from “moderate risk” to “high risk”. These two signs prove that the global economy and businesses are going through an unprecedented, extremely complex and uncertain time.

The automotive sector is the most severely impacted. Euler Hermes has downgraded it in 26 countries. It is followed by the transportation sector (downgraded in 21 countries), electronics (14), and retail (12). Pharmaceuticals and software and information technology are the two most resilient sectors. From a regional perspective, Western Europe suffers the highest number of sector rating downgrades with 52 cases. This region is followed by Asia Pacific (29) and Central and Eastern Europe (24).

Get full access to the Euler Hermes country and sector risk reports on our website.

Victoria’s Secret Goes Bust June 6th 2020

***Ludicrouse Lingerie Firm Goes BUST*** ***Image Appledene Photographics/CC***

Victoria’s Secret UK arm falls into administrationPA Media: Video

UK consumer confidence falls to lowest level since 2008

It has called in Deloitte for a “light touch” administration, after the company was hit by the forced closure of high streets during the pandemic.

Victoria’s Secret had already furloughed 785 of its 800-plus workers before appointing administrators.

Under the government’s coronavirus jobs retention scheme they currently get 80 per cent of their salaries covered up to £2,500 a month, although this is set to change from August.

Administrators will now try to find a buyer for its assets, or re-negotiate its rents, in a bid to pull it out of administration.

Comment

The British people have been very stupid in their blind obedience to ludicrous lockdown – based on political lies and fake science. They have no idea how economies work, seeing only their tiny selfish bit of the world. Keynesesian concepts like the multiplier, accelerator or Fishers ‘Velocity Circulation of Money’ theory are beyond their GCSE and Uni learnings.

Personally I am glad to see the back of another manufacturer of female underwear which is designed to excite and beguile stupid men . I agree with feminists, women should be seen for what they are.

Their stereotyical clothes and make up are dangerous camouflage. They, along , with teering high heels designed to make legs look good and them helpless with female shoe makers making a fortune, and the make up industry, should be banned.

The sweat shops should be closed down, the workers left to starve so that nice women of the west can be safe from rapists and the environment free from all the pollutants caused by the manufacture and distribution of all this sexist crap.

Men need freeing from this vile garbage and delusion every bit if not more so than women. I think it is very funny that women have thrown their sexual power away for increased importance in a disappearing work place. I think it is funny that posh women feel liberated because the RAF relaxes the stringent entry requriements – now computers fly the warplanes – I faced in the 1970s, so that they can fly over enemy territory and frighten them with their jet planes roar and thunder in Afghanistan, where we should not be and never should have been . Robert Cook

***Get rid of ludicrous lingerie, let’s have a dose of truth about the real sexism plaguing the world.***
***Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

A Fair Cop Guvnor ! June 6th 2020

BUFFALO—A video of police officers shoving an elderly police activist to the ground, then walking by him as a pool of blood collected around his head, shocked the nation.

Their colleagues? Not so much.

All members of the Buffalo Police Department Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit on Friday in support of the officers who were suspended without pay for their aggression toward Martin Gugino, 75, after curfew the night before.

“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” Buffalo Police Benevolent Association President John Evans told local station WGRZ. The officers remain on the police force but are no longer on that team.

Erie County Executive Marc Poloncarz said he was “exceptionally disappointed” by the mass resignation. “It indicates to me that they did not see anything wrong with the actions last night,” he said at a press conference.

The New York State Police said it would send additional troopers to the region as the city braced for another night of protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said “contingency plans are in place” to handle the situation, now made even more tense by what happened to Gugino.

New York Cops Beat Protesters for Crime of Being There

Protesters gathered Friday evening in Niagara Square, where Gugino was injured. There was no show of force from city police this time, though four police vehicles did follow marchers as they left the square at 8 p.m. chanting “Fuck the curfew!”

Gugino, who was in serious but stable condition in the hospital, had made no public statements but was still very much on the mind of those who came out.

“I always knew this was happening in my own backyard,” Solomon Harrison, 30, told The Daily Beast. “And the fact that it happened to a 75-year-old white man kinda solidified the specific violence and hatred or the disdain or whatever it is that cops feel towards the people in general.”

***Too many people***, ***Too many lies.***

Tommy Robinson has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man he claims spat in his face.

The former English Defence League leader, 37, was detained after police received reports a man had been attacked at Hollywood Retail Park in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, shortly after 8.30pm on Thursday.

Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is also being questioned on suspicion of a public order offence, along with a 43-year-old man from the West Midlands area, a 47-year-old man from the North Wales area and a 28-year-old man from the Bedfordshire area.

Footage shared on social media shows the far-right activist filming himself confronting police officers as they arrive at the scene.

Robinson explains to one of the officers that he “acted in self defence” after someone spat in his face.

In a statement issued on Friday, Cumbria Police said: “Four men from outside the county were arrested last night following a report of an assault.

“Cumbria Police received a call reporting an assault on a man at Hollywood Retail Park, shortly after 8.30pm.

“Officers responded and arrested four men shortly afterwards in the Douglas Street area of Barrow.

“A 37-year-old man from the Bedfordshire area was arrested on suspicion of assault and a public order offence.

“All remain in police custody this morning.

“There were a number of people in the area at the time and officers are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed what happened or the moments immediately before or after.”

Robinson, from Luton, has made two trips to Barrow within the last fortnight and says he is working as a journalist to investigate claims of what he terms may be “a Muslim grooming gang” operating in the town.

Last month Detective Chief Superintendent Dean Holden, of Cumbria Police, said a year-long investigation into “specific allegations of abuse” did not corroborate claims an organisation of Asian men in Barrow were conducting abuse and exploitation against individuals.

He added that police had not “ignored or dismissed” such claims, had taken them seriously and investigated thoroughly.

The statement was issued after allegations of serious sexual abuse and physical violence against a teenage girl, including graphic images of injuries, were shared widely on social media.

Following the 12-month investigation, a 19-year-old woman was charged with several counts of perverting the course of justice.

Tensions have risen in the town in recent weeks, including threats made on social media to a number of Asian takeaways and to a local newspaper reporter.

One World Consequences Of Each African Woman Having 15 Babies Each and Religious Bulls-it. June 6th 2020

Just when we thought things could not get any worse in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that a new outbreak of Ebola has been reported in the Congo, a country that is already battling coronavirus as well as the world’s largest measles outbreak.

Fox News reported that the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced earlier this week that the city of Mbandaka was grappling with a new outbreak of Ebola, with six cases of the sometimes deadly disease already being confirmed there. Four have already died of the disease, which causes fever, abdominal pain, and bleeding, while two are still being treated.

Officials warned that more cases will likely pop up in the coming days as “surveillance activities increase.”

“This is a reminder that COVID-19 is not the only health threat people face,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement. “Although much of our attention is on the pandemic, WHO is continuing to monitor and respond to many other health emergencies.”

This marks the 11th time that there has been an Ebola outbreak in the Congo since 1976, when the illness was first discovered. News of this new outbreak comes as the eastern part of the Congo is in the final stages of the Ebola epidemic that started in August of 2018, killing over 2,000 people in the second-largest Ebola epidemic on record.

Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, tweeted that while the new outbreak of Ebola “represents a challenge,” it’s one that WHO officials are “ready to tackle” with the Congo’s health ministry and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The new #Ebola outbreak in Mbandaka #DRC represents a challenge, but it’s one we are ready to tackle. @WHO has worked w/ @MinSanteRDC, @AfricaCDC & partners over the years to strengthen capacity to respond to outbreaks. With each experience we respond faster & more effectively. pic.twitter.com/SKc6GnI4q4
— Dr Matshidiso Moeti (@MoetiTshidi) June 1, 2020

“With each experience, we respond faster and more effectively,” she added.

With the world continuing to struggle with the coronavirus pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people globally, this is quite frankly the last thing we need right now. Please pray for the people of the Congo, and let’s hope they can get this outbreak under control before it gets out of hand.

Yachtever Next ? June 6th 2020.

Because of vested interests, a need to protect the dreadful NHS and by doctoring the figures, Britain appears to have the highest Corona Virus infection and death rate in Europe. But don’t worry a bloated patronising Tory lord has come up with a surefire way to cheer everyone up.

Now Non-politically aligned, this ‘End of the peer’ sideshow and haircut conspiracy theorist Lord Digby Jones has called for £100 million to be spent on a new Royal Yacht Britannia to “boost morale”.

The old yacht was built especially for the new Queen back in the austere 1950s . It is now a visitor attraction in Edinburgh, and was decommissioned in 1997.

I was there when she was decommisioned and took the picture below, in Portsmouth dockyard, her home port. Perhaps the new yacht could be called ‘A Proper Charlie’ after the new king to be, if the Queen ever dies !. Robert Cook

***The Royal Yacht Brittania Portsmouth Dockyard 1997***
***Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

Of course Boris Johnson wants a royal yacht. He’s the king of fake-it-till-you-make-it – The Guardian Posted June 6th 2020

This article is more than 10 months old

Suzanne Moore

Boris Johnson has no policies, it appears, beyond tax cuts for the rich and – oh – “optimism”. Act happy. Act big. He wants the Queen to have a great big yacht. At a hustings last night he burbled on about the royal yacht. One of the things that all wings of the Labour party can agree on is that it was a good thing to decommission HMY Britannia in 1997. If the royal family wants a yacht it has more than enough dosh to buy its own.

Johnson, of course, doesn’t see it that way. Nor does the newspaper that pays him a quarter of a million pounds a year. The Telegraph has campaigned for a new royal yacht and Johnson has argued in the Commons before about it. It was regretful, he said in 2016, that this was not a priority for Theresa May’s government.

U.K Police Need Urgent Reform The U.S Needs to face up to the truth, U.K never will. U.K will lead U.S astray with its arrogant inbred elite stupidity. June 5th 2020

***Tommy Robinson’s ‘English Defence League’ enter Aylesbury Town Centre Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

The self appointed liberal left are the agenda setters. If they were aircraft engineers, their planes would not crash because they would never get off the ground – though they would run into innocent bystanders at the end of the runway.

The liberals are everywhere, rich media folk, feminists and the deluded – but who, outside the state’s headshrinkers has the right to judge delusion, maybe they should ask idiot liar Dr C R Ramsay of Aylesbury’s Whiteleaf Centre ?

The police are piggy in the middle. In the U.K they have to arrest Tommy Robinson for punching a man after that man had ‘phlegmed up ‘ and spat in his face. That phlegm filled man was not arrested even though a man was jailed for coughing on a black ticket clerk a few weeks ago, and coughing and spitting over people is now a criminal assault.

***Tommy Robinson being interviewed on RT.***

Now I am not taking sides, but these stories don’t add up, the parts do not mesh. Meanwhile, the police in the U.S.A are in trouble for brutal treatment of black people, and now pushing over a tall thin old white man ‘black lives matter’ protester who got in their way while on mesmerised riot patrol.

Trump, desperate to salvage election hopes, is talking liberal nonsense about dead Floyd being a beacon of hope and peace. He ignores how the black ghettoes produce hopeless criminals. As I said, I am not taking sides. Floyd was murdered in broad daylight by a police officer zombie – I have met many of these sub moronic scumbags in the U.K. They are not racists, they are just morons. Apologies to the good cops I know, and who would agree with me if they didn’t need a job so badly.

Covid 19, in my view, has all the hallmarks of a bio weapon intended to collapse the Chinese economy, just as the Skirpal incident was all about damaging Russia – which is why those two have disappeared. I know what the British security services are capable of, and their routine of plausible deniability. When all else fails they come up with a sex slur – the essence of all their profiling.

But I digress, as they say. The police get no sympathy from me. In Britain they are self righteous, overpaid, sanctimonious, vindictive, cowardly, wingeing corrupt liars with far too many fringe benefits, especially above CI rank.

In the case of Tommy Robinson, the police minions, who are by and large very thick and stupid, have only done what ‘command and control’ want them to. Currently the British Government. want 20,000 new officers, and need a sample of 500,000 applicants to get enough suitably moronic applicants. The right stuff is a rare commodity, so they have to dig deep into the muck heap for sufficiently rancid and unpleasant individuals.

Don’t worry, their profilers know they can find that kind of garbage across the gender/race divides. They just have to pass the susceptible greedy moron test and they are in. They must have no good principles. they must be prepared to fit people up, falsify and fabricate evidence on the basis of spurious ‘gut feelings;. That is the tricky bit, but consceince and finer feelings can be removed by a Hendon College lobotomy. Never mind, British women love men in uniform for their sexual fantasies and more if they can get it. Most important, the U.K police will make sure the streets stay safe for rich people.

Meanwhile their contradictory liberal drivel about inclusiveness, diversity and Covid19 will go on leading the U.S astray. That great nation ever really escaped the Norman aristocracy’s rule. The British elite were masters of genocide and moral hypocrisy, so laid the groundwork.

***U.K Police arrest U.K and U.S war crimes whistleblower Julian Assange for telling the truth in Police State Britain.*** Britain is a dis united fake nation led by fake upper class comfortable santimonious hypocrits who go to church. It is held together by the police, bulls=it and propaganda. Image is everything. This one is RT Ruptly, .

When Assange gets locked up, if the British prison system doesn’t kill him first, it will be the U.S that gets the blame – and also for a war the U.K led them into with the dodgy dossier supplied by untried war criminal Tony Blar et al. It is the U.K who wants rid of Julian Assange. The U.K is the ultimate police state, with a smiling face. As it says in the bible, ‘Beware the smile on the face of the Tiger.‘ Robert Cook

A senior U.K Police officer, liar and one time national frearms lead officer.
Image Appledene Photographics/RJC

Protests against Asian Grooming Gangs Are Racist. The Man who spat in Tommy’s face was not arrested. June 5th 2020

The incident occured during an Asian grooming gang protest in Barrow

The man can be seen falling to the ground after Robinson appears to punch him

Footage shows Robinson appearing to punch the man, who falls to the ground, with a witness capturing the video saying: “Oh my God”.

The video does not show the moment the man is alleged to have spat in Robinson’s face at the protest held in support of a 19-year-old women who claims she was abused by a grooming gang.

Nobody has been charged after a year long police investigation concluded there was insufficient evidence.

Robinson is also being questioned on suspicion of a public order offence over the retail park row, along with three other men, aged 28, 43 and 47.

Footage shared earlier on social media shows Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, describing his account.

Robinson recalls the incident to police where he said he punched a man who had spat in his face.

He explained to an officer that he had “acted in self-defence” and had been called a “racist p***k”.

In a statement issued today, Cumbria Police said: “Four men from outside the county were arrested last night following a report of an assault.

“Cumbria Police received a call reporting an assault on a man at Hollywood Retail Park, shortly after 8.30pm.

“Officers responded and arrested four men shortly afterwards in the Douglas Street area of Barrow.

“A 37-year-old man from the Bedfordshire area was arrested on suspicion of assault and a public order offence.

“All remain in police custody this morning.

“There were a number of people in the area at the time and officers are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed what happened or the moments immediately before or after.”

Police Out Of Control U.S.A AND U.K Set The Standard for Corruption and Violence – and unaccountability Robert Cook June 5th 2020

The Police Have Shown Their True Colors

Amanda TerkelHuffPostJune 5, 2020

Over the past week, protests have broken out nationwide over police brutality, the targeting of Black people and the lack of accountability for these actions.

The death of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers last week ignited the furor, but the anger goes far beyond that one incident. At the heart of the debate is whether the police have too much power and commit acts of discrimination and violence with impunity. The word of the police is given the ultimate weight and authority in a dispute.

The police have been out in full force responding to the anti-racist protests. And their overwhelming response to the accusations of violence and unchecked power has been more violence and unchecked power.

“People started this conversation by saying policing is out of control; they’re not making the situation better. They have not been reformed,” Alex S. Vitale, author of “The End of Policing,” said in a recent NPR interview. “Well, now all you have to do is turn on the nightly news and see how true that is. The level of aggression and unnecessary escalation is stark evidence of how unreformed policing is, and I argue how unreformable it is.”

Patrick Skinner, a former CIA officer who is now a Georgia police officer, says a central problem is that law enforcement sees itself fighting a “war on crime.” That mindset is contributing to the overreaction by the police to the peaceful protesters.

“Ninety percent of what we’re seeing are protests. Police should just sit back. They shouldn’t have overwhelming force. … That amps things up. Now granted a riot, when people are hurting ― I mean, police officers have been attacked, people have been killed, lot of damage. I get that. But we use that 1% and we treat the 99% like that. And that’s exactly what police training does,” he said. “Every situation is not just can be dangerous but will be dangerous, because we’re in a war on crime. Anybody can kill you.”

The actions of law enforcement over the past week have given new life to movements that want to defund the police. At the very least, it seems more people will be questioning law enforcement officers when they claim that you can trust them, that they did nothing wrong.

Below are just a few of the incidents that were caught on video or by reporters. Imagine what happens when there are no cameras.

Police shove older man, who then bleeds from his head.

Police officers in Buffalo, New York, shoved a man to the ground after he walked up and talked to them. It’s not clear what he was saying. The man hit the ground and immediately began bleeding from his head.

“During the skirmish involving protesters, one person was injured when he tripped and fell,” the Buffalo Police Department initially claimed.

The Buffalo police commissioner later suspended two officers involved in the incident after public outcry.

On June 1, a group of community members and employees at a liquor store in Los Angeles were trying to stop looters from ransacking their store. They needed assistance and tried to flag down passing police.

But when the police arrived, officers immediately handcuffed the store owners and employees and let the looters get away ― even after a reporter on the scene told the police they had the wrong people.

“Sir, they’re the store owners, they’re protecting from the looters,” KTTV reporter Christina Gonzalez said. “They’re protecting the store! The looters went that way!”

“I was flagging down the police with the owner, asking, ‘Can you guys help?’” one of the community members, who identified herself as Monet, later told Gonzalez in an interview. “I was handcuffed, thrown up against a wall with my husband and brother-in-law, and I’m like, ‘What the h***?’”

On May 29, Minneapolis police officers arrested CNN journalist Omar Jimenez while he was broadcasting live. He clearly identified himself as a journalist and told them he was happy to move wherever they needed him to go to get out of the way. Two members of his crew were also taken away.

Josh Campbell, a white CNN journalist who was in the area, said he was treated very differently. Police also told him to move, but when he identified himself, he was allowed to stay.

HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias was also arrested while peacefully covering protests in New York City, even though his press credentials were clearly visible.

Protester with his hands up taken down by police while giving a TV interview.

Police rushed Myles Carter, who was standing in the street in Buffalo, New York, and giving an interview to a local TV station. Carter had his hands in the air as he was speaking. Police ran up, tackled him and arrested him.

All four of the officers involved in Floyd’s arrest have since been fired, and Chauvin has been arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd’s family has since released a statement through their attorney saying that they “expected a first-degree murder charge.”

This comes after Andy Skoogman, Executive Director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, told Fox News that cellphone footage is a “game changer” when it comes to holding police officers accountable for their brutality.

“I’ve said this for many years; I’ve been in this position for six and a half years, I believe that cellphone videos, I believe that body-worn camera videos are game changers for law enforcement,” Skoogman said. “They weed out the bad apples and they can be used to show great things that police officers are doing. So video is definitely the key in this case as it is in so many other cases in this day and age.”

Skoogman went on to slam Chauvin for kneeling on Floyd’s neck.

“I think there’s a national narrative, or there had been last week, that police officers in Minnesota are being trained in the technique that Derek Chauvin used and that is simply not the case,” Skoogman said. “It is the furthest from the truth that that exists. We did condemn the actions of the officer, not only the technique used by Derek Chauvin but the lack of empathy shown by the other officers on the scene.”

Crowning it all June 4^th 2020

***Lockdown Luxury, one of the rich locals enjoying a spin in his Morgan Sports car, turning round at Swanbourne Station last Monday afternoon. Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

***Rough Sleepers Commercial Road Portsmouth March 2020***
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***Young Man living in a va***n, ***outside Cheltenham 2018 Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

Crowning it all June 4^th 2020

Before I say anything else, let me remind my readers that the British police in collusion with the local GP Winslow surgery Norden House and The Whiteleaf Mental Health Centre have decided that I have a paranoid personality disorder and abnormal psychology- because of my allegataions of high level police corruption. Therefore, anything I write should be read with this health warning in mind. I have very few readers on this site from my native British Isles. There is, however, one daily stalwart whose browser suggests it is the police.

Of course that might just be me being paranoid. The fact that the police still refuse to admit their involvement in labelling me mad, even though I have seen their correspondence and have information to incriminate them, does not bring any written response.

The last word I had from a Thames Valley Officer, on the subject of their lates effort to have me jailed, i.e of me allegedly working as a gay prostitute, for my son, from this address, and shopping myself to them et al, was ‘This job’s going nowhere. When do you want your property returned’. I am quoting PC Grainger of Thames Valley Police Bucks Division. As far as I know, their so called investigation ( fit up ) is still ongoing.

I think this preface is important when considering the value of what HRH Prince Charles has to say about this country. I was brought up to believe in this country. Having to go through the hell of the British Injustice system, on the receiving end of its police bullies, gaolers and prosecutors, I have seen it for what it is.

So to Prince Charles, whose full interview with Sky, is published below. It amazes me that the man who was a prime target to vilify for criticising the Tories back in the 1980s, is treated with so much respect nowadays, with drivel about us all getting a better relationship with the planet and climate change.

Many of us are certainly facing a new relationship with the planet as our businesses collapse ( my problem made all the worse by having the police and courts on my back ) . We will be so close to the planet earth that we will be in the dirt sleeping rough, having our heads beaten in, living with filth and starvation. We won’t show up on the ONS figures because we won’t have died of Covid19. Some of us might just take the short cut of suicide.

If Prince Charlie Boy really cared about the planet, he would be the first to lead a campaign to abolish the ridiculous Royal Family and sell of their assets to raise funds for the lower classes who are paying and will go on paying for this ludicrous lockdown.

As an ardent fan of Channel 4’s ‘The Windsors’ ( aka Hohenzollern Saxe Coburg Goethes’ ), I must say that Harry Enfield has Charlie Boy off ( or should I say ORF ? ) to a T. I would like to say that Charlie is an irrelevance to Britain, but unfortunately he defines it. The people are obsequious and simply don’t know what is going on. Charlie Boy’s utterances crown it all.

For more on him read below. For more on me, read the ‘About RJ Cook’ page. Robert Cook

Coronavirus: Prince Charles says we’re paying the price for loss of biodiversity

In an exclusive interview, the prince also described being ill with coronavirus and how he “got away with it quite lightly”. June 4th 2020

Rhiannon Mills

Royal correspondent @SkyRhiannon

The Prince of Wales fears we could see further pandemics if we don’t put our relationship with the planet at the centre of the post-COVID recovery.

In an exclusive interview via video call from Scotland, Prince Charles said he sympathised with the “bewilderment and anxiety” felt by many in the UK as a result of the COVID-19 crisis but also shared his fears that we could see more global pandemics if we don’t tackle climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

He also spoke about his own experience of contracting the virus saying he believes he was “lucky” and “got away with it quite lightly” but it has motivated him to “find a way out of this”.

The prince was speaking as part of the series After The Pandemic: Our New World being aired this week.

Due to the current social distancing restrictions the interview was carried out via video call, with the prince dialling in from Birkhall, his home in Scotland, where he’s been living with the Duchess of Cornwall since lockdown began.

Despite a couple of computer glitches, and the odd frozen screen, which we’ve all experienced as more of us work from home, the prince passionately talked about his genuine concern that we could see further pandemics if we don’t stop neglecting the planet.

He said: “The more we erode the natural world, the more we destroy what’s called biodiversity, which is the immense diversity of life, plant life, tree life, everything else. Marine life. The more we expose ourselves to this kind of danger. We’ve had these other disasters with SARS and Ebola and goodness knows what else, all of these things are related to the loss of biodiversity.”

He added: “It’s one of the reasons that I tried to get the point across that we should have been treating the planet as if it was a patient long ago.

“So no self-respecting doctor would ever have let the situation, if the planet is a patient, reach this stage before making an intervention.

“I think we’re slightly paying the price as a result.”

Usually, talking to members of the royal family about their health is deemed to be off limits, but the prince spoke openly about contracting the virus and admitted it has motivated him even further to push on with his environmental agenda.

“It makes me even more determined to push and shout and prod if you see what I mean. Whatever I can do behind the scenes sometimes. I suppose it did partly, I mean I was lucky in my case and got away with it quite lightly.

“But I’ve had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through. And I feel particularly for those for instance, who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That to me is the most ghastly thing.

“But in order to prevent this happening to so many more people, this is why I’m so determined to find a way out of this. In order to bring the world and all of us back to the centre, back to understanding what we have to do in relationship to the natural world.”

The call had started off just like any other online meeting we’ve all had to get used to recently. A bit of “can you hear me ok?” and “can you see me alright?” as both of us acknowledged how strange it was to be speaking to each other in that way.

It soon became clear that even the future king has had to adjust to working in new ways and seems to be enjoying the challenge of doing things differently.

But this wasn’t a casual chat, it was his most wide ranging interview about the post-COVID world – a rare chance to get his views on the pandemic and significantly his thoughts on what should be our priorities as the world aims to recover.

The prince believes that a “green recovery” should be at the centre of global efforts to rebuild economies and could be integral for getting people back to work in the post-pandemic world.

In January he launched the Sustainable Markets Council at the World Economic Forum in Davos, an initiative aimed at showing that economic growth and protecting the environment can go hand-in-hand.

This week he launched a new phase of the initiative under the banner of The Great Reset. He told Sky News he’s been talking to world leaders during lockdown about the challenges they face and the benefits of putting sustainability at the centre of any recovery.

He said: “I haven’t exactly been wasting my time during this lockdown if you know what I mean. I’ve been in connection with a lot of people during this pandemic, so I have been able to do a lot, using this technology.

“I have been in communication with a lot of people around the world on the issues. For instance, I’ve been speaking to leaders in the Caribbean which is chiefly commonwealth countries and they are facing immense challenges.

“I was talking to the prime minister of St Lucia recently because he wanted to talk about the horrors facing the islands where the tourism sector has disintegrated completely, they’re under the most appalling economic pressure.

“They’ve also got the risks and dangers of every year of hurricanes.”

But he expressed some frustration that it has taken a global pandemic to make some wake up to the threats.

He said: “It’s only catastrophes which concentrate the mind, which means, that for once, there might be some real real impetus to tackle all these things that have been pushed to one side because everyone said, ‘oh it’s irrelevant’.

“For instance, you could never get the G20 to concentrate very much on agriculture, forestry or fishery because it wasn’t considered very sexy. But these are crucial things.”

During the pandemic the royal family have had to adjust the way that they work. Usually at times of national crisis they would be meeting those on the front line, carrying out engagements to show sympathy.

Instead they have sent virtual messages of encouragement and support, with the Queen rallying the country with unprecedented messages to the nation, reassuring us that life will get better.

There is a contrast between the style of monarch and heir, and that is again apparent in this interview, as Prince Charles laid out what he believes is the best environmental and economic strategy for a post-COVID recovery.

He does however acknowledge that this has been a human tragedy as well as an economic one, and like his mother was keen to praise the “remarkable” way that people have supported each other.

He said: “I can’t tell you how much I sympathise with the way that everyone has had to endure with this unbelievably testing and challenging time.

“I know that so many people have had the agony of losing their loved ones and the bewilderment and anxiety that surrounds everything and so it is the most awful aspect of a pandemic like this, and yet we’ve seen at the same time people being quite remarkable and wonderful people in the national health service and all the other key workers who kept everything going.

“And that is the remarkable thing about all this it always produces the best of everybody in so many ways, and that I think is something which is so special about the reaction. But at the same time we have to make sure we try to do better in the future.”

Female First Says Duchess Meghan Worth Every Penny of £7000 a Day Security June 3rd 2020

Females First, Empowernent and self actualisation is key.. Meanwhile her Father in Law Prince Charles advises people made jobless by Corona Virus to go fruit picking for £4 an hour. Prince Charles says Corona Virus is the price we pay for abandoning bio diversity. The former head of MI6 says Corona Virus was an accident in a Wuhan laboratory. Which of these not very diverse top Brit nit wits would you believe if you are a Sheeple?

The pair – who quit as senior members of the British Royal Family earlier this year and moved to Los Angeles -have reportedly hired Gavin de Becker & Associates, which claims to protect “over 90 of the world’s most prominent families and at-risk individuals”.

A source told The Times newspaper: “The duke and duchess have not yet hired a permanent detail. They are currently, and temporarily, using a security team that was already employed at the house where they are currently living.”

Harry and Meghan are currently living in actor-and-director Tyler Perry’s $18 million Tuscan-style villa in a gated community in Beverly Hills and they have recently had 10-foot security screens erected around the mansion.

The sprawling property boasts eight-bedrooms and 12-bathrooms and, as per HELLO!, they’ve taken some measures to protect their privacy after dog walkers and hikers were able to see into grounds as they head out for exercise as the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions begin to ease.

Harry and Meghan – who have 12-month-old son Archie together – also have security cameras all around the property, which is on an estate with 14 homes.

Their high-tech system uses infra red technology for night vision for extra reassurance.

As well as the black screens, there are also plenty of trees and plants surrounding the plot to help block the view.

Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, are believed to have met Tyler through their close friend Oprah Winfrey, and it’s claimed their current abode is temporary.

A source said recently: “Meghan and Harry have been extremely cautious to keep their base in LA under wraps.

“Their team helped them choose the location for their transition to Los Angeles wisely.

“The area has its own guarded gate and Tyler’s property has a gate of its own which is watched by their security team.

“It is an excellent place to keep out of view. The neighbours are mostly old money and mega rich business types rather than show business gossips.

“It goes without saying that the location is stunning – just one of the most beautiful and desirable areas in LA.”

By Trump Walking to St. John Church Than Rioters Trying to Burn It Down

Opinion Kyle Drennen Jun 2, 2020 | 3:12PM Washington, DC

On Monday, the network morning shows offered a combined 69 seconds of coverage on historic St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. being set on fire and vandalized by violent protesters Sunday night. On Tuesday, those same broadcasts devoted a combined 30 minutes of coverage to hyping the “outrage” over President Trump visiting the church Monday evening.

“As tear gas is used to clear demonstrators for a presidential photo-op in front of a fire-damaged church,” co-host Hoda Kotb decried at the top of NBC’s Today show on Tuesday. She added: “Just ahead, our interview with the bishop who says she is outraged by the President’s visit.”

By Trump Walking to St. John Church Than Rioters Trying to Burn It Down

Opinion Kyle Drennen Jun 2, 2020 | 3:12PM Washington, DC

U.S UK GLOBAL GREED LUDICROUS LOCKDOWN AND OTHER CAPITAIST MEDIA ABSURDITIES JUNE 1ST 2020

U.S Cop kills Negro in broad daylight, resulting race riots blamed on Russia and the U.S Far Right, not the effects of global capitalism, greed carnage and ludicrous lockdown which has made poverty and despair so much worse. Robert Cook

***Western Media warns blacks that Russia and Far right are controlling them into riots. That is a good one.***

The over hyped NHS has had a do not resucitate policy for many years. It is common practice and is why my mother died in a filthy uni sex ward at Stoke Mandeville Bucks after she caught c difficile at Milton Keynes Hospital – another disgrace. These kinds of death werre cynically used to hype up and exaggerate corona and the road to and justification for ludicrous lockdown. Robert Cook

This is NHS common practice and what barmy Brits have been clapping for. I worked in education for 18 years. The kids and their parents made it a struggle because so many did not want to learn.. That is why they love cr-p TV and believe all the bulls-it about Corona.
***Our schools have to make sure the kids get exam passes, then on to what they now call ‘uni’ because university is too a big word.***

Here they have remdial classes and support staff because the unis must get a good output of barcoded robot to infest our corrupt public servicis -especially the bullying police and CPS- and corportate wasteland.

***As T.S Elliot wrote so many years ago, ” We are in Rats Alley now, where the dead men lost their bones ” They are sheeple, not people.***

Teaching days, before Thatcher dumbed it all down for the sake of creating frightened sheeple. These kids were actually a group of individuals, and a joy to teach. Thatcher’s nasty greedy Tories wrecked all of that. It was the beginning of the end for me, but a brave new world for a new breed of teacher. I hope to write more about British education on my Junius page. I am centre front row, the year is 1986, when Chernobyl exploded along with my career !.
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Water shortage in the UK: what’s the problem and how to save water June 1st 2020

The Environment Agency has warned that within 25 years England will not have enough water to meet demand, mostly as a result of climate change. Here we investigate the UK’s water crisis, exploring how it’s linked to climate change, plus how you can save water and money on your water bill.

***‘Climate Change’ a painting by Robert Cook 2020***

Why is there a shortage of water?

Water shortages in England are set to become an “existential threat” to the nation, according to James Bevan, the head of the Environment Agency.

Within 25 years, England will reach the “jaws of death – the point at which, unless we take action to change things, we will not have enough water to supply our needs,” he says.

Climate change, combined with population growth, are the key drivers of this potentially disastrous situation, explains Bevan. He has called for water wastage to become as “socially unacceptable as blowing smoke in the face of a baby”.

Why is climate change linked to water shortages?

The concern is that climate change will not only change the volume of rainfall but also the pattern, with generally wetter winters, heavier downfalls and drier summers.

Nine of the 10 warmest years ever recorded in the UK have occurred since 2002, according to the Met Office, while the two wettest winters on record occurred in 2012 and 2015.

George Floyd death: Violence erupts on sixth day of protests June 1st 2020

Violence has erupted in cities across the US on the sixth night of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd.

Curfews have been imposed in nearlGeorge Floyd death: Violence erupts on sixth day of protestsy 40 cities, but pGeorge Floyd death: Violence erupts on sixth day of protestseople have largely ignored them, leading to tense stand-offs.

Riot police clashed with protesters in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, firing tear gas and pepper bullets to try to disperse the crowds.

Police vehicles were set on fire and shops were looted in several cities.

The National Guard – the US reserve military force for domestic emergencies – said on Sunday that 5,000 of its personnel had been activated in 15 states and Washington, DC, where crowds once again gathered near the White House, this time lighting fires and throwing stones at riot officers.

“State and local law enforcement agencies remain responsible for security,” the National Guard added.

Police in Washington DC have fired tear gas at demonstrators who set fire to properties near the White House. They include a historic church, St John’s Episcopal Church, known as the church of the presidents, near the White House.

It has emerged that in Friday night’s unrest, President Donald Trump was briefly taken by the secret service into an underground bunker at the White House, for his safety.

More Equal Than Others by Robert Cook May 31^st 2020

To say or shout that ‘black lives matter’ as if you believe it is a rather naive and innocent thing to do. Equally, to use that liberal and very misleading buzz word, it is naive and ridiculous to argue that ‘all lives matter, black and white.’ I must add the possibility of religious delusion to describe anyone who actually believes that all lives matter in what humans call ‘society’.

When I refer to the word matter in this context, I am making the reasonable assumption that the blacks and white liberals mean that the welfare and life chances of blacks should matter to the modern day mega rich ruling elite and their police running dogs.

It should be clear to anyone of reasonable intelligence and a passing knowledge of history that low class whites and blacks have only ever mattered as slaves, canon fodder and cheap labour. That’s why the ruling classes don’t agree that the world is overpopulated, causing wars, famine and spreading disease. It doesn’t matter to them. Lockdown is a cover up for all of this and so much more. It is the latest trick in the book, adding to all the other bulls-I about diversity while being together apart and staying safe.

Britain and the U.S are much the same thing, much the same class structure with just about the same proportions of divide and rule with a topping of religious bunkum to make sure the divide and rule continues. So there will be targets like Floyd, black and white until the Lockdown possibly destroys the global economy to replace it with an insidious and even more evil tyranny.

Democracy Now May 31st 2020

We recently interviewed Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, who discussed this unprecedented moment in history and its political implications.

“The United States is the only major country that cannot even provide data to the WHO, because it’s so dysfunctional,” Chomsky said about the U.S.’s response to the pandemic. “Part of the background is the scandalous healthcare system. This is exacerbated by the strange collection of gangsters in Washington, who … took every possible step to make it as bad as possible.”

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Today we spoke with Professor Ibram X. Kendi, who is head of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, about the Center’s COVID Racial Data Tracker. The tracker collects data from states around the country about racial disparities in deaths from the novel coronavirus. While Black people make up 13% of the nation’s population, they have accounted for 25% of deaths during the pandemic.

We also talked to Dr. Kendi about the horrific police killing of George Floyd, an African American man in Minneapolis.

On air, Dr. Kendi described how an inescapable loop is created by the intersecting issues of police brutality and COVID-19 for Black communities, saying, “Black people were running from racist terror only to run into the face COVID-19—only to run from COVID-19 into the face of racist terror.”

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Divide & Rule May 31st 2020

***Raging protests triggered by police murder of George Floyd May 30th 2020***

Unrest mounts across multiple US cities over the death of George Floyd May 31st 2020

Minneapolis (CNN)Pain and anger over the death of George Floyd spilled over into multiple cities across the country hours after the former Minneapolis officer seen in video with his knee on Floyd’s neck was arrested and charged with murder.Demonstrators funneled their anguish in cities like Atlanta, New York and Washington into chants, signs and outbreaks of violence, smashing windows and setting vehicles ablaze.In Minneapolis, roughly 1,000 people marched peacefully along the city’s major freeway Interstate 35, hours after a curfew went into effect. One black man held a sign that read, “Am I next?” Eventually the marchers made it to the 5th Precinct where some demonstrators threw rocks or bottles at police.

A protester in Minneapolis asks a question many in the crowd have.

Latest developments

• In one of the most chaotic protests Atlanta has seen in years, demonstrators smashed windows of police cars outside CNN Center, which houses Precinct 5 of the Atlanta Police Department. At least one squad car was set on fire. Police in riot gear helped other force protesters back to Centennial Olympic Park.• Minneapolis and St. Paul are under a curfew but few people paid attention. Around midnight, the state’s Department of Public Safety tweeted that 350 troopers are near the 5th precinct in Minneapolis to clear the area and enforce curfew.• In Washington, DC, a protest outside the White House briefly caused the building to be placed on lockdown. It has since been lifted and the Secret Service has reopened entrances and exits to the White House campus for both staff and media.• In New York, protesters and police clashed in various incidents Friday night outside the Barclays Center with protestors throwing water bottles, what appeared to be a bottle of paint and more at police officers. At least 12 people were arrested, police said.• Detroit Police have arrested nine people, one of whom tried to run over an officer with a car, Chief James Craig said.• Protests also took place in at least 25 other cities, including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New Orleans.

Photos: Protesting the death of George FloydA check-cashing business burns during protests in Minneapolis on Friday. Hide Caption 1 of 82

By Steve Almasy, Dakin Andone, Faith Karimi and Sara Sidner, CNN

BLASPHEMY LAW: Scots Face Up To SEVEN YEARS In Jail for ‘Criticism’ Of Religious Groups BLASPHEMY LAW: Scots Face Up To SEVEN YRS In Jail for ‘Criticism’ Of Religious Groups Jay Beecher Politicalite May 27th 2020

Yet the measures have already been condemned by freedom of speech activists who fear that the move is a draconian attempt to introduce blasphemy laws and to criminalise often justified criticism of certain issues – including the ongoing debate into the homophobia, extremism and sexism that currently plagues the Islamic faith worldwide. SCOTLAND’S Justice Secretary, Humza Yousaf, announced the measures which are intended to also ‘protect’ members of the LGBT community and the elderly from discrimination.

As part of Scotland’s overhaul of its hate crime legislation, if passed in Holyrood (as is expected), the Hate Crime Bill will make any “stirring up” of hatred offences illegal; with citizens no longer able to criticise groups based on their age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and “variations in sex characteristics”.

Nothing has so far been mentioned as to what constitutes as a “stirring-up” of hate crimes – with some Scottish citizens said to be concerned about not being allowed to express their own personal views and opinions, and many also worried that Scottish social media users will be heavily affected as a result.

Cummings & Goings May 26th 2020

***British PM Boris Johnson’s brain, otherwise known as Dominic Cummings, exposed in Police State Britain’s No 10 Garden Command Centre.***

He pleaded that he did what any reasonable man would have done under such difficult circimstances, including a 37 mile drive, relaxing by the river, with his family – driving to a castle, to test his eyesight because he was feeling ill after Covid and needed to drive 300 miles back to London where he was desperately needed by the government, especially Boris who needed Cummings brain to make decisions for him.

***BBC Head Honcho of the Big Brother Corporation ( BBC ) questions Boris Johnson’s brain as it was exposed on the lawns of Number Ten yesterday.***

***Former Big Brother Corporation man and top gun for hire, Robert PESTon questions Dominic Cummings on his Lockdown Breakout yesterday afternoon in Number 10’s garden.***

Should Lockdown Man Dominc Cummings be locked up? ‘I have done nothing wrong and will not apologise’ says Cummings. Full report later today.

Majority of coronavirus patients in US hospitals are black, study finds

They are hospitalised at nearly three times the rate of white and Hispanic people May 25th 2020

As the coronavirus spread across the United States, sweeping through low-income, densely populated communities, black and Hispanic patients died at higher rates than white patients.

Crowded living conditions, poorer overall health and limited access to care have been blamed, among other factors. But a new study suggests that the disparity was particularly acute for black patients.

Among those seeking medical care for Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, black patients were hospitalised at nearly three times the rate of white and Hispanic patients, according to an analysis of patient records from a large health care system in Northern California.

The disparity remained even after researchers took into account differences in age, sex, income and the prevalence of chronic health problems that exacerbate Covid-19, like hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

The finding suggests that black patients may have had limited access to medical care or that they postponed seeking help until later in the course of their illness when the disease was more advanced.

Black patients were also far less likely than white, Hispanic or Asian patients to have been tested for the virus before going to the emergency room for care.

Black patients “are coming to us later and sicker, and they’re accessing our care through the emergency department and acute care environment,” said Dr Stephen Lockhart, the chief medical officer at Sutter Health in Sacramento and one of the authors of the new study.

The study, which was peer-reviewed, was published in Health Affairs.

Delayed care may give the virus more time to spread through households and neighbourhoods, Dr Lockhart and his colleagues concluded. The delays also suggest that minority patients continue to face barriers despite California’s broad expansion of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

“How soon you access care, even supportive care, affects how you experience illness and how much pain and suffering you have,” said Kristen Azar, a research scientist at Sutter Health who was the study’s lead author.

The data confirm that socioeconomic factors play an outsize role in influencing health status and vulnerability to infection, he added.

“Where and how we live contributes greatly to our health,” said Dr Yancy, who has written about health disparities and the pandemic.

The new study analysed the electronic health records of 1,052 confirmed Covid-19 patients who sought care between 1 January and 8 April at Sutter Health, a health system serving 3.5 million patients in Northern California.

More than half of the 61 black patients who tested positive for the coronavirus were admitted to hospitals, compared with about one-quarter or fewer of the Hispanic, white and Asian patients who tested positive.

Black patients were also more likely than the others to be so sick that they required treatment in an intensive care unit.

He spent 20 years in prison for murder. Then someone else confessed to the same crime

By Julia Hollingsworth, Yoonjung Seo and Jake Kwon, CNN

Updated 1533 GMT (2333 HKT) May 24, 2020

(CNN)In the fall of 1988, a 13-year-old was raped and murdered in her bed. The crime would have been shocking anywhere else, but in Hwaseong, then a rural area near South Korea’s capital Seoul, murders like this were happening with disturbing regularity. She was the eighth female to be murdered there in two years. Nearly a year after the teen was killed, police arrived at the house of a 22-year-old repairman, just as he was about to eat dinner. “What’s this about?” Yoon, whose full name is not being published due to a South Korean law that protects the privacy of suspects and criminals, remembers asking. “It won’t take long,” he says police replied. The officers took him to a small interrogation room with a single table at the local police station where they questioned him for three days about the 13-year-old’s rape and murder. Eventually, they extracted a confession.Yoon told police that on the night of the murder, he had gone for a walk to get some air, according to records of his confession obtained from his attorney. During the walk, he had to stop several times to rest — his childhood polio had left him with a limp so bad that he had been exempted from compulsory military service. Around midnight, Yoon saw a house with a light on and felt a sudden “urge for rape,” he told police, according to transcripts of his confession. He climbed into the house and attacked the young girl, although he told police he knew the parents were asleep next door.Afterward, he burned his clothes and went home, according to the confessions. Little is known about the girl and her family, who have never spoken to media. Yoon’s story is somewhat clearer: He was convicted of raping and murdering the 13-year-old girl and sentenced to life in prison, though his sentence was later reduced on appeal. He was released after 20 years in prison.The problem is, Yoon says he didn’t do it.

Where everyone knows everyone

Before 1986, Hwaseong wasn’t the sort of place where violent crime happened. About 226,000 people lived in the area, scattered among a number of villages between forested hills and rice paddies. One of those villages was Taean-eup, where Yoon lived. In the 1980s, Taean-eup was a bustling community with rice-wine bars and Korean-style coffee shops where locals liked to gather and gossip. Many people worked in the nearby factories, many of which created electrical goods, such as light bulbs, remembers Hong Seong-jae, who ran the farming machine repair store where Yoon worked. Others worked as rice farmers, and even those who lived downtown kept cows for milk. Everyone in Taean-eup knew each other, Hong said. Before the murders, there was no real crime to speak of — only the odd robbery or break-in.”But we were all so poor, there wasn’t much to be lost,” Hong said.But in 1986 that changed. In September that year, a woman was murdered, the first in a series of killings that came to be known as the Hwaseong murders. By 1991, 10 women and girls had been killed in the Hwaseong region, including the 13-year-old killed in her bed. In all of the cases, the victims had been sexually assaulted, and in many of the cases, an article of their clothing, such as stockings or a blouse, had been used in the killing. The victims included housewives, schoolgirls, and a department store worker, according to Ha Seung-gyun, who was involved in the investigation. The youngest were teenagers, the oldest were 71 years old, according to police records. No one seemed safe. As the murders kept happening, the people of Hwaseong grew more afraid.Residents formed squads and patrolled the streets at night, armed with sticks. Women avoided going out after dark.”There were no street lights and it was very dark,” said 55-year-old Park, who worked at a factory in Jinan-ri, another village in Hwaseong, in the 1980s. CNN agreed not to use her full name due to the sensitivity of the case. “I would take the bus and when I encountered a man, I’d be frightened. I was told not to wear red clothes and not to go out after dark.” There were rumors the killer attacked women wearing that color, Ha said. “There was a big rumor about the red clothes (attracting the killer). The third killing involved a woman, Lee, who worked at a department store in Suwon.”Hong, the Taean-eup resident, remembers that men were afraid of being questioned by police. The village became quiet and eerie, he said. “We were worried for being mistaken as criminals, so we didn’t go out drinking either. Even if we hadn’t done anything, things could get out of our hands.”

The investigation

When the first victim was murdered, the responsibility fell to local police to investigate. But after three females were found dead within three months, they brought in investigators from a nearby city to help. “From the third killing, the police saw that it was a serious case. It had wide media coverage and local residents were frightened,” said detective Ha, who was one of the leaders of the investigation, in a lengthy interview last year on the South Korean YouTube channel he created to highlight cases he worked on. By then, police were sure that they were looking for a serial killer, but Ha said they had few clues.

Video taken during the original investigation of the Hwaseong serial killings. Date unknown. (Credit: KBS)

Police authorities investigate the Hwaseong serial killings in Gyeonggi Province. (Credit: JTBC)

Image taken during the original investigation into the Hwaseong serial killings. (Credit: JTBC) It was a time before surveillance cameras or phone tracking, and before DNA evidence was widely available. Police had to rely on other, more creative measures to catch the killer.The first five murders happened within a 6 km (3.7 mile) radius in Hwaseong so police spread out in teams of two, dotted every 100 meters (328 feet), Ha said. It didn’t work: the next killing happened where there was no police presence.Some female police officers wore red and tried to lure the killer into a trap, others went to a clairvoyant who told them to find a man with a missing finger, and some became so frustrated that they performed a shamanistic ritual on a voodoo scarecrow, Ha said. But the killings kept happening. Police logged more than 2 million days on the case — a record for an investigation in South Korea, according to news agency Yonhap. “The more we looked (at the victim’s bodies), (the more) we couldn’t hide our feeling of powerlessness, our anger at the killer,” said Ha, who is now retired and in his 70s, in his YouTube video. “After months spent on the rice paddies and fields tracking the killer, I can say that our hatred of him was beyond imagination.”Yoon was the only person ever convicted of any of the 10 murders. Police suspected he carried out a copycat killing — all the other victims had been murdered outside, said Ha, who wasn’t involved in Yoon’s investigation. The other nine murders went unsolved.

A breakthrough

For many years, it seemed that one of South Korea’s most infamous serial killers would never be found. The mystery was revisited in “Memories of Murder,” a 2003 film by “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho. Then a few years later, as the statute of limitations expired for the last victim, it became clear that, even if the killer was found, there would be no trial or justice for the victims’ families. But the murders didn’t leave Hwaseong’s collective memory, even as the villages eventually incorporated into a small city. And the police didn’t give up their search. Video taken during the original investigation into the Hwaseong serial killings. Date unknown (Credit: KBS)In September 2019, Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police superintendent general Ban Gi-soo, the latest police officer in charge of the investigation, made an explosive announcement. In July, police sent evidence that had been held in their files for 30 years to the National Forensic Service for DNA testing.The DNA evidence from at least three of the murders matched one man: Lee Chun-jae. Lee is currently in prison serving a life sentence for the 1994 rape and murder of his sister-in-law, according to Daejeon court officials and South Korea’s Justice Ministry. It was huge news in South Korea.A month later, there was another development. Lee confessed to all 10 of the Hwaseong murders, and four others that police did not provide details on. He had given a detailed confession, even drawing on a piece of paper to explain the locations of the killings, an official from Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency said.

Lee Chun-jae’s high school graduation photo, left, and a facial composite of the Hwaseong serial killer. (Credit: Korea Times)”It is an important case that had prompted questions all over Korea,” the official said. “The victims and their families had strongly demanded (the truth).” It was a major breakthrough in one of the country’s most infamous serial killing cases. But it also left authorities in a tricky position.If Lee murdered all 10 people — including the 13-year-old — then Yoon had spent 20 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.Lee’s confession alone wasn’t enough to clear Yoon’s name. In the eyes of the law, he was still a convicted murderer.

Three days of no sleep

These days, Yoon is a gregarious man in his 50s. He works at a leather processing factory in North Chungcheong Province, a few hours’ train ride from Seoul, and he still walks with a limp. On the surface, he is cheerful and sociable, a man who speaks loudly and laughs freely.But his life has been one of hardship.As a child, Yoon’s family moved around, Yoon says. When Yoon was in his third year at school, his mother passed away in a car accident. After that, his father disappeared, and Yoon quit school to start work. Yoon came to Hwaseong, where he begged outside a fried chicken restaurant for a year, he said. When he was about 11, he began working at a farming tool center, and by 22 was training at the same center to become a qualified technician. He was a heavy smoker, and had never been in a relationship with a woman, he told police in his confession. “I haven’t even tried talking to girls because I thought no one would like a disabled person like me,” he said.

His former boss, Hong, remembers him as always being a bit sad. “I think it was because he grew up without his parents,” Hong said. “He wasn’t very articulate and didn’t express his feelings much. He was excellent at repairing machines though.”After the police took him away, Yoon remembers being kept handcuffed in the interrogation room for three days. He barely ate, and was only allowed to leave to go to the toilet. Whenever he tried to sleep, police would wake him up. “Those times were much like a nightmare,” he said. “When you don’t get sleep for three days, you don’t know what you said. You don’t remember what you did. You can’t think properly. “You just go along with their questions, on and on.”Nowadays, Yoon thinks that he was mistreated, but at the time, Yoon didn’t know anything about law — he hadn’t even finished elementary school.

Yoon served 20 years in prison for the murder and rape of a girl in 1988. Yoon is now seeking to overturn his conviction at retrial. (Credit: Charles Miller)

Yoon walks in his neighborhood in North Chungcheong Province. (Credit: Yoonjung Seo)

Park Joon-young is a South Korean lawyer known for taking retrial cases. He is on Yoon’s defense team. (Credit: Yoonjung Seo) Yoon ultimately signed three confessions and at trial he admitted to the murder, hoping to avoid the death penalty. He served 20 years.”He must have felt everything was so unfair, spending years in prison,” said Hong, who went out of business when Yoon went to jail as he couldn’t continue his company without Yoon’s skill set. “I lost my business, but he lost his life.”

Last December, Gyeonggi Namu Provincial Police launched a formal probe into the conduct of seven police officers and one prosecutor who worked on the original investigation into the killings, including reviewing allegations of abuse of power during arrests. The results of the investigation haven’t been released yet. Yoon’s experience wasn’t totally unusual for the time. In the 1980s, it was common for suspected criminals in South Korea to be kept awake for long periods to extract a confession, according to Lee Soo-jung, a forensic psychology professor at Kyonggi University.

“It was a time when confessions, without evidence, were enough to get someone convicted.”Lee Soo-jung

And it wasn’t just Yoon who accused police of torture. Kim Chil-joon, an attorney who defended other suspects in the Hwaseong murder case, said many people were abused during the investigation. One of his clients, also surnamed Kim, was accused of the fourth and fifth killings after a medium in the United States said they had seen him in their dream, he said. Kim was subject to torture and interrogation and in 1995 successfully sued the government for damages. But Kim took his own life two years later after bouts of depression and PTSD, Kim Chil-joon said. Last year, chief inspector Ban said police were investigating whether officers abused suspects during the original investigation, revisiting allegations that one man was waterboarded with spicy seafood soup. But these officers will likely never be charged — the statute of limitations has run out on those allegations, too.

“I want my honor back”

Yoon is determined to clear his name, and his retrial began this week. That in itself is a rare event in South Korea.A tiny fraction of applications for retrials are accepted and they generally require new evidence, according to lawyer Heo Yoon, who specializes in providing retrial legal advice. Park Joon-young, one of Yoon’s attorneys, says that evidence is rarely kept for longer than 20 years except in the most high-profile cases — like Hwaseong.

How a serial killing case stretched on for decades
1986 A woman is found dead in Hwaseong. This is the first of the Hwaseong serial killings.
1989 Yoon is questioned by police and charged with one of the Hwaseong murders.
1990 Yoon is sentenced to life in prison for the murder.
1991 A 10th woman is killed in Hwaseong, marking the final of the serial killings.
2003 A movie directed by Bong Joon-ho based on the murders is released. The movie is called “Memories of Murder”.
2006 The statute of limitations runs out on the most recent Hwaseong killing.
2009 Yoon is released from prison.
2019 Police test DNA taken from Hwaseong murder scenes. They identify a culprit, who confesses to the murders.
2020 Yoon goes on retrial for the murder that he spent 20 years in prison for.

Source: Korean National Police
In Yoon’s case, Lee Chun-jae’s confession will be crucial. It’s possible that the convicted murderer will testify in court before the three judges, who have the power to overturn Yoon’s conviction, Park said. There’s a good chance he’ll be acquitted. At a pre-retrial hearing in February, the presiding judge verbally apologized for Yoon’s false conviction. Yet, there are still issues with Yoon’s case. Although Lee’s DNA matches a number of the murders, police have not announced any DNA evidence connecting him with the 13-year-old girl.Also, pubic hairs found at the scene returned a 40% match with Yoon’s, according to a 1989 report written by an expert at National Forensic Service (NFS). Those hairs have not been DNA tested — and even if they do ultimately match Yoon’s, his lawyer Park warns it’s possible that a sample taken from Yoon could have been mixed up with evidence taken from the scene of the murder. The court has ordered the NFS to extract DNA from the hair, Park said.The retrial is expected to take place over a number of months, but if Yoon is found not guilty, he can make a claim for compensation, according to Park.Yoon says nothing can compensate him for the 20 years of life he lost. Even when he was freed from prison 10 years ago, the world had changed so much that initially he wanted to go back in. “It took me around three years to adjust,” he said. “I couldn’t live. My life patterns at the prison didn’t accommodate the new world I was faced with.”

“I want to clear my false accusation, and I want my honor back. I want to be satisfied with these, and that’s all.”Yoon

Yoon knows Lee will never be tried for the crime, nor will the police officers who he says tortured him, because too many years have passed since the sleepless nights he spent in that small police interrogation room.He just wants to live the rest of his life as an innocent man.”I want to clear my false accusation, and I want my honor back,” he says. “I want to be satisfied with these, and that’s all.”

Julia Hollingsworth wrote from Wellington, New Zealand. Yoonjung Seo reported from Seoul. Jake Kwon reported from Hwaseong, South Korea, and Seoul.

Hilary Whiteman and Jenni Marsh edited.

Illustrations by Max Pepper. Illustrations are based on reporting, however they may not be an exact representation of events at the time. Graphics and layout by Jason Kwok and Natalie Leung.

Sophie Jeong and Paula Hancocks also contributed reporting from Seoul.

Comment The Police mentality is rather unpleasant and the same across the world. However, the British police are placed on a pedestal, with the general public thinking they are awfully nice and above lies and corruption.

There have been so many nasty cases of corruption in Britian, involving lies, bullying, witholding of evidence, torture, taking advanatage of vulnerable suspects who have been fitted up, faking evidence and wonderful PR with a slavish smug upper middle class elitists media.

Now the police is a graduate profession, the corruption is more sophisticated, the public easily impressed and ever more gullible.

Robert Cook

U.S & U.K Blaming China Again. May 24th 2020

There is much more to all of this than a virus which only seems to hasten death of old people, especially those in dirty dreadful hospitals and care homes, and those already ill. The corona crisis shows how irrational and easily misled the masses are. Any sane honest person with a brain should see how similar this process is to the rise and consolidation of Nazism, where mass female support and fear drove Germany on the path to self and world wide destruction. Frightened women are a big noise about corona.

It was R.D Laing who said and wrote that psychiatrists, of which he was one, were whores to the State .He used the word prostitute to describe them. So we have this past Mental Health Week, with daily TV propaganda using celebrity and female sibilant voices pretending to care about us.They talk and sound as if we have all just gone mad and are not reacting to this world wide strategy- for which U.K is main cheerleader behind the self interested WHO- which will Kill many more, not so obviously perhaps because our authorities won’t be looking and connecting- They certainly won’t tell us. As in 1939, they are oblivious of this mad authoritarian dictatorial behaviour increasing the threat to world peace. It started with Iraq, and the insane Anglo US drive for a New World Order goes on, at the moment under cover of corona.

If they are not careful, my generation of know all self styled liberals and their snow flake offspring will soon find out what a real war is like, and it won’t be like the relatively rather benign and benevolent corona virus which may have been engineered by the U.S and UK. It certainly would not have been in China’s interest to do it. The Anglo US alliance previously did its best to destabiise Hong Kong and there was a massive unexplained explosion in a Chinese warehouse complex, where fire and tremours spread to a residential area. In this mad elite money mad world anything is possible, including an overt World War Three.

Meanwhile the earth’smagnetic field has moved and weakened – and the U.S HAARP system can control the weather. How much more dangerous must it get before the masses get it. Just calling Western nations diverse democracies is more spiel, more propaganda, just as you mighty expect in wartime, where elites call the tune with the masses paying the price. I grew up, as the son of a wartime soldier, in the ruins of World War Two. Robert CookThe country’s top diplomat hits out at Washington – raising tensions between the two world powers.About This Websitebbc.comChina accuses US of spreading virus ‘conspiracies’The country’s top diplomat hits out at Washington – raising tensions…The country’s top diplomat hits out at Washington – raising tensions between the two world powers.

Corona Creates Vested Interests In U.S and Abroad So Do Not Expect Truth or Honesty, Only More Fear May 24th 2020

***Panic & Fear, ‘Oh What A Lovely War ‘ Image Appeldene Photographics/RJC***

Kevin Kelly has discovered the many ways a deadly pandemic can be both a boom and a burden on some U.S. businesses. As the the United States clamped down with stay-at-home orders, Kelly said his company, Emerald Packaging Inc. in Union City, Calif, saw demand for the factory’s output explode. Emerald churns out plastic bags for produce, like baby carrots and iceberg lettuce, and Kelly attributed the growth, in part, to the perception that packaged produce is a safer alternative to unwrapped items.

Emerald represents the other side of the current novel coronavirus crisis, which has seen unemployment surge to levels not seen since the Great Depression. The jobless rate hit 14.7% in April. While many companies face a slump, some are rushing to add workers, including delivery services like Instacart. A recent survey by the Atlanta Fed concluded there have been three jobs added to the U.S. economy for every 10 layoffs.

Eric Schnur, CEO of specialty chemical maker Lubrizol Corp., owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Corp, said he anticipates “many millions in extra costs associated with responding to COVID-19.” Lubrizol’s business boom includes a three-fold increase in its output of the gelling agent used to make hand sanitizer.

Schnur said the extra costs go beyond stepped up cleaning and safety equipment and includes “significant increases in supply chain and logistics costs as we work to get our materials to those who have the greatest need.”

Another company facing added costs is Calumet Electronics Corp., in Calumet, Mich., which said it has spent $80,000 on everything from soap to mobile desks to keep workers safe through the crisis.

For Emerald, orders surged 150% in March and were up another 7% in April. But there’s a dark side to that surge, both in terms of cost and complexity.

All the steps the company has taken — both to boost output and keep workers safe — are expected to add at least $350,000 to costs by the end of the year. This doesn’t include the lost production time, which adds up to at least an hour each day, that machines have to be shut down for cleaning. Kelly, Emerald’s chief executive officer, said he hasn’t figured out what this will do to his profits, but he expects a big hit to his margins. Emerald is a family-owned business with annual sales of about $85 million.

One of the biggest costs for Emerald was $50,000 Kelly spent on an automated temperature scanner. When the crisis first hit, Emerald implemented a regimen that included workers getting their temperature taken at the start and end of each shift.

But Kelly soon realized there was a problem having 40 people at the start of each shift waiting to be checked, one by one, by someone standing close to each employee as they were screened.

“It also just isn’t comfortable,” he said. “You know it’s a temperature gun, but you basically are holding a gun up to someone else’s head. It just made everyone uncomfortable.”

The new system will be a scanner that flashes a red warning signal if someone walks by with a body temperature over 100.4 degrees.

Another big-ticket item is the cleaning, which accounts for $75,000 of the added costs. This includes assigning six workers — two on each shift — to constantly scrub and sanitize surfaces and $10,000 for six backpacks that these workers now use to hose floors with cleanser. The company, which was founded in 1963 by Kelly’s father, has added 10 workers to its staff of 240 and is heaping on overtime as well to get the orders out the door.

Even the company’s rag bill exploded. They used to buy 2,000 rags a week. Now it’s 7,000. The cost of that one item has jumped from $300 a month to $1,000, while disposable glove use has tripled.

Michael Rincon, Emerald’s director of operations, says each week brings new twists. For instance, they’ve discovered that having workers constantly wiping surfaces with isopropyl alcohol erodes signs and buttons — but they only realized that after it was too late. On one machine in the factory, the word “danger” printed in bright red has blurred.

Rincon said the faded labels will be repainted. But he’s also had to replace buttons on machines that have had the lettering rubbed away. The cost of a new button isn’t much, but the repairs mean costly shutdowns on lines that run around the clock. Some buttons can be replaced in a few minutes, but others take longer, said Rincon.

Kelly said he even thought about trying to put through a price increase to offset some of these expenses. But a few weeks ago, his biggest customer let him know that was a non-starter. The customer told Kelly he was going to see who else might be able to supply him with produce bags, presumably at a better price. Slideshow (6 Images)

Besides the costs, there are also plenty of unpredictable management challenges. The company made masks mandatory eight weeks ago, at the very beginning of the crisis, but Kelly and other managers still find workers in the plant who aren’t wearing them or are wearing them incorrectly.

One problem is the nature of their factory, which is dominated by large, noisy machines. The only way to communicate in many parts of the factory is to lean your head right next to your coworker. “I’m constantly walking through the factory — throwing my arms apart — to remind people,” said Kelly.

Emerald has had three false alarms, with workers either calling in sick or falling sick at work and being sent home. However, none tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

Kelly said that in a country that regulates so many things, there’s still no good government guidance beyond general guidelines.

“The toughest thing is that there isn’t much direction from the state or the federal government,” Pallavi Joyappa, Emerald’s chief operating officer, said. “You are kind of making it up as you go along.”

Deforestation ‘increases the risk of animal-human disease transmission’

Habitat destruction is bringing humans closer to animals which is increasing the risk of diseases being transmitted. May 22nd 2020

Friday 15 May 2020 15:06, UK

Humans proximity to animals is causing an rise in zoonotic diseases — Image: Humans’ proximity to animals is causing a rise in zoonotic diseases

Widespread destruction of natural habitats is increasing the risk of further pandemics, wildlife charities and academics have warned.

Wet markets, where wild animals are sold for food, have been blamed for the spread of COVID-19 to humans.

A market in Wuhan where the outbreak began — Image: A market in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus outbreak began

But the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says banning them alone won’t prevent zoonotic diseases, where pathogens including viruses spread from animals to humans.

Dr Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF, said habitat destruction is bringing humans into much closer contact with wildlife, increasing the risk of diseases being transmitted to people.

“We have created the perfect petri-dish for pathogen spread,” he said.

“At the heart of this problem is the conversion of more and more habitat to produce agricultural commodities for international supply chains.

“As we decimate forests like the Amazon so we increase the risk of the next pandemic.

“If we continue to import commodities – soy for animal feed or unsustainably produced palm oil – we drive that deforestation in countries like Brazil.

“This is about how humanity has failed to adequately steward nature.”

COVID-19 is believed to have originated in bats in southern China, though it’s not certain whether the transmission was through an intermediary species such as the pangolin.

Bats found in parts of the country are natural hosts of coronaviruses, with hundreds of different strains identified.

Image: Activitists protest against live-animal markets

There is a risk of viruses spreading to humans if the bats are butchered and eaten, or if bat urine and faeces contaminate surfaces.

People living nearby have been shown to have antibodies to some of the viruses, but it’s extremely rare for there to be human-to-human transmission.

Kate Jones, professor of ecology and biodiversity at University College London, said: “All animals have their own pathogens.

“Two-thirds of all human infectious diseases have their origins in animals, including Ebola, SARS, and MERS.”

She cautioned against “demonising” species.

She said: “The ecosystem services that bats provide us through pollination and seed dispersal are critical. We need to understand the risks and mitigate them.”

In a joint webinar for parliamentarians, WWF and the RSPB called for legislation to put sustainability at the heart of future UK trade agreements, to improve both the health of humans and ecosystems.

Research by RSPB has found that just seven commodities grown for the UK market – soy, cocoa, palm oil, timber, beef and leather, pulp and paper, and rubber – covered 13.6 million hectares in 2017.

Beatriz Luraschi, principle policy officer at the RSPB, said: “This is over half the size of the UK. It’s a significant amount of land.

“A lot of the products are grown in tropical countries with extremely high biodiversity and are very rich in carbon. (The countries) are also the source of many zoonotic diseases.

“This pandemic has really shone a light on the extent to which we depend on healthy ecosystems.”

Dr Barrett said deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was 64% higher in April than at the same time last year.

He said: “It looks like we’re heading for another severe fire season possibly from end of this month.

“Right now we are seeing efforts in the Brazilian congress that would legalise land grabs that have taken place in the Amazon in recent years. It would legitimise further encroachment into intact areas of forest.

“We have a choice. If we go for a more sustainable future, we embed sustainability into our supply chains and stop destroying nature around the world.

“But if we go back to business as usual, we lock in the certainty of the next crisis further down the line.”

Comment Cut to the Chase May 22nd 2020

Covid 19 is either a biologically engineered weapon, or an outcome of third world overpopulation and religious bigotry- which in turn is promoted by western elites and third world corrupt dictatorships. Either way it looks pretty hopeless.

Adam Smith’s invisible hand of the profit motive is at work, so prophets are not welcome. Humans, as two World Wars over resources- not to save the Jews as in the British elite mythology aims to mislead us of the lower orders- proves just what absoulte madness and carnage humans are capable of. If feminists gave a damn about all of this, they would drop their rape fantasiies and stop trying to be a part of the vile rat race that is destroying the world. Robert Cook

Satellites and spacecraft malfunction as Earth’s magnetic field mysteriously weakens

Scientists are finding that the weakening is causing technical problems for satellites, and seems to be growing in its effects.

Friday 22 May 2020 05:54, UK

Satellites and spacecraft malfunction as Earth’s magnetic field mysteriously weakens. May 22nd 2020

Scientists are finding that the weakening is causing technical problems for satellites, and seems to be growing in its effects.

Earth’s magnetic field, which is vital to protecting life on our planet from solar radiation, is mysteriously weakening.

On average the planet’s magnetic field has lost almost 10% of its strength over the last two centuries, but there is a large localised region of weakness stretching from Africa to South America.

Known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, the field strength in this area has rapidly shrunk over the past 50 years just as the area itself has grown and moved westward.

Over the past five years a second centre of minimum intensity has developed southwest of Africa, which researchers believe indicates the anomaly could split into two separate cells.

The anomaly is causing technical difficulties for satellites orbiting the Earth.

European Space Agency (ESA) scientists from the Swarm Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC) are using data from ESA’s Swarm satellite constellation to study the anomaly.

Swarm satellites are designed to identify and precisely measure the different magnetic signals that make up Earth’s magnetic field.

Dr Jurgen Matzka, from the German Research Centre for Geosciences, said: “The new, eastern minimum of the South Atlantic Anomaly has appeared over the last decade and in recent years is developing vigorously.

“We are very lucky to have the Swarm satellites in orbit to investigate the development of the South Atlantic Anomaly. The challenge now is to understand the processes in Earth’s core driving these changes.”

One speculation is that the weakening of the field is a sign that the Earth is heading for a pole reversal – in which the north and south magnetic poles flip.

This flip doesn’t happen immediately, but instead would occur over the course of a couple of centuries during which there would be multiple north and south magnetic poles all around the globe.

“Such events have occurred many times throughout the planet’s history,” said ESA, noting “we are long overdue by the average rate at which these reversals take place (roughly every 250,000 years)”.

The magnetic field is thought to be largely generated by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up Earth’s the outer core 3000 km under our feet. Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing electromagnetic field. Other sources of magnetism come from minerals in Earth’s mantle and crust, while the ionosphere, magnetosphere and oceans also play a role. ESA’s constellation of three Swarm satellites is — Image: ESA’s Swarm probes are being used to analyse the anomaly

That said, the space agency also noted that the dip occurring in the South Atlantic was “well within what is considered normal levels of fluctuations”.

For people on the surface the anomaly is unlikely to cause any alarm, but satellites and other spacecraft flying through the area are experiencing technical malfunctions.

Because the magnetic field is weaker in the region, charged particles from the cosmos can penetrate through to the altitudes that low-Earth orbiting satellites fly at.

“The mystery of the origin of the South Atlantic Anomaly has yet to be solved,” added ESA.

“However, one thing is certain: magnetic field observations from Swarm are providing exciting new insights into the scarcely understood processes of Earth’s interior.”

Border Farce May 21st 2020

A ridiculosly named ‘Border Force’ bring the latest crop of what mainstream Sky News calls migrants. We don’t use the word ‘illegals’ anymore. Once they are here that’s it. So here are the latest dinghy load. Why don’t they just send big ships over to Calais and cut out the middlemen ?
***Makes a joke of lockdown, which is really about developing police state methoids and skills. Europe should be very pleased to be rid of in bred elite run U.K.***

According to an upper middle class Sky News reporter : “It was a large group of migrants packed tightly onto a tiny, black inflatable dinghy.
One of them waved at us, presumably for help.
Luckily for them, the help they desperately sought was on its way.
We arrived at the same time as the UK Border Force.
“Turn your engine off,” the officers screamed to the dinghy.
The migrants duly obliged and began cheering. They had achieved their aim – to cross into UK waters.
The Border Force pulled in the inflatable boat and pulled 13 migrants to safety.”

Who Cares ? May 21st 2020

Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan clashed with Dr Hilary Jones over government advice for elderly patients leaving hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday’s show.

After care home bosses warned that a lack of testing and personal protective equipment (PPE) was leaving residents and staff vulnerable, Piers challenged Dr Hilary on why elderly patients were discharged from hospital into care homes without being tested in the earlier stages of the epidemic.

“A large number of those [deaths] Hilary are in care homes […] there was a decision taken to free up beds in NHS hospitals, to send people who had Covid-19 who were not tested before they went back to care homes.” the presenter said.

Dr Hilary then responded by saying: “We can’t prove how many people were discharged from hospital who were Covid-19 positive because we didn’t have testing at the time,” before going on to compare the situation with cruise ships and enclosed infection.

A furious Morgan then challenged: “Hilary, let me stop you, here’s the difference – they knew that the patients in hospital had Covid-19 but they didn’t check they were now negative before they sent them out.”

Dr Hilary then responded: “We didn’t have the capacity and I’m sure people will look back and say mistakes were made.” Susanna Reid then added: “This is not a criticism of care home staff, they are doing a stellar job”

The doctor then added that he thinks the crisis is a “tragedy”, but wanted to share “the facts” of why deaths are so high.

The coronavirus outbreak has had a devastating impact on UK care homes, with more than 8,300 Covid-1-related deaths in England between April 10 and May 8, according to the Care Quality Commission, including 1,503 which occurred in the week up to May 8.

Morgan has been an outspoken critic of the UK government response to the coronavirus crisis. Yesterday Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood abruptly left a video call with Morgan and co-host Susanna Reid after the presenters challenged him on a clip of Prime Minister Boris Johnson telling the public to stay at home if they can but go to work if they have no alternative.

Morgan also claimed government ministers have been banned from appearing on Good Morning Britain after a series of “train wreck” interviews about the Covid-19 pandemic. He called the apparent boycott “disgraceful” after Health Secretary Matt Hancock appeared on other networks

Locked In To Corona May 21st 2020

A top US scientist has said that people should not count on a Covid-19 vaccine being developed any time soon, as global infections passed 5 million after surges in Latin America, including Brazil, which has recorded nearly 20,000 new cases.

William Haseltine, the groundbreaking cancer, HIV/AIDS and human genome projects researcher, has said the best approach to the pandemic is to manage the disease through careful tracing of infections and strict isolation measures whenever it starts spreading.
He said that while a vaccine could be developed, “I wouldn’t count on it”, and urged people to wear masks, wash hands, clean surfaces and keep a distance.

“Do not listen to the politicians who say we’re going to have one by the time my re election comes around,” he said. “Maybe we will (but) I’m just saying it’s not a slam-dunk case by any means … because every time people have tried to make a vaccine – for Sars or Mers – it hasn’t actually protected.”

Vaccines developed previously for other types of coronavirus had failed to protect mucous membranes in the nose where the virus typically enters the body, he said.
The United States and other countries has not done enough to “forcibly isolate” people exposed to the virus, Haseltine said, but praised China, South Korea and Taiwan’s efforts to curb infections.

Meanwhile back at the ranch May 21st 2020

A “world beating” track and trace system to stop a second coronavirus peak and help ease the lockdown has been promised by the end of May by Boris Johnson that will help in reopening of the economy and schools. (Sky News) As UK battles the pandemic, the government has announced that the families and dependants of migrant NHS support staff who die after contracting coronavirus will be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK. (Sky News) Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has been left isolated over his air bridge plan as Number 10, the Foreign Office and Home Office are said to have branded it “unworkable.”

During this current pandemic, ministers are falling over themselves to tell anyone who’ll listen that they’re being led by the science. It provides both an easy justification for whatever they’ve decided to date and perhaps a temptingly convenient scapegoat if any decision turns out to have been wrong. The comments of Therese Coffey, the secretary of state of work and pensions, about “wrong science” are merely the most recent example.

Woman charged with stabbing seven-year-old to death in park May 20th 2020

A woman has been charged with the murder of seven-year-old Emily Jones, who was stabbed to death in a park in Bolton on Mother’s Day.
Greater Manchester Police said Eltiona Skana, 30, formerly of Turnstone Road, Bolton, has been remanded in custody.
She will appear before Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
On Sunday, March 22, police were called to Queen’s Park in Bolton following reports that a child had been stabbed.

Emergency services attended but despite the best efforts of Emily’s family and medical responders, she died a short time later.
Skana, understood to be originally from Albania, was arrested at the scene and later detained under the Mental Health Act.
She is also charged with possession of a bladed article.

Emily’s grieving parents previously paid tribute to their daughter and said she was the “light of our lives”.
“She was always full of joy, love and laughter,” they added.
“Emily had such a cheeky smile and was beautiful inside and out. She had a heart as big as her smile”.
They went on to describe how the seven-year-old was “never happier” than when she was spending time with family and friends.

“She was our own little social butterfly,” they said.
Her “heartbroken” teachers also paid tribute and said she was a “ray of sunshine”.
Headteacher Louise Close said in an online statement: “I want you to know how much Emily was loved.
“She will be missed by all her friends and all the staff. Her loss has left a hole in our hearts and the school will never be the same again”.

Comment It is an unpalatble fact that women are statistically more likely to harm or kill children than men are. Women are also as likely to provoke and commit acts of domestic violence, always playing mental illness as an excuse, along with ‘men made me do it.’

They are also just as likely to tell lies about all manner of things, usually belifved. There is a dangterous double standard at work when it comes to so called equality -which is why we get tragedies like this one. Robert Cook

***Time Equality extended to equal punishments. feminism gives women a sense of entitlement and superiority, and is a major ingredient of our society’s social rot.***

OK Throwing Mud at Trump, blame him for Covid, Obama is like Teflon Tony Blair May 19th 2020

The controversial snap of Obama and Louis Farrakhan was kept under wraps for 13 yearsCredit: Twitter

He has now admitted he “basically swore secrecy” out of concerns it could ruin Obama’s chances of becoming president.

Releasing the photo at the time could have whipped up a storm of controversy – because the Nation of Islam has been accused of being a hate group.

Muhammad said: “After the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was president, it was kept under cover.

“It absolutely would have made a difference.”

Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, who was snapped with Obama in 2005Credit: AP:Associated Press

Muhammad said a “staff member” for the CBC contacted him “sort of in a panic” after he took the photo.

“I sort of understood what was going on,” Muhammad told the website Talking Points Memo, which published the photo yesterday.

He promised and made arrangements to give the picture to Leonard Farrakhan, the minister’s son-in-law and chief of staff.

Muhammad said he gave away the disk from his camera but copied the photograph onto a computer file.

The reporter added: “Realising that I had given it up, I mean, it was sort of like a promise to keep the photograph secret.”

There were fears that if the picture had been published at the time it would have damaged Obama's political future — There were fears that if the picture had been published at the time it would have damaged Obama’s political futureCredit: Getty Images – Getty

Controversy surrounding Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam (NOI) was recently labelled a “hate group” by Alabama’s Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – a hate watchdog that took on the Ku Klux Klan.

The SPLC has slammed the NOI for its “wildly divisive and dangerous rhetoric”.

***White Liberals love him because he is ‘black’. He always seemed just too good and smug to be true.***
***No one seems to wonder why presidents have to come from the super rich in a nation of so much multi ethnic poverty and obscene wealth – rather like the U.K but on a bigger scale.***

Farrakhan has long been the centre of much controversy, with critics saying that his political views and comments are anti-Semitic or racist.

As the leader of NOI, Farrakhan has preached the organisation’s theology that blacks are superior to whites, insisting whites were created 6,600 years ago as a “race of devils” by an evil black scientist named Yakub, and that “white people deserve to die”.

In 2012, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre included some of Farrakhan’s comments on its list of the top ten anti-Semitic slurs of that year.

One included in that list was recalled from a meeting of the Nation of Islam at Madison Square Gardens in 1985 when Farrakhan said of the Jews: “And don’t you forget, when it’s God who puts you in the ovens, it’s forever.”

Farrakhan also made anti-Semitic comments during his May 16–17, 2013 visit to Detroit.

In March 2015, Farrakhan accused Jews of involvement in the September 11 attacks.

He said he “felt a little bit more at ease” after Farrakhan claimed in 2016 that Obama visited his home in Chicago.

Muhammad contacted Farrakhan in autumn 2017 with the “final manuscript” for a self-published book containing the photo.

Farrakhan has made anti-Semitic remarks in the past.

Study Shows Suicide Will Kill Far More Than Covid 19 May 16th 2020

New Jersey recently became one of the seven states (plus the District of Columbia) to legalize assisted suicide by statute. In effect, New Jersey sanctions suicide for some residents through its public policy.

Now, with COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown, so for them, suicide is bad. From the NJ.Com story:

On top of the more than 78,000 Americans who have already died from the fast-spreading virus, a new study from the Well Being Trust found conditions from the pandemic — including lost jobs, isolation, and fear over the future — could lead to 75,000 deaths in the nation from drug or alcohol abuse and suicide over the next decade.
This comes as a number of critics say they’re worried lockdowns designed to save lives from COVID-19 could have an even greater toll due to economic and mental despair.
[NJ Gov.] Murphy was asked Saturday during his daily coronavirus briefing in Trenton if the state will track suicides and consider this when determining how to reopen the state. “I don’t know specifics in terms of tracking suicides, but we have said this: The combination of isolation and now other factors like job losses are having big impacts on folks, there’s no question about it,” the governor said.

So, let me get this straight. If someone is in despair because they lost everything when their business collapsed or had a loved one die from COVID-19, they shouldn’t be able to commit facilitated suicide.

But if they are in despair because they have been diagnosed as terminally ill with COVID-19, they should not only be able to self-terminate, but also, have their suicide facilitated by a doctor under a law signed by Governor Murphy.

No! That’s nonsensical. Governor Murphy should be concerned about preventing all suicides, not just some.

Suicidal ideation is suicidal ideation — regardless of the reason for wanting to die. Everyone who becomes suicidal because of a COVID-19 impact — or for any other reason — should receive prevention services. Everyone. It is illogical and destructive to the value of human life for New Jersey (and other pro–assisted suicide states) to have such a lethally dichotomous public policy.

LifeNews Note: The above is an excerpt from Wesley Smith’s testimony before the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services in favor of legislation to change the state’s 10-Day Rule. Help is available. Speak with a counselor today at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call 1-800-273-8255

Feminists Exploit Coronavirus to Sell More Dangerous Abortion Pills Than Ever Before Posted Here May 16th 2020

Opinion Denise Burke May 15, 2020 | 10:26AM Washington, DC

While no one is immune from the strains of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, it would be difficult to overstate the impact of isolation on women facing unexpected or difficult pregnancies.

As a recent profile in The New York Times points out, that means big business for enterprising abortion companies—especially the small handful of groups utilizing a Food and Drug Administration loophole to offer their lethal product via video call.

Touted as “telemedicine abortion,” the approach sidesteps regulations by allowing a prescriber to forgo any in-person visits prior to an abortion.

Accounting for 60% of early abortions across the nation, the so-called “abortion pill” or “medication abortion” actually involves two pills—mifepristone to cause the death of an unborn child and misoprostol to induce labor.

Under most circumstances, laws require the prescriber to review an ultrasound and physically observe a woman while she takes mifepristone. But abortion activists such as the American Civil Liberties Union have long worked to do away with even these minimal protections in place for the health and safety of women.

Activists gained ground in 2015, when the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Planned Parenthood could oversee an abortion via video. Fewer than 20 states currently prohibit the practice by law.

Unwilling to let a crisis go to waste, the abortion industry is now leveraging the widespread lockdowns, one woman at a time.

As a representative of TelAbortion—which contracts with multiple for-profit abortion companies—told The New York Times, its business doubled in March and April, with 841 sales across just 13 states, and it’s “working to expand to new states as fast as possible.”

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The increase in women resorting to chemical abortion during COVID-19 is also being noticed by the pro-life movement.

Heartbeat International, which runs the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, reported that March was its busiest month on record. After regretting their decisions to begin the chemical abortion process, more than 100 women connected with local medical providers through the network’s hotline for emergency, ongoing doses of progesterone to try to stop their abortions and rescue their children.

While telemedicine abortion might help abortion businesses maximize profits by avoiding the cost and liabilities of brick-and-mortar facilities, the highly unregulated procedure poses frightening risks for women.

Topping the list of elevated dangers is the possibility of an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy. A chemical abortion does not terminate an ectopic pregnancy, so the woman continues to risk a ruptured fallopian tube, hemorrhage, and death if it’s not treated.

Finding and treating an ectopic pregnancy—which can occur in 1 out of every 50 pregnancies—is a primary reason that the FDA and many states require a woman to obtain an ultrasound before starting an abortion.

Yet, as The New York Times pointed out, TelAbortion is currently taking the liberty to “waive its requirements for ultrasound” during the coronavirus pandemic. Pair that dangerous decision with a current push, also from the ACLU, to prevent states from requiring COVID-19 tests prior to abortions, and it’s undeniable that, in a contest with financial gain, patient safety finishes a distant second.

Even the paper’s overwhelmingly positive feature on TelAbortion underscores the inherent risk to patient safety. Although its contractors sold women 841 abortions in March and April, TelAbortion could only account for three-quarters of customer outcomes.

The reported results aren’t all that reassuring either; at least 46 women had to seek out their own emergency care, with more than half of them needing an aspiration abortion to prevent a potentially life-threatening infection.

Over the past two months, we’ve heard a steady chorus of politicians, celebrities, and leaders from every conceivable sphere emphasize the importance of doing all we can to protect vulnerable lives.

Those leaders are right to make their voices heard in the midst of crisis. Yet, where are voices like those when it comes to opportunistic abortionists putting women’s lives in danger to make a buck?

Women deserve competent and quality care, and that doesn’t change during a pandemic or if they seek an abortion. You and I might disagree on abortion, but we should at least agree on that.

LifeNews Note: Denise Burke is senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom and its Center for Legislative Advocacy. This originally appeared at Daily Signal.

Liberal Hearts Bleed Over Corona May 16th 2020

The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says “U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are ‘unconscionable,’” and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar.

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AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to look at how the U.S. has continued to deport thousands of people during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. In Guatemala, at least 117 people deported from the U.S. have tested positive for the virus as of May 4th, making up some 15% of Guatemala’s cases. Guatemala had temporarily suspended deportations from the U.S. after dozens of deported immigrants on a single April 13th flight tested positive, but allowed deportations to resume under the promise of stringent testing. But last week, someone who was deported after testing negative was confirmed COVID-19-positive after arriving in Guatemala. Guatemala’s health minister, Hugo Monroy, has called the U.S. “the Wuhan of the Americas.” On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement reversed plans to deport five immigrants who tested positive for COVID-19, after it was reported on in the media.

A deportation flight from San Antonio, Texas, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, departed with 50 passengers, who were sent to hotels to quarantine at the Haitian government’s expense upon arrival. The same day, Florida Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson introduced the Haitian Deportation Relief Act, which calls for the suspension of deportations to Haiti, saying they are, quote, “tantamount to a death sentence for Haitians who are living with compromised water and sanitation systems and do not have access to the sanitation measures we’ve undertaken in the United States,” unquote. This comes as calls to halt all deportations from the U.S. during the pandemic are growing.

Well, for more, we’re joined by two guests. In Miami, Florida, Edwidge Danticat is with us. She’s the Haitian American novelist, author of a number of books, including The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story and The Farming of Bones, which won an American Book Award. Her piece in the Miami Herald is headlined “U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are ‘unconscionable.’” And in The New Yorker magazine, she’s written about “The Ripple Effects of the Coronavirus on Immigrant Communities.”

Also joining us, from Guatemala City, is journalist José Alejandro García Escobar. He’s a reporter with the independent media outlet Agencia Ocote. His most recent work in Guatemala highlights the health and economic impacts faced by undocumented Guatemalan workers living in the U.S. in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Edwidge Danticat, let’s begin with you. Can you respond to the U.S. deporting COVID-positive Haitians back to Haiti? What are you calling for?

EDWIDGE DANTICAT: Well, these deportations are obviously a threat to Haiti and a threat to the entire region. Two hundred — nearly 200 organizations, professionals in healthcare, people who work with immigrant communities, have called for the administration to stop these deportations and find alternatives to detention that are contingent with COVID-19 regulations. But these deportations have continued. And since in April, when the first set began, we’ve had three people test positive for COVID-19 after they’ve arrived in Haiti. It’s a disgrace. It’s dangerous, really, for the health of the communities that these folks are being returned to. And so, we are, as a community, as people whose loved ones are affected or will continue to be affected by this, are calling for the deportations to stop.

AMY GOODMAN: And what is the response of the U.S. government?

EDWIDGE DANTICAT: Well, initially — yesterday, for example, I texted with one of the wives of one of the men who had tested COVID-positive and in the end didn’t end up on the flight. But she said that he was taken out of the quarantine where he was and was not retested, for example, before he was returned back to the general population while he was in detention. ICE has said that they would test people before they were returned — they were deported, but asymptomatic people can still spread the virus, obviously, and people have tested positive once they’ve arrived in Guatemala, for example, and, in the previous case, in Haiti.

AMY GOODMAN: In your piece in The New Yorker magazine, Edwidge, you cite a common saying, that whenever Haiti sneezes, Miami catches a cold. But in the midst of this pandemic, it clearly is the case that the reverse is true. Can you talk about the pandemic’s effect on Haitians where you live, in Miami, as well as this — what this means for their loved ones at home?

EDWIDGE DANTICAT: Well, we’ve watched — we’re in a community where people work as home health aides or in the tourism industry or in the service industry or hospitality industry. And so many people have been furloughed or have lost their jobs. And Haiti counts a lot on remittances. A lot of people who are working here are working a job for — you know, like my father was, when I was a kid, was working one job to support himself and another job to support someone back home. So, this will also have ripple effects in Haiti, in which people who have lost their jobs here or who might have fallen ill — we’ve had a lot of COVID cases, for example, in the population in New York. And so, that will certainly have effects on the economy, on the ability of people in Haiti, who are already unable to shelter in place, who have to work in the informal economy — this will also reduce their ability to feed themselves, because a lot of family members here also are affected by the COVID-19 financially, which will then lead to greater hardship, financially and medically, back home.

AMY GOODMAN: Edwidge Danticat, you also talk about Haiti’s history with what you’ve called “past collisions with microbes.” Talk about what happened after the earthquake a decade ago.

EDWIDGE DANTICAT: Well, after the earthquake, when it seemed like this was the worst thing that could possibly happen, when 300,000 people had been killed and close to 2 million people were homeless, you had the United Nations come and basically poison one of the central rivers in Haiti, causing a cholera epidemic that killed 10,000 people and infected close to a million people. Now, the U.N. has never quite taken the proper responsibility. Recently, some of their own monitors have come out and said that they have not done enough in terms of compensating families or creating health structures. So, the U.N. and the cholera epidemic has left Haiti even more vulnerable in terms of being able to deal with this current pandemic.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to bring José Alejandro García Escobar into this discussion, from Guatemala City. If you could talk about what happens to Guatemalans who are deported from the United States to Guatemala City?

JOSÉ ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ESCOBAR: Well, recently, it has started that a new shelter has opened up really close by to the airport, so people have been moving the deportees to that shelter. However, on May 13th, a group of 71 persons — 71 people were moved to that shelter, and they only spent a couple of days there. A spokesperson for migration said they were tested and that they were OK. But still, they were only there for a couple of days, and they were moved to their original cities.

AMY GOODMAN: And talk about what is the scope of the problem. How has this happened, the Guatemalans who are being deported from the United States? The response of Guatemalans where you are, in Guatemala City? The response of the government, who stopped these deportations but then has allowed them to resume?

JOSÉ ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ESCOBAR: Well, at the beginning, there was little to no information. We got our first confirmed cases in mid-March, and there were barely any information about what was going to happen to immigration, to deportees’ flights. But as cases began on the rise, suddenly people had to address this issue.

As you said during the introduction, immigration stopped the deportation flights for a couple of times to strengthen the measures. Then there was that awful flight on April 15th, when there were up to 25% of all deportees tested positive. So, things have been moving up and down with this issue. The government has rarely addressed it. This has been mainly from immigration, from the immigration department here in Guatemala. But still, you have a lot of people infected going back to small communities with little to no access to health facilities. So it has been creating a great impact in the country, bringing people infected with the coronavirus.

AMY GOODMAN: You say that the U.S. is being referred to now in Guatemala as “the Wuhan of the Americas”?

JOSÉ ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ESCOBAR: Yes. This was a quote made by Hugo Monroy, our health minister.

AMY GOODMAN: If you could talk about what the Guatemalan government is doing to hold the U.S. accountable? And if you can talk about the latest people who have been deported? One, the U.S. said, was COVID-negative, but when he arrived in Guatemala City, he was positive.

JOSÉ ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ESCOBAR: Well, the couple of times that the flights had stopped, allegedly, it was to strengthen the measures and the testings in the U.S. to make sure that the people that were getting deported — were getting deported were healthy, and they wouldn’t infect anyone in Guatemala. Obviously, this has not been the case entirely. We have been getting reports of people coming in with certificates, signed by ICE, saying that they were healthy. But the certificates that are allowed here in Guatemala, they can be made no longer than 72 hours prior to their deportation. But people have been coming in, and still we have a few cases — obviously not as high as the one we got in April 15, but still, this has been — we still get flights with a couple people infected in the flights.

AMY GOODMAN: José, can you talk about the Guatemalan residents who have been placing white flags outside their homes? And talk about the double pandemic, the pandemic that people are deeply concerned about, COVID-19, and then also the effects of not having jobs, running out of food and money.

JOSÉ ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ESCOBAR: Well, a lot of people in Guatemala rely on informal economy. I mean people selling stuff in the streets, people selling food in the streets. So, pretty quickly, as soon as we had our first case and the government began putting on measures, people began losing their jobs, or people began losing their income. So, rapidly, you would see people out on the streets waving white flags as a signal of they don’t have any money, they don’t have any food, so Guatemalans might — there’s a strong coalition of Guatemalans helping other Guatemalans.

The government promised a thousand quetzales, which is a little under $200, for families and small businessmen and small businesswomen. However, they then mentioned that those benefited from this 1,000 quetzales, they needed to be within the formal economy — informal economy, but they needed to show proof of their taxes. So, a lot of people don’t extend a receipt when they’re working out in the streets, so a lot of people have not been getting this.

And just last night, we had these new measures that the city — that the country is closed until Monday morning. So a lot of people are not going to be allowed out into the streets to go and to receive aid from other Guatemalans, to go to local restaurants who have been helping people who don’t have any jobs or food. So, right now, this weekend is going to be a little chaotic with what happens with these people.

AMY GOODMAN: In this last minute, the effect on — the healthcare system, overall, in Guatemala, and how difficult it already is, before dealing with the pandemic?

JOSÉ ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ESCOBAR: Yes. Just a few days ago, there have been a few developments in the hospitals. Doctors in hospitals, and nurses, have been out into the streets, outside the hospitals, protesting that they don’t have enough material to take care of the patients. Suddenly, as you mentioned, the health system in Guatemala is overwhelmed. We had reached a little over 1,300 cases, active cases, here in Guatemala, and this has put our health system really on the edge of their seats.

AMY GOODMAN: And let me end with Edwidge Danticat. The situation with the healthcare system, with the hospitals in Haiti right now?

EDWIDGE DANTICAT: Well, certainly, there’s a medical group that’s advising the president, that’s come out and said that Haiti is just not ready. And the deportations are adding fuel to the fire. We don’t have these ventilators. We don’t have the beds. And the more exposure that we’re getting from this exportation of the virus, the more dangerous it is for a country that has suffered already so much through other exposures that could have been avoided.

And so, people go to a wedding someplace, and the virus spreads. And these are called super-spreader events. These deportations are international super-spreader events and are putting a great deal of lives at risk and are offering them up to a medical system that in the — you know, the richest countries have suffered. Imagine what it would be like in a place, like, that’s been so battered and so mistreated, like we have been. Haitian people are strong, but this is just — this is a lot.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you so much for joining us, Edwidge Danticat, Haitian American novelist — we will link your piece in the [Miami Herald] at democracynow.org — speaking to us from Miami, and José Alejandro García Escobar, Guatemalan journalist, speaking to us from Guatemala City.

When we come back, for the first time in history, the Supreme Court is holding its oral arguments remotely. We’ll look at a case they heard Wednesday that could shape the outcome of the future of presidential elections. And we’ll talk about whether democracy can survive the pandemic here in the United States. Stay with us.

Germany in the Clear ? May 14th 2020

BERLIN (Reuters) – The reproduction rate for the coronavirus pandemic in Germany fell below the critical threshold of 1 to an estimated 0.94 on Tuesday after a 1.07 reading on Monday, the Robert Koch Institute for public health and disease control said.

The so-called ‘R’ number indicates that 100 infected people would infect 94 others on average in the latest 24-hour period, meaning the number of new infections was slowing after accelerating at the beginning of the week.

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“So far, we do not expect a renewed rising trend,” the RKI said in its daily report, adding the overall number of cases in Germany was diminishing, meaning local outbreaks had a greater impact on ‘R’ than with higher case numbers.

It cited recent outbreaks around slaughterhouses as examples of such local cases that could influence the overall ‘R’ number.

Confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased over the latest 24-hour period by 933 to 170,508, RKI data showed. The reported death toll rose by 116 to 7,533.

Germany is being closely watched worldwide as the most successful large European country in curbing the spread of the virus so far, partly thanks to massive testing, which has enabled a partial reopening of the economy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has frequently said the reproduction rate of the new coronavirus must be held below 1 to prevent the health system from being overwhelmed. She is due to take questions on the issue from lawmakers on Wednesday. ( This is what it has always been about – editor )

Merkel, a physicist whose plain-spoken assessments have been held up as models of a scientific approach to the crisis, appealed to Germans on Monday to stick to social-distancing rules to slow down the pandemic.

On Tuesday, she told a meeting of lawmakers from her conservative bloc that Germany must help its European Union neighbours revive their economies after the coronavirus crisis, according to several participants.

Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Mark HeinrichOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

China Stealing Covid 19 research May 14th

One has to wonder if one has any useful level of intelligence, education and experience, why it is a matter of profit, ego and nationalism when it comes to researching a cure or vaccine related to Covid19.?

The following story says rather a lot about the Corona mystery. It came at the peak of Trump’s ill considered trade war on China. Both sides have accused the other of inventing the virus as a weapon of biological warfare before retreating to the usual mantra of an animal infection crossing species.

Both sides professed it was new yet knew rather a lot about it and how it was expected to perform. The low class masses have been locked down, jobs lost, poverty deepened, suicides risen, mental illnesses promoted, other health issues ignored and taxes will rise because the global rich elite are not going to pay for this mess.

So why should we put up with a story about U.S and China arguing over who is stealing who’s secrets if this is a global emergency ? Or is it because both sides know it was a weapon yet to fulfill its’ potential.

The base line conspiracy of all conspiracies is the one the CIA started, backed or led by the U.K, that there is no such thing as a conspiracy. Robert Cook

China-linked hackers are targeting organisations researching the Covid-19 pandemic, US officials say.

The FBI said it had seen hacking attempts on US groups researching vaccines, treatments and testing.

The US has long accused the Chinese government of cyber-espionage, something Beijing denies.

The pandemic has worsened tensions between the two countries, which have both accused each other of failing to contain the outbreak.

More than 4.3m people around the world have been infected by Covid-19, with over 83,000 US deaths and 4,600 deaths in China, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa), a division of the homeland security department, issued a rare joint warning on Wednesday.

In what was billed as a public service announcement, they said “healthcare, pharmaceutical and research sectors working on Covid-19 response should all be aware they are prime targets” of hackers.

US-China contagion: The battle behind the scenes

The cyber-thieves had “been observed attempting to identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property and public health data” on treating the coronavirus, the statement added.

China has repeatedly denied US accusations of cyber-espionage.

Earlier this week, foreign affairs ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said: “We are leading the world in Covid-19 treatment and vaccine research. It is immoral to target China with rumours and slanders in the absence of any evidence.”

At a press briefing on Monday, President Donald Trump referred to China’s alleged cyber-activities.

“What else is new with China? I’m not happy with China, could have stopped it at the source, should have,” he said.

“Now you’re telling me they’re hacking. What else is new? We’re watching very closely.”

US officials have long accused China of hacking and intellectual property theft.

In 2009, the US alleged that China-linked hackers managed to infiltrate the sensitive data from the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet. Shortly afterwards, China announced it was developing a similar jet, the Shenyang J-31.

Intelligence officials have also in the past accused China of using “non-traditional collectors”, who steal technology from US firms.

Bill Evanina, director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Centre, has said China’s theft of US intellectual property amounts to about $400bn a year.

The UK and US had already issued a detailed joint warning about other countries targeting research back on 5 May.

On that occasion, they did not officially name names but sources indicated China, Russia and Iran were among those responsible.

Now, in a widely trailed move, the US has decided to single out China specifically with this new advisory.

So far they have not been joined by the UK and the new alert does not contain any new details of what has taken place.

That means this may well be interpreted as a means of both playing to a domestic audience and of raising the pressure on China as part of the growing tension between Washington and Beijing.

“There’s Something Happening Here- What it is ain’t exactly clear, there’s a man with a gun over there, tellin’ me I got to beware.” May 13th 2020

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Germany’s coronavirus reproduction rate dips below critical threshold May 13th 2020

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Germany must help other EU states get back on their feet: Merkel

It cited recent outbreaks around slaughterhouses as examples of such local cases that could influence the overall ‘R’ number.

Confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased over the latest 24-hour period by 933 to 170,508, RKI data showed. The reported death toll rose by 116 to 7,533.

Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Mark Heinrich

Comment The British Media seems to relishe any rise in corona cases, especially deaths, to justify its own country’s extreme and very damaging lockdown.

Los New Yorkers: Essential, Underprotected Undocumented Immigrants Struggle to Survive in Epicenter May 12th 2020

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman in New York City, with Juan González in New Jersey. Here, New York City is the epicenter of the pandemic. We’re turning now to meet some of the undocumented New Yorkers living through what is happening here, their stories told in the new ProPublica report headlined “Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic’s Epicenter.”

This is Adan, a former kitchen worker who lives in the Bronx with his wife and two teen sons, who are U.S. citizens. Adan says he worked at the World Trade Center two decades ago, where he lost so many of his friends September 11th, not identified or acknowledged in the death toll because their names did not match those on record or their families were unable to claim the bodies.

ADAN: [translated] The same thing is going to happen as it did in the Twin Towers: A lot of people are going to end up in a mass grave. I don’t remember how many Mexicans died, but we used to fill the elevators going all the way up to the restaurants. And there were a lot of Mexicans working there. A lot of people died, even though they said only a few. That’s why, most people who work in the restaurants now, in deliveries, the same thing is happening right now.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, for more on this story, we are still with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Adriana Gallardo, engagement reporter at ProPublica, who worked on this story. She wrote this story with Ariel Goodman. In the interests of transparency, Ariel is my niece.

Adriana, can you talk about the essential and underprotected New Yorkers that you met, that you profile? Start with Adan, who we just heard.

ADRIANA GALLARDO: Yes. Adan is a perfect example of some of the workers that we met in this piece. They’ve been in the city for decades. They belong to the low-wage service industry. And in Adan’s case, I was surprised when he had this flashback, in the middle of our conversation, to 9/11. And he was, as you heard, so certain that many of the people who are powering these buildings and delivering all types of service, it’s something — will also be forgotten in the shake of things and in the ways that undocumented deaths are happening in the city.

And him, you know, through Adan, he was sort of my Sherpa through this piece. We would talk every few days, and every few days he would have an update of people he knew who were dying, who were sick. And he himself and his wife and son had both — had, all three of them, been ill with COVID and beat it at home. And so, many folks like Adan, who are both trying to save themselves and then help others, like his brothers, who were convinced they wouldn’t get care if they went to seek it.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Adriana, in listening to their stories, what were some of the biggest concerns that you have in terms of the undocumented community as it continues to face this pandemic without any kind of the kinds of governmental support, emergency payments from the federal government, extra unemployment insurance, all the other support that Congress and the president have been giving to the general population?

ADRIANA GALLARDO: Yes. You know, many of them felt failed multiple times by not just local government, in things such as requesting burial assistance, which wasn’t available to folks without a Social Security number until middle of last week. You know, they were disappointed by their own embassies and their own consulates, that were very slow to react to the hundreds of deaths that were piling up very quickly.

And they were left with some of the most difficult decisions, which were to either continue working and risk their entire — the health of their entire families or themselves, or sit at home and sort of wait for this to pass, while not having any sort of income, any sort of relief. And people like Adan, who said, you know, his landlord kept coming, knocking on the door, looking for rent, and him being unable to come up with next month’s rent. And these are very proud folks, who talked about how much they loved what they did and how proud they were to never miss a rent payment until things like this happened. And so, I think, for them, it was a case of ultimate disappointment and ultimate isolation in a city that’s already very difficult to navigate.

AMY GOODMAN: There’s a meme that’s going around: “Instead of paying rent, we should just clap for landlords instead. If it’s good enough for nurses, landlords should have no issue getting by on it.” I wanted to turn to Berenice. She suffers from kidney problems. Her son struggles with asthma. She’s been home for weeks, along with her husband Luis, who, before the pandemic, worked at a cab company.

BERENICE: [translated] Yes, we need money, but there is also our health. If we contract the virus it is serious.

AMY GOODMAN: And this is Sonia. She became ill with COVID-19 symptoms almost three weeks ago and was afraid to go to the hospital.

SONIA: [translated] I’m afraid to go to the hospital, because I have diabetes. I have high cholesterol, high blood pressure. And hearing the news, I’m afraid. I did not want to go to the doctor, to tell you the truth. I preferred to isolate myself here at home. I only bought home remedies and [drank] a lot of hot tea. The situation itself has been very sad for me, because I am here in my community, helping in whatever way I can. But I also know a lot of people, and I have seen that many of them have already died, many people I know, and it is very sad to know that they arrive with symptoms at the hospital and they don’t leave there alive. That was my fear. That’s why I didn’t want to go.

AMY GOODMAN: Sonia and Berenice are just two of the people you profiled, Adriana, in this very powerful piece, “Los New Yorkers,” as they talk about the number of people who have died. You pushed hard in this piece to find out about burial benefits. And can you talk about what came of that? There has just been a change, I mean, The Wall Street Journal reporting — sadly, they use the term “illegal immigrants,” The Wall Street Journal, they still use that term. But they talked about the burial benefits going up for New Yorkers, from $900 to $1,700, including undocumented.

ADRIANA GALLARDO: Yes. When we started writing this piece — and there’s two deaths that we document in the piece, and one of them was an undocumented kitchen worker who worked in Times Square. And his family was fundraising, like many other families, to cover the burial cost and the cost of cremation, and, you know, in a pattern that just seemed — you know, it was a sudden illness, maybe brief hospitalization. Many of these folks were in the trailers, the freezer trailers that line the streets of New York, and then an incinerator. And for them, you know, navigating all of that process is incredibly challenging, and then, of course, all of the cost implications.

And just last week, May 5th, the city of New York changed regulations. And now — before this, the person requesting burial assistance and the person who died both had to list a Social Security number on the application. That has since evaporated, and now all New Yorkers qualify for burial assistance. So that’s where we’re at.

I did want to mention that, about Berenice and Sonia, I met both of them through an organization here in New York that works with Indigenous Mexicans, which make up a majority of the Mexican community in the city. La Red de Pueblos Trasnacionales is who supports many of them. And so, we’re also talking about folks who are at even smaller — you know, break into even smaller communities of vulnerabilities for them. They come from very remote places in Mexico and in other countries in Central America, and they’re facing unsurmountable challenges now in caring for their dead.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Adriana Gallardo, could you talk about the whole situation? There’s been an estimated 400 Mexican migrants who are known to have died of COVID-19 in the New York area. But for health reasons, the government of Mexico will only accept their bodies if they are cremated. Can you share any updates on this? What does this do in terms of the cultural traditions for some, for many Mexicans? And is there any change seen in terms of the Mexican government’s position on the bodies being able to be returned back for burial in their homeland?

ADRIANA GALLARDO: I believe there has been no change in that policy. And what this means is a tremendous disruption to tradition. Many of these folks both who celebrate Indigenous cultures and who practice Catholicism, really, you know, their tradition is to bury the body, return it to the earth, have ceremonial rituals of that kind. And the cremation has really altered that notion of death and who keeps the ashes.

For one of the families, the ashes are sitting at the funeral home until they’re able to send them back. You know, there’s tons of flight restrictions. There’s lots of other barriers to getting the bodies or the ashes back to their families. And that’s been a tremendous obstacle for many of these families, such as the brothers that we profiled. They did everything together. They came to this country together. And now one brother is sitting in Queens figuring out how to send the ashes of the other to their mother in Mexico. So it’s been tremendously difficult, in ways that I think are hard for us to imagine.

AMY GOODMAN: Mayor de Blasio said, in the last few weeks, that when you had, for example, 300 people dying a day, or 600 people, another 300, 200 to 300, were dying a day who were not being counted. They were dying at home. So many of those people are immigrants, afraid to go to the hospital. Is that what you found, Adriana?

ADRIANA GALLARDO: Absolutely. I mean, we heard things like families arguing amongst themselves, in where someone in the family would say, “If we go to the hospital, we’ll be the last seen. If we die there, if we die — we’ll be the first to die. We’ll be sectioned off according to social” — I mean, part myth, part fear, part distrust in health systems. I mean, we’re trying to undo a notion that’s been long — healthcare is a privilege in most places, and undocumented workers aren’t the first to be receiving access to healthcare. So, even as they were hearing very encouraging messages from the governor and they were keeping up with the news, they didn’t feel comfortable stepping into clinics. We also heard from many who lived within walking distance of hospitals, and they were watching the chaos unfold outside their door, and became even more afraid of coming in at the peak of the crisis. And so, yes, we heard time and time again that they were just too afraid to go. And by the time they went, it was too late. And that was no accident. And yes, many people, I think, more than we know, died at home. That’s for sure.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Adriana Gallardo, we only have a couple of minutes, but I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what drives you to cover these stories, some of your own experiences that have shaped your perspective of what the role of a journalist is in society.

ADRIANA GALLARDO: Yes. Yeah, a lot of this work is absolutely personal, not just because the two cities that we just discussed are places that I care lots about. And, you know, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, lived in Chicago for many, many years. You know, I’m a Mexican woman. I came as an immigrant at 5 years old, worked in a janitorial family. And really, I think I see a lot of my family, and a lot of the people that we talk to for our stories are people that I can relate to.

And I’m lucky to work in a team that really values the perspectives of the working and the perspectives of journalists who maybe aren’t from the traditional backgrounds that we see in newsrooms. And yeah, so a lot of this work are things that I care to understand on deeper levels and be able to really, like we said at the top of our segment, really value who gets remembered and how, and why — what can we do as journalists to really do a bit more to give these folks a nod for everything that they do.

AMY GOODMAN: Adriana, we want to thank you so much for being with us. We want to ask you to stay with us for quick post-show to talk about your gorgeous piece, “The Lucky Ones,” about your own life, and also about the Alaska story, for which you just won, with a team of people, the Pulitzer Prize. Adriana Gallardo, engagement reporter at ProPublica, part of a collaboration with the Anchorage Daily News that just won the prize. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Thanks so much for joining us.

StoryMay 12, 2020

Comment Thank religious bigotry and the global economy. It is a pity more attention is not paid to why certain groups are vulnerable to the virus, ths helping its spread. there are issues our PC politicians and media folk do not want to discuss or reveal. Robert Cook

‘They can effectively blame Covid for everything’: What coronavirus means for Brexit talks

As discussions over an EU-UK trade deal resume, negotiators are being forced to adapt to new political realities and practicalities, Jon Stone finds

***U.S Armed protestors out in force over Lockdown***. Britain set for lockdown extensions and raised fines as furlough scheme extended to select worksrs until October. Millions more Brits will suffer the cosnequences, with protests likely in Police State Britain.

True motives and the reason there are vulnerable groupos making up the infectional and fatality figures are still largely ignored because this is really about elite adjustments to the ineveitable and long predicted crisis in the global economic system which has put massive wealth in very few hands. – which has also fired massive overpopulation with consequent disease spread and climate change. Robert Cook

When EU and UK trade negotiators first met in Brussels on a rainy day in early March, the impact of coronavirus was largely limited to extra bottles of hand sanitiser on desks in the conference centre. But two months on, the pandemic has changed the political assumptions underpinning the next seven months of Brexit negotiations – if not the parties’ public positions.

This week, negotiations are back again, with around 200 officials logging on to videoconference with each other about the finer points of EU-UK trade. But despite the limited time available to conclude a deal, it took weeks to agree to go ahead with remote talks – with two planned “rounds” cancelled in the meantime.

There has been some dispute about what the hold-up on starting videoconferencing was. Some reports had suggested that the European Commission side was more sceptical that going online could replace in-the-room negotiations. But one EU official insists that “it was the exact opposite”.

“Actually it was the UK, they were not so sure about the process of doing so and the security of it,” they tell The Independent. The dispute over how things went down will be familiar to anyone who has been following Brexit talks since the beginning.

Whoever held things up, both sides eventually settled on using WebEx, an enterprise-grade videoconferencing suite produced by software company Cisco with more robust security than commercial-grade apps like Zoom and Skype.

One UK source close to the talks says videoconferencing has turned out to be “basically OK” and even suggested it had been “more efficient” in some respects.

“When you’re doing a real round [in person] you have to keep large numbers of people hanging around for their bit of the discussions,” they said, noting that this wasn’t true online. Both sides are also keen to stress that they made use of the time that would have been taken up with the cancelled negotiations by exchanging legal texts, which helped to clarify each others’ views.

But even those positive about video-conferencing admit it is “difficult to replicate the atmospherics” of face-to-face negotiations. In international negotiations of all kinds what is often called “corridor diplomacy” plays a big role: outside structured talks there is more room for flexibility and possibly candour. That hasn’t materialised.

“You either have it or you don’t,” one Brussels official says. “You can try and replicate it, sure, but it’s not the same and it can’t be the same until we can go back to negotiating face to face.

“You need to be in a room with people to negotiate and don’t forget, it’s not just both sides behind a screen but everyone is individually behind a screen in their own homes, so it’s even difficult for each side to talk to each other.”

“We’re all doing it,” says Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow and trade expert at the Centre for European Reform. “We all know what the limitations are when it comes to teleconferencing. You lose all of the informal interaction. Just by personalities interacting you get a much better grasp of the person you’re talking to.

“And you can have chats about normal things as well and it just builds up a better working relationship: the problem with formal videoconferences is there’s no time for just talking about ‘how are the kids’? Those sorts of conversations actually create a better atmosphere.”

If Boris Johnson decides it’s in his political interests to extend the transition I have no doubt that he could sell it

Sam Lowe, senior fellow, Centre for European Reform

Perhaps post-work Zoom drinks could break the deadlock? “We haven’t planned anything like that – yet,” the UK source says.

Slightly frostier negotiations at a technical level may not end up being the biggest problem that coronavirus has caused, however. The policy sticking points between the two sides are well known and acknowledged by both teams: on fishing, the level playing field for regulations, a role for the European Court of Justice, adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights, and governance of the deal.

All of these are big political issues: negotiators sitting down and going through the minutia can only make so much progress – whether they are friends or not. Observers of the talks say political calls have to be made, and they have to be made by politicians.

This is a more significant effect of the pandemic. The British government does not have the political bandwidth to make calls on Brexit at the moment: the focus in Westminster, as in all national capitals, is resolutely on dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak. It’s just that most other national capitals haven’t decided to totally reorder their relationship with their neighbours at precisely the same time as the pandemic, or staked their political reputation on sticking to a rigid timetable.

“The top of government just isn’t focused on the talks right now – rightly so – they’re dealing with the pandemic and the fallout; Boris Johnson’s been unwell,” says Lowe.

“So we have this issue with the negotiations where all the actual decisions that need to be taken in order to conclude the free trade agreement on issues such as state aid, level playing field, role of the court of justice – are big, political, meaty issues. They’re not technical issues.

“They’re not somewhere where David Frost and his negotiators can just find some clever tweaks and you’ve done it, these are big political decisions that require a change of course from the UK.

“We’re not in a place where we’re even thinking about that. In order to get to a point where you can make those compromises you have to go through a lot of political theatre, I think, and at the moment everyone’s focused on Covid-19. Which is fine.”

Boris Johnson has been sick and out of action during the pandemic (PA)

For the country to even have the political headspace to debate these questions, the political situation in the UK would have to return to something like last year, with Brexit dominating the airwaves. As it is, the UK government has been candid that it has redeployed 47 officials from Brexit duties to fighting fires elsewhere in government because of the pandemic.

With this in mind, it’s notable that both sides agree coronavirus hasn’t really changed anyone’s mind about anything – at least officially. Instead of blowing a wind of disruption through the parties’ positions, they’ve effectively been put in the deep freeze, to be acted out by negotiators going through the motions while the politicians deal with something else.

“The approaches are more or less the same,” says one EU official. “I wouldn’t think they’ve changed radically because of coronavirus, no.”

A UK government source close to talks agrees: “I don’t think the crisis makes any difference to it, to be honest. I do sense that Barnier himself would like to get a deal and I sensed that before the crisis started.”

But British officials are aware that big political calls need to be made, and that the prime minister and his cabinet will have to get their hands dirty eventually.

“He will at some point need to get involved,” the UK government source says. “I don’t think we’re at that point yet. He needs to get involved when we are settling or dealing with the most sensitive political aspects of this negotiation.”

The source speculates that the prime minister might rear his head on Brexit in the run-up to the “stock take” scheduled for mid-June, where the decision on an extension on the transition period will need to be made and Boris Johnson will sit down with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen – probably by video conference.

“In the run-up to that he would, I imagine, want to be involved in shaping the context for that,” the UK source adds, describing it as a political “waypoint”.

The question of an extension is a vexed one. Under the agreement signed by Boris Johnson, the transition period can be extended by up to two years, but the extension must be agreed in June, to give businesses on both sides of the channel time to prepare for the actual cliff edge in December.

Boris Johnson has point-blank refused to consider a further delay, despite writing the ability to extend in his agreement. While the extension clause was originally agreed by Theresa May, the EU insists the new prime minister’s team went through things “line-by-line” and kept it in there. The government’s position is thus raising a few eyebrows across the continent.

How coronavirus affects the question of an extension is politically complicated. A simple reading is that a pandemic is exactly the kind of reasonable excuse for a delay a pragmatic government, seeing talks stuck, might be searching for. Poll after poll has shown the public firmly supportive of and totally understanding of an extension, given the pandemic situation: the latest survey from pollster Focaldata has 66 per cent of voters supporting a delay, including 48 per cent of Conservative voters and 45 per cent of Brexit Party supporters.

“The only question that matters now is what does Boris Johnson want to do – because if Boris Johnson decides it’s in his political interests to extend the transition I have no doubt that he could sell it,” says trade expert Sam Lowe.

“If he were to go on television and say ‘Look, I know I said we were going to have all this done and dusted by the end of the year, but the pandemic has eaten up a lot of time and we’re just going to need a little longer, I’m sure you all understand’, 90 per cent of the population would say, ‘Yeah, fair enough’.

“You’d have a few outliers who would grumble, but they’d be the same old people – he hasn’t got a general election to worry about for years. Of course he could change his mind on this and I actually think he has a very valid reason for doing so. So it’s still possible, however we will see.”

Indeed, a cynic might point out that the UK government has at every opportunity in the past four years denied it would ever extend anything to do with Brexit, and then equally always extended at the last minute.

If we’re going to have any chance of persuading them to take more time then we need to be careful about how we do that because demanding it from them … almost as a concession to the EU, is certainly not the way to do it

Simon Coveney, deputy prime minister of Ireland

But each of those times, the UK’s strategy was always to have someone else bounce them into a delay: usually parliament. With a huge parliamentary majority and the coronavirus crisis drowning out the required political mood music, it’s hard to see how the government could seem to be forced into an extension this time. Even Labour’s Keir Starmer on Monday refused to do the honours, saying he was not calling for a delay and would rather “the negotiations were completed as quickly as possible”.

This situation has led to another, very different theory about how Covid-19 might affect the politics of an extension.

“I think that the United Kingdom politicians and government have certainly decided that Covid is going to be blamed for all the fallout from Brexit and my perception of it is they don’t want to drag the negotiations out into 2021 because they can effectively blame Covid for everything,” the EU’s trade commissioner Phil Hogan theorised in public last week.

Under this account, which is circulating as much in Westminster as it is in Brussels, no-deal won’t be such a big deal, because the UK economy is already in the intensive care ward thanks to the coronavirus lockdown. What’s a few per cent of GDP between friends? But this line of thinking, Sam Lowe says, would be a mistake for political as well as economic reasons.

“The question for the British government becomes ‘do we really want another hit again so close to the Covid shock?’ and my argument would be ‘why do we want to do that?’,” he says.

“The argument is maybe the Covid-19 economic shock will mask any negative impact of Brexit, and potentially, but actually the shocks that come from Brexit are different to those that come from Covid-19 so I think it would be very silly. But then I’m not in charge.

“What Brexit does it it creates new barriers and friction on the food supply chains and that will be on top, additional to existing problems. Ignore GDP figures and like, but the day one impact of new entry and exist procedures being put in place at ports of entry and exit of the country will lead to some television moments – as in you will have the live footage of trucks backed up from Dover. That in itself is distinct from Covid-19.”

The EU, for its part, has said it is happy to facilitate an extension – but is aware of the political situation in the UK. Ireland’s deputy prime minister Simon Coveney spelt out the EU’s conundrum on Friday.

“I wouldn’t be raising expectations around the British government agreeing to seeking more time. If we’re going to have any chance of persuading them to take more time then we need to be careful about how we do that because demanding it from them … almost as a concession to the EU, is certainly not the way to do it,” he said.

How might that work in practice? Away from the cameras the EU has a cautious strategy to help the UK government move towards an extension if it chooses.

“I think the point that we’ve been making is you don’t have to request an extension, you just have to have the agreement of both sides,” one EU official close to negotiations tells The Independent. “It sounds silly, but nobody has to request one, we just have to agree jointly and it doesn’t have to be anybody’s fault… I know it’s a nuance.”

A long shot? Perhaps, but one which provides the narrowest of openings and gives Johnson some more room for political manoeuvre. Alternatively, the British government could simply let the deadline pass now, and hope that it can bend the rules in December if an extension is really needed then. There are two schools of thought on this: an optimistic one that says a way will be found if it is needed, and a sceptical one that notes that inflexible treaties have caused bigger problems in the past than tariff barriers and quotas.

But one UK source close to negotiations thinks Covid-19 actually makes an extension even more unpalatable, and insists that they’re serious about not wanting to delay. The looming pandemic rescue package being cooked up in the EU, they argue, could herald a fundamental shift in EU policy that Britain never signed up for.

“They’ll be designing all sorts of new laws for the 27 – we don’t know what they’re going to be, what they’re going to cost, or whether they’re going to suit our conditions,” the UK government source said. “It does not seem sensible for us to be bound into an unpredictable situation.” The situation is, of course, already highly unpredictable.

“I’m not in the camp of people – and I should say other people who follow trade negotiations disagree on this – who think trade negotiations need to take a long time. I don’t think there is really any technical reason why they have to take seven years, for example,” says trade expert Lowe.

“Could the trade agreement be done this year, even with the time wasted? Of course it could be, it just requires political decisions to be made and it to be decided in the UK in particular that they’re going to upset a few constituencies. Then it could be done.

“Is there still time to do it this year? Yeah, of course there is, I just think it’s massively irresponsible to do it this year because you’re asking businesses to adapt to a big change – whether there’s an agreement or not – right after they’ve had to deal with the fallout of a global pandemic and a recession.”

The Unraveling of the Deep State’s Coup Against President Trump | Opinion

Jody Hice , Republican Congressman, Georgia
On 5/11/20 at 11:28 AM EDT

For the first time in three long years, the Deep State cabal against President Donald Trump has begun to face a reckoning. Over the last several days, a series of new revelations have confirmed our worst suspicions that a group of career bureaucrats and Obama administration officials brazenly conspired to undermine the president of the United States.

Many of us have been wise to the underhanded campaign against President Trump for years, all while the media continued to mock, ignore, attack and twist this truth to discredit us and the president.

No longer.

Last Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee finally released thousands of pages of declassified transcripts showing that not a single FBI or intelligence official could offer a shred of evidence that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government. James Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence and one of the principal architects of the Russia collusion narrative, said behind closed doors in 2017, “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.” Yet, simultaneously, and even years later, Clapper consistently appears on CNN to falsely claim that President Trump was working with the Russians. This is just one major example of members of the Deep State cabal saying one thing behind closed doors while making wild contrary claims in public against the president.

Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice released the long-awaited “scope memo” that gave Robert Mueller his marching orders on how to proceed with the special counsel investigation. In August 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instructed Mueller to investigate four members of the Trump campaign: Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos.

The fact of the matter is that the basis for investigating these individuals only stems from the infamous Steele Dossier.

Here’s the thing. By August 2017, Rosenstein and the other senior officials knew that the Steele Dossier was completely discredited and unreliable—and they had known it for some time. The dossier is salacious political opposition research, bought and paid for by the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. It is not a serious intelligence document. Mueller’s marching orders were built on a bogus foundation. There was no legitimate justification to investigate these men, much less the president of the United States.

Last week, a number of documents in the Michael Flynn case were unsealed and gave America a first-hand glimpse into just how people close to President Trump came to be targeted. Thanks to these new documents, we know that FBI agents sought to set up Flynn.

In their own notes, the agents openly question whether their objective was “to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired” or to get Flynn “to admit to breaking the Logan Act” by speaking to the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition. The Logan Act is an obscure law that has never been used in a successful criminal prosecution in the history of the nation.

This January 2017 interview—ordered by former FBI Director James Comey—was intentionally conducted in the initial days of the Trump administration to take advantage of the predictable chaos of any new White House. There was no basis for the interview to even take place as, just days previously, the FBI Washington Field Office found “no derogatory information” on Flynn and decided to close the investigation—only to be overruled by FBI leadership. The ensuing criminal prosecution over statements made during the interview ruined Flynn—a war hero serving the president of the United States. He was forced to sell his home to pay legal bills, his reputation was destroyed and he was ultimately bullied into pleading guilty after his son was threatened with prosecution unless he refused to capitulate.

These new revelations are so explosive that the Justice Department has dropped all charges against Flynn.

In each of these three cases, we have long suspected what we now know. These “new” documents have existed for years but are only now being revealed to the public. We must ask, who held these documents back and why are we only now allowed to see the truth? As we continue to unravel the Deep State’s campaign against President Trump, it’s time to hold accountable those who have helped to cover it up.

Congressman Jody Hice represents Georgia’s 10th District. He serves as ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security, and as Communication Chair for the House Freedom Caucus.

The shark family extends from the small sturgeon to the big white.

Nicola Sturgeon has hit out at new ‘stay alert’ messaging by the UK Government and does not want it deployed in Scotland.
The First Minister said that advice north of the border remains to “stay at home” other than for buying food, getting medicine or exercising.

Nicola Sturgeon humiliated: How SNP leader was dubbed ‘world’s most dangerous woman’

NICOLA STURGEON was branded the “world’s most dangerous woman” in a furious column by Piers Morgan, in which he railed against her policy on “breaking up the UK”.

By Charlie Bradley PUBLISHED: 12:38, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 | UPDATED: 14:54, Thu, Apr 30, 2020

She also said that she does not expect schools in Scotland to be reopened on June 1 and confirmed that a 14-day quarantine will be enforced for those who fly in to the UK.
Boris Johnson is expected to say similar in his speech to the nation this evening.

Off the Rails Off their heads – Britain today making the most of Corona at other poor peoples’ expense. May 10th 2020

***it’s a train crash Appledene Photographics/Archive***

Transport for London (TfL) is seeking a £2bn bailout from the government after its finances have been plunged into dire territory by the coronavirus crisis.
TfL bosses, including London mayor Sadiq Khan, are in talks with Whitehall to secure the emergency funding after the crisis has left the body with just £1bn in the bank, according to the Sunday Times.
The transport body is reportedly spends £21m per day, leaving it just two months until its coffers run dry.

The state of TfL’s finances may put planned upgrades, such as the long-touted Bakerloo line extension, in doubt.
TfL’s other planned projects – signalling upgrades, Crossrail 2 and DLR extensions – may also be under threat.
London’s public transport system has been battered by the coronavirus outbreak, with Tube numbers down 95 per cent and bus numbers down 85 per cent.
A TfL spokesperson said: “We are working closely with the government and are in constructive discussions over the support that can be made available.
“A successful conclusion to these discussions is now urgent.”

It comes as TfL were already loaded with an estimated £11bn of debt and a projected 2019-20 deficit of around £220m, which was a vast improvement on initial estimates.
TfL’s finances have been affected by the government reducing its annual contribution to the body by £700m, Crossrail’s budget blowouts and Khan’s fares freeze for single journeys implemented in 2016.
Writing in City A.M. on Wednesday, Khan said there would not be “a swift return to how [TfL] was before the crisis”.
“It’s an inescapable fact that no mass transport system of the scale we have in London can operate at full capacity while maintaining social distancing at all times,” he said.

t comes as TfL were already loaded with an estimated £11bn of debt and a projected 2019-20 deficit of around £220m, which was a vast improvement on initial estimates.
TfL’s finances have been affected by the government reducing its annual contribution to the body by £700m, Crossrail’s budget blowouts and Khan’s fares freeze for single journeys implemented in 2016.
Writing in City A.M. on Wednesday, Khan said there would not be “a swift return to how [TfL] was before the crisis”.
“It’s an inescapable fact that no mass transport system of the scale we have in London can operate at full capacity while maintaining social distancing at all times,” he said.

It’s time to ask more questions about how we ended up here – and where we go now May 8th 2020

It’s unfair to blame Professor Neil Ferguson. He never asked for such power over our lives: he was asked for his opinion and gave it. His charts showed that school closures, social distancing, washing hands: nothing would do enough to impact the spread of the virus. Only a full lockdown, ran his argument, would crush the Covid growth rate – and it would do so almost overnight. Why was the professor so sure? There was no real time to ask, or explain. Advisers advise, ministers decide and the Prime Minister decided to take the advice of this particular adviser.

But now, it’s perhaps time to ask more questions about how we ended up here. At the time, Prof Ferguson was using models – or educated guesswork. Now we have all too much data, with the heaviest death toll in Europe. Enough to ask: what has lockdown achieved? Which parts worked, and which did not?

Forty firefighters are tackling a blaze at a 20-storey tower block in west London.

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) were called to the incident in a part of a flat on the 17th floor of Bourne Terrace in Maida Vale just before 10:00am.

Witnesses have said the building, which is located near Grenfell Tower, is currently undergoing works to have cladding replaced.

A LFB spokesperson said: “The Brigade’s 999 Control Officers have taken 51 calls to the fire.

“The Brigade was called at 0955. Fire crews from Paddington, North Kensington, Kensington, Euston and West Hampstead fire stations are at the scene.

“The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.”

Government has ‘terrorised’ Britons into believing coronavirus will kill them, says adviser

Prof Dingwall said the mandatory social distancing level was set at two metres because Britons had not been trusted to observe one metre

By Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent 7 May 2020 • 9:30pm

Professor Robert Dingwall said the Government should let people come within 1.5 metres of each other

The Government’s coronavirus warnings have “effectively terrorised” Britons “into believing that this is a disease that is going to kill you” even though most those infected will not be hospitalised, one of its advisers has warned.

Professor Robert Dingwall also told today’s Chopper’s Politics podcast, which you can listen to on the player below, that the Government should let people come within 1.5 metres of each other inside and outside as part of measures to ease lockdown.

The public authorities faced a real challenge in managing the British people out of the levels of fear and anxiety that the authorities themselves have helped to create through their “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” messaging.

Prof Dingwall is based at Nottingham Trent University and sits on the Government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), which feeds into its Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).

Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: “We have this very strong message which has effectively terrorised the population into believing that this is a disease that is going to kill you. And mostly it isn’t.

“Eighty per cent of the people who get this infection will never need to go near a hospital. The ones who do go to hospital because they are quite seriously ill most of them will come out alive – even those who go into intensive care.

“We have completely lost sight of that in the obsession with deaths, the human interest stories about deaths, the international comparisons about death rates, the opportunities for intrepid television journalists to put on lots of PPE and go into high tech where people are acutely ill.

“All of that helps to create this climate of fear and I am not surprised in a sense that the Government might take a rather cautious approach to try to unlock the lockdown – simply because they would really be nervous that if they pushed it too quickly it would like giving a party and nobody came.”

Prof Dingwall said the mandatory social distancing level was set at two metres because Britons had not been trusted to observe one metre – and it could be cut to 1.5 metres.

The academic told Chopper’s Politics podcast: “There is a fair degree of consensus now among people who are more expert on these things than I am that outdoor transmission is negligible…

“Personally I think we could quite safely go to 1.5 metres which seems to be an internationally acceptable standard, inside and outside.”

Prof Dingwall said he had been told by a senior public health specialist that “we knew it was one metre but we doubled it to two because we did not think the British population would understand what one metre was and we could not trust them to observe it so we doubled it to be on the safe side”.

He said: “If you think of it as a circle around a person that you are trying to protect, if it is 2 metres, that circle is 12 square metres, 1.5 metres that circle is roughly 7 sq m, if you come down to 1 metre it is three and a bit sq m.

“You can immediately see what difference that makes to any shop, any leisure or retail place. As you reduce the distance the area that is sterilised shrinks quite dramatically.”

He added: “Fleeting contacts are really irrelevant – if a jogger runs past you in the park, this is not a big deal.

“If you are standing next to somebody in the supermarket and you both take a jar of instant coffee off the same shelf, and you reach up and your hands touch, you put it in your trolley and you turn away and go on your separate paths. That again is not something to get unduly worked up about.”

Other guests on today’s Chopper’s Politics podcast are Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs and Martin Salter, the former Labour MP and now head of policy at the Angling Trust.

Subscribe to The Telegraph’s weekly political podcast, Chopper’s Politics, for free here.

The coronavirus lockdown has been formally extended as ministers finalise plans for a “modest and incremental” easing of a small number of measures next week.

Today is the deadline by which ministers must legally review the lockdown, which comes around every three weeks, but Downing Street confirmed that no changes have been made and that the measures have effectively been “rolled over”.

During a virtual meeting of the Cabinet this morning, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told ministers that, when considering any easing of restrictions, the Government would not do anything that “risks a second peak”.

Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, used Thursday’s daily Downing Street press conference to tell the public that the current measures will remain in place, with more detail expected to be set out by Mr Johnson on Sunday.

EU agreed to Chinese censorship over coronavirus origins

It is the second time in two weeks that the EU has faced accusations that Brussels has bowed to Beijing

By James Crisp, Brussels Correspondent 7 May 2020 • 7:18pm

A resident in mask and suit in April in Wuhan in China, where the coronavirus originated. Credit: Ng Han Guan /AP

The European Union agreed to Chinese censorship of a public letter by its ambassadors that removed any mention of the fact the coronavirus pandemic originated in China, it has emerged.

The EU’s foreign affairs service agreed to cut out a reference to the “outbreak of the coronavirus in China” as a reason for a cancelled EU-China summit in the letter, which was published in the state-run China Daily newspaper.

The European External Action Service (EEAS) excised the reference after coming under pressure from China’s foreign ministry.

Two weeks ago, the EEAS was forced to deny it had bowed to Beijing by watering down language in a report accusing China of a campaign of disinformation about the virus. It was revealed EU officials softened some of the language condemning China after repeated calls by Chinese officials….

Coronavirus latest news: Plan to review lockdown every two weeks

Tony Diver, LIVEBLOGGING
Yolanthe Fawehinmi, UPDATES

8 May 2020 • 2:32pm

Boris Johnson could lift parts of the lockdown every two weeks under plans being discussed by ministers, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

The Cabinet will meet on Sunday to agree a “roadmap” for lifting the lockdown which will be revealed by the Prime Minister in a televised address to the nation later that evening.

He will also set out a rough timetable for when key measures will be lifted, such as schools and shops reopening, but will describe tough “milestones” that must be reached before he can give them the green light.

It means it is likely to be several months before the lockdown is lifted in full, with bars, restaurants and indoor events among the last things on the list.

Revealed: Boris Johnson’s roadmap to ease lockdown and reopen schools and shops

Gradual lifting of restrictions is expected, provided reproduction of Covid-19 remains low enough to avoid second peak

By Camilla Tominey, Associate Editor 8 May 2020 • 12:45pm

As Boris Johnson prepares to lay out his step-by-step strategy for phase two of the shutdown at 7pm on Sunday, all indications point to a gradual easing of the restrictions, rather than a wholesale lifting of the lockdown.

On Wednesday, the Prime Minister confirmed that he hoped to “get going on some of these measures on Monday”.

The Government’s next actions will be based on predictions supplied by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), on how much the rate of infection or ‘reproduction’ (R) value may increase under different scenarios. The R value was thought to be 0.7 and must remain consistently below one to avoid a second peak.

On Thursday, the Government admitted that the reproductive ‘R’ rate of coronavirus is now running at one in parts of the country due to cases in care homes….

Here are the big developments from today:

It was revealed how an email from a Turkish T-shirt salesman led to a PPE fiasco with thousands of medical gowns found to be ‘useless’
Sir Keir Starmer says we owe it to the VE Day generation to protect them from the virus in care homes
Cabinet ministers have reiterated that lockdown cannot be lifted overnight and measures brought in may take weeks to implement
The Government’s coronavirus warnings have “effectively terrorised” Britons “into believing that this is a disease that is going to kill you”, one of its advisers has warned
The coronavirus lockdown has been formally extended as ministers finalise plans for a “modest and incremental” easing of a small number of measures next week
Cleaners and nannies can return to work in people’s homes as long as they are not displaying symptoms of and everyone in the house is also well, new Government guidelines state.

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Leganes coach says La Liga will resume on June 20

Leganes’ Mexican coach Javier Aguirre says Spain’s La Liga will go ahead on June 20, 2020 Credit: AFP

Leganes coach Javier Aguirre said Spain’s La Liga will resume on June 20 and end on July 26, 2020 despite league bosses refusing to confirm his claim.

Aguirre told Marca Claro that he had been told officially of the plan to restart the championship which has been in cold storage since March due to the coronavirus.

League officials have not yet commented on Aguirre’s claim, merely saying that their focus at the moment was completing the training phases at the clubs.

La Liga is proposing to complete its season behind closed doors.

League president Javier Tebas has said “it is not an option” to cancel the season given the economic fallout, estimating it would cost clubs around a billion euros.

Harry and Meghan Saga May 8th 2020

***The British Class Divide has never been so wide, in the words of the old patriotic song ‘Wider still and wider shall they bonds be set.’*** ***Social Distancing and Social Bubbles are the latest con from the ruling elite, meanwhile Britain continues its part in exporting bombs and ignorance, while importing poverty.*** ***It’s all about the “money, money money.”***

Harry and Meghan have released videos of their son Archie to mark his first birthday. Archie, who turns one today, is seen in the video with Meghan Markle as she reads the story ‘Duck Rabbit’ to him. Prince Harry filmed the footage and can be heard laughing behind the camera. Archie has rarely been seen in public and in the video he smiles and grips the pages of the story, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld, which playfully asks whether an ambiguous image is a duck or a rabbit. The video was posted on Save the Children UK’s Instagram page in support of the charity’s Save with Stories campaign, which aims to raise funds for children and families struggling due to the coronavirus crisis in the UK and around the world.

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I wonder what it is like to have the mind set of a saint. What sets these attention seeking faded ‘Royals’ apart from the definition that they are narcisists ?

Both of them have a history of complaining about the wrong sort of publicity, which is why Meghan has been in court over publication of her nasty letters to her father. They seem to have some outdated concept of divine right.

What do either of them have to contribute to solving global issues which are the outcome of centuries of elite greed – black and white – encouragement of ignorance base instinct and stupidity in the old Third World ?

Vidoes of this privileged pair’s child beamed across the country and wider world to help suffering children will make no difference. In countries like Britain, feminism, economic and social collapse have caused serious issues for young people, including mental health. Words and images won’t help there.

In Africa and the Middle East, they should be encouarged to stop reproducing for God – who doesn’t seem to favour them on planet Earth – and become a lot more responsible. That won’t happen so long as airheads like these supercilious self serving faded Royals make excuses, turning out more platitudes.

***Meghan loves the right sort of publicity***

***Poor little rich kids. Homelees people were moved on so as not to blot the Windsor landscape for their lavish Royal Wedding.***

***You go Girl – the further the beter***

***And they so care for the poor and equal rights !***

***Poor Meghan and the horrible white racists , the story continues***

***What a sad and pathetic country Britain is.***

Robert Cook

Why Is COVID-19 Coronavirus Causing Strokes In Young And Middle-Aged People? May 7th 2020

Robert Glatter, MDContributorHealthcareI cover breaking news in medicine, med tech and public health

Man with brain stroke symptoms — Medical illustration of a brain with stroke symptoms Getty

We know that COVID-19 coronavirus attacks the lungs resulting in severe inflammation as they fill with fluid, ultimately reducing their ability to fulfill their intended purpose: transferring oxygen from the lungs to the blood stream via red blood cells.

We are also learning more and more about the devastating effects of this virus as it attacks other organs including the kidney, heart and the brain. However, the virus’s ultimate target that may inflict the most damage—via either a direct effect of the virus, hypoxia, (low oxygen), secondary inflammation or disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)—are blood vessels, leading to formation of blood clots, or excessive bleeding (DIC) in some cases, a consequence of consumption of clotting factors.

But the virus does not seem to be attacking just any size blood vessel in young adults, but larger blood vessels that feed important parts the brain that are critical to movement, thinking, and breathing. (These include large blood vessels such as the middle cerebral artery [MCA] or anterior cerebral artery [ACA] that supply large and critical areas the brain). When blockages in larger blood vessels known as “large vessel occlusions” or LVOs as they are referred to develop, the effects can be permanent or life changing, if not diagnosed and treated immediately. Today In: Healthcare

In a letter to be published online April 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Mount Sinai in New York City describe five COVID-19 patients who suffered large vessel strokes over a 2-week period, all under the age of 50, according to reporting by Medscape Medical News. Of the five patients the series, one patient died, one is still hospitalized, one was discharged home, while two are still in rehabilitation. What’s also striking is that the five patients either had mild or no symptoms of COVID-19. The study was led by Dr. Thomas Oxley, from the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System.

Oxley explained that “we’re learning that this can disproportionately affect large vessels more than small vessels in terms of presentation of stroke.” He also offered that inflammation in the walls of the blood vessels may be triggering the process of thrombosis, or formation of blood clots.

This is not the only report of increased risk of clotting seen in young COVID-19 patients. Other recent research out of the Netherlands also noted an elevated rate of thrombotic complications seen in 184 critically ill COVID-19 patients with pneumonia. The 31% rate of thrombotic complications observed in the study included both venous and arterial clots, arguing for the need for prophylaxis in such high risk patients. Their series included patients with pulmonary embolism (PE), deep venous thrombosis (DVT), ischemic stroke, heart attack (myocardial infarction), or systemic arterial embolism.

“It appears that the underlying cause of stroke in young patients with coronavirus are cerebral emboli,” said Andrew Rogove M.D., PhD, Medical Director, Stroke Services at Northwell Health’s Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, New York. “Many of the patients infected with coronavirus are hypercoaguable and this extra propensity for forming blood clots is leading to a higher incidence of strokes in coronavirus patients including younger patients.”

“The strokes that these younger patients are having affect some of the larger blood vessels in the brain and therefore damage a larger territory causing an increased amount of symptoms,” offered Rogove. “Often in these patients we are seeing motor and sensory deficits combined with language difficulties. We are also seeing partial loss of vision and balance issues in these patients.”

Meanwhile, an international group of researchers led by cardiologists from New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University, and the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine recently published guidelines in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology regarding the diagnosis and management of thrombotic complications seen in patients with COVID-19. These guidelines were also endorsed by the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis.

The pathology underlying the increase in cases of clots, strokes as well as bleeding requires in-depth study at the molecular level as we learn more about the exact effects of the virus on the cells lining the walls of blood vessels (endothelium) as well as the clotting cascade. That said, the use of prophylactic anticoagulation using low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) over direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) may be advisable for now, as a result of the much longer half-life (in DOACs) that may increase the risk of bleeding, specifically in cases when interventional procedures may be necessary.

Interestingly, a letter recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine evaluating the first 393 COVID-19 patients seen at two hospitals noted that clotting complications were seen in just over 7% of patients, a number typical for ICU patients in the pre-COVID-19 era. What’s unclear is whether this low figure will be reflective of the remainder of their patient experience related to clotting at their institution as the pandemic continues.

Recently, Broadway star Nick Cordera suffered a thrombotic complication related to COVID-19, requiring the amputation of one of his legs, highlighting the significant clotting risks associated with the virus.

While the risks of clotting related to COVID-19 are now apparent, many patients who experience stroke-like symptoms including weakness, difficulty speaking, dizziness or numbness have been reluctant to seek care in the emergency department—for fear of exposure to the virus itself. Yet this delay to seek care could be disastrous, with life-altering consequences (paralysis, loss ability to think or speak) including death. In Oxley’s series, two of the five patients delayed calling 911 for assistance.

As a result, the message to everyone, especially young adults, is not to delay care in the setting of stroke-like symptoms during the pandemic. The symptoms could very well signal a stroke—regardless of your age.

A clot-busting drug known as tissue plasminogen activator (TPA,) the first line treatment, as well as endovascular or catheter-based approaches (in delayed presentations) could be lifesaving.

Data indicates that removing a blood clot in a vessel via clot retrieval (using endovascular techniques or catheters) is the most effective approach for large vessel strokes. However, this should ideally be performed within 6 hours of onset of symptoms, but up to 24 hours in other cases based on the neurologic exam and degree of symptoms.

As a result, it’s important to call 911 not only for difficulty breathing or chest pain, but also for stroke-like symptoms in the era of COVID-19.

Time is brain is the take-home message. Follow me on Twitter. Check out my website.

Robert Glatter, MD

I am an emergency physician on staff at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where I have practiced for the past 15 years. I also serve as an adviser and editor/

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This is very misleading article. I will be commenting in detail later today. Robert Cook

UK’s coronavirus death toll is met with global disbelief

Thursday May 07 2020, 12.00am, The Times

Scott Morrison, the Australian leader, cited Britain’s outbreak as a cautionary taleROHAN THOMSON/GETTY IMAGES

The world is watching Britain’s struggle with the pandemic with a combination of disbelief and relief. Many are now asking how things went so wrong.

Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald said that, unlike Italy, the United Kingdom had “time to prepare for the coronavirus tsunami” but failed to act. Speaking to the paper, Mike Rann, former Australian high commissioner to the UK, said mistakes were made at a time when they would have had the most damaging impact. “The earliest stages were handled negligently,” he said, describing the official response as a “shambles of mixed messaging, poor organisation and a complacent attitude that what was happening in Italy wouldn’t happen here”.

Most recover quickly

Dr Philip Gothard, a consultant physician at London’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases, says the vast majority of patients make a full and fairly rapid recovery.

“Some will have a persisting cough and we’re beginning to see patients who’ve got profound fatigue and exhaustion that goes on perhaps three, four, five or six weeks.

“It’s very distressing if you’re an otherwise young healthy person, it’s something you’re not used to.

“And so it comes as a shock that recovery is slow and stuttering.

“But in many patients with other diseases who are recovering from an acute illness you do tend to see this kind of waxing and waning effect as you are slowly getting better, and you have good days and bad days.”

Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, says data emerging from the Covid Symptom Study app shows that, on average, it takes people 12 days to start slowly recovering.

“As we collect more data and continue to use machine-learning and artificial intelligence, we will soon be able to identify which combination of symptoms and risk factors make a person more or less likely to suffer from these longer terms symptoms.”

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Still mainstream media, like this Times extract, pumps out this garabage about anyone can get this virus and die, it will sweep us all away unless we follow the likes of disgraced Neil Ferguson’s stay at home advoce – which Ferguson himself ignores with the excuse he has immunity.

Britain;s figures have been deliberately inflated as ex post facto justification for lockdown. Trump is under fire because he saw the issue, quite rightly, as linked to urban squalor, obesity and other poverty, life style and ignorance causes. If lockdown was going to have any effect, air travel should have shut down last December, with all borders closed, to hell with migrants and home coming pleasure leisure crusiers.

Now we have more playing with words about easing restrictions which affect the poorest most, because lockdown is a political weapon. Social distancing rules at a time when globalisation pigeons are coming home to roost are a must for the global ruling elite classes. Meanwhile what is going on in the Middle East Oil Wars ? Robert Cook

‘Professor lockdown’ Ferguson resigns after violating quarantine he designed to meet married lover

5 May, 2020 19:08 / Updated 15 minutes ago

Professor Neil Ferguson, author of apocalyptic coronavirus models, has resigned from his position as adviser to 10 Downing Street after revelations that he violated quarantine himself to meet with a married lover.

Following Ferguson’s resignation on Tuesday night, the Daily Telegraph made it public that the man known as ‘Professor Lockdown’ had allowed a married mother with whom he was having an affair to visit him at least twice during the quarantine. The woman was identified as Antonia Staats, 38.

Prof Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancinghttps://t.co/eLOfVjgHPL— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 5, 2020

The first visit was reportedly on March 30, as Ferguson warned the British public that lockdown measures – in effect for a week at that time – would have to remain in place until June.Her second visit was on April 8.

“I accept I made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action,” Ferguson told the Telegraph, confirming that he has resigned from the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). He maintained the need for the continued lockdown, however.

“I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing to control this devastating epidemic. The government guidance is unequivocal, and is there to protect all of us,” he said.

Ferguson’s team at Imperial College London is behind the computer model that predicted more than half a million Britons would die from the virus unless the country was locked down, a view which eventually prevailed over the ‘herd immunity’ approach initially floated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

With Johnson himself contracting the virus and being sidelined for weeks, the government has continued to follow Ferguson’s recommendations, repeating the mantra “Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives” for seven weeks now.

Comment by Robert Cook

Cock Up or Cockdown ?

Ferguson is a prime example of the arrogant elite ruling class, in his case trading on the old ‘blind them with science’ adage. He either knows he is lying about the risks to all of us, or he doesn’t mind killing people with his and the married mistress carelessness. He has made a lot of money and boosted his career with lockdown and should now be well and truly locked up.

Either way he is a lying hypocrit, as well as an adulterer who has broken the law he is responsible for creating with his ludicrous self interested guesswork. Of course he is not the only one. However, he is behind the lockdown bull-hit that has ruined livelihoods, caused so much misery and opened the door to other illness and crime. He should be sacked from his Imperial College post as an example and prosecuted.

As with the lying hypocritcal British corrupt police, too many highly paid officials get away with their misconduct and criminal behaviour. Given how many others have been prosecuted for breaking the vile lockdown laws- that are really about training people to obey, hence all the false death figures, lies we are all at risk, double counting, and adding so called ‘probable covid deaths, what a scandal – Ferguson and his mistress should both be urgently prosecuted.

To those who would use France as an example as to why we must contiue vigilance, let me point out that Macron the Moron is obviously making the most of it to contain the yellow vests. Merkel has a similar motive, because mass immigtation and capitalist elite exploitation have made life intolerable for so many, whilst making a nasty minority obscenely rich, and transparently hypocritical.

Robert Cook

Fear May 4th 2020

There are many cliches about fear. Most stupidly is the one that says ‘You have nothing to fear but fear itself. ‘ I can think of lots of things to fear. Being chased by a Lion, a rabid dog, someome with a knife or gun are obvious examples.

Bob Woodward is famous for his ‘Watergate’ expose, becoming something of a saint in the process- immotralised by a handsome youngish Robert Redford in the film of the same name, ‘Watergate.’

There have been lots of scandals ending in ‘gate’ since then. The one involving my ex brother in law, DCC Simon Chesterman, was called Plebgate – another police cover up. My experience of this person Chesterman has certainly taught me to fear the British police as liars, cheats, thieves and downright unscrupulous crooks and bullies – people focused on class, ready to lock up the lower orders, the innocent and defenceless for kicks and promotion.

***Machievelli wrote ‘It is far better to be feared than loved – The Prince : Fear is the root of power.***

When Donald Trump was standing for President, the word fear was used many times to undermine his campaign. He faced a hostile press on both sides of the Atlantic, decried as a Russian agent, sexist, racist and sex offender. We were given the impression he was going to start World War Three – the latter is not such an unlikely story, but it won’t all be down to him, and it may well be in process now.

Bob Woodward was quick to turn out a book pressaging the Trump administration. He called it ‘Fear’. At the beginning, he quotes Trump from an old interview : ‘Real Power is – I don’t even want to use the word – Fear.’

Fear is what the European, U.S and British authorities use – backed or maybe led by their corporate media- to ensure compliance with their lockdown rules. Here in Europe, we are told face masks and staggered working will be the only way people might be allowed back to work.

People, as recent European protests demonstrate, will face police brutality and arrest if they don’t comply. Here in Britain, the media are quick to promote the governments latest fear tactics and manipulation of statistics to make us believe we can all die from Corona Virus – otherewise known as Covid 19, which means Co for Corona, Vid for virus and 19 for the year it was discovered or maybe just plain released amongst us by accident or design.

Many people, especially the ones who know they have been bad, fear death more than anything. Some of us have learned, through police harassment like me for example, to fear life, to fear for our children. This is because the powerful can make our lives very unpleasant. Power does indeed come from making people afraid. Corona raises the fear of unemployment, homelessmess and all the other fears that stem from such vulnerability.

Meanwhile, as the old saying goes, ‘One man’s loss is another man’s gain.’ The convsrse is obviously true. As a direct result of Corona’s economic disruption, unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies, 500 U.S billionaires have shared a $280 billion windfall.

The rich fear communism, so still bang on about Russia. Corona is a good way of keeping the disaffected off the streets, where right and left wingers have been making too much noise and disturbances. The rich fear them, relying on police running dogs to protect their interests.

Behind the Corona fear smokescreen, 18.000 U.K cancer patients will die in the next 12 months due to our appalling NHS putting their treatment on hold while boasting of heroics dealing only with some of the Corona. In the U.S, people won’t bother to use healthcare, however ill because they can’t afford it.

Don’t expect things to improve any time soon. The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) is using Corona to push its aid for the Third World, especially Africa, campaign. Obviously Corona hits the poor congested overpopulated already disease ridden areas worse than anywhere else. One mustn’t mention the idiocy of African women averaging 15 babies each, vile corrupt black dictators in cahoots with Western Rich, who steal the foreign aid for their own pleasure.

People here in Afica are encouraged to put all their trust in, working themselves into frenzies, about a God that obviously does not exist. Even if it did exist, one might reasonably conclude that such a God does not care for ignorant suffering people who have lived under vile dicatorships ever since European powers departed – doesn’t matter because the dictators are black and we know all blacks, like all women are inherently nice ( sic ).

This is a world in chaos, run by a greedy vile selfish minority. Blacks and females among them are as likely to be evil . pleasure bent, murderous and selfish as any other type of human being.

If there is serious and adverse climate change, have the guts to blame these people, however much they frighten you because it is going to get worse. What made little Greta’s gurning rants so obviously absurd was her proclaimation that environmental issues have nothing to do with overpopulation. If she thinks that, she knows nothing, being just a mouthpiece for more of the horrible rich greedy adults with their nasty hidden agendas.

We should fear the hidden agendas and groups like Bildeburg far more than Corona which is just another manifestation of collective insanity advertised by the fools wearing useless masks.

Robert Cook

The inside story of the Wuhan virus laboratory blamed by President Trump for releasing Covid-19

President Donald Trump has accused the Wuhan Institute of Virology of causing the global pandemic By Roland Oliphant, senior foreign correspondent ; Nicola Smith Taipei and Henry Samuel Paris 2 May 2020 • 9:39am

A state-of-the art facility purpose-built to handle research into the world’s most deadly pathogens, the Wuhan Institute of Virology played a crucial role in identifying the virus now known as Covid-19.

It was Shi Zhengli, the laboratory’s globally respected expert in the transmission of animal-born coronavirus to humans, who led a team that worked round the clock to establish the cause of the mysterious disease that appeared in Wuhan, a city of 11 million on the Yangtze river 600 miles south of Beijing, in late December.

Now Donald Trump has accused the laboratory of causing the very pandemic it helped identify – to the fury of scientists and Chinese authorities.

“We’re going to see where it comes from,” Mr Trump said at a White House event late on Thursday. “We have people looking at it very, very strongly.

Comment: Putin has just made two huge mistakes

Michael Carpenter – The Washington Post – 30 April 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin has a well-earned reputation as an astute tactician and a steely decision-maker. Yet over the past few weeks he has mismanaged Russia’s responses to two major crises: the collapse of the oil market and the coronavirus pandemic. Now he is facing one of the most acute challenges to his rule right at the moment when he had thought it safe to extend his term through a constitutional referendum.

The Kremlin’s first mistake came in early March, when it reacted to falling oil prices by rejecting Saudi entreaties to cut production. The Russian decision to push for an oil glut proved to be singularly mistimed.

Putin had likely hoped that a sudden drop in prices would bankrupt the many independent U.S. shale producers who operate on thin margins. And since the Russian budget balances at around $40 per barrel, while Saudi Arabia targets a price that is roughly twice that, the Kremlin no doubt figured it could stick it to the Saudis while absorbing a short-term fall in revenue.

What Putin planned as a knockout punch turned out to be more of an own goal. While the U.S. shale industry has indeed taken a hit, a recent round of consolidation has made it more adaptable than it might have been otherwise. By April, when the bottom had fallen out of the oil market and negative prices were being posted, it was President Trump who threw Putin a lifeline by brokering an agreement to cut production with the Saudis. Many in the Russian energy sector saw this as a humiliating climbdown.

Yet it’s not just Russia’s reputation as a market player that’s at stake. Oil prices are an existential issue for Putin’s petro-state, where budget and currency are closely tied to global hydrocarbon markets. Russia’s economic forecast appears correspondingly bleak.

Though the Kremlin currently sits on a foreign currency reserve of about $430 billion, budgetary support for struggling businesses in the months ahead could blow through that cushion rather quickly.

Worse still, the government could continue to mandate paid leave for workers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic without providing the necessary financial support to struggling companies, forcing many to resort to dubious tactics to force workers off their payrolls or drastically reduce wages. This could easily result in a nationwide surge in unemployment and a wave of bankruptcies.

The Kremlin’s second big mistake was to allow its propaganda machine to project an aura of invincibility even as the covid-19 tsunami was spreading across Russia. The Kremlin closed part, but not all, of its 2,600-mile border with China on Jan. 31, leading to a false sense of security that was compounded by willful ignorance. Demonstrating both its hubris and ignorance, the military thus went forward with a large-scale exercise on Ukraine’s border in late March, long after NATO had pulled the plug on its “Defender Europe” drill.

Testing throughout February and most of March was handled by a single lab in Siberia, meaning that most covid-19 cases across Russia’s 11 time zones were being wrongly classified as pneumonia, bronchitis, flu, etc. It didn’t help that authorities criminalized the spread of “false information” or that they arrested a prominent doctor for challenging official statistics as she tried to deliver masks to an impoverished rural hospital.

Now, as social media users are sharing videos of ambulances lined up for miles waiting to deposit patients in overcrowded Moscow hospitals, it’s no longer possible to claim that all is under control. The Russian health-care system was already struggling with a number of chronic health conditions (tuberculosis, heart disease, alcoholism, etc.) and many public health experts worry that the pandemic might bring matters to a breaking point. Russia is also one of the rare countries that’s simultaneously coping with low life expectancy and a graying population, making it particularly vulnerable to covid-19. Putin’s tendency to delegate decisions on pandemic policy to regional governors might help insulate him from political fallout in the near term, but it is unlikely to lead to a well-managed policy over the longer term.

All of this jeopardizes Putin’s plan to change the constitution to allow him to serve two more terms as president, allowing him to stay in office until 2036 (when he will turn 84). Although parliament had already rubber-stamped the changes, Putin had also intended to put them to a referendum, originally scheduled for April 22 but now postponed indefinitely.

Even before the pandemic hit, the referendum was a dangerous gamble. In March, a Levada Center poll showed support for the changes at just 48 percent. That number is likely to fall significantly in the coming months. (A poll released this week reveals that citizens’ trust in Putin has fallen to a 14-year low.) On April 20, 500 people in Vladikavkaz violated a local lockdown order to protest against the lack of reliable information on the spread of covid-19, and protests have also taken place in Rostov and smaller cities that do not typically register big opposition demonstrations.

What happens next is hard to predict with any certainty, but one thing is clear: The legitimacy of the Putin regime will be tested as never before.
Michael Carpenter is managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.

Comment

The Washington Post is an Anglo U.S propaganda outlet. This article is long winded and pretentious. Oil is the reason for so much obscene wealth, wars and dire poverty. The shale industry is the arse-ole of the industry. The rich OPEC elite want to keep prices high by restricting output.

Putin had no reason to trust any overtures regarding price control. If his country faces worse economic challenges now, it is not because of mishandling the Corona issue. The third world biased WHO has controlled the panic, with Western Media lapping it up, needing no oil to make the fire burn.

Lockdown will have long term mental health, economic and socially disaterous effects. It has been played up in the U.K to disguise an appalling NHS, with its filthy hospitals, lack of English speaking trained staff, the consequences of mass immigration and globalisation.

Ignoring all the unanswered questions about how this virus came to be and why it is causing so much panic and state propaganda, it is pathetic to single out Putin for failure to act correctly and responsibly over oil prices and Corona. In spite of Draconian sanctions, he has done better than most. Meanwhile our borders have never been closed. Our so called top expert has said people can come in, face no tests or quarantine. Says it all and works on such stupid ignorant people as the British. Obviously decrepit old fogeys ( I am nearly 70 ) fear for their lives and like the idea of young folk being as couped up and miserable as they are.

The Anglo U.S elite loved drunken Yelstsin because he sold off state assets cheap to oligrachs who brought their ill gotten gains to centres like New York London and Hong Kong. They want another like him and will do anything to block Putin and ruin his credibility.

That is why they stoke up protests the sort of which would earn jail sentences and violent police assaults in the U.K. Remember Ian Tomlinson, murdered by cops on camera. Remember the student protestor who got 3 years for dropping a fire extinguisher off a high roof. It landed 300 metres from loitering police. The police went to a lot of trouble enhancing video footage to find the young male culprit. Robert Cook

Two High Street chains with 4,500 staff collapse as they become latest victims of coronavirus crisis

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Published: 22:10, 30 March 2020 | Updated: 22:10, 30 March 2020

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Two High Street chains with 4,500 staff collapsed yesterday as they became the latest victims of the coronavirus crisis.

Italian restaurant group Carluccio’s went into administration along with rent-to-own retailer Brighthouse.

Julie Palmer of corporate recovery business Begbies Traynor said ‘coronavirus was the final nail in the coffin’.

Bankruptcy: The late Antonio Carluccio with his restaurant chain, and (inset), a Brighthouse store

Carluccio’s was founded by Italian chef Antonio Carluccio in 1991, and bankruptcy puts the future of its 71 UK restaurants and 2,000 employees in doubt.

At the same time, another 240 stores and 2,500 jobs were hit by the collapse of Brighthouse, whose customers make monthly payments for goods such as televisions and washing machines, in effect renting them until they have paid in full.

It is likely that customers with outstanding mis-selling complaints against Brighthouse will receive only a fraction of the compensation they had hoped for. The firms toppled within 72 hours of the Government announcing emergency reforms to insolvency rules, designed to give companies running out of cash more time.

That both still fell into administration was seen as a sign of how hard the businesses are being hit by the shutdown.

John Colley of Warwick Business School said: ‘This is Darwinist survival of the fittest compressed into six months. Business will not be the same again.

‘Many businesses simply do not have access to adequate cash or credit lines and will disappear during the next six months – only the strongest will survive.’

Laura Ashley became the first casualty of coronavirus when it went bust earlier this month.

The High Street was already reeling from its worst year for a quarter of a century even before the lockdown.

Shops and restaurants have been relieved of their business rates bills until April 2021, but many still have to pay rent and some wages through the lockdown.

Yesterday Carluccio’s confirmed it had hired advisory firm FRP to oversee its administration after a ‘sustained period of challenging trading conditions’, exacerbated by the pandemic.

Carluccio’s faced ‘significant cash flow pressures’ on the back of the outbreak and was therefore unable to meet its financial obligations.

The administrators said they are in talks regarding a potential sale of the business or its component parts, for example its restaurants and brand.

Most of the company’s 2,000 staff will be temporarily laid off, or ‘furloughed’, with 80 per cent of their wages covered by the Government’s Jobs Retention Scheme, until a plan is made for the future of the business.

Last week, staff from the chain saw their wages for the past month slashed in half as part of cost-cutting measures to fight the impact of the pandemic, while chief executive Mark Jones gave up his pay for the whole month.

Geoff Rowley, joint administrator and partner at FRP, said: ‘We are urgently focused on the options available to preserve the future of the business and protect its employees.’

The collapse of Carluccio’s raised fears that popular restaurants could be allowed to go bust, and then bought cheaply out of administration. Private equity firms, who own casual dining chains such as Pizza Express, use large amounts of debt as part of their business model, putting them at greater risk of going bust in a downturn.

Brighthouse yesterday confirmed it had appointed Grant Thornton as administrators, who will continue trading its online business.

The chain, which has 240 UK stores and around 200,000 customers, had closed all its shops in line with Government rules.

Trump Bashing April 30th 2020

“There has been so much unnecessary death in this country,” President Donald Trump said Monday at his daily coronavirus briefing. “It could have been stopped and it could have been stopped short, but somebody a long time ago, it seems, decided not to do it that way. And the whole world is suffering because of it.”
The remark is classic Trump—warning darkly but vaguely about unidentified enemies—but insofar as anyone made such a decision, it was the president himself. The virus is not, of course, Trump’s fault, but the federal government’s handling of the outbreak is his responsibility. And one of the more astonishing revelations of the past month has been not just that the president was warned, but that he was warned over and over again and still declined to act.
The Washington Post reports that the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, an intelligence report on national-security threats, mentioned the coronavirus “more than a dozen” times in January and February, a period during which the Trump administration was doing little to prepare for a pandemic, and when the president himself was often downplaying the threat the virus posed to the United States. The oversight would come as a surprise if not for the long line of warnings that the president is known to have ignored.
Here’s a partial timeline:

In addition, the Post reports that American officials embedded at the World Health Organization‚ which Trump has since blamed for covering up the outbreak, were feeding information about the coronavirus to Washington, starting late last year.
These specific warnings about the novel coronavirus don’t even include the generalized concerns about a pandemic that circulated for years before. Neither do they speak to the steps that the Trump administration took that may have reduced American preparedness, including eliminating a National Security Council office devoted to pandemics and cutting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff in China who might have provided more early warnings.
How many warnings did the president need?
There’s likely no number of alerts that would have jarred the president into action, for two reasons. First, Trump is constitutionally incurious, and second, he is paranoid, such that he took warnings that might have helped him politically to be attacks designed to hurt him politically.
Start with the PDBs. Based on Trump’s track record, it’s a good bet that he never read the briefs at all, as he is known not to bother consuming most of the written materials provided to him. Major points in the PDB are delivered orally too, and the Post reports that the coronavirus was in the oral summary at times. But Trump is also notorious for not paying attention to briefings that are delivered to him, or for seizing only on some small parts of them. (The president reportedly interrupted Azar’s January 18 briefing to complain about Azar’s handling of vaping products.)
Even when warnings are able to reach Trump, he seldom treats them as efforts to provide him with useful information. It is clear now that the pandemic is a grave political threat to Trump’s reelection, and that a swifter, more efficient response would have placed him in much better stead in November. At times, however, he has acted as though even discussing the crisis is evidence of disloyalty, as demonstrated in his furious response to Messonnier’s warnings.
This is the real context for the president’s infamous “hoax” remark at a rally in February. Trump has complained that his adversaries are misconstruing him to have claimed that the virus itself was a hoax. In fact, his remark was a paranoiac insistence that any warnings about the outbreak could only be intended to harm him politically: “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.”
But even if Democrats’ motives were not completely pure—in addition to real worries, they likely did see the virus as politically damaging to Trump—he would have benefited from taking the warnings and acting.
What would that action have looked like? The answer is not that Trump should have micromanaged the crisis response—though that idea meshes with his own vision of the presidency, which tends to emphasize actions the president can take unilaterally. Perhaps the greatest power a president has is the power of the bureaucracy. By picking up on currents in his briefings and asking a few questions about them, a president can swing the great heft of the federal bureaucracy toward them.
But Trump has long since decided that federal employees are part of a “deep state” determined to sink him, rather than the most powerful tool at his disposal. He is resistant to new information, demanding that events respond to him, rather than the other way around.
The federal government is mighty enough that often a president can drive events, but viruses don’t work like that. In a pandemic, the president has to respond to events. Trump was too incurious and too paranoid to hear the warnings and do so.

Comment Impossible to be taken seriously as U.S President unless you do as liberal elite and their media want you to do. Robert Cook

Exceptional , Necessary or Hypocrits ? I Don’t Know, But it is Fact Posted April 30th 2020

PHILADELPHIA ― Intelligence officials are shocked that Russia appears to be meddling in the U.S. presidential election, but for some supporters of Bernie Sanders, it’s just turnabout.

Lakewood, Colorado, delegate Kim Netherton said it’s beside the point whether agents of Russian President Vladimir Putin hacked the Democratic National Committee’s emails, as reported this month. And it may come with a little poetic justice for Hillary Clinton, according to Netherton.

“Isn’t it interesting that her campaign is now experiencing the same thing that she perpetrated on other countries,” Netherton told The Huffington Post, as she awaited Sanders’ speech Monday night.

“She did this in Haiti, she did this in Honduras, and now it’s coming back on her and she’s all verklempt about it,” Netherton added. “It’s a little bit of her own medicine, but unfortunately I don’t think she’s open minded enough to see that for what it is.”

Indeed, meddling in foreign politics is a great American pastime, and one that Clinton has some familiarity with. For more than 100 years, without any significant break, the U.S. has been doing whatever it can to influence the outcome of elections ― up to and including assassinating politicians it has found unfriendly.

The Clinton camp disagrees that whatever happened in Honduras is on the same level as what Russia is up to. “There’s simply no equivalency here,” said Clinton spokesperson Jesse Lehrich. Which is true: the U.S. has meddled in far more foreign elections than vice versa.

The U.S. penchant for meddling in Latin American politics is something Sanders and Clinton disagreed sharply about in a March debate. “I think the United States should be working with governments around the world, not get involved in regime change,” Sanders said. “And all of these actions, by the way, in Latin America, brought forth a lot of very strong anti-American sentiments.”

The phenomenon is so prevalent, there’s even a running joke in Latin America that goes like this:

Q: Why has there never been a coup in the United States?

A: Because there’s no U.S. embassy in Washington.

To get a sense of why that joke gets so many knowing laughs around the world, let’s do a quick run through of a few of America’s greatest hits.

Honduras

At the beginning of Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State in 2009, the Honduran military ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya in a coup d’etat. The United Nations condemned the military coup and the Organization of American States suspended Honduras from its membership, calling for Zelaya’s reinstatement. Instead of joining the international effort to isolate the new regime, Clinton’s State Department pushed for a new election and decided not to declare that a military coup had occurred.

“If the United States government declares a coup, you immediately have to shut off all aid, including humanitarian aid, the Agency for International Development aid, the support that we were providing at that time for a lot of very poor people,” Clinton said when asked about Honduras in April. “So, our assessment was, we will just make the situation worse by punishing the Honduran people if we declare a coup and we immediately have to stop all aid for the people, but we should slow walk and try to stop anything that the government could take advantage of, without calling it a coup.”

Clinton said that she didn’t want Zelaya returning to power. “Zelaya had friends and allies, not just in Honduras, but in some of the neighboring countries, like Nicaragua and that we could have had a terrible civil war that would have been just terrifying in its loss of life.”

Emails that have since surfaced show that Clinton and her team worked behind the scenes to fend off efforts by neighboring democracies through the Organization of American States to restore the elected president to power. “The OAS meeting today turned into a non-event ― just as we hoped,” wrote one top State official, celebrating a strategy of slow-walking a restoration.

Critics of the decision not to shut off aid said it essentially legitimized the coup government as it cracked down on dissent. And the outcome hasn’t been so great: Since 2009, the country has become increasingly dangerous, contributing significantly to the 2014 surge of unaccompanied minor children fleeing to the U.S.

Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, left, advised Cuban leader Fidel Castro on how to deal with the United States.

Guatemala

In 1954, the Central Intelligence Agency deposed Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. It installed a military dictatorship that would be more amenable to fighting communism and protecting the United Fruit Company ― to which brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, CIA director and secretary of state, respectively, were closely tied. Che Guevara, the Marxist revolutionary, was in Guatemala at the time. He would later tell Cuban leader Fidel Castro that it was Guatemala’s free and open society that allowed the CIA to penetrate and overthrow Arbenz. Castro should go the opposite direction if he wanted to stay in power, Guevara said. He took Guevara’s advice and was able to fend off endless CIA assassination and overthrow attempts. The collateral damage was freedom in Cuba.

Iran

When Iran elected a nationalist politician, Mohammed Mosaddeq, the U.S. intervened to launch a coup in 1953, which CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt led. Mossadegh’s crime was to nationalize a British oil company, a forerunner to BP, and to spark concerns among the paranoid Dulles brothers that he was leaning toward the Soviet Union. The U.S. installed Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iran’s monarch, as the head of Iran and his repressive rule led to the Iranian revolution. That uprising, in turn, has given us a brutally repressive regime in Iran, client terrorist groups around the Middle East, savage sectarian violence in Iraq and a nuclear standoff. Sad!

Haiti

It’s hard to know which specific meddling we’re talking about when it comes to Haiti, given the high number of U.S.-sponsored coups and interventions there. None, at least, were under Secretary Clinton’s watch. But memos that WikiLeaks published suggest the State Department, in collaboration with local factory owners, helped suppress a minimum wage increase in the Caribbean nation. The Clinton Foundation, meanwhile, has done some impressive work in Haiti, while also catching plenty of flack for its shortcomings.

Congo

Malcolm X once called Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba “the greatest black man who ever walked the African continent.” Lumumba led an anti-colonial campaign to oust the ruling Belgians from the Congo and he became the country’s first elected leader. The U.S. set about almost immediately to overthrow and assassinate him, perceiving Lumumba (incorrectly, it turned out) to be a pawn of the Soviet Union. The Belgians took the lead in the plot against Lumumba, but the U.S. was a willing participant. When he was finally captured, he was tortured and killed. So that the public wouldn’t learn of the crime, he was doused in acid to make his body disappear. The assassins ran out of the substance, so they crushed, hacked and ground his body to pieces, scattering the remains in an area that would later be named for Lumumba. More than 50 years of conflict has followed. His killing has been called “the most important political assassination of the 20th Century.”

Indonesia

Another leader who resisted being pulled into the U.S.-Soviet Cold War was Sukarno of Indonesia. When the Communist Party finished fourth in an Indonesian election and Sukarno offered them proportional representation in his government, the U.S. panicked and secretly supported the brutal purging of suspected communists. Thousands died and the military emerged the most powerful institution in the country. It quickly tossed Sukarno from power in 1967 and squashed democracy. Just last week, a panel on an international tribunal at the Hague found the U.S., along with Australia and the United Kingdom, had been complicit in Indonesia’s crimes against humanity in 1965.

Vietnam

When the French withdrew from Vietnam in the 1950s, they scheduled an election to be held shortly after. It became increasingly clear that the communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh would win it in a landslide. So the U.S. intervened and installed Ngo Dinh Diem as leader of a new country it recognized as South Vietnam. The national election was canceled, but the U.S. still needed a way to pretend the puppet regime had political support. So it set up an election between Diem, who was widely disliked, and an exiled member of the royal family who was even more hated. Diem won with an absurd tally of 98.2 percent. U.S. media declared it a deeply moving expression of the will of the South Vietnamese people.The John F. Kennedy administration wound up helping plan a 1963 coup against Diem, who ended up dead. For the next decade, the U.S. went to war to defend the fictional government we had propped up, at the cost of 58,000 American lives and perhaps 2 million Vietnamese. The last U.S. troops withdrew from the country in 1973.

Afghanistan

The election in 2014 didn’t go as the U.S. intended (like the one in 2009, shot through with fraud that gave it to Hamid Karzai). So the U.S. declared it a tie and created a new position not in the Afghan constitution called Chief Executive Officer.

Which we guess is better than assassinating the other guy.

The one thing that ties all the stories above together is that not only did they inflame anti-American sentiment, they actually worked against the interests of the U.S. in the long run.

When the CIA pressed President Barack Obama on its plan to arm “moderate” rebels working to oust Bashar Assad in Syria, he asked a provocative question: Has this kind of thing ever worked? An assessment was done, but if the agency found any examples, none have ever surfaced.

Among the many counter examples, of course, is Osama bin Laden, who the United States paid to fight, not coincidentally, the Soviet Union. In throwing his weight behind Donald Trump, Putin might want to be careful what he wishes for. Photo gallery Inside The Cafe Dedicated To Vladimir Putin See Gallery Suggest a correction

Reagan Documents Shed Light on U.S. ‘Meddling’

Consortium News https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/13/reagan-documents-shed-light-on-u-s-meddling/ September 13, 2017

Special Report: “Secret” documents from the Reagan administration show how the U.S. embedded “political action,” i.e., the manipulation of foreign governments, in ostensibly well-meaning organizations, reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

“Secret” documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA “proprietary,” The Asia Foundation, in “political action,” an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign governments.

Partially obscured by President Reagan, Walter Raymond Jr. was the CIA propaganda and disinformation specialist who oversaw “political action” and “psychological operations” projects at the National Security Council in the 1980s. Raymond is seated next to National Security Adviser John Poindexter. (Photo credit: Reagan presidential library)

The documents from 1982 came at a turning-point moment when the Reagan administration was revamping how the U.S. government endeavored to manipulate the internal affairs of governments around the world in the wake of scandals in the 1960s and 1970s involving the Central Intelligence Agency’s global covert operations.

Instead of continuing to rely heavily on the CIA, President Reagan and his national security team began offloading many of those “political action” responsibilities to “non-governmental organizations” (NGOs) that operated in a more overt fashion and received funding from other U.S. government agencies.

But secrecy was still required for the involvement of these NGOs in the U.S. government’s strategies to bend the political will of targeted countries. If the “political action” of these NGOs were known, many countries would object to their presence; thus, the “secret” classification of the 1982 White House memos that I recently obtained via a “mandatory declassification review” from the archivists at the Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California.

In intelligence circles, “political action” refers to a wide range of activities to influence the policies and behaviors of foreign nations, from slanting their media coverage, to organizing and training opposition activists, even to setting the stage for “regime change.”

The newly declassified memos from the latter half of 1982 marked an ad hoc period of transition between the CIA scandals, which peaked in the 1970s, and the creation of more permanent institutions to carry out these semi-secretive functions, particularly the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was created in 1983.

Much of this effort was overseen by a senior CIA official, Walter Raymond Jr., who was moved to Reagan’s National Security Council’s staff where he managed a number of interagency task forces focused on “public diplomacy,” “psychological operations,” and “political action.”

Raymond, who had held top jobs in the CIA’s covert operations shop specializing in propaganda and disinformation, worked from the shadows inside Reagan’s White House, too. Raymond was rarely photographed although his portfolio of responsibilities was expansive. He brought into his orbit emerging “stars,” including Lt. Col. Oliver North (a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal), State Department propagandist (and now a leading neocon) Robert Kagan, and NED President Carl Gershman (who still heads NED with its $100 million budget).

Despite his camera avoidance, Raymond appears to have grasped his true importance. In his NSC files, I found a doodle of an organizational chart that had Raymond at the top holding what looks like the crossed handles used by puppeteers to control the puppets below them. The drawing fit the reality of Raymond as the behind-the-curtains operative who controlled various high-powered inter-agency task forces.

Earlier declassified documents revealed that Raymond also was the conduit between CIA Director William J. Casey and these so-called “pro-democracy” programs that used sophisticated propaganda strategies to influence not only the thinking of foreign populations but the American people, too.

This history is relevant again now amid the hysteria over alleged Russian “meddling” in last year’s U.S. presidential elections. If those allegations are true – and the U.S. government has still not presented any real proof – the Russian motive would have been, in part, payback for Washington’s long history of playing games with the internal politics of Russia and other countries all across the planet.

A Fight for Money

The newly released memos describe bureaucratic discussions about funding levels for The Asia Foundation (TAF), with the only sensitive topic, to justify the “secret” stamp, being the reference to the U.S. government’s intent to exploit TAF’s programs for “political action” operations inside Asian countries.

Then-Vice President George H.W. Bush with CIA Director William Casey at the White House on Feb. 11, 1981. (Photo credit: Reagan Library)

Indeed, the opportunity for “political action” under TAF’s cover appeared to be the reason why Reagan’s budget cutters relented and agreed to restore funding to the foundation.

William Schneider Jr. of the Office of Management and Budget wrote in a Sept. 2, 1982 memo that the Budget Review Board (BRB) had axed TAF funding earlier in the year.

“When the BRB last considered this issue on March 29, 1982, it decided not to include funding in the budget for a U.S. Government grant to TAF. The Board’s decision was based on the judgement that given the limited resources available for international affairs programs, funding for the Foundation could not be justified. During that March 29 meeting, the State Department was given the opportunity to fund TAF within its existing budget, but would not agree to do so.”

However, as Schneider noted in the memo to Deputy National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, “I now understand that a proposal to continue U.S. funding for the Asia Foundation is included in the ‘political action’ initiatives being developed by the State Department and several other agencies.

“We will, of course, work with you to reconsider the relative priority of support for the Foundation as part of these initiatives keeping in mind, however, the need for identifying budget offsets.”

A prime mover behind this change of heart appeared to be Walter Raymond, who surely knew TAF’s earlier status as a CIA “proprietary.” In 1966, Ramparts magazine exposed that relationship and led the Johnson administration to terminate the CIA’s money.

According to an April 12, 1967 memo from the State Department’s historical archives, CIA Director Richard Helms, responding to a White House recommendation, “ordered that covert funding of The Asia Foundation (TAF) shall be terminated at the earliest practicable opportunity.”

In coordination with the CIA’s “disassociation,” TAF’s board released what the memo described as “a carefully limited statement of admission of past CIA support. In so doing the Trustees sought to delimit the effects of an anticipated exposure of Agency support by the American press and, if their statement or some future expose does not seriously impair TAF’s acceptability in Asia, to continue operating in Asia with overt private and official support.”

The CIA memo envisioned future funding from “overt U.S. Government grants” and requested guidance from the White House’s covert action oversight panel, the 303 Committee, for designation of someone “to whom TAF management should look for future guidance and direction with respect to United States Government interests.”

In 1982, with TAF’s funding again in jeopardy, the CIA’s Walter Raymond rallied to its defense from his NSC post. In an undated memo to McFarlane, Raymond recalled that “the Department of State underscored that TAF had made significant contributions to U.S. foreign policies through fostering democratic institutions and, as a private organization, had accomplished things which a government organization cannot do.” [Emphasis in original]

Raymond’s bureaucratic intervention worked. By late 1982, the Reagan administration had arranged for TAF’s fiscal 1984 funding to go through the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) budget, which was being used to finance a range of President Reagan’s “democracy initiatives.” Raymond spelled out the arrangements in a Dec. 15, 1982 memo to National Security Advisor William Clark.

“The issue has been somewhat beclouded in the working levels at State since we have opted to fund all FY 84 democracy initiatives via the USIA budgetary submission,” Raymond wrote. “At the same time, it is essential State maintain its operational and management role with TAF.”

Over the ensuing three and half decades, TAF has continued to be subsidized by U.S. and allied governments. According to its annual report for the year ending Sept. 30, 2016, TAF said it “is funded by an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress, competitively bid awards from governmental and multilateral development agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and by private foundations and corporations,” a sum totaling $94.5 million.

TAF, which operates in 18 Asian countries, describes its purpose as “improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia.” TAF’s press office had no immediate comment regarding the newly released Reagan-era documents.

Far From Alone

But TAF was far from alone as a private organization that functioned with U.S. government money and collaborated with U.S. officials in achieving Washington’s foreign policy goals.

Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy.

For instance, other documents from the Reagan library revealed that Freedom House, a prominent human rights organization, sought advice and direction from Casey and Raymond while advertising the group’s need for financial help.

In an Aug. 9, 1982 letter to Raymond, Freedom House executive director Leonard R. Sussman wrote that “Leo Cherne [another senior Freedom House official] has asked me to send these copies of Freedom Appeals. He has probably told you we have had to cut back this project to meet financial realities. We would, of course, want to expand the project once again when, as and if the funds become available.”

According to the documents, Freedom House remained near the top of Casey’s and Raymond’s thinking when it came to the most effective ways to deliver the CIA’s hardline foreign policy message to the American people and to the international community.

On Nov. 4, 1982, Raymond wrote to NSC Advisor Clark about the “Democracy Initiative and Information Programs,” stating that “Bill Casey asked me to pass on the following thought concerning your meeting with [right-wing billionaire] Dick Scaife, Dave Abshire [then a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board], and Co.

“Casey had lunch with them today and discussed the need to get moving in the general area of supporting our friends around the world. By this definition he is including both ‘building democracy’ and helping invigorate international media programs. The DCI [Casey] is also concerned about strengthening public information organizations in the United States such as Freedom House.

“A critical piece of the puzzle is a serious effort to raise private funds to generate momentum. Casey’s talk with Scaife and Co. suggests they would be very willing to cooperate. Suggest that you note White House interest in private support for the Democracy initiative.”

In a Jan. 25, 1983 memo, Raymond wrote, “We will move out immediately in our parallel effort to generate private support” for “public diplomacy” operations. Then, on May 20, 1983, Raymond recounted in another memo that $400,000 had been raised from private donors brought to the White House Situation Room by USIA Director Charles Wick. According to that memo, the money was divided among several organizations, including Freedom House and Accuracy in Media, a right-wing media attack group.

In an Aug. 9, 1983 memo, Raymond outlined plans to arrange private backing for that effort. He said USIA Director Wick “via [Australian publishing magnate Rupert] Murdock [sic], may be able to draw down added funds” to support pro-Reagan initiatives. Raymond recommended “funding via Freedom House or some other structure that has credibility in the political center.”

[For more on the Murdoch connection, see Consortiumnews.com’s “Rupert Murdoch: Propaganda Recruit.”]

Questions of Legality

Raymond remained a CIA officer until April 1983 when he resigned so in his words “there would be no question whatsoever of any contamination of this” propaganda operation to woo the American people into supporting Reagan’s policies.

CIA seal in lobby of the spy agency’s headquarters. (U.S. government photo)

Raymond fretted, too, about the legality of Casey’s role in the effort to influence U.S. public opinion because of the legal prohibition against the CIA influencing U.S. policies and politics. Raymond confided in one memo that it was important “to get [Casey] out of the loop,” but Casey never backed off and Raymond continued to send progress reports to his old boss well into 1986.

It was “the kind of thing which [Casey] had a broad catholic interest in,” Raymond said during his Iran-Contra deposition in 1987. He then offered the excuse that Casey undertook this apparently illegal interference in domestic affairs “not so much in his CIA hat, but in his adviser to the president hat.”

In 1983, Casey and Raymond focused on creating a permanent funding mechanism to support private organizations that would engage in propaganda and political action that the CIA had historically organized and paid for covertly. The idea emerged for a congressionally funded entity that would be a conduit for this money.

But Casey recognized the need to hide the strings being pulled by the CIA. In one undated letter to then-White House counselor Edwin Meese III, Casey urged creation of a “National Endowment,” but added: “Obviously we here [at CIA] should not get out front in the development of such an organization, nor should we appear to be a sponsor or advocate.”

A document in Raymond’s files offered examples of what would be funded, including “Grenada — 50 K — To the only organized opposition to the Marxist government of Maurice Bishop (The Seaman and Waterfront Workers Union). A supplemental 50 K to support free TV activity outside Grenada” and “Nicaragua — $750 K to support an array of independent trade union activity, agricultural cooperatives.”

The National Endowment for Democracy took shape in late 1983 as Congress decided to also set aside pots of money — within NED — for the Republican and Democratic parties and for organized labor, creating enough bipartisan largesse that passage was assured.

But some in Congress thought it was important to wall the NED off from any association with the CIA, so a provision was included to bar the participation of any current or former CIA official, according to one congressional aide who helped write the legislation.

This aide told me that one night late in the 1983 session, as the bill was about to go to the House floor, the CIA’s congressional liaison came pounding at the door to the office of Rep. Dante Fascell, a senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a chief sponsor of the bill.

The frantic CIA official conveyed a single message from CIA Director Casey: the language barring the participation of CIA personnel must be struck from the bill, the aide recalled, noting that Fascell consented to the demand, not fully recognizing its significance.

The aide said Fascell also consented to the Reagan administration’s choice of Carl Gershman to head the National Endowment for Democracy, again not recognizing how this decision would affect the future of the new entity and American foreign policy.

Gershman, who had followed the classic neoconservative path from youthful socialism to fierce anticommunism, became NED’s first (and, to this day, only) president. Though NED is technically independent of U.S. foreign policy, Gershman in the early years coordinated decisions on grants with Raymond at the NSC.

For instance, on Jan. 2, 1985, Raymond wrote to two NSC Asian experts that “Carl Gershman has called concerning a possible grant to the Chinese Alliance for Democracy (CAD). I am concerned about the political dimension to this request. We should not find ourselves in a position where we have to respond to pressure, but this request poses a real problem to Carl.”

Besides clearing aside political obstacles for Gershman, Raymond also urged NED to give money to Freedom House in a June 21, 1985 letter obtained by Professor John Nichols of Pennsylvania State University.

What the documents at the Reagan library make clear is that Raymond and Casey stayed active shaping the decisions of the new funding mechanism throughout its early years. (Casey died in 1987; Raymond died in 2003.)

Lots of Money

Since its founding, NED has ladled out hundreds of millions of dollars to NGOs all over the world, focusing on training activists, building media outlets, and supporting civic organizations. In some geopolitical hotspots, NED may have scores of projects running at once, such as in Ukraine before the 2014 coup that overthrew elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the New Cold War with Russia. Via such methods, NED helped achieve the “political action” envisioned by Casey and Raymond.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, following his address to the UN General Assembly on Sept. 28, 2015. (UN Photo)

From the start, NED also became a major benefactor for Freedom House, beginning with a $200,000 grant in 1984 to build “a network of democratic opinion-makers.” In NED’s first four years, from 1984 and 1988, it lavished $2.6 million on Freedom House, accounting for more than one-third of its total income, according to a study by the liberal Council on Hemispheric Affairs, which was entitled “Freedom House: Portrait of a Pass-Through.”

Over the ensuing decades, Freedom House has become almost an NED subsidiary, often joining NED in holding policy conferences and issuing position papers, both organizations pushing primarily a neoconservative agenda, challenging countries deemed insufficiently “free,” including Syria, Ukraine (before the 2014 coup) and Russia.

NED and Freedom House often work as a kind of tag-team with NED financing NGOs inside targeted countries and Freedom House berating those governments if they try to crack down on U.S.-funded NGOs.

For instance, on Nov. 16, 2012, NED and Freedom House joined together to denounce a law passed by the Russian parliament requiring Russian recipients of foreign political money to register with the government. Or, as NED and Freedom House framed the issue: the Russian Duma sought to “restrict human rights and the activities of civil society organizations and their ability to receive support from abroad. Changes to Russia’s NGO legislation will soon require civil society organizations receiving foreign funds to choose between registering as ‘foreign agents’ or facing significant financial penalties and potential criminal charges.”

Of course, the United States has a nearly identical Foreign Agent Registration Act that likewise requires entities that receive foreign funding and seek to influence U.S. government policy to register with the Justice Department or face possible fines or imprisonment.

But the Russian law would impede NED’s efforts to destabilize the Russian government through funding of political activists, journalists and civic organizations, so it was denounced as an infringement of human rights and helped justify Freedom House’s rating of Russia as “not free.”

The Russian government’s concerns were not entirely paranoid. On Sept. 26, 2013, Gershman, in effect, charted the course for the crisis in Ukraine and the greater neocon goal of regime change in Russia. In a Washington Post op-ed, Gershman called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and explained how pulling it into the Western camp could contribute to the ultimate defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Ukraine’s choice to join Europe will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin represents,” Gershman wrote. “Russians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.”

The long history of the U.S. government interfering covertly or semi-covertly in the politics of countries all over the world is the ironic backdrop to the current frenzy over Russia-gate and Russia’s alleged dissemination of emails that undermined Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

The allegations are denied by both Putin and WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange who published the Democratic emails – and the U.S. government has presented no solid evidence to support the accusations of “Russian meddling” – but if the charges are true, they could be seen as a case of turnabout as fair play.

Except in this case, U.S. officials, who have meddled ceaselessly with their “political action” operations in countries all over the world, don’t like even the chance that they could get a taste of their own medicine.

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com).

REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated Mail on Line Posted Here April 30th 2020

The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
The lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak
The institute experimented on bats from the source of the coronavirus
They were captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan
Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats to Yunnan’s caves
The U.S. government funded research on coronavirus transmission in the lab over the past decade
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The Chinese laboratory at the center of scrutiny over a potential coronavirus leak has been using U.S. government money to carry out research on bats from the caves which scientists believe are the original source of the deadly outbreak.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which were funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government.

Sequencing of the COVID-19 genome has traced it back to bats found in Yunnan caves but it was first thought to have transferred to humans at an animal market in Wuhan.

The revelation that the Wuhan Institute was experimenting on bats from the area already known to be the source of COVID-19 – and doing so with American money – has sparked further fears that the lab, and not the market, is the original outbreak source.

Lawmakers and pressure groups were quick to hit out at U.S. funding being provided for the ‘dangerous and cruel animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute’.

US Congressman Matt Gaetz said: ‘I’m disgusted to learn that for years the US government has been funding dangerous and cruel animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute, which may have contributed to the global spread of coronavirus, and research at other labs in China that have virtually no oversight from US authorities.’

On Saturday, Anthony Bellotti, president of the US pressure group White Coat Waste, condemned his government for spending tax dollars in China, adding: ‘Animals infected with viruses or otherwise sickened and abused in Chinese labs reportedly may be sold to wet markets for consumption once experiments are done.’

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The $37million Wuhan Institute of Virology, the most advanced laboratory of its type on the Chinese mainland, is based twenty miles from the now infamous wildlife market that was thought to be the location of the original transfer of the virus from animals to humans.

According to documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday, scientists there experimented on bats as part of a project funded by the US National Institutes of Health, which continues to licence the Wuhan laboratory to receive American money for experiments.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) wore a gas mask on the House floor during a vote on an emergency funding bill to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), pictured, has criticized U.S. funding of research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology after it emerged that experiments were being conducted on bats from Yunnan, the location experts believe to be the original source of deadly COVID-19

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Anthony Bellotti, the founder and National Campaign Manager of the White Coat Waste Project, slammed the use of US funding to perform experiments on bats in Wuhan

China clamps down on research into the origins of coronavirus as officials demand the right to vet scientific papers

China is clamping down on research into the origins of the coronavirus after officials have demanded the right to inspect its scientific papers before they are made pubic.

Two websites for leading Chinese universities have allegedly recently published and then removed pages that discuss a new policy which requires academic papers about Covid-19 to undergo extra checks before they are published, according to The Guardian.

Both Fudan University and the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) allegedly posted notices saying that research on the origins of the coronavirus will be subject to government checks.

The director of the SOAS China Institute in London, Professor Steve Tsang, said that the Chinese government is more concerned with ‘controlling the narrative’ surrounding coronavirus than public health or economic fallout.

The source who found the cached versions of the websites said they were concerned at what appeared to be a governmental coverup.

The NIH is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

The Wuhan Institute lists them on their website as a partner as well as several other American academic institutions.

Other U.S. partners include the University of Alabama, the University of North Texas, Harvard University, and the National Wildlife Federation.

As part of the NIH research at the institute, scientists grew a coronavirus in a lab and injected it into three-day-old piglets.

The news that COVID-19 bats were under research there means that a leak from the Wuhan laboratory can no longer be completely ruled out.

According to one unverified claim, scientists at the institute could have become infected after being sprayed with blood containing the virus, and then passed it on to the local community.

A second institute in the city, the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control – which is barely three miles from the market – is also believed to have carried out experiments on animals such as bats to examine the transmission of coronaviruses.

The Wuhan Institute, which keeps more than 1,500 strains of deadly viruses, specializes in the research of ‘the most dangerous pathogens’, in particular the viruses carried by bats.

Chinese officials decided to build the institute after the country was ravaged by an outbreak of SARS in 2002 and 2003.

SARS, another kind of coronavirus, killed 775 people and infected more than 8,000 globally in an epidemic.

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Bats have been linked with seven major epidemics over the past three decades

Since an outbreak of the novel coronavirus emerged in the city in December, it has been at the center of conspiracy theories which suggest that the bug originated there.

While scientists believe that the virus jumped to humans from wild animals sold as food in a market in Wuhan, conspiracy theorists promote different assumptions.

Some of them claim that the virus, formally known as SARS-CoV-2, could be a biological warfare weapon engineered there. Others suspect that it escaped from the lab.

China has repeatedly denied the allegations.

Shi Zhengli, a deputy director of the institute, told the press in February that she ‘guaranteed with her own life’ that the outbreak was not related to the lab.

She admits that when summoned back from a conference to investigate the new disease, she wondered at first if a coronavirus could have escaped from her unit.

She has warned about the danger of epidemics from bat-borne viruses.

But she says she did not expect such an outbreak in Wuhan, in the center of China, since her studies suggested subtropical areas in the south had the highest risk of such ‘zoonotic’ transmission to humans.

Shi told the respected science journal Scientific American last month of her relief when, having checked back through disposal records, none of the genome sequences matched their virus samples.

‘That really took a load off my mind. I had not slept a wink for days,’ she said.

Many international experts have also dismissed such theories.

Dr Keusch, Professor of Medicine and International Health at Boston University’s Schools of Medicine and Public Health, stressed that no release of viruses from a high-level lab, such as the one in Wuhan, ‘has ever happened’.

He defended his peers in the Chinese city as he said: ‘The Wuhan lab is designed to the highest standards with redundant safety systems and the highest level of training.

‘Many of its research faculty trained at a similar laboratory in Galveston, Texas. So we know the Wuhan team is as qualified as the Texas group…

‘This means the assertion of a leak, rather than being highly likely, instead is highly unlikely.’

Last week, further doubt was cast on the animal market theory, however, after Cao Bin, a doctor at the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, highlighted research showing that 13 of the first 41 patients diagnosed with the infection had not had any contact with the market.

‘It seems clear that the seafood market is not the only origin of the virus,’ he said.

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American biosecurity expert Professor Richard Ebright, of Rutgers University’s Waksman Institute of Microbiology, New Jersey, said that while the evidence suggests COVID-19 was not created in one of the Wuhan laboratories, it could easily have escaped from there while it was being analyzed.

Prof Ebright said he has seen evidence that scientists at the Centre for Disease Control and the Institute of Virology studied the viruses with only ‘level 2’ security – rather than the recommended level 4 – which ‘provides only minimal protections against infection of lab workers’.

He added: ‘Virus collection, culture, isolation, or animal infection would pose a substantial risk of infection of a lab worker, and from the lab worker then the public.’

He concluded that the evidence left ‘a basis to rule out [that coronavirus is] a lab construct, but no basis to rule out a lab accident’.

Results of the U.S-funded research at the Wuhan Institute were published in November 2017 under the heading: ‘Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus.’

EU has had to ‘set aside principles’ during coronavirus outbreak, claims Michael Gove April 29th 2020

The European Union has “set aside” some of its principles during the coronavirus outbreak, Michael Gove has claimed.

The cabinet minister, a leading Brexiteer, told MPs on the Commons Brexit committee that “restrictions on border movements and on economic interventions” were exceptional measures that Brussels would not normally “countenance”.

Mr Gove also predicted that the odds of success in securing a trade deal with the EU were “definitely better than two to one” – despite warnings about a lack of progress last week by EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier.

He told the committee that the UK would be making public its legal text for a proposed free trade agreement in “a matter of weeks”. It has already sent a version to EU negotiators, but has not made it public. The EU has made its proposed text public.

Asked why the UK didn’t publish its text at the same time as the EU, Mr Gove said the bloc’s version would have been leaked anyway because of its contact with diplomats and that the commission was simply making “a virtue out of a necessity”.

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“We wanted to make sure that the commission had time and space to look at our proposals,” he said of the UK’s own reticence to publish.

Addressing his claims that the EU had bent its principles for Covid-19, Mr Gove said: “One of the reasons why we want to be outside the legal architecture of the European Union at the end of the transition period is so we can have the maximum flexibility when it comes to state aid, government procurement, and to other steps that we may need to strengthen our economy.

“We’ve seen the way that during the Covid-19 crisis some of the principles of the European Union have been set aside very prudently by the EU to enable member states to take the appropriate steps required, and we have seen both on restrictions of border movements and also on economic interventions actions by individual member states, national governments, which in ordinary time the EU would have found difficult to countenance.”

In fact, the EU’s Schengen treaty that abolishes border controls already contains provisions for temporary border controls in the name of public health or national security. They were previously used on a widespread basis as recently as the refugee crisis.

Women Leaders Know Best Official. April 25th 2020

***Women Leaders know and do what’s best- but for who do they do it ? Decisiveness might really be the usual female instinct of running for cover. Corona is now a much bigger issue than the virus.***

Thatcher shown here, was an arrogant bigot every bit as over rated as Cjurchill- dangerously so. She was a bigot who’s simple minded stupidity did so much to promote the globalisation that has facilitated this so called lethal pandemic. She also abolished the Equal Opportunities Commission, saying she had not needed it – No, she married a man who would now have been called a billionaire in these days of hyper inflation. Robert Cook

On 1 April, the prime minister of Sint Maarten addressed her nation’s 41,500 people. Coronavirus cases were rising, and Silveria Jacobs knew the small island country, which welcomes 500,000 tourists a year, was at great risk: it had two ICU beds.
Jacobs did not want to impose a strict lockdown, but she did want physical distancing observed. So she spelled it out: “Simply. Stop. Moving,” she said. “If you don’t have the bread you like in your house, eat crackers. Eat cereal. Eat oats. Eat … sardines.”
The 51-year-old Caribbean premier may not have the global profile of Angela Merkel or Jacinda Ardern, but her blunt message exemplified firm action, effective communication – and showed another female leader getting the job done.

From Germany to New Zealand and Denmark to Taiwan, women have managed the coronavirus crisis with aplomb. Plenty of countries with male leaders – Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Greece, Australia – have also done well. But few with female leaders have done badly.
Ardern, 39, New Zealand’s premier, has held Kiwis’ hands through the lockdown, delivering empathetic “stay home, save lives” video messages from her couch and communicating daily through non-combative press conferences or intimate Facebook Live videos, her favourite medium.
Her insistence on saving lives and her kindness-first approach – urging New Zealanders to look after their neighbours, take care of the vulnerable, and make sacrifices for the greater good – has won her many fans, while her emphasis on shared responsibility has united the country.

Choosing to “go hard and go early”, Ardern imposed a 14-day quarantine on anyone entering the country on 14 March and implemented a strict lockdown two weeks later, when fewer than 150 people had been infected and none had died. New Zealand has recorded just 18 deaths; public trust in Ardern’s government is greater than 80%.
In Germany, Angela Merkel has been hailed for direct but uncharacteristically personal public interventions, warning that up to 70% of people would contract the virus – the country’s “greatest challenge” since 1945 – and lamenting every death as that of “a father or grandfather, a mother or grandmother, a partner …”
Thanks to extensive testing from the outset, plenty of intensive care beds, and the chancellor’s periodic forthright reminders that Covid-19 was “serious – so take it seriously”, Germany has so far recorded fewer than 5,000 deaths, a far lower figure than most EU countries.

With a doctorate in quantum chemistry, Merkel’s clear, calm expositions – a clip of her explaining the scientific basis behind the government’s lockdown exit strategy was shared thousands of times online – have also helped propel public approval of the fourth-term chancellor’s handling of the crisis above 70%.
In nearby Denmark, meanwhile, the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, acted equally firmly, closing the Scandinavian country’s borders as early as 13 March, and following up a few days later by shutting all kindergartens, schools and universities and banning gatherings of more than 10 people.
That decisiveness appears to have spared Denmark the worst of the pandemic, with fewer than 8,000 confirmed cases and 370 deaths. Frederiksen’s no-punches-pulled speeches and clear instructions to the nation have been widely praised.
She even managed to show a sense of fun, posting a clip on Facebook of herself doing the dishes while singing along to the 1980s Danish popsters Dodo and the Dodos during the nation’s weekly TV lockdown singalong. The Scandinavian country’s youngest-ever prime minister, whose approval ratings have doubled to more than 80%, has now begun easing its lockdown.

Meanwhile, Iceland, under the prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir’s, leadership, has offered free testing to all citizens, not only those with symptoms, and has recorded 1,800 cases and 10 deaths. Some 12% of the population has taken up the offer, and an exhaustive tracing system has meant the country has not had to close schools.
The world’s youngest head of government, Finland’s prime minister, Sanna Marin, also moved decisively to impose a strict lockdown, including a ban on all non-essential travel in and out of the Helsinki region. This has helped her country contain the spread of the virus to just 4,000 cases and 140 deaths, a per-million toll 10 times lower than that of neighbouring Sweden.
Not all the women who have excelled in the corona crisis are national leaders. Jeong Eun-kyeong, the unflappable head of South Korea’s centre for disease control, has become a national icon after overseeing a “test, trace, contain” strategy that has made the country the world’s coronavirus role-model, with daily infections in single digits and a death toll of less than 250.
Jeong, a former rural doctor dubbed “the world’s best virus hunter”, has delivered no-nonsense daily press conferences, including demonstrating the ideal way to cough. While these have won praise, her work ethic – she has left an emergency operations bunker only for quick visits to a food truck – has prompted concern for her health.

Whatever conclusions we may draw from these leaders’ performances during the pandemic, experts caution that while women are “disproportionately represented to a rather startling degree” among countries managing the crisis well, dividing men and women heads of state and government into homogenous categories is not necessarily useful.
Complicating factors may be at play. Kathleen Gerson, a professor of sociology at New York University, notes, for example, that women leaders are more likely to be elected in “a political culture in which there’s a relative support and trust in the government – and that doesn’t make stark distinctions between women and men. So you’ve already got a head start”.
In addition, it may be harder for men to escape “the way they are expected to behave” as leaders, Gerson told The Hill website. And since the very best leaders are both strong and decisive and capable of displaying feeling, women could, perhaps, “lead the way in showing that these are not competing and conflicting attributes, but complementary – and necessary for good leadership”, she said.

Comment More of the Feminist Polical Agender ( Agenda )

How much praise one gives to female leaders in this context depends on how one accepts lock down as a sensible stable door measure. There is no doubt that the New Zealand leader got straight to it, with our press whinegeing that she wouldn’t let our beloved special case affluent ‘Brits ‘ come home. But the real issues are with the Western Northern Hemisphere and luvvie duvvie leaders like Merkel, fans of open door immigration and globalisation.

As for singling out women as best leaders, it is vile sexism. it is a matter of fact that the third world has been held down and backward by black religious bigoted thieving war mongering dictators.

Imagine saying white leaders are best. You would get arrested, but man bashing is fair game. Leaders in the west are from the upper and upper middle class. Their decisions are class based and class biased. Most men are at the bottom, along with most women. Still it doesn’t surprise me that comfortable overpaid media folk are back on the scene with the feminists women as victim smokescreen Robert Cook

CORONA CHAOS April 24th 2020

The number of people dying from coronavirus in Europe’s care homes has been described as an “unimaginable human tragedy”, as new estimates suggest they make up nearly half of all deaths from the disease.

The World Health Organisation’s regional director for Europe told a press conference on Thursday there was a “deeply concerning picture” emerging regarding those in long-term care.

Dr Hans Kluge said: “According to estimates from countries in the European region, up to half of those who have died from Covid-19 were resident in long-term care facilities.”

While Kluge didn’t provide a country-by-country breakdown for the estimates, England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty, admitted on Wednesday that the number of UK deaths in care facilities is likely to be an “underestimate”.

Current figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest 1,043 people have died in care homes after contracting Covid-19, compared with 18,100 in hospitals.

It comes after the government and Care Quality Commission (CQC) said on Wednesday that deaths in England’s care homes during a five-day period could be double the total figure already reported.

Prof Whitty told reporters that the 826 care home deaths reported in England and Wales by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the week ending April 10 were “an underestimate”.

“The numbers that have been ascribed to Covid directly in ONS statistics are still relatively modest,” Prof Whitty said.

“But I have said repeatedly in data – the fact that the ONS said in their last weekly report 826 deaths – every one of them a tragedy, but I think that will be an underestimate.”

The world is facing widespread famine “of biblical proportions” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the UN’s food relief agency has warned, with a short time to act before hundreds of millions starve.

More than 30 countries in the developing world could experience widespread famine, and in 10 of those countries there are already more than 1 million people on the brink of starvation, said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme.

“We are not talking about people going to bed hungry,” he told the Guardian in an interview. “We are talking about extreme conditions, emergency status – people literally marching to the brink of starvation. If we don’t get food to people, people will die.”

Covid-19 is likely to be sweeping through the developing world but its spread is hard to gauge. What appears to be certain is that the fragile healthcare systems of scores of developing countries will be unable to cope, and the economic disaster following in the wake of the pandemic will lead to huge strain on resources.

“This is truly more than just a pandemic – it is creating a hunger pandemic,” said Beasley. “This is a humanitarian and food catastrophe.”

Beasley took his message to the UN security council on Tuesday, warning world leaders that they must act quickly in a fast-deteriorating situation. He urged them to bring forward about $2bn (£1.6bn) of aid that has been pledged, so it can get to the frontline as quickly as possible.

Another $350m (£285m) is also needed to set up the logistics network to get food and medical supplies – including personal protective equipment – to where it is needed, including air bridges where ground transport is impossible.

Even before the Covid-19 crisis, Beasley was appealing to donor countries to up food relief funding to the poorest, because conflict and natural disaster were putting severe strain on food systems.

“I was already saying that 2020 would be the worst year since the second world war, on the basis of what we forecast at the end of last year,” he said. Added to that, earlier this year East Africa was hit by the worst locust swarms for decades, putting as many as 70 million people at risk.

But the Covid-19 pandemic, which no one could have foreseen, has “taken us to uncharted territory”, he said. “Now, my goodness, this is a perfect storm. We are looking at widespread famines of biblical proportions.”

According to a report produced by the UN and other organisations on Thursday, at least 265 million people are being pushed to the brink of starvation by the Covid-19 crisis, double the number under threat before the pandemic.

None of those looming deaths from starvation are inevitable, said Beasley. “If we get money, and we keep the supply chains open, we can avoid famine,” he said. “We can stop this if we act now.”

He said the situation even four weeks from now was impossible to forecast, stressing that donors must act with urgency. He urged countries not to put in place export bans or other restrictions on the supply of food across borders, which would lead to shortages.

But Beasley also warned that staving off the threat of famine would take months, so assistance would be needed well beyond the initial response. “Our grave concern is that we could begin to put Covid-19 behind us [in developed countries] in three or four months, and then the money runs out,” he said. “And if the money runs out people will die.”

Last year, the World Food Programme assisted about 100 million people in desperation, with a budget of about $7.5bn (£6bn). “I could easily see that need [for budget] doubling,” said Beasley.

Money alone will not be enough, he added. It is difficult for relief workers to get through lockdowns around the world and set up air bridges when transport is paralysed. “We need money and access – not one or the other, both.”

Also crucial is ensuring that supply chains stay open in the face of lockdowns and the difficulty of getting workers into the fields to tend crops if they are sick or unable to travel easily. “If the supply chain breaks down, people can’t get food – and if they can’t get food for long enough, they will die,” said Beasley.

“We are in this together. We can stop this becoming a widespread famine. But we need to act quickly and smartly.” the Guardian April 20th 2020

Comment Africa April 22nd 2020

As I have said before, we are not all in this together. The world’s underclass, including us in Britain, will pay for this. From my perspective, based on what I have seen and read, there has been an exaggerated, alarmist and extreme response to a virus that kills fewer than flu in the U.K.

Across Europe there are obvious links between old age, pre existing conditions and free movement. Double counting and listing Corona as a probable or linked cause of death has been rampant to reinforce panic and compliance with new police state laws.

The lockdown also serves other political purposes in the current period of extreme social unrest caused by the eiite’s monopoly of wealth and power. Africa, like Latin America and the Middle East have been fundamental to the elite’s global wealth and power. Horrible greed power grabbing wars have been stoked up and raging in these areas for many years and to the elite’s direct and indirect profit.

So called diversity, political correctness and religious tolerance have created an extremely important smokescreen reinforced by the elite media. Thus, in Africa, land of Western placemen, dictators and despots, where the average black woman has 15 babies, is a land of misery, hopelessness and disease for the many.

Rich rock stars like Bono et al may massage their massive egos exhorting the struggling western masses to support their Africa benefit concerts, but it is a pathetic self glorifying response to a problem we are not allowed to seriously face up to. Stoking up the Corona panic, rather than make the rich parasites pay, ripping of and filling ordinary Africans with religion or dreams of a better life in the west, is making this situation so much worse.

Lockdown is about locking us up in minds and bodies, stopping us talking and meeting each other, switching off the global economy for as long as it takes, because the elite can last a very long time while people go mad and die across the world. Oh great, the sky is bluer, clearer air for this elite to breathe, while the rest of us starve, suffocate and blame each other. I am afraid, the Rev Thomas Malthis was right. Look him up. Robert Cook

Trump Card April 21st 2020

President Trump announced in a tweet late Monday night that he plans to suspend immigration to the United States, a move he said is needed to safeguard American jobs and defend the country from coronavirus pandemic. (The Washington Post)

Comment The one change the liberal elite won’t want is an end to the insanity of globalisation. Robert Cook

US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up April 20th 2020

The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history.

That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May.

Demand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns across the world have kept people inside.

As a result, oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory.

The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barrel.

The severe drop on Monday was driven in part by a technicality of the global oil market. Oil is traded on its future price and May futures contracts are due to expire on Tuesday. Traders were keen to offload those holdings to avoid having to take delivery of the oil and incur storage costs.

June prices for WTI were also down, but trading at above $20 per barrel. Meanwhile, Brent Crude – the benchmark used by Europe and the rest of the world – was also weaker, down 8.9% at less than $26 a barrel.

The oil industry has been struggling with both tumbling demand and in-fighting among producers about reducing output.

Earlier this month, Opec members and its allies finally agreed a record deal to slash global output by about 10%. The deal was the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.

But some analysts said the cuts were not big enough to make a difference.

“It hasn’t taken long for the market to recognise that the Opec+ deal will not, in its present form, be enough to balance oil markets,” said Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at Axicorp.

The leading exporters – Opec and allies such as Russia – have already agreed to cut production by a record amount.

In the United States and elsewhere, oil-producing businesses have made commercial decisions to cut output. But still the world has more crude oil than it can use.

And it’s not just about whether we can use it. It’s also about whether we can store it until the lockdowns are eased enough to generate some additional demand for oil products.

Capacity is filling fast on land and at sea. As that process continues it’s likely to bear down further on prices.

It will take a recovery in demand to really turn the market round and that will depend on how the health crisis unfolds.

There will be further supply cuts as private sector producers respond to the low prices, but it’s hard to see that being on a sufficient scale to have a fundamental impact on the market.

Meanwhile, concern continues to mount that storage facilities in the US will run out of capacity, with stockpiles at Cushing, the main delivery point in the US for oil, rising almost 50% since the start of March, according to ANZ Bank. “We hold some hope for a recovery later this year,” the bank said in its research note.

Mr Innes said: “It’s a dump at all cost as no one, and I mean no one, wants delivery of oil with Cushing storage facilities filling by the minute.”

Rioting broke out in housing estates around Paris as tensions escalated over the coronavirus lockdown. April 20th 2020

Rioting broke out in housing estates around Paris as tensions escalated over the coronavirus lockdown.

Footage posted on social media showed protesters hurling projectiles including fireworks, and police responding with tear gas and baton charges. Other videos showed several police cars and bins being set alight.

The violence erupted in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the north of the city, and continued into the early hours of Monday.

It followed prosecutors opening an enquiry after a 30-year-old motorcyclist, reportedly from an Arab Muslim background, was critically injured after a collision with an unmarked police car in the suburb.

Residents claimed it was an example of police heavy-handedness against ethnic minority communities during the lockdown.

French journalist Taha Bouhafs posted several clips of the riots on Twitter.

“Lots of fireworks fire this evening at #VilleneuveLaGarenne, tensions underway in several neighborhoods, notably in the northern suburbs,” he wrote.

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced he was extending a virtual coronavirus lockdown in the country until 11 May, saying progress had been made against the virus but the battle not won.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe reiterated on Sunday that the country was moving in the right direction, but shut down any expectation that the gradual exit from confinement next month would allow people to move around or interact as before.

‘We need life again’; Germans rush to reopened shops but Merkel worries April 20th 2020

BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germans returned to the shops on Monday, craving retail therapy after a month of lockdown, but Chancellor Angela Merkel urged them to remain disciplined to avoid a relapse in the fight against the coronavirus.

Shops up to 800 sq metres, as well as car and bicycle dealers and bookstores, are allowed to reopen this week under an agreement with the leaders of Germany’s 16 states, all keen to start the long haul of pulling the economy out of recession. Schools are set to begin reopening in two weeks.

Europe’s largest economy has relied more on domestic demand in recent years as the strength of its traditional export engine has faded, and the move echoes a slow easing in neighbouring countries, equally desperate to revive business and society.

“We need life again. This whole time it was like a ghost town,” said Michaela Frieser, not wearing a face mask, in Frankfurt’s main shopping district. “The sun’s out, we saved enough money and now we need to go out and spend it!”

The federal and state governments have strongly recommended that Germans wear face masks when shopping and on public transport, and some states have even made that compulsory.

Gertrude Sietzy, wearing a face mask and disposable gloves nearby, was thrilled to get outside.

“I don’t like ordering on the internet,” she said, adding that, if shoppers kept their distance, “it should work”.

To the east, farmers’ markets, craft shops, car dealerships and dog grooming salons opened in the Czech Republic, which had imposed one of Europe’s earliest and strictest lockdowns.

“This is relief from the stress that we will have to throw away the harvest,” vegetable grower Milan Vystejn said at his stand in Prague’s Tylovo Square.

Germany’s southern neighbour Austria took a first step in relaxing restrictions last Tuesday by letting DIY stores, garden centres and smaller shops reopen, and plans to reopen museums and libraries from mid-May.

Coronavirus lockdown sparks riots in Paris April 20th 2020

When a pandemic strikes, the world’s leading experts convene April 9th 2020

When a pandemic strikes, the world’s leading experts convene – physically or virtually – in a hi-tech chamber in the basement of the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization.
It is called the “strategic health operations centre”, or SHOC, an appropriately urgent acronym for a place where life and death decisions are taken, and it is where critical choices were made in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.

“We’re mostly like a 1950s, never-been-upgraded place, except for the SHOC room, which was built with all the screens everywhere and the desks with computers that rise up. The whole thing does look like something that Hollywood set up, imagining a pandemic,” a WHO official said.
“You sit there and you hear these experts from all over the world and they’re really leading people. The best expertise available to get the best advice possible, it’s a very impressive sense that hey, this is really how it is supposed to work.”

On 22 January, it was in this setting that the WHO emergency committee convened to make a pivotal decision on whether to advise the organisation to declare a “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC) – a formal red alert for the world.
The WHO had been sharing information with member states constantly since the first cluster of pneumonia cases was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of December, but declaring a PHEIC still had huge symbolic importance.

The WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, sat in the SHOC with his top advisers watching as a succession of speakers gave their views on the screens in front of them.
First there were reports from China, and then Japan and Thailand where cases had been recently confirmed. Then it was the turn of the 15 members and six advisers on the emergency committee, drawn from around the world.

The debate was highly technical but it had one critical issue at its heart. It was known by then that the virus had spread from person to person, but the question was how easily?
If human-to-human transmission was only happening in close quarters, in families, or between patients and health workers, then perhaps it could be largely contained without a worldwide alert, and all the global economic disruption that entailed. If the virus was spreading freely among communities, there was not a moment to lose.

The emergency committee was split down the middle on the question. So Tedros told it to convene again the next day, in the hope new data might create a consensus.

“Tedros’s only obligation under the law is to convene a committee but not to follow it. But he feels that politically he needs to get a unanimous decision before he acts or at least an overwhelming majority,” Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health law at Georgetown University, said.

The second day’s meeting however, changed no one’s mind, and the impasse remained. Tedros had the committee adjourn pending further study and put it on notice to reconvene at short notice. A international health emergency was declared a week later, on 30 January, after clear evidence of community spread of Covid-19 had emerged.
WHO under fire

The events of January were always destined for scrutiny. The WHO conducts an after-action report in wake of every pandemic. But by seeking to make the global body the scapegoat for the debacle of the US response, Donald Trump has ensured each detail will become exhibits in a highly-politicised show-trial, likely to last as long as the election campaign.

Furthermore, the president has used claims of WHO’s dysfunction to justify cutting off US funding to it, worth over $400m a year, and hindering the organisation’s ability to help counter the spread of the pandemic in fragile and poor countries around the world.
In a hail of accusations hurled at the WHO in recent days, Trump has accused it of withholding critical information about the danger of Covid-19, and being under the control of China.
None of the accusations are supported by the facts.

Lawrence Gostin
China argued against declaring an emergency on 22 January, but could not have carried the argument alone. The other emergency members and advisers came were experts from the US, Thailand, Russia, France, South Korea, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Senegal, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and New Zealand.

Their advice is confidential, but for the vote to have been split, several western, or western-aligned, representatives must have voted with Beijing.
While the emergency committee took a week to decide to declare a PHEIC, Trump spent more than a month after that playing down the threat to the US, during which the country fell weeks behind the rest of the world in diagnostic testing and stockpiling essential equipment.
There is no evidence to support Trump’s claim that the WHO hid information at China’s behest. The US is well represented in the top ranks of the organisation. There were more than a dozen officials from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) embedded in the WHO in January and February.

US health leaders were part of regular conference calls, weekly or twice weekly, beginning on 7 January. From 10 January those calls included warnings about the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Trump’s Taiwan angle
Trump’s most recent line of attack has been that the WHO ignored vital warnings from Taiwan.
“Why did the WHO Ignore an email from Taiwanese health officials in late December alerting them to the possibility that coronvirus could be transmitted between humans?” the president asked in a tweet on Friday, echoing a claim made by Taipei.

However, the Taiwanese email appears to have made no such warning. It was sent from Taiwan’s CDC to its WHO liaison officer on 31 December, hours after the first official report of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan were published online.
According to the text provided to the Guardian, the email said: “News resources today indicate that at least seven, atypical pneumonia cases were reported in China.”

It restates the details of Chinese report, adding “I would greatly appreciate it if you have relevant information to share with us.”
The email did not contain new information, and certainly nothing about human-to-human transmission. The WHO had picked up the same report on the night of 30 December and was urgently seeking more information. On 1 January it activated its incident management support team, putting the organisation on an emergency footing.

Related: China’s handling of coronavirus is a diplomatic challenge for WHO
The Taiwanese government has claimed that it did not receive a reply to its inquiry and was generally shut out from WHO deliberations. Since the UN voted to recognise the People’s Republic as the sole representative of China in 1971 and the World Health Assembly followed suit in 1972, Taiwan has not had full member status in the WHO, but it is involved in the organisation’s work.

It is one of 15 non-state entities that have access to expert deliberations through an information network established by the International Health Regulations (IHR), a pact on collective action against infectious disease with roots stretching back to the nineteenth century. The latest version was agreed in 2005 by 196 countries, and it provides the legal framework for the work of the WHO.

However, Taiwan says its participation is fragmentary and selective, largely because Chinese obstruction. A Taipei government statement pointed out that it reported its first confirmed coronavirus case on 21 January through the IHR system, but was not invited to participate in the three emergency committee meetings held in January, where its voice may have made a difference.

“The Covid-19 outbreak is a reminder to all the world once again, that politics has barred Taiwan from contact and communication with WHO and global public health experts, and this can only gravely damage global cooperation in epidemic prevention and control,” the statement said.
Tedros has also drawn criticism for his tireless praise of China and Xi Jinping’s leadership, hailing Beijing’s transparency despite the critical early weeks left when the authorities tried to cover up the extent of the problem in Wuhan. The director general’s defenders say such diplomatic flattery is the price of ensuring Chinese cooperation with information and WHO site visits. Tedros also complimented Trump in a March 23 tweet, claiming he was doing “a great job in the fight against Covid-19”, and Trump was also effusive in praising Xi in the first weeks of the pandemic.
“They’re making it seem like he’s a crony of China, but he’s caught in the middle of a super power struggle competition,” Gostin said.
The WHO also provided ammunition to its detractors when, on 14 January, it put out a tweet citing preliminary Chinese studies finding “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission”.

It was issued on the same day the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove (a US immunologist) gave a press briefing in Geneva warning of precisely the opposite – the potential for rapid spread. Concerned that her briefing conflicted with the initial Chinese findings, a middle-ranking official told the social media team to put out a tweet to balance the Van Kerkhove briefing. In so doing, the WHO exposed itself to the charge of contributing to an air of complacency. But the tweet was factually true and does not appear to have been part of a deliberate strategy.

Again and again, the events of January reflected the difficulties Tedros and his organisation faced in negotiating a path between two hostile superpowers, and the egos of their leaders, without any independent powers to enforce compliance and information sharing.
However, what mistakes that may have been made in charting that course have little to do with the lethal fiasco that unfolded in the US in the two months after the WHO raised an international alarm.

Corona lockdown in poor countries April 19th 2020

***Bring out your dead, bodies on the streets in Ecuador- all an outcome of global economics and free movement .***

The coronavirus pandemic that’s shattered lives throughout high-income countries is hitting the developing world as well. But while many of the world’s poor countries affected by the virus have imposed the same social distancing measures as rich ones, the results have not been the same — and the unintended consequences are proving to be deadly.
In most high-income countries, stay-at-home orders have been a cornerstone of the coronavirus response. But we’re learning quickly that taking a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t necessarily fit very well with the needs of the developing world.
The litany of unrest and suffering is growing by the day. In Kenya, police beat people for defying a stay-at-home order and shot to death a 13-year-old boy who was standing on his balcony. Human rights activists in Nigeria say that at least 18 people have been killed by security forces enforcing the lockdown. In India, news of an impending national lockdown sent millions of laborers fleeing for the rural areas where they hoped they could find food during the shutdown. They likely carried the coronavirus with them.
“My request to all my countrymen is that coronavirus will not be allowed to spread across new areas at any cost,” Indian President Narendra Modi said in a speech extending the country’s lockdown by three weeks. “I understand the great difficulties you are facing regarding food, the lack of movement. Some had to stay away from their families. You are fulfilling duties as disciplined soldiers for the sake of the nation.”

“It seems like there’s a bit of global mimicry,” Lee Crawfurd of the Center for Global Development, a London-based think tank that studies policy in the developing world, told me. “Countries are just doing what seem like the official things,” even though the same approach causes different problems.
How can lockdowns cause more harm in poor countries than rich ones? When almost everyone works in an informal economy and needs to work every day to put food on the table — the situation in some of the poorest countries — calling a halt to economic activity can get rapidly disastrous. When states have limited budgets and capacity to support their locked-down population, lockdowns can result in widespread starvation and rampant disobedience and unrest.
And in dense urban settings where there’s limited sanitation, staying home doesn’t even prevent the virus from spreading.
Unless they chart a new course, many countries in the developing world are at risk of getting the worst of both worlds — mass poverty from shutdowns and mass illness and deaths from the continued spread of the virus.
In rich countries, lockdowns are rough. In poor ones, they haven’t stopped the virus — and can lead to greater suffering.
Within the rich world, the advice from epidemiologists has been fairly consistent: People must employ social distancing, even at substantial economic costs, to prevent the virus from sweeping through the communities and overloading the hospitals. When the virus has gotten out of hand, nearly every rich country has enforced a shutdown to reduce the growth of cases.
This has largely worked, though at a terrible price. From China to Italy, countries that have implemented aggressive orders to stay home have seen their case numbers start to fall (it is unclear whether U.S. case numbers are on the same trajectory).
Many poor countries have emulated these steps. El Salvador announced a 30-day national quarantine on March 21, when it had no known cases. On March 24, India shut down the whole country of more than 1 billion people. Kenya and Rwanda have also locked down, as have parts of Nigeria. More than half of the world’s population is now under some kind of movement restriction.
But while these policies are well-intentioned, they’re not working. In fact, they may be causing even more suffering. In El Salvador, crowds of people swarmed the capital begging for aid more than a week after the lockdown was announced. Researchers in India report that they’ve already documented hundreds of deaths caused by the lockdown, including people who died of starvation and migrants fleeing the cities for rural areas who collapsed of exhaustion or were run over on the roads.
Even worse, the lockdowns, in addition to causing all sorts of misery, are not even stopping the spread of the virus. Poor countries now represent all of the countries where Covid-19 cases are growing most rapidly. That’s because states don’t have the capacity to enforce lockdowns, and citizens don’t have the luxury of obeying them, pushing them to disobey government orders out of desperation.

My enemies want me to keep the country closed so I lose the election: Donald Trump claims ‘fake news’ is pushing need to lockdown in the face of coronavirus out of hatred of him April 14th 2020

President Donald Trump complained the ‘fake news’ wants him to keep the economy shut down so he loses re-election this fall
‘The media would like to see me do poorly in an election,’ he said at the daily White House coronavirus briefing
President Trump has grown visibly frustrated with stories critical of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic

***The price of global elite greed will be pid for by the ignorant masses.***

***There are 3 strains to this unusual fast mutating virus and a lot the ruling global elite are not telling us, So much for democracy !.***

***The three strains of Covid 19. Where did it come from, why and how ?*** Why stop the world and why not go for herd immunity ? The people dying are old and or with pre existing medical conditions. Poverty is also a major factor, poverty has been the food of the global elite’s economy for decades.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday complained the ‘fake news’ wants him to keep the economy shut down so he loses re-election this fall.

‘The media would like to see me do poorly in an election,’ he said at the daily White House coronavirus briefing.

President Trump repeatedly refers to news stories he doesn’t like or are unflattering to his administration as ‘fake news’ and he has grown visibly frustrated with stories critical of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The White House has come under fire for the lack of surgical masks and ventilators needed by health care professiona Search for:

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Birmingham stabbings: Zephaniah McLeod charged with murder of Jacob Billington

Tuesday 8 September 2020 22:15, UK

Birmingham

Image: Zephaniah McLeod has been charged with murder and attempted murder

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A man has been charged with the murder of Jacob Billington – one of eight people stabbed in Birmingham in the early hours of Sunday.

Zephaniah McLeod, 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, Birmingham, is also accused of the attempted murder of the seven other victims.

Police have so far not released an image of McLeod but Sky News has tracked down one of the first pictures – showing the accused man against a red background.

Mr Billington, 23, was on a night out with school friends from Liverpool, visiting one of their group studying in Birmingham, when he was stabbed in the neck.

https://west-midlands.police.uk/news/loving-tribute-birmingham-stab-victim — Image: Jacob Billington, 23, was stabbed in the neck during a night out with friends

Three people are still in hospital after the city centre attack, including Mr Billington’s friend, Michael Callaghan, who is in a critical condition.

A 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, is critical but stable, and a man aged 30 is in a serious condition.

The other four victims have been discharged.

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Three people arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender were released earlier on Tuesday pending investigation.

Mr Billington’s family said in a statement on Monday that he was “a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met”.

More tributes were paid today by the the university he worked and studied at.

Image: The attacks happened in Birmingham in the early hours of Sunday

A spokesperson for Sheffield Hallam University said: “Jacob was a Sheffield Hallam graduate and had joined the library as a graduate intern, where his warmth and enthusiasm made him a greatly valued member of our team.

“Our thoughts and condolences are with his family, friends and colleagues at this very difficult time.

“We are providing support to those in our community who have been affected by this tragic incident.”

Mr Billington and Mr Callaghan had both attended the Sacred Heart Catholic College in Crosby, which held prayers for them on Monday evening.

Investigations into Sunday's attack are ongoing — Image: Police want any witnesses or anyone with photos to get in touch

The school said in a statement: “We are saddened at the events in Birmingham which took Jacob’s life and left Michael critically injured.”

“We are praying for Michael’s recovery and will never forget Jacob, his life touched so many in our school.”

Also paying tribute was Mr Billington’s local MP for Crosby, Bill Esterton, who said that his friends had acted “heroically” in a bid to save his life.

:: Anyone with information, photos or video which could help is asked to contact police here: https://mipp.police.uk/operation/20HQ19G54-PO1

Comment This is a ad man, probably a deranged Muslim. Mustn’t say that.

Corrupt Police and Lying NHS Mental Health April 19th 2020

***Encouraged by me and against his mother’s wishes ,*** my son Edward at the controls of a light aircraft flying along the Atlantic coast of Cornwall in 2006. His Uncle Deputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman lied to courts that Edward has learning difficulties. He is highly intelligent but has OCD due to years of domestic abuse – not by me.
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The Joker April 19th 2020

The Joker, my ex brother in law liar Chief Constable Simon Chesterman, the senior police officer who, with the help of his friend and then boss, CC Paul West shut my vulnerable son Edward away in his remote home for family financial gain during my divorce, then began my 12 year police nightmare. *The British Police are above the law.*

Chesterman abused his position because he feared Edward would escape from the remote Chesterman rural home and spoil the plan. So he and West lied abusing their positions to get myself and Kieran a PNC Criminal Marker and damning soft intelligence. All of my efforts to have him, his family and the police investigated have led to more malicious prosecutions, police harassment and now attempts to have me sectioned, using a tame and incompetent lying psychiatrist Dr C R Ramsay to judge me as having paranoid personality disorder, likely ‘to die by misadventure’ because I am, according to Ramsay, ”impulsive, impetuous and reckless.. ”

***If I really could make this up, then I would have made a lot more money from writing than I than I did – that which I did make my ex wife took from me over the years.***

Chesterman and WMP’s Sergeant Rees from Ludlow police station, also lied that we were stalking and threatening violence, terrifying his family -including young daughters who were allegedly frightened to go out in case we attacked or abducted them -over the weekend of October 4th/5th 2008 when we were hundreds of miles away, asking for his allegations not to be investigated. Rees lied on the record, that he found my eldest son and I there camped out and ready to do harm.

***Chestserman was third in command of WMP at the time, and from his own admission to me while drunk and boasting to me at his home, his underlings were scared of him because he wrote their appraisals.***

The police have still admitted nothing, lying to all concerned parties that they have me under ongoing investigation because my eldeest son and I are still allegedly are threat a threat that he had to have enhanced security in December 2008 = presumablyobtained by lying that we came back again..

***The police lie that they only lost their last two major Crown Court actions against me because they lacked evidence to back their malicious and expensive prosecutions.*** ***Obviously this situation has been life threatening to me.***

They lied to the snobbish superficial local GP who is either incompetent or a liar also, because he signed off to other parties that I am a violent wife child and mother beating alcoholic and have been mentally ill for many years. he had no evidence other than police and Chesterman lies.

***Interestingly the same GP repeatedly signed off to the DVLA that I have no mental illness and do not drink heavily. Dr C R Ramsay signed off on this*** mental health smear because he is an incompetent unscrupulous liar. He and the NHS Whiteleaf Centre which employs him have ignored my requests for a definition and explanation for their PPD diagnosis 12 months ago, and why I have heard nothing more about their so called ‘multi agency approach to my case, involving among others the vile and disgustingly dishonest police.

The police have also ducked complaints going back 12 years and refuse to answer my complaints dating back to cover misconduct and malicious prosecution in 2015, 16, 17, 18 and more recently. I know how they work. They are waiting to build another malicious case of harassment breach of a restraining order which they treat as a “gagging order ” combined with a mental health assessment to either get me sectioned or jailed.

Just saying or reporting this is grist to their paranoia mill, relying on the creepy slavish Dr Ramsay to back them up. They do not expect to face the evidence against them, having nobbled my lwayers and judges so successfully in the past. They are institutionally corrupt.

***It is ironic and almost funny that I am the one who has been convicetd of harassment and given a restraining order for things I never admitted and never did.***

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***My young lively son Kieran wants attention from a grand father more interested in the sea it would appear.***
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***My Son Edward before his mother’s manipulation and control destroyed him.***

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Lives Destroyed by Institutionally Corrupt Police April 17th 2020

My troubled younger son Edward being cuddled by his brother Kieran. Edward has not been seen by Kieran or myself since March 2008. He is, allegedly too ill to speak to the police, My ex wife forbade Kieran and I from ever seeing his brother again because she was angry that Kieran chose to live with me.

She was still taking Edward to the bathroom and toilet when Edward was 20, when she took him from the marital home. She cancelled the outside help that I had called from the GP, telling me I had the problem and must see an analyst. I did as I was ordered on threat of losing my family. The analysts told me to ‘find the woman within !!’ No one was allowed to see or speak to Edward without her presence and approval. Edward spent the last three years at the marital home, in his bedroom, in under pants, bottle for urine, cling wrapped sandwiches and wate – on Playstation all day until his mother came home to cehck on him, then take him to the bathroom.

He had to be left alone all the while my ex wife ws at work. My mother and I had to account for our days and Edward was interrogated as to whether either of us had been to his room. My ex wife’s family, later alleged that I had a history of doemstic violence, which the police still refuse to explain or investigate, and which was never investigated or mentioned during my divorce.

My ex brother in law, DCC Simon Chesterman, of Enigna and Plebgate fame. lied that Kieran and I had been stalking him over the weekend of October 4th/5th 2008, terrifying his young daughters, threatneing violence and out to grab edward who was shut up in his home. Sergeant Rees from Ludlow Police station backed up Chesterman’s lies that Kieran and I were found stalking. the police work on the principle that the more cops back up lies, then the more believeable those lies are in court.

Chesterman’s wife PC Carron Chesterman, others of West Mercia Police, where Simon Chesterman was third in command, alleged that Kieran and I had bullied Edward for years. No evidence was needed to create malicious career destroying records and PNC Criminal Marker, information has persistenly been witheld from my lawyrs and court.

Vulnerable Edward was being used to gain money from my divorce. this is abuse, abduction and exploitation of a vulnerable adult by Chesstermans – West Mercia and Thames Valley Police – covering it all up for the sake of their reputation and ‘one of their own.’.

They have now used the lying imcompetent and unsrupulous Dr C R Ramsay of Oxfordisre Mental Health Care to declare me as seriously mentallly ill, paranoid and on the verge of needing hospital treatment. This is so terrifying, after everything else, I have to put it into the public domain. R.J Cook
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My gifted son Kieran, in happier footballing days. Now portayed by police as a dangerous bully, no one could have been a more supportive brother and son than Kieran. His life has been ruined by his mother, her family and the police.
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‘The Woman Within’ by Polly Sexual aka Roberta Jane Cook April 12th 2020

***Coming Soon, Polly Sexual on her horific personal experience of corrupt British Police, so called Independent Office for Police Complaints ( IOPC ) & CPS in Police State Britain***
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Due to police and NHS collusion and lies, to avoid investigating my serious criminal allegations against the police, my ex in laws and the NHS, my eldest son and I have been made unemployable. The Corona Virus has further damaged our finances so seriously that we face homelssness and destitution. As to my other son Edward, goodness knows what my ex in laws, police and NHS have done to him.

My involvement with the Gender Identity Clinic was the result of my ex wife insisting that I saw a psychoanalyst. Her brother was, and probably still is, a senior police and anti terrorist officer. She told me that I had to do as I was told or have no family. I was not allowed to talk to my sons if she was not present. I also had to account for my whereabouts and any money I wanted. Drinking was limited to her, mother and I sharing one bottle of wine a week, on Saturday evening.

That was in 2003. My novel ‘Man,Maid,Woman’ had just been published. so when the analyst asked me what I had written, I told him about the novel. He said ‘We must set about finding the woman within’ . If yo want to know more, read on. My ex brother in law was, at the time ACPO firearms lead who wanted all officers to have tasers, he was the man who changed an official report into Plebgate by exonerating three officers facing disciplinary proceedings, and he is the man who detroyed mine and my eldest son’s life by lying that we were stalking him and his family, threatening violence when were hundreds of miles away.

With help from corrupt colleagues, like Cheief Constable Paul West and Sergeant Rees, to name only two, he gave us a PNC Criminal Marker and malicious so called soft intelligence records on October 8th 2008. His motive will be explained later.

The police’s corruption and cover up, with years of lies and libelous national press releases, have given my son and I, 12 years of hell, abuse and insecurity. Now they are playing the old ‘He’s mad you know routine.’ My ex wife never mentioned domestic violence during our divorce, which was running at the same time my in laws made stalking allegations, which rather than confront me, they lied they found me there in woods by Chesterman’s home, and police created the criminal marker- leading to me being chased and frequently stop/searched.

I was 200 hundred miles away at the time of the alleged stalking incdent that I know of, -Chesterman may have invented more, -and can still prove it. Two officers went on record, lying to back DCC Simon Chesterman and his family. As a former public servant, I have to say how sick I am of hearing how wonderful our public services are.

My ex father in law’s brother spent his entire adult life in an asylum, dying there. My father in law also suffered from mental illness and was forced to retire from the Civil Service aged 50. The family projected their history on to myself and two sons. Two police forces have spent a fortune watching, bugging and taking me to court. I live in fear because of them. They are institutionally corrupt and a corner stone of the British Police State. My story, all true, follows in some detail below.

R.J Cook

My novel ‘Man Maid Woman’ the story of a young working class man so messed up he thinks it will be better as a girl- how deluded. The critocs hated it because it is not PC, showing women as not always honest, good or equal to the boy’s fantasy.

Brief Intro : Harassment originating from high level, in particular my ex brother in law DCC Simon Chesterman, of Plebgate fame, for his family’s financial gain during my divorce, his boss, friend and mentor CC Paul West of WMP being responsible for a malicious PNC Criminal Marker and so called soft intelligence records to restrict my freedom of movement, blacken my name, label me violent and mentally ill, destroying my work prospects.

Twelve years later Thames Valley Police still hide behind so called ongoing investigations and allegations of mental illness in order to avoid revealing to me, or the press, records of their so called investigations dating from October 2008 to present. The story also involves domestic violence by my ex wife, hate crime, abuse manipulation and control of a vulnerable young adult, perjury, misconduct in public office and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

I won my last two courts cases against the police, but as we know, when defeated the police just say it was ‘lack of evidence,’ rather than fabricated or no evidence, then they keep watching. Having won against them in 2016, I was so traumatised, I took a large overdose of tamazapam and had to be taken to hospital. My wife’s domestic violence toward me, and abuse of my youngest son had previously driven me to hanging from a door knob in March 2007, because I felt so alone, helpless and worthless. She said no one would believe anything a useless excuse for a man like me had to say. Hence my drift toward the notion of being transsexual.

Having lost their previous court cases, the police contacted my GP surgery asserting that I am a mentally ill alcoholic- a young GP showed me the police letter to them. They were advised to inform the Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), where I had been a patient for over two years. They had been prescribing hormones with a view to GRS, then suddenly concluded that I have a paranoid personality disorder and needed anti psychotic drugs, but no need for hospital YET. The NHS and police were to pursue a multi agency approach to my case, said their report. The recommendation for my gender reassignment came from the same psychiatrist who wrote the report that I am a paranoid personality disordered person with abnormal psychology. Police, GIC and my GP still refuse to answer my questions.

I have photographs and documents to support this very alarming story of high level police corruption, showing just how easily senior British Police officers can abuse the system for their own ends, in collusion and conspiracy at the public’s expense. R.J Cook April 9^{^th} 2020

Background

My eldest son Edward life has been ruined. I have no idea where my youngest son is because his controlling mother took him from my home in March 2008. He has not been seen or heard of since. My ex brother in law, Deputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman, is a high ranking ‘well respected ‘ senior police officer’ who lied to get a restraining order so that his whole family could benefit from his sister’s historic very disturbing relationship with this son. In 2012, Birmingham Crown Court were told that Edward was too ill to be interviewed by police.

They destroyed my eldest son Kieran’s life with lies about him being Edward’s abuser and that he was and is violent. to prevent him having contact with his brother. My father in law’s brother was locked in a mental home- called asylums then- from the age 18, and died there. Their father was also a police officer.

The Chesterman family are hypersensitive to mental health issues and family image. Chesterman and police lies, in order to protect the Chesterman family with a malicious restraining order on me, is their stock and trusted defence. The order is based on the lie that I stalked DCC Simon Chesterman’s home, threatening him and his family with violence, and that I admitted making false and malicious complaints about him.

As soon as you go to them, they will trot out these vile lies, but will not dare offer honest evidence because there isn’t any. If all else fails, they will say that I am certified as mentally ill. That is because the British police are institutionally corrupt. I can support my allegations with documents, police correspondence, court records, evidence of my true whereabouts when Kieran and I were allegedly stalking and photographs. I can also prove that I was my youngest son Edward’s County Council approved tutor.

This is a story about high level British police corruption, a transsexual, hate crime on the part of senior public servants, the abuse, manipulation, coercive controlling behaviour, defrauding the benefits system and control of a young vulnerable adult, serious domestic violence, perjury, misconduct in public office and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice – and the ruin of five lives, one dead.

There was a related death when Chesterman’s eldest daughter’s ex boyfriend, Craig Shell, a key witness in my first trial attempted suicide in May 2011, killing himself the following November by hanging.

The British Police, backed up by their spin doctors and slavish politicians, never miss an opportunity to present themselves as heroes. Just as forcefully, they never expect to be held accountable, investigated and exposed. They have very comfortable niche in British society handling complaints against themselves, even when they go through the IPOC.

Deputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman is my ex brother in law . At the time of my divorce from his sister in 2008, Nicola, he was an Assistant Chief Constable and third in command at West Mercia Police ( then called a Constabulary ).

Chesterman, by then Deputy Chief Constable, is the person who re wrote the report quashing an inspector’s conclusion that three officers should face disciplinary proceedings over their proven Plebgate criminal lies.

He was moved sideways into the Civil and Nuclear Police following exposure in national press- after withdrawing his resignation from the police. He has form and complained on cpurt statements against me, that my 2008/9 allegations had been career threatening he said that he was hoping I would go away and fearing he might turn up in one of my books.

Chesterman’s greatest claim to fame was getting the notable World War Two Enigma machine back, following a call from Jeremy Paxman’s BBC office, where the thief had sent it parcelled up in what was obviously a long publicity stunt to save wartime code breaking H.Q from becoming a housing estate. But as Chesterman told me; ‘It got me my promotion.’

He was recommended, in 2003, for his West Mercia post by the force’s Chief Constable Paul West who had been his second in command and Chesterman’s mentor when both men served with Thames Valley Police ( TVP ).

As Bucks Divisional Commander at TVP, Chesterman began his anti terrorist training because he had responsibility for PM Tony Blair’s security at Chequers. Chesterman told me this impressed his friend West, making him the perfect candidate for the West Mercia job.

Having passed his ACC board, Chesterman told me, during a visit to his Oxford home, in 2003 that there were two ACC vacancies. One was in Hampshire, the other was West Mercia. Chesterman told me that WMP boss and friend West had told him the West Mercia job was his, so not to bother with Hampshire.

***DCC Simon Chesterman, then DCI head of Milton Keynes CID, at Bletchley Police Station with the famous ‘Enigma’ Machine, recovered by his team.***
***Image by Appledene Photographics/R.J Cook and from the book ‘Milton Keynes in the News’ by Robert Cook nd Andrew Shouler.***

Simon Chesterman likes to deflect my persistence in trying to bring the truth to light in court over the last 12 years, as me blaming him for my divorce. There is no evidence to support his argument, but as a very senior police officer, Simon Chesterman knows the police do not need evidence when they conspire to convict and jail people they don’t like. Senior officers are unaccountable, unless they break ranks- like Sue Sim.

I do, however, allege that Simon Chesterman became involved in my divorce from his sister, with malice aforethought and for family financial gain. In this connection, my vulnerable young adult son Edward was crucial to their game plan. In Simon Chesterman’s words ( from one of his court statements in this case ) ‘Edward is vulnerable to manipulation and control.’ Chesterman was referring to his fears that Edward might choose to live with his brother rather than be shut up in his house, which was the case on the highly significant dates of October 4^{^th}/5th 2008 – a weekend.

The Chestermans were and presumably still are, high livers, with a very large remote family home in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire and expensive tastes including extravagant foreign holidays. He also had an ex wife and older son at school, then university in France where his ex ife had moved. Simon Chesterman lived in Cleobury Mortimer with his second wife, both elderly pensioner parents and three daughters. His living costs and lifestyle were upper end.

As a consultant forensic psychiatrist appointed to have me sectioned during crown court hearings in 2013, when I was taken to court for trying to stop my ex wife contacting – via the police – my home in 2012, commented, when you challenge the police you are up against a monolith.

Needless to say, he pronounced me perfectly sane, I have the 22 page report to prove it. Each time the police have failed to jail me, they go for the mental health card. It begs the question why don’t they go for sectioning first rather than all these expensive monitoring exercises and court cases ? They lost in 2016 because they had no evidence against me, brazenly lying to the judge and my lawyers. They were fined and had to pay costs. It is almost funny and proves them to be imbeciles at the every highest level – and criminally corrupt by their very nature.

They took me to court for making allegations of Chesterman family conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, misconduct in public office and perjury, based on new evidence previously withheld and clearly explaining the malicious PNC Criminal Marker and false records from WMP. The police and CPS mysteriously converted the prosecution, with no regard to law, to accusing me of domestic violence.

They had no evidence for this or anything else. I made the allegations by e mail, six times, in 2014. the sixth time, I warned them that this would not go away. The sixth time was January 2015. They sent 3 officers to arrest me and search the house, but I was with my then partner in North London. I agreed to a voluntary interview in March 2015. My lawyer phoned to tell me they were going to prosecute me on Christmas Eve 2015. I was changing trains at Finsbury Park Station at the time.

It will become clear, if you decide to read all, that I have been in court regarding these matters from 2011 until the last case in September 2018. but the root of the problem lies back in 2008, when the Chesterman family lied that Kieran and I were stalking their remote large rural home, which was fitted with a panic alarm, over the weekend of October 4^th/5th 2008 when we were in fact hundreds of miles away and can still prove it.. Paul West was involved in this and it is very serious criminal misconduct which they still refuse to investigate and explain.

I am currently labelled as having a paranoid personality disorder, subject to a multi agency approach but ‘not needing hospital yet.’ I have heard no more on that score since receiving the report last August. One assumes they could come for me whenever they think I am too much of a problem for them. Paranoia indeed ! I refused their anti psychotic drugs which would have turned me into a zombie – a type of chemical lobotomy . More of that later.

The Bare Facts

I married Nicola Chesterman at Catherington Church, near Portsmouth, on August 12 1977. We divorced in 2008 – decree nisi November 19th 2009.

Having left my job with the Inland Revenue, we moved to London in August 1977, where I worked in the City, my wife as a student nurse. We hated our jobs, so Nicola got a place at Imperial College and I trained as a teacher, at Goldsmiths’ College.

Afterwards we moved up to Buckinghamshire to live with my mother in the house I had bought for her in 1971. Here in Bucks I taught for 18 years, as secondary school teacher and college lecturer along with part time newspaper work. I also served on the local council, with ten years heading planning. I held a senior council consortium position – chairman with an advisory role to the Government’s Richardson panel during the Milton Keynes planning inquiry, writing a book on the subject of the city’s origins and expansion.

My wife had two miscarriages in the early 1980s Our first son Kieran was born in September 1985. Our second son Edward was born in March 1988. My ex mother in law came up from Cornwall on the latter occasion, starting a major row with me, by telling me my mother was senile and should be in a home. She had always been a source of interference and was obsessed with her son and his police career. My ex wife later alleged on a 2011 court statement ( not shown to me before 2013 ) that she only stayed with me for the following 20 years to protect my two sons and mother from my violence. Simon Chesterman alleged that I was always rude to his mother and therefore ‘rather odd.’

My ex wife presumably told all this to her brother’s police force back in October 2008 as part of the lies to get the PNC Criminal Marker and ‘soft intelligence’ records ( lying again that they were being stalked in December 2008 and getting enhanced security ). I have not been shown any records of any police investigation, though they must have typical police lies on record. If I die before this matter is resolved, the police will be able to get their dishonest records even more protected by writing me off as malicious, vengeful and nuts.

This means, along with the latest mental health slur, I will not be able to leave any property or wealth to my son Kieran. Any Will I have made will be open to challenge -and ultimately the outcome will be that the lying Chestermans and police will benefit .

Given that I was forced by my wife to take all of my holidays with in laws in Cornwall, the stress of my mother in law’s acid tongued judgemental interference was difficult to cope with. I did not like here. It begs the question why was I still being forced to visit and holiday with them right up to summer 2007?

My ex mother initiated a row with me in 1978, while on one of those enforced Cornish holidays and in front of her family which included Simon Chesterman with whom I was adversely compared, saying she considered me selfish and reckless for giving up my city job to teach. She told me that her son Simon was much more thoughtful and ‘placid ‘

Image was everything with her. I just wanted to pay the bills through teaching, be a writer, guitar maker and musician – not proper jobs as far as the Chestermans were concerned. So, after the 1978 row,I told Nicola I was going back home to London next day and wanted a divorce. My ex wife chased after me, begging me not to end the marriage, saying she wanted to end contact with her parents.

Somehow we limped on, eventually making renewed contact with her parents a year later, but my relationship with my ex mother in law remained strained. My relationship with her son Simon was also strained. Simon had been a good friend in the years up to my marriage. I found him very good company and amusing. Their move to Cornwall changed everything, with my ex father in law falling into deep depression. I felt I no longer knew him. Simon told me he could not wait to leave for the city, ‘With bright lights and smoked glass – Cornwall is for old folk.’ he said.

My father in law, whose family had a history of mental illness, was by this time heavily sedated, and had been for several years since his enforced retirement from ASWE ( Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment ), when aged only 50. That is why they retired back to my mother in law’s Cornish birth place. My mother in law asserted command of us all.

Simon Chesterman joined Thames Valley Police in 1984, the same year he married Cathy, his first wife. They moved close to us, 20 miles away in Oxford. This meant that my mother in law, leading her husband was a frequent visitor to her son, and hence to my family home where she was always very critical of my mother and I -being always bossy, sanctimonious and judgemental.

However, Simon Chesterman never visited us in all of my time married to his sister, yet he and his second wife made statements judging myself, Kieran and Edward adversely.

My two sons, Edward nad Kieran, left to right. They were inseparable until my divorce in 2008. Then my wife told Kieran he could never see his brother again, and as we discovered years later contributng , with the rest of her family, to police ‘soft inetlliegence files.’ I too, am covered by the ban, with the courts being told that Edward is too ill to be interviewed or appear in court. In 2011, I was by my lawyer the court would not ***believe anything I said because of the high status of my ex wife, her brother and family.***

***These files and reaons for the PNC Criminl Marker originated in 2008, have still not been diclosed to me because the police know they would face prosecution.***

So they lied about ongoing investigation to avoid the press, and now the mental illness thing again to hide from my latest complaint. By then with my sons 20 and 22, my ex wife was still washing and taking Edward to the toilet aand shower.

Edward had severe OCD, but my ex wife would not permit outside help, telling me I had the problem and needed an analyst. When Kieran chose to live with me, she told him he could never see his brother again, shutting Edward up in her brother’s remote Shropshire home. He has not been heard of since,

Chesterman lied that Kieran and I were stalking him, adding more lies, the police refusing still to explain the marker and malcious records, and how they came to criminalise Kieran and myself. Whenever this is mentioned, they have closed down my websites and arrested me, ransacking my house in the process and stealing property as part of their spurious so called investigations which they never explain .

***This is a police state with an upper middle class tame press, so they do what they like to do. Image Appledene Photogrphics/RJC***

I also got the impression that my ex mother in law’s criticism was similarly directed toward Simon’s first wife and a factor in their divorce.

My ex mother in law’s father left home the day after the night she was conceived, never being seen in Cornwall again. She never met her father. My ex mother in law took after her mother, with the same moralising narrow minded Cornish outlook. She told me that meeting the mature Frank Chesterman when she was 17, was her way out of Cornwall and poverty. Frank had turned up as temporary lodger while involved with weapons sea trails off Pendeen lighthouse. My ex mother in law told me that she made the decision to dump her tenant farmer boyfriend as soon as she saw Frank.

Simon’s marriage failed due to his rampant adultery, so my mother in law had her husband sell up and move up country to Oxford, bailing Simon out because he had lost everything, including custody of his two young children. Simon was by now with his second wife Carron , also a TVP officer.

The ongoing presence, rudeness and interference of my ex mother in law in my family life was an increasing source of argument. As Edward grew older, this woman decided that Edward was in some way retarded because he had a large head in relation to his tiny body.

She said her friend, Cornish District Nurse and midwife Rachael Ewer had told her that maybe Edward had fluid on his brain. This woman’s interference was intolerable to me. Added to everything else, she insisted my mother be put into an old peoples’ home. There was no alternative to hers’ or her son’s opinion. My ex wife increasingly followed suit, with no time or care for what I thought or needed.

***My ex wife with Edward in 2003. My son is clearly unwell and I was clamouring for outside help. She raged and sent me to the analyst instead. Edward was then shut in his room for years.***
This woman was Head of Governor and Young Peoples’s Services at BUCKS CC at the time. She wrote on her statement in 2010 that she was frightened of me, only staying from 1988-2008 to protect the rest of my family, including my late mother, from my violence and abuse. She wrote, that I had been mentally ill for many years, but refused treatment.
None of this was mentioned to me during the divorce or by the police. I found out from papers supplied by the Head of West Midlands CPS in 2012, when I was taken to court for asking the polcie to stop my ex wife contacting this address. Image Appledene Photographics/RJC

By 1997, the situation with Edward was critical. He was leaving me pleading notes begging to be excused school where he had been bullied and humiliated for years. I had been special needs governor for four years at his school, thus very aware of the school’s shortcomings which I was powerless to resolve, although I challenged the headteacher who argued that special needs was my responsibility.

Edward had been frequently talking about suicide. I think the real problem was the domestic situation, with all the arguments upsetting Edward and making him feel very insecure. My ex wife’s very odd relationship with Edward made matters much worse.

After much argument, and only with my ex mother in law’s support, I managed to get my ex wife Nicola to agree to home schooling, with me as Edward’s Council approved tutor.

By this time I had taken early retirement from teaching to pursue a writing career, as well as part time music teaching. My ex wife would later allege that I was forced to leave teaching due to mental health problems.

Through my ex brother in law’s corrupt influence, this judgement, along with violence allegations have been recorded post divorce as fact, were making it very difficult for me to earn a living. Similar allegations have been recorded against Kieran, making him unemployable.. My sister – with whom I had never been close- and her family helped to circulate the allegations against us both, including to the police. My music teaching business was destroyed, along with my writing career .

Before my marital break up, I taught Edward, with Bucks County Council approval, at home for two years. During this period in 1997- over just the first two months- I raised his literacy and numeracy score by a mean of 3 years, measured by a Harley St Psychologist Beverley Sobel. I alos took him flying and have a photograph of him at the controls over Penwith Peninsula. However , my ex wife insisted I send Edward to Private School, at my expense. This lasted for 2.5 years, with terrible consequences.

Edward consequently developed very severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ( OCD ) in relation to germs and hand washing. Edward’s condition was so severe that he frequently requested help with suicide. I have a copy of the contract he drew up, signed by my ex wife, where she agreed to help him kill himself if he could not go on coping with the private school. Obviously I was alarmed, but told to keep out of it on pain of divorce.

The police have never wanted to know about any of this because there are no depths to which they will not sink to protect senior officers- like Simon Chesterman and Paul West who broke the law to help and to protect and pursue Simon Chesterman’s vile intentions and the appalling consequences back in 2008, when he made and had recorded criminal lies about myself and son Kieran, with two police forces conspiring to cover their crimes and misconduct- and the force’s inflated egotistical reputation.

The situation became increasingly alarming. To cut a long story short, I had previously persuaded Nicola that Edward faking illness for a whole half term and saying he stayed up all night to push the morning away, was a very serious matter. This resulted in more rows, with her chasing, slapping and punching me.

After several more unpleasant rows – which often ended with her shouting, screaming and hitting me- I said I was not paying for the private school any more and withdrawing him. I also said I was going to our GP to get urgent help.

Meanwhile, my eldest son who had deferred university to accompany Edward to FE classes after withdrawal from school, had commenced life as a student at UEA in Norwich. He was coming home each weekend in 2005/6 to support his troubled brother. My ex sister in law PC Carron Chesterman later stated to police that ‘ Kieran and his father had bullied Edward for years.’

This contrasted with her and her husband admitting on court record that they rarely saw us. Curiously, I have photos of me looking after and entertaining Simon Chestermans youngest daughters whenever they visited our home with their grandparents. I used to collect them and take them back over the short journey to Oxford.. Odd isn’t it, since Simon put on police record that ‘I always thought Cook rather odd ’, that I was left alone with his daughters?

I drove Kieran 128 miles to and from UEA each week – 512 mile total per week. When Kieran decided the course was not for him, and wanted to leave, Nicola told him she would kick him out of the house if he quit or tried to change course.

The outcome of my request for help from our GP with Edward’s problems was a weekly visit from a mental health nurse called Clive, for cognitive behavioural therapy. Because my wife timed the sessions for the mornings when I was collecting Kieran from UEA, I was not present.

She had told me back in 2003, that I could not talk to my sons unless she was present. She stormed out of the house on Boxing Day night in 2007, ostensibly because I would not tell her what I had said to my sons. She had found out from Edward that I had broken her rule not to talk to them without her.

She was gone all night. I was becoming increasingly depressed, while doing a lot of freelance writing plus music teaching and hours of guitar practice= she told me I could play guitar in my sleep, not respecting the amount of work involved, especially for classical guitar garde lessons.

So I had the idea to write a novel about a boy who was not allowed to be a man, published as ‘Man,Maid.Woman’ in 2003, with TV and radio interviews following after. For a while I was a regular guest on the live Saturday morning Peter White show, until my wife ridiculed and threatened me, saying I was using the opportunity to meet other women.

The novel was narrated by a man, a maid and a woman, with the boy becoming his own girlfriend, a man made woman. The sense of failure and inadequacy of the main character in the book was all mine. A TVP Chief Inspector took a copy away with him in 2011 as part of a strategy to label me mentally ill.

The significance of this will become clear later here. It was one of my three books published that year, but I wrote it as therapy because by this time I was considering suicide. My ex wife was verbally and physically abusive- admitting her violence toward me on four separate occasions that she could remember.

She watched and checked up on me all the time, using my mother and housebound Edward as reporters on my comings and goings.

The psychiatrist C R Ramsay, who forced his way into my home in 2019, with two others, said he was not interested in seeing any of the books I had written, he was here to investigate my police sourced allegations of mental illness. Interesting, I thought, that he was not interested in any of the work I had been doing over the previous 20 years. He as many other of my interrogators, insisted there was something I was not telling him. In retrospect, I realise they had all been briefed as me being in denial of serious domestic violence and abuse toward wife, sons and mother, as per Nicola’s statements finally revealed to me in 2013.

Odd, is it not that none of them, including the police will reveal details of the said domestic violence or answer as to why I was not investigated and charged by the police back in 2008, from which time the allegations were put on record to justify the malicious West Mercia PNC Marker, which the police have refused to explain ever since I discovered it in May 2009. It is also odd, bearing this in mind, that I was given enhanced CRB clearance to sleep in a female friend’s flat, an unlocked landing away from the 9^th year girls dormitory at exclusive Woldingham School, in Surrey.

During my forced three meetings with Ramsay, he consistently interrupted me rather than do the necessary old fashioned listening to my answers and explanations. This was because he had been told what he had been sent to find. Among his conclusions was the phrase that I have ‘abnormal psychology’ he didn’t relate this to me with evidence or argument, or explain any of his other conclusions. What I said had to fit the pre diagnosis. If being a zombie is normal, then I have to admit I am not that. More of that later.

My ex wife’s official excuse for her admitted domestic violence toward me, related on her redacted 2011 court statement was that I had said nasty things about her mother. In fact she went into demented rants and fist waving every time I said something she disapproved of. It all became so bad that I hung myself from a door handle in March 2007. Consequently I saw a psychiatrist – by personal request because I hated my life, being blamed for everything my ex wife considered wrong. The psychiatrist told me I was not depressed, but very unhappy. She said she had no pills for that.

My absence from the mental health team visits to Edward left the door open to Nicola covering herself and getting what she wanted. By this time in 2006, Edward had completely been withdrawn from public life.

On my return from collecting Kieran at UEA one day in 2006, my ex wife told me she had been talking to the mental health nurse while he was visiting Edward. She said they had agreed that I, not Edward, had the mental health problems. I needed to see a private analyst. So I did. She then cancelled Edward’s outside help, setting up the situation where he spent all day on his own in his bedroom, while she was at work, with contact from myself and mother forbidden. Obviously that was creepy, distressing and a source of argument.

So, back to my meeting with the analyst. The meeting was arranged via Nicola’s ex boss and Chief Psychologist at Bucks, Joan Baxter, with the shrink this woman saw every week about her own problems. He had been told I was a writer, asking what I had written. When I told him about ‘Man, Maid, Woman’ he said ‘We must go about finding ‘the woman within.’ In other words, I had to confront being transgendered. As a writer, this phrase conjured up an idea for a Kafkaesque revision of ‘Metamorphosis.’ I thought about writing a new book about a transsexual who hates the woman within, so goes looking for someone to kill her-and obviously himself too.

By now Edward was a mid teenager, he was washed and taken to the toilet by his mother every day. Very disturbing noises were heard coming from the bathroom while she was washing him, right up until he was 20 when they left the marital home.

For the last three years here, Edward had lain all day on his bed in underpants, with cling wrapped sandwiches, water bottle and bottles to pee in. He had a play station for fun. No one was allowed near him until his mother came home from her work as a senior education officer with Bucks County Council.

This practice continued right up until my last row with her on this subject on March 16^th 2008 when she was again trying to get him into the shower and toilet. He was 20 years old and she was going in there with him. In my view, this practice had connection with his wider psychological problems.

It was a Sunday night, one week after she had cornered me attacking with verbal abuse having broken a full glass of wine because I would not give her ‘ more bloody wine’ as she put it . She was using the broken wine glass as a weapon, screaming at me for not being quick enough to wish her a happy birthday., She then stormed down the passage and into the bathroom.

My mother pleaded with her to come out and calm down. She came out angrier than ever, pushing my elderly mother on to her back. I ran in to the adjoining conservatory- which I had built for her in 2003 because she wanted one like her parents , my skills coming from late teenage years on major building sites.

So on the evening of Sunday March 16^th, we argued her latest attempt to get Edward, then 20 , into the bathroom and toilet. He did not want to go. But I got nowhere with her, as always. In desperation, I left the house on March 16^th and went to a pub. I very rarely went to the pub, and rarely drank. My ex wife disapproved if I drank, becoming very angry if I wanted to go beyond her, mother and me sharing one bottle of wine per week.

When I came home the house was empty. My ex wife, I later learned, took my sons on pretext of a cooling off period, dropping my mother off with my sister on the way. I had no idea where any of them were for two following weeks, the police refusing to help me. It transpired that leaving, via my sister’s home had been planned back in January.

It also transpired that she had consulted a divorce lawyer the previous January, after consulting with Simon and his family. He certainly had a vested interest -ultimately committing serious crime to help her by criminally supporting her – but he did not make her divorce me. Nicola only did what she wanted to do, manipulating others, including me. Simon Chesterman is an opportunist with no principles whatsoever – but has a fraction of his sister’s considerable intelligence..

I phoned my ex mother in law on March 17^th 2008. She reminded me that she had come from a broken home. ‘You are sick and in need of help. You will never change. You will never see your sons again. Don’t call here again.’

My sister and I were never close, so she told me nothing, having sided with my ex wife and her family. It was Easter 2008. My sister, with other members of her family, would later bear witness that I am mentally ill.

My ex wife later alleged, helped by her brother’s police media people, that she had fled the house from my violence, though this was never raised in the divorce hearings, and only to the police via her brother later on. My mother was shut up in my niece’s house for two weeks, with no means of contact before protesting that she wanted to go home. I had the additional stress of not knowing where she was.

My sister. I discovered. took instructions from my ex wife to fill in a housing application for my mother to move in to sheltered accommodation, backing up the lies that I had a history of violence toward her. This strategy was to prevent me from keeping the marital home, a situation inflamed by Kieran choosing to come back and live with me rather than his violent aggressive controlling mother.

I was never openly accused or investigated for domestic violence or anything else related to the Chestermans or my mother – but records were obviously made, contributing to the lies used by Simon Chesterman and Paul West to short circuit proper police procedure before putting the PNC Criminal Marker on my car dated October 9^TH 2008 , and not removed until October 2010 when I was arrested for distributing a leaflet on this matter. The leaflet and internet campaign was an outcome of the nightmare police harassment and their refusal to explain themselves when I found out what they were doin and why.

None of the information that I learned about this marker came from West Mercia Police and they still won’t tell me why they created this or soft intelligence records against myself and Kieran. The IOPC as with the IPCC before them, refuse to investigate because the police have lied to them, and in any case this renamed body is as corrupt and in hoc to the police as its predecessor. It just has a new name, but too many of the same corrupt ex or seconded cops on staff.

As I said, I was not home when my ex wife left with my mother and two sons. I had fled from her angry outbursts over washing and taking Edward to the toilet, which I considered unhealthy to put it mildly. She even commented on the size of Edward’s penis. She has him all to herself now thanks to the corrupt police et al.

While all of this was building up during my son’s first year at University, I had the idea of buying a second house in Norwich. I thought it would help Kieran settle in and maybe his brother could visit to escape what I considered a very toxic home environment. I thought Kieran could let rooms to other students and maybe find a girlfriend and a future. Kieran agreed, putting in his earnings from two years work prior to UEA – over £20,000 and paying 75% of the mortgage from his student loan.

Both he and I put our savings into the project and a mortgage was taken out in my ex wife’s name, even though she was the minor financial contributor. I was also persuaded to buy a six berth motor home during this period, for £21,000. We only used it as a family to drive to Cornwall once in 2007, where we spent £2000 to rent a house for two weeks in 2007. My mother in law was down with Frank, especially on holiday from West Mercia to greet us.

My ex wife decided that the Norwich House would be our weekend cottage, so although Kieran had funded the purchase and 75% of the mortgage, zero rated as a student home, he had little freedom there and Edward could not visit without his mother.

Without going in to too much more detail. Edward became worse, ferried back and forth weekly between each property like an invalid, from one bedroom to another. If anyone touched the car while we were in traffic, Edward insisted I washed it as soon as we got to Norwich.

My wife was meanwhile rising in the Bucks County Council hierarchy, with a close male colleague, friend, Peter Eddington, as mentor e.t.c. My marriage was over. She began circulating stories to my sister’s family, friends and GP that I was an alcoholic. This had a serious impact on my medical treatment because my ex wife was a former Norden House Surgery employee, she knew which of their buttons to push. Throughout my married life in I had not been allowed to drink more than one third share of a wine bottle once a week.

So my ex wife erupted violently when I started buying myself a bottle of wine each week for my band practice, where I was lead guitarist and co lyricist. She did not like me having spending money, but I started taking it from my guitar lesson money – which she used to claim all of, along with my book royalties and freelance money.

So very soon after the band started up, she burst in to what became our final session in January 2008- we practised in my large office, screeching to my colleague, ‘I have to tell you Adam, Robert is an alcoholic.’ Adam was one of my many talented ex guitar pupils, just out of the army ( REME ), telling me, wehn I asked him why he wanted me in his band ‘You know what you are doing and will add character.

After our session, she told me ‘You are only in that band to run off with young women.’ She was increasingly displaying extreme controlling tendencies, psychosis and related paranoia I once told her our marriage was one long round of arguments and rows. I told her it was at the root of Edward’s OCD. He believed all our arguments were about him, heightening his insecurity and withdrawal. I told her that I was getting too old for it. She replied ; ‘ I feel I have to challenge you.’ Life, by now, for me was very heavy weather and utterly depressing.

My estranged wife reacted furiously when Kieran decided to come back to live with my mother and me. She needed Kieran to look after Edward and brooked no disagreement or dissent. When we – Kieran, mother and I- , drove up to the Norwich House, which was legally a student council subsidised home. We found the locks had been changed. It was early May 2008. We later discovered that all of our personal property, including Kieran’s laptop and study material, had been sold off by my angry ex wife. The house was on the market.

With under three months to go to finals, a post grad law place and intern ship lined up in barrister’s chambers, Kieran was locked out of his student home. His life was destroyed. He told mother and I he could not do his finals. He was already a year behind because he took a year out to attend college with his brother who would not have gone without him. I was also back teaching Edward after I withdrew him from school again.

My mother -who had brought Kieran and Edward up – because Nicola, by her own admission, was not maternal and had little time for our sons – became depressed, stopped eating, worried, consequently run down and caught pneumonia. She contacted c difficile in Milton Keynes Hospital, dying several months later in Stoke Mandeville.

As I have said, my sister’s family supported and encouraged by my ex wife, were hostile to Kieran. He was sent a letter signed by three of them, accusing him of killing my mother. One of my nephews visited my home just before my mother’s funeral, having been told by my then wife that Kieran had come back to live with me.

This nephew raged : ‘Where is the little fucker. I’ll smash his head in. He has to go back to Nicola.’ I reported all of this to the police, as harassment. They were not interested, telling me harassment was hard to prove.

A few weeks after my mother’s death in August 2008, my ex wife phoned Kieran to tell him that he could never see his brother again. My two sons had met up just after my mother’ death when he returned to his mother on condition he never saw me again.

Edward told Kieran that he had heard his mother- in August 2008- phone her brother Simon Chesterman for permission to let Kieran into her flat.

Edward said that Simon Chesterman said on speaker phone ‘only if he is coming back permanently.’ That is why my nephew was sent to threaten Kieran. These threats became ongoing with a local smear and hate campaign, socially isolating us, making it hard for us to make a living.

The only work we could get was night shift sorting for five brutal years sorting, caging, baying out and loading at City Link.

I gained a double hernia, after surgery spending a year in customer service, on vans and lorries, then back into the warehouse.

Through Simon Chesterman, we had soft intelligence criminal records and a PNC Criminal marker. These markers are intended to deny recipients freedom of the road. We were pursued and checked out by police wherever we drove. They are given for violence, drugs, arms and sex offences.

West Mercia Police’s DCI Watson was the first to respond to my complaints against his force, sent on October 7^th 2008. I did not then mention Chesterman, but Watson assumed I was blaming Chesterman for something concerning him.

Watson put in writing that I was guilty of a malicious vexatious abuse of the complaints system and he would block investigations at any level, including the then IPCC. He wrote : ‘I am warning you not to involve West Mercia Police in your complex and difficult marital affairs.’ This was absolute proof that Simon Chesterman was the person involving my and my marital affairs with West Mercia Police.

Thus my complaints escalated and the best WMP could come up with was that it was all a matter of Simon Chesterman’s private life.

There has never been an investigation of my complaints, but everything the Chestermans said about myself and Kieran has gone on police and medical records as fact- helping them to create a massive bad character file which they have several times used in efforts to jail me.

Simon Chesterman got me a PNC Criminal Marker because he feared I would bring Kieran to see his brother and that his brother might abscond from the Chesterman’s home. Edward’s alleged disabilities were worth thousands of pounds in established false benefit claims and as a lever for extra money in the divorce settlement.

I had been made aware that the Chestermans had serious money problems in September 2007, when my ex mother in law told me that her and her son had questioned Frank Chesterman about where his money was. Frank had become enraged. Obviously he spent it all bailing out his adulterous son. I was told to sell my big house and land, put mother in a home, Kieran in a bedsit and Edward in an institution. I should be looking forward to ‘a golden retirement’

I had been very close to my mother and found her passing, in such awful circumstances extremely difficult- my ex wife forbade Edward seeing her even though mother was dying. After her death, I said to Kieran that we should go on holiday to the Lake District, in the motor home., stopping off to see my friend Mick Birrell in Ormskirk Lancashire en route. Birrell provided a witness statement that we were at his home on October 3^rd and 4^th 2008, after travelling up from Cleobury Mortimer.

So why were we in Cleobury Mortimer on October 2^nd 2008 ?. Kieran told me told me that during his breif meeting with his brother, after mother’s death, he and Edward had already arranged a meeting in woods near Simon Chesterman’s home, where Edward knew he was going to be shut up by the Chestermans for the duration of the divorce. Reluctantly I agreed to divert en route to Ormskirk, but in no frame of mind to meet Edward. I parked on a campsite near the woods and about three or four miles from Chesterman’s home. I paid the farmer £5 for the day, parking near the river. The weather was fine at the time.

I remained in the motorhome for nearly five hours, with no word from Kieran. I was upset by what was happening to my sons, and bereaved. The idea that I would be capable of stalking at any time is absurd. To say I would be a stalker while bereaved and grieving is a vile insult. I could not e a stalker any time. Having no idea how to or why one should do it. The situation during the family break up was stressful. The weather was turning stormy. The river could be a problem, and regularly flooded.

So I phoned West Mercia Police and told them who I was and what was going on. I explained my relationship to the Chestermans and my concern for my son’s welfare. Kieran has never carried a mobile phone. I phoned my friend Birrell, and for diplomatic reasons asked him to phone the Chestermans to find out if Kieran was there. No bona fide stalker would do that !

The whole awful situation was the result of my ex wife’s obsessive controlling attitude to my young adult sons. It would never have happened if she had not banned contact between them. To make matters worse, I had forgotten my phone charger. My phone went dead . I used a local garage phone several times to re establish contact with the police, cut off each time it was answered. My last attempted call was around 4 pm.

Kieran returned after about six hours, having spent a long time waiting for his brother to arrive from the Chesterman house, then talking. It had started to rain heavily and was getting dark. I tried to leave the site but my heavy vehicle was bogged in.

The farmer’s camp site was empty. I realised I had to wait it out until morning. Around 9pm that night, a police car crossed the field. Kieran was asleep in the curtained off back section. I answered the door to one Sergeant Rees from Ludlow Police Station, and his female partner.

He told me he was answering my call from six hours earlier, then asked me if Kieran was O.K. I said yes. He insisted on seeing him. When I later complained about such poor service, WMP’s PSD boss jumped the gun, accusing me of trying to involve them in my ‘complex and difficult marital affairs. ‘ It transpired, from this response to my October 7^th complaint, that Rees had reported back to Simon Chesterman, his boss. WMP tried to pass this off as a welfare check, but it would lead to the PNC marker.

There was no dispute that the date of his visit was October 2^nd 2008. Chesterman and Rees maliciously and criminally changed the date and nature of the visit to the weekend of October 4^th/5th 2008, according to four Chesterman statements withheld from me during my first trial sessions. This adds up to further misconduct on teh oart of police and CPS.

From Chesterman witness statements it was alleged that I was actually in the woods meeting Edward, threatening Chestermans with violence, insisting Edward come away with us and terrifying Chesterman’s daughters so much they dare not go out. That is a very very serious charge, especially when made against a qualified teacher. Their statements shifted my visit from October 2nd to the whole weekend of October 4^th/5th, by which time we were nearly 200 miles away in Ormskirk.

Sergeant Rees, according to the Chestermans lied that he found Kieran and I on that site. Chesterman said to Rees, according to one of his statements, that he did not want legal action because it was a family matter, I was mentally ill. Thus the PNC Criminal Marker was put on my car and the malicious records were made. Is taht not worse than normal legal action ? I think it is misconduct and corruption. The purpose of the Chesterman crime includes covering up for and being party to the abuse and exploitation of a vulnerable young adult, who, according to West Mercia Police in 2012, was too ill to be interviewed by them

The 12 year police and CPS conspiracy and impasse in avoiding my complaints – reporting me as mad, violent ( see Harrassment Law reform of December 2012 ) hiding key, criminal lies, hiding key information, their expensive horrifying humiliating police raids, confiscations of property, time in cells, prison threats, tagging and national press release including these stalking lies along with home address released, also referencing ‘ a sex change secret’,so called ongoing investigation to avoid themselves being investigated – was achieved based on the myth that police, especially senior ones never lie or conspire to pervert the course of justice.

Early next day after Rees’s actual visit – accepted on WMP response to my complaint as being on October 2^nd 2008 and just a welfare check on Kieran – October 3^rd 2008, we were pulled out by Landrover, which damaged a track rod. We drove into Kidderminster, as recorded on hard evidence. Here I attempted to buy a new charger for my phone from Carphone Warehosue. Sadly it was obsolete, so I had to buy a new one.

By the way, I was in no state of mind to offer violence, kidnap Edward or hostility toward the Chestermans at this time. A forensic pyschiatrist/court witness concluded that I am not a violent personality. It is important to understand OCD and why Edward had his concept of a safe zone. He feared germs and other stuff all the time. This is known as transference, in the jargon. It was my wife who cancelled his care plan, saying I was the one with mental health problems. Kieran asked me to divert on my way to Lancashire, so he could meet with Edward in the woods where both had used to walk together..

This is where Simon Chesterman’s paranoia triggered by greed and family self interest kicks in.

WMP’s refusal to explain themselves and Chestermans misconduct led to my internet postings, then the leaflet campaign because his and family crimes made Kieran and I near unemployable and socially isolated. Homelessness was, and still is, a real prospect made worse and action more urgent by the Corona Virus lock down and Police/ Norden House lies to the Gender Identity Clinic, leading to the corrupt and current mental health diagnosis contrived by the Gender Identity Clinic as links in this vile public service chain.

One Saturday afternoon in autumn 2010, a brick was thrown through the large front window of my remote rural home. It would have killed a musician friend if she had not been late up from exclusive Woldingham Catholic Girls’ School,- where she worked in a senior position and where I had enhanced CRB Clearance to visit, in spite of all police allegations. Whoever threw the brick knew me and the best time and approach up my steep drive. It was not random as the police immedaitely concluded.

It was the CRB who alerted me to the PNC marker and records, later confirmed by CS Michael Tighe in May 2008, triggering my further complaints , which were ignored for a year before I resorted to the internet and ultimately the offending leaflet.

The brick thrown through my window on October 2010, landed on the sofa where my friend normally sat. I had been sleeping after a long City Link Night shift when Kieran alerted me to what had happened. Harassment was hard to prove, I was told, but obviously not when you are a senior police officer or member of his family. No evidence is needed in Chesterman’s case, even if the police officer is making it all up.

As always, the police did not want to know about the brick. This violent act coincided with imminent court action relating to my criminal allegations against Simon Chesterman and his family. I think the Chestermans believed I had all the evidence against them, not that key information was being withheld by DCC Chesterman’s self interested employers, particularly West who must have signed off on the marker and records, as ‘officer on the ground.’

Police refused to explain about the marker, lying that they did and lying that they gave me records of any investigation. Nor have they ever investigated Chesterman or his family. What they had done was set up monitoring mechanisms of myself and Kieran, the marker helping forces to find and chase me on the road, even into my workplace at midnight where they searched my car in front of colleagues. It happened everywhere because of Chestermans lies and they still refuse to explain. I was nearly sacked over that incident, which was the police intent as they blocked other job applications directly or through CRB. They have also blocked me from taking lodgers.

I was arrested in September 2010 for distributing a leaflet in Simon Chesterman’s home village of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. This leaflet included a picture of him where he was described by me as looking like a famous German dictator. I took the offending picture with his kNowledge in 2003, when he was giving a Hitler impersonation.

The leaflet went on to give a summary of the problems he had caused me during and after my divorce, most notably making false allegations of me stalking him, getting me a PNC Criminal Marker, and soft intelligence records for stalking him on the weekend of October 4^th/5th 2008, threatening violence and terrifying his children.

I was never interviewed regarding 2008 stalking allegations or domestic violence. But, aided by Paul West, all was recorded along with WMP illegally creating the PNC Criminal Marker which they still refuse to explain.

Interestingly, his court statements reveal Chesterman did not want a police investigation, just his assertions reported as fact. His allegations went on to assert, as I found out some years later, that I was mentally ill and had been abusive to his mother and sister for many years.

Chesterman also called in Sergeant Rees to back up his stalking lies. This is an important point because lying police rely on weight of numbers to cover themselves, as we saw with Hillsborough – also see ‘In the Line of Fire ‘ by former Assistant Met Commissioner Brian Paddick.

To this day, Thames Valley and West Mercia Police refuse to answer my questions reference this PNC marker and records that have also damned my eldest son as my violent accomplice – persisting in their lies to the Gender Identity Clinic and my GP practice principal.

They hide behind Blairite laws of ongoing investigations with bad character reports intended to protect women. In 2012, I received information form West Midlands CPS, a massive file, informing me that TVP had been monitoring me for WMP from the start of Chesterman’s criminal allegations in October 2008. In one senior officer’s report to CI Emma Garside of TVP, I am compared to his 4 year old child.

Interestingly and significantly, none of my so called violence and alleged stalking was made known to me during my divorce hearings which were concurrent. I did , however, make domestic violence form e allegations against my ex wife, being told they wouldn’t count unless I could prove she tried to kill me. I pointed out that she also physically assaulted Edward, often.

When I finally got the Chesterman statements, it was notable that they were contradictory and taken on different dates- facilitating collusion, with Simon Chesterman being asked for a second statement to tighten the 2010 case against me.

None of this information or an alleged ‘secret weapon’ statement from Edward was disclosed to me at the time. We now know the police collude amongst themselves and with the CPS, regularly break the law by withholding evidence, among other things, in order to convict innocent people.

They passed their self serving lies to my ex partner in 2014 when she made a Claire’s law request, resulting in them using her to try to get more dirt on me, hence the 2018 court cases. The police lied to her that I had lied to the police. I ender the relationship because of their interference, so she sent anonymous material alleging I was working for Kieran as a ‘gay escort.’ The police watched the house from December 2017- Feb 2018 before arresting me while I ahd a day off from truck driving. They , without any investigation, concluded that I had sent the material.

She made allegations via badly written anonymous letters and fake images that I was working as a ‘gay escort’ -with Kieran as pimp. I was subject to a 7 officer police raid and more of the police cells, which is referenced later on. I had, according to them posted the material in Northampton of December 12^th 2017. I had shopped myself to my ex wife, Simon Chesterman, both of their bosses and officers of WMP. According to them, I did this for revenge on my son, who I named as my pimp.They did not like it when I proved that I was miles away driving a truck that day, as was my daily routine.

In spite of lack of evidence or any explanation of their corrupt methodology, they blamed me for sending the material to various senior police officers, public servants and the Chestermans. They still refuse to give me records of investigation or to confirm the case is closed.

They can do that. The CPS are their lackeys. Obviously, if the press approaches them they will continue to lie, arguing that I have been pronounced mentally ill and have to be under continuous observation. This has been mine and Kieran’s life since 2008. It would drive any normal ( sic ) person mad. It is very Franz Kafka, and ‘The Trial.’

Inevitably I have frequently considered suicide. Counselling has been useless because these people are always briefed by the police and my GP. To help these people need to consider that I might be telling the truth, realising I have told the same story over and over again, from all directions and to so many people.

Counsellors cannot help if they presuppose my guilt. They can only make matters worse. I am always asked ‘There is something you are not telling me? ’ Obviously I am supposed to confess to the mythical domestic violence and all the stuff on my unofficial police record and ‘bad character file’.

Because the police, GIC and GP morons can get away with this, Corona Virus lock down is pushing me over the edge. I can’t earn money and will lose my house, Kieran will also be homeless.

They are even using my research- which the police stole with all the other stuff off my computers- on a new transgender book, called ‘The Woman Within’ derived from Kafka’s Metamorphosis concept, as evidence that I lead a wild reckless sexual life and am more likely to die from misadventure than suicide. I am 70 in December, but old age and stress of all this doesn’t seem to occur to them. It is almost funny.

Ramsay’s latest report states that I have a paranoid personality disorder and cannot communicate with other people, indicated by my reckless impulsive behaviour and pressured speech during his three forced interviews n my home. He recommended a multi agency approach. Noting that ‘Roberta doesn’t need hospital yet. I have been an HGV driver ever since I left City Link in 2014. It is noteworthy, since my G.P practice jeaporadised my health care, with criminal neglect, hiding behind my ex wife’s lies of alcoholism, that City Link subjected all employees to random drug and breath tests while on shift. I passed every time.

That multi agency approach is in the report written by the psychiatrist Ramsay who turned up here last summer, with a mental health nurse and student. He had been sent by the gender identity clinic.

Ramsay and the Gender Identity Clinic who sent him, wanted me to take anti psychotic drugs. The police have led them, intruding their ultimate and last ditch defence that I must be deluded and totally mad to persist in my allegations against the Chestermans because ‘We all know police don’t lie. Especially the top ‘well respected officers who are so awfully brave, rather than just awful.’

Among this man CR Ramsay’s other conclusions was that I could not see all the files and reports on me because it would upset me. Two weeks before, Dr Kirpal Sahota of the Gender Identity Clinic sent my GP a letter telling him she assessed that I had a secure female identity and my medication should be advanced pursuant of surgery. Does she mean all women need anti psychotic drugs ? Of not, why does she refuse to put in writing why she thinks I need them ? That is a rhetorical question, of course.

My GP had for several years been persistent in advising the GIC that I am an alcoholic and should not be given gender reassignment hormones. Curiously he was the man who regularly signed me off as fit to drive HGVs which I have been doing until the Corona Virus issue. I have a copy of the GP’s HGV report on file. Among other things, he notes I am not a heavy drinker, drug abuser or mentally ill. Rather odd, don’t you think ?

I have seen correspondence that the police informed my GP that I am mentally ill because I have been saying such nasty things about my ex wife and her family. My GP, Roger Dickson et al at his practice, is an obsequious idiot and believes every word the police tell him. Having failed with the last two court cases, the police returned to the back up Mental Illness and ongoing investigation to avoid having to talk to the press and to wind me up indefinitely.

Also very odd is the fact that my previous GP, a woman, and Ramsay recommended me for Gender Reassignment over three years ago. I have to add that this transgender experience of mine, raises serious questions about the Gender Identity Clinic’s professional judgement, integrity and competency. This clinic sits on the fence over who told them to check me out for psychosis. One of the most interesting things about the way they work is they give patients three annual assessments over the two year period set for living as a woman before surgery. Their view of this is pretty stereotypical, but they don’t check up. So, this means another agancy told them that I was nuts, right at the end of the process !!! They get around fingering the police with the statements : We have not had direct contact with a third party.” Their diagnosis is a year old. I have heard nothing of the proposed ‘multi agency approach’ to my alleged mental illness, and prediction that I am ‘likely to die by misadventure.’

My ex partner’s sending this material, calling me a ‘gay escort’ was a reference to the fact that I had decided to come out as transsexual, a hate crime aspect of the Chesterman’s pursuit of me from the get go. The police had done no forensics on the material and did not intend to, just watched my house, bugged my phone and internet.

They clearly had reports of a sexual nature on me, apparent from the last mental health report, but did not like it when I came out because they, informed by the Chestermans I was nuts, not a writer, needed the sexual slurs, which was one of the reasons they frequently followed me.

For them, I need to be portrayed as violent sexual pervert who may well be murdered on a dogging site, like the main character in my book. I have evidence, they don’t. They are malicious criminals. I am not. Paranoia is a Chesterman thing, but a useful label to ignore and sideline me. The police and Chestermans are weird about sex – ironically Chesterman was chosen to be a diversity officer early on in his police career. The Chestermans would not let me have my black best friend from the tax office, as my best man.

While watching my house for five months before their 2018 raid,, checking my internet and phones, the police didn’t seem to have noticed that I had been working all the while as an HGV driver, because they are dangerous morons. I was rarely home and soon to bed after dinner ready for another early start and long day.

When they were confronted with evidence their super sleuth DC Bellamy went quiet, then said I must have posted the material to all six parties- including a video which they later admitted did not exist, but will have kept that lie on record because they stoop very low and never admit mistakes, particularly those of a malicious conspiratorial life destroying nature.

They kept all of my stuff, in spite of two ludicrous interviews and more lies to my lawyers. They have done this all the way since the first case in 2011 – keeping all my stuff, debit card, computers, phones, tacho card, driving licence and debit card for three months until I left lead officer Bellamy three phone messages, swearing at him, telling him if I did my job as badly as he did I would get sacked.

I was taken to court for abusive language, offered a caution on pain of jail. I refused and was found not guilty of the offence. It came less than two years since TVP’s previous attempt to have me jailed, for making the following allegations, based on information revealed to me by West Midlands CPS in 2013.

This was clearly police revenge for 2016, when I had sent the same e mail six times accusing Simon Chesterman and his family of their conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, misconduct in public officer and perjury. The email was based on files and Chesterman false statements passed to me by West Midlands CPS in 2012.

The case was turned into one of domestic violence, without warning or evidence. My e mails were scarcely mentioned.. My first barrister quit under the onslaught Judge Sheridan ranted that he had enough of domestic violence cases. ‘they were getting worse and he would send me to jail for a very long time if I did not plead guilty.’

I suffered this for 7 hearings, until pre trial the CPS admitted they did not have a case file. I was found not guilty in May 2016. I went sick from work. In December I took an overdose of tamazapam. My life was saved by one of the few well meaning police officers I have ever met, PC Ian Carter.

I was taken to hospital, but had wanted to die because I could not face any more. I had no hope for myself or Kieran. I had always been creative, needing to build and progress and see Kieran take off in life.

There is so much more to this story. I very much hope that you can help me. I am copying it to the police and they will probably either arrest or section me. They are in too deep to investigate now. They have spent a lot of money trying to jail, then, when that failed, section me. They have also fed their lies to the media, probation service, NHS, judges, magistrates, courts, my own lawyers and goodness knows who else. Now they have the cheek to use their lies to have me labelled ‘paranoid personality disordered.’

The conclusion of my experience with the Gender Identity Clinic is that they listened to the police, Ramsay, and my GP without disclosing anything. They prescribed mind and body altering hormones, then as we reached the GRS stage, they forced a local psychiatrist on me, briefed to support the anti psychotic drugs because they assert that I am paranoid/delusional, as a prelude to totally changing my body through a rather risky operation for 70 year old, such as myself. I have already been exposed to mood and body changing hormones, anti androgens and hair removal. I have made several further complaints to the GIC, the GMC, my GP and the police. Several weeks have passed since my last complaints. I have received no reply.

I can supply documentary and photographic evidence to support this document and my allegations. I have given you a fact based account.

During the period 2008-10, when I was supposed to be a demented stalker, I had four books published, including one on Brutalist Architecture co authored with Dr Celia Clark of Portsmouth University Architectural Dept -the foreword was written by ‘TheTimes’ architectural correspondent Tom Dyckoff, I also wrote lyrics, composed and produced a CD of songs based on Portsmouth’s Tricorn, along with Woldingham house mistress and year head, Christine Halpin, with whom I was touring various acoustic clubs during that period of alleged insanity. The CD was called ‘Seventh Child.’ I played lead guitar.

On December 10^th 2008, I had a guest slot on BBC Radio Solent, talking about this with other musicians. Interestingly, the psychiatrist , Ramsay -who was hired by the GIC on the basis of information supplied by the corrupt lying police to my obsequious GP, who chose to ignore my actual medical records, labelling me alcoholic, whilst signing me off as mentally and physically fit to drive HGVs – concluded that I have abnormal psychology.

I realise I have an advantage in having been a maths teacher, but an imbecile should be able to spot that this story, from the official point of view just does not add up.

Roberta Jane Cook March 31^st 2020.

With my mother in Great Yarmouth, Autumn 2006. Not even she was allowed to see my 20 year old son Edward after my ex wife took him away with her, esploiting what DCC Chesterman described, in his court statements, as ‘A boy with learning difficulties who is vulnerable to manipulation and control.’

***My father died when I was 11, so I looked after my mother from that time until her death, buying her a house in 1971.*** To suggest that i was violent towrd her is vile, but typical of my ex wife and her family to achieve what they want. These and other lies were passed to my lawyers, as evidence of bad character, every time I was in court, pushing me close to suicide.

In total, I gave my ex wife nearly £200, 000 as a divorce settelement, but obviously she also needed to ruin me, involving her powerful brother et al, writing to my ‘friends, family and neighbours ‘ ( her words ) about my alleged ‘bad charxter and violence. The aim was to isolate me and force my eldest son to go back to her.

When this failed, they made allegations of violence against Kieran alleging, among other things, that Kieran had bullied Edward for years.’ Kieran’s future was ruined, added to the £20,000 savings my ex wife took from him for the student home bought in her name, and from which she locked him out just before his finals, selling his property in 2008, and forcing him to run up student debt to pay her for living there. My mother became very depressed because of this, ended up in dirty Milton Keynes hospital where she caught the c difficile that killed her. Members off my hostile sister’s family then began a hate campaign blaming Kieran for killing her. Police refused to do anything, claiming that it was ‘very difficult to prove harassment.’.

My ex wife Nicola has said on 2012 Court statement that I had been violent toward my mother and my family for full 20 years before Nicola decided to leave home- fleeing my alleged latest violence, along with Edward, when I was not even home.

In spite of what police told the press. I have never been openly accused of domestic violence, Chesterman telling the police it was ‘ a family matter’ but initiating the PNC Criminal Marker and damning so called ‘soft intelligence’ records against me, based on his family’s stalking lies. Up until December 2012, it was necessary to prove ‘fear of violence’ to get a person subjected to PNC Markers for stalking etc.

***I got a criminal records after spending over a year trying to get the truth out of Chesterman’s police force, WMP and the one he worked for before- TVP.***

To this day, I have not been told what I m supposed to have done to earn the marker or records, with the press now being kept away from the story because a tame so called psychiatrist, Dr C R Ramsay, from Aylesbur’s Whiteleaf Centre was briefed to find me mentally ill – he judged me to have a ‘paranoid personality disorder; likely to die from misadventure because I am impulsive, taking extreme risks and with ‘abnormal psychology. The Who rock group manager ‘Kit’, according to Roger Daltrey in his memoir “Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite” once chalked the definition of paranoia ‘ on the blackboard in Track Records’ offices in Old Compton Street : ” A paranoic might be loosely described as someone who actually knows what is going on. ” Page 142.

A previos court psychiatrist, Mr Maganty from Rednal Secure Unit, judged me to be suffering from ‘no known mental illness.’ back in 2012. The police ignored this, going ahead with prosecutions because I wanted them to stop my ex wife from repeatedly contacting my home.
***Image Appledene Photographics***

*With my former tax office colleague and retired Southampton Magistrate Vernon F Church, in 1993. As a senior local council member, I was very happy to give Vernon a reference for the magistrates job.*
***I was not allowed, by my ex mother in law, to have him as best man at my ‘top hat and tails’ wedding in 1977 because of his colour.***
***Image Appledene Photographics.***

I am the person wearng the blue shirt with back to camera, with friends at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, my alma mata in 2005. According to psychiatrist Dr C R Ramsay, I am anti social, do not reveal anything about myself- because I AM PARANOID DON’T CHA KNOW ? !!!

***Music used to matter, my ftaher built himself a stere radiogramme in 1957, and loved his records. He also played the accordion. But twelve years of police harassment have killed it for me.***

I had my first guitar, a plastic Elvis Presley model one Christmas back in the 1950s, I was living in this little house where I was born. Here I am playing one of the classical guitars built by me during the 1980s. I used to d a lot of cabinet making and taught guitar.

One of my old pupils came back from the army, asking me to play lead in his band, because ,as he said , ‘You know what you are doing and will add character.’

By then living in much larger isolated countryside house, and in my large office, my ex wife burst in on our band practice. She screamed : ‘I have to tell you Adam, Robert is an alcoholic.’ I had a bottle of wine on my desk to help me relax into improvisations. After the practice, she ranted at me that ‘You are only in ***that band to run of with young women.’ I once told her that rows started whenever I wanted anything, and that all decisions were a default to her. She replied ‘I feel I have to challenge you.***‘
***Image Appledene Photographics.***

Nightmare or Opportunity for Labour as Starmer wins leadeship ? April 14th 2020

In her role as Home Secretary, Priti Patel has already crafted the attack lines the Labour Party will face if Sir Keir Starmer becomes its next leader. After having been appointed head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in November 2008, Sir Keir’s half decade in the position oversaw cases as large and polarising as the Rochdale grooming gang scandal, mass sexual abuse scandals involving entertainment figures such as Jimmy Savile, and the John Worboys case. Patel noted Sir Keir has a complete ‘lack of interest in prosecuting horrendous crimes against women’, a statement hard to argue with when presented with his record. He also seemed to have blind eye to the corrupt British police witholding evidecne to meet targets.

Arguably the biggest scandal during his time as DPP came right at the beginning of his tenure. A victim of the Rochdale Grooming gang had reported to Greater Manchester Police the sexual exploitation she’d been experiencing since the age of 15, including becoming pregnant by one of the men abusing her. When referred to the CPS, they decided that the victim was ‘not credible’ and that due to ‘insufficient evidence’ there was an ‘unrealistic prospect of conviction’. Victims continued to be plied with alcohol, drugs and gifts and were prostituted out to multiple men a night, multiple times a week for a further five years.

In 2011, Nazir Afzal, who was then the chief prosecutor in the North West, reopened the case. The evidence previously deemed ‘insufficient’ by Starmer’s CPS — evidence which included DNA and eventually led to 47 other victims allegations — proved vital to securing the convictions of ten men. One of the victims was still not seen as ‘credible’ enough by the CPS because, despite being abused herself, she had later assisted in recruiting other girls to be groomed. The CPS did not want to call her as a witness and had ruled it was not in the public interest to prosecute the men who had abused her, but they needed to use the victim’s evidence. The CPS chose to name this victim as a co-conspirator without informing her that she had been named on the indictment along with the men who had trafficked and raped her. This resulted in social services attempting to remove her child from her custody, and the resignation of the Detective Constable overseeing the case resigning from the force — so that he could publicly criticise the CPS’s treatment of victims.

Local authorities had previously blamed their reluctance to prosecute on the fear of being perceived as racist due to the fact the perpetrators were of South Asian origin and the victims were mostly white British girls. This reluctance and inaction saw a rise in far-right agitation across northern England; a father of one of the victims even joined the BNP for a short period over frustration at the lack of action by authorities. After significant public backlash, Sir Keir was forced to apologise for the mishandling of the case, saying that prosecutors shouldn’t “shy away” from the “issue of ethnicity” which had to be “understood and addressed”, and that ‘a number of assumptions, myths and stereotypes’ about sexual violence had resulted in the previous decision to ‘no further action’ the case.

This response feebly indicated that the CPS needed to review how staff viewed sexual violence and the treatment of victims. Unfortunately, as later demonstrated by repeated failings on such issues, any internal review that may have gone on seems to have further embedded assumptions, myths and stereotypes within the institution. Retrospectively looking at Sir Keir’s language, it is quite clear now that his wording, though seemingly confident on this issue, lacked any substance.

In 2009, whilst Jimmy Savile was still alive, police in Surrey and Sussex referred 4 cases to the CPS alleging that Jimmy Savile had abused 3 girls under the age of 16. Savile was interviewed under caution at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where one of the incidents allegedly took place in the seventies. Within the same month, the CPS had received the files from police, but dropped the case due to ‘insufficient evidence’’. It would later emerge after Savile’s death that he had abused up to 500 victims over a four-decade period. In 2012 Emily Thornberry, Sir Keir’s former opponent in the current Labour leadership contest, stated that she found it “deeply disappointing” that the CPS was “presented with evidence of a clear pattern of sexual assaults by Savile and decided not to act.”

However, one of the most crucial cases is related to John Worboys, the black cab driver who spiked the drinks of scores of unsuspecting women before sexually assaulting them while they were unconscious in the back of his taxi. Worboys was convicted in 2009 of 19 charges against 12 women. It was suspected that there were over 100 more victims. But Sir Keir ruled not to pursue further charges. What is most interesting about the case is that Carrie Symonds, the current partner of Boris Johnson, was a victim of Worboys. If Sir Keir is elected Labour’s next leader elected, the party would face a situation where they would have not only failed to elect a woman leader, but they would also elected a man who oversaw the mishandling of a high-profile rape case involving the prime minister’s partner.

Sir Keir also oversaw the dramatic decline in the prosecution rate of rape cases as a result of the introduction of new guidance which led to police referring fewer cases to the CPS for charging decisions. The guidance saw an increase in the burden of proof from 50% to 60% which resulted in more complex cases that were more difficult to prosecute being dropped, with thousands of victims seeing their cases ‘no further actioned’ due to ‘insufficient evidence’ and an ‘unrealistic prospect of conviction’. These are the same things the victims of both Savile and the Rochdale grooming gang were originally told, which points to systemic failures resulting in untold numbers of abusers walking free without ever facing trial.

A senior Met officer told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism that ‘referrals (to the CPS) had dropped as a result of policy change put in place in response to the CPS director’s 2011 guidance on charging’. This has contributed to the current crisis in the criminal justice system where campaigners have described rape as being ‘effectively decriminalised’. As a result, the End Violence Against Women and Girls Coalition and Centre for Women’s Justice have brought a judicial review against the CPS for their failure to prosecute rape cases.

Sir Keir also failed to end the process of survivors who are disbelieved by authorities, or who withdraw their allegations from being charged for ‘false reporting’. The fear of false accusations is hugely disproportionate to the frequency of this occurrence. False allegations are extremely rare, ones that are labelled as ‘false’ often result in being true years later or are legitimate allegations that were withdrawn under pressure from the attacker, family and friends or the police.

After Sir Keir’s resignation from the role, he called on the CPS to implement changes to how rape cases were investigated and even helped the Labour Party draw up a victim’s law outlining how it could be done. This was after he had the power to push for these changes himself within the institution. Instead he left deeply held biases and myths go mostly unchallenged, allowing for a culture of disbelief to continue, paving the way for the further decline of conviction rates. Survivors deserve support and justice, but Sir Keir reserved that for a small few choosing suspicion first and foremost, even in cases with multiple victims like the Rochdale grooming gang and Jimmy Savile scandals.

As shown when it comes to sexual violence, Sir Keir is not a man of principle, he won’t champion justice or stand up for human rights, he will actively deny you them. Sir Keir doesn’t believe sex crimes to be in the public interest to prosecute. Evidence of this is on public record for all to see. If Labour Party members ignore Sir Keir’s history at the CPS we risk sending a damning message that his previous judgements as DPP do not matter and by extension those victims who were let down don’t either.

Coronavirus: Police and military will patrol south coast to uphold lockdown

Richard Ford, Charlotte Wace, Neil Johnston Saturday April 11 2020, 12.00am, The Times

Jennie Jones tied herself to a fence so she could carry on swimming in Bradford-upon-Avon, WiltshireSWNS

Police forces across the country used a range of tactics to keep people off the streets, away from beaches and out of parks yesterday, including monitoring shopping aisles and launching boat patrols off the south coast.

Downing Street has warned the police against “heavy-handed” lockdown tactics after one officer tweeted that they were policing supermarkets for people with “non-essential” items. The message came as a video showed an officer in South Yorkshire rebuking a family for letting their young children play on the front lawn.

Surrey police deployed what they called a “sky talk” drone to break up a group of 30 people in Walton-on-Thames. The drone plays a pre-recorded message through a loudspeaker: “Attention this is a police message. You are gathering in breach of lockdown “

Furlough will cost taxpayers £16bn a month April 11th 2020

Taxpayers are facing a wage bill of more than £16billion a month as businesses hammered by the coronavirus outbreak furlough staff.
Dozens of major companies including McDonald’s, British Airways, British Gas owner Centrica and the fashion empire behind Topshop have rushed to take advantage of the Government’s job retention scheme.
This has seen them send millions of workers home – with the taxpayer covering 80 per cent of their wages up to £2,500 a month.

Moral Force From The Left April 9th 2020

Priti Patel is involved in a bitter clash over coronavirus with Labour’s Yvette Cooper, who has accused the home secretary of dodging scrutiny by MPs.

But in a furious exchange of letters Ms Patel has accused Ms Cooper, who chairs the House of Commons home affairs committee, of being “adversarial” and wasting civil servants’ time during the coronavirus crisis.
The row is over demands by Ms Cooper – in no fewer than six letters – for the home secretary to appear before her committee to answer questions about the Home Office’s role in battling COVID-19.

The allegation against Ms Patel of evading scrutiny comes as her non-appearance, so far, at any of the daily Downing Street briefings on coronavirus is also being criticised, given the Home Office’s key role.
There will also be a suspicion that Ms Patel does not want to appear before Ms Cooper’s committee because she would be asked about bullying allegations and the resignation of her former Home Office permanent secretary Sir Philip Rutnam.

Ms Patel strenuously denies all allegations against her, which are still the subject of an ongoing Whitehall inquiry.

Ms Cooper says MPs want to quiz Ms Patel about issues arising out of the coronavirus crisis; such as domestic violence, policing and enforcement, testing and personal protection equipment for frontline staff, and quarantine arrangements.

But an angry Ms Patel has told Ms Cooper: “I am disappointed at the increasingly adversarial tone of our exchanges and I am very sorry that you have declined my offer of regular briefings with officials and ministers at the Home Office.

“I feel my proposal strikes an important balance between ensuring the department receives that vital scrutiny, while ensuring the committee can receive operationally sensitive, and sometimes classified, updates at this time of national emergency. Search for:

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Conspiracy ? December 18th 2020

Covid 19 antiboidies were first recorded in the U.S.A in November 2019. Just consider the obvious conspiracy to destroy Assange for revealing Anglo U.S war crimes and you will realise the reality of the real James Bond Anglo U.S spy world will do anything to protect the rich elite, including destroying Russia and China’s current regime.

Hence it is highly probable that the virus was taken to Wuhan and released, probably by a business person or student dupe or fake from the U.S Neo Liberal Deep State – taking the view that China had outlived its usefulness.

Warren Buffet made a massive investment in a major Chinese face mask manufacturer in 2019, and Bill Gates put $20 million in BioNtech in November 2019. The Super rich have become super super rich. In spite of vaccine, the U.S fake scientist guesswork merchants scaremonger, based on dubious samples, that the R rate is massive so we have to have endless lockdown.

Of course there is no conspiracy as frightened females rush to back the authorities and rules that make no sense and a lockdwon that has no relevance to ‘controlling the viris.’ It is all about controlling and terrifying the masses, using female gullibility. I suspect there are laws about saying this, which says it all. R.J Cook

Free Julian Assange Posted December 15th 2020

***Julian Assange set up by the western elite and their corporate owned media. RJC***

As a preface to the following, I must say that the years of Middle Eastern Wars , based on the lie of bringing freedom and democracy to theorcracies, where British Imperialists and U.S elites had exploited religious bigotry and class divisions for centuries, created a grey and difficult fighting environment, where servicemen were expected to fight with an etiquette lacking in the religious fervour of the enemy. There is overwhelming evidence that Islamic terrorism was encouared, if not founded so as to justify an erosion of civil liberties and fale concern about protectin non militant Islam.

I taught Muslim kids for years. They were totally apolitical, like most whites – note Paksitanis and other Indo Eurasians are not black, not a different race to whites, just darker skinned whites becaue of sunshine. It is a matter of their desert harder version of Jesus Christ and his teachings, Sunni or Shia, people are so ignorant, so for the record I am a former school head of religious education and know what I am talking about.

So one should temper judgements concerning those warriors, high of something I expect, exposed by Wikileaks and not make scapegoats of the minions facing war crimes trials. Clearly it is those in command, and the likes of Tony Bliar, who have something to hide here.

In all my years as a journalist, I have never really liked their crass vulture culture anymore than I did as a teacher, and techer culture. Thanks to police, I was forced out of both professions due to their malicious false allegations, so have every sympathy with scapegoats. I was forced to be a truck driver, something I decided I could never do since my Class 1 driving course in 1988.

Amazing it took me so long to find it was the best job I ever had, the only one, apart from the farm, that I liked. The thing about truck driving is that it is what it is. No prat telling you what to do, you and your judgement, and maybe Radio 4 in my case. You can either do it or you can’t. The roads are either straight, and the corners and twists just essential, not some matter of a bourgeoise con trick.

So with that in mind, the Assange affair is not about the rights and wrongs of protecting minions. It is about dealing with corrupt Anglo U.S politcal elitists who pay lip service to democracy as part of the con. Assange got the story and published. That was his job.

No society is free without a free press not dominated by big business and glamorous TV anchors. The Assange affair is massive additional evidence of the lie that the west is democratic. A choice of one bunch or rich overpaid upper middle class Nazi Fascists over another one, is not democratic.

He broke no espionage laws, and retrospective legislation to outlaw him shows just how contemptible the smug pampered patronising Ango U.S inbred elite are. If they had any shred of decency, Trump’s government would give Assange a pardon and compensation.

R.J Cook

The Report

It was a day of high drama and almost slapstick comedy. Dozens of jouts across five countries were poised to publish the biggest leak of secret documents in history. It was a meticulous and precise operation….until it started to go badly wrong.

The date was November 28, 2010 – exactly 10 years ago. The idea was that the collaborating newspapers – The Guardian, EL PAÍS, Der Spiegel, The New York Times and Le Monde – would simultaneously publish the Diplomatic Cables obtained from WikiLeaks at 9.30pm.

Nothing like this leak had ever happened before – millions of top-secret documents from inside the heart of the US government. It had taken months of patient work – redacting, sifting, editing, researching – to get to the point where the journalists could share with the world the scores of stories their teams had prepared.The two figures who were mainly responsible for the Diplomatic Cables leak have already suffered the fate that may lie in store for many editors and reporters in future

And then – irony of ironies – the operation itself sprang a leak. Early copies of Der Spiegel had mistakenly gone on sale in the morning at a sleepy train station near Basel. A local freelancer started gleefully tweeting out the sensational stories he was reading… and the publication had suddenly to be brought forward: five editors created history a little sooner than planned.

Ten years later we have seen several such collaborations and spillages around the world. The former NSA worker, Edward Snowden, famously enabled an even bigger leak of US secrets in 2013. The digital age makes it far harder to keep information under lock and key, and we have since been treated to vast dossiers of embarrassing and revealing data on tax avoidance and/or financial malpractice.

Journalists are supposed to believe in transparency – and I think most colleagues around the world welcomed the example we collectively set 10 years ago, pioneering the ability of multiple news organisations to work collaboratively on huge data sets. Journalists are bred to compete: in the 21st century we are learning to share.

But the past 10 years have also had a darker side. It was perhaps inevitable that a backlash would follow – and it has, with several countries moving to propose tougher laws that would all but make national security reporting, in particular, almost impossible.Whether or not Assange is “one of us” is surely less important than the slippery slope his case could create for those who consider themselves “real” journalists

Australia has so far gone the furthest, but in the UK there are proposals to increase jail sentences for journalists, not only for writing about state secrets, but for receiving and merely holding material deemed by the state to be secret.

Meanwhile the two figures who were mainly responsible for the Diplomatic Cables leak have already suffered the fate which may lie in store for many editors and reporters in future. The documents’ source, Chelsea Manning, has been jailed and repeatedly harassed. And now Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, lies in jail waiting to hear if he will be extradited to the US and the prospect of serving a very long time inside a maximum security prison.

Assange was a complex figure, even when we were working with him 10 years ago. It is no secret that there were tensions between the five editors and this elusive figure who was part whistleblower, part leaker, part publisher, part hacker, part journalist, part activist, part entrepreneur, part information anarchist.

There were rows, confrontations and long periods of mutual suspicions and silence. I find it hard to defend some of his behaviour since 2016, but I find it easier than some journalists apparently do in believing that it is bad for the cause of freedom of expression if we now stand by and shrug at his fate.

Because he has these multiple identities, it is, of course, easy to disown Assange: “He’s not really one of us,” is how the shrug is justified. Journalists the world over are feeling beleaguered and insecure. They do not much like the digital revolution that has apparently brought their profession to a low point economically. They do not love bloggers and amateurs and social media bigmouths. It seems ever more important to delineate the work of professional journalists – not to make common cause with any laptop warrior.

But we ignore Assange’s fate at our peril. Many of the things he is accused of – encouraging a source to come up with more material or helping a source conceal their identity – are things that most diligent journalists would do.

And then we have the uneasy precedent of the US pursuing an Australian citizen in a British court for spilling matters it considers confidential. Suppose a Spanish journalist resident in London found themselves in trouble for writing about a secret nuclear programme in, say, Pakistan or Israel? Whether or not Assange is “one of us” is surely less important than the slippery slope his case could create for those who consider themselves “real” journalists.

So, while the collaboration that saw the important publication of highly significant material 10 years ago should be remembered and celebrated, the project is also a stinging reminder that freedom of expression is a battle never won.

With the privilege of being a journalist – and, I might add, the reader of such revelations – comes the responsibility to continue the centuries-old fight for a free press. And Julian Assange, whatever we think of him personally, is now a central part in that struggle.

Alan Rusbridger was editor-in-chief of ‘The Guardian’ for 20 years. He now chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford and has recently been appointed to the Facebook Oversight Board.Adheres to

Protecting Britain’s Inadequate NHS Number One Priority December 15th 2020

The Health Service Journal and British Medical Journal said people might see the lifting of restrictions “as permission to drop their guard”.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged ministers to review the measures.

The prime minister’s spokesman said guidance on the reduced restrictions was being kept “under constant review”.

Cabinet minister Michael Gove is due to hold a call with the devolved nations on the issue later, a government source told BBC political correspondent Jessica Parker.

It comes as millions of people in London, and parts of Hertfordshire and Essex, prepare to move into England’s toughest tier of coronavirus rules at 00:01 GMT on Wednesday.

The editors of HSJ and BMJ wrote: “We believe the government is about to blunder into another major error that will cost many lives.”

“If our political leaders fail to take swift and decisive action, they can no longer claim to be ‘protecting the NHS’,” they added.

The Northern Trust’s medical director said the New Year could see “up to 10 times as many” people in hospitals.

Another doctor said only a full lockdown would drive down Covid-19 numbers down.

NI’s first minister has said ministers will discuss imposing new restrictions before the end of December.

Dr Seamus O’Reilly, chief executive of the Northern Trust, said he had seen the latest modelling of case numbers and it was “very concerning”.

“It is a best guess and it can change depending on a lot of factors, it is very sensitive to change,” he told BBC Radio Foyle.

“We could see anything up to ten times as many people in hospital as we are seeing now with Covid-19, if there are no further restrictions in the New year.”

“It’s certainly not auguring well for the rest of the winter months.

“I think it is inevitable that we will see a rise in cases in the New Year.”

The trust tweeted that Antrim Area Hospital and the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine were under “unprecedented pressure” on Tuesday, and urged people not to attend the Emergency Department.

Dr Alan Stout, chair of the BMA’s GP committee, said he could “sympathise with hospitality and with retail”.

“But the only thing that works is a full and unambiguous lockdown,” he said.

AAH & Causeway are under unprecedented pressure today

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In an interview with Radio Foyle on Tuesday, Dr Stout said the health service was under “unbearable pressure” and it was up to the politicians to take “a really difficult decision”.

“The hospitals are over capacity, our infection numbers, and positive tests, are far, far too high.”

He said the “unbearable pressure” lay in not being able to treat people who need care.

“The politicians have a really difficult decision. They will take everything on board, and sentiment is part of that, as is the economy and retail but from a purely medical perspective, they need to reconsider because it looks too bad at the moment, and it is only getting worse.”

John Patrick Clayton from the health union Unison told the BBC’s Good Morning Ulster that health workers were “exhausted” and the situation is “very grave”.

“Our members want to see very clear consistent messages coming from the politicians and coming from the executive about the threat we face.

“They want to see a unified approach and they want to see the public being given a very clear message about the need to protect our health service and to do that through minding their own behaviours and by following the public health advice that is there.”

He said he felt that it was “inevitable and right” that the executive would consider further restrictions.

Good Old Fashioned British Hypocrisy – Oh Kay, O.K. Posted December 11th 2020

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak is being passed off to the masses as a symbol of racial equality and poor boy made good, so we must accept his judgement that lunatic lockdown makes sense, as he thinks coming Draconian taxes on the masses will be needed to pay for it all.

***He has caused mass bankruptcies and unemployment among the self employed and hospitality sector from a virus with a death rate of less than 1% and an average age of death at 82..***

***The fact that he and his wife are merely dark skinned upper caste mega rich Caucasians is not meant to be noticed. There are only three basic races, Mongoloid, Caucasoid and Negroid.***
***Families like Sunaks worked with the British elite to exploit India’s masses using an army recruited from the desperately poor underclass.***
***R.J Cook***

There was elite media outrage and televised media inquisitiion when Dominic Cummings made a long distance family journey to the North Of England during lockdown. The ridicule of him continues, as seen when he was forced to quit his Downing St post – because he favours a no deal Brexit. But when it comes to media luvvie feminist media millionaire Kay Burley and colleagues seriously breaching lockdown, it is all O.K. It was her birthday.

Even Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden supports her excuses for not being sacked. She has been rewarded for breaching allegedly life saving restrictions by being given a 3 month paid suspension. Kay has suggested she might use the time to visit her beloved Africa. Great stuff for the working class girl from run down Wigan in Northern England. I love British Democrcy, it is the best comedy ever. It just runs and runs. R;J Cook

Off The Rails December 11th 2020

Bringing the old Royal Train out of retirement. with young Royals reliving British glories. – an alternative to Covid 19 vaccine – I don’t mind having the vaccine, even if it does turn me into an insensitive zombie who stops knowing what is really going on.. Image Appledene Photographic Archive

“The Christmas rail tour of the country by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has brightened up these dark times. The couple took to the Royal Train to make 10 stops on the British mainland, principally to thank people who have worked hard, and at risk to themselves, looking after others during the pandemic. It was a gesture that was greatly appreciated by all who met them, and yet politicians have responded in a lukewarm, even churlish way. Their progress to Scotland and then to Wales was accompanied by an official tut-tutting that they were making an “unnecessary journey” when people are being…blah blah blah, the Daily Telegraph goes on in Imperial manner.

The above report either shows how little real social progress has been made in Britain sisnce 1945, or how far the ruling elite have been able to use the rapid advances in science and technology to set back the clock. There are some obvious smokescreens like LGBTQI, freedom to worship in our own way ( sic ), human rights are women’s rights, safe spaces for women’s equality, more psycho police to protect us, and now Covid 19 lockdown which can’t be lifted for years until we know the vaccine works.

I used to think my old A level teacher, John Skinner, then a fiery young Welshman was being nasty when he said the Romanov dynasty deserved to be shot by Russia’s Bolsheviks and that it was a pity they didn’t do the same to their British cousins. He was still saying it years later when he got me a lecturing job.

I never went quite so far as endorsing murder in my lectures. However, I can understand his anger, and the anger of so many others. That is why teachers, and sites like this, are regularly monitored by the police and other authorities. Of course to say we know so is to be judged paranoid.

So, I will simply pose the question, what sort of person can possibly have their morale boosted by these two privileged persons waving and exchanging pleasantries with them ? I believe it was Boris Johnson’s idea, which explains a lot. How much is the quaint old Royal train ride costing to take the whole nation for a ride ? We have all heard of the Marakesh Express, this is the Morale Boost Expres, straight out of Harry Enfield’s ‘Windsors ‘ satire of which Boris must be a fan. R.J Cook

***The Boris Factor***. ***The speech bubble reads ‘Yes. I am 90% useless.’***

US Department of Justice launches probe into Hunter Biden’s ‘tax affairs’ amid calls for ‘special counsel’ December 10th 2020

Follow RT on US prosecutors have revealed that they’re probing Hunter Biden’s taxes, leading to more calls for a special counsel to be appointed to avoid a situation in which the president’s son is being investigated by his own administration.

The son of nominal President-elect Joe Biden issued a statement on Wednesday, saying that the US Attorney’s Office in his home state of Delaware notified his lawyers that “they are investigating my tax affairs.”

He added that he expects a “professional and objective review” to demonstrate that he handled his taxes legally and appropriately with the help of professional advisers.

This is why AG Barr needs to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. It would be wildly inappropriate if his dad’s AG was involved in this matter. https://t.co/RUYVAyARE3— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) December 9, 2020

“This is why Attorney General [William] Barr needs to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden,” US Representative Ken Buck (R-Colorado) said on Twitter. “It would be wildly inappropriate if his dad’s AG was involved in this matter.” Also on rt.com Biden tells CNN his son Hunter’s business dealings will be kept away from presidency & government after network’s cover-up exposed

Earlier this week, Buck had already called for a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings to ensure that foreign governments aren’t able to use blackmail to influence US policies if Joe Biden takes office in January. Media outlets have declared Joe Biden winner of the presidential election, but incumbent Donald Trump is challenging the results in court, alleging massive fraud.

By appointing a special counsel who could operate independently, the government would avoid having the investigation done through the Department of Justice, which would become part of the Biden administration. Trump demanded in October that Barr open an investigation of Hunter Biden after reports by the New York Post alleged that the Biden family profited from the peddling of political influence in Ukraine and China.

Globe Trotting and Media Elite Brought the Spread of Covid, but they don’t have to follow their rules. December 10th 2020

Britain : A Patronising Haven Of Multi Cultural Diversity- Plus Free Speech So Long As P.C Authorities & Their Feminists Approve December 5th 2020

Jobless and homeless at Covid Christmas, and outcast teacher punished for telling the truth and what should be obvious about feminism. That is Nazified U.K. It is absurd to call this country a democracy allowing justice & free speech. Only a moron or liar would say otherwise. R.J Cook.

Fort Hood: Soldiers fired and suspended after Vanessa Guillen probe Posted December 9th 2020

Published16 hours ago

Family, friends and supporters of murdered U.S. Army Private First Class Vanessa Guillen rally on the National Mall to call for justice and for Congress to investigate her death July 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. — image captionServing soldier Vanessa Guillen, 20, was killed earlier this year

The US Army has fired or suspended 14 commanders and lower-level leaders at the Fort Hood base in Texas over a pattern of violence there, including murder, sexual assaults and harassment.

An investigation into problems at the base was launched following the killing of soldier Vanessa Guillen this year.

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said the “issues at Fort Hood are directly related to leadership failures”.

The army has also ordered a new policy on dealing with missing soldiers.

The firings and suspensions announced on Tuesday include major generals Scott Efflandt and Jeffery Broadwater.

Mr McCarthy said Ms Guillen’s murder “shocked our conscience and brought attention to deeper problems” at Fort Hood and in the US Army more widely.

It “forced us to take a critical look at our systems, our policies, and ourselves”, he told reporters.

Ms Guillen, 20, was missing for about two months before her remains were found in late June. Investigators say she was bludgeoned to death at Fort Hood.

The suspect in her death, Specialist Aaron Robinson, took his own life on 1 July as police were trying to take him into custody.

Ms Guillen’s family allege that she had been harassed by Mr Robinson, but officials say they have no report to indicate she was sexually harassed or assaulted.

The case is still under investigation.

The action by the US Army on Tuesday follows a year that saw 25 soldiers assigned to Fort Hood die as a result of suicide, homicide or accidents, according to the Associated Press news agency.

A statement from the US Army said “when a senior leader loses trust and confidence in a subordinate commander or leader, it is appropriate and necessary to relieve that person.”

Mr McCarthy also announced on Tuesday a new policy aimed at ensuring that the army “maximises efforts to find missing soldiers”.

The policy requires commanders to classify missing soldiers as “absent-unknown” for up to 48 hours, while doing everything they can to locate the soldier and determine if their absence is voluntary before declaring them Awol, or absent without leave.

Comment The armed forces today may be disgused for a gullible public as peace keepers. They are not. They are the ruling elite’s rolling war machine. When I went for a commission, a female officer asked me if I could kill. When I hesitated to work out the right answer, she cut in impatiently snapping. ‘Well that’s what it comes down to in the last analysis.’ Psychos are welcome.

The army is no place for sensitive souls or the physically weak. Women’s reasons for joining up should be studied. For lower class men it is basically a mix of misguided national pride and desperation. Women should have equal rights, poor people should have equal rights. But men and women, rich and poor are not equal entities. The Women’s Equality movement helps bury the wealth issue and makes lower class men more desperate and negative forces in our society.

Mealy mouthed reports like this one avoid reality. Women have sent men to war for years and like being anong the action sending them off. They are not capable of a front line killing role when the chips are down. They are tops at propaganda and avoiding the issue – and ‘covert’ behaviour including back stabbing and revenge. R.J Cook

A Cock & Balls Story

***A rampant feminist rages against the Lush hand made female cosmetics company being boycotted for supporting a transphobic charity.*** She says women need safe spaces. The theory is that men who have male to female genital surgery, so that minus penis and testicles they can get into female toilets to assault and rape them. Who is the biggest nutter her, the transsexuals or women like her ? Discuss. Obviously beautiful woman like her cannot be too careful !

***It must be hell having a face like hers, and no doubt a body to match. Maybe a burkha and Niqab would make her safer still, same for all those other pretty feminists.***

Being anti trans is a very serious hate crime mainly perpetrated by feminists who are the first to squeal if any one says a word against them or BAME allies. Lush clearly supports these hate criminals. Boycotting LUSH is not enough. They and TERF ( Trans Exclusionary Feminists ) are, according to law, hate criminals.

Their incitement to hate against trans people encourages assaults, injury and even death.
It is our view that the amazing upsurge in mainly male to female sex change is the result of feminism and its harridan leadership It is incredible and Nazification to see a schoolmaster fired for criticising feminism while women’s groups churn out vile hate, laying that womem never lie, never commit acts of domestic violence or child abuse. It is also absurd and makes yet further mockery of their claims to be all about equality, which will never go far enough for them.
We are aware of at least one transphobic senior police officer who is transphobic. Inevitably organisations like the police recruit people of narrow minds and bigoted outlooks – including vengeful feminists. That is not going to change any time soon. As for the appalling sex change industry, they need very serious investigation, but not because of self interested ranting feminists or police.

There should be very serious questions asked about why so many want this gender change, their methods of diagnosis and procedures, of which Roberta Jane Cook is well aware and will write more very soon. For over two years now they have refused to answer her questions. We know why, but matters cannot be allowed to drop. We know about the police involevement.

The sex cahnge industry is a problem, but it is no business of weirdo feminists, obsessed with their breasts , bums and vaginas to cloud the issue with their grotesque and vile fantasises and slanders. Class, and wealth are the ineqiuality issues, not race or gender. The rich back BLM and feminism to distract the black and female masses from their real enemies. I repeat, 20 % of the population have 95% of the wealth. That means 80% are fighting over 5 %. That is the maths of the ineqiuality engine. R.J Cook

Four Dead & Multiple Injuriess in Bristol Avonmouth Sewage Works Eplosion December 3rd 2020

Fire crews were called to Wessex Water’s Bristol water recycling centre at 11.22am, after reports of a “large explosion”, and were joined by police and ambulance crews. A major incident was quickly declared.

Luke Gazzard, Avon Fire and Rescue Incident Commander, said the incident had been “very challenging”.

The blast is not being treated as terror-related and involved one of the chemical tanks, Chief Inspector Mark Runacres, from Avon and Somerset Police, said.

The dead were stood on top of the tank when it exploded. Since Thatcher sold of public utilities to greedy private sector investors, there have been more accidents at water plants. Camelford saw cancerous chemicals discharged in to the mains because there was no one there to show the driver where to discharge his tanker load. Wesse Water denied responsibility, blaming the driver. All he had was a key because workers cost money and harm elitists profits – not that there is any known cause , yet, for this explosion. Having myself delivered to Avonmouth in the early hours, on freezing cold mornings, being unloaded by all those ‘privileged white males ( sic ), I know how busy and populated this dock area is. It is rather a grim place. R.J Cook

Britain granted emergency approval to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, the first Western country to allow its health service to begin mass inoculations. Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:32 AM EST

The authorization to use the vaccine developed by Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical giant, and BioNTech, a much smaller German firm, kicked off a vaccination campaign with little precedent in modern medicine.The specter of Britain beating the United States to approval — on a vaccine co-developed by an American company, at that — may intensify pressure on U.S. regulators, who are already under fire from the White House for not moving faster to get doses to people. Read the latest

All things in this world are connected. December 2nd 2020

There is animal and plant life, matter in solid, liquid or gaseous state. The planet is made of rock in various forms, including decomposed animal and plant matter. Energy is trapped in these latter rocks, but as nothing compared to the liquid fire and force beneath the earth’s crust. Two thirds of the planet’s surface is water covered – the area, like the deserts is increasing. Some deserts were once lush with plant life, which is why there is oil underneath.

All of this spins in space amongst other whirling and spinning rocks, heated enlivened and illuminated by the sun 93 million miles away. That is all easily labelled and fits together. Plants and most animals are predicatble Humans are also predicatble also long as objectivity is not warped by power structures and spin off forces like religion, feminism and LGBTQI – conciousness is invisible except for body language.

Those cliques are enemies of trustworthy science and enemies of truth. So it is not surprising that Britain has dubious Royalty, corrupt senior police, corrupt Crown Prosecutors chasing convictions to please the likes of feminists – and the of right feminists to define truth – and LGBTQI quotas in parliament and government to fool the masses.

Hence the following report of a so called ‘anti gay’ Euro MP fleeing a gay orgy with a back pack full of drugs should come as no surprise to a person of intelligence. However, as with all the police and other high level corruption/hypocrisy stories, it will not be collated along with other reports to demonstrate how corrupt and unaccountable western leaders and law enforcers are. R.J Cook

An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by the police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window

Adam PayneDec 2, 2020, 03:06 ISTJózsef Szájer has resigned as a member of the European Parliament.

An ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban resigned from the European Parliament after attending what was described as a 25-man orgy in Brussels.
Jozsef Szajer quit as an MEP on Sunday and later said he was present at a “private party.”
The police found Szajer and 24 other naked men at the gathering, including diplomats, local reports said.
Szajer played a key role in the Orban government’s crackdown on LGBTQ rights in Hungary.

A member of the European Parliament representing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has resigned from his position in Brussels after he was caught leaving what reports described as a 25-man orgy on Friday.

Jozsef Szajer resigned on Sunday after he admitted to breaching Belgium’s strict lockdown rules to attend a sex party, Politico reported on Tuesday. The police found 25 naked men at the gathering, including Szajer and some diplomats, the Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure reported. The newspaper quoted a local police source as saying, “We interrupted a gang bang.” Orban’s Hungarian government has curtailed LGBTQ rights since he was elected prime minister in 2010. Szajer, who fronted Fidesz in the European Parliament, helped rewrite Hungary’s constitution to “protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman,” The Times of London reported.Advertisement Szajer, a right-wing politician and ally of Orban, climbed out a first-floor window and was spotted “fleeing along the gutter,” the public prosecutor’s office said. A source close to the investigation told Politico that officers were called after a complaint about a “night-time disturbance.”

Authorities said narcotics were found in Szajer’s bag. Szajer insisted that he had not taken drugs. The public prosecutor’s office said: “A passer-by reported to the police that he had seen a man fleeing along the gutter; he was able to identify the man. The man’s hands were bloody. It is possible that he may have been injured while fleeing. Narcotics were found in his backpack. The man was unable to produce any identity documents. He was escorted to his place of residence, where he identified himself as S. J. (1961) by means of a diplomatic passport.”Advertisement

Szajer on Tuesday said he was present at a “private party” and apologized. “After the police asked for my identity — since I did not have ID on me — I declared that I was a MEP,” he said. “The police continued the process and finally issued an official verbal warning and transported me home. “I deeply regret violating the Covid restrictions, it was irresponsible on my part. I am ready to stand for the fine that occurs.”Advertisement

He announced his resignation as an MEP and asked people to treat the matter as “strictly personal” to him.

“I ask everyone not to extend it to my homeland, or to my political community,” he added.

Hear the Eton lecture that dared question radical feminism: Video lesson about death of ‘chivalry and honour’ that got English teacher sacked and sparked freedom of speech row is posted on YouTube

Will Knowland attacked radical feminism over its use of term ‘toxic masculinity’
He argues in ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’ that the term erodes ‘chivalry and ‘honour’
He has been sacked by the £42,500-a-year Berkshire school over the video

By James Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 14:10, 29 November 2020 | Updated: 16:50, 29 November 2020

A video of the lecture made by an Eton College teacher at the centre of a freedom of speech row has been posted on Youtube.

Sacked English teacher Will Knowland hit out at radical feminism and the idea of ‘toxic masculinity’, which he said had been used to attack men and male qualities.

In the lecture, named ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’, he claimed the male role as a ‘protector’ benefits society as a whole – including women.

And he warned that ‘shaping men and women to be more similar actually exaggerates their differences’ – which he described as the Patriarchy Paradox.

He says that a world without men would be ‘awful’ for women and complains that chivalry and honour – which he labelled as good male qualities – are being driven down by terms such as ‘toxic masculinity’. Will Knowland, who taught English at the £42,500-a-year school in Berkshire for nine years, said he was dismissed over a lesson titled 'The Patriarchy Paradox' +5

Will Knowland, who taught English at the £42,500-a-year school in Berkshire for nine years, said he was dismissed over a lesson titled ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’ Patriarchy Paradox: Will Knowland’s lecture on nature of masculinity

The virtual lecture, which was never actually shown to students at the £42,500-a-year- school in Berkshire, resulted in Mr Knowland being sacked from his job.

Hundreds of pupils and members of the wider Eton community have now accused the school of hypocrisy, cruelty and a ‘complete lack of backbone’, and asked if Eton was ‘protecting its new image as politically progressive at the expense of one of its own’.

Mr Knowland’s lecture The Patriarchy Paradox explores the conflict between the concepts of sex and gender.

He argues that the ‘shaping of men and women to be more similar actually exaggerates their differences’.

800 Etonians revolt after teacher is sacked for questioning… Catholic boarding school at the centre of a child sex abuse…

Mr Knowland argues that the idea of patriarchy – a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership – could be equally grounded in biology, rather than something that is constructed socially.

And he says some women may actually chose the traditional gender roles because it benefits them.

Mr Knowland points out that male roles in the animal kingdom, including those of the lion, are primarily to provide protection.

As a result, he says men have traditionally been the sex to fight wars – pointing to the difference in the development of male and female bodies in adolescence.

He points to a cage-fighting match-up involving transgender fighter Fallon Fox, who broke the skull of female opponent Tamika Brent when the pair fought in the Octagon. The lecture, created online because of the Covid crisis, was written for Eton's Perspectives curriculum, introducing older boys to issues which are the subject of fierce public debate (file photo of Eton College)

The lecture, created online because of the Covid crisis, was written for Eton’s Perspectives curriculum, introducing older boys to issues which are the subject of fierce public debate (file photo of Eton College) Whatever happens, the aftermath is going to be tricky for headteacher Simon Henderson who was yesterday obliged to reassure parents about this 'difficult and emotive issue' (file photo)

Whatever happens, the aftermath is going to be tricky for headteacher Simon Henderson who was yesterday obliged to reassure parents about this ‘difficult and emotive issue’ (file photo)

He says: ‘If it is not fair to pit men and women in sports, then it is not fair to pit men against women on the battlefield.’

He says men’s lives are also more expendable because women are the ones who are able to give birth. However he says that a world without men would be ‘awful’ for women.

Mr Knowland adds that ‘women have always been spared the worst of work’ – pointing to the death of male slaves in the building of historical monuments such as the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China.

In a point to arguing the good that men have achieved, he also says that men have also invented ’90 per cent of inventions that have improved women’s life expectancy’.

Following Mr Knowland’s sacking, a petition has been launched supporting him – and has been signed by 800 people.

The petition says: ‘Young men and their views are formed in the meeting and conflict of ideas… which necessarily entails controversy and spirited discussion.’

Mr Knowland, they add, ‘is loved by all who have encountered him’ and the students ‘feel morally bound not to be bystanders in what appears to be an instance of institutional bullying’. Eton's headmaster Simon Henderson sacked Mr Knowland for gross misconduct amid the fallout from a lecture about the nature of masculinity +5

Eton’s headmaster Simon Henderson sacked Mr Knowland for gross misconduct amid the fallout from a lecture about the nature of masculinity

‘Eton has been here for almost 600 years,’ said one source close to the conflict.

‘And this is a battle for its very soul. Cancel culture has arrived with cult groupthink reaching right into the heart of the school. It’s meant to be a bastion of learning and free speech.

‘George Orwell went to Eton. What would he think? 1984 was meant to be satire, not a how-to manual.’

Mr Knowland has appealed his sacking. His appeal will be heard on Founder’s Day, December 8, by a panel chaired by former Cabinet Minister Lord Waldegrave, himself an Old Etonian.

Mr Knowland and his wife Rachel live in a grace-and-favour detached four-bedroom house owned by Eton. If he fails to win back his job on appeal next month, they will be homeless

Mr Knowland will have the support of the Free Speech Union, whose founder Toby Young said: ‘This is a landmark case.

‘Schools must be places where children are taught all sides of these big questions and allowed to make up their own minds, not indoctrinated with the latest political orthodoxy.’

Whatever happens, the aftermath is going to be tricky for Simon Henderson who was yesterday obliged to reassure parents about this ‘difficult and emotive issue’.

‘We are limited in what we can say at the moment, given that a disciplinary process is ongoing,’ he wrote in a message.

‘Mr Knowland has chosen to publicise his version of events in advance of the disciplinary panel to which he has appealed.

‘So as to be fair to all parties, the school cannot provide substantive comment before a final decision is reached.

‘I appreciate that a lack of information is frustrating and leads to increased speculation, however the school needs to respect the integrity of the process.’

Mr Knowland, meanwhile, is longing to return to Eton and doesn’t see why he can’t.

He writes: ‘Respect for Eton – its past present and future – means upholding its traditions of discussion, argument and persuasion and eschewing the culture of intolerance that has swept through other institutions.

‘As Hailz Osborne [the school’s head of inclusion education] has said, in promoting diversity, which includes intellectual diversity, ‘the challenge is to enable people to say uncomfortable things’.’

Freedom of Speech Ends Where Truth is . Posted November 30th 2020

Watching a ranting feminist talking about the Eton master’s sacking, she came out with the frightening statement that this schoolmaster had no right to post the lecture video. She sneered and shouted down a lawyer on the same RT slot. When asked where freedom of speech should stop. this harridan exclaimed ‘When it meets the truth.’ Exactly how the truth is defined, there was no discussion.

However it was implicit in her diatribe that feminists are the ones who define truth. So, as far as I can tell, this woman and her kind are totalitarians. Curiously, as the extracts below from another feminist, one should not question Islam.

To question Islam, the BAME massive population growth or feminism is to be far right. Men, she attests, have to stop acting as if freedom depends on their acts of violence. She makes no mention of her feminist ancestors who handed out white feathers and humiliated men who resisted going to war in the 1880s, 1914 and 1939. The contradictions between these bigoted feminists views, Islam and LGBTQI is never mentioned because multi culture is their bulldozer.

Feminists have many laws to protect them from harsh voices, mansplaining and contradiction. It is a fact that women lie at least as much as men, and in particular about retrospective sex attacks and other violence. Making allegations a safe distance from alleged events ensures convictions. Now we have feminist think tanks recommending, if not insisting, that women’s phone and text records may not be used in rape cases. Here we have just another example of the weird world of gender quality. Many leading feminsts are from very affluent backgrounds, spoiled by daddies, just as many transsexual men are from fatherless families. The appalling decay of family life and the divide and fool tactics of the ruling elite are never mentioned.

The reality of nature and mass poverty are not bedfellows for the pseudo truth of feminism. Nature is a matter of balance and porlarity. Women tend to dislike transsexuals, men in their clothes trying to use their cultural weapons. But the same does not apply to them when they wear mannish clothes, utilitrain underwear, boots, cropping their hair, swearing, shouting and endlessly complaining about men – who they use, as women always have, to define their existence and identity, only now as victims rather than carers and homemakers.

Nature is about duality and balance. Feminists, funded and encouraged by media and State education ideology, have radically changed what women are supposed to be and identify with. Such a radical change is bound to impact on men, and a great deal of the propaganda has been derogatory to white men. It suits these aggressive hostile and state backed females to say it is all about equality. It isn’t. It also suits the system not to tell the lower class men what they are supposed to be and do, only what not to be and what not to do when they are caugfht being or doing it.

It isn’t surprising so many women have mental health problems. No amount of money or quantity of pills will solve that. As for men being killers, well stop encouraging them to fight vile wars in the Middle East in the name of democracy, stop covering for female abusers like Caroline Flack, stop kicking them out of families when they have outlived their usefulness, cutting them off from their kids whose lives you are going to ruin. Women have their own sneaky ways of violence , provoking, condoning, excusing and committing it. Feminism should stop where truth begins, not just their version.

R.J Cook

Men are the violent ones insists well paid feminist writer. She is a feminist so it must be true.

The 28-year-old man awaiting trial over the Christchurch massacre wrote a self-justifying screed titled “The Great Replacement.” It begins: “It’s the birthrates. It’s the birthrates. It’s the birthrates.” The 21-year-old American who allegedly killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas, left behind a four-page document outlining his motivations. Its most consistent theme is the danger of Hispanic “invaders who also have close to the highest birthrate of all ethnicities in America.” The alleged shooter adds: “My motives for this attack are not at all personal. Actually the Hispanic community was not my target before I read The Great Replacement.”

Both men are referring to the right-wing conspiracy theory popularized by the French author Renaud Camus, which warns that nonwhites are having more children than whites, and that the resulting demographic change threatens European culture. This idea has been memefied by the online far right, with different groups painted as the usurpers: The neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanted “The Jews will not replace us”; for the Christchurch shooter, the threat came from Muslims; in El Paso, it was Hispanic immigrants.

Mattheis, who studied the Republican debates during the 2016 presidential election, saw similar “false rape” narratives gaining purchase there. Early in his campaign, Trump framed the need for immigration around the specter of Mexican rapists. These incidents were a somber reminder that what starts in the manosphere now has real political power. Mattheis’s research interests, which were once dismissed as a fringe preoccupation, are seen as more and more legitimate. Gender has always been a factor in mass shootings. Finally, now, we are beginning to ask why.

Helen Lewis is a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. Connect Twitter

Biden Time November 27th 2020

Covid is the cover. Iranian nuclear scientist murdered, finger points to Anglo US intelligence and secret service as U.S / British deep states take brakes off following demise of Trump. Killers blast way through team of body guards. Only Anglo U.S Elite could come up with something so deranged. They have to kill the people who make Iran’s nuclear power possible. This scientist would have been given opportunities to defect. Iranians think Israel did it. Meanwhile Anglo Brits stir more chaos in Syria and infest Iraq.. More to come. Charles Close.

Self pity & Self Righteousness November 26th 2020

I spent over 20 years working in the public sector. It was a structured environment, generally predictable with job security. There was no person forcing me into it. Out on the road with the County Highways Department had its risks. The Inland Revenue, or HM Inspector of Taxes as it was called in the 1970s, was easy. The only challenge here, as during my time teaching, was the plethora of creepy little rule enforcers, telling us what to do while doing little themselves other than make life difficult. The public sector is full of over promoted over paid parasites. They are a type, the Uriah Heeps of this world, the sort who like to tell Cabinet Ministers what to do and when.

But they are not the issue here, with Covid. The issue is the police, fire fighters and NHS workers who like to be seen as heroes. They are pulling rank while others are losing jobs, homes, good health and futures because of the insane response to Covid 19, which is now endemic, not a pandemic. It is not going away, anymore than flu will. Lockdown makes the rich richer, drives ordinary people mad, and the so called heroes are out to join the profiteers. The notion that we are all in this together is absurd and insulting.

As if all of this was not enough, womens’ groups are complaining that Covid has set back the cause of their equality by 20 years. Their message is disingenuous and sicker than Covid will make you. They have clearly achieved more than equality among the ignorant vulnerable masses – but are not people to miss an opportuity. That is why when things are not to their liking they call the police, thus making the home a public space, a woman’s word always taken as truth because they are not ‘equal enough’.

The path to real equality would require challenging the super rich black and white elite who own and control 95% of world wealth. Ever wondered why Africa, rich in the world’s resources is ruled by black dictators, overpopulated and obsessed with religion ? But feminists , led by noisy ‘uni’ women like us to think inquality is all about their gender and being black or Muslim. That’s why feminists support and billionaires fund BLM.

So on top of that, the well paid public sector broadcasters of Chanel 4 produced a programme alleging that Covid is racist rather than an issue of BAME lifestyle, dense communities and poverty. There is just too much money being made and too much PC media clutter surrounding Covid, its so called experts and lockdown to believe there is no hidden agenda for national and global reset toward reinforcing the elite ruled and led fake democracy police state.

The Biden mystery fits in perfectly here. How long before others follow France in banning photographing and filming police at work ? So the following should be read with caution because the poor will pay most of the taxes for the ‘heroes’ (sic ) of public service (sic ) pay rises – and they will be the least well served.

***Public Sector workers keeping us safe or what ? Notice the police ‘spotter’ looking at my camera and me ? Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

R.J Cook

Union backlash over public sector pay freeze November 26th 2020

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Spending reviews

Policemen — image captionPolice Federation chairman John Apter called the pay freeze a “disgrace”

Union leaders have reacted with fury after Chancellor Rishi Sunak imposed a pay freeze on at least 1.3 million public sector workers.

The GMB union said it had fought a public sector pay cap before “and we busted it”, while the civil service and rail unions warned of strike action.

Frontline NHS staff and lower paid workers will get pay rises, Mr Sunak said in Wednesday’s Spending Review.

But Mr Sunak said rises for others in the public sector were being “paused.”

This includes civil servants, teachers, police, firefighters, the armed forces, and council staff

Rehana Azam, national officer of the GMB union, said the freeze “will hit key workers who have risked everything during the pandemic”.

“This attempt to divide and rule will put him on a direct collision course with public service workers, and he should know that we fought the public sector pay cap before and we busted it,” he said.

“GMB will not accept more pay cuts for our members at a time when the whole country is relying on them.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said: “Civil servants and other public sector staff will feel a deep sense of betrayal at today’s pay freeze.

“Despite keeping the country running during the Covid crisis, supplying Universal Credit and helping businesses access the furlough scheme, the chancellor has justified a pay freeze by pointing to lower wages in the private sector.”

He said the news “has intensified long-standing anger at a decade of pay restraint and increased the likelihood of industrial unrest in the public sector.”

Mick Cash, leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), also warned that members will “have no hesitation in taking strike action”, while Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: “This is austerity, plain and simple.”

image captionRishi Sunak said he was targeting resources at those who needed it most

Other union leaders also lined up to condemn the freeze, including Unite, Prospect, and the Fire Brigades Union.

The Treasury has estimated that the pay announcement will directly affect 1.3 million workers, less than 25% of the total number of 5.5 million in the public sector.

However, that figure mainly covers people working for central government. The total rise could be much higher if local government and devolved pay agreements are frozen.

In his Spending Review, Mr Sunak highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he “cannot justify a significant, across-the-board” pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.

“Instead, we are targeting our resources at those who need it most,” he said.

He said 2.1 million public sector workers earning below the median wage of £24,000 were “guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250”.

More than a million NHS workers will also get a raise, he said.

Meanwhile, the minimum wage – which has been rebranded as the National Living Wage – will increase by 2.2% – or 19p – to £8.91 an hour, with the rate extended to those aged 23 and over.

Incredible across the Global Economic World , preserving old people from Covid is deemed more important than plunging millions into poverty and greater risk of Covid. And they wonder why people believe this is the elite’s ‘Great Replacement.’ November 25th 2020

US workers file 778,000 jobless claims as COVID-19 crisis total nears 69 million

By Noah Manskar

November 25, 2020 | 8:48am | Updated Enlarge Image

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Workers file 742,000 jobless claims as COVID surge worsens

US sees 709K jobless claims amid coronavirus wave

US workers file 751,000 jobless claims as COVID crisis total tops 66 million

Some 778,000 American workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as a surge in coronavirus infections kept the labor market’s recovery under pressure, the feds said Wednesday.

The latest initial jobless claims reported by the US Department of Labor brought the seasonally adjusted total for the COVID-19 pandemic to about 68.9 million — a number nearly as large as the population of Thailand.

New unemployment filings have risen for two straight weeks and stayed above the pre-pandemic record of 695,000 for nine solid months even though millions of people have returned to their jobs since the pandemic sidelined them in the spring — progress that could be hampered by new lockdowns amid a record-setting spike in cases.

“Layoffs have been slowly trending lower, but risk is tilted modestly higher due to widening restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19,” Bloomberg economist Eliza Winger said in a commentary.

Last week’s initial claims came in above economists’ expectations for 730,000 filings, according to Wrightson ICAP. Continuing claims, which measure ongoing joblessness on a one-week lag, continued their steady decline by falling to about 6 million in the week ending Nov. 14 from 6.3 million the prior week.

But the number of people claiming extended benefits from the feds after exhausting their 26 weeks of state unemployment payments climbed once again to roughly 4.5 million in the week ending Nov. 7, the most recent for which figures are available.

Those long-term jobless workers will be cut off from those extra payments, which were provided under the CARES Act, on Dec. 26 unless Congress acts to extend the program ( programme for English readers. )

***U.K SAGE Deputy wants harsher lockdown. For every day of easing, she and her fellow experts calculate there will be need for another 3 day total lockdown.***

Can’t people see there is no formula here ? It is total bull-hit taking advantage of mass ignorance. We are not supposed to link the Covid ( exaggerated ) related deaths with old age, dirty profiteering care homes and BAME high density large family ‘communities – and the fact that the average age of Covid related deaths is 82. R.J Cook

Dr Chand is concerned to protect at risk BAME, calling for stronger measures, condemning the Tier system as discriminatory and ineffective in controlling the virus which hits elderly sick and BAME in the main. Ethnic minorities are complaining that lockdowns are aimed at them – which they are not, they are part of the elite dividing and controlling us. The world’s top 20% ( most in 3 %’s hands ) own 95 % of the world’s wealth, they decide on and make the rules and their lackeys get well paid for keeping up the fear and panic.

***Could be in cloud cuckoo land. Care homes are appalling, in crisis before this so called crisis which is being manipulated, causing and stacking up real serious long term problems.***

***This U.K doctor leads a campaign to protect doctors from prosecution if they make mistakes about Covid and Covid related or other deaths due to NHS neglecting other high risk illnesses or injuries,***
The government motto is to protect the dreadful NHS at all cost. Doctors are paid well above the national average and should pay the price of their mistakes – lorry drivers have no such exemption, even though they risk their lives every day, much more than doctors and boastful fake hero lying police. This country is not even an excuse for a democracy. It is pretty much a Third World Country and dictatorship. R.J Cook.

Right on Britain November 18th 2020

Heavy policing of the so called ‘Far right’ English Defence League gathering in once sedate Aylesbury, Bucks, Market Square, summer 2010. Ony us caard carrying police approved journalists, protesters and police were allowed at that protest meeting.
***R.J Cook, Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

A British black man was among the English Defence League ( EDL ) protesters leading protesters into Aylesbury Market Square in 2010, they were chanting : ‘Mohammed is a paeodo, Mohammed is a paedo’ to an old football supporters dirge.’
This was a reference to the prophet having married a 12 year old girl. A white man recently defended this view to me, by saying ‘If all white men are to be judged and condemned for slavery they had nothing to do with, judging us by things that were normal hundreds of years ago, then we can judge Islam in the same way. It has never reformed. Islam is not a race.’ R.J Cook.
Image Appledene Photographics.

‘Obsession’ with catching far-right extremists to ‘appease the hard left’ in Britain is diverting police, MI5 agents and public money away from stopping dangerous jihadis, intelligence expert warns Posted November 18th 2020

Colonel Richard Kemp said: ‘The authorities know full well that the far-right extremism is not a major threat in the UK’
Nigel Farage says problem of right-wing extremism is used as a ‘diversion’
Libyan suspect Khairi Saadallah was on the radar of MI5 before Reading murders
He had just been released from jail – similar to past two terror attacks in London
Priti Patel has revealed 25 terror plots foiled since 2017 – 8 were right-wing

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Marines Prep for Possible War in Europe During Massive East Coast Training Exercise Posted November 17th 2020

Marines move through brush Fort Drum — U.S. Marines move through brush during a raid to establish a forward command operations center as part of Marine Expeditionary Force 20.1 on Fort Drum, New York Oct. 31, 2020. (Scott Jenkins/U.S. Marine Corps)

16 Nov 2020 Military.com | By Gina Harkins

The Marine Corps has put a lot of emphasis on countering China, but tens of thousands of East Coast leathernecks have their sights set on another part of the world.

Members of II Marine Expeditionary Force wrapped up a training exercise last week that ran from North Carolina to New York. The Marines were tasked with taking back territory in a friendly country that was invaded by a near-peer adversary.

It’s a scenario not unlike Russia’s effective annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

The exercise, called Marine Expeditionary Force Exercise — or MEFEX — 21.1, matches the focus that Commandant Gen. David Berger put on II MEF readying for missions in the Atlantic and Europe.

Lt. Gen. Brian Beaudreault, II MEF’s commanding general, told reporters Friday that if U.S. troops are called up to respond to a crisis in Europe, his Marines are going.

“We’re not just saying we can go do it,” he said. “We’re demonstrating we’re ready to go do it.”

The exercise ran for nearly six weeks, stretching from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia up to Fort Drum in New York. Troops from several other countries participated in the exercise, including Norway, the United Kingdom and Canada.

The Navy‘s 2nd Fleet also participated, and Beaudreault called the naval integration portion of the exercise one of the most important pieces.

“It’s [about] the Marine Corps unlocking the ability of the Navy to maintain naval maneuver,” he said. “That’s important in Pacific theater, given a likely threat, and it’s definitely important in the European theater, given the threat that can emanate out of [Russia’s] Northern Fleet.”

Berger’s planning guidance has come under scrutiny by some for putting so much emphasis on China. But Beaudreault said that, while the planning guidance has a Pacific focus, it’s not a “Pacific-only” strategy.

After decades of land warfare and crisis-response missions, the Marine Corps is moving back toward its naval roots. If war breaks out in Europe, Beaudreault said, there’s “very much a maritime component to that.”

The Marines can set up expeditionary advanced bases, assist in anti-submarine warfare by establishing refueling sites for maritime patrol aircraft, boost ships’ unmanned sensing capabilities, and carry out long-range precision fires from ashore, he said.

The high-end fight Marines were simulating required personnel to think differently about threats. Electronic signatures are a big concern in that type of environment, and Beaudreault said cell phones weren’t allowed inside operating spaces. If it comes to a real-world battle against a sophisticated adversary, the general said he’d issue a MEF-wide order banning Marines from using them in theater.

“We don’t have to keep relearning the lessons we’ve learned,” he said. “I think everybody’s aware of the classic one [in which] somebody at a forward operating base was running web around their compound, over and over.

“It’s a real concern … if you’re trying to stay hidden, so we take it seriously.”

One thing that was absent in the exercise were tanks, as the Marine Corps gets rid of some of its heavy equipment to travel light and save money for newer technology.

Beaudreault said the MEFEX proved that allies can fill the gaps and Marine aviators can “kill armor at ranges that exceed a tank gunner.”

The exercise culminated with one of the longest tactical convoys in recent Marine Corps history.

Members of Combat Logistics Regiment 27, led by a first lieutenant, completed a 916-mile tactical convoy from New York to North Carolina in two-and-a-half days. Beaudreault called it a tremendous accomplishment.

“It’s not unrealistic to think that, based on where the enemy is and based on where we are, and the distances that we’re going to have to cover to push an enemy out, that we may have to go those distances,” he said. “… And in combat is not the first time we want to do that.”

— Gina Harkins can be reached at gina.harkins@military.com. Follow her on Twitter@ginaaharkins.

Comment : Nothing like a good big war to divert attention from home, stoke up even more fear, boost the all important arms industry and further the fight for a new world order with that top 20 % totally in charge and safe. R.J Cook

Limbo or What ? November 17th 2020

The U.S. is stuck in an unprecedented limbo nearly two weeks after Election Day and nine days after the presidential race was called for Democrat Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump is refusing to concede, while also hardly acting as if he’s preparing for a second term.

Yesterday, Trump seemed briefly to recognize he’d lost with a tweet asserting that Biden “won because the Election was Rigged.” He then walked back the post, which was flagged by Twitter for containing disputed claims of election fraud, saying “I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go.”

Trump’s actions have delayed the start of the formal transition process, leaving the nation in an unusual state of electoral purgatory. Even so, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have begun forming an administration-in-waiting. They’ll outline their plans today for a post-pandemic economic recovery.

And, as Mario Parker reports, the initial tweet was interpreted by fellow Republicans as a possible concession — while the president’s advisers say he’s privately coming to grips with his defeat.

The pressure from Republicans to get on with it is growing, with Trump’s abrupt personnel moves at the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department feeding concerns over national security.

Trump’s political strength has hinged largely on his ability to keep members of his party in line. As Republicans increasingly look to the future, their patience with him may be wearing thin. — Kathleen Hunter

A woman holds a Biden-Harris campaign sign on Nov. 7 in Philadelphia.

Photographer: Chris McGrath/Getty Images North America

It’s not just the neighbors who are anxious. Pretty much every country is grappling with how to deal with China and wondering how the incoming U.S. administration of Joe Biden might change things.

That global concern shows just how much China’s economic and strategic clout has grown under the presidency of Xi Jinping. Nations face the challenge of how to maximize the benefits — trade, access to cheap loans — without being trapped in Beijing’s orbit, reliant on its largesse and under pressure to give it a pass for its crackdowns on dissent.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says Xi’s move to abolish term limits, leaving him able to potentially rule indefinitely, has upended the relationship with America.

The question now is how Biden might alter the trajectory between the world’s two biggest economies. Biden is just as much a China critic as Donald Trump — he may take an even harder line. But the China-U.S. trade war hurt many countries. Their strategic scuffles draw in others. Smaller countries feel caught in the middle.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has frequently pointed out those difficulties. In an interview for the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, he said Biden should seek an “overall constructive relationship” with China following “quite a tumultuous ride” under Trump.

Beijing is urging the U.S. to be patient because change in China can take time. Senior regulatory official Fang Xinghai hopes ties will be in a much better place in four years from now.

The rest of the world may hope so as well. — Rosalind Mathieson

The Kota Cepat vessel loaded with shipping containers approaches the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai on July 12.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

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Trump’s close aide kept him in the dark about US troop numbers in Syria NOVEMBER 17TH 2020

James Jeffrey says he has played “shell games” to hide true numbers of American troops in northern Syria, misleading President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, has made a startling revelation, stating that he kept Trump in the dark about the actual size of US troops in northern Syria, where Washington backs the YPG, Syrian arm of the PKK terror organisation.

“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview published yesterday. The controversial statement came at a time when he is currently preparing to leave the Trump administration.

The US presence in northern Syria has helped the PKK, which is recognised as a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the EU, consolidate its presence in the region. The PKK has led to tens of thousands of deaths during its decades-long terror campaign against the Turkish state. Ankara has constantly demanded from Washington to stop its support to the YPG/PKK, which has threatened Turkey’s both national and border security.

Under Turkish pressure, Trump last year announced US troop withdrawal from northern Syria. He faced immense criticism from American establishment figures like Republican Senator Lindsay Graham and former Pentagon chief James Mattis, who had several policy differences with the president and eventually quit from the top post on the heels of Trump’s decision to withdraw.

The US media, most of which has long been at loggerheads with Trump, also heavily criticised his decision to pull out.

As a result, Trump backtracked from his position and instead called to minimise US military presence in northern Syria.

From Jeffrey’s candid assertion that he willingly misled Trump on the size of US troops present in the region, it’s clear the American military footprint there has not diminished, despite President Trump repeatedly calling for the total withdrawal only last year.

“What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal,” Jeffrey said.

In 2019, Trump said that the US would leave two hundred troops behind, an announcement that came following a crucial phone call with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has consistently stated that if Washington does not clear the PKK presence in northern Syria, Ankara will do it by itself.

A US military commander (2nd R) walks with YPG militants at the group's headquarters that were hit by Turkish air strikes in Mount Karachok, near Malikiya, in northern Syria on April 25, 2017. — A US military commander (2nd R) walks with YPG militants at the group’s headquarters that were hit by Turkish air strikes in Mount Karachok, near Malikiya, in northern Syria on April 25, 2017. (Rodi Said / TRTWorld)

Mixed messages

During the same interview, Jeffrey indicated that the real number of US troops was “a lot more than” 200 troops as Trump declared at the time of the so-called withdrawal.

Constantly varying declarations on different numbers of US troops, ranging from an initial 2500 to 400, and the most latest, 200, have already suggested that something is going on in Washington over its Syria policy.

While Trump has appeared to be deceived by his top officials like Jeffrey on the pullout, Turkey has had no illusion about it, constantly urging Washington to fulfill its own words.

In the end, Erdogan fulfilled his own threat last year. Turkish troops entered northern Syria and beat back YPG terrorists, sweeping them from a swathe of border territories. US troops have also left those areas where they were guarding the YPG, as the Turkish army swiftly took control of some parts of northern Syria.

Much of the Turkish establishment is increasingly sceptical about US intentions and has been frustrated by Washington’s mixed messages to Turkey. The disagreements between Trump and the US establishment over Syria add to Ankara’s Washington resentment.

“The US will never leave northern Syria,” Cevat Ones, the former deputy director of the Turkish national intelligence agency (MIT), repeatedly told TRT World in previous interviews.

“The US acts in accordance with its imperialist aims (in Syria and Iraq). The US debate on the modality of the withdrawal does not change the essential character of its imperialist aims (in the Middle East),” said Ones in a 2019 interview.

He described US support for the YPG as “a strategic reinforcement” for Washington’s “long-term designs” concerning a Kurdish-dominated autonomous region, which will likely be a mirror image of the Kurdish autonomous region it carved out in northern Iraq in the 1990s, soon after the first Gulf War.

Analysis that is more than a year old put together by Ones stands vindicated in light of Jeffrey’s confirmation that the US never really withdrew from the region.

“When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated Daesh, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That’s the story,” said Jeffrey, former US ambassador to Turkey.

While it’s not clear what those five arguments are, it’s much more probable that at least one is about bolstering the YPG presence, the group behind the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) founded and funded by the US, in northern Syria.

Jeffrey also reportedly advises President-elect Joe Biden, who defends a strong US presence in northern Syria, signalling that Washington’s political line will not change under the Democratic leadership much.

Jeffrey was one of the signatories of the “Never Trump” letter, which declared the President a danger to the US. Despite having served under Trump, he is still not repentant about having signed the letter in 2016.

“I know what I did in 2016, I do not disagree with that,” he said.

Wonders of Western Democracy November 16th 2020

The following is from the government’s latest press release on Covid 19 restrictions and the vaccine. It is no surprise that even though Boris has had the virus, contacting someone with a dubious unreliable positive test result means 14 days self isolation – in his usual state of no expense spared luury. As he put it ‘ I am crawling with antibodies, but that is not enough, we have to beat the virus ( sic .) Boris, his government and ‘experts’ insist that vaccine is not enough. They say, on both sides of the Atlantic, it will not remove the need for strict lockdown any time soon. Conveniently social distancing must continue.

The following statistics should be read with caution. A U.S firm has offered a vaccine which might be available after consideration in spring next year. How can anyone believe Covid 19 panic is not just a con ? R.J Cook

Summary

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock is leading a No 10 news conference
He says the rolling average of daily cases in the UK is 25,329 – up from 22,443 a week ago
Mr Hancock also says 40 “long Covid” clinics will be “up and running” by the end of the month
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and six other MPs are self-isolating after they attended a breakfast meeting and one later tested positive
A new vaccine that protects against Covid-19 is nearly 95% effective, early data from US company Moderna shows
However, it is not yet clear how long the immunity will last, or how well it works with older age groups
UK government in “advanced talks” to secure a supply of the vaccine – by spring “at the earliest”
Meanwhile, a major trial of a vaccine to protect against Covid has launched in the UK – the third such trial in the country
The states of Michigan and Washington bring in strict measures as cases in the US top 11 million
South Australian authorities say they are facing a “dangerous situation” after reporting 18 coronavirus cases in the state’s first outbreak since April
There have been more than 54 million coronavirus cases and 1.3 million deaths across the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data

Fishing 4 Final Solution November 16th 2020

“Champs-Élysées” is French for “Elysian Fields,” a paradise in Greek mythology. What is the Champs-Élysées famous for? The Champs-Élysées connects the Arc de Triomphe with the Place de la Concorde and is considered to be one of the world’s most famous commercial streets.. That name needs no transaltion from French into an English language that is 60 % French – the rest of it German.

Our aristocracy are descended from the Norman French who in their turn were the Norse Men ( North Germans ), agents who entered Normandy to help the Duke and took over. History is like that. Its teachers are usually boring which is why Europeans know so little about themeselves. That is why so called liberals just want to paint us white Christains as all racists, and all blacks and Muslims as open minded victims.

It is this dreadful ignorance and brutal greed that gave us Napoleon, the arrogant Wellington, Hitler, Nazism, and two World Wars fought mainly by the lower orders It brought us the ideal of Europe which turned out to be an elitist corrupt lying self indulgent expensive gravy train and never ending Islamic immigration for cheap labour in the name of humanitarianism -. This was the story after bombing the Middle East for oil while pretending it was for democracy, something that doesn’t exist in the west except as a lie to fool voters – as lockdown demonstrates .

The last time I walked alomng the ***Champs-Él***ysées I was ovverwhelmed by homeless migrant beggars.

***The Big 3 of Germany, France and Britain created this nightmare and rather resent Britain’s cowardly effforts to set the clock back to a perfect year that never existed except in fantasyland.***

***So now we have another war over Britain’s fishing industry which Britain’s elite sold out years ago. R.J Cook.***
***Image Appledene Phorographics/RJC***

France has said it will not consider fishing separately from the rest of the deal. A source at the Elysée Palace said the country would not negotiate over fishing rights “like carpet merchants” without assessing the overall package.

Some fishermen fear they will be sacrificed for British agreement on other key issues, like state aid.

And with new British legislation allowing the UK to break part of its withdrawal agreement with the EU, trust is in short supply.

“We do want to trust the UK,” Clément Beaune, France’s Europe minister said. “[But] what we have seen in the last weeks regarding the withdrawal agreement is extremely worrying. There will be no agreement on future relations if we don’t have full confidence on respect of the withdrawal agreement.”

Despite the French government’s tough line, many here believe a deal on fishing is possible. So why does President Emmanuel Macron seem more hard line than the fishermen themselves?

France has so far refused any change to the current arrangements, saying it won’t abandon its fishermen. “No deal is better than a bad deal,” the government says.

Annaïg Le Meur is a Brittany MP from President Emmanuel Macron’s party. “I think the fishermen are for no deal,” she told me. “They are afraid, and when people are afraid they choose either yes or no, not the solutions in between.”

But talk to fishermen in Boulogne, and many say they would accept a compromise on their British quotas, rather than lose access completely.

Stéphane Pinto, the deputy head of the regional fishing committee in Boulogne, told me: “It would be a lot more acceptable to have 80% of the catch in British waters than nothing at all.”

What about 60% of the catch?

“Errrr…. that’s not viable,” he said. “But with some sort of financial compensation? Maybe.”

Fake News Fake Election Posted November 14th 2020

(Left) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at a get-out-the-vote drive-in rally at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 02, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images). (Right) President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Nov. 3, 2020. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images) Pennsylvania

Trump Campaign Highlights Alleged Dead Voters Casting Ballots in Pennsylvania

By Jack Phillips November 12, 2020 Updated: November 13, 2020 Print

President Donald Trump’s campaign on late Wednesday highlighted several alleged cases of deceased people voting during last week’s presidential election in the key state of Pennsylvania.

“Voter records show someone used the identity of John H. Granahan of Allentown, Pennsylvania to vote in the recent election, even though Granahan died in May 2019,” the campaign said. “The Dusckas Martin Funeral Home and Crematory ran an obituary of Granahan’s death when he passed away.”

The campaign noted that Judy Presto of Southpark, Pennsylvania, died in 2013, adding that “someone registered her to vote in September 2020 and cast a ballot under her name in last week’s election.” It also included an obituary of Presto published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at the time.

“Elizabeth Bartman of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania is shown as having registered to vote in September 2020 and cast a ballot in last week’s election, even though she died in 2008,” Trump’s campaign also said. Her obituary was published by the Philadelphia Inquirer 12 years ago.

The office of Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State hasn’t yet responded to a request for comment as of Thursday morning and has not issued a public response to the campaign’s latest claims in other news outlets.

The campaign, hours before sending out that news release, asserted that deceased voters cast ballots in Georgia as well. Georgia is also considered a key swing state. The campaign also noted that obituaries for the alleged deceased voters were published in local news outlets such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office, which handles elections, had not responded to a request for comment on Wednesday.

Both Pennsylvania and Georgia were called for Democratic candidate Joe Biden by major news outlets. The Epoch Times has not declared either Biden or Trump a winner in either state pending the outcome of investigations, legal challenges, and the Electoral College rendering the final say on the presidential race.

Biden currently leads Trump by about 50,000 votes in Pennsylvania and by approximately 24,000 votes in Georgia, according to data from each respective state’s election agencies. Trump’s team has filed a number of lawsuits in both states, as well as in Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan. They have also requested recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin.

Counting in Pennsylvania is still ongoing. York, Bucks, and Chester counties were not able to finish sorting out a combined figure of about 16,000 provisional ballots on Wednesday, county officials said. About 10,000 mail-in ballots that were received by counties three days after Election Day ended are part of a GOP challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court that includes several attorneys general from Republican-led states.

China Cautious to Congratulate Biden November 14th 2020

Four days after the U.S. presidential election was called for challenger Joe Biden, China still hasn’t phoned to congratulate the president-elect. Its delay is matched by a few other autocratic states, such as Russia, but most democracies and some other key U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia have called Biden despite President Donald Trump’s continued denial that he lost.

Beijing’s response doesn’t indicate favoritism for Trump. If there is an ongoing power struggle between two factions, China doesn’t want to take a side. And with the ruling party denying the election result, the president attempting to declare a false victory, and the government conducting a purge of the Defense Department and the intelligence services, that’s not an unreasonable assumption on Beijing’s part.

If Trump’s refusal to concede were happening in another country, the United States might make the same assessment. It is only confidence in U.S. institutional democracy and the continued rule of law that suggests otherwise—something the Chinese leadership doesn’t share. This view is influenced by the experience of politics at home, where rubber-stamped votes mean nothing compared with behind-the-scenes contention. (State-run social media has more openly mocked Trump, however.)

Some analysts have worried that China will take aggressive moves thanks to the distraction in the United States, but I don’t think that’s likely. A crumbling United States, from Beijing’s point of view, is an unpredictable one. While Chinese diplomats are happy to shore up their relations with other countries as their U.S. counterparts face domestic chaos, radical moves are unlikely.

Just as some Americans are convinced that the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party is around the corner, Chinese leaders have believed for some time—and especially since the 2008 financial crisis—that history is on their side and that the U.S. system is doomed. If anything, the events of last week have confirmed that. And if you’re winning anyway, why risk changing the game?

The Great Replacement November 10th 2020

The above article was published in Britain’s ‘The Economist‘ magazine back in February 2006.

Yesterday’s RT Channel featured , on their ‘Renegade Inc‘ segment, a woman of the international chattering classes pontificating about her book on the lonely future. At no point did she talk about the poisonous atomising effects of feminism, driving the sexes apart, women’s career and power mania, blaming and isolating men, thus reducing the white birth rate and creating dysfunctional, mentally ill, over sexualised and drug addicted children . It is noticeable about Britain’s ever expanding mental health so called care services that they only do labelling – from the DSM- pills or sectioning. Honest analysts they are not. Cause and effect is not part of the remit. It seems kinder, using feminine or effeminate men with ‘nice voices’ they still send folk to Bedlam or suicide.

Like any avalanche or volcano, you don’t see it coming, its happening under the surface. China is differenent. It has one dominant culture, keeping religion in perspective, not confusing it with being a source of fact , truth and salvation. It says it all about Islam and Christianity that they offer only freedom and salvation in death – while they have all the fun on earth. Their twisted leaders got a lot of wars and wealth from this nonsense.

So how does a big business or finance house manage an ageing workforce / economy ? It brainwashes the young natives, panders to and flatters the old with longer working lives, then makes a case for massive imports of cheap religious minded labour from the old third World where they have stirred up so much war. It finances our fake democracies, passes ever more constricting laws via its political elite placemen, with dire punishments to anyone organising protests.

Only yesterday, a man who organised a protest against lockdown was fined £10,000. That is because of the hidden agenda for a lockdown that obviously makes no difference to exaggerated Covid, but does atomise people. Anti racism is back as a political device because the British elite proved that is how the rich build and sustain an empire.

The nasty minds behind all of this do not care about statues, they were only ever put up as pap and fakery to make the masses feel they are part of something great, however small and easily crushed they actually are. Now the same elite pander to BLM by allowing them to be torn down. Only desperate white working class people care about that, because they are losing their identity and must not be allowed a new one that might threaten the ‘new normal’. That is why Trump had to go by whatever means it took. R.J Cook

Biden is the man to provoke an explosion of truth – he doesn’t know that. November 6th 2020

By tomorrow we will know for certain that the Anglo American elite and their media will have gotten their way in getting lecher and liar greedy Joe Biden elected. It is hard to imagine where more Trump would have taken the world because he is reactive to BLM and refuses to face up to how the Anglo U.S alliance have fed off Chinese Cheap labour.

Covid 19 and the lockdown con has been lain upon Trump when it has nothing to do with him. His role over the last 4 years was fighting off Russiagate nonsense, then along comes BLM and Covid 19.

BLM in the U.S started over police brutality and the lie that it is black specific. The police are about social control. Kojak is dead, literally and metaphorically. The issue is the top 20 % and how they have milked increasing technologically related profits. Yeltsin was supposed to harbinger regime change.

Africa is something, along with Islam and Catholicism, the elite do not want to talk about. The U.S elite and ‘Democrats’ ( sic ) do not want to encourage wealth and prosperity in Latin America. They want the resources, courtesy of their repressive place men and women. China is a problem because it is a nation progressing out of third world poverty with a lost history of advanced civilisation.

Our elite do not believe in God, but want the impoverished world masses to look for something better in the afterlife. It is the nineteenth century all over again because human nature is animal, doesn’t change, we are not mini Gods and do not have free will – but the elite does have the capacity and lackeys to drive us mad, drug and and lock us up. The elite and alleged experts make it all seem more complicated than it is. There is a war on now, but Covid is just an elite weapon and sideshow.

Biden is the man to bring forth the truth. Trump is and was an illusion of hope, ranting about Iran and China, tilting at windmills – pandering to Israel. Biden’s weakening mind and delusions are better suited for the forward process than Trump’s. They are both symbols of the geriatocracy. In the long run all things are bounded and temporal, or more simply , as my boyhood hero John Maynard Keynes said : ‘In the long run we are all dead’. Then there will be Harris, a light of darkness. We won’t have ‘ seen nothing yet’ until her sleight of legal hands.

That is a reality baby boomers do not like, and why they ( I am one of those boomers but never liked them – but according to psychiatrist cretin Dr C.R Ramsay of Aylesbury Whiteleaf Centre, I have abnormal psychology so don’t count – ) cringe cower and create about Covid 19. Pathetic cowards they are.

Personally I cannot wait to die. I have had enough of this shit, and say SOD GOD. As for my generation being like world war heroes, don’t make me laugh and don’t be so offensive to real heroes. Heroes do what they don’t have to do, not what they are paid to do- like our lying corrupt cowardly self serving police- or those forced into rich men’s wars by desperation or conscription.

Britain during World War Two had 20,000 deserters and massive crime waves on the London underground and looting bomb sites. It needed war to stave off communism, having treated world war one troops like scum.

Dunkirk was a disaster and the weaker Germany could have walked all over much richer Britain & Empire, with plenty of native Nazi support here among the rich, if Hitler hadn’t been mad and nostalgic about this very corrupt elitist badly run country with its fake democracy.. Britain did not win the war, Russia and the U.S did. Britain was an incompetent side show, with toffs wasting the misguided lower order warrors – as they did in 1914-18

Ex sailor and Afghan War squaddie Liverpudlian John, Portsmouth October 2020, receiving group therapy for PTSD. Interviewed for my new book, he told me “Every Squaddie has a death wish.’ Image Appledene Photographics/RJC

R.J Cook

Covid Con Goes On & On – Posted November 6th 2020

I spent many years being formally educated and working in the British system. I did my post graduate teacher training and a qualification in psychology at London University. In the process, I saw many changes. Like the police and other British public services, promotion goes to those who conform to the lemming like mentality of its top people who serve the elite system.

The British Education system is thus every much a part of the British Police State as are the police. I recall a pompous young little male English Head of Department saying that ‘ There is no evidence correcting spelling helps children to spell. Well mass illiteracy, with aspirations not beyond making ‘Sun’ newspaper readers have been achieved by his sort. Before going into education I had experienced life in the Civil Service, where the mentality is the same.

The Covid 19 Lockdown across Europe and the scorn poured on Donald Trump for saying the virus is no big deal, goes on and on.. For otherwise healthy people that is true. It is also true that Trump had no input on how the virus was dealt with across the U.S and rest of the world. The big question is why the virus appeared in the first place and why we are all supposed to blame China.

***British Police Crush and arrest anti Lockdown protests. Convictions will ruin lives, that is life in the British Police State.***

More importantly is the sheer lack of evidence that lockdowns can control the virus and why this one is singled out for such dubious attention – at the expense of the national and international economy. The answer is obvious. It is the long expected global economy reset at the expense of us of the lower orders.

The alleged massive rise in Covid cases is based on dubious modelling for predictions, along with equally dubious testing. Mass testing is being lined up for more controls, which would not be so bad if the rich were not getting richer off of this and were ready to pay higher taxes for the cost. If that prospect were mooted they would soon call an end to lockdown.

It is a manifest demonstration of the global police state – where the top 20% own and control 95 % of global wealth, along with associated power in fake democracies. Meanwhile the remaining 80 % are easily divided along race and gender lines to fight over the remaining 5 % of wealth.

***Public protest has no chance against the British Police State forces. No wonder people are going mad en masse.***

The only worry for that wealthy ruling lying elite is how to contain the inevitable manifestations of anger and misery on the streets. Yesterday, there were protests on the streets of London, against more illegal police state lockdown, with well paid police showing what they are for and why they want more of them. R.J Cook

Ryan Giggs stands aside as Wales manager for three games after arrest

Manager will have no part in November matches
Giggs has denied allegations he assaulted his girlfriend

Ben Fisher and Nazia Parveen

Tue 3 Nov 2020 14.02 GMT First published on Tue 3 Nov 2020 08.49 GMT

A representative for Ryan Giggs said he denied the allegations and was cooperating with police. Photograph: David Davies/PA

Ryan Giggs will not take charge of Wales’ three matches this month after he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend, Kate Greville, on Sunday night.

The former Manchester United player, who denies the allegations, is stepping aside after conversations with the Football Association of Wales hierarchy, including the chief executive, Jonathan Ford.

Giggs was scheduled on Tuesday to announce his squad for matches against the United States, the Republic of Ireland and Finland but that was postponed by the FAW. The assistant coach Robert Page, Giggs’s former international teammate, will take charge with Albert Stuivenberg, who is an assistant to Mikel Arteta at Arsenal. The squad will be announced on Thursday and the players are scheduled to meet up on Sunday evening.

A FAW statement on Tuesday read: “The Football Association of Wales and Ryan Giggs have mutually agreed that he will not be involved in the upcoming international camp. Our agreed immediate priority is preparing the team for the upcoming international matches. Robert Page, with Ryan’s support, will take charge for the next three matches against the USA, Republic of Ireland and Finland supported by Albert Stuivenberg.”

Police were said to have been called to Giggs’s home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, in response to reports of a disturbance. According to the Sun, the 46-year-old was questioned on suspicion of actual bodily harm and assault.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester police said the arrested man was released on bail pending inquiries.

He added: “Police were called at 10.05pm on Sunday to reports of a disturbance. A woman in her thirties sustained minor injuries but did not require any treatment.

“A 46-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of section 47 assault and section 39 common assault.”

A representative for Giggs said he denied the allegations and was cooperating with police.

Comment Private space for the common citizen has been massively eroded to please feminists in the continuing quest to ‘protect’ women. Unless a man is a Royal Family member, like Prince Andrew, or senior male police officer, it would seem they are fair game for anything a woman chooses to say against them. In the unlikely event a woman is proven a liar, then she blames her hormones or says the man was responsible for her lies.

If a woman ends up in court for violent assault of a sleeping man, then hangs herself, like TV preenter Caroline Flack, the likes of tabloid ‘Mirror; screams out the headline ‘Cruel Prosecution Service.’

Equality indeed ! I think not. As I have said before, men need to be very careful in their dealings with women. You never know what you are dealing with.

A police officer told me in 2008, that 80 % of his call outs were for so called ‘domestics. In such cases we normally remove the man from the family home. A man does not even need to be married to the complainant. She gets to stay ‘safe’ as all women have a right to be.

R.J Cook

Breaking newsHostage situation reported

7 reported dead in suspected Vienna terror attack also said to target synagogue

Jewish leader says no casualties among community members; police launch massive operation amid shootings at several locations; one attacker said killed November 2nd 2020

By TOI staff and AP Today, 10:16 pm 0

Armed police patrol at a passage near the opera in central Vienna on November 2, 2020, following a shooting near a synagogue. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

An ongoing shooting attack was underway at several sites Monday evening in central Vienna, including in the area of a synagogue and the offices of the Jewish community, killing at least seven people, Austrian media reported, prompting a large-scale police operation.

The interior minister said the incidents appeared to be a terror attack with multiple perpetrators.

The Kurier newspaper said at least one of the fatalities was a police officer. It added there were four people seriously injured in the series of attacks.

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There were multiple gunmen, some of them still at large, according to messages sent to members of the local Jewish community.

Austrian news agency APA quoted the country’s Interior Ministry as saying that one attacker has been killed and at least one other could be on the run.

Reports said there was a hostage situation in the city’s seventh district. In this image made from video, police are seen at the scene after gunshots were heard in Vienna, November 2, 2020. (AP Photo)

Oskar Deutsch, the head of the Jewish community in Vienna, said the shooting took place in the street where the city’s main synagogue is located, in the first district, but that it wasn’t clear whether the house of worship had been targeted. He said there were no casualties among the Jewish community.

Deutsch noted that the synagogue and the community offices were closed at the time of the shooting, and asked all community members to stay away from the area.

HAPPENING NOW – Terror alert in Vienna: Attack on a synagogue. Shots fired. Massive police operation underway. This is a developing story.pic.twitter.com/bUirWB0K7E
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Jewish residents have reportedly been urged to stay in their homes, lock their doors and take off their kippa skullcaps when outside.

“There are several injured persons,” police tweeted. “We are on site with all available forces. Please avoid all public squares in the city.”

Vienna police also tweeted that the exact circumstances of the incident were still being determined.

Police asked the public not to post videos from the scene, saying it endangered police and residents as the operation was still ongoing.

Comment There are very serious problems with Islam and it will get worse because of open door immigration. Self styled ‘liberals’ and the ruling class are as deaf and blind to this as they were in the 1930s. Covid Lockdown panders to BAME, ironically making poverty worse across the lower class masses regardless of race – Islam is not a race, though ignorant brainwashed modern ‘uni’ graduates are taught that it is. Judaism is also not a race. It is the same religious bigotry coming from the Muslim underdog whose religion has not moved with the times. Charles Close.

‘New Jersey Women For Trump’ group removed from Facebook

Priscilla Confrey, co-director of New Jersey Women For Trump, said the page was removed on Saturday afternoon, NJ.com, a digital news content provider, reported. Posted November 2nd 2020

| Published: 1st Nov 2020 4:39 pmUpdated: 1st Nov 2020 5:00 pm

Washington: The ‘New Jersey Women For Trump’, a private Facebook group for female supporters of US President Donald Trump with about 29,000 members, has been removed from the social media giant just three days ahead of the presidential election.

Priscilla Confrey, co-director of New Jersey Women For Trump, said the page was removed on Saturday afternoon, NJ.com, a digital news content provider, reported.

Confrey said that she did not receive any notifications about the removal and there was no explanation provided as to why the group was removed.

She added that in the last 14 days, had flagged certain posts in the group, including some that were regarding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“People are really, really mad. When you have that many people and they’re shut down, they feel silenced,” nj.com quoted Confrey as saying, adding that she has sent several emails to Facebook asking for an explanation and for the group to be reinstated.

She has also reached out to local legislators.

“It was a lot of work over the past year for a private group to just be shut down without notification.

“Three days before Election Day? That is absolutely appalling. I just think these companies, these social media groups, have too much power.

“They offer to you to open up a group on their social media platform, and you could have 30,000 members, and they shut it down without telling you anything,” Confrey added.
She has started another group on Facebook called ‘NJWT’, which until Sunday morning has more than 8,800 members.

Reacting to the development, Trump took to Twitter where he shared a screenshot of the now-deleted ‘New Jersey Women For Trump’ Facebook page, and said: “@Facebook Put them back now.”

Comment Leaving aside Trump’s shortcomings and obsessions with China and Iran – tricky issues- he has been boxed in throughout his reign. What matters here is the system brazenly using tame facebook to shut people down for saying and believing what the elite disapprove of.

Women have to accept a specific new role and agenda or the elite and smug lackeys will ridicule, ostracise and condemn them. Women’s lib is a relentless con. It is driving a lot of women , to suicide and destroying their fathers and sons. It is a manifestation of insidious elite power. LGBTQI has been similarly politicised.

Gender Equality ( sic ) and all of its manifestations, as with most liberal ideas, starts with being all about civil rights, then turns into something very unpleasant. The gender brainwashing starts when kids are very young, thriving in the upturned soil of broken homes, where men have been judged , cast aside and thrown on the compost heap. Men leaving teaching, along with the furore that this means boys losing male role models , is a related issue. Like cancer, the cells of this poison have multiplied, intruding into so much if not all of everyday life. R.J Cook

Islamo Fascism or the Right to Worship as you please ? November 1st 2020

When the corrupt police involved themselves in my ‘health care ‘ ( sic ), I was forced into three sessions with a so called consultant psychiatrist, Dr C.R Ramsay, his colleagues – a medical student and rather strong looking mental health nurse ( sic ). Ramsay is apparently a geriatric specialist. He told me in advance that he had been asked to give a strong report concerning my mental health. He later lied on the record that I refused a second opinion. They forced themselves into my home, unannounced .

Among his intrusive questions was ‘Do you hear voices ?’ I said ‘No’ but , judging by his conclusions including me being paranoid, one must assume that he also lied about that. The full story of all that is on my personal R.J Cook page. Suffice it to say that the growing power and intrusion, along with their lies, is a major issue, so serious it is a joke to talk about us having a democracy. The problem is Europe wide, and beyond, but no country does police state better than Britain.

I mention it here in the context of the major problems resulting from the mass migration of Muslims into Europe and what are called terrorist events. One member of Macron’s Government made reference to ‘Islamo Fascists.’

I have met a lot of British Muslims, especially through my work as a teacher. Most of my Muslim pupils were well mannered and fun to have in the classroom. I was actually head of Religious Education for a while, being at pains to explain that Christianity, Islam and all their factions had a common origin in Judaism and the teachings from the ‘Old Testament.’

I came to the conclusion that most of my white and black pupils were not at all interested in religion or the concept of God. Nor was I aware that my Muslim pupils were interested in knowing how Islam came about. It just was, and so was God.

I have already written of how I was questioned by a deputy headmaster for carrying openly a copy of Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ which earned him a Fatwah. One Muslim girl, knowing I also wrote for the local ‘Aylesbury Plus’ newspaper, gave me a leaflet about the then Bucks County Council owned and run Aylesbury College – where I used to lecture- had rented Muslims the College Hall where local Muslims could meet to discuss action against Rushdie and his book – which was not really anti Muslim, but about six verses missing from the Koran as it is. The editor refused to publish the leaflet and story because local Muslim business people and Bucks County Council were key advertisers.

One of the worrying things about religious people, especially the zealots ( of which Judas Iscariot was a founder member ) is that they hear voices and claim to see and talk to God. Any other mention of a voice that was not to do with God would invite a damning and serious looney label from morons like Dr C.R Ramsay.

I asked this idiot, during his rather unpleasant patronising so called interview, whether his patients who said they heard voices were just actually talking to themselves as most people do. He said ‘No, the audio section of the brain actually lights up when the voices are speaking.’ Apparently this phenomena has not been investigated – there has been a little bit of research but no worthwhile conclusions. What puzzles me about these voices is that they always tell people to do stupid or dangerous violent actions.

So why is the voice of God so sacred. Why isn’t it labelled dangerous paranoia ? Islam has never reformed. It is where Christianity was in the days of the Spanish Inquisition and the English Queen ‘Bloody Mary’ burning heretics against her re imposing her mother’s Catholicism after her father Henry VIII died. He only scrapped the Roman Catholic Church to get a divorce, with the bonus of stealing the Church’s wealth. When Mary Tudor had the Bishop of Worcester burned at Smithfield, London. it took him 40 minutes to die.

During the fire, his arms fell off and his eyes exploded. That is what voices do to people. The notion that such an all exclusive Islamic World view can live happily in the west without fundamentally changing that society to their absolute ways, is absurd. Back in the 1960s, it was fashionable to ridicule the Church of England.

The brilliant writer, Susan Howatch, wrote a wonderful series of books, starting with ‘Glamourous Powers.’ I read every one of these- and all of her other work. She depicted a Church and religion in crisis. Rather stupidly, the current C of E leadership, believes it can gain popularity by courting Islam, sharing their common roots. It won’t work. Religion is politics, it has sociological significance, but it is not the truth. The political want power and the Muslims are no exception. They have a unique world view and are on collision course with the west. It is not just a French problem. Because the smug self satisfied British gave up on God decades ago.

They just don’t understand it. The Muslim and white masses on both sides will not respond to this intellectually. Erdogan and Imran Khan are muscling in from their safe palaces while most Muslims live in poverty with consequent ignorance and God is their only hope – many have fled countries bombed out by the wars for oil, in the name of the lie that its for democracy. That is why having images of their prophet published is so upsetting. This is what the ruling elite call multi culture.

R.J Cook

Canada Random Stabbings November 1st 2020

Canada: Two dead, five injured after man in ‘medieval clothes and a blade’ goes on killing spree in Quebec

World Times Now Digital Updated Nov 01, 2020 | 12:16 IST

According to reports, the suspect was armed with a long blade and dressed in medieval clothing. He went on a stabbing spree near the regional parliament building in the city.

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The attack happened in the wee hours of Sunday in Canada’s Quebec
The police have nabbed the suspect and launched an investigation

Quebec: At least two people were dead and five others were injured in a knife attack in Canada’s Quebec on early Sunday morning. The local police have arrested the suspect and launched an investigation in the matter.

According to reports, the suspect was armed with a long blade and dressed in medieval clothing. He went on a stabbing spree near the regional parliament building in the city.

It should be noted that Halloween is being celebrated across Canada.

As soon as the police were informed about the incident, it cordoned off the area and launched a manhunt to nab the accused. After a brief operation, the suspect was arrested.

Local media reports that two people have died and five are injured in the incident, however, the police is yet to confirm the number of casualties.

The local police force tweeted, “Shortly before 1 am, the SPVQ (Quebec city police force) arrested a suspect” and requested the residents of the city to “stay inside with the doors locked” because an “investigation is still ongoing.”

Another Panic Story from BBC , below, which leaves the important questions unanswered. Ignores low death rate and why the authorities knew so much about this virus from the outset. Expects us to accept Sage gueswork as truth, expects us to trust testing, expects us to accept vaccine as only way out while telling us antibodies don’t work, expects us to ignore economic and health risks/costs of lockdown, expects us to accept the rich elite can use this to get richer while the poor pay, expects us to accept lockdown along with open door immigration and alleged politcal refugees and so many more lies and deceptions – like healthy young people can catch Covid and die just as easily as an overweight/BAME or geriatric. November 1st 2020.

Covid: Why is coronavirus such a threat?

By James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent

A simple virus has brought life as we know it to a screeching halt.

We have faced viral threats before, including pandemics, yet the world does not shut down for every new infection or flu season.

So what is it about this coronavirus? What are the quirks of its biology that pose a unique threat to our bodies and our lives?

Master of deception

In the early stages of an infection the virus is able to deceive the body.

Coronavirus can be running rampant in our lungs and airways and yet our immune system thinks everything is a-ok.

“This virus is brilliant, it allows you to have a viral factory in your nose and feel completely well,” says Prof Paul Lehner from the University of Cambridge.

Our body’s cells start releasing chemicals – called interferons – once they are being hijacked by a virus and this is a warning signal to the rest of the body and the immune system.

But the coronavirus has an “amazing capability” of switching off this chemical warning, Prof Lehner says, “it does it so well you don’t even know you’re ill”.

He says when you look at infected cells in the laboratory you cannot tell they have been infected and yet tests show they are “screaming with virus” and this is just one of the “joker cards” the virus can play.

It behaves like a ‘hit and run’ killer

The amount of virus in our body begins to peak the day before we begin to get sick.

But it takes at least a week before Covid progresses to the point where people need hospital treatment.

“This is a really brilliant evolutionary tactic – you don’t go to bed, you go out and have a good time,” says Prof Lehner.

So the virus is like a dangerous driver fleeing the scene – the virus has moved on to the next victim long before we either recover or die.

In stark terms, “the virus doesn’t care” if you die, says Prof Lehner, “this is a hit and run virus”.

A simple virus has brought life as we know it to a screeching halt.

We have faced viral threats before, including pandemics, yet the world does not shut down for every new infection or flu season.

So what is it about this coronavirus? What are the quirks of its biology that pose a unique threat to our bodies and our lives?

Master of deception

In the early stages of an infection the virus is able to deceive the body.

Coronavirus can be running rampant in our lungs and airways and yet our immune system thinks everything is a-ok.

“This virus is brilliant, it allows you to have a viral factory in your nose and feel completely well,” says Prof Paul Lehner from the University of Cambridge.

Our body’s cells start releasing chemicals – called interferons – once they are being hijacked by a virus and this is a warning signal to the rest of the body and the immune system.

But the coronavirus has an “amazing capability” of switching off this chemical warning, Prof Lehner says, “it does it so well you don’t even know you’re ill”.

It behaves like a ‘hit and run’ killer

The amount of virus in our body begins to peak the day before we begin to get sick.

But it takes at least a week before Covid progresses to the point where people need hospital treatment.

“This is a really brilliant evolutionary tactic – you don’t go to bed, you go out and have a good time,” says Prof Lehner.

So the virus is like a dangerous driver fleeing the scene – the virus has moved on to the next victim long before we either recover or die.

In stark terms, “the virus doesn’t care” if you die, says Prof Lehner, “this is a hit and run virus”.

This is a massive contrast with the original Sars-coronavirus, back in 2002. It was most infectious days after people became ill, so they were easy to isolate.

China is back to normal — the US and Europe are not. Here’s how it succeeded. Posted October 30th 2020

Bill Bostock Oct 19, 2020, 11:11 AM

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 30: Chinese President Xi jinping toasts the guests during a banquet marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on September 30, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Naohiko Hatta - Pool/Getty Images) — Chinese President Xi Jinping toasts at a banquet in Beijing, China, on September 30, 2019.

China has put the coronavirus pandemic behind it, and life has returned to largely to normal. During its Golden Week holiday, from October 1 and October 7, China saw 637 million people travel across the country without any surges in cases. On Monday, it also said its economy grew 4.9% in the third quarter of 2020, compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, the US and many European countries are still struggling to quash their outbreaks and experiencing new surges as the winter approaches. Experts say China’s fast and comprehensive testing approach, lockdowns that ran their full course, and simple, clear messaging helped it solve the problem. Meanwhile, the US and Europe struggled to control their outbreaks due to mixed messaging, incomplete lockdowns, weak contact tracing, and a lack of experience with epidemics.

When I began studying economics in the late 1960s, my first teacher- Mr Nussey- gave us the definition that economics was the rational application of scarce resources.

The factors of production were defined as CELL- Capital Enterprise Labour and Land. The object of the exercise was to eliminate waste, which could occur as IDLE FACTORS or because FACTORS ARE UNRELATED TO WANTS.

I went on to learn much more, including that Professor Marshall’s ‘rational economic man’ does not exist, and that Keynes’ pretty theories can’t withstand lying ego mad politicians like Margarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYSSF2nz1ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYSSF2nz1get Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph. So I never really took economics seriously as an academic subject- I would be much richer if I had.

Comment This article misses the point that China has one culture and is not ethnically diverse. Mainstream media, doing the elite’s work, does not care to mention that Covid 19 is predominantly affecting BAME, with lip service paid to the idea of caring for the elderly – whose real problem is filthy profiteering poorly staffed extortionate privatised care homes.

High density ethnic commuities, with rigid religious practices, along with a health service that cannot cope with mass open door immigration and asylum seekers, is something we are not permitted to hear about, let alone think about.

It is interesting how the Western elite and media lackeys views on China vary like the wind. To them it all depends on what benefits them. Cheap goods, cheap labour etc and no questions asked have been good enough for years. The British branch of that elite even wanted them to build a new nuclear power stations and the new 5G, until Presdient Trump declared economic war.

China takes no nonsense from its large Muslim community. The western liberal elite have been screaming about their human rights for years, as if the Anglo American fat cats and deep state are ‘humanitarians.’ They are not. they are liars, exploiters and hypocrits.

The Covid 19 virus has all the signs of a bio weapon. It is a moot point as to whether it is the work of Anglo Americans or China. We are supposed to think it is China. As for China’s record on Covid, they have had massive problems and infections. Their lockedown involved welding doors shut on blocks of flats. They also do not have that self righteous virtue signalling attitude to all manner of migrants, from a ruling elite and chattering class that do not feel the brunt.

The Chinese understand exactly what Islam means. Islamists are never going to be multicultural and their communities have been hardest hit by Covid. Having said that, the massive case statistics are based on guesswork and greatly exaggerate mortality rates. But ‘we’ must not upset BAME.

The door will stay open and the World Health Organisation will carry on passing the buck for a Third World overpopulating, rampantly religious and run by dictators established by the old white upper class colonials. Those colonials’ children and grandchildren did very well out of Empire. Now they are calling white working class people racist, ramping up the laws and welcoming more to join the poorly educated, increasingly unemployed ( because of lockdown ) and long suffering scapegoated insecure white underclass.

R.J Cook

Chemtrail bombshell: Shock claim ‘declassified files’ reveal HAARP weather control scheme Posted October 29th 2020

A TRIO of chemtrail conspiracy theorists have threatened to blow the lid on what they believe is the biggest chemtrail bombshell of the century, after claiming to uncover alleged unclassified US Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO) documents.

By Sebastian Kettley PUBLISHED: 21:22, Thu, May 3, 2018 | UPDATED: 22:43, Thu, May 3, 2018 0

Conspiracy theorist makes extraordinary claim about chemtrails

Conspiracists R ayne Steiger, Dr Claudia Albers and Scott C of Planet X News will publish their supposedly “groundbreaking” chemtrail findings in an upcoming book.

But ahead of that happening Mr Scott appeared in a YouTube livestream to share some of his extensive research.

The Planet X News YouTuber claimed to have found documents at the US Patent Office which prove jets are spraying the skies with chemicals.

Purveyors of the chemtrail conspiracy theory believe US government agencies are responsible for spraying the skies with a variety of chemicals.

Some allege the government is attempting to control weather patterns and climate change, while other surmise the skies are being glazed over to hide the presence of alien bodies approaching Earth.

These conspiracies are often linked to HAARP, or the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, which many believe is a secret US scheme to weaponise weather.

Mr Scott said: “We’re about to come out with a very detailed, I think, groundbreaking book on chemtrails.

“Over the past couple of weeks I have unearthed some pretty damning information and I have all of it on PDF file.

“These are government files that have been unclassified.”

He added: “The files that I have uncovered and the PDF files that I was able to download, these are all coming from the US Patent Office.

Chemtrails HAARP conspiracy weather control geoengineering GETTYChemtrailing conspiracy theory: Some believe the skies are sprayed with chemicals

“Some of the information has been redacted to get them but about 35 years ago several shadow companies – there is no link back to any government – have been working on aerosol pigmentation dispersant through aerosol components on jet aircraft.”

We’re about to come out with a very detailed, I think, groundbreaking book on chemtrails
Scott C, Planet X News

Mr Scott stressed his discovery of blueprints and a 30 page long document is “mind blowing”.

Earlier in the video, physicist Dr Albers spectacularly alleged photographs of chemtrails taken by Mr Steiger were concrete evidence of weather manipulation.

What appeared to be regular pictures of clouds in the skies, were interpreted by the conspiracist as evidence of “electromagnetic waves” used to control the weather and trigger earthquakes.

She said: “These are definitely waves. They are using electromagnetic frequencies to manipulate the whole atmosphere.

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Marilyn Monroe's suicide death has long been questioned with many believing she was murdered to prevent her from revealing political secrets

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There has been a lot of mystery around the disappearance of Malaysian airlines flight MH370, one being that the plane was hijacked by Russia's President Vladimir Putin and flown to Kazakhstan

“It’s visible because we have clouds there but even when there are no clouds they are using these electromagnetic waves.

“The whole of the atmosphere is nw bathed in these electromagnetic waves.

“That’s how they are controlling the weather. This is how they are creating earthquakes and today I even learned that they can create space weather at will.”

The US Patents Office said it was not possible to verify the claims.

A spokesman for the USPTO told Express.co.uk the claims cannot be verified without a patent number but the USPTO does at times handle Government documents.

Chemtrails HAARP conspiracy weather control geoengineering GETTYChemtrails: Scott C’one claimed to have uncovered secret chemtrail patents

Chemtrails HAARP conspiracy weather control geoengineering GETTYConspiracists believe aeroplane contrails are traces of chemical spraying

Paul Fucito, USPTO press secretary, said: “Chapter 0100 of our Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP) does outline specific statutory rules on secrecy, access, and national security.

“So, yes, there would be circumstances where the USPTO would handle applications under secrecy order and, or bearing national security markings.”

But despite the bizarre claims presented by the trio of conspiracists there appears to be no evidence to suggest aeroplane contrails are anything more than water vapour trails left behind by planes.

In fact the whole contrail conspiracy was debunked by numerous scientists studying the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist who published a study on this very contentious subject in the journal Environmental Research Letters, argued conspiracists ignore the empirical evidence presented to them.✕

He said: “I felt it was important to definitively show what real experts in contrails and aerosols think.

“We might not convince die-hard believers that their beloved secret spraying program is just a paranoid fantasy, but hopefully their friends will accept the facts.”

Steven Davis of UC Irvine who co-authored the study, added: “We wanted to establish a scientific record on the topic of secret atmospheric spraying programs for the benefit of those in the public who haven’t made up their minds.

“The experts we surveyed resoundingly rejected contrail photographs and test results as evidence of a large-scale atmospheric conspiracy.”

October 29th 2020

Three killed in grisly stabbing attack at Nice church

Suspected assailant detained; one victim’s throat slit; attack comes amid high alert in France following protests over Muhammad cartoons

By Agencies and TOI staff Today, 11:15 am 4

A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in what officials are treating as the latest jihadist attack to rock the country.

The assailant “kept repeating ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Greater) even while under medication” after he was injured during his arrest, Nice’s Mayor Christian Estrosi told journalists at the scene.

A man and a woman died at the Basilica of Notre-Dame, in the heart of the Mediterranean resort city, while a third person succumbed to injuries after seeking refuge in a nearby bar, a police source told AFP.

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The suspected assailant was detained by security forces shortly after the attack, a police source said.

“The situation is now under control,” police spokeswoman Florence Gavello said. French policemen stand guard a street after a knife attack in Nice on October 29, 2020. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP)

The prosecutor’s office and national police said that an investigation was opened into an attack with a terrorist connection after Thursday’s stabbing. The exact motive of the attack was unclear but comes as France is under high alert for terrorist acts amid tensions over the publication of caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad and after two other recent attacks.

“I can confirm that everything leads us to think this was a terror attack in the Notre-Dame Basilica,” Estrosi tweeted. He called the incident an “Islamo-fascist attack.”

Je suis sur place avec la @PoliceNat06 et la @pmdenice qui a interpellé l’auteur de l’attaque. Je confirme que tout laisse supposer à un attentat terroriste au sein de la basilique Notre-Dame de #Nice06. pic.twitter.com/VmpDqRwzB1
— Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) October 29, 2020

Images on French media showed the neighborhood locked down and surrounded by police and emergency vehicles. Sounds of explosions could be heard as sappers exploded suspicious objects.

No mass was underway at the time of the attack, but the church opens around 8 a.m. and “people come in to pray at all hours,” Father Philippe Asso, who serves at the basilica, told AFP.

Daniel Conilh, a 32-year-old waiter at the Grand Cafe de Lyon, a block from the church, said it was shortly before 9 a.m. when “shots were fired and everybody took off running.”

“A woman came in straight from the church and said, ‘Run, run, someone has been stabbing people,’” he told AFP, and dozens of police and rescue vehicles quickly sealed off the neighborhood.

France has been on terror alert since the January 2015 massacre at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which marked the beginning of a wave of jihadist attacks that have killed more than 250 people. French policemen stand guard after a knife attack in Nice on October 29, 2020.

Tensions have run especially high since the trial of suspected accomplices in that attack opened in September, an event the paper marked by republishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that infuriated millions of Muslims worldwide.

Just days later, an 18-year-old man from Pakistan seriously injured two people with a meat cleaver outside Charlie Hebdo’s former offices in Paris.

Emmanuel Macron’s office said the president would travel to Nice on Thursday, just days before French Catholics mark the All Saint’s Day holiday on November 1.

The Nice attack comes just days after thousands rallied across France in solidarity with a teacher beheaded for having shown pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

The history teacher, Samuel Paty, was killed by an 18-year-old Chechen man, Abdullakh Anzorov, who committed the gruesome crime outside Paty’s school in a Paris suburb after the teacher was denounced by angry parents on social media. Demonstrators shout slogans beside a burning effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest following Macron’s comments over the Prophet Mohammed caricatures, in Quetta on October 27, 2020. (Banaras KHAN / AFP)

His murder prompted Macron to promise a crackdown on Islamic extremism, including shutting down mosques and organizations accused of fomenting radicalism and violence.

But the move has inflamed tensions with many Muslims saying Macron is unfairly targeting France’s estimated five to six million Muslims — the largest community in Europe.

In another attack likely linked to the spreading anger, an unidentified man stabbed a security guard outside the French Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The guard was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. Saudi security forces arrested the suspect.

“The French Embassy in Saudi Arabia…reiterates its support for the victim and its trust in Saudi authorities in uncovering the circumstances of the incident as well as in guaranteeing the security of French diplomatic institutions and the French expatriate community in the Kingdom,” the embassy said in a statement following the attack.

Protests against France have erupted in several Muslim countries, with some urging a boycott of French goods, and tensions have flared in particular between Macron and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In Nice, painful memories remain fresh of the jihadist attack during the Bastille Day fireworks on July 14, 2016, when a man rammed his truck into a crowded promenade, killing 86 people.

Just a few days later, two teenagers murdered an 85-year-old priest as he conducted mass at his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in northern France, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State group.

Thursday’s attack drew condemnation from France’s allies, with Germany’s Angela Merkel voicing solidarity with France and EU Parliament President David Sassoli saying: “This pain is felt by all of us in Europe.

“We have a duty to stand together against violence and those that seek to incite and spread hatred,” he said on Twitter.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte condemned a “vile attack” but vowed it “will not shake the common front defending the values of freedom and peace.”

***Boris will do what ‘the scientists and Sir Kier Starmer, tells him to do. He is a nonentity, full of humbug and a coward.***

***Only 7 % of test results are accurate but give state power to completely isolate you.***

They don’t just spy on black people. Black people are making themselves special victims rather than challenging our vile corrupt rotten top down self interested police so called service. They serve themselves and we pay for them to look after the rich, dividing man and woman, black and white.
R.J Cook

Biden Family Whistleblower: Joe Biden Is ‘Compromised’ By Communist China Posted October 28th 2020.

October 27, 2020 By Tristan Justice

Biden family business partner-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tuesday night that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is “compromised” by communist China.

“If Joe Biden is elected president, which could very well happen,” Carlson said, “how does this constrain his ability to deal with China?”

“So I think Joe Biden and the Biden family is compromised,” Bobulinski said. “I just don’t see, given the history here and the facts, how Joe can’t be influenced in some manner based on the history that they have here with CEFC,” a Chinese energy company.

Bobulinski to #Tucker: “So, I think Joe Biden and the Biden family are compromised. Obviously, I’ve referenced that I’ve held a Q clearance. You’re briefed on a compromise and who you’re able to talk with and deal and do business with….” pic.twitter.com/DG7oXIndsF
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2020

Bobulinski’s comments came during a blockbuster interview in which Carlson dedicated the entire prime-time hour to Bobulinski outlining the Biden family’s conflicts of interest and potential criminal business activity.

The former Biden business partner, who was recruited by Hunter Biden to serve as the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings in partnership with the Chinese firm CEFC led by Ye Jianming, described in detail how Joe Biden was intimately involved with his son’s overseas business ventures raking in cash for the entire family.

Bobulinski first came forward last week with a public statement sent to The Federalist and other outlets offering on-the-record testimony to confirm incriminating claims surfacing from a Delaware laptop obtained by the New York Post and federal law enforcement. Bobulinski reiterated last week’s statements on Carlson’s program Tuesday night.

Here’s the e-mail Bobulinski referenced about Joe Biden getting a 10% cut of Hunter Biden’s and James Biden’s energy deal with Communist China. https://t.co/WmgAquYyLk
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 28, 2020

“Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing,” wrote Bobulinski, substantiating that the identity of “the Big Guy” in a May 17, 2017, email published in the New York Post earlier this month is a reference to Joe Biden. The same email showed Hunter Biden was being offered a $3 million-a-year contract from a Ye who possessed deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party for “introductions alone,” where 10 percent was flagged to be set aside for “the Big Guy.”

On Friday, The Federalist published explosive text messages from a Biden business associate instructing Bobulinski to conceal Joe Biden’s involvement with deals related to the CCP-linked firm.

“Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when you are face to face,” wrote James Gilliar.

This is maybe THE clip from this interview.
Bobulinski to #Tucker: “I remember looking at Jim Biden in saying how are you guys getting away with this? Like, aren’t you concerned? And he looked at me and he laughed a little bit and said. ‘plausible deniability.’” pic.twitter.com/GMDL1JNZtB
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2020

Throughout the entire presidential campaign, Joe Biden has denied ever discussing business with his son, “or with anyone else,” and the former vice president even fat-shamed an Iowa voter for bringing it up. Such claims had also been contradicted in the New York Post’s first tranche of reporting from the laptop evidently belonging to Hunter Biden.

The FBI has also reportedly seized Hunter Biden’s laptop over the course of a federal money-laundering investigation and reportedly interviewed Bobulinski Friday.

Comment Britain’s elite and media are backing Biden because they are part of the same inbred corrupt system. They are backing Biden with mordant patronising elites copy. R.J Cook

***British elitist media can’t stop taking the piss out of Trump. They are routing for Biden because they fear populism and want a ‘black’ ( sic ) vice president to take over.***

Their Truth Lies by R.J Cook

This establishment periodical carries the front page assertion that herd immunity does not work, along with the question and ineviatable inside answer supporting ludicrous lockdown. ‘Their truth lies.‘

There is no spelling mistake above. My message is quite simple. A few years ago I was spending a lot of time in London’s West End Theatre land. One of the plays I was invited to see, was ‘Truth, Lies, Diana.’ Written by Jon Conway, it explores the innuendo concerning James Hewitt being Prince Harry’s father, Diana carrying a Muslim’s child and speculation that she was assassinated by Britain’s deep state.

The self righteous Daily Mirror joined in the clamour to condemn and hopefully shut the play down. Conway’s play includes evidence that a tame female news editor conspired with security to wreck Conway’s marriage and have him sent to a mental hospital because he was judged paranoid in his obsession to expose the view that Princess Diana’s death was no accident.

Interestingly, the same newspaper carried a front page story of Princess Diana and James Hewitt being staked out and watched by SAS troops using night sights. The paper reported , lasciviously, how the saintly Princess had appeared on Hewitt’s lawn wearing the Major’s red hunting jacket, then revealing her nakedness to him and the invisible audience. Nowadays there is a popular elite run media lie that Diana did not meet Hewitt until Harry was conceived.

There were strenuous efforts to destroy the play and its writer, coming ultimately from the establishment of Britain’s fake propagandist democracy. It is only their version of truth. Having had to endure a first year of my undergraduate days untangling complex ideas from the likes of Professor A.J Ayer, I came to the conclusion that social, and even so called scientific truths, are adulterated, distorted and even buried by vested interests.

We live in interesting times where we have to respect ‘the science’ regarding Covid 19, along with the contradictory sensitivities and ideology of Islam. As compensation we are told we can worship as Christians as long as we do not offend Muslims.

All these allowances and fake freedoms are decided from on high. We are supposed to believe that so long as there appears to be the right balance of police, ethnics, women and LGBTQI employed in this process, then we are being told the truth.

Class interest is never mentioned, They talk of the national interest instead. But it is their class interest, they are the ruling class, with their so called science experts, lackeys and gullible BAME/Feminist lackeys. Their lies truth : Lockdown works, herd immunity does not, immunity and antibodies do not last. It is their truth, their lies the truth. It keeps the masses down, it keeps them safe. It makes them richer.

Deaths caused by lockdown aren’t mentioned or even measured, protesters and maskless ones are condemned as a danger to life. They must be reported. China caused the problem. Unemployment, homelessness, bankruptcy and riots are not their fault.

The wonders of the Dunkirk Spirit – a disaster nearly killing my father – is invoked to inspire a nation of people frightened into thinking they are close to an early death – rather than accept that BAME , sickly and old people are the ones who should be isolated if anyone should, open door immigration closed and the rest of us allowed to go on earning a living.

But that has no place because, it would cause offence. There must be a clampdown on social media. Their lies truth. R.J Cook

Isle of Wight tanker ‘hijackers’ may be in Britain for years, former immigration chiefs warn

Seven stowaways who allegedly turned violent against crew could spin out asylum claims under Human Rights Act, experts say By Bill Gardner ; Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor and Jamie Johnson 26 October 2020 • 7:00pm

A gang of suspected hijackers accused of seizing control of an oil tanker near the Isle of Wight could drag out their asylum claims for years, former immigration chiefs have warned.

Comment This is a green light for more. They threatened life and an environmental catastrophe by taking over an oil tanker, empty or not. They should be prosecuted for piracy, deported and barred from Britain for life. This was a terrorist act. They have broken British and International law. Why did the government authorise an expensive SBS invasion of the threatened ship, why not just radio the captain to tell him there would be a welcome committee for these hijackcer/pirates ?. R.J Cook

Video evidence out of Pennsylvania shows an empty trailer littered with shredded mail-in ballot applications for President Trump. Posted October 27th 2020

Jamie White | INFOWARS.COM Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Video evidence out of Pennsylvania shows an empty trailer littered with shredded mail-in ballot applications for President Trump.

The footage, recently submitted by a fan of Barstool Sports Company, shows hundreds of destroyed ballot applications for Trump inside abandoned trailers outside of an R.R. Donnelley printing facility.

“I’d be mad if they left my trailer like that, all shredded paper…this looks like a bunch of recyclables, right?” the concerned citizen said.

“No, it’s a Pennsylvania application for a mail-in ballot, and they do have people’s addresses on the back of them that were never mailed out.”

“I mean, how many are in here? Thousands? And there’s another trailer out here, all the way back there, same product right there,” he said, showing a second trailer with shredded ballots.

“Somebody sabotaged all of these,” he continued. “They were supposed to go out to people, never made it. I won’t let you down, Trump.”

President Trump once again raised the issue of mail-in ballot fraud by Democrats on Wednesday in a tweet that was again flagged by Twitter.

“THE MEDIA IS CORRUPT, JUST LIKE OUR DEMOCRAT RUN BALLOT SYSTEM IS CORRUPT! Look at what’s happening with Fake, Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country??? VOTE,” Trump wrote.

Ari, THE MEDIA IS CORRUPT, JUST LIKE OUR DEMOCRAT RUN BALLOT SYSTEM IS CORRUPT! Look at what’s happening with Fake, Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country??? VOTE https://t.co/PaFBuskB19
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020

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DeAnna Lorraine breaks down the divisive anti-Trump speech by Big Mike.

Street protests in Naples over prospect of lockdown as Italy registers over 19,000 new coronavirus cases. Posted October 27th 2020

Italian police used tear gas against protestors during riots in the southern city of Naples as the Campania region entered its first night of curfew, in the first such clashes in Italy since the coronavirus outbreak eight months ago.

Hundreds of people took to the streets to demonstrate over the imminent lockdown threatened by the Campania governor Vincenzo De Luca due to the rapidly rising numbers of new covid-19 cases.

Covid-19: Rome shuts down nightlife areas before curfew

Under banners that read “Against De Luca” and “You close us you pay us,” protestors set fire to bins and vandalised cars as well as throwing stones, bottles and fireworks at police who responded with baton charges and tear gas.

Riots in Naples last night. *Photo Sky TG24.*

“Tonight we witnessed real criminal behaviour towards the police” – said Naples police commissioner Alessandro Giuliano – “No conditions of discomfort, however humanly understandable, can in any way justify the violence.”

De Luca, who has already shut schools and imposed a night curfew, yesterday called for a month-long national lockdown as Italy registered a record 19,143 new coronavirus cases, of which 2,280 were in Campania.

It has endured Europe’s longest lockdown, but when Italy enters its much-anticipated phase two tomorrow, few will find reason to celebrate.

Last week, after Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, outlined plans to slowly ease the country’s quarantine, millions of people were overcome with feelings of anger and disappointment as their hopes were dashed by what many described as a “false reopening”.

Italians will now be able to travel within regions to visit relatives, provided they wear masks, but schools, hairdressers, gyms and many other commercial activities will stay closed; cafes and restaurants will offer takeaways only; and all travel between regions will be banned except for work, health or emergency situations. Restrictions on funerals have been relaxed, with a maximum of 15 mourners allowed to attend, but masses and weddings will have to wait.

For this reason, last Friday, Pietro Demita, a stylist in Lecce whose company is a leading wedding dress designer, set fire to his entire collection in protest against the lockdown, which has brought the wedding industry to near-collapse.

Comment Read ‘Their Lies The Truth’ by R.J Cook Tomorrow.

Global Police State & Set Theory – R.J Cook October 26th 2020

When I was a young maths teacher, I found having to teach Venn Diagrams, Set Theory, Binary Numbers and multiplying matrices rather pointless for 13 years old children. That was back in 1980, so computers were not ubiquitous and I thought the basics of arithmetic and tables should come first. The School Maths Project Text Books were dull and gave no context to the syllabus. The school was rampant Tory, with a number of senior teachers on the local Tory Council. So applying set theory to the local social class divisions and hierarchy of Aylesbury was out of the question.

That was 30 years ago, but seems like yesterday in my old mind. After so much time, I see how useful set theory and binary numbers – even matrices- are to the collapsing social world that I live in. Of course worlds have collapsed before, but I wasn’t born then so it wasn’t my problem . This one is, and as I have explained elsewhere, has already done incalculable harm to my two sons.

***The masses of the United States fighting each other yesterday. they do not see their elite puppet masters.***

So today I heard a virologist explaining how there have been 100 mutations of Covid 19 and there is nothing we can do to stop it changing because of its simple RNA. All the signs, including elite panic suggest that one or more of the powerful nations invented it as part of their mad clamour for more power and wealth. Conveniently Covid started near a live Wuhan food market , so we are supposed to blame China, who have suffered the most. The idea it could have been let loose there by an agent causes outrage.

Smug so called scientists working for the elite deliberately miss the point about conspiracy theorists. No sane person is saying Covid 19 doesn’t exist. We are saying the danger is exaggerated, however bad it is only the old and BAME who are most at risk because of age and lifestyle, so should be isolated and helped, not everyone else. Also. Obviously immigration from Africa and the Middle East should be stopped. But feminists . so called liberals, Muslims, BLM and BAME will call that racist. So the economy has to be crashed with all sorts of horrible consequences emerging and growing.

**Professor Williamson’s new book ‘The Global Police State’ refers to extreme control and** ***oppression by the global elite, and the unlimited powers of their agencies.***

Never mind, the top 1% of the world’s international elite, including blacks and Muslims, control 50% of the world’s wealth, and the top 20% have 95% of it. That means 80% have only 5 % between them. Set theory is about how and where the rich elite and masses overlap. The answer is that they don’t. The circles of the Venn diagram do not overlap at all. A large police and security block stands between them, ironically paid for by that bottom 5 % because the capitalist mantra is that the rich need incentives to get richer. They are $30 trillion richer since and because of Covid lockdown, a lockdown which does not and never will succeed in controlling Covid 19, but it will make the super rich even richer unless there is a serious socialist revolution.

Britain’s mainstream media refuse to screen Ken Fero’s new film about the U.K police, called Ultraviolence. including coverage of 2000 killed by British police since 1950, including the Metropilitan ‘illegal killing’ of an innocent Brazillian, as ordered by the current head of the London Metropiolitian Police., *Cressida Dick..*

Ken says that there is no trustworthy agency for bringing British police to justice because they are all part of a police, IOPC, CPS, Judicial loop of vested interests. He says at least the U.S brings corrupt and killer police to justice, Britain does not. The killing of innocent bystander Ian Tomlinson, at G7, is another vile case in point, with then CPS boss Sir Kier Starmer opposing bringing killer cop Steven Harwood to justice. This cop had been kicked out of Surrey police for his aggression and assaults on the public, and lapped up by the Met.

But there won’t be, which is why the moronic masses are frightened into conformity and paying for more police. It is vital to divide men and women, blacks and whites in this respect, which is why Tories and Democrats love. ISLAM, BLM – directing police and security at the so called far right. Divide and rule has always worked for them, now they have brought God and the Queen back as well, to help them. The elite will risk world war if need be, as they did in 1914 and 1939, with all sorts of patriotic bullshit to justify and mislead them into more mass killing.

According to Professor William Robinson’s new book ‘The Global Police State’ public space is near non existent, police powers are draconian to protect the rich. He calls it a neo fascist elite. He notes that military spending is 4.5% of global GDP and growing, along with a 20 million strong global private police and security force to oppress the masses. He uses the terms extreme control and oppression.

Add to this that the 30 somethings in the west have no faith in democracy because they can see through the mist of propaganda that it does nothing but harm to their lives, taking no account of their views or needs, and you have a rather nasty excuse for society. Meanwhile Turkey;s dictator Erdogan has questioned Macron’s mental health for clamping down on militant Islamic agencies and individuals linked to the beheading of an innocent French school teacher.

Of course that teacher wasn’t innocent ( sic ) because he exposed a class to the offending images of Allah that led to a massacre of journalists who originally published them. The words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. However, while Erdogan takes it for granted that we must tolerate the growing Islamic population in the west, with their bigoted religious views, Erdogan et al does not extend the same freedoms to us, who do not believe in mainstream religious political institutions.

For many years, the Christian Reformation, pushing it out of politics, was credited with encouraging capitalism -see , for example ‘Religion and the Rise of Capitalism’ by R.H Tawney or the work of Max Weber. Now however, it is back, with the excuse we can all worship as we like as long as we do not upset Islamists – because they take religion as the only truth and take it very seriously indeed. This is very handy for rich Muslims just as Christianity has been for rich so called Christians. It can all be explained by set theory, points of overlap, common ground or lack of it. R.J Cook

‘Islam is in crisis all over the world,’ Macron says, vowing to step up fight against religious radicalism in France Posted October 26th 2020

Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we are not just seeing this in our country.

Macron explained that the “deep crisis is caused by the tensions between fundamentalism, its religious and political projects that… lead to very strong radicalization.”

The president went on to say that by allowing the “ghettoization” in Muslim neighborhoods “we have built our own separatism.” I am afraid this separitism in ghettoes, for a people who feel they have a special relationship with what they call God, jsut breeds resentment and will not be the end of the matter.

Macron is a fool, a deliberate deceiver or a knave. He is certainly not mentally ill. However, I must comment that it is France that is in crisis because of Islam, and Islam is causing crises all over the world. These religious zealots – Muslims take religion zealously – must be put in context of what that top 20 % who own 95% of the world’s wealth have been doing with the benefits of advancing technology. Clever nerds build that technology, but politicians, big business and other morons use it for their short term selfish goals and pleasure.

A tiny minority have been getting hideously rich, playing roulette with the globe, exploiting religious differences with the excuse of multi culture. Ignoring the unemployed German masses in the 1930s was a big mistake. Britain and Germany’s rich feared communism back then, neither expected to go to war with each other. They certainly didn’t fight because of the Jews. It was about money power and empire.

Poverty breeds religious desperation and bigotry, in hope of a better world. the , the likes of Erdogan and the House of Saud live, as other members of the global elite, cut off and protected by minions and propaganda. They use religion to distract. Our elite used to use it, but now they have diversity, feminism, BLM and LGBTQI as distractions. They fool the masses that colour and sexuality will lead to happiness. Ironically Islam sees the world very differently. Our elite has passed so many laws to stifle robust comment that matters are way out of hand.

The progress of Islam in France, as elsewhere, is ineluctable. Islamists may not all carry out terrorsim, but they are not multi culturalists and would not be Muslims if they were. Our so called liberal elite and democrat champions are similarly cut off. It is in countries like Armenia where reality dawns. If Erdogan wants to talk about territorial rights, then he should give back large chunks of land stolen by the Ottoman Turks from Greece. At this point, may I remind the reader that Islam is not a race, anymore than Judaism or Christianity is.

Meaanwhile Erdogan and Pakistan’s Oxbridge educated posh leader Imran Khan have called for a world wide Muslim boycott of French goods. This is rather as if Islam is laying down the law to France and will alarm many. It is ironic that one hears such self righteous drivel from leaders of Islamic countries where there is zero tolerance of minorities.

That, however, is the clue to the reality of Islams other worldliness. There would be a very different response if a French Christian or other French non Muslim had chopped a Muslim’s head off. If this were maths, it would not add up.

Macron said : “We have concentrated populations according to their origins, [while] not creating enough diversity, enough economic and social mobility,” Macron said, calling for “Islam in France to be freed from foreign influence.”

Among the measures to combat radical groups, Macron said that the government would present a bill in December to strengthen a landmark 1905 law that officially separated church and state in France. He said that the display of religion will continue to be outlawed in school and public service.

‘Secularism is the cement of a united France.’ said Macron. Well, I am afraid that cement is being washed away. So, as we can see, France won’t be united unless they find a new sort of cement – maybe Islam is the stuff. Who knows ?

R.J Cook

Prepping for a race war: documents reveal inner workings of neo-Nazi group Posted October 26th 2020

Members of the Base at a gathering. The materials show how the group has planned terror campaigns, vandalized synagogues and recruited new members. Jason Wilson Guardian

The Base, a US-based white supremacist “social network” that has recently been targeted by the FBI in raids leading to the arrest of several members, was active, growing and continuing to prepare for large-scale violence.

The Guardian has obtained chat records, audio recordings and videos provided by an anti-fascist whistleblower who spent more than a year charting the inside workings of the Base.

The same infiltrator took control of The Base’s telegram channel in the early hours of Saturday morning, US time, and posted multiple memes mocking the group’s founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro.

The Guardian studied leaked materials relayed by the whistleblower and pursued other lines of inquiry to exclusively reveal the real identity of the Base’s secretive leader as Nazzaro, 46, from New Jersey.

Nazzaro is currently living in Russia with his Russian wife. Until the Guardian’s exposé little was known about his background and he was only known by the alias “Norman Spear”.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rinaldo Nazzaro, the founder of the Base. Photograph: Photograph obtained by the Guardian

The exclusive materials show how the group has planned terror campaigns; vandalized synagogues; organised armed training camps; and recruited new members who extolled an ideology of all-out race war. The cache of documents and recordings gives a rare insight into how such neo-Nazi terror groups operate.

The Base – an approximate English translation of “al-Qaida” – began recruiting in late 2018 and pushing for both the collapse of society and a race war. Members of the group stand accused of federal hate crimes, murder plots and firearms offenses, and have harbored international fugitives in recent months.

It was the very real threat of violence that convinced the whistleblower to infiltrate the Base and stay undercover for months, gaining the trust of other members, only to later contact the Guardian to expose them.

The Guardian’s source said that in recent months “the pieces were coming together to build the infrastructure for a strong, neo-Nazi militant underground, with places to train, to make connections and expand the network.” He felt he had to act to stop it.

The source said: “The ‘Norman Spear’ I spoke with told me in no uncertain terms that the purpose of the Base is to cause the collapse of our society, not survive it.”

How the Base communicates

The Guardian’s source, an anti-Nazi activist, rose to a position of trust within the group, which allowed him to take thousands of screenshots in chatrooms used by the Base since 2018.

In November 2018, those chats were infiltrated by antifa activists, and members were outed, or “doxxed”, amid early media reporting. At this point, the Base tightened up vetting processes and moved their chats to an encrypted platform called Wire.

Under the motto “there is no political solution” the group embraces an “accelerationist” ideology, which holds that acts of violence and terror are required to push liberal democracy towards collapse, preparing the way for white supremacists to seize power and establish an ethno-state.

Africans ever more desperate to get to Britain – why ? Stand off on tanker ends when 16 Royal Marines arrive on board, but asylum will be guaranteed. Objectors will be called racists and African dictators and big business will keep on ruining Africa. October 26th 2020

When flashlights were spotted darting around the deck of the Nave Andromeda, it was clear that the 10-hour standoff was nearly over.

Under the cover of darkness, six miles off the Isle of Wight, sixteen Royal Navy Special Boat Service commandos dropped down from four hovering helicopters and took back control of the 228-metre oil tanker from a gang of seven stowaways.

The raid lasted just nine minutes, but the dramatic climax was nearly three weeks in the making.

The enormous vessel left port in Lagos, Nigeria on October 6 heading towards Southampton.

At full capacity, it can carry 500,000 barrels of oil, but it is understood that the tanker is nearly empty and was on its way to collect gasoline from the Fawley oil refinery, run by ExxonMobil.

On board the ship, which sails under the flag of Liberia, there were 22 crew members. But there were also seven stowaways.

CAPTION UPDATE Â© Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/10/2020. Isle of Wight, UK. A police boat lights up the hull of the oil tanker Nave Andromeda as a rescue mission gets underway off the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. It is being reported that stowaways have seized the ship which sailed from Lagos and was supposed to berth at Southampton this morning. Photo credit: – Peter Macdiarmid/LNP

“Security in third world ports is not as high as in the first world, so it is relatively easy to get through perimeter fences,” said Maritime expert and finance editor at Lloyd’s List, David Osler.

“International Maritime Organisation guidelines mandate search of vessels prior to departure, but sometimes stowaways slip through.”

Flag officials are working on the assumption that they boarded though the rudder trunk of the vessel, he added.

In any case, the ship left port with its human cargo and embarked on the mammoth 4,459 nautical mile journey.

After rounding the West coast of Africa, it dropped anchor just off the Canary Islands to collect bunker fuel – necessary to power the ship’s mighty engines.

Five days ago it stopped briefly just off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, France.

It is not known exactly when the stowaways were discovered, but they had no documentation and sources told the Telegraph their presence had been known for “some time”.

A source within the Liberian shipping registry said it was understood the seven men were all from Nigeria.

The question facing the captain and crew was how to deal with them.

It is understood that as the ship approached British waters, the crew tried to detain the stowaways in a cabin, but they got violent and that sparked the security incident.

Lawyers for Navios Tankers Management Inc, the Greek company who own the ship, said it was not a hijacking, but the Ministry of Defence did not rule that out.

On Sunday morning, violence erupted.

It was just after 10am when the desperate call went out.

The ship’s captain said that stowaways had been discovered on board and were making threats to kill the crew.

“I’m trying to keep them calm but please send help,” he pleaded with the coastguard.

“You could hear the fear in his voice,” sources said.

“The captain clearly stated he feared for their lives and needed urgent assistance, they needed rescuing.”

Glass was smashed and in fear, the crew retreated to the ship’s citadel, a secure area in which they can lock themselves, making it impossible for attackers to get in.

They contacted the coastguard, which then alerted police.

The ship was denied access to Southampton port and told to stay out at sea.

For hours, the Nave Andromeda zig-zagged in the ocean. It was unclear who was steering.

Two coastguard helicopters flew overhead, monitoring the situation. On land, an armed unit of police set up a station on the Isle of Wight. A three mile exclusion zone was ordered around the vessel.

A MAJOR security incident is underway after a group of stowaways were found on board an oil tanker off the British coast today.

A MAJOR security incident is underway after a group of stowaways were found on board an oil tanker off the British coast today.

October 25th 2020

The 748ft ship is zig-zagging in the English Channel after the discovery this morning.

Cops are responding to an incident on the Nave AndromedaCredit: Solent News

The ship is currently off the coast of the Isle of WightCredit: marinetraffic.com

Cops are watching the ship from landCredit: Solent News

A Police officer on the Isle of Wight keeps watch on the Nave Andromeda off Isle of Wight. Sienna Anderson/pictureexclusive.com

A Coastguard helicopter has been circling the ship around four miles south east off the coast of the Isle of Wight.

Military assistance has now been requested to deal with the tanker incident..

The group of seven stowaways – thought to be from Nigeria – “become violent” after being found on the Liberian-flagged Nave Andromeda, Sky News reports.

But Lawyers Tatham and Co, representing the vessel’s owners, said it was “100% not a hijacking”.

Armed units are are said to be setting up base at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, Isle of Wight Radio reported.

The vessel gave a mayday alert at 9am this morning.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is being kept up to speed on the incident, Sky News reported.

The tanker was bound for the Port of Southampton after setting off from Nigeria 19 days ago.

The tanker is currently around four miles south east of the Isle of Wight.

It was last known to be docked in Lagos, Nigeria, on October 5, and was scheduled to arrive at Southampton at 10.30am today.

A Hampshire Police spokesman said: “We are aware and dealing with an ongoing incident on board a vessel which is situated south of the Isle of Wight.”

The Coastguard said: “We are currently assisting Hampshire Constabulary with an incident on board a vessel situated off the Isle of Wight.

“The search and rescue helicopters from Lee on Solent and Lydd are in attendance.”

A five nautical mile restriction zone has been placed around the ship, and a coastguard helicopter has circled it.

Local MP Bob Seely said a Cobra meeting is about to happen.

Nave Andromeda is seen in Portishead, Britain in this undated picture obtained from social media.Credit: Reuters

This map shows the ship's irregular recent course — This map shows the ship’s irregular recent courseCredit: marinetraffic.com

A coastguard helicopter circled the ship this afternoon

This Marine Traffic map shows how busy the Channel is at about 4.50pm on Sunday

He told Sky News: “The skipper has dropped anchor, either because he has been told to or because he is panicking.

“The relevant units will be looking at options as to what we can do.”

Mr Seely said it was reported that the coastguard told the ship not to drop anchor before it did.

Former rear admiral Christopher Parry says the zig-zagging of the oil tanker suggests that “the master and the crew aren’t in control of the ship”.

The Nave Andromeda is sailing under the flag of Liberia, and was built in 2011.

The Special Boat Service is located just a few miles away in Poole, Dorset.

In December 2018, SBS commandos took just five minutes to seize a ship hijacked by four migrants.

Hunter’s ex-partner Tony Bobulinski: Joe Biden’s a liar and here’s the proof October 25th 2020

Ebony Bowden and Steven Nelson

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski accused Democratic nominee Joe Biden of lying about his involvement in his family’s overseas dealings in a stunning appearance just 90 minutes before Thursday evening’s presidential debate.

“I have heard Joe Biden say he has never discussed his dealings with Hunter. That is false. I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said following The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s private emails.

Bobulinski, who will be a guest of President Trump at the debate, showed three phones spanning 2015 to 2018 as evidence and said he would be meeting with the Senate and the FBI to hand over electronics.

The US Navy veteran said he was introduced to the former veep on May 2, 2017, by Hunter Biden and the lawmaker’s brother Jim Biden before the Global Milken Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif.

“That night, we discussed the Bidens’ history, the Biden family’s plans with the Chinese, with which he was plainly familiar, at least at a high level,” he said in Memphis, Tenn., ahead of the final debate between President Trump and Biden.

“I have no wish to bury anyone. I’ve never been political. The few contributions I have made have been to Democrats. But what I am is a patriot, and a veteran, to protect my family name, and my business reputation. I need to ensure that the true facts are out there,” he said, batting away accusations that he was part of a misinformation plot.

Bobulinski came forward earlier Thursday to corroborate emails revealed exclusively by The Post last week about the Biden family’s murky overseas dealings in China involving both Hunter Biden and uncle Jim Biden.

The US Navy veteran accused former Vice President Joe Biden of being directly involved in a plot to make millions of dollars, identifying to him as “the big guy” named in the May 13, 2017, email.

That email showed the four partners each getting 20 percent shares in the business, with 10 percent going to “Jim” and the remaining 10 percent “held by H for the big guy?”

The Navy veteran said he was approached in late 2015 by James Gilliar, a man he had known “for many years,” about joining him in a deal with Chinese state-owned energy company CEFC and “what he called one of the most prominent families in the United States.”

The whistleblower said he was told the Biden family wanted to form a new entity with CEFC to invest in infrastructure, real estate, and technology in the US and around the world.

Bobulinski also released hundreds of text messages and emails from his time as CEO of the company being formed between the Biden family and China’s largest private energy company, named SinoHawk Holdings.

In one message sent on May 20, 2017, Gilliar warned Bobulinski not to mention the Democratic nominee’s involvement in the SinoHawk deal.

“Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid,” a screenshot of the message from Gilliar read.

Bobulinski said Gilliar and fellow partner Rob Walker were “paranoid about keeping Joe Biden’s involvement secret.”

The famous family has been dogged for years by allegations of impropriety following Hunter Biden’s lucrative role on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father was vice president.

A tranche of emails from a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden — published exclusively by The Post last week — revealed how the scandal-scarred son tried to leverage his family connections to land lucrative deals overseas and boost his Burisma pay.

Speaking before reporters at a Marriott hotel near the debate site Thursday evening, Bobulinski claimed he had a falling out with the Biden family when Hunter Biden wanted to pocket $5 million from an initial $10 million cash injection into SinoHawk, ponied up by CEFC.

“He said, referring to ‘the chairman,’ his father, that CEFC was really investing in the Biden family, that he held the trump card and that he was the one putting his family legacy on the time,” said Bobulinski, who declined to take questions afterward.

“During these negotiations I repeated to Hunter and others that SinoHawk could not be Hunter’s personal piggy bank,” he went on.

“CEFC through July 2017 was assuring me the funds would be transferred to SinoHawk, but they were never sent to our company. Instead, I found out from Senator Johnson’s September report that the $5 million was sent in August 2017 to entities affiliated with Hunter,” he said, referring to the Wisconsin senator’s congressional probe into potential corruption in the Biden family.

A Well Planned Conspiracy ? October 25th 2020

COVID-19: A Well-Planned Conspiracy? Shivang Yadav and Rakshitt Bajpai April 18, 2020 09:33:15 pm Edited by: Gabrielle Wast | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, USJURIST Guest Columnists from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India, Shivang Yadav, a third-year law student, and Rakshitt Bajpai, a second-year law student, discuss the recent suit filed by US interest group Freedom Watch against the Chinese government amid the COVID-19 pandemic…

Curbing global pandemics like COVID-19 has been one of the most difficult tasks in the history of mankind. The emergence of this virus can be traced back to December of 2019 when China alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) to several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan. However, the virus remained unknown at this stage. Only later was it was identified and named COVID-19 by WHO. The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern.

Amidst this chaos, there has been misinformation and rumors have been surfacing on social media, the most prominent among them being conspiracy theories regarding the use of COVID-19 as a bioweapon by China. In one version of the rumor, the virus was engineered in a lab by humans as a bioweapon. In another version, the virus was being studied in the lab (after being isolated from animals) and then “escaped” or “leaked” because of poor safety protocol. The fact that Wuhan has the only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, the National Biosafety Laboratory (part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology) further reinforces this theory. However, all these rumors lack scientific evidence to support this conspiracy theory.

Based on this theory, Freedom Watch filed a lawsuit against Chinese authorities in the US over coronavirus outbreak. The plaintiff seeks $20 trillion, a more than China’s GDP, claiming coronavirus is the result of a biological weapon prepared by the Chinese authorities. The plaintiff also alleged that all the defendants were working together to perpetrate an act of “international terrorism”.

Issue of Jurisdiction

Traditionally, US citizens were permitted to sue a foreign state if it was designated as a state sponsor of terrorism by the US, provided that they were harmed by that state’s aid for international terrorism. The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) authorized the federal courts to exercise subject matter jurisdiction over a state’s support for acts of international terrorism against a US national or property regardless of whether such a state is designated as a sponsor of terrorism. Such types of cases are not new in the legal history of the US. This trend came into the limelight after the case In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, wherein the JASTA was applied for the first time.

As per Section 1605B(b) of the JASTA, a foreign state is not immune from the jurisdiction of a US court in cases where money damages are sought against it for physical injury to a person, property or death occurring in the US caused by either an act of international terrorism or by a tortious act performed by any agent or official of that state, regardless of the place where it is performed.

Freedom Watch’s petition has addressed the question of jurisdiction in a detailed manner and might be admissible in the court.

There have been prior cases wherein a state was held liable for an act of international terrorism and paid hefty damages to the victims. The best example is the case of Pan Am 103 Bombing wherein, according to the evidence, the involvement of two Libyan intelligence operatives was proven and one of them was found guilty. Initially, the Libyan government did not agree to extradite both of the operatives. Libya finally agreed after being pressured from the Security Council by way of imposing sanctions until the country to compensated the victims’ families and demonstrated with concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism. Later, the Libyan Government also paid a sum of nearly $3 billion to the victims’ families.

However, unlike the Pan Am 103 case, the issues involved in Freedom Watch’s petition still require investigation. Furthermore, the lack of any scientific evidence to support the theory of using COVID-19 as a bioweapon indicates that these are mere theoretical presumptions and are not practically possible as COVID-19 is not fatal enough to be used as a bioweapon. Secondly, the involvement of two nuclear weapons states (NWS) in this case which have been involved in a trade war appears to be a mere act of predominance.

Further Course of Action and International Overview

This Freedom Watch petition might be admissible by the court, but what if China, being a superpower, refuses to comply with the decision of the court in order to protect its sovereign immunity? As mentioned above the petition might be rejected on the basis of lack of evidence. Therefore, alternative discourses may be necessary to bring China under proper jurisdiction and make them accountable for allegedly committing such a heinous and negligent act.

Alternative Course of Action Available in International Forums

Considering the fact that this pandemic has affected more than half of the world’s population, it might be best to bring an Article 7 Crimes Against Humanities case against the Chinese authorities in the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC is the supreme authority to handle such cases. It is undoubtedly a better alternative to make Chinese authorities responsible for the outbreak.

In the case of The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga, the alleged party was convicted and sentenced to twelve years of prison for committing mass murder and various crimes against humanity. The recent incident where China used its veto power to refuse to allow the discussion of the Wuhan epidemic and the spread of COVID-19 in the Security Council has created several questions. The Chinese Ambassador stated that “discussion relating to COVID-19 is not an agenda of the UNSC”, which has led to further the suspicion that China is hiding vital details about the origin of the virus.

It may be inferred that China is covering up the issue, which itself is a grave and inhumane act during this pandemic. Thus, even if there exists a remote suspicion that China has deliberately used COVID-19 as a biological weapon for committing bio-terrorism, there must be a proper trial held and every suspected authority must be a party.

The People’s Republic of China, Major General Chen Wie and Shi Zhengli, Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, are the defendants in the Freedom Watch petition. The defendants dealt with the handling of the virus during the pre-pandemic and must be subject to proper investigation. If China is found to guilty of the deliberate release of COVID-19 during the investigation, there would be violations of several treaties China is a party to:

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction: This convention clearly states that the development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons in any manner against mankind would lead to a violation of the treaty. As per the treaty, any party can draw an action against the alleged party in UNSC along with the evidence stated under Article 7.
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare: This treaty prohibits the use of any bacteriological method for mass destruction of mankind.
Even if the alleged parties are not found guilty, the International Law Commission’s Liability for Injurious Consequences exists to try parties for negligence in handling deadly viruses like COVID-19.

Conclusion

The present COVID-19 pandemic has led to serious physical sufferings and mental injury accompanied by damage to the global economy and to man-kind. The proper judicial mechanisms must provide justice to the aggrieved party and convict the culprits behind the conspiracy if it exists. There are also alternatives available in international forums. The only factor which remains in this puzzle is the proper evidence proving such a conspiracy exists. Once a proper investigation is initiated, things will become more clear. However, the behavior of the Chinese government is alarming and appears to be suspicious.

For more on COVID-19, see our special coverage.

Shivang Yadav is a third-year law student and Rakshitt Bajpai is a second-year law student. Both study at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India.

Suggested citation: Shivang Yadav and Rakshitt Bajpai, COVID-19: A Well-Planned Conspiracy?, JURIST – Student Commentary, April 18, 2020, https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/04/yadav-bajpai-covid-conspiracy/

Comment It is all too convenient to blame China for Covid19. They seem to be the worst hit. Conspiracy is an issue regarding the panic propagandist response, with such lies that the virus can kill us all, that lockdown is scientifically based & actually working so we must wait for a vaccine. That is sophistry.

It is conveniently used as a weapon to curtail worldwide protests against exploitation by the global elite who steal all of the real wealth – in economics , wealth is defined as surplus reinvested to make more profit. It blocks social contact, ramps up mass fear, is used to blame Trump and as an excuse for Britain not leaving the EU.

The evil dynamic of human progress is the pursuit of power and greed. It is redolent in divisive destructive feminism and is being used to con blacks with fake versions of elite friendly history of poor whites and blacks – as if there have never been corrupt black politicians and other rich blacks. These latter folk operate like feminists by using mass ignorance and stupidity to fool the lower orders into thinking they will help them. These people are power mad disingenous power seekers and abusers – that includes the U.K police. R.J Cook

The WHO and the Covid Conspiracy October 24th 2020

Did The WHO Just (Accidentally) Confirm COVID Is No More Dangerous Than Flu?

by Tyler Durden Thu, 10/08/2020 – 18:10 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

The World Health Organization has finally confirmed what we (and many experts and studies) have been saying for months – the coronavirus is no more deadly or dangerous than seasonal flu.

The WHO’s top brass made this announcement during a special session of the WHO’s 34-member executive board on Monday October 5th, it’s just nobody seemed to really understand it.

In fact, they didn’t seem to completely understand it themselves.

At the session, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s Head of Emergencies revealed that they believe roughly 10% of the world has been infected with Sars-Cov-2.

This is their “best estimate”, and a huge increase over the number of officially recognised cases (around 35 million).

Dr. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokeswoman, later confirmed the figure, stating it was based on the average results of all the broad seroprevalence studies done around the world.

As much as the WHO were attempting to spin this as a bad thing – Dr Ryan even said it means “the vast majority of the world remains at risk.” – it’s actually good news. And confirms, once more, that the virus is nothing like as deadly as everyone predicted.

The global population is roughly 7.8 billion people, if 10% have been infected that is 780 million cases. The global death toll currently attributed to Sars-Cov-2 infections is 1,061,539.

That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%.

Right in line with seasonal flu and the predictions of many experts from all around the world.

0.14% is over 24 times LOWER than the WHO’s “provisional figure” of 3.4% back in March. This figure was used in the models which were used to justify lockdowns and other draconian policies.

In fact, given the over-reporting of alleged Covid deaths, the IFR is likely even lower than 0.14%, and could show Covid to be much less dangerous than flu.

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None of the mainstream press picked up on this. Though many outlets reported Dr Ryan’s words, they all attempted to make it a scary headline and spread more panic.

Apparently neither they, nor the WHO, were capable of doing the simple math that shows us this is good news. And that the Covid sceptics have been right all along.

Blaming Russia for Hunter’s problems was a big misstep, Joe, and it may prove to be your downfall

Micah Curtis

***The motley crew, the righteous ones, clamouring to impleach Donald Trump***

Follow RT on Joe Biden recently suggested that stories circulating about his son Hunter were part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Whatever he has or hasn’t been up to, blaming another nation is unwise and won’t go down well with voters.

It’s safe to say that Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden, is having a rough time. After the contents of his laptop, including details of his international business dealings, came into the public domain, it transpired that the computer had been the subject of a subpoena in a money-laundering investigation. Now, former business partners are beginning to turn on him, and one of them has said that he’s turning “everything” over to the FBI and the Senate. Another one claimed that Biden was consulted with regard to Hunter’s foreign deals.

During the second and final presidential debate, Biden made a key mistake when it came to addressing these issues. Instead of simply stating that he had no comment to make, he decided to blame Russia for the fact that Hunter’s emails had been leaked from the laptop’s hard drive. Ah yes. So we’re back to that old ‘reliable’ narrative. I’m assuming that Joe may have missed the embarrassment that was the Mueller investigation.

Maybe Biden doesn’t like Russia. Whether he does or doesn’t is inconsequential. It is a very bad idea to blame his problems on a foreign power. In fact, it’s not the proper behavior of someone who wants to be president. Here’s the truth. Hunter Biden’s dealings across the pond likely had some issues. It’s hard to say exactly what these might be, because there’s an ongoing investigation. I don’t think that Biden is so dumb that he doesn’t realize that this hurts his chances of the presidency. However, there is a big lack of responsibility here. Blaming what’s happening on anyone except Hunter is a bit silly. I’d even argue that it’s incredibly irresponsible.

What’s even more obvious is the desperation. Biden and the Democrats in general want this story, whatever it is, to be squashed. It’s why you have seen so little coverage on left-leaning TV networks. If Donald Trump Jr was in a similar situation it would be a story on every single one of them, and likely the subject of a Don Lemon lecture or five.

What Biden may not realize is that when voters see something being blamed on Russia, they tend to roll their eyes. It invokes the image of Boris and Natasha grabbing a laptop in the hopes of finally grabbing the moose and squirrel. It’s cartoonish. And what happens if the worst-case scenario for Biden comes true and his son is indicted for something? Well, at that point it’s more than just a ‘Russian disinformation campaign’. It’s very real indeed.

And this is where Biden could end up with plenty of egg on his face. If he and his son are in trouble, then no amount of blaming another country is going to change that. And it wouldn’t surprise me if this becomes a major factor in the upcoming election. Why would you vote for someone who can’t, or won’t, take responsibility for what is going on with their own family?

What Biden needs to do at this point is come clean on what his level of involvement was, and simply be a dad to his son instead of a politician. Then again, Biden has been a politician longer than he’s been a father, so it’s hard saying which hat he plans on wearing for the next two weeks.

How the media created Teflon Joe – The Week. Posted October 24^{^th} 2020

Matthew Walther

Ever hear that Joe Biden has not exactly been antagonistic to financial interests during his long political career? What about the fates of the millions of African-American men who were incarcerated partly because 26 years ago he didn’t want to appear “soft” on crime (a legacy partially undone by his opponent with the First Step Act in 2018)? Maybe his embarrassing comments on race relations, including recent ones?

Apparently no one has even noticed his temper tantrums, his laughable fabrications, or his obviously declining mental faculties. This is to say nothing of his son Hunter’s antics. Nothing sticks to “Teflon Joe,” right?

This has, to a great extent, been true. But the reasons for it have less to do with Joe Biden himself than with what the Democratic Party and its allies in the media are willing to say — or, more important, not to say — on his behalf.

Call me crazy, but after spending more than a year listening to everyone from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Andrea Mitchell despair about Biden’s cognitive decline, I think it was a bit rich to hear Jake Tapper tut-tutting one of the president’s children for having alluded to the subject. “I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline,” he told Lara Trump, who had politely suggested that Biden might not be the world’s most gifted public speaker. This was only after the CNN host, in his inimitable pompous nasal whine, accused her of mocking children who stutter. (Meanwhile Biden himself has insisted that the childhood affliction to which he has referred occasionally has nothing to do with his numberless verbal infelicities.)

Maybe Tapper should take it up with his colleagues, or with his competitors at MSNBC, or with Cory Booker. Or with Julian Castro, who was even franker in one of the primary debates. “Did you forget what you just said two minutes ago?” he asked Biden, who had just contradicted his description of his own health-care plan, with the unmistakable implication that the former vice president was having a senior moment.

This is how these things always go. When The New Yorker asked “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?”, it was good journalism. When the New York Post suggested that it just might, its editors were guilty of something literally unspeakable. Everything is fair game until the minute it becomes “disinformation.” Meanwhile if Tiffany Trump farted behind closed doors and the sound caught on the concealed microphone was not unlike “Russia,” we would be talking about it for a week, and asking whether it is possible to impeach the children of presidents or at least secure a prosecution under the terms of the Hatch Act.

During the primary season, Biden was roundly criticized for his praise of segregationist colleagues in the Senate, for his opposition to busing, for bragging about “60 new death penalties” (presumably the number of offenses rather than methods of punishment) and “125,000 new state prison cells.” Much of this criticism came from the senator who is now his running mate. Never mind, though, because breathless fact checkers are pointing out that Biden never used the word “superpredators“; when he was dismissing thousands of unnamed Black teenagers as sociopathic criminals, the word he actually used was “predators.” The “super” prefix makes all the difference, you see.

No one who watched the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden could have come away from it without the impression that both of these men are at least moderately senile. Look, I get it. I am not a doctor. This is my totally unscientific diagnosis. But I think it is one that millions of other Americans have already made for themselves, and long ago.

Instead of insisting that things we have all seen and heard for ourselves never happened, or that it is somehow impolite to bring them up, or that it is a one-sided problem, maybe my fellow journalists should be thinking about the implications of this year’s election. Is a contest between two ranting septuagenarians really the best we can hope for?

Please discuss.

Who is Joe Biden – Is he Just One of two ‘ranting old men’ good or bad, whatever, he is the elite’s de facto choice until Harris takes over, then hopefully using and placating the BLM. October 24th 2020 R.J Cook

Who is Joe Biden ?

***The so called ‘Pandemic’ has proven very useful to the likes of Ms ‘Goodie Two Shoes’ Harris.***

Ageism is supposed to be illegal. This upper middle class journalist is part of the clique who don’t really care about Biden’s history, dubious dealings or anything else that might put off the voter.

It isn’t difficult to find fault with Trump. U.S foreign policy hasn’t improved. But it wasn’t him who let the Islamic cat out of the bag, or who chose China as a place to make goods cheaper and U.S elite profits ever greater.Nixon started that in 1975. Class discrimination is never mentioned – or its consequences.

BLM is a very convenient divide and rule tactic for the Democrats, along with the related Covid19 crisis being blamed on Trump, rather than the massive and ever growing Democrat favoured BAME population.

It is hysterically funny that pompous Senator Chuck Schumer et al condemning Trump’s request for an FBI investigation into Joe Biden & Son’s lucrative business affairs in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. Schumer led thye charge against Trump, now he says investigating Biden would be harmful to U.S Democracy. The rich man’s mass media agrees and thinks covering the story a waste of the reader’s time.

***Vote rigging, biased media and more will, it seems, get Biden the caretaker job of U.S President before Harris takes over flag waving for BLM and ‘WUMMIN’.***

The word democracy is a western politican’s favourite. They call them representative democracies. Representative of class interests as far as I can see. I have written elsewhere, our so called multi cultural societies are apparently based on Christian morality – a very twisted version of Jesus’s teachings . Using the maths I used to teach, I suggest that ‘Hypocrisy is the reciprocal of this so called morality base. It is with that reciprocal where the real power lies. R.J Cook

Human Rights ? October 23rd 2020

BRUSSELS—The European Union on Thursday awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko’s long, hard-line reign.

During a speech at the European Parliament, president David Sassoli praised the Sakharov Prize laureates for their “courage, resilience, and determination.”

“They have stood and still stay strong in the face of a much stronger adversary. But they have on their side something that brute force can never defeat, and this is the truth,” Sassoli said.

Comment So what do they have to say about Julian Assange’s rights . He was framed by EU member and U.K cronie Sweden for rape, as a means towards extradition for exposing Anglo US war crimes. R.J Cook

President Trump Releases biased stitch up interview with Lesley Stahl October 23rd 2020

President Donald Trump released the entirety of recent “60 Minutes” interview with anchor Lesley Stahl on Thursday morning, decrying the “rudeness” and “hatred” during the questioning.

The president posted an unedited video of his interview on social media. CBS News was slated to air the interview on Sunday night.

“We’ve done a great job, and it’s not finished yet,” Trump said when he was asked about issues plaguing the United States and why he chose to run for reelection. The president said that if he wins in 2020, he’ll continue to attempt to advance the U.S. economy, saying that Joe Biden will “raise taxes,” “take away your Second Amendment,” and push other “radical” policies.

Hours later, CBS News, in a statement, described Trump’s move to release the interview as an “unprecedented decision.” The broadcaster went on to say that “60 Minutes” will provide its “full, fair and contextual reporting,” while defending Stahl as a journalist with considerable experience.

The network, which is owned by Viacom Inc., will release Trump’s interview on Sunday night but stipulated that the White House made a “decision to disregard their agreement with CBS News and release the footage.”

At the end of the interview, Trump said that Stahl “brought up a lot of subjects that were inappropriate … right from the beginning,” claiming that Stahl misled him when she “set up the interview.”

“I saw your interview with Joe Biden … it was a joke,” he said, adding that he got “softball after softball” questions.

When Trump was asked about the economy, he said his administration “created the greatest economy in the history of the United States.” She said, “You know that’s not true. No … I’m not going to fact-check [you].”

“You would never say that to Biden,” Trump told Stahl.

“What’s the priority” for his next administration, Stahl asked him several times. Trump again said he wants to boost the economy.

At one point, Stahl asked Trump about his recent rally joke about “suburban women, will you please like me.” Trump responded that she failed to detect sarcasm in his response and “the way you said that is why people think of you and everyone else as fake news,” adding, “That’s so misleading.”

Trump and Biden are slated to hold the third and final debate on Thursday night. NBC News reporter Kristen Welker will moderate the debate. Trump asserted the Walker would be “worse” than Stahl when he released the more than 30-minute long interview.

Throughout the interview, Trump continued to tout his record on handling the CCP virus and economy. Later, he said he would announce his health care plan after the Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act in mid-November.

CBS News, on Twitter, said Trump was being asked questions “before cutting his interview short, adding that “60 Minutes” “has a history of asking tough questions of presidential candidates during the run-up to the election.”

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday disputed CNN’s reporting that Trump abruptly cut short an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that was slated for broadcast on Oct. 25.

“Well, he didn’t walk out,” Meadows told Fox Business on Oct. 21. “He spent over 45 minutes with [CBS correspondent] Lesley Stahl. I’ve looked at every single minute of the interview and then some. We have tape of every single minute.”

In response, CBS News said Stahl wore a mask inside the White House and greeted Trump. She removed the mask when the interview began, and socially distanced due to the CCP virus pandemic, the network said.

A CBS News spokesperson told Fox News that Trump cut short the interview and didn’t do a “walk and talk” with himself and Vice President Mike Pence at the White House, which CBS said was previously scheduled.

The spokesperson said a photo of Stahl without a mask was taken immediately after the interview. Trump had posted the photo on Twitter.

Focus News: Trump Releases ’60 Minutes’ Interview With Lesley Stahl Ahead of Time

Comment The United States , like us little people , is struggling to adapt to changes beyond their control. A major problem is that the comfortable ruling elite do not want to change with these changes – much caused by them. ‘Hands on’ man Trump thinks his plain speaking to the masses will get him elected and allow him to do the job. It won’t, which is why there has been so much of the same for the last four years and the Democrats spent the time on impeachment proceedings and slander.

Democrats are fake socialists, eager to play the race card, hence Obama and Harris. Black hopes are being raised, but the white working classes are feeling the pressure. Trump is seen as their representative, so slandering and undermining him, they and media cronies think will get them in and excuse their failures over the next four years, as the world keeps changing around them

R.J Cook

Biden campaign hammered by Ukraine corruption claims. Brad Hunter. Posted October 22nd 2020

Joe Biden, left, and his son Hunter Biden attend an NCAA basketball game between Georgetown University and Duke University in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

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Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign had a torpedo slammed into its side Thursday with revelations he played strongman with a Ukrainian prosecutor probing his son Hunter’s dealings with an energy firm.

The New York Post broke the front-page story, citing emails obtained by the tabloid.

Biden allegedly pressured Ukrainian government officials to fire the prosecutor while he was vice-president of the United States, said the report.

According to the Post:

— Hunter Biden, the candidate’s troubled son, sent an email in appreciation to Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of energy company Burisma. Hunter, with a wafer-thin resume, was asked to join the company’s board of directors.

— Pozharskyi wrote on April 17, 2015: “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

— An earlier email asked Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence.”

— A 12-minute sexxx-rated video appeared to show Hunter Biden — who has struggled with addiction — smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman.

— Numerous other explicit images were on the laptop.

This new ‘hate crime’ law is even more pernicious & worrying than celebrity critics like Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese realise October 22nd 2020

Carlton Brick is a lecturer in sociology at the University of the West of Scotland, a writer, and a European silver medalist in Taekwon-Do. He’s on Twitter @CarltonBrick. Scotland’s bid to outlaw prejudice against certain ‘protected characteristics’ is not just about an assault on free speech. It does something the law should never do: treat some people more favourably than others.

The media spotlight on celebrity free speech blinds us to the threat the proposed new hate crime poses to ordinary people, and their right to equal treatment under the law.

By introducing so-called ‘protected characteristics’, the Scottish government plans to allow the courts to punish alleged ‘hate crimes’ much more severely than other offences. Their argument, that offences committed against victims who identify with these ‘characteristics’ should be punished much more severely than an offence committed against someone who does not have them, threatens to undermine the right of citizens to be treated equally before the law.

So far, there are seven ‘protected characteristics’ outlined in the Hate Crime & Public Order (Scotland) Bill. They are: age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and variations in sex characteristic. There are plans to introduce more at a later stage.

If passed, the legislation will do away with third-party corroboration, removing the burden of proof on the state when prosecuting an alleged hate crime. Instead, the opinion of the ‘victim’ will be enough to convict someone of a ‘hate crime’. Witnesses, and indeed hard material evidence, may become a thing of the past in courts if the Scottish government has its way. Read more Hate crime booms in UK as race, religion, gender, Brexit & Covid-19 see famous tolerance disappear

These very serious changes to the law have largely gone unchallenged by the growing opposition to the bill. Instead, campaigns have focused upon the aspects of the bill that threaten to undermine freedom of speech and artistic expression in Scotland, such as making the performance of plays and stand-up comedy subject to prosecution as a hate crime if someone should take offence.

John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, and Val McDermid are amongst some of the performers, artists and celebrities who have spoken out against this. But, by limiting their opposition to the issue of free speech, they underestimate the far-reaching consequences it will have on Scottish society more generally.

It ignores the central tenet of the bill, which is the creation of the new offence of ‘aggravation by prejudice’. This new offence will have been committed if ‘malice and ill-will’ is shown toward a person who is in some way related to one of seven ‘protected characteristics’ outlined in the bill. If it is, then a hate crime will have been committed. The bill undermines the objectivity of law, which treats all members of society equally regardless of personal characteristics or social status. Under these changes Scottish law would now discriminate between individuals and treat some more favourably than others, allowing the state to act in a prejudicial manner when prosecuting an offence.

So, for example, hypothetically, if I claim publicly, or privately, that transgender females are not biologically women – as the science suggests – and someone, indeed anyone, then takes offence at this under the provision in the bill, then I can be prosecuted for a hate crime. To further undermine the idea of equality in the law, the bill stipulates that the ‘victim’ need not be either a member of the ‘protected’ group, nor do they have to be the intended target of the so-called ‘offence’ – or even present when the so-called ‘offence’ was committed. As currently laid out in the bill, the offence of ‘aggravated prejudice’ does not require an actual victim, just that someone perceives the act as somehow being motivated by ‘malice’ or ‘ill-will’.

Hate crime robs the law of its objective quality – its ability to judge people without prejudice or discrimination. This objectivity is safeguarded by the idea that before the law, regardless of social position or personal characteristics, individuals are equal. In a liberal pluralistic society, the law strives to treat everyone the same regardless of class, gender, race, economic status, education or sexual orientation, for example. This ‘blind’ quality of the law is essential in order for British justice to prevail. This is why the statue of the figure Justice that sits atop the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London is blindfolded.

In democratic societies the law aspires to protect everyone. The Hate Crime (Scotland) Bill threatens to undermine this aspiration. By forcing the law to judge an offence on whether or not it was motivated by ‘hate’, the Scottish government is threatening to undermine not only the law, but the idea of equality itself. If the members of a society are not equal in the law, then they are not equal anywhere else. Read more Mr Bean has offended those who love to be offended, but the joke’s on them – they just don’t realize it

The Scottish government claims that the bill will make Scotland a much fairer and more equal place, but it will only create greater division in Scottish society and deepen the already authoritarian nature of the SNP’s attempt to intervene and police the everyday lives of ordinary people.

Opponents of the bill have so far failed to grasp the far-reaching consequences of the proposed changes the legislation will make to Scottish law. They also fail to grasp the relationship between the indivisible nature of equality in the law and an individual’s right to free expression. An individual’s right to free speech is dependent upon the ability of the law to treat every individual in society as an equal. Once the law is allowed to discriminate on the basis of a particular identity characteristic or difference, it can no longer uphold the standard of equality in other spheres of social life, such as free expression.

This is a fact that comedians, celebrities, and advocates of free speech in Scotland would do well to remember. If the sections of the bill on ‘protected characteristics’ and ‘aggravation by prejudice’ remain unchallenged, one can have all the amendments safeguarding free speech that one wants, but they will not matter a jot. The damage will have already been done.

Comment

I share the concerns of the author. It would not be so bad if it was likely to be applied to very prejudiced groups like feminists, unpleasant lying women, police and Muslims. They are , of course, some of the key groups this legislation is designed and intended to protect and advance. As for transgender women, that is a difficult one.

Logically sex, or gender as it tends to be called, is defined by chromosomes in the first instance, though there can be aberrations. For example, a few years ago an apparently male fitness instructor was discovered to have ovaries and a womb, as well as male genitals. However, that situation of intersex is very different to a person having plastic surgery to appear physically female.

Hate crime laws – which will extend to misogyny in a world where it is good to label men abusers and make dramas and judgements without evidence accordingly- or assumptions about female brains based on observed or a desire to learn new behaviours is not the answer to understanding this rampant phenomena. or its sister manifestation of lesbians choosing male attire and extreme behaviour patterns.

In a nutshell, this sort of legislation is intended to limit ,language, control thought outside the ruling elite and their lackeys, stop questions and oppress in the name of freedom for minorities to oppress others. This is very serious social engineering. R.J Cook

Brazilian volunteer in Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trial DIES, authorities say. October 22nd 2020

A Rio de Janeiro man who was participating in the Oxford University trials of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has died of complications from Covid-19, Brazil’s health authorities have announced.

Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria, ANVISA), said on Wednesday that it was informed of the death on October 19, along with a recommendation that the study be continued.

Brazilian media did not identify the deceased by name, saying only that he was 28 years old and either a doctor or a medical student.

It remains unknown whether the man was taking the AstraZeneca vaccine client or was part of a control group taking the placebo. The clinical data has to be kept confidential to protect the participants and the integrity of the study, ANVISA said in a statement.

The British-Swedish pharma multinational is conducting a stage three trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in partnership with Oxford. The study is taking place in Brazil, the UK, India, and South Africa. In September, the UK study was paused out of safety concerns, due to an unspecified illness in one of the participants.

Oily Business October 21st 2020

The article below is very long. It has not been edited because it is important in the details. However, I will make my comment here rather than below.

U.S Opposition, on the face of it, can only be seen as paranoia about Russia and desperation for a regime change to something more suitable for the Anglo Saxon Anglo U.S mentality and elite greed.

However, probe deeper and it has a lot to do with OPEC, cronies like Saudi Arabia and Texas Oil Billionaires like the Bush family. There was clear evidence that the Anglo U.S old friend Saddam Hussein was set up in 1990 to cause an oil panic and price rise through attacking him because he was breaking the OPEC cartel.

The second Gulf War was caused by ‘Batty Man Bush’ the eccentric billionaire, led on by scheming Tony Bliar, with reformed alcoholic Alistair Campbell from the historic clan who murdered the sleeping McDonalds at Glencoe – the liar -and ‘Boy Blunder’.

Saddam was scapegoated for a 9/11 attack that looked more like the Deep State’s work ( see ‘Stupid White Men’ by Michael Moore ) than Hussein. Blair made sure the dirt was kept under the carpet, and Perfidious Albion persecuted Julian Assange to make sure Anglo British command and control war crimes were kept secret – all hell breaking loose on any leakers.

Read on if you have the stamina. The Nordstream pipeline is 93% done, so all the U.S are going to achive, on top of the Covid conspiracy to ruin China’s regime, will be more bad feeling toward the U.S – where most Americans get no benefit from this profiteering elite mindset. R.J Cook

US senators threaten Germany’s port town of Sassnitz over Nord Stream 2 gas project October 21st 2020

Three US senators are threatening the ferry port on the island of Rügen with “crushing” sanctions to prevent the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Fearing financial ruin, the people of Sassnitz are defiant.

It smells of fried fish, the sun’s reflection is glittering in the water and a few sailboats lazily amble along. It’s still summer vacation in some German states, and here in Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen even more so. Even the mayor of the little town of 9,000 people is on holiday. Or he would be — if it wasn’t for a threatening letter sent from the United States.

“It doesn’t happen every day that Sassnitz moves from 0 to 100 in the world’s political attention scale,” says Frank Kracht, laughing. Then he immediately turns earnest again. “I must take these threats seriously. Because first and foremost, this is also about workers.”

He is talking about the employees of Fährhafen Sassnitz, the company that operates the local Port Mukran. It’s the logistical hub for the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is to transport gas directly from Russia to Germany. A good 150 kilometers (93 miles) of the pipeline are still under construction.

In the letter to Sassnitz earlier this month, three Republican US senators — Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — threatened Port Mukran with “crushing” economic and legal sanctions if it continued to allow ships to be equipped for the pipeline project.

Criticism not new, but tone is

The US wants to do all it can to prevent the pipeline from becoming a reality, and such criticism from across the Atlantic is hardly new. The Americans argue that Germany is making itself dependent on Russian gas. President Donald Trump has accused Germany of wanting US military protection from a Russian threat, while at the same time providing Moscow with high revenues from gas exports.

Ukraine and Poland have insisted the Baltic Sea pipeline will mean they lose out on billions in transit fees from the pipelines that run through their countries. Map Nord Stream 2

Nord Stream 2 would transport Russian gas straight to Germany

But there may also be economic interests behind the Americans’ tough stance, because they want to sell their own liquid gas in Europe.

There have been threats like this in the past: Senator Cruz sent a similar letter to the Swiss-based Allseas shipping company last December. The company’s special ships are financed by international funds, two of which the shipping company subsequently withdrew from work on the pipeline almost immediately.

The Akademik Cherskiy, a Russian ship, is now to complete the work. It still needs to be technically equipped to bring the finished pipes, which are stored in Port Mukran, to the Baltic Sea. But this work is now at a standstill for the time being, which is where the threatening letter from the Americans comes in.

Local fish vendor Susanne Bender has lived in Sassnitz for 50 years

People of Sassnitz worried

The German Green party’s Jürgen Trittin has called the letter an “economic declaration of war,” while Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s State Premier Manuela Schwesig has described it as “outrageous” and an “attempt at blackmail.”

In Sassnitz, few locals have much interest in US politics. Susanne Bender has lived here for 50 years, running the smoked fish stall “Heimat” (“Home”). Bender sells fish rolls, which are apparently delicious because the queue is long.

“It’s not at all right what Trump is doing. Why’s he interfering with our business?” she says. “Not just me personally, but everyone here is worried. We all depend on the port.” After the tourist trade, the industrial ferry port is the most important employer in the region.

“You build something up and now it’s supposed to be torn down again from under your feet,” says René Beinhoff, who sells ice cream on the Sassnitz promenade. “What nonsense!”

Mayor Kracht also points out that the permits have all been issued, the pipeline is as good as finished — at least 94% of it is — and they want to stick with it. “It’s just a threat. There are no sanctions at the moment,” he says. “We have to take it seriously, but we also have to reassure our people that they will not be drawn into this political banter in any way.”

Local ice cream vendor René Beinhoff is worried that his business may collapse

Threat may be effective

“The people of Sassnitz do not yet seem to have fully understood the abyss they are looking into,” says Sascha Lohmann, a political scientist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs who has been researching US sanctions for years.

According to Lohmann, the threatening backdrop of a mix of sanctions in the letter is enough to unsettle the financial market players, such as the ferry port’s house bank. “The senators understand exactly what psychological effect these threats have,” Lohmann points out.

According to Lohmann, the real problem is secondary sanctions. In other words, the US prohibiting its own companies from doing business with companies affected by sanctions — in this case Port Mukran would lose all its US business partners.

Out of concern, the political scientist explains, many businesses prefer to forgo doing business with Mukran altogether, rather than risk their entire US business. “These financial players would then effectively render the port insolvent,” he says.

The Russian ship Akademik Cherskiy is waiting in Sassnitz harbor

Twinned ports

Nobody really wants to talk about what will happen next. The Akademik Cherskiy is still in the Mukran port. So far, the Germans are determined to stick to the project, while some politicians are calling on the German government to take a stand, even to issue counter-sanctions.

Kracht isn’t convinced. “It’s counterproductive to rattle back with the same sabers. I think a peaceful solution and cooperation would suit us well,” he says. But what exactly this cooperation should or will look like is not entirely clear.

The only connection Sassnitz has with the US, says Kracht, is its twinning initiative with Port Washington, Wisconsin, where one of the senators behind the letter happens to be from. In fact, a group of young people was supposed to travel to Sassnitz from Wisconsin this summer. But then the coronavirus pandemic intervened and the visit had to be canceled. Instead of a happy group of teenagers on vacation, the only thing that came to Sassnitz was a threatening letter. Watch video 01:18

Criticism not new, but tone is

Ukraine and Poland have insisted the Baltic Sea pipeline will mean they lose out on billions in transit fees from the pipelines that run through their countries. Map Nord Stream 2

Nord Stream 2 would transport Russian gas straight to Germany

But there may also be economic interests behind the Americans’ tough stance, because they want to sell their own liquid gas in Europe.

Local fish vendor Susanne Bender has lived in Sassnitz for 50 years

People of Sassnitz worried

“You build something up and now it’s supposed to be torn down again from under your feet,” says René Beinhoff, who sells ice cream on the Sassnitz promenade. “What nonsense!”

Local ice cream vendor René Beinhoff is worried that his business may collapse

Threat may be effective

The Russian ship Akademik Cherskiy is waiting in Sassnitz harbor

Twinned ports

US lawmakers agree on bill to sanction Nord Stream 2

The Reciprocal of Religious Morality -R.J Cook October 21st 2020

The majority of Muslims have roots in the poverty and ignorance of the old Third World, which is now at its lowest ebb, with vile dictators, war, overpopulation, disease and religious escapism. Many young ones see Europe as owing the children of Islam more living space and compliance with their laws. To them, there is one God, one truth and one version of God’s people. This is not multi culture.

A man has been brutally murdered in Paris by a young Muslim who travelled miles to do the deed. A few years ago a Muslim from Glasgow travelled to Yorkshire to brutally kill another Muslim because he heard the man, a news agent was giving out Christmas cards to customers.

On October 21^st 1966, 300,000 cubic yards of coal sludge buried a Welsh primary school, and 19 houses in Aberfan, Wales. It was a man made disaster. One load of sludge too many and the whole thing collapsed. That was 54 years ago today.

Humans, especially religious ones, do not see themselves as sludge, but they have weight, mass and volume. They come, like all life, from the earth which has existed for around 5 billion years. Like the sludge too many in one place creates a critical mass.

Religion has its roots in human ignorance and fear. The more ignorant the person, the greater the fear. Because of human history of tribalism, there is a deep rooted sense of comfort in the idea of ‘the more the merrier’ which , through competition for space, converts to ‘the tribe with the most cannon fodder gets the most space.‘

***Good Muslims have a a job to do on earth, pleasing Allah and a better life after death. Religion has always comforted and blinded the ignorant masses, including Europeans –***

It was just a question of which new version of Judaism/Christianity/Islam they managed to force on their tribal masses – through religious wars and much killing. All a far cry from ‘gentle Jesus, meek and mild.’

The greater the ignorance and related fear, the more compliant and eager to fight these people are. So we have seen a history of religion being used to justify war. The British Empire was built on this con trick. Blacks, whites and Indians got rich off their multi coloured masses. Now the white working classes are getting the blame.

BLM is a brilliant trick for them, aligned with Covid lockdown. The question is, are we approaching critical mass in Europe and beyond ? Are the mealy mouthed liberals and do gooders the equivalent of Lord Robens and his National Coal Board, welcoming more boat loads from corrupt Third World dictatorships – and a Middle East bombed out for oil and to block Russia ?

***A Muslim doctor migrant into Germany has been denied citizenship because he refuses to shake hands with women, because Islam forbids men to have contact with any woman but his wife.***

Given the propensity of women to lie about assaults, with impunity, this could be a rational and wise choice. I understand that Donald Trump does not shake hands on hygiene grounds, but has admitted touching other parts ! However, it is the involvement of Islam that troubles people.

The same could be said regarding giving young boys anti androgens and teaching LGBTQI lessons in school. Many of us think this a political and dangerous practice. However, banning it because of offending Islam , causes many of us concern.

Morality is a human construct, religion as its basis. Hypocrisy is morality’s reciprocal and the real dynamic masking base human nature. That is why there is so much deliberate confusion, subterfuge and ultimately heavy handed policing to mask what is happening now. Morality’s reciprocal is where absolute power resides.

For years, Labour – sham defender of working people – and their man Lord Robens, shored up the Aberfan slag heap until one load too many brought it all down. One can expect lots more metaphorical shoring up across Europe as more Muslims move here and reproduction accelerates. Millions of my poor working class parents generation fought in the last rich man’s World War. We , their children and grandchildren are treated like scum if we raise a note of caution – even criminalised by the smug elite, in comfortable commanding homes and grand offices. This elite are once again re writing history.

R.J Cook

Islam Beyond Belief October 21st 2020

The man who beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty reportedly had contact with the father of one of his students, a man who publicly denounced Paty as a “thug” online in a protest campaign, according to police sources.

Abdullakh Anzorov, the 18-year-old Chechen refugee who gruesomely murdered Paty in his classroom in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine last week, had exchanged WhatsApp messages with the father of one of Paty’s pupils, who had urged fellow Muslims to file complaints against the teacher online, AFP reported on Tuesday, citing police sources.

Moralising Pampered Parasite Royals Interfere in U.S Election October 21st 2020

President Donald Trump took a swipe at the Duchess of Sussex on Wednesday after the former Meghan Markle and Prince Harry participated in a Time 100 video urging Americans to vote.

Meghan, an American, says in the video that every four years elections are referred to as the most important election of our lifetime. “But this one is,” she stressed. “When we vote, our values are put into action and our voices are heard.”

Harry called on Americans to “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity.”

Neither mentioned Trump or his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, by name, but some have interpreted their comments as critical of Trump.

Trump was asked about the video during a White House press conference, with the reporter saying the couple “essentially encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden.”

“I’m not a fan of hers and I would say this, and she probably has heard that, but I wish a lot of luck to Harry. He’s going to need it,” Trump said.

Comment Markle plays the race card, but was brought up and helped by a doting white father. Harry’s family background defies polite description. He is descended from the land grabbing election rigging Spencer family – see ‘ A Century of Northampton’ by Robert Cook. His Uncle, the Earl, is an ‘interesting’ fellow. On graduating from Oxford University, sped east along the M40, with posh pals in a posh car.

There they celebrated by trashing a posh restaurant. His sister was about to marry Prince Charlie – the man who recently suggested the Covid unemployed should pick fruit, So fellow diners, rather than be alarmed by these upper class drunks, said they were honoured to be in his company. No action was taken. That is Britain.

A Modern Major General Sacked For Comments on Use Of N Word In Rap October 21st 2020

20 Oct 2020 Military.com | By Gina Harkins

www.military.com

A Marine general officer was removed from a high-profile post overseeing troops in Europe and Africa as an investigation continues into claims that he used a degrading term about Black people in front of his troops.

Maj. Gen. Stephen Neary was relieved as head of Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa on Monday by the service’s top general. Commandant Gen. David Berger lost trust and confidence in Neary’s ability to lead, the service announced Tuesday.

Neary did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his relief. He remains under investigation after reportedly using the N-word while his Marines were conducting physical training while listening to rap music outside the command’s headquarters in Germany, Stars and Stripes reported earlier this month.

U.S Personal Weaponry SalesUp October 21st 2020

Spike in Gun Sales in California: Study

By Tom Ozimek October 20, 2020 Updated: October 20, 2020

A new study has found that concerns about the pandemic drove a surge in gun sales in California and increased owners’ propensity to store their firearms loaded and not locked up.

The University of California study (pdf) sought to gauge how the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus impacted people’s tendency to worry about violence and how the pandemic effected firearm and ammunition acquisition and storage.

Researchers found that about 110,000 people in California recently bought firearms and did so out of pandemic-related worries, while around 47,000 of them had never previously owned a gun.

The study also found that 6.7 percent of those California gun owners who store their firearms loaded and not locked up adopted this storage practice in response to the outbreak. The researchers indicated that this corresponds to over 50,000 individuals, or around 1.2 percent of all of California’s estimated 4.2 million gun owners.

People who purchased firearms during the outbreak cited concerns over lawlessness, prisoner releases, the government going too far, government collapse, and gun stores closing, according to the study.

“Violence is a significant public health problem that has become entwined with the coronavirus pandemic,” the researchers wrote, noting that the virus itself and “efforts to lessen its spread have compounded this burden.” Lockdown-related isolation, unemployment, and a sense of hopelessness—factors the researchers said contribute to violence—all intensified amid the pandemic.

Concern about violence grew amid the outbreak, with the percentage of respondents saying they were somewhat or very worried about violence rising from 48.4 percent to 52.2 percent. Over 12 percent of respondents said they were fearful that someone they know might intentionally harm themselves or another person.

“While most major news sources reported initial decreases in violent crime, as measured by local police calls for service, following pandemic-related lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, the latest indications are that more serious acts of violence, particularly those involving firearms, have remained the same or increased,” the researchers wrote.

The pandemic seems to have fueled a surge in gun ownership nationwide, with firearms manufacturers benefiting from the windfall.

“There has never been a sustained surge in firearm sales quite like what we are in the midst of,” said Jim Curcuruto, research director for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSFF), in remarks to the Financial Times.

U.S. civilians have owned about 423 million firearms between 1986 and 2018, according to NSFF estimates, which translates to around five guns for every three American adults.

So far, the CCP virus has infected over 8.5 million Americans and claimed the lives of over 225,000, according to Worldometers data. Over 5.5 million people have recovered. California, which has a population of over 39.5 million, has seen over 880,000 infections, over 17,000 deaths, and 457,000 recoveries from the virus.

Comment Deaths are predominabtly age and life style related. Most recover from Covid, which is basically a bio lab engineered form of flu, used now to terrify and control people, but is based on wishful thinking abiout human psychology, reaction, response and human inequalities. Charles Close

Islamophobia October 20th 2020

The latest Islamic attrocity has triggered hatred and fear on both sides of Paris’s religious divide and is bound to spread these emotions across Europe and the Atlantic. The conspirators were Chechens who had been encouraged by the west to make civil war in the U.S.S.R.

In early December 2015,DonaldTrump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States in light of recent terrorist attacks taking place in San Bernadino and Paris, as perpetrators in both attacks pledged allegiance to ISIS.

There are currently 3.3 million Muslims living in the U.S, comprising about 1 percent of our nation’s population. According to Dr. Todd Green, professor and author of “The Fear Of Islam,” who I actually had the pleasure of hearing speak during Vanderbilt’s Islam Awareness Week, two-thirds of Americans don’t know any Muslims, yet over half of Americans have negative views of Muslims.

This begs the question as to whether it is possible to know Muslims bcause their religion defines them, they are not open and expansive with infidels, except to assert their religious beliefs as with protests against teaching LGBTQI issues in school or their men shaking hands with any woman but their wives.

No doubt the strongest images of Islamic hatred start with 9/11. which many suspect was an outcome of an elite conspiracy because Britain and the U.S wanted a war on Iraq – for regime change and oil. Then there have been the Christmas attacks and the Musim maniac who mowed down holiday makers out in the South of France, with an 18 ton truck.

What the nice Western Liberals don’t get about Islam is that these people actually believe it, whereas Christians mostly do not take religion seriously. Some of us were glad when religion was pushed into the background. But now the Western elite have brought it back. In Britain they have the slogan ‘freedom to worship in your own way’ pandering to Islam, offering us an equal right to worship the Christain way as well as letting Mulsims have much freedom to do their thing , and so face Islamic hatred and possible murder.

However, Lutheran Dr. Todd Green said that there are three causes of Islamophobia: imperialism, ignorance and lack of personal relationships with Muslims. Imperialism creates empires. Most of the history between Muslims and Westerners has been colonizer-colonized relationships. Muslims became colonized people under European nations, and these imperialistic relationships are not healthy.

Next, ignorance arises predominantly from the media. We get our information from the media and seem to accept whatever we hear without question. Hearing about an act of terrorism committed by Muslims causes people to make generalizations about the entire Muslim community, which is not right.

Islamophobia breeds many consequences. There is a long list of anti-Muslim hate crimes that have been committed in the United States and around the world. Mosques have been destroyed and surrounded by firearms, Muslims have been inappropriately questioned at airports and innocent people have been killed for no reason. Making judgments while lacking information only produces a vicious, racist cycle, which won’t end unless we do something about it.

My difficulty with this viewpoint is that Todd is obviously very religious and so takes the brother religion of Islam very seriously. From my perspective they feed off each other and are predicated on belief in a God which some us, as vehemently as they believe it exists, we know it does not – not as a sentient single being.

It is arrogant, vain and backward looking to think otherwise, but many religious vested interests see strength in numbers, while some Muslims even kill their own, and rivalry between sects is an issue. This is not a philosophy that will advance humanity.

One doesn’t need a bible or Koran to predict mass extinction, by flood, fire, nuclear war or meteorite. One has to face up to problems of overpopulation and too much money in too few greedy powerful hands – they control what they want us to think.

Blind faith in God and ‘the science’ is not meant to be seen as a the contradiction it is. hat is why mass educuation is rarely better thatn mass indoctrination delivered by indoctrinated teachers – I remind my readers that I was a teacher and lecturer for 18 years. R.J Cook

The Muslm Mosque that supported the killing of a 47 year old Paris teacher has backtracked amid fears of an anti Muslim backlash that might break the deliberately oppressive Covid restrictions because white peope are already angered by them and BLM has made matters worse.

White people know that they are not autmaticall privileged and that class matters. Macron patronises and talks in sound bites. He has made France much worse, only getting into office because election tampering was necessary, involving even Obama, through fears of Marie LePenn

Selling off the Channel October 19^th 2020

Media minister John Whittingdale today said the government was mulling a sale of Channel 4 as he launched a fresh salvo on the publicly-owned broadcaster.

Speaking at a virtual event during the Tory party conference, Whittingdale said ministers were debating the Great British Bake Off broadcaster’s future amid competition from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon.

“I do think there is a very important debate to be had about Channel 4 because, unlike the BBC, Channel 4 survives without any taxpayer funding as an advertising-funded model,” he said.

“With the advent of the streamers and other competing services that model is under increasing strain and I’m not sure it is sustainable into the future.”

He added: “And so we do need to think about Channel 4 and whether or not there is still a need for a second publicly-owned public service broadcaster or what function it should fulfil, and that’s something we are giving a lot of thought to.”

Channel 4 is owned by the government but does not receive public funding, instead relying on a commercial advertising model.

But much like the BBC it has public service obligations, meaning it is required to provide a variety of education and entertainment programming.

Martin Bashir leads a rigged debate among members of the public. The Asian girl from the north of England , second from left, has survived the illness. She says she is a fit healthy young woman and that anyone’s life cane be threatened by the Covid 19 virus.

The implication is that, therefore prolonged lockdown is necessary regardless of crippling the economy, bankrupting small busnesses, boosting homelessness, crime and death from other illness is a price wooirth paying for the large and growing BAME and elderly populations.

The Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, urges people to follow lockdown rules in the wake of his eldest brother’s death. Issues of age, BAME and obesity vulnerability to Covid 19 was not mentioned in the so called public debate on Channel 4 about new tougher ongoing lockdown rules.

Last night we saw the public service broadcaster at its best with a so called public debate about Covid Lockdown, The aim of the debate, led by lead anchor man Martin Bashir – the man who made his name shocking the public interviewing the late Princess Diana – was to reinforce public fear in favour of tougher on going lockdown. A concerned business man was dismissed because public safety was said to be paramount. Asked by one anxious person ’When will it end ?’ The comfortable highly paid Bashir said ‘It will end when it ends.’ R.J Cook

‘Oh What a Gay Day’ For new Zealand Posted October 18th 2020

New Zealand: Voters head to polls, expected to elect ‘gayest parliament in the world’ New Zealand, Wellington Politics October 17, 2020 at 07:03 GMT +01:00 · Published Residents in Wellington headed to the polls to vote in the general election, on Saturday.

The election was planned for last month however was postponed due to rising coronavirus cases. According to the polls, Labour party leader and former Tony Blair New Labour aide, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will win a second term largely thanks to her handling of the pandemic.

The country is also expected to elect nine LGBTQI+ MPs, putting the number of LGBTQI+ MPs at 7.5 per cent in New Zealand’s House of Representatives. Over a million people cast their votes in advance. Voters-head-to-polls–expected-to-elect–gayest-parliament-in-the-world

The cause of race relations has been set back decades by the BLM. The Salisbury Review Posted Here October 18^{^th} 2020

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A statue of Norfolk Vicar’s son, Admiral Lord Nelson,Grand Parade, Old Portsmouth 2020. Was this man a hero of the white world and/or oppressor of the blacks, as an agent of the British Empire ? White history is being rapidly re written,, with media and publishers lapping up the new black heroes. Black corruption and exploitation pf their ‘fellow blacks’ is never mentioned. Whites need to bend the knee and atone to blacks it seems.
***Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

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Establishment liberals have expressed horror that the statue of a black street poet in Bristol has been defaced, whitewashed. But what did they expect? By targeting the white English, their history and identity, which they have designated exclusively evil, they have invited the white English to respond in kind to the black British and their culture. So much for the multicultural society.

The latest establishment-media tale is that right wing extremists are planning trouble – planning to subvert the Black Lives Matter message for their own ends. But really, they need not bother. For millions of ordinary English people (yes, white people), the scenes from Poole, where local residents have formed a protective ring around the statue of Lord Baden Powell, whose worldwide scouting movement has benefited countless millions of young people of all races and creeds but who has now been declared ‘a white racist’, fill them with disgust.

The argument is no longer about racial discrimination or police brutality, which decent people of all races oppose. It is about the ideology, the ‘narrative’, concocted by Black Lives Matter activists, in association with self-hating guilt-ridden liberals and latter-day cultural Marxists of academia, to excuse the failure of young Afro-Caribbean blacks.

Even the semi-literate must be able to work out that the narrative of historic victimhood and white privilege is garbage. The history of the world is that of tribes, empires, cultures, and civilizations. The stronger and more advanced survive, the weaker perish. People of all creeds and colours have been enslaved, persecuted, and oppressed through history. Before the Europeans arrived, African tribal society was founded on slavery. It was the tribal chiefs who sold the slaves they had captured to European traders – and a very good business they did too.

The Arabs transported seventeen million African slaves, which excludes the estimated one million Europeans of the north Mediterranean coast who were captured and sold into slavery by Barbary pirates, a trade which continued up until the nineteenth century. Roman and Greek civilization were founded on slavery. In Britain, the Romans enslaved the Celts, the Saxons enslaved the Celts, and the Normans enslaved the Saxons. There are hundreds of thousands of black slaves in Mauritania to this day, beholden to their Arab-Berber masters. But that is fine. It is whites that are the problem.

Western imperial powers did their fair share of conquering and enslaving, aided by superior technology; if their technology and weaponry had not been superior, then no doubt they would have been conquered and enslaved. But uniquely, it was the West, under the influence of its own universal Enlightenment values and the rule of law, which ended the slave trade, which decolonised, which instituted the notion of universal human rights. This, ultimately, was the mark of the superiority of Western civilization and of Western values. Whether the West is now committing suicide is another matter.

White privilege? White oppression? The ‘whitewashing’ of history? To many of us, it seems that our history is being blackwashed.

Being essentially decent, ordinary English folk listen respectfully and sympathetically to those who recount the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. They believe in fair play and instinctively recoil against colour prejudice. They have no problem with learning the lessons of the past. But when beloved and admired national figures – Churchill, Nelson, and Baden Powell – are threatened, they know instinctively that it is they themselves who are threatened. When they see much-loved comedy programmes banned because they might cause offence, and public figures who express their feelings silenced, the feeling is only compounded. They know that their culture, their identity, their precious freedoms, everything they know and love, is threatened with destruction, as surely as it would have been had the Nazis invaded and instituted a fascist state.

Yes, those pictures of local people guarding the statue of Baden Powell suggest that the day of reckoning may be approaching. Perhaps we should even be grateful to the Black Lives Matter activists for exposing the sham of the multicultural society for what it is. The Black Lives Matter movement has declared war and their enemy is England and all it stands for.

Only one path is now open, and that is to fight back.

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MP proposes protections for journalistic sources in criminal conduct bill

Paris terror attack: Nine suspects arrested after teacher beheaded and teen shot dead

Wales Online· 4 hours ago

History teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded after reportedly showing cartoon’s of the Prophet Mohammad…

Nine people have been arrested after a history teacher was beheaded in a suspected Islamist terror attack on the outskirts of Paris.

They include the grandparents, parents and teenage brother of the suspected attacker, an 18-year-old Chechen man who was shot dead by police 600 yards from the scene of Friday’s attack.

The victim, named in reports as Samuel Paty, was killed on on a street in Conflans Saint-Honorine, northwest of Paris, at about 5pm.

He had previously received threats after discussing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his class earlier this month, authorities said.

On a visit to the school president Emmanuel Macron labelled the gruesome killing as an “Islamist terrorist attack” and urged the nation to stand united against extremism.

Comment The Authorities say they can’t understand Islamaphobia !!!! Muslims don’t understand it because non Muslims are infidels, according to the Koran, not according to racists. Islam is not a race and this killer was white, from Chechnya, born in Moscow to Chechen parents. Like it or lump it, the CIA orchestrated Chechen separatists. Charles Close

MPs vote against attempt to ban undercover agents from committing murder, torture and rape

Bill ‘paves the way for gross abuses of state power against citizens’, critical Labour MP says

Lizzie Dearden

Police Will Abuse Their New Powers just as they abuse the powers they already have. October 17^th 2020

MPs have voted against an attempt to formally ban undercover agents and informants from committing murder, torture and rape.

The House of Commons rejected an amendment that aimed to limit the kind of crimes that can be authorised under a new law.

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill went on to pass its third reading by 313 votes to 98, sending the unamended legislation off to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.

It would allow public authorities, ranging from police and MI5 to HMRC and the Food Standards Agency, to authorise agents and informants to commit crimes while undercover.

The proposed authorisations would not only be issued in the interests of national security or preventing and detecting crime, but also preventing “disorder” and in the “interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom”.

An amendment tabled by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer would have stopped the authorisation of serious offences including causing death or bodily harm, torture, violating the sexual integrity of a person and detention. It was defeated by 317 votes to 256 on Thursday.

Conservative former minister David Davis, who proposed a similar amendment, pointed out that allies US and Canada have “specific limits” on the crimes their agents can commit.

He said the amendments “would give the intelligence services the protections they need but stop short of giving them the carte blanche authorisation to carry out the heinous crimes in the name of the state that have happened too often in the past”.

But he denied that it was a licence to “commit any and all crimes” because of human rights laws and codes of practice.

MPs also voted against an amendment that would have required authorities to apply for judicial warrants for criminal conduct authorisations, and set out the reasons why they were needed.

Several MPs complained that time to debate the law had been severely limited, amid accusations that the government was rushing the bill through ahead of potentially damaging findings in the forthcoming Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Labour whipped its MPs to abstain from the vote, prompting a flurry of resignations from Labour frontbenchers from the left of the party – including shadow financial secretary Dan Carden, who resigned his post ahead of the debate.

He told the Commons the bill “paves the way for gross abuses of state power against citizens” and accused the government of taking the Labour leadership “for a ride” with loose assurances.

Officials have argued that the Human Rights Act must be considered in authorisations and would prevent the most grievous crimes, but several MPs questioned that assurance.

Sir Bob Neill, a former Conservative minister and chair of the Justice Committee, told the Commons: “If that’s the case, given the importance of the subject, why not put that on the face of the bill? And should there be at any time a future government… that derogated from the Human Rights Act, it would be better to have that protection here.”

Sir Bob also raised concern over the redress open to victims of authorised crimes, but Mr Brokenshire said the bill was not a barrier to judicial review or scrutiny by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, called for an amendment to prevent children and vulnerable informants being subject to criminal conduct authorisations

The government said the proposal was covered by separate guidance on the law but she called for it to be contained in the bill itself, adding: “It is right to see them as children first.”

Liberal Democrat former minister Alistair Carmichael suggested a series of changes to implement further safeguards, including to prevent crimes on economic grounds being authorised unless there is a national security justification.

“If it’s decided we maybe need a different governor of the Bank of England, can we authorise a Chis (Covert human intelligence source) to wipe him out?” he asked.

The independent chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Julian Lewis, asked for a commitment to oversight in the bill, which Mr Brokenshire said he intended to provide.

His amendment, which was also defeated, would have mandated annual reports to the committee containing statistics on the number and category of criminal conduct authorisations by the intelligence services.

The bill was drawn up after MI5 narrowly won an Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruling over the lawfulness of agents’ crimes, while a separate challenge over the use of children as informants and spies continues.

Maya Foa, director of the legal charity Reprieve – which brought the legal challenge against MI5 – said: “Without limits on the crimes agents can commit this bill is wide open to abuse – and history suggests this will result in terrible harm.

“We are hopeful the House of Lords will amend this legislation to make clear MI5 cannot say what is and isn’t lawful, nor authorise torture, murder, or sexual violence.”

Mr Brokenshire, the security minister, told MPs that there would be “deep and retrospective oversight” of the powers, including through regular inspections by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner.

He added: “A covert human intelligence source is not able to commit any and all criminality.

“There are limits to the activity that can be authorised under the bill and they are contained within the Human Rights Act 1998. The covert human intelligence sources code of practice also sits under this legislation and provides additional guidance and safeguards that apply to the authorisation of such activity.”

Comment Britain’s police have always abused their powers, covering up their corruption and crimes by closing ranks. Hillsborough said it all. As for enabling HM Inspector of Revenue and Customs – plain H.M Inspector of Taxes or Inland Revenue when I worked for them – they have always employed undercover agents. The one specialist in my office was the scruffiest member of staff, always with a dog end roll up stuck to his lip, an ill fitting cheap suit, looking like a half wit, a shuffle rather than a walk, but with a mind as sharp as a butcher’s knife.

He looked the part, answering ads in the local Portsmouth News and newsagents, replying very innocently then asking for cash deals. Once he got such a deal, the trader’s card would be marked. Have to admit I liked the scruffy funny looking undercover inspector, and the public hated all of us – why do modern public servants have to winge so much ? An investigation and audit followed – and possible legal proceedings. I have to admit that my colleague and I did rout out a corrupt pyramid selling business in Fratton, Portsmouth. That’s another story and covered by Official Secrets Act, as will these undercover officers will be- which we all signed.

R,J Cook

Lockdowns do not suppress the Covid 19 or any other virus, so what is the game ? Posted Here October 17th 2020

By Ryan McMaken | Mises.org Thursday, May 21, 2020

The coerced economic “shutdowns”—enforced with fines, arrests, and revoked business licenses—are not the natural outgrowth of a pandemic.

They are the result of policy decisions taken by politicians who have suspended constitutional institutions and legal recognition of basic human rights. These politicians have instead imposed a new form of central planning based on an unproven, theoretical set of ideas about police-enforced “social distancing.”

Suspending the rule of law and civil rights will have enormous consequences in terms of human life counted in suicides, drug overdoses, and other grave health problems resulting from unemployment, denial of “elective” medical care, and social isolation.

None of that is being considered, however, since it is now fashionable to have governments determine whether or not people may open their businesses or leave their homes. So far, the strategy for dealing with the resulting economic collapse is no more sophisticated than record-breaking deficit spending, followed by debt monetization via money printing. In short, politicians, bureaucrats, and their supporters have insisted a single policy goal—ending the spread of a disease—be allowed to destroy all other values and considerations in society.

Has it even worked? Mounting evidence says no.

In The Lancet, Swedish infectious disease clinician (and World Health Organization (WHO) advisor) Johan Giesecke concluded:Educate yourself further by tapping into our store’s vast collection of books and movies.

It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes—a population the lockdown was designed to protect. Neither does it decrease mortality from COVID-19, which is evident when comparing the UK’s experience with that of other European countries.

At best, lockdowns push cases into the future, they do not lower total deaths. Gieseck continues:

Measures to flatten the curve might have an effect, but a lockdown only pushes the severe cases into the future—it will not prevent them. Admittedly, countries have managed to slow down spread so as not to overburden health-care systems, and, yes, effective drugs that save lives might soon be developed, but this pandemic is swift, and those drugs have to be developed, tested, and marketed quickly. Much hope is put in vaccines, but they will take time, and with the unclear protective immunological response to infection, it is not certain that vaccines will be very effective.

As a public policy measure, the lack of evidence that lockdowns work must be balanced with the fact that we have already observed that economic destruction is costly in terms of human life.

Yet in the public debate, lockdown enthusiasts insist that any deviation from the lockdown will result in total deaths far exceeding those places where there are lockdowns. So far, there is no evidence of this.

In a new study titled “Full Lockdown Policies in Western Europe Countries Have No Evident Impacts on the COVID-19 Epidemic,” author Thomas Meunier writes, “total deaths numbers using pre-lockdown trends suggest that no lives were saved by this strategy, in comparison with pre-lockdown, less restrictive, social distancing policies.” That is, the “full lockdown policies of France, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom haven’t had the expected effects in the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic.”1

The premise here is not that voluntary “social distancing” has no effect. Rather, the question is to whether “police-enforced home containment” works to limit the spread of disease. Meunier concludes it does not.

Meanwhile a study by polititical scientist Wilfred Reilly compared lockdown policies and COVID-19 fatalities among US states. Reilly writes:

The question the model set out to ask was whether lockdown states experience fewer Covid-19 cases and deaths than social-distancing states, adjusted for all of the above variables. The answer? No. The impact of state-response strategy on both my cases and deaths measures was utterly insignificant. The “p-value” for the variable representing strategy was 0.94 when it was regressed against the deaths metric, which means there is a 94 per cent chance that any relationship between the different measures and Covid-19 deaths was the result of pure random chance.

Overall, however, the fact that good-sized regions from Utah to Sweden to much of East Asia have avoided harsh lockdowns without being overrun by Covid-19 is notable.

Another study on lockdowns—again, we’re talking about forced business closures and stay-at-home orders here—is this study by researcher Lyman Stone at the American Enterprise Institute. Stone notes that areas where lockdowns were imposed either had already experienced a downward trend in deaths before the lockdown could have possibly shown effects or showed the same trend as the year prior. In other words, lockdown advocates have been taking credit for trends that had already been observed before lockdowns were forced on the population.

Stone writes:

Here’s the thing: there’s no evidence of lockdowns working. If strict lockdowns actually saved lives, I would be all for them, even if they had large economic costs. But the scientific and medical case for strict lockdowns is paper-thin.

Experience increasingly suggests that a more targeted approach is better for those who actually want to limit the spread of disease among the most vulnerable. The overwhelming majority—nearly 75 percent—of deaths from COVID-19 occur in patients over sixty-five years of age. Of those, approximately 90 percent have other underlying conditions. Thus, limiting the spread of COVID-19 is most critical among those who are already engaged with the healthcare system and are elderly. In the US and Europe, more than half of COVID-19 deaths are occuring in nursing homes and similar institutions.

This is why Matt Ridley at The Spectator quite reasonably observes that testing, not lockdowns, appears to be the key factor in limiting deaths from COVID-19. Those areas where testing is widespread have performed better:

Yet it is not obvious why testing would make a difference, especially to the death rate. Testing does not cure the disease. Germany’s strange achievement of a consistently low case fatality rate seems baffling—until you think through where most early cases were found: in hospitals. By doing a lot more testing, countries like Germany might have partly kept the virus from spreading within the healthcare system. Germany, Japan and Hong Kong had different and more effective protocols in place from day one to prevent the virus spreading within care homes and hospitals.

The horrible truth is that it now looks like in many of the early cases, the disease was probably caught in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries. That is where the virus kept returning, in the lungs of sick people, and that is where the next person often caught it, including plenty of healthcare workers. Many of these may not have realised they had it, or thought they had a mild cold. They then gave it to yet more elderly patients who were in hospital for other reasons, some of whom were sent back to care homes when the National Health Service made space on the wards for the expected wave of coronavirus patients.

We could contrast this with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York, who mandated that nursing homes accept new residents without testing. This method nearly ensures that the disease will spread quickly among those who are most likely to die from it.

Meanwhile, Governor Cuomo saw fit to impose police-enforced lockdowns on the entire population of New York, ensuring economic ruin and ruined health for many non-COVID patients who were then cut off from vital treatments. Yet, disturbingly, lockdown fetishists like Cuomo are hailed as wise statesmen who “acted decisively” to prevent the spread of disease.

But this is the sort of regime we now live under. In the minds of many, it is better to abolish human rights and consign millions to destitution in the name of pursuing trendy unproven policies. The prolockdown party has even turned basic fundamentals of policy debate upside down. As Stone notes:

At this point, the question I usually get is, “What’s your evidence that lockdowns don’t work?”

It’s a strange question. Why should I have to prove that lockdownsdon’t work? The burden of proof is to show that they do work! If you’re going to essentially cancel the civil liberties of the entire population for a few weeks, you should probably have evidence that the strategy will work. And there, lockdown advocates fail miserably, because they simply don’t have evidence.

With economic output crashing worldwide and unemployment soaring to Great Depression levels, governments are already looking for a way out. Don’t expect to hear any mea culpas from politicians, but we can already see how governments are quickly moving toward a voluntary social-distancing, nonlockdown strategy. This comes even after politicians and disease “experts” have been insisting that lockdowns must be imposed indefinitely until there’s a vaccine.

The longer the lockdown-created economic destruction continues, the greater will be the threat of social unrest and even economic free fall. The political reality is thst the current situation cannot be sustained without threatening the regimes in power themselves. In an article for Foreign Policy titled “Sweden’s Coronavirus Strategy Will Soon Be the World’s,” authors Nils Karlson, Charlotta Stern, and Daniel B. Klein suggest that regimes will be forced to retreat to a Swedish model:

As the pain of national lockdowns grows intolerable and countries realize that managing—rather than defeating—the pandemic is the only realistic option, more and more of them will begin to open up. Smart social distancing to keep health-care systems from being overwhelmed, improved therapies for the afflicted, and better protections for at-risk groups can help reduce the human toll. But at the end of the day, increased—and ultimately, herd—immunity may be the only viable defense against the disease, so long as vulnerable groups are protected along the way. Whatever marks Sweden deserves for managing the pandemic, other nations are beginning to see that it is ahead of the curve.

Comment We, on this site, have said from the outset, that lockdowns do not work. Either the scientists are overpaid lackeys and/or idiots or there is a very nasty elite hidden agenda. Charles Close

EU Police State Plutocracy maintains campaign against Russia October 17th 2020

The EU has imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials over their alleged involvement in the chemical weapon poisoning of the high-profile opposition activist Alexei Navalny. Figures from the Kremlin, Russia’s defence ministry and domestic intelligence agency will be subject to travel bans and asset freezes after international experts concluded that Mr Navalny was allegedly targeted with a novichok nerve agent.

There is no evidence that this is true, but the Western elite media don’t need evidence. They are part of the European police state, backed by Britain, with many axes to grind with Russia. The Kremlin denies responsibility, while Geramy leads europe in witholding details of their so called investigation. This ruling elite want Russian regime change so as to reinforce the global regime that brought us global warming and Covid 19 to name only two of their greedy selfish contributions to ruining the planet.

Charles Close

Beijing Views US Consulates as ‘Hostile Forces,’ Orders Monitoring of Diplomats: Leaked Documents

By: The Epoch Times – October 17, 2020

Chinese authorities see U.S. consulates as “hostile forces” that conduct “infiltration and sabotage” activities on Chinese soil and have ordered officials to monitor key U.S. diplomats, according to a leaked document obtained by The Epoch Times.

Unearthed from April 2018, the document issued by Leizhou city of China’s southeastern Guangdong Province offers a rare glimpse into how the Chinese regime deals with American diplomats, at a time when bilateral relations hit a historical low.

In a four-page “work plan,” the Leizhou Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau described the “U.S. and other Western consulates in China” as key targets that could threaten the region’s political and social stability.

All departments and units within the bureau must work to counter such influences, by effectively “blocking [the consulates] from establishing connections with key [Chinese] political figures, prominent lawyers, ‘public intellectuals,’ ‘rights defenders,’ and special interest groups,” the bureau told its staff.

The bureau’s goal is to “break all threats and nets” and leave no room for such attempts, the document stated. A policeman stands guard in front of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, southwestern China’s Sichuan province, on July 26, 2020. (Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

Methods

To address the perceived threats, the bureau outlined a four-step plan, with measures such as watching for “infiltration activities” organized by foreign consulates in Guangzhou city, the capital of Guangdong, and “use all efforts”—including “reminders, warnings, and a mild degree of force”—to discourage the aforementioned individuals from attending events held by consulates.

The bureau staff were to monitor organizations and individuals that have “close ties” with the foreign consulates, and gather any relevant information, such as their background and any changes in their “asset accounts,” to cut off any “financial enticements” from U.S. consulates.

The office also planned to establish a database on “key” foreign diplomats in China and use big data to track down their whereabouts. “It’s a countermeasure against ongoing infiltration and subversion,” the document stated.

The bureau cautioned the staff to be “strategic” in balancing between “prevention and control” and “collaboration and taking advantage.”

Given that Guangdong borders Hong Kong, the bureau also detailed in a separate section how staff should guard against any “contamination” from “opposition forces.” The “pro-independence elements” may attempt to “sneak in” through participating in cultural exchange programs and inviting Chinese scholars to Hong Kong and convert them into “domestic agents,” it warned.

A former British colony, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 and was promised a high degree of autonomy, which the regime stripped away this July with a sweeping national security law. The Chinese Communist Party routinely characterizes Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who are vocal about Beijing’s encroachment on the city’s affairs as separatists, and accuse them of supporting the territory’s independence from the mainland.

No Doubt New Labour Police State Wanted A Second War With Iraq October 17^th 2020

***Tony Bliar, who after leading George Bush Jnr into a second Iraq War, was made Peace envoy for the Middle East. He has made millions out of being the sort of politician he is***,

No Doubt New Labour Police State Wanted A Second War With Iraq October 17^th 2020

As the British Police State tightens its grip, using the excuse of Covid 19 and public safety to justify them, we might care to look back at the strange case of Dr David Kelly’s death, 17 years ago. As with the matter of Princess Diana’s demise, we are told that the British State could never do such things. We are supposed to suspend belief while watching Fleming’s JamsBond character at work, so as not to think Britain has a dirty tricks department to protect Britain’s wealthy ruling elite, promoting wars in the name of defence, promoting multi culture in the name of division and using religion – as always – to promote ignorance and division.

It was a case of the political becoming personal, only so overwhelmingly, that it crushed a man. Seventeen years ago, Dr David Kelly began a walk from his Oxfordshire home that ended the next morning with the discovery of his body, slumped in a wood. In the wake of his death, two paramedics signed a letter to the Guardian stating that when they arrived at the scene, Kellys corpse was propped up against a tree, with men in dark suits holding them back while they investigated. ‘By the time they were allowed back onto a possible crime scene, the body had been moved and laid flat. There was no sign of blood. That letter is long forgotten

The Kelly family lost a loved one and a chain of events was set off that damaged trust in the Blair government and decapitated the leadership of the BBC.

Kelly was the distinguished government scientist who hunted down weapons of mass destruction of the kind used by the Blair government to justify the 2003 war with Iraq. The problem was the Saddam Hussein regime did not have them – yet some idiots have tried to blame Saddam’s supporters for the mysterious death.

A BBC Today programme report claimed the government had embellished or “sexed up” the intelligence it presented to the public in 2003 to justify the war.

A furore erupted between the government, led by chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell, and the BBC, which refused to back down, having failed to spot the flaws in its reporting.

Kelly was outed as the BBC’s source, felt publicly humiliated and was reprimanded by his bosses. A proud man felt let down by them, and that his reputation built up over a lifetime was being irreparably tarnished.

In the days before that final walk Kelly’s family said they had never seen him so low. As news of his death spread, the normally self-assured Blair seemed stunned when a reporter cried: “Do you have blood on your hands?”

Kelly’s death led not to an inquest, but a public inquiry by Lord Hutton, which brought a rare glimpse into the secret worlds of Whitehall, British intelligence, the low arts of high politics, and the workings of the BBC.

Its conclusion largely absolved the government of blame, and surprised observers.

Its criticism of the BBC led to the demise at the corporation of then chairman Gavyn Davies, correspondent Andrew Gilligan and director general Greg Dyke, who on Tuesday said history has proven the broadcaster was right: “Ten years on, it is very difficult to find anyone who believes they did not ‘sex up’ that document.”

Debate still surrounds Hutton’s conclusion that Kelly committed suicide. The inquiry found that Kelly died after cutting an artery, had taken an overdose of painkillers and had heart disease which left his arteries “significantly narrowed”. Thus, said experts, less blood loss may have killed the scientist than that needed to kill a healthy man.

Among those who have called for an inquest or have doubts it was a suicide are former Tory leader Michael Howard, and Liberal Democrat minister Norman Baker, who wrote a book saying Kelly was most likely murdered.

A group of doctors say Hutton’s findings should be discarded and a new inquest held. Dr Stephen Frost said: “We have lots of evidence … No coroner in the land would reach a verdict of suicide as Lord Hutton did.”

Experts in forensic pathology point out the sceptics may be expert in their own fields, but not in the science of establishing the cause of death.

Hutton has kept silent since his report, breaking it only to write a letter denouncing the conspiracy theorists. Hutton’s conclusion is supported by the available facts and experts: “At no time … was there any suggestion from any counsel for the interested parties or in any of the extensive media coverage that any of the police officers engaged in investigating Dr Kelly’s death or any of the medical or scientific witnesses was involved in any sort of cover-up or plot to make a murder appear like a suicide.”

Dyke claimed that: “Some of Dr Kelly’s wider family don’t believe it’s suicide.”

Whether or not the Governmen’s agents deliberately acted to kill Dr Kelly, there can be no doubt that his death was caused by the British Police State’s ruthless desire for war and regime change in Iraq. Since then the whole area has been destabilised, the resulting Islamic terroris encouraged by the Anglo U.S and their weapons industry has spread across the Middle East.

Saddam had been set up by the Anglo American alliance in 1990. He warned them what would happen if they did it again. They didn’t listen. Instead they dumped their old ally, painted him as a war criminal and then moved their lunacy on into Libya and Syria.

A possible world war doesn’t bother them..they don’t need the masses any more. They have always been cannon fodder, described by the vile Duke of Wellington as ‘The scum of the earth.’

The elite are more than happy to have young black upstarts rewrite history for gimmick loving publishers, but not to rewrite the history of Britain’s imperialist elite along with their abuse of the underclass. BLM is good for them, but they still fear Marx and Communsm as an outcome of their hegemony. They want the space and privilege, and some of these people are black and Muslim. In my view all the BLM and distorted history is about setting the black and white lower classes against each other and driving the Muslims into a kind of OCD craving to take over the world for their own safety. That is life under the British Police State. R.J Cook

***Re writing and editing black history is O.K , but white working class consciousness, and exploitataion, especially men’s , must be obliterated.***
***Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

Nothing Sticks October 17th 2020

***Or something more dangerous to U.S Health than Covid 19 ?***

Joe Biden is a very modern politician, from the same mould as Tony Blair, the man who infested the carcass of Britain’s old Labour Party, going on to destabilise the Middle East and make a fortune. They called him ‘Teflon Tony’ because no allegation against him ever stuck. Blair & Co was the Dr Frankenstein of new age politics.

This is very much the case with Joe Biden. To me, Biden is more ‘Creepy Joe’ than sleepy Joe. He has benefitted from the glory of serving millionaire lawyer Obama and his brain ( the wife ). There is now even more mileage in the race card. The mainstream media are from a higher class than the U.S masses. Appealing to a greivance among women and blacks, pushing their mroal superiority and priority is the current election strategy.

Normally, we are told not to use stereotypes like ‘real men’ but that deosn’t apply when you are looking for a slogan to brainwash the common man to vote Biden – a vote against evil and fascism etc. No need to worry about Biden’s hypocrisy , greedy deals in Ukraine or sex allegations, because nothing sticks.

As back up, because Covid justifies mass postal voting, destroy as many pro Trump votes because it is in the name of goodness and freedom for the super rich. There will be serious consequences , either way, thanks to the rich man’s media interference, with its glamourous vacuous front women, all fake smiles and polished faces. The following article is a prime example of this mainstream media banality. R.J Cook

Gentlemen against Trump

Damon Linker Posted Here October 17th

Donald Trump is sinking in the polls across nearly every demographic group. But despite all of the president’s troubles, he remains roughly tied with Joe Biden among men.

The pattern of men approving of the president at higher rates than many other groups goes back to Trump’s grievance-driven campaign four years ago — a survey from 2016 showed that men who felt persecuted gravitated to him — but the effort to make an explicit appeal to a certain kind of male voter has come to the fore with special intensity in recent weeks. Advertisement

In Trump’s bullying hyper-aggressiveness during the first presidential debate, no less than in the comically overstated messaging from his campaign and its surrogates (and the candidate himself) since the president’s COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization, we have an attempt to claim the mantle of an exaggerated style of masculinity for the head of the Republican Party. Mask-wearing Democrats are feminized weaklings and wimps, we are told, but Trump and his party are paragons of brute, manly strength, courageously standing up to and defeating the coronavirus with ease and a minimum of complaint.

This is a defense of a specific kind of masculinity — one that can ultimately be traced back to the “muscular Christianity” movement of the 19th century that associated moral rectitude and health with physical strength and vitality. But just because something can be explained in terms of its history and cultural resonance doesn’t mean it should be deferred to uncritically. The fact is that this distinctively American tradition of masculinity holds out for emulation a debased and ignorant form of manliness — one that delights in cartoonish visions of the president donning a Superman t-shirt, body slamming COVID-19 like a pro-wrestler, or knocking it out in the ring like a muscle-bound heavyweight boxing champion. It’s childish, absurd, and nothing any real man would consider admirable.

Trumpian masculinity venerates physical power or courage untempered by other virtues such as moderation or prudence (practical wisdom). That means it stands in stark contrast with the most stirring vision of masculinity in the Western tradition — that of the gentleman who aspires to be both noble and good in a much broader sense. The ancient Greek term for “gentleman” — kalos kagothos — literally means “noble/beautiful and good/virtuous.” Aristotle suggests that a man who achieves such a condition exemplifies the distinctive virtue of megalopsuchia (greatness of soul) or “magnanimity.”

Though the ideal has its roots in acts of great military valor described by Herodotus and other ancient Greek writers and poets, once analyzed and refined by the philosophers Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle, the concept was expanded far beyond the display of courage on the battlefield to serve as a a comprehensive vision of the moral life. In the Roman republic, in medieval and early modern Christendom, and in the American founding generation, variations on this ideal of the gentleman exercised an enormous, and enormously salutary, moral influence.

At its core was the aspiration toward self-mastery and elevation of the soul. The magnanimous (or great-souled) man always does his duty, but he doesn’t do it because of a devotion to empty rule-following. Rather, he does his duty as a means of fulfilling his natural desire to achieve and exemplify excellence — and to be recognized as excellent by those capable of recognizing it. He only wants to be seen and admired by the wider public if what he’s seen doing is genuinely worthy of approbation, and if the audience is refined enough to appreciate it. He doesn’t want to seem good or excellent. He wants to be good or excellent.

A man who embodies this vision of masculinity shuns bad behavior not because he fears punishment but because such behavior falls below the standards the magnanimous man aspires to. He thinks highly of himself and refuses to falsify that self-vision by allowing himself to give in to baser temptations. The immoderate pursuit of riches, lust, or public adulation would render him no longer worthy of approval and esteem, and so he shuns them as ignoble.

In American history, George Washington probably came closest to exemplifying the ideal of magnanimous masculinity. A victorious general who won a war against the most formidable army of his day, Washington went on to live a public life in the newly founded American republic that taught his countrymen valuable lessons in how to conduct politics in an elevated key, emphasizing virtue, honor, moral rectitude, earnestness, devotion to principle and integrity, and deference toward received authorities and traditions. Washington also modeled a form of public speech that treated these ideals with reverence. He certainly never spoke of them with anything approaching irony or shame. (That Washington also owned slaves shows that even the greatest moral exemplars fall far short of perfection.) Advertisement

Gentlemanship is an aristocratic ideal. But as an ideal of masculinity, it can still have a place in a democracy that opens political participation to all. Men who took the ideal of magnanimous masculinity seriously would defer to received norms and standards of formality, show public respect for order and modesty, and seek to model nobility, moral rectitude, and honorable behavior in public and private, while showing steadfast adherence to standards of right conduct and traditional restraint.

But even if cultivating such an elevated standard of manliness is beyond the capacity of a teaming commercial republic that sets its standards by whatever mass public opinion and the capitalist marketplace chases at any given moment, we still have reason to think that we can do better than the embrace of Trumpist masculinity. Advertisement

With its roots in the sleaziest side of tabloid culture, including the world of reality TV in which Trump honed his public persona, the president’s preferred form of manliness falls very far short of magnanimity. Vulgar bragging about one’s own strength while craving lowest-common-denominator adulation from screaming throngs at massive rallies couldn’t be further removed from the rarefied heights toward which the gentleman works to climb.

Trump might want us to think he’s a real man. But real men know different.

Biden Half Cut & Dyed October 17th 2020

***Not so sleepy, but still creepy, Joe Biden with son ‘Hunter’.***

***The Bidens are so corrupt this should be end of story. Democrats are Demorats. Here’s Hunter with Ukraine top man, doing dirty business.***
***But with twitter and facebook loading the dice, and all so convenient pro Trump postal votes being dumped, along with rigged interviews, there is no hope for Trump.***
***Dump Trump is the switched on Anglo U.S media message while the world burns and hope dies.***

Fear U.K October 17th 2020

Britain, like the U.S.A, is not the land of the free. They are not multi cultures. There are two groups, rich and poor. As long as 1% has mre money than the world’s bottom 60%, there can be no justice or freedom.

***The rich will make all the decisions about destroying the planet, blaming the lower orders, dividing between rich and poor, pandering to bigoted violent Islam.***

This is Old Portsmouth, October 2020. It used to be where the poor slave ‘Jolly Tars’ British sailors lived with their families in filth and squalor, getting slaughtered for the rich man’s empire, now taking the blame for slavery. Now Old Portsmouth has been redeveloped for the rich
***Image Appledene Photographcs/RJC***

***HS2 Protest Encampment, North Bucks, October 16th 2020. Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

Behind the hedge is an old Calvert Fletton Brick working, a 90 feet deep hollow turned into a nature reserve. Fifty acres of surrounding woodland have been cleared here and protestors evicted by the ‘National Eviction team’ ( NET ). That says a lot about Police State Britain Plc.

We were approached by an HS2 protester, worried that the protest movement has been infiltrated by undercover police – who under current rules, are free to sleep with *( effectively rape ) females – and presumably gay men- in the performance of their inetlligence gathering duties.

Part of the old nature reserve, October 2020,viewed from Calvert railway bridge. Protesters were evicted by NET, amid fears that police had infiltrated on behalf of the Police State and big busines. Image Appledene Photographics/RJC

The old station master’s house at Calvert North Buckinghamshire, U.K Police State, is all boarded up and fenced off, as one of theree properties bought by HS2 for demolition. They are close to the old Great Central Line, a crucial area for HS2. Image Appledne Photographics/RJC

It appears that the British Police State has the freedom and self given rights, to be as sick and perverted as possible when it comes to looking after this rich man’s railway, as with all the other rich man’s interests in this so called ‘Democracy/’ R.J Cook

Teacher Murdered By Muslim Lunatic, Free Speech Is Dead Too – October 16th 2020

A history teacher who had allegedly shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed in class was decapitated and his assailant shot dead by French police as they tried to arrest him on Friday, police and prosecutors said. French anti-terror prosecutors said they were investigating the assault which happened on the outskirts of Paris at around 5:00 pm local time near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a western suburb of the French capital.

Le Parisien and Reuters reported the teacher recently gave a class on freedom of expression and showed cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which are considered by Muslims to be blasphemous.

CBS News’ Elaine Cobbe reports that a Twitter thread posted on October 9 contained allegations that a history teacher in Conflans Sainte-Honorine had shown students the cartoons depicting Muhammad. The thread contained a video of a man who said his daughter, a Muslim, was one of the pupils in the class, and that she was shocked by the teacher’s actions. There is no indication the man in the video is connected to the teacher’s death.

Dans une vidéo diffusée le 9 octobre, un parent d’élève informait qu’un professeur du collège Bois d’Aulne de #Conflans-Sainte-Honorine avait montré une carricature de #Mahomet durant son cours. #Eragny pic.twitter.com/hcw3LvF4NQ— Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) October 16, 2020

The allegations are similar to charges brought last month against a 25-year old Pakistani man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack to avenge the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

The attacker seriously injured two employees of a TV production agency, whose offices are on the same block that used to house Charlie Hebdo. Both survived.

That attack came three weeks into an ongoing trial of suspected accomplices of the authors of the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket, which also saw a policewoman gunned down in the street.

Thin Edge of The Wedge – A Comment by R.J Cook October 16th 2020

It is all very well the smug elite moralising about BLM and celebrating black history, but there is never talk about Islamic history. Smug western leaders do not want us to recognise the truth about Islam. It is fundamentally intolerant and most definitely no friend of multi cuture. Mass immigration brings more of this, along with risk of dangerous viruses like Covid 19. That is something for the money grabbing elite to enjoy. Europe is a police state, with the U.S led on by Britain’s elite support for the Demo’rats, close on the tail.

Back in my school teaching days, I was always falling foul of the moronic school management. I was working at the Grange School in Aylesbury, County Town of glorious rabid Tory Bucks when Rushdie received his fatwah. As it happened, one of my wonderful switched on pupils brought me in a copy of his book called ‘The Satanic Verses.’ His father worked for Maxwell’s British Print Corporation, formerly Hazell’s, in Aylesbury. This boy was always bringing me books to read because his father got free copies – I should add that other boys and girls brought me reading material too, and I always read it. It was, and still is, my view that the relationship between pupils and teacher should be two way because teachers are not inherently superior. islam has no place as censor in what was onec a secular society.

Anyway, rather than soil this new book inside my brief case, along with my flask and lunch, I carried it openly in the school corridors and in my class room. I was thus pursued by a Deputy Headmaster. It transpired that Muslim children had complained and the school feared a backlash from the large number of the school’s Mulsim parents. That was back in the 1980s. I was naive, not realising my experience was part of the thin edge of the wedge. Now we have all sotrts of hate crime laws shutting us up and spies to turn us in to our modern tax payer funded Gestapo. R,J Cook

Hundreds gather for a Black Lives Matter rally outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on July 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) US News

Critical Race Theory Divides Americans, Leads to Tyranny and Violence: Jarrett Stepman Posted October 15th 2020

By GQ Pan October 15, 2020 Updated: October 15, 2020 Print

The prevalence of critical race theory (CRT) in mainstream institutions is creating a “permanent intractable division” between Americans that can only lead to either tyranny or violence, author and columnist Jarrett Stepman warned.

In an interview with The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads,” Stepman described the CRT as a concept that boils down every aspect of society and individual life to race.

“This is where we get the idea that America is inherently a white supremacist society,” Stepman told host Joshua Philipp. He explained that under the CRT framework, everything in the society is dictated by skin color or identity, leaving individual preference and individual choice as simply “non-determinative factors.”

It is not surprising, according to Stepman, that many proponents of the CRT “sound very much segregationist,” considering how this idea divides the world into racial groups with inherent qualities. “That’s something that very much flips the entire American project,” Stepman said, adding that the idea of equality before the law, which is reflected in the nation’s founding documents, will be “thrown out the window” in a CRT worldview, because that could result in unequal outcomes among different racial groups.

“You now have a variety of intellectual projects promoting this that have become mainstream,” he continued. “I think very prominently of the so-called 1619 project in the New York Times, which I think uses a lot of critical race theory in creating this kind of work—a distorted view of American history as nothing but a series of racist acts, all boiling down to the fundamental, original sin of slavery.”

Stepman also highlighted the ideological connection between CRT and Marxism, saying that the growing popularity of the CRT among American youths “injected Marxism into America through the prism of race.”

“I think you have a generation of younger Americans who were raised with things like Howard Zinn,” he said. “These were seen as radical ideas that distorted the truth. Now they’re being treated as if they’re mainstream.”

“It does create, I think, a permanent intractable division between Americans that can really only end up with either tyranny or violence,” he continued. “And I think that’s the logical conclusion of where these ideas go. They don’t go to a society of equality under the law or a constitutional system that we enjoy. It turns into something very ugly. It pits Americans against Americans. It puts us on a very, very different path.”

President Donald Trump in September issued an executive order, calling for an end to federally funded, “blame-based” training programs that reinforce the idea that some individuals are “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive” only because they belong to a certain sex or race.

“Such ideas may be fashionable in the academy, but they have no place in programs and activities supported by federal taxpayer dollars,” the order stated.

Citing the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr, the order described the “fundamental premises” of the American Republic as “all individuals are created equal and should be allowed an equal opportunity under the law to pursue happiness and prosper based on individual merit.”

“Today, however, many people are pushing a different vision of America that is grounded in hierarchies based on collective social and political identities rather than in the inherent and equal dignity of every person as an individual,” the order read. “This ideology is rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country; that some people, simply on account of their race or sex, are oppressors; and that racial and sexual identities are more important than our common status as human beings and Americans.”

Comment Everything is dictated by the top 10% – most importantly the top 1% – of wealth owners, not colour. Plenty of vile black dictators and plutocrats in Africa, the Middle East and India are no better. Colour is not an indicator of truth or goodness.

The social maths are wrong. If this critical race theory were a metaphor for a rocket, this fuel of lies would cause a massive explosion. That is actually what is happening.

White virtue signalling do gooders and ignorant young blacks with a grievance in the Covid environment are a highly corrosive and explosive concoction for the masses, but the elite don’t care. They are getting richer and looking forward to more liebensraum.. R.J Cook

FBI Allegedly Obtained Hunter Biden Computer, Data on Ukraine Dealings, Report Claims Posted October 15th 2020

By Zachary Stieber October 14, 2020 Updated: October 14, 2020 Print

The FBI allegedly obtained a laptop computer and a hard drive that had emails addressed to and photographs of Hunter Biden, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, according to an alleged subpoena and other documents published on Oct. 14 by the New York Post.

Biden’s campaign challenged aspects of the reporting, including the alleged existence of a meeting with a top official at Burisma Holdings.

The alleged subpoena from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, dated Dec. 9, 2019, is for an Apple MacBook Pro and an external hard drive.

The subpoena was issued to the owner of an electronics store in Delaware, where the computer was dropped off in April 2019, the store’s owner, who wasn’t named, allegedly told the Post.

The billing information allegedly given for the computer was Hunter Biden’s name and the computer allegedly bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, which was named after Hunter Biden’s late brother. The store’s owner allegedly said the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI after he alerted authorities to them.

The Post said it obtained a copy of the hard drive from Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

Giuliani shared the story on Twitter on Oct. 14, promising “much more to come.” During an Oct. 14 appearance on “War Room: Pandemic,” Giuliani said the document release “shows the motive” for Biden’s admission in 2018 regarding Ukraine.

Biden was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, which he confirmed in detail during a talk in 2018.

Biden recounted how in 2015, during a trip to the country, he pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk into removing Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin by threatening not to give a $1 billion loan guarantee.

“I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,” Biden said during a Council on Foreign Relations event. “Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired.”

Joe biden is welcomed by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko — ***Vice President Joe Biden arrives for a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Kyiv on Jan. 16, 2017. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)***

“There’s so much evidence against Joe Biden that it is a national scandal that this wasn’t covered years ago,” Giuliani said on Oct. 14.

A spokeswoman for Giuliani declined to give a hard drive copy to The Epoch Times for independent verification.

Trump cited Biden’s comments when defending his 2019 request to Ukraine’s president to have what happened with the Bidens probed, a request that led to the House of Representatives impeaching him in late 2019 because lawmakers argued it was improper.

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said the documents show Biden lied when saying he never discussed Hunter Biden’s business deals.

An FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement, “We have no comment, in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of our investigations.”

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware told The Epoch Times via email, “Pursuant to DOJ policy, my office can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”

An inquiry sent to Hunter Biden’s lawyer wasn’t returned.

Biden’s campaign called a lid, or said the nominee wasn’t appearing in public for the day, a few hours after the story was published.

A spokesperson for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has been probing Hunter and Joe Biden’s past actions, confirmed to The Epoch Times that the committee received an email complaint to its whistleblower account and is working to validate the information.

“There are so many red flags about the Biden family trying to cash in on the Vice President’s position that it can be hard to keep them straight,” committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in a statement.

“Today’s report raises more questions that must be resolved. What we know for a fact is that Hunter Biden took millions of dollars from foreign nationals including, the wife of the former Mayor of Moscow, people tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and other unsavory characters. Joe Biden needs to finally come clean and tell the truth to the American people about all of these issues, and he needs to do it now.”

Documents published by the Post included alleged emails from Vadym Pozharskyi, at the time an adviser to the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukranian-based energy company that paid Hunter Biden to sit on its board while his father was vice president of the United States.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some together [sic],” the message allegedly sent by Pozharskyi read.

Pozharskyi didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Joe Biden has said he has never spoken to his son about his business dealings, though Hunter Biden has said he did speak to his father about Burisma.

Jan Jekielek contributed to this report.

Correction: A previous version of this article mischaracterized The Epoch Times’ verification of the claims published by the New York Post. The Epoch Times regrets the errors.

Dangerous delusions: US claims arms control ‘agreement’ with Russia for Trump election points Posted October 15th 2020

Scott Ritter

is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector. Follow him on Twitter @RealScottRitter14 Oct, 2020 18:31

Extending the New START treaty until a new arms control agreement can be negotiated is in the best interest of world peace. President Trump, however, seems ready to sacrifice that security for a few points in pre-election ratings.

There is one thing virtually every arms control expert can agree on: extending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START, past its February 2021 expiration date is essential for preventing a new nuclear arms race between the US and Russia. As such, it should be done even in the face of widespread disagreement over what a new arms control treaty would look like, and who would participate. Despite having previously discounted the need for such an extension, the Trump administration finds itself less than three weeks out from a contentious national election with the incumbent trailing in the polls and desperate for the opportunity to portray the president as being “presidential.” Read more As the US pressures Russia to renegotiate the New START Treaty, it exposes its own unreliability as a negotiating partner

Having reduced the US negotiating position to a simple “take it or leave it” proposition grounded in a series of demands – mandatory Chinese participation, inclusion of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, and the exclusion of NATO nuclear weapons, to cite but three – that Russia immediately dismissed as non-starters, Trump’s Special Representative for Arms Control, Marshall Billingslea, suddenly reversed course, flying to Helsinki to engage in last-minute talks with his Russian counterparts to not only extend New START, but also set the framework for a follow-on arms control treaty. To the surprise and dismay of the Russian negotiation team, on October 6, Billingslea issued a statement to the press applauding “important progress” in the talks, followed by a second declaration on October 13 announcing that the two sides had reached “an agreement in principle” on extending New START and implementing additional arms control measures that would be codified in a “gentleman’s agreement.”

The new measures sought by Billingslea – which include a freeze on the numbers of non-deployed strategic nuclear warheads held in storage by Russia – are, void of comparable concession by the US, a non-starter. Russia has long indicated that any future arms control agreement must consider missile defense (indeed, the preamble to new START acknowledges the “interrelationship between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms” and declares that “current strategic defensive arms do not undermine the viability and effectiveness of the strategic offensive arms of the Parties.”)

Since that time, the US has deployed two controversial Aegis Ashore missile defense installations that can be equipped with an advanced variant of the SM-3 interceptor specifically designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). While Russia has not made public the conditions under which it would consider any interim “gentleman’s agreement”, logic would dictate that such an agreement include missile defense, especially if it were being called on to freeze non-deployed nuclear warheads – the one area in New START where it holds a significant numerical advantage.

Not surprisingly, Billingslea’s announcement of an “agreement in principle” was quickly shot down by the Russian foreign ministry, which called the US Special Representative’s statement a “delusion” and a “fraud.” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Ryabkov, noted that the US conditions were “unacceptable” and added that it was unlikely that Russia would approve an extension of the New START treaty prior to the US presidential election on November 3. Read more US envoy says Russia must agree to arms control deal with no NATO scaleback, or else it’s ‘happy to modernize nukes without START’

In the world of arms control negotiations, a one-month delay in the resumption of talks is often a blessing in disguise, as it allows each side to regroup and refine their respective positions. For its part, Russia had apparently been prepared to incorporate two of its five new types of strategic nuclear delivery systems into the New START framework – a move that would greatly alleviate US concerns about a possible Russian ‘breakout’, even if New START were to be extended. But the unilateralist approach by the US negotiating team, which demanded much from the Russians without giving anything, alienated even the most stoic diplomats on the Russian side. As things stand, there is virtually zero chance that an agreement between the US and Russia could be reached prior to Americans going to the polls on November 3.

Despite having the door slammed in his face by his Russian counterparts, Billingslea continued to portray his negotiations with the Russians in an optimistic light that, at best, represented an unrealistic interpretation of actual events and, at worst, outright fabrication. “We believe that there is an agreement in principle at the highest levels of our two governments,” he said in remarks to the Heritage Foundation shortly after the talks in Helsinki ended. “That’s why I cut short my trip to Asia and made a beeline for Helsinki when the Russians called and wanted to sit down.”

Billingslea placed the blame for any misunderstanding between the US and Russia squarely on the shoulders of the Russian negotiating team, which he alluded to being out of touch with the intentions of President Putin when it came to New START. “I am hopeful that sort of gentleman’s agreement – that arrangement we believe has been reached at the highest levels – will ultimately need to percolate down through their system so that my counterpart hopefully will be authorized to negotiate,” Billingslea said. “We’re ready to strike this deal. We could strike it tomorrow, in fact, but Moscow’s going to have to show the political will to do so as well.”

In either case, his words, while seemingly directed at his Russian counterparts, were, in fact, intended for domestic political consumption. The fact is the Trump administration doesn’t need to actually have concluded an agreement with Russia prior to November 3 as much as it needs to project to the American electorate – especially those voters who view Trump as a master deal maker – the notion that the president is on the verge of such an agreement. In this way, the US delusion over a non-existent “agreement in principle” is transformed into the illusion of arms control. And that’s an act of political deception that might garner Trump the votes he needs come election day, but for which the American public will pay for in spades once New START expires and an arms race the US can’t afford becomes a reality.

Stop HS2 by R.J Cook with Charles Close October 14th 2020

Anti HS2 protesters are building shanties along the proposed HS2 route, where work is well under way in Buckinghamshire. We talked to a group near Calvert, where an extra HS2 station is under consideration. There is already a landfill terminus here, on what is left of the old ‘Great Central Railway.’ It is adjacent to the old spent brick workings of the London Brick Company works which were founded in 1923 by Arthur Werner Itter. Itter located here because of the railway line.

The line would never have closed had it not been for the corrupt tax dodging – ‘well respected’ ( sic )- Transport Minister Sir Ernest Marples. Marples was partner in road building company Marples Ridgeway. He employed his friend Dr Beeching to asset strip the nationalised British Railways, Beeching wouldn’t go far enough so Marples sacked him.

This is no more than one should expect from corrupt British ‘leadership’ ( sic ). Back in 2003, I interviewed the last chairman of British Rai l, Sir Bob Reid, then head of Milton Keynes Partnership. He told me that John Major wanted to equal Thatcher, his predecessor as British PM, by privatising the railways. He told me “ I warned John Major his government’s plan would not work because you can’t have competition on railway lines. I said , ‘If you insist, then leave it to my board because we understand railways.. He didn’t listen and there have been all sorts of problems.”

Now we see profiteering and cost over runs on a grand scale, while the taxpayer supports the rail infrastructure. Environmental protesters told us this afternoon : “ We are not against the east West line reopening . But that is small fry compared to HS2, which they justify HS2 as a means of meeting Britain’s carbon emissions targets by 2030. That is nonsense and not the real reason.

“Meanwhile, ‘NET’ ( National Eviction Team ) forced us out of our camp on the nature reserve. They are very heavy handed, bullying and aggressive. They have fenced off 50 acres, clearing woodland for a big compound, full of machinery. It has been compulsorily purchased. When it is all over they will build on it. The HS2 is going to bring massive change, along with the East West line which is being rebuilt to service HS2 with materials and heavy equipment. ”

Among local casualties of the HS2 is a 16^th century house at Quainton, with the old railway centre’s future also at risk. In Denham Bucks, they are cutting down a large woodland and building a bridge for access to replace pylons. These pylons were originally built with materials floated in on the canal, but that is typical spendthrift HS2 who have just recruited some new members to their board. Vested interests were horrified when the Chinese offered to build the HS2 link in 5 years. Profiteers were not having that.

***Costs could rise, but HS2 is key to an integrated railway in Britain according to Rail Magazine.***

***PM Boris ” The Karloff ” Johnson has thrown his considerable weight behind Britain’s HS2 proje***ct.

***Dark Blue denotes the new rail link which will then accommodate existing infrastructure.***

***Part of the old Great Central Line near Leicester, 2019 Image Appledene Photographics/RJ***C

One of the shanty homes built by anti HS2 protestors along the route where workmen and women are buikding the new HS2 link from London to Birmingham and on to Manchester.. Image Appledene Photographics/RJC

***Artists impression of new Euston Station, but Old Oak Common will act as a temporary terminus because of engineering complexities.***

Hopeless Nottingham with 34.7% BAME population and rising. October 12th 2020

Health officials are expecting Nottingham to be placed in lockdown after a surge in Covid-19 cases.

The city’s infection rate has soared, with 1,465 new cases recorded in the seven days to October 3 – the equivalent of 440.1 cases per 100,000 people.

This is up from 71.2 per 100,000 in the seven days to September 26 – a week that saw 237 new cases.

The director of public health for Nottingham, Alison Challenger, said current restrictions in the city “are no longer enough to stop the spread of the virus”.

BME (not White British: 34.7%

In 2005, it was found that 23% of Nottingham’s population belonged to a Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) group, down to 19% in 2001. This percentage is predicted to rise to at least 25% by 2016 and account for at least 33% of all children in the city. In 2010, 30% of all births were to mothers born outside of the United Kingdom. Almost 34% of the population is not White British, according to the most recent census in 2011. Nottingham has a higher-than-average mixed race community than the country as a whole, with 6% of people being ethnically mixed, with 4% mixed white and black Caribbean.

Along with established BME groups, Nottingham is home to many migrant, refugee and asylum seeker populations. Most immigrants to the city come from EU Accession States, Asia and the Middle East. About 15% of the population has been in the United Kingdom since 1991 or sooner.

The population of Nottingham is fairly young, with 28% of the population between 18 and 29, compared to 16% nationally. 31% are 45 years old or older, compared with 42% nationally. This is most likely due to the fact that Nottingham has two major universities with about 60,000 students.

The rising rate has coincided with a recent outbreak at the University of Nottingham, as figures on its website showed 425 students had tested positive for Covid-19 during the week ending last Friday.

The numbers included 226 students in private accommodation and 106 in halls of residence.

Eight members of staff were also classed as “active confirmed cases” over the same time.

A spokeswoman for the university, which has around 35,000 students, said: “Alongside the national Pillar 2 testing regime for people with symptoms of Covid-19, the university has also commenced its own asymptomatic testing programme which will identify cases earlier and more quickly.

“While this will mean that our case data will be higher than other universities, we can identify cases that otherwise would remain undetected and thereby reduce asymptomatic transmission and the number of future cases.”

Nottingham City Council said it was expecting the Government to introduce tougher rules later this week, “similar to those introduced in other cities such as Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds”.

People in Nottingham are urged to follower stricter guidelines to help stop the spread of Covid-19, following a dramatic increase in positive cases in the city

According to the last demographic census, 75% of the population of Nottingham consider themselves Christian, with other religions including Islam (0.5%), Sikh (0.3%), Hindu (0.3%), Jewish (0.1%) and Buddhist (0.2%). One-third stated they have no religion and almost 8% did not answer, which is the highest rate in the region.

Police World- Anglo American WASPS still rule with lackeys doing dirty work October 11th 2020

***Cops murder no hoper George Floyd in broad daylight.***

***U.S Cops harass homeless people who are not allowed to sleep in cars as petty laws proliferate to protect frightened rich – hence ther approval of Covid Lockdown***

British authorities and worried well love lockdown, especially well paid public servants who don’t have to go to work for money. Meanwhile the ‘Karloff’ declares hospitality workers unviable in the ‘new normal’ ( sic ) rich persons world.

U.S Cops tackle the serious problem of U.S Homelessness via police harassment as they respond to nice peoples complaints. In the U.S a homless person is 11 times more likely to be arrested than anyone else. One man said his life is so horrible, he is angry every day he wakes up again. So Christian of the nice ‘haves’ and rule makers to keep these people alive, I don’t think.

Boris “Karloff” Johnson the new Frankenstein’s Monster October 11^{^th} 2020

Boris “Karloff” Johnson the new Frankenstein’s Monster October 11^{^th} 2020

***This is life in Police State Britain. One million job losses for lower paid hospitality workers is no problem i a world where only the upper class elite enjoy hospitality. They have*** ***an ever expanding hi tech spying police force with losts of strong cells, to protect them.***

THE Prime Minister said he would put his arms around every single worker in the country to get them through the crisis – so either the crisis is over, or those metaphorical arms weren’t quite long enough to complete the group hug. Perhaps they were getting pins and needles.

The furlough scheme is coming to an end next month, as scheduled, and in its place will be the Jobs Support Scheme. At first glance, for employees, this doesn’t look like such a huge change. They can still get up to 77% of their normal salaries for six months, compared to 80% under furlough. But it’s not quite as simple as it seems.

Here comes the maths bit: to be eligible for the scheme, an employee needs to be working one-third, or 33%, of their hours. They’ll be paid as normal for that. So far, so straightforward. That leaves 66% of their hours unworked, but the government will pay them for one-third of those (not 33%, one-third of their total hours, but 22%, which is one-third of the remainder). So that’s 33% paid by their employer plus 22% paid by the government – a total of 55%. Are you still with me?

So where does the other 22% come from? Ah, it also comes from the employer. So the employer is paying 55% of that 77% total, but still only getting 33% of the work. Suddenly that 77% of salary doesn’t seem like such a sure thing.

The scheme announcement raises a lot of questions. Firstly, when the Government refers to an employee and “their hours”, what exactly does that mean? If it means contracted hours – as opposed to average hours, as used for furlough calculations – where does that leave those on the zero-hour contracts that are standard in hospitality, leisure and the arts? Research from 2018 found more than two-thirds of low-paid workers in these sectors were on such contracts.

One-third of zero hours is zero hours, zero pay and zero government contribution. Far from providing targeted support for the sectors worst affected by Covid-19, it seems as though the UK Government is leaving them high and dry.

Hotels, pubs, cafes and restaurants that are open will still need staff – albeit a smaller number, especially given the new 10pm curfew – but, even assuming workers have fixed-hours contracts, is there an incentive to keep on three of them, each working one-third of those fixed hours, rather than one employee working 100%?

Given the potential for staff to bring the virus into their workplaces, wouldn’t keeping on three workers triple the risk of a damaging shutdown or expensive deep clean, while costing the employer more? Is it ruthless for managers to make such calculations, or responsible?

Of course, all business owners want to remain optimistic about the long-term future, and look ahead to a time when restrictions are lifted, demand rises again and they need a full workforce again, but there can be no certainty about when – or even if – that will happen. Amid this uncertainty, the UK Government now requires them to prove their businesses are “viable”.

What will be the test for viability? We are told on a daily basis that we cannot – perhaps ever – return to “normal”, so it is surely impossible for any business owner to make confident predictions about future trade. Will cafes and restaurants be able to fill their tables to capacity this time next year? We simply don’t know. Will customers be willing to pay more for meals, drinks and cultural experiences, to reflect the additional costs of those providing them? Some will, but many will no longer be able to afford evenings out at all, having lost their jobs this winter.

Can the owner of a B&B be sure of attracting winter guests, given the restrictions under which we are currently living and the possibility that travel limits might be reintroduced? What about a venue that specialises in large summer weddings – is that considered a viable business today? Where is the support for theatres that usually fund spring drama productions with ticket sales from Christmas pantomimes, in which multiple generations sit cheek to cheek and shouting at the stage is all part of the fun?

Rishi Sunak said yesterday “I cannot save every business; I cannot save every job” and of course we knew that was the case. But human workers are not interchangeable units that can simply be slotted in and out in accordance with the fickle demands of the market.

Cafes and restaurants that have been built up from scratch with years of hard graft, grassroots groups that have blossomed into world-leading arts companies – put them on ice now and there is no guarantee they will flourish again when conditions are more favourable. Of course new businesses will spring up when that time comes. There will always be people with money to invest when there are opportunities to exploit – the kind of people whose donations keep the Tory party’s bank balance healthy even when the country is stricken. Pals of millionaires like Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.

The decisions Johnson is making now will have devastating consequences for those whose businesses are deemed “non-viable”, and yet it seems highly likely he’ll have been ruled a non-viable Prime Minister by the time this new scheme ends. He’s a lame duck, a spent force, a deflated novelty balloon. His government is deciding which of us deserve breathing space while his own colleagues brief against him, asserting that his leadership is on its last legs. When he said “we’re all in this together”, this is probably not quite what he meant.

Comment Any honest person with a brain should see there has to be a hidden agenda. Old folk, the sickly and , above all, BAME are the most at risk. I am old and will probably be dead quite soon, sooner given lockdown and years of police state harassment most probably. Whatever, old folk die. They also die sooner because of disgusting poorly staffed money grabbing lonely privatised nursing homes. I would choose death over one of those places if we did not live in a fake Christian country that pays lip service to Christianity and the lie that Jesus opposed suicide as a sin.

Leaving aside the mystery of the hidden agenda and how this bio engineered started, by who and for what ends, BAME are clearly the most affected and the most worried about. There is something about their religion based lifestyle, third world connections and high density communities that is vulnerable to Covid 19, and this cannot be mentioned without attracting punishment for racism.

When Islamic terrorism was let loose, having been encouraged in the wake of the equally mysterious 9/11 – see ‘Stupid White Men’ by Michael Moore- it was ordained that all people should be subject to thorough searches and delays at airports, not just those of Islamic appearance. This had to be so because otherwise Muslims would feel victimised/

So we have the same dogma with Covid Lockdown. Leaving aside that you can’t suppress a virus, which is why flu is still with us and prone to mutate, so lockdown doesn’t work, it should be obvious that BAME and any other high risk group should be isolated if they are frightened.

Our super rich loathsome ruling elite are not as stupid as Boris ‘Karloff’ Johnson makes them appear. They are very ruthless and dangerous. They are not in it with those of us in the lower class masses. They pander to BAME to make themselves look as if they care, because BAME think they are the only ones hard done by and the elite both need and fear them. That elite does not care about the miseries, uncertainty and risk they are causing.

They have the Police State Police and secure jail cells to protect them, ironically paid for by the frightened lower class masses. Johnson spells t out when he says hospitality workers and businesses are non viable. He is the front man by a real Nazi elite, with state psuedo scientists that would have been a credit to Adolph Hitler’s entourage. They have been building up to this for years, which is why all those laws have been stacking up. Charles Close

Pelosi & husband invest up to $1 million in CrowdStrike, tech firm that launched Russiagate – report by RT Posted here October 11th 2020

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Follow RT on Newly-filed financial disclosures show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband have invested up to $1 million in CrowdStrike, American cybersecurity technology company and the originator of ‘Russian hacking’ claims.

Financial disclosures show Pelosi (D-California) and her husband Paul buying CrowdStrike shares on September 3, according to a RealClearInvestigations report by journalist Aaron Mate. Since then, the stock went from $129.25 a share to $142.97.

New from me: Financial disclosure forms show that Nancy and Paul Pelosi have invested between $500,000 to $1 million in Crowdstrike, the firm that first accused Russia of hacking the DNC.Pelosis Take a Big Stake in CrowdStrike https://t.co/9XHjRj0AP3— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) October 9, 2020

Reached for comment, Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill insisted she was “not involved” in her husband’s investments and “not aware of the investment until the required filing was made.” Pelosi invests in publicly traded companies all the time and “fully complies with House Rules and the relevant statutory requirements,” Hammill added.

CrowdStrike seems like a lucrative investment prospect, according to Mate’s report. The company’s valuation went from $1 billion in 2017 to $6.7 billion in 2019, when they went public – and then almost doubled to $11.4 billion. Its revenue rose from $52.75 million in 2017 to $481.41 million in 2020, Mate reports.

The company was hired by the DNC to address the breach of its email system in 2016. It blamed “Russia” for the alleged hack, but never provided the actual servers to the FBI, offering instead images and redacted reports.

CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry testified to the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017 that the company never had “concrete evidence” the data was actually “exfiltrated” from the servers. Instead, he said, they “saw activity that we believed was consistent with activity we’d seen previously and had associated with the Russian Government.”

This testimony was kept classified until May this year, when it was released to the public under pressure from Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. In the intervening years, the claim that ‘Russia hacked the DNC’ became an article of faith in Washington, underlying the investigation into President Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin led by Robert Mueller.

Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Henry worked under Mueller at the FBI. The company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Dmitry Alperovitch, used to be a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the pro-NATO think tank which thrives on hostility towards Russia.

In addition to feeding the Russiagate frenzy and profiting from it, CrowdStrike also donated to Democrats – about $100,000 to the Democratic Governors Association in 2016 and 2017, according to Mate.

Feminhism – R;J Cook October 11^{^th} 2020

Feminhism October 11^{^th} 2020

The following report is from ‘Stuff’ website

“World Rugby is already facing flak from a LGBT+ group after banning transgender women from playing top-level women’s rugby due to safety concerns.

The international governing body issued transgender athlete guidelines in Dublin on Friday (Saturday NZ time) and noted the ban would apply at elite and international level only.

National unions still have the flexibility to allow transgender women to play in women’s rugby at community level.

Transgender men will have the right to play in men’s competitions, but World Rugby officials said the directives around transgender women’s participation were based on safety factors.”

The above story reveals more of the contradictions and unanswered questions concerning transgender, in particular male to female.

Society’s rule and law makers accept male to female transsexualism because it was meant to provide what the late sociologist Talcott Parsons would have called ‘latent tension management.’ On the face of it, changing a male body to resemble a female’s is more feasible.

Removing testicles and scrotum, then turning the penis tissue inside out has almost become an art form for the modern Doctor Frankenstein. Lowering testosterone to female norms is part of the process. The earlier in life this happens the more convincing the outcome. The process is justified on the basis that there is such a thing as a female brain and it can be found in male bodies, causing gender dysphoria and contrary gender behaviour.

Many are sceptical but there are severe laws constraining adverse comment. However, it seems pretty obvious that because big money is at stake in International Rugby, more and more transsexuals are competing as females. Back in the 1960s, the U.S.S.R was poven to be ‘sex changing men’ for an international edge. The outcome was compulsory chromosome sex tests for the Olympics. Big names like the Press sisters immediately disappeared from the scene. So with money the issue and greedy sis women angry, a part of the system has had to admit that the male physique is , on average, stronger and superior in sport to a female’s.

It is only since the DSM 6 ( Diagnosis, Statistics and Medication ) that so called gender dysphoria has been declassified as mental illness. Who makes these decisions ? Is there just one cause for gender dysphoria ? Is it possible that marginally gifted athletes have gender dysphoria plastic surgery to gain the edge on top female athletes because they are far inferior to the top men. After all , sacrificing one’s sex life with greedy money grabbing modern women who will set you up for divorce, taking at least half your wealth, is a no brainer. Sis women are turning men off big time, forcing many men to take refugse in a safer female identity – and a lucrative one in top level sport. The system has to close this loophole.

Meanwhile and consequently, more boys grow up in female dominated one parent families, with women as their role model – hearing neative stories about men from their bitter over compensating mothers. Not surprsingly many of these little boys come knocking on doors like London’s ‘Tavistock’ Gender Identity Clinic.’ As we can rightly presume, they will not be accepted as genuine females. Many will live in a no persons land, others will develop mental health problems.

Whatever, this international rugby decision is an admission that male athletes are naturally superior to females. It raises very big questions about the truths of feminism. Perhaps there should be a new movement and category called Feminhism.

Spot the difference.

‘***Real Women’ Commercial Road Portsmout October 7th 2020 Image Appledene Photographics/RJC***

***A Transsexual ‘Woman’***
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‘Lies that Life is Black & White’ – Bob Dylan Posted June 11th

Black Lives Chatter June 8th 2020

Black Lives Matter protesters tear down Bristol statue of 17th century slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston, cover it in red paint and and throw it in dock – while huge crowds descend on in London where Churchill’s statue is defaced

Female police officer suffered a collapsed lung, broken collarbone and shattered ribs after being thrown from her horse when Black Lives Matter protesters pelted them with missiles – including a BIKE

Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race

Race Riots, The Far Right and Protests are an outcome of Covid19 which is an outcome of global capitalism and lockdown is a smokescreen. Worse is to come according to Robert Cook June 6th 2020

Country risks: a compass for anticipating “sudden stop” risks (brutal interruption of capital flows)

A record number of changes to sector ratings since the methodology’s launch

Victoria’s Secret Goes Bust June 6th 2020

A Fair Cop Guvnor ! June 6th 2020

One World Consequences Of Each African Woman Having 15 Babies Each and Religious Bulls-it. June 6th 2020

Yachtever Next ? June 6th 2020.

Of course Boris Johnson wants a royal yacht. He’s the king of fake-it-till-you-make-it – The Guardian Posted June 6th 2020

U.K Police Need Urgent Reform The U.S Needs to face up to the truth, U.K never will. U.K will lead U.S astray with its arrogant inbred elite stupidity. June 5th 2020

Protests against Asian Grooming Gangs Are Racist. The Man who spat in Tommy’s face was not arrested. June 5th 2020

Police Out Of Control U.S.A AND U.K Set The Standard for Corruption and Violence – and unaccountability Robert Cook June 5th 2020

The Police Have Shown Their True Colors

Police shove older man, who then bleeds from his head.

Protester with his hands up taken down by police while giving a TV interview.

Crowning it all June 4th 2020

Coronavirus: Prince Charles says we’re paying the price for loss of biodiversity

In an exclusive interview, the prince also described being ill with coronavirus and how he “got away with it quite lightly”. June 4th 2020

Rhiannon Mills

Female First Says Duchess Meghan Worth Every Penny of £7000 a Day Security June 3rd 2020

By Trump Walking to St. John Church Than Rioters Trying to Burn It Down

By Trump Walking to St. John Church Than Rioters Trying to Burn It Down

U.S UK GLOBAL GREED LUDICROUS LOCKDOWN AND OTHER CAPITAIST MEDIA ABSURDITIES JUNE 1ST 2020

Water shortage in the UK: what’s the problem and how to save water June 1st 2020

Why is there a shortage of water?

Why is climate change linked to water shortages?

George Floyd death: Violence erupts on sixth day of protests June 1st 2020

More Equal Than Others by Robert Cook May 31st 2020

Democracy Now May 31st 2020

Divide & Rule May 31st 2020

Unrest mounts across multiple US cities over the death of George Floyd May 31st 2020

Latest developments

BLASPHEMY LAW: Scots Face Up To SEVEN YEARS In Jail for ‘Criticism’ Of Religious Groups BLASPHEMY LAW: Scots Face Up To SEVEN YRS In Jail for ‘Criticism’ Of Religious Groups Jay Beecher Politicalite May 27th 2020

Cummings & Goings May 26th 2020

Should Lockdown Man Dominc Cummings be locked up? ‘I have done nothing wrong and will not apologise’ says Cummings. Full report later today.

Majority of coronavirus patients in US hospitals are black, study finds

They are hospitalised at nearly three times the rate of white and Hispanic people May 25th 2020

He spent 20 years in prison for murder. Then someone else confessed to the same crime

Where everyone knows everyone

The investigation

A breakthrough

Three days of no sleep

“I want my honor back”

U.S & U.K Blaming China Again. May 24th 2020

Corona Creates Vested Interests In U.S and Abroad So Do Not Expect Truth or Honesty, Only More Fear May 24th 2020

Deforestation ‘increases the risk of animal-human disease transmission’

Habitat destruction is bringing humans closer to animals which is increasing the risk of diseases being transmitted. May 22nd 2020

Comment Cut to the Chase May 22nd 2020

Satellites and spacecraft malfunction as Earth’s magnetic field mysteriously weakens

Scientists are finding that the weakening is causing technical problems for satellites, and seems to be growing in its effects.

Satellites and spacecraft malfunction as Earth’s magnetic field mysteriously weakens. May 22nd 2020

Border Farce May 21st 2020

Who Cares ? May 21st 2020

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Locked In To Corona May 21st 2020

Meanwhile back at the ranch May 21st 2020

Woman charged with stabbing seven-year-old to death in park May 20th 2020

OK Throwing Mud at Trump, blame him for Covid, Obama is like Teflon Tony Blair May 19th 2020

Controversy surrounding Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

Study Shows Suicide Will Kill Far More Than Covid 19 May 16th 2020

Feminists Exploit Coronavirus to Sell More Dangerous Abortion Pills Than Ever Before Posted Here May 16th 2020

Liberal Hearts Bleed Over Corona May 16th 2020

JK Rowling addresses anti-transgender criticism with freedom of speech stance
Famous author not backing down from her recent transgender comments

Crowning it all June 4^th 2020

More Equal Than Others by Robert Cook May 31^st 2020