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Peak 'Virtue Signalling': In-Person Doctor Visits Reduced in Glasgow to Clear Traffic for COP26 Climate Summit

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A National Health Service (NHS) board has been accused of virtue signalling at the cost of lives as health chiefs reduced in-person doctor appointments in order to cut traffic during the upcoming United Nations COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow.

Next Sunday, leaders from around the world will fly on jets to Scotland to hold a summit on alleged man-made climate change. To help facilitate the meeting, local NHS bosses have told some patients they will need to sacrifice seeing their doctors in person to free up the roads for the incoming globalists.

While the devolved government in Scotland has determined that the Chinese coronavirus is still so dangerous that vaccine passports are required, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has sent letters to patients informing them that their appointments will need to be held virtually during the summit, the Herald Scotland reported.

One such patient, suffering from long-COVID symptoms, told the paper that “a two-week postponement of crucial meetings with specialists will delay many vital diagnostic tests and could have calamitous consequences”.

The patient observed that while patients were being forced to hold their appointments over the phone or by video to reduce traffic, the global leaders “really should have held their meetings virtually”.

In a statement, the NHS for Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: “The Glasgow City transport plan for COP26 requires the city to reduce road traffic substantially ahead of and during the event.

“As part of our contribution to that we have moved face to face appointments to different times and increased virtual appointments. All urgent appointments and those for people with cancer will continue.

“Anyone attending any of our hospitals should plan ahead to avoid disruption.”

The local NHS branch said that all hospitals will remain “open and operational” during the climate summit.

The move to cut in-person appointments was lambasted by Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of The Bow Group, Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, who wrote: “Never mind saving lives, there’s some pointless [and] excruciatingly expensive virtue signalling to be done.”

Scottish Labour’s health and Covid recovery spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, said that the decision was a “recipe for disaster”.

“The last thing Scotland’s thinly-stretched health service needs is more disruption,” she said, adding: “This will come as a fresh blow to patients who have already been languishing on waiting lists for months.”

To make matters worse, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has voted to strike to demand more pay during the climate summit, which will likely bring train services in Scotland to a standstill.

An expected 25,000 people, including delegates, activists, and members of the media, will descend on Glasgow next week.

Some high-profile attendees will include President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British Royal Family. The summit has been branded as the “last chance” to stop the alleged climate crisis and will be a chance for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to debut his Build Back Better vision on a global scale.

The actual effectiveness of the summit has been called into question, however, with Russian President Vladimir Putin declining to attend, opting instead for a possible virtual meeting. Xi Jinping, the dictator at the head of the world’s top polluter, is also unlikely to appear.

Despite concerns over the large-scale event possibly triggering a local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, those attending COP26 will be exempt from the vaccine passport system that has been imposed on the people of Scotland.

Quarantine restrictions will also be eased for some officials arriving from ‘red list’ countries with a high percentage of cases of the Wuhan virus, with fully vaccinated delegates only being required to self-isolate for five days, compared to the normal ten-day period.

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Kelley Paul, wife of Sen. Paul, shuts down CNN host, who called Paul an 'ass,' after explosive new NIH letter released

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Kelley Paul, the wife of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), shut down CNN host Brianna Keilar Friday after the National Institutes of Health seemingly admitted in a new letter the agency did, in fact, fund gain-of-function research at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.

What happened?

After the publication of the NIH letter — which contradicts what Dr. Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins have claimed — Kelley Paul called out Keilar and CBS host Gayle King.

“While Rand has been demanding transparency from Fauci for over a year, lowbrow hacks like @brikeilarcnn responded by calling Rand an a** on air. Giggling @GayleKing fangirled Fauci and ridiculed Rand, ignoring the point of his questions,” Kelley Paul tweeted. “Have any comments now, Gayle and Brianna?”

In a lengthy response, Keilar not only attempted to downplay the significance of the NIH letter, but doubled down on her criticism of Paul. She said:

I stand by my characterization of Sen. Paul and I’ll explain in a moment.

But first, on this letter from NIH, some important points: The virus that was studied in this research, per NIH, could not be the SARS virus that causes COVID-19 any more than Sen. Paul could be a chimpanzee. The theory Paul constructs, that Fauci’s covering up how covid is a man made virus unleashed on the world by the Obama administration because of a NIH research grant awarded in 2014, is not supported by this letter. It’s actually disproven by the information in the letter.

There is alarming new info here though. The NIH says the research by grantee EcoHealth Alliance wasn’t aiming to achieve gain-of-function, but it did. That’s potentially dangerous and so they were supposed to report it. They didn’t until now.

Now to the ass thing. Seeing as Paul is verifiably full of it I do think it’s an apt metaphor.

He claimed NYC had “community immunity” from covid when the immunity level was estimated at a meager 22%.

He told Americans at the height of the pandemic to throw away their masks. Sen. Paul also jeopardized the health of others, visiting the senate gym while awaiting a covid test result that would later turn out positive. And at the height of the pandemic he walked around the senate floor without wearing a mask. He was once very concerned about the pandemic, but not the one that has killed more than 700,000 in the US. The one that killed 1: Ebola. The difference, besides a death toll larger than the size of the population of Denver, was that Ebola happened while a Democrat was president.

Dr. Fauci and American public health officials should answer questions about oversight of this US-funded research. No public official is immune from scrutiny. But Sen. Paul, a bloviator of misinformation, is certainly not the man for that job.

How did Kelley Paul respond?

Clearly, as Keilar’s response demonstrated, the CNN host completely missed Paul’s point, which was that media members should have been asking the questions that Sen. Paul and other lawmakers have been asking of Fauci for months.

In response, Kelley Paul told Keilar to “look in the mirror” when calling others a “bloviator of misinformation.”

“Rand has been the ONLY person asking these questions. Your network certainly wasn’t,” Paul tweeted. “Yet when he did, you resorted to silly name-calling of Rand instead of reporting on the content of his questions or Fauci’s obfuscations. Bloviator of misinformation? Look in the mirror!”


In another tweet, Kelley Paul said that Americans would have learned about the NIH’s apparent gain-of-function research funding sooner if journalists actually did what they are paid to do.

“Americans would have learned of this coverup earlier…if biased ‘journalists’ like @brikeilarcnn hadn’t spent their time attacking and name-calling Rand Paul for asking Fauci legitimate questions,” Paul said, adding the hashtag “#RandPaulWasRight.”

At Least 23 Shot Friday Into Sunday Morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Chicago

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At least 23 people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported at least 23 people were shot during a time-frame beginning Friday and ending at 3:49 a.m. Sunday.

There were three shooting fatalities, the first of which occurred at approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday, when a 35-year-old woman was “shot in the face after her boyfriend’s gun accidentally went off.” The fatal incident occurred at a party “in the 3700-block of South Wood Street.”

The second shooting fatality of the weekend occurred about 10:40 a.m,, when a 31-year-old man “in the 1200-block of West 73rd Street” was shot numerous times. He was rushed to a hospital after being shot, and was pronounced dead.

Chicago police and firefighters salute as the body of slain Chicago police officer Ella French is carried into the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for a funeral service Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Chicago. French was killed and her partner was seriously wounded during an Aug. 7 traffic stop on the city's South Side. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago police and firefighters salute as the body of slain Chicago police officer Ella French is carried into the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for a funeral service Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Chicago. French was killed and her partner was seriously wounded during a traffic stop on the city’s South Side. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

The weekend’s third shooting fatality was discovered around 3:15 a.m. Sunday “in the 4400-block of West Monroe Street.” The victim was a 29-year-old man whom police found lying on the ground with gunshots to the chest.

Breitbart News noted at least 22 people were shot, four fatally, last weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago.

HeyJackass.com pointed out that 42 people have been shot and killed in Chicago thus far in October alone, and another 240 have been shot and wounded.

There have been nearly 660 shooting fatalities in Chicago this year.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at [email protected]. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

Pope Francis Decries Migrant ‘Concentration Camps’ in Libya

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ROME — Pope Francis said Sunday he hears the cries of migrants in Libya and appealed for an end to repatriation and the establishment instead of streamlined migration routes.

“I express my closeness to the thousands of migrants, refugees and others in need of protection in Libya: I never forget you; I hear your cries and pray for you,” the pontiff said following his weekly Angelus prayer in Saint Peter’s Square.

The pope went on to insist that many migrants “are subjected to inhuman violence,” while calling on the international community “to keep its promises to seek common, concrete and lasting solutions for the management of migratory flows in Libya and throughout the Mediterranean.”

“How much suffering for those who are turned away!” he continued. “There are some real concentration camps there.”

The pope summoned nations to stop detaining illegal migrants, urging them instead to offer “dignified living conditions.”

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African migrants gather at a makeshift shelter in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli (AFP)

“We must put an end to the return of migrants to unsafe countries and to give priority to the assistance of human lives at sea with rescue operations and predictable disembarkation,” he said, “to guarantee them dignified living conditions, alternatives to detention, regular migration routes, and access to asylum procedures.”

The pope concluded by appealing to his hearers to “feel responsible for these brothers and sisters of ours, who have been victims of this very serious situation for too many years” and then invited the crowds to offer a silent prayer for the migrants.

Pope Francis has made the care of migrants a hallmark of his 8-year papacy, calling on nations in the West to take in as many as they can.

After being elected pope in 2013, his first papal trip was to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, inundated by the arrival of thousands of illegal migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa.

There he mourned for the illegal migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe, throwing a wreath into the sea in their memory before celebrating an open-air Mass.

Just 80 miles from Tunisia, Lampedusa is one of the nearest gates into Europe for Africans looking for a better life.

U.N. Warns of Global 'Famine, Chaos, Terrorism and… War' if COP26 Climate Summit Fails

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Any failure by the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to deliver an agreement on future trans-national climate controls could plunge the world into chaos, sparking migration crises alongside food shortages, political disorder and war,  the U.N.’s top climate official warned Sunday.

Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, made her bleak prediction ahead of the opening of the convention on November 1.

As some 30,000 people from 197 different countries ready to fly in to the meeting, she warned:

We’re really talking about preserving the stability of countries, preserving the institutions that we have built over so many years, preserving the best goals that our countries have put together.

The catastrophic scenario would indicate that we would have massive flows of displaced people.

The Mexican politician and diplomat then drew a broader, bleaker picture for the planet if attendees fail to heed U.N. warnings. She said the impact would cascade, adding: “It would mean less food, so probably a crisis in food security. It would leave a lot more people vulnerable to terrible situations, terrorist groups and violent groups. It would mean a lot of sources of instability.”

Espinosa told the Observer newspaper in an interview: “It doesn’t only speak to the environmental side. It is also about the whole system we have built. We know what migration crises have provoked in the past. If we were to see that in even higher numbers – not only international migration, but also internal migration – [it would] provoke very serious problems.”

Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, delivers a televised speech during the opening ceremony of the Saudi Green Initiative forum on October 23, 2021, in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)

The leaders of the G20 nations of the world’s largest developed and developing economies will fly into Rome next weekend for two days of preliminary talks, then fly again to Glasgow, to join about 100 other heads of government for the climate gathering.

President Joe Biden will attend the event and 13 members of his cabinet are also flying to Scotland, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has spoken more publicly about the summit than the supply chain crisis in the United States that falls under his purview.

Some key leaders – including Xi Jinping, president of China, now the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin – are unlikely to attend.

Espinosa noted these absences but confidently predicted that would not prevent a successful outcome, adding: “Not all countries are going to be represented at head of state level. I don’t have any information about President Xi’s presence but I continue to engage with the Chinese delegation, and there is very important engagement by China in the process.”

Attendees are however guaranteed to hear a lecture from climate activist Greta Thunberg.

A long list of quarantine exemptions have been put in place to ensure all those flying in will not be required to undertake lengthy isolation on arrival.

“The U.K. and Scottish governments have put in place special arrangements for COP26 recognizing this is a unique event, that must be fully inclusive to achieve the climate outcomes urgently needed,” according to the revised rules.

Espinosa, a former minister in the Mexican government took on the U.N. climate role in 2016. She shares primary responsibility for the talks with Alok Sharma, the UK cabinet minister who will act as president.

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