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“No one wants GM food – but Westminster wants to foist it upon Scotland anyway”
Beyond GM and GM Freeze will be sending out information very soon on how members of the public can best respond to the UK government’s public consultation on gene editing. GMWatch has been actively contributing to this information. Continue reading
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Russia takes charge of Nagorno-Karabakh
The trilateral meeting of the leaderships of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Kremlin on January 11, exactly two months after the ceasefire in the 44-day Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, can be seen as a robust push by Moscow to consolidate its diplomatic achievement so far. The ceasefire has gained traction and this is the opportune moment… Continue reading
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Stanford Study Questions Benefits of Lockdowns and Stay-At-Home Orders
A group of researchers at Stanford published a peer-reviewed study earlier this month assessing the impact of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders — what they refer to as non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in early 2020. The study did not find evidence to support that NPIs were effective in preventing the spread. Continue reading
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Don’t worry, the sadism is good for you…
Ever since at least the Iraq War of 2003, the fundamental alternatives facing North American and European elites have been constant. One alternative might have been to accept a certain loss of global power so as to share global influence peacefully in a multi-polar world with China, Russia and other regional powers. Instead, the Western… Continue reading
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WHO: No Guarantee COVID Vaccines Will Prevent People from Being Infected
At a virtual press conference held by the World Health Organization officials warned there is no clear evidence COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing asymptomatic infection and transmission. Continue reading
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Hacked emails allegedly detail how EU drug regulator was pressured to approve Pfizer jab despite ‘problems’ with the vaccine
An alleged cache of email exchanges between EU officials and the European Medicines Agency show that the drug regulator was uncomfortable about fast-tracking approval for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid jabs, Le Monde has reported. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2021
18 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford US Imperialism Was in Disarray in 2020 / US Genocide Against Blacks, Now and in 1951 / Lumumba Assassination Changed Black American Politics. US Imperialism Was in Disarray in 2020 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford … Continue reading
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How Much Did “The Culture of Narcissism” Get Right?
Forty years ago, Christopher Lasch described a soulless society headed toward a “war of all against all.” Are we there? A look back at the book TK readers chose for review Continue reading
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China Calls to Suspend Pfizer mRNA Vaccine
16 January 2021 — 21st Century Wire Chinese health experts have now called on Norway & other countries to suspend the use of the controversial mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine produced by companies such as Pfizer – due to safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people. Watch and help us share this important video… Continue reading
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Watch UKC News: New Vaccine Death Claims, Trump Declassifies Russiagate
15 January 2021 — NEWS WIRE As the Government’s bold vaccine roll-out continues, more problems emerge regarding injury and death of people who’ve taken Pfizer’s experimental mRNA genetic COVID ‘vaccine’ – prompting [] China t[o] ban the jab. Meanwhile, the Government makes a power-play to censor media reporting – with the State agency now playing the… Continue reading
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Guardian Smears Syria’s President With Implausible Link To Beirut’s Port Blast
On August 4 2020 2.750 tons of ammonium nitrate, stored in a warehouse of Beirut’s harbour, exploded. The blast destroyed large parts of the city. The dangerous load had come on a defect[ive] ship which was impounded by the Lebanese authorities. It had been stored since 2013. Despite urgent warnings, the complicate[d] Lebanese bureaucracy had never… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 15 January 2021 (Issue 01/21)
15 January 2021 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf) —————————————- Support the fight for democracy and civil liberties in Europe 2021 is set to be a year of significant struggle across Europe against intrusive new surveillance and policing measures, damaging migration and border control policies, and ongoing attacks against individual rights and liberties. With your support,… Continue reading
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Agroecology and Post-COVID Plunder
Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised… Continue reading
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COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic in 2020. In response, most countries in the world implemented lockdowns, restricting their population’s movements, work, education, gatherings, and general activities in attempt to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19 cases. The public health goal of lockdowns was to… Continue reading
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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