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It is crucial for the future of sustainable Health Service provision that he wins the day, but he is dependent on retaining the so far unswerving support of President Trump and a small group of people who are financed by means independent of the Government.

The negative influence of Big Pharma (https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/Pharmaceutical)

Money from Pharmaceutical Manufacturing to US Senators, 1990-2024: Donations, ($200 or more) is supposedly from employees or PACs affiliated with the industry, but not necessarily from the companies themselves. (Nudge Nudge: Wink Wink).

Abraham, Spencer (R-MI) Michigan $166,900
Adams, Brock (D-WA) Washington $6,300
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN) Tennessee $366,550
Allard, Wayne (R-CO) Colorado $48,819
Allen, George (R-VA) Virginia $244,700
Alsobrooks, Angela (D-MD) Maryland $45,068
Ashcroft, John (R-MO) Missouri $112,499
Ayotte, Kelly (R-NH) New Hampshire $213,170

Baldwin, Tammy (D-WI ) Wisconsin $133,504
Banks, Jim (R-IN) Indiana $86,798
Barrasso, John (R-WY) Wyoming $474,266
Baucus, Max (D-MT) Montana $417,790
Bayh, Evan (D-IN) Indiana $274,169
Begich, Mark (D-AK) Alaska $45,249
Bennet, Michael (D-CO) Colorado $318,447
Bennett, Robert F (R-UT) Utah $190,000
Bentsen, Lloyd (D-TX) Texas $4,000
Biden, Joe (D) $3,338,303
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM) New Mexico $83,900
Blackburn, Marsha (R-TN) Tennessee $627,718
Blumenthal, Richard (D-CT) Connecticut $142,587
Blunt, Roy (R-MO) Missouri $680,650
Bond, Christopher (R-MO) Missouri $230,943
Booker, Cory (D-NJ) New Jersey $362,272
Boozman, John (R-AR) Arkansas $66,750
Boren, David Lyle (D-OK) Oklahoma $3,500
Boschwitz, Rudy (R-MN) Minnesota $41,519
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) California $130,330
Bradley, Bill (D) $163,740
Braun, Carol Moseley (D) $71,932

Burr, Richard (R-NC) North Carolina $873,391

Campbell, Ben N (R-CO) Colorado $33,855
Cantwell, Maria (D-WA) Washington $96,885
Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV) West Virginia $237,351
Cardin, Ben (D-MD) Maryland $186,100
Carnahan, Jean (D-MO) Missouri $5,500
Carper, Tom (D-DE) Delaware $612,393
Casey, Bob (D-PA) Pennsylvania $865,420
Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) Louisiana $474,025
Chafee, John H (R-RI) Rhode Island $50,250
Chafee, Lincoln (L) $61,350
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA) Georgia $107,099
Cleland, Max (D-GA) Georgia $69,550
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) New York $1,869,374
Coats, Dan (R-IN) Indiana $271,662
Coburn, Tom (R-OK) Oklahoma $139,201
Cochran, Thad (R-MS) Mississippi $147,809
Cohen, William S (R-ME) Maine $15,750
Coleman, Norm (R-MN) Minnesota $214,250
Collins, Susan M (R-ME) Maine $273,221
Conrad, Kent (D-ND) North Dakota $132,000
Coons, Chris (D-DE) Delaware $495,945
Corker, Bob (R-TN) Tennessee $209,490
Cornyn, John (R-TX) Texas $495,666
Corzine, Jon S (D-NJ) New Jersey $9,375
Cotton, Tom (R-AR) Arkansas $51,855
Cranston, Alan (D) $8,000
Crapo, Mike (R-ID) Idaho $573,587
Cruz, Ted (R-TX) Texas $265,227

D’Amato, Alfonse M (R-N) New York $132,350
Daines, Steven (R-MT) Montana $226,550
Danforth, John C (R-MO) Missouri $2,000
Daschle, Tom (D-SD) South Dakota $61,050
Dayton, Mark (D-MN) Minnesota $1,000
Deconcini, Dennis (D-AZ) Arizona $16,810
DeMint, Jim (R-SC) South Carolina $56,950
DeWine, Mike (R-OH) Ohio $273,200
Dixon, Alan J (D-IL) Illinois $7,000
Dodd, Chris (D-CT) Connecticut $466,073
Dole, Bob (R) $123,350
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC) North Carolina $250,847
Domenici, Pete V (R-NM) New Mexico $117,800
Donnelly, Joe (D-IN) Indiana $296,857
Dorgan, Byron L (D-ND) North Dakota $33,000
Duckworth, Tammy (D-IL) Illinois $112,209
Durbin, Dick (D-IL) Illinois $149,229
Durenberger, Dave (R-MN) Minnesota $23,350

Edwards, John (D) $51,000
Ensign, John (R-NV) Nevada $219,549
Exon, Jim (D-NE) Nebraska $8,750

Feingold, Russ (D-WI) Wisconsin $43,709
Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA) California $237,970
Fetterman, John (D-PA ) Pennsylvania $162,099
Fischer, Deb (R-NE) Nebraska $121,810
Fitzgerald, Peter G (R-IL Illinois $27,050
Flake, Jeff (R-AZ) Arizona $64,000
Ford, Wendell H (D-KY) Kentucky $2,000
Fowler, Wyche Jr (D-GA) Georgia $13,000
Frahm, Sheila (R-KS) Kansas $5,000
Franken, Al (D-MN) Minnesota $22,286
Frist, Bill (R-TN) Tennessee $164,523

Gallego, Ruben (D-AZ) Arizona $86,876
Gardner, Cory (R-CO) Colorado $300,198
Gillibrand, Kirsten (D-NY) New York $343,947
Glenn, John (D-OH) Ohio $2,500
Gore, Al (D) $73,050
Gorton, Slade (R-WA) Washington $57,007
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) South Carolina $320,929
Gramm, Phil (R-TX) Texas $107,020
Grams, Rod (R-MN) Minnesota $69,900
Grassley, Chuck (R-IA) Iowa $429,821
Gregg, Judd (R-NH) New Hampshire $216,798

Hagel, Chuck (R-NE) Nebraska $86,565
Hagerty, Bill (R-TN) Tennessee $79,784
Hassan, Maggie (D-NH) New Hampshire $112,334
Hatfield, Mark O (R-OR) Oregon $15,000

Hatch Orin (R-UT) Utah $1,327,307

Hawley, Josh (R-MO) Missouri $28,577
Heflin, Howell (D-AL) Alabama $16,250
Heinrich, Martin (D-NM) New Mexico $227,104
Heinz, John (R-PA) Pennsylvania $2,000
Heitkamp, Heidi (D-ND) North Dakota $207,975
Heller, Dean (R-NV) Nevada $193,235
Helms, Jesse (R-NC) North Carolina $69,275
Hickenlooper, John (D-CO) Colorado $95,154
Hirono, Mazie K (D-HI) Hawaii $125,825
Hoeven, John (R-ND) North Dakota $143,960

Hatch, Orrin G (R-UT)

Utah

$1,327,307

Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX) Texas $101,800
Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS) Mississippi $29,579

Inhofe, James M (R-OK) Oklahoma $99,320
Inouye, Daniel K (D-HI) Hawaii $14,200
Isakson, Johnny (R-GA) Georgia $390,772

Jeffords, James M (I-VT) Vermont $89,200
Johanns, Mike (R-NE) Nebraska $57,600
Johnston, J Bennett (D-LA) Louisiana $8,250
Jones, Doug (D-AL) Alabama $149,469
Justice, Jim (R-WV) West Virginia $5,215

Kaine, Tim (D-VA) Virginia $260,273
Kassebaum, Nancy (R-KS) Kansas $9,000
Kasten, Bob (R-WI) Wisconsin $40,750
Kelly, Mark (D-AZ) Arizona $303,536
Kempthorne, Dirk (R-ID) Idaho $12,000
Kennedy, Edward M (D-MA) Massachusetts $162,717
Kennedy, John (R-LA) Louisiana $72,103
Kerrey, Bob (D-NE) Nebraska $106,450
Kerry, John (D-MA) Massachusetts $445,396
Kim, Andy (D-NJ) New Jersey $99,350
King, Angus (I-ME) Maine $8,400
Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN) Minnesota $104,899
Krueger, Robert (Bob) (D-TX) Texas $2,250

Landrieu, Mary L (D-LA) Louisiana $217,946
Lankford, James (R-OK) Oklahoma $129,000
Lautenberg, Frank (D-NJ) New Jersey $312,072
Leahy, Patrick (D-VT) Vermont $124,800
Lee, Mike (R-UT ) Utah $122,414
Lemieux, George S (R-FL) Florida $6,500
Levin, Carl (D-MI) Michigan $16,950
Lieberman, Joe (D-CT) Connecticut $485,790
Lincoln, Blanche (D-AR) Arkansas $189,575
Loeffler, Kelly (R-GA) Georgia $187,339
Lott, Trent (R-MS) Mississippi $105,000
Lujan, Ben Ray (D-NM) New Mexico $222,440

Mack, Connie (R-FL) Florida $62,000
Manchin, Joe (D-WV) West Virginia $404,543
Markey, Ed (D-MA) Massachusetts $243,047
Marshall, Roger (R-KS) Kansas $105,120
Martinez, Mel (R-FL) Florida $77,700
Masto, Catherine Cortez (D-NV) Nevada $205,318
Mathews, Harlan (D-TN) Tennessee $1,000

Mcain, John (R-AZ) Arizona $591,107

McCaskill, Claire (D-MO) Missouri $135,077
McClure, James A (R-ID ) Idaho $1,000
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Kentucky $1,027,79
McCormick, Dave (R-PA) Pennsylvania $63,231
Menendez, Robert (I-NJ) New Jersey $986,695
Merkley, Jeff (D-OR) Oregon $39,367
Miller, Zell (D-GA) Georgia $3,250
Mitchell, George J (D-ME) Maine $6,000
Moran, Jerry (R-KS) Kansas $173,850
Moreno, Bernie (R-OH) Ohio $28,079
Moynihan, Daniel P (D-NY) New York $63,000
Mullin, Markwayne (R-OK) Oklahoma $188,280
Murphy, Christopher S (D-CT) Connecticut $109,312

Murray, Patty (D-WA) Washington $797,518

Nelson, Ben (D-NE) Nebraska $289,483
Nelson, Bill (D-FL) Florida $160,071
Nickles, Don (R-OK) Oklahoma $106,096
Nunn, Sam (D-GA) Georgia $9,500

Ossoff, Jon (D-GA) Georgia $326,791

Packwood, Bob (R-OR) Oregon $78,725
Padilla, Alex (D-CA) California $23,155
Paul, Rand (R-KY) Kentucky $132,359
Pell, Claiborne (D-RI) Rhode Island $1,000
Perdue, David (R-GA) Georgia $292,824
Peters, Gary (D-MI) Michigan $363,612

Portman, Rob (R-OH) Ohio $435,085

Pressler, Larry (I-SD) South Dakota $39,110

Reed, Jack (D-RI) Rhode Island $85,376
Reid, Harry (D-NV) Nevada $320,100
Ricketts, Pete (R-NE) Nebraska $15,786
Riegle, Donald W Jr (D-MI) Michigan $2,500
Risch, James E (R-ID) Idaho $52,925
Robb, Charles S (D-VA) Virginia $34,847
Roberts, Pat (R-KS) Kansas $321,228
Rochester, Lisa Blunt (D-DE) Delaware $254,164
Rockefeller, Jay (D-WV) West Virginia $109,450
Romney, Mitt (R-UT) Utah $1,079,285
Rosen, Jacky (D-NV) Nevada $208,847
Roth, William V Jr (R-DE) Delaware $138,725
Rounds, Mike (R-SD) South Dakota $56,345
Rudman, Warren B (R-NH) New Hampshire $2,000

Salazar, Ken (D-CO) Colorado $38,000
Sanders, Bernie (I-VT) Vermont $603,406
Sanford, James Terry (D-NC) North Carolina $37,250

Santorum, Rick (R) $442,995

Sarbanes, Paul S (D-MD) Maryland $11,000
Sasse, Ben (R-NE) Nebraska $90,340
Sasser, Jim (D-TN) Tennessee $2,250
Schmitt, Eric (R-MO) Missouri $44,920
Schumer, Charles E (D-NY) New York $761,406

Scott, Tim (R-SC) South Carolina $477,571

Sessions, Jeff (R-AL) Alabama $137,555
Seymour, John F (R-CA) California $18,550
Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH) New Hampshire $85,768
Sheehy, Tim (R-MT) Montana $26,219
Shelby, Richard C (R-AL) Alabama $130,715
Sinema, Kyrsten (I-AZ) Arizona $270,451
Slotkin, Elissa (D-MI) Michigan $45,040
Smith, Bob (R-NH) New Hampshire $28,750
Smith, Gordon H (R-OR) Oregon $208,184
Smith, Tina (D-MN) Minnesota $13,271
Snowe, Olympia (R-ME) Maine $105,626
Specter, Arlen (D-PA) Pennsylvania $772,829
Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI) Michigan $116,645
Stevens, Ted (R-AK) Alaska $68,850
Strange, Luther (R-AL) Alabama $23,000
Sununu, John E (R-NH) New Hampshire $179,548
Symms, Steven D (R-ID) Idaho $13,933

Talent, James M (R-MO) Missouri $159,600
Tester, Jon (D-MT) Montana $471,237
Thompson, Fred (R) $92,389
Thune, John (R-SD) South Dakota $352,160
Toomey, Pat (R-PA) Pennsylvania $384,068
Torricelli, Robert G (D-NJ) New Jersey $280,903
Tuberville, Tommy (R-AL) Alabama $14,430

Vance, J D (R-OH) Ohio $8,795
Vitter, David (R-LA) Louisiana $32,000
Voinovich, George V (R-OH) Ohio $100,000

Warner, John W (R-VA) Virginia $72,120
Warner, Mark (D-VA) Virginia $332,106
Warnock, Raphael (D-GA) Georgia $511,268
Warren, Elizabeth (D-MA) Massachusetts $406,727
Webb, Jim (D) $13,550
Welch, Peter (D-VT) Vermont $61,068
Wellstone, Paul (D-MN) Minnesota $3,250
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI) Rhode Island $96,948
Wicker, Roger (R-MS) Mississippi $145,619
Wilson, Pete (R) $32,500
Wirth, Timothy E (D-CO) Colorado $1,750
Wofford, Harris (D-PA) Pennsylvania $25,750
Wyden, Ron (D-OR) Oregon $370,422

Udall, Tom (D-NM) New Mexico $58,560

Van Hollen, Chris (D-MD) Maryland $167,254

Alec Salmond warns Scots of more of Swinney’s treachery

Alex launched a brutal broadside against Swinney as he accused him of “making independence impossible” in this General Election. And he also claimed that the First Minister was “reprising” his failed 2003 Holyrood campaign where he lost eight seats.

Alec was reacting to an interview Swinney did with ITV News in which he confessed that he would support Devo Max instead of gaining a second independence referendum.

The SNP strategy is to win a majority of the seats at the next General Election and then plead with the Prime Minister to give them the power to hold another vote. but Westminster has already rejected the notion of such an event.

Swinney was asked whether he would support more powers for Holyrood instead of a referendum, and admitted he would.

He said: “I have never, my record says that I have never resisted strengthening of the powers of the Scottish Parliament. I was part of the Smith Commission which brought more power, the very tax powers that you’ve asked me about, came from the Smith Commission, of which I was a member. So I will always try to build the powers of the Scottish Parliament. I’m a believer in independence, I think independence is the answer for Scotland, but I will always work constructively to strengthen the powers of the Scottish Parliament. The real challenge we face is over the last few years since Brexit the powers of the Scottish Parliament have been eroded by the UK Government.”

He was asked if he wanted to see these extra powers being offered in the Labour manifesto and confirmed he did, and wanted Scots to “have the opportunity to decide their own future.” But the interview was highlighted by Alec Salmond as proof that the SNP had given up the push for Scexit.

Alec said: “Now we know why independence is off the SNP ballot paper. These interviews from Swinney are so wrong on so many levels. All experience shows that the ONLY circumstances when Westminster offers more powers for Scotland, is when they are frightened of independence and since the SNP are not campaigning for independence then Labour have no need to concede anything. As Swinney told Nick Robinson, of the BBC, the SNP is campaigning for a ‘democratic effect’ forcing Starmer to permit a referendum to which he already knows the answer is “no”.

A timely reminder

In 2003, Swinney led the SNP to a calamatous result in the Holyrood election, losing eight seats and seeing the vote share drop by 4.9% which was the beginning of the end for his reign as he was forced to resign after another bad showing in the European Parliament elections and was replaced by Mr Salmond. Luddite as he is Swinney is destined to repeat his mistakes condemnimg Scots to many more years of Westminster abuse. Thank you Mr Swinney.

Summarised from an article written by the political correspondent David Walker,

Ask most people about Zionism and they will say “that’s the Jews”, but while this is the impression the Rothschild networks in politics and the media have sought very successfully to “sell” as “common knowledge”, it is not true.

It represents only a minority of them and many others who are not Jewish.

Rothschild Zionism in its public expression is a political ideology based on a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine and a belief that the Jews are God’s ‘chosen race’ with a God-given right to the ‘promised land’ of Israel.

They also believe that the real borders of Israel must encompass what is now Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank still officially occupied by the Palestinians, plus Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Jordan, or, as Genesis puts it: “… from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates”.

That’s the public expression of Zionism, but at its inner core, it is a secret society created and controlled by the House of Rothschild.

They have sought to sell the ‘Zionism-means-all-Jewish-people’ lie so that they can condemn as ‘anti-Semites’ and ‘racists’ anyone who exposes the truth about Rothschild Zionism and its agents in government, banking, business, media, military etc.

This is why, (with the exception of one) politicians and political commentators decline to make any negative comments about Israel

Much more here: (https://humansarefree.com/2011/02/everything-about-the-rothschild-zionism.html)

1 Nov 2016: SNP Deputy Leader says Scotland can play a constructive role in the Middle East as he leads official Israel visit

The SNP launched its first official trip to Israel as part of ambitious plans for Scotland to play a role in helping achieve peace in the Middle East.

Angus Robertson led an official delegation to the region, saying he had been “encouraged to explore whether there was any way Scotland could offer help and assistance.”

He added that both the Israeli Ambassador and the Palestinian envoy to the UK welcomed his interest adding that small nations had already shown they could play a positive role, citing the example of the Oslo accords.

It was good to witness the SNP government adopting an enlightened view of politics in the middle east. It deserved praise.

Scottish Jews should step up and get involved in Scottish politics After all they fought and died for the right to be counted in

Scottish Jews should be encouraged to fully participate in the struggle for independence and when achieved the development of an independent Scotland free of any racist policies or activities.

Scotland has a proud record of welcoming immigrants of all nationalities. It is the only country in Europe that has never forced Jews to leave. The Declaration of Arbroath States “There is neither weighing nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman.”

Scottish Jews: France 1917

Many of these young men never made it home and are buried in the fields of Flanders. There is one distinguishing factor linking these brave soldiers. They were all Jews.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/judaism-in-scotland-powerpoint-cfe-rme-19

Why are the voices of Jews not heard In Scotland

The lack of any Jewish contribution to the independence debate and subsequent referendum, over the future of Scotland was a cause for concern.

While not huge in number in Scotland the Jewish community is, (and has been for many centuries) an integral and important part of Scottish society. It was crucial for them to be involved in mainstream Scottish politics so that their voices would be heard.

A “Friends of Israel” group should be set up within Holyrood so that voices of moderation can be heard. The people of Scotland fully support the State of Israel and it’s right to exist, in peace with it’s neighbours.

But Scotland also supports the Palestinians and their right to exist also as a country, at peace with its neighbours. The Scottish public, (and I include Scottish Jews) do not condone the aggression of the “Rothschild Zionist” government of Israel and it’s the pursuit of policies directed against the Palestinians.

“Might is not right”.

Scottish Jews march with Palestine supporters for a just peace

The Jewish Chronicle published an article penned by a Scottish Jew and I added it to this blog

Why I want Scottish Independence By Frank Angell

I am a Scottish Jew — and I am wholeheartedly voting Yes on September 18, and so are others of my acquaintance. Scotland’s strength is the diversity of the many cultures and faiths that thrive in our communities. Each culture brings with its values, ideas and innovations that enrich our arts, our language and our lives. It is fewer than 200 years since Jews first came to Scotland in significant numbers. Since then, Jewish workers and entrepreneurs have helped to grow Scotland’s economy, while Jewish writers, artists and performers have contributed to our culture. Our community may be a relatively small one, but we have been shown every courtesy and respect by First Minister Alex Salmond and his team of ministers since they came to office in 2007. Indeed, one of Mr Salmond’s early acts as First Minister was to visit Scotland’s only Jewish school at the start of Chanukah and to meet representatives from the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities. In 2009, the Jewish community was, rightly, included in the first meeting to take place between the Scottish government cabinet and faith group leaders in Scotland. And I was proud when the SNP government became the first administration in Scotland to directly fund visits by school children to Auschwitz-Birkenau, under the Lessons from Auschwitz Project run by the Holocaust Educational Trust — with an additional £500,000 funding announced just last year to secure the future of this vital project. These are just some examples of the interaction that takes place between Jewish representatives and the Scottish government, with positive outcomes on virtually every occasion. I would hazard that it is a rather closer relationship with the leading ministers in Scotland than our fellow Jews south of the border enjoy with Westminster — and one which is replicated by other communities and interest groups in Scotland, whether that be other faiths, business organisations, trade unions, and so on. I do not claim that Scotland is perfect, with no problems of intolerance or prejudice. But our history is at least unstained by anti-Jewish discrimination, rare among European nations, and our 14th-century independence Declaration of Arbroath contains the statement:

“There is neither weighing nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman.”

These are ancient words, but they still seem a fine sentiment to usher in a new Scotland in the 21st century. As we look forward to the referendum, there is a wave of optimism, and people across Scotland are realising that we now have a chance to make our country better for all who live here and reshape the way we are regarded by the rest of the world. I want independence, and I also want the common ground across all the strands that make up our Scottish tartan to be the foundation for the new Scotland. I want Scotland to embrace the future as an independent country — and I believe that we will do so with conviction and tolerance.

(http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/117792/why-i-want-scottish-independence)

The Glasgow Jewish Lads Brigade

 The 2014 Independence Referendum and – Mrs Mundy a charity worker from Edinburgh.

She was undecided on which way to vote when interviewed a year ago. But with less than a week to go, she decided to tick the yes box. She said:

“I do prefer the devo-max option and it’s interesting but disappointing that Westminster and the media offered us that at the last minute but I’ll not change my vote now, adding. I think Westminster politicians did not take the needs of the Scottish people seriously and now they are panicking. I am not sure what Scotland’s foreign policy will be towards Israel but Scottish Jews will have a much closer connection to its politicians and greater influence than is the case at the present time.”

Scottish Jew, Frank Angell, A former Scottish National Party council nominee, said:

“The anti-Israel feeling in Scotland does worry me but not as far as independence is concerned. It hasn’t been any better in England and although the Scottish Parliament is currently not pro-Israel, policies change. But we need strong convictions in taking the case for Israel to the wider community in Scotland and I’m not currently seeing that.”

Coronavirus – A Safe Vaccine ??

Drug manufacturers and regulators have been under intense political pressure from Governments to deliver a safe vaccine. AstraZeneca reported it expected to be able to introduce a coronavirus vaccine with a success rate of 90%-10% before Christmas 2020, but the announcement was premature.

Shortly after the announcement, US (Food and Drug Administration) regulators, (FDA) stopped trials so it could conduct a probe into an adverse event reported in the UK involving a patient on a trial of the vaccine who fell ill with unexplained neurological symptoms, previously believed to be consistent with transverse myelitis.

At that time the regulation of vaccines, which are technically biologics, fell to the remit of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which supported the American initiative. But Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, announced that the UK would bypass the EMA’s regulatory regime and grant a production and distribution license to AstraZeneca enabling the roll-out of a vaccination programme in the UK, from December 2020. Take a look at the AstraZeneca share price below:

The EMA Rolling Review Procedure

At the beginning of October 2020, the EMA started the first ‘rolling review’ of the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with the University of Oxford. This meant that the committee had started evaluating the first batch of non-clinical data on the vaccine.  It did not mean that a conclusion would be reached on the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness, since much of the evidence had not yet been submitted.

The rolling review programme is a regulatory tool that the EMA used to speed up the assessment of a promising medicine or vaccine during a public health emergency. Normally, all data on a medicine’s effectiveness, safety, and quality, and all required documents must be submitted at the start of the evaluation in a formal application for marketing authorization.

Buy in the case of a rolling review, EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) reviewed data as it became available from ongoing studies. When the CHMP decided that sufficient data was available, the formal application would be submitted by the company. In reviewing the data as it became available, the CHMP would reach an opinion sooner on whether or not the medicine or vaccine would be authorized.

There were at least 64 companies worldwide involved in the research and production of a safe vaccine and many are nearing production. So it was expected that a number of vaccines, perhaps safer and more efficacious would be available to the market in the early months of 2021.

Time will be the judge that will decide if the UK Governments’ decision is right.

(https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-starts-first-rolling-review-covid-19-vaccine-eu)

2 June 2014: Just let me ask the wife!!! says Civil Servant and UK Tory Government Cabinet Secretary

Sir Jeremy Heywood advised the Prime Minister to prevent a takeover bid from Pfizer for its British rival AstraZeneca.

And just as it happened that Heywood’s wife (who worked for McKinney’s) had only just recently written a report, circulated to Tory politicians, advising pharmaceutical firms to restructure, including mergers with rivals, ‘to navigate turbulent times’. What did she know that other’s didn’t?

The Pfizer bid was subsequently withdrawn. Heywood and his wife’s role’s needed to be independently investigated. But that didn’t happen.

Brexit Uncertainty

AstraZeneca, headquartered in Cambridge UK,  is the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceutical company. It is on record as saying that a hard Brexit would mean moving some of its operations away from the UK.

An company spokesman said that moving manufacturing takes several years but the likelihood of the company relocating to the EU is high, in the event of a hard Brexit and the company had taken the first steps in planning for a scenario in which no divorce deal is reached between the UK and the EU by the 31 December 2020 deadline.

Yousaf’s links to Hamas – Holyrood Meeting With Former Hamas Leader

In 2008, Yousaf, then a parliamentary assistant to MSP Bashir Ahmad and his cousin Osama Saeed, arranged a meeting between Linda Fabiani the Scottish Culture and External Affairs Secretary and former *senior Hamas commander Mohammad Sawalha (described by BBC Panorama as the mastermind behind much of Hamas’ political and military strategy) who was accompanied by two other Hamas supporting activists, Anas Altikriti and Ismail Patel.

Iraqi-born Altikriti frequently voiced support for Hamas, saying it was “fighting back” against Israeli occupation. Patel, who founded the Midlands-based Friends of Al-Aqsa said: “The current political map of Palestine… will have to include Hamas and Fatah amongst other political groups. Hamas is a resistance movement against colonial oppression and the backbone of Palestinian resistance.

Soon after the meeting Yousaf and Saeed established an Islamic lobbying group, The Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF). Its first chief executive was Saeed who had previously expressed support for Islamists including Anwar al-Awlaki, the extremist preacher who inspired numerous Muslim terrorists, but who, he said, “preached nothing but peace.”

The SIF was awarded £405,000 in grants from the SNP government and announced the country’s biggest ever celebration of Islamic culture in Glasgow for June 2009.

But the project collapsed and SIF was forced to repay £128,000 of the taxpayer funds it had received, with £72,000 already spent. Yousaf was also a director of SIF Ltd between May 2008 and September 2009.

Afternote: SIF was wound up after spending several hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money with almost nothing to show for it and with large sums unaccounted for. Humza Yousaf’s aunt and mother were employed by the charity which was placed on a watch list after being described as an entry-level group for Islamists.

Financial Aid to the Hamas-Ruled Gaza Strip

*Sawalha was Hamas’ West Bank military chief before being appointed to its political leadership. He reportedly fled the Gaza Strip in 1990 after being placed on a wanted list by Israel. Hamas had at the time been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US, but the UK did not follow suit until 2021.

Sawalha attended the meeting at Holyrood as a representative of Islam Expo, which was funded by a £2 million grant from Qatar and held in London in 2006 and 2008.

The Expos, run by Sawalha, included an appearance by Sheikh Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a Pakistani politician who praised the Taliban as “just and honourable men.”

Lord Carlisle, a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said: “Yousaf must address the circumstances in which he judged it appropriate to have close contact with Hamas supporters.

The international community has sent billions of dollars in aid to the Gaza Strip in recent years to provide relief to the more than 2 million Palestinians living in the isolated, Hamas-ruled territory.

The aid is intended to ease the burden on civilians of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007.

Israel says the heavy restrictions on trade and movement are needed to keep Hamas from enhancing its military capability, while critics view it as a form of collective punishment. Israel and Hamas have fought five wars since 2008, the most recent in 2023.

Israel closely supervises aid to try to ensure it bypasses Hamas. But the Hamas-run government benefits from foreign countries footing the bill for schools, hospitals and infrastructure, allowing it to conserve its resources, including the taxes and customs it collects.

Scottish Financial Aid to the UN’s Gaza Appeal:

Yousaf pledged to donate $1 million as Scotland’s humanitarian funding to the UN’s Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) appeal.

Sturgeon claimed to be a progressive individual focussed on delivering good things for Scots through the outwardly appealing but internally dictatorial corporate lobby.

But in the wacky world of the Scottish National Party the interests and concerns of the many are subsumed by the financial rewards for those who are willingly supplicant to the demands of the party leadership.

Scotland’s National Investment Bank

Set up by Sturgeon to make strategic investments for the common good of the people of Scotland it morphed into a tool for corporate business to capitalise on.

Travelnest Ltd, received £3 million in start-up funding, with more finance promised. The company specialised in providing infrastructure for the rapidly growing number of holiday homeowners enabling them to list and rent their properties.

Comment: Encouraging the uncontrolled market expansion of 2nd and 3rd home purchases in Scotland’s rural areas by primarily English residents can be likened to providing billets for 20,000 English soldiers who through claim of residence are extended the privilege of a vote in Scottish elections. Kiss any successful independence referendum goodbye!!!

Take a look at some of the other corporate networks involved:

The Chair of SNIB is Willie Watt. Watt is an Advisory Board Member of Scottish Equity Partners, a private sector Glasgow-based investment consortia which is already investing in projects into which SNIB is investing.

Carolyn Jamieson is a Non Executive Director of the Scottish National Investment Bank and is also an Advisory Board Member of Scottish Equity Partners.

She is formerly Chief Legal Officer at Skyscanner. Interestingly the new “Chief Entrepreneur” is also formerly a top executive at Skyscanner. Small world.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/20264445.skyscanner-executive-appointed-chief-entrepreneur-role/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18845028.big-hitters-join-new-investment-bank/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=DEC401667&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.ipso-facto.biz/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09141571/officers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

In 2021 Kate Forbes set up something called the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review.

It was outsourced and led by Mark Logan.

A contract valued at £100,000 went to a private business called Ipso Facto Ltd.

Mark Logan is the co-founder of Ipso Facto. He is also a director of, (drum roll) Travelnest Ltd.

https://www.gov.scot/news/accelerating-scotlands-tech-led-recovery/

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=DEC401667&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

All of the foregoing fits neatly into a climate of patronage set up around the leadership of the Scottish Government sprawling beyond the corporate sector and into wider parts of public life.

The Chair of the Economic Recovery Group, is also the Chair of Buccleuch Estates and is also Chair of the National Galleries of Scotland board, alongside Andrew Wilson of Charlotte Street Partners who is also the author of the Growth Commission, alongside Willie Watt who is also the inaugural chair of the Scottish National Investment bank.

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Sturgeon founded National Investment Bank is in deep financial trouble: Its closure will cost the Scottish taxpayer’s billion of pounds

The bank has struggled to make a profit despite having £2bn of public funding ring-fenced for it. It made a £14.6m pre-tax loss in 2023/24. Its latest accounts were published on Wednesday and showed that some of its investments had plummeted in value, meaning that they were worth less and led to the loss of £58.4m. The value of its portfolio slid by a hefty £77m as its decisions to plough money into some Scottish companies turned sour.

Scottish taxpayers stung again as Sturgeon’s founded investment bank faces a significant financial loss as a company it backed goes bust

The struggling bank founded by Nicola Sturgeon to fund up-and-coming entrepreneurs and businesses faces yet another huge taxpayer-funded loss as M Squared Lasers goes bust owing the public purse £34m.

The Glasgow technology company, founded by Graeme Malcolm and Gareth Maker has run out of cash and ceased trading in the latest embarrassment for the flagship SNP project. 28 staff are being made redundant.

The bank has written off financial losses by:

Krucial, a satellite and digital technology specialist which closed after netting £2.9m of public cash.

Circularity Scotland, formed by Green Party minister Lorna Slater to run the Scottish Government’s doomed deposit return scheme which folded in 2023, with a loss of £9m. The Scottish Government are facing a multi million pound lawsuit from suppliers to the now closed venture

By Prof Christopher Andrew

For many historians, the highlight of the latest MI5 declassification at the National Archives will be the multi-volume files on two of the world’s leading Communist historians, both British: Christopher Hill and Eric Hobsbawm. Christopher Hill’s file, which begins at KV2/3941, shows that he first came to MI5’s attention when he visited Russia in 1935 while an undergraduate at Oxford University. He returned to Russia in 1936 and joined the Communist Party. After WW2 MI5 considered Hill, then a Fellow (and later Master) of Balliol College as Q ‘one of the leading Communists at Oxford University’. In 1951 it applied successfully for a Home Office Warrant (HOW) to intercept Hill’s correspondence and telephone calls in the belief that this would increase MI5’s ‘knowledge of Communism and the Universities’ in general as well as of Hill’s own activities. The product of the HOW adds to our understanding of, for example, Hill’s decision to leave the Party in 1957 in protest against the leadership’s attempt to suppress criticism of the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Rising in 1956. The Party leader, John Gollan, was overhead saying that Q ‘out of those who had left, he would not have done much to dissuade any of them, except Christopher Hill’. Hill wrote to Communist Party HQ in an intercepted letter which is on his file: ‘We have been living for too long in a world of illusions. It was a smug, cosy little world…’

Unlike Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, whose file begins at KV2/3980, remained a Party member after the Hungarian Rising, though he fell out with some Party hardliners. The veteran hardliner D N Pritt was overheard complaining angrily to Gollan about Q ‘that nasty piece of work, Eric Hobsbawm’. Other senior Party figures were annoyed to discover that he was writing for the Daily Mail and other non-Communist publications under the pen-name ‘Francis Newton’. Hobsbawm, however, continued to encourage young people to join the Communist Party. In the last volume of his file to be released, which goes up to 1963, he’s reported, for example, as congratulating the West Middlesex Young Communist League on what he called the ‘encouraging results’ of its recruiting drive. The files also contain copies of Hobsbawm’s Party membership cards for the early 1960s, as well as intercepted correspondence and transcripts of telephone calls.

The MI5 files which attracted most media interest in the last declassification earlier this year were those on WW2 deception operations by an MI5 officer using the alias ‘Jack King’, who posed as a secret Gestapo representative in wartime Britain, a subterfuge that enabled him to identify British Nazi sympathisers. Some of the pro-Nazis even passed him secret information, including details of research into the jet engine, in the mistaken belief that he would pass it to Germany. Files in the latest release, beginning at KV2/3873, reveal for the first time that ‘King”s true identity was Eric Roberts. His file includes transcripts of conversations with Nazi sympathisers who suggested ways to damage the British war effort and assist a German invasion.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250508111256/https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/security-service-file-release-october-2014/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm#:~:text=Hobsbawm%20was%20born%20in%20Alexandria,at%20the%20University%20of%20Cambridge.

People of Influence Whom You hardly Know – The Julia Hobsbawn – Sarah Macaulay (Brown) Partnership And Other Events of Interest

What is BlackRock? It is one of the largest vulture funds ever to gain control, by stealth of the financial affairs of entire countries and the people that live there. Its mode of operation is to buy up the debt of troubled organisations/companies and in doing so establish absolute control over the resources and land of nations. Any profits gathered to the pot are transferred to the many transnational companies who invest in BlackRock. The name of the game is profit which is largely achieved through the ruthless pruning of labour costs and the evasion of taxes through the use of a maze of subsiduary companies headquartered in offshore locations. Those who monitor the activities of hedge funds such as BlackRock need only to reflect on past/present turmoil in Ukraine, Greece, Nigeria, Congo, Argentina, Ecuador,, Panama, Peru, Indonesia and many other countries.

Who runs the USA government? Those who thought that Obama and Biden ran the country are deluded. BlackRock pulled all the strings!!

Larry Fink’s BlackRock dicatated the foreign and financial policies of President Obama’s and Biden’s governments. To achieve this he placed his investment executive Brian Deese in government to lead the National Economic Council, (NEC) effectively serving as the top economic advisor to Obama and Biden. Fink also added his former chief of staff, chief executive and longtime Democrat, Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, to serve as one of the top official’s at the US Treasury Department.

And the UK is in BlackRock’s sights. Starmer, a devotee of Obama and Fink has had recent meetings with both of them discussing the expansion of “Freeports” and similar ventures which will remove the power of the voting public forever. No more unncessary elections to Westminster. BlackRock will appoint them. But faced with reality many voters chose to act like fools.

Contrast the as yet undisclosed agenda for the future of the UK; with Norway which nationalised oil and gas exploration and its production and refinement ensuring the control of all profits remained with the electorate. and Poland which introduced control measures, against the wishes of the EEC ensuring 90+ % of land would be owned in perpetuity by Poles.

Mark Twain said; ‘it’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled’

BlackRock: The Secretive Company that owns the World, Hakluyt & Starmer have Scotland in their sights

David Cameron – Selected For High Office in Government by a Cartel of Financial Backers – A Closer Look at His Family Background and Rise to the Top of Society

David Cameron & Jewish Zionists – What’s Not to Like?

It’s a new era for the World Economic Forum, and I feel that it neatly bridges past and future.

Today, the Forum’s board of trustees announced that André Hoffmann and Larry Fink take over as interim Chairs of the organization, following the departure of Klaus Schwab.

With that decision, the Forum is turning a page, and entering a new era, in which building bridges on the global stage is obviously harder, but as needed as ever.

I’m excited about their chairmanship, and I think those who wish the Forum well should be too. Why?

Andre and Larry bridge the past and the future of both the organization and the world economy.

First, they are both long time trustees and stewards of the Forum Spirit and its vision. There’s a clear choice for continuity in their appointment.

Before ESG became political plutonium, Fink endorsed it and included it in his leadership agenda. It’s something he talked to me about for “Stakeholder Capitalism”. If he later changed tack, it was arguably for good reason: shareholder democracy and stakeholder capitalism require business leaders to listen to their stakeholders.

As for Andre, his holistic approach to capitalism, including social, environmental, human, and financial capital, is a blue print of how capitalism could and should evolve going forward (I’m so convinced to have co-authored a book on the subject with him).

They also bridge the US and Europe, and their differing approaches to capitalism and democracy.

Andre is a true Swiss, and that’s what the Forum’s HQ needs. The Forum was always global in its reach, and inspired by the American way from the get go, but it is and remains Swiss and European in its DNA. For the organization to thrive in a changing world order, it needs a Swiss steward at the top.

Yet similarly, the organization cannot retreat to the old continent. The US economy is more vibrant and dynamic, and its political power is at a 21st century high. As such, you need an American at the helm, and few American business leaders are as influential as Fink.

There is much left to say still about the past and ongoing changes at the Forum. I am among many who have questions still. But for now, I couldn’t think of better news than this. Best of luck to them and to Børge Brende and the entire Forum leadership and team.

https://lnkd.in/e3xXiNkY

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-vanham-9602ba6_statement-from-interim-co-chairs-of-the-world-activity-7362188105304473601-pHFY/

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/independent-review-political-violence-and-disruption/outcome/protecting-our-democracy-from-coercion-accessible–4