News Round-Up
- “Everybody (except Ottawa) is declaring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic” – The Federal Government is holding fast to virtually every restriction it has imposed during the pandemic, writes Tristin Hopper in the National Post.
- “As Britain escapes lockdown, China is still stuck” – The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, home to 17 million people, has just locked down, while other cities including Shanghai (26 million people) are also imposing restrictions, the consequences of which won’t just be felt in China but around the world because these are major global hubs for manufacturing and trade, writes Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
- “We got the big calls right on Covid” – Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the Telegraph welcomes the Covid inquiry as a chance to learn vital lessons. Will one of the lessons be that lockdown was an appalling idea?
- “Vaccine Researcher Who Developed Tinnitus After Covid Shot Calls for Further Study” – Dr. Gregory Poland advocates both vaccination and better understanding of possible side effects, reports MedPage Today.
- “The new drug that has shown remarkable results against long Covid” – Berlin heart specialist Johannes Mueller has developed a drug that helps those with auto-antibody illnesses, the Telegraph reports.
- “EDF lined up to keep West Burton A coal power station open” – Extending the plant’s life could reduce Britain’s need for natural gas next winter, although only marginally, the Telegraph reports.
- “Britain’s only black chief constable calls for ‘positive discrimination’ in police forces” – Mike Fuller says police should introduce Northern-Irish style quotas to increase number of ethnic minority officers, according to the Telegraph. Er, but quotas are illegal, which is why when Cheshire police used ‘positive discrimination’ it lost an employment tribunal to a white man it discriminated against.
- “Influencers persuading young to change genders, says charity” – Social media influencers are causing “great harm” by persuading thousands of young people they need to change their gender to be happy, MPs have been told by the LGB Alliance, the Mail reports.
- “Democrat ‘Beto’ O’Rourke Says CRT Should Not Be Taught in Schools” – ‘Beto’ O’Rourke came out against teaching CRT in schools Friday, Breitbart News reports.
- “Don’t make death threats against Putin, says Nick Clegg” – Meta bans threats against heads of state on its platforms, the Telegraph reports.
- “Preparing for Defeat” – Francis Fukuyama on American Purpose argues Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine. Bear in mind, this is the man who argued the collapse of the Soviet Union was the “end of history”.
- “Record fuel costs causes 200% surge in drivers not paying” – U.K. families saw the price of petrol hit a record £1.61 per litre last Thursday, having soared by 8p in a week – meaning the cost of filling up a 55-litre family car had risen by £3 in less than seven days, reports the Mail.
- “India looks to bail out Russia with discount crude oil purchase” – India, which imports 80% of its oil needs, usually buys only about 1% from Russia. But following price increases, New Delhi is looking at how it can reduce its energy bill, reports the Mail.
- “Protests rock Albania after huge rise in living costs caused by Ukraine war” – Fuel prices in Albania are the highest in Europe, amid fears of food and power shortages in one of Europe’s poorest countries, reports the Telegraph.
- “Free speech is being chilled by a misguided push for ‘privacy’” – The enhanced definition of privacy, derived from the European Convention, is having a chilling effect on freedom of speech, argues Geoffrey Robertson in the Telegraph.
- “He is openly declaring his affection for Chinese state authoritarianism” – Russell Brand has gone viral following his criticism of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, tweets talkRADIO.
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That’s actually quite encouraging for those of us who recognise that the world would benefit from a Russian victory in the Ukraine. It’s hard to see how Russia can prevail against the overwhelming odds it faces, up against the US-based woke borg that controls, directly or indirectly, the majority of the world’s wealth, finance institutions, and military hardware, but if Fukuyama thinks it can’t them there’s probably at least a chance.
Recognise? Fantasise, you mean.
“majority of …”
It’s sobering to look at the top 20 populations
1. China 1,439,323,776
2. India 1,380,004,385
3. United States 331,002,651
4. Indonesia 273,523,615
5. Pakistan 220,892,340
6. Brazil 212,559,417
7. Nigeria 206,139,589
8. Bangladesh 164,689,383
9. Russia 145,934,462
10. Mexico 128,932,753
11. Japan 126,476,461
12. Ethiopia 114,963,588
13. Philippines 109,581,078
14. Egypt 102,334,404
15. Vietnam 97,338,579
16. DR Congo 89,561,403
17. Turkey 84,339,067
18. Iran 83,992,949
19. Germany 83,783,942
20. Thailand 69,799,978
The EU nations have around 440m but it’s hard to consider that a block for these purposes.
I’ve not researched but I’m pretty sure that you’ll find that many of these most populous nations are certainly not pro-West (Nato / EU-US / Ukraine) in relation to Russia’s current action to de-nazify and de-militarize eastern Ukraine / effect regime change in a hostile, corrupt, bio-weapons-developing, and (through Nato), militarily posturing neighbour state.
When you factor in Russia-China’s resolve to develop independent international payments systems; Russia having more nuclear warheads (and more advanced military technology) than any other country; the (understandable) contempt that MANY of these countries feel for Western moral and intellectual decadence, and so on …. THEN it begins to look like a world of BLOCS again, not like “doomed little Russia”.
Perhaps …
“I’ve not researched but I’m pretty sure that you’ll find that many of these most populous nations are certainly not pro-West ” Well it’s generally the case that the bulk of any human population’s wealth and power is held by a minority of the population. That appears to be the natural order – I’m not sure if there has ever been a substantial human society for which that has not been the case, over any substantial period of time, and it’s certainly true of the world as a whole. If you look at who has joined in with the US sphere’s economic declaration of war on Russia, rather than the easy signalling of a UN GA vote, you find that the majority of the world’s population is not onside, certainly. Four of the top six on your pop list have refused to join in with the sanctions so far (China, India, Pakistan, Brazil). Is the Whole World United in Isolating Russia? But wealth and power often prevail over numbers (that’s basically what power means). “When you factor in Russia-China’s resolve to develop independent international payments systems” The question is whether China, in particular, will maintain the resolve to go that way… Read more »
I’m not so sure if these nations represent the same values as their leaders. People seem happy enough to flock north and west, to peace, prosperity and some chance of life for their families. The clash of ideologies is that, and its driven by ambition of the leaders, and their interests; the well-being of their people being probably the last on the list of priorities.
This is always my argument against the concept of the New World Order. Although I believe it’s an ambition, in fact it’s undeniably an ambition of the WEF as Schwab keeps articulating it.
So, how is one to get Russia and China to agree to join in with this entirely western phenomenon? China has their own version of it, and won’t budge from that for some Gweilo upstart.
If Russia has similar ambitions I’m fairly certain there’s no better country outside China to be on red alert for a power grab like that considering their recent history under the USSR. I suspect it may escalate into civil unrest extremely quickly.
And how does one integrate Muslim countries into this when their goal is global religious domination?
I was going to reply here but it seemed relevant to what Mark was saying downthread so I stuck it all in one post 😉
The more I look into the groups making up the “Right Sector” and the people behind them, the more it’s looking like a serious, much wider, problem not too far down the road for the rest of the Europe, no doubt for us too. The fact we appear to be arming and funding them should be a serious concern for all of us.
22 miles of water doesn’t stop idiology, especially when woke politics and our governments determination to ignore the immigration crisis keeps feeding it seed compost to germinate in. I can easily imagine it crossing the pond too.
I can almost hear the QR coded jack boots.
One of the huge problems with mass immigration has always been that it imports the world’s problems and divisions into the nation. That’s no less true with the immigration of Ukrainians than it always has been with other groups.
Of course, for the interventionists, that’s always been a bonus – it makes it much harder to sustain any resistance to their interventionist policies. Likewise for the authoritarians – a divided nation has much less trust and requires much tighter controls. The inherent cost of diversity.
The nation has paid a huge price for the policies of mass immigration we were manipulated into during the C20th, and we have probably not yet seen the worst of it, by a long chalk.
Elon Musk challenges Vladimir Putin to ‘single combat’ — winner takes Ukraine
“The self-described meme lord and Tesla Techno King made a series of posts in the early hours of Monday criticizing pro-Ukraine supporters on social media who changed their profiles to add Ukrainian flags to their bios and avatars, mocking them as NPCs, or non-player characters.“
Well, he at least appears to see clearly which is the side of the brain-dead conformists and virtue signallers in the US sphere, whatever his views on the conflict itself.
I prefer this one:
That Trudeau clip should have been a massive red flag, wow! I suspect it was to the liberals and here we are.
Although to be fair, 15 seconds after the smarmy weasel opens his mouth you know all you need to know.
‘Disgraced Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock’
The “end of history” quote was one of the most idiotic things ever committed to writing. Epitomises the contemporary intellectual failure to see our place in the vast canvas of history that underlines so much of the hubris that is currently destroying the best of our society. A temporary change of the political landscape – just like a million temporary changes before – was never going to be “the end of history”; just like a few bad weather events – like a million that went before – is not a sign of climate catastrophe; nor is a relatively mild pandemic – like a million that have gone before – “unprecedented”. The utter arrogance of believing current human society is in any way better or different than what went before, that experiences in a single lifetime are somehow special and unique and extraordinary just because you weren’t alive when they happened before, is not only idiotic and harmful but has also been believed by many, many civilisations before and has always been wrong. There will always be war, injustice, bad weather, greed, discrimination, death. This is just what happens and nothing we can do now – or in any foreseeable future… Read more »
Clearly you’re a Fatalist. Hello mate
“The ‘end of history’ quote was one of the most idiotic things ever committed to writing.”
It wasn’t just a quote – he made his career out of that garbage.
So, idiotic but profitable, then?
HaHa . . Francis Fukayama predicts . . what an oxymoronic statement.
He’s a good writer but really got it wrong with “The End of History.”
I preferred his less-celebrated effort ‘How To Fukayama’.
Little Matty Handicock spinning a belter.
He had nothing to do with any of it.
Everything the government did – not him – was brilliant.
We have to prepare for the next pandemic – they are like buses…
Can anyone recall the last “pandemic?”
Decade either side of 1450, The Great Pestilence, Black Dearh or Plague which infected on a similar scale but actually killed 40-70% of entire populations.
Keeping it topicsl, Wiki tells us it reached Europe via Crimea and includes the map below suggesting that some human intervention prevented it reaching equally topical Kiev (BBC pro ‘Keeeeev’,) before dying out due to the widespread adoption of 40 days Social Isolation, hence “quarantine”.
Oops. This map
Our Lords and Masters appear to have used this Wiki entry to form the basis of our defence against initial encroachment by The Covid, vis Social Isolation
Well, they are indeed like buses (around here at any rate!).
He still thinks that he can be the next PM
Everybody (except Ottawa) is declaring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic
Trudeau, the McGowan of the north!
Fukuyama would have made quite different projections, if he had cared to read proper research on this, rather than CIA and MSM propaganda.
Eugyppius latest is quite telling in that regard.
The stuff at Unz.com and above all a brilliant interview with the Swiss Colonel Baud could also help him to prevent further embarrassment.
“Eugyppius latest” It’s rude to mention something online and not provide a handy link for lazy folks.
Eugyppius – the man and the mission – The Conservative Woman
It’s rude. That is a new one on me. You are right about lazy.
I was trying to be a bit cheeky, hence the lazy clue. I will blame the sun being out.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/tell-me-how-ukraine-ends/
Another one.
The WHO Seeks Power to Demand Mandatory Vaccinations
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/03/15/who-global-health-authority.aspx
Globalists Aim to Take Over Health Systems Worldwide
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
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What on Earth possessed the Telegraph to publish the revolting revisionism of Fart Hancockwomble?
He is genocidal, totalitarian scum, he enjoyed locking down, invading every aspect of life, he backed the police fining women for having coffee outside, he was the man who killed Granny and warned teenagers not to kill Granny.
Hancock went on a run round London. Not one person threw a brick at him. Says it all.
They should have at least pelted him with eggs. I mean, what a missed opportunity. Yes, you’d probably get done for assault and battery ( despite using free range presumably ) but at least you’d have the satisfaction of max humiliation with a less deadlier choice of missile. That worm isn’t worth doing porridge for.
Excellent summary of his good points.
“We got the big calls right on Covid” , Hancock, standing in Parliament telling people with serious conditions they would have to wait until covid was under control was a Big Call and he got that Wrong, but then, everyone involved in these decisions Re Covid will try to justify the horrendous decisions made.
Western Australia became famous in the 1980s when Alan Bond won the Americas Cup, but then it became notorious for the many shady deals between the state Labor government and many businessmen. Including, guess who, Alan Bond.
An election put the Liberals in power and they set up an inquiry into WA Inc, as the whole messy affair was known. I sat in on a couple of sessions but ‘Everybody was doing business in this fashion’ wears thin as a response after the first few hundred times.
How do you pronounce “WA Inc”?
Ha! I’ve never been asked that before.
Tempting as it might be to adopt an alternative pronunciation, we stick with Double U, A, Ink.
“If you’ve given up hope of getting your surgical operation, you can shut your mouth, because WE think we’re GREAT,”
…said the government minister – or in this case, the former government minister who slaughtered elderly inmates of care homes, and later had to resign after getting caught breaking the rules he’d signed off for everyone else.
When you’re the only one in the family who didn’t get vaccinated.
(Thank you, Virgil Finlay.)
A friend & I wrote this especially in light of the insanity and hysteria of the last 23 months:
https://enoughofthistomfoolery.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/history-repeating-itself/
interesting piece, its always amazing how the human race has survived so long
Agree. One does wonder…..
Excellent
I listened to Brand on Russia, and he was literally the first person making any sense (although to be fair, I’ve purposely avoiding the hysteria).
Indeed, he’s still a twirly plonker, but he can think critically, and he can communicate those thoughts compellingly, which is a surprisingly rare combination.
Some of us have been waiting for photos like this. Notice anything? (Clue: Islamic eschatology.) (If anyone still isn’t getting it, try this: the Dajjal.)
PS That design on Macron’s hoodie: it’s for CPA10, a special forces unit of the French air force.
What a strange item to wear, for a guy who has never been in a special forces unit, the French air force, or any other part of the French armed forces, except for being the commander-in-chief by dint of being President.
Cf. Boris Johnson wearing an SAS or SBS tee-shirt. Many in the armed forces wouldn’t like that one bit.
OMG I think you give ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ a bad name! Next you’ll be referencing Lady Gaga or any celeb caught sticking their tongue out!
‘positive discrimination’
Because nothing ends racial discrimination like racial discrimination
The reaction to Jewish positive discrimination would be interesting.
Isn’t that what they do at the Labour Party? Positively discriminate against Jews?
This has just come in on Steve Kirsch’s substack.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/pathologist-ryan-cole-on-the-mysterious?s=r
Pathologist Ryan Cole on the mysterious blood clots
I interviewed Dr. Ryan Cole on the mystery blood clots that are seen in up to 93% of embalmer cases. He received tissue samples from the embalmers.
Bottom line: Dr. Cole had no other explanation for these clots which can kill people other than the vaccine. It didn’t happen during COVID at all.
Silence from the CDC on all of this (as you’d expect).
You’d think with this affecting up to 93% of cases, the CDC might be just a little interested? No chance.
You might think the mainstream press would cover this? No chance.
The abnormal clots contain white cells and fibrin – holding large amounts of protein which makes them rubbery.
They are directly formed by the impact of the spike on blood. And as spike lasts for a long time in the body, (because the genetic instructions from the vax create an artificially stable spike protein that we now know is persistent) the clotting process continues, and the clots build.
Steve Kirsch has had two vaxxes, so I do not know how he feels about his prospects.
It’s remarkable that when I searched the British newspaper media for the phrase “Ukrainian asylum seeker” I found zero instances, whereas the phrase “Syrian asylum seeker” brought up several.
It’s almost as if we have an irregular noun here.
If you answer “No” to both questions, you qualify as a “refugee”.
If you answer “Yes” to at least one question, you are merely an “asylum seeker”.
Absolutely no scribbler in the MSM has noticed this change in vocabulary, or if any have noticed it they don’t want to say so.
“Asylum seeker” and “refugee” are obviously the same thing, all your observation represents is a recognition that the marketing types for the globalist borg have recognised that “asylum seeker” has passed out of usefulness in pushing mass immigration because people have come to associate the negative consequences of mass immigration with the term used to push it for so long.
Ukraine is the area of the current mass immigration push, whereas Syria was the previous one.
They will use “refugee” until that term too comes to be associated too directly with its negative consequences and then drop it for a new emotionally manipulative term.
In reality, what we need is a proper recognition of the true costs of mass immigration and a complete end to the anachronistic policies of asylum. It simply is not sustainable in the modern world of technologically enabled easy mass travel.
The vindication of George H W Bush A well timed and useful piece reminding us that the modern US woke borg, dominated as it is by leftist neocon/Blairite types, is not quite the same as the old military/industrial/oil industry grouping that used to drive US foreign policy, though many of the techniques used to manufacture consent for policy wars remain the same (consider the famous “babies in incubators” propaganda lie used to push the first attack on Iraq). Anyway, Bush I can be considered similar to Putin in his formative realist attitudes, with his CIA background (as Solzhenitsyn noted, similar to Putin’s external affairs KGB desk) strongly encouraging a pragmatic analysis, at least (if not always purely pragmatic policy enactments). “This was typical of Bush’s, and of his secretary of state James Baker’s, dealings with the Soviets (that is, of course, until the exigencies of the following year’s presidential campaign dictated otherwise). But in Kiev that August, Bush laid out the limits of American involvement in Soviet (and implicitly, post-Soviet) affairs: “We cannot tell you how to reform your society. We will not try to pick winners and losers in political competitions between Republics or between Republics and the center.… Read more »
Yes – but he also pointed out that “Liberal” democracy had the seeds of its own destruction planted deep within it.
As we now see.
The kind of irresponsible lunacy that illustrates why countries like the Baltic States should never have been invited into NATO (and indeed why NATO should never have been expanded at all – in fact it should have been wrapped up in the 1990s with medals all round, when the Soviet Union disappeared). We have no national interest in getting involved in disputes between Russia and its neighbours. Parliament of NATO Member Estonia Calls for No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Calling for a no fly zone in the Ukraine is literally stupid. Anyone doing so is either profoundly stupid, profoundly ignorant of reality, or dishonest. Or some combination of those three. Trying to enact it would immediately mean open, hot war with a nuclear power, over an issue that is vitally important to that power but only a luxury interest for us. It’s far from clear that it would even be militarily possible to successfully impose a no fly zone over the Ukraine (and over neighbouring areas of Russia, if it is to achieve its supposed goals of protecting the Ukraine from Russian air power). Even if it were, it wouldn’t enable the Ukraine to defeat the overwhelmingly superior Russian military. All… Read more »
Couple of things: We have no national interest in getting involved in disputes between Russia and its neighbours. Just as Covid reactions were not about health, setting Russia up against it’s neighbours (or rather setting it’s neighbours up agaist Russia) is not about National Interest. Geopolitics has never been about “National Interest”, depending how one defines it I suppose, but it’s certainly never been for the good of the people. It’s about benefitting a group of Interbred International trading/banking family bloodlines who have dominated the world for arguably >800years. Some background from UKC from 2017: Insight: Eurasia On The Brink Mike Robinson and Partick Henningsen are joined by Alex Thomson fromEastern Approaches and geopolitical analyst Eric Zeuss to delve into the geopolitical situation in Eurasia, particularly Georgia and theUkraine. https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/insight-eurasia-on-the-brink Quoting RedHotScott from upthread: (assuming he’s following the thread) This is always my argument against the concept of the New WorldOrder. Although I believe it’s an ambition, in fact it’s undeniably anambition of the WEF as Schwab keeps articulating it.So, how is one to get Russia and China to agree to join in with thisentirely western phenomenon? China has their own version of it, andwon’t budge from that for some Gweilo upstart.… Read more »
missed the edit, this is also pertinant, only 6 mins:
Ukraine a potted History By Alex Thomson..Eastern Approaches UK Column.https://www.bitchute.com/video/FfzKYDcgVBWA/
This is the Sutton interview Thomson mentions in the UKC potted history:
The Best Enemies Money Can Buy: An Interview with Prof. Antony C. Sutton (who got kicked out of the Hoover Institution at Stamford for presenting too many pieces of hard evidence, bank recipts etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDvLmEBESY
check the links in the description!
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