Covid-19 UK: AstraZeneca patients swamp A&E departments after suffering mild side effects

Emergency departments are being swamped by patients who have had the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and are suffering mild side effects. Doctors have reported an increase of patients claiming to be suffering from the jab in the wake of concerns around blood clots raised earlier this week. People saying they are suffering ‘mild headaches’ after having … Read more

Diplomats draft ‘formal dissent cable’  expressing anger at State Department’s near silence

US diplomats condemn Trump for inciting deadly violence at the Capitol and call for administration to support 25th Amendment to remove him from office in official ‘dissent’ cable Dozens of State Department officials are filing a formal dissent in a cable directed at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo  There is anger over the Department’s lack … Read more

Patients will be asked to call NHS 111 to book an appointment at hospital A&E departments

Patients will be asked to call NHS 111 to BOOK an appointment at hospital A&E departments to stop health service becoming overwhelmed this winter NHS 111 will become the ‘front door’ to A&E to stop the NHS being overwhelmed Patients will be asked to call and book unless it is a life or death emergency     … Read more

Whitehall departments are ‘ghost towns’ with civil servants working from home

Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are still working from home two weeks after Boris Johnson urged workers to get back to the office to help save the economy. Ministerial departments in Whitehall are said to be ‘ghost towns’ with some seeing just 2 per cent of staff arriving at work this week, according to … Read more

‘BlueLeaks’ data dump exposes files from over 200 police departments and FBI groups online

A data dump called ‘BlueLeaks’ exposed hundreds of thousands of sensitive files from US police and FBI departments online. A Twitter users revealed the leak on the social media site saying it includes ten years of data from over 200 departments, along with sensitive documents and FBI reports. Security experts traced the files back to … Read more

Justice Department’s attempt to block John Bolton’s tell-all book is DENIED 

The Justice Department’s attempt to block the release of John Bolton’s tell-all book has been denied by a federal judge who said ‘the damage is done’ after 200,000 copies have already been circulated around the US.  Judge Royce Lamberth denied the request to block the sale of the former national security adviser’s memoir, ‘The Room … Read more

Surveillance firm pitched US police departments on a remote phone hacking tool

Surveillance firm pitched US police on a remote phone hacking tool that would let them access a person’s text messages, emails, microphone, camera, and more Leaked emails show the San Diego police considered using a phone hacking tool The tool was developed by the US subsidiary of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO The hacking tool … Read more