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UK Deployed 31 Nuclear Weapons During Falklands War
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/05/73354/
INTRO: The revelation is contained in a new file released to the National Archives. Marked “Top Secret Atomic,” it shows that the presence of the nuclear weapons caused panic among officials in London when they realized the damage, both physical and political, they could have caused.
The military regime in Argentina claimed the Falkland islands and invaded on April 2, 1982. The U.K. government under Margaret Thatcher dispatched a naval task force to the South Atlantic to retake the islands. [Falklands War]
A Ministry of Defence (MoD) minute, dated April 6, 1982, referred to “huge concern” that some of the “nuclear depth bombs” could be “lost or damaged and the fact become public.” The minute added: “The international repercussions of such an incident could be very damaging.”
Nuclear depth bombs are deployed from navy ships to attack submerged submarines.
The unidentified official who wrote the minute continued: “The secretary of state [John Nott] will wish to continue the long-established practice of refusing to comment on the presence or absence of UK nuclear weapons at any given location at any particular time.” (MORE - details)
(UK) ‘Entirely predictable’ NHS staff crisis risks derailing efforts to tackle 5.8 million patient backlog
https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment...t-backlog/
INTRO: The government’s attempts to deal with a record 5.8 million patients on NHS waiting lists risk being derailed by the crisis in emergency care, a damning report by MPs has declared. Members of the Health and Social Care Committee found staff shortages are the greatest issue faced by the NHS, and without addressing the problem, the health service will not be able to clear the backlog of patients caused by the pandemic.
The report comes as the NHS faces it’s ‘busiest week’ of the year amid a staffing crisis caused by Covid.
Health and Social Care Committee chair Jeremy Hunt said: “The NHS faces an unquantifiable challenge in tackling a backlog of cases caused by the pandemic, with 5.8 million patients waiting for planned care and estimates that the figure could double by 2025.
“However, our report finds the government’s recovery plans risk being thrown off course by an entirely predictable staffing crisis. The current wave of Omicron is exacerbating the problem, but we already had a serious staffing crisis, with a burnt-out workforce, 93,000 NHS vacancies and no sign of any plan to address this.
“Far from tackling the backlog, the NHS will be able to deliver little more than day to day firefighting unless the government wakes up to the scale of the staffing crisis facing the NHS, and urgently develops a long-term plan to fix the issue.”
(MORE - details)
(UK) As noose tightens on Prince Andrew, his defense hangs on these legal tricks
https://nypost.com/2022/01/05/prince-and...al-tricks/
INTRO: Prince Andrew doesn’t sweat, and as a member of the British royal family, he doesn’t usually hug either.
Those were just two of the bizarre excuses the Duke of York gave when he tried to deny allegations he had ever met or had intercourse with a teenage sex slave recruited by his friends, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than two decades ago.
Now, as a Manhattan federal court judge appears poised to allow a civil lawsuit from accuser Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) to move forward against the British royal, his denials will likely get him nowhere.
Prince Andrew claimed he had never met Giuffre despite a photograph showing the British royal with his arm around the waist of the then-17-year-old at Maxwell’s London home in 2001. In a “car crash” interview with the BBC in Nov. 2019, Andrew suggested that the photograph was not really a true likeness.
“It’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph. Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored,” he said, adding that “I am not one to, um, as it were, hug.”
He also claimed he couldn’t have had sex with Giuffre because she said he was “dripping with sweat” the night they danced at Tramp night club before the tryst. The reason? “I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falkland’s War when I was shot at,” he said in the BBC interview.
He has also claimed he was with one of his daughters on the night of the tryst, having taken her to a Pizza Express restaurant, followed by an early night at home. But in 2020, witness Shukri Walker came forward and said she remembered Andrew being at the club that night, because at one point she apologized for stepping on his foot.
Now, as Andrew’s stories appear increasingly ridiculous, his lawyers are relying on legal technicalities to get him off, should the case go ahead... (MORE - details)
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/05/73354/
INTRO: The revelation is contained in a new file released to the National Archives. Marked “Top Secret Atomic,” it shows that the presence of the nuclear weapons caused panic among officials in London when they realized the damage, both physical and political, they could have caused.
The military regime in Argentina claimed the Falkland islands and invaded on April 2, 1982. The U.K. government under Margaret Thatcher dispatched a naval task force to the South Atlantic to retake the islands. [Falklands War]
A Ministry of Defence (MoD) minute, dated April 6, 1982, referred to “huge concern” that some of the “nuclear depth bombs” could be “lost or damaged and the fact become public.” The minute added: “The international repercussions of such an incident could be very damaging.”
Nuclear depth bombs are deployed from navy ships to attack submerged submarines.
The unidentified official who wrote the minute continued: “The secretary of state [John Nott] will wish to continue the long-established practice of refusing to comment on the presence or absence of UK nuclear weapons at any given location at any particular time.” (MORE - details)
(UK) ‘Entirely predictable’ NHS staff crisis risks derailing efforts to tackle 5.8 million patient backlog
https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment...t-backlog/
INTRO: The government’s attempts to deal with a record 5.8 million patients on NHS waiting lists risk being derailed by the crisis in emergency care, a damning report by MPs has declared. Members of the Health and Social Care Committee found staff shortages are the greatest issue faced by the NHS, and without addressing the problem, the health service will not be able to clear the backlog of patients caused by the pandemic.
The report comes as the NHS faces it’s ‘busiest week’ of the year amid a staffing crisis caused by Covid.
Health and Social Care Committee chair Jeremy Hunt said: “The NHS faces an unquantifiable challenge in tackling a backlog of cases caused by the pandemic, with 5.8 million patients waiting for planned care and estimates that the figure could double by 2025.
“However, our report finds the government’s recovery plans risk being thrown off course by an entirely predictable staffing crisis. The current wave of Omicron is exacerbating the problem, but we already had a serious staffing crisis, with a burnt-out workforce, 93,000 NHS vacancies and no sign of any plan to address this.
“Far from tackling the backlog, the NHS will be able to deliver little more than day to day firefighting unless the government wakes up to the scale of the staffing crisis facing the NHS, and urgently develops a long-term plan to fix the issue.”
(MORE - details)
(UK) As noose tightens on Prince Andrew, his defense hangs on these legal tricks
https://nypost.com/2022/01/05/prince-and...al-tricks/
INTRO: Prince Andrew doesn’t sweat, and as a member of the British royal family, he doesn’t usually hug either.
Those were just two of the bizarre excuses the Duke of York gave when he tried to deny allegations he had ever met or had intercourse with a teenage sex slave recruited by his friends, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than two decades ago.
Now, as a Manhattan federal court judge appears poised to allow a civil lawsuit from accuser Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) to move forward against the British royal, his denials will likely get him nowhere.
Prince Andrew claimed he had never met Giuffre despite a photograph showing the British royal with his arm around the waist of the then-17-year-old at Maxwell’s London home in 2001. In a “car crash” interview with the BBC in Nov. 2019, Andrew suggested that the photograph was not really a true likeness.
“It’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph. Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored,” he said, adding that “I am not one to, um, as it were, hug.”
He also claimed he couldn’t have had sex with Giuffre because she said he was “dripping with sweat” the night they danced at Tramp night club before the tryst. The reason? “I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falkland’s War when I was shot at,” he said in the BBC interview.
He has also claimed he was with one of his daughters on the night of the tryst, having taken her to a Pizza Express restaurant, followed by an early night at home. But in 2020, witness Shukri Walker came forward and said she remembered Andrew being at the club that night, because at one point she apologized for stepping on his foot.
Now, as Andrew’s stories appear increasingly ridiculous, his lawyers are relying on legal technicalities to get him off, should the case go ahead... (MORE - details)