(September 27, 2024)
The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
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Katrina vanden Heuvel
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(November 16, 2024)
“Secretary Blinken has continued to lie to Congress and should resign,” she said. “U.S. law is very clear. No nation blocking U.S. humanitarian assistance can receive U.S. weapons. The Biden administration cannot pick and choose when they comply with our own laws.”
“Children are forced to eat pet food and bug infested flour,” she went on. “But Blinken says there is no need to change our own policy. Shameful.”
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire just days before he was assassinated by Israel.
The temporary ceasefire was called for by US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and other allies during last week’s UN General Assembly.
Christiane Amanpour: “Are you saying Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a ceasefire just moments before he was assassinated?”
Abdallah Bou Habib: “He agreed. He agreed, yes, yes. We agreed completely. Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire, but consulting with the Hezbollah. The speaker, Mr. Berri, consulted with Hezbollah. And we informed the Americans and the French that that’s what happened.”
Christiane Amanpour: “So” —
Abdallah Bou Habib: “And they told us that Mr. Netanyahu also agreed on the statement that was issued by both presidents.”
(September 29, 2024)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that the assurances given by American and European leaders to establish a ceasefire in return for Iran‘s non-response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Hamas, were outright lies, according to a report by the Associated Press.
(September 21, 2024)
He could have ended it with a phone call. The killing continued because he and his handlers wanted it to.
(October 25, 2015)
A political consultant once related how he lunched with Benjamin Netanyahu, who ordered a hamburger with fries. He was not supposed to be eating such foods – doctor’s orders. As they were finishing up, Bibi’s wife, Sarah, came in, saw the evidence and began to see red. Netanyahu, all righteous indignation, looked her straight in the eye and said he had eaten no such hamburger. The storyteller said he was convinced at that moment that Netanyahu himself believed it.
If apocryphal, it is definitely in character. Netanyahu regularly embraces bad ideas or even lies so totally that he convinces himself of their rightness. Others start to believe them too. His outlandish idea, uttered in a speech, was that Hitler would have been happy with just expelling Jews if a Palestinian, the then grand mufti of Jerusalem, had not suggested annihilation instead.
The U.S. government’s handling of USAID’s memo led to internal conflict, with one official in the State Department, Stacy Gilbert, resigning in May over Blinken’s statement to Congress.
“There is abundant evidence showing Israel is responsible for blocking aid,” Gilbert wrote in a statement at the time. “To deny this is absurd and shameful. That report and its flagrant untruths will haunt us.” (mehr …)
Blinken’s decision allowed the U.S. to keep sending arms to Israel. Under U.S. law, the government is required to cut off weapons shipments to countries preventing the delivery of U.S.-backed aid.
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
(09.01.2024)
Mansour said the Palestinian Authority, with the backing of Arab states, would start mobilizing support to go to the U.N. Security Council, which holds the key to membership because it must back a request before it can go to the General Assembly for a final decision. That means at least nine council members must vote in favor of the move, and none of the permanent five members can veto it.
It is understood UNRWA requested Israel access to the detainees.
Israel possesses concrete evidence tying several dozen UNRWA employees to the October 7 massacre.
„The dossier said that Israeli intelligence officers had established the movements of six of the men inside Israel on Oct. 7 based on their phones; others had been monitored while making phone calls inside Gaza during which, the Israelis say, they discussed their involvement in the Hamas attack,“ the NYT report says, referring to a dossier reportedly handed to US officials in recent days.
(…)
The NYT report on Sunday, based on the dossier seen by its reports, made no mention of confessions.
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(December 23, 2015)
Marah Bakeer, a student in her last year of high school (Tawjihi), insisted to her friend, Asma’a Elkhatib, to join her family to take lunch at her home. At first, Asma’a refused her friend’s invitation, but after many attempts of convincing her, she had eventually accepted Marah’s request.
On the way home … The two 16-year old girls, wearing their dark blue uniform, and school bags on their backs, left the bus at the entrance of Beit Hannina town, and were excitedly talking about their school life and the crucial year they have to pass; to move to college and build up their future.
In the midst of their talk, the Israeli forces stopped them at the main road of the town. One of the soldiers came close to them, and fired twelve bullets towards Marah’s small body, while he was shouting “Subversive .. subversive!”.
Asma’a freaked out and had no idea about what to do or where to go when she saw her friend Marah covered with blood, crying, while the soldiers were only watching her bleeding.
Marah was left bleeding till she lost consciousness; then the soldiers moved her to the Israeli hospital Hadassah to receive medical treatment, while her friend Asma’a was finally able to escape. This was on 10.12.2015 at noon.
(…)
Israel claims that “Marah”, who lives in a family of five members, was holding a knife in her hand to stab one of the soldiers who were in the place of the accident. However, their story was denied by Asma’a and a group of students who were in the place at the time of the incident. Also, a video tape was published and widely shared via social media showing Marah screaming and crying with no knife near her.
The mother refused the accusations made against her daughter that she tried to stab an Israeli soldier; and said during our phone call with her: “My daughter is dreaming of getting the university certificate; to make us proud of her, and all the Israeli accusations are totally refused”
The IDF said that an examination of its operational systems indicated that “a misfired projectile launched by terrorist organizations inside the Gaza Strip hit the Shifa Hospital.”
Hecht went on to claim that the projectile had been aimed at “IDF troops operating in the vicinity.”
Several social media videos emerged online Friday showing injured people lying on the ground of the outpatient clinic following the strike.
Serbia has denied reports of a military build-up along the border with Kosovo, alleging a “campaign of lies” against his country in the wake of a shootout a week earlier that killed four people and fuelled tensions in the volatile Balkan region.
“A campaign of lies … has been launched against our Serbia,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a video posted on Instagram on Sunday.
(15 Feb 2011)
Since the fall of Baghdad, Curveball‘s identity had been sought throughout Iraq and Europe. He was finally outed in late 2007 as the main source for Powell‘s speech, but has tried to keep a low profile ever since, refusing — under the orders of the BND — the approaches of the few reporters who had tracked him downto Karlsruhe.
The only other time Curveball has agreed to be interviewed was in late 2007, when he told CNN that he had been set up as a fall guy by the BND and had never breathed a word to them about WMD.
(28.8.2011)
Diese bis heute verbreitete Darstellung ist unangenehm für die Bundesrepublik. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, das ein Doppelspiel betrieben hat: nach außen den Pazifisten geben – und hintenherum über seinen Geheimdienst einen entscheidenden Grund für die militärische Intervention liefern. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst nahm die Vorwürfe schweigend hin.
Damit ist nunmehr auch schriftlich und sachlogisch bewiesen, dass Scholz sowie sein Regierungssprecher bewusst die Unwahrheit verbreitet haben. Scholz hat einen Untersuchungsausschuss hinsichtlich seiner Erinnerungslücke belogen. Dies ist eine Straftat. Und er hat seinen Regierungssprecher die Unwahrheit verbreiten lassen. Er ist als Kanzler nicht mehr tragbar. Warum aber so viele Lügen über Treffen mit Cum-Ex Bankiers, wenn die Treffen doch angeblich nur vergessen wurden und Scholz keinen Einfluss genommen habe?
Meine These ist, dass Scholz sich angesichts der damals umkämpften SPD-Kanzlerkandidatur und den Gefahren strafrechtlicher Ermittlungen zur Einflussnahme auf das Steuerverfahren für eine gefährliche Strategie entschied:
(24.08.2023)
De Masi kommt in einer Stellungnahme gegenüber den NachDenkSeiten zu dem Schluss, dass das Verhalten von Scholz sowohl politische wie strafrechtliche Konsequenzen haben muss, und hält den Kanzler für nicht mehr tragbar:
„Man kann keinen Termin bestätigen, der nicht im Kalender steht ohne aktive Erinnerung. Dies war also eine kalkulierte Strategie. Wer die Öffentlichkeit so bewusst belügt, hat etwas zu verbergen. Und zwar den Einfluss auf ein Steuerverfahren zu Gunsten von Wirtschaftskriminellen und den Verzicht auf Tatbeute. Denn das Motto „Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Scholz“ macht nur Sinn, wenn der Bundeskanzler sich stärker mit den kriminellen Cum-ex-Deals befasst hat als zulässig. Damit ist dies nicht nur eine politische, sondern auch eine strafrechtliche Angelegenheit. Der Kanzler ist nicht mehr tragbar.“
Die Bundesregierung hat ihre ablehnende Haltung in Bezug auf eine Lieferung von „Taurus“-Marschflugkörpern an die Ukraine offenbar aufgegeben. Voraussetzung sei, dass die Zielprogrammierung des „Taurus“ eingeschränkt werde.
Kenyans are preparing for tough times after lawmakers approved tax increases that are unpopular even with supporters of the president, who once vowed to reduce the cost of living. William Ruto’s election win was attributed to his appeal to voters as a fellow “hustler” who rose from a humble background to senior roles in government, including as Jomo Kenyatta’s vice president. (…)
Kenya’s High Court suspended the tax hike pending a legal challenge, but the government raised gas prices anyway.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, although one that was provoked by NATO expansion and by the United States backing of the 2014 “Maidan” coup which ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych wanted economic integration with the European Union, but not at the expense of economic and political ties with Russia. The war will only be solved through negotiations that allow ethnic Russians in Ukraine to have autonomy and Moscow’s protection, as well as Ukrainian neutrality, which means the country cannot join NATO. The longer these negotiations are delayed the more Ukrainians will suffer and die. Their cities and infrastructure will continue to be pounded into rubble.
Auslöser der Ausschreitungen sind tödliche Schüsse eines Polizisten auf einen Jugendlichen nordafrikanischer Abstammung im Pariser Arbeitervorort Nanterre. Eine Motorradstreife hatte den 17-Jährigen am Dienstagmorgen am Steuer eines Autos gestoppt. Als der junge Mann plötzlich anfuhr, fiel der tödliche Schuss aus der Dienstwaffe des Polizisten.
Police initially reported that one officer shot at the teenager because he was driving his car at him, but this version of events was contradicted by a video circulating on social media and authenticated by AFP.
The footage shows the two policemen standing by the side of the stationary car, with one pointing a weapon at the driver. A voice is heard saying: „You are going to get a bullet in the head.“
The police officer appears to fire at the driver at point-blank range as the car abruptly drives off, advancing a few dozen metres before crashing.
I remember my father telling me sadly, “Politicians lie.” That was in the 1960s, when people expected honesty. By now, we’ve been lied to so many times we automatically discount all political speech and try to decode it for the “message.” Get ready to start expecting the truth again from government agencies when I am President. #Kennedy24
Not all politicians are the same, I know that, but enough of the current crop are to make many turn away from politics forever. The Johnson debacle, like Trump’s manoeuvrings, is a profoundly anti-democratic moment as both leaders seek to undermine any institution that stops their ambition. That ambition has nothing to do with improving the lives of anyone but themselves. “Power,” says O’Brien as he tortures Winston in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, “is not a means, it is an end.” Indeed.
Mr Sunak joined many Conservatives in swerving the debate, instead attending a Jewish Care event.
(19.06.2023)
Only seven Tories voted against the report after a five-hour debate in Parliament, with 354 MPs across all parties in favour of the conclusion that Mr Johnson had deliberately misled the House.
The former prime minister quit as an MP after he learned of the recommendations of the cross-party group, which included a 90-day ban from the House of Commons for “repeated contempts” of Parliament.
(19.06.2023)
Branding him the first former prime minister to have lied to the Commons, the Privileges Committee found Mr Johnson committed ‚repeated contempts‘ of Parliament by deliberately misleading MPs with his partygate denials before being complicit in a campaign of abuse and intimidation.
The former prime minister had urged his allies not to oppose the report, arguing that the sanctions have no practical effect, although critics said it was a move designed to avoid revealing the low level of remaining support for him among Tory MPs.
(28.8.2011)
Diese bis heute verbreitete Darstellung ist unangenehm für die Bundesrepublik. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, das ein Doppelspiel betrieben hat: nach außen den Pazifisten geben – und hintenherum über seinen Geheimdienst einen entscheidenden Grund für die militärische Intervention liefern. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst nahm die Vorwürfe schweigend hin.
(15 Feb 2011)
Since the fall of Baghdad, Curveball‘s identity had been sought throughout Iraq and Europe. He was finally outed in late 2007 as the main source for Powell‘s speech, but has tried to keep a low profile ever since, refusing — under the orders of the BND — the approaches of the few reporters who had tracked him downto Karlsruhe.
The only other time Curveball has agreed to be interviewed was in late 2007, when he told CNN that he had been set up as a fall guy by the BND and had never breathed a word to them about WMD.
(15 Feb 2011)
Since the fall of Baghdad, Curveball‘s identity had been sought throughout Iraq and Europe. He was finally outed in late 2007 as the main source for Powell‘s speech, but has tried to keep a low profile ever since, refusing — under the orders of the BND — the approaches of the few reporters who had tracked him downto Karlsruhe.
The only other time Curveball has agreed to be interviewed was in late 2007, when he told CNN that he had been set up as a fall guy by the BND and had never breathed a word to them about WMD.
(28.8.2011)
Diese bis heute verbreitete Darstellung ist unangenehm für die Bundesrepublik. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, das ein Doppelspiel betrieben hat: nach außen den Pazifisten geben – und hintenherum über seinen Geheimdienst einen entscheidenden Grund für die militärische Intervention liefern. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst nahm die Vorwürfe schweigend hin.
The emails now being published – which were obtained in the course of the investigation by The Guardian – raise questions about the whistleblower’s memory lapses during her testimony in the British Parliament. They show that Kaiser, who had been Cambridge Analytica’s business development director, had been in contact with Hanan for a number of years and she in fact put him in touch with the company she worked for.
(Jan 17, 2023)
Johansson‘s lie #1: Without adoption of #ChatControl by 2024, police have no means of prosecution.
Not true. Plus #ChatControl does not significantly contribute to protecting children from sexual abuse.
More in the video: (2/6)
Lie #2: We don’t open new doors for detection.
Truth is: Under the proposed #ChatControl legislation for the first time all providers of messaging, e-mail and chat services could be compelled to deploy error-prone incrimination machines.
More in the video: (3/6)
Lie #3: Only after a court order may police search our communications.
Wrong again. According to the proposal, any „independent authority“ could order indiscriminate #ChatControl searches of our private correspondence.
More in the video: (4/6)
Lie #4: Without the #ChatControl law, law enforcement agencies lack 80% of all leads.
There are no source to back up this figure. To the contrary, there would be a massive increase in false suspicions, with severe consequences for those affected.
More in the video: (5/6)
(Jan 17, 2023)
Johanssons Lüge #1: Ohne schnelle Annahme der #Chatkontrolle bis 2024 habe die Polizei keine Möglichkeiten zur Strafverfolgung mehr.
Eine glatte Lüge. Ohnehin taugt eine #Chatkontrolle nicht zum Kinderschutz.
Mehr im Video: (2/6)
Lüge #2: Ermittlern würden mit der #Chatkontrolle keine neuen Türen geöffnet.
Die Wahrheit ist: Erstmals könnten sämtliche Messenger-, Mail- und Chatdienste zum Einsatz von Verdächtigungsmaschinen verpflichtet werden.
Mehr im Video: (3/6)
Lüge #4: Ohne der #Chatkontrolle fehlen Strafverfolgungsbehörden 80% aller Hinweise.
Es gibt keine Quellen, die diese Zahl belegen würden. Umgekehrt würde die Zahl der Falschverdächtigungen massiv ansteigen, was schwerwiegende Folgen für Betroffene hätte.
Mehr im Video: (5/6)
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(28.8.2011)
Diese bis heute verbreitete Darstellung ist unangenehm für die Bundesrepublik. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, das ein Doppelspiel betrieben hat: nach außen den Pazifisten geben – und hintenherum über seinen Geheimdienst einen entscheidenden Grund für die militärische Intervention liefern. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst nahm die Vorwürfe schweigend hin.
(28.8.2011)
Diese bis heute verbreitete Darstellung ist unangenehm für die Bundesrepublik. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, das ein Doppelspiel betrieben hat: nach außen den Pazifisten geben – und hintenherum über seinen Geheimdienst einen entscheidenden Grund für die militärische Intervention liefern. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst nahm die Vorwürfe schweigend hin.
“My recollection is that (Uvalde Mayor Donald McLaughlin Jr.) was upset with the way that DPS had conducted the press conferences, and they had prepared that narrative and they were going to release it,” Busbee said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News. “And then I objected to it because … the investigation had just begun so we did not know if that was a true assessment of what transpired. There was no way for us to tell or assess whether or not that narrative was accurate.”
Busbee’s office is investigating the school shooting and how officers on the scene responded.
So lieferten die Mainstream-Medien Falschberichte über die mRNA-Injektion. Vor einem Jahr war man sich ganz sicher: Es wäre keine Auffrischung nötig, mit zwei Stichen wäre man jahrelang geschützt.
Dem Autor fällt dazu nun auch nichts mehr ein – aber vielleicht dem Spiegel? In der Tat, denn bereits 2015 hatte die Wissenschaftsredaktion eine grundsätzliche Antwort parat, damals noch im Konjunktiv: „Wenn jemand geschickt täuschen kann, ohne auf Werte und Moral zu achten, sei das womöglich eine evolutionär bedingte Reaktion auf komplexe, soziale Situationen. Lügen sei eine Anpassungsstrategie, die dem Einzelnen helfe, effektiver mit seiner Umwelt zu interagieren.“
Details of ‘pork pie plot’ among Tories first elected in 2019 emerge as PM prepares to drop work from home guidance and Covid passports
Fifty-four is the number required to trigger a vote, and while it is unclear how close the plotters are to reaching that figure, such discussions among so many MPs represents a worry for Mr Johnson.
Seven letters are known to have gone in already, but the process is designed to be secret and more may have been received by chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady.
More than a dozen Tory MPs who were elected at the 2019 election met at Westminster to conspire over Boris Johnson‘s future, The Mirror understands. The PM has been accused of lying to the House of Commons
Im Zuge der Enthüllungen werden die Rufe nach Johnsons Rücktritt immer lauter – auch in den eigenen Reihen. Johnson und zahlreiche Kabinettsmitglieder weichen Fragen darüber aus. Sie verweisen auf eine interne Ermittlung der hochrangigen Beamtin Sue Gray. Zunächst sollten die Ergebnisse abgewartet werden, sagte Finanzminister Rishi Sunak am Dienstag. Er glaube Johnson.
Besonders pikant: Mit Benedikt Brechten verbreitet ausgerechnet ein langjähriges Aushängeschild der „Jungen Liberalen“ das Video unter dem Hashtag: #LügenLindner
Der Pandemiker an sich ist eine beklagenswerte Gestalt: Seine Mission der Menschheitsrettung zwang ihn zur Lüge. Nun erweist sich: Er hat die Welt nicht gerettet, sondern zu Klump therapiert, und seine Lügen fliegen ihm um die Ohren. Zwanzig lange und düstere Monate lang sind die Menschen seinen Verheißungen gefolgt, haben ihm das Märchen vom R-Wert unter eins geglaubt, dann folgte die lange Periode des Inzidenzgezockes, und schließlich kam die Endlösung in Sicht: der geradezu aus dem Nichts gezauberte Impfstoff. Ein Kommentar von Walter van Rossum, Autor des bald im Rubikon-Verlag erscheinenden Buches „Die Intensiv-Mafia: Von den Hirten der Pandemie und ihren Profiten“.
Das vorweggestellt sei von mir hinzugefügt: Ich bin erschüttert, mit welcher Vehemenz wir Bürger gezwungen werden, uns in der Lüge einrichten zu sollen. Noch erschütterter bin ich, mit welcher Sprache, mit welchen Begriffen, in welchem Ton die Herrschaft der Lüge installiert wird. Und damit meine ich ganz konkret: Weder sind die Ungeimpften die Feinde der Demokratie oder der Volksgesundheit, noch tragen sie Schuld an Lockdowns und Ausgehverboten. Wer das behauptet, kann sich nicht auf Polemik berufen, er ist schlicht ein Lügner.
Lange ausgeschlossen rückt sie zunehmend in den Bereich des Möglichen: die Impfpflicht. Immer mehr Politiker schließen sie inzwischen nicht mehr aus – auch zum Schutz ungeimpfter Kinder.
Die Bundesregierung klärte auf ihrer Seite „Fakten gegen Falschmeldungen zur Corona-Schutzimpfung“ bislang im ersten von 10 Punkten auf: „Eine Impfpflicht wird es nicht geben. Nachrichten und Beiträge, die etwas anderes behaupten, sind falsch“. Dieser Punkt wurde nun, wie „Argo Nerd“ entdeckte, klammheimlich gelöscht.
The governor‘s office originally said Newsom would not make the trip due to „family obligations,“ and when reached for comment Monday, offered no additional details on why the governor backed out.
Sigurdur Thordarson, a key witness for the FBI against Julian Assange, has been jailed in Iceland. The notorious alleged hacker and convicted pedophile was remanded to custody in Iceland’s highest security prison, Litla Hraun, on September 24. Þórðarson´s lawyer, Húnbogi J. Andersen, confirms that he is in custody. Thordarson was given immunity by the FBI in exchange for testimony against Julian Assange.
The memoir of Rhodes, now appropriately an MSNBC contributor, is an incredibly self-serving homage to himself that repeatedly attempts to demonstrate his own importance and accomplishments. The passage about Rhodes’ conduct regarding Snowden is very much aligned with those goals. While repeatedly emphasizing how traumatic the Snowden revelations were for the Obama administrations, Rhodes boasts of the crucial role he played in preventing Snowden from leaving Russia as the NSA whistleblower was desperately attempting to do so — exactly the opposite of what people like Rhodes and Hillary Clinton were telling the public about Snowden.
It is really beyond words how willing these people are to lie.
The Democratic Pole senator Ivan Cepeda denounced that the government of President Ivan Duque, the ruling Democratic Center party, and the Colombian intelligence agencies are implementing smear campaigns against the “Historical Pact”, which is an electoral coalition made up of leftist parties and social movements.
That is particularly true given how heavily the U.S. had Afghanistan under every conceivable kind of electronic surveillance for more than a decade. A significant portion of the archive provided to me by Edward Snowden detailed the extensive surveillance the NSA had imposed on all of Afghanistan. In accordance with the guidelines he required, we never published most of those documents about U.S. surveillance in Afghanistan on the ground that it could endanger people without adding to the public interest, but some of the reporting gave a glimpse into just how comprehensively monitored the country was by U.S. security services.
(28.8.2011)
Diese bis heute verbreitete Darstellung ist unangenehm für die Bundesrepublik. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, das ein Doppelspiel betrieben hat: nach außen den Pazifisten geben – und hintenherum über seinen Geheimdienst einen entscheidenden Grund für die militärische Intervention liefern. Der Bundesnachrichtendienst nahm die Vorwürfe schweigend hin.
Für Libertäre – und sogar viele Nichtlibertäre – ist es nicht schockierend zu entdecken, dass eine US-Regierung die Wähler lügt und betrügt. Für Regierungen auf allen Ebenen ist das Belügen des amerikanischen Volkes so amerikanisch wie Apfelkuchen. Manchmal werden die Lügner für ihre Täuschung zur Rechenschaft gezogen, meistens aber nicht.
“You would be putting door control on every pub, bar, restaurant, coffee shop, hotel, nightclub and music venue in the country [to check certificates] and that’s simply not happening at the moment,“ she told Sky News.
“You would see high levels of business failure, high levels of business closure unless there was substantive Government support.”
The final decision about 19 July will be taken on Monday morning, based on modelling from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) about Covid cases and pressures on the NHS.
The government had decided not to enforce Covid passports now because it would discriminate against younger people who have not been able to receive their second vaccination yet, The Times reported.
There are also fears it could damage the economy with people being turned away from the struggling hospitality industry.
But ministers believe that all over 18s will have been offered both doses by September and therefore vaccine passports can be enforced in venues where social distancing is not possible.
(30.06.2021)
As many as 1,000 US troops could remain in the country after the formal withdrawal to assist in securing the US Embassy in Kabul and the city‘s airport, a senior administration official told CNN, and it is now unclear how long NATO troops will remain.
Until a new agreement for the airport’s protection is negotiated between Turkey and the Afghan government, and possibly the United States, the Resolute Support mission would appear to have to continue in order to give international troops the legal authority.
The U.S. will also have about 650 troops in Afghanistan to protect its sprawling embassy in the capital. Their presence it is understood will be covered in a bilateral agreement with the Afghan government.
(26.06.2021)
The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.
The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his.
(26.06.2021)
At least 650 US troops are expected to remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats following the completion of the American force withdrawal from the country, The Associated Press reported on Thursday, quoting US officials.