News Round-Up
- “NHS hospitals are told patients no longer need to be kept apart” – NHS trusts across England have been told to return to pre-pandemic physical distancing in all areas, MailOnline reports
- “Shelve your DIY projects, cries NHS as A&Es come under ‘extreme pressure’” – Hospitals are urging the public to ‘be considerate’ and avoid risking injury due to overcrowding, the Telegraph reports
- “Five blunders caused by civil servants working from home” – A catalogue of errors that can be blamed on civil servants working from home, courtesy of the Telegraph
- “How Nicola Sturgeon gets away with Covid rule-breaking” – “There is an underlying belief that the Left can be forgiven their occasional breaches because their hearts are in the right place,” says Tom Harris in the Telegraph
- “Unless Queen Nic resigns first, her calls for Boris to go are pure politics and must be ignored” – “Unless she is prepared to resign for her Covid law break, Scheming Sturgeon’s demand for Boris to quit is nothing more than laughable political posturing and should be roundly ignored,” says Dan Wootton in MailOnline
- “Saying sorry won’t be enough to save Boris Johnson from the voters’ wrath” – The Telegraph‘s Philip Johnston warns Boris that if people don’t believe he feels real remorse “his repeated apologies will fall flat”
- “Smartphone app can detect whether you have COVID-19 with 92% accuracy” – Pfizer have put in a hefty offer to acquire ResApp which uses machine learning to analyse the sounds of your cough, MailOnline reports
- “The scandalous absence of child vaccine damage information” – With the vaccine rollout now extended to five and 11 year-olds, Kathy Gyngell of the Conservative Woman highlights the risks
- “Face mask obligation in Molenbeek dropped again” – The requirement for a mask in the streets and markets of Molenbeek in Brussels was meant to last until the end of April, the Brussels Times says, but it has been dropped ahead of time
- “The Israeli Covid vaccine has taken its last breath” – Haaretz reports on the demise of of BriLife, the Israeli COVID-19 vaccine project
- “What Sweden Got Right About Covid” – Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer in the Washington Monthly point to research which found that among 11 wealthy peer nations, Sweden was the only one with no excess mortality among the under-75s
- “The Mask Mandate Is Illegal: Quotes from the District Court Judgment” – The Brownstone Institute highlights the best bits of the court ruling against the transportation mask mandate
- “The Unmasking of America” – Jeffrey Tucker celebrates the end of the mask mandate at the Brownstone Institute. “The entire machinery of compulsion and control unravelled, not in months, not in days, but in hours and minutes”
- “More Evidence from the U.K. that Masks Don’t Work” – In a piece for the Brownston Institute, Ian Miller takes aim at recent calls from NHS chief Matthew Taylor for the return of Covid measures
- “Big Screaming Headlines” – In the New York Times Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt notes Coronavirus cases have risen in major cities, but hospitalisations have not
- “Lockdown ideology remains a widespread global plague upon humanity” – “Faucism remains prevalent everywhere,” says Jordan Schachtel
- “My life in Shanghai’s never-ending zero-Covid lockdown” – An anonymous postcard from Shanghai, published in the Guardian
- “NSW to end COVID-19 household isolation rules” – New South Wales and Victoria will end one of the last major remaining pandemic restrictions as both states pass the peak of the latest Omicron wave, the Sydney Morning Herald reports
- “SARS-2 isn’t doing much of anything right now” – “And it is highly uncertain, whether it will ever do much of anything ever again,” writes blogger Eugyppius in his latest post
- “Frank Furedi: Beware of the ‘New Normal’” – Professor Frank Furedi joins Dan Astin-Gregory on the Elevate Podcast to sound a cautionary tale about the ‘New Normal’
- “Net zero – a grim fairy tale” – An open letter to the Prime Minister concerning his Net Zero carbon strategy by Dr Deborah Ancell in the Conservative Woman
- “Nicola Sturgeon held Scottish independence meetings at height of Omicron wave” – The Omicron variant and the struggles of Scotland’s NHS did not distract Nic Sturge-on and her senior ministers from Scottish Independence, the Telegraph reports
- “Lazy Britain is now addicted to mediocrity” – “Working from home, HR bureaucracy and wellbeing have turned capitalist excellence into a sin,” says the Telegraph‘s Matthew Lynn
- “Why aren’t we talking about the Islamist uprising in Sweden?” – “Freedom of speech must include the freedom to ridicule Islam,” says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked
- “Black Lives Matter blamed for cops pulling back causing murder spike” – The number of black Americans murdered in 2020 jumped by 32%, the Daily Mail reports, and criminal justice experts are blaming the Black Lives Matter movement
- “IMF slashes Britain’s GDP forecast to 3.7% in 2022” – The IMF slashed it growth forecasts for Britain to 3.7% in 2022 and 1.2% for 2023, according to This Is Money
- “Energy bosses warn of ‘truly horrific’ October price rise” – Appearing before MPs, the bosses of the U.K.’s largest energy companies urged the Government to prepare for yet another shock increase, MailOnline reports
- “As a former English teacher I’m shocked at the BBC reading list” – Allison Pearson takes aim at the BBC’s jubilee reading list in her latest Telegraph column
- “It’s not too late for ministers to see sense on Online Safety Bill” – In a joint piece for the Times, Professor Paul Dolan and Steve Baker MP sound the alert about the Online Safety Bill
- ‘Experts’ get it wrong ” – “It seems many ‘experts’ around today have learned the background knowledge without earning the common sense needed to correctly interpret it,” writes Vivian Robinson in Spectator Australia
- “Twitter’s Jack Dorsey slams media for ‘creating conflict’” – Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, has taken a swipe at the media, accusing it of ‘sowing doubt to promote white supremacy and get engagement’, according to the Daily Mail
- “Don’t pander to the woke pronoun lie” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Laura Perrins offers a word of advice to employees asked to state their pronouns: “Don’t do it”
- “Throw away your masks” – A flight attendant sings in delight at the end of masks on planes
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And a very good morning to DT and all
(Am I bad! 🙂 )
Perhaps DT or someone clever can tell me why hospitals, the civil service (skiving villains) and the rest are still doing all this nonsense for a virus with a lower mortality rate than flu? If it ever was exceptional, it isn’t now!
And a very good morning to you, too!
Without wishing to usurp the commentary of DT on this subject (or any other), I suspect that they may have been driven to it by necessity. Perhaps the nonsense that incensed us and damaged so many is (even by their lights) one of those things that really is unsustainable?
Signed, someone not clever but curious.
Morning Alter. “Nice to see you to see you nice!” 🙂
You too, Mogwai!
I think the NHS hospitals actually were told patients no longer had to be. Period.
Why?
Vast sums of money have been made by a certain select few and the government now know they can frighten the public into complete compliance with a scary virus story.
Haha, no you’re not you’re normal. People are justified at having a grumble over trolls and rude posters but moaning and acting offended over people posting mere greetings and the exchanging of pleasantries? Give me a break!! It does give a sense of what somebody’s like in real life doesn’t it? 😉
Good morning right back atcha! 🙂
Yes! Good morning!
One of the possibilities is that ‘good morning’ creates relationships, relationships create community. Community supports people who otherwise feel alone, (like I did) and helps them to continue to be strong. Ergo, by downticking simple greetings it gives the impression that this site btl is only for clever people critiquing articles, not for building friendships – which if allowed to continue will destroy sceptic support groups and force us back into line.
So Good Morning good morning! (Dances to an old tune)
Good morning, good morning to you. Where’s my downticks then? 🙂
I’ve read some heart breaking accounts on here over the years (2 years old now!), including btl posters (who the Times muppets despise), of the traumas suffered by people because of these human rights abuses (and let’s not forget how they unforgivably set out to make people afraid). Anything that can lift people’s spirits or raise a smile has got to be a good thing!
<3 Good morning back to you Hugh! Maybe the phantom downticker has taken a better job?
I recall deep distress being shared, and comfort (as well as practical help) being offered in return.
Every day, DS posters provide me with interesting information and opinions, and make me smile and very often laugh aloud. I am grateful to them/you all.
Shouldn’t that be LOL (and thee/thou – see below)? 🙂
And DS/LS, come to think of it. Yeehaw! 🙂
I forgot my LOL! Not liking the plural for thee/thou – how about youse?
LS is a distant memory now, Hugh – I’m living in the (new) zone …
Yes, “youse” really should be a word, like the French. Other languages seem to mostly have more than one word for you. It seems we used to.
This is the thing about the ‘peaceful protests/demos’ – they are really social gatherings where people go to see their friends and have a day out in London, and feel part of ‘the community’ when they wave their placards and all shout slogans together.
5pm train and home in time for tea.
“Force us back into line” – everybody has been ‘in line’ from the start of ‘Covid’ whether you want to believe it or not. The Government has been firmly in control all this time, assisted by the Police and the courts.
And remember these lockdowns were destroying community. My big idea through them was that we should support anyone who was trying to live the old normal (in my case, an anti-lockdown minded prayer group) even if it was something we wouldn’t normally do. Remember also that many people are still being distressed by a distopian world of masks, skiving etc. This is still a bad time for some.
I do worry about you sometimes EF.
If this community, and the communities we build going to protests, don’t matter then why on earth do you come to chat here? You know perfectly well that one of the reasons its so important to shut down churches and pubs is because those are the places that allow people to build groups, and groups can grow into rebellion. Any hope we have is there because o sites like this one, because of protests, SitP, because of community.
I know you’ve struggled more than I have through this because of where we live having different levels of severity of closure – I get that. But for me, and for others like me, these communities you seem to be deriding kept us going. I am enormously grateful for this place. The people on here have been like going to the pub and having a late night discussion about things, getting opposing viewpoints, getting new insights, discussing things in light of other people’s broader education so that new ideas can be built.
Don’t give up just yet EF.
Spot on and I concur 100%! It’s even more valuable to come here when you are surrounded by people who are essentially ‘opposition’ or just downright sheeple. We need to find our tribe and for me this place is it.
Do tell us about the violent protests you’ve been spearheading in Finland, and how well they have worked in stopping covidianism.
Or perhaps you think that posting sarky comments pointlessly belittling what others are doing somehow helps our cause?
Many of us joined marches and then formed SITP groups to meet other people who could see the bigger picture. It was blessed relief, I can tell you, to be with others who thought on similar lines, with whom you could acts talk to and not be scorned. I agree the marches don’t achieve much but it does help form wide-ranging connections. Many of us are working locally now to bring about awareness and we have people joining and supporting us. It’s the new networking that’s important now, a lot of it off-line too, as we build new communities of friends that are working together to support one another.
Someone in my anti-lockdown prayer group asserts that conventional politics is useless and that it’s building good local communities that can change things.
I agree.
Imagine if nobody marched; if nobody demonstrated.
For tyrants, silence and an absence of visible protests indicates compliance and submission. That emboldens them further.
LOL good point, never thought of that! I just like to start the day in a positive way and appreciate the same from others too. It sets the tone. I tend not to over-think these things as, for me anyway, kindness and friendliness go a long way and it’s my default mindset. And I hear you about the feeling of loneliness and isolation. Certainly during lockdown the only interaction for many was online and if building connections that way is of no consequence to some then fair enough. “Stay in your own lane”, to coin an American phrase.
Morning to you too! 🙂
Outstandingly good points, Scaredmama. And good morning to you (from seated position).
“Seated position”? That was also in that film Broken Journey. “The way I take everything – lying down”.
Lying or sedentary or standing up, may we all continue to oppose the current tyranny in our own way!
I would be dancing – but it’s been a long day. Restrictions are about to be reduced in the countdown to the Australian election: details are emerging.
Good moaning!
And thanks. I – like I think you said to Hugh – am very grateful for this place and you people. Even the cantankerous voices are really important. Maybe especially, as I sometimes feel my fears are at war with my anger and its nice to see both reflected.
Top of the morning to you, Hugh.
Sadly, the Cerberuses gatekeeping Our NHS (Envy of the World) still get to snarl “Muzzle, now!” at us.
Here’s the bit that puzzles me.
Our NHS (Envy of the World) is currently groaning under the strain not of patient demand, but of staff being “off sick” with the plague.
Yet, the staff of Our NHS (Envy of the World) all wear muzzles religiously, and presumably in the correct fashion. They constantly perform the rituals of purification. Their faith – I mean, their infection status – is regularly tested.
So riddle me this. If any of those measures actually reduce infection by an aerosolised virus, how come it’s Our NHS (Envy of the World) staff who seem most prone to coming down with this nosocomial plague?
Makes a borg think. Sadly, it doesn’t appear to have impinged on the cerebrums of the NHS Mandarins or Good Scientists.
Gooooood morning!
I wonder how many of the current problems (not the ones they’ve had for years) of Our NHS (TM) would disappear if they stopped all the “covid” nonsense?
(P.S. maybe I’m being thick, but what’s a “borg”? I keep hearing this term, but I’m still not quite sure what it is…)>
Its from Star Trek. They were a race (?) of humanoid cyborgs which functioned as a hive mind. It was a vehicle for dramas about free will and free thought. Also for many a not-so-hidden love of a rather gorgeous actress who played a Borg designated Seven of Nine (if I remember rightly). Proper Trekkies do correct my errors.
Thanks.
Still being thick, but I’ve tended to conflate Star Trek and Star Wars. What is the actual difference (is Star Trek the funny one?)? I did actually go through a period when I was a bit interested in sci-fi (Have Space Suit Will Travel), but never Star Trek or Star Wars, though I have watched quite a bit of Red Dwarf. My current position is that “the aliens” almost certainly don’t exist, though it may suit the CIA (and NASA) to keep us guessing. Follow the money…
Star Trek was a TV series that spawned movies, whilst Star Wars was a set of movies that spawned TV. Star Trek is ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ and Star Wars was ‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away’. Star Trek is a bit H Rider Haggard whilst Star Wars is Cowboy movies in space.
I’m not sure either are funny, except incidentally. 😀
I like cowboy movies, particularly John Wayne and James Stewart.
I once read that Star Wars reads like it was written by an Oxbridge professor of classics. And I seem to remember a Guardian cartoonist who derided (Labour deputy leader) Tom Watson as “Watso D2”, though I was never quite sure why. (Actually, I think it was because he was seen as a bit robotic). “Exeter8 destroy”…
Um, at the risk of self-exposure, Star Trek episodes involving tribbles were deliberately amusing (see “The Trouble with Tribbles”, Season 2).
Omg I’d forgotten the bloody tribbles!!!!!!! I stand/sit corrected.
Tribble fan here too! In fact, the James T Kirk era was my fave of the Star Treks as I was a kid then and appreciated the rubber aliens and polystyrene rocks more. And all of the cast of course. You can’t beat Scotty, Spock et al…LOL Now you’ve reminded me of the Spitting Image song “Star Treking across the universe…” Haha
Oops rewind. Not Spitting Image, The Firm. Very funny though; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYFK4Wa5NI
Ah, a trekkie! A real bona fide trekkie.
Continuing in the spirit of self exposure (and at the risk of digressing somewhat), “worst episode ever” (Comic Book Guy and probable Trekkie). Sadly, tribbles mean nothing to me…
We more serious types prefer to be referred to as “trekkers”. We do not wear the ears.
Ah yes the Tribbles I remember them well.
Could never understand why the toy makers didn’t make them.
If you want to understand the real basis of the politics of the modern world, this discussion will help you to get there. Robert Barnes: “the political class in Europe and the West cares more about this sort of globalist type project and their own utopian vision than they do loyalty to their own people“. A very good wide-ranging discussion, including the core global issue of the day, which in one form or another underlies almost every major political and strategic dispute and controversy, including the various mass hysterias (covid, BLM, climate alarmism etc), including the Ukraine war – namely elites versus populists, globalists versus patriots. This refers back to Prof Glenn Diesen’s observation, that I’ve posted here previously, about Russia as an ally in a “world split along a national-patriotism versus cosmopolitan-globalism divide”. Including a great discussion of populist conservative antiwar sentiment in the US. “J.D.Vance got to be a test case. Let’s see in a contested Republican Senate primary, where he’s going up against one candidate who had already won state-wide office before, another candidate who’s self-funded and can completely out-fund him. What does taking a position on the war do? Does it collapse his support? And the… Read more »
I would very much enjoy a panel discussion involving Robert Barnes, Alistair Crooke, Glenn Diesen and Fabio Vighi (listed in strictly alphabetical order), for a start. Special topic: How the hell did we get here?
I welcome other names: these are simply those of the last four I have read or heard.
Radio 4 banging the drum for more war this morning.
I just cannot understand why so many of the middle class and intelligent people I meet on a daily basis, are wrapped up in so much complacency and trust in this “government.”
They will not think and assess the truth from lies.
Radio 4? Go Azov! For socialist nationalism and the Groan!
Coming just in time for Christmas: the smartphone app that can determine what you’ve eaten by the odour of your farts.
Coming soon: the Arsephone.
Does it come with free mask in case of wind?
(I’ve been calling them smartarse phones for some time. And I remain appalled at the way people who don’t get these pieces of misery are increasingly marginalised).
‘ Pfizer have put in a hefty offer to acquire ResApp which uses machine learning to analyse the sounds of your cough, MailOnline reports’
Pfizer/government official ‘Cough into this app’
Me ‘But I’m perfectly healthy’
Pfizer/government official ‘As I suspected,the app says you have asymptomatic covid, I am placing you in quarantine so that you cn be put down, I mean treated, with midazolam and a tube in your lungs’
Me ‘I want to appeal this, I want to speak to my MP’.
Pfizer/government official ‘You’re out of luck, he is nusing a massive hangover from last might’s party, I mean work event, and isn’t taking any calls’.
I haven’t retained the link for the “study”, but it basically showed that the app is reasonably good at differentiating between the coughs of people with SARS-CoV-2 and people without an actual cough (faking one). It is utter horse-shit.
Everything the first fish does is pure politics, including the covid theatrics. I bet she was delighted when her divisive policies resulted in vigilantes policing the Scottish borders to keep out those filthy sassenachs.
Having read the Grauniad article, I idly scrolled down and learned that the ‘most commented’ piece just now is one about using up left-over anchovies.
My oh my, that bunch really have their finger on the pulse of national feeling.
Nothing to do with your comment really Anne but years ago in the “government shopping list calculator” Gym fees were included.
What government of any colour would include gym fees as essential items in a weekly shopping list for God’s sake?
I wonder what “essentials” are on the list now?
What government would tax energy at a time like this for that matter? My new idea is that there should be a personal allowance of untaxed energy use for private citizens, the same as with income tax. It is unacceptable that vulnerable people face going cold because of these literally punitive taxes.
A really good idea that, Hugh.
Well thought out.
Blimey, I bet half of us could do a better job than some of the idiots in ministerial posts! I reckon I could get a better government just from people I know, and I’m sure I’m not alone.
I’ll vote for you Hugh. Never mind fantasy football – give me ‘Fantasy Government’. EF can be leader of the opposition. GO!
Let’s make a government from btl commenters! Watch out for Times muppets though, they hate us….
More than half of us are able to look at National Gridwatch and determine that with 10.3% of our energy coming from wind, as it is at the moment, ‘renewables’ aren’t going to give us the energy we require.
Sadly, none of that ‘more than half’ are MPs… let alone ministers.
The G doesn’t open/allow comments on anything remotely important or likely to be controversial.
What was that opinion poll tthey had that mysteriously got pulled when they got the wrong answer? Possibly something to do with J. K. Rowling? Wretched sellouts!
Yes JK it was.
In times of austerity it behooves us to use things responsibly rather than waste them. Expect “Ten things to do with left-over Quinoa”, shortly…
The bin. The garbage, the trash, the dump, the skip, the compost heap, the neighbour’s cat…
sorry, can only find 7. (I hate Quinoa)
Very healthy though apparently. And black rice. I’d never even heard of it before lockdown…
The only specific adverse effects data that has been published for children is 73 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis (inflammation of the heart) in under-18s. This is worrying not least because of the rising and unexplained death toll in young men reported elsewhere in these pages, but also because it is now well-established that the likelihood of this reaction in young men is higher than their risk of myocarditis from Covid infection; a risk which the NHS has warned as being especially the case ‘in young men under the age of 40‘. (TCW). Yes, I had my suspicions when all those sportsmen started keeling over. (And a ball girl at the Australian Open. Because of a fire apparently…) Given the lack of information published as to the adverse effects experienced by the 3.4 million children injected thus far, we have to ask was there consent is truly informed? The answer has to be no, it was not. I hope that every last person who gave children these injections without fully informed consent is prosecuted. If they are going to give fines for every last “party” at Downing Street, surely putting children at risk is worth some sort of action. But I forgot, children don’t matter any… Read more »
Wow. I clicked that link – it says that each successive dose increases the possibility of developing heart issues but not to worry, because as long as it doesn’t kill you its ok to keep taking more doses even if you do have a little bit of heart problems. I simply do not understand this. It seems so illogical to choose to deliberately do something which might hurt you in order to avoid catching something which might hurt you IF you catch it.
I know you all know this – I just thought I’d FINALLY found a link I could send to my brother in law to prevent further dosing of his son, but it is no use because all he’ll see is that bit. It’s hopeless.
I really do hope that nobody is stupid enough to take four doses a year (or however many it ends up as) for years. In any case, it sounds like less dangerous options are starting to become available so hopefully it won’t come to that.
Well done BLM!
Incidentally, I recall at a London lockdown (and “vaccine” mandate) demo that there were many groups represented. I do not recall BLM being there (although there were some black people). Why weren’t they standing shoulder to shoulder with us, seeing as “vaccine” discrimination disproportionately affects black people, and lockdowns have caused huge suffering in African countries (like Kenya)?
Well, I’ve had covid, I’ve had the variants, I’ve only just recently got over a stinking cold – I’ve never visited the doctor or gone to A&E – when I was coughing sneezing, aching and feeling generally a bit run-down I stayed home until I was over the worst in a day or two – I’m unjabbed, I’ve never worn a mask, I’ve never tested myself and I’ve never socially distanced either … I commuted and worked all through the pandemic and in that time I have come into close contact with hundreds and hundreds of people … and yet here I am still alive and kicking. Wtf happened? According to the government and sage I should be pushing up the daises by now – either that or seriously ill in hospital on life support full of regrets about not taking their advice and accepting their offer of an experimental jab. Apparently I was just lucky according to some people – but I don’t buy it. And still I’ve yet to meet anyone who knows of someone who actually died of covid (not with covd) – for a supposedly highly contagious and deadly virus that was on par with the… Read more »
I still have no idea if I’ve had the lugy, and proud of it!
I suspect that people like us will end up healthier than the covidians…
Should read “the lurgy” of course! (Still a typo though according to my resident spellcheck!)
Never jabbed, never tested.
Took a walk this afternoon (April-May is the time to visit Perth, assuming we ever have visitors again) and passed the local testing station. All staff outside, including one lone soul kerbside who desperately wanted to give me a pamphlet. But social distancing does have its advantages…
Presumably Perth, somewhere in Australia (my Australian geography is abysmal), not Perth, Perthshire!
Yes. Mark Steyn was also talking about this on GB News (“her penis”!).
I heard about someone who sent an e-mail saying “pronouns – she, her” – and got a reply saying “pronouns – thee, thou”! I thought that was rather good…
Incidentally Mr (if I’m not jumping to conclusions…) Steyn also mentioned the aircraft steward singing about masks. His sort of steward!
The best way to fight this, is to take the Mickey… ‘thee/thou’, I shall use that if I even need to, unless anyone can suggest something better?
“Shelve your DIY projects, cries NHS as A&Es come under ‘extreme pressure’”
The NHS has apparently got too used to dictating the nation’s economic activity according to the state of the health service. What’s the betting, though, that it won’t be lobbying to avoid joining in the Ukraine war because it’s already under too much strain?
RE Mandates (some of them) being removed in Victoria: too soon?
Kim Jong Dan?
You’ll have to tell me who it is in the picture though, I’m terrible with names and faces…
That’s the Jailer in Chief himself! Masky Mark McClown, High Pontiff of The Western Lands.
Ah. I googled him (or duckduckgo’d him anyway). Apparently he was acting as a midwife (or should that be midspouse? Spellchecker says no…).
It seems his stooges stopped a Catholic mass over some sort of covid nonsense. A similar thing actually happened at the Good Friday liturgy at a Polish Catholic church in London last year. And then there was the heroic pastor in Canada who I understand was actually incarcerated for continuing services. What distressing times we live in.
That’s McClown all right. The cops walked into the church and shut the mass down.
ANZAC Day, 25th April, is currently the focus of McClown’s idiotic rules. Attendance at the Dawn Ceremony in Kings Park will be limited to 500. A few hours later, an AFL game will be staged at Optus Oval. Limit there? 30,000.
Blimey. Sounds lie the rules for some of our sport last season. And then there was the football club who play on the border of England and Wales and had a double dose of nonsense…
Actually that reminds me. Whilst the churches were closed here, the abortion “clinics” were going full steam ahead. Shows us just where we stand.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/my-latest-interview-on-geopolitics?s=r
Dr. Jessica Rose discusses the fraud we’ve all experienced over the past few years in relation to the pandemic. The data shows negative efficacy regarding the COVID19 vaccine, meaning that it’s actually hurting you. If they can lie about issues surrounding COVID19 so easily, then what have they been lying about the whole time? She goes into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and how the adverse event and death reports related to COVID19 injections are off the chart. The FDA and CDC are not even looking at the data. She believes the vaccine is a segueway into introducing new injection platforms, normalizing injections, and digitizing the human. She agrees the goal of the Vaccine Passports is to install the Social Credit System. The WHO Pandemic Treaty will be the total loss of sovereignty for all countries and individuals. That’s the end.
https://www.newswars.com/doctor-lee-merritt-warns-this-is-an-extinction-level-event/
Dr. Lee Merritt of The Medical Rebel joins The Alex Jones Show to warn the public of the possible extinction-level threat humanity faces against the globalist medical tyranny takeover.
https://www.newswars.com/dr-lee-merritt-warns-new-lockdowns-are-coming-learn-how-to-stop-it/
Dr. Lee Merritt joins The Alex Jones Show to warn about new lockdowns on the horizon.
“Why aren’t we talking about the Islamist uprising in Sweden?”
A reasonable enough article pointing out the inherent intolerance and violence baked into islam, which ends with the bizarre virtue signal:
Even when talking about, it O’Neil can’t bring himself to talk about it.
The instruction manual being burned mandates the response to burning it. Absent Ahmadis – considered non-muslim apostates, and persecuted by All True Muslims – there is no sect or version of islam that believes or preaches otherwise.
So why pretend otherwise?
An phone app to analyse the sound of your cough? Are we going to be instructed to isolate for 10 days every time we clear our throats?
Not if you don’t have a smartarse phone…
We also need to be talking about the true scale of national debt. Merely looking at the official debt-to-GDP ratio masks a big problem – the growth of unfunded liabilites. For example, since it was created, annual spending on the NHS as a percentage of GDP has more than doubled, and with an ageing population state pensions are a growing headache for the Treasury.
Back when the UK government was paying off the huge debt after WWII they didn’t have nearly such a large bill for continuing these unfunded liabilities, so the fact that our debt-to-GDP ratio is still lower than it was then is not really significant, it’s the size of the deficit that matters. With looming inflation interest rates are likely to rise further, and so the deficit will increase.
“The True Scale Of National Debt – UK”
http://participator.online/articles/2022/04/the_true_scale_of_national_debt_uk_20220418.php
This government has completely betrayed us. Back in 2010, I never would have thought that a “Conservative” government would bankrupt the country though Blair’s lot didn’t half do their bit. The government used to talk about reducing the deficit (and who knows, if that continued for long enough, even reducing national debt). Unfortunately it seems that that has long since been abandoned. Who knows, maybe the MMT works, though I have my doubts. Perhaps the most serious crisis in the world today *and a major factor in the “South Russia” business) is the demographic crisis of an ageing population, but where is the political party offering pro-natalist solutions? Nigel Farage is supposed to be a bit anti-establishment, but he just loves the Optimum Population Trust (eugenicist) lot. and dismissive of this demographic crisis (though I think Mark Steyn knows). In an ideal world, we would have higher interest rates so that people could get a return on their savings and have an incentive to save, but perhps that is not possible in our current debt laden world. I just don’t see any east way out, and fully expect decades of falling living standards, with all that that implies in the… Read more »
I think the truth about MMT (I call it the Magic Money Tree) is that it doesn’t work. Printing money does not stimulate the economy whether you do it by QE or Corbynomics etc., that should be clear by now after more than a decade of intermittent QE, we are now in a giant mess with accumulated debt. All it does is drive up inflation, the difference between QE and Corbynomics being just that with QE the inflation is specifically in assets (i.e. mostly it’s just the rich who get richer) whereas with Corbynomics the inflation is more direct and starts to be noticed more quickly by the general public. Now partly thanks to Larry Fink’s Going Direct plan, and partly due to the various other crises, we now have that more immediate inflation in consumer goods that Corbynomics would have produced. The collusion with the Fed on this is the other huge scandal that almost nobody is talking about (I strongly suspect the plandemic was created partly as cover for this). Interest rates are going up again as a result, I’m pretty sure that is on the cards now, you can’t keep interest rates near zero indefinitely. Our politics are corrupt in… Read more »
As well as his Evening Standard job? Blimey, how many jobs does the man have?!
He left that and has gone into another investment bank called Robey Warshaw now apparently, he got an even better offer presumably.
Bob Snow is proof of the horrors of the damages being done by forced injections. And his story is not unique.My heart goes out to you and I hope you fly again one day.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/bon-snow-is-proof-of-the-horrors?s=r
Forced injectios of experimental muck really are crimes against humanity.
Should read injections. D’oh…
A court has formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the US on espionage charges, in what will ultimately be a decision for the UK home secretary, Priti Patel.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/20/uk-court-approves-extradition-of-julian-assange-to-us?CMP=GTUS_email
The Wikileaks co-founder, who has the right of appeal, appeared by videolink during the Westminster magistrates court hearing, which one of his barristers described as a “brief but significant moment in the case”.
Mark Summers QC, for Assange, told the chief magistrate that he had no option but to send the case to the home secretary. It was not open, at this point, for Assange’s team to raise fresh evidence but there had been “fresh developments”, he added.
Summers said “serious submissions” would be made to the home secretary regarding US sentencing and conditions.
The brief hearing was taking place after the supreme court last month refused Assange’s appeal against his extradition. He had sought to challenge a judgment by the high court in December that ruled he could be extradited after assurances from the US authorities with regard to his prison conditions there.
An extradition order was issued by the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, during the seven-minute hearing.
I wonder if Assange will get shafted as Mark Steyn suspects?
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-injury-compensation-system?s=r
As reported by Maryanne Demasi, PhD in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the national system for compensating the COVID-19 vaccine injured has not paid out a single claim.
The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) was set up to address vaccine injuries associated with vaccines and other countermeasures during a pandemic or bio-threat event. A person cannot sue a manufacturer for an injury caused by a vaccine or other product listed as a countermeasure, they can only seek compensation from CICP by filing a claim. Shockingly, the US government through CICP has only approved one claim and has yet to pay out a single dollar to anyone vaccine injured or for death benefits to those who have died
But they told people that before they participated in the experiment though didn’t they? Didn’t they?
Unfortunately, the article and physics paper used in:
supports the popular idea that conservatives are dummies. Some silly person decides that somebody’s random “pay-to-publish” article proves most of modern physics wrong and confuses ignorance for a critique of experts.
What sticks out is the paper’s in-passing statement that photons have mass, which would invalidate most of special relativity.
In general one should keep a wide berth when somebody promotes common sense because the math of the accepted solution is too complicated. In fact the math of general relativity underlies much of advanced math these days. It isn’t that hard. It’s just unfamiliar.
Reminds me of the person who demonstrated that the measured speed of light had been slowing down over the years. I think a furious smear campaign was launched against him
.Come to think of it, I don’t quite see why anything that exists should not have mass. And I understand that dark matter and dark energy are extrapolations at best.
A lot of modern physics is counterintuitive. Our experience tells us that matter has mass. The first dictionary I came upon defines matter as such: “That which occupies space and has mass; physical substance.” But mass isn’t implied by matter. Without the existence of the Higgs Boson (recently found at CERN but theorized for years before) NOTHING would have mass.
“Occupying space” is not incredibly well defined, but that isn’t really a property of matter either. You could say matter excludes other matter, but that is only the case with fermions, not bosons (photons are bosons).
Astonishing. Quite honestly, I find quite a lot of physics rather mind bending – and not least the astonishing fact that time is flexible, which for me remains the most astonishing discovery of modern science (though the mind boggling complexity of a human cell must run it close). But there it is, proven beyond doubt (or at least overwhelmingly suggested by cumulative probability, as my philosopher friend might say).
Is anyone else watching the Macron-Le Pen debate?
She’s winding him up by patronising the cr*p out of him.
She’s calm; he’s agitated. Wow.
He’s saying he knows about how people live in France because he’s visited lots of places since becoming president. More than 600 apparently. He knows about stuff outside of Paris then. The idea of France versus Paris obviously benefits her. I can’t remember whether there will be a break or not, but if there is he’s going to get a right b***ocking from his manager.
If he stays agitated when the topic turns to McKinsey, he could be in trouble.
He’s going at her for borrowing from a Russian bank.
She said he stopped her from borrowing in France.
He denied it.
She said “But weren’t you the minister for the economy?”
Macron: “But I wasn’t the minister of finance.”
He’s using some good moves with face and arms, but he has also picked his face a few times, which looks awful, and overall he seems as though he’s on autopilot.
“I have greater ambitions than you,” she said.
Probably about the only thing he can say.
(I must admit I like picking my face…).