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Bank of England 'lost track' of £50 billion banknotes

Richard Partington
The Guardian
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC

© Antonio Olmos/The Observer
The value of banknotes in circulation has shot up this year during the coronavirus pandemic.

It is known throughout the world as a byword for security. But the Bank of England is evidently a tad unclear on the whereabouts of £50bn of banknotes, and it doesn't seem to be overly concerned about it, a powerful group of MPs has said.

In a stiff rebuke for Threadneedle Street, the Commons public accounts committee said the money - equivalent to a stack of £5 notes more than 800 miles high - had essentially gone "missing" because the Bank did not keep close enough tabs on cash usage in modern Britain.

Despite walls 8ft thick and an imposing reputation for guarding billions of pounds of gold bars in its vaults, the PAC said the Bank had nonetheless displayed a "lax attitude to whereabouts of bulk of sterling cash supply".

Comment: Just wait for a politician pushing policy in line with the 'Great Reset' to use the above story as justification for a cashless society: The Great Reset - The birth of the cashless society

'Running out of time': US adds new demands as Russia makes concessions to save nuclear deterrent deal - envoy

RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:57 UTC

© Reuters / Shamil Zhumatov
FILE PHOTO: Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile systems drive through the Red Square during the Victory Day parade, in central Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2019.

Moscow has agreed to key US demands in a bid to preserve the New START agreement in a race against time to extend the treaty before it expires, the Russian envoy to the US said. Washington then simply made new demands.

"The fate of New START is perhaps the key issue for future arms control," ambassador Anatoly Antonov said at an event hosted by the Brookings Institute on Wednesday.

The 2011 treaty putting a limit on nuclear warheads and their delivery vehicles the US and Russia could possess remains virtually the only active arms control agreement between the two nuclear powers. Yet it is due to expire on February 5, 2021, while Moscow and Washington are locked in uneasy negotiations over its extension.

Comment: See also: Russia nears completion of new nuclear deterrence control site

Prominent Democratic strategist and Newsom adviser facing domestic violence charges

Carla Marinucci
Politico
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:59 UTC

Prominent California Democratic strategist Nathan Ballard — a longtime friend and adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom — was arrested and jailed on two felony domestic violence charges in Napa that include an allegation of attempting to suffocate a four-year-old child with a pillow.

Ballard, 51, was booked on Oct. 18 on two felony charges of willful cruelty to a child with possible injury and death, and domestic violence, according to documents on file with the Napa County Sheriff's Office, shared with POLITICO. He will be formally charged Thursday, according to Napa County Assistant District Attorney Paul Gero.

Ballard is the founder of The Press Shop, a San Francisco-based public relations firm. Until Oct. 19 — the day after the alleged incident — he sat on the board of The Representation Project, a nonprofit founded by First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom to advance women's rights.

Georgia group founded by Stacey Abrams under investigation for seeking out-of-state, dead voters

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:10 UTC

© Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger makes remarks during a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta on Dec. 2, 2020.

Group was previously chaired by Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched investigations into several groups, including one founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, for seeking to "aggressively" register "ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters" before the state's Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections.

Raffensperger's office on Wednesday said the investigations are into groups including America Votes, Vote Forward and The New Georgia Project — which was founded by Abrams and previously chaired by Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock.

Raffensperger for weeks has issued warnings against efforts to register individuals who are ineligible to vote in Georgia's runoff elections or to encourage people to come to Georgia with the sole purpose of casting ballots.

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Bill Clinton's former 'right-hand man' claims the president visited Epstein's Island in 2003

Phil Shiver
The Blaze
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC

Clinton has denied repeatedly ever visiting the infamous island.

Doug Band, a longtime counselor and friend to former President Bill Clinton, claimed recently that Clinton did in fact visit deceased convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's infamous private island — an accusation that Clinton has repeatedly denied for decades.

The claim appears in a lengthy Vanity Fair feature story about Band's time working with Clinton, titled, "Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile," written by Gabriel Sherman.

Comment: It's nice to have yet more outside confirmation, but no one actually believes Clinton when he says he never visited Epstein's island. Multiple witness accounts and flight log entries trump predictable denials. The guy is a serial liar and probably a pervert sex addict. He and Epstein were made for each other.

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Dominion Software was accessible to far Left 'Indivisible' organizers on election night — An Obama-linked group that ENDORSED JOE BIDEN

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC

On November 25th a 21-year-old electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence signed a declaration of evidence for Attorney Sidney Powell in her investigation of the massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The declaration from an active-duty military analyst was made public this week. The young analyst says that within five days of the election he/she was able to connect dominonvotingsystems.com, which is Dominion's proprietary URL, to Belgrade, Iran, China — and Indivisible.org.

The US has a copy of the traffic and the packets of information that were sent to Germany on Election night!

On Monday the first expert at the Arizona State Legislature hearing with Rudy Giuliani was US cybersecurity expert Colonel Phil Waldron.

Comment: Yet again we see how what should ostensibly be a completely neutral and objective voting system was, in fact, a highly sophisticated - if flawed - tool that was imposed, bribed and manipulated into widespread use by the Democratic party and their intelligence, corporatist and globalist backers.

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Israel carried out Iranian scientist's assassination, media claims citing US official

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:23 UTC

Comment: They're so predictable. Sadistic, but predictable. Every single time there's a transition between US administrations, the Israelis either whack somebody on their high-profile targets list, or start bombing lots of their poor neighbors.

assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Iran has already accused Israel of carrying out the hit, but has yet to present evidence to substantiate the claim. Tel Aviv itself has neither confirmed nor denied the accusations, but has been actively opposed to the Iranian nuclear programme that the murdered scientist was working on.

Israel orchestrated and executed the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on 27 November, CNN reported citing an anonymous US administration official. The source noted that normally Tel Aviv warns the White House about its upcoming covert operations, but did not elaborate on whether this was the case with Fakhrizadeh murder.

© REUTERS / WANA NEWS AGENCY
Members of Iranian forces carry the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran November 30, 2020

Comment: If Israel was behind this recent murder, it certainly wouldn't surprise us given its very long and bloody track record:

2,783 of Azerbaijan's troops died during Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - report

RT
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:27 UTC

Azerbaijan has released its first official data on casualties from the conflict over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended with a Russian-brokered truce in November. The Defense Ministry in Baku said 2,783 troops were killed.

More than 100 servicemen were also registered as missing in action during the fighting with Armenia-backed forces who previously held all of the region, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced in a Facebook post on Thursday.

More than 1,240 troops who were injured during the conflict have been undergoing medical treatment, it added. The names and other details about the deceased servicemen will be made public later, with a special commission working to make that happen, the ministry said.

Comment: See also: Nagorno-Karabakh war could've ended weeks ago - Putin

US to withdraw some Baghdad embassy staff as tensions spike in region

Louisa Loveluck
Stars and Stripes
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:00 UTC

The U.S. government has decided to withdraw some staff from its embassy in Baghdad through the final weeks of the Trump administration, officials say, as tensions rise throughout the region.

A person familiar with the withdrawal described it as a temporary "de-risking" that will continue until after the Jan. 3 anniversary of the slaying of senior Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani last year by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad. The individual spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters. The number of personnel to be withdrawn was unclear.

The State Department provided no official confirmation of the drawdown but said that ensuring the safety of U.S. government personnel and facilitates was its "highest priority."

Comment: See also: What War Was Trump Trying to Stop by Killing Iranian General Soleimani?

France's ex-interior minister accused of 'concealing evidence' in case of 80 year old woman killed by police tear-gas grenade

France24
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:02 UTC

© Clément Mahoudeau, AFP
A portrait of 80-year-old Zineb Redouane, painted on a window in Marseille, during a tribute to the Algerian national who died after she was hit by a tear gas canister.

Algerian national Zineb Redouane died shortly after she was struck by a tear gas grenade in her apartment in Marseille. Two years after her tragic death, relatives have filed a legal complaint against former interior minister Christophe Castaner for "concealing evidence" while investigative journalists have challenged the findings of a ballistic report that cleared officers of wrongdoing.

On December 2, 2018, 80-year-old Zineb Redouane died on an operating table at La Conception hospital in Marseille, hours after she was struck by a tear gas grenade fired into her apartment by riot police.

Redouane, an Algerian national, was standing at the window of her fourth-floor apartment in central Marseille when the canister struck her in the face. Relatives said she was trying to shut her shutters amid the chaos of clashes between police and "Yellow Vest" anti-government protesters in her street.

There's probs a good connection! Just think about it.

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Moving the goalposts. and people are too shit stupid to notice or care

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Hang em... All the jab pushers. At this point they are trying very hard to continue blatant bullshit lies in a bid for total societal control

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Scoot Over

I ain't going to watch any more than I didn't watch the OJ trial, which ended exactly as I predicted. The thing is that the state should have...

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Puppet Masters

Bank of England 'lost track' of £50 billion banknotes

'Running out of time': US adds new demands as Russia makes concessions to save nuclear deterrent deal - envoy

Prominent Democratic strategist and Newsom adviser facing domestic violence charges

Georgia group founded by Stacey Abrams under investigation for seeking out-of-state, dead voters

Bill Clinton's former 'right-hand man' claims the president visited Epstein's Island in 2003

Dominion Software was accessible to far Left 'Indivisible' organizers on election night — An Obama-linked group that ENDORSED JOE BIDEN

Israel carried out Iranian scientist's assassination, media claims citing US official

2,783 of Azerbaijan's troops died during Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - report

US to withdraw some Baghdad embassy staff as tensions spike in region

France's ex-interior minister accused of 'concealing evidence' in case of 80 year old woman killed by police tear-gas grenade

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