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TV's favourite SAGE member and lockdown cheerleader is a hardline communist once known as "Stalin's Nanny"

Toby Young
Lockdown Sceptics
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:51 UTC
Susan Michie
Ian Gallagher and Peter Hitchens have written a couple of good pieces in today's Mail on Sunday about Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology at UCL and a leading member of SAGE. She is one of the most zealous advocates of lockdown, believing restrictions should remain in place long after the U.K. population has been vaccinated. Most readers of Lockdown Sceptics will be aware that Prof Michie is a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, but Gallagher has uncovered some interesting tidbits.
There are some things that Prof Michie - whose first husband was Andrew Murray, once a key adviser to former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - is rather less inclined to discuss, including money. Perhaps because she has so much of it. Indeed, she is the blue-blooded descendant of an earl who, along with her brother, sold a family heirloom - a Picasso painting called L'Enfant Au Pigeon - to Qatari royals for £50 million in 2013. This didn't stop her once urging fellow Communists to support Jeremy Corbyn at a presentation with the words: "We, the working class..."
Peter Hitchens also has some interesting details:
The super-rich Communist Susan Michie is so militant that her fellow Marxists once searched her baby's pram for subversive literature.

They lifted the tiny infant out of the way, to check that the future Professor of Psychology was not smuggling ultra-hardline propaganda into a crucial conference.

No wonder that fellow students at Oxford a few years before had called her "Stalin's nanny".
Why is this woman advising a Conservative Government?
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Bad Guys

BoJo can't catch a break - denies he said he'd rather 'let the bodies pile high' than impose another lockdown

Greg Heffer
Sky News
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:45 UTC
boris johnson
Fresh claims about Boris Johnson are "not true" and a "comedy chapter" in an ongoing Westminster briefing war, a cabinet minister has told Sky News.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace strongly rebuffed newspaper allegations the prime minister said in October that he would rather see "bodies pile high in their thousands" than have a third COVID lockdown.

The Daily Mail on Monday reported Mr Johnson exclaimed after a Number 10 meeting at the time: "No more ****ing lockdowns - let the bodies pile high in their thousands!"


Comment: The first statement is on point.


But Mr Wallace told Sky News the claim was "not true", while Number 10 said the newspaper report was "just another lie".

"It's been categorically denied by practically everyone," Mr Wallace added.

"We're getting into the sort of comedy chapter now of these gossip stories - unnamed sources by unnamed advisers talking about unnamed events.

"None of this is serious."
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Newspaper

US backs Minsk peace deal to end bloody conflict in Donbass, contradicting Ukrainian calls for changes


RT
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:01 UTC
Luhansk
© RIA
FILE PHOTO. Luhansk region, Ukraine.
American diplomats have reiterated their support for a longstanding plan to put an end to fighting in war-torn eastern Ukraine, just one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was outdated and should be amended.

On Monday, in an interview with the Financial Times, Zelensky suggested that the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014, were effectively unworkable. "I'm now participating in the process that was designed before my time," he said. "The Minsk process should be more flexible in this situation. It should serve the purposes of today not of the past." He doubled down on the comments speaking to local TV crews later on Tuesday.

The pact, developed by Ukrainian, Russian and international representatives at a meeting in the Belarusian capital, was never implemented, with both Kiev and the self-declared Donbass republics accusing each other of failing to honor their commitments. Its terms include a full ceasefire and a ban on heavy weapons. Recent weeks have seen escalating bloodshed along the contact line, with Kiev's forces clashing with those loyal to the breakaway regions, which have looked to Moscow for support.

Comment: See also:

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'Real frustration': Biden, Harris have skipped almost every COVID conference call with governors

Tim Pearce
The Daily Wire
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
Harris/Biden
© Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
VP Kamala Harris • US President Joe Biden
"Mum's the Word"
President Joe Biden has skipped every conference call with the 50 state governors on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Vice President Kamala Harris has also been absent, only appearing on one of the calls that take place every Tuesday. "That was for about five minutes and she didn't take any questions," Nebraska GOP Governor Pete Ricketts told RealClearPolitics (RCP).

Biden and Harris' absence and lack of communication have frustrated governors who have been blindsided by some pronouncements coming out of the administration.

New Hampshire GOP Governor Chris Sununu told RCP about Biden's failure to talk to state leaders:
"It's been a real frustration, I think it's safe to say, for all 50 governors. It would go a long way if the president would just get on the phone, or the vice president would get on the phone and take questions. Allow us to ask the folks in charge questions."
Instead, governors hear from the administration's medical experts, such as White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Comment: From 'ring-a-ding-a-lingers' Harris and Biden, given prior examples, 'no communication is about as good' as that we may get.

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Whistle

Secret court reveals: FBI hunted for domestic terrorists without a warrant

Spencer Ackerman
Daily Beast
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 06:05 UTC
Christopher Wray
© Reuters
FBI Chief Christopher Wray
A secret court warned the FBI in 2018 about warrantless searches. But the bureau still went looking for "racially motivated violent extremists" in NSA troves without a court order.

The FBI, without any court order, sifted through the National Security Agency's massive troves of foreign communications for information on American "racially motivated violent extremists," a newly declassified order from the secret surveillance court details.

Even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court warned the FBI in 2018 that its warrant-free queries, known as backdoor searches, were constitutionally alarming, the bureau still conducted queries relevant to criminal investigations about, among other things "domestic terrorism involving racially motivated violent extremists." The court's Judge James E. Boasberg found what he referred to as "apparent widespread violations of the querying standard."

That's the euphemistic term the bureau tends to use to denote white supremacist violence. On one occasion, an FBI analyst ran a multi-search-term "batch query" on Americans "in connection with predicated criminal investigations relating to domestic terrorism" that returned 33 foreign surveillance results.

Comment: Timing of the flagged searches brings forth the question: Was the FBI looking for incriminating evidence to upset the 2020 election?

Spoiler alert: The court magnanimously overlooked these violations, as well as the 4th Amendment, and blamed lack of tracking on Covid.

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Austrian Chancellor and German FM warn new sanctions against Russia won't work, both call for dialog instead


RT
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:19 UTC
Kurz/Mass
© Reuters/Lisi NiesnerI/Stefanie Loos
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz • German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
Two of Europe's top politicians have urged Brussels to change its tactics in dealing with Russia, arguing that constructive talks and open dialogue, rather than new sanctions, are the best way to secure stability on the continent.

Speaking to Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz spoke out against the idea of new restrictive measures aimed against Moscow. While, according to him,
"the sanctions already imposed by the EU were the right thing to do. It is now important to focus on dialogue. Peace on our continent can only be achieved with Russia, not against it. I am against additional sanctions as an end in themselves. De-escalation is required. It is difficult, but constant aggravation is not the way we want to go."
The Austrian leader's intervention echoes comments made over the weekend by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. Berlin's top diplomat said ties between Russia and the EU are currently "very bad" and Germany should play a greater role in dialogue with Moscow. He added that dealing with countries one has differences with is the "essence of diplomacy." At the same time, he said, current sanctions in response to the 2014 reabsorption of Crimea would remain in force.
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Network

'Pentagon quietly transfered 175 million internet addresses worth $4B to mysterious firm at shared workspace in Florida


Daily Mail
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:20 UTC
Facility in FLA, Airman
© Google/96th Test Wing Public Affairs
Global Resource Systems LLC, Plantation, Florida • Airman checks network equipment
A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world's computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.

That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 4 percent the size of the entire current internet. It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.

'It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,' said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company.

The sell off of Internet space sparked theories the Pentagon could be eventually responding to repeated demands to monitise its collections of millions of dormant web pages.

But it now seems officials hope to place the pages on the open market in order to allow them to gather huge amounts of intelligence data about Internet users, including hostile actors.

Comment: The Pentagon owning part of the internet is its own secret controversy. Nothing truly important to military or government is revealed before it is fact. The Plantation location is a decoy.

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Passport

European plans for 'vaccine passports' were in place 20 months prior to pandemic. Coincidence?

Paul Anthony Taylor
Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
iphone health passport
© Unknown
With the world being told that so-called 'vaccine passports' will be required for all international travel in future, and in many countries even to enter shops, restaurants, bars, gyms, hotels, theatres, concerts and sports events, the impression we are being given is that the measure is a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic. In Europe, however, which hosts 8 of the top 10 pharmaceutical exporting countries, planning for vaccine passports began at least 20 months prior to the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Apparently, the pandemic conveniently provided European politicians with the 'excuse' they needed to introduce the idea.

The 'European Commission' - the executive body of Europe - first published a proposal for vaccine passports on 26 April 2018. Buried deep in a document dealing with 'Strengthened Cooperation against Vaccine Preventable Diseases', the proposal was essentially ignored by the mainstream media.

A roadmap document issued in early 2019 subsequently set out specific plans for implementing the European Commission's proposal. The primary action listed in the roadmap was to "examine the feasibility of developing a common vaccination card/passport" for European citizens that is "compatible with electronic immunization information systems and recognized for use across borders." The plan aimed for a legislative proposal to be issued in Europe by 2022.

Comment: Planning triggered the events - not the other way around. Nothing this colossal or impactful has come about by accident.

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Arrow Down

Czech government rejects president's comments casting doubts on Russian role in arms depot blast in 2014


RFE/RL
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:04 UTC
Czech depot
© Czech Republic Police/epa
Remains of arms depot that exploded in Vrbetice, Czech Republic
The Czech government on April 26 reiterated that evidence linking Russian GRU military intelligence to arms depot explosions in 2014 is "very convincing," after President Milos Zeman cast doubt over allegations that have sparked a deep diplomatic rift with Russia.

Zeman, who is known for being sympathetic toward Moscow, said during a televised address to the nation on April 25 that there are two theories about what caused the explosion of a munitions depot near the eastern Czech town of Vrbetice in 2014.

He said that one version of events is that Russian intelligence was involved in the deadly explosion. The other version, he said, was that the blast was caused by inexpert handling of ammunition.

"I take both lines [of investigation] seriously and I wish that they are thoroughly investigated," Zeman said.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis on April 17 announced that investigators from the Czech intelligence and security services had provided "unequivocal evidence" that there was "reasonable suspicion regarding a role of members of Russian military intelligence GRU's unit 29155 in the explosion of the munition depot in Vrbetice in 2014."

In response, the Czech government announced the expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats it considered to be spies, setting off a string of tit-for-tat moves between Prague and Moscow.

Comment: See also:

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Bizarro Earth

The WEF's Great Reset - Euphemism for a WWIII Scenario?

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
World economic forum
Let's make no mistake, we are already in WWIII. A more noble term is "The Great Reset" - the World Economic Forum's (WEF) eloquent description of a devastated worldwide economy, countless bankruptcies and unemployment, abject misery, famine, death by starvation, disease and suicide. Hundreds of millions of people have already been affected by this "collateral" damage of the "covid-19" fear-propaganda bio-war, with a death-toll maybe already in the tens of millions, but which in reality cannot even be assessed at this time.

And this only one year into this criminal madness, a diabolical elite of multi-multi billionaires has pushed upon us, We the People. We are only in the first year of the war which by the Reset's plan is to last the entire decade 2020-2030. The agenda is supposed to be completed by 2030 - it's also called UN Agenda 2030.

See this.

The WEF is, in fact, nothing more than an NGO, registered in a lush suburb of Geneva, Switzerland. Its members are, however, a collection of dirty-rich people: High-ranking politicians, heads of corporations, banking gnomes, artists and Hollywood personalities - none of them are people's elected officials with a mandate to rule the world.

Comment: This perspective is a useful one; the idea that there is indeed a 'World War' being perpetrated and waged on the people of the world. This paradigm doesn't easily fall into our usual conception of a World War because it is fought by any government (wittingly or unwittingly) against the very people it is designed to be protecting and serving - its own.

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