January 14, 2021
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IRR News 14 January 2021: Policing the Covid Crisis
14 January 2021 — Institute of Race Relations At a time when the Metropolitan police has had to concede more oversight of pre-arrest handcuffing, we publish the first ever investigation of the new Violence Suppression Units (VSUs), introduced without fanfare at the start of the pandemic in London. In the past, criticism has been levelled at the use Continue reading
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Ken Livingstone to challenge EHRC in court
Ken Livingstone is going to court in the UK to challenge anti-Semitism allegations. The former mayor of London is contesting the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s controversial report that in October claimed he was guilty of “unlawful harassment” against Jews. Continue reading
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Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True
Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against us. Continue reading
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Don’t forget who is coming to pillage post-Brexit Britain
By TruePublica: No country has willingly left a postwar trading bloc, especially one of the three global super-powers of today. And because there is no precedent, it is true to say that not only does Brexit represent a very large threat to Britain’s economic future prospects – it does so because it’s just a gamble.… Continue reading
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9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail
9/11 opened the gates to the Global War on Terror (GWOT), later softened by Team Obama to the status of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) even as it was suavely expanded to the bombing, overt or covert, of seven nations. Continue reading
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Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s ‘95% Effective’ Vaccines — Let’s Be Cautious and First See the Full Data
In the United States, all eyes are on Pfizer and Moderna. The topline efficacy results from their experimental covid-19 vaccine trials are astounding at first glance. Pfizer says it recorded 170 covid-19 cases (in 44,000 volunteers), with a remarkable split: 162 in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group. Meanwhile Moderna says 95… Continue reading
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