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UK recalls faulty masks worth £252 MILLION bought from company linked to government adviser


Business Insider
Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:52 UTC
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© Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty ImagesA man wearing a FFP2 respirator on a train in Stuttgart, Germany, on April 15, 2020.
Fifty million face masks bought by the UK government for frontline healthcare workers are being recalled because the straps aren't tight enough.

The FF2 respirators were supplied to the National Health Service (NHS) by Ayanda Capital as part of a £252 million ($331 million) deal, signed in April, to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to health workers, court documents show.

However, the government has said that the masks use fastenings around the ears rather than the head, meaning they may not fit tightly enough, the BBC reported.

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There is no political solution to the Syrian conflict thanks to US and Turkey's continued belligerence

Steven Sahiounie
Global Research
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Syria war
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of the Obama administration, created a mantra for the media: "There is no military solution to Syria." He said it so many times, he seemed to convince everyone. However, after 9 years of conflict it appears there is neither a military, nor political solution for Syria. Despite the fact that the Syrian government under President Assad, with help from Russia, has regained 70% of the territory, and all the major cities are calm, still there is no possibility for recovery or reconstruction of hospitals, schools, homes and lives due to the US sanctions.

President Erdogan of Turkey, a close ally of President Trump, and NATO member, ensured that a military solution was impossible for Syria. By Turkey's invasion and occupation of Idlib, and the northeast region, the Syrian Arab Army was prevented from clearing out the Al Qaeda terrorists who occupy Idlib. On a second track, Turkey prevented the Kurdish northeast, who are US allies, from coming to an agreement with the Damascus government. Erdogan's invasion and continuing occupation of Syria was for Erdogan's benefit, as well as the strategic goals of his ally Trump, who has also invaded and continues to occupy the main oil and gas wells in Syria, thus preventing the Syrian government from using their own resources to recover and reconstruct after almost 10 years of war.

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Blackmail: Twitter bans Trump campaign until it deletes tweet with COVID-19 'misinformation'

Zack Budryk
The Hill
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:15 UTC
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© Fox Business News/KJNTwitter bans Trump tweets until he complies.
Twitter has locked the Trump campaign's account over a clip containing 'misinformation' about the novel coronavirus, saying the account will be able to resume tweeting only if it deletes the tweet in question.

The clip comes from a Fox & Friends interview and features the president claiming children are "almost immune" from the virus. The same excerpt was removed from Facebook earlier Wednesday.

The tweet "is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation," Twitter spokesperson Liz Kelley told the Washington Post. "The account owner will be required to remove the tweet before they can tweet again."

The campaign has the option to appeal the decision.


Comment: To twit or not to twit - is the presidential question:


Twitter, Facebook, YouTube label Trump video 'false information' on hydroxichloroquine:




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These two charts should land Dr. Fauci in prison

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 08:50 UTC
Fauci AAPS
© Getty Images/creativeneko/shutterstock/AAPS/KJNDr. Anthony Fauci, Dir. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a leading non-partisan professional association of physicians across the United States. Today the AAPS filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to compel the release to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).

Here are two charts that show hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness in treating the coronavirus.
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© AAPS
And here is another chart proving the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine.
HCQ effective chart
© Global HCQ studiesHCQ effectiveness study
What makes things worse is the fact that the federal government, the FDA and HHS, are withholding 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine that were donated to these agencies from the public.

Comment: On a 'cellular' level, prison is the quintessential form of 'lockdown' and 'social distancing'.

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Democrats' election plans are far more radical than the media will tell you

Jonah Gottschalk
The Federalist
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump Swan
© HBOPresident Donald Trump interviewed by Axios’ Jonathan Swan
Sending millions of ballots across states based on outdated voter rolls is just one of numerous controversial ideas being signed into law by Democrats while the media covers for them.

Democrats are planning a collection of unnecessary, dangerous, and wildly unpopular election changes for November, and you'd never even hear about it if you only read corporate media. A recent interview between President Trump and Axios journalist Jonathan Swan goes a long way toward exposing what's going on.

In it, the president alleged Democrat politicians in California plan to send unrequested mail-in ballots to every voter in the state. He then began discussing the security issues implicit in blasting off more than 20 million ballots based on outdated and inaccurate voter rolls.

Swan quickly interrupted, insisting Trump's claims were false, and that applications were of course needed to receive a ballot. In an extraordinary display, he interrupted the president five times in less than a minute, again and again insisting's Trump's argument was false.


Comment: Did the president really think he could talk logic to a mind-locked media guy baiting for reactions with agenda attached? The interview is nauseating.

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UK govt. refuses to release info about Assange judge who has 96% extradition record

Matt Kennard, Mark Curtis
dailymaverick.co.za
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Instagram/Keystone/Facundo ArrizabalagaJudge Vanessa Baraitser • Julian Assange
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assange's extradition to the US in what appears to be an irregular application of the Freedom of Information Act, it can be revealed.

Declassified has also discovered that the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, has ordered extradition in 96% of the cases she has presided over for which information is publicly available.

Baraitser was appointed a district judge in October 2011 based at the Chief Magistrate's Office in London, after being admitted as a solicitor in 1994. Next to no other information is available about her in the public domain.

Baraitser has been criticised for a number of her judgments so far concerning Assange, who has been incarcerated in a maximum security prison, HMP Belmarsh in London, since April 2019. These decisions include refusing Assange's request for emergency bail during the Covid-19 pandemic and making him sit behind a glass screen during the hearing, rather than with his lawyers.
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Jerry Nadler in 2004: 'Paper ballots are extremely susceptible to fraud'

Sean Adl-Tabatabai
News Punch
Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownJerry Nadler in 2004, who remains blown out of proportion today.
A resurfaced C-SPAN video from 2004 shows Jerry Nadler fiercely opposing paper-based ballots during a Capitol Hill hearing.

At the hearing, a member of the public spoke in support of paper ballots, citing research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which said hand-counted paper ballots to be "among the most reliable" voting methods.

But Nadler didn't agree with that claim:

"Paper ballots are extremely susceptible to fraud," he said.

"And at least with the old clunky voting machines that we have in New York, the deliberate fraud is way down compared to paper."

"When the machines break down, they vote on paper - they've had real problems," he warned.

"There's gotta be a way of getting the best of our methodologies," but offered no suggestion for an alternative voting method.

Comment: The Dems couldn't remove Trump with Russiagate nor their impeachment debacle. To highjack the election and assure Biden's win, the public must be convinced to endorse ballot harvesting, the opposite of their own concerns in 2004.

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Snakes in Suits

Psychopath John Bolton slams Trump's Middle East policy, says US should have toppled Iranian regime


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:43 UTC
John Bolton
© AP Photo / Patrick Semansky
This is not the first time the ex-Trump administration official has criticised his former boss. He recently released a tell-all book about his days as national security adviser, depicting POTUS as purportedly being incompetent in matters of foreign policy.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has once again stepped up his criticism of Donald Trump's foreign policy. This time he took aim at the president's approach to Iran, which it slapped with heavy sanctions in 2018 and whose top general, Qasem Soleimani he ordered to kill in January 2020.

In an interview with the Kurdish network Rudaw TV, Bolton stated that all these measures against Iran were insufficient to force the country into abandoning its alleged ambition to acquire nuclear weapons - an aspiration that Tehran strenuously denies. Still, the former official said that the Iranian government didn't give "any sign whatever" that they had decided to drop the development of a nuclear programme and hence, in Bolton's opinion, it should be toppled.

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Democratic Party boosters have little to offer Biden campaign

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Madeleine Albright
Donald Trump might be described as unique as a president of the United States in that he constantly impulsively self-promotes in a bizarre fashion which the Independent has described as "wild days of authoritarian and incoherent outbursts." But normally politicians are canny enough to steal and connive out of sight without letting on what they are doing or thinking. Given that, you know you are in deep trouble as a nation when a major political party is so tone deaf as to persist in introducing spokesmen who suffer from serious negative perceptions to boost the chances of their current candidates for office. That is precisely what the Democratic Party has been doing when it keeps employing the Obamas and Clintons to promote the Democratic National Committee platform and its candidates for the November elections while also supporting the campaign of Honest Joe Biden.

Reminding the national electorate of the legacies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama guarantees that voters normally inclined to vote Republican or even independent will be energized and turn out in large numbers in spite of their disdain for Trump's style. Hillary, after all, should still be in jail for her mishandling of classified information while Barack ought to be in prison for life for having given the orders to assassinate American citizens without due process while also using the intelligence and law enforcement agencies to undermine the Donald Trump campaign. Hillary and Barack were also complicit in unnecessary wars against Libya and Syria that have devastated both countries.
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Gaffe-smothered Biden laughs off the idea he should take a cognitive test, backs out of attending Democratic convention on Covid-19 fears


RT
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:42 UTC
Biden
© AFP / Mark Makela; GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA; Getty Images via AFP
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has mocked an interviewer who asked him if he would take a cognitive test, and also dismissed Donald Trump's challenge to do so.

"Why the hell would I take a test?" the 77-year-old politician asked, during a Tuesday Yahoo News interview after confirming that he has not taken one. Biden then used his catchphrase "come on, man" to mock the very idea, adding that it is like asking the interviewer, Errol Barnett, if he has been taking cocaine before the interview.


Biden concluded by saying he believes that Barnett was trying to "goad" him during the interview, but nevertheless he is looking forward to have an opportunity to "sit or stand with the president on the debates." The presumptive Democratic Party nominee then cut himself off, concerned he would say "something he shouldn't say."

Comment: Jill Biden, Joe's wife, recently said that the Democratic nominee would be debating Trump - but in related news it looks like Biden will not attend the Democratic convention on Covid fears:
Joe Biden won't be traveling to Milwaukee as planned to accept the Democratic presidential nomination - he and other scheduled speakers at the party's national convention will give their speeches remotely, due to Covid-19 fears.

"From the very beginning of this pandemic, we put the health and safety of the American people first," Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said Wednesday.

"We followed the science, listened to doctors and public health experts, and we continued making adjustments to our plans in order to protect lives. That's the kind of steady and responsible leadership America deserves. And that's the leadership Joe Biden will bring to the White House."

Perez didn't explain how Biden's presence at a 188,000-square-foot venue with attendance limited to about 300 at next month's scaled-down convention would jeopardize lives. Nor did he give details on how or where the candidate would give his acceptance speech. The convention begins on August 17.

Biden traveled to Houston in June to meet with the family of George Floyd, the black man whose May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody set off a wave of anti-racism protests across the country. He has given speeches in recent weeks in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, but his campaign has been largely run remotely from his home, leading to quips from Republicans that Biden is being hidden in his basement until election day to cover up his incompetence.

"OK. Joe Biden is not even campaigning, won't go to the DNC, has no VP. WTF is this?" independent journalist Tim Pool asked on Twitter. Other critical posters questioned whether Biden was sick or incapacitated and mocked his low-profile campaign strategy, such as one user who said, "Translation: I am not a serious candidate. I need to have my leash on when I speak, and I can do this if I stay at home."


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