November 2021
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UK Crony Capitalism: They want to keep this secret
A leaked document has revealed which Conservative MPs and Peers funnelled companies through a ‘VIP lane’ for lucrative PPE contracts, without competition. A staggering £1.6 billion worth of contracts were awarded as a result of referrals from just ten politicians at the heart of the Conservative party. The leaked list of the 47 companies in… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 14-15 November 2021
15 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/ Gasbagging In Glasgow: COP26 And Phasing Down Coal https://southfront.org/gasbagging-in-glasgow-cop26-and-phasing-down-coal/ Continue reading
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Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets
Sifting through over 30,000 grants in the company’s database, MintPress can reveal that the Gates Foundation has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets and ventures, to the tune of at least $319 million. Continue reading
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Watch: Your Never-Ending COVID-19 Booster Cycle & Moderna’s Miracle
Joining me today Whitney Webb, here to discuss the never-ending “booster” cycle of COVID-19 injections that is already under way, and her recent article about Moderna’s mRNA shots and the miraculous timing of their “success”. Continue reading
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Revolt of the Essential Workers
Back before the COVID-19 pandemic started, the year 2019 saw anti-government demonstrations in Paris, Manila, La Paz, Port-au-Prince, Bogotá, Prague, Quito , Beirut, Hong Kong, London, Baghdad, Barcelona, Budapest, Santiago, New Delhi, Jakarta, Buenos Aires and more, earning the title “the year of the protest.” It was also a year of resurgent labor activity in the United States. After decades of declining union participation, the country saw 25 major work stoppages involving 425,500 workers, the… Continue reading
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Revolutionary Front Seizes Haiti’s Largest Fuel Terminal as US Weighs Military Intervention
Jimmy Cherizier and the FRG9 have taken control of Haiti’s most important shipping terminal, demanding the resignation and trial of Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry. While the Biden administration is reluctant to intervene, the Beltway establishment is ramping up the pressure. Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-34
The information war is so intense nowadays that unsung melodies are often more alluring that the sung ones. The lines from English poet Shelley’s famous ode To a Skylark come to mind — ‘In the broad day-light / Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight…’ Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: We don’t have a written constitution
Until now, we haven’t seen the need for binding rules. We’ve relied on self-restraint. We’ve trusted politicians to behave themselves. We’ve assumed that only ‘good chaps’ – as Lord Hennessy memorably put it – will rise to high office. And those good chaps won’t need to be told how to behave. Being good chaps, they… Continue reading
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From citizen scores to facial recognition – we’re fighting back!
13 November 2021 — Big Brother Watch t’s been a busy few weeks at Big Brother Watch, as ever! Here’s a quick run down of what we’ve been doing to fight facial recognition, ‘no jab no job‘ policies, censorship, and citizen scoring in the welfare system. Continue reading
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Biden Demands Ethiopia’s Unconditional Surrender
Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November, when its former puppet, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, attacked a federal Ethiopian army base in Mekelle, the capital of the country’s Tigray Region. Tigrayans are only 6% of Ethiopia’s population, but the TPLF ruled the whole nation with an iron fist from… Continue reading
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In Ukraine The U.S. Is Risking War
There is fear in Russia that the U.S. is egging the Ukraine into a renewed active conflict with its renegade eastern Donbass region and thereby into a war with Russia. Continue reading
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Statewatch News 12 November (Issue 18/
Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, with information on two upcoming events and all the material published on our website over the last fortnight. In order to keep you better-informed we are also adding a new section, ‘The Roundup’, made up of material we have shared via our social media accounts in the… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 11-12 November 2021
12 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice in “Required Reading” https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/indigenous-leaders-call-for-landback-reforms-and-climate-justice-in-required-reading/ COP26- Real Climate Change Candor or More Dissimulation https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/cop26-real-climate-change-candor-or-more-dissimulation/ Continue reading
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South Africa: Trouble in the promised land
The socialist commune Abahlali baseMjondolo built from the eKhenana land occupation in Durban has won international admiration and solidarity, but it now faces a new wave of repression. Continue reading
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US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger
Famed indigenous human rights lawyer Steven Donziger had already been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for the Cofan people of the Amazon rain-forest in Ecuador. Continue reading
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Paul Dacre: a rigged appointment
When it comes to the Prime Minister’s allies, there’s a pattern emerging in Downing Street. When Boris Johnson doesn’t like the outcome of an official process, he tries to rip up the rules and start again. Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 101-11 November 2021
11 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Germany says nuclear energy will set back turning EU green https://www.rt.com/news/540009-eu-germany-france-nuclear-green/ Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/bill-gates-should-know-better-how-the-israeli-occupation-ravages-the-environment-in-palestine/ Continue reading
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Why Are You Asking Us to Compromise on Our Lives?: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
Nothing useful seemed to emerge from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP26 this week. The leaders of developed countries made tired speeches about their commitment to reversing the climate catastrophe. Their words rang with the clichés of spin doctors, their sincerity zero, their actual commitments to lowering carbon emissions nil.… Continue reading
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TalkRadio – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Covid passes in Wales
11 November, 2021 — Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch Team / Further Coverage: TalkRadio (Julia Hartley-Brewer) – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Covid passes in Wales Nation.Cymru – ‘Big Brother Watch’ campaign group launches legal action against Welsh Covid passes after raising £180,000 Continue reading
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Bloomberg CIA Apologia Accidentally Vindicates China’s Strict Domestic Policies
In a new article promoting the CIA’s new mission center focused on China and the need to pour more resources into countering Beijing, Bloomberg also accidentally makes the case that many of the Chinese government’s controversial domestic policies are entirely justified and completely necessary. Continue reading
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