News Round-Up
- “Britain faces recession and 10% inflation as interest rates rise” – The Telegraph reports dire predictions on growth and unemployment as the Bank of England raises rates to 1%.
- “Why women piled on more lockdown pounds than men: Mothers were more likely to bear the brunt of childcare during Covid shut-ins… but men generally ‘carried on as they were’, study shows” – Researchers analysed data on 938,000 British adults and found Covid curbs had a “differential impact” on the sexes, reports the Mail.
- “‘Wonderful’ mother-of-two, 36, died from first dose of Pfizer vaccine” – Dawn Wooldridge, 36, of Twyford, Berkshire, died unexpectedly on June 15th last year; her family was shocked as a pathologist revealed his belief she died of rare complications from the Pfizer jab, the Mail reports.
- “Britain’s Troubled National Health Service” – Public satisfaction with the National Health Service has fallen to its lowest level in more than 20 years, writes Noel Yaxley in City Journal.
- “Gates and Sridhar have both released books – I will not be reading them!” – Roger Watson writes for Unity News Network that Bill’s book is How to prevent the next pandemic and Devi’s book is Preventable: “If only the books themselves could have been prevented.”
- “OCLA Statement on CMAJ Fisman et al. Article Claiming Disproportionate Infection Risk from Unvaccinated Population, and on Negligent Media Reporting” – The Ontario Civil Liberties Association takes apart the latest modelling study that claims to find the unvaccinated are a public health risk.
- “FDA Limits Authorised Use of J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine” – The Wall Street Journal reports that the agency said it is making the change after confirming nine deaths tied to a clotting condition among those who received the Johnson & Johnson shot.
- “The lockdown on dissent” – Jay Bhattacharya talks to Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill about how the scientific establishment suppressed the Covid debate.
- “How Covid Lockdowns Came to Italy” – Italy’s adoption of China’s containment policy was one of the most important events instigating lockdowns across the free world, and, according to Michael P. Senger, “one of the most darkly clever aspects of the lockdown operation”.
- “Britain’s care home residents have been suffering greatly due to Covid mandates, understaffing” – Although the Covid vaccine mandate has been scrapped, care homes are still understaffed, with many new recruits lacking essential training, writes Natalie White in LifeSite News.
- “‘Not Good for Learning’” – New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities, reports the New York Times.
- “Climate change crisis will ‘dwarf’ cost of living pain, says Mark Carney” – The former Governor of the Bank of England and now UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance believes that governments must ‘seize the moment’ of the Ukraine crisis and move away from fossil fuels, according to the Telegraph.
- “Green Energy Policies have made NATO an Unreliable would be Ally to Finland?” – Mikko Paunio’s take on Finland’s NATO question.
- “Workplace lawsuits over ‘banter’ hit record high” – The Telegraph reports that former colleagues are clashing over what they deem to be acceptable office humour.
- “Stonewall is lecturing firms on transgender issues, tribunal told” – Barrister Allison Bailey accuses LGBT charity of “proselytising” on “gender theory” as part of a concerted effort to change people’s views, the Telegraph reports.
- “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Transgender Galaxy (Part I)” – Carol Dansereau on why gender identity ideology must be fought.
- “Biden’s sinister Ministry of Truth” – Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack for TCW Defending Freedom says it’s true, the United States Government really does have a Disinformation Governance Board, its very own Ministry of Truth.
- “The fight is on to censor Elon Musk’s Twitter” – If Elon Musk truly intends to make Twitter a free-speech platform, he’s clearly got a fight on his hands, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
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Morning all.
Good morning, hp!
Good morning!
Not so much of the ‘good’, though. Not that I am expecting much good for the now virtually doomed UK, not to mention the ‘Free’ West!
Morning, Hux!
Morning, Downtickers!
Intercourse the Downtickers!
Good morning!
I came across this article just now, of very high relevance for everyone in Oz
https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/Agriculture-Legislation-Amendment-Bill-2022
From the Parliament of Victoria, aka Danistan. Sounds like he cribbed from the WA legislation that Alter Ego posted this week, in regards to powers of – there’s that phrase again – authorised officers.
The Victorian Farmers Federation has issued a Chip Diller style ‘Remain calm. All is well!’ which, were I living under Dan, would have me looking for a way across the border.
Thanks Aethelred.
Morning!
“Climate change crisis will ‘dwarf’ cost of living pain, says Mark Carney.”
It would appear the financial wizard is also now a climate scientist and intent on forcing millions into cold misery and penury.
Damned talented this Davos lot. Ex computer salesmen writing books and providing governments with medical advice and wankers, whoops bankers, morphing into climate specialists who know exactly how to set the world to oh, let’s see…shall we say Gas Mark 3, or perhaps 4. Maybe 8 even. Anyway Carney will sort it for us.
There’s a disturbingly large number of people who have immensely inflated opinions of themselves, with which they infect other people.
They enjoy telling the not-very-bright egotists who fill governmental positions that they are experts; who know what matters and how, and what to do about it.
We need to look at the experts governments don’t employ or listen to at all: on epidemiology (Sunetra Gupta?); Big Pharma and vaccines (Mike Yeadon?); “climate change” and the economy (take your pick, really).
On military matters, they might have tried listening to Douglas Macgregor or Jacques Baud.
But, no.
‘There’s a disturbingly large number of people who have immensely inflated opinions of themselves, with which they infect other people.’
Pity those opinions aren’t as lethal as covid shots.
Carney is a dangerous man.
I take it he is WEF alumni?
Hard core…
I imagine Carney as a wimpy child much like Trudeau.
I agree and that has been my opinion since he was installed at the B of E. What actually did he do at B of E?
That should read ‘The response of the globalists political class to the fraud that is man made climate change will dwarf the current cost of living crisis’.
They are both dogmatic and stupid.
In one of her latest moves, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (one of the principal members of that class), is proposing sanctions against Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (according to Politico, reporting on a leaked draft).
His sin is not that of offending God. He has offended them.
What possible good do they think this could do? How can they not see the offence this will give to the Orthodox faithful?
Answer? They don’t see because they don’t care, and they don’t care because they are blinded by their outrageous egotism.
And what does that even mean ‘sanctions against Patriarch Kirill’? They’re going to cut off his supply of holy oil? Or burn his song books? It’s just another level of madness.
Yes – completely mad. The mere suggestion will strengthen Russian resolve and deeply concern the Orthodox.
But then they’re not good on consequences generally.
it is politically correct virtue signalling, in the process telling everyone else how to think and act.
They hate anything to do with any aspect of Christianity so this is natural for them.
And just more miserable pessimistic forecasting to keep us peasants in anxiety mode rather than any uplifting, optimistic visioning to give us all hope and keep us cheerful. I think we’ve all had enough of these types of people. They say absolutely nothing of any real value and yet the media love ’em for all the doom-laden sound-bites and headlines they can craft from their ‘dead’ words. No thanks. I think it’s time we actually created our own parallel society and all the people who wish to live in caves and hair shirts and listen to how awful life is going to be can join Carney and Whitty etc and we’ll start doing all the things that nurture, nourish, enliven and bring joy to life.
Hear, hear.
I’ve noticed how often the same old word salads are trundled out by our esteemed leaders, and other compliant puppets of NGOs and all the rest. It’s all sounding very old, and very tired. I do think people are switching off, even the normies. Everyone is weary. I think people are starting to realise there is a life worth living if they look for it.
I haven’t read Bill Gates book.
But here is a summary –
All countries should give total power to the WHO whenever there is a pandemic
(Bill controls the WHO)
Let the WHO decide if there is a pandemic and if or when it ever ends.
Pump every human being on the planet with as many vaccines as possible as often as possible, the less safety testing the better, so that Bill can make a shit ton of money from his pharma interests (and depopulate the planet as a completley unforseen side effect of injecting people with his
poisionsvaccines}.New petition on the gov website: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614335
Don’t like the sound of that petition! I think those behind this would love ‘the public’ to decide via a national referendum. As, sadly, the majority of people would probably be quite happy for the WHO to be in charge!
Agree. Referenda results, as we all know, can be manipulated and if a majority of the public is coerced into going along with the WHO pandemic treaty, they’ll say they have the agreement of the British public. Very dangerous territory. Thin ice. From what I’ve seen over the last decade or so, probably longer, the public are easily fooled.
On the money, ATR! petitions like these are used to steer the public, unsuspecting…or mostly just dim, into the outcome THEY want!
I think Bill Gates must be among the most boring men on the planet. He is dull and tedious beyond compare. His vision is lifeless and flabby, well, he has no vision at all. Anyone giving him any attention is going to be bought and paid for.
Billys father was one of the founders of the abortion industry. His involvement in population control and planned Parenthood together with his wife, had a big influence on his childhood.
Hence his obsession with population reduction via inoculation and the global warming method.
Yes, that’s right. Breakfast time must have been a real hoot in the Gates household.
“See all those people, Bill(ious)?” Gates’ Dad says. “The more of them, there are, the less Cheerios for you. Work it out, son.”
“Thanks, dad. Can you catch viruses from Cheerios?”
Love it.
Actually he’s also bloody thick but for a few dollars it would appear you can convince many of your outsize intellect.
As others have rightly put it:
Billy cannot even cure computer viruses but he sure as hell reckons he can cure any virus / pathogen which might infect humanity.
(Depending how “good” his labs are of course.)
Well, that sounds like a page-turner!
Inspirational stuff: Utter Devastation and Destruction for Dummies, by the Man Who Would be God.
I don’t imagine Gates is motivated by profit. He is a man who thinks he knows what should be done for our benefit and is in a rather strong position to put his ideas into practice.
The trouble seems to be that his schemes aren’t half as good as he thinks they are.
The trouble is is that he seems a bit of a nerd, who doesn’t understand life, the meaning of life or what it is to live it or how to live it, and despite that must have a lot of arrogance to feel that he can impose his view of it on the entirety of the planet’s population.
Brownstone has done a review…
https://brownstone.org/articles/choice-quotes-from-bill-gatess-new-book/
TLDR: Lockdowns work, Lockdowns are marvelous, call me Mr. Lockdown – here’s a scientific graph to prove it, next time we’ll do it harder and longer…
Yep, without reading it you know it’s going to be a dreary and predictable ego puff piece, probably with great chunks plagiarised from the Rockefeller “lockstep” document of 2010, with Billy boy’s proclamation on how he and “WHO” else is going to save the world! I could be wrong…but I bet I’m not. Not that I care.
A commendably thorough and succinct summary of the current state of the world.
I think that should be: All countries should give total power to the ME.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JhM3YB7lyg
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New petition concerning the WHO Pandemic Treaty.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614335
“Climate change crisis will ‘dwarf’ cost of living pain, says Mark Carney”
Almost as if he is saying that we should all be happy about the rising cost of living and even be thankful for it … ‘look, I know prices everywhere are sky-rocketing and energy prices are hitting the roof, but hey, thats nothing compared to the climate change crisis thats heading our way … soon’ish. So just be thankful for small mercies eh – this man-made economic depression will seem like a walk in the park compared to man-made climate change that our computer modellers are predicting .. yes, thats right – those same computer modellers who predicted millions of deaths from covid unless we locked down the entire country and shutdown the economy are now predicting a climate change catastrophe that is ready to wreak havoc on all our lives unless we take urgent action now … like wrecking the economy and destroying livelihoods … so stop your whining you ‘orrible little lot and shut up about the cost of living crisis – I don’t want to hear no more about it.
Crisis, what crisis?
Another phantom like the ‘rona, where there were no bodies in the streets, no delays for undertakers or crematoria, just an administrative exercise in making life difficult for everyone.
I see administrative issues with paperwork, farmers paid for not growing food, taxes piled on citizens, but I don’t see any actual issues with the climate.
Yes – the bodies in the streets are gathering quietly in far off poor countries, as those on the economic margins die because they cannot afford energy.
The availability of hot water for bathing, laundry etc is one of the big drivers for improvements in health. Many modern houses have no alternatives, at least in the 1930s houses had fires and ranges on which it was possible to heat water.
Misery is coming.
Ah – they were seizing the moment with COVID two years ago. If there was any doubt that the Ukraine war and the COVID war and the Climate Change War are aspects of the same deliberate movement, they must surely fade away.
Yes Jon,
I am glad you got that in because soon you will have the Gestapo knocking your door down for writing the truth.
Look at what is happening in America with Joeobamas Ministry of Truth, Boris Corbyn and his own version, and now 42 countries meeting on how to control the internet.
Our days of almost free speech is limited.
I just noticed recently that Obama in reverse is latin for I will love/like you. Yep: those sentiments in reverse surely apply to the tnuc!
is It not irresponsible to be constantly telling the public we are in a crisis. We are just moving on from Covid and now we are been constantly told we are in a cost of living crisis. Yes petrol and utilities have become more expensive, mostly due to our lousy government not planning properly for gas and Electricty supplies and the stupid net zero agenda, and a food shop is a few quid more but not significantly more expensive. Hardly a crisis!
I think you must have missed that even the Bank of England is now predicting 10% inflation later this year whilst savings interest rates still hover at 0.01%. In other words all our savings are losing at least 10% this year. I am pretty sure that real inflation rates are already above 10% and I can’t see that falling off within 5 years or so. If it walks like a crisis and quacks like a crisis, I should say it really IS a crisis and it could turn much worse yet!
And house prices are STILL rising rapidly, as are rents – and one or other of these makes up a large proportion of may people’s outgoings.
Expense is relative.
And so the ‘trans’ issue rumbles on, to my mind the terms missing from all this are mother and father. I have never come across a trans hedgehog, nature recognises mothers and fathers and if you cannot be one or the other, then what use are you? Before all this started I had not realised the amount of medical intervention, both surgical and pharmaceutical that was going on with regard to gender identity. Whatever they say, to my mind this is effectively turning people into eunuchs. I gather there have been cases of men turning themselves into apparently beautiful women only to find that nobody wanted to date them due to the reality that despite appearances they were sexless. I do feel that society needs to be a bit more tolerant and less rigid in its gender stereotyping, it sometimes seems that the goal in men’s fashion is to make clothing as dull as possible! But considerations of clothing and appearance are a long way from serious medical interventions that affect our ability and likelihood of becoming mothers or fathers. I do wonder what proportion of the UK population really feel that all this gender related medical intervention should be… Read more »
As always, a voice of sanity. Totally agree.
Is anyone else utterly disinclined to read an article about a banker-backed multibillionaire’s purchase of an advertising-and-surveillance website and its database – from a company that has cooperated with the CIA, NSA, and GCHQ since its early days – all dressed up in idiotically applied concepts such as “free speech” and “censorship” (the first of which means almost nothing; the second, something totally different from what most scribblers think it means).
Agree. It’s just another huge distraction. People talk about ‘Elon’ as if he’s a mate doing everyone a good turn while completely forgetting his satellite and neuralink plans. I get the distinct feeling he’s rather full of himself, likes to play the ‘renegade’ billionaire role (smoking a joint on Joe Rogan etc) and is actually part of this evil cabal. He was photographed, if I am to believe anything these days, with a white jacket on a few years ago at some swanky gathering, on which was embroidered some latin text which translated spelled ‘New World Order’ – it’s possible it was fake but I just don’t trust this man.
His sneering and labelling as a paedo of the British guy who rescued the young Thais stuck in the caves sealed my contempt for this ar#ehole.
I have another take on this. I see that the US govt ramped up its determination to stop ‘disinformation’ after Musk bought Twitter with Musk saying he was an advocate of free speech. So, how about this: Musk deliberately says he’s going to pledge more free speech, tweets proliferate including ones full of hate and incitement to violence; government feels justified in starting widespread censorship backed by a compliant public after a media campaign highlighting the most egregious examples, the same thing starts happening everywhere, they target ALL online information that goes against the narrative and ‘hey presto!’ they have what they want. At which point, we start printing stuff and if they ban paper and ink, we’ll write it in chalk on the roads! They will never stop free speech and one day our descendants will look back and wonder how we ever let things get so bad.
The DT has a leader today on the vindication of Sweden’s covid strategy. I won’t put a link as it’s behind a paywall but worth a read if you can get to it, just to see the slight breach in the wall that it represents?
Also i see they now have Lord Frost as a regular columnist, one of the few who speaks up for Britain and has some sound ideas I think. Anyone think that he might be being lined up by some for next leader of the Conservatives? After all, the DT had another columnist who managed it….
You can get round paywalls by pressing ‘escape’ as the page loads up. May take a few tries but it works.
Works on DT and Spectator, but I have never got it to work on FT and various other rags. Still, I shall try again sometime!
just tried 12 ft ladder with FT and it works.
Neat trick: mine is nearer 10 ft – is that OK?
I use 12 foot ladder which works with DT and Speccie, not sure about anything else.
I haven’t got a 12 foot ladder.
Yes, but I do wonder if he would actually walk the walk. I seem to have been let down more than once (I know, massively surprising) by more than one politician!
In his favour, he did resign over the ‘direction of travel’ of the party, not just over brexit and its aftermath but with covid as well.
Unless, of course, it’s all theatre – manipulation and coercion of the peasantry.
Why should ‘THEY’ care, after all, about the finer points of honour? ”Pull up the ladder, Jack, I am suitably provided for….”
Well, that is certainly the reason he gave. It sounds better than the classic, ‘needing to spend more time with his family’. He has however shown himself to be very weak on greenery, covid and Ukraine. I shall preserve my judgement, but I see net zero chance of him getting the top job.
interesting that rt.com is currently unavailable in the UK, have the state blocked it from ISPs? and if so its quite hypocritical considering the press complained when russia did the same.
Yes of course – because we are not allowed to hear alternatives to the Government’s ‘truth’ and make our own minds up how much credence we want to give to Russian propaganda versus UK & Western propaganda.
RT is available with a VPN.
Reportedly there were 700 civilians in the Azovstal steel plant in the Donetsk republic and 500 have now evacuated, so there remain 200. There are also said to be 2000 “Ukrainian fighters” there. What’s a “fighter”? Does it mean a soldier? Recall that the Azov regiment isn’t paramilitary any more – it’s regular. If the “fighters” include some who aren’t regular soldiers in the Ukrainian army, where did they come from? (Note to MSM editors: don’t ask that question. It’s above your pay grade.) As far as I know, the entire western media is pretending that everyone who has ever been in Azovstal since most of Mariupol was taken by Russian forces has either been a civilian or a soldier in the Kiev regime’s army. They are keeping completely shtum about the presence of foreign soldiers whether regular or mercenary. They are also saying that another “United Nations operation” is “underway”. From which country do the UN personnel hail, pray tell? Are they armed? Is it shameful to be, for example, a soldier from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Egypt, or Uruguay, taking part in a UN humanitarian operation? Surely it isn’t shameful at all. If you’re helping civilians in a warzone,… Read more »
”….pathologist revealed his belief she died of rare complications from the Pfizer jab…”
”Rare” as in ”I’ve never seen this before” regardless of the fact that others may have, but didn’t recognise them, or report them, etc.
From a purely military point of view, how do you seize a complex with lots of tunnels housing perhaps 2000 enemy soldiers?
OK, you can use bunker busters, perhaps even a nuclear one. But you may not wish to do that, for example if the enemy is using civilians as a shield.
One weapon you might consider using is a chemical agent. This is what the Russian special forces used who retook a Moscow theatre from a Chechen unit in 2002, although in that case the number of hostages greatly exceeded the number of enemy combatants, unlike (reportedly) in Azovstal. They pumped in gas containing fentanyl or something similar through the air supply, and then stormed the building and tried to take out any still-conscious enemy personnel before they could murder all the hostages.
Sadly a large number of civilians were killed in that operation. But a large number were saved too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ukraine-ap-official-white-house-washington-b2072734.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=Feed Headline and top strap: Official: US gave intel before Ukraine sank Russian warshipThe U.S. says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva prior to the strike that sank the warship Now if that were actually true, it would mean the US told Ukraine the location of a Russian warship while the Ukraine was at war with Russia, and that the US government is admitting it. Regardless of whether the US cooperated in the “targeting”, that would mean the US is now at war with Russia. Which would be pretty big news. But contrary to what it says in the headline, there’s nothing “official” about this statement whatsoever. The U.S. says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva prior to the strike that sank the warship, an incident that was a high-profile failure for Russia’s military.An American official said Thursday that Ukraine alone decided to target and sink the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using its own anti-ship missiles. But given Russia’s attacks on the Ukrainian coastline from the sea, the U.S. has provided “a range of intelligence” that includes locations of those ships, said… Read more »