UK Column News - 13th December 2024

Source: ukcolumn

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Debi Evans, Mark Anderson and Cheryl Grainger with today’s UK Column News.

 

Crown Court Backlog: An Engineered Crisis Putting Justice on Trial Through Judge-Only Hearings

00:25 The Standard: Jury trials could be axed for some crimes as Crown Court backlog soars to 73,000

Bar Council of England and Wales: Cutting court sitting days causing real concern

THB Solicitors: Barristers’ Strike 2022—How will this affect you?

GOV.UK: Number of police officers protecting our streets at record high

BBC: Shabana Mahmood: Prison space may run out despite plans to expand

The Law Society: Mapping algorithms in the justice system

 

Nobel Laureate Drew Weissman: Covid–19 ‘Vaccine’ Made in 15 Minutes, Thousands Dead, Many Injured for Life—Gene-Editing ‘The Dream’

07:33 UK Column News archive: UK Column News—31st May 2024 (timestamp 10:46—Covid Jab Mastermind Katalin Karikó: Quality Issues)

Nobel Prize: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

For their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid–19

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine: The Weissman Lab

Nobel Prize: Facts: Drew Weissman 2023

Nobel Prize (YouTube): The Future of Health: Nobel Week Dialogue 2024 (timestamp 2:41:34)

Decades of research on mRNA, um […] but how long, how long did it take you for to to create the actual vaccine for, um, for Covid–19? […]
— So, honestly, it took about fifteen minutes to design the vaccine. Once the sequence was released, we made a bunch of different variants because we weren’t sure which one would work best […]

 

Syria Falls, Iran Next: BBC Amplifies Propaganda for War

16:40 BBC (InDepth): Where next for Iran now that its ‘Axis of Resistance’ is shattered

About BBC News: Profiles: Caroline Hawley

All the dominoes have been falling,” says James Jeffrey, a former US diplomat and deputy national security advisor, who now works at the non-partisan Wilson Center think-tank.

The Wilson Center: Fellowships at the Wilson Center

Brian Gerrish comments: 

Suzanne Maloney is an Iran analyst with the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former US State Department policy advisor.

Brookings Institution: Suzanne Maloney

Brookings Institution (2008): U.S. Policy Toward Iran: Missed Opportunities and Paths Forward by Suzanne Maloney

[…] Together with new American efforts to ramp up pressure on Iran.

The Saban Center For Middle East Policy At The Brookings Institution (2009): WHICH PATH TO PERSIA? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran (PDF)

Sky News: Former Head of MI6 ‘surprised at how fast Syrian regime collapsed’

 

Trump’s Immigration Plan: Homan Targets Worksite Crackdowns in Chicago to End Illegal Labor

25:17 Northwest Side GOP Club: Law & Order PAC & Northwest Side GOP Club Welcomes Tom Homan To Chicago

CBS News: Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s border czar, says deportation plan will start in Chicago

January 21st, you’re going to look for a lot of ICE agents in your city looking for criminals and gang members. Count on it. It will happen.

Stop the Presses By THE TRUTH HOUND (YouTube): The Northwest Side GOP Club of Chicago hosted Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan on Dec 9th

Northwest Side GOP Club: City Council Was Strong-Armed to Block the Voice of the People on Sanctuary City Status.

CBS Austin: Chicago mayor defies Trump border czar’s threat to sanctuary cities: ‘We will not bend’

Fox News: Protesters attempt to stop removal of hundreds of migrants from public-funded housing

New York Immigration Coalition: Supporters

 

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Forthcoming UK Column symposium: Second Annual David Ray Griffin Lecture: Dr. Madhava Setty (1:00 pm EST / 6 pm GMT on Sunday, December 15, 2024)

Welsh Parliament petition: Ensure diagnosis and treatment for people suffering from adverse Covid–19 vaccine side effects 

 

BBC Media Action: The ‘Charity’ Shaping Global News for 100 Million People to Promote ‘Impartial, Impactful, Trustworthy’ Reporting

37:38 BBC: Media Action—Meet the BBC’s international charity

The Communication Initiative Network: BBC Media Action: Training, Conferences, Meetings

BBC: A course for journalists: Reporting effectively for climate action

BBC Media Action has been working with local radio stations across East Africa, training, mentoring and connecting them with local climate scientists and their audiences, so they are better able to produce trusted, informative and timely radio content about climate and weather issues.

UK Column resource: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Spending

(Filter by supplier: BBC MEDIA ACTION—Total Spend: £44,974,379.81)

 

Sara Sharif’s Death: A Tragedy Used to Target Homeschooling and Children’s Freedoms

42:33 Children’s Commissioner for England: Statement from the Children’s Commissioner (Rachel de Souza) on the murder of Sara Sharif

Child Protection Online Monitoring System (CPOMS): CPOMS Safeguarding and Wellbeing Solution for Schools

CPOMS: New Safeguarding Software To Transform Collaboration Between Councils and Schools

Daily Mail: The stomach-churningly terrifying incident that means I’d microchip my children in a heartbeat, writes Clare Foges (Archived)

The Guardian (2002): Would you microchip your child?

BCC Research Blog (2022): Human Microchipping: The Benefits and Disadvantages

The Boustrophedonist Bricoleur (Substack): Why Microchipping Your Child Is A Must

Local Government Association: Data (Use and Access) Bill

 

Pfizer’s Repetitive Moves From Cradle To Grave: More Suffering, Bigger Profits

46:07 Bloomberg Law: Pfizer Accused of Hiding Contraceptive’s Brain Tumor Link

The British Medical Journal (BMJ): Use of progestogens and the risk of intracranial meningioma: national case-control study

PacerMonitor: Taylor Devorak v. Pfizer Inc. et al.

TheLegalJournal: Pfizer Birth Control Drug Linked to Brain Tumors in New Lawsuit

National Library of Medicine (NIH PubMed): Pfizer pleads guilty, but drug sales continue to soar

United States Department of Justice (2009): Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing

 

Cheryl Grainger Demands Answers: Exposing MHRA’s Silence on Drug Trial Damages, Including Hidden Risks for Pregnant Women

51:30 Cheryl Grainger Working with the Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group

 

From UK Column News Extra

The United States Code: Misprision of treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.

Republic Broadcasting Archives: STOP THE PRESSES! With Mark Anderson 11 December 2024 (18 U.S. Code Chapter 115—Treason, Sedition, And Subversive Activities)