How close is the NHS to being 'overwhelmed'? Just 1,800 out of 110,000 occupied beds are taken up by Covid-19 patients as thousands more than normal die at home of other causes

Just 478 out of 110,000 beds in use were by Covid-19 patients on September 3, according to official data

Government warns NHS could be pushed to brink if it is faced by another influx of coronavirus patients

But latest figures published by NHS England suggest capacity in a good place heading into winter months

Covid-19 patients are currently occupying fewer than 2 per cent of all hospital beds in England, official data suggests.

The most NHS recent snapshot — released three weeks ago — shows just 478 out of 110,000 beds in use were by Covid-19 patients on September 3.

This has since risen to 1,883, according to Department of Health data. Health chiefs have yet to update the total beds occupied figure since but it barely changed over the summer.

Even at the peak of the crisis in Britain, only a quarter of all beds were occupied by virus patients. On April 7, 26.5 per cent of the 67,206 people in England's hospitals were being treated for coronavirus — the highest proportion on record.

NHS England officials have not publicly revealed how many beds they have in total but it's thought to be around the 110,000-mark. Capacity was bolstered by standby beds commandeered through a deal with private facilities, plus extra space at seven Nightingale hospitals purposely built to stop the NHS from being overwhelmed.

Separate data also shows NHS hospitals across England and Wales are still recording hundreds of fewer deaths than expected every week since the outbreak began to tail off in May. But the number of patients dying from the coronavirus did rise slightly in the week ending September 20, in line with a national spike in cases, from 64 to 98.

Deaths of people in their own homes from causes other than the virus continued to run at far above average rates. There were 2,962 such fatalities during the week, 711 more than the average for the time of year, and doctors noted Covid-19 symptoms in only eight of their cases.

NHS England today said the service was still encouraging people to visit hospital for all medical needs if and when they need to, amid fears Britons are still too scared to visit in case they catch the virus. Boris Johnson this summer had to urge the public to seek treatment if they need it, insisting the service was safe from Covid-19.

It comes as shocking data today revealed 1million women have missed out on breast cancer screening as a result of lockdown. The huge backlog means the killer disease may have gone undetected in around 8,600 of them.

The charity Breast Cancer Now estimates 986,000 patients are waiting for life-saving mammograms because screening ground to a halt when the pandemic struck. Early diagnosis hugely improves survival chances and doctors warned the delays mean young and otherwise healthy women will ‘die unnecessarily’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8785415/Just-1-800-110-000-occupied-hospital-beds-currently-taken-Covid-19-patients.html

Who's Funding Shady Ballot Harvesting Schemes? What Is the "Center for Tech and Civic Life?"

Um, does anyone else have a problem w/tote bags full of absentee ballots being carted off in white vans via a Biden-promoted scheme in Madison, WI, which has received $2M in "election integrity" grants from Obama/Zuckerberg-tied group? Cuz @vickimckenna & I have a problem w/it! pic.twitter.com/erIPxccEA7

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 29, 2020

Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund.

Conservative talk radio host and grassroots activist Vicki McKenna blew the whistle after hearing ads played during her daily show on 1310 WIBA.

“Last week on my radio program, we played Biden campaign ads,” she told me. “They were all about something called ‘Democracy in the Park.’ It was an advertisement about how Madison, Wisconsin, would have 200 parks hosting ballot harvesting events.” The ads were punctuated by a disclosure that they were “paid for by Joe Biden for President.”

Madison's illegal ballot harvesting in 200 Madison parks Saturday had "poll workers" collecting ballots in entirely unsecured ZIPPER TOP red bags. @wisgop @SenFitzgerald @speakervos @realDonaldTrump @MattBatzel pic.twitter.com/RJAEfJBWvG

— Vicki McKenna (@VickiMcKenna) September 28, 2020

On Saturday, Sept. 26, as advertised by the Biden campaign, Madison poll workers turned out across the city to register voters and collect absentee ballots, even though in-person absentee ballot collection is not supposed to start until two weeks before Election Day, according to Wisconsin state election law. Several of McKenna’s listeners showed up to photograph the city government workers’ activities promoted by the Biden for President campaign. The poll workers stuffed ballots into “red zipper bags with no security whatsoever. The poll workers witnessed people’s (blank) ballots, just like you would if you did an in-person absentee ballot, threw them in the red zipper bags, and we don’t know what’s become of these ballots since,” McKenna told me.

Imagine sheaves of ballots carelessly stuffed into cheap, canvas, pizza delivery-style totes. Then imagine them being carted away by unknown drivers to unknown locations for unknown reasons. Observers captured photos of several stuffed red bags being loaded into an unmarked white van parked outside Madison’s municipal government building.

https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/whos-funding-shady-ballot-harvesting-schemes-what-is-the-center-for-tech-and-civic-life/

The Secret History Of How British Intelligence Created Amnesty International

Amnesty International projects itself as the watchdog on human rights worldwide with the stated mission to campaign for “a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments.” However, lesser known is the fact that Amnesty International was created by British Intelligence for intelligence gathering to carry out social engineering of targeted nations critical of the British Empire. Amnesty International was involved in not only the cover-up of torture and regime change by British agents but also in sparking a war.

Amnesty International – Intelligence gathering arm of British Empire

Amnesty’s stellar image as a global defender of human rights runs counter to its early days when the British Foreign Office was censoring reports critical of the British Empire. During the 1960s the U.K. was withdrawing from its colonies and the Foreign Office and Colonial Office were hungry for information from human-rights activists about the situations on the ground. In 1963, the Foreign Office instructed its operatives abroad to provide “discreet support” for Amnesty’s campaigns.

The Deep State Anglo American lobby has since been working to re-create the British Empire of Modern Times, recruiting native politicians and businessmen for gathering intelligence and cracking business deals. One of its outfits, CTD Advisors operated by the son of a Pakistani British spy and heavily infested with former British intelligence chiefs advocating foreign intervention in Kashmir was recently exposed by GreatGameIndia.

Isn’t providing “insider knowledge” for cracking business deals to former intelligence chiefs of a foreign country by serving member of Indian Parliament a conflict of interest, if not an economic offense and an act of #espionage?

Our exclusive report 》 https://t.co/7B6EhWZXiK pic.twitter.com/h84eIO7JJM

— GreatGameIndia (@GreatGameIndia) November 22, 2019

Due to its meddling in Kashmir, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1990 (that time Leader of Opposition) demanded ban of entry of Amnesty International in Kashmir accusing Amnesty as a dubious organisation.

Rajiv Gandhi in 1990 (that time Leader of Opposition) demanded ban of entry of Amnesty International in Kashmir accusing Amnesty as a dubious organisation https://t.co/oJLLOAzOu4

— J Gopikrishnan (@jgopikrishnan70) September 29, 2020

Dr Kirsten Sellars the Visiting Fellow at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University writes:

During the 1960s the United Kingdom was still in the process of withdrawing from its colonies, and civil service departments such as the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office welcomed information from those familiar with human rights issues. The relationship between Amnesty and Whitehall was placed on a more solid footing in 1963, when the Foreign Office wrote to overseas missions urging “discreet support” for Amnesty: discreet, because its public endorsement would have seriously undermined the campaign’s credibility.

Peter Benenson – the Undercover Spy

Peter Benenson, the co-founder of Amnesty International, had deep ties to the British Foreign Office and Colonial Office. During the war, he worked in military intelligence at the Bletchley Park code-breaking center. Benenson worked as an undercover spy gathering intelligence under the cover of Amnesty International, directly sponsored by The Crown.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78114/the-secret-history-of-how-british-intelligence-created-amnesty.html

Incoming ambassador to UK called for “expanding” Israel’s borders

Israel’s incoming ambassador to the UK has called for “expanding” Israel into neighbouring Arab countries, a video of an old speech shows.

In it, Tzipi Hotovely expressed her preference for right-wing Zionist anthem “Two Banks to the Jordan,” a Hebrew song which in 1929 laid claim to the entirety of Palestine and what became the state of Jordan.

Having earlier in the speech criticized some Israeli politicians for the “mentality that doesn’t look 20 years ahead,” she articulated her vision for what she has called Greater Israel.

She explained in the speech: “We must not settle for preserving what exists. We must always look forward and ask ourselves: What do we want for the next generation? Do we want to see our enemies continuing the Islamic revolution on our eastern frontline? Or do we want to see the state of Israel expanding?”

The song’s chorus goes: “Two banks has the [River] Jordan / This is ours and that is as well” before continuing in a verse exclaiming: “Let my right hand whither / If I forget the East Bank of the Jordan.”

Hotovely went on in her speech to imply that the “expanding” of Israel should also include Syria: “if only those people in Syria had a little bit of the rights that Israeli Arabs have.”

You can watch her comments above, or see video of the full speech below.

https://youtu.be/2H1OBYm24Gg

“Expanding” into Syria

The Irgun logo. The militia laid claim to the entirety of Palestine and Jordan. (Wikipedia)

As well as dismaying Syrians, the suggestion by Israel’s next UK ambassador that she would like to see Israel “expanding” on both sides of the River Jordan will also alarm Jordanians – at least half of whom are the descendants of Palestinian refugees expelled by Zionist forces in 1947 and since.

Israel already occupies a large tract of Syrian land – the Golan Heights, which it illegally annexed in 1980.

When Israel invaded in 1967, they drove out more than 95 percent of the population of the Golan – 130,000 Syrians – and systematically destroyed hundreds of villages and one city.

Since then, the refugees have been blocked by Israel from returning, while around 23,000 Israeli settlers now dominate the occupied territory.

Despite Hotovely’s claims, the remaining Syrians in the occupied Golan Heights today are still not treated with equality.

“Discriminatory Israeli policies continue to violate the basic human rights of Syrians who have become second-class citizens in the land of their birth,” the Syrian human rights group Al-Marsad says.

Hotovely gave her speech in 2012, addressing a radical group of West Bank settlers called the “Women in Green” at a conference at a settlement in Hebron.

“Jordan is a historic compromise”

One year later, as a junior minister, she told a Likud Party event that “the existence of [the state of] Jordan is a historic compromise” and that “whoever believes in the Greater Land of Israel has never been prepared to give parts of our homeland away for any purpose, not even for peace.”

A petition by British Jews launched in June calling for the UK to reject Hotovely as ambassador now has almost 1,900 signatures.

Although she was confirmed by the Israeli cabinet in August, current minister for settlements Hotovely is yet to arrive in the UK.

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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/incoming-ambassador-uk-called-expanding-israels-borders?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=d0e9f126d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-d0e9f126d9-290660781

Amy Coney Barrett's 65-page response to Judiciary Committee questionnaire: Answers reveal her plans to keep teaching as a justice, her most controversial career judgments including advocating gun rights for felons, and her ethics for approaching Supreme Court cases if confirmed

Donald Trump's nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court has submitted her 65-page questionnaire to the Judiciary Committee, explaining why she argued in favor of a convicted felon being allowed to own a gun, and stating her hope to continue teaching if appointed.

Amy Coney Barrett, 48, submitted the form on Tuesday night.

She was asked to provide a comprehensive resume and detail her speaking engagements, writings and some of her most significant legal rulings.

The questionnaire was accompanied by 1,800 pages of documentation and appendices, including over 150 speeches and writings, for both academic and popular audiences.

She provided press clippings from her speaking engagements, as far afield as Ecuador.

She described how, in February 2020, she served as a judge in a fictionalized trial of Peter Pan, staged in Washington DC by a theater company.

Entitled 'Negligence in Neverland: Was Peter Pan guilty of kidnapping?', Barrett's final decision ruled in Pan's favor, concluding that Wendy was a trailblazer for women's rights in Neverland.

More seriously, she identified nearly 100 opinions she had written and over 800 appeals in which she has participated.

Asked to identify her 10 most significant rulings, she included the case Kanter v. Barr, decided in 2019.

'Rickey Kanter challenged application of federal and state felon dispossession laws to prevent him — a non-violent offender — from owning a firearm, arguing that these laws violated his second amendment rights,' Barrett wrote in her questionnaire.

'He had previously been convicted of mail fraud for selling therapeutic shoe inserts while misrepresenting them as Medicare approved.'

A panel of 7th Circuit judges ruled that the application of statutes was substantially related to the government's objective to prevent gun violence, she wrote.

'I dissented,' Barrett wrote.

http://www.domigood.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barretts-65-page-response-to.html

The CDC’s CIA

From Peter Duseberg’s “Inventing the AIDS Virus”

It’s about EIS, the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service.

Like the CIA, it’s a secretive group and operated by career bureaucrats to advance their own personal agendas.

It’s the CDC’s Surveillance, Propaganda and Dirty Tricks Department and it’s previously caused untold injury and caused the waste of many billions of dollars.

The program is used to stack public health departments and news media outlets with “true believers, useful idiots and crooks ” ready to assist whatever new scam the CDC et. al. cook up next.

The CoVid Con is their “greatest hit.”

A 2015 video pitching the program to applicants

https://youtu.be/utSzPw2ZOkE

Surveillance, Propaganda and Dirty Tricks Department

https://www.brasscheck.com/video/the-cdcs-cia/?omhide=true

Students Threatened With Police Action For Displaying Anti-Lockdown Signs in Windows

Students at Manchester Metropolitan University were threatened with police action if they didn’t remove signs complaining about draconian lockdown restrictions that were placed in windows at their halls of residence.

Students across the city have been placed under a new 2 week lockdown, meaning they are under de facto house arrest, cannot leave their homes and are forced to rely on food deliveries.

Some reacted to the restrictions by placing signs in their windows that said, “”Help us!” and “HMP MMU,” a reference to Her Majesty’s Prison.

“Mental health comes first – let us out,” another sign said.

In response to the signs, the university said it had been contacted by police, who would remove the signs if they were deemed to be in violation of the law.

Students described how the lockdown was being enforced by security guards posted at gates literally preventing people from leaving.

“There was a security guard that then just arrived at the gate of our accommodation and he wasn’t letting anybody leave, not really explaining what was going on,” said Dominic Waddell.

“A police van turned up and there were police outside the gate, quite a lot of them just walking around looking at everyone, especially because we didn’t know what was going on,” said Megan Tingey, adding that the situation was, “scary and confusing.”

As we highlighted last week, students at universities across the country have complained about being treated like prisoners, with attendees of Edinburgh University being forced to eat alone at exam-style desks as monitors patrol rooms making sure they don’t leave their tables.

Students at some universities are even being told that they won’t be able to leave at Christmas to see their families.

Security guards are also patrolling corridors at halls of residences listening for music and knocking on doors to make sure people aren’t having parties.

Despite coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations having virtually flatlined, huge areas of the UK have been placed under a second lockdown, with all pubs and restaurants being forced to close at 10pm and even singing and dancing being banned.

As we highlighted last week, COVID enforcer marshals are also roaming the streets peering into people’s letterboxes and windows to check if illegal gatherings are taking place.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78108/students-threatened-with-police-action-for-displaying-antilockdown-signs-in.html

1 In 3 California Restaurants Expect To Close Locations, Shut Down Permanently Due To COVID Rules

With several counties still not allowed to have indoor dining, many restaurants across Southern California and the state are not expected to survive the coronavirus shutdown.

Antonis Konnaris opened the doors of his Greek restaurant in 1995. Since March, his business has dropped by as much as 70 percent.

“It’s sad,” Konnaris said, weeping. “I have a family. I don’t know what else to do. Just cooking.

“If I lose this, I lose my family

https://youtu.be/BS6yfW4Q9hs

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/1-in-3-california-restaurants-expect-to-close-locations-shut-down-permanently-due-to-covid-rules-2/

Shell will axe up to 9,000 jobs worldwide after plunge in demand for oil due to coronavirus pandemic

Royal Dutch Shell reveals plans to cut up to 9,000 jobs or more than 10% of staff

Oil and gas giant's restructure could bring £2billion in annual savings by 2022

Shell last month launched a review of its business aimed at deeply cutting costs

It is preparing to reorganise its operations as part of a shift to low-carbon energy

Royal Dutch Shell today announced plans to cut up to 9,000 jobs or more than 10 per cent of its workforce around the world.

The oil and gas giant, which has about 83,000 global employees, said that the reorganisation will lead to annual savings of up to £2billion by 2022.

It said the job cuts are part of a major cost-cutting programme after the business was hit by the slump in demand for oil and a subsequent dive in prices.

Shell last month launched a review of its business aimed at deeply cutting costs as it prepares to restructure its operations as part of a shift to low-carbon energy.

The Anglo-Dutch company said it expected to cut 7,000 to 9,000 jobs by the end of 2022, including 1,500 staff who have agreed to take voluntary redundancy this year.

In an operations update, Shell also said its oil and gas production was set to drop sharply in the third quarter to around 3,050 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The company said this was due to lower output as a result of the Covid-19 crisis and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico that forced offshore platforms to shut down.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8788459/Shell-axe-9-000-jobs-worldwide-plunge-oil-demand.html

Engineering Contagion: UPMC, Corona-Thrax And “The Darkest Winter”

Soon after having been fired from his post as secretary of the treasury in December 2002, after a policy clash with the president, Paul O’Neill became a trustee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Despite having just worked under and clashed with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, it wasn’t until O’Neill began answering to UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff as a member of the Center’s board that he chose to publicly denounce a superior as “evil.”

“He wants to destroy competition. He wants to be the only game in town,” O’Neill would later state of Romoff, adding that “after 18 months I quit [the UPMC board] in disgust” due to Romoff’s “absolute control” over the board’s actions. O’Neill subsequently noted that UPMC “board members who have wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars are not willing to take this guy on.” When pressed by a local reporter, O’Neill further elaborated that he had been told by other board members that they were “afraid” of Romoff because Romoff might “harm them in some way.”

O’Neill’s criticisms of Romoff are hardly an outlier, as local community activists and even a state attorney generalhave noted that UPMC’s board lets Romoff do as he pleases. Jeffrey Romoff has ruled UPMC with an iron fist since his predecessor, Thomas Detre, had a heart attack in 1992. As a result of the Center’s massive wealth accumulation, at first spurred by his magic touch for receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, Detre was able to use the financial power afforded to him to consolidate control over enough of the University of Pittsburgh to create his “own personal fiefdom,” which is now the stand-alone corporation known as UPMC.

Not long after Romoff took over the Center’s reins, he made his intentions clear to faculty and staff, stating at one 1995 UPMC meeting that his “vision” for the future of American health care was “the conversion of health care from social good to a commodity.” Motivated by profit above all else, Romoff aggressively expanded UPMC, gobbling up community hospitals, surgery centers, and private practices to create a “health-care network” that has expanded throughout much of Pennsylvania and even abroad to other countries, including China. Under Romoff, UPMC has also expanded into the health-insurance business, with 40 percent of the medical claims it pays out going straight back into places of care that are owned by UPMC—meaning UPMC is essentially paying itself.

In addition, since UPMC is officially a “charitable nonprofit corporation,” it is exempt from property taxes and has special access to the tax-exempt municipal bond market. UPMC can also solicit tax-deductible grants from private individuals and organizations, as well as governments. These grants totaled over $1 billion dollars between 2005 and 2017.

Despite these perks being officially justified because of UPMC’s “charitable institution” status, the UPMC board, with Romoff at the top, have seen their own multimillion-dollar-per-year salaries continue to climb. Perhaps this perk also comes from UPMC being a nonprofit corporation, as there are no stockholders to whom Romoff and the board must explain their increasingly exorbitant salaries. For instance, Romoff made $8.97 million last year as UPMC’s CEO, a marked increase over the $6.12 million he had raked in the prior year.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78103/engineering-contagion-upmc-coronathrax-and-the-darkest.html

LAPD cops use data-mining firm Palantir's controversial law enforcement tool to 'store personal information - including romances and jobs - of anyone who comes into contact with police' as they try to predict criminal behavior

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cops have been trained to use data-mining firm Palantir's controversial law enforcement tool to list the names, addresses, phone numbers, license plates, friendships, romances and jobs of anyone who comes into contact with police - including their associates.

More than half of all LAPD cops - around 5,000 officers - have accounts with Palantir, one of the biggest surveillance companies in the world, which both firms claim helps the force keep the public safe on the city's streets.

However, newly released documents obtained by Buzzfeed News through a FOIA request reveal that the surveillance is far from limited to people arrested, convicted or suspected of criminal activity.

Training documents for the 'Intermediate Course' and 'Advanced Course' show how cops are taught to use the powerful law enforcement tool Palantir Gotham to collect and store detailed information on anyone at all they encounter, from witnesses or victims of crimes to someone simply living in the area a crime took place.

The system then indiscriminately stores intricate details such as tattoos, scars, romances and associates on people including those who are innocent and completely unrelated to any crime.

As well as being invasive, critics warn the system reinforces racism in law enforcement, with data suggesting when cops use it to predict future criminal activity, they over-target black and brown communities.

This comes at a time when protests are building nationwide demanding an end to police brutality and racism in the wake of multiple 'murders' of black men and women by white cops across America.

The newly obtained training documents reveal how granular the LAPD's data collection is on residents of the city.

They show how the intermediate and advanced eight-hour courses teach cops to search for people by name, race, gender, gang membership, tattoos, scars, friends or family.

The software can then pull up names, home addresses, email addresses, vehicles, warrants, mugshots, photos.

It can also be used to collect data and track associates such as friends, family members, partners, neighbors, and coworkers, as well as to track a vehicle's links to criminal activity.

Between 2012 and 2017, the system also involved sharing data with several other institutions including California police departments, sheriff's offices, airport police, universities and school districts, Buzzfeed reported.

This meant that the Los Angeles School Police Department, Compton Unified School District Police Department, El Camino College, Cal Poly University Police Department, and California State University all sent police data to the LAPD which was then loaded into the system.

The software maps relationships from person to person, person to car, person to home, or person to crime scene, and cops use this to create lists of people they predict will commit a crime.

In 2016 alone, LAPD cops used the vast amount of data taken from LA residents to run 60,000 searches for around 10,000 police cases.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/09/lapd-cops-use-data-mining-firm.html

Israel’s war industry embraces Emirates with open arms

Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi.

Earlier this month, the newly established university – named after the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates – held a virtual signing ceremony for a cooperation agreement with Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.

Collaboration between the two institutions will include student and staff exchanges, conferences, research and the establishment of a joint virtual institute for artificial intelligence.

Alon Chen, president of the Weizmann Institute, and Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the Emirati technology minister and chair of the university’s board of trustees, took part in the ceremony.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) condemned this “normalizing” union.

Israeli academic institutions “play an important role in planning, implementing, justifying and reinforcing Israel’s ongoing military occupation and settler-colonial, apartheid regime against the Palestinian people,” PACBI stated.

The Weizmann Institute’s history of complicity is particularly grave.

Deep roots in war establishment

Formerly known as the Sieff Institute, it “officially joined” the ethnic-cleansing campaign led by David Ben-Gurion in February 1948, along with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The Israeli institutions provided military research and “assistance with security services” to the Zionist war effort.

During the Nakba of 1948, some 800,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes and villages by Zionist paramilitary forces and were never permitted to return because they were not Jewish.

The Weizmann Institute was later renamed for Israel’s first president Chaim Weizmann, a leading figure in the Zionist movement.

One of the Weizmann Institute’s first researchers, Israel Dostrovsky, led the military research wing of the Haganah – the pre-state Zionist militia that carried out much of the ethnic cleansing.

The Weizmann Institute has undoubtedly been closely involved in Israel’s top secret nuclear weapons program, as well as research into chemical and biological weapons.

As it has from its earliest days, the Weizmann Institute still maintains close ties with Israel’s military and its biggest arms manufacturers including Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems.

Elbit and IAI are leading suppliers of weapons used in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.

Elbit has supplied white phosphorus munitions and drones that have been used during Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and on Lebanon. It also manufactures internationally banned cluster munitions for the Israeli army.

Elbit markets its weapons as “battle-proven,” with the Israeli army’s successive attacks on civilians in Gaza as its showroom.

During their 2014 assault on Gaza, Israeli forces killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 550 children – an average of 11 children per day.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israels-war-industry-embraces-emirates-open-arms

National Health Care Fraud and Opioid Takedown Results in Charges Against 345 Defendants Responsible for More than $6 Billion in Alleged Fraud Losses

Largest Health Care Fraud and Opioid Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/national-health-care-fraud-and-opioid-takedown-results-charges-against-345-defendants

Hearing Reveals US Govt’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World

Trump admin cut funding to OTF, a non-profit that supports protesters in places like Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran

Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US government’s state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

Pack was appointed in June and started a big shakeup at the US state media outlets run by the USAGM, like Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Pack fired senior staffers, pushed out management, and froze funding.

During last week’s hearing, Democrats and Republicans on the committee teamed up to attack Pack for his purges. But what seemed more important to Congress and former USAGM officials was Pack’s move to freeze funds to the Open Technology Fund (OTF). The OTF was formed in 2012 and operated as part of Radio Free Asia for seven years. In 2019, the OTF became an independent non-profit, although it is financed by US taxpayer dollars through the USAGM.

According to former USAGM officials and OTF board members, the OTF supports protesters in other nations across the world. “In many places around the globe, OTF quietly is providing support to protesters,” said Grant Turner, the former USAGM chief financial officer, who Pack removed in August. “So the Hong Kong protesters are protecting their identities from surveillance by OTF tools; protesters in Iran; we’ve seen it in Beirut,” Turner said.

Ambassador Karen Kornbluh, who sits on the board of the OTF, also testified and spoke of how the OTF helps protest movements. “OTF has a long history of supporting internet freedom efforts, and was poised to expand its efforts in Hong Kong,” Kornbluh said. “It was going to serve support for circumvention tools and expand support for digital training.”

Kornbluh explained that the USAGM froze OTF funds before China’s national security law for Hong Kong came into effect. “And then USAGM froze, and continues to withhold, its funding – and did that just weeks before the new security laws came into effect,” Kornbluh said. “So OTF hasn’t been able to support any of these efforts.”

The frozen Hong Kong funds were first reported by Time magazine in June. According to Time, Pack froze $2 million that would have “directly benefited the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.” One project the OTF was working on in Hong Kong was a “cybersecurity incident response team” that would have analyzed Chinese surveillance techniques in Hong Kong. The team would have shared information with developers who would design apps for protesters to use. The freeze in funding made this project impossible to go through with.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/29/hearing-reveals-us-govts-invisible-hand-in-protests-around-the-world/

Amazon Sidewalk to Expand “Smart Home” Capabilities Up to ½ Mile into Neighborhoods – Privacy Be Damned

All wireless “Smart” devices have the ability to collect data often without users knowledge or consent. They also emit harmful electromagnetic radiation which cause undesirable symptoms and illness in people and animals (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) AS WELL AS increase their cancer risk (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

For those who aren’t concerned about the radiation from these devices and wearables (see 1, 2,), privacy and security experts have been warning that these devices can be hacked and even set on fire. Of course, the data can be used in hurtful and creepy ways too (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

Despite warnings and consequences, unnecessary and dangerous technology continues to be introduced anyway. Despite its potential for being hacked, Alexa has been installed in cars so drivers can get gas using voice command. Because drivers weren’t able to gas before Alexa???

Now Amazon wants to expand its “Smart Home” capabilities so the company can collect data on you and perhaps your neighbors as well. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time Amazon did that.

From CNET:

Amazon Sidewalk is coming to your neighborhood. Here’s what you should know

Coming soon to Echo speakers and all sorts of other devices, Amazon’s low-bandwidth IoT network wants your smart home to stretch beyond your Wi-Fi network.

Amazon has had its sights set on the smart home ever since Alexa came along — but now the online mega-retailer is thinking bigger, and envisioning entire smart neighborhoods. First announced in 2019, the effort is called Amazon Sidewalk, and it uses a small fraction of your home’s Wi-Fi bandwidth to pass wireless low-energy Bluetooth and 900MHz radio signals between compatible devices across far greater distances than Wi-Fi is capable of on its own — in some cases, as far as half a mile, Amazon says.

You’ll share that bandwidth with your neighbors, creating a sort of network of networks that any Sidewalk-compatible device can take advantage of. Along with making sure things like outdoor smart lights and smart garage door openers stay connected when your Wi-Fi can’t quite reach them, that’ll help things like Tile trackers stay in touch if you drop your wallet while you’re out on a walk, or if your dog hops the fence.

Maybe most noteworthy of all is that, for a lot of us, Amazon Sidewalk won’t require any new hardware. Instead, it’ll arrive as a free software update to the Echo speakers and Ring cameras people already have in their homes. That means that the infrastructure is already in place for Sidewalk to be a robust, large-scale network right at launch — and it also means that you’ll soon see it pop up as a new feature in your Alexa app (and yes, you’ll be able to turn it off).

Amazon didn’t have a whole lot to say about Sidewalk at its September products showcase, but it’s likely that we’ll hear a lot more about it in the weeks ahead, as Amazon draws closer to a launch. For now, here’s everything we know about it.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/09/amazon-sidewalk-to-expand-smart-home-capabilities-up-to-%c2%bd-mile-into-neighborhoods-privacy-be-damned.html

Full lifting of lockdown could take a year, Netanyahu said to warn

Haredi Israelis 2.5 times more likely to test positive for virus; virus czar seeks massive fines for rule-breakers of up to $14,500

Full lifting of lockdown could take a year, Netanyahu said to warn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly warns that the coronavirus lockdown may last months or even up to a year, Channel 12 reports.

Netanyahu is quoted as telling fellow ministers in the coronavirus cabinet this evening that “our exit strategy [from the lockdown] will be slow this time, and could take place over half a year or a year.”

The government has been criticized for a too-quick lifting of restrictions after the last lockdown in the spring, and for failing to reimpose restrictions when infection rates started to rise in July.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-30-2020/

Netanyahu could be suspended as PM, Israel Attorney General says

September 30, 2020 at 3:40 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be suspended from his post if he used his authority to influence criminal proceedings he is facing in court, the Times of Israel reported today.

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, who has previously said that Netanyahu does not have to step down, told the ultra-Orthodox Mishpacha magazine he could be suspended due to a conflict of interest.

“When you use your executive power as prime minister to influence your criminal [cases], that creates a serious problem,” Mandelblit was reported as saying in recordings aired by Israeli TV Channel 12.

“How do you handle that problem?” Mandelblit asked, noting: “It’s not math. I’m not rushing to anything, and I’m trying to be very considerate and very calm.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200930-netanyahu-could-be-suspended-as-pm-israel-attorney-general-says/

IDF closes fighter jet squadron, ending 67 years of operations

Move comes as part of military’s Momentum Plan, meant to free up resources for more advanced aircraft; troops to be moved to other units

The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday shuttered a squadron of fighter jets as part of the military’s Momentum Plan, in a bid to free up resources for more advanced aircraft going forward.

Earlier this year, IAF commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin picked the 117th First Jet Squadron, which currently flies F-16 jets out of northern Israel’s Ramat David airbase, for closure, ending the outfit’s 67 years of operation through all of the country’s wars but its first.

“This is a historic day in the air force, which is closing one of the most active and operational squadrons in the force’s history today,” Norkin said at the closing ceremony.

“The ‘First Jet’ Squadron and its operations are an inseparable part of the history of the air force,” he said.

In February, with the release of details of the Momentum Plan, the military announced that it would be closing two air force squadrons, as well as an armored brigade.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the 117th Squadron continued training and conducting operations until “the day of its closure” on Wednesday.

The military added that all the soldiers and officers in the squadron will continue serving in the air force.

According to the military, one of the reasons to close the F-16 squadron was to free up resources for new fifth-generation planes, namely the F-35 stealth fighter jet, which Israel purchased from the United States.

The Israeli Air Force will continue to operate at least eight other F-16 squadrons.

The 117th Squadron was formed in 1953, taking part in every war in the country’s history since then, as well as a number of major operations, including the 1981 strike on Iraq’s nascent nuclear reactor, known as Operation Opera.

Initially, the unit flew the British-made Gloster Meteor — the Israeli military’s first jet aircraft — and then moved to operate the French Dassault Mirage III, until Israel received the F-16 in the late 1970s.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-closes-fighter-jet-squadron-ending-67-years-of-operations/

Macron: It was a mistake not to establish European dialogue with Russia over disarmament

The French president believes that Europe should build its own dialogue with Moscow instead of delegating the issue to NATO

RIGA, September 30. /TASS/. It was a mistake that there was no dialogue between Europe and Russia over arms reductions, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint news conference with Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins on Wednesday.

"The disarmament agreements were concluded between the United States and Russia and we were not even a party to them, but in the recent 15 years those agreements have been scrapped," he said. "We are no longer protected. In particular, it concerns the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that the United States quitted. And what is instead? Nothing."

According to Macron, "It could have happened as Europe failed to build dialogue with Russia over the Europe-related disarmament issues." "It was a mistake," he believes.

"We will never resolve the issues of disarmament and protection of Europe without discussing them with Russia," Macron stressed.

The French president concluded that Europe should build its own dialogue with Moscow instead of delegating the issue to NATO.

INF Treaty

On August 2, 2019 the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was terminated at the US initiative. Washington argued that Russia had refused to meet the US ultimatum-like demand for eliminating new generation cruise missiles 9M729, which the United States and its NATO allies see as a violation of the treaty. Moscow dismissed these charges, saying that the technical parameters of the 9M729 missile were within the INF Treaty’s permissible parameters and put forward its own counterclaims over Washington’s non-compliance, for instance, referring to the US missile defense system in Europe.

The US warned back on February 2, 2019 about its intention to quit the treaty. It said it could do so in accordance with Article 15 of the treaty unless Russia met its demands, which first and foremost included the destruction of 9M729 missiles. Moscow rejected Washington’s steps as absolutely unacceptable ultimatums.

John Bolton, who was the US national security adviser at the time, admitted later that Washington’s decision-making had been influenced also by the factor that China was not a party to the INF Treaty.

In September 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the leaders of several countries, including NATO member states, with a proposal for imposing a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in Europe and other regions. The United States consequently turned this initiative down.

https://tass.com/world/1206997

Compton shooting: Charges filed in ambush of 2 deputies earlier this month

The deputies are expected to make a full recovery

Deonte Lee Murray, the man accused in the ambush shooting of two Los Angeles County deputies in Compton earlier this month, has been charged with attempted murder, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Murray, 36, was taken into custody after a lengthy standoff three days after the deputies were shot, though his arrest was unrelated to the attack on the deputies, Sheriff Alex Villanueva initially said.

The deputies, a 31-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, were shot in the face and head while sitting in their patrol car near the Compton metro station. Both underwent surgery and have been released from the hospital. They are expected to make a full recovery.

At the time of his arrest, Murray, who has suspected gang ties, was charged with one felony count each of carjacking, second-degree robbery, and assault with a semiautomatic firearm - personal use of a firearm. The charges also included allegations of association with a criminal street gang, discharging a rifle inflicting great bodily injury, and personal use of an AR-15.

The deputy shooting was captured on surveillance video and shows a person in dark clothes walking up the pathway near Compton's Blue Line station and approaching the parked patrol car from behind. The person in the video is seen coming closer to the car and then can be seen facing the passenger door of the patrol SUV. Then, just inches from the window, the person is caught on video raising a gun, opening fire, and running back the way he came.

Soon thereafter, the passenger door of the SUV opens and a deputy stumbles out, with a hand on their head. The driver's side door then opens. One of the wounded deputies says, "Compton Pax, deputies down."

The female deputy then managed to help her partner out of the cruiser and hide behind a concrete pillar for safety. She applied a tourniquet to her partner's arm to help stop the bleeding.

"They became victims of a violent crime for one reason - they were doing their job and they were wearing a badge," LA County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said Wednesday. Lacey added that the charges could be amended if there is evidence that the attack was done to benefit a gang.

Villanueva believes the hatred toward police officers is growing and that there are "people who have such deep-seated hatred against law enforcement that they're just willing to kill anybody unprovoked."

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has reportedly donated $50,000 to each of the Compton deputies.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/compton-shooting-charges-filed-in-ambush-against-2-deputies-earlier-this-month

House GOP Calls for Moving Vital Industries From China to America

Republicans look to shepherd supply chain repatriation over finish line

House Republicans are pushing to seal the deal on a host of policies to withdraw vital American industries from China in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The GOP-chartered House China Task Force issued a report on Wednesday that calls in part for Congress to enact the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act's bevy of policies. Those policies, many of which have already passed the House, aim at reducing U.S. supply chain dependency on the Chinese Communist regime, which the report labeled a risk to American safety and prosperity.

"The next step is to get this NDAA, to get this defense bill—we sadly kicked the can on that to December—to get that over the finish line," Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), who helped draft the report, told the Washington Free Beacon. "I think it has a number of very good provisions in there. I think that's the most immediate legislative vehicle."

Republicans have been pushing for supply chain repatriation since late March, when coronavirus-induced hoarding in China contributed to the United States' struggle to provide adequate medical materiel to front-line doctors. The China Task Force's recommendations signal that Republicans and some Democrats are still eager to pass reshoring measures through the act and other legislation in the next session.

The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission's decision to unilaterally seize control of medical manufacturing and logistics "down to the factory level" made the need for supply chain repatriation clear, the report argues. The move allowed China to quintuple its production of protective masks, but also prohibited foreign companies from taking their medical products out of China—a major threat to western countries dependent on Chinese production to secure public health.

The task force report calls for legal changes to increase domestic production of medical goods and reduce dependency on China, including the identification of "drugs, biologics, vaccines, and critical medical equipment" as part of the United States' national security strategy. Another proposal would create federal incentives for companies to produce drugs' active ingredients in the United States—a major concern when China currently makes an estimated 40 percent of those ingredients.

The coronavirus crisis served as a "wake-up call" as to the risks of off-shoring medical supplies, Waltz argued.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/house-gop-calls-for-moving-vital-industries-from-china-to-america/

Commission on Presidential Debates to modify format for second debate, after unruly first debate

Events are designed for "the benefit of the American electorate."

The Commission on Presidential Debates said Wednesday that it will modify its discussion format ahead of the second debate between President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Tuesday's debate at numerous times lapsed into a seeming free-for-all in which Trump and Biden argued with each other outside of the bounds of the event's question-and-answer format.

“The Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate," the group said in a press release. "Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to he format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues."

The release also stated the commission would “announce those measures shortly,” and that it “intends to ensure that additional tools to maintain order are in place for the remaining debates.”

The next debate is scheduled for Oct. 15.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/commission-presidential-debates-says-it-will-modify-format-ahead-second-debate

>>10857804

no they look at all the wars and death he created over the decades

Convicted ISIS Terrorist Out To Behead Pamela Geller, ‘Kill Boys In Blue’ Is Resentenced

BOSTON – An Everett man was re-sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for conspiring to murder U.S. citizens, including police officers, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

David Daoud Wright, a/k/a Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, a/k/a Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 31, of Everett, Mass., was re-sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. In December 2017, Wright was sentenced to 28 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.

“Mr. Wright is a homegrown terrorist who plotted to kill innocent Americans on behalf of ISIS, including specifically targeting police officers,” said United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling. “He radicalized himself and others, pledged allegiance to a terrorist organization, and conspired with his now-deceased uncle to kill police officers with a combat knife. This case is a reminder of the persistent terrorism threat to our citizens and law enforcement officers.”

“ISIS soldier David Wright betrayed his country and forfeited his freedom when he conspired with others to attack and murder innocent civilians and police officers in support of a sworn, barbaric enemy of the United States. This sentence ensures they remain worlds apart,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division. “Identifying and disrupting terrorist plots, both foreign and domestic, is the FBI’s top priority, and the round-the-clock teamwork of our partners within our Massachusetts Joint Terrorism Task Force saved innocent lives, and kept Wright’s endgame of martyrdom out of reach.”

Beginning in at least February 2015, Wright began discussing ISIS’ call to kill non-believers in the United States with his uncle, Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, and co-defendant Nicholas Alexander Rovinski. Specifically, Wright created a “martyrdom” operation cell in Massachusetts. In April 2015, Wright created a Twitter page for the “Lions of America” and published a document entitled, Internal Conquest, on the internet in which Wright called on Muslims living in the United States to kill their fellow citizens.

Wright also plotted with Rahim and Rovinski to behead U.S. citizens at the direction of ISIS, and identified a New York woman, (conservative blogger) Pam Geller, as the first beheading target. Rahim purchased three knives for this plot. In addition, Wright’s ISIS cell was in direct communication with ISIS recruiter and attack facilitator, Junaid Hussain, who provided Rahim with an encrypted document containing details about the intended victim. In August 2015, Hussain was killed in an airstrike in Raqqah, Syria.

In preparation for their attack, Wright conducted extensive research on weapons, knives, machetes, bombing making components and methods to subdue their victims. Wright also conducted research on “what tranquilizer put humans to sleep instantly” and “how to start a secret militia in the United States.”

https://breaking911.com/convicted-isis-terrorist-out-to-behead-pamela-geller-kill-boys-in-blue-is-resentenced/

Moderna CEO Says Vaccine Won't Be Ready Before Election Day

Update (1400ET): In an interview with the FT, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel acknowledged that his company wouldn't be able to apply for emergency authorization of its vaccine candidate before election day. The news - Bancel had left open the possibility that the vaccine would be ready by the end of October - deals another blow to Trump's hopes of producing a vaccine before the election, something that was on display during last night's debate.

Bancel said the company wouldn't be ready to apply for FDA approval until Nov. 25 at the earliest. Approval to distribute the vaccine to all segments of the population, beyond just health care workers and the most vulnerable, may not arrive until the spring.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-research-hints-lower-herd-immunity-threshold-eu-approves-new-rapid-covid-19-test

PRAY FOR EACH OTHER

>>10858025

damage already done his guilt money won't wash the blood from his hands