News Round-Up
- “One in eight hospital trusts still won’t allow relatives to visit patients” – Despite changes to NHS guidance, 16 of the 125 hospital trusts in England are still suspending routine visits, reports the Telegraph.
- “Update on Scottish Heart Attack article” – The Naked Emperor notes that heart attack ambulance call-outs are above average in England as well as in Scotland.
- “RE: Malone v. The New York Times Company et al.” – Read the letter from Dr. Robert Malone’s lawyer informing the New York Times he is taking legal action against it for defamation. Read also Dr. Malone’s riposte to the claims made in the paper about him. Good to see a traduced sceptic pushing back, and his case looks strong.
- “Against Scientific Gatekeeping” – Science should be a profession, not a priesthood, says surgeon Jeffrey A. Singer in Reason.
- “Why Hong Kong’s elderly are steadfastly refusing Covid vaccines” – Even after the city’s deadly surge, some of its most vulnerable citizens remain sceptical about vaccine benefits, reports the Telegraph.
- “Inside Shanghai’s Zero Covid Camp” – With the biggest city in China in complete lockdown, with no end date in sight, UnHerd takes the world’s first tour of one of the 4,000-strong quarantine facilities.
- “Tower Bridge closed as Extinction Rebellion protesters ‘abseil’ from London landmark” – The climate activists have also hung a banner form the bridge, saying “End Fossil Fuels now”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Germany is letting Europe down” – Berlin is already moving to dilute EU sanctions, writes Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
- “Waitrose starts to ration cooking oil” – About 80% of the sunflower oil sold in Britain comes from Ukraine and supplies are severely hit, reports the Telegraph.
- “Our fixation with Net Zero carries great risk” – Over-regulation has made it far more difficult for the energy market to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Wokeness isn’t the cure to racism – it’s making racism worse” – Anti-Jewish and anti-Asian hatred has been inflamed by the politics of identity, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Women of African-Caribbean descent earn on average more than white working-class men” – Watch Toby on talkRADIO tell Kevin O’Sullivan that white working-class men are the most disadvantaged group in Britain.
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Someone please tell that Extinction Rebellion abseiler that his/her rope is made from oil.
Spoilsport. Good morning, MAk (though it might not quite be morning, where you are).
Only just. Good morning! Where’s Huxley?
He may be getting coffee?
Alcohol actually.
Cheers chaps. 🙃
Or cracking a bottle of Nigerian Guinness.
Cheers Alto.
I see the Guinness is kicking in – Alto it is! That’s even better than GregoryNo6’s Alt.
Apologies AE. Well that Nigerian Guiness at 7.2% after 7 pints of bitter saw me off.
Marcus, I cannot explain how much that has chuffed me up.
Truly, many thanks 😊.
Their hypocrisy is irrelevant, it is their nihilism, openly declared, that is important.
They openly advocate genocide.
US neocons and their Euro/UK assets and dupes: “we must fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian, and we must sanction the Russians to the last Euro.”
In response:
Ukrainian regime: “Kill the Russian untermenschen”
European regimes: “Yes! Our own peoples’ welfare counts for nothing next to pleasing our neocon overlords!”
Russians: [Shrugging, turning away] “OK, who’s up for some decent, civilised trade and relations?”
China, India, Pakistan, BRICS and most of the world: [Hands shoot up]
Comical to see Franklin naively assuming that the current neocon warmonger domination of our media and politics will survive the coming economic crunch. Here’s one view of what the situation is now as a result of the preexisting accumulation of debt and inflationary pressures from years of maladministration followed by covid insanity: basically the US Fed faces a choice between hiking interest rates and crashing the stockmarket (and economy), or not doing so and letting inflation rip, crashing society. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/david-stockman-coming-stock-market-crash-biblical-proportions Now consider the potential consequences of the attempt to use dollar dominance as a weapon to achieve regime change in Russia, coming on top of that situation: :”De-dollarization means inflation Between sharply falling imports into Russia, inability of foreign entities (or their subsidiaries) with Russian operations or investments to sell Russian assets or to repatriate Russian revenue or dividends, inability of rich Russians to get their money out, and severely reduced travel by Russians abroad, per Russian analysts the local demand for dollars and euros has been reduced by at least (in dollar terms) $250 billion annualized. A potentially equal effect is in the works with the de-dollarization of trade between China/India and Russia (which has already happened or is… Read more »
Not sure if the vibe is more 1920s or 1930s. With nuclear weapons.
1929-33.
Here’s the first domino that might fall (and we’ve hardly seen the consequences of sanctions yet):
Mahyar Tousi
@MahyarTousi
Latest DataPraxis French election poll:
Le Pen supported by most young and middle aged voters
18-24: Macron 44%, Le Pen 56%
25-34: Macron 47%, Le Pen 53%
35-44: Macron 47%, Le Pen 53%
45-54: Macron 49%, Le Pen 51%
https://twitter.com/MahyarTousi/status/1512512920613265408
Reportedly a large majority of those aged 65+ are intending to vote Macron though. The question is why. It doesn’t sound at all like the right-wing Daily Mail, Daily Express, or Torygraph-reading nasty, spiteful, “dog in the manger” British thing of “I’m all right, Jack, in my house worth such-and-such a figure, and the young’uns don’t know how easy they have it nowadays”. Most who think that way wouldn’t be keen on Macron, surely. They’d prefer Le Pen or Zemmour. It sounds more like “Thanks, Macron, for keeping us alive, you lovely man – we are so grateful.” Generally I have respect for older people but sometimes the old saying holds: “There’s no fool like an old fool”. My hunch is that the middle of the period between the two rounds in France will be a time of great shock. There is big-time momentum towards Le Pen. In 2017 she played on the sea and the waves and maritime imagery. Subliminally that connects with Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and the myth of France. This time she is going all out with love, playing on the way that her initial “M” sounds like “Aime”, as in “J’aime” (I love). One of her campaign slogans… Read more »
I think the older French voters are probably more likely to be influenced by her father’s image and less by her own re-imaging.
The Empire of Lies (TM) has plenty of shots in its locker yet, I suspect.
But if Macron does manage to weasel his way back into office, it will have been fortunate timing, I think, for him. Another six months and incumbents all over Europe are likely going to be very unpopular.
So she’ll get through to the second round on April 24. Things could be very interesting by then.
Very interesting, indeed. An April poll just out shows Le Pen edging Macron in a run-off, 50.5% to 49.5%
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/the-smell-of-cheese?s=r
Does look that way:
French presidential election: Polls show Le Pen closing on Macron as election begins on Sunday
On the last day of campaigning before voters go to the ballot boxes, a poll had Marine Le Pen just two points behind Emmanuel Macron.
I watched the last presidential debates and thought that Le Pen was doing well, until she made a personal attack on Macron implying corruption.
She immediately realised her mistake, and I suspect will not make that kind of an error again. Le Pen is not stupid and she is not her father.
Manny said he wanted to ‘piss off’ the unvaccinated. Surely it’s time they, and the belatedly awake vaccinated, did the proper thing and returned the compliment.
In the early days of the scamdemic, political incumbency was an electoral asset (‘see how we’ve saved you all, now vote for us!’) but after two years of harsh restrictions and mandates, incumbency is an electoral liability.
Macron toppled Le Pen 66% to 34% back in 2017, now it’s too close to call. In Oz, Morrison’s federal government is down at least 10 percentage points just a month or two out from the election whilst, in my humble state of South Australia, the Marshall Liberal government was unceremoniously dumped just recently with a 7.6% swing.
The really pee’d off whose businesses, jobs and livelihoods have been ruined, or who have been jabbed against their will, are prepared to vote for whoever is not the incumbent even if their political labelling is one that the voters may well have instinctively eschewed previously..
Saviours, sooner or later, have to deliver.
And even if people don’t see through lying bullshit, they eventually get tired of the smell.
If the federal election delivers a parliament that is fractured left and right, to all four points of the compass, I’ll be happy. Any result that renders both Lib and Lab impotent is fine by me.
Bring on the FFMPs!
For those US commentators who hailed Biden as “the adult in the room”: China, India, Pakistan, Brazil, South Africa (and most of the world) are the adults. Germany might be classified as a reluctant adolescent (in this situation).
Alt, please PLEASE tell me you are employing hyperbole.
I can’t believe that even Dr Jill would describe Foggy Groper as ‘the adult in the room’. Not even if he was alone in the room. And calling for toilet paper.
No need for hyperbole. One pre-election Op-Ed in the Scientific American called Biden “our blessed hope”. Seriously.
Tucker Carlson showed a succession of people describing Biden thus, obviously to script. I watched it twice to be sure that I wasn’t hallucinating.
Congratulations on attributing imaginary views to Russia, especially to their socialist dictator Putin.
“their socialist dictator Putin“
You really are fixated on this nonsense. As I’ve pointed out to you several times now, Putin is far less of a “socialist” than either Johnson or Biden.
Don’t just sling empty, inaccurate terms of abuse around, like a student leftist calling anyone to the right of Jeremy Corbyn a “fascist”. Find honest and meaningful criticisms to use.
Here’s some homework reading for you:
Russia as an international conservative power: the rise of the right-wing populists and their affinity towards Russia
Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution
It wasn’t me.
Three of my top posters go 1. 2. 3.
Well done all 😀👍
Kudos to Germany for: (A) watering down EU sanctions and (B) voting down jab mandates.
I admit I’m not paying much attention to the rampant propaganda about this war, but one thing I have noticed is the insatiable desire to utterly cripple the Russian economy. Sanctions cause mass starvation and kill countless people. They cause genocide which history tries to erase.
I’ve also noticed a blackout of reporting on the effects of the sanctions on the people of Russia, instead just hourly mockery and hatred poured on Putin while the poof on the other side is lavished with faux love and admiration.
If Germany are pulling back from these sanctions – for whatever reason – it can only be a good thing and I hope others follow.
I don’t think the sanctions have bitten much on most ordinary Russians yet – mostly on the oligarchs, which gave Putin the opportunity to finally tell them to “f*** off and go live with their mansions” (or words to that effect). But I think they have (along with the wave of anti-Russian hatred and propaganda, and the Ukrainian atrocities that those sticking to US sphere media are mostly shielded from but the Russians and neutrals are very aware of) caused the Russians to turn emphatically away from the US sphere and Europe, rally behind the war, and behind Putin. Glenn Diesen (Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway): “We keep going back to this assumption that Russia somehow just wants to learn to live with these sanctions until they are let back into Europe, but this greater Eurasian partnership that they keep talking about, this is not just some temporary issue to get around the sanctions. For many in Russia they see this as being a correction to a 300 year long mistake, which has been since Peter the Great, this western-centric foreign policy. That they always had to look towards the West for modernisation, but now they have the rise of… Read more »
Thank you for all of your excellent posts, links, analysis, quotes, etc on this topic. Hugely appreciated.
Cheers, Amtrup, you’re very welcome.
Just as in the early days of the covid hysteria, or the BLM hysteria, there are relatively few of us who see through it and fewer who are willing to speak out.
But the truth does have advantages in the longer run.
Invaluable posts, Mark. I’m very grateful.
I watched the events of 2013-14 with horror, and wondered what madness would result. It’s been compounded by the general insanity and the abysmal quality of so much western “leadership”.
Finding your way through that quagmire is no easy task!
Very welcome, AE, I’ve found your posts very interesting as well..
I second this – massively appreciated.
Cheers, SallyM. Likewise, welcome.
Russia is very good at inflicting starvation and genocide
I’m sure you’ll be delighted to know that in your support of the Ukrainian nazis you’re standing side by side with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Ahmadinejad’s views obtained some currency in some circles but are regarded as fringe by a great majority of the public here. I think it would be useful to translate at least parts of his statements in order to have a more well-rounded understanding of various perspectives inside Iran. In a videotaped statement he released about the events (see here), he declared (I transcribe and translate): “Without a doubt, the attack and aggression by Russia against Ukraine is a critical event and an introduction to many more critical events that follow. Here, for the nth time and very frankly, I must severely condemn the attack and aggression of Russia against Ukraine. Before, I spoke about the plot to change the political map of the world by [the US] America, Russia, and China. These three countries, in a coordinated fashion, have devised a plan to secure their power and control over the world once again. That is, with this enormous wave of humans, of human awakening that has begun, they have become frightened. They say, very soon, this wave… Read more »
Reading that UnHerd piece on Shanghai, I can easily imagine feeling a need in the near future to scrawl “DON’T GET TESTED” on walls.
Certainly don’t get tested if you “feel a bit unwell” or you have a cold or even flu. Don’t even consider it.
The latest stage of the criminal saga of extending the scope of water fluoridation has arrived. Plainly HMG regards the population as a toxic, undifferentiated biomass to be involuntarily and needlessly medicated to no safe or meaningful effect, all the while having the taxpayer purse filched presumably to the benefit of some component of the private sector. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/water-fluoridation-seeking-views-on-future-consultation-process The Health and Care Bill, https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3022 currently going through parliament sets out some changes to the water fluoridation legislation in England. If it becomes law, the Bill will allow the Secretary of State, instead of local authorities, to establish new water fluoridation schemes, or to vary or terminate existing water fluoridation schemes in England.In the event that the Bill is passed, there will be a legal duty on the Secretary of State to undertake a formal public consultation before introducing any new water fluoridation schemes or before varying or terminating an existing scheme. Secondary legislation will need to set out the process for consulting and the results from this consultation will inform that secondary legislation.The easiest way to participate in this consultation is by completing the online survey.https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/624ab9aacfec175b10628637 For earlier coverage see https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2022/04/01/how-the-medical-establishment-covers-up-the-harms-of-adding-fluoride-to-drinking-water/ My earlier comments containing links etc: https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2022/03/10/news-round-up-365/#comment-751510 https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2022/03/10/news-round-up-365/#comment-764708 –… Read more »
Thailand pays out B1.7bn for adverse jab effects.
Some 9,938 people have each received up to 100,000 baht for milder reactions, while 426 got 100,000 to 240,000 baht each for more permanent conditions that could have been caused by the vaccine, such as losing functions of their limbs or becoming temporarily disabled.
Compensation up to 400,000 baht has been awarded to the 3,670 families of people who died as their deaths were attributed to the vaccines, said Mr Jadet.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2292514/b1-7bn-for-adverse-jab-effects
Doctors say ‘No’, politicians say ‘Go’. Stop the 5-to-11s ‘offer’
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/no-benefit-all-risk-for-5-to-/
by Children’s Covid Vaccines Advisory Council (CCVAC)
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It can’t be said that the LD’s primary candidate for the Senate, Kate Fantinel, doesn’t have a sense of humour.
This was celebrated on GB News the other night as “proof the UK isn’t racist”. Dan Wootton and his guests failed to recognise (most likely deliberately) that the UK regime is emphatically racist against white people.
The attack focuses mainly on white men because they’re traditionally the protector of the family unit and the hunter gatherer. On all advertising, for example; black men have entirely replaced white men – especially those dating white women. It’s part of the psyops to destroy us as a people.
I don’t need to see studies and stats to know what is happening around me. It was the same with the covid scam. But hats off to Toby Young for sticking his neck out and saying it as it is, especially when even GB News applauds the deliberate damage being dealt upon white people.
“On all advertising, for example; black men have entirely replaced white men”
Not yet on plenty of advertising for outdoor clothing and equipment.
Too implausible, perhaps.
Good news at last – a shortage of the industrial seed oil (aka vegetable oil) sunflower oil from the Ukraine. Hopefully this will present an opportunity for people to really improve their health by switching to lard, or coconut oil or avocado oil – take your pick.
What’s wrong with olive oil?
Nowt, I love the stuff. Add it to the list.
Sunflower oil isn’t the healthiest option to cook with either because of its low smoking point. I stopped using it a long time ago. Rapeseed oil, otherwise known as bog-standard vegetable oil is better for cooking with, is high in Omega 6, and grown here. And it’s cheaper. The cold pressed version is very nice, btw.
Neither sunflower oil nor rapeseed are healthy. Seed oils in general are toxic waste and sunflower oil seems to be implicated in macular degeneration. If you were to ask me what three food items you could cut to greatly improve your health I would say sugar, industrial seed oils (they’re not really vegetable oils, which is a marketing term) and bread (aka slow cake).
Faddish suggestions: bread especially (other than white) is extremely good for one.
Not faddish at all, a high fat low carb diet is ideal for good metabolic health. Just because the bread you eat isn’t white, doesn’t mean it’s doing you any good.
Have a look at Cummins/Gerber: Eat Rich Live Long – just one of several books going back around 20 years explaining the role of insulin and leptin resistance in all manner of disease (MIRS/cardiovascular/cancer/bone attenuation) and what the main dietary causes are.
Of course to a limited extent anyway, one man’s meat is another man’s poison – at least, some can tolerate a particular food more than another may.
Here’s a useful link you might like to check out:
https://chriskresser.com/how-industrial-seed-oils-are-making-us-sick/
NB Being high in Omega 6 is not good. Ideally the ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 should be 1:1.
I have just bought a couple of blocks of lard (and I will get some more) as a hedge against future shortages of coking oils/fats. I have only recently discovered that seed oils aren’t as healthy as we thought. Block lard is extremely cheap, has a long date stamp and can also be frozen. I was brought up on the stuff!
I see that Dr Malone is suing the NYT for libel. If anyone is in contact with him, tell him it might be an idea to sue in the English courts, where proving libel is fairly easy and the burden of proof is on the defendant (yes, really). The USA is possibly the most difficult country to pursue such cases, due to its (wise) first amendment.
He blocks comments on his Substack except from (paid) subscribers.
Lots of people in the UK read the NYT online nowadays; it carries considerable influence. So it should be possible to bring a case in London.
Or in the Republic of Ireland, where the burden of proof for libel is even lower still.
Reliable & Affordable Electricity Means Unscrambling Subsidised Wind & Solar Debacle
https://stopthesethings.com/2022/04/09/reliable-affordable-electricity-means-unscrambling-subsidised-wind-solar-debacle/
by stopthesethings
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Mrs FP came across a proper total maskateer this morning: a close to 6ft Amazon masked to the max had the misfortune to cross paths when my wife had the audacity to “SNEEZE”: said Amazon tutted loudly so everybody would hear and of course almost ran into the middle of the road.
As my late mother used to say, “They’re afraid of the wind blowing on em”
PATHETIC!!!
@ Toby, Noah and Will. Four seriously interesting articles today (9 April) all supplying well researched new fact. So much more informative than today’s “news” that Boris met Volod, Melenchon is up in the polls, President Biden said something etc etc. Keep it up!