News Round-Up
- “Britain’s looming cancer crisis” – Lockdown has stretched cancer services to breaking point, says Karol Sikora in Spiked.
- “Spain reverses plan to open up to unvaccinated British visitors” – On Wednesday the tourist board said unjabbed visitors would be able to enter Spain with a negative pre-departure test, but eight hours later travellers were told this was an error resulting from a misinterpretation of the official state bulletin, the Independent reports.
- “Sri Lanka imposes 36-hour lockdown to quell protests over food, fuel crisis” – Hit by Government mismanagement and a subsequent COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka’s economy has been in a free fall due to the crash of the tourism sector, reports the Hindustan Times.
- “Corgi beaten to death in Shanghai over fears it might spread Covid” – Outrage has erupted online after a video of a corgi dog being beaten to death by a Shanghai healthcare worker went viral, over unfounded concerns that the pup could be infectious after its owners tested positive for Covid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Work half the week from home, French bank tells staff” – The BNP Paribas move suggests the lender may never return to pre-pandemic patterns of work, reports the Telegraph.
- “MaskWatch” – The Smile Free campaign’s new initiative MaskWatch names and shames the major organisations still forcing masks on U.K. people, suggests mask-free alternatives, and invites readers to complain and boycott them.
- “My response to the COVID-19 terms of reference inquiry” – Read A State of Fear author Laura Dodsworth’s suggestions of areas not covered that the Inquiry should address.
- “Vaccine Mandate Decisively Defeated in German Bundestag” – The proposal to require injections for everyone 60 and older will go nowhere, says Eugyppius.
- “Heroic Sir Christopher Chope on the betrayal of vaccine victims” – Alone amongst all MPs of all parties, Sir Christopher Chope has taken up the cause of the ignored vaccine-injured, writes Kathy Gyngell on TCW Defending Freedom.
- “FDA Fully Revokes Authorisation of GSK and Vir’s Sotrovimab for COVID-19” – The FDA has issued a statement that GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology’s COVID-19 treatment sotrovimab is no longer authorised to be used in any U.S. region for the disease, citing low efficacy against emerging Omicron sub-variant BA.2, reports TrialSite News.
- “Unvaccinated New York State Judges and Court Employees Face Punishment” – Court workers in New York State who haven’t complied with the state’s vaccine mandate are beginning to receive letters terminating their employment, despite it now being clear that the COVID-19 vaccines don’t stop community transmission, reports TrialSite News.
- “Will Britain’s new energy strategy keep the lights on?” – Will the Government’s new Energy Security Strategy ensure that we can keep the lights on as the Government continues to commit itself to a policy of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, and will it quickly wean us off Russian oil and gas, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “One in two news cars must be electric by 2028” – The Government is to set legally binding targets to speed up the shift away from petrol and diesel, the Telegraph reports.
- “We need energy security – not Net Zero” – The Government is too beholden to green fantasies to take our energy needs seriously, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “BBC slammed for asking eco-vigilantes to let them film tyre deflating” – The U.K. Corporation found itself in hot water when Justin Rowlatt asked members of Tyre Extinguishers to star in a clip in which he would hide their identities, reports the Mail.
- “The flawed science of trans inclusion in women’s sport” – Advocates are embracing unreliable studies to justify unfair competition, says Fiona McAnena in the Critic.
- “Sajid Javid: NHS must protect wards for women only” – Health Secretary Sajid Javid has told NHS bosses to accept the guidance issued by the Government’s equality watchdog and to protect single sex wards at hospitals, the Mail reports.
- “Emily Bridges will receive public funding if cleared, confirms U.K. Sport” – U.K. Sport has defied Boris Johnson by revealing it would be willing to give public funding to transgender cyclist Emily Bridges if ‘she’ is cleared to race in women’s events, the Mail reports.
- “The Church of England has drunk the trans Kool-Aid” – There is no woke bandwagon senior clergymen will not jump on, says Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “Europe can choose peace in Ukraine or air conditioning, says Italian PM” – Mario Draghi’s comments come as Kyiv urges full ban on Russian gas and oil – but he says “gas embargo is not yet on the table”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Putin walks the tightrope” – The latest Ukraine war analysis from Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley in TCW Defending Freedom.
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Boii..ng. Me again.
Morning all.
Good morning, hp – sterling effort yet again.
Good morning AE and many thanks for your kind comments.
phantom downticker back with a vengeance today!
I’ve been trying to figure it out, Milo.
I think the exchange of greetings must be regarded as frivolous, off-topic irrelevancy.
I find hp’s pleasant courtesy a pleasure to read – and he appears to be pretty much troll-proof. He’s also teaching me (I’m slowly catching on) to resist their pressures.
The Real Dr. Evil, a Harvard Alumni
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World Economic Forum Was Created by US Policies
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
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Just a coincidence, naturally, but what good luck that the plebs were primed to accept mass house arrest over the last two years. You don’t live in a nation-state. You live in an adjunct to a totalitarian globalist empire that terrorises and gaslights you every day. Expect similar house arrests when the food/energy crisis hits the UK over the coming winter.
But US imports of Russian oil are at a record level. No doubt they will sell it to UK and EU for a premium.
Anyone who voted for The Conservatives voted for Capitalism, and making profits is what Capitalism is all about. Dog eat dog.
“Wasn’t Margaret Thatcher marvellous!” they say, as they shiver in their cold houses when there’s no coal to heat them, as she and her greedy Capitalists closed the mines for their own profit.
Socialism is, of course, the answer to everyones problems.
He sees capitalism where it doesn’t exist, he sees socialism and declares it is capitalism.
It has certainly been the gift that keeps on giving for the Tory Party and its crony funders.
There is nothing capitalist about Kim Jong Johnson, the great fat communist fraud.
You conveniently ignored the fact that Harold Wilson closed twice as many mines as Thatcher did.
No, capitalism is not dog eat dog, socialism is literally people eating dogs, like in Venezuela.
You also conveniently ignore the massive state intervention by Kim Jong Johnson who is a green, an enthusiastic and obvious green.
After two years of lockdown and restrictions, your complaints about capitalism are evil.
Thatcher didn’t close the coal mines, she just wouldn’t use tax payers money any more to keep them open
Yes, propping up loss-making industries destroys jobs elsewhere in the economy.
That’s the trouble, a concentrated loss of jobs will have a campaign against it, even if keeping those jobs costs more jobs spread across the country.
Yes, that is part of the appeal of protectionism and other forms of interventionism: the beneficiary is obvious and seen and the damage is not seen and spread thinly.
At the same time as selling off taxpayer owned and developed utilities and energy companies at knockdown prices to profiteering cronies. These same cronies have held the real owners and investors to ransom to this day. Many mines were economically viable then, many others could have been mothballed to safeguard UK energy security, but they were deliberately flooded to bury working class collectivism. The Tories obligingly followed US diktats and crippled this country’s industry while burying the electorate in debt.
I did admire Maggie but on the mining industry she got it hopelessly wrong and now we will have to pay the price.
She didn’t get it wrong, she stopped spending taxpayers cash on obsolete industries.
She also encouraged the development of open cast coal mining which is safer, cheaper and gived better farmland once done.
The safety is partially down to far fewer people being required for the same output.
An industry so desperately obsolete that it is desperately needed now. I said this when the industry was shut down forty years ago and have repeated it ever since.
Or perhaps you believe in the windmills?
See below for basic explanation of comparative costs.
No need for dangerous & expensive deep mines when we’ve got:
a) oodles of luvvly shale gas which private companies will get for us ince govt stops erecting barriers.
b)Open cast coal as a more expensive alternative to shale.
Deep coal is not desperately needed now, all we need is a dozen more CCGT stations and to get fracking, quicker cheaper safer.
Er, basic economics required here.
Deep mines were getting progressively more expensive to operate as safety expectations changed.
The FACT is that with the drop in transportation costs coal from Australia could be purchased more cheaply than the locally produced stuff.
Youll be one of those that pines for the GPO utility with its 6 month waiting list to get a landline?
The Tory Party in general (and several Tory chancellors in particular) wouldn’t understand basic economics if it bought them a G&T. There were plenty of viable mines in the 1980s and more that had been ‘condemned’ by McGregor (and thus serving limited life expectations) that could have been saved and made viable. That old worn line about ‘safety expectations’ (= we don’t want to invest basic maintenance let alone in new tech, just make a profit year in year out on a shoestring regardless of safety concerns) was also used in the late 1930s as a prelude to (surreptitious) nationalisation of mines, several of which were effectively death traps. There was nothing ‘cheap’ in the long term about bringing in Australian, Polish, Russian (etc) coal, when looked at in the broader macro economic or energy futures analysis (even omitting energy security). Especially when there were several technologies (including Gasification) even then that could have given the mines (at that point still providing over 70% of fuel for British power stations), but investment doesn’t figure in the Tory economic textbooks – just quick profit and let someone else (usually the taxpayers) pick up the mess when it collapses. But that sort… Read more »
Absolutely.
Summed up as short-termism. We have done exactly the same with our lack of food policy. And now look at what we are facing.
Tome you spoke to some ex miners who were glad to get out of the pits & into the oil industry, much better & safer according to them rather than middle class keyboard experts.
Basic history – it was weeevil Labour who shut the most pits.
As for coal being cheap – allow people to choose.
The advocates of keeping the deep pits open are always good at both spending other peoples money and keeping their own children out of that work.
Mines often flooded anyway. Surely they could be pumped dry if needed?
Those were the days – when the carbon economy was actually subsidised!
The Conservative Party and its chums are not capable of entrepreneurial capitalism, only gilt edges taxpayer subsidised crony opportunism that hides their utter economic incompetence. They run down industries and finances, the state under Labour would bail them out to safeguard key assets and jobs, then the cronies buy the now rejuvenated assets back risk free at the taxpayer’s loss. And the cycle will go on, as Boris commits to more taxpayer subsidised nuclear power plants. The Tories are a public funded risk averse criminal cartel.
Be sure to gather acorns this autumn…
Another generation learns all about the sick and depraved way the Chinese treat animal. If they think this is bad, they really should stay away from the vile Yulin dog meat trade and the markets where they keep dogs stacked in cages ready to be sold to restaurants or their disgusting habit of cooking lives animals.
Pop round the back of any Chinese restaurant in the UK and see if they have any cats in cages there…
Yea, their annual Fox Hunts are disgusting.
“Putin walks the tightrope” – The latest Ukraine war analysis from Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley in TCW Defending Freedom. Well, Riley’s stuff is a lot better than the frankly childish US sphere mainstream media stuff that dominated the first few weeks’ coverage, but it seems to me there’s still an air of wishful thinking about it. “Russian success in this ‘mother of battles’ is by no means certain” I genuinely don’t understand how he expects the Ukrainians to put up a serious fight with essentially no fuel, little and diminishing resupply and manoeuvre capability, and near complete domination of the battle space by Russian air and standoff weapons. It’s likely to be a grind because of the Ukrainians’ huge numbers advantage, but one where the Ukrainians are the ones getting ground. Crucially, imo, the Russians are now under no real time pressure. And with even ammunition manufacturing facilities destroyed, and no realistic prospect of any material assistance from the US sphere getting anywhere near the front lines, their military positions are doomed. When this started, most western observers feared or hoped that the Russians would be on a timetable to force the Ukrainians to surrender before the Russian economy collapsed and unrest… Read more »
The real remaining issues are what the consequences will be of the collapse of German industry and the political turmoil in Europe especially, but also around the world, caused by the US economic aggression, coming as it does on top of all the covid and green lunacy economic chickens flocking in to roost.
It won’t be pretty generally, but it increasingly appears that the real grimdark, outside the Ukraine, will not be in Russia, but in Europe.
I’m leaning towards this being the plan all along, a convinient war for the Swiss bankster class.
Larry Fink sees the oppertunity..
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/24/blackrocks-fink-says-russia-ukraine-war-could-accelerate-use-of-cryptocurrencies.html
Yep: 1930s Germany here we come!
Russia has certainly absorbed a lot of German philosophy, historically.
Not really. They are still aware of Hitler slaughtering 24 million of them. Where we have poppy day, Russians celebrate the sacrifices of their predecessors by assembling in the streets with photographs of their war dead.
They are also aware Germany has long had, and still has, designs on Russia because of its vast natural resources.
I don’t suppose they are thrilled at the prospect of a ‘European Army’ the EU is so eager for when Germany has been running the EU for the last 40 years.
NATO is a fig leaf.
Who on earth do the EU think is going to fill the ranks of their European army?
Conscription.
Doubtful.
Except that despite our criminal coalition Mafia banning any counter narrative, and its suitably credulous citizenry being content to swallow the slops it is fed, there are popular movements taking to the streets in Europe. The re-election of Orban was a game changer, and this will feed into the growing unrest and open questioning of the US imposed anti Russian agenda.
Further, the continuing piracy practiced by the West on private Russian assets (even a Moscow museum’s art treasures) is not going to end well. The disrespecting of a Russian citizen’s property rights one day will be the seizure of any dissident UK subject’s property the next, probably via the Online Safety Act, whether they speak out against the MIC and US exceptionalism or simply refuse to be vaxxed with Big Pharma’s latest gene altering substances during the upcoming second round of covid population clearances.
Those who decided to cancel Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky, Gergiev, Netrebko et al, might like to consider the role they have played in bolstering Putin’s domestic position.
When such hatred is shown for your entire culture, and people of whom you are understandably proud are subjected to grotesque bullying for failing to denounce the head of their own government for western consumption (even when they have criticised actions of that government), are you likely to join the chorus of those who despise and bully?
Or will you rally behind your leader, whatever misgivings or concerns you might have had about him?
The contempt for Russians, whose patriotism and heroism were understood and respected by men like Churchill and George VI, has had predictable results.
We live in cultures so obsessed by appearances that our leaders no longer seem to understand the real world at all; and many of our citizenry will believe anything, if it’s given the right packaging.
I have it on good authority that the Russian people have held the west in contempt for some time as they witness the surrender our freedoms to the woke generation that encourages sexualisation of our children, mandating of LGBT compliance, BLM marxism, antifa violence, religious fanaticism, the religion of climate change, worship of WEF etc.
The Russian people were denied the freedoms we passively watch being flushed down the toilet and they are disgusted.
To use a boxing analogy, I believe that the ‘West’ threw all its best punches in the first round and is now desperate because the opponent is not only still standing but is getting stronger as the fight progresses. Furthermore, I sense a slight but noticeable swing in support amongst the onlookers. Russia has always been a master at the long game.
BREAKING NEWS: White House insiders leak that no more covid waves are likely “until we can get another 30 or so bio-research labs back up and running.”
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The west threw no punches at all, they just pretended they did.
Since when was Russia a master at the long game?
Since never but they have historically been good at exploiting western appeasement.
The problem with people tied up in finance is that they forget that the purpose of earning export revenue is to purchase imports.
If there are no imports to be had, then there is no need to export anything, and in fact you would be wasting your internal manpower by doing so at that point. Far better to scale back surplus production and redeploy the output to serving the war effort.
Money is just a promise to deliver something solid in the future. If the stated intention is not to deliver anything why would the promise continue to be accepted?
The West have just demonstrated, by suspending access to foreign reserves and refusing to supply anything real for those promises, that their word is not to be trusted.
For a country like the UK, which imports 48% of its food still, it’s not useful to have the rest of the world starting to doubt whether the West’s promises are worth holding.
No point in exporting?
If you can provide for your population without exporting, then exporting what you can afford to sell simply turns into profit for the individual resulting in Tax for the treasury.
We don’t export with the sole intention of importing avocado’s.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10696145/Finland-asking-destruction-country-join-NATO-Russia-warns.html
Yes, you will approve of Finland’s destruction, you’ll tell us this dire threat to the Finns is completely different from the two invasions of Finland during World War Two.
If Finland joins an aggressive military alliance, it will have to bear the consequences. I doubt those will include military attack in the short run, at least, but it will probably involve being treated (rightly) as an enemy by the Russians.
As Putin reportedly said to the Finnish President (iirc) a few years ago: if Finland joins NATO, then whereas Russia now sees a friend when it looks across the border. If Finland joined NATO, Russia would see an enemy instead.
NATO membership after it became redundant with the fall of the Soviet Union has been disastrous for everyone except warmongers, war profiteers and US neocon types (but I repeat myself):
Have 20 Years of NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer?
In truth, you’d expect nothing else from a huge state bureaucracy seeking to create justifications for its existence and its tax-funded sinecures. Military state socialism, basically.
Top class Mark. That’s a much more incisive interpretation than General Riley. When I read his piece I got the impression I was reading MSM propoganda. His disconnect from reality is staggering. Does he really believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia?
I am not pro war and some of the film from Ukraine is heartbreaking but the US started this and to our shame Bozo and the EU climbed on board.
This really will be “one of the great geopolitical turning points in history” and no good and possibly great suffering will result.
All to satisfy some megalomaniac psychopaths with too much money and time on their hands.
The west doesn’t have money though. To all intents and purposes, we are well beyond broke.
We are living on borrowed time.
Well said Mark but I beg to differ on this statement: “Crucially, imo, the Russians are now under no real time pressure”.
While it is true that the Neocons were hoping for a collapsed Russian economy to be the driving force of anti-Putinism, and that strategy as failed, as has been noted on The Duran,
Neocons have no reverse gear.
Plan B has now been engaged.
This involves staging false flag events to arouse Western public anger to a pitch that will see consent given to escalating Western involvement.
As time progresses, calls for greater Western intervention will increase – unless of course Mr Putin can bring about a decisive victory over the fascist police state.
For those who can’t help throwing insults at anyone who questions the ridiculous Official Truth line on the Ukraine, worth considering the US regime’s recent open confession (boast, actually) about how they sling out any old nonsense regardless of truth in order to “shape the environment”. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-using-declassified-intel-fight-info-war-russia-even-intel-isnt-rock-rcna23014 And those who think it’s outrageous to question appalling atrocity stories (though invariably the ones attributed by our media to the Russians, not the rarely reported ones clearly done by Ukrainians), watch and consider this tearful, heart-wrenching story of horror from a young girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfVs3WaE9Y Shocking! Convincing! Fabricated by media agency Hill and Knowlton for the purpose of manufacturing consent for a war, on behalf of their clients. Back then, people just as gullible as you blue and yellow flag fools ranted at people just as cynical as me about how they were “Saddam apologists” for even thinking of questioning such an awful account. It worked swimmingly, they got their war, and you can imagine that was noted by the security agencies and neocon types whose lives revolve around pushing confrontations and wars. That was in 1991. You can be sure they have refined their methods over the intervening decades, and had plenty… Read more »
And when you declare, outraged: “but it was confirmed in the New York Times” etc, think about the events behind this recent encounter: Jon Stewart accuses NY Times reporter of helping lead US into ‘most devastating’ foreign policy mistake in 100 years “Jon Stewart finally got to interview the former New York Times reporter whose stories helped bolster the US case for the war in Iraq – and it got ugly fast. … In a testy 10-minute interview, Miller blamed unreliable intelligence sources, while the Daily Show host tried to demonstrate that Miller leaned too heavily on biased Bush administration sources. “That’s what the intelligence community believed,” Miller said, referring to false information that showed Iraq attempting to enrich uranium before the US invasion. …. “I appreciate you coming on the program. These discussions always make me incredibly sad because I feel like they point to institutional failures at the highest levels, and no one will take responsibility for it, and they pass the buck to everyone but themselves,” Stewart said. “It’s sad.” Miller’s 2002 reporting has been controversial since its release over a decade ago. The report was widely cited by Bush administration officials in the lead up to… Read more »
Indeed, the Iraq War was one of the most devastating foreign policy mistakes in the past 100 years, though Vietnam would probably be a very close runner up. Ditto for Afghanistan as well–not so much the ignominious exit, but our entry into that war in the first place, which all but guaranteed that ignominious end.
Of course Russians commit atrocities; they are atrocious! Even their music stinks to the heavens.
Analysing evidence, wondering if a story might be true, is fair enough when real human beings are concerned: the ones who speak English, or anyone in conflict with the unspeakable Russians.
Russians are guilty; and there is not the slightest chance that Americans would make up untrue stories about anybody.
Cancer is also linked to a degraded immune system (which hunts out rogue cells of any kind, including cancers). Even excluding the effect of delayed cancer treatments during lockdown, can we expect an overall increase in cancer rates resulting from immune systems damaged by over-jabbing (antigenic original sin)?
This was always my concern and unfortunately it seems to be coming true. The spike protein has been shown to directly infect CD4+ T cells causing them to get destroyed. There have also been studies that show the spike protein can interfere with the bodies own DNA repair mechanism. It sounds like a recipe for the triggering of new and angressive cancers coupled with the diminished capacity to fight it off. Original antigenic sin doesn’t really apply in this sense… It’s more like full blown AIDS leading to super aggressive cancers
Three of my family have died from cancer in the last year. Always possible with elderly people but just seems a bit unusual in a family with no history of cancer. One was due to delayed treatment during lockdown, but the others i will always believe succumbed due to a degraded immune system.
Two former foreign residents in China discuss the latest craziness:
Chinese Government is Taking Children Away – Utter Dystopia
Travel Chaos & Jab BLACKMAIL Spain Insanity = CANCELLED My Easter Show Next Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi19Akn7ox4
Alex Belfield – THE VOICE OF REASON
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Bagshot Road is the A322, it is nowhere near the A3095. There is no Bagshot Lane in Bracknell.
I just looked at Google Maps – you are correct.
Does this point to yet more government-sourced misinformation?
I suspect Alex Belfeld is right – the lockdowns are coming back in the autumn.
Where did all this trans stuff suddenly come from? How many people really had a personal concern in this regard before it became fashionable? The article; https://thecritic.co.uk/the-flawed-science-of-trans-inclusion-in-womens-sport/ seems indicative of much of the flawed thinking on this matter and the construction of policies and procedures based on inadequate definitions, poorly considered arguments and a lack of rational logical thinking. Why do we hear so much more about men becoming women than we do about women becoming men? I suggest that unravelling that question will, on its own, bring out some pertinent pointers on the matter. When a man goes trans and becomes a trans man-woman, what can he/she now do or be that he/she could not do before? Clearly in some cases this has been done for nefarious reasons which represents a danger to women but otherwise what is now different? Biological women can conceive a child, give birth and suckle young, nobody born male can ever do this whatever medical stuff is done. As far as I can see all that is now different is that they can wear skirts and dresses, have a nice hair-do and ‘glam’ up a bit, much as Grayson Perry has done for years.… Read more »
It’s another wedge issue and a distraction to engage the masses in culture war while the real agenda is pursued.
Because the trans-activists tend to be from the transvestite movement, ie. men in frocks. We won’t hear from the women until the wheels come off and enough of them start to regret their decisions and sue those who ‘advised’ and mutilated them. It’s a point worthy of consideration, perhaps, that the movement is, in fact, ultimately a creation of the ‘patriarchy’? Well, they can go into ‘women’s spaces, of course. Which appears to be what a significant proportion of the most vociferous activist movement wants to do. You’d have to ask them for their motivation for that… If your male lumberjack was to make a Pythonesque move to become a ‘girly, just like his dear papa’, and you were subsequently to admit you didn’t fancy ‘her’, then you’d be accused of transphobia, I’m not sure that’s any different in the country but, if you go down to the woods today… There’s a special kind of irony in the fact that, as I understand it, a woman who competed with the levels of testosterone that a transwoman has, even after treatment, would be banned for doping… All women, and girls, who object should consider removing themselves from the associations and clubs… Read more »
I’ve long thought your point 5 would be the answer. Form alternative organisations (or threaten to) as an outlet for women’s sport etc. The existing authorities wouldn’t wish to become irrelevant.
The trans sports movement could always organise their own competitions, much like the Paralympics.
I guess the problem is there would be too few participants. But they are working on that with our children.
Schools and universities.
There is massive confusion between transgender and transvestitism.
As usual, virtue signallers do not actually understand either, but just want to “support the current thing”. We already have strong legal protection for those who medically change their gender. They are very few, and most of the current virtue-signalling policy actually undermines them too.
What makes you think it was supposed to? Its adoption by previously sober entities suggests one of those mediaeval ‘dancing plagues’ that afflicted folk for unexplained reasons.
It’s another globalist funded agenda…
https://engine.presearch.org/search?q=who+funds+transgender+agenda
Wow, I had no idea that it was all funded in this way and by such huge sums, what a strange world we now live in!
Weak leadership = Vacuum.
Weak immune system = Vacuum.
Vacuum = Trouble.
Not if it’s a Dyson double-vortex.
Electric cars? Communist state planning balderdash
I’m too lazy to calculate how many zillion miles these electric vehicles would need to cover in order to offset the carbon deficit with which they enter the fray. At a minimum of 50,000 miles or so (using only the initial battery set) – and given the short distances travelled on a single charge – it could be somewhere around 2300.
By which time, if the climate catastrophists are right, they’d need to be amphibious as well as electric.
50,000, under ideal conditions, assuming renewables are always at full capacity, which they rarely are.
SRI Lanka imposes 36 hour lockdown to quell protests over food and energy.
Coming tot the UK in the near future thanks to the clowns in charge.
It took a 5 year global conflict to induce food rationing in the UK. If it happens again it’s designed.
I take your point but a substantially larger population combined with a shrunken and less productive agricultural sector will have something to do with it too, surely? We’re not even self-sufficient in apples these days, thanks largely to the EU…
We produce more food now than we ever have. ~25% is thrown away.
This is undoubtedly the case. To his credit KS has been warning of this for at least a year… as a quick example, I was recently admitted to A+E for investigation; the woman in the bed next to me had presented with PR bleeding, which she had ignored for eighteen months because she had heeded the ‘advice’ not to overburden the NHS and she didn’t want to run the chance of getting Covid as she was ‘at risk’.
This despite the fact that she had previously recovered from a cancer… So, essentially, she had been scared into the position that she was more prepared to die of a disease she knew was probable than run the risk of getting a virus that kills, when all is said and done, a small proportion of those who get it, even in the at risk group.
Those responsible, should hang their heads…
Saw your message pjar just as i was about to post this quote from Prof Sikora’s article. A good read.
‘We need a concerted and well-funded Government campaign on par with the infamous “Stay Home” messaging we all became so accustomed to during lockdown. Those powerful words – Stay At Home – were drilled into the nation’s psyche at an astronomical cost to society. Now the behavioural scientists behind it should turn their attention to undoing some of the deep damage it caused, particularly with regards to catching cancer early.’
He also says he and colleagues have offered the services of their cancer diagnostic centres (privately run) to the NHS on a not for profit basis. That was back in December. They have yet to have a reply.
I’d have said the behavioural scientists behind it should be lined up against a wall, rather than asked to do further damage.
Agree, but i dare say that wouldn’t have got past the editors!
That’s the very last thing we need.
One problem is that, short of taking yourself to A+E, you need a doctor’s referral to see a consultant. Given the difficulty even getting in to see your GP, well, there’s a bit of an issue there…
The Bozzer says he can’t rule out another “Stay at home/lockdown ruling if it’s necessary” according to the mail on line.
Ye Gods, are we ever going to get out of this madness?!!!!
Keep the populace fearful.
Isn’t gaslighting wonderful.
Bozo can F O.
I WILL NOT COMPLY.
I’m with you there, HP.
Smile Free. I like their style.
I don’t know how many cars you have in the UK, but the call for half of them to be electric in five years is somewhat unrealistic I suspect.
There are currently about 30 million registered vehicles in the UK, it is unrealistic to think there will ever be that many electric cars in the UK.
Assuming 15 million EVs, for the UK alone, where do they expect to find that much lithium?
Professor of engineering Michael Kelly – GWPF
That’s a lot better than my half-baked reply. Thank you.
Not forgetting the materials for the charging points and the infrastructure required to get the electricity to them…
I might be mixing this a bit but I am sure I read somewhere that turning the UK car fleet over to electric would require the total of all the lithium that has ever been mined from this world. ALL of it.
A lot of people are going to need to take off their sleep masks PDQ.
We just need to convert the diesel cars to cleaners fuels and start making cars with much smaller engines which go slower, max of sixty mph rather than one fifty mph. Also bring back horse and cart and use the dung for fertiliser. .
I thought the headline was fifty percent of new cars by 2028.
New car registrations 2021 (record low) was 1.65 million so that would mean 825,000 new cars to be electric by 2028.
Better get a move on Bozo because there won’t be 400,000 sockets by 2030, let alone 2028 and even if there was what is going to provide the electricity?
We are well and truly Fooked. Cloud cuckoo land.
I think I might emigrate.
N. Korea is looking good these days.
One obvious way to dramatically reduce car emissions which never gets a mention is for us to start driving smaller slower cars. Were driving cars that do 150 mph as standard at the moment which is ridiculous and completely unnecessary. Why not cut engine sizes, using unleaded only, cars that do a max of sixty mph would b absolutly fine. Safer roads too. Win win. Also bring back horse and cart in towns and cities and use the shit for fertiliser. Win win.
His nickname is Masky Mark, not Sign In Mark, and there’s one line he just can’t cross. McClown the lonely sage, seeing the truth that others refuse to acknowledge. He thinks he’s being Churchillian. The rest of us are receiving on a different wavelength.
Plus, a winner slogan for the Department of Tourism and some covid maths!
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/04/08/lockdownunder-update-one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/