veteranstoday--2020-05-26--Lawsuit against Transgender Clinic for Children. Changed in Half-Male, Girl Accuses

It was born to be a cutting-edge specialist center in the treatment of the so-called “ gender dysphoria ” for the minors from three years of age upwards .
So it allowed them to become transgender , adapting their body to gender that most feel comfortable , trhough hormonal , pharmaceutical and surgical therapies .
But it is not a habit that can be changed at any whim : the choice must be made during the period between puberty and adolescence and inevitably affects adult life .
Now the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust clinic in London is already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ girl who has become half male and repentant of her choice and for those of the mother of another 15-year-old teenager destined to undergo “ curative treatments ” despite being autistic .
It was decided by Sir Michael Alan Supperstone , in the UK simply Hon .
Justice Supperstone , a judge from the High Court of England and Wales who upheld the progress of the case that will go live within the next month of July .
Then the pandemic from Covid-19 virus suspended the trials and therefore it is not known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ courtroom .
About this London facility , the only one affiliated with the British National Health Service as Gender Identity Development Service ( GIDS ) , Gospa News had written in April 2019 highlighting the accusations made by various specialist doctors who resigned en masse ( 18 in three years ) for the horrible discovery that hundreds of autistic children were also subjected to the “ trangender ” treatment , therefore minors without their full psychological balance .
Now , while a mother of one of those autistic girls and a girl who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a man blow up the case in a courtroom , the dramatic circumstance emerges that even 35 psychologists have resigned in recent years and have not spared heavy controversy against the alleged superficiality of the assessments .
Otherwise The Tavistock said it always took a cautious approach to treatment .
« Our fears are that young people are being over-diagnosed and then over-medicalized .
We are extremely concerned about the consequences for young people… For those of us who previously worked in the service , we fear that we have had front row @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He anonymously stated one of the 20 psychologists contacted by Sky News among those who have resigned from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust .
Six of them expressed these concerns to the microphones of the network « the over-authorizing of hormone treatment to children with gender dysphoria and felt they couldn ’ t properly explore underlying psychological factors » .
This was reported by a detailed article by Brandon Showalter published in recent days on the Christian Post which highlights that « Their resignations come at a time when the number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dysphoria has increased from 77 in 2009-2010 to 2,590 last year , according to Sky News ’ s research » .
As a result , the workload for health service doctors is “ three times the average ” at about 120-130 per junior clinician , a psychologist told Sky News .
In addition , over 3,000 children are on the waiting list for GIDS so much so that those sent to the clinic will have to wait up to three years for an appointment , according to The Guardian..
THE COMPLAINTS OF THE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the midst of this “ emergency ” of transgender wishes , the legal action of Keira Bell , the 23-year-old girl who at 16 began the transformation into a male and now fears that she has forever compromised her future fertility .
In addition to the cause , the British girl released a shocking interview with the BBC in which she actually confirms the complaints of doctors and psychologists about the excessive speed with which children and adolescents are sent to hormonal therapies for the mutation of sex in developmental age .
« @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the age of 12 , on the basis that those children themselves give fully informed consent , even though the nature of the treatment has side-effects which , we say , supported by the evidence , they can not properly take into account » , said Jeremy Hyam , the lawyer of Susan Evans , the 15-year-old girl ’ s mother ( psychiatric nurse ) awaiting treatment during a hearing in London .
The Evangelical Focus website reported .
Although the case was originally brought by the mother , previously a Tavistock employee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to put Keira Bell as the main claimant in the case , because “ she underwent the treatment that is under discussion in the proceedings.
” And the judge he accepted the request , continuing the lawsuit that should have gone live in the summer before the Covid-19 emergency that seriously hit the United Kingdom .
Keira says she was a tomboy since childhood .
But when asked how much she felt the need to change her gender identity , she replied that « it gradually built up as she found out more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went down the medical route , she said “ one step led to another ” » BBC reported .
She was sent to the Tavistock clinic at the age of 16 .
He said that after three hour-long appointments he was given puberty blocking drugs , which delay the development of sexual signs such as cycle or facial hair .
She sensed that there hadn ’ t been enough investigations or cares before reaching that level .
« I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ network in the interview – And I think that would have made a big difference as well .
If I was just challenged on the things I was saying » .
Various drugs are used to interrupt his normal sexual evolution , among which the best known is Triptorelin , the subject of an investigation by the Health Commission of the Senate of the Italian Republic , after AIFA ( Italian Medicines Agency ) made the medicine not only prescribed with a normal recipe but also loanable , or at the expense of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the first hearings of April 2019 in the previous article .
Since then there have been meetings of the Commission but the contents are still not strangely available… Alessandra D. Fisher , member of the SOD of Sexuality and Andrology Medicine of the Careggi University Hospital of Florence , the first center in Italy specializing in gender identity , explained its usefulness .
« Numerous scientific evidences show how the suspension of puberty induced by Triptorelin in selected and carefully followed cases of adolescents with Gender Dysphoria is able to significantly reduce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as well as improve overall psychological functioning » .
Dr. Fischer is also the Italian member of the Board of Directors of the NGO European Professional Association for Transgender Health ( EPATH ) which since 2015 has pursued the policy of supporting transgenders and has among its testimonials the former Italian transsexual parliamentarian Vladimir Luxuria » .
These hormonal drugs can block the development of the breast , menstruation , facial hair and altered voice in the child , and reduce the development of the same in the male child who wishes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to give them more time to evaluate their options before they go through the physical changes of puberty and to prepare them for any surgical procedures such as the one faced by Keira Bell who had her breasts removed .
« Although puberty blockers are described by the NHS as reversible , GIDS acknowledges that their impact on brain development and psychological health is not fully known » BBC highlighted in the Brithis girl ’ s story .
At 17 , after a year of pharmaceutical therapy for puberty blockade , said she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which developed male characteristics like facial hair and a deep voice .
Three years ago , she had an operation to remove her breasts .
« Initially I felt very relieved and happy about things , but I think as the years go on you start to feel less and less enthusiastic or even happy about things .
You can continue and dig yourself deeper into this hole or you can choose to come out of it and have the weight lifted off your shoulders » stated a few weeks ago .
« @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TEENAGER FANTASY » She decided to stop taking cross-sex hormones last year and said she was now accepting of her sex as a female .
But she was also angry about what had happened to her in the last decade .
« I was allowed to run with this idea that I had , almost like a fantasy , as a teenager… .
and it has affected me in the long run as an adult .
I ’ m very young .
I ’ ve only just stepped into adulthood and I have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or radical difference – in comparison to others at least » adds the girl , now 23-year-old .
Keira ’ s lawyers will argue that children can not weigh up the impact such a treatment might have on their future life , including for instance , on their fertility .
Former staff at the clinic have raised concerns that teenagers who want to transition to a different gender are being given puberty blockers without adequate assessment or psychological work .
It has been claimed that children as young as 12 have received the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead to puberty-related changes like periods or facial hair .
« I did say the same thing years ago when I went to the clinic .
I would say it was saving me from suicidal ideation and depression in general and at the time I felt it relieved all those mental health issues I was feeling , alongside gender dysphoria » adds Keira admitting that he had far deeper social relationship problems .
She described her family life as difficult .
She also believes if she had felt more accepted by society as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have wanted to change her gender .
She added that she wouldn ’ t have wanted to listen to voices of caution when she was younger and 16yo only .
« And that ’ s the point of this case , when you are that young you don ’ t really want to listen .
So I think it ’ s up to these institutions , like the Tavistock , to step in and make children reconsider what they are saying , because it is a life-altering path » .
Dr Polly Carmichael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Gender Identity Development Service .
She praised Keira for speaking out , but insisted the clinic did have a thorough assessment process .
« This is a really complex area with strong feelings on all sides .
And at its centre , the young people we work with – they come to us in often really great distress around their sense of themselves .
We ’ re talking about identity here , their identity , and a feeling that their gender identity does not match that body » told to BBC .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ closely .
The service has a high level of reported satisfaction and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission » Tavistock spokesman concluded .
Susie Green , executive director of Mermaids , foundation for the protection of gender identity and LGBTQ + communities , has defended the current process , which she said was based on years of research , and said she hoped the judicial review would “ shine a light ” on young people ’ s experiences .
She that research had suggested puberty blockers could help reduce rates of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was “ not proportionate ” to take away services because of “ a very small number ” of people who regretted undergoing medical intervention .
« In July , former GIDS staff psychologist Kirsty Enwistle penned an open letter to Carmichael arguing that a culture of evasive deception existed at the clinic and that medical treatments lacked a robust evidence base .
Other clinicians with similar concerns have resigned in protest of the facilities practices » instead , reporter Brandon Showalter remembers on the Christian Post .
NHS England is an interested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has already announced an independent review of its policies on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones .
The phenomenon is growing all over the world and also in Italy .
« In the last 13 years , from 2005 to May 2018 – explains Damiana Massara , coordinator of the Commission of minors of the ONIG – National Observatory on Gender Identity – 251 families have turned to specialist centers that deal with children and adolescents with Atypical Development of Gender Identity » .
In 1998 the National Observatory on Gender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Italy which , in connection with the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association inc. ( HBIGDA ) , « aims to encourage the comparison and collaboration of all realities interested in the themes of transgenderism and transsexualism » .
As a Vita.it article reports , many needed to understand how best to act in the well-being of their children , others to support them .
Only a few came with an explicit request for gender-affirmation therapy .
In 2017 , 64 new jobs were taken over in the 8 Italian centers of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ del Lago , Florence , Bologna , Rome , Naples and Milan , the latter center then closed ) , of which 20 only for the Service of Adjustment between Physical Identity and Psychic Identity of the S. Camillo-Forlanini hospital in Rome ( Saifip ) .
In 2016 , 48 were taken over , the year before 31 .
In Italy , the ascenders were prescribed at Ciadig del Careggi by the aforementioned Alessandra Fisher , among the leaders of the European transgender NGO Epath : « In the last 5 years we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minors ( 10 of whom are under 12 and 45 above in 12 years ) – explains Fisher – but we have prescribed hypothalamic blockers only in three teenagers ( two 17 years old , one 14 years old ) , after the approval of the Ethics Committee .
Anytime the teenager decides to stop the treatment , puberty will resume in the direction of biological sex » .
Very few if compared to the numbers of Tavistock and Portman , the largest specialist center in Europe , 2,519 took on young transgender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Numbers that represent only 0.007 % of a population made up of 34 million children .
Even in the United States , estimates report an equally modest percentage , below 1 % .
As demonstrated in the previous report on the burst discharge of dozens of doctors from the London clinic , 372 of 1069 minor patients treated with hormone therapies were autistic .
« Given the lack of evidence , the off-label use of drugs ( for outcomes not covered by the drug license ) in the treatment of gender dysphoria largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children » he told to The Times , Carl Heneghan , director of the Center of Evidence-based Medicine of the University of Oxford , therefore crediting the hypothesis that at the present state of sexual knowledge those pre-adolescents are “ guinea pigs ” of sexual transitions .
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS for VETERANS TODAY only no reproduction without authorization

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
It was born to be a cutting-edge specialist center in the treatment of the so-called “gender dysphoria” for the minors from three years of age upwards. So it allowed them to become transgender, adapting their body to gender that most feel comfortable, trhough hormonal, pharmaceutical and surgical therapies.
But it is not a habit that can be changed at any whim: the choice must be made during the period between puberty and adolescence and inevitably affects adult life. Now the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust clinic in London is already under trial for the complaints of a girl who has become half male and repentant of her choice and for those of the mother of another 15-year-old teenager destined to undergo “curative treatments” despite being autistic.
It was decided by Sir Michael Alan Supperstone, in the UK simply Hon. Justice Supperstone, a judge from the High Court of England and Wales who upheld the progress of the case that will go live within the next month of July. Then the pandemic from Covid-19 virus suspended the trials and therefore it is not known when the case will return to the courtroom.
About this London facility, the only one affiliated with the British National Health Service as Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), Gospa News had written in April 2019 highlighting the accusations made by various specialist doctors who resigned en masse (18 in three years) for the horrible discovery that hundreds of autistic children were also subjected to the “trangender” treatment, therefore minors without their full psychological balance.
Now, while a mother of one of those autistic girls and a girl who regrets having undergone hormonal treatment to become a man blow up the case in a courtroom, the dramatic circumstance emerges that even 35 psychologists have resigned in recent years and have not spared heavy controversy against the alleged superficiality of the assessments. Otherwise The Tavistock said it always took a cautious approach to treatment.
«Our fears are that young people are being over-diagnosed and then over-medicalized. We are extremely concerned about the consequences for young people… For those of us who previously worked in the service, we fear that we have had front row seats to a medical scandal».
He anonymously stated one of the 20 psychologists contacted by Sky News among those who have resigned from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Six of them expressed these concerns to the microphones of the network «the over-authorizing of hormone treatment to children with gender dysphoria and felt they couldn’t properly explore underlying psychological factors».
This was reported by a detailed article by Brandon Showalter published in recent days on the Christian Post which highlights that «Their resignations come at a time when the number of children referred to GIDS for gender dysphoria has increased from 77 in 2009-2010 to 2,590 last year, according to Sky News’s research».
As a result, the workload for health service doctors is “three times the average” at about 120-130 per junior clinician, a psychologist told Sky News. In addition, over 3,000 children are on the waiting list for GIDS so much so that those sent to the clinic will have to wait up to three years for an appointment, according to The Guardian..
THE COMPLAINTS OF THE MALE GIRL AND THE DESPERATE MOTHER
In the midst of this “emergency” of transgender wishes, the legal action of Keira Bell, the 23-year-old girl who at 16 began the transformation into a male and now fears that she has forever compromised her future fertility.
In addition to the cause, the British girl released a shocking interview with the BBC in which she actually confirms the complaints of doctors and psychologists about the excessive speed with which children and adolescents are sent to hormonal therapies for the mutation of sex in developmental age.
«That treatment is given to children under the age of 12, on the basis that those children themselves give fully informed consent, even though the nature of the treatment has side-effects which, we say, supported by the evidence, they cannot properly take into account», said Jeremy Hyam, the lawyer of Susan Evans, the 15-year-old girl’s mother (psychiatric nurse) awaiting treatment during a hearing in London. The Evangelical Focus website reported.
Although the case was originally brought by the mother, previously a Tavistock employee, Hyam asked the court for permission to put Keira Bell as the main claimant in the case, because “she underwent the treatment that is under discussion in the proceedings.” And the judge he accepted the request, continuing the lawsuit that should have gone live in the summer before the Covid-19 emergency that seriously hit the United Kingdom.
Keira says she was a tomboy since childhood. But when asked how much she felt the need to change her gender identity, she replied that «it gradually built up as she found out more about transitioning online. Then as she went down the medical route, she said “one step led to another”» BBC reported.
She was sent to the Tavistock clinic at the age of 16. He said that after three hour-long appointments he was given puberty blocking drugs, which delay the development of sexual signs such as cycle or facial hair.
She sensed that there hadn’t been enough investigations or cares before reaching that level. «I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making for myself – she said to British network in the interview – And I think that would have made a big difference as well. If I was just challenged on the things I was saying».
HORMONAL DRUGS FREE EVEN IN ITALY
Various drugs are used to interrupt his normal sexual evolution, among which the best known is Triptorelin, the subject of an investigation by the Health Commission of the Senate of the Italian Republic, after AIFA (Italian Medicines Agency) made the medicine not only prescribed with a normal recipe but also loanable, or at the expense of the National Health System. We reported on the first hearings of April 2019 in the previous article. Since then there have been meetings of the Commission but the contents are still not strangely available…
Alessandra D. Fisher, member of the SOD of Sexuality and Andrology Medicine of the Careggi University Hospital of Florence, the first center in Italy specializing in gender identity, explained its usefulness.
«Numerous scientific evidences show how the suspension of puberty induced by Triptorelin in selected and carefully followed cases of adolescents with Gender Dysphoria is able to significantly reduce behavioral and emotional problems and suicidal risk, as well as improve overall psychological functioning».
Dr. Fischer is also the Italian member of the Board of Directors of the NGO European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) which since 2015 has pursued the policy of supporting transgenders and has among its testimonials the former Italian transsexual parliamentarian Vladimir Luxuria».
These hormonal drugs can block the development of the breast, menstruation, facial hair and altered voice in the child, and reduce the development of the same in the male child who wishes to become female.
This is intended to give them more time to evaluate their options before they go through the physical changes of puberty and to prepare them for any surgical procedures such as the one faced by Keira Bell who had her breasts removed.
«Although puberty blockers are described by the NHS as reversible, GIDS acknowledges that their impact on brain development and psychological health is not fully known» BBC highlighted in the Brithis girl’s story.
At 17, after a year of pharmaceutical therapy for puberty blockade, said she was prescribed the male hormone testosterone, which developed male characteristics like facial hair and a deep voice. Three years ago, she had an operation to remove her breasts.
«Initially I felt very relieved and happy about things, but I think as the years go on you start to feel less and less enthusiastic or even happy about things. You can continue and dig yourself deeper into this hole or you can choose to come out of it and have the weight lifted off your shoulders» stated a few weeks ago.
«I WAS ALLOWED TO RUN WITH MY TEENAGER FANTASY»
She decided to stop taking cross-sex hormones last year and said she was now accepting of her sex as a female. But she was also angry about what had happened to her in the last decade.
«I was allowed to run with this idea that I had, almost like a fantasy, as a teenager…. and it has affected me in the long run as an adult. I’m very young. I’ve only just stepped into adulthood and I have to deal with this kind of burden or radical difference – in comparison to others at least» adds the girl, now 23-year-old.
Keira’s lawyers will argue that children cannot weigh up the impact such a treatment might have on their future life, including for instance, on their fertility.
Former staff at the clinic have raised concerns that teenagers who want to transition to a different gender are being given puberty blockers without adequate assessment or psychological work. It has been claimed that children as young as 12 have received the drugs, which block the hormones that lead to puberty-related changes like periods or facial hair.
«I did say the same thing years ago when I went to the clinic. I would say it was saving me from suicidal ideation and depression in general and at the time I felt it relieved all those mental health issues I was feeling, alongside gender dysphoria» adds Keira admitting that he had far deeper social relationship problems.
She described her family life as difficult. She also believes if she had felt more accepted by society as she was then, she might not have wanted to change her gender. She added that she wouldn’t have wanted to listen to voices of caution when she was younger and 16yo only.
«And that’s the point of this case, when you are that young you don’t really want to listen. So I think it’s up to these institutions, like the Tavistock, to step in and make children reconsider what they are saying, because it is a life-altering path».
Dr Polly Carmichael is the consultant clinical psychologist who runs the Gender Identity Development Service. She praised Keira for speaking out, but insisted the clinic did have a thorough assessment process.
«This is a really complex area with strong feelings on all sides. And at its centre, the young people we work with – they come to us in often really great distress around their sense of themselves. We’re talking about identity here, their identity, and a feeling that their gender identity does not match that body» told to BBC.
«NHS England monitor our service very closely. The service has a high level of reported satisfaction and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission» Tavistock spokesman concluded.
Susie Green, executive director of Mermaids, foundation for the protection of gender identity and LGBTQ + communities, has defended the current process, which she said was based on years of research, and said she hoped the judicial review would “shine a light” on young people’s experiences.
She that research had suggested puberty blockers could help reduce rates of self-harm and suicide. And she said it was “not proportionate” to take away services because of “a very small number” of people who regretted undergoing medical intervention.
«In July, former GIDS staff psychologist Kirsty Enwistle penned an open letter to Carmichael arguing that a culture of evasive deception existed at the clinic and that medical treatments lacked a robust evidence base. Other clinicians with similar concerns have resigned in protest of the facilities practices» instead, reporter Brandon Showalter remembers on the Christian Post.
NHS England is an interested party in the legal case. It has already announced an independent review of its policies on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
TRANSGENDER MINORS IN ITALY
The phenomenon is growing all over the world and also in Italy. «In the last 13 years, from 2005 to May 2018 – explains Damiana Massara, coordinator of the Commission of minors of the ONIG – National Observatory on Gender Identity – 251 families have turned to specialist centers that deal with children and adolescents with Atypical Development of Gender Identity».
In 1998 the National Observatory on Gender Identity (NGO) was founded in Italy which, in connection with the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association inc. (HBIGDA), «aims to encourage the comparison and collaboration of all realities interested in the themes of transgenderism and transsexualism».
As a Vita.it article reports, many needed to understand how best to act in the well-being of their children, others to support them. Only a few came with an explicit request for gender-affirmation therapy.
In 2017, 64 new jobs were taken over in the 8 Italian centers of the Onig (Turin, Trieste, Torre del Lago, Florence, Bologna, Rome, Naples and Milan, the latter center then closed), of which 20 only for the Service of Adjustment between Physical Identity and Psychic Identity of the S. Camillo-Forlanini hospital in Rome (Saifip).
In 2016, 48 were taken over, the year before 31. In Italy, the ascenders were prescribed at Ciadig del Careggi by the aforementioned Alessandra Fisher, among the leaders of the European transgender NGO Epath: «In the last 5 years we have taken charge of 55 gender variant minors (10 of whom are under 12 and 45 above in 12 years) – explains Fisher – but we have prescribed hypothalamic blockers only in three teenagers (two 17 years old, one 14 years old), after the approval of the Ethics Committee. Anytime the teenager decides to stop the treatment, puberty will resume in the direction of biological sex».
Very few if compared to the numbers of Tavistock and Portman, the largest specialist center in Europe, 2,519 took on young transgender people in the 0-18 age group. Numbers that represent only 0.007% of a population made up of 34 million children. Even in the United States, estimates report an equally modest percentage, below 1%.
As demonstrated in the previous report on the burst discharge of dozens of doctors from the London clinic, 372 of 1069 minor patients treated with hormone therapies were autistic.
«Given the lack of evidence, the off-label use of drugs (for outcomes not covered by the drug license) in the treatment of gender dysphoria largely means a live, unregulated experiment on children» he told to The Times, Carl Heneghan, director of the Center of Evidence-based Medicine of the University of Oxford, therefore crediting the hypothesis that at the present state of sexual knowledge those pre-adolescents are “guinea pigs” of sexual transitions.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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no reproduction without authorization
MAIN SOURCES
GOSPA NEWS – INVESTIGATIONS ON MINORS TOPIC
BBC – KEIRA BELL INTERVIEW
CHRISTIAN POST – PSYCHOLOGISTS RESIGN
EVANGELICAL FOCUS – LAWSUIT IN LONDON
CHRISTIAN POST – TRIAL MOVE AHEAD


veteranstoday--2020-05-26--Strategic Considerations on the COVID 19 Crisis

Let us assume for the sake of argument that this Crisis is part of a considerably larger strategic plan of the Anglo-Americans , which ends in a state of war with the China-Russia bloc .
That war could be surrogate wars , endless wars sapping the strength of the Sino-Russian bloc ( as envisioned by George Orwell ) , or military confrontations short of nuclear war .
I see that Russia has informed the U.S. that the use of tactical nuclear weapons would mean full-scale nuclear war .
As Putin said a year ago , “ Previously we had to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now we are ahead of them ” ( referring to some super weapon ) .
We are in midst of a crash which began before the Corona virus was known .
But now the Fed has claimed that they are “ ahead of the curve ” on this crisis , unlike the last .
They have also boasted that they will print as much money as necessary to stabilize the financial system , including eliminating reserve requirements and reducing capital requirements .
That ’ s wildcat banking … .
why even keep ledgers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infinite amount of money and the major banks can lend without reserve or capital requirements ( also an infinite amount of money ) , what on earth is the Fed thinking ?
Now consider the virus and the U.S. response .
The media is Trump-bashing , declaring he acted too late and this has caused the need for a complete lockdown .
But by the time he ordered lockdown , virtually all the characteristics of the virus were known , and they weren ’ t terribly dreadful .
Why did the Chinese lock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parts of China ?
Understandably they didn ’ t know the contagiousness , the vectors , which cohorts were targeted , and how many other areas were infected .
They poured 40,000 medical workers into Wuhan ; produced ten emergency hospitals ( our U.S. emergency hospitals lie empty , the hospital ship has sailed away from New York , and our hospitals have even closed floors because emergency care was canceled . )
I think they may have suspected germ warfare aimed to curb Chinese growth .
One top leader said it may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military athletic games in September in Wuhan , but the more important was a top leader stated that the virus came at a critical moment in the development of the Chinese economy .
I think China was undergoing a phase shift in its development—which will pick up now that China is “ open ” .
The Chinese rapidly discovered the virus genome , ( and told the world ) , knew that it targeted the elderly and those with underlying conditions .
They had a roughly calculated death rate , and moved to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the disease was a gross undercount .
But they moved in with contact tracing ( any city does this with infectious diseases ) and told the world what they knew .
Sweden was the only European country to learn from the Chinese .
Very few young people ( under 40 ) catch the virus ; 75 % of cases in Sweden were over 65 .
They kept society functioning , but limited gatherings to 50 ; and belatedly protected the elderly ( Sweden , for financial reasons , has an evil Do-Not-Resuscitate policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in school , the shops and industry are open as are hospitals , recreation , and transportation .
Because of their policy of reducing the elderly , and allowing the virus to spread , they will have higher death rates ( though so far not much ) , but in the long run , immunity will build up and the death rate will probably be similar to rest of the world which is about what flu would bring .
If we assume that 10 % of the world population will get the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) will perish , the death rate is 0.1 % .
Now , Trump , in January/February , knew these things .
But why did he then make an abrupt about-face into a nation-wide lockdown ?
This occurred at the same time Trump ’ s attitude towards China suddenly shifted from praising China ’ s Covid-19 efforts to ridiculous demands that they pay for the damage they had done to the West .
Somewhere a strategic shift was decided .
What exactly ?
You can ’ t just shut down economic activity for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and not expect to have a quite different economy at the end of that .
The impoverishment of the population will be shocking .
In the U.S. , 50,000 small businesses disappear , another 20 % of the informal economy will be unemployed , major companies will reduce payrolls ; ten million homes will be lost .
Why ?
To save 50,000 lives ?
But this virus attacks almost exclusively those with weakened immune systems ( Crone ’ s disease , etc . )
, underlying diseases , and the elderly .
Those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ healthy , non-susceptible population .
Yet , no extra precautions or medical care was rushed to the most vulnerable population .
Everyone was quarantined even though persons under 40 were relatively unaffected .
When have we ever quarantined the healthy ?
The authorities did dot direct medical attention towards the susceptible portion of the population , proving that the purpose of lockdown had little to do with saving lives .
I had long wondered how the world financial oligarchy would be defeated .
I imagined coalitions of Third World countries , as envisioned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minister of Guiana , confronting the Empire , but at terribly great cost in the face of Anglo-American advanced weapons .
I imagined the Soviets might oppose the British Empire imperialists , but that was dashed by Yeltsin and Jeffrey Sachs .
What else was left ?
My wife and I were in China in 2012 , and our guide told us this pun : “ The national bird of China is the crane .
Look around , all you can see are cranes.
” Today China makes a billion tons of steel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man , woman and child .
America produces 74 million tons per year—less than a quarter of a ton per capita .
China produces enormous quantities of drugs and medical equipment , and has 70 % of the world ’ s communications market .
They are , by a great measure , the world ’ s largest productive economy .
How can the West wage war on China—or even credibly threaten it ?
It would require a war build-up .
But how can the present banking system maintain an enormously expensive war build-up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money—that ’ s what a crash signifies .
I think that for the oligarchs , the post-lockdown economy will require a financial structure like that devised by Hitler ’ s finance minister Hjalmar Schacht—a dual system separating the regular economy from the war economy , analogous to Schacht ’ s MEFO bills .
The normal economy will be financed by local and regional banks , the war economy by the megabanks and off-shore money .
The financial resources in the real economy will be siphoned into the warfare economy .
By oligarchs ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reduces inflation .
To further curb inflation military profits must be kept separate from ( can not flow into ) the real economy .
Therefore , MEFO-bills profits from war armaments were nonconvertible to Reich Marks ( real economy ) .
How are the megabanks and trading houses going to finance a military build-up when they are de facto bankrupt ( as they were in Nazi Germany ) ?
The Fed ’ s bailout trillions will just stabilize the system , but not finance war preparations .
What about the huge overhang of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they will monetize the debt .
This will be fine as long as two conditions are met : the world ( actually including the Chinese ) agree to the existing value of the dollar , and the dollar remains the world ’ s reserve and trading currency .
Maintaining the dollar — after adding another tens of trillions to world circulation , coupled with a several-month shutdown of the Western economies — will be quite a juggling act .
Some Southeast Asian countries now use the Chinese yuan as their trading currency .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 1936 Germany : a massive 30-40 million unemployment ( 20-25 % ) ; great impoverishment and actual hunger ; and a strategic situation that motivates mounting a credible threat to the Sino-Russo bloc .
Haste is of the essence : China grows by 9.5 % a year ( however that is measured ) , and the U.S. is already considerably behind China in productive output .
Every day China grows relatively stronger .
I think the pace of confrontation will increase rapidly .
Needless to say , a Schactian economy requires a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They aren ’ t fully part of the Anglo-American establishment .
The European Commission is an enormous bureaucratic hulk set up and run by the likes of Herman Aps of Deutsche Bank ( and other ex-Nazis ) , which has come under considerable fire from American media .
Is Brexit symptomatic of a serious disagreement between English and Continental oligarchies , and what would that imply ?
I have left out Russia .
This past summer , as we were leaving our St. Petersburg hotel , I met a man who claimed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ missile fleet ’ s electronic systems .
He claimed to have inspected the electronics of a Chinese submarine and found them “ magnificent , perfect ” .
There will never be another Cuban Missile Crisis that secures the West ’ s sphere of influence .
How is it that no one , not the establishment media , not the alternative media , not even the most radical ” anti-capitalist ” internet commentators , ever talk about what the post-lockdown economy will look like ?
They bemoan the terrible damage done to the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t they look six months or a year or two down the road ?
Meanwhile , they accept the untruths that the financial collapse was caused by the Covid-19 virus and that the virus necessitated the lock down .
I think it was the reverse : the crash became the necessity for the lockdown , first to take people ’ s mind off the crash and secondly to become the plausible basis for massive reorganization of the economy into a warfare state .
Schacht ’ s 1936 armament program reduced unemployment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within the first year .
Is that what is planned for the U.S. ?
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By Leif Johnson for VT
Let us assume for the sake of argument that this Crisis is part of a considerably larger strategic plan of the Anglo-Americans, which ends in a state of war with the China-Russia bloc.
That war could be surrogate wars, endless wars sapping the strength of the Sino-Russian bloc (as envisioned by George Orwell), or military confrontations short of nuclear war. I see that Russia has informed the U.S. that the use of tactical nuclear weapons would mean full-scale nuclear war. As Putin said a year ago, “Previously we had to catch up militarily to the Americans, now we are ahead of them” (referring to some super weapon).
We are in midst of a crash which began before the Corona virus was known. But now the Fed has claimed that they are “ahead of the curve” on this crisis, unlike the last. They have also boasted that they will print as much money as necessary to stabilize the financial system, including eliminating reserve requirements and reducing capital requirements. That’s wildcat banking …. why even keep ledgers?
If the Fed can lend an infinite amount of money and the major banks can lend without reserve or capital requirements (also an infinite amount of money), what on earth is the Fed thinking?
Now consider the virus and the U.S. response. The media is Trump-bashing, declaring he acted too late and this has caused the need for a complete lockdown. But by the time he ordered lockdown, virtually all the characteristics of the virus were known, and they weren’t terribly dreadful.
Why did the Chinese lock down Wuhan, Hubei, and other parts of China? Understandably they didn’t know the contagiousness, the vectors, which cohorts were targeted, and how many other areas were infected. They poured 40,000 medical workers into Wuhan; produced ten emergency hospitals (our U.S. emergency hospitals lie empty, the hospital ship has sailed away from New York, and our hospitals have even closed floors because emergency care was canceled.) I think they may have suspected germ warfare aimed to curb Chinese growth. One top leader said it may have been spread by American participation in military athletic games in September in Wuhan, but the more important was a top leader stated that the virus came at a critical moment in the development of the Chinese economy. I think China was undergoing a phase shift in its development—which will pick up now that China is “open”.
The Chinese rapidly discovered the virus genome, (and told the world), knew that it targeted the elderly and those with underlying conditions. They had a roughly calculated death rate, and moved to know that the number of persons with the disease was a gross undercount. But they moved in with contact tracing (any city does this with infectious diseases) and told the world what they knew.
Sweden was the only European country to learn from the Chinese. Very few young people (under 40) catch the virus; 75% of cases in Sweden were over 65. They kept society functioning, but limited gatherings to 50; and belatedly protected the elderly (Sweden, for financial reasons, has an evil Do-Not-Resuscitate policy towards the elderly.) Children are in school, the shops and industry are open as are hospitals, recreation, and transportation. Because of their policy of reducing the elderly, and allowing the virus to spread, they will have higher death rates (though so far not much), but in the long run, immunity will build up and the death rate will probably be similar to rest of the world which is about what flu would bring. If we assume that 10% of the world population will get the virus and 750,000 (thrice the present number) will perish, the death rate is 0.1%.
Now, Trump, in January/February, knew these things. But why did he then make an abrupt about-face into a nation-wide lockdown? This occurred at the same time Trump’s attitude towards China suddenly shifted from praising China’s Covid-19 efforts to ridiculous demands that they pay for the damage they had done to the West. Somewhere a strategic shift was decided.
What exactly? You can’t just shut down economic activity for two, three, or four months and not expect to have a quite different economy at the end of that. The impoverishment of the population will be shocking. In the U.S., 50,000 small businesses disappear, another 20% of the informal economy will be unemployed, major companies will reduce payrolls; ten million homes will be lost.
Why? To save 50,000 lives? But this virus attacks almost exclusively those with weakened immune systems (Crone’s disease, etc.), underlying diseases, and the elderly. Those are the people to be quarantined—not the healthy, non-susceptible population. Yet, no extra precautions or medical care was rushed to the most vulnerable population. Everyone was quarantined even though persons under 40 were relatively unaffected. When have we ever quarantined the healthy?
The authorities did dot direct medical attention towards the susceptible portion of the population, proving that the purpose of lockdown had little to do with saving lives.
I had long wondered how the world financial oligarchy would be defeated. I imagined coalitions of Third World countries, as envisioned by Fred Wills, the former foreign minister of Guiana, confronting the Empire, but at terribly great cost in the face of Anglo-American advanced weapons. I imagined the Soviets might oppose the British Empire imperialists, but that was dashed by Yeltsin and Jeffrey Sachs. What else was left?
My wife and I were in China in 2012, and our guide told us this pun: “The national bird of China is the crane. Look around, all you can see are cranes.” Today China makes a billion tons of steel annually—almost ¾ ton of steel for every man, woman and child. America produces 74 million tons per year—less than a quarter of a ton per capita. China produces enormous quantities of drugs and medical equipment, and has 70% of the world’s communications market. They are, by a great measure, the world’s largest productive economy.
How can the West wage war on China—or even credibly threaten it? It would require a war build-up. But how can the present banking system maintain an enormously expensive war build-up? It doesn’t have any money—that’s what a crash signifies.
I think that for the oligarchs, the post-lockdown economy will require a financial structure like that devised by Hitler’s finance minister Hjalmar Schacht—a dual system separating the regular economy from the war economy, analogous to Schacht’s MEFO bills. The normal economy will be financed by local and regional banks, the war economy by the megabanks and off-shore money. The financial resources in the real economy will be siphoned into the warfare economy. By oligarchs’ reckoning, reducing people’s consumption reduces inflation. To further curb inflation military profits must be kept separate from (cannot flow into) the real economy. Therefore, MEFO-bills profits from war armaments were nonconvertible to Reich Marks (real economy).
How are the megabanks and trading houses going to finance a military build-up when they are de facto bankrupt (as they were in Nazi Germany)? The Fed’s bailout trillions will just stabilize the system, but not finance war preparations. What about the huge overhang of debt—derivatives, etc.—that requires servicing?
Ah… they will monetize the debt. This will be fine as long as two conditions are met: the world (actually including the Chinese) agree to the existing value of the dollar, and the dollar remains the world’s reserve and trading currency. Maintaining the dollar — after adding another tens of trillions to world circulation, coupled with a several-month shutdown of the Western economies — will be quite a juggling act. Some Southeast Asian countries now use the Chinese yuan as their trading currency.
The economic conditions post-lockdown will be similar to 1936 Germany: a massive 30-40 million unemployment (20-25%); great impoverishment and actual hunger; and a strategic situation that motivates mounting a credible threat to the Sino-Russo bloc. Haste is of the essence: China grows by 9.5% a year (however that is measured), and the U.S. is already considerably behind China in productive output. Every day China grows relatively stronger. I think the pace of confrontation will increase rapidly. Needless to say, a Schactian economy requires a fascist government.
Now consider Europe. They aren’t fully part of the Anglo-American establishment. The European Commission is an enormous bureaucratic hulk set up and run by the likes of Herman Aps of Deutsche Bank (and other ex-Nazis), which has come under considerable fire from American media. Is Brexit symptomatic of a serious disagreement between English and Continental oligarchies, and what would that imply?
I have left out Russia. This past summer, as we were leaving our St. Petersburg hotel, I met a man who claimed to have been in charge of the Soviet missile fleet’s electronic systems. He claimed to have inspected the electronics of a Chinese submarine and found them “magnificent, perfect”. There will never be another Cuban Missile Crisis that secures the West’s sphere of influence.
How is it that no one, not the establishment media, not the alternative media, not even the most radical ”anti-capitalist” internet commentators, ever talk about what the post-lockdown economy will look like? They bemoan the terrible damage done to the population, which is certainly valid, but can’t they look six months or a year or two down the road? Meanwhile, they accept the untruths that the financial collapse was caused by the Covid-19 virus and that the virus necessitated the lock down.
I think it was the reverse: the crash became the necessity for the lockdown, first to take people’s mind off the crash and secondly to become the plausible basis for massive reorganization of the economy into a warfare state. Schacht’s 1936 armament program reduced unemployment by 2 million (30%) within the first year. Is that what is planned for the U.S.?
Readers may contact the author by email: leifjohnson@hushmail.com


veteranstoday--2020-05-26--Blockbuster: WHO Suspends all Trials of Trump-chosen hydroxychloroquine, (It Kills Patients and Cure

Blockbuster: WHO Suspends all Trials of Trump-chosen hydroxychloroquine, (It Kills Patients and Cures Nothing)

RT/Moscow : The World Health Organization has paused the clinical trials of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients .
It says the drug , notably taken and endorsed by US President Donald Trump , has raised safety concerns .
The drug ’ s safety data is being reviewed by a monitoring board , and the trials have been put on hold , the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters .
It was being tested as part of the Solidarity international program aimed at tackling the Covid-19 pandemic .
The UN health body took the step out of an “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ryan , the head of the organization ’ s emergencies program .
Ghebreyesus said a monitor will now “ review a comprehensive analysis and critical appraisal of all evidence available globally ” regarding the effects of hydroxychloroquine .
The “ likely side effects ” of the drug seen in patients suffering from “ severe ” Covid-19 cases involved “ cardiac complications , including the development of cardiac arrhythmias , ” Ryan said .
The WHO move comes after a prestigious British medical journal , The Lancet , published a study on the side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found a higher mortality rate among the Covid-19 patients that had received it .
This is in contrast with the earlier positive reviews of the drug , said to have observed just the opposite .
The WHO has previously advised against the widespread use of the drug in the treatment of Covid-19 , arguing that it should be reserved solely for clinical trials .
However , it has been actively promoted by Trump , who even took a two-week course of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against the coronavirus .
In his latest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ d finished the course and “ is still here.
” The US president ’ s statements – which rammed home the message that the cheap and decades-old drug “ saves lives ” – have sparked a flurry of warnings and skeptical media commentary .
Some channels rushed to caution the drug might literally “ kill ” people , while others doubted Trump took it at all .
The developments prompted the White House physician , Sean Conley , to say that the benefits of such treatment “ outweighed ” the risks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confirming if the president took the course .
Major pharmaceutical companies have been engaged in a race to develop a vaccine against the dreaded disease , although scientists warn it is unlikely to arrive any sooner than in 12-18 months .
In mid-May , Trump announced what he called “ Operation Warp Speed ” – a major effort to develop a vaccine that would see the government investing in “ all top vaccine candidates.
” The number of those has so far been narrowed down to 14 and will be cut down further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” to see a vaccine not just developed but also manufactured and distributed by the end of the year .
In the absence of vaccine , several companies have pushed their drugs as possible remedies against Covid-19 .
One of them is remdesivir developed by Gilead Sciences , which has been touted as a “ miracle ” drug against the disease , even though the results of its use against the coronavirus have been mixed at best .
Remdesivir is also estimated to cost between $ 390 and $ 4,500 per dose – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hydroxychloroquine , which costs less than one dollar .

RT/Moscow: The World Health Organization has paused the clinical trials of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients. It says the drug, notably taken and endorsed by US President Donald Trump, has raised safety concerns.
The drug’s safety data is being reviewed by a monitoring board, and the trials have been put on hold, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. It was being tested as part of the Solidarity international program aimed at tackling the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UN health body took the step out of an “abundance of caution,” said Mike Ryan, the head of the organization’s emergencies program.
Ghebreyesus said a monitor will now “review a comprehensive analysis and critical appraisal of all evidence available globally” regarding the effects of hydroxychloroquine. The “likely side effects” of the drug seen in patients suffering from “severe” Covid-19 cases involved “cardiac complications, including the development of cardiac arrhythmias,” Ryan said. The WHO move comes after a prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet, published a study on the side effects of the drug. The article found a higher mortality rate among the Covid-19 patients that had received it. This is in contrast with the earlier positive reviews of the drug, said to have observed just the opposite.
The WHO has previously advised against the widespread use of the drug in the treatment of Covid-19, arguing that it should be reserved solely for clinical trials. However, it has been actively promoted by Trump, who even took a two-week course of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against the coronavirus. In his latest interview, published Sunday, Trump said he’d finished the course and “is still here.”
The US president’s statements – which rammed home the message that the cheap and decades-old drug “saves lives” – have sparked a flurry of warnings and skeptical media commentary. Some channels rushed to caution the drug might literally “kill” people, while others doubted Trump took it at all. The developments prompted the White House physician, Sean Conley, to say that the benefits of such treatment “outweighed” the risks – but he stopped short of directly confirming if the president took the course.
Major pharmaceutical companies have been engaged in a race to develop a vaccine against the dreaded disease, although scientists warn it is unlikely to arrive any sooner than in 12-18 months.
In mid-May, Trump announced what he called “Operation Warp Speed” – a major effort to develop a vaccine that would see the government investing in “all top vaccine candidates.” The number of those has so far been narrowed down to 14 and will be cut down further. Trump said he “would love” to see a vaccine not just developed but also manufactured and distributed by the end of the year.
In the absence of vaccine, several companies have pushed their drugs as possible remedies against Covid-19. One of them is remdesivir developed by Gilead Sciences, which has been touted as a “miracle” drug against the disease, even though the results of its use against the coronavirus have been mixed at best. Remdesivir is also estimated to cost between $390 and $4,500 per dose – hundreds of times more than drugs like hydroxychloroquine, which costs less than one dollar.


veteranstoday--2020-05-26--Falklands Chaos: Argentina’s extraordinary plot to seize back control – ‘Bleeding wound!’

[ Editor ’ s note : 38 years ago , a genocidal tinpot dictatorship seized control of a group of islands and imprisoned its British inhabitants .
However , no foreign fascist regime would ever be allowed to rule over Britons so on this day , 38 years ago , the Royal Marines returned to the Falkland Islands to liberate their countrymen from the brutal jackboot of Galtieri ’ s Junta .
The Junta may be long gone , but Argentine ’ s remain obsessed with ownership of the Falklands , despite their having been a British colony present for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ despised regime even existed .
Ian ] Falklands recalls first loss at Goose Green in May 1982 and the incarceration of local residents by Argentine forces The Falkland Islands are preparing for the commemoration of significant anniversaries of events from the 1982 conflict when Argentine forces invaded the country .
The first of these will take place at 2pm on Sunday 3 May , when a short memorial service will be held at Goose Green to mark the death of Lieutenant Nick Taylor .
Lt Taylor , of 800 Naval Air Squadron , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1982 when his aircraft was shot down over Goose Green .
Every year Goose Green residents , many of whom were incarcerated at the settlement hall during the war , gather to pay their respects and participate in the time-honored Act of Remembrance .
This year , due to the COVID-19 situation , the commemoration will follow a different format .
Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement ’ s self-isolation policy and not attend .
Governor Nigel Phillips CBE and MLA Mark Pollard will lay wreaths , along with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Reverend Ian Faulds will preside over a short graveside service .
The event will be broadcast by Falklands Radio and FITV and the community ’ s remote participation is welcomed .
You may simply wish to tune in , or share your thoughts and pay your respects on social media .
Plans for all other commemorations have been underway for several weeks and are progressing .
These will be shared once they are finalized .
It is anticipated that because of the pandemic and social distancing , the community is unlikely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the usual way , but these anniversaries are vitally important , and the Falklands will continue to honor those lives lost and the sacrifices made for the freedom of our Islands .
Saber-rattling President Alberto Fernandez also issued a threat to fishermen , warning he would sanction fishing companies operating in the Falkland Island ’ s seas .
The Argentinian leader unveiled his plot to wrestle back control of the British overseas territory with three bills focussed on strengthening the territorial sovereignty of Argentina .
Speaking at the opening of the 138th congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ common home has a bleeding wound in the deepest of our sovereignty feeling , the usurpation of the Malvinas [ Falkland Islands ] , South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
” The first bill is the introduction of the National Council of Affairs Referred to the Malvinas Islands to enforce medium and long term State policies on the issue of sovereignty .
The second is part of Buenos Aires ’ plot to seize control of the island ’ s seas stating it “ will contribute to consolidating sovereignty rights over resources on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And the third bill refers to changing the Federal Fisheries Scheme to apply stricter sanctions on vessels “ illegally fishing in those spaces under Argentine jurisdiction or in waters over which Argentina has sovereignty jurisdiction , which includes the Malvinas Islands ” .
His plot comes after President Alberto Fernandez brazenly claimed Argentina will always own the Falklands despite Britain claiming it 187 years ago – and winning war over the territory in 1982 .
He said : “ It is an auspicious day to claim sovereignty , because today , 3 January @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Malvinas .
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The Falkland Islands are preparing for the commemoration of significant anniversaries of events from the 1982 conflict when Argentine forces invaded the country. The first of these will take place at 2pm on Sunday 3 May, when a short memorial service will be held at Goose Green to mark the death of Lieutenant Nick Taylor.
Lt Taylor, of 800 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Hermes, died on 4 May 1982 when his aircraft was shot down over Goose Green.
Every year Goose Green residents, many of whom were incarcerated at the settlement hall during the war, gather to pay their respects and participate in the time-honored Act of Remembrance.
This year, due to the COVID-19 situation, the commemoration will follow a different format. Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement’s self-isolation policy and not attend.
Governor Nigel Phillips CBE and MLA Mark Pollard will lay wreaths, along with a representative from the Goose Green community. The Reverend Ian Faulds will preside over a short graveside service.
The event will be broadcast by Falklands Radio and FITV and the community’s remote participation is welcomed. You may simply wish to tune in, or share your thoughts and pay your respects on social media.
Plans for all other commemorations have been underway for several weeks and are progressing. These will be shared once they are finalized.
It is anticipated that because of the pandemic and social distancing, the community is unlikely to be able to give thanks in the usual way, but these anniversaries are vitally important, and the Falklands will continue to honor those lives lost and the sacrifices made for the freedom of our Islands.