News Round-Up
- “Over 60,000 people are waiting for cancer checks every month” – Cancer Research U.K. says a lack of specialists in the NHS and problems with capacity are leaving patients waiting for too long, the Telegraph reports.
- “Bill Gates wants to build a dystopia” – The multi-billionaire says one thing, and funds another, writes Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “China faces ‘complicated and grim’ future as Zero-Covid hits economy” – Premier Li Keqiang warns of job losses as lockdowns cause exports to plunge, the Telegraph reports.
- “Entire county can’t find NHS dentist after 2,000 quit in U.K. last year” – The situation has become so bad the NHS has set up a phoneline to help people access emergency dental care, the Mail reports.
- “Apple exec quits over working from home row” – The tech giant’s new policy is stricter than those at Meta, Google and Twitter in demanding staff return to the office, and for one executive it was the final straw, the Telegraph reports.
- “Starmer’s Beergate woes shows why we need a lockdown amnesty” – “Instead of going on and on about Beergate and Partygate, let’s have a complete lockdown amnesty,” writes Brendon O’Neill in the Spectator. “Let’s pay back all the fines that were issued, forgive all the rule-breakers, and move on,”
- “Fourth Covid jab boosts immunity ‘over and above’ third, study finds” – The Mail reports that U.K. researchers, who monitored around 160 Britons in their 50s to 70s who had a fourth dose, found the top-up jab gave a “substantial” boost to antibody and T cell levels, in a new study published in the Lancet, paving the way for the autumn rollout. (Data from Israel show the boost only lasts weeks, however.)
- “Huge Glut of Western COVID-19 Antivirals (Molnupiravir & Remdesivir) will Cost Indian Generic Pharma Dearly” – Few Western media discuss the massive accumulating glut of COVID-19 vaccine and therapies around the world, says TrialSite News. “In places like India, the glut is particularly bad, with companies that lined up to partner with the likes of Merck, Gilead, AstraZeneca, and others now face the loss of millions of dollars while the mountain of unsold drugs and vaccines accumulates.”
- “Children in lockdown: We never thought of them” – With a measly excuse, ‘Boris’ Johnson refused to rule out another lockdown, having clearly failed to recognise the mounting evidence that shutting down the country for months on end does far more harm than good, writes Michael Curzon in Bournbrook.
- “The Coldest April in the Satellite Record over the Pacific Northwest” – You knew it was colder than normal over the Pacific Northwest during April, but the cold was not limited to the surface, says Dr. Cliff Mass on Watts Up With That?
- “Feeling around for something human” – Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine? Shura Burtin investigates for Meduza.
- “Russia admits it faces economic collapse over Putin’s war” – Russia’s economy has plunged into its worst crisis for almost three decades as the country is battered by Western sanctions, a leaked copy of the Kremlin’s own forecasts shows, according to the Telegraph.
- “A free speech crisis in the cradle of the Enlightenment” – In April 2021, the Scottish Parliament passed the Hate Crime Bill, legislation so wide-ranging and so censorious that under it you could even be prosecuted for making a joke in your own home, writes Daniel James Sharp in the Washington Examiner.
- “New Zealand’s Maori language obsession is baffling Kiwis” – Those who identify as Maori account for around 17% of New Zealand’s population, but “what the Government appears to have in mind is allowing them not only a 50% share of the tourist map but much else besides: education, health, academe, even the wages of science,” writes David Cohen in the Spectator.
- “The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board” – There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “Don’t trust the myths of biology” – Titania McGrath in the Critic is clear that being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with biology.
- “What It’s Like Inside Shanghai’s Lockdown” – Watch: Vice News speaks to two residents to learn what they are seeing and experiencing inside the world’s strictest lockdown.
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Greetings to you all.
And greetings to you, hp.
Not worth reading, since it sets out its stall at the start with a litany of lies:
“many Russians have openly supported the Kremlin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine — choosing to close their eyes to executions and rapes, the shelling of peaceful cities, unthinkable destruction, and millions of people losing their homes.”
Pure propaganda.
It seems that “hate speech” is fine and dandy, after all. You just have to hate the right people: “anti-vaxxers”, of course; but above all, Russians.
Those peddling this vileness are the true “racists” of our societies. They’re in the company they prefer. The Nazis held the Russians in such contempt as a people that they trashed the homes of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky, along with massacring civilians.
As we’ve observed before, a feature of these elite-driven hysterias is the stark hatred directed at dissenters and the demonised enemies – carbon “polluters” and climate “deniers”, covid dissenters and “antivaxxers”, US police and “white supremacists” who don’t “take the knee” and kowtow to BLM, Russians and “Putin stooges”.
The absurd over the top level of the hatred reflects the basic dishonesty of the underlying positions.
Those driven by contempt and hatred have to re-allocate it.
I’ve seen people demonised as “white supremacists” for their failure to keep up-to-date with the preferred nouns and adjectives. Worse, I’ve seen them berate themselves for this because they have been convinced that this must reveal an inner “racist” lurking within.
When honest campaigns were waged in the 20th century, very many of those fighting for civil rights sought to understand and persuade those who were wary – with great success.
The current demonisation has nothing to do with respect for all people or the planet and nothing to do with anybody’s “rights”.
We can have honest discussions and differences of opinion about climate, ethnicity and foreign affairs, but that’s becoming more and more difficult. Bigotry and stupidity are encouraged.
‘… “white supremacists” for their failure to keep up-to-date with the preferred nouns and adjectives.’
We are White Supremacist by nature of birth – it’s Original Sin, which we must confess and wash away in a baptism of self-loathing and grovelling.
Have you read the article? It is long, and I am only halfway through it, but so far there isn’t any sign of hatred of Russians in it. In fact it avoids moralising. The author, who is Russian, just describes what people said and points out contradictions and irrationalities. It is a fascinating exploration of Russian attitudes to the war.
It is a feature of Western mainstream reporting on this war that almost no one blames the Russian people. They just claim they have been grossly misled by their government. (Presumably, if you dig hard enough, you will find personal blogs and such like which attack Russians as a race and I have no doubt that by now many Ukrainians feel very badly about Russians).
Total nonsense. Take a look at the videos of the”peaceful”( sic) Maiden coup in 2014 organised by US neo-con life-long Russia-hater Victoria Nuland ( she of “F*ck the EU” fame) ( setting unarmed police alight!) and listen to the vox-pop stories of the bereaved in Donbas, whose relatives have been killed by Ukraine’s constant shelling of their towns and villages since 2014. Estimated 14,000 dead.
Your last sentence is nonsensical as half Eastern Ukraine speaks Russian and in the south people see themselves as Russian!
Take a look at the videos of the”peaceful”( sic) Maiden coup in 2014 organised by US neo-con life-long Russia-hater Victoria Nuland ( she of “F*ck the EU” fame) ( setting unarmed police alight! My point was “It is a feature of Western mainstream reporting on this war that almost no one blames the Russian people.” I suppose I should have phrased this more accurately as “It is a feature of Western mainstream reporting on this war that almost none of the reports blame the Russian people.” I cannot find anywhere that Victoria Nuland blames the Russian people for the war or expresses hatred of the Russian people (she wants to influence the Ukrainian government to frustrate the Russian government – but that is quite different). But even if she has done that somewhere, there is no journalism I can find that agrees with her opinion. Your last sentence is nonsensical as half Eastern Ukraine speaks Russian and in the south people see themselves as Russian! The sentence was “I have no doubt that by now many Ukrainians feel very badly about Russians”. It is completely compatible with your statement. It is not as though I said “All Ukrainians”. Do you… Read more »
Jew or Zionist. Muslim or Islamist.
Same old salami slicing of an issue to muddy the waters.
“For more than two months now, many Russians have openly supported the Kremlin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine — choosing to close their eyes to executions and rapes, the shelling of peaceful cities, unthinkable destruction, and millions of people losing their homes.”
That is how this article which “avoids moralising” and has nothing to do with “hate speech” begins: by damning Russians as those who choose to close their eyes.
Those who choose to close their eyes to eight years of savagery against the people of the Donbass accuse Russians of their sins.
As for “unthinkable destruction”, it’s only that to people who choose not to think about what happened to Russians under Nazi rule in WW2.
The link below isn’t proof of anything – but it’s an indication of another perspective:
Victory parade in Mariupol, Ukraine. 09 may2022. (bitchute.com)
Yes, your posts are always pure Kremlin propaganda
And yours are….?
Bullshit.
Yes totally ignorant nonsense – in other words the new voice of all Western Media now censored and controlled six giant Corporations , knobbled by Billionaires with a political agenda !
‘…executions and rapes, the shelling of peaceful cities, unthinkable destruction, and millions of people losing their homes.”
US & NATO Countries call this collateral damage when they do it.
“Russia admits it faces economic collapse over Putin’s war” – Russia’s economy has plunged into its worst crisis for almost three decades as the country is battered by Western sanctions, a leaked copy of the Kremlin’s own forecasts shows, according to the Telegraph. No way of knowing if this supposed leak is made up propaganda or not, but it’s certainly dressed up in propagandist terms. US sphere elites desperately shouting to keep their spirits up, that their ploy is going to succeed after all, in the teeth of all the evidence. The Russians are expecting a hit whilst adjusting their economy, and will most likely cope, so long as the Russian people broadly keep up their current evident support for the war. When a people recognise the need for war, as the Russians mostly have in this case, in the face of US sphere aggression and hatred, such losses are generally tolerated. Will Europe cope with its own economic collapse on top of its catastrophic loss of political legitimacy? Time will tell. “The Russian finance ministry is predicting a 12pc collapse in GDP this year, the biggest contraction since 1994” So a little more than the UK regime imposed upon us in… Read more »
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/05/07/russias-economy-is-back-on-its-feet
They’re still desperately, desperately hoping that their weapon of economic mass destruction might yet inflict the suffering they hoped for: “While the economy is holding firm, “the future looks bleak for Russian citizens”, he added, “who will continue to bear the brunt of the sanctions”. That Russia’s economy will not collapse entirely is also not a given. It is already “teetering on the brink of default”, The Telegraph said, and worryingly for the Kremlin, which has “averted disaster for now”, is increasingly “at the mercy of US officials”. Moscow “hasn’t yet buckled under the West’s financial firestorm”, the paper added. “But the long-lasting blow of a default could be coming soon.”” Is Russia’s economy bouncing back? – The Week UK Perhaps they will get the suffering they hope for. Perhaps not. But it’s difficult to see how a technical “default” caused not by an inability or unwillingness to pay but by a refusal of the US regime to allow them to pay is going to be particularly devastating to an economy already shut out of most institutions under Washington’s thumb. And it’s likewise difficult to see how sanctions can do much harm to a country that has most of the… Read more »
I’m sure the Russian Central Bank has a digital solution waiting in the wings, just as the Western Central banks have. Back slaps and trebbles all round in a certain autonomous legal “state” within Switzerland.
Just as the Chinese already have and will undoubtedly roll out in full when their zero covid tyranny crushes their economy…
agreed. According the Lagarde the EU rollout is sheduled for 2025.
UK is also on track…
Assuming global rollout will be synchronized, I wonder if they have the “Problem” on ice until 2025 ^.^
@ImpObs – I take it you mean the “extraterritorial” Bank of International Settlements in Basle, aka “the central bankers’ central bank”.
It is interesting that although the chattering classes were given the nod to talk about ratings agencies back in 2008, they’ve never been allowed to have the BIS, the Group of Paris, or the Group of London on their besozzled radar screens.
‘ ‘Sanctions are going to destroy Germany’ warn German political and industrial figures. ‘ You don’t see headlines like this in UK media.
The US ‘leadership’ is doing its own economy no favours either. Foggy Groper is still refuing to reopen Keystone, last I heard.
Always entertaining when one zealotry trips over another one like that….
No Western media can be trusted on the Ukraine war – simple as that.
“A free speech crisis in the cradle of the Enlightenment” – In April 2021, the Scottish Parliament passed the Hate Crime Bill, legislation so wide-ranging and so censorious that under it you could even be prosecuted for making a joke in your own home, writes Daniel James Sharp in the Washington Examiner. “The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board” – There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd. Meanwhile, to remind us of the values we must defend to the last Euro, the last drop of Ukrainian blood, the last penny of US sphere taxpayers’ money shoveled down the greedy gullets of the arms manufacturers. But hey, it’s ok because our honest and noble elites would never use such powers for anything but good. After all, when did they ever try to lie to us about anything? The Minister of Truth clears something up for us. It’s not conservatives being silenced on social media. Liberals and minorities are the ones being silenced. “There’s already this idea, this allegation that there is anti-conservative bias on the platforms, even though there has been study after study proving in fact that often it’s liberal voices that are being silenced,… Read more »
Here’s a rather more convincing perspective:
Rebranding Nazism | The Vineyard of the Saker
No question regarding how Hitler came to power is complete without reference to Antony C. Sutton, who’s books reprinted the bank deposit recipts to Nazi accounts from such US luminaries as Ford motor company, Osram, and GEC to name but a few.
Hitler came to power as the embodiment of German philosophy. The companies you mention had been taught German philosophy too, German philosophy long ago conquered the world.
Maybe that’s why they were sending military technology to Germany, without which they would not have been able to wage war.
What?
Bollox. eugenics and fascism were long lusted for by the uber wealthy of the US and British.
They funded Hitler but lost control of him.
Agreed – Thomas Malthus, Thomas Huxley, Herbert Spencer, H G Wells: their advocacy of eugenics can’t be explained in terms of philosophical influence from Germany.
Footnote: the US ruling class successfully imposed eugenics policies in the US – they didn’t just lust after doing so. Ditto in Australia etc.
Richard Evans is also good on this (The Coming of the Third Reich). For a specific case study of support closer to home, there’s John Leopold’s Alfred Hugenberg.
thanks for the reference Alter <thumbs up>
What an interesting clip. Her clear rampant inner dialogue is running at full speed as she speaks, the incessant blinking gives it away.
Also, the way she displays her bias and view that “liberals” are good, and “conservatives” are bad. That “minorities” are de facto liberals, no way would they hold conservative views. Her group is the one who protects them.
If you are going to have someone in this 1984-esque role of misinformation officer, it’s clear what this woman’s intention is, even from a 30 second clip.
It is no coincidence that there are mid terms on tbe horizon and such a ministry of truth has come to be.
What an interesting clip. Her clear rampant inner dialogue is running at full speed as she speaks, the incessant blinking gives it away.
Yes – note the head-flicking of a bad actress remembering her lines. But then she doesn’t have to be convincing. She is giving a performance which will be rewarded.
AKA brain washed
Or maybe free speech, absent in Russia and under threat in the entire west, is worth defending and that’s why you oppose it by defending Putin.
You assume that anyone opposed to Putin is a woke Marxist and you can’t grasp the entire concept of freedom.
“you can’t grasp the entire concept of freedom.” Unless you are considerably older than you appear, i was undoubtedly debating, discussing and arguing for freedom of speech before you were born. I might have moderated some of the hard line libertarian (and anti-Soviet) “anarcho-capitalist” views of my youth, but I’m still pretty close to a free speech absolutist. You, on the other hand, seem to struggle with these political concepts, associating things you like with causes you agree with in a reflex manner, and things you dislike with causes and people you dislike similarly. Here’s a clue for you to chew on, should you wish to try to think outside your box. Human freedom depends upon many things, but one of the prerequisites is division. Without genuine division of authority in the world, without places where dissenters can escape, where examples of how things could be done differently can persist, human freedom will die. It’s more important that division is maintained than good governance, because so long as there is the former, the latter will likely return. Once the former is gone, it’s likely the end, Modern technology means that global power is now potentially practicable, where it never was… Read more »
” Never forget and never underestimate the degree to which the culture the culture wars fuel hated of Russia generally”
What an excellent and important point that is – and one I have not seen made before!
Singing my song. Thank you.
Though that said, never forget, and never underestimate the degree to which the culture wars fuel hatred of Russia generally. I think that’s true, They might not have started the fire, but they fuel the flames. I watched both the Victory Day military parade and the immensely impressive Immortal Regiment parade in Moscow. I saw young men who were proud that they were ready to defend their country; and families who were proud of their parents and grandparents, braving strong winds and rain to walk together with old photographs held aloft. My reaction is of course entirely personal; but I felt that they had something we have lost, and that our wokery would strike them as ridiculous. Their terrible war experiences taught them what oppression really was. This is the footage (very long and without subtitles) of the Immortal Regiment parade. If anyone wants only a quick look, I recommend the 5 minutes from about 13.20. No-one writes and sings such stirring music. Торжественное шествие «Бессмертный полк». Запись трансляции 9 мая 2022 года – YouTube The word they chant throughout the parade, at intervals, is “Spasiba” (Thank you): their gratitude to those who fought for them. They have been doing… Read more »
I should stress that the Immortal Regiment parades are relatively new (less than a decade old); the public expressions of gratitude are much older – often in the form of the placing of wedding bouquets on war memorials.
Oh the irony!
“Empire of Lies” Indeed!
Sadly the infection is spreading across the West – more dangerous than Covid!
With less than two weeks before we go to the polls, the AEC is cracking down on a series of cartoons that has been running since late last year. And the principal reason for the popularity of these cartoons is their merciless take on our major political parties.
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/lockdownunder-update-barbecue-and-cartoons/
Good stuff!
Breaking news: Mad Eyes Michael Gunner has resigned as Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.
The old ‘more time with my family’ angle.
‘Feeling around for somethng human’ Putin’s invasion, the savage, barbaric invasion by a totalitarian dictator of an independent neighbour? It’s like deja vu all over again: ‘Watching today’s ceremony, I was reminded of an interview I conducted in 1995 with a Red Army veteran in Grozny, Chechnya, an elderly man in an old suit jacket. Two campaign medals were pinned to his broad lapels and the jacket cloth was discoloured by plaster and brick dust. He was standing outside what had been a prestigious 19th-century apartment building, now mostly destroyed by rockets or shellfire. ’Why have they done this to us? I am a Red Army veteran. I fought in Berlin’. He was shaking with anger as I recorded the interview. I had nothing to say in response. Like many of the victims of the first and second Chechen wars, the man was an ethnic Russian. Like his Chechen compatriots, he was experiencing the kind of brutal military tactics that had changed little since the days of his active service. ‘What will you do with this interview? Who will see it?’ he asked. I explained that we were filming for a news agency that distributed video to international broadcasters. ‘Maybe… Read more »
What about the Canadian truckers who Trudeau ‘thanked’ for keeping the country going, making essential deliveries, to later freeze without due process their bank accounts? Here in the West. Not one western leader has condemned this action. Look at Jeremy Hunt, happy to lock us all down, without hesitation, like China, in his own words. Not one of our western ‘followers’ has any ounce of integrity. Start your moralising at home first.
‘Whataboutery’ is not an argument. My comment above references Ukraine as did ‘Searching about for something human’
I would, nevertheless, be delighted for you to crack on with the ‘moralising’ re Turdeau; also the euphemism called Hunt…..and don’t get me started on the rest, particularly Bunter.
I have been moralising on the lot of them, particularly at home, since Feb. 2020
What’s this got to do with Putin?
Boris Yeltsin was running the show in 1995?
Deja vu all over again.
USSR invaded a neighbouring country 1939, 1945, 1956, 1967
Russia invaded an independent neighbour 1995, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2022
But only 2022 matters?
If you are a Ukrainian voter, of whom 90% voted for independence, yes.
It only otherwise matters to those who signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 guaranteeing Ukrainian territorial integrity and, like 2014, and despite contrary protestations, as we see, it doesn’t really matter that much to them, along with all the other stuff they signed like the Chemical Weapons Convention……
Party/Beergate and probably Teddy bears picnic gate (Lib dems) and Vegangate (Greens).
REVENGE IS TRULY A DISH BEST EATEN COLD.
“Entire county can’t find NHS dentist after 2,000 quit in U.K. last year”
Mail reader comment : ‘Come across by dinghy and you will have no problem at all.’
Now people are reaping the benefits of ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘diversity’ – you’d think everything was fine and dandy!
The ‘dinghy illegals’ are only bringing in more ‘diversity & multiculturalism’, what’s wrong with that? So you’ll have to support them, see your pensions cut, working conditions deteriorate, wages get slashed as you compete with them – speak out against it and you’re ‘racist’!
I spent a whole day trying to get an emergency dental appt, 101 was useless, I failed. I eventually got one 4 weeks later at my own dentist, who had been replaced by a very efficient Eastern European lady dentist, double extraction in 20 mins (which included the obligatory covid questionaire and forehead temp gun shoved in my face) hardly enough time for the anesthetic to take effect, the claw marks I left on the celing may be there for some time!
My wife’s emergency dental appt took 5 weeks!
Best health service in the world donchaknow……
Why wouldn’t they quit?
My dentist friend say that they have destroyed dentistry which is now just about implants an unnecessary cosmetic make-overs £££££. !
Dentistry is a branch of the health service – they have to destroy all of it – at least that is what it looks like they seem determined to do.
From link above Tatiana McGrath (Don’t Trust the Myths of Biology)
Let me settle this matter once and for all. A woman is anyone who says she is a woman. A woman is a feeling, a shimmering nimbus of possibility, an echo of distant dreams reverberating gingerly through a winter’s gloaming. She is a mewling constellation, a bagful of semi-felched pixies, the enchanted stardust that pirouettes luminously on the spindle of time.
It’s got absolutely nothing to do with t-i-t-s.
lol made me laugh.
It made me laugh too until I decided to look up the word “felch” ….
Not something you want to learn about while eating, is it?
🤣
It is rather poetic, isn’t it? Until, as DS99 says, you look up the meaning of felch…
Well that’s a great start to my morning. I can now add bigot and fascist to my list of characteristics, because I have the temerity to assert that a woman is an adult human female.
That writer encapsulates everything that is wrong with society right now.
The Dentists retiring were in part due to the extra onerous covid restrictions. They could process less patients, but still had the rates and other bills to pay. Early retirement was the logical choice for many.
Also dentists resent the low quality of care that is allowed when working with NHS patients. NHS dentistry is as broken as the rest of the NHS.
But it’s funny though…even if you did manage to get an NHS appointment, like my husband, they refused to do ANY work apart from tooth extraction because…y’know…covid…but the same dentist at the same time could do whatever was needed to be done, privately!
“Vacuums of integrity” start at the very top and filter downwards.
That isn’t my experience unfortunately. In my region the private and NHS dentists were under the same restrictions. I have been having private dental treatment for years now (because good NHS dentist was so hard to get).
Private dentist was only recently allowed to do work which involved drilling – same as NHS. There was no distinction between NHS and private.
I am convinced that the whole thing is to make people more ill in ANY way shape or form that they can – whether it is mask wearing, jabbing, denying access to GP, denying access to dentistry (if your teeth are bad, you cannot eat properly, will impact nutrition and immune system).
Point me to one single thing they have done over the course of the last 2 plus years which would have improved anyone’s health in any way?
Hard not to see some kind of depop agenda going on – it might not be instantaneous and might take a bit longer to do in some cases, but the measures look designed to achieve that.
And next winter: at best, really expensive food, gas and electricity, at worst, serious food shortages and power cuts, and people having been jabbed more.
Escaping the Mad House is always a “logical choice”.
For the plebs yes but why should we forgive people who made the stupid rules in the first place? Especially those who said they weren’t strict enough.
Correct, that is precisely why ‘partygate’ and ‘beergate’ are irrelevant, it’s the totalitarianism behind lockdown that is important.
Kim Jong Johnson imposed three lockdowns and only a backbench rebellion prevented a fourth. Keir Starmer unquestioningly supported lockdown and demanded ever tougher restrictions.
“New Zealand’s Maori language obsession is baffling Kiwis” Straight from the Blair school of Virtue Signalling, she’ll ruin NZ for the majority the way Blair has ruined the UK for the majority
https://unherd.com/2022/05/bill-gates-wants-to-build-a-dystopia/
It’s kinda funny how writers fall over themselves to malign “conspiracy theorists” before going on to detail an obvious conspiracy!
Et Tu Toby Green LOL
Gates, the multi-billionaire master of multi-million dollar -funded image building propaganda and deceptive self promotion .
Image: smiling philanthropist in a crew neck jumper saving humanity from “disease”.
Reality: Megalomaniac, insatiable psycho -sociopath, obsessed with wealth, world population reduction, Eugenics, ‘germs’ and mass forced vaccinations ( for profit) of those poorer than himself.
In this Brave New World, everything is the exact opposite of what it claims to be
Dan Wootton Show on GB News last night was yet again another pile-on for the ‘vax’ fanatics Carole Malone and Benjamin Button, ganging up (this time) on Beverly Turner.
This is a regular sight on a channel that claims to be against censorship and deplatforming. Not least of all the claim their debates are supposed to be civilised – they’re definitely not.
What I regularly see is the same two people shouting and abusing anyone who questions the safety of the toxic jab. And they always outnumber their opponent.
GB News is not so disimilar to BBC’s Question Time when it needs to be.
Also, there’s a clear theme that when these ‘debates’ turn ugly, as they always do, Malone and Button will always start demanding to know their opponents ‘vaccine’ status, like it is their divine right to know.
Wootton meanwhile just sits back silent. He used to involve himself in such a debate, but not a squeak last night.
Has Wootton been ‘got at’ by Ofcom?
Someone should ask Michael Grade, who once used to be a believer in uncensored media.
It looks like they are scheming how to “cancel” Mark Steyn for simply telling the truth about their “vaccines”.
Why do they always need TWO people to gang up against Bev Turner? Remember when Dermot O’Dreary and Matthew (not so) Wright (with stupid little mid-life rat’s tail hanging from the back of his head) were either side of her, tearing into her, to shut her down before she said too much?!!! And now it’s happening again? Why does it always have to take two bullies against one? This is what now passes as journalism and fair debate – utter desperation to keep pushing a failed narrative!!! It’s pathetic. All it does is shows us WHAT are they REALLY afraid of!
Bev Turner is worth two or even three of them – that’s why!
Wootton – not watchable with these two freaks on the show. Why are they even there?
Why doesn’t he learn how to control them? Only the understandably increasingly angry and frustrated Mark Steyn and Neil Oliver are now worth watching.
Everyone I know who has been jabbed is defensive about what they’ve done
It’s hard to admit you’ve been fooled, nothing is as humiliating as admitting you’ve been conned
Yes – very defensive in my experience.
Agreed – saw a bit of it last night and couldn’t bear to watch any more of it.
Shame on GB News
“according to the Telegraph.”
The Rubel is the strongest in 12 months according to markets…
Which one will you believe?
Don’t trust the myths of biology” – Titania McGrath in the Critic”.
was this written on April 1st? It can’t be a serious article, surely? If not she/he/it is an utter idiot.
It’s a spoof.
I do hope so! 🙂
Haven’t read The Critic for ages. I suppose the “Woke world by…” should suggest a spoof. Got me worked up anyway! Lol
Very definitely satire. McGrath is a creation of Andrew Doyle.
“Starmer’s Beergate woes shows why we need a lockdown amnesty”
While I’d like to see the despots and their enablers convicted of the crimes that they created, an amnesty does have a very practical result: it signals “never again”, or at least “ignore it the next time they try to impose it”.
Which is, of course, why it can’t happen.
That’s logical.
But there is nothing logical about the reaction to covid.
Dangerous, taxpayer-funded gain-of-function animal experiments are at the center of the debate about COVID’s origins. https://nypost.com/2022/05/08/congress-must-investigate-news-ecohealth-covered-up-yet-more-in-wuhan-lab/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPOpinionTwitter Members of Congress are calling for a new investigation into what they call the “mice death cover-up” by the shady nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Documents the White Coat Waste Project obtained via the Freedom of Information Act revealed last year that in 2016, staffers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases expressed concerns about EcoHealth’s proposed coronavirus engineering experiments on humanized mice at WIV. NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s division of the National Institutes of Health, worried that EcoHealth’s animal experiments ran afoul of the government’s moratorium on gain-of-function research — the practice of manipulating viruses to make them more transmissible, more lethal and more dangerous.Instead of stopping the project, however, NIAID offered EcoHealth the chance to create its own policy governing the dangerous research, then allowed the planned animal experiments to proceed.E-mails we obtained through FOIA show that EcoHealth’s president, Peter Daszak, responded, “This is terrific! We are very happy to hear that our Gain of Function research funding pause has been lifted.”EcoHealth promised NIAID it would stop its experiments, and immediately report, if the coronaviruses it engineered… Read more »
https://www.statsjamie.co.uk/4-million-doses-in-children-needed-to-prevent-1-icu-admission/
What are the chances there are no vaccine injuries in 4 million doses?
The bricks are showing at the back of Chinas Covid theater…
https://twitter.com/XrPimpin/status/1522844896905732096
Interesting. I wonder how much of the current Shanghai lockdown event will turn out to be as fictional/fabricated/simulated as those videos in spring 2020 of people falling down in the street etc.
a good deal of them were obvious fakes, unconcious people do not put their hands out to break their fall, streets lined with bodies were proved to be homeless people in another country, also India and that woman on the side of the road with an oxygen cylinder, proved fake. There was a lot of it about!
Shura Burton is an idiot or a paid-for scribbler. (Oh, wait.) The reason that so many Russians support the war is
It IS BECAUSE Russians in Donetsk and Luhansk, territories which declared their independence after large majorities backed independence in referendums, have been under military attack for eight years by neo-Nazis and their associates – and because it seemed as though the compradore pro-US pro-Israeli regime in Kiev was well on the road to getting NATO backing, which would translate to US air support.
Next question?
Did you read the article?
Yes.
So you may have noticed that it is very detailed exploration of different, mostly pro-war, attitudes of Russians – in their own words. You can’t capture this complexity as “choosing to ignore all the genocidalist killing-spree rape camps …” Donetsk and Luhansk are only mentioned twice – once by the woman who thinks they are sovereign nations and once by someone claiming that Ukrainians know nothing about them.
Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast · 34m AFU still shelling residential areas in Donetsk – Kirovsky district, today Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast · 30m What strikes me the most when I see footage from Donetsk is how the people are… used to this. Everyone knows what to do when they hear artillery, “duck & cover”, fire brigades move swiftly on muscle memory. 16-year-olds have lived half their lives like this. Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast · 21m In mid-February I started reading local Donetsk group chats to keep track of what’s going on, teenagers discussing the shelling, afraid to go to sleep, talking about which districts are getting hit, how they haven’t stayed up this late in forever, trying to joke through it Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast · 18m No one will talk about this now, but around February 17th Ukrainain shelling of Donetsk intensified to 2014 levels and no one gave a damn about it. People dying, left without water and electricity, hiding in basements. It’s sad that it’s happening to other civilians now, but… Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast · 15m … Kiev’s actions have made sure that it would happen sooner or later. “It will have blood, they say; blood… Read more »
Russians With Attitude Retweeted
What’s the media hiding?
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This war didn’t start in February.
That’s when Russia intervened.
This is how Mariupol residents were treated by Ukraine 8 years ago.
You they’re faking it when they receive Russian troops with tears in their eyes?
https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1523745920487092224
Russians With Attitude
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Replying to @narrative_hole and @StalinFrog
Listen to how the Western news described it back then, even they see the locals and Kiev as being separate.
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Massacring those civilians was Azov’s first “combat engagement” back then, by the way.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1524000949286711297
This war didn’t start in February.
That’s when Russia intervened.
Yes. This is a little off-topic; but as another illustration of the distortion of perspective, look at the number of people who believe that Japan went to war on December 7, 1941 – because that’s the date of the Pearl Harbor bombing.
Ask the Chinese when Japan went to war, and you’ll get a very different answer: one which has had an enormous effect upon our contemporary world.
Good parallel.
British journalists who put themselves across as understanding what’s happening in a country because they’ve been there and spoken to a few people – usually to the kind of people who speak English well and are keen on talking to British journalists – mostly make me want to spit. Communication requires that you have something in common. Most of these types wouldn’t be able to find much in common with working class people they might “meet” at a bus stop less than 500 yards from where they live. They wouldn’t be able to relate to those people’s lives at all. So just forget about their being able to do it thousands of miles away in Russia or the Ukraine. I know Shura Burtin is Russian and so I am quite sure she understands Russia itself far better than most British people do, but still, she seems highly westernised and she’s playing to a western audience, and she seems very much into the idea that people in Russia who are outside the privileged classes are all as thick as two short planks – not like herself and her sophisticated pals who understand stuff. For example she can quote a Russian guy… Read more »
Shura Burtin is a man.
That’s your only comment? What difference does it make in the context of this post?
I started to write something longer but then got tired, but still thought it might be of marginal interest that Star had the wrong gender. You are right that it makes little difference in the context of the post.
In a recent article here, it was asserted that “China has turned online censorship into a domestic industry, employing two million apparatchiks to suppress dissent.” Leaving aside some minor quibbles over words, I think that’s true. Two million or even more. China has a population of about 1.4 billion, 20 times Britain’s, so an equivalent figure in Britain would be 100,000 online dissent suppressors. Does anyone reading this think that the actual figure in Britain is significantly smaller than that? Here’s one way to look at it. Split Britain up into its parliamentary constituencies. The figure we’re looking at works out at around 150 “dissent suppressors” in each area. Obviously they’re not evenly spread out like that, but nonetheless we can use this as a benchmark. Or think of a town with a population of about 120000. Take all the c***s in that town who have a role controlling what people post to the internet – everyone who’s a “moderator”, or the “admin” of a social site, or an “op”, or whatever term they might use, or who can click a button and a person gets banned or muted from posting to a website, or who can click another button… Read more »
Two million is 1/700 of the population of China. So another way of doing it is to think of about 26 people that you know, and then to consider for each of them about 26 people that they know, with the groups not overlapping. Do you think there’s at least one “online dissent suppressor” in the larger collection of people?
If you think the answer is typically “yes” – meaning not just for you but on average for everyone in Britain – then Britain rivals China in the “online dissent suppressors” stakes.
Boris Johnson has been crippling this country. First with his Non Brexit Brexit deal that gave the EU Northern Ireland, 65% of our fishing waters, without removing one single regulation from the EU. Next were his appalling Covid lockdowns, experimental MRNa Covid jabs that are killing and injuring so many, allowing Critical Race Theory and sex changes for children in schools and the Net Zero policies designed to steal our freedom (not his).
Let’s not forget record high taxation and borrowing.
There is nothing Conservative about Boris Johnson
Read this in today’s Conservative woman (which ISP like Three are actively trying to ban)
Heard the one about the Tories who’d like to be conservative?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/heard-the-one-about-the-tories-whod-like-to-be-conservative/
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‘Russia’s economy has plunged into its worst crisis for almost three decades…’
Ruble stronger that before the conflict, back rate reduced from 17% to 15%, GDP up, oil & gas revenues up, consumer spending no change…
So how does the Russian economy compare with UK, French, US economies?
Russia is at war facing sanctions from the USA & EU – what’s the excuse for other Countries?
By the by: 75% of the World’s Countries are not sanctioning Russia and trading normally.
The great advantage of State controlled healthcare. Goodness knows what it would be like if we had a competitive private system. – thousands wouldn’t be able to get treatment. The horror!
How would you set up a competitive private dental system offering services to hoi polloi? Private dentistry comes with huge profit margins at the moment. Competition – that’s where dentists would compete against each other by lowering prices? Whoever went first would be seen as doing the dirty on his brothers.
“160 Britons in their 50s to 70s who had a fourth dose …”: one hundred and sixty? That’s not much more than a bunch of anecdotes.
“found the top-up jab gave a “substantial” boost to antibody and T cell levels”: jolly good, but the headline claims that the jabr “boosts immunity” which may or may not be the same thing.
When he opened parliament in a mediaeval ritual, surrounded by gold and splendour, complete with men in tights, swords, and a bejewelled crown, and read out a speech about how “Her Majesty’s government” plans to protect its beloved peasantry, the retarded prince Charles (or is it “George”, or perhaps “yes, you’re King Arthur – of course you are, luvvie”) looked as ill as President Putin, if not more so.
He looks as ill as f***.
He can’t sit still. He keeps rocking to and fro. And the stilted way he reads suggests respiratory difficulties.
It says a lot that nobody who writes in the MSM has dared to notice in public. Perhaps they haven’t even noticed in private, because you don’t get promoted in Britain by noticing things about members of the royal family that you’re not supposed to. Perhaps they genuinely saw a very fit and sprightly man reading the speech.
I wonder whether he’ll make it to the inside of a coffin before his mother does?
Involuntary rocking can be dyskinesia, a symptom of Parkinson’s.