UK paid $74m in alleged bribes to Saudi to secure lucrative arms deal

The British government approved up to £60 million ($74 million) in alleged bribes to Saudi Arabia as part of a huge arms deal over many decades and sought to conceal the payments through a controversial arrangement described as "deniable fiddle", a UK court was told yesterday. The "fiddle" involves paying bribes to Saudi officials using private contractors in order to secure major arms deal.

The case, which is being held at Southwark Crown Court, relates to a UK government arms deal to provide communications services to the Saudi Arabian National Guard. The services were delivered by a private contractor, British firm GPT, a now defunct unit of Airbus.

According to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which began an investigation into the payments, millions of dollars of alleged bribes were paid to Saudi royals to ensure that GPT received lucrative contracts from the Saudi military. GPT however claims that it was not aware that payments made by the company were intended as bribes to secure the deal.

Jeffrey Cook, former managing director of GPT, and John Mason, former financial officer at two of GPT's subcontractors, are accused of paying £9.7 million ($11.9 million) in bribes to Saudi officials between 2007 and 2012.

The arrangement of the payment structure allowing for the concealment of alleged bribery, however, is said to date back to the late 1970s. Described as a "fiddle", the arrangement enabled members of the Saudi royal family and the British government to "deny having any knowledge of [the payments] at all", the jury at the Crown Court were told.

Opening the defence on behalf of Cook, Ian Winter QC told the court that some of the payments were made to the then Prince Abdullah, who later became the Saudi monarch for a decade. King Abdullah died in 2015 and was succeeded by his younger brother King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Winter also told the court that internal documents recorded that the British government and Abdullah organised "a deniable fiddle" to hide the payments. The British government had not "merely acquiesced or tolerated those payments" but "the Ministry of Defence actually required those payments to be made," said Winter.

According to Winter, members of the Saudi Arabian National Guard had made it "abundantly clear" in negotiations with senior UK government officials over the award of the contract that the payments were part of the deal. "It was therefore a contractual requirement that these payments be made in this way or the contract would go elsewhere to somebody who was prepared to [pay them]," Winter argued.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220510-uk-paid-74m-in-alleged-bribes-to-saudi-to-secure-lucrative-arms-deal/

Prince William Praises Television Writers For Inserting Climate Change “Programming” Into Shows

Urges them to continue spreading “emotive” messages.

During a BAFTA segment about climate change in which it was asserted that the “planet is on fire,” Prince William praised television writers for inserting “programming” about green messages into their shows.

The duke made the comments as part of a special video address praising ‘Planet Placement’ – where producers insert messages into programs that may not even necessarily be about environmental issues.

William noted the “innovative” and “emotive” messages that were being inserted into programming to make people more conscious about wanting to save the planet.

Critics would call this “brainwashing.”

“Now more than ever, programme makers have a unique opportunity to ensure climate change and sustainability remain at the forefront of our collective consciousness,” said Prince William.

“By creating innovative, educational and emotive content for television, writers and producers are playing a unique role in ensuring the future of our planet is something that we all want to talk about.”

“Over the past year, we’ve seen some fantastic examples of this across a wide variety of programmes and genres.”

“I hope you will all continue to carry on your invaluable work, keeping environmental issues high up on the agenda of programming in the years ahead.”

https://summit.news/2022/05/09/prince-william-praises-television-writers-for-inserting-climate-change-programming-into-shows/

Joe Biden Asked If He Will Resign Over Record Inflation Rate: “Resign. That’s a Good Idea”

Following his empty statement today on inflation, Joe Biden was asked to respond to Senator Rick Scott’s comments on his handling of the economy.

Rick Scott tweeted this out earlier.

CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe: Earlier today, anticipating your remarks, he said, and I’m just quoting here. He said that the best thing that, the most effective thing that Joe Biden can do to solve the inflation crisis he created, is resign. He’s the problem.

Joe Biden responded, “Resign, that’s a good idea.”

No joke.

Here is the exchange. Joe Biden appears proud of his response.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/joe-biden-asked-will-resign-record-inflation-rate-resign-good-idea/

Nasrallah rejects Israeli-born US envoy to maritime border talks with Jerusalem

Terror chief says negotiations over offshore zones, thought to contain large natural gas deposits, can not continue with ‘Amos Hochstein, Frankenstein, or any other Stein’

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, expressed his fierce opposition on Monday to the US-mediated talks aimed at settling a maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel — in particular lashing out at Washington’s Israeli-born envoy to the negotiations, Amos Hochstein.

Longtime foes Israel and Lebanon have been engaged in US-led talks over the past year aimed at demarcating offshore exclusive economic zones.

The disputed area, hundreds of square miles wide, is thought to contain large deposits of natural gas, a potential game-changer for Lebanon, which is mired in a devastating economic crisis.

“I am saying to the Lebanese state: If you want to continue negotiating, go ahead, but not in Naqoura, and not with Hochstein, Frankenstein, or any other Stein coming to Lebanon,” the terror chief said in an address to the Lebanese government.

“The path of negotiations, and especially via the conspiring, collaborating, and dishonest American broker who supports Israel, will not lead us to any results.”

Nasrallah’s statements appeared to contradict reports earlier this year that he had given the green light to the talks.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nasrallah-rejects-israeli-born-us-envoy-to-maritime-border-talks-with-jerusalem/

Musk says he’d reverse Trump’s Twitter ban

Elon Musk said Tuesday that he will reverse former President Trump’s ban from Twitter if his acquisition of the platform is completed.

“I think it was a morally bad decision to be clear and foolish in the extreme,” said Musk, the CEO of Tesla, while speaking at the Financial Times’s “Future of the Car” event.

“I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake,” he added. “It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Twitter permanently banned Trump shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, saying that the then-president’s posts on the platform could encourage more violence.

Musk and Twitter agreed to a deal for the Tesla CEO to buy all outstanding shares of the company in a deal worth roughly $44 billion late last month.

Some civil society groups warned early on that Musk’s purchase of the platform could mean Trump’s return given the tech billionaire’s stated commitment to free speech absolutism.

Trump said shortly after Musk’s deal to buy Twitter was confirmed that he would not return to the platform even if invited back on.

The former president, who boasted over 80 million followers on Twitter, has said that he will instead stay on the social media platform launched by his media company, Truth Social.

Trump has recently become more active on that platform, sharing “truths” with his 2.66 million followers there.

Despite his promises to stay on Truth Social, however, the allure of the reach offered by Twitter, where Trump frequently sparred with critics and boosted misinformation about the 2020 election and COVID-19, could convince the former president to make a return.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3483215-musk-says-hed-reverse-trumps-twitter-ban/

Czech Republic replaces Russia on UN Human Rights Council - vote

The Czech Republic was the only candidate for the seat from Eastern European countries after at the special session on Ukraine on April 7 the UN General Assembly had adopted the West-authored resolution suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council

UNTED NATIONS, May 10. /TASS/. The United Nations General Assembly voted on Tuesday to elect the Czech Republic to the UN Human Rights council, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.

The Czech Republic was the only candidate for the seat from Eastern European countries after at the special session on Ukraine on April 7 the UN General Assembly had adopted the West-authored resolution suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council.

Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Gennady Kuzmin said afterwards that Russia decided to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council before the vote.

https://tass.com/world/1448987

California trans child molester Hannah Tubbs charged with first-degree murder

The first-degree murder charge comes after authorities recently charged Tubbs in connection to a 2019 robbery

Hannah Tubbs, a transgender California inmate convicted of molesting a child, has been charged with murder.

The first-degree murder charge out of Kern County on Tuesday comes after authorities recently charged Tubbs in connection to a 2019 robbery.

The suspect is being held on $1 million bond and is set to appear in court for an arraignment hearing on Tuesday afternoon, according to Kern County documents.

No further information about the murder charge was available as of Tuesday morning.

A spokesman for District Attorney George Gascon's office previously told Fox News that Los Angeles officials will be notified if Tubbs is released from custody in Kern County.

"District Attorney George Gascón is committed to protecting the public and especially our children. In this case, Hannah Tubbs continues to serve her Los Angeles County sentence, while being prosecuted on an unrelated robbery charge in Kern County," Ricardo Santiago, a public information officer for the DAs office said. "Her transfer was based on a 2019 warrant and approved by a court."

Tubbs became the center of controversy earlier this year when she pleaded guilty in connection with a 2014 assault on a young girl inside a Denny's restaurant bathroom when she was just weeks from turning 18. Prosecutors said Tubbs grabbed the girl by the throat, locked her in a stall, and put her hand down the girl’s pants.

Tubbs pleaded guilty to the attack last month, though the incident took place when Tubbs was two weeks shy of 18 and identified as a male named James Edward Tubbs. When authorities arrested Tubbs roughly eight years after the crime, the suspect, who has since been convicted of child molestation, began identifying as a woman, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors sentenced Tubbs to two years at a juvenile facility because Gascon’s office declined to transfer the case to adult court, adhering to one of the progressive prosecutor’s day-one directives barring "children" from being tried as adults. The convicted criminal could, however, still as little as six months under California law and may not be required to register as a sex offender.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-hannah-james-tubbs-murder-charge

Russian ambassador storms out of Knesset over Ukraine war criticism

Russian ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov left the Knesset plenum after MKs began criticizing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Russian ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov stormed out of the Knesset plenum after Knesset members attacked Russia for its invasion of Ukraine during Victory Day celebrations in the Israeli parliament, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.

According to the report, one of the MKs who attacked Russia in the plenum was Yisrael Beytenu's Ukrainian-born Evgeny Sova, who called Russia's war on Ukraine a "slap in the face for our grandparents who fought the Nazis."

The ambassador reportedly quickly left the plenum after several MKs began speaking on the ongoing war in eastern Europe and claiming Russia is committing war crimes on Ukrainian soil.

Diplomatic ties between Russia and Israel have gradually deteriorated since President Vladimir Putin launched his "special military operation" in February.

Israel, which was pressured by the Western world led by the United States to join it in imposing economic sanctions and condemnations on the Kremlin, has attempted to remain neutral throughout the conflict, with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett initially taking a mediator role, during which he became one of the only world leaders to meet with Putin in Russia after the war began.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-706336

7-Year-Old Boy Dies from Heart Attack After Pfizer Injection

On 16 February 2022, a 7-year-old boy in Seattle Washington died from a heart attack with blood clots in his coronary artery and liver. He died 13 days after being injected with a Pfizer “vaccine.”

He suffered shock and cardiac arrest. He could not be resuscitated and died in the emergency department, APAR TV reported. His death was recorded on the US VAERS database.

APAR’s article continued: “A CDC-funded study published [7 March 2022] in The Lancet concludes that most of the Covid vaccine-related adverse events reported during the first six months of the U.S. deployment were “mild and short-lived,” despite the thousands of deaths reported to VAERS.”

“Jessica Rose, PhD, attempted to replicate the lancet authors’ findings through independent analysis of VAERS data. Although it filtered the database using three different dates, it could not replicate the results of the Lancet study.”

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/10/7-year-old-boy-dies-from-pfizer-injection/

Looks Like Facebook Is Fact-Checking Pro-Life Memes Now

On Saturday, activist Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shared a pro-life meme that tells people their grandmothers carried part of them inside their wombs, and Facebook’s fact-checkers flagged that meme.

Here’s what the meme says:

This is so amazing.. Did you know that your grandmother carried part of you inside her womb? But how? Well. a female fetus is born with all the eggs she will ever have in her lifetime. So when your Grandmother was carrying your Mother in her womb. you were a tiny egg in your Mother’s ovaries, The three of you have been connected for a very long time. Women are amazing!

Alveda King called it an “amazing fact,” but Facebook insisted it was not and flagged the meme. According to Facebook’s “independent” fact-checkers, the meme is “missing context.”

Facebook relied on fact-checking from a site called Factly, which insists that the claim “is not unanimously accepted in the scientific community.”

“Though it was widely believed to be true, some recent research gives a possibility of ovaries growing new eggs though the research is not yet 100% definitive about the statement,” Factly states. “There is no conclusive evidence that new eggs are produced, yet from recent research, a possible ovarian stem cell reserve is disputed among scientists.”

Bizarrely, Factly even cites the Cleveland Clinic on this issue. Here’s what they say on the matter:

During fetal life, there are about 6 million to 7 million eggs. From this time, no new eggs are produced. At birth, there are approximately 1 million eggs; and by the time of puberty, only about 300,000 remain. Of these, only 300 to 400 will be ovulated during a woman’s reproductive lifetime. Fertility can drop as a woman ages due to decreasing number and quality of the remaining eggs.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/05/10/looks-like-facebook-is-fact-checking-pro-life-memes-now-n1595994

Pelosi Encourages Protesters' 'Righteous Anger' in Marching Illegally in Front of Justices' Homes

U.S. Code § 1507 states that “any individual who “pickets or parades” with the “intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer” near a federal court or “near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer (emphasis mine)” will be fined, or “imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

It’s no surprise that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice hasn’t lifted a finger to arrest anyone obviously trying to interfere with a Supreme Court decision. It’s also not particularly surprising that Joe Biden’s U.S. Marshals Service hasn’t been tasked with protecting the homes of conservative justices who are under threat.

But the biggest non-surprise of all is that Biden doing nothing about prominent Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) all but encouraging and justifying violence against the justices.

Fox News:

“While we have seen and heard extraordinary anguish in our communities,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, “we have been moved by how so many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful action: planning to march and mobilize to make their voices heard.”

In the statement, Pelosi also attacked Republicans and the Supreme Court over the expected ruling, and says that Democrats will “fight relentlessly to enshrine Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.”

“Righteous anger,” indeed.

“Republicans have made clear that their goal will be to seek to criminalize abortion nationwide,” Pelosi said. “Republican state legislators across the country are already advancing extreme new laws, seeking to arrest doctors for offering reproductive care, ban abortion entirely with no exceptions, and even charge women with murder who exercise their right to choose.”

None of those proposals have passed in any state legislature. Pelosi is dancing with strawmen to gin up outrage against the justices. And given the hysteria that Pelosi and other Democrats are generating against the justices, any such rhetorical incendiary devices could motivate some radical left crackpot to attempt to give Biden a few more Supreme Court picks.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/05/10/pelosi-encourages-protesters-righteous-anger-in-marching-illegally-in-front-of-justices-homes-n1596575

Nothing is going to change after the mid terms. Set your expectations accordingly.

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1524095997034614784

Jacinda Ardern in isolation after partner tests positive for COVID

https://youtu.be/nBX4lLk-yls

Former Valdosta Police and School Resource Officer Indicted for Producing and Possessing Child Sexual Assault Material

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/former-valdosta-police-and-school-resource-officer-indicted-producing-and-possessing

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA: Premier Dan Andrews is passing a bill that prohibits people from growing their own food.

The Agriculture Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 has had its second reading in parliament. Biosecurity is stated as the reason for changes.

New Zealand Government is sending letters to unvaxxed people - telling them that if they are not vaxxed by the 1st June 2022, they will face $15,000 fine or 6 months in prison

https://www.unmuteit.com/articles/victoria-australia-prohibits-people-from-growing-their-own-food

https://world-signals.com/news/2022/05/08/authorities-have-passed-a-law-banning-the-cultivation-of-their-own-food-and-large-fines-for-violators/

New Zealand COVID-19: Mandatory vaccinations

Why vaccinations are mandatory

Mandatory vaccinations for certain workforces are in place for those who work with the most vulnerable, are at a higher risk for contracting COVID-19 or being exposed to any new variants.

This includes border and MIQ workforces, those who work in the health and disability sector and Corrections.

There are also a number of workers who are also covered by the health and disability or border vaccination mandates because of the work they do. This includes some workers from Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ), Police and Defence.

While each workforce has its own set of risk factors, vaccination is a vital measure they have in common for reducing infection and transmission.

While most people in these sectors have already been vaccinated, and many have received booster doses, complete protection across these sectors is critical to the country’s successful management of COVID-19.

Health and disability sector

While the amended COVID-19 Vaccination Order does not list specific types of practitioners that are included, it does include roles and physical settings that are covered. This includes:

health practitioners

workers who work in close proximity to health practitioners providing services to members of the public (for example, reception and administration staff in general practice, shop assistants in community pharmacies)

workers employed or engaged by certified providers, which includes workers at a facility providing hospital care, rest home care, residential disability care or fertility services (for example, anyone working in a hospital setting such as laundry staff, orderly, administration staff, or rest home staff like kitchen and cleaning staff)

care and support workers who are employed or engaged to carry out work that includes going to the home or place of resident of another person (including those living in the home or place of residence of a family member) to provide care and support services funded by the Ministry of Health, a DHB or ACC.

Refer to the list below of health practitioners. The listed roles are all required to be vaccinated.

Everyone else is not a health practitioner, so whether they fall under the order or not will depend on whether:

they carry out work where health services are provided to members of the public by one or more health practitioners (listed below) and whose role involves being within two metres or less of a health practitioner or a member of the public for a period of 15 minutes or more

they work in a facility that is certified by HealthCERT (hospitals, rest homes, residential care facilities, fertility facilities)

they are a care and support worker, as defined in the order.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-mandatory-vaccinations

New UK Government Data Shows the COVID Vaccines Kill More People Than They Save

I’ve been asking everyone: Show me the all-cause mortality data proving the vaccines are safe. I finally got some data. It’s from the UK government and it’s devastating. REALLY devastating.

Overview

New UK government data allows us to analyze the data in a way we couldn’t before. This new analysis shows clearly that the COVID vaccines kill more people than they save for all age groups. In other words, they shouldn’t be used by anyone. The younger you are, the less sense it makes.

Anyone can validate the data and methodology. The results make it clear that the COVID vaccines should be halted immediately.

If the vaccines really work, then why hasn’t any government anywhere in the world produced a proper risk-benefit analysis that shows the opposite result?

If the vaccines work, then why do all the lines in Figure 6 below show that Dose 1 and Dose 2 of the vaccines kill more people than they save?

Not a single public health authority in any country will have a conversation with us on the record to justify their vaccine recommendations by producing an all-cause risk benefit analysis similar to what I computed here. I wonder why?

What the data shows

Here’s the result of the analysis comparing unvaxxed vs. 2 doses given at least 6 months ago. I believe this analysis is conservative and the actual numbers are worse than this due to the seasonal variation of the all-cause mortality.

The data showed that for most age ranges, the vaccine reduced your chance of dying from COVID, but it increased your chances of dying from other causes. The former effect was smaller than the latter effect so the vaccines are nonsensical.

For example, if you are 25 years old, the vaccine kills 15 people for every person it saves from dying from COVID. Below 80, the younger you are, the more nonsensical vaccination is.

The cells in Figure 1 with a * means that the vaccinated had more COVID deaths than the unvaccinated. This is known as “negative vaccine efficacy.” This wasn’t surprising since we’ve been claiming that the vaccines damage your immune system.

Above 80, the UK data was too confounded to be useful. Until we have that data, it’s irresponsible to make a recommendation.

I describe below how you can compute this yourself from the UK data.

Please share this result on all your social media platforms. One user got 10,000 likes in less than 24 hours on Twitter and he had only 2,000 followers. So Twitter permanently suspended his account. So probably not a good idea to share on Twitter. According to Twitter, “health officials consider the COVID-19 vaccines safe for most people” and therefore any UK government data that shows that they are lying is a violation of Twitter Community Standards.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-uk-government-data-shows-covid-vaccines-kill-more-people-than-they-save/5779769

Cult leader whose followers 'consumed bodily fluids and worshipped corpses' is arrested at his home in Thai jungle where police find 11 bodies

Thawee Nanra, 75, was arrested deep in the Thai jungle after a raid on Monday

Police found the corpses of 11 of his followers, including a mother and child

Followers consumed his bodily fluids, believing it would cure them from disease

A forest-dwelling cult leader whose followers worshipped corpses and consumed his faeces and urine has been arrested after police found 11 bodies in his jungle camp.

The thatched home of Thawee Nanra, 75, from Thailand, was raided by police yesterday in Chaiyaphum province.

Supporters screamed and jostled with the officers in the chaotic scenes as they tried to save their bearded, shirtless leader who claims to be the 'father of all religion' before he was led to a police car.

Police said they found 11 corpses on the premises and local media said they were believed to be the bodies of his followers.

Thawee said he stored the dead bodies to wait for the spirits to return to heaven.

Provincial Gov. Kraisorn Kongchalad said Thawee had at least a dozen followers living with him, while coffins containing bodies were scattered around the house.

Devotees reportedly told authorities that the leader's urine and phlegm were believed to be cures for diseases.

Five coffins were found outside the shelter, one of which was of a dead infant and another, of his dead mother. All of the coffins were drilled to allow the lymph fluid to flow out.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10797879/Police-Thailand-arrest-leader-corpse-worshipping-cult.html

Devin Nunes says Durham trial to focus on biggest scandal in modern political history

https://rumble.com/v147yfi-devin-nunes-says-durham-trial-to-focus-on-biggest-scandal-in-modern-politic.html

Republican Lawmaker Resigns From Congress Following Sexual Harassment Claims

Republican Congressman Tom Reed (NY) on Tuesday announced his resignation from Congress following sexual misconduct accusations.

Punchbowl News first reported on Tom Reed’s resignation.

Last year a former lobbyist named Nicolette Davis accused Rep. Reed of sexual misconduct on a political trip to Minnesota in 2017.

Rep. Reed released a statement last year apologizing to Davis and said he “showed her disrespect and was unprofessional.”

“I was wrong, I am sorry, and I take full responsibility,” Reed said.

The New York lawmaker said he was struggling with alcohol in 2017 and has since been on a journey of recovery.

Rep. Tom Reed announced his resignation from the House floor on Tuesday.

“After almost 12 years in Congress, today is my last day,” Tom Reed said.

“It is time for petty political posturing to end,” he added.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/republican-lawmaker-resigns-congress-following-sexual-harassment-claims-video/

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Governor Kathy Hochul Announces $35 Million to Protect Abortion Providers in New York if Roe Overturned

New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) announced on Tuesday that the state would allocate a $35 million investment to directly support abortion providers if Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

“New York has always been at the forefront of the fight for abortion rights, and as the first female Governor of New York, I will not let us go backwards,” Governor Hochul said in a statement.

“I will never stop fighting to make New York a safe harbor for all who need care and a blueprint for other states to follow. To truly guarantee that everyone who needs an abortion can get one in New York State, we must ensure that providers have the resources, capacity, and protections they need. This landmark funding will get resources into the hands of clinics who need our help — safeguarding access to abortion in our state and setting an example for the rest of the nation to follow,” Hochul added.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/governor-kathy-hochul-announces-35-million-protect-abortion-providers-new-york-roe-overturned/

don't true the vote dump all the evidence at 6pm today?