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England’s R rate getting above one casts a shadow over positive holiday news from Spain and France – politicalbetting.com
Developments on two fronts today – one positive for those looking for a return to normality and one that is very negative.
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"JUST IN - China accuses the U.S. and Japan of running a secret biological warfare development program."
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1400827649921105920?s=20
That's basically China admitting they made Covid, and, yup, it was a bioweapon. Soz boz
So long as its not causing a rise in hospitalisations and deaths, its not a problem. We need to just live with this.
The issue is NHS capacity.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136078/china-military-uses-ai-track-rapidly-increasing-ufos
Michael Gove's self isolating missing a meeting with all 4 UK leaders after getting a ping from the NHS Covid app while on a trip to Portugal
However, he's taking part in a pilot scheme for workplaces, where instead of isolating he can instead be tested every day for a week https://twitter.com/ZoraSuleman/status/1400836394810023945/photo/1
And that continues to be true whether the virus is natural or not.
"According to WUHAN-based researcher Chen Li from the Air Force Early Warning Academy...."
WUHAN?
WUHAN??????????
Narrator: "At this point the reader hurled the book across the room"
The government also recommends you ingest the chemical dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) too, which can also be known by the alternative name of hydroxic acid. Hydroxic acid is the primary component of acid rain, contributes to the greenhouse effect, and can cause severe burns or even death from overdose. Yet the government recommends it is ingested and it is even given to children in schools.
If the government recommends DHMO ingestion then do you and @contrarian think that dihydrogen monoxide should be avoided too?
Isn't this just a variation on "whoever smelt it, dealt it; whoever denied it, supplied it"?
We're only seeing cases go up because Johnson kept travel from India open too long, importing a more infectious variant into the country. All to discuss a trade deal, in the hope of making Brexit look less like a disaster.
But it does make China look even more guilty. They are panicking. A panicking communist superpower with vast economic and military might and a tendency to crush people with tanks, is not optimal
"A radar scientist based in Xian, in the northwest province of Shaanxi, said the increasing number of unknown objects in China’s air space was “more likely caused by humans than aliens”."
Just "more likely". How much more likely? What are the chances its aliens? 10%? 33? 48%?
I wonder if the whole aliens thing is actually a gigantic hoax by the China AND the USA to disguise and divert from the fact that together, in Wuhan, thanks to Peter Daszak and Anthony Fauci and some Chinese bioweapon dudes, they successfully created a terrible virus that then leaked into the world
“ STUDENTS UNDERSTOOD THEY WERE GIVEN ONE HOUR TO LEAVE SQUARE BUT AFTER FIVE MINUTES APCS ATTACKED. STUDENTS LINKED ARMS BUT WERE MOWN DOWN INCLUDING SOLDIERS. APCS THEN RAN OVER BODIES TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO MAKE QUOTE PIE UNQUOTE AND REMAINS COLLECTED BY BULLDOZER. REMAINS INCINERATED AND THEN HOSED DOWN DRAINS.“
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Bored with Covid now. Bring on the alien invasion.
The NHS are big pushers of the mantra that people should ingest dihydrogen monoxide.
If you desire to be contrarian then are you going to refuse to ingest that, simply because the NHS recommends that you should?
...and I've been posting this since forever.... sigh....
Conservative are amplifying attacks on Fauci after the release of his emails. And they’re fundraising off of it too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/fauci-attacks-personal-conspiratorial-491896
For over a year, Anthony Fauci has been a bogeyman for conservatives, who have questioned his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and accused him of quietly undermining then-President Donald Trump.
But those attacks took on a whole new level of vitriol this week, to the point that one social media analysis described it as highly misleading and at least one platform pulled down some posts, citing false content.
It all stemmed from a tranche of Fauci’s emails that were published as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by various news outlets. Within hours of publication, the hashtag #FauciLeaks was trending on Twitter, accusing the nation’s top infectious disease doctor of lying under oath about the origins of Covid. It became a trending topic on Facebook too, where detractors added an inaccurate and more nefarious framing that the emails were secretly “leaked” — drawing on a playbook that has worked for partisans on the right in the past, despite the fact that Fauci's publicly disclosed emails were not state secrets. . . .
And a round of conservatives, cherry-picking individual emails out of more than 3,000, argued that Fauci, who leads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had privately supported a theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab and lied about masks in an effort to amass political power. Neither was true. Fauci has said he thinks it’s more likely that the virus spread from animal to human but would not rule out a lab leak, and while he initially downplayed the need for masks, it was, he said, out of fear that medical professionals would lose access to them if the public began panic purchasing.
The veracity and velocity of the new attacks, nevertheless, underscored the growing intensity with which Fauci animates conservatives some five months after Trump has left office. . . .
The publication of Fauci’s emails only further animated Trump’s animus.
“After seeing the emails, our Country is fortunate I didn’t do what Dr. Fauci wanted me to do. For instance, I closed our Borders to China very early despite his not wanting them closed. The Democrats and the Fake News Media even called me a ‘xenophobe,’” Trump said in a statement Thursday. “In the end, we saw this was a life-saving decision, and likewise with closing our borders to Europe, specifically to certain heavily infected countries. I was later given credit, even by ‘Tony,’ for saving hundreds of thousands of lives.”
Snowfall won the Oaks by 16 lengths under Frankie Dettori ("the only good Tory is Frankie Dettori" – John Prescott).
The Queen will not attend tomorrow's Derby or Royal Ascot, according to the Daily Telegraph (though with the slightly odd proviso that she might attend if she has runners on any particular day).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/06/04/queen-miss-epsom-derby/
But it's not sensible to simply convict the known serial murderer for the stabbing down the road if that leaves the real culprit free to kill again.
Edit: And China is guilty, for sure, on numerous aspects of Covid, whether or not there's anything in the lab-link theories.
Otherwise, this looks like the start of what would have been a brutal third wave.
Just got to avoid it myself now.
EDIT: one to watch is Wales. Vaccine uptake has reached 86% of adults - how high will it go? My guess is that the limit is the 96% we have seen for the oldest groups.
Squeaky bum time for the vaccines. We’re about to find out how effective they really are.
And please stop with all the other "examples". I couldn't give a stuff. I'm just talking about the vaccines. Which the govt is "advising" people to take.
Lots of adverts with the words "advise" on them I'm sure you will be able to produce.
I guess we'll never know, but I reckon we'd be back up with a high case rate and rampant R rate by now with a totally unvaxxed population.
No ages mentioned though @Gardenwalker @Philip_Thompson
UK has signed a post-Brexit trade deal with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein
Government claim agreement, is worth £21bn and will "slash tariffs on high-quality British food and farm products and support jobs in every area of our country"
https://twitter.com/DarrenGBNews/status/1400845638510813192
He hasn't the slightest interest in going away this year. Waiting till next year...
Liz Truss really has done a fantastic job, and Brexit is really going as well as I could have hoped for.
I agree it looks promising, but I’m still holding onto me underpants….
And media is not a reflection of "the real world"? Really?
Its not a legal requirement which is what mandating people to do something means.
Just piss poor tbh
"June 21 restrictions: Plans to redraw roadmap include social distancing, home working and masks"
https://inews.co.uk/news/june-21-restrictions-social-distancing-working-from-home-masks-may-remain-redraw-roadmap-1035947
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/trump-condo-prices-hit-decade-lows-491905
The building has stunning Manhattan skyline views, its spa offers deep-tissue massages, and the fancy restaurant off the lobby serves up prime steaks. Best of all, many apartments at the Trump World Tower are selling at a deep discount — assuming the buyer doesn’t mind the name over the door.
“Fifty percent of the people wouldn’t want to live in a Trump building for any reason ... but then there are guys like me,” says Lou Sollecito, a car dealer who recently bought a two-bedroom unit with views of the Empire State Building. “It’s a super buy.”
The purchase price was $3 million, nearly a million less than the seller paid in 2008.
Bargain hunters are swooping in to take advantage of prices in Trump buildings that have dropped to levels not seen in over a decade, a crash brokers attribute to a combination of the former president's polarizing image and the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
An Associated Press review of more than 4,000 transactions over the past 15 years in 11 Trump-branded buildings in Chicago, Honolulu, Las Vegas and New York found prices for some condos and hotel rooms available for purchase have dropped by one-third or more.
That’s a plunge that outpaces drops in many similar buildings, leaving units for sale in Trump buildings to be had for hundreds of thousands to up to a million dollars less than they would have gone for years ago. . . .
HEALTH Secretary Humza Yousaf has been forced to apologise for scaring families after wrongly claiming 10 young children had been hospitalised “because of Covid” and was accused of “stoking fear”.
Mr Yousaf said he never meant “to cause undue alarm amongst parents” when he used the figure on Wednesday to warn against travelling to councils where soft play areas are open.
As well as stating incorrectly that there were 10 young children children admitted to hospital last week “because of Covid”, he warned that travelling from a level 2 area to a soft play facility in a level 1 area “could lead to hospitalisation of children”.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19349031.humza-yousaf-issues-regret-child-covid-hospitalisations-mistake/?ref=twtrec
Drug dealers caught after undertaking police on M6 hard shoulder
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-57358040
The moral of this story is: if you’ve got drugs on you, don’t drive like an arse and attract police attention.
One hopes HMQ is OK. Is she alone now, after 70-odd years' marriage, and Covid meaning the normal public events she'd have attended were all cancelled, rattling around Buckingham Palace with no-one to talk to apart from Boris once a week?
https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/politik/verhandlungen-mit-uk-erfolgreich-abgeschlossen;art169,448338
Negotiations with the United Kingdom for a comprehensive free trade agreement were successfully concluded. The agreement secures Liechtenstein economic players equivalent market access in the UK compared to the EU and creates legal certainty and transparency.
The free trade agreement that Liechtenstein negotiated with Norway and Iceland completes the reorganization of economic relations with the UK. In addition to cross-border trade in services, including financial services, it also includes areas such as investments, protection of intellectual property, digital trade, capital movements and public procurement. In particular, the agreement prevents discrimination against companies from the EU and offers Liechtenstein economic players preferential market access compared to countries that do not have an agreement with the UK.
When the UK left the EU, it left the common internal market and became a third country. For more than 25 years, the European Economic Area (EEA) formed the legal basis for economic relations between Liechtenstein and the UK. With the UK leaving the EU or the EEA, Liechtenstein had to create a new legal basis for its relations with the UK. With regard to the movement of goods, security for export-oriented Liechtenstein companies was created at a very early stage with the signing of the additional agreement to the trade agreement between Switzerland and the UK in February 2019. This additional agreement, which entered into force on January 1, 2021,
[Liechtenstein] Government councilor Dominique Hasler was pleased with the conclusion of the negotiations. "The agreement provides an excellent basis for continuing our close economic relationships and expanding them in the future," said Government Councilor Hasler. She recognizes this milestone in the relations between Liechtenstein and the UK and expressly thanks the negotiating delegation made up of representatives from the Office for Foreign Affairs and the Mission in Geneva for their commitment over the past few months.
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A trained lawyer specialising in conveyancing. If you want to sell or buy a home, talk to Howard.
https://twitter.com/adamlangleben/status/1400844215119138818?s=20
“There are some useful provisions for UK business such as on professional qualifications or digital trade, but there will also be many difficulties as we see with the similar UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement. Overall this is quite a standard free trade agreement, with limited economic value.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/04/uk-strikes-trade-deal-norway-iceland-liechtenstein-liz-truss
There won't be the traditional carriage procession down the course but it's only a few miles from Windsor, she could get her chauffeur to run her down there.
But if somebody tells me I have to wear a mask because some drug addled fool on Indie Sage thinks there might potentially be a problem if I don’t?
I think it’s optimistic to assume that will be followed.
Re: UK horseracing, are you sure that, in stark contrast to US, it's as honest as the day (or the track) is long?
UK: 90 days within 6 month period
Nor: 90 days in 180 days
Ice: tbc
Lie: up to 3m within 6 m
https://twitter.com/SamuelMarcLowe/status/1400854000036159498?s=20
If they are not identified then it is unsubstantiated rumour and unreliable
That's the sort of message I'd like to hear from the magnificent muscly man.
The announcement comes its oversight board criticized the former president's indefinite ban.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/trump-facebook-ban-two-years-return-491908
""These objects appear to exceed our military capabilities," said Mick Mulroy, an ABC News contributor and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. ""We need to determine who this is and what capabilities they possess. It is never a good thing to discover you are vastly behind in technology."
""From a national security perspective, we cannot presume benevolence," he added. "Whether terrestrial in origin or not.""
Or not??
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/upcoming-ufo-report-congress-creating-lots-buzz/story?id=78017649