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An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media
Any notion that the UK government actually considers that its primary responsibility is to protect the health and security of the country’s population ought to have been demolished in 2020. The appalling death toll that continues to mount during the coronavirus pandemic is largely rooted, not merely in government ‘incompetence’, but in criminal dereliction of… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 May 2020 (08/20)
18 May 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/may/email-18-5-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS 1. Statewatch Analysis: Mediterranean: As the fiction of a Libyan search and rescue zone begins to crumble, EU states use the coronavirus pandemic to declare themselves unsafe Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 15 May 2020
15 May 2020 — Welfare Weekly Over 260,000 sick and disabled people left waiting for benefit assessments due to Covid-19 Mounting backlog is causing growing concern among disability rights campaigners. Read the post Continue reading
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Covert unit in London for the “reconstruction” of Venezuela
The Canary news website based in the United Kingdom recently obtained the declassification of British official documents relating to Venezuela. They disclose the existence, since January 2019, of a secret unit within Whitehall (the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in charge of planning first the destabilization and subsequently the reconstruction of the country. Continue reading
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WATCH: UK Chief Medic confirms (again) covid19 harmless to vast majority
From the beginning of this crisis we have been pointing out that there are two mutually contradictory messages at the heart of the covid19 rollout, and, just as Orwell describes in 1984, a major point of the exercise seems to be to get people to believe both at the same time. Continue reading
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Revealed: UK government opposing patent-free Covid-19 vaccines
Last night BBC Newsnight revealed how the British government has been opposing patent-free coronavirus vaccines and treatments in the run up to a crucial World Health Organisation meeting on Monday.Despite government pledges to ensure vaccines are accessible to all, they are still not willing to take on big pharma and challenge their monopolies. Continue reading
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UK: Coronavirus rent crisis
Two months ago, we demanded a suspension of rents, a total ban on evictions throughout the pandemic and its aftermath, and that all those in need of shelter should be housed. Continue reading
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Is the chilling truth that the decision to impose lockdown was based on crude mathematical guesswork?
Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College “stepped back” from the Sage group advising ministers when his lockdown-busting romantic trysts were exposed. Perhaps he should have been dropped for a more consequential misstep. Details of the model his team built to predict the epidemic are emerging and they are not pretty. In the respective words of… Continue reading
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Opposing lockdown is NOT “profits before people” The UK’s policy is already killing people, it will kill many more if we don’t stop it. Soon
Ever since the UK entered “lockdown”, those pushing for it to end have been labelled “callous” or “selfish” or accused of putting profits before people. Meanwhile millions are unemployed and a global famine is on the horizon. The lockdown will kill more people than the virus, and needs to be ended. Continue reading
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WATCH: Prof Ashton – The beginning of the end of Boris Johnson?
This is a government of slogans, where confusion now reigns. As Brexit crashes down the list of important policies and is replaced with public health, priorities towards key workers, education, policing and the economy – all behind tackling the C19 crisis, Boris Johnson is losing his new found base in the North, where casualties are… Continue reading
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A chaotic rent debt and evictions crisis: Write your MP!
Renters are being forced to choose between paying rent or buying food and other essentials. Many renters are already in debt. Fear of eviction and rent debt is forcing people to go out and work rather than staying home. The government is putting renters in danger and we’re heading for a chaotic rent debt and… Continue reading
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MINDSPACE – Influencing behaviour through public policy
A must read (and frightening) document that details the UK government’s programme to control our thoughts and opinions. Continue reading
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Refusing to die for a confusing slogan
THE government’s latest injunction–Stay alert, Control the virus, Save lives–has come under instant criticism as providing ineffective advice. Continue reading
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Covid-19: UK Column News – 11th May 2020
11 May 2020 — Youtube Must Watch Before it’s censored! See also: https://wp.me/paao7Q-urt Continue reading
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How to make a crisis far, far, worse
I was asked by Russia Today to write an op-ed on what had been happening to me in my work over the last couple of months. It has appeared on their website https://www.rt.com/op-ed/488075-nhs-made-covid-19-crisis-worse/ This is what I wrote: Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 8 May 2020
8 May 2020 — Welfare Weekly Coronavirus: Scottish unpaid carers set to receive £230 one-off Carer’s Allowance top-up UK Government urged to follow Scotland’s example and increase Carer’s Allowance. Read the post Continue reading
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We now know far more about Covid19 – the Lockdown should end
Virtually overnight our world has turned into a wasteland of closed towns, deserted streets and a few people scuttling along with masks and stricken faces. It’s a place bereft of imagination, the light sucked out; a padded cell in Psych Ward B. Continue reading
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COVID 19: Playing with the numbers
The mortality statistics for COVID 19 have been incessantly hammered into our heads by the mainstream media (MSM). Every day they report these hardest of facts to justify the lockdown (house arrest) and to prove to us that living in abject fear of the COVID 19 syndrome is the only sensible reaction. Continue reading
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Propaganda: Automated bots defending the government
If you’ve ever wondered whether social media is just a vast network of automated bots interacting with other bots, congratulations, your worldview may be dystopian, but it’s not exactly wrong. In fact, if anything you’re way ahead of what most people believe. Continue reading
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Where have all the right-wingers gone?
The right-wingers are very quiet these days. They must absolutely hate what Covid-19 is doing to their politics. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 