June 2021
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Big Brother Watch questions legality of Wembley vaccine passport trial
Big Brother Watch has urgently questioned the legality of the Government’s vaccine passport trials at Wembley Stadium for the Euro 2020 matches. In a letter sent today to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the civil liberties group questioned how the stadium might use fans’ vaccination and test data and what the… Continue reading
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Johannesburg in decay
Johannesburg – Joburg, Jozi, eGoli, eRhawutini, Gauteng, Maboneng – is a city of gold, lights, barbed wire, jazz, the sun setting into lava, the burnt orange of aloes in flower against dry grass, a great university, men with guns, shopping malls, the sudden malachite of parakeets on the wing above the city forest and the… Continue reading
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UK: medConfidential Bulletin, 11th June 2021
On 12 May, NHS Digital quietly announced there would be a new GP data collection, known as ‘GP Data for Planning and Research’, ‘GPDPR’ – or the #GPdataGrab, for clarity. NHS Digital and the Secretary of State, who on 6th April had Directed NHS Digital to run the scheme, hoped no-one would notice. Continue reading
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Inequality & tax dodging. Heaven for the rich, hell for the poor
11 June 2021 — theplanningmotivedotcom Hell has been described in a number of ways. It takes place after death and is reserved for non-believers or those who disobey “our” religious instruction. There are at least 20,000 Christian churches and sects who all claim they are the true followers of Jesus. Tens of thousands of different Continue reading
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UK: State Suppression
11 June 2021 — Craig Murray Yesterday the House of Commons was debating “safety of journalists”. After reams of MP waffle about evil foreigners, the Alba Party was allocated 60 seconds and tried to use it to raise my case. That is a completely unedited extract from Hansard. So much for the “mother of democracies”. Continue reading
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Britain’s shame: supplying components enabling Turkey to bomb its own citizens
11 June 2021 — Airstrikes Link: https://politicalcleanup.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/britains-shame-supplying-a-crucial-component-enabling-turkey-to-bomb-its-own-citizens Continue reading
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‘Net zero’ emissions is a dangerous hoax
A new report published Wednesday by a trio of progressive advocacy groups lifts the veil on so-called “net zero” climate pledges, which are often touted by corporations and governments as solutions to the climate emergency, but which the paper’s authors argue are merely a dangerous form of greenwashing that should be eschewed in favor of Real… Continue reading
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Every Region of the World Is the Worst Affected: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2021)
10 June 2021 — Tricontinental Faisal Laibi Sahi (Iraq), Cafe 2, 2014. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Each month, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) releases a monthly food price index. The release on 3 June showed that food prices have surged by 40%, the largest rise since 2011. Continue reading
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Imperialism meets in Cornwall
This weekend, the leaders of the ‘free world’ are flying (and helicoptering) into Cornwall, at the tiny end of England, for the first physical meeting of the G7 nations. As they increase the carbon footprint sharply through extensive fossil fuel activity, the G7 agenda will include dealing with climate change, global ‘action’ on the COVID… Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman’s last gasp
10 June 2021 — Jonathan Cook New Left Review – 10 June 2021 Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism: a constellation of thought that has never looked so threadbare. It seems that every liberal newspaper needs Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 10 June 2021
10 June 2021 — The New Dark Age On the Politics of Victory and Defeat: How Gaza Dethroned the King of Israel https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/06/on-the-politics-of-victory-and-defeat-how-gaza-dethroned-the-king-of-israel/ National Coalition Calls On Biden To Halt Weapons Sales To Israel https://popularresistance.org/national-coalition-calls-on-biden-to-halt-weapons-sales-to-israel/ Continue reading
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Official: Lady Dorrian Rules Courts Should Apply Different Standards to Bloggers and Mainstream Media
We are racing to lodge our application to the Supreme Court by Friday, so I am just going to post an email I just sent my legal team: Continue reading
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Their wars, our lives: The return of anti-militarism
On June 14, 2021 NATO will hold a “Summit of Allied Leaders” at its headquarters in Brussels. According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenber, the meeting “is a unique opportunity to reinforce NATO as the enduring embodiment of the bond between Europe and North America.” The summit will follow a “Group of Seven” (G7) meeting… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 June 2021
9 June 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist “Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs. Continue reading
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New trade deal could affect our health and the environment
The latest report in our Toxic Trade series is out!!! It reveals that the UK could be opening the door to 119 pesticides banned for health and environmental reasons as we attempt to join a huge trade deal currently agreed between 11 countries around the Pacific Rim. Continue reading
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Scottish High Court Denies Whistleblower Craig Murray’s Request To Appeal Conviction Over Blog Posts
In the United Kingdom, diplomat-turned whistleblower Craig Murray suffered a defeat at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland on June 8, when three judges refused to grant him permission to appeal their earlier decision to convict him of contempt of court for his blog posts on the trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Continue reading
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Zionist Terror Fails To Break Palestinian Solidarity, Accelerates Israel’s Demise
A dozen years ago, Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada predicted that Israel “won’t survive.” The Zionist state is doomed, he concluded, because the reasoning used to justify its existence is being accepted by ever fewer people: Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: We Won!
Michael Gove broke the law by giving a contract to a communications agency run by long time associates of him and Dominic Cummings, the High Court has decided. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 