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Brexit News Links 22-23 October 2019
23 October 2019 • 15:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back How the BBC and ITV turned into full-on Tory propaganda mouthpieces http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/KQIvgovtQN0/ Boris Johnson’s hospital building programme – just another lie? https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/boris-johnsons-hospital-building-programme-just-another-lie/ Continue reading
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Refurbishment Is the Dirty Word We Should Be Using, Just Look at the Achilles Street Estate
Imagine living on a council estate and being given a ballot on the proposed destruction of your home as part of a ‘regeneration’ plan. Imagine that the council makes all kinds of lavish promises regarding your future housing and security, but then refuses to back up these promises with anything resembling a legally-binding contract. This… Continue reading
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Britain’s shameful treatment of a political prisoner
By TruePublica: Britain is no better than any other despotic regime if this is how it treats a journalist/whistleblower in custody. It makes no matter what your personal views on Julian Assange are. He is a political prisoner and like any other prisoner in the hands of the British state he should be treated with… Continue reading
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The US/UK trade deal is truly frightening – here’s what’s coming
By TruePublica Editor: In the magical illusions of the smoke and mirrors ideology behind Brexit, we should be acutely aware of what a trade deal with America means. In our article this week – The MAGA Agenda – it seems that among those on the radical right – the government, their acolytes and corporate donors… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 22 October 2019
22 October 2019 • 15:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Slow-Motion US/UK Killing of Julian Assange Anti-Assange Court Continues Unfair Extradition Hearing to Railroad Assange to US Continue reading
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Assange in Court By Craig Murray
I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Continue reading
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Judge Denies Assange Extension on Extradition Hearing
The judge in Julian Assange’s extradition process on Monday denied his lawyer’s appeal for more time to prepare his case as the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher weakly told the court he was unable to “research anything” in the conditions under which he is being held in high-security Belmarsh Prison. Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 21 October 2019
21 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Brexit: MPs’ vote on deal ruled out by Speaker John Bercow https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50128740 Brexit: No 10 to push again for vote on Boris Johnson’s deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50117284 Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 19-20 October 2019
20 October 2019 • 13:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Labour to push for commons vote on new Brexit referendum http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/U-SsdFfHkkQ/ Jeremy Corbyn says he’ll challenge the government ‘all the way’ over Europe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/eIXgaMh_5Fc/ Continue reading
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UK police gain access to details of thousands of men, women and children through government’s Prevent database By Barry Mason
The UK’s police forces have full access to private information, including the political views, of thousands of men, women and children who have been referred to the government’s Prevent programme. Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 19 October 2019
19 October 2019 • 12:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Saturday’s Brexit votes in Parliament: What’s going on? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50095368 Explainer: What’s the difference between Johnson’s Brexit deal and May’s deal? Hint: Very Little http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/q8YRiruIAhU/ Continue reading
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No Inquest for Dawn Sturgess By Craig Murray
The killing of poor Dawn Sturgess was much the most serious of the events in Salisbury and Amesbury that attracted international attention. Yet nobody has been charged, no arrest warrant issued and no inquest held. Continue reading
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Leading Israel lobby MP quits Labour By Asa Winstanley
Labour Friends of Israel’s chairperson Louise Ellman quit as a member of Labour on Wednesday evening, demanding a “different leadership” in the UK’s main opposition party. Continue reading
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Brace yourself for Saturday 19th October
By TruePublica Editor: This Saturday is as important as that vote back in 2016. On the 23rd of June 2016, the electorate of Britain marginally voted to leave the EU. Three years and four months later parliament decides if that should happen. After the social division, mass political back-stabbings and subsequent implosion of the Tory… Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 18 October 2019
18 October 2019 • 14:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit protest message ploughed in field http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/b0YduHbOIvs/ What can we expect from a Brexit general election – and when? https://truepublica.org.uk/video-news/what-can-we-expect-from-a-brexit-general-election/ Continue reading
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Is Johnson planning to renege on his Brexit deal?
“There is not a soul in the long corridors of Whitehall who believes the prime minister is telling the truth“. These are the words of Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens whose article is entitled – “Boris Johnson’s lies are plunging Britain into a dark morass.” Stephens is right to point out that deceiving the Queen,… Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 17 October 2019
17 October 2019 • 11:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Is Johnson planning to renege on his Brexit deal? https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/is-johnson-planning-to-renege-on-his-brexit-deal/ Brexit deal done, Boris Johnson announces http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/MNLBQrpd-0Q/ Continue reading
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New Developments in the Skripal Case Reveal it for the Sham it Always Was By James ONeill
Whilst she was there, father and daughter became seriously ill while in the centre of town. They were found on a park bench and taken to hospital. They both recovered, and apart from a brief statement by Yulia some weeks later, neither has been heard from since. Continue reading
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No Brexit deal reached as European Union summit begins By Chris Marsden
In the end, yesterday finished with statements by a spokesman for Boris Johnson’s Conservative government that no Brexit deal would be reached as negotiations with the Tories’ political partners, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and technical talks with the European Union (EU) were ongoing. Continue reading
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UK: State of Emergency
The Met Police is facing a growing backlash following its decision to ban Extinction Rebellion protests across London last Monday. In reality, this is about the government losing control. Continue reading
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