21stcenturywire--2020-07-17--UK Government Panicking As Fraudulent COVID Death Count is Revealed

Today the public have been told via the mainstream press that UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock is now ‘ looking into ’ how data regarding coronavirus fatalities is being recorded .
This , despite months of reporting by dissenting journalists who have been challenging the official government line raising this issue .
We ’ re told all this comes after Public Health England ( PHE ) confirmed that people who are dying of natural causes are also being counted as ‘ COVID deaths ’ by virtue of the fact that they had previously tested positive for the virus .
Officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” but it ’ s much more than that .
Quite clearly , Hancock and the Tory government are implementing damage control here , as this scandal is rapidly being disseminated across the public discourse , and for fear that the wider scale of the statistical fraud might be revealed .
By calling for a “ urgent review , ” the Johnson government hopes to avoid a likely backlash from what can only be described as a historic fiasco for Public Health England and Westminster .
All of the governments seemingly half-baked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down normal NHS services ( making it a de facto ‘ COVID only ’ health service ) , to nonsensical ad hoc ‘ social distancing ’ regulations , mass testing , contact tracing , to mandatory masks , to school closures , travel bans and quarantines , to its rush to push-out an experimental coronavirus vaccine – are all predicated on what seems very likely to be false perception that COVID-19 is an unprecedented ‘ pandemic ’ and therefore requires unprecedented mitigation measures .
It seems that government can no longer hide that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who ’ ve died from natural causes as ‘ COVID deaths ’ .
One can only guess just how many deaths have been wrongly recorded in this way .
A source says that , “ We noticed that hospital deaths were falling but community deaths were up and wondered why … .
It turns out you could have been tested positive in February , recovered , then hit by a bus in July and you ’ d be recorded as a covid death.
” Essentially , PHE is counting people if they die @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previously testing positive for COVID .
So by this government measure , one can never ‘ recover ’ from the virus .
They simply keep the ‘ death meter ’ running forever , which is effectively padding their statistics and thus justifying any policy which is being drifted out each day .
This can only be described as fraudulent data gathering and recording by health officials , which has unfortunately been swallowed , unquestioningly , by politicians and the mainstream media for the last 4 and half months .
What ’ s more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bigger scandal – more likely these numbers are driving excess mortality .
In other words , the inconvenient truth that most of these are in fact Lockdown deaths , and not COVID deaths .
IMAGE : UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock trying to sell the crisis to public .
The government ’ s own figures show there have been 45,119 COVID-19 associated deaths across the UK .
But that tally is feared to be inaccurate due to the way coronavirus deaths are recorded in England .
Explaining the “ strange anomaly ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Essentially , there is no way to recover , statistically .
So , if I tested positive for COVID-19 today and then I got hit by a bus tomorrow , then COVID-19 would be listed as my cause of death.
” A government source confirmed that PHE ’ s current method of calculation means if a person was previously diagnosed with COVID-19 but subsequently died of unrelated causes , their death would still be counted as part of PHE ’ s daily coronavirus death tally .
In Scotland , Wales and Northern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recovered 28 days after a positive test .
( … ) A recent article published by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine ( CEBM ) , based at Oxford University , described the “ statistical anomaly ” which means that “ no one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England ” .
“ It seems that PHE regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive , and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not , ” said the article ’ s authors Professor Yoon Loke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Professor Carl Heneghan , from Oxford University .
“ PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the COVID test result was , nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community .
“ Anyone who has tested COVID positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE COVID death figures .
“ By this PHE definition , no one with COVID in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness .
“ A patient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treated and discharged from hospital , will still be counted as a COVID death even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later.
” Continue with this story at SKY News

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Today the public have been told via the mainstream press that UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock is now ‘looking into’ how data regarding coronavirus fatalities is being recorded. This, despite months of reporting by dissenting journalists who have been challenging the official government line raising this issue.
Dying *of* coronavirus? Or dying *with* coronavirus. The distinction is crucial, in medicine and statistics. So what do the official figures actually mean? PLEASE read https://t.co/tDMjmWlIBv — Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) April 3, 2020
Downplaying a ‘Strange Anomaly’
We’re told all this comes after Public Health England (PHE) confirmed that people who are dying of natural causes are also being counted as ‘COVID deaths’ by virtue of the fact that they had previously tested positive for the virus.
Officials are calling this “a strange anomaly,” but it’s much more than that.
Quite clearly, Hancock and the Tory government are implementing damage control here, as this scandal is rapidly being disseminated across the public discourse, and for fear that the wider scale of the statistical fraud might be revealed.
By calling for a “urgent review,” the Johnson government hopes to avoid a likely backlash from what can only be described as a historic fiasco for Public Health England and Westminster.
All of the governments seemingly half-baked policies – from Lockdown, to shutting down normal NHS services (making it a de facto ‘COVID only’ health service), to nonsensical ad hoc ‘social distancing’ regulations, mass testing, contact tracing, to mandatory masks, to school closures, travel bans and quarantines, to its rush to push-out an experimental coronavirus vaccine – are all predicated on what seems very likely to be a false perception that COVID-19 is an unprecedented ‘pandemic’ and therefore requires unprecedented mitigation measures.
SEE ALSO: More Statistical Fraud: Florida, Texas, Colorado – All Caught Inflating COVID Cases and Deaths
It seems that government can no longer hide that it has been counting scores of people who’ve died from natural causes as ‘COVID deaths’. One can only guess just how many deaths have been wrongly recorded in this way.
A source says that, “We noticed that hospital deaths were falling but community deaths were up and wondered why …. It turns out you could have been tested positive in February, recovered, then hit by a bus in July and you’d be recorded as a covid death.”
Essentially, PHE is counting people if they die of any cause at any time after previously testing positive for COVID. So by this government measure, one can never ‘recover’ from the virus. They simply keep the ‘death meter’ running forever, which is effectively padding their statistics and thus justifying any policy which is being drifted out each day.
This can only be described as fraudulent data gathering and recording by health officials, which has unfortunately been swallowed, unquestioningly, by politicians and the mainstream media for the last 4 and half months.
What’s more, these figures are concealing an even bigger scandal – more likely these numbers are driving excess mortality. In other words, the inconvenient truth that most of these are in fact Lockdown deaths, and not COVID deaths.
Sky News reports…
IMAGE: UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock trying to sell the crisis to public.
The government’s own figures show there have been 45,119 COVID-19 associated deaths across the UK.
But that tally is feared to be inaccurate due to the way coronavirus deaths are recorded in England.
Explaining the “strange anomaly”, Sky News’ Rowland Manthorpe said: “Essentially, there is no way to recover, statistically. So, if I tested positive for COVID-19 today and then I got hit by a bus tomorrow, then COVID-19 would be listed as my cause of death.”
A government source confirmed that PHE’s current method of calculation means if a person was previously diagnosed with COVID-19 but subsequently died of unrelated causes, their death would still be counted as part of PHE’s daily coronavirus death tally.
In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, you are assumed to have recovered 28 days after a positive test.
(…) A recent article published by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), based at Oxford University, described the “statistical anomaly” which means that “no one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England”.
“It seems that PHE regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not,” said the article’s authors Professor Yoon Loke, from the University of East Anglia, and Professor Carl Heneghan, from Oxford University.
“PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the COVID test result was, nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community.
“Anyone who has tested COVID positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE COVID death figures.
“By this PHE definition, no one with COVID in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness.
“A patient who has tested positive, but successfully treated and discharged from hospital, will still be counted as a COVID death even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later.”
Continue with this story at SKY News
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-17--‘Climate Change’ Activism as a New Religion

Michael Shellenberger , environmental activist and author of Apocalypse Never , has recently ‘ blown the whistle ’ in a @ @ @ @ @ environmental movement and how distorted the climate alarmism has become .
• None How Shellenberger @ @ @ @ @ activist to championing nuclear .
• None Why he decided to stand up against climate @ @ @ @ @ .
• None The real motives of most of modern environmentalism .
Power Hour host @ @ @ @ @ Shellenberger about how crazy the climate change movement has become , and what practical solutions @ @ @ @

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Michael Shellenberger, environmental activist and author of Apocalypse Never, has recently ‘blown the whistle’ in a controversial OpEd piece on the environmental movement and how distorted the climate alarmism has become.
Some highlights:
How Shellenberger went from being a renewable activist to championing nuclear.
Why he decided to stand up against climate catastrophism after years of silence.
How modern environmentalism is a religion.
The real motives of most of modern environmentalism.
How environmental journalists misrepresent environmental science.
Power Hour host Alex Epstein talks with Michael Shellenberger about how crazy the climate change movement has become, and what practical solutions exist. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-17--Inconvenient Truth: ‘They’re Lockdown Deaths, Not Covid Deaths’

COVID-19 has been circulating for at least a year and yet there was no notable increase in unseasonable mortality anywhere until Lockdown regimes were imposed between late February and late March 2020 .
Let me repeat that : everywhere , the overall or “ all cause ” mortality data consistently tells the same story : there was no notable deviation from the statistical norm in any country until lockdown regimes were imposed .
According to the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) , at the time of writing , with 11,841,326 supposedly confirmed cases and 544,739 alleged deaths , this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approximately 0.15 % of the global population and has allegedly led to the deaths of 0.007 % .
This makes it slightly less deadly than a bad seasonal influenza which can kill 0.0085 % of the world ’ s populace in a single year .
Yet governments around the world decided that the only way to respond to this particular respiratory infection was to roll out the most oppressive form of governance ever seen in the west , outside of a time of war .
The measures taken by our “ elected representatives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will prematurely end the lives of many more in the weeks and months ahead .
I began this article with the claim that SARS-CoV-2 “ has been circulating for at least a year ” .
The evidence for this statement has come from tests of sewage in multiple countries .
The Italian National Institute of Health ( ISS ) found SARS-CoV-2 in sewage samples collected on December 18th 2019 from Milan and Turin .
Two separate samples , gathered independently , from Brazilian wastewater showed the that the virus had been present in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Barcelona found a number of samples indicating the presence of the virus in mid January 2020 , 6 weeks before the Spanish Lockdown , with one sample dating as far back as March 2019 , a year before any lockdown regimes were rolled out .
The science behind wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 is well established and , in April 2020 , Australian researchers confirmed detection in wastewater as proof of concept for wastewater based epidemiology ( WBE ) for SARS-CoV-2 .
Further studies support its efficacy .
Prior to the release of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the available science on the possible faecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA found consistent evidence of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in faecal matter .
Looking at 26 relevant studies , researchers noted that nearly 54 % of stool samples taken from confirmed COVID-19 patients contained SARS-CoV-2 .
They concluded : While knowledge gaps remain , the debate about WBE for SARS-CoV-2 is about how best to use it , potentially as a predictive tool for future outbreaks .
There is little doubt that RNA from SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in sewage .
Consequently , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ samples which raises significant questions , not the scientific credibility of the sampling process .
The claims of so called fact checkers that no inference can be drawn from these sample dates , due to the likelihood of false positives , are specious .
Once found , the samples were tested with RT-PCR , the common test for SARS-CoV-2 .
Fact checker attempts to downplay the significance of these results , by citing possible false positives , also provides reason to question every other diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection with RT-PCR — the predominant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is based .
There has been some resistance to accepting the growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 had already spread across continents long before the WHO declared a global pandemic .
Claire Crossan , research fellow in virology at Glasgow Caledonian University , explained : This evidence runs contrary to all that we have we have been told about COVID-19 .
Crossan was right to observe that Spanish , Brazilian and Italian results did not correspond to any known outbreak of the associated COVID-19 syndrome .
This is no reason to discard this evidence , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the prevailing COVID-19 narrative .
Due to the quite remarkable debasement of normal death registration procedures in England and Wales , under the 2020 Coronavirus Act , it has become virtually impossible to identify cause of death within the resulting statistics .
It is , however , much harder to politicise total numbers of deaths .
By looking at all cause mortality , despite all the COVID-19 fear porn pumped out by the MSM , it is possible to reach a relatively accurate analysis .
In his recent technical report Denis Rancourt Ph.D @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Ottawa , highlighted this problem : When weekly deaths for England and Wales , covering the last decade , are plotted we can see that all cause mortality has been broadly consistent .
Every winter sees an increase , as mortality rises sharply during the colder and less humid winter months .
Respiratory like illness , such as flu , pneumonia and SARS , are diminished by increased summertime humidity .
Consequently the mortality risk , especially for those with severe comorbidity , such as cardiovascular disease and cancer , increases in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths on a weekly bases the incline of the peak shows the death rate .
That is , the more people who die per week , the higher and sharper the spike appears .
The total number of deaths are represented by the area beneath the peaks .
So a very high but narrow spike in mortality does not necessarily mean that an unusually large number of people have died .
It suggests something caused people to die in a distinct cluster .
If we look at the last 10 years of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , two facts are evident : • people have died at a significantly increased rate over a very short timescale in 2020 • a mortality spike occurred much later in the year than has been observed in previous years These marked statistical features are nearly identical for all lockdown countries .
The first cluster of COVID-19 cases supposedly emerged in China in December 2019 , though it had already made its way to Italy , Spain and Brazil by then .
Initial cases in the U.S. were seen in late January with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The first outbreak reported cluster occurred in Italy in early February and community infection in Spain was underway by mid February .
The UK saw its ’ first confirmed case in January and person to person transmission had also emerged by early February .
New Zealand and Australia reported cases in late February , as did Brazil .
From the official Wuhan outbreak it supposedly took just 9 weeks for SARS-CoV-2 to spread around the world .
With the symptoms typically emerging between 5-6 days post infection , COVID-19 , and associated mortality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus .
The WHO declared a global pandemic on the 11th of March .
If the hope was to stop SARS-CoV-2 ’ s global contagion , we now know this was a rather belated effort .
If the speed of transmission is as we are told , then it had already spread around the world by December 2019 , at the latest .
A pandemic shouldn ’ t be a political decision , it should be an evident reality .
As I have shown above , the increasing body of evidence demonstrating that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the beginning of the normal flu season , raises the question of why it took months for anyone notice COVID-19 in Italy , Spain , Brazil or the UK ?
If COVID-19 is responsible for the spikes in mortality which have been seen from March until June , why did SARS-CoV-2 wait until lockdowns were implemented to begin killing people ?
Viruses don ’ t pander to the whims of policy think tanks and no one , anywhere , had implemented any stringent measures , either to control the spread or mitigate the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were stamped into existence .
The virus was free to do its thing for months and yet it apparently did nothing .
While no policy maker had any idea that the virus had been in circulation for months , their attempts to “ flatten the curve ” accurately predicted the onset of rapidly increasing mortality with uniform precision in every country .
How could they have known that their lockdown regimes would be so perfectly timed to “ flatten any curve ?
” For this article , I will primarily discuss the Lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the same issues I will raise here can be found wherever the lockdown hammer fell .
It is generally recognised that the vast majority of those who have died with COVID-19 had at least one serious comorbidity and were over 65 years old with more than 83 % over 70 .
The deaths have occurred almost exclusively among those who were approaching , or already receiving , end of life care .
Their deaths were precipitated either by a latent virus which only became active once the political class were ready for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the political response to the WHO ’ s declared “ global pandemic.
” If the intention was to protect the most vulnerable , then many Lockdown regime policies and decisions were , at best , criminally negligent .
In combination , they appear to be suspiciously close to a deliberate program of euthanasia .
The mortality spike in England and Wales peaked between 9 – 12 April .
It was at this time that NHS England withdrew their “ do not convey to hospital ” guidance .
Prior to this withdrawal , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put in place in order to “ protect the NHS , ” NHS England decided not to allow specified groups of vulnerable patients to be admitted to hospital .
This meant not treating those over the age of 70 , who displayed normal vital signs , and any who had supposedly elected not to be resuscitated , regardless of their health condition .
At the same time the government and the NHS were pressurising vulnerable older people to sign “ do not attempt resuscitation ” ( DNAR ) notices .
Amid all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protect the NHS , vulnerable people were sent DNAR notice agreement forms through the post ( my elderly father received one ) and there were numerous reports of these being completed en masse without the older persons consent in care settings , automatically excluding vulnerable people from hospital treatment .
Further , the guidance advised that vulnerable people should not be taken to Accident and Emergency departments unless approved by a clinical adviser , thereby increasing the delay in treatment during the vital golden hour .
This caused considerable concern amongst health professionals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the potential dissent , it has become increasingly apparent that UK NHS staff are subject to strict gagging orders .
Those who have spoken out are either retired or have done so anonymously .
For example , speaking about the introduction of an additional “ clinical adviser ” into the golden hour window , an anonymous senior NHS leader spoke to the Health Service Journal : Correlation doesn ’ t equal causation but , nonetheless , this specific guidance was withdrawn at the same time that mortality peaked and the death rate began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply discard this correlation .
It is one among many .
The demands of the lockdown regime also saw ambulance response times increase significantly .
Most notably in London , where they more than trebled for the most seriously ill “ category 2 patients , ” including heart attack and stroke victims .
During the peak of the outbreak 9 out of 10 of the local authorities with the highest mortality rates were London boroughs .
Presentations to Accident and Emergency departments ( ED ’ s ) were down by 50 % in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & E attendance was down by 53 % nationally during the lockdown .
Cancer screening and treatment was put on hold .
Cancer Research UK estimated that 290,000 people missed cancer follow ups , indicating that around 20,000 current cancer sufferers , who could otherwise have accessed treatment , remain untreated or possibly unaware of their cancer .
At least 2.4 million people missed cancer screening appointment during the lockdown .
As the the NHS Confederation warns that the backlog of planned treatments , including for life threatening and life limiting conditions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Lockdown regime has also seen cancer referrals drop by 45 % .
Some scientists have estimated this could mean an additional 35,000 excess cancer deaths in the UK .
There were no fewer people contracting cancer , but the real world impact of the Lockdown regime is that fewer lives will now be saved while many have undoubtedly already been lost .
We are currently inundated with warnings of future lockdowns and local UK lockdowns have already begun in Leicester .
Many people are already living in fear of the alleged threat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they are willing to comply with any diktat from the government , regardless of scientific justification or lack of it .
It is extremely difficult to envisage how health services will manage the enormous treatment backlog and many health professionals are warning of the likelihood that they won ’ t .
As winter approaches and natural mortality increases , the pressure on services will be immense .
Another large spike in mortality in the Autumn is a terrible but seemingly unavoidable prospect .
Given what we already know about the appalling manipulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can only guess how many of these deaths will ultimately be attributed to the second wave of COVID-19 .
The Lockdown regime ’ s impact upon those with cardiovascular disease and heart conditions has been equally deleterious .
Patients report difficulty accessing treatment or even obtaining the vital medication they need .
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan , Associate Medical Director of the British Heart Foundations , said : The pervasive nature of our collective delusion is notable .
Even renowned heart specialists seem incapable of acknowledging the truth .
Heart disease is the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 .
During the lockdown , A & E presentations for heart attacks and strokes dropped by more than half .
This resulted in a huge increase of deaths in the home .
It wasn ’ t COVID-19 that killed the majority of these people .
They lost their lives because they either couldn ’ t or wouldn ’ t access hospital treatment .
The most vulnerable were sent letters telling them to stay at home to “ protect the NHS ; ” ambulance response times increased ; access to hospital treatment was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This was not “ because of coronavirus ” or even “ due to the response.
” It is the result of a vicious Lockdown regime .
It is ludicrous to imagine that the cumulative effect of these lockdown policies didn ’ t lead to early mortality among the most vulnerable .
The lockdown regime was detrimental to the health of the very demographic it was supposedly designed to “ keep safe.
” While there is no evidence that COVID-19 presents any risk to children , there is evidence that the Lockdown regime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also down for children , raising concerns they they have not been receiving the health care they need .
Regardless of the MSM ’ s unrelenting assertion that these problems are caused by coronavirus , it has been the Lockdown regime ’ s policies , coupled with the MSM ’ s omnipresent fear porn , that has deterred frightened parents and increased the health risks for children .
The level of MSM disinformation during the lockdown has been staggering .
For example , without questioning or verifying anything , they carelessly reported claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care settings .
Closer analysis of those figures revealed these assessments were based upon little more than assumptions .
In reality , the vast majority of those claimed coronavirus deaths were not related to COVID-19 .
We should remember this as we consider the huge impact of lockdown regime policies on the most vulnerable people in society : those in care and nursing homes , and those who require home care .
Once again , another notable correlation is evident .
With its ever changing , bewildering policy guidance , it was on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that the UK government changed its recommendation to the NHS and stated that all patients must be tested for SARS-CoV-2 prior to discharge from hospital .
However , while every relatively healthy person , for whom COVID-19 presents virtually no threat , will be forced into quarantine for 14 days if they are even suspected of being in contact with someone who may have SARS-CoV-2 , that same degree of caution does not apply the the most vulnerable .
The current guidance states : Having sent an unknown number of infectious people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government issued lockdown regime guidance to care staff recommending that they should not provide any care without the necessary personal protective equipment ( PPE ) .
The same policy makers then neglected to provide access to that PPE .
As a result , the mounting stress and anxiety of care staff exacerbated the furlough staffing crisis .
Many staff members in nursing homes are medically qualified , this is not the case in the majority of care homes or among those providing community care .
They are reliant upon primary care advice and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown regime virtually removed GP support from care settings and the community .
People have had to get used to telephone consultations instead of examinations and home visits .
Thereby , hugely increasing the risk to the most vulnerable in the middle of an alleged global pandemic .
Guidance to GP ’ s from NHS England stated that possible COVID-19 patients should be identified primarily by weekly check-ins online .
This was in keeping with the NHS Key Principles of General Practice , in relation to COVID-19 , which stated : Care home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care , as they struggled to cope with the condition created by the Lockdown regime .
Despite representatives from the medical profession claiming that not providing medical interventions during a pandemic was “ sufficient , ” Vic Rayner , executive director of the National Care Forum , observed : The UK government ’ s , or any government ’ s , claim that their ongoing Lockdown regime is intended to “ protect the most vulnerable ” is not credible .
The consistency with which lockdown policies have increased , rather than reduced , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been a common feature of every lockdown .
Simultaneously , every Lockdown regime has placed those not at risk under ever more authoritarian rule .
Quarantining the healthy is yet another Lockdown regime policy which escalates the risk for vulnerable people .
While the vulnerable were being sent back into high risk , poorly protected and understaffed care homes , hospital bed occupancy , across the country , was at a record low .
Whether by design or criminal neglect , lockdown policy has actively targeted the most vulnerable , singling them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Premature mortality is the inevitable and obvious result .
We have clear evidence that the Lockdown regime has caused , and will continue to cause , ill health and death .
We also know that it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 had already spread around the world before any lockdowns were initiated .
We also know that the virus lay virtually dormant and only decided to cause statistically significant mortality after the lockdowns began .
We can now add the observations that the harshest elements of the lockdown , namely the refusal to allow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people back into high risk communities , only relented as peak mortality began to wane .
We can also see , as lockdown restrictions eased , so did the mortality rate .
Nothing discussed here suggests that there is no virus or that COVID-19 doesn ’ t present a threat to health .
It suggests that if your response to a public health crisis is to withdraw healthcare from those who need it the most , a spike in mortality is the only possible outcome .
Not only are those affected by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but increased mortality from every other comorbidity is hard wired into that lockdown policy .
This would seem to account for the strong correlation between the imposition of healthcare limiting lockdowns and sharp increases in mortality .
We can postulate that , prior to this , the virus was causing some mortality within the normal range and distribution of seasonable respiratory illness .
Once the WHO identified the “ novel ” virus and declared a global pandemic , it was the ensuing Lockdown regimes which prompted unseasonable spikes in mortality .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease that had long been present .
Italy ’ s National Institute of Health ( ISS ) found that only 12 % of reported COVID-19 deaths were actually attributable to the COVID-19 syndrome .
Perhaps this explains why another aspect of many Lockdown regimes has been the creation of indecipherable mortality recording systems .
The immediate response will be that this is a circular argument .
The Lockdown Regime responded to the conditions on the ground .
Policies adapted to circumstances at the time .
As mortality reduced some restrictions could be lifted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a similar pattern found in a non lockdown country like Sweden ?
While Sweden didn ’ t adopt the economic shutdown favoured by other European states , it did operate a policy of socially isolating the most vulnerable in poorly staffed , overcrowded care homes .
Swedish care homes have been in a staffing crisis for many years , and this problem was compounded by the Swedish decision to tell all staff , who had any symptom ranging from a headache to a stiff knee , to stay at home .
High @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an established problem and seasonal flu mortality in Swedish care homes is appallingly high .
The MSM , desperate to justify their own national lockdown regimes on behalf of their partners and leading advertisers , the government , have used Sweden ’ s high mortality in care homes as a stick to beat them with .
In reality , instead of MSM propaganda land , around 50 % of all recorded COVID-19 deaths across Europe , including in the UK , have been in care settings .
Sweden has openly admitted its error @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Social Affairs Minister , stated in a national television interview : It remains to be seen if Sweden will address the systemic failings within it ’ s care sector .
Meanwhile Lockdown Regimes around the world persist with the lie that abandoning those most in need will “ save lives.
” In light of all the other factors we have discussed , it is reasonable to conclude that the majority of deaths reported as COVID-19 mortality , by the world ’ s mainstream media ( MSM ) , were not attributable to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ various national and statewide lockdown policies .
These were Lockdown regime deaths not COVID-19 deaths .
By restricting access to health care for the most vulnerable , any claim that Lockdown Regimes save lives is patently absurd .
This story was originally published at UK Column.org .

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Iain Davis
UK Column
COVID-19 has been circulating for at least a year and yet there was no notable increase in unseasonable mortality anywhere until Lockdown regimes were imposed between late February and late March 2020. Let me repeat that: everywhere, the overall or “all cause” mortality data consistently tells the same story: there was no notable deviation from the statistical norm in any country until lockdown regimes were imposed.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), at the time of writing, with 11,841,326 supposedly confirmed cases and 544,739 alleged deaths, this is a global pandemic which has infected approximately 0.15% of the global population and has allegedly led to the deaths of 0.007%. This makes it slightly less deadly than a bad seasonal influenza which can kill 0.0085% of the world’s populace in a single year.
Yet governments around the world decided that the only way to respond to this particular respiratory infection was to roll out the most oppressive form of governance ever seen in the west, outside of a time of war.
The measures taken by our “elected representatives” have already killed many people and will prematurely end the lives of many more in the weeks and months ahead.
COVID-19 Arrived Long Before The Lockdown Regimes
I began this article with the claim that SARS-CoV-2 “has been circulating for at least a year”. The evidence for this statement has come from tests of sewage in multiple countries.
The Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) found SARS-CoV-2 in sewage samples collected on December 18th 2019 from Milan and Turin.
Two separate samples, gathered independently, from Brazilian wastewater showed the that the virus had been present in November 2019.
Researchers from the University of Barcelona found a number of samples indicating the presence of the virus in mid January 2020, 6 weeks before the Spanish Lockdown, with one sample dating as far back as March 2019, a year before any lockdown regimes were rolled out.
The science behind wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 is well established and, in April 2020, Australian researchers confirmed detection in wastewater as proof of concept for wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) for SARS-CoV-2. Further studies support its efficacy.
Prior to the release of these results, a systematic review of the available science on the possible faecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA found consistent evidence of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in faecal matter. Looking at 26 relevant studies, researchers noted that nearly 54% of stool samples taken from confirmed COVID-19 patients contained SARS-CoV-2. They concluded:
There is a high rate of positive polymerase chain reaction tests with persistence of SARS‐CoV‐2 in faecal samples of patients with COVID‐19.
While knowledge gaps remain, the debate about WBE for SARS-CoV-2 is about how best to use it, potentially as a predictive tool for future outbreaks. There is little doubt that RNA from SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in sewage.
Consequently, it is the recorded dates of these samples which raises significant questions, not the scientific credibility of the sampling process.
The claims of so called fact checkers that no inference can be drawn from these sample dates, due to the likelihood of false positives, are specious.
Once found, the samples were tested with RT-PCR, the common test for SARS-CoV-2. Fact checker attempts to downplay the significance of these results, by citing possible false positives, also provides reason to question every other diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection with RT-PCR — the predominant testing method upon which every lockdown regime is based.
There has been some resistance to accepting the growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 had already spread across continents long before the WHO declared a global pandemic. Claire Crossan, research fellow in virology at Glasgow Caledonian University, explained:
A curious thing about this finding is that it disagrees with epidemiological data about the virus. The authors don’t cite reports of a spike in the number of respiratory disease cases in the local population following the date of the sampling.
This evidence runs contrary to all that we have we have been told about COVID-19. Crossan was right to observe that Spanish, Brazilian and Italian results did not correspond to any known outbreak of the associated COVID-19 syndrome. This is no reason to discard this evidence, but it does provide grounds to question the prevailing COVID-19 narrative.
No Pre-Lockdown Mortality
Due to the quite remarkable debasement of normal death registration procedures in England and Wales, under the 2020 Coronavirus Act, it has become virtually impossible to identify cause of death within the resulting statistics.
It is, however, much harder to politicise total numbers of deaths. By looking at all cause mortality, despite all the COVID-19 fear porn pumped out by the MSM, it is possible to reach a relatively accurate analysis.
In his recent technical report Denis Rancourt Ph.D, former Physics professor at the University of Ottawa, highlighted this problem:
…It is difficult to interpret the synchronicity of the WHO declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic and the onset of the observed surge in reported COVID-19 cases and deaths as being the product of either coincidence or [the] extraordinary forecasting ability of the global health monitoring system. Instead, in light of past epidemics, it is more likely that this remarkable synchronicity phenomenon arises from biased reporting…That is why rigorous epidemiological studies rely instead on all-cause mortality data, which cannot be altered by observational or reporting bias (as discussed in Simonsen et al., 1997; and see Marti-Soler et al., 2014). A death is a death is a death.
When weekly deaths for England and Wales, covering the last decade, are plotted we can see that all cause mortality has been broadly consistent. Every winter sees an increase, as mortality rises sharply during the colder and less humid winter months.
Respiratory like illness, such as flu, pneumonia and SARS, are diminished by increased summertime humidity. Consequently the mortality risk, especially for those with severe comorbidity, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, increases in the winter.
If we plot the deaths on a weekly bases the incline of the peak shows the death rate. That is, the more people who die per week, the higher and sharper the spike appears. The total number of deaths are represented by the area beneath the peaks. So a very high but narrow spike in mortality does not necessarily mean that an unusually large number of people have died. It suggests something caused people to die in a distinct cluster.
If we look at the last 10 years of all cause mortality data for England and wales, two facts are evident:
people have died at a significantly increased rate over a very short timescale in 2020
a mortality spike occurred much later in the year than has been observed in previous years
These marked statistical features are nearly identical for all lockdown countries.
The first cluster of COVID-19 cases supposedly emerged in China in December 2019, though it had already made its way to Italy, Spain and Brazil by then.
Initial cases in the U.S. were seen in late January with the first death recorded on February 6th.
The first outbreak reported cluster occurred in Italy in early February and community infection in Spain was underway by mid February.
The UK saw its’ first confirmed case in January and person to person transmission had also emerged by early February.
New Zealand and Australia reported cases in late February, as did Brazil.
From the official Wuhan outbreak it supposedly took just 9 weeks for SARS-CoV-2 to spread around the world. With the symptoms typically emerging between 5-6 days post infection, COVID-19, and associated mortality, closely followed the spread of the virus.
The WHO declared a global pandemic on the 11th of March. If the hope was to stop SARS-CoV-2’s global contagion, we now know this was a rather belated effort. If the speed of transmission is as we are told, then it had already spread around the world by December 2019, at the latest.
A pandemic shouldn’t be a political decision, it should be an evident reality. As I have shown above, the increasing body of evidence demonstrating that SARS-CoV-2 was in circulation at least at the beginning of the normal flu season, raises the question of why it took months for anyone notice COVID-19 in Italy, Spain, Brazil or the UK?
If COVID-19 is responsible for the spikes in mortality which have been seen from March until June, why did SARS-CoV-2 wait until lockdowns were implemented to begin killing people?
Viruses don’t pander to the whims of policy think tanks and no one, anywhere, had implemented any stringent measures, either to control the spread or mitigate the health risk of COVID-19, until lockdowns were stamped into existence. The virus was free to do its thing for months and yet it apparently did nothing.
While no policy maker had any idea that the virus had been in circulation for months, their attempts to “flatten the curve” accurately predicted the onset of rapidly increasing mortality with uniform precision in every country. How could they have known that their lockdown regimes would be so perfectly timed to “flatten any curve?”
Targeting The Most Vulnerable
For this article, I will primarily discuss the Lockdown regime in England and Wales. However, the same issues I will raise here can be found wherever the lockdown hammer fell.
It is generally recognised that the vast majority of those who have died with COVID-19 had at least one serious comorbidity and were over 65 years old with more than 83% over 70. The deaths have occurred almost exclusively among those who were approaching, or already receiving, end of life care.
Their deaths were precipitated either by a latent virus which only became active once the political class were ready for it, or by the health consequences of the political response to the WHO’s declared “global pandemic.”
If the intention was to protect the most vulnerable, then many Lockdown regime policies and decisions were, at best, criminally negligent. In combination, they appear to be suspiciously close to a deliberate program of euthanasia.
The mortality spike in England and Wales peaked between 9 – 12 April. It was at this time that NHS England withdrew their “do not convey to hospital” guidance.
Prior to this withdrawal, as a result of early lockdown policies put in place in order to “protect the NHS,” NHS England decided not to allow specified groups of vulnerable patients to be admitted to hospital. This meant not treating those over the age of 70, who displayed normal vital signs, and any who had supposedly elected not to be resuscitated, regardless of their health condition.
At the same time the government and the NHS were pressurising vulnerable older people to sign “do not attempt resuscitation” (DNAR) notices. Amid all the propaganda about how important it was to protect the NHS, vulnerable people were sent DNAR notice agreement forms through the post (my elderly father received one) and there were numerous reports of these being completed en masse without the older persons consent in care settings, automatically excluding vulnerable people from hospital treatment.
Further, the guidance advised that vulnerable people should not be taken to Accident and Emergency departments unless approved by a clinical adviser, thereby increasing the delay in treatment during the vital golden hour. This caused considerable concern amongst health professionals.
In order to “manage” the potential dissent, it has become increasingly apparent that UK NHS staff are subject to strict gagging orders. Those who have spoken out are either retired or have done so anonymously.
For example, speaking about the introduction of an additional “clinical adviser” into the golden hour window, an anonymous senior NHS leader spoke to the Health Service Journal:
[The policy is] prejudiced against older people, those with dementia and those in care homes. [It risked placing] obstacles between vulnerable older people and emergency departments (ED’s), [and would put] significant burdens on systems not equipped to provide pre-ED 24/7 expert clinical advice. This raises serious questions about the origins of the guidance, its clinical rationale and the level of scrutiny and consultation it underwent prior to publication.
Correlation doesn’t equal causation but, nonetheless, this specific guidance was withdrawn at the same time that mortality peaked and the death rate began to fall. We shouldn’t simply discard this correlation. It is one among many.
The demands of the lockdown regime also saw ambulance response times increase significantly. Most notably in London, where they more than trebled for the most seriously ill “category 2 patients,” including heart attack and stroke victims.
During the peak of the outbreak 9 out of 10 of the local authorities with the highest mortality rates were London boroughs. Presentations to Accident and Emergency departments (ED’s) were down by 50% in London and the average drop in A&E attendance was down by 53% nationally during the lockdown.
Cancer screening and treatment was put on hold. Cancer Research UK estimated that 290,000 people missed cancer follow ups, indicating that around 20,000 current cancer sufferers, who could otherwise have accessed treatment, remain untreated or possibly unaware of their cancer.
At least 2.4 million people missed cancer screening appointment during the lockdown. As the the NHS Confederation warns that the backlog of planned treatments, including for life threatening and life limiting conditions, is likely to hit 10 million, the Lockdown regime has also seen cancer referrals drop by 45%. Some scientists have estimated this could mean an additional 35,000 excess cancer deaths in the UK.
There were no fewer people contracting cancer, but the real world impact of the Lockdown regime is that fewer lives will now be saved while many have undoubtedly already been lost. We are currently inundated with warnings of future lockdowns and local UK lockdowns have already begun in Leicester.
Many people are already living in fear of the alleged threat of the second COVID-19 wave. Consequently, they are willing to comply with any diktat from the government, regardless of scientific justification or lack of it.
It is extremely difficult to envisage how health services will manage the enormous treatment backlog and many health professionals are warning of the likelihood that they won’t. As winter approaches and natural mortality increases, the pressure on services will be immense. Another large spike in mortality in the Autumn is a terrible but seemingly unavoidable prospect. Given what we already know about the appalling manipulation of the death registration process, we can only guess how many of these deaths will ultimately be attributed to the second wave of COVID-19.
The Lockdown regime’s impact upon those with cardiovascular disease and heart conditions has been equally deleterious. Patients report difficulty accessing treatment or even obtaining the vital medication they need. Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, Associate Medical Director of the British Heart Foundations, said:
People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19 … At the very least, around 28,000 planned inpatient heart procedures have been deferred in response to the Covid-19 outbreak in England alone … If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.
The pervasive nature of our collective delusion is notable. Even renowned heart specialists seem incapable of acknowledging the truth. Heart disease is the most common comorbidity allegedly contributing to deaths with COVID-19.
During the lockdown, A&E presentations for heart attacks and strokes dropped by more than half. This resulted in a huge increase of deaths in the home.
It wasn’t COVID-19 that killed the majority of these people. They lost their lives because they either couldn’t or wouldn’t access hospital treatment.
The most vulnerable were sent letters telling them to stay at home to “protect the NHS;” ambulance response times increased; access to hospital treatment was actively deterred and community healthcare was withheld. This was not “because of coronavirus” or even “due to the response.” It is the result of a vicious Lockdown regime.
It is ludicrous to imagine that the cumulative effect of these lockdown policies didn’t lead to early mortality among the most vulnerable. The lockdown regime was detrimental to the health of the very demographic it was supposedly designed to “keep safe.”
While there is no evidence that COVID-19 presents any risk to children, there is evidence that the Lockdown regime does. A&E presentation were also down for children, raising concerns they they have not been receiving the health care they need.
Regardless of the MSM’s unrelenting assertion that these problems are caused by coronavirus, it has been the Lockdown regime’s policies, coupled with the MSM’s omnipresent fear porn, that has deterred frightened parents and increased the health risks for children.
The level of MSM disinformation during the lockdown has been staggering. For example, without questioning or verifying anything, they carelessly reported claims of massive underestimates of COVID-19 death in care settings. Closer analysis of those figures revealed these assessments were based upon little more than assumptions. In reality, the vast majority of those claimed coronavirus deaths were not related to COVID-19.
We should remember this as we consider the huge impact of lockdown regime policies on the most vulnerable people in society: those in care and nursing homes, and those who require home care.
Professor Carl Heneghan observed:
In order to free up space in hospitals, older patients were discharged into care homes without even being tested for the virus. In the two weeks after lockdown, when the risk of infection should have been waning, a further 1,800 homes in England reported outbreaks.
Once again, another notable correlation is evident. With its ever changing, bewildering policy guidance, it was on 15 April, immediately following peak mortality, that the UK government changed its recommendation to the NHS and stated that all patients must be tested for SARS-CoV-2 prior to discharge from hospital.
However, while every relatively healthy person, for whom COVID-19 presents virtually no threat, will be forced into quarantine for 14 days if they are even suspected of being in contact with someone who may have SARS-CoV-2, that same degree of caution does not apply the the most vulnerable. The current guidance states:
A small number of people may be discharged from the NHS within the 14-day period from the onset of COVID-19 symptoms needing ongoing social care. They will have been COVID-19 tested and have confirmed COVID-positive status. Some care providers will be able to accommodate these individuals.
Having sent an unknown number of infectious people into the care system, the UK government issued lockdown regime guidance to care staff recommending that they should not provide any care without the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE). The same policy makers then neglected to provide access to that PPE. As a result, the mounting stress and anxiety of care staff exacerbated the furlough staffing crisis.
Many staff members in nursing homes are medically qualified, this is not the case in the majority of care homes or among those providing community care. They are reliant upon primary care advice and intervention from their local GP.
The lockdown regime virtually removed GP support from care settings and the community. People have had to get used to telephone consultations instead of examinations and home visits. Thereby, hugely increasing the risk to the most vulnerable in the middle of an alleged global pandemic.
Guidance to GP’s from NHS England stated that possible COVID-19 patients should be identified primarily by weekly check-ins online. This was in keeping with the NHS Key Principles of General Practice, in relation to COVID-19, which stated:
Remote consultations should be used when possible. Consider the use of video consultations when appropriate.
Care home providers repeatedly highlighted the lack of medical care, as they struggled to cope with the condition created by the Lockdown regime. Despite representatives from the medical profession claiming that not providing medical interventions during a pandemic was “sufficient,” Vic Rayner, executive director of the National Care Forum, observed:
We are not focusing enough attention at a medical level on how best to keep people safe in these environments. We always knew these were the most at-risk groups, but we haven’t responded to an unprecedented situation with an unprecedented plan as we did in hospitals.
The UK government’s, or any government’s, claim that their ongoing Lockdown regime is intended to “protect the most vulnerable” is not credible. The consistency with which lockdown policies have increased, rather than reduced, the risk to those most in need has been a common feature of every lockdown.
Simultaneously, every Lockdown regime has placed those not at risk under ever more authoritarian rule. Quarantining the healthy is yet another Lockdown regime policy which escalates the risk for vulnerable people.
While the vulnerable were being sent back into high risk, poorly protected and understaffed care homes, hospital bed occupancy, across the country, was at a record low.
Whether by design or criminal neglect, lockdown policy has actively targeted the most vulnerable, singling them out for unusual and cruel treatment. Premature mortality is the inevitable and obvious result.
Lockdown Deaths Not COVID Deaths
We have clear evidence that the Lockdown regime has caused, and will continue to cause, ill health and death. We also know that it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 had already spread around the world before any lockdowns were initiated. We also know that the virus lay virtually dormant and only decided to cause statistically significant mortality after the lockdowns began.
We can now add the observations that the harshest elements of the lockdown, namely the refusal to allow care and the dispatching of untested vulnerable people back into high risk communities, only relented as peak mortality began to wane. We can also see, as lockdown restrictions eased, so did the mortality rate.
Nothing discussed here suggests that there is no virus or that COVID-19 doesn’t present a threat to health. It suggests that if your response to a public health crisis is to withdraw healthcare from those who need it the most, a spike in mortality is the only possible outcome. Not only are those affected by the disease more likely to succumb to it, but increased mortality from every other comorbidity is hard wired into that lockdown policy.
This would seem to account for the strong correlation between the imposition of healthcare limiting lockdowns and sharp increases in mortality. We can postulate that, prior to this, the virus was causing some mortality within the normal range and distribution of seasonable respiratory illness. Once the WHO identified the “novel” virus and declared a global pandemic, it was the ensuing Lockdown regimes which prompted unseasonable spikes in mortality. This was then attributed to a newly discovered disease that had long been present.
Italy’s National Institute of Health (ISS) found that only 12% of reported COVID-19 deaths were actually attributable to the COVID-19 syndrome. Perhaps this explains why another aspect of many Lockdown regimes has been the creation of indecipherable mortality recording systems.
The immediate response will be that this is a circular argument. The Lockdown Regime responded to the conditions on the ground. Policies adapted to circumstances at the time. As mortality reduced some restrictions could be lifted. If lockdowns cause mortality then why is a similar pattern found in a non lockdown country like Sweden?
While Sweden didn’t adopt the economic shutdown favoured by other European states, it did operate a policy of socially isolating the most vulnerable in poorly staffed, overcrowded care homes. Swedish care homes have been in a staffing crisis for many years, and this problem was compounded by the Swedish decision to tell all staff, who had any symptom ranging from a headache to a stiff knee, to stay at home. High mortality in the Swedish care system is an established problem and seasonal flu mortality in Swedish care homes is appallingly high.
The MSM, desperate to justify their own national lockdown regimes on behalf of their partners and leading advertisers, the government, have used Sweden’s high mortality in care homes as a stick to beat them with. In reality, instead of MSM propaganda land, around 50% of all recorded COVID-19 deaths across Europe, including in the UK, have been in care settings.
Sweden has openly admitted its error. Lena Hallengren, Swedish Health and Social Affairs Minister, stated in a national television interview:
We failed to protect our elderly. That’s really serious, and a failure for society as a whole. We have to learn from this, we’re not done with this pandemic yet.
It remains to be seen if Sweden will address the systemic failings within it’s care sector. Meanwhile Lockdown Regimes around the world persist with the lie that abandoning those most in need will “save lives.”
In light of all the other factors we have discussed, it is reasonable to conclude that the majority of deaths reported as COVID-19 mortality, by the world’s mainstream media (MSM), were not attributable to the syndrome itself, but rather to the various national and statewide lockdown policies.
These were Lockdown regime deaths not COVID-19 deaths. By restricting access to health care for the most vulnerable, any claim that Lockdown Regimes save lives is patently absurd.
This story was originally published at UK Column.org.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-17--Russiagate Meets COVID: UK Spooks Claim ‘Cozy Bear’ Tried to Hack the Coronavirus Vaccine

Given the abject folly which is the government-media complex , it was only a matter of time before this story emerged .
Following the demise of the RussiaGate narrative in the U.S. and the exposure of the secret government-run propaganda operation known as the Integrity Initiative in the UK , the Five Eyes intelligence cartel have been looking for a new story in which to re-engage the public with the concept of the ubiquitous Russian menace .
Why not simply blend it with the government ’ s coronavirus vaccine public relations push ?
Regardless of how discredited some of these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , what this story demonstrates is that the Integrity Initiative is still operational , and that outrageous Russian fantasy fiction will continue to be planted in the press .
As usual , no specifics are given , only that it is said to have happened the way the security services are claiming it did , and that it ’ s “ almost certainly ” the Russians , and that said hackers must be “ part of Russian intelligence services.
” The implications of the story are obvious : that Moscow is somehow trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canada ’ s experimental coronavirus vaccine , and thus plunge the West into further COVID chaos .
It should also be pointed out that 21WIRE debunked the false narrative that the Russians had somehow hacked the 2016 Trump-Clinton election .
Any readers with an attention span longer than 5 seconds will be rewarded by the real kicker which is only a few sentences into to this BBC masterpiece : “ It did not specify which organisations had been targeted , or whether any information had been stolen.
” But here is where it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media propaganda pieces , this story contradicts itself .
If you read a little bit further , it actually refutes its own bombastic headline by admitting that it ’ s probably not the the Russians after all : But one cyber-security expert said the Russians were unlikely to be the only ones involved in such a campaign .
“ They have lots of people , we have lots of people , the Americans have even more people , as do the Chinese , ” commented Prof Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are all trying to steal this kind of stuff all the time.
” • They ’ re ‘ almost certain ’ the Russians are at it again • It ’ s probably the Russians , probably “ Cozy Bear ” • Not sure which organisations were targeted • Not sure which information was stolen • But then again , it might not be the Russians Normally , a story like this would get laughed off the headlines , but it seems that ‘ anything goes ’ in the current hysterical ‘ global pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in the UK , US and Canada , security services have warned .
The UK ’ s National Cyber Security Centre ( NCSC ) said the hackers “ almost certainly ” operated as “ part of Russian intelligence services ” .
It did not specify which organisations had been targeted , or whether any information had been stolen .
But it said vaccine research had not been hindered by the hackers .
“ We do not have information about who may have hacked into pharmaceutical companies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We can say one thing – Russia has nothing at all to do with these attempts , ” said Dmitry Peskov , a spokesman for President Putin , according to the Tass news agency .
The warning was published by an international group of security services : One expert said it was “ plausible ” that , despite the Kremlin ’ s denials , Russian spies were involved .
“ The received wisdom is that in cyber-space , attribution is difficult but not impossible , ” commented Emily Taylor from the Chatham House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt .
“ Cozy Bear [ the named group ] has been implicated in past cyber-attacks and has left quite a trail , and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.
” See the original story at BBC

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Given the abject folly which is the government-media complex, it was only a matter of time before this story emerged.
Following the demise of the RussiaGate narrative in the U.S. and the exposure of the secret government-run propaganda operation known as the Integrity Initiative in the UK, the Five Eyes intelligence cartel have been looking for a new story in which to re-engage the public with the concept of the ubiquitous Russian menace. Why not simply blend it with the government’s coronavirus vaccine public relations push?
Regardless of how discredited some of these broader ‘Russia!’ themes are, what this story demonstrates is that the Integrity Initiative is still operational, and that outrageous Russian fantasy fiction will continue to be planted in the press.
As usual, no specifics are given, only that it is said to have happened the way the security services are claiming it did, and that it’s “almost certainly” the Russians, and that said hackers must be “part of Russian intelligence services.”
The implications of the story are obvious: that Moscow is somehow trying to sabotage the US, UK and Canada’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, and thus plunge the West into further COVID chaos.
It should also be pointed out that 21WIRE debunked the false narrative that the Russians had somehow hacked the 2016 Trump-Clinton election.
Any readers with an attention span longer than 5 seconds will be rewarded by the real kicker which is only a few sentences into to this BBC masterpiece: “It did not specify which organisations had been targeted, or whether any information had been stolen.”
But here is where it gets comical:
“Usually the security services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt. “Cozy Bear [the named group] has been implicated in past cyber-attacks and has left quite a trail, and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.”
As with most mainstream media propaganda pieces, this story contradicts itself. If you read a little bit further, it actually refutes its own bombastic headline by admitting that it’s probably not the the Russians after all:
But one cyber-security expert said the Russians were unlikely to be the only ones involved in such a campaign. “They have lots of people, we have lots of people, the Americans have even more people, as do the Chinese,” commented Prof Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory. “They are all trying to steal this kind of stuff all the time.”
So in summation:
They’re ‘almost certain’ the Russians are at it again
It’s probably the Russians, probably “Cozy Bear”
Not sure which organisations were targeted
Not sure which information was stolen
But then again, it might not be the Russians
Normally, a story like this would get laughed off the headlines, but it seems that ‘anything goes’ in the current hysterical ‘global pandemic’ political environment…
BBC claims that…
Russian spies are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in the UK, US and Canada, security services have warned.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the hackers “almost certainly” operated as “part of Russian intelligence services”.
It did not specify which organisations had been targeted, or whether any information had been stolen.
But it said vaccine research had not been hindered by the hackers.
Russia has denied responsibility.
“We do not have information about who may have hacked into pharmaceutical companies and research centres in Great Britain. We can say one thing – Russia has nothing at all to do with these attempts,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Putin, according to the Tass news agency.
The warning was published by an international group of security services:
the UK’s NCSC
the Canadian Communication Security Establishment (CSE)
the United States Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber-security Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
the US National Security Agency (NSA)
One expert said it was “plausible” that, despite the Kremlin’s denials, Russian spies were involved.
“The received wisdom is that in cyber-space, attribution is difficult but not impossible,” commented Emily Taylor from the Chatham House think tank.
“Usually the security services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt.
“Cozy Bear [the named group] has been implicated in past cyber-attacks and has left quite a trail, and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.”
See the original story at BBC
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-18--More Statistical Fraud: Florida, Texas, Colorado – All Caught Inflating COVID Cases and Deaths

It ’ s long been suspected that certain countries and US states have been padding their statistics regarding both cases and deaths attributed to coronavirus .
Only yesterday , it was revealed how UK health officials have been ‘ double counting ’ COVID deaths through creative administrative record keeping .
More evidence also reveals how similar shady practices are being employed by state officials across America .
In Texas , health officials were forced to remove some 3,000 reported COVID ‘ cases ’ from their pandemic dashboard after it was revealed that “ probable cases ” were being counted in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had never tested positive for the coronavirus .
Emmy & Murrow award winning Fox 4 Dallas Evening News Anchor Steve Eager reported : Chris Van Deusen , a spokesman for the state health agency , said to the Austin American-Statesman : “ Since we report confirmed cases on our dashboard , we have removed 3,484 previously reported probable cases from the statewide and Bexar County totals.
” A much worse case of statistical fraud was exposed in Florida this week , after it was revealed how Orlando health officials had fraudulently reported a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of tested persons .
At the time , no one questioned this incredible claim , but once exposed , officials were then forced to admit that that positivity rate might really be only 9.4 % .
This exposure came right after the state ’ s health officials were telling the press it had a “ record-breaking day ” with 15,000 new coronavirus cases discovered .
Florida ’ s COVID fraud was unearthed after journalists from one local affiliate , FOX 35 News , who actually checked the data and then reached out to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the testing batch which was showing a near 100 % positivity rate .
A similar inflation of positive case numbers was discovered at Orlando ’ s Veterans Administration ( VA ) , which a positivity rate of 76 % .
Again , it was a local affiliate , FOX 35 News , which inquired and reported that on the positivity rate there was really only 6 % .
In Colorado , health officials were forced to lower their official COVID death count by 25 % after officials were forced to admit that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actually died of other causes .
Unfortunately , these are not isolated incidents .
Back in April , health officials in Pennsylvania had to remove 200 “ COVID deaths ” from the state ’ s fatality count after doctors admitted that they had never actually tested the patients who died .
All this leaves the public wondering whether such fraudulent practices are being carried out in most states , and countries too .
US Coronavirus Task Force head Dr. Deborah Birx had previously hinted that the real coronavirus “ case ” and death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 25 % .
All of this is crucial when considering how all of the federal and state governments seemingly half-baked policies for supposedly stopping the spread of coronavirus – Lockdowns , ad hoc ‘ social distancing ’ rules , mandatory masks , mass testing and contact tracing , school closures , travel bans and quarantines , and of course , the mad rush to roll-out Big Pharma ’ s experimental coronavirus vaccine – are all based on what now seems to be a false perception that COVID-19 is a ‘ pandemic ’ which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SEE ALSO : UK Government Panicking As Fraudulent COVID Death Count is Revealed

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It’s long been suspected that certain countries and US states have been padding their statistics regarding both cases and deaths attributed to coronavirus.
Only yesterday, it was revealed how UK health officials have been ‘double counting’ COVID deaths through creative administrative record keeping.
More evidence also reveals how similar shady practices are being employed by state officials across America.
In Texas, health officials were forced to remove some 3,000 reported COVID ‘cases’ from their pandemic dashboard after it was revealed that “probable cases” were being counted in the totals – even though those people had never tested positive for the coronavirus. Emmy & Murrow award winning Fox 4 Dallas Evening News Anchor Steve Eager reported:
The State of Texas today had to remove 3,484 cases from its Covid-19 positive case count, because the San Antonio Health Department was reporting “probable” cases for people never actually tested, as “confirmed” positive cases.- TDHS
What other departments make this same mistake? pic.twitter.com/wYhGWhHl5w — Steve Eagar (@steveeagar) July 16, 2020
Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the state health agency, said to the Austin American-Statesman:
“Since we report confirmed cases on our dashboard, we have removed 3,484 previously reported probable cases from the statewide and Bexar County totals.”
A much worse case of statistical fraud was exposed in Florida this week, after it was revealed how Orlando health officials had fraudulently reported a 98% positive rate for their pool of tested persons. At the time, no one questioned this incredible claim, but once exposed, officials were then forced to admit that that positivity rate might really be only 9.4%.
This exposure came right after the state’s health officials were telling the press it had a “record-breaking day” with 15,000 new coronavirus cases discovered.
Florida’s COVID fraud was unearthed after journalists from one local affiliate, FOX 35 News, who actually checked the data and then reached out to a few of the 50 labs included in the testing batch which was showing a near 100% positivity rate.
Watch this report from Orlando:
A similar inflation of positive case numbers was discovered at Orlando’s Veterans Administration (VA), which a positivity rate of 76%. Again, it was a local affiliate, FOX 35 News, which inquired and reported that on the positivity rate there was really only 6%.
In Colorado, health officials were forced to lower their official COVID death count by 25% after officials were forced to admit that some of the alleged COVID victims had actually died of other causes.
Unfortunately, these are not isolated incidents. Back in April, health officials in Pennsylvania had to remove 200 “COVID deaths” from the state’s fatality count after doctors admitted that they had never actually tested the patients who died.
All this leaves the public wondering whether such fraudulent practices are being carried out in most states, and countries too.
US Coronavirus Task Force head Dr. Deborah Birx had previously hinted that the real coronavirus “case” and death count may be off by up to 25%.
All of this is crucial when considering how all of the federal and state governments seemingly half-baked policies for supposedly stopping the spread of coronavirus – Lockdowns, ad hoc ‘social distancing’ rules, mandatory masks, mass testing and contact tracing, school closures, travel bans and quarantines, and of course, the mad rush to roll-out Big Pharma’s experimental coronavirus vaccine – are all based on what now seems to be a false perception that COVID-19 is a ‘pandemic’ which requires unprecedented mitigation laws and regulations.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-18--White Helmets Implicated in Cash Embezzlement and Fraud Scandal

Any time you see the White Helmets in the news these days , it ’ s probably going to be for all the wrong reasons .
This latest bombshell is no exception .
As 21WIRE has previously noted , this “ urban search and rescue ” organisation claims to be “ impartial ” in the Syrian conflict , even though it has receive nearly all of its support and money from Western governments , and has only ever operate in ‘ rebel ’ terrorist-occupied pockets in Syria .
Incredibly , even though they are non-existent in Syria proper , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public on their website .
As of April 2018 , this organisation has claimed to have saved over 114,000 lives , and yet have never once released any records of proof of this wild claim .
But it ’ s claims like this which have been used to elevate the group ’ s public image and to pull in hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support and government patronage from the West .
Many have asked : where does all the money go ?
We ’ re told that all of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ front organisation called Mayday Rescue , based in the Netherlands .
However , beyond this , it is difficult to get a clear picture of group ’ s total financial expenditures since 2013 .
These are extremely large sums indeed , which left many unanswered questions .
Fortunately , this latest shocking embezzlement scandal may begin to provide some crucial answers .
According to the newspaper , Le Mesurier received 50 thousand dollars in cash for Operation Flying Carpet in on 17 July 2018 .
Four days later , around 100 White Helmets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Syria when Syrian president Bashar al-Assad reconquered parts of southern Syria .
As the White Helmets rescued people from bombings by the Assad regime , it was feared that they would be in danger of captivity , torture and death in areas he controlled .
But fewer White Helmets could be rescued than hoped , the Volkskrant wrote , because the largest part of the 50 thousand dollars Le Mesurier took from the Mayday safe in Istanbul was not used for the rescue .
And after that the money disappeared.
” In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accountant asked for an explanation and received receipts from Le Mesurier showing that after the evacuation from Jordan , the money was handed over to another manager , who signed for it .
After that Mayday established an Emergency Operation Center in Istanbul , in case more rescue workers had to be rescued , and the money is there in a safe .
The British accountant accepted this , as there were receipts and all .
But when the Dutch accountant went to check in November 2019 , he found that the money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
An involved employee told him that Le Mesurier asked that he and a colleague sign backdated receipts .
The accountant met with Le Mesurier to ask him about it , and he acknowledged fraud , according to the Volkskrant .
The money went into “ remuneration benefits ” – money he and fellow directors Emma Winberg ( also his wife ) and Rupert Davis paid out every month on top of their salaries .
The accountant confirmed that the 50 thousand dollars went into the books as a personal bonus for Le @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a forensic accountant look at the books to investigate the risk of self-enrichment .
The next day , November 8 , Le Mesurier wrote an email to the donor countries , admitting that the 50 thousand dollars disappeared as a result of “ fraud ” , but adding that there was never any malicious intent .
“ I take full and sole responsibility for that , ” he wrote , according to the newspaper .
He discussed his fears for a second investigation by a forensic accountant , that this may reveal “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ play into the hands of “ Russia and the pro-Assad trolls.
” He left the choice of how to proceed up to the donor countries , adding that he is willing to step down from Mayday if they require it and pay back any wrong expenses .
On Monday , November 11 , Le Mesurier was found dead .
He died in a fall from his and Winberg ’ s apartment above the Mayday offices in Istanbul .
The Turkish police spoke to his widow and concluded that he most likely took his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crucial about this latest revelation is that members of the UK mainstream media establishment sought to blame a melange of external actors for the untimely death of Le Mesurier .
At the time , such speculation was rife , as British mainstream journalists were openly drifting out loose talk of ‘ state actors ’ like Syria or Russia being responsible – even though Turkish authorities had already leaned towards suicide .
Incredibly , top mainstream establishment pundits also attempted to blame Le Mesurier ’ s death as the result of a nefarious ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any dissenting alternative media coverage of him and the White Helmets was somehow being “ a prelude to murder.
” This very accusation was made at the time by BBC ’ s diplomatic , defence and Newsnight editor , Mark Urban : Were these mainstream media journalists and other likely embedded intelligence mouthpieces , attempting to create a smokescreen at the time in order to deflect from the real scandal of financial malfeasance by the lauded White Helmets leadership ?
This does indeed seem to be the case after seeing these latest Dutch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incident , former Army colleague of Le Mesurier , Hamish de Bretton-Gordon , was doing the rounds in mainstream media , dropping in various inuendos and talking points .
Among other things , Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is also director of the Doctors Under Fire campaign group .
He said this to Forces.net : “ I know James got a lot of direct vitriol from these people , as do a lot of us who are trying to help on the humanitarian side in Syria , but the White Helmets were the focus of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Russians and the Syrians , and as the head of that organisation , I ’ m sure he got more of that than most.
” Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is also the UK media ’ s ‘ go-to ’ source on anything chemical weapons related , and helped to shape the narrative on most of the high-profile chemical attacks ’ attributed to the ‘ Assad regime ’ in Syria , including the alleged attacks in Khan Sheikhoun and Douma .
It was later proven through a series of leaked documents and whistleblower testimonies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) based in The Hague , Netherlands – that Douma ’ s alleged ‘ chemical attack ’ was in fact a hoax , perpetrated in part by the White Helmets themselves .
Not surprisingly , just as most US and UK officials have suddenly gone quiet on this issue , Hamish de Bretton-Gordon rarely comments on Douma anymore .
With this in mind , it ’ s important to note the scale and scope of the White Helmets public relations campaigning – all which is essentially designed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its inception in late 2013 , it is clear that just through the known funding it had received from its main funders the US and UK governments , along with EU state funding and Gulf states like Qatar – that this supposed ‘ search and rescue ’ group has received well in excess of $ 200 million .
If you added it all up , including solicited donations from the public , this may top a quarter of a billion dollars .
Many have asked the question : where did all of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ donor governments and media seem to be disinterested in this question .
In 2018 , when the wider public , and even the Trump White House too , began to really cop onto the fact that the White Helmets weren ’ t really what they were being marketed as , the press began running media cover pieces like , “ UK may increase aid to Syrian White Helmets after Trump pulls funding.
” So aside from a motivation by Western mainstream media and politicians to protect the White Helmets ’ image as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they produced visual propaganda which was used to bolster the US , UK and Turkish-led proxy war against Damascus ) coming out of Syria , there was also a clear financial motivation for its principle actors to protect its reputation and image .
Will this be the final death knell for this dubious propaganda vehicle created and funded by Western governments ?
Clearly , their days are numbered .
Presently , the White Helmets are only operating in the small Al-Qaeda-occupied province of Idlib in northern Syria .
They also have offices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with producing and disseminating images for western audiences .
Because of their overt western backing , along with the painful fact never reported in Western media – that they have only ever operated in Al Nusra/HTS/Al Qaeda controlled areas in Syria – the White Helmets are not liked , nor welcome by the Syrian population as a whole .
Hence , their only support resides in the West and from other regional actors like Turkey , Israel and Gulf States , who themselves are engaged in destablising Syria and trying to overthrow the @ @ @ @

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Any time you see the White Helmets in the news these days, it’s probably going to be for all the wrong reasons. This latest bombshell is no exception.
As 21WIRE has previously noted, this “urban search and rescue” organisation claims to be “impartial” in the Syrian conflict, even though it has receive nearly all of its support and money from Western governments, and has only ever operate in ‘rebel’ terrorist-occupied pockets in Syria. Incredibly, even though they are non-existent in Syria proper, the group is solicits cash donations from the public on their website.
As of April 2018, this organisation has claimed to have saved over 114,000 lives, and yet have never once released any records of proof of this wild claim.
But it’s claims like this which have been used to elevate the group’s public image and to pull in hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support and government patronage from the West.
Many have asked: where does all the money go? We’re told that all of the proceeds received are being funneled through a front organisation called Mayday Rescue, based in the Netherlands. However, beyond this, it is difficult to get a clear picture of group’s total financial expenditures since 2013. These are extremely large sums indeed, which left many unanswered questions.
Fortunately, this latest shocking embezzlement scandal may begin to provide some crucial answers.
NL Times reports…
According to the newspaper, Le Mesurier received 50 thousand dollars in cash for Operation Flying Carpet in on 17 July 2018. Four days later, around 100 White Helmets and their family members were smuggled out of Syria when Syrian president Bashar al-Assad reconquered parts of southern Syria. As the White Helmets rescued people from bombings by the Assad regime, it was feared that they would be in danger of captivity, torture and death in areas he controlled.
But fewer White Helmets could be rescued than hoped, the Volkskrant wrote, because the largest part of the 50 thousand dollars Le Mesurier took from the Mayday safe in Istanbul was not used for the rescue. And after that the money disappeared.”
In the spring of 2019, a British accountant asked for an explanation and received receipts from Le Mesurier showing that after the evacuation from Jordan, the money was handed over to another manager, who signed for it. After that Mayday established an Emergency Operation Center in Istanbul, in case more rescue workers had to be rescued, and the money is there in a safe. The British accountant accepted this, as there were receipts and all.
But when the Dutch accountant went to check in November 2019, he found that the money was missing and the receipts were fake. An involved employee told him that Le Mesurier asked that he and a colleague sign backdated receipts. The accountant met with Le Mesurier to ask him about it, and he acknowledged fraud, according to the Volkskrant. The money went into “remuneration benefits” – money he and fellow directors Emma Winberg (also his wife) and Rupert Davis paid out every month on top of their salaries. The accountant confirmed that the 50 thousand dollars went into the books as a personal bonus for Le Mesurier and advised the man to get a forensic accountant look at the books to investigate the risk of self-enrichment.
The next day, November 8, Le Mesurier wrote an email to the donor countries, admitting that the 50 thousand dollars disappeared as a result of “fraud”, but adding that there was never any malicious intent. “I take full and sole responsibility for that,” he wrote, according to the newspaper. He discussed his fears for a second investigation by a forensic accountant, that this may reveal “errors and internal failures” that could play into the hands of “Russia and the pro-Assad trolls.” He left the choice of how to proceed up to the donor countries, adding that he is willing to step down from Mayday if they require it and pay back any wrong expenses.
On Monday, November 11, Le Mesurier was found dead. He died in a fall from his and Winberg’s apartment above the Mayday offices in Istanbul. The Turkish police spoke to his widow and concluded that he most likely took his own life.
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21WIRE says…
What’s also crucial about this latest revelation is that members of the UK mainstream media establishment sought to blame a melange of external actors for the untimely death of Le Mesurier. At the time, such speculation was rife, as British mainstream journalists were openly drifting out loose talk of ‘state actors’ like Syria or Russia being responsible – even though Turkish authorities had already leaned towards suicide. Incredibly, top mainstream establishment pundits also attempted to blame Le Mesurier’s death as the result of a nefarious ‘Russian information campaign’ and insinuated that any dissenting alternative media coverage of him and the White Helmets was somehow being “a prelude to murder.” This very accusation was made at the time by BBC’s diplomatic, defence and Newsnight editor, Mark Urban:
Were these mainstream media journalists and other likely embedded intelligence mouthpieces, attempting to create a smokescreen at the time in order to deflect from the real scandal of financial malfeasance by the lauded White Helmets leadership? This does indeed seem to be the case after seeing these latest Dutch revelations.
At the time of the incident, former Army colleague of Le Mesurier, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, was doing the rounds in mainstream media, dropping in various inuendos and talking points. Among other things, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is also director of the Doctors Under Fire campaign group. He said this to Forces.net:
“I know James got a lot of direct vitriol from these people, as do a lot of us who are trying to help on the humanitarian side in Syria, but the White Helmets were the focus of much of the angst and derision from the Russians and the Syrians, and as the head of that organisation, I’m sure he got more of that than most.”
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is also the UK media’s ‘go-to’ source on anything chemical weapons related, and helped to shape the narrative on most of the high-profile chemical attacks’ attributed to the ‘Assad regime’ in Syria, including the alleged attacks in Khan Sheikhoun and Douma. It was later proven through a series of leaked documents and whistleblower testimonies from members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) based in The Hague, Netherlands – that Douma’s alleged ‘chemical attack’ was in fact a hoax, perpetrated in part by the White Helmets themselves. Not surprisingly, just as most US and UK officials have suddenly gone quiet on this issue, de Bretton-Gordon rarely comments on Douma anymore.
With this in mind, it’s important to note the scale and scope of the White Helmets public relations campaigning – all which is essentially designed to protect its fundraising ability. Since its inception in late 2013, it is clear that just through the known funding it had received from its main funders the US and UK governments, along with EU state funding and Gulf states like Qatar – that this supposed ‘search and rescue’ group has received well in excess of $200 million. If you added it all up, including solicited donations from the public, this may top a quarter of a billion dollars. Many have asked the question: where did all of the money go? Not surprisingly, both donor governments and media seem to be disinterested in this question. In 2018, when the wider public, and even the Trump White House too, began to really cop onto the fact that the White Helmets weren’t really what they were being marketed as, the press began running media cover pieces like, “UK may increase aid to Syrian White Helmets after Trump pulls funding.”
So aside from a motivation by Western mainstream media and politicians to protect the White Helmets’ image as a truthful source of information (in reality, they produced visual propaganda which was used to bolster the US, UK and Turkish-led proxy war against Damascus) coming out of Syria, there was also a clear financial motivation for its principle actors to protect its reputation and image.
Will this be the final death knell for this dubious propaganda vehicle created and funded by Western governments?
Clearly, their days are numbered. Presently, the White Helmets are only operating in the small Al-Qaeda-occupied province of Idlib in northern Syria. They also have offices in Turkey but these are mainly concerned with producing and disseminating images for western audiences.
Because of their overt western backing, along with the painful fact never reported in Western media – that they have only ever operated in Al Nusra/HTS/Al Qaeda controlled areas in Syria – the White Helmets are not liked, nor welcome by the Syrian population as a whole. Hence, their only support resides in the West and from other regional actors like Turkey, Israel and Gulf States, who themselves are engaged in destablising Syria and trying to overthrow the government in Damascus.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-19--Shelby Steele: The Unpopular Truth About Race Relations in America

This interview offers a deeper look into the origins of race relations in America .
Following the death of George @ @ @ @ @ streets have exploded in anger and violence , as well as increased demands for ‘ @ @ @ @ @ black and white Americans become trapped into seeing color before character ?
Have the Federal @ @ @ @ @ social policies increased overall socio-economic inequality rather than reducing it ?
Is the protest group @ @ @ @ @ political narrative in order to manipulating the pervasive underlying fear of being called a ‘ @ @ @ @ @ s America ?
In this extended interview , Dr. Shelby Steele discusses the deeper issues @ @ @ @ @ Watch : Award-winning scholar Shelby Steele is the author of Content of Our Character , @ @ @ @ @ of Race in America , and a leading historian of African-American studies , and the @ @ @ @ @ Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University .
For over 50 years @ @ @ @ @ study of race relations , multiculturalism , and affirmative action .

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This interview offers a deeper look into the origins of racial conflict and relations in America.
Following the death of George Floyd, the American city streets have exploded in anger and violence, as well as increased demands for ‘social justice.’ Have both black and white Americans become trapped into seeing color before character? Have the Federal government’s raft of social policies increased overall socio-economic inequality rather than reducing it? Is the protest group Black Lives Matter distorting the political narrative in order to manipulating the pervasive underlying fear of being called a ‘racist’ in today’s America?
In this extended interview, Dr. Shelby Steele discusses the deeper issues surrounding race in America. Watch:
Award-winning scholar Shelby Steele is the author of Content of Our Character, The: A New Vision of Race in America, and a leading historian of African-American studies, and the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. For over 50 years he has specialized in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.
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