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UK government document quietly introduces vaccine passports by the back door and points to a third lockdown this winter

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:17 UTC
Covid-19 restriction sign
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Covid-19 marshals walk past a Covid-19 road sign in Old Compton Street, Soho.
For all the government's bluster about 'irreversibly' reopening Britain after July 19, official documents paint a very different picture, suggesting lockdowns could well return and Covid passports may become the norm.

Sajid Javid's elevation to UK Health Secretary ushered in a new tone on the part of all government ministers in respect of coronavirus. In a flash, the ambiguity and equivocation that had typified official statements about lockdown for so long vanished, and swaggering confidence about a full and permanent reopening of the country in the very near future became de rigueur across every Whitehall department.

"We must learn to live with Covid," Javid forcefully asserted on June 28, the same day he assumed the post. This bullishness hasn't faltered since, despite a backlash from some sections of the scientific community, and a not insignificant amount of public support for certain restrictions enduring, perhaps permanently. On July 12, he confirmed that the country was pushing full steam ahead with its unlocking roadmap, with all businesses free to reopen and all limitations on human contact over in a week's time.
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Dick Morris: Biden aides attacking Harris to prevent her from invoking 25th Amendment

Martin Walsh
Conservative Brief
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
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Harris speaks • Biden nods off
Things are getting very serious between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Speaking on The Cats Roundtable radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis, political strategist Dick Morris said Biden's aides are leaking stories criticizing Harris because they are concerned she will invoke the 25th Amendment in an attempt to remove the president from office.

Morris began by citing a New York Times article that "talks about how Harris is not ready for prime time. She was antagonizing her staff. She screwed up on the trip to the border."

Morris, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, said he thinks the leak for the story "must have undoubtedly come from the Biden forces."

Morris said that this makes sense, because:
"The rumor I keep hearing from sources close to the White House is that Biden is getting worse. That the dementia is really becoming noticeable and harder to control and harder to camouflage. I believe there may be a move coming to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden and replace him with Harris. Biden's people are pushing back against it by shooting at Harris and saying that she's not really ready to be president."
Morris said it's clear to him the leaks to the NYT came from Biden's allies because
"the only reason for them to do that [is to push back] against the 25th Amendment coup. The Democrats are realizing they're cooked in 2022... They will lose the House. The Senate, they might also lose. I think that there is a sense of panic among Democrats.

Comment: The worst kind of publicity is infighting - unless you are the 'unelected' elected - then switching out a sitting president is no big deal. If that doesn't work out, there is #3: Pelosi.

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Part 2: Why is OPCW chief Fernando Arias afraid of his own inspectors?

Aaron Maté
The Grayzone
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Arias
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Fernando Arias, Director OPCW
The stated mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is to ensure "a world free of chemical weapons." From his executive suite at The Hague, however, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias has been on a different mission: keeping the organization free of accountability for an explosive Syria cover-up scandal, and trying to silence two veteran inspectors who blew the whistle.

Arias has refused to address the manipulation of the OPCW's probe into an alleged chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma. Back in April 2018, the US, UK and France accused Syria of dropping chlorine gas cylinders that killed dozens, and bombed the war-torn country in purported retaliation. The OPCW subsequently reinforced the US-led narrative of Syrian government guilt in a public report issued in March 2019.

A trove of leaks soon exposed a deception both in Douma and then at OPCW headquarters. OPCW inspectors who deployed to Syria had, in fact, found no evidence of a chemical attack. If published, their findings would have undermined the stated pretext for the Western airstrikes, and bolstered suspicions that sectarian insurgents had staged the incident to frame the Syrian government. But senior OPCW officials doctored the team's original report, sidelined its members, and kept its critical findings from the public. US officials were also allowed to visit The Hague and try to influence the probe in their favor.

Rather than investigate the subterfuge, the OPCW leadership - with the backing of the US and other NATO governments - has waged a public campaign against two veteran OPCW scientists who challenged the scandal from within.

Part two of two:

Comment: See Part 1: Pressed for answers on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief offers new lies and excuses

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Power vacuum created by president's killing rattles Haiti

Danica Coto
Yahoo News
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:03 UTC
Claude Joseph
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Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph
Haitians are not only wondering who killed their president, but who's running the country: At least three men claim to be the legitimate head of government, complicating the investigation into the assassination and fueling a race to fill the political power vacuum.

Challenges are mounting against interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who is ruling Haiti with the backing of lean police and military forces that have long lacked resources. He has pledged to work with the opposition and allies of President Jovenel Moïse, who was killed Wednesday at his private residence during an attack in which his wife, Martine, was wounded and airlifted to Miami, where she remains hospitalized.

But few are waiting for Joseph's next steps.

A coalition of main opposition parties called the Democratic and Popular Sector said Tuesday that Haiti lacks a leader:
"This is autopilot. This situation must not continue. The country is unfortunately witnessing a proliferation of proposals for exiting the crisis, which further complicates the task."

Comment: Law enforcement ties revealed in the probe into the circumstances of the death of Haitian president:
One of the Haitian-American men arrested on suspicion of taking part in the assassination of Haiti's president last week had been an informant to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, a DEA official said on Monday.

Haitian authorities last week arrested two Haitian-American men, Joseph Vincent, 55, and James Solages, 35, and charged them with joining 26 Colombians in the fatal attack on Haitian President Jovenel Moise. "These individuals were not acting on behalf of DEA."

"An initial assessment has been conducted in Haiti by senior U.S. officials," said spokesman Anthony Coley. "The department will also investigate whether there were any violations of U.S. criminal law in connection with this matter."

A source close to the investigation said Solages and Vincent told investigators they were translators for a Colombian commando unit that had an arrest warrant for Moise, but that when they arrived, they found Moise dead.

Solages described himself online as a "certified diplomatic agent" and the former "chief commander of bodyguards" for the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. The Miami Herald quoted an unnamed government official as saying that a decade ago, Solages briefly worked for a company that provided security for the Canadian Embassy in Haiti.

"We are aware of allegations implicating an individual who was briefly employed as a reserve bodyguard by a security company hired by Global Affairs Canada in 2010," the newspaper quoted the official as saying.

Florida records show Solages has held security officer and firearm licenses. Few details have emerged about Vincent.
See also:

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US & Russia agree to team up in fight against climate change as stepping stone to improved relations

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:43 UTC
Lavrov
© Sputnik / Sergey Fadeichev
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomes US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, right, during a meeting in Moscow, Russia.
Russia and the US have agreed to work together in the fight against climate change, with both nations believing cooperation in this sphere could lead to reduced tensions between Washington and Moscow in the future.

The joint acknowledgement of cooperation came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US climate change envoy John Kerry met in Moscow on Monday as part of the American's four-day trip to the capital. Kerry is the highest-ranking official from President Joe Biden's administration to have visited Russia since his January inauguration.

After the meeting, both officials were optimistic about how the countries, two of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, could work together for the future of the environment.

Comment: The climate is changing, but it's not because of greenhouse gases, and it clearly isn't warming, that said, the world certainly is poorly prepared:

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Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is the one maverick who can set Americans free from the Big Tech gulag

Robert Bridge
RT
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:06 UTC
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Despite their historical disdain of the Soviet Union, Americans are now prisoners of their own electronic dictatorship that crushes political dissent. Can Trump's battle against Big Tech return free speech to the land of the free?

These days, there are no late-night knocks on the door signaling the deportation of some unfortunate 'comrade' to a penal colony on the outskirts of the empire for the crime of 'wrongthink'.

The overlords of Silicon Valley have effectively streamlined brutal totalitarian techniques, concealing the iron fist of repression inside the velvet glove of algorithms, fact checkers and ever-changing 'community standards'. But make no mistake, the result is the same: the disappearance of individuals who dare hold opinions at variance with those at the commanding heights of our technocracy.
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RT reporter in Baghdad detained by Iraqi security forces but later released - no explanation given


RT
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:39 UTC
Ashraf Al-Azzawi arrested Iraq
© RT
Ashraf Al-Azzawi, was taken to an unknown location by Iraqi security forces
A journalist working for RT has been detained in Baghdad, the network's Arabic channel has reported. Press freedom advocates have argued he was unjustly arrested by Iraqi authorities and have called for his release.

UPDATE: The journalist was released later on Tuesday, according to RT Arabic representatives.

The correspondent, identified as Ashraf Al-Azzawi, was taken to an unknown location by Iraqi security forces under the pretext that his work permit had expired.

Comment: The crackdown on the free press is spreading. Was Al-Azzawi closing in on a story the U.S. vassal would find embarrassing?

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Card - VISA

French president Macron declares medical apartheid: Issues globalist control measures to force EVERYONE into accepting Covid vaccine


The Connexion
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:25 UTC

Comment: Technically, it's not yet 'mandatory vaccinations' but, effectively, it's the same thing...


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President Macron tonight (July 12) announced new measures in a bid to slow the spread of the Covid Delta variant with the emphasis on vaccination.

They include obligatory vaccination for some workers, and much greater use of the pass sanitaire for access to different spaces in everyday life.

In a televised speech President Macron said that at present deaths and hospitalisations due to Covid are at their lowest for a year; however the Delta variant - "three times more contagious than the original version of the virus - was a concern, especially as it "rushes into all the areas not covered by vaccination".

If nothing is done now, cases will continue to rise strongly and there will be a rise in hospitalisations next month, the president said. However all the vaccines used in France "protect solidly" from it: "They cut its power of contamination by 12 and avoid 95% of serious forms".


Comment: Actually, it's the reverse, but that doesn't stop them claiming that only they know how to read and write scientific papers. On that note, it's telling that Macron cited as his authority 'The Science', not God or any 'higher power':
"Nous sommes une Nation de sciences, des Lumières. Quand la science nous offre les moyens de nous protéger, nous devons les utiliser avec confiance dans la raison et dans le progrès. Nous devons viser la vaccination de tous les Français".
Translation:
"We are a Nation of science, of the Enlightenment. When science offers us the means to protect ourselves, we must use them with confidence in reason and in progress. We must aim for the vaccination of all French people."

Comment: So, this Fall, in France, if your children are of school age, the state will inject them with (mostly) 'gene therapy' experimental cocktails, and it will coerce everyone else to 'voluntarily' do likewise, lest they wish to instead spend upwards of 200 euros each time they go shopping for essential goods like food, see a doctor, or even order a coffee.

The mask is fully off now...

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England to lift most lockdown restrictions on 19 July, restrictions could be REIMPOSED, Covid ID coming in autumn

Heather Stewart
The Guardian
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:49 UTC
Sajid Javid

Large indoor venues urged to check customers' status as mask-wearing and gatherings rules swept away
Large indoor venues in England will be urged to check the Covid status of their customers on entry this summer, while prevalence of the virus is high, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced.

Speaking to MPs, the health secretary confirmed the government's plan on 19 July to lift almost all the remaining legal restrictions put in place during the pandemic, including those covering mask-wearing and the size of social gatherings.

But his tone was noticeably more downbeat than a week ago, when he told MPs, "freedom is in our sights once again".

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: The Terrible Toll of Lockdowns



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Snakes in Suits

UK Labour Party to vote AGAINST 'Freedom of Speech' bill, claiming it will embolden 'hate speech'


RT
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:12 UTC
Starmer
© Reuters / UK Parliament/ Jessica Taylor
FILE PHOTO: Keir Starmer speaks during a session in Parliament in London, Britain, May 12, 2021
The British Labour Party will oppose a Tory-sponsored bill that would allow "deplatformed" political speakers to sue universities. Labour leader Keir Starmer claims the bill will enable "Holocaust deniers" and "anti-vaxxers."

The bill, proposed by the Conservative government and headed for a second reading in the House of Commons this week, would amend existing laws safeguarding free speech on university campuses by allowing guest speakers to sue the universities if they are denied a platform over political views. It would also mandate the appointment of a "Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom" within the government's Office for Students, and allow university staff to take legal action if they felt they had been passed over for a job due to their views.

Comment: It's unlikely any of these bills relating to freedom of speech are ideal because they're attempting to plaster over a situation where a significant proportion of is losing its grip on reality, and in large part because of a corrupt political establishment that uses the propaganda media to give legitimacy to the mentally deranged:

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