/qnotables20/ - ===Q Notables 2020===

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/12303686 (040335ZJAN21) Notable: Sir Brian Urquhart, who helped establish the United Nations, dies aged 101, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 380b03b18ae56e252158cfe9e8057379ed9ed6e22b723d645ddf4945faca5e35.png

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Washington Post and others are carrying the story as well

Sir Brian Urquhart, who helped establish the United Nations, dies aged 101

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1345909636436795399

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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>>181661

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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>>181662

Yes that is correct as was post >>180273

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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>>181665

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

>>181661

>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.

>>181664

>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.

>>181667

> 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

>>181643 30 Sept 2020

>>181644, >>181645 7 Oct 2020

>>181646, >>181647, >>181648 28 Oct 2020

>>181649 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/12541569 (160121ZJAN21) Notable: Final Covid 19 Bun / Urgent recall issued on hand sanitiser being sold in the UK as analysis reveals gel contains 'highly toxic banned substance', MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 7f1d68ae15ee05953f83ea63619e4e0a8b6cdf7347db8ff90aa9198c5bfe8fa8.png, bb6e8002c3b7b5424cb9beef5e8d2073438beaf0af7dff122c9ccc7ff2d88110.png, 989defa791dd3a0da83f9ca417b4fc73ad7cafb239282446866c1166d2acbff9.png

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Originally General Research #16011 >>>/qresearch/12540579

Urgent recall issued on hand sanitiser being sold in the UK as analysis reveals gel contains 'highly toxic banned substance' that can lead to BLINDNESS if ingested

The Trading Standards has issued a recall for two hand sanitiser gels

One gel called 'lbcccndc Instant Hand Sanitiser' was found to contain methanol

Methanol can cause a range of side effects if ingested, including blindness

The other gel, Yucky Hands, was recalled after tests showed it did not contain sufficient levels of ethanol to kill germs, such as the Covid-19 virusSince the coronavirus pandemic kicked off last year, hand sanitisers have become staple items in most people's bags.

But a new report has warned that some hand sanitiser products available to purchase online may be unsafe to use.

Trading Standards has issued a recall for two hand sanitiser gels being sold on Amazon and eBay, which were found to pose serious health risks to the public.Worryingly, one of the gels was found to contain 37 per cent methanol - a highly toxic banned substance that if ingested, can lead to blindness and death.

Methanol is currently on The Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association's list of banned ingredients allowed in any hand sanitisers in the UK.

The gel, which was sold in the UK on AliBaba and Ebay, was found to contain 37 per cent methanol - a toxic alcohol that is used industrially as a solvent, pesticide, and alternative fuel source.

According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), methanol can can cause a range of nasty side effects if ingested.

The CDC said: 'Methanol's toxicity is due to its metabolic products. The by-products of methanol metabolism cause an accumulation of acid in the blood (metabolic acidosis), blindness, and death.'

Methanol is on the UK's list of banned ingredients for hand sanitisers, and has been call 'unacceptable' by the FDA.

The FDA said: 'Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitisers and must not be used due to its toxic effects. FDA’s investigation of methanol in certain hand sanitisers is ongoing. The agency will provide additional information as it becomes available.'

Ibcccndc Instant Hand Sanitiser was also found to contain insufficient levels of ethanol (7 per cent) to kill germs, such as the Covid-19 virus.

Meanwhile, the second hand gel to be recalled was called Yucky Hands, despite the fact that its US-based producer, YuckyGroup, claimed the gel was 'FDA & WHO approved'.

While this hand sanitiser did not contain methanol, an analysis revealed that it only contained an alcohol volume of 42.3 per cent, which is considered insufficient to effectively kill viruses.

Natalie Hitchins, Head of Home Products and Services at Which?, said: 'It's really worrying that hand sanitisers that at best fail to protect and at worst could cause serious harm to someone's health continue to be found readily available on online marketplaces.

http://www.webnewsys.com/2021/01/urgent-recall-issued-on-hand-sanitiser.html

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/12699497 (242204ZJAN21) Notable: Scottish Labour leadership contender Anas Sarwar accepted £4000 donation from firm owned by convicted paedophile, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: anas_sarwar_gordon_brown_and_johann_lamont_dailly_record_article_sarwaar_accepting_donation_from_convicted_paedophile.png

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an article from dailyrecord.co.uk

24/01/2021

Scottish Labour leadership contender Anas Sarwar accepted £4000 donation from firm owned by convicted paedophile

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/millionaire-sex-offender-gave-4000-23374250

"Scottish Labour leadership contender Anas Sarwar accepted a £4000 political donation from a company owned by a convicted paedophile.

The MSP was given the money by Ali Najafian’s A&G Investments Ltd to fund his successful campaign to be party deputy.

Iranian businessman Najafian admitted a catalogue of sex offences against young girls in 1992.

A 12-year-old victim was so traumatised she tried to take her own life three times and had to undergo psychiatric counselling.

Anas Sarwar will compete against Monica Lennon for the role of party leader after Richard Leonard stood down earlier this month

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Najafian – who has 18 company directorships – instructed lawyers to threaten to go to court and get a gag order preventing us from revealing details of his past and his cash gift.

The 64-year-old property tycoon owns A&G Investments with brother Gholam.

He has been at the centre of controversy several times over the years – including a cramped labour camp filled with Eastern European workers being found on his land.

As well as the donation in 2011, Najafian’s firm has given £8000 in total to Scottish Labour – a further £2000 went to its Glasgow Central branch in 2010 months before Anas took over the seat from his dad Mohammad Sarwar – along with £2000 to the wider party.

A spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission confirmed it is the responsibility of political parties and individuals to check if donations come from a permissible source.

There is no suggestion that Sarwar broke any electoral rules.

Married dad-of-three Sarwar, 37, is running against Monica Lennon to become Scottish Labour’s next leader after Richard Leonard stepped down earlier this month.

He admitted having met Najafian at party events and knowing his nephew but claimed he was unaware of the convictions.

Sarwar said: “I had no knowledge of these abhorrent revelations from 30 years ago about a director in a company which donated to the Labour Party and my campaign a decade ago.

“I am angry about this and any insinuation that I would have ever accepted this donation with that knowledge is deeply distressing.

“It is also upsetting, and I feel not a coincidence, to see this surfacing in the week I have launched my campaign to reunite the country – but that only makes me more determined to change our politics and rebuild our nation.”

Despite calls for Najafian to pay compensation to his victims in 1992, the taxpayer paid the bill for a criminal injuries award after his appearance at Hamilton Sheriff Court.

He was sentenced to complete 200 hours of community service and one year’s probation.

In 2005, a site housing Polish labourers in cramped conditions was uncovered by firefighters at a farmhouse which was owned by Najafian at the time.

Some 30 workers – five to a room – were lodging in portable cabins on Greenfield Farm, near Eaglesham, Renfrewshire.

Ali Najafian's farmhouse in 2005

Firefighters found the squalid digs after being called to a blaze at the property and a local authority probe was launched over claims the accommodation block had been erected without permission.

At the time, Najafian said he had rented the farm to a German firm and had no idea it was being used for accommodation.

In 2006 Najafian was again at the centre of controversy over plans to pull down a play park on land he owned.

He had bought the plot in Barrhead five years earlier – while the play equipment was owned by East Renfrewshire Council.

The businessman closed the site because talks aimed at giving him an alternative piece of land broke down and he wanted the council to pay him rent.

When we contacted Najafian on Friday he said: “Please please, I swear to God I have never done anything wrong in my life, I have got a daughter, I have got corona.”

The sex offender appeared in the Sunday Mail after admitting a catalogue of horrendous offences against young girls

His legal team said they planned to take the Sunday Mail to the Court of Session within 24 hours in a bid to have our revelations blocked via an interim interdict.

However, they later climbed down and dropped the threat.

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/12858564 (081023ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Could Alex Salmond bring down Nicola Sturgeon?, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: _116598087_adec334c_8dd0_46fb_ae00_26b7bc6d5875.jpg

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>>181682

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55738179

Could Alex Salmond bring down Nicola Sturgeon?

In the next few weeks, the two most prominent figures in SNP history are expected to give evidence at a Holyrood inquiry into how the Scottish government handled harassment allegations against the former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond.

Mr Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading the Scottish Parliament and breaching the ministerial code.

Ms Sturgeon's spokesman has accused Mr Salmond of spinning false conspiracy theories.

The row could have significant implications for Scottish politics.

"He's trying to bring the house down."

That was the conclusion of one of Ms Sturgeon's close allies shortly after it emerged Mr Salmond was publicly accusing her of misleading the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.

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

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>>181683

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/12887130 (110237ZFEB21) Notable: Final Salmond and Sturgeon bun / Full text: Alex Salmond’s submission to the Hamilton inquiry, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: feba842a9f5117e666b2502805e20aeadebcfb45058554b9b19168a8964da9ad.png

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Originally UK #32 >>>/qresearch/12879808

Sturgeon is evil, what is unfolding in Scotland will hopefully be her downfall.

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

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)

Continued at sauce (Its not massively long):

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

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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>>181688

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............

>>181675

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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>>181690

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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>>181691

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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>>181692

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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>>181693

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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>>181696

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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>>181697

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

>>181637 Mystery illness in India, one year delta from first covid case (BBC video)

>>181638 Ninety year-old woman from Northern Ireland first to recieve Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outisde clinical trials

>>181639 Health and care workers get first vaccine in Wales

>>181640 Coronavirus Scotland: £185m business support 'too little too late'

>>181651 Covid-19 in Scotland: Show us the data on new virus strain, demand scientists

>>181652 Police Scotland to double its presence in border areas but no checkpoints planned

>>181653 Check Point secures and streamlines management of NHS Scotland's sensitive health data in the public cloud

>>181654 The five key events in the fake pandemic

>>181655 Moderna 2018 prospectus

>>181656 JAG DRAG Coronavirus Scotland: Frontline medics still waiting for vaccine as ‘non-clinical staff get jag’

>>181657 Catherine Austin Fitts || Planet Lockdown

>>181660 Sturgeon to Scottish Parliament on "British virus" and lock downs

>>181665, >>181666 Scottish police use lockdown powers to storm into a home and violently arrest the family

>>181674 Urgent recall issued on hand sanitiser being sold in the UK as analysis reveals gel contains 'highly toxic banned substance'

>>181677 Scotland Extends Virus Lockdown Until at Least Mid-February

>>181678 Nicola Sturgeon admits Covid vaccine wastage in Scotland following rollout

>>181679 Coronavirus in Scotland: 76 more deaths in the last 24 hours as 1,307 more people test positive

>>181685 CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

>>181695 UK looks set to embrace World Economic Forum's idea of immunity passports

>>181696 Larkhall, South Lanarkshire now has a testing center dedicated to testing only people with NO symptoms

>>181697, >>181698 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

>>181643 30 Sept 2020

>>181644, >>181645 7 Oct 2020

>>181646, >>181647, >>181648 28 Oct 2020

>>181649 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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>>181661 Slow pace of Lady Smith's Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry upsets survivors

>>181662, >>181663 References to Scotland #1

>>181664 Pages 5-9 of Michael Russell's statement to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry as past Minister

>>181667 Continuation of the statement of Michael Russell

>>181668 Michael Russell statement to the Scottish child abuse inquiry…pages 15-19

>>181669 More Michael Russell statement

>>181670 Info on Lady Ann Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry SCAI and 2 others

>>181675 Page 20 of Michael Russell's statement to the public inquiry

>>181688 Pages 21-23 of Michael Russel's statement plus CELSIS screenshot and LEECH attatchment

>>181689 Carloway and Gill (video)

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

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>>181676 UKColumn News - Alex Salmond malicious attack by Nicola Sturgeon

>>181680 Pressure piles on Crown Office & Inquiry demands evidence held back from Salmond court case

>>181682 Holyrood inquiry session with Salmond called off

>>181683 Could Alex Salmond bring down Nicola Sturgeon?

>>181684 Did Nicola Sturgeon break the ministerial code?

>>181686 Full text: Alex Salmond’s submission to the Hamilton inquiry

>>181690 The crown office has intervened in the removal of the private submissions by Alex Salmond to the convener of the Scottish Parliament

>>181691, >>181692, >>181693, >>181694 Alex Salmond Submission (four parts)