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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/11966030 (091953ZDEC20) Notable: PMQS: Blackford and Johnson on Scotland, UK and Brexit

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PMQS: Blackford and Johnson on Scotland, UK and Brexit

Ian Blackford said the government admits Northern Ireland would be “getting the best of both worlds” with access to the EU’s single market and customs union.

But the SNP's leader in Westminster said Scotland was suffering from “double dealing” and asked the prime minister why that was fair.

Boris Johnson said Scotland, and the rest of the UK, would benefit from “substantial” devolved powers, the “regaining of money, borders and laws” and “control of colossal quantities of fish”.

Coverage of PMQs in text, images and video available at:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-55234467

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/11996922 (121802ZDEC20) Notable: Anon's research on Scottish voting machines (cgi.com link)

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Hey fellas,

Thought some of my research may interest you regarding Scottish election voting machines.

https://www.cgi.com/uk/en/node/42199

CGI/IDOX = https://www.scytl.com/en/partners/idox-elections/

What do you think the chances are the elections are fixed in the UK?

Smartmatic have the contract for the London Mayoral Election of 2021.

https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/glro20-05_signed.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12027609 (142300ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / 30 Sept 2020

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tried to embed a video which is a meeting of the Education and Skills Committee from the 30th of September 2020.

Topics being discussed include;

>Education and Skills Committee

>September 30, 2020 10:17

>Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 6 seconds

>1. Decision on taking business in private: The >Committee will decide whether to take agenda >items 3 and 4 in private.

>2. Redress for Survivors (Historical Child >Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee >will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—

>Donald Henderson, Deputy Director, Redress >Relations and Response Division, Paul >Beaton, Unit Head, Redress Relations and >Response Division, Lisa McCloy, Bill Team >Leader, Redress Relations and Response >Division, and Barry McCaffrey, Lawyer, >Scottish Government Legal Directorate, >Scottish Government;

>>and then from—

>Dr Maeve O'Rourke, Lecturer in Human >Rights Law and Programme Director, BCL >Law and Human Rights, National University of >Ireland Galway.

>3. Redress for Survivors (Historical Child >Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee >will consider a list of candidates for the post of >adviser in connection with the forthcoming bill.

>4. Review of evidence: The Committee will >consider the evidence it heard under agenda >item 2.

Point to note is No'1 which is for having points 3 and 4 discussed in private (meaning you, the public/taxpayer, who is paying for it all don't get to hear those ones)

I will post 2 subsequent meetings of theirs after this one.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12027730 (142306ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / 7 Oct 2020

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>>106799

video here…

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/education-and-skills-committee-october-7-2020

sorry struggling to work out how to embed this one.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12027890 (142314ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / 7 Oct 2020

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>>106801

Education and Skills Committee hearing from Ocober 7 2020 meeting here:

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/education-and-skills-committee-october-7-2020

Again, apologies for being unable to work out how to embed it, please feel free if you are more capable of working out how to do so for all 3 videos.

>Education and Skills Committee

>October 07, 2020 08:45

>Duration: 2 hours 59 minutes 31 seconds

>1. Decision on taking business in private: The >Committee will decide whether to take items 3 >and 4 in private.

>2. Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse >in Care) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will >take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—

>Kim Leslie, Representative of the Association of >Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and a partner >at, Digby Brown LLP;

>Una Doherty QC, Faculty of Advocates;

>Iain Nicol, Solicitor and Convenor of Civil >Justice Committee, Law Society of Scotland;

>and then from—

>Joanne McMeeking, Head of Improving Care >Experiences, CELCIS;

>Judith Robertson, Chair of the Commission, >Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC);

>Gaynor Clarke, Chair of Historical Abuse >Practice Network, Social Work Scotland (SWS) >and Programme Manager at, Aberdeen City >Council;

>Janine Rennie, Chief Executive, Wellbeing >Scotland.

>3. Work programme: The Committee will >consider its work programme.

>4. Review of evidence: The Committee will >consider the evidence it heard earlier.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12027992 (142320ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / 28 Oct 2020

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>>106804

Education and Skills Committee meeting from October 28 2020

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/education-and-skills-committee-october-28-2020

Content includes:

>Education and Skills Committee

>October 28, 2020 11:01

>Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 1 second

>1. Decision on taking business in private: The >Committee will decide whether to take item 6 in >private.

>2. Declaration of interests: George Adam will be >invited to declare any relevant interests.

>3. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will >take evidence on the Children’s Hearings >(Scotland) Act 2011 (Children’s Advocacy >Services) Regulations 2020 [draft] from—

>Maree Todd MSP, Minister for Children and >Young People, and Tom McNamara, Head of >Youth Justice and Children's Hearings, Scottish >Government.

>4. Subordinate legislation: Maree Todd, Minister >for Children and Young People to move—>S5M-22706—That the Education and Skills >Committee recommends that the Children’s >Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Children’s >Advocacy Services) Regulations 2020 [draft] be >approved.

>5. Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse >in Care) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will >take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—

>David Whelan, and Harry Aitken, Former Boys >and Girls Abused in Quarriers Homes;

>Flora Henderson, Future Pathways;

>Helen Holland, and Simon Collins, In Care >Survivors Service Scotland (INCAS).

>6. Review of evidence: The Committee will >consider the evidence it heard under agenda >item 5.

>Most Recent Archived Meetings

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12028224 (142332ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / 28 Oct 2020

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>>106805

Again I note that all videos are having private discussions, not open to the public…..there could be many reasons for this, including the extradition and arrest of John Watt Q.C. The retired SCOTTISH Judge extradited for trial on charges of child abuse of 3 girls and one boy. One of the girls (all are now adults in their 40's or 50's) was the daughter of one of John Watt's colleagues Suzie Henderson on which I have posted quite a few times on the previous board.

I won't comment on these for the moment except to say that the Redress Bill which they are discussing will not be implemented in this Parliament and this anon believes it was never intended to be: which is why, I believe the "waiver" of rights to further court action was included, so that it would not pass, and would have plenty of objections to ensure that there would never be enough time to implement it, each bill has to pass 3 stages before it can be passed and this is only stage 1.

It was always meant to fail; to push the can down the street a little bit and waste more time………..

…….TIME IS THEIR GREAT ALLY as I have said often in my comments on articles posted.

String it out long enough and there will be no-one around to share the truth of any matter, neither victim or abuser–and it is the abusers they are protecting

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12028705 (150002ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / 28 Oct 2020

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>>106805

>>5. Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse >in Care) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will >take evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—

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>>David Whelan, and Harry Aitken, Former Boys >and Girls Abused in Quarriers Homes;

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>>Flora Henderson, Future Pathways;

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>>Helen Holland, and Simon Collins, In Care >Survivors Service Scotland (INCAS).

Little Flora was drafted in from Canada, another country under the Crown and with its own fair share of paedophiles in power allegedly with none other than their Prime Minister Justin Trudeau one of the higher ranking ones.

Yes she was drafted in at approximately 120,000 a year salary to a newly started up company called "Future Pathways" which was given £15 million of taxpayers cash to distribute in aid of victims of Historic Child Abuse and I can assure you they done everything they could to drop the cost of everything a victim asked for.

"Future Pathways" started with 3 victim support staff when the first award of 5 million was made and their staff increased to around 30 in time for that cash award being upped to £15 million.

All of those support workers were on around 80,000 per annum and some of those higher up the ladder getting more, with Flora reported to have been drafted in to front this newly formed company ( it didn't exist before the inquiry, it only started up in time to get the huge cash handout, allegedly for support of victims….

…as if

There were at the last personal count ( around a year ago ) 26 victim support agents on around 80,000/year = 2 million and 80 thousand, per year in wages, add Flora's 120 grand in to the mix it's 2.2 million plus office rental for 2 plush offices (one in Glasgow and another in Edinburgh) plus other staff including office staff, secretaries etc and you must be pushing on costs of 3 million/year probably not including expenses or the cost of all the new smart phones/tablets etc for staff.

Let's just settle on 3 million per year in costs, then expenses for staff………..anyway let's just for the sake of argument call it 3 million/year and believe this anon when I tell you they are very miserly with abuse victims and when they do allocate some monies for victim needs they try to give you the cheaper options and chop you down more. I've seen all this first hand.

IF ANYONE WAS HAS TIME AVAILABLE PLEASE LOOK IN TO "FUTURE PATHWAYS" I AM SURE IT WILL TURN UP SOMETHING TO DIG IN TO THEM.

Little Flora doesn't give a shit about victims of that you can be sure, however if I wasn't attached I'd certainly give her the sausage…..she's a hot little minx in the flesh and has a trim little bod……she reminds me of one little chick from my past who was really in to S&M, loved being spanked, If I was still available she'd be on a spanking.

I had considered some negative commentary on some of the other panel members for this meeting of the Education and Skills Committee, but as they seemed to some extent to redeem themselves I will hold fire, unless I see them slip backwards. Everyone deserves an opportunity for redemption.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041556 (152124ZDEC20) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun / Discussing the "waiver" aspect of the redress scheme 30 Sept 2020

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>>106799

Discussing the "waiver" aspect of the redress scheme….

I have to say I am impressed particularly with Alex Neil and Ian Gray, neither was given enough time to speak and make their point/s.

I don't vote in elections as a rule, but if I were ever to vote these 2 gentlemen seem to have some substance.

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/education-and-skills-committee-september-30-2020?clip_start=10:30:54&clip_end=11:03:49

Again can't seem to embed the link, if anyone can do so I'd be obliged, and if so perhaps a lesson on embedding links from there would help for future ref.

thanks

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12106033 (201912ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Covid-19 in Scotland: Show us the data on new virus strain, demand scientists

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Covid-19 in Scotland: Show us the data on new virus strain, demand scientists

Leading academics have demanded more data on the new strain of coronavirus after Christmas celebrations were curtailed without consulting the wider scientific community.

Devi Sridhar, a member of the Scottish government’s Covid-19 advisory group, said that raising the alarm over a new strain without wider peer review had stoked “unhelpful” rumours about an increased risk to children.

Linda Bauld, chair of public health at Edinburgh University, said that experts around the country had not been shown any data to support the claim from UK government scientists that the new strain was up to 70 per cent more virulent than existing strains.

More:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/covid-19-in-scotland-show-us-the-data-on-new-virus-strain-demand-scientists-mjt9kr9v6

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12106105 (201920ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Police Scotland to double its presence in border areas but no checkpoints planned

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Police Scotland to double its presence in border areas but no checkpoints planned

Chief Constable Iain Livingstone today announced the presence of officers would hopefully ‘deter’ anyone who might be considering breaching travel restrictions.

Edinburgh Evening News logo Police Scotland to double its presence in border areas but no checkpoints planned

Chief Constable Iain Livingstone today announced the presence of officers would hopefully ‘deter’ anyone who might be considering breaching travel restrictions.

a person riding on the back of a truck © Police Scotland to double its presence in border areas as new restrictions are put in place.

It came as the British Transport Police confirmed increased officers at major transport hubs across tier 4 regions as well as the wider network.

Yesterday Police Scotland insisted people should take ‘personal responsibility to do the right thing’ and that enforcement would only be used ‘as a last resort’.

Mr Livingstone said: “I’ve completely underlined my compassion and concern for everyone affected by the highly restrictive measures which are, unfortunately, absolutely necessary to control the spread of the virus and, ultimately, protect life.

"Following the announcement by the First Minister, there can be no doubt that, other than for the most essential journeys, people should not be travelling between Scotland and other parts of the UK.

"Today, I have authorised the doubling of out operational presence in the Border areas of Scotland.

"These highly visible patrols will be proactively deployed on our road networks to continue our operational activity to ensure drivers and vehicles are in a fit condition to drive.

"The patrols will also deter anyone who might be considering breaching the coronavirus travel restrictions.”

On Saturday, Ms Sturgeon said travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK would be banned.

This came after a surge of cases of a new coronavirus strain was identified.

The Chief Constable continued: “It is the consent of the public from which policing in Scotland draws its legitimacy.

"As our communities expect, where officers encounter wilful, persistent or flagrant breaches we will act decisively to enforce the law.”

British Transport Police Assistant Chief Constable, Sean O’Callaghan, said: “The advice is clear, and we are confident that the large majority of people will abide by the restrictions in place.

“As has been the case throughout the pandemic, officers will be supporting rail staff through high-visibility patrols across England, Scotland and Wales, ensuring those on the network are safe. Our policing method remains the same – officers will engage with passengers and only use enforcement if absolutely necessary.

John Lamont, Scottish Conservative MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, said:

“The Scottish Government and Police Scotland need to ensure clarity around travel restrictions to avoid any public misunderstanding.

"Clearly this virus does not respect borders but a range of exemptions have always been in place to allow safe and necessary travel for valid reasons, and we need to know if that has changed.”

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said:“The police have been rightly commended for their proportionate response to the travel restrictions.

"The guidance has a range of exemptions so we need the police to act in a sensitive and helpful fashion.

"That proportionate response should not just apply to the English border but across Scotland.

"There is a significant difference in the infection rate between the Highlands and central belt so that will need attention too but in an intelligent way.

"Police Scotland should resist pressure to adopt a heavy handed approach whether it is on the English border or across Scotland.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/police-scotland-to-double-its-presence-in-border-areas-but-no-checkpoints-planned/ar-BB1c5bHU

That "consent of the public" part has me wondering when the Public was asked for consent

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12106613 (202012ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Check Point secures and streamlines management of NHS Scotland's sensitive health data in the public cloud

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Check Point secures and streamlines management of NHS Scotland's sensitive health data in the public cloud, and gives hyperscalability to support rapid roll-out of Covid-19 related apps and vaccine management systems

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Check Point(R) Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber-security solutions globally, has announced that it has been chosen by NHS National Services Scotland, the publicly funded healthcare service in Scotland to secure and streamline the management of its public cloud data, and provide complete threat prevention for vital public services such as Scotland's 'Test & Protect' and vaccine management services.

NHS Scotland provides public health and social care services to the country's population, and has been transitioning healthcare data and services to Microsoft's Azure public cloud for the past 18 months. The start of the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the need for security that seamlessly expands on demand to hyperscale capacity. NHS Scotland's cloud infrastructure powers the country's 'Test & Protect' services, which has over a million users, as well as the 'Protect Scotland' proximity app, so it was critical these services were completely secured against threats and attacks. The organization is also developing systems for scheduling and managing Covid-19 vaccinations in Scotland as the vaccines become available.

"Check Point's CloudGuard has been key in enabling us to add new cloud workloads and services without needing to constantly review or deploy new security infrastructure. This means we can focus on the critical public-facing tasks where we can add real value, such as developing and running Scotland's 'Test & Protect' services," said Deryck Mitchelson, Chief Information Security Officer, NHS Scotland. "Right now we are building our vaccination management systems, and our cloud-first approach gives us the agility and scalability we need to roll it out nationally while being sure that data and services are secured."

As it runs multiple essential healthcare systems, NHS Scotland also needs to have full visibility of who is accessing data, where it is being shared and how it is used to comply with GDPR and national data security legislation. To secure its healthcare data and services to the public cloud, NHS Scotland has implemented:

CloudGuard IaaS which delivers the same advanced threat prevention and data security in public clouds as the organization's on-premises security gateways, through the same management interface

Check Point Maestro orchestration delivers the hyperscale features that NHS Scotland requires, enabling it to seamlessly expand the capacity of existing security gateways to meet growing demands

"Health data is probably Scotland's most valuable asset, so it's essential that it remains absolutely secure wherever it is being stored or accessed. We now have much more visibility than we had before we implemented the Check Point solutions," added Mitchelson. "We can really understand where the data is and who is accessing it, from where, and ensure it is protected at every point of entry."

NHS Scotland also uses a Security information and event management (SIEM) solution. "One of the things I liked with Check Point is its integration with the SIEM vendor we're working with," said Mitchelson. "That means that we don't have to go and actually start writing and creating configurations, it just links to the SIEM system and automatically starts to work, giving us the information we need in a single console."

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/check-point-software-ensures-security-of-vital-public-health-data-and-services-in-the-cloud-for-nhs-scotland-2020-12-17

https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/customer-stories/nhs-scotland-case-study.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12160418 (242000ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / The five key events in the fake pandemic

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Originally UK #27 >>>/qresearch/12157723

The five key events in the fake pandemic

by Jon Rappoport

This article is a summary. I’ve written extensively on each of the five key events.

ONE: The false claim that a new virus was discovered and isolated.

No true isolation has been performed. The so-called genetic sequencing of the virus was actually a concoction, a cobbling together of pieces of data referencing segments of RNA. These segments were PRESUMED to be parts of the new virus—but researchers didn’t have the virus, so their presumptions amounted to fraud.

TWO: The erecting of a diagnostic test (PCR) for the virus they didn’t have. Obviously, no such test has meaning. It is built on the same sorts of absurd assumptions that led to the fictional discovery of the virus. However, strategically speaking, the test has produced millions of “positive results,” which are taken to mean “infected by the virus.” On this foundation of sand, the lockdowns were declared.

THREE: The Chinese lockdown of 50 million citizens, for no medical reason. This unprecedented event provided the model for other governments, and for the CDC and the World Health Organization. Now it was “acceptable” to imprison the global population and wreak economic devastation across the planet.

FOUR: The absurd computer prediction of 500,000 deaths in the UK and two million in the US, made by historically failed modeler, Neil Ferguson. His institute at the Imperial College of London is bankrolled by Bill Gates. Ferguson’s predictions were used to convince Trump and Boris Johnson that states of emergency and lockdowns were necessary.

FIVE: The forced premature deaths of millions of elderly people across the world—which were falsely called “COVID-19 deaths.”

These people were and are suffering from multiple long-term health conditions, made far worse by decades of medical treatment with toxic drugs. Terrified by a COVID diagnosis, then isolated from family and friends, they give up and die.

There are other important events, to be sure, but these are the key five.

The underlying fact that needs to be understood: what is called COVID-19 is not one condition. It is a variety of illnesses and effects stemming from different traditional causes RE-PACKAGED under the label, “COVID.”

Where authentic new conditions and causes may be involved, independent investigators need to look closely at such clusters of people, where they live. For example, the investigators should find out whether toxic vaccine campaigns were initiated in a community or region prior to declaration of the “COVID outbreak.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12228821 (292303ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Moderna 2018 prospectus

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Originally Balkans #2 >>>/qresearch/1222809

Here is the preliminary prospectus for MODERNA, Inc.

They were aiming to raise $500,000,000 in 2018. They must have a crystal ball. The preliminary prospectus explains the vaccine (they are planning) and their thought process on how they plan to present the product to raise the money.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000119312518323562/d577473ds1.htm

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12245090 (310246ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / JAG DRAG Coronavirus Scotland: Frontline medics still waiting for vaccine as ‘non-clinical staff get jag’, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: actress_in_sun_online_fake_vaccine_uptake_photograph.png, comments_in_sun_online_section_pointing_out_fake_vaccination_of_NHS_worker.png

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>>>/qresearch/12235930

Scottish sun newspaper online headline.

JAG DRAG Coronavirus Scotland: Frontline medics still waiting for vaccine as ‘non-clinical staff get jag’

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/6466856/coronavirus-scotland-nhs-frontline-workers-vaccine/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_conversation#comments

Comments on the story pointing out the fakery of NHS "non-clinical staff" story, highlighting the blue safety cover on the needle.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12245165 (310250ZDEC20) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Catherine Austin Fitts || Planet Lockdown

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Catherine Austin Fitts || Planet Lockdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-0XKYAZII

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12286607 (022334ZJAN21) Notable: Sturgeon tells EU to "leave a light on" in tweet

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We will be back soon, Scotland's Sturgeon says as the UK exits the EU's orbit

31 December 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Europe that Scotland would be back soon, just as the United Kingdom completed its transition period out of the bloc.

“Scotland will be back soon, Europe,” she said on Twitter at 2300 GMT. “Keep the light on.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-scotland-idUKKBN2951VF

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12311908 (041816ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Sturgeon to Scottish Parliament on "British virus" and lock downs

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https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/01/04/642251/UK-Scotland-Sturgeon-National-Lockdown

In her address to the Scottish Parliament on Monday (January 04), Sturgeon said the remarkable transmissibility of the new and potent Covid-19 strain – popularly referred to as the “British Virus – means that Scotland’s current Tier 4 restrictions may no longer be enough to bring the “R number” (the rate at which coronavirus spreads) below one.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12357567 (062231ZJAN21) Notable: Final Systemic Abuse in Scotland bun / References to Scotland #1

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>>106843

Post >>>/qresearch/11928693 is contained in Scotland #1. It is archived at https://qanon.news/archives/x/10843151 but I got the 404 unavailable message when I tried to see the images. I'd have to suggest going through the Q Research search engine https://qresear.ch/ which is also listed at the top of this bread under the International Threads list

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12357978 (062254ZJAN21) Notable: Final Systemic Abuse in Scotland bun / References to Scotland #1

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>>106845

Yes that is correct as was post >>106741

I too was unable to see the attachments which is a bitter pill to swallow as I had posted much good info there………….what is going on that it is unavailable?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12420423 (090809ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Scottish police use lockdown powers to storm into a home and violently arrest the family

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>>>/qresearch/12405366

What happened next?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12426194 (091727ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Scottish police use lockdown powers to storm into a home and violently arrest the family

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>>106849

There is more context at link. Apparently the girl filming had tried to commit suicide and had been given anxiety and sleeping tabs just before this happened. Assuming the Nazi wannabe who made the call is still alive. So disappointed in the Scottish.

https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1347246304401960961

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12453545 (110030ZJAN21) Notable: Final Systemic Abuse in Scotland bun / Michael Russell statement to the Scottish child abuse inquiry…pages 15-19

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Michael Russell statement to the Scottish child abuse inquiry…pages 15-19

>>106843

>https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/2663/michael-russell-witness-statement.pdf

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> the past Minister for "Education and Lifelong Learing", by Lady Ann Smith (Are you really a lady Ms Smith?). She is the Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry - still ongoing, supposedly though it rarely sits and takes evidence as you can see from the following Times on Sunday article bearing the following headline:

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>Slow pace of Lady Smith's Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry upsets survivors

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>I am sorry I cannot show the whole article, I haven't even read the whole article as I do not have a sub to their online paper. If anyone can reply to this post with a full copy of the article that would be much appreciated.

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>As you can see from the attached screenshot of the article (part of) up until the date of publication of the article (sept 15 2019) the inquiry had only took evidence for 50 days of that year until mid-September. This woman is on a salary of approx £250,000 and up until September of 2019 out of around 250 days they only sat taking evidence for 50 of them.

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>Does anyone think this right?

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>I fucking don't…

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>The secretariat to the inquiry is (I am led to believe, but cannot myself confirm so assistance by others to prove or refute the claim would be helpful) none other than the daughter of Lord Cullen, who headed the Dunblane Inquiry into the shooting of children in a primary school by a man named Thomas Hamilton. The findings of that inquiry have been put under lock and key for 100 years (At the time this period of 100 years was unprecedented, usually anything until then that was removed from the public through secrecy acts and legislation was for 30 years, what was in their findings that they have hidden it from you all for 100 years?) by the Establishment, because it covers up for child abuse by the very same establishment-they did so using the services of Lord Cullen. These people are not conducting a "public" inquiry at all, they decide what to publish on their website and tell you so

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>>"We can decide what facts are established."

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>…conversely they can also decide which facts are not established and can withold anything they want from the public…

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>>"We are a public inquiry. Where possible, >hearings will be held in public. In some >situations the Chair may decide to hold a >hearing in private or in a way which keeps >private the identity of the witness."

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>When any information is withheld from the public in a "public inquiry" can it still be termed a public inquiry? They can and do decide what to allow to be heard there, my very good friend has still never been invited to give his evidence or many others like him, who have been tortured by the state as children.

>>106848

>Pages 5-9 of Michael Russell's statement to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry as past Minister for "Education and Lifelong Learning"

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>I'll try to find the time tomorrow to continue posting on some of the other pages (42 in total) . I'm tired and wondering what is the point of posting here if there is no copy of board 1. What a waste of time and effort to post at all if it just disappears into the ether….there seems to be little interest and few visitors according to the baker from the last board.

>>106851

> Continuation of the statement of Michael Russell to Lady (are you really a Lady Ms Smith?) Ann Smith, chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) to determine why it took so many years for such an inquiry to be ordered. Pages 10-14 with comments.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12519539 (142008ZJAN21) Notable: Richard Leonard quits as Scottish Labour leader after three years in charge, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 83d486d801966ec6d770a6813239faf107110121bfff4801d2e302e634fe51e1.png

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Originally UK #29 >>>/qresearch/12516552

Richard Leonard quits as Scottish Labour leader after three years in charge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55666234

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12525801 (150216ZJAN21) Notable: Education and Skills Committee meetings bun

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Education and Skills Committee meetings bun

>>106799 30 Sept 2020

>>106801, >>106804 7 Oct 2020

>>106805, >>106807, >>106808 28 Oct 2020

>>106810 Discussing the "waiver" aspect of the redress scheme 30 Sept 2020

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12527364 (150405ZJAN21) Notable: Fisheries minister didn’t read Brexit bill because she was “organising the local nativity trail”, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 9595a23fa4645b52964360daaa52631740fef39b97d2db3eaaab68a1f55018a3.png

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Originally UK #29 >>>/qresearch/12514561

This level of incompetence and arrogance cannot be possible… unless you add the 'blackmail and control' element into the mix.

If our politicians are blackmailed and controlled, the treaty signed is void in my opinion.

Fisheries minister didn’t read Brexit bill because she was “organising the local nativity trail”

Fisheries minister Victoria Prentis has confessed to not reading the post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels when it was agreed because she was too busy organising the local nativity trail.

Appearing in front of the Lords EU environment subcommittee as the UK fishing industry is plunged into disarray Prentis admitted to letting festive cheer get in the way of her scrutinising the deal on Christmas Eve.

Asked if her jaw had dropped when she saw the deal with the EU she said: “No, the agreement came when we were all very busy on Christmas Eve, in my case organising the local nativity trail.

“We had been waiting and waiting, it looked like it was coming for probably four days before it actually arrived.

“I, for one, had gone through, as I’m sure members of this committee had, a gamut of emotions over those four days.”

Scottish seafood left to rot

The comments came as significant amounts of Scottish seafood was left to rot as exports were tangled in Brexit bureaucracy.

Industry groups have warned that a “perfect storm” of factors has led to long delays before lorries carrying fresh seafood can leave Scotland – partly down to the paperwork now required to send goods to Europe.

Under post-Brexit rules, vets must sign off on consignments and provide an export health certificate – which is needed for wild fish and farmed salmon since Britain left the EU customs union last week.

The Scottish Seafood Association said exports to the EU are being hindered by “red tape” delays in Scotland and France.

Unbelievable

The SNP’s Brexit spokesperson, Philippa Whitford, said: “Due to Brexit-induced bureaucracy, Scotland’s fishing communities are already experiencing severe disruption and cannot get their produce to their customers in the EU market on time.

“For the Tory government’s fisheries minister to then admit that she did not even bother to read the details of the damaging deal because she was too busy is unbelievable and makes her position untenable.”

Sauce

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/fisheries-minister-didnt-read-brexit-bill-because-she-was-organising-the-local-nativity-trail/14/01/?fbclid=IwAR0PKcEw3cJuBWn1srO2LrgsGi97NrAePFoAiAeVmpF08buDdPbjqR2Jnyo

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12589282 (182042ZJAN21) Notable: UKColumn News - Alex Salmond malicious attack by Nicola Sturgeon

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Originally UK #29 >>>/qresearch/125855836

UKColumn News - Alex Salmond malicious attack by Nicola Sturgeon

UK Column News today (18th Jan 2021) featured a fascinating insight to the Alex Salmond saga that has been playing out for quite a while. David Scott excellently summarises the extraordinary events that has led to the exposure of deep state / New World Order control of the political and judicial system in Scotland

I urge everyone to watch this fascinating insight into what is brewing up to be one of the most explosive exposures of political corruption in history which includes the criminal use of the justice system for political ends.

Start at 0h:40m:31s https://youtu.be/UGhr9Lv7h-g?t=2431

Apologies, could not get the video to embed, is available at the original UK post

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12655106 (212101ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Scotland Extends Virus Lockdown Until at Least Mid-February

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Scotland Extends Virus Lockdown Until at Least Mid-February

By Rodney Jefferson

January 19, 2021, 9:52 AM EST

Scotland extended its lockdown until at least the middle of February as the rate of coronavirus infections puts severe pressure on the health service.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the current restrictions, including the closure of schools and non-essential stores, will be reviewed again on Feb. 2. She told the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh that it’s still unclear whether a phased return of school children can be announced then.

“Our reluctant judgment is that community transmission is too high and is likely to remain so,” she said.

The Scottish government, which has control over health policy, put much of the country into lockdown after Christmas along with the rest of the U.K. as a new strain of Covid-19 spread rapidly. It has also shut borders to non-essential travel and all arrivals must quarantine.

ase numbers have stabilized and even declined in some areas, which shows the lockdown is having an impact, Sturgeon said. But just under 2,000 people are in hospital, 30% more than the last peak in April.

Sturgeon defended the rollout of a vaccine program after criticism over supply in some areas and promised that in three months time, 3 million people will have received their first dose of the vaccine. The rest of Scotland’s 5.5 million people will receive theirs “as quickly as supplies allow.”

“This phase is on a downward trajectory, but we need to be realistic that it’s because we are staying at home,” she said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/covid-cases-are-falling-in-46-states-easing-load-on-hospitals

{Excuse me, but what areas exactly have this huge pressure of cases and why are no Field Hospitals being set up or other measures taken?}

(99.6% Recovery Rate in Scotland right?)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12684903 (231917ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Nicola Sturgeon admits Covid vaccine wastage in Scotland following rollout

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Nicola Sturgeon admits Covid vaccine wastage in Scotland following rollout

Claire Anderson

23 Jan 2021

Nicola Sturgeon explained that there is an assumption up to five percent of the Covid vaccine could be wasted as the supply chain is disrupted. She went on to reveal that one percent of the vaccine in Scotland has been wasted. Speaking in Scottish Parliament, Jackie Baillie MSP asked: "Last week the Government published the COVID-19 deployment plan which allowed for five percent of Covid vaccines to be wasted.

"Can I ask the First Minister, can she tell us how many doses of vaccine have been wasted since rollout began?"

Ms Sturgeon replied: "There is an international standard on wasted assumptions on a programme of this scale.

"Five percent is a planning assumption; what it is there to do is just make sure we're factoring in the possibility of some large scale breakdown in the supply chain.

"A big freezer might malfunction or something else happens that disrupts a siginficant supply.

"There is not five percent wasted in practice."

"The wastage rate is around one percent and there are huge efforts to get that even lower."

It comes as Ms Sturgeon said future generations will learn lessons which will emerge from the Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The First Minister insisted that as Scotland and other countries remain in the grip of the "crisis", her Government is focused for now on dealing with it.

But she also stressed the importance of learning from what has happened in the 10 months since coronavirus arrived in Scotland last March.

The Scottish Government has come under fire over some of the decisions it has made - such as transferring elderly patients from hospital to care homes in the early part of the pandemic without first testing them for Covid.

"We've got things wrong, and I have tried never to shy away from this," Ms Sturgeon said on Friday.

"Some of that will be relatively small things in the grand scheme of things, some of that might be bigger."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/nicola-sturgeon-admits-covid-vaccine-wastage-in-scotland-following-rollout/ar-BB1d1RNI

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12685762 (232036ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Coronavirus in Scotland: 76 more deaths in the last 24 hours as 1,307 more people test positive

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Coronavirus in Scotland: 76 more deaths in the last 24 hours as 1,307 more people test positive

Beth Murray

23 Jan 2021

In the last 24 hours, 76 more people have died from coronavirus and 1,307 new cases were reported in Scotland.

159 people are in intensive care with recently confirmed coronavirus and 2,085 people are in hospital.

380,667 people have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccination and 5,188 have received their second dose.

1,307 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours, which brings the total number of people who have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic to 171,006.

With the 76 deaths recorded today, the death toll under this measure, of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days, rose to 5,703.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/coronavirus-in-scotland-76-more-deaths-in-the-last-24-hours-as-1307-more-people-test-positive/ar-BB1d1G3d

(Article originated from The Scotsman)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12858560 (081022ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Holyrood inquiry session with Salmond called off

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-55979135

Holyrood inquiry session with Salmond called off

Alex Salmond will not appear at the Holyrood inquiry on the government's handling of harassment complaints on Tuesday as had been planned.

The former first minister is locked in a dispute with the committee over what material can be published.

A spokeswoman for the parliament said Mr Salmond had "raised a number of issues for clarification, and that Tuesday's session would not go ahead.

She said the committee would continue to have talks with his representatives.

MSPs took more evidence from SNP chief executive Peter Murrell on Monday morning, and will discuss the issue of Mr Salmond's appearance afterwards.

Some members had called for an emergency meeting of the committee on Friday, with Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton saying the group was "in crisis".

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12858572 (081024ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Did Nicola Sturgeon break the ministerial code?

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>>106867

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55617818

Did Nicola Sturgeon break the ministerial code?

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is facing questions after her predecessor Alex Salmond accused her of "repeatedly" misleading parliament and breaking the ministerial code.

Ms Sturgeon has rejected the accusations, but has referred herself for an independent investigation. What exactly are the claims, who will adjudicate and what could it all mean?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12876053 (100306ZFEB21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

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Originally General Research #16435

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CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds…State, Local Governments Must Act

100 Percent Fed Up reports – Throughout the election, Donald Trump was battered by CCP Virus statistics in order to hurt the American economy and his political campaign. We know that it was shamelessly wielded as a political weapon to prevent President Trump and his supporters from rallying as Antifa and Black Lives Matter burned progressive poor and minority neighborhoods to the ground throughout the entire year. Now that Biden has been installed into the office of president, he promises to increase Covid lockdown measures and extend them further into your ability to travel and force unscientific mask-wearing for at least 100 days.

But, a new peer reviewed study has been released that finds the CDC numbers to be so wildly unsupported as to be pure propaganda that is based on wholly unscientific practices that were needlessly created on-the-spot.

The National File Reports

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands accused of violating federal law by inflating Coronavirus fatality numbers, according to stunning information obtained by NATIONAL FILE.

CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent as the 2020 presidential election played out, according to a study published by the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. The study, “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective,” was authored by Henry Ealy, Michael McEvoy, Daniel Chong, John Nowicki , Monica Sava, Sandeep Gupta, David White, James Jordan , Daniel Simon, and Paul Anderson.”

The study is 25 pages long with over 100 citations. However, the main main points can be summarized.

A major point is that testing inaccuracies and unreliability combined with unscientific procedures and methods resulted in demonstrably massive false-positive spikes:

“The CDC is now legally requiring red-blooded Americans to wear face masks on all public transportation as globalists try to push the concept of “double-masking” on the populace. Since the election, the World Health Organization admits that PCR tests are not totally reliable on the first try and a second test might be needed. This corresponds with CDC’s quiet admission that it blended viral and antibody test results for its case numbers and that people can test positive on an antibody test if they have antibodies from a family of viruses that cause the common cold. Hospitals in Florida had so many accuracy complications that Orlando Health had to admit that its 9.4 percent positivity rate got recorded at 98 percent. (READ: The TRUTH About Fauci and Gates And NIH Owning A Stake in the Vaccine).”

There are also profound legal implications raised by the study that need to be dealt with in courts around the country if America is to ever be free again. The data you have been spoonfed by the CDC for a year raises serious legal issues. Much like the 2020 election, massive changes in rules for reporting and collecting data were instituted exclusively for Covid which resulted in a 1600% inflated number of fatalities:

“The groundbreaking peer-reviewed research…asserts that the CDC willfully violated multiple federal laws including the Information Quality Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Administrative Procedures Act at minimum. (Publishing Journal – Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge / Public Health Policy Initiative) Most notably, the CDC illegally enacted new rules for data collection and reporting exclusively for COVID-19 that resulted in a 1,600% inflation of current COVID-19 fatality totals,” the watchdog group All Concerned Citizens declared in a statement provided to NATIONAL FILE, referring to the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge study.

“The research demonstrates that the CDC failed to apply for mandatory federal oversight and failed to open a mandatory period for public scientific comment in both instances as is required by federal law before enacting new rules for data collection and reporting. The CDC is required to be in full compliance with all federal laws even during emergency situations. The research asserts that CDC willfully compromised the accuracy and integrity of all COVID-19 case and fatality data from the onset of this crisis in order to fraudulently inflate case and fatality data,” stated All Concerned Citizens.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/cdc-exposed-inflated-covid-deaths-1600-throughout-election-violated-multiple-federal-laws-peer-reviewed-study-finds-state-local-governments-must-act/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12893752 (111945ZFEB21) Notable: Farage: We Are Fast Becoming a Police State

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Originally midnightriders #260 >>>/qresearch/56174

Farage: We Are Fast Becoming a Police State

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised Health Secretary Matt Hancock for being “drunk on his own power” after introducing a law making it a criminal offence to lie about having travelled from a coronavirus ‘red list’ nation, which could result in ten years in prison.

The health secretary announced the new measures on Tuesday, putting the potential sentence on a par with prison terms handed out for serious crimes such as poisoning or making threats to kill.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reacted to the remarkable development in Britain’s coronavirus strategy, saying: “The Coronavirus Act allows ministers to take the most draconian decisions without due process or a vote in parliament. It is a threat to civil liberties.”

10 years in prison for going on holiday?

The government has gone too far this time.

Power without accountability. pic.twitter.com/rp4dh48OHr

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) February 10, 2021

Mr Farage reminded Britons during a YouTube broadcast on Wednesday that he had warned the government was “taking far too much power” and eroding Britons’ liberties for several months, but that “all of this went a step too far” following Hancock’s “diktat”, saying the health minister had become “completely drunk on his own power”.

“We are fast becoming a police state,” Mr Farage later remarked.

Former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption had also warned that government ministers’ ability to force through new measures and police expanded powers to enforce it made Britain increasingly look like a “police state”.

Farage further criticised the government’s hypocritical approach to border control, where that while last year “they couldn’t care less about our borders” and allowed 18 million people to arrived unchecked in the three months up to the first lockdown, Britons are now ordered to quarantine in hotels for ten days if they have come from any of the dozens of “red list” nations at a cost of £1,750 per person for accommodation, travel, and testing.

Minister Says UK Govt Discussing ‘Internationally Recognised’ Corona Passport for Global Travel https://t.co/CARmcCK7aa

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 11, 2021

He also remarked on the complete lack of parity in treatment between legal arrivals — threatened with costly hotel confinement or arrest — and illegal aliens who continue to arrive across the English Channel to be put up at taxpayers’ expense.

“There is one exception to all of this: if you come into the UK illegally by dinghy across the English Channel on the next calm day, the fact that you’ve got no documentation, the fact you’ve not had a PCR coronavirus test in the previous three days, none of that will matter. You will still get put into a hotel. The difference is: nobody will charge you £1,700 for the privilege.

“If ever there was a moment to start dealing with illegal immigration, surely it’s now. If we’re going to get tough with our borders, is this not the moment to say, ‘We will not accept people coming criminally into the United Kingdom and posing a massive coronavirus risk’?” he said.

The Reform UK leader also said that while he could understand the government providing documentary proof of vaccination so that Britons could use it to enter foreign countries demanding it, “what I don’t want, is for us to finish up with people in the street being stopped asked to produce their papers to prove they’ve been vaccinated. With this government as out of control as it is as we’ve seen in the last 24 hours, I think any of these things are possible.”

“This is about our liberties. This is about our freedoms. The more power central government takes, the more difficult it is to get those freedoms back,” he warned.

Delingpole: Ten Years’ Jail for Lying About Your Holiday? This Is Pure Fascist Insanity https://t.co/ehcdbZWsgb

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 11, 2021

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/11/farage-we-are-fast-becoming-police-state/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12939830 (160110ZFEB21) Notable: Final Systemic Abuse in Scotland bun / Carloway and Gill (video)

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Sorry forgot to add links to carloway and gill, two absolute tadgers who are among those who RULE OVER YOU!

https://youtu.be/L33BZAu6L0Y

https://youtu.be/GMlBc9XNxrc

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13034471 (240016ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / The crown office has intervened in the removal of the private submissions by Alex Salmond to the convener of the Scottish Parliament, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: case_study_4_foreword_lady_anne_smith.png, peter_murrell_perjury_allegations_scotsman_newspaper.png, alex_salmond_submissions_redacted.png

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Foreword of case study 4 in attachments

A pic of Lady Anne Smith chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI).

I do like the look of her. I don't know why, all I know is I feel hopeful looking at her. Time will tell.

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/2668/scai_case-study-no4_the-provision-of-residential-care-for-children-in-scotland-by-the-christian-brothers_february-2021.pdf

4th case study by the Inquiry…all in total vindication of survivors…the same survivors who have taken part in an ongoing inquiry (SCAI), which in Lord Gill's view, should not be allowed on the basis "…it would take too long. His experience of inquiries was that an inquiry was not the right way to proceed with an issue such as historical abuse of children in care because it would not "satisfy people."

"He was one of the people who felt that if we went down that route we would be sucked into a swamp."

From page 20 of Michael Russell’s statement to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry here…………

>>106859

Newsflash from His Boggley-eyed(ness), the Grand Chieftain of the Guinea-pigs, who himself was tortured as a child with ECT and subjected to drug trials, by people claiming themselves to be “Health Authorities" while under the "care" (they didn't care) of the STATE…

“The crown office has intervened in the removal of the private submissions by Alex Salmond to the convener of the Scottish Parliament. Those submissions were made public last night the 22nd of Feb. 2021 by the Scottish parliament committee led by Linda Fabiani, Convener of the committee investigating the Salmond/Sturgeon affair, they were withdrawn this afternoon 23/2/2021, at the request of the Lord Advocate, James Wolfe QC at around 2:30PM. He apparently suggested it would not be in the public interest for them to be made publicly available on the Scottish Parliament website. Alex Salmond’s legal council have advised the committee that they and Mr Salmond will not be turning up tomorrow as scheduled to give evidence, in protest of his submissions being disallowed.”

Any anon with an ability to find those submissions on a way back internet thingummy bob and submit them here would be appreciated.if they exist…the chief test subject, his boggley-eye(ness) believes the submissons to have been published yesterday, I myself am not sure, I certainly did not see them, or read them.

The following from today’s news, probably “Reporting Scotland”, which I heard over the telephone this evening…

Nicola Sturgeon, described the Aberdien meeting as "fleeting" but, didn't tell government officials till 2 months later, while claiming it to have been an SNP Party meeting, which would not require minutes to have been taken; in contrast with a Government meeting where minutes “would” have to have been taken!

Her husband, Peter Murrell, told a quite different version of events when he was questioned in Parliament 3 weeks ago, when he said he felt it (the meeting between Mrs Murrell aka Nicola Sturgeon and Geoff Aberdein) looked like Government business and didn't intervene.

BBC Scotland covered it, just finished…heard it on the phone, I don't have bbc…I don't have tv tbh…not sure what it was called but around 11pm…if someone could post a link to it that'd be great.

2nd attachment scotsman newspaper article regarding murrell testimony from 8th February 2021

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/alex-salmond-inquiry-snp-chief-executive-absolutely-refutes-perjury-accusations-3127390

3rd attach

Alex salmond redacted, daily record 50 second newsclip at url:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-inquiry-submission-taken-23549706

All this talk of the crown, which is not the queen, it is an institution, it is not Her Majesty, who I somehow feel is going to be one of the good guys when all has been said and done.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13034821 (240109ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Alex Salmond Submission (four parts)

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Part One

This is Alex Salmond’s submission to the Hamilton Inquiry, in which he accuses First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code.

Introduction

1. This is a submission to James Hamilton at his repeated request to assist in his examination of possible breaches of the Ministerial Code by the First Minister.

2. I have also shared this submission with the Parliamentary Committee as it is relevant to Phase Four of their Inquiry into complaints handling by Civil Servants, Government Ministers and Special Advisers.

3. The Whatsapp messages between myself and the First Minister were provided to the Parliamentary Committee by the First Minister and published by them. Therefore, I do not enclose them here, save for the inclusion of the message of 13th July 2018 in unredacted form referred to below. (Appendix A)

The Terms of Reference

4. Mr Hamilton wrote to me on 8th September, 29th October, 16th November, 4th and 19th December. I replied on 6th and 17th October, 23rd November and 23rd December. I finally agreed under some protest to make this submission.

The reason for my concern is that the remit drawn up for Mr Hamilton focuses on whether the First Minister intervened in a civil service process. As I have pointed out to Mr Hamilton, I know of no provisions in the Ministerial Code which makes it improper for a First Minister to so intervene.

5. To the contrary, intervention by the First Minister in an apparently unlawful process (subsequently confirmed by the Court of Session) would not constitute a breach precisely because the First Minister is under a duty in clause 2.30 of the Ministerial Code to avoid such illegality on the part of the Government she leads.

6. Further, to suggest intervention was a breach would be to ignore and contradict the express reliance of the procedure on the position of the First Minister as the leader of the party to which the former minister was a member in order to administer some unspecified sanction.

7. It will accordingly be a significant surprise if any breach of the Ministerial Code is found when the terms of reference have been tightly drafted by the Deputy First Minister to focus on that aspect of the First Minister’s conduct.

8. By contrast, I have information which suggests other related breaches of the Ministerial Code which should properly be examined by Mr Hamilton. I have asked that he undertake that investigation. I have drawn his attention to the apparent parliamentary assurance from the First Minister on 29th October 2020 that there was no restriction on Mr Hamilton preventing him from doing so.

9. Mr Hamilton has failed to give me a clear response as to whether these related matters relevant to the Ministerial Code, but outwith the specific remit, are going to be considered. However, in his letter of 4th December he did indicate that he was inclined to the view that such matters could be considered and will take into account arguments for their inclusion. It is on that basis I make this submission.

10. In doing so, I would note that it does not serve the public interest if the independent process of examination of the Ministerial Code (which I introduced as First Minister) is predetermined, or seen to be predetermined, by a restrictive remit given by the Deputy First Minister.

11. A restricted investigation would not achieve its purpose of genuine independent determination and would undermine confidence in what has been a useful innovation in public accountability.

12. I would accordingly urge Mr Hamilton to embrace the independence of his role and the express assurance given to the Scottish Parliament by the First Minister that he is free to expand the original remit drafted by the Deputy First Minister and to address each of the matters contained in this submission.

Breaches of the Ministerial Code.

13. Beyond the terms of the remit set for Mr Hamilton by the Deputy First Minister, there are other aspects of the conduct of the First Minister which, in my submission, require scrutiny and determination in relation to breaches of the Ministerial Code.

14. I was contacted by phone on or around 9 March 2018 and further the following week by Geoff Aberdein, my former Chief of Staff. The purpose of the contact was to tell me about meetings he had held with the First Minister’s Chief of Staff, Liz Lloyd, at her request.

15. In the second of these meetings she had informed him that she was aware of two complaints concerning me under a new complaints process introduced to include former Ministers. She named one of the complainers to him. At that stage I did not know the identity of the other complainer.

16. On receipt of the letter from the Permanent Secretary first informing me of complaints on 7th March 2018 I had secured Levy and McRae as my solicitors and Duncan Hamilton, Advocate and Ronnie Clancy QC as my counsel.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13034844 (240112ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Alex Salmond Submission (four parts)

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>>106875

Part Two

17. Even at this early stage we had identified that there were a range of serious deficiencies in the procedure. There was no public or parliamentary record of it ever being adopted. In addition it contained many aspects of both procedural unfairness and substantive illegality.

There was an obvious and immediate question over the respect to which the Scottish Government even had jurisdiction to consider the complaints. In relation to former Ministers (in contrast to current Ministers) it offered no opportunity for mediation. The complaints procedure of which I was familiar (‘Fairness at Work’) was based on the legislative foundation of the Ministerial Code in which the First Minister was the final decision maker.

I wished to bring all of these matters to the attention of the First Minister. I did not know at that stage the degree of knowledge and involvement in the policy on the part of both the First Minister and her Chief of Staff.

18. Mr Aberdein had been asked by Ms Lloyd to be her contact with me and they jointly arranged a meeting with the First Minister in the Scottish Parliament on 29th March 2018. This meeting was for the purpose of discussing the complaints and thereafter arranging a direct meeting between myself and the First Minister.

There was never the slightest doubt what the meeting was about. Any suggestion by the First Minister to the Scottish Parliament (Official Report, 8th October 2020) that the meeting was ‘fleeting or opportunistic’ is simply untrue.

It was agreed on the 29th March 2018 at the meeting in the Scottish Parliament attended by Mr Aberdein and the First Minister [REDACTED] that the meeting between myself and the First Minister would take place on 2nd April at her home near Glasgow. Self-evidently only the First Minister could issue that invitation to her private home.

19. In attendance at the meeting on 2nd April 2018 were Mr Aberdein, Mr Hamilton, Ms Lloyd and myself. The First Minister and I met privately and then there was a general discussion with all five of us. My purpose was to alert the First Minister to the illegality of the process (not being aware at that time of her involvement in it) and to seek an intervention from the First Minister to secure a mediation process to resolve the complaints.

20. I was well aware that under the Ministerial Code the First Minister should notify the civil service of the discussion and believed that this would be the point at which she would make her views known. The First Minister assured us that she would make such an intervention at an appropriate stage.

21. On 23rd April 2018, I phoned the First Minister by arrangement on WhatsApp to say that a formal offer of mediation was being made via my solicitor to the Permanent Secretary that day. In the event, this offer was declined by the Permanent Secretary, even before it was put to the complainers.

22. By the end of May, it was becoming clear that the substantial arguments my legal team were making in correspondence against the legality of the procedure were not having any impact with the Permanent Secretary. My legal team advised that it was impossible properly to defend myself against the complaints under such a flawed procedure. They advised that a petition for Judicial Review would have excellent prospects of success given the Government were acting unlawfully.

However I was extremely reluctant to sue the Government I once led. I wanted to avoid the damage both to the Scottish Government and the SNP which would inevitably result. To avoid such a drastic step, I resolved to let the First Minister see the draft petition for Judicial Review. As a lawyer, and as First Minister, I assumed that she would see the legal jeopardy into which the government was drifting. I therefore sought a further meeting.

23. On 1st June 2018 the First Minister sent me a message which was the opposite of the assurance she had given on the 2nd April 2018 suggesting instead that she had always said that intervention was “not the right thing to do”.

That was both untrue and disturbing. On 3rd June 2018 I sent her a message on the implications for the Government in losing a Judicial Review and pointing to her obligation (under the Ministerial Code) to ensure that her administration was acting lawfully and (under the Scotland Act) to ensure that their actions were compliant with the European Convention.

24. The First Minister and I met in Aberdeen on 7th June 2018 when I asked her to look at the draft Judicial Review Petition. She did briefly but made it clear she was now disinclined to make any intervention.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13034854 (240113ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Alex Salmond Submission (four parts)

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>>106876

Part Three

25. My desire to avoid damaging and expensive litigation remained. My legal team thereafter offered arbitration as an alternative to putting the matter before the Court of Session. That proposal was designed to offer a quick and relatively inexpensive means of demonstrating the illegality of the procedure in a process which guaranteed the confidentiality of the complainers.

It would also have demonstrated the illegality of the process in a forum which would be much less damaging to the Scottish Government than the subsequent public declaration of illegality.

I was prepared at that time to engage fully with the procedure in the event my legal advice was incorrect. In the event, of course, it was robust. I explained the advantages of such an approach to the First Minister in a Whatsapp message of 5th July 2018.

26. (REDACTED)

27. On 18th July 2018 the First Minister phoned me at 13.05 to say that arbitration had been rejected and suggested that this was on the advice of the Law Officers. She urged me to submit a substantive rebuttal of the specific complaints against me, suggested that the general complaints already answered were of little consequence and would be dismissed, and then assured me that my submission would be judged fairly.

She told me I would receive a letter from the Permanent Secretary offering me further time to submit such a rebuttal which duly arrived later that day. As it turned out the rebuttal once submitted was given only cursory examination by the Investigating Officer in the course of a single day and she had already submitted her final report to the Permanent Secretary.

My view is now that it was believed that my submission of a rebuttal would weaken the case for Judicial Review (my involvement in rebutting the substance of the complaints being seen to cure the procedural unfairness) and that the First Minister’s phone call of 18th July 2018 and the Permanent Secretary’s letter of the same date suggesting that it was in my “interests” to submit a substantive response was designed to achieve that.

28. In terms of the meetings with me, the only breaches of the Ministerial Code are the failure to inform civil servants timeously of the nature of the meetings.

29. My view is that the First Minister should have informed the Permanent Secretary of the legal risks they were running and ensured a proper examination of the legal position and satisfied herself that her Government were acting lawfully.

30. Further once the Judicial Review had commenced, and at the very latest by October 31st 2018 the Government and the First Minister knew of legal advice from external counsel (the First Minister consulted with counsel on 13th November) that on the balance of probability they would lose the Judicial Review and be found to have acted unlawfully.

Despite this the legal action was continued until early January 2019 and was only conceded after both Government external counsel threatened to resign from the case which they considered to be unstateable. This, on any reading, is contrary to section 2.30 of the Ministerial Code.

31. Most seriously, Parliament has been repeatedly misled on a number of occasions about the nature of the meeting of 2nd April 2018.

32. The First Minister told Parliament (see Official Report of 8th,10th & 17th January 2019) that she first learned of the complaints against me when I visited her home on 2nd April 2018. That is untrue and is a breach of the Ministerial Code.

The evidence from Mr Aberdein that he personally discussed the existence of the complaints, and summarised the substance of the complaints, with the First Minister in a pre arranged meeting in Parliament on 29th March 2018 arranged for that specific purpose cannot be reconciled with the position of the First Minister to Parliament.

The fact that Mr Aberdein learned of these complaints in early March 2018 from the Chief of Staff to the First Minister who thereafter arranged for the meeting between Mr Aberdein and the First Minister on 29th March to discuss them, is supported by his sharing that information contemporaneously with myself, Kevin Pringle and Duncan Hamilton, Advocate.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13034860 (240114ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Alex Salmond Submission (four parts)

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>>106877

Part Four

33. In her written submission to the Committee, the First Minister has subsequently admitted to that meeting on 29th March 2018, claiming to have previously ‘forgotten’ about it. That is, with respect, untenable.

The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29th March 2018 was “forgotten” about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the First Minister in Parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2nd April was on SNP Party business (Official Report 8th & 10th January 2019) and thus held at her private residence.

In reality all participants in that meeting were fully aware of what the meeting was about and why it had been arranged. The meeting took place with a shared understanding of the issues for discussion – the complaints made and the Scottish Government procedure which had been launched.

The First Minister’s claim that it was ever thought to be about anything other than the complaints made against me is wholly false.

The failure to account for the meeting on 29th March 2018 when making a statement to Parliament, and thereafter failing to correct that false representation, is a further breach of the Ministerial Code.

Further, the repeated representation to the Parliament of the meeting on the 2nd April 2018 as being a ‘party’ meeting because it proceeded in ignorance of the complaints is false and manifestly untrue. The meeting on 2nd April 2018 was arranged as a direct consequence of the prior meeting about the complaints held in the Scottish Parliament on 29th March 2018.

34. The First Minister additionally informed Parliament (Official Report 10th January 2018) that ‘I did not know how the Scottish Government was dealing with the complaint, I did not know how the Scottish Government intended to deal with the complaint and I did not make any effort to find out how the Scottish Government was dealing with the complaint or to intervene in how the Scottish Government was dealing with the complaint.’

I would contrast that position with the factual position at paragraphs 20 and 27 above. The First Minister’s position on this is simply untrue. She did initially offer to intervene, in the presence of all those at the First Minister’s house on the 2nd April 2018.

Moreover, she did engage in following the process of the complaint and indeed reported the status of that process to me personally.

35. I also believe it should be investigated further in terms of the Ministerial Code, whether the criminal leak of part of the contents of the Permanent Secretary’s Decision report to the Daily Record was sourced from the First Minister’s Office.

We now know from a statement made by the Daily Record editor that they received a document. I enclose at Appendix B the summary of the ICO review of the complaint which explains the criminal nature of the leak and the identification of 23 possible staff sources of the leak given that the Prosecutor has “sympathy with the hypothesis that the leak came from an employee of the Scottish Government”.

My reasoning is as follows. The leak did not come from me, or anyone representing me. In fact I sought interdict to prevent publication and damage to my reputation. The leak is very unlikely indeed to have come from either of the two complainers.

The Chief Constable, correctly, refused to accept a copy of the report when it was offered to Police Scotland on August 21st 2018 by the Crown Agent. It cannot, therefore have leaked from Police Scotland.

Scottish Government officials had not leaked the fact of an investigation from January when it started.

The only additional group of people to have received such a document, or summary of such a document, in the week prior to publication in the Daily Record was the First Minister’s Office as indicated in paragraph 4.8 of the ICO Prosecutor’s Report. In that office, the document would be accessed by the First Minister and her Special Advisers.

I would be happy to offer further information on this submission.

Rt Hon Alex Salmond

31st December 2020

Written byAlex Salmond

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-alex-salmond-s-submission-to-the-hamilton-inquiry

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13049465 (260230ZFEB21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / UK looks set to embrace World Economic Forum's idea of immunity passports

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Originally Midnight Riders #289 >>>/qresearch/63254

UK looks set to embrace World Economic Forum's idea of immunity passports

The system they said would never happen appears to be arriving soon.

“Don’t forget your passport,” the World Economic Forum recently tweeted - promoting the idea of people having to show documentation to enter gyms, restaurants, and bars.

VIDEO:

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1364244621799411724/vid/720x720/KZ4KYtfADtfqkVCQ.mp4

One country that likes the sound of the idea is the United Kingdom.

UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson hinted that Brits might require vaccine passports domestically, to access public venues such as pubs and theaters. The UK government has previously adamantly denied it was working on the so-called vaccine passports.

VIDEO:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1363884477265698816/pu/vid/1024x576/cL_Rvb9vjdHjSkS0.mp4

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-looks-set-to-embrace-immunity-passports/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13078017 (011241ZMAR21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / 31 Reasons Why I Wont Take the Vaccine, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: a_rabbis_31_reasons_for_not_taking_the_vaccine_part_1.png, a_rabbis_31_reasons_for_not_taking_the_vaccine_part_2.png, a_rabbis_31_reasons_for_not_taking_the_vaccine_part_3.png, a_rabbis_31_reasons_for_not_taking_the_vaccine_part_4.png, a_rabbis_31_reasons_for_not_taking_the_vaccine_part_5.png

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>>106880

A Rabbi's 31 reasons for not taking the vaccine.

31 Reasons Why I Wont Take the Vaccine

The following list was created by the Israeli rabbi Chananya Weissman.

Originally published by Baron Bodissey, Feb. 2, 2021. By Narrow Gate on Feb. 9th.

No racial or religious group is responsible for the shape of our existing world. There would, it appears, seem to be people from all groups, racial, religious or otherwise who are intent on causing upheaval to the whole of mankind; many more from all groups fail to take issue with "one of their own" and contribute to the failings of their own particular group/s by failing to challenge things that are plainly unacceptable and detrimental to the majority.

Most God fearing people are good, no matter what their religion or skin tone.

I have been down the Jewish rabbit hole, the Catholic rabbit hole and many others in the last 40 odd years. I find that those who truly believe in God fear Him. Those who fear Him are motivated to put others first and try and see life from their eyes; empathy as opposed to apathy.

Thank you Rabbi Weismann for taking the time to write down what many of us are in agreement with but, perhaps fail to articulate as well as you have.

God bless you Sir.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13078023 (011244ZMAR21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / 31 Reasons Why I Wont Take the Vaccine

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>>106881

Forgot to add the source.

https://www.cleansingfire.org/2021/02/a-rabbis-31-reasons-for-not-taking-the-vaccine/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13099115 (022244ZMAR21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun

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FinalCovid 19 Bun

>>106767 Mystery illness in India, one year delta from first covid case (BBC video)

>>106769 Ninety year-old woman from Northern Ireland first to recieve Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outisde clinical trials

>>106770 Health and care workers get first vaccine in Wales

>>106771 Coronavirus Scotland: £185m business support 'too little too late'

>>106814 Covid-19 in Scotland: Show us the data on new virus strain, demand scientists

>>106816 Police Scotland to double its presence in border areas but no checkpoints planned

>>106819 Check Point secures and streamlines management of NHS Scotland's sensitive health data in the public cloud

>>106820 The five key events in the fake pandemic

>>106821 Moderna 2018 prospectus

>>106832 JAG DRAG Coronavirus Scotland: Frontline medics still waiting for vaccine as ‘non-clinical staff get jag’

>>106834 Catherine Austin Fitts || Planet Lockdown

>>106839 Sturgeon to Scottish Parliament on "British virus" and lock downs

>>106849, >>106850 Scottish police use lockdown powers to storm into a home and violently arrest the family

>>106858 Urgent recall issued on hand sanitiser being sold in the UK as analysis reveals gel contains 'highly toxic banned substance'

>>106861 Scotland Extends Virus Lockdown Until at Least Mid-February

>>106862 Nicola Sturgeon admits Covid vaccine wastage in Scotland following rollout

>>106863 Coronavirus in Scotland: 76 more deaths in the last 24 hours as 1,307 more people test positive

>>106869 CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

>>106879 UK looks set to embrace World Economic Forum's idea of immunity passports

>>106880 Larkhall, South Lanarkshire now has a testing center dedicated to testing only people with NO symptoms

>>106881, >>106882 31 Reasons Why I Wont Take the Vaccine

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13099118 (022245ZMAR21) Notable: Final Education and Skills Committee meetings bun

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Final Education and Skills Committee meetings bun

>>106799 30 Sept 2020

>>106801, >>106804 7 Oct 2020

>>106805, >>106807, >>106808 28 Oct 2020

>>106810 Discussing the "waiver" aspect of the redress scheme 30 Sept 2020

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13099121 (022246ZMAR21) Notable: Final Systemic Abuse in Scotland bun

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>>106843 Slow pace of Lady Smith's Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry upsets survivors

>>106845, >>106846 References to Scotland #1

>>106848 Pages 5-9 of Michael Russell's statement to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry as past Minister

>>106851 Continuation of the statement of Michael Russell

>>106852 Michael Russell statement to the Scottish child abuse inquiry…pages 15-19

>>106853 More Michael Russell statement

>>106854 Info on Lady Ann Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry SCAI and 2 others

>>106859 Page 20 of Michael Russell's statement to the public inquiry

>>106872 Pages 21-23 of Michael Russel's statement plus CELSIS screenshot and LEECH attatchment

>>106873 Carloway and Gill (video)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13099125 (022247ZMAR21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun

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>>106860 UKColumn News - Alex Salmond malicious attack by Nicola Sturgeon

>>106864 Pressure piles on Crown Office & Inquiry demands evidence held back from Salmond court case

>>106866 Holyrood inquiry session with Salmond called off

>>106867 Could Alex Salmond bring down Nicola Sturgeon?

>>106868 Did Nicola Sturgeon break the ministerial code?

>>106870 Full text: Alex Salmond’s submission to the Hamilton inquiry

>>106874 The crown office has intervened in the removal of the private submissions by Alex Salmond to the convener of the Scottish Parliament

>>106875, >>106876, >>106877, >>106878 Alex Salmond Submission (four parts)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13101595 (031506ZMAR21) Notable: COVID-19 2nd wave variant neutralises itself (video)

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Originally South Africa #3 >>>/qresearch/13101316

“COVID-19 2nd wave variant neutralises itself: Nzimande”- https://youtu.be/AusedwprJEw

“It's been revealed those infected with the newest COVID-19 variant are not only protected against this variant in future but also against earlier ones. The announcement was made by Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande [SACP].”

How convenient.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13105113 (042107ZMAR21) Notable: Dr. Sam Bailey: there has been no virus isolation (video)

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Originally UK #34 >>>/qresearch/13104953

https://youtu.be/tQoC39n4QP8

Interdasting video on the fact that there has been no virus isolation.

Dr. Sam Bailey

210K subscribers

37,737 views

•2 Mar 2021

Censorship, Isolation of SARS-CoV-2, Lateral Flow Tests, Great Reset & Ivermectin.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13170844 (081711ZMAR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Corona: After the death of a nurse in Austria, thousands of AstraZeneca cans end up in the garbage

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Originally Germany #76 >>>/qresearch/13170824

(translated by Yandex)

Corona: After the death of a nurse in Austria, thousands of AstraZeneca cans end up in the garbage

Covid-19 vaccine: AstraZeneca batch withdrawn in Austria

According to ORF, 6,000 doses of vaccine had to be withdrawn. Around 37,000 doses of the batch have already been inoculated. The precautionary stop for the batch ABV 5300 of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been in place since Friday evening. On Sunday, the state of Carinthia announced that vaccine doses of this batch had been delivered. "The Red Cross, the hospitals and the Medical Association - the sponsoring organizations that had been supplied with this batch - were immediately informed.“

How oe24.at according to reports, the said batch included one million doses. It had been distributed throughout Europe. Austria had received around 43,000 doses of the vaccine. Where exactly the remaining 6,000 doses are is still unclear. On Sunday, according to media reports in Carinthia, the exhibition center in Klagenfurt was locked up. Only vaccine doses from the affected batch were available to the state capital. A hotline for those affected has been set up.

https://www.merkur.de/welt/corona-oesterreich-astrazeneca-impfstoff-impfung-krankenschwester-tot-rueckruf-charge-muell-news-aktuell-90232384.amp.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13186725 (111649ZMAR21) Notable: Mark Thompson, CEO of the pedovore protectin' New York Times is the former CEO of BBC

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Originally Mexico #2 >>>/qresearch/13186362

New York Times

"Where the pedovores roam"

Mark Thompson, CEO of the pedovore protectin' New York Times is the former CEO of BBC - the British Broadcasting Corporation where the satanist pedophile Jimmy Savile worked for 30 + years, raping 10s of 000s of children, some of them in hospitals, others in the studios on premises owned by the BBC.

Thompson engineered the BBC Savile cover up then jumped ship to become CEO of the NY Times. Thompson continues to protect the satanist pedovore cultists who rape and sacrifice children.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/keep-your-mouth-shut-hes-a-vip-jimmy-savile-report-reveals-culture-of-fear-at-bbc-34484838.html

https://deadline.com/2012/11/legal-letter-raises-questions-mark-thompson-learned-alleged-jimmy-savile-abuse-bbc-new-york-times-373020/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/jimmy-savile-raped-or-abused-64-victims-in-one-hospital-1.2119124

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/business/media/mark-thompson-and-bbc-missed-red-flags-in-savile-scandal.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10512203/Former-BBC-boss-Mark-Thompson-lied-over-Savile-evidence-Nick-Pollard-claims.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-sex-abuse-newsnight-7736720

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13186935 (111756ZMAR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Covid-19: Several European countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot fears

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Originally Midnight Riders #308 >>>/qresearch/69398

Covid-19: Several European countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot fears

Seven European countries – Denmark, Norway, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg – have suspended all or part of their AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out as a precaution while they investigate concerns relating to blood clots.

Danish health authorities on Thursday suspended all AstraZeneca vaccinations for two weeks after a 60-year old woman who had been vaccinated formed a blood clot and died.

The move "follows reports of serious cases of blood clots among people vaccinated with AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine", the Danish Health Authority said in a statement.

But it cautiously added that "it has not been determined, at the time being, that there is a link between the vaccine and the blood clots".

Norway soon followed suit, supending all AstraZeneca vaccinations.

Austria earlier announced it had suspended the use of a batch of AstraZeneca vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of "severe blood coagulation problems" days after receiving an anti-Covid shot.

Four other European countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg – have also suspended the use of vaccines from this batch, which was sent to 17 European countries and consisted of one million jabs.

Spain said Thursday that it has not registered any cases of blood clots related to AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine so far and will continue administering the shots.

Spanish Health Minister Carolina Darias said she had been informed of cases of blood clots among recently vaccinated people in Austria, but added that "so far, no causal relation between the vaccine and the blood clot events has been established", and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) was evaluating the situation.

http://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210311-covid-19-denmark-pauses-use-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-over-blood-clot-fears

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13188147 (112331ZMAR21) Notable: The Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill passed stage 3 in the Scottish Parliament today

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The Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill passed stage 3 in the Scottish Parliament today. The "waiver" of rights of victims passed alongside and will remain in the new legislation, it will only apply to institutions that made "fair and meaningful financial contributions"; effectively putting some pressure on the institutons to do so, no contribution means they can still be sued. The sad thing is that for most of these institutions there is a reliance on Government (tax payer) issued largesse for their survival, which means you still pay, the tax-payer that is, in both instances; the government contribution will come from you and once the institutions recieve their new and improved handouts they will use that taxpayer funded treasure to make "fair and meaningful contributions"

https://www.gov.scot/news/redress-for-survivors/.

>Survivors who were abused before 1964, or for other reasons cannot, or do not want to, raise an action in civil court, will now have an opportunity to receive financial redress through an alternative route.

>Survivors who currently have the right to raise a civil action in respect of their abuse, will continue to have that option. The Bill provides a choice for them on whether or not they want to accept a payment through the redress scheme or pursue litigation. If they choose to accept the payment, they will be required to sign a waiver. The waiver only will apply to the organisations that have made fair and meaningful financial contributions to the redress scheme, the amounts of which will be published. Organisations who do not contribute will not be included in the waiver. In the absence of the waiver where an organisation does not participate in the scheme, survivors will be able to receive their redress payment and still retain the option to raise legal action against the organisation.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13250069 (181731ZMAR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Tanzania's Covid-denying president, John Magufuli, dies aged 61

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Originally South Africa #4 >>>/qresearch/13248884

“Tanzanian President John Magufuli dies at 61” - https://youtu.be/gQyaLN1mpBY

“Tanzania's Covid-denying president, John Magufuli, dies aged 61”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/17/tanzanias-president-john-magufuli-dies-aged-61

Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent Covid-19 deniers, has died after a two-week absence from public life that prompted speculation that he had contracted the disease.

Magufuli’s death was announced on Wednesday by the country’s vice-president, Samia Suluhu, who said the president died of heart failure. He was 61.

“The president of the United Republic of Tanzania, the honourable Dr John Pombe Joseph Magufuli … [has] died of a heart condition, at hospital Mzena in Dar es Salaam, where he was receiving treatment,” she said on state broadcaster TBC.

Magufuli, a divisive figure who won a second term in October in an election marred by violence and allegations of fraud, had not been seen in public since 27 February, leading many to believe that he was sick and possibly incapacitated. He had a history of heart problems and wore a pacemaker.

But the number of deaths of people experiencing breathing problems reportedly grew and, earlier this month, the US embassy warned of a significant increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Tanzania since January. Days later, the presidency announced the death of John Kijazi, Magufuli’s chief secretary.

Soon after, the death was announced of the vice-president of the semi-autonomous island region of Zanzibar, whose political party had earlier reported that he had Covid-19.

Evidence suggests Tanzania was hit hard by a recent surge of infections across southern and parts of eastern Africa brought on by the spread of a new and more transmissible variant of the virus from South Africa. [They forget that the South African variant works better than the vaccines, “COVID-19 2nd wave variant neutralises itself: Nzimande”- https://youtu.be/AusedwprJEw]

Keep in mind.

“Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has dismissed the coronavirus test kits after they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw.” https://guardian.ng/life/goat-sheep-and-paw-paw-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-tanzania/]

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13252582 (190103ZMAR21) Notable: The Scottish government gave a 575 million pound guarantee to Greensill Capital group in 2016

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Originally Midnight Riders #319 >>>/qresearch/714522

Italy guaranteed 86 mln euro Greensill loan to Gupta steel arm, filing says

The Italian government guaranteed an 86 million euros ($102 million) loan from Greensill Bank, part of the collapsed Greensill Capital group, to one of steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s firms, according to accounts filed with the Italian corporate registry in recent weeks.

The firm, Liberty Magona SRL, secured a guarantee from SACE SpA, Italy’s state-controlled export credit agency, for the loan under measures to help companies navigate the coronavirus crisis, according to Liberty Magona’s accounts for a period from Jan. 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020 which include information on material post-yearend events. Piombino-based Liberty Magona, which makes galvanized steel, said the three-year loan was taken out in late August last year to strengthen its finances at a time when it was facing weaker demand for its products due to the pandemic. The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance did not immediately respond to a request for comment. GFG Alliance and Greensill declined to comment on the loan. The German financial regulator has filed a criminal complaint against Bremen-based Greensill Bank.

Greensill Capital group filed for bankruptcy protection in Britain and Australia this month, citing a $5 billion exposure to Indian-British businessman Gupta’s GFG Alliance. It said Gupta’s firms had begun to default on its obligations. GFG, an umbrella company for Gupta’s network of steel, aluminium and energy companies, said last week it was looking to secure additional working capital facilities to help it weather challenging market conditions but was also operationally strong and benefiting from buoyant steel markets. GFG Alliance employs 35,000 people across 30 countries, according to its website. In Britain, the opposition Labour Party has said the government should consider nationalising the company if it cannot secure the financial backing it is trying to attract. Italy is not the only country to have provided guarantees to Gupta’s firms. The Scottish government gave a 575 million pound guarantee to the group in 2016, Reuters reported in 2019, citing people familiar with the matter.

UK media have reported that the London government has also guaranteed hundreds of millions of loans to GFG Alliance or connected companies under Coronavirus loan schemes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-gfgalliance-guarantee/italy-guaranteed-86-mln-euro-greensill-loan-to-gupta-steel-arm-filing-says-idUSL8N2LG71B

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13291443 (242251ZMAR21) Notable: Salmond and Sturgeon Bun / Alex Salmond to take Scottish government to court again

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Alex Salmond to take Scottish government to court again

Alex Salmond is to take fresh legal action over the conduct of the Scottish government's top civil servant.

The former first minister said Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans had failed to take responsibility for the botched handling of harassment complaints against him.

He said he had instructed his lawyers to bring proceedings in the Court of Session.

Mr Salmond previously won a judicial review case against the government.

That case forced the government to pay Mr Salmond's legal fees of more than £500,000 after its investigation into complaints by two female civil servants was found to have been unlawful.

While the precise basis of his latest legal bid is not clear, the BBC understands the ex-SNP leader intends to sue the Scottish government for an unspecified amount in damages.

Mr Salmond also said he would also be making a formal complaint to the police over the leaking of details of the allegations against him to the Daily Record newspaper.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she still has confidence in Ms Evans as permanent secretary, and that the government "made a mistake in the course of trying to do the right thing".

Ms Evans had her contract extended by the first minister last year. It is due to expire in 2022.

The Scottish government said it would be "inappropriate to comment on a hypothetical legal action or on any matter Mr Salmond may raise with the police.

On Tuesday, a Holyrood inquiry concluded that the government's handling of the two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond in 2018 was "seriously flawed".

MSPs on the inquiry committee were critical of the way the new complaints process was drawn up and applied, and of the government's conduct in defending the judicial review proceedings brought by Mr Salmond.

The report was critical of Ms Evans, saying there had been an "individual failing" on her part over the judicial review and that she should have known that the "multiple roles" she played in the process represented "a significant organisational risk".

A separate inquiry by a leading Irish lawyer concluded that Ms Sturgeon's involvement in the saga had not breached the ministerial code.

The first minister has since said she would have resigned if she had been found to have done so.

Mr Salmond said the permanent secretary should consider her position after the court case in 2019, and renewed this call while giving evidence to the inquiry last month.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the former SNP leader said: "More than two years later, and despite the most damning condemnation from a committee in the history of the modern Scottish Parliament, the permanent secretary still refuses to accept real responsibility."

He said he had taken legal advice and would "shortly be instructing my lawyers to bring proceedings in the Court of Session arising as a direct result of the conduct of the permanent secretary".

Mr Salmond was acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate High Court trial in March 2020.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56513358

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13297971 (252129ZMAR21) Notable: Salmond and Sturgeon Bun / Former British ambassador was found guilty of contempt of court by Scottish tribunal on Thursday for articles he had published about trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond

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Originally General Research 16845 >>>/qresearch/1297799

The former British ambassador was found guilty of contempt of court by a Scottish tribunal on Thursday for articles he had published about the trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond.

Craig Murray, an ex-British ambassador and blogger, was found in contempt of court by a tribunal in Scotland on Thursday for articles he had written that the court says helped identify accusers of former First Minister Alex Salmond of sexual abuse.

Murray faces up to two years in jail as well as a fine. The sentencing is set for May 7.

Murray was charged with contempt of court for allegedly revealing the identity of four anonymous accusers indirectly; of writing about the exclusion of two jurors in violation of a court order and of allegedly prejudicing the case in Salmond’s favor. There was no pronouncement of guilt on the latter two charges. Salmond was acquitted at trial of 13 sex charges in March 2020.

The judgement against Murray was leaked to the Scottish newspaper, The National, on Monday. On the same day Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared by a cross-party inquiry of lying to Parliament about the Salmond affair. The inquiry looked into whether SNP officials, including possibly Sturgeon, conspired to arrange anonymous civil servants to level the sexual assault and attempted rape charges against Sturgeon’s political rival Salmond.

Murray reacted on Twitter that day.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/25/murray-found-guilty-of-contempt/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13371196 (061431ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says

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Originally Canada #16 >>>/qresearch/13369284

US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says

The National Institutes of Health has “systematically thwarted” government oversight of dangerous pathogen research, Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard H. Ebright told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The P3CO Review Framework was created in 2017 after a three-year pause on government funding of research that intentionally makes pathogens more deadly or transmissible.

An NIH grant that involved the modification of bat-based coronaviruses and the transfer of $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic bypassed P3CO review because the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, led by Anthony Fauci, didn’t flag the project for review.

An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses.

Experts say the NIH grant describes scientists conducting gain-of-function research, a risky area of study that, in this case, made SARS-like viruses even more contagious. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was temporarily suspended in 2014 due to widespread scientific concerns it risked leaking supercharged viruses into the human population.

Federal funding for gain-of-function research was resumed in late 2017 after the Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO) Framework was formed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The review board is tasked with critically evaluating whether grants that involve enhancing dangerous pathogens, such as coronaviruses, are worth the risks and that proper safeguards are in place.

But the NIH subagency that awarded the grant to the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance to study Chinese bat coronaviruses opted against forwarding it to the P3CO committee, an NIH spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation, meaning the research received federal funding without an independent review by the HHS board.

“This is a systemic problem,” Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard H. Ebright told the DCNF, referring to the loophole in the review framework.

Ebright said the offices of the director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — the subagency that funded EcoHealth — and the NIH have “systematically thwarted–indeed systematically nullified–the HHS P3CO Framework by declining to flag and forward proposals for review.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci leads the NIAID and Dr. Francis S. Collins heads the NIH.

An NIH spokesperson said its subagency did not flag the EcoHealth grant for independent review by the HHS review committee.

“After careful review of the grant, NIAID determined research in the grant was not gain-of-function research because it did not involve the enhancement of the pathogenicity or transmissibility of the viruses studied,” the spokesperson told the DCNF.

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/04/nih-gain-of-function-anthony-fauci-review-board-wuhan-lab/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13398364 (101836ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Scientists Now Say Vaccination Isn’t Good Enough — Push For New Vaccination Every Single Time We Travel

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Originally General Research #16971 >>>/qresearch/13398203

Scientists Now Say Vaccination Isn’t Good Enough — Push For New Vaccination Every Single Time We Travel

Scientists at Oxford University have suggested that people may need to have a coronavirus vaccination not once, not twice, but EVERY time they want to travel out of their home country.

The scientists published a report in the Royal Society Journal last week that acknowledged there is little data on how efficient or long lasting the current vaccines are, and so it is likely that countries will require a recent vaccination.

Having endless vaccinations when there is no indication of how effective they are, or what long term side effects there may be sounds absolutely mental, but that is what is being suggested.

Speaking to the London Telegraph, Epidemiologist Christopher Dye, a leading author of the reports stated “If we thought that the duration of protection was just a matter of months, then the sort of criteria that might be introduced – we’re not saying they should be – is that when one travels internationally for a short trip, going on vacation for example, that one is vaccinated each time on that occasion for that particular trip.”

The scientists also stated that vaccine passports are “feasible,” but only when global standards can be agreed upon.

“An effective vaccine passport system that would allow the return to pre-Covid activities, including travel, without compromising personal or public health, must meet a set of demanding criteria,” said Dye.

Other co-authors of the study wanted that the covid passports, which the government’s vaccines minister has repeatedly said are not going to be used domestically, “need to be fully explored.”

Professor Melinda Mills warned that such a system “could inadvertently discriminate or exacerbate existing inequalities,” adding “The intended use will have significant implications across a wide range of legal and ethical issues.”

“Is it literally a passport to allow international travel or could it be used domestically to allow holders greater freedoms?” Professor Mills further questioned.

“We need a broader discussion about multiple aspects of a vaccine passport, from the science of immunity through to data privacy, technical challenges and the ethics and legality of how it might be used,” Mills added.

https://en-volve.com/2021/02/22/scientists-now-say-vaccination-isnt-good-enough-push-for-new-vaccination-every-single-time-we-travel/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13418704 (132124ZAPR21) Notable: Salmond and Sturgeon Bun / Decriminalisation is key to ending Nicola Sturgeon’s drugs death ‘disaster’, says campaigner Peter Krykant

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The Scotsman 2021 Election Hustings: Decriminalisation is key to ending Nicola Sturgeon’s drugs death ‘disaster’, says campaigner Peter Krykant

By Conor Marlborough

Tuesday, 13th April 2021, 8:40 pm

The prominent drugs reform activist, who is standing as an independent in Falkirk East at next month’s election, made the comments at The Scotsman’s virtual hustings on Tuesday – and took aim at the drugs policies of other parties.

Mr Krykant, who won plaudits for converting a minibus into the UK’s first mobile Overdose Prevention Centre in Glasgow last year, said the statistics behind Scotland’s drugs crisis were “shameful”.

He said: “We currently have the highest drug death rates in the EU – 15 times the EU average. That is drastic … and it comes from our lack of investment and our local community.

“The SNP Government for the first time on the 20th of January, when Nicola Sturgeon addressed the Scottish Parliament, took some responsibility for the absolute disaster that they've overseen in the last 14 years in power in Scotland.”

Mr Krykant said the SNP cut the funding for alcohol and drug partnerships in 2015, despite a record 614 drug deaths in Scotland in 2014.

“They were warned across the chamber in Holyrood that if they did that, it would lead to more deaths,” he said.

"And in the six years since then, drug deaths have more than doubled. They continue to rise through the pandemic.

“Some of the most vulnerable people in our society are left without help. We're going to see more people turning to drugs and alcohol to cope coming out of the pandemic, with the mental health issues that are being created.”

Former MP Neil Gray, who is standing for the SNP in Airdrie and Shotts, admitted there was “no hiding” from his party’s failure on drug deaths.

He told the hustings that he agreed with the First Minister’s assessment of the crisis as “a national disgrace”, but said it was also now a “priority” of any future SNP government.

“We've committed £250 million to rehabilitation services and are going to obviously be looking at a number of other areas,” he said.

Mr Gray said he was personally in favour of drug consumption rooms as a “short-term measure”, but added more needed to be done to address the “underlying reasons for why people have turned to drugs at all”.

Asked whether his party would support decriminalisation, Scottish Conservative candidate Haroun Malik said simply: “No, we wouldn’t.”

The criminal defence lawyer said: “In Scotland, we almost have decriminalisation within the courts. You don't see low level drug defence is going through a court anymore – and there's no opportunity for the courts to intervene because from the SNP, this is not a priority.”

He claimed the SNP “don't care about drug deaths,” adding: “They've had 14 years to do something about it. Why would we trust them again?”

Responding to Mr Malik’s comments, Mr Krykant said he was “absolutely astounded” a criminal defence lawyer did not support decriminalisation.

“It's absolutely horrendous,” he said.

"I believe that you should speak to some of your colleagues like Aamer Anwar, the former Rector of Glasgow University, … and really get informed about the underlying trauma and poverty-stricken conditions that lead people to take drugs in the first place.”

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/the-scotsman-2021-election-hustings-decriminalisation-is-key-to-ending-nicola-sturgeons-drugs-death-disaster-says-campaigner-peter-krykant-3199831

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13418758 (132132ZAPR21) Notable: Salmond and Sturgeon Bun / Nicola Sturgeon is blasted by rivals for her 'divisive' plans for new Scottish independence vote that would 'reopen old wounds'

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Nicola Sturgeon is blasted by rivals for her 'divisive' plans for new Scottish independence vote that would 'reopen old wounds' in Scottish election TV debate - while all ignore Alex Salmond's new Alba party

First Minister accused of trying to 'reopen old wounds' with independence push

Sturgeon maintained her pledge to hold a fresh vote if her party wins election

But Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem leaders slammed her plans as 'divisive'

By James Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 16:15 EDT, 13 April 2021 | Updated: 17:10 EDT, 13 April 2021

Nicola Sturgeon was tonight blasted by her political rivals over plans to pull Scotland out of the United Kingdom, as she stood firm on her pledge for a fresh independence vote.

The First Minister was accused of attempting to 'reopen old wounds' by opposition leaders in a lively television debate ahead of next month's Scottish election.

The SNP leader has pledged to hold a new independence referendum if her party wins the election - with or without the consent of the UK parliament.

But the leaders of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour tonight took aim at her plans, branding them as 'divisive'.

All three of the leaders instead insisted the focus should remain on the country's recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.

More than 7,000 people in Scotland have died of the virus, while more than 220,000 cases have been recorded.

However the nationalist leader hit back at the suggestions, as she urged Scots to back its independence bid with their votes.

Taking a swipe at Westminster politicians, she said she wanted the country to build back 'in its own image', rather than 'that of Boris Johnson and his band of Brexiteers'.

The Green party meanwhile backed Ms Sturgeon's referendum calls - as it stood firm on its desires to return Scotland to the EU.

However there was no mention from the leaders of Alex Salmond - whose Alba party will contest Holyrood seats at the upcoming election.

Despite facing criticism from the majority of her rival leaders, Ms Sturgeon remained firm on her pledge to hold a new independence referendum.

She led with her offer of 'continued strong leadership to steer the country through the pandemic', adding that 'when the crisis is over' Scots should have 'the choice of a better future with independence'.

But she was accused of spreading division by Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie, who said: 'You are determined to open the wounds of the country.

'This is reckless. What you should do is focus on making people's lives better.'

Conservative leader Douglas Ross also hit out at the plans, which he described as 'reckless' and 'divisive'.

Labour's Anas Sarwar meanwhile showed his opposition to the independence vote, as he urged a focus on recovery in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

The Labour leader also joined Mr Rennie in taking a swipe at Ms Strugeon's seven years as First Minister.

Mr Rennie said Ms Sturgeon had been in charge as the country's drug death rate soared to the highest in Europe, as he tackled her on her healthcare record.

Ms Sturgeon admitted taking her 'eye off the ball' over Scotland's drugs deaths.

In 2019, 1,264 people died of drug misuse - taking the drugs death toll to its highest level on record in Scotland for a sixth year in a row.

The figure was double of that in 2014, and means Scotland now has the worst drugs death rate in Europe and is about three and a half that in England in Wales.

She said: 'I think we took our eye off the ball on drugs deaths, and I've said as much to the Scottish Parliament.

'I've set out what we will do to try to turn that around.

'I set out at the start of this year a £250million investment programme to build up rehabilitation services, including residential rehabilitation to make sure we give more support to community services, to make sure we provide faster access to treatment and we have a taskforce working on all of that.'

Mr Ross meanwhile accused the First Minster of failing to meet promises made in key areas.

The Tory leader told her: 'You have made promises on the attainment gap, victims' rights, broadband, ferries, income tax and the treatment time guarantee.

'You have delivered your promises on none of them. You have let down Scotland for the last 14 years.'

He continued his attack by saying: 'Now in an economic crisis, you want to wreck Scotland's recovery.'

Ms Sturgeon said 'progress' had been made in tackling the attainment gap in schools and NHS waiting times had been reducing before Covid-19 hit.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9467467/Nicola-Sturgeon-blasted-rivals-divisive-plans-Scottish-independence-TV-debate.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13425432 (141957ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Denmark Totally Bans AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Reports of Blood Clots

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Originally General Research #17005 >>>/qresearch/13424623

Denmark Totally Bans AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Reports of Blood Clots

Denmark became the first country in Europe to totally abandon the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, coming after the country and more than a dozen other European Union nations suspended its usage.

Denmark’s health agency director, Soren Brostrom, said Denmark will not use the shot as part of its vaccination campaign—despite the World Health Organization (WHO) and EU’s European Medicines Agency (EMA) saying that the benefits of using the AstraZeneca jab outweigh the negatives amid reports of rare blood clots.

“Overall, we must say that the results show that there is a real and serious side effect signal in the vaccine from AstraZeneca,” said Brostrom in a statement. “Based on an overall consideration, we have therefore chosen to continue the vaccination programme for all target groups without this vaccine.”

Noting that it is has been a “difficult decision” to make, Brostrom said the “upcoming target groups for vaccination are less likely to become severely ill from COVID-19,” and officials “must weigh this against the fact that we now have a known risk of severe adverse effects from vaccination with AstraZeneca, even if the risk in absolute terms is slight.”

Danish officials previously said that two people who had received the vaccine against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus suffered from severe blood clots. One of them died, they said last month.

The CCP virus, also known as the novel coronavirus, is the virus that causes COVID-19.

In March, most of the countries that stopped using the AstraZeneca vaccine ultimately resumed using it.

On April 7, the EMA said that there is a “possible link” between rare blood clots and the vaccine, adding it “is reminding healthcare professionals and people receiving the vaccine to remain aware of the possibility of very rare cases of blood clots combined with low levels of blood platelets occurring within 2 weeks of vaccination.”

The statement continued: “So far, most of the cases reported have occurred in women under 60 years of age within 2 weeks of vaccination. Based on the currently available evidence, specific risk factors have not been confirmed.”

The decision to not use AstraZeneca’s shot will push back the scheduled conclusion of Denmark’s vaccination scheme to early August from July 25, Danish officials said. Denmark also uses the U.S.-made Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which requires two shots.

Denmark was also the first nation to stop using the vaccine in March.

The Epoch Times has contacted AstraZeneca for comment.

https://www.ntd.com/denmark-totally-bans-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-amid-reports-of-blood-clots_597165.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13425713 (142052ZAPR21) Notable: Amazon continues to pull books critical of transgender ideology

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Originally Canada #17 >>>/qresearch/13425555

Amazon continues to pull books critical of transgender ideology

https://www.rebelnews.com/amazon_continues_to_pull_books_critical_of_transgender_ideology

Online retail giant Amazon has pulled a book critical of transgender identity theory, after calls to ban the book flooded social media. It is the second book Amazon has banned that is critical of the contentious topic.

Amazon removed Maria Keffler’s Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult. The new book sold fewer than 100 copies across three platforms and earned fewer than a dozen reviews before it was banned, according to Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), of which Keffler is a co-founder.

The organization says that Amazon provided “no contact, no warning, no reason” for removing the book.

According to the Daily Wire, PEC is a nonprofit organization co-founded by Keffler and is designed to raise awareness and support efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals and healthcare providers under the banner of “gender identity affirmation.” Keffler’s book is about that exact subject.

Amazon banned the book just weeks after it removed Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally, which is about the trans youth movement that has become in vogue over the past few years.

Despite banning all books critical of the transgender identity movement for apparent hate speech, Amazon continues to sell books like Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Amazon has set up a new policy that bans any books that attempt to classify transgenderism or other new identities as mental illnesses, according to Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president of public policy.

“As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable,” Huseman said in response to Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri in a March letter. The group of senators complained to the retailer when it banned Anderson’s book.

“Amazon works hard to ensure customers have a great shopping experience, and access to the widest and most diverse cross-section of written and spoken word in retail today,” Huseman added. “That said, we reserve the right not to sell certain content. All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer, as do we. As to your specific question about When Harry Became Sally, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13432759 (151854ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Healthy 43-Year-Old Man Suffers Stroke From Blood Clot Hours After Receiving J&J Vaccine

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Originally Canada #17 >>>/qresearch/13432370

Healthy 43-Year-Old Man Suffers Stroke From Blood Clot Hours After Receiving J&J Vaccine

A Mississippi man remains in critical condition, can’t walk, talk and is paralyzed on one side of his body after suffering a stroke hours after being vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine. Family believes “without a doubt” the vaccine caused the stroke.

A healthy 43-year old man in Mississippi suffered a stroke hours after being vaccinated with Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) COVID vaccine. Brad Malagarie, father of seven, had received the vaccine a little after Noon and was found unresponsive by co-workers at his desk, WSAZ News Channel 3 reported.

“They called me and said he had that vaccine and something is wrong, we think it’s a stroke,” said Celeste Foster O’Keefe, Malagarie’s aunt and boss.

Malagarie was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a stroke after a blood clot had lodged in his left middle cerebral artery. O’Keefe said the family believes without a doubt that the vaccine caused the stroke.

“He’s a young, healthy 43-year-old, and I immediately thought it, and I said be sure to tell the doctors he took that J & J vaccine and that, to me, is what caused his stroke,” she told WSAZ.

O’Keefe said her nephew’s only health issue before the vaccine was high blood pressure, which was controlled with medication. One week after receiving the vaccine Malagarie remains hospitalized at Ochsner’s Medical Center in New Orleans and is in critical, but stable condition.

“He can’t talk now and he can’t walk. He’s paralyzed on the right side. He knows who we are and he will just cry when he sees us,” O’Keefe said.

Doctors don’t know Malagarie’s prognosis for recovery yet but said it will likely take at least a year of rehab after he leaves the hospital, the local TV station said.

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) paused J&J’s vaccine after rare blood clots were reported in those recently vaccinated.

All six reported cases in the U.S. occurred among women aged 18-48 with symptoms developing six to 13 days after vaccination, according to a statement issued by the FDA and CDC.

One vaccine recipient died and her death is being investigated by the CDC, Virginia state officials said in a statement Tuesday. Another woman is in critical condition. A CDC official said two of the six patients have been discharged and three remain hospitalized.

Wednesday, J&J disclosed two more cases of blood clots — one that occurred in a 25 year-old-man who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a clinical trial and another case of deep-vein-thrombosis in a 59-year-old woman.

According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS, 49 reports of blood coagulation disorders from the J&J vaccine have been reported through April 1 and 972 reports from all three vaccines combined, including Pfizer and Moderna through April 1.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met Wednesday and decided to postpone a vote on whether to lift the pause on the J&J’s COVID vaccine, effectively extending the pause pending further analysis of data relating to blood clots in people who received the vaccine. The committee said they would meet again in one week to 10 days to vote on whether or not to lift the pause.

Full article:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/healthy-man-stroke-johnson-johnson-vaccine/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13441695 (162209ZAPR21) Notable: Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak

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Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak

21 April 2021

Facebook users whose data was compromised by a massive data leak are being urged to take legal action against the tech giant.

About 530 million people had some personal information leaked, including, in some cases, phone numbers.

A digital privacy group is preparing to take a case to the Irish courts on behalf of EU citizens affected.

Facebook denies wrongdoing, saying the data was "scraped" from publicly available information on the site.

Antoin Ó Lachtnain, director of Digital Rights Ireland (DRI), warned other tech giants its move could be the beginning of a domino effect.

"This will be the first mass action of its kind but we're sure it won't be the last," he said.

"The scale of this breach, and the depth of personal information compromised, is gob-smacking."

He added: "The laws are there to protect consumers and their personal data and it's time these technology giants wake up to the reality that protection of personal data must be taken seriously."

DRI claims Facebook failed to protect user data and notify those who had been affected.

The data leak was first discovered and fixed in 2019, but was recently made easily available online for free.

DRI said individual users who take part in the legal action could be offered compensation of up to €12,000 (£10,445) if it is successful - based on what it says are similar cases in other countries.

Domino effect

"If successful this could well set a precedent and open the door to further class action down the line," Ray Walsh, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy, told the BBC.

"Big Tech might then find that being made to compensate individual users is a strong reminder to work harder on privacy compliance," he added.

On Thursday, the Irish Data Protection Commission announced its decision to launch an investigation into the leak.

It will assess whether any parts of the GDPR or Data Protection Act 2018 were infringed by Facebook.

If found to be in breach, the social media giant could face fines of up to 4% of its turnover.

Responding to DRI's legal case, a Facebook spokesman said: "We understand people's concerns, which is why we continue to strengthen our systems to make scraping from Facebook without our permission more difficult and go after the people behind it."

He also pointed to other firms involved in similar recent leaks.

"As LinkedIn and Clubhouse have shown, no company can completely eliminate scraping or prevent data sets like these from appearing. That's why we devote substantial resources to combat it and will continue to build out our capabilities to help stay ahead of this challenge," he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56772772

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13455224 (181847ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / Over 10,000 Deaths Caused by COVID Vaccines Reported by the CDC and EMA

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Originally General Research #17035 >>>/qresearch/13448115

Over 10,000 Deaths Caused by COVID Vaccines Reported by the CDC and EMA

More than 10,000 people died shortly after COVID-19 vaccination in December, US and European authorities said. Deaths include more than 7,100 in Europe, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and 3,005 reported by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), LifeSiteNewsreports.

As of Tuesday, EudraVigilance, the EMA’s database of adverse drug reports, reported 4,036 “fatal results” after vaccination with Pfizer, as well as 1,922 and 1,234 deaths after vaccines given by Moderna and , by AstraZeneca.

EudraVigilance also reported 20 deaths from the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. The database revealed more than 200,000 injuries, possibly related to the four vaccines, of which tens of thousands of cases considered “serious”. The US government also reported 3,005 deaths and more than 56,869 side effects after the April 12 coronavirus vaccinations.

The injuries in the United States are being tracked by VAERS, a surveillance system overseen by the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Among the adverse reaction reports for the COVID-19 vaccine published by VAERS, 42% of deaths occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of inoculation. “Vaccination campaigns, apparently, often take place in nursing homes without ensuring in advance that the person affected has not already contracted an infection,” said Dr. Frank Gunter, a German medical expert, who indicated the“ insufficiently researched long-term consequences ”of vaccines.

“I have never seen such a large number of side effects of a vaccine,” said Parisian infectious disease specialist Prof. Eric Caumes last year. “No, really, it’s too much, maybe there’s a problem,” he told Le Parisien. The conclusion of LifeSiteNews is that all healthy people who contract the Covid virus survive, especially with certain treatment schemes.

Speaking of vaccines and herd immunity acquired through mass vaccinations (forget about mRNA genetic therapy, which is experimental and very weird), 70% of people already have T-cell immunity from other infections. Children have near 100% immunity due to the many early childhood infections they get. T-cell immunity lasts 15-20 years, and in some cases a lifetime.

The body never forgets how to make antibodies, however due to age and other things like toxins and injury cause the immune system to be less effective.

Always remember:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD!!!!

THERE ARE NO VARIANTS.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/over-10000-deaths-caused-by-covid-vaccines-reported-by-the-cdc-and-ema/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13461968 (191625ZAPR21) Notable: Salmond and Sturgeon Bun / 'Look at the facts!' Ridge rattles Sturgeon as she rips into hopes for independence

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'Look at the facts!' Ridge rattles Sturgeon as she rips into hopes for independence

SOPHY RIDGE took Nicola Sturgeon to task over her plans to lead an independent Scotland, as the Sky News host pointed to her failures in power.

By Oli Smith

PUBLISHED: 09:46, Sun, Apr 18, 2021 | UPDATED: 10:51, Sun, Apr 18, 2021

Sophy Ridge tore into Nicola Sturgeon's hopes of leading an independent Scotland ahead of the upcoming May elections. The Sky News host pointed to the SNP's "record in government" as she reeled off a number of Ms Sturgeon's failures in power. At one point, Ms Ridge told Ms Sturgeon to "just look at the facts".

Ms Ridge said: "I've been keen in this interview to look back at your record in government because it matters.

"You are asking the Scottish people to trust you to lead an independent Scotland.

"You are clearly an exceptional communicator and have strong approval ratings.

"But, just look at the facts: record drug deaths after 14 years of an SNP government, still big inequalities when it comes education, the highest rate of care home deaths from Covid in the UK."

Ms Ridge asked: "Why should people trust you to lead an independent Scotland?"

Ms Sturgeon struggled to respond, as she took responsibility for the scale of the drug crisis in Scotland.

She added that there had been "big improvement" in education, although inequalities remain.

On care homes, Ms Sturgeon said: "Sorry, Sophy, the number of care home deaths is far too high and it shouldn't be a statistical competition.

"I have to challenge that. The number of excess deaths in care homes in England has been much higher than in Scotland.

"We have recorded more of them as Covid deaths."

Later in the interview, Ms Sturgeon accused Alex Salmond's Alba Party of jeopardising Scottish independence by attempting to "bulldoze" forward in a way that is "contemptuous" of the voters.

Nicola Sturgeon promised to provide a "transformational" increase in NHS funding if the SNP wins the election.

Speaking as she launched the SNP's manifesto this week, Ms Sturgeon said frontline NHS spending would increase by at least a total of £2.5bn.

The SNP leader repeated her call for an independence referendum to be held within the next parliamentary term.

The manifesto also promises a £10bn investment programme in NHS facilities, and a minimum 25 percent rise in mental health spending.

Earlier this week, the Scottish First Minister became flustered during an awkward interview over Scottish independence.

A Channel 4 News reporter confronted the SNP leader on its economic cost, prompting Ms Sturgeon to claim all the forecasts were "completely out of date".

Viewers branded the interview a "complete car crash" from the SNP's perspective, pointing out the party leader appeared to "become flustered even by a gentle interview".

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1424606/Nicola-Sturgeon-SNP-news-Sophy-Ridge-Scotland-election-independence-latest-vn

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13482443 (220014ZAPR21) Notable: EU outlines new regulations for dealing with expanding AI

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Originally Midnight Riders #349 >>>/qresearch/76907

LONDON (AP) — Risky uses of artificial intelligence that threaten people’s safety or rights such as live facial scanning should be banned or tightly controlled, European Union officials said Wednesday as they outlined an ambitious package of proposed regulations to rein in the rapidly expanding technology.

The draft regulations from the EU’s executive commission include rules for applications deemed high risk such as AI systems to filter out school, job or loan applicants. They would also ban artificial intelligence outright in a few cases considered too risky, such as government “social scoring” systems that judge people based on their behavior.

The proposals are the 27-nation bloc’s latest move to maintain its role as the world’s standard-bearer for technology regulation, as it tries to keep up with the world’s two big tech superpowers, the U.S. and China. EU officials say they are taking a four-level “risk-based approach” that seeks to balance important rights such as privacy against the need to encourage innovation.

“With these landmark rules, the EU is spearheading the development of new global norms to make sure AI can be trusted,” Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for the digital age, said in a statement. “By setting the standards, we can pave the way for to ethical technology worldwide and ensure that the EU remains competitive along the way.”

To be sure, the draft rules have a long way to go before they take effect. They need to be reviewed by the European Parliament and the European Council and could be amended in a process that could take several years, though officials declined to give a specific timeframe.

Previous EU tech regulation efforts have been far reaching and influential, earning it a reputation as a pioneer. Vestager, also the bloc’s competition chief, filed aggressive antitrust challenges against Silicon Valley giants like Google years before such action became fashionable. The EU was also early to the data privacy battle with stringent rules known as General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, that became the de facto global standard.

However, results have been mixed: Google still retains its online dominance and EU privacy cases against global tech companies are backed up. Officials are also working on updating the EU’s digital rulebook to protect internet users from harmful material or rogue traders.

Under the AI proposals, unacceptable uses would also include manipulating behavior, exploiting children’s vulnerabilities or using subliminal techniques.

“It can be a case where a toy uses voice systems to manipulate a child into doing something dangerous,” Vestager told a media briefing. “Such uses have no place in Europe and therefore we propose to ban them.”

The proposals include a prohibition in principle on controversial “remote biometric identification,” such as the use of live facial recognition to pick people out of crowds in real time, because “there is no room for mass surveillance in our society,” Vestager said.

There will, however, be an exception for narrowly defined law enforcement purposes such as searching for a missing child or a wanted person or preventing a terror attack. But some EU lawmakers and digital rights groups want the carve-out removed over fears it could be used by authorities to justify widespread future use of the technology, which they say is intrusive and inaccurate.

More: https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-artificial-intelligence-data-privacy-5226382bb316f8aad4cbc5637f03a44c

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13503389 (241921ZAPR21) Notable: Climate is the new Covid

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Originally Canada #17 >>>/qresearch/13502708

Climate is the new Covid

FULL ARTICLE HERE:

https://tapnewswire.com/2021/04/climate-is-the-new-covid/

The “public health policies” allegedly in place to fight Covid19 are being rebranded as “saving the planet”.

Yesterday was Earth Day. The traditional day environmental hashtags temporarily trend across all social media sites. This year was no different, with the exception of the stronger than usual whiff of agenda.

The narrative of the “deadly viral pandemic” is slowly losing momentum. Whether this is through the public having “post viral fatigue”(as it were), or a deliberate shift in media talking points is unclear. But there’s certainly less energy in the story than at this time last year.

That said, it’s also perfectly clear that governments around the world are in no mood to give up their newly acquired “emergency powers”, and that alleged “anti-covid measures” are not going away anytime soon.

Especially lockdowns, which are being freshly marketed as “good for the planet”.

The narrative that locking down the public was “helping the Earth heal” actually dates back to last March, when it was reported all across the world news that only a few weeks of lockdown had cleared up the water in Venician canals so much there were dolphins swimming through the city.

This story later proved to be completely untrue, but that didn’t stop dozens of outlets from picking up the story and running with it.

At various times in the intervening year, Covid has been sold as a having an environmental silver-lining. Including potentially “saving the planet”.

Just last month, the Guardian published a story with the headline…

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13510980 (251826ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / French drug assessment center says all four Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous, should be pulled off the market

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Originally Canada #17 >>>/qresearch/13504436

French drug assessment center says all four Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous, should be pulled off the market

(Natural News) The Centre territorial d’Information indépendante et d’Avis pharmaceutiques (CTIAP), a regional independent drug assessment center in France, has published a report showing that none of the four Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccinations” currently being administered are safe or effective because all of them received emergency use authorization (EUA) with insufficient clinical testing.

The jabs are all problematic because the manufacturing processes used are new, as are the excipients they contain, which a team of experts from the Cholet public hospital in the west of France say “should be considered as new active substances.”

Led by Dr. Catherine Frade, a pharmacist, the research team worked with public data released by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in relation to the injections released by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson). All four of these injections only have temporary authorization based on perceived need, as opposed to approval based on clinical evidence of safety and efficacy.

All of the jabs are also still subject to studies that extend out to 2024 – three years from now – and beyond. Very little is known, at this point, about the long-term side effects of the injections, though we are seeing short-term side effects in the form of serious blood clots and death.

According to the CTIAP, all four Chinese Virus injections were released for public administration before “proof of quality for the active substance and the finished product” was verified. All of the labs where the jabs are produced also obtained future deadlines to submit associated studies.

What this means, of course, is that every person who takes a Wuhan Flu shot is a human guinea pig participating in a mass pharmaceutical experiment. How vaccine recipients fare moving forward remains to be seen.

In the coming months and years, the research team warns, “variabilities, which impact the very core of the product, could even invalidate any clinical trials conducted.”

“Prudence would even dictate that, in all countries where these vaccines against COVID-19 have been marketed, all the batches thus ‘released’ should be withdrawn immediately; and that these MAs that have been granted should be suspended, or even canceled, as a matter of urgency until further notice,” they say.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-04-23-french-drug-assessment-center-covid19-vaccines-dangerous.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13521641 (270342ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun / As much of the world continues to hunker down, a New Zealand band plays to 50,000 fans

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As much of the world continues to hunker down, a New Zealand band plays to 50,000 fans

By Nick Perry, Associated Press

26 April 2021

AUCKLAND, New Zealand —

Singer Matiu Walters grinned as he gazed out over 50,000 damp but delirious fans and said those magic words: "So, what's up Eden Park?"

While much of the world remains hunkered down, the band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds in New Zealand, where social distancing isn't required after the nation stamped out the coronavirus. The band's tour finale on Saturday night was billed as the largest concert in the world since the pandemic began.

Equally momentous for a band which met while playing rugby at university was getting to play the first concert ever held at the storied Eden Park rugby stadium. And finding themselves at the apex of world music came as a twist for Six60, which has enjoyed unparalleled success in New Zealand but whose forays abroad have ended without the breakthroughs they sought.

Saturday's set by the five-piece band included powerful cameos by military musicians ahead of the nation honoring its war dead on Sunday, and Maori performers who stretched across the stage while the band switched to singing in the Indigenous language.

One fan, Lucy Clumpas, found it a surreal experience to be surrounded by so many people after she spent last year living through endless lockdowns in Britain.

"It's very important for us as humans to be able to get together and sing the same songs together," she said. "It makes us feel like we're part of something,"

Walters, the lead singer, said they desperately want their musician friends around the world to be able to play live shows again.

"We know what it's like to be in lockdown. It sucked. And we didn't know if we'd be able to play gigs again," he said in an interview before the show. "But we are fortunate, for a few reasons, here in New Zealand."

Guitarist Ji Fraser said the reception they received while on the road for their summer tour had been incredible.

"It was amazing to see how fanatical people were, and excited about being out and seeing live music, and seeing something to drag them out of a long, brutal year," he said. "It was very special."

Walters said they did worry that something could have gone wrong — that their gigs could have turned into super-spreader events. But he said there was not much to do other than play by the rules and follow the government guidelines.

The band formed 13 years ago after they started jamming in their rugby changing rooms, making their concert at the hallowed ground of the nation's All Blacks rugby team feel like completing a circle.

The band had pushed for changes to civic rules to allow concerts at Eden Park, but not all the neighbors were happy.

One who objected was former Prime Minister Helen Clark, who said at the time that the concerts would represent a "home invasion" of noise.

"But the people wanted it. And the people spoke," Walters said. The singer added that Clark would have been welcomed at the concert. "Six60 is for everyone. And maybe if she came and enjoyed herself, she'd have a change of heart."

More:

https://www.wmur.com/article/new-zealand-band-plays-to-50000-fans/36232071

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13525085 (271728ZAPR21) Notable: Covid Bun

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Covid Bun

>>107513 Corona: After the death of a nurse in Austria, thousands of AstraZeneca cans end up in the garbage

>>107514 Australian Health Minister hospitalized, "in serious condition", day after receiving Covid, Astra-Zeneca, Vaccine

>>107522 Boxing was in mourning on Saturday night after the shock death of one its all-time greats, Marvin Hagler, at just 66, after he reportedly suffered side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine

>>107517 Covid-19: Several European countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot fears

>>107523 Tanzania's Covid-denying president, John Magufuli, dies aged 61

>>107526 CDC Ignores Inquiry Into Increasing Number of Deaths, Injuries Reported After COVID Vaccines

>>107533 US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says

>>107534 Scientists Now Say Vaccination Isn’t Good Enough — Push For New Vaccination Every Single Time We Travel

>>107537 Denmark Totally Bans AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Reports of Blood Clots

>>107539 Healthy 43-Year-Old Man Suffers Stroke From Blood Clot Hours After Receiving J&J Vaccine

>>107542 Over 10,000 Deaths Caused by COVID Vaccines Reported by the CDC and EMA

>>107545 Scots mum left with horror rash and ‘burning inside’ after Covid jab

>>107547 French drug assessment center says all four Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous, should be pulled off the market

>>107548 As much of the world continues to hunker down, a New Zealand band plays to 50,000 fans

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13525088 (271729ZAPR21) Notable: Salmond and Sturgeon Bun

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>>107519 Salmond and Sturgeon evidence in full (two links)

>>107524 NICOLA Sturgeon misled parliament over the Alex Salmond affair, MSPs have concluded

>>107527 Alex Salmond to take Scottish government to court again

>>107528 Former British ambassador was found guilty of contempt of court by Scottish tribunal on Thursday for articles he had published about trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond

>>107529 Former SNP leader Alex Salmond launches new political party

>>107535 Decriminalisation is key to ending Nicola Sturgeon’s drugs death ‘disaster’, says campaigner Peter Krykant

>>107536 Nicola Sturgeon is blasted by rivals for her 'divisive' plans for new Scottish independence vote that would 'reopen old wounds'

>>107543 'Look at the facts!' Ridge rattles Sturgeon as she rips into hopes for independence

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13552195 (302117ZAPR21) Notable: Extinction Rebellion activists blockade Faslane nuclear base in Scotland

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Extinction Rebellion activists blockade Faslane nuclear base in Scotland

by Ella Glover

Fri, April 30, 2021, 1:29 PM

Anti-nuclear and climate activists have blockaded the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland.

Members of the climate justice group Extinction Rebellion and peace activists Trident Ploughshares have attached themselves to giant plant pots at the north gate of the base on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute.

The action, which Extinction Rebellion said is part of the Peace Lotus Campaign which celebrates the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, is being used to demand a future safe from the “threat of nuclear weapons and environmental destruction,” the activists said.

Ella Glover

Fri, April 30, 2021, 1:29 PM·2 min read

<p>Activists placed three giant plant pots, filled with plants and flowers, on the road on Friday morning</p> (PA)

Activists placed three giant plant pots, filled with plants and flowers, on the road on Friday morning

(PA)

Anti-nuclear and climate activists have blockaded the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland.

Members of the climate justice group Extinction Rebellion and peace activists Trident Ploughshares have attached themselves to giant plant pots at the north gate of the base on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute.

The action, which Extinction Rebellion said is part of the Peace Lotus Campaign which celebrates the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, is being used to demand a future safe from the “threat of nuclear weapons and environmental destruction,” the activists said.

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HM Naval Base Clyde, known as Faslane, is home to the UK’s nuclear deterrent. Police officers are present at the scene, Police Scotland said.

The all-female activists placed three giant plant pots, filled with plants and flowers, on the road on Friday morning. An Extinction Rebellion protester is locked on to each one so that they cannot be moved.

The plant pots, which are painted with the words “Safe”, “Green”, and “Future”, are blocking access to the base, except for emergency vehicles that can still access the site via the South Gate.

Ella Glover

Fri, April 30, 2021, 1:29 PM·2 min read

<p>Activists placed three giant plant pots, filled with plants and flowers, on the road on Friday morning</p> (PA)

Activists placed three giant plant pots, filled with plants and flowers, on the road on Friday morning

(PA)

Anti-nuclear and climate activists have blockaded the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland.

Members of the climate justice group Extinction Rebellion and peace activists Trident Ploughshares have attached themselves to giant plant pots at the north gate of the base on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute.

The action, which Extinction Rebellion said is part of the Peace Lotus Campaign which celebrates the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, is being used to demand a future safe from the “threat of nuclear weapons and environmental destruction,” the activists said.

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HM Naval Base Clyde, known as Faslane, is home to the UK’s nuclear deterrent. Police officers are present at the scene, Police Scotland said.

The all-female activists placed three giant plant pots, filled with plants and flowers, on the road on Friday morning. An Extinction Rebellion protester is locked on to each one so that they cannot be moved.

The plant pots, which are painted with the words “Safe”, “Green”, and “Future”, are blocking access to the base, except for emergency vehicles that can still access the site via the South Gate.

The plant pots, which are painted with the words “Safe”, “Green”, and “Future”, are blocking access to the base, except for emergency vehicles that can still access the site via the South GatePA

The plant pots, which are painted with the words “Safe”, “Green”, and “Future”, are blocking access to the base, except for emergency vehicles that can still access the site via the South GatePA

Sarah Krischer, 28, an archaeologist and Extinction Rebellion (XR) Scotland activist, said: “Nuclear weapons are an existential threat to the entire world.

“Stockpiling weapons with the ability to wipe out all life in order to appear tough does nothing to keep either the UK or any other country safe.

“The ongoing environmental degradation caused by uranium mining and nuclear testing continues to be felt, particularly among Pacific island nations that are also the most threatened by climate change.

“We must come together to build a safe, more just future for all.”

More:

https://news.yahoo.com/extinction-rebellion-activists-blockade-faslane-172909791.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13743043 (241629ZMAY21) Notable: DEATH PROBE Second ‘Glasgow paedo ring’ death as gran accused of raping young child found dead

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DEATH PROBE Second ‘Glasgow paedo ring’ death as gran accused of raping young child found dead

>A GRAN accused of being part of an alleged paedophile ring has been found dead - the second suspect to die since arrests were made.

>The body of Maureen McLellan - also known as Goudie - was found last week in unexplained circumstances at a property, understood to be in Maryhill, Glasgow.

>Cops launched a probe into the sudden death of the 50-year-old, who was on bail and facing five sex offence charges - including the rape of a young child.

>A death report was submitted to prosecutors after the mother-of-two was discovered on Thursday, May 13 - six months after she was fully committed for trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

>She made no plea when she appeared in person on October 21 with another female co-accused, 49, who is facing the same sex abuse allegations.

>A source said: “Maureen hadn’t been seen for a few days and there were concerns for her welfare.

full story here:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7146785/glasgow-paedo-ring-gran-death-maureen-mclellan/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/13958562 (221923ZJUN21) Notable: Fulford/Rockefeller Bun

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Canada is on the trail of the Fulford

Fulford/Rockefeller Bun

>>>/qresearch/13958194 Fulford & Rockefeller: The Japan Interview part 1 (video)

>>>/qresearch/13958206 Fulford & Rockefeller: The Japan Interview part 2 (video)

>>>/qresearch/13958220 Letter Of Apology To David Rockefeller

>>>/qresearch/13958262 Benjamin Fulford – Who is he working for?

>>>/qresearch/13958269 George Taylor Fulford

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20116653 (222335ZDEC23) Notable: Updated Glasgow LEZ Bun | Updated Humza Yousaf Bun | Updated Michelle Mone Bun / Michelle Mone interview: Baroness tells Laura Kuenssberg that lying over PPE contracts ‘not a crime’ (video)

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https://youtu.be/idKUYMKQOYs?si=bNizgNtbaxIAOkG0

Michelle Mone interview: Baroness tells Laura Kuenssberg that lying over PPE contracts ‘not a crime’

Evening Standard

258K subscribers

86,807 views Dec 17, 2023

Baroness Michelle Mone has admitted she did not tell the truth about her links to PPE firm Medpro, but insisted that she and her husband have “no case to answer”.

The company is currently being investigated by the National Crime Agency (NCA), while the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has since issued breach of contract proceedings over a 2020 deal on the supply of gowns.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20116660 (222338ZDEC23) Notable: Updated Glasgow LEZ Bun | Updated Humza Yousaf Bun | Updated Michelle Mone Bun / Baroness Mone hits back at PM over PPE MedPro scandal (video)

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Baroness Mone hits back at PM over PPE MedPro scandal

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Baroness Michelle Mone has hit out at the prime minister after he insisted he took the scandal surrounding a PPE company she was linked to "incredibly seriously".

The Tory-appointed peer and her husband, Doug Barrowman, have been embroiled in a row over their associations with PPE MedPro after it was awarded multi-million-pound contracts by the government for personal protective equipment during the pandemic.

The pair continually denied any involvement with the firm, but leaked documents showed she had recommended PPE MedPro to Cabinet Office ministers.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20119735 (231630ZDEC23) Notable: Nicola Sturgeon & SNP Bun Part One / Ferguson Marine ferries fiasco is a monument to SNP incompetence; Turkish shipyard set to launch new ferry after just two years of construction

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Ferguson Marine ferries fiasco is a monument to SNP incompetence that looks set to keep getting bigger – Scotsman comment

Opinion by Scotsman comment • 11h

Ferguson Marine shipyard warns that ‘supplier issues’ mean the two ferries being built for CalMac could be delayed by up to two months

After the week the SNP have had – dominated by a chorus of justified outrage and condemnation of the Scottish Budget – they must have been looking forward to a break from it all over Christmas. However, ministers didn’t manage to make it to the end of the week before they were hit by another piece of bad news.

Once again, for the umpteenth time, we learned that the two over-budget and much-delayed CalMac ferries being built at the state-owned Ferguson Marine shipyard face yet more delays. As a reminder, these ferries were commissioned in 2015 and were supposed to have been in service in 2018. They were supposed to cost £97 million, but the current estimate is now £337 million.

In a letter to MSPs, Ferguson Marine chief executive David Tydeman revealed that “supplier issues” could cause up to two months’ delay. And, what’s more, the shipyard plans to review the current completion “dates and budgets” on January 25. Given the consistent direction of travel, that can surely mean only one thing – even more taxpayers’ money and an even longer wait for these much-needed ferries.

Neil Gray, the Well-being Economy Secretary, said news of the review was “extremely concerning”, adding that he had recently “impressed upon” Tydeman that the Scottish Government was facing “significant challenges... in terms of spending” and that “he should exercise every possible mitigation over potential overspend”.

The Scottish Government thinks that its recent decision to increase the top rate by 1p will raise an extra £82 million, or expressed in ferry terms, about half of one. However, the sum raised may well be less as higher earners take steps to cut their bills. High taxes already appear to be putting people off moving to Scotland and there are fears a “brain drain” could gather pace.

So ministers' calamitous handling of the ferry project may well have prompted them to take a step that is causing serious damage to the Scottish economy. Ferrygate is not quite the disastrous Darien scheme – not yet anyway – but it is, without doubt, a monument to SNP incompetence.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20126259 (250108ZDEC23) Notable: Final Historic Abuse Bun / Beneath the Magic Circle (video)

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BENEATH THE MAGIC CIRCLE

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A Scottish lawyer is convicted on historic child abuse charges, BBC Disclosure speaks to his victims and explores how he hid his crimes for decades. Reporter Myles Bonnar also revisits a 30-year-old scandal that rocked the legal establishment. For the first time on camera, members of the police, press and judiciary look back on the so-called 'Magic Circle Affair' and its major players. We ask whether there was a dark circle of criminality operating beneath this scandal. DISCLOSURE BBC