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Bojo apologises for getting new coronavirus rules wrong, citizens not following "confusing" rules face fines

Aubrey Allegretti
Sky News
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:37 UTC
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Boris Johnson has promised to rewild large swathes of Britain
The PM admits that "clearly for everyone watching this, this is one of those things people will feel is confusing".

Boris Johnson has apologised for muddling up his own coronavirus rules on social gatherings.

The prime minister was questioned about the latest COVID-19 restrictions coming into force for northeast England from midnight on Wednesday.

At first, he said people could meet indoors and outdoors in groups of six in areas where no additional coronavirus restrictions are in place.

But speaking during a news conference in Exeter, he claimed: "In the North East and other areas where extra tight measures have been brought in, you should follow the guidance of local authorities.

"It's six in a home or six in hospitality but as I understand it, not six outside."
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UK PM Bojo declares he will 're-wild' one-third of Britain

Helena Horton
Telegraph
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 10:30 UTC
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Boris Johnson has promised to rewild large swathes of Britain
Boris Johnson has promised to restore to nature 30 per cent of Britain by 2030 as he signs a biodiversity pledge with other UN leaders.

The Prime Minister will today unfurl plans to secure an area of land the size of the Lake District and South Downs national parks combined to make sure almost a third of the country is wild.

Existing National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and other protected areas already comprise approximately 26 percent of land in England.


Comment: So, the claim is to add 4% to the existing total?


The announcement comes as the Prime Minister is set to sign the Leaders Pledge for Nature at a virtual United Nations event later today, committing to put nature and biodiversity on a road to recovery by 2030.

Comment: 'Renewal; the new normal; the financial reset' - evidently the destruction of the environment is a cause for concern, but it's clear that those in power are using the 'green new deal', the financial crash and the coronavirus hysteria to further a nefarious agenda that citizens have had no say in and are unlikely to benefit from:

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Snakes in Suits

Biden dodged $500K in taxes by exploiting loophole - Where is the media outrage?


Zero Hedge
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:12 UTC
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Since the left is now in histrionics over President Trump's perfectly legal use of the US tax code to avoid paying taxes for 10 out of the last 15 years, perhaps they'll give as much attention to Joe Biden - who used another perfectly legal tax 'loophole' to avoid approximately $500,000 in payroll taxes on $15 million in income.

Of course, they ignored it in July when the Wall Street Journal reported that Joe and Jill Biden took advantage of the "S corporation" payroll tax loophole that the Obama-Biden administration unsuccessfully attempted to close.

According to the report, the Bidens routed income from book sales and speeches through S corporations - avoiding the 3.8% self-employment tax they would have paid if they had been compensated directly, and avoiding as much as $500,000 in taxes.

"There's no reason for these to be in an S corp — none, other than to save on self-employment tax," accountant Tony Nitti told the WSJ at the time.
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Hillary Clinton cooked up Russiagate to smear Trump & distract from her own scandals, declassified docs suggest


RT
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:03 UTC
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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton OK'ed a plan to smear then-rival Donald Trump with accusations about Russian election-hacking to distract from her email scandal, newly-declassified papers appear to show.

Clinton approved an advisor's proposal to "vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services" in July 2016, according to information declassified on Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. The bombshell revelation was made public in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chair Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina), in response to a request for information related to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane (i.e. Russiagate) probe.
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Bad Guys

Bill Gates' global agenda and how we can resist his war on life

Vandana Shiva
CounterPunch
Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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Bill Gates
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of a flu viral specimen during a TED Talk and told the audience that it was what the greatest catastrophe of our time would look like. The real threat to life, he said, is 'not missiles, but microbes.' When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth like a tsunami five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as 'a world war'.

'The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus,' he said.

In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited. But, in fact, we are part of the biome. And we are part of the virome. The biome and the virome are us. When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves.
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Assange lawyers expose politically biased medical evidence

Thomas Scripps, Laura Tieman
World Socialist Web Site
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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Julian Assange
Medical evidence continued to be heard in Julian Assange's extradition hearing yesterday, with Dr Nigel Blackwood providing expert testimony for the prosecution. Blackwood is a consultant forensic psychiatrist at the National Health Service and a Reader in Forensic Psychiatry at Kings College London.

Blackwood assessed Assange in April this year and found him to be "moderately depressed." He holds that there is a "elevated risk of suicide" if there is a decision to extradite Assange to the United States, but not a "substantial" one and that this risk is "modifiable and manageable."

Referring to the findings of Professor Kopelman, the defence medical expert, Blackwood said, "I certainly agreed with Professor Kopelman that he had a recurrent depressive disorder." He disputed Kopelman's findings on the severity of that depression but admitted that there seemed to have been an improvement in the months between Kopelman's assessment and his own, accepting there was "variability in [Assange's mood] and his engagement with treatment."

Comment: Physical and mental wellbeing are not concerns when it comes to kangaroo justice involving the exposition of 'crimes' inconvenient to government corruption and the flaunt of power. To deny the most fundamental rights of a human being, should this come to pass, sets a precedent without recourse, most unjust.

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I'm no fan of Trump, but his peace deals in the Middle East are a diplomatic triumph...why is MSM virtually ignoring them?

Ken Silverstein
RT
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:00 UTC
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© Reuters/Tom Brenner
President Trump hosts leaders for Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House.
Donald Trump is having more success at stabilizing some Middle Eastern counterparts than he is at settling political differences in the United States. The 'Abraham Accords' is a big deal - albeit one not just of his making.

For his efforts in the September 15 treaty between Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and, later, Bahrain, the US president has gotten a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. But much as his enormous ego would absolutely love that award, it's unlikely the deal will get him across the finish line.

For starters, these talks were brewing before Trump came on the scene and the complete details have yet to be hashed out. And to his many critics, many of them in mainstream media and academia, Trump is seen as a national embarrassment who is causing civil strife in the country. For them, granting him a Nobel peace prize is seen as laughable.

Comment: See also:

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Trump used Facebook to suppress the Black vote in battleground states during 2016 election, report says

Jessica Guynn
USA Today
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:17 UTC
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President Trump joins in prayer with Black leaders
Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign sought to deter millions of Black Americans in battleground states from voting by targeting them with negative Hillary Clinton ads on Facebook, an investigation broadcast Monday by Channel 4 News in London claims.

Channel 4 News says it obtained a leaked database of voter profiles used by the Trump campaign that included a category called "deterrence," meaning voters who were likely to cast their ballots for Clinton or to not vote at all.

These 3.5 million voters, who were disproportionately Black, were targeted with "dark" ads to dissuade them from backing Clinton, according to the report. The report credits Cambridge Analytica, the Trump-connected data analysis firm that gained unauthorized access to tens of millions of Facebook profiles, with orchestrating the strategy.

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh dismissed the report as "fake news," and said the president has built "a relationship of trust with African American voters," with initiatives on criminal justice reform, opportunity zones and a recent announcement to invest $500 billion in the Black community.

Comment: Ridiculous. Trump supports Black Americans. Unable to compensate for a lame candidate, the Left is desperate for leverage, real or fake. By their track record of the past four years, we can calculate which mode they prefer.

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Biden campaign wants Facebook crack down on voting 'misinformation' by Trump, after illegal pro-Dem ballot scheme uncovered


RT
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:11 UTC
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Joe Biden • Mark Zuckerberg
The Biden campaign has asked Facebook to clamp down on President Trump for spreading "falsehoods about mail voting." Meanwhile, Trump wants an alleged voter fraud scheme in Minnesota investigated.

In a letter to Facebook published by US news website Axios on Tuesday, the Biden campaign accuses the Silicon Valley giant of "regression" on its own pledge to "protect our democracy." The campaign claims that a number of posts by President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Jr, amount to "dangerous claptrap" and a "storm of misinformation."

Trump Jr claims in one video that Democrats "plan to add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your vote and overturn the election," while President Trump encouraged voters casting their vote by mail to show up at their polling place to make sure their vote has been counted, and vote again if possible.

Comment: See also:
Tulsi Gabbard says bipartisan bill banning ballot harvesting will protect 'sacred right to vote'

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Former White House physician echoes Trump's accusation of Biden drug use for debates

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:57 UTC
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© Fox News
Dr. Ronny Jackson (L) Fox News host Sean Hannity (R)
A former White House physician underscored President Trump's claim that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden might take performance enhancing drugs before debating him on Tuesday night.

"Obviously something is going on with this man at this point," Ronny Jackson said on Fox News's "Hannity." "I think it's completely reasonable to ask if he's being medicated because there have been a couple of times where he has come out and looked a little more energetic than he has in the last few months."

Jackson, a Trump loyalist and candidate for a congressional race in Texas, said it is possible Biden is having "good days and bad days" as part of what he called the former vice president's "cognitive decline."

Comment: RT reports Trump is needling Biden on his reluctance, while Pelosi and the MSM push for canceling the debates altogether:
After weeks of suggesting Biden was taking performance-enhancing drugs, Trump tweeted on Sunday that he would be "strongly demanding" the Democrat take a drug test before the first presidential debate on Tuesday - also volunteering to take one himself.


The candidate himself has avoided publicly addressing the matter, brushing off a reporter's question about whether he would take a drug test on Sunday with a "no comment."

Meanwhile, Biden boosters from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to New York Times columnist Charles Blow have argued for calling off the debates altogether. In an op-ed on Sunday titled "We Don't Need Debates," Blow claimed Americans had already made up their minds as to who they were voting for and insisted the small fraction of voters who remained undecided were not worth holding three sure-to-be-messy debates for. While a Trump-Biden debate would be "even more useless" than most, Blow insisted that debates in general rarely altered the course of elections.


"Sure-to-be-messy" debates are exactly why the voting public will tune in. Who's afraid of national screen time here?


Pelosi reiterated her own argument against a Biden-Trump debate over the weekend, telling CBS she still believed Biden should skip the debates because Trump "has no fidelity to fact or truth" and - along with his "henchmen" - was "a danger to our democracy." The California Democrat had previously called on Biden to cancel the debates in August, bizarrely condemning the spectacle as an "exercise in skulduggery."

A novel argument for canceling the debates - not just for 2020, but "permanently" - came from The Nation's Edward Burmila, who stated the debates were "pointless" and that watching them was a waste of time. Presidential debates, he claimed, were "an anachronism of a bygone media era" when voters were still relatively unfamiliar with the candidates. "At best," they "add nothing" - and "at worst, serve as a venue for spreading misinformation." If Americans don't ditch the debates now, they'll regret it, he insisted.

Biden has kept mostly to his basement studio during the pandemic, avoiding all but the friendliest interviews and declining to hold the kind of in-person rallies for which Trump is (in)famous. The Democrat's critics have pointed to his isolation - as well as his apparent confusion and word-slurring during his rare press appearances - as proof of advanced mental deterioration, claiming he's only being propped up with the help of strong drugs.

Trump critics have flung similar accusations back at the commander-in-chief, insisting the president abuses Adderall (pharmaceutical-grade amphetamines) based on allegations made by a former Apprentice staffer during a stand-up comedy routine. The president has denied the claims.

With over 87 percent of Americans over age 65 taking a prescription drug on a regular basis - and a third of Americans over 55 years of age taking five or more prescription drugs, chances are both Trump (aged 74) and Biden (aged 77) are taking something - though whether what's in their medicine cabinets counts as a performance-enhancing drug is another matter.


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