April 2020
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Exercise Cygnus: UK Gov’t Response Was Modified Before COVID-19 Event
When one thinks of the NHS, intensive care is at the heart of most people’s perceptions of it. Yet the decline in the number of ICU beds over the last 30 years is so counterintuitive that it’s as if some monster deus ex machina has intervened and decided not only that the general numbers of… Continue reading
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Farewell to the God of Plague: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2020)
30 April 2020 — Tricontinental Li Zhong, Medical workers putting on their gowns to fight the ‘evil’ virus, 2020. Dear Friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 30 June 1958, Mao Tse-tung read in Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) that schistosomiasis – or bilharzia – had been eradicated in Yukiang (Jiangxi Province). He Continue reading
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COVID-19 exposes the weakness of Brexit
By TruePublica: There’s an irony being played out – a cruel one really. The COVID-19 crisis has unearthed some stark truths about how our country should be governed. One of those truths was just how important our key workers really are. Right now, the most dangerous job and most dangerous place in the country to… Continue reading
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More journalists barred from Gov’t daily press briefings – for asking wrong questions
By TruePublica: On 3 February, (remember how long ago that was) political journalists walked out of a Downing Street press briefing en masse after a Dominic Cummings associate attempted to ban selected reporters from attending. The Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Lee Cain, tried to prevent journalists from the Independent, the i, the Mirror, HuffPost,… Continue reading
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WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #5 In this highly-charged follow-up interview
Following up his original interview, Prof Knut Wittkowski discusses the mainstream coverage of his opinions, recent studies on the numbers of infected in New York, and the Swedish government’s approach and much, much more. Continue reading
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Backing the Wrong Horseman
Nobody knows how many people died as a result of the UK/US Coalition of Death led destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, by proxy, Syria and Yemen. Nobody even knows how many people western forces themselves killed directly. That is a huge number, but still under 10% of the total. To add to that you… Continue reading
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COVID Update – Focus on Vitamin D
I have found, I suspect like almost everyone else, that it is almost impossible to keep track of what is going on with COVID. Stories swirl and multiply, and almost everyone seems to be trying to get something out of it. People are claiming miracle cures and success – but it is difficult to verify… Continue reading
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The Models, the Tests and Now the Consequences
Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for the coronavirus first claimed to have erupted in Wuhan China, now dubbed SARS-CoV-2. With astonishing… Continue reading
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Exclusive: OPCW insiders slam ‘compromised’ new Syria chemical weapons probe
Current and former staff members of the OPCW have denounced the organization’s IIT report alleging Syrian government sarin use at Ltamenah, criticizing its reliance on rumor, hearsay, “scientifically flawed” claims and the influence of unqualified, secret “experts” aligned with the Western-backed opposition. Continue reading
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BBC Panorama exposes government responsibility for UK health worker deaths
Monday’s investigation by BBC’s Panorama, “Has the Government Failed the NHS?” was a staggering indictment of the Conservative government’s failure to provide health workers with personal protective equipment (PPE). Continue reading
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United States Imposed Economic Sanctions: The Big Heist
Since the start of the great recession in 2008 the U.S. has become increasingly dependent on the use of unilateral economic sanctions to achieve its policy objectives against its declared targets. Presently, sanctions impact one-third of humanity in 39 countries. Economic sanctions not only cause untold death and devastation to a given country by denying… Continue reading
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Why “Planet of the Humans” is crap
Mostly, Planet of the Humans is just so fucking bad. So bad that its good points are useless. It does have some good points–there seem to be a lot of rock festivals in Vermont that claim, incorrectly, to be running on solar. They totally deserve ridicule. But you would never recommend this film to anyone.… Continue reading
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Welcome to the era of the Great Disillusionment
This is a column I have been mulling over for a while but, for reasons that will be instantly obvious, I have been hesitant to write. It is about 5G, vaccines, 9/11, aliens and lizard overlords. Or more accurately, it isn’t. Continue reading
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No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza fishers
The coronavirus pandemic has derailed a lot of activities, but not Israel’s attacks on Palestinian fishers. Israeli warships have increased their assaults in recent months, causing injuries to fishers and damage to boats. Continue reading
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The real reason why the gov’t is offering £60,000 to bereaved families of COVID19 medics
On March 20th TruePublica published the story about the UK government that ran a national pandemic flu exercise back in 2016. It was codenamed Exercise Cygnus. The report of its findings was not made publicly available as part of the general antipathy towards the NHS in general by the Conservative party. The then chief medical… Continue reading
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Why It’s Ugly To Criticize Trump For Dodging The Vietnam Draft
There’s a popular tweet going around saying “Do you know what the 58,220 American Dead from the Vietnam War will have in common with the 58,220 American dead expected this midweek? Donald Trump refused to fight for either one of them.” The tweet has thousands of shares and made it to the front page of Reddit today. Liberals love… Continue reading
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Pandemic Delays: Postponing the Assange Extradition Hearing
Julian Assange must have had time amidst cramped and hostile surrounds, paper work, pleas and applications, to ponder what circle of Dante’s Hell he finds himself in. Ailing but still battling, the WikiLeaks publisher, through his lawyers, made another vicarious appearance at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday to delay the next stage of extradition… Continue reading
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Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails
The Covid-19 outbreak has so far killed more than 200,000 people and frightened billions more into panic. A panic that deprives most of them of any critical sense and pushes them to make or approve stupid political decisions. A group of personalities, Red Dawn, whose correspondence was revealed by Kaiser Health News and the New… Continue reading
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How the poor die in New York
Van Dyke I is a series of 22 hulking brick apartment blocks in Brownsville, the poorest part of Brooklyn, New York. At least 10 people have died there from COVID-19, including a mother and son whose bodies were discovered only after neighbours reported the smell to city officials. There are no tributes to them, no… Continue reading
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What Will Happen with a Rushed COVID-19 Vaccine? Selected Stories
27 April 2020 — Global Research The Dengvaxia Disaster Was Twenty Years in the Making—What Will Happen with a Rushed COVID-19 Vaccine? By Children’s Health Defense, April 27, 2020 For several weeks, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates have been beating the drum about a COVID-19 vaccine, seeking to keep the world’s coronavirus optics focused on a medical intervention that Gates Continue reading
The New Dark Age 