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UK Doctors Group That Pushed COVID Shots for Teens Hid Payments From Pfizer

The U.K.’s Royal College of General Practitioners (GP) failed to declare payments it received from Pfizer while it was advocating that children be given the COVID-19 vaccine, The Telegraph reported last week.

The Royal College of GPs, which represents 54,000 GPs, is the U.K.’s professional body for general medical practitioners, similar to the American Medical Association in the U.S.

In 2021, Pfizer gave the organization 102,820 British pounds ($125,558 USD at current exchange rates) through “donations and grants” and “benefits in kind.” That was more than double the 49,324 pounds ($60,232) Pfizer gave the organization in 2020, up from only 4,309 pounds ($5,262) in 2019.

In September 2021, the U.K.’s chief medical officers, the highest-ranking government public health advisers, asked parents to vaccinate their children to keep schools open, according to The Telegraph.

They issued that advice even though the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises the government on vaccination, opted not to recommend universal vaccination for 12- to 15-year-olds. The JCVI said the benefits of vaccination for that age group were only “marginally greater than the potential known harms.”

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London Council Admits It Will Discriminate Against White People In Job Advert

Westminster City council in London has advertised a job opportunity and admitted that while it is open to everyone, white British people will not be favoured over people from a “Global Majority (GM)” background.

The position, which has a starting salary of £54,684, is for an “Executive Assistant.” 

The ad states “The council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.”

That’s a lot of words to say ‘A DEI hire is preferable.’

It continues, “We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities (formally known as Bame, Black, Asian and Multiple ethnic) background.”

The listing then admits that white people shouldn’t expect to be selected if they’re up against candidates from such backgrounds.

“Whilst the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit,” the ad asserts.

“Positive action.” 

Let that sink in.

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Privatization (When It’s Not)

For the first time in Royal Mail’s long history, stretching back to the 1500s, its owner will be based overseas. Daniel Kretinsky, a Czech billionaire, has acquired ownership over Royal Mail after a £3.6bn takeover. Royal Mail has been performing badly for years now after it was “privatized” in 2013. The company has suffered heavy financial losses as mountains of customers complain that they do not regularly receive letters like important medical documents or crucial legal documents on time.

Onlookers and stakeholders can see with sublime clarity that the company is headed towards dire straits unless major change is gambled on. Individuals inclined towards the socialist worldview blame privatization, but their cause benefits from the public not wishing to dig a bit deeper to understand Royal Mail’s situation; this market is not what it seems.

For most, privatization conjures an image of fat, avaricious capitalists grabbing companies, obtaining full and unopposed control of all their resources, grinding every penny from them before moving on to the next victim. It is a picture that aids statists who seek to take control of the private economy for “the people’s” benefit. Actual details scupper much of this picture.

The government has retained what they are calling a “Golden Share.” This gives them critical veto power over decisions like relocating the headquarters outside of the United Kingdom, changing the tax residency to abroad, and the Universal Service Obligation. The Universal Service Obligation is a legal obligation to guarantee the delivery of letters and parcels six days a week across the United Kingdom at a uniform price. Included in the deal were provisions to safeguard existing employee rights like pay, working conditions, and pensions. The dog is still on a leash, and yet they would have you believe it frolics freely.

A nationalistic sentiment infests this deal as the government seeks to ensure the public that Britain will be maintaining British heritage within this widely appreciated “public good.” This translates into the government leveraging a huge say in key decisions of the company. Since most statists believe the government reflects the people, the government effectively owning the company equates to the people owning it. There is no coherent idea of ownership based on this idea and it is one of many reasons why it is more than probable that the new owners will not be able to work the miracle that the government claims.

The government’s deal with Kretinsky effectively imposes a strait jacket on the company’s owners. The government’s expectation is that the new owners will be able to rearrange resources, change how Royal Mail operates, and work some fancy business voodoo so the government can claim a political victory for the work of others. This is an utter fantasy. A normal company making significant losses akin to Royal Mail would have to fundamentally change the way it operates, but the deal takes away so much flexibility for the new owner to right the ship. Prices in a market are signals. On a basic level, the huge financial losses incurred are a signal to the owners that some of their resources are being badly misallocated. Prices and double-entry bookkeeping show where the misallocation is, but the deal renders these signals almost useless.

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Climate and Nature Bill is the UK’s version of the UN’s Agenda 2030

On yesterday’s episode of Trending, Gareth Icke and Richard Willet dive into the UK Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill, currently sneaking its way through Parliament without scrutiny.

Very much like the WHO Pandemic Treaty, the CAN Bill would give unelected bodies sweeping powers to take over land, prevent travel, and control meat consumption, among other draconian powers, in the event of a “climate emergency.”

Icke and Willet also discussed the Los Angeles wildfires and the possible connection to the LA Smart City 2028 agenda, the BBC’s climate change propaganda, including the vilification of family pets as a cause for climate change, and the UK’s release of a new two pound coin to commemorate the life of 1984 author George Orwell. The coin features the Big Brother eye.

In the following, we focus on Trending’s discussion of the CAN Bill.

The Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill has largely gone under the radar. It was reintroduced in the UK House of Commons by Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage on 16 October 2024 and has its second reading scheduled in 9 days, on 24 January.

“The reason it’s gone under the radar is they don’t want any scrutiny of it. The reason they don’t want scrutiny of it is because it ain’t going to be very good for us,” Icke said.

The Bill is a rebadged version of the UN Agenda 2030. The Bill includes provisions for forced rewilding, which is another way of saying that the government will grant itself powers to seize land from farmers and others if they do not meet sustainable goals.

It also includes retrofitting of homes, which would require homeowners to make changes such as installing insulation, heat pumps or solar panels at their own expense.

Of course, the rules which allow the government to grab land and property or require homeowners to make changes to their homes are made by a select few using arbitrary arguments and can change at a whim.

The Bill aims to ban fossil fuels, which would lead to pressure on the energy supply and drive up prices, making energy unaffordable for some people.

The government would have control over various aspects of people’s lives, including energy use, food consumption, travel and what can be fitted or not fitted in their homes, with smart meters playing a role.

“They’ll be able to order you not to travel, not to leave certain areas, not to fly …  they’ll be able to control food consumption what you’re allowed to [eat] … What will also tie into this is what you say,” Icke said. “Another thing that’s on there is energy use, so they can control how much energy you use.”

“It should also be pointed out,” said Willet, “This will all be monitored on your digital ID system.  So all of this data will be collated on a digital ID system.”

Usually, a bill has two or three sponsors.  The CAN Bill has over 200 sponsors in Parliament, indicating strong support for it to pass in Parliament. 

The acronym “CAN” could easily be a psychological trick, so the public views the Bill with a positive connotation, even though in reality it is sinister.

The justification for the CAN Bill is to address climate change, but the reality is it gives the government power to declare emergencies, and then implement policies and control people’s behaviour in response to that emergency without public input.

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Far Left UK Government Proposes BANNING “Controversial” Conversations

The leftist Labour government in Britain has proposed radical reforms to the rights of workers that could include classing ‘sensitive’ topics of conversation in the workplace such as religion, women’s rights, or transgenderism as ‘harassment’.

The proposed legislation would force employers to prevent workers from being subjected to such subjects by third parties, such as customers. 

If they are found to have failed to do so, they could face lawsuits under the legislation.

Watchdog The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned that if it comes into the force next year, the proposed law could significantly impact freedom of expression and even be applied to “overheard conversations” such as those between two or more people in a pub.

The EHRC has noted that applying the harassment law in cases involving a “philosophical belief” could lead to problems owing to the fact that many employers do not understand such topics are protected by equality law.

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Did Keir Starmer destroy the Assange files, illegally pursue Assange for 14 years, and attempt to destroy Assange’s mind?

After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain how it came to destroy key files that would have shed light on why it pursued Assange for 14 years. The CPS appears to have done so in breach of its own procedures.

Assange was finally released from Belmarsh high-security prison last year in a plea deal after Washington had spent years seeking his extradition for publishing documents revealing US and UK war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The CPS files relate to lengthy correspondence between the UK and Sweden over a preliminary investigation into rape allegations in Sweden that predate the US extradition case.

A few CPS emails from that time were not destroyed and have been released under Freedom of Information rules. They show that it was the UK authorities pushing reluctant Swedish prosecutors to pursue the case against Assange. Eventually, Swedish prosecutors dropped the case after running it into the ground.

In other words, the few documents that have come to light show that it was the CPS – led at that time by Keir Starmer, later knighted and now Britain’s prime minister – that waged what appears to have been a campaign of political persecution against Assange, rather than one based on proper legal considerations.

It is not just Britain concealing documents relating to Assange. The US, Swedish and Australian authorities have also put up what Stefania Maurizi, an Italian journalist who has been doggedly pursuing the FoI requests, has called “a wall of darkness”.

There are good grounds for believing that all four governments have coordinated their moves to cover up what would amount to legal abuses in the Assange case.

Starmer headed the CPS when many highly suspect decisions regarding Assange were made. If the documents truly have been destroyed, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to ever know how directly he was involved in those decisions.

Extraordinarily, and conveniently for both the UK and Sweden, it emerged during legal hearings in early 2023 that prosecutors in Stockholm claim to have destroyed the very same correspondence deleted by the CPS.

The new ruling by Judge Foss will require the CPS to explain how and why it destroyed the documents, and provide them unless it can demonstrate that there is no way they can ever be retrieved. Failure to do so by February 21 will be treated as contempt of court.

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Migrant who raped sleeping woman avoids deportation after claiming he is ‘bisexual’ and HIS life would be in danger if sent back to Jamaica

The 41-year-old claimed he didn’t know that having sex with a woman who is sleeping was wrong.

The man, who was granted anonymity for his own protection, was sentenced to seven years in jail in 2018 for the rape at a party.

He was released in June 2021 and given a deportation order, with The Home Office branding him a ‘danger to the community’.

But the migrant challenged this because he had been subject to violence in his home country due to his sexuality and that was why he moved to the UK in 2018.

He told the tribunal he was attacked with a ‘metal bar, machete and dogs’. 

The tribunal was also told that an older man he was dating was killed for being gay.

An expert said the migrant would be a ‘target’ if he returned due to his sexuality – but The Home Office said there was only evidence of him dating women in the UK.

The judge ruled the migrant was ‘incentivised not to re-offend by the threat of return to prison’ and he is allowed to stay, according to The Sun.

An application to appeal this decision was rejected in November.

Former security minister Sir John Hayes told the newspaper: ‘This is an insult to every victim.

‘This man should be thrown out of the country.’

The Home Office said: ‘We made the case to deport this individual and lost in the courts.’

It comes after a Syrian became the first UK-bound migrant of the new year to die in the English Channel after being ‘crushed to death’ in an overcrowded small boat.

The unnamed man, who was in his 20s, was in a flimsy dinghy that was launched in the early hours of Saturday from a beach near Calais.

It was full of asylum seekers heading from France to England, but began to collapse in freezing cold seas and so turned back.

‘The boat set off from Sangatte beach,’ said a spokesman for France’s Maritime Prefecture.

‘But a few minutes later, it returned and the group disembarked from the soaking wet boat.

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Judge Threatens To Break the UK’s Wall of Secrecy Around Assange’s Persecution

After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain how it came to destroy key files that would have shed light on why it pursued Assange for 14 years. The CPS appears to have done so in breach of its own procedures.

Assange was finally released from Belmarsh high-security prison last year in a plea deal after Washington had spent years seeking his extradition for publishing documents revealing US and UK war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The CPS files relate to lengthy correspondence between the UK and Sweden over a preliminary investigation into rape allegations in Sweden that predate the US extradition case.

A few CPS emails from that time were not destroyed and have been released under Freedom of Information rules. They show that it was the UK authorities pushing reluctant Swedish prosecutors to pursue the case against Assange. Eventually, Swedish prosecutors dropped the case after running it into the ground.

In other words, the few documents that have come to light show that it was the CPS – led at that time by Keir Starmer, later knighted and now Britain’s prime minister – that waged what appears to have been a campaign of political persecution against Assange, rather than one based on proper legal considerations.

It is not just Britain concealing documents relating to Assange. The US, Swedish and Australian authorities have also put up what Stefania Maurizi, an Italian journalist who has been doggedly pursuing the FoI requests, has called “a wall of darkness”.

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Inept ‘Fact Check’ by Science Feedback Shines Further Light on U.K. Met Office’s Junk and Fabricated Temperature Measurements

After a year of damaging revelations about the state of the Met Office’s temperature measuring network, the Green Blob-funded ‘fact-checker’ Science Feedback has sprung to the defense of the state-funded U.K. weather service. It has published a long ‘fact check’ seeking to exonerate practices that have recently come to light including the locating of stations with huge heat corrupted ‘uncertainties’ and the publication of invented data from 103 non-existent sites. Inept is a word that springs to mind. At one point, Science Feedback justifies the estimation of data at the non-existent stations by referring to the hastily changed Met Office explanation for station/location long-term averages. The original and now deleted Met Office webpage referenced station names and provided single location coordinates including one improbable siting next to the sea on Dover beach. This would appear to be a new low in the world of so-called fact-checking – designating copy as ‘misleading’ based on an explanation changed after the article was published.

The first Daily Sceptic article reporting on the existence of 103 non-existent stations can be read here. The second appeared last month here and detailed the unannounced web changes and the obvious cover-up intended to deflect criticism from the invented station data.

Under the verdict “misleading” Science Feedback claims that the average data going back 60 years for stations is not “fabricated” but estimated using “well-correlated related neighbouring stations”. This is said to be a scientific method that is published in peer-reviewed literature. The Met Office discloses it has “relatively few” stations with 30-year data from which long-term averages can be calculated. The distinction between estimated and fabricated is moot. A pundit calling the winner of a sports match before it has taken place is an estimation of the result, and the opinion is no less a fabrication or invention however distinguished the pundit and however well-regarded any peers signalling agreement might be.

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Former Labour MP Reportedly Arrested on Suspicion of ‘Sexual Communications with a Child’

Ivor Caplin, a former Labour Party MP and government minister, was reportedly arrested following a ‘paedophile hunter’ group sting.

The former member of parliament for Hove, who served the constituency from 1997 until 2005, was reportedly arrested on Saturday, according to the Daily Mail.

Footage has been shared on social media of a man who appeared to physically resemble Caplin being detained during a sting by a group of self-proclaimed paedophile hunters, who claimed that the man was seeking to meet with an underage boy.

In a statement, Sussex Police said: “We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.

“Officers can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11 and currently remains in custody. This is an ongoing and active investigation.”

Caplin, 66, was a junior defence minister in Tony Blair’s government from 2003 to 2005. He was suspended from the Labour Party last year after unnamed “serious allegations” were made about him. The former MP denied any wrongdoing.

In addition to being a member of parliament, Caplin was active in various left-wing campaign groups in Britain, including previously serving as the chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement and as a patron of the LGBT+ Labour group.

Last week, in an appearance on GB News, Caplin criticised X owner Elon Musk over comments accusing government figures such as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls Minister Jess Phillips of alleged failures in the Muslim child rape grooming gang scandal.

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