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UK's Parliament bars exempt from 10pm curfew, venues designated as 'workplace canteens' and not subject to new rules

Clea Skopeliti
Independent
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Boris Johnson
Parliament's bars are exempt from the government's new coronavirus restrictions imposed last week, including the 10pm curfew, stricter rules on face coverings and test and trace data-gathering requirements.

Bars in the House of Commons are not subject to the new rules for hospitality venues as they are designated "workplace canteens".

Under the new rules, "workplace canteens may remain open where there is no practical alternative for staff at that workplace to obtain food".

As well as being free to remain open beyond 10pm, the new, stricter rules regarding wearing face coverings and customers checking in at venues will also not apply to parliamentary bars, according to a report in The Times.

A spokesperson for the House of Commons confirmed that the new restrictions on hospitality do not apply to the venues on the parliamentary estate, saying: "As catering outlets providing a workplace service for over 3,100 people working on the Estate, the current regulations on hospitality venues do not apply to Commons facilities."

Comment: This flagrant hypocrisy on the part of the UK government reflects not only the incredible sense of self-entitlement this arrogant bunch has - but will eventually make the already pissed off public even more ready to see some elite heads roll.

Note to UK politicians: People are paying attention:



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Alarm Clock

Leaked Documents Expose How US and Gulf Allies Send Weapons to Terrorists Under Diplomatic Cover

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:33 UTC
ISIS Jihadi

Thanks Murica! You're number 1!
Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has been fired from her job at the Trud newspaper in Bulgaria after reporting how the CIA (and others) run a covert operation where US defense contractors are used to procure weapons from Bulgarian and other East European arms manufacturers and send them to terrorist groups around the world, including al-Qaeda/al-Nusra/ISIS in Syria.

While in Aleppo in December 2016, Gaytandzhieva obtained access to underground weapons storage areas belonging to al-Nusra Front, the terrorist group that was routed from Aleppo by the Syrian Arab Army and the Russian military. In the storage areas Gaytandzhieva found boxes of weapons that displayed airway bill numbers, packing lists and other markings that proved they had come from Bulgarian manufacturers.

More recently, Gaytandzhieva received documents from an anonymous source that included correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the embassy of Azerbaijan in Bulgaria. The leaked documents detail the purchase and movement of tons of weapons to and from European and Middle Eastern nations. The weapons were picked up and flown to their destinations by Azerbaijani (Azeri) national cargo airline Silk Way Airlines under Azeri diplomatic cover in order to avoid inspection.
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Propaganda

'Fake news': New York Times hit piece claims Trump paid no federal taxes

Madison Dibble
Washington Examiner
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 18:37 UTC
Trump
© REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a news conference inside the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House September 27, 2020 in Washington, U.S.
President Trump denied a report that said he paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and his first year in office.

The New York Times published a report on Trump's financial information, which he has long kept out of public view, about half an hour before the president held a news conference in the White House on Sunday. The report also comes two days before the first presidential debate against Joe Biden and 37 days ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Asked to respond to the New York Times's reporting, Trump said the report about years of tax avoidance was not accurate, and he would release his tax returns once they are no longer under audit.

"That is fake news. That is totally fake news," Trump said.

Comment: See also: North Carolina board of elections members resign after Democratic dominated 'changes' allow easier ballot harvesting

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Bizarro Earth

North Carolina board of elections members resign after Democrat dominated 'changes' allow easier ballot harvesting

Morgan Phillips
Fox News
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:38 UTC
North Carolina ballot

Ballot harvesting is the practice of allowing political operatives and others to collect voters' ballots and turn them in en masse to polling stations
A pair of state elections board members in North Carolina resigned this week after a lawsuit settlement pushed by the Democratic-controlled board that would tweak absentee ballot law to make ballot harvesting easier.

Ballot harvesting, or the practice of allowing political operatives and others to collect voters' ballots and turn them in en masse to polling stations, has drawn bipartisan concerns of fraud from election watchers.

Ken Raymond and David Black were the only two Republican members on the board that has been split 3-2. Notice of their resignations was submitted Wednesday night.

Comment: The US is at a critical juncture in its history and so, whilst vote rigging through various means has been going on for decades now, we are seeing those working behind the scenes doing all they can to stop Trump getting reelected:

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Arrow Up

Yemen, Houthi rebels agree to exchange 1,000 prisoners


Middle East Monitor
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 10:37 UTC
Yemen
© Mohammed Hamoud - Anadolu Agency
People greet their newly released relatives outside the Central Prison in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on September 30, 2019.
The Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels agreed to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners and detainees Saturday, according to government sources, Anadolu Agency reports.

Representatives from both sides met in Geneva to discuss the exchange of 1,008 prisoners and detainees.

Saudi Arabian soldiers will reportedly be included in the exchange but no information was shared about the number.

Yemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in March 2015 after Houthi rebels seized Sanaa and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to flee the country.

Comment: See also:

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Network

Federal judge blocks Trump's effort to ban TikTok from US app stores


RT
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:18 UTC
tiktok logo sign
© REUTERS/Mike Blake
A US District judge has made an 11th hour intervention to block a federal government order prohibiting downloads of TikTok from app stores by American users.

US District Judge Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction, which would allow the popular app to still be on offer in Apple and Google stores, shortly before the ban was supposed to come into force on Sunday midnight. Earlier in the day, Nichols allowed a 90-minute hearing, where a lawyer representing TikTok made the case for it remaining available to users in the US.

Comment: See also:

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Megaphone

Laurence Fox launches a new political party to fight the culture wars

Christopher Hope
The Telegraph
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:30 UTC
laurence fox
© Heathcliff O'Malley for The Telegraph
'Over many years it has become clear that our politicians have lost touch with the people they represent and govern'.
Actor Laurence Fox is launching a political party to fight the culture wars after raising over £1 million, including substantial sums from former Tory donors, The Telegraph can disclose.

Fox hopes to stand dozens of candidates for his new party at the next general election to provide a political movement for people who are "tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against".

His aims include reforming publicly funded institutions, likely to include the BBC, and celebrating Britain's history and global contribution.

Comment: How long before this party is deemed 'racist' by the lefties?

See also:

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Eye 2

6 months MORE of lockdown, a possible 'third wave' of coronavirus, by then a vaccine may be ready, government advisor warns

George Martin
Yahoo
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 11:59 UTC
mask london
© PA
The UK went into lockdown for the first time in March.
One of the government's scientific advisors has warned that a third wave of coronavirus in the UK is "entirely possible" if no vaccine is found.

Professor Mark Woolhouse, from the University of Edinburgh, said the current strategy of stopping flare-ups with lockdowns was failing to solve the problem "in the long-term".

Woolhouse, who sits on the government's advisory body that models pandemics, said a vaccine needed to be found to provide a lasting solution to the pandemic.

"The government's strategy is to sit this out for the next six months, that's what we're told," he told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.

Comment: What easier way to get the public to beg to be vaccinated than to torture them for a year with lockdowns and then dangle the promise of 'freedom' and 'safety', but only if they take a vaccine - a vaccine that is still considered experimental and has yet to pass safety trials due to 'serious concerns'. However, this 'advisor' does leave the door open to alternatives, but god forbid what the Pathocrats might conjure up: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Chess

Sen. Johnson urges Barr to release Durham findings, not to delay until after election

Yael Halon
Fox News
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:19 UTC
barr and trump
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., scolded U.S. Attorney John Durham Sunday over his reported decision to hold off on revealing his findings of the investigation into the origins of the Russia probe until after the 2020 election, calling the move "political" in nature.

Johnson made the comments on "Sunday Morning Futures" after host Maria Bartiromo cited unnamed sources who confirmed it "unlikely" that Durham would release the full report or initiate prosecutions until after the November election.

"Maria, if what you're reporting is correct, it is incredibly disappointing that John Durham is not going to be reporting," Johnson said. "What's political is if he doesn't report."
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Bad Guys

Stunning revelations expose FBI's Trump probe as dirtiest political trick in US history

Gregg Jarrett
Fox News
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:09 UTC
FBI Trump
© Associated Press
It was always a witch hunt designed to "get Trump." Collusion was an illusion invented by a suspected Russian spy but zealously embraced by malevolent actors at the FBI and later by scheming prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team of partisans.

These are the stunning revelations contained in two sets of newly declassified documents that pull back the curtain on the Russia Hoax, the dirtiest political trick in American history.

In testimony that is corroborated by records, FBI Special Agent William J. Barnett has exposed how the bureau's collusion investigation of Donald Trump was based on nothing more than "supposition on supposition" and devoid of any credible evidence.

Assigned to lead the bureau's original investigation into former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Barnett came to realize that the case against Flynn was being engineered or manipulated as way to damage President Trump. Flynn, whose life and livelihood were ruined, became collateral damage.
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