News Round-Up
- “Our late Queen’s final act was to bring her nation and the world deeply together” – It turns out there are deep reserves of affection for Queen Elizabeth II but also a vast wellspring of support for the monarchy and nation, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Elizabeth II was the universal queen who proved Britain isn’t a second-rate power” – Keeping a faraway link to the British crown has been of real value to countless countries across the world, writes David Abulafia in the Telegraph.
- “The New York Times and its fellow woke dogmatists have completely lost the plot” – Rushing in to rain on everyone’s parade, they have missed the true significance of this period of mourning for the late Queen, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Chinese propaganda must not dictate the Covid narrative” – Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph writes that Western accommodation of Beijing is being tested, with the truth elusive as ever.
- “Lockdowns and Masks Hurt Kids Even Worse Than We Thought” – Ian Miller in Brownstone warns that the absurdity of mind-boggling policies like mask mandates for the flu are in danger of continuing.
- “Four cases of cytokine storm after COVID-19 vaccination: Case report” – A study in Frontiers in Immunology says its results suggest that “immune dysregulation occurred following vaccination”.
- “One in 4,500 Toddlers Taken To Emergency Room After Covid Vaccination” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson asks if it’s the authorities’ intention to harm children or they just keep doing it by accident.
- “The mistakes that led to the U.K.’s energy crisis” – Kathryn Porter in the Spectator says that for too long our energy security has been neglected, and we are going to be paying the price for this in the months to come.
- “Facebook Spied On Private Messages Of ‘Conservative Right-Wing Individuals’, Then Reported To FBI For Domestic Terrorism” – ZeroHedge reports that, according to DOJ whistleblowers, Facebook has been spying on Americans’ private messages and reporting them to the FBI if they express “anti-government or anti-authority” statements.
- “Police should not take the knee with Black Lives Matter campaigners” – Officers must remain impartial no matter what the cause, the new Met Commissioner says, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sweden and the revolt against the evasive elites” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says that across the Western world people are rising up against their dishonest rulers.
- “The music industry is out-of-step on trans ideology” – Winston Marshall in the Spectator says two more musicians find themselves silenced for speaking out.
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Do you know what was confiscated from people “flocking” (if the press won’t say the word, I will; throw their words back at them) to join the Big Queue? Hand sanitiser. Yes, you read that correctly, I heard it from somebody who completed the Queue. After two years of Her Majesty’s government practically ordering the public to use the stuff at every turn, with public campaigns of “how to wash your hands”, and slogans such as “Hands, Face, Space”, the public were not allowed to bring any. The irony. Indeed, I am surprised the Big Queue went ahead, after all the public health micromanagement of the last two years.
As for “the monarchy uniting people”, my only reason in favour of it is that I believe it is the lesser of two evils, when you think of President Truss, President Johnson, President Bliar and so on.
If everyone in The Queue had stayed two metres apart it could have stretched from Windsor to Balmoral.
I guess they were implementing normal air travel security precautions. However, the widely reported normal behaviour of so many in London might have created a degree of political immunity to some of the wild ideas that were promoted in the last two years. If the bureaucrats try it on again, they might be told to FO.
LOL! ……and now the irony is they’re asking you to only wash once a week…to save energy!!!
”https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/18/sweden-and-the-revolt-against-the-evasive-elites/”
The people of Italy go to the polls next week and that too could have an interesting result. In the USA, whilst a few interesting politicians are making a showing, overall I am not sure if the mid-terms will have any major effect? Meanwhile in the UK we have a plethora of alternative parties, Heritage, Reclaim, Reform, SDP etc. all of who are not happy but all of whom seem to be very guarded in what they say, so as to not upset anybody.
Maybe in the UK things have to get worse before anyone truly radical dares to speak up? For example I consider that the NHS needs to be broken up into separate autonomous healthcare providers, that the idea of healthcare free at the point of delivery should be reconsidered and that the whole model of healthcare provision and funding needs radical review and reform. However, I guess any party that had such a policy would not be popular with the electorate? Does the NHS have to get even worse before any political party dare propose a radical new approach to healthcare in the UK?
Well put , I agree !
If the polls are even close the right wing coalition will walk it in Italy
In the U.K. the non-conservative Conservative party needs to be destroyed or transformed otherwise they take up the space that a truly conservative party would occupy
Can you imagine any of the political pygmies in the UK having the guts of Giorgia Meloni who looks set to win in Italy?…..Her signature slogan at rallies is…..
I am a woman
I am a mother
I am Italian
I am a Christian
You will not take that away from me…..
She’s also suggested a naval blockade to stop immigration…
Any of our numpties would asphyxiate at the first line!!
The political right in the US and France and Italy are actually right-wing as opposed to our wishy washy lot. Even parties like the AfD in Germany are more mainstream and further right. We’re just too “nice” (or people like to think it’s being nice). An interesting cultural difference.
There is no way on Gods earth that the Democrats are going to allow the Republican party to take control of the House and the Senate. They have gone way too far since they cheated in 2020 and there is no way back now.
Maybe. The bookies have Trump and DeSantis clearly favoured over Biden for 2024 and a pretty clear margin for a Republican majority in both houses after the midterms.
As an experienced patient, it’s worth noting the “the NHS” is something of a mirage. It may appear to be monolithic, in the way it’s advertised from time to time, but the internal structure is so convoluted that most normal companies would try to sort it out, or be taken over, or go bankrupt. E.g. some organisations that are nominally within it hedge their bets by doing both NHS work and their own private work in the same building – such as the dentists I use. Then there are plenty more senior medics that work for an NHS outfit, and also for a private one literally round the corner “part time”, and so on.
This arrangement is not confined to London – just look at the geography of any large city or town that happens to have a large hospital in it, and look up where firms like Bupa are located.
Off topic, but why do we now have an ad on each page about a book “Busting Anti-vax myths!”, which flies in the face of what this whole site is about?
DS – please explain why you’re accepting money from advertisers that want to push state propaganda and see the control group humiliated and trivialised.
Presumably you are ok with censorship and cancel culture when it’s ‘your’ side doing it?
Besides, whoever is paying for those ads is likely wasting their money advertising here. So why block them?
Oh dear. You seemed to have missed the point entirely. Nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with how the site is funded. Almost every media group has been captured by their sponsors – once your main sponsors, which effectively include advertiser’s, become the main bloodline of your business, you become beholden to them. We’ve had this stuff shoved down our throats for several years, it was refreshing to not have the mindless garbage promoted on here. Difference of opinion is healthy, promotion of state propaganda is not. A difference I’d have thought you’d understand.
I am pretty sure that the book you’re referring to is a satire. But that’s not important. I am also pretty sure that the way ads work on websites, in general, is that you sell space to Google or some other web ad provider who then supply ads which are usually based on some combination of the type of site and the browsing habits of the users (assuming the users allow cookies). A lot of web page delays is the page scanning your cookies and supplying relevant ads in real time, so we do not always see the same ads. So the site owners don’t have much control (it’s possible they could request certain types of ads to be blocked, but I don’t know) and the relationship is really with the firm that sources the ads rather than the firms whose goods and services the ads are advertising. There are possibly other ways of doing it, but it’s probably way easier to do what DS appears to have done. Obviously it’s likely that we have to look at ads for crap, but I’d prefer that to the site not being funded and in some ways it might be preferable to… Read more »
It’s a parody book. Check out the blurb.
Ahhh, so it is. Apologies. Looked like a little disclaimer was being left on each page to remind people what a bunch of tinfoil-hat-wearing loons we all are!
We don’t all see them. It depends on your setup – it’s existence is news to me. E.g. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/adblocker/ or similar products can stem the flow of junk a bit. I normally use Firefox at home.
Morning all! Perhaps some of you will have seen this…Neil Oliver talking about the death of the Queen…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ZINl73BDY
I agree with the sentiment that it’s the end of an era…an era we understood and wish we could have back….
I found this from a comment on Conservative Woman, and I hope everyone will read it…because it’s true.
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-message-of-general-christian-blanchon-paying-tribute-to-the-non-vaccinated/
The Message of General Christian Blanchon Paying Tribute to the Non-vaccinated
I saw this somewhere else, I think Pierre Kory’s Substack. Yes it is spot on and I think illustrates why places such as this site provide an important place of such support during these most trying of times. People who are surrounded by Covidians, for the most part, need this place as our oasis of sanity when things get particularly challenging, and the sharing of information between like-minded people is also very much appreciated. It’s like a support group for the level-headed when all around lost theirs’. 🙂
Absolutely…..and just for once it feels good to be praised, rather than maligned….. Unlike these poor sods……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11223587/NYC-fires-850-teachers-teaching-aides-failed-COVID-vaccine-Sept-5.html
NYC fires another 850 teachers and teaching aides after they failed to get the COVID vaccine by September 5 deadline – bringing total to 1,950 terminated by department of education since vaccine mandate took effect…..
And don’t we know it Mogs?👍
That is powerful praise indeed from General Blanchon and very humbling.
The thing is, I don’t feel brave. I don’t feel as though I am special or a hero for refusing the injections. I just believe I was right. I have believed in my totally anti stance since my eyes began to open as the “three weeks to flatten the curve” period did not end – after three weeks. As the propoganda was ramped up I became more and more convinced that my anti stance was the correct one. I suppose I now have the grim satisfaction of knowing I was right.
It is unlikely that any of my family and none of my associates, I don’t believe I have any true friends, would consider me brave. In all probability most who know me would dismiss my obstinacy thus – “just typical, the awkward sod.”
So, I struggle with the accolade “brave.” I’m just hux being hux.
I’m not vaxxed but I don’t consider myself brave as my decision hasn’t really cost me very much personally. I would have fallen out with covidian friends and family anyway. But those who risked losing their jobs, or actually did lose their jobs, or who were shut out from society or groups they were in that meant a lot to them (I’m thinking of countries with vaxx passes in particular) are certainly admirable.
I think the most ironic thing to come out of these last 2.5ish years for me is that I’ve always been pro-vaccine but now I am the polar opposite…And so I proudly declare myself ‘Anti-vax’! There, I came out of the closet and it wasn’t at all painful! LOL
But seriously, I’ll never trust Big Pharma again and so I will live by these new principles of mine. How could anybody who’s switched on and has no scales before their eyes live through the last couple years, learning what we’ve learnt, the corruption, fraud, greed above ethics, and still toddle along for another jab of anything? And especially after sharing that article a few days back, seeing what manner of weirdness can be found in these products under a microscope…no thanks. I’ll take my chances and trust in my innate immunity, ta. At least medication in pill form can be discontinued but once a vaccination ( real or pseudo ) is administered that’s it. Too late.
I nearly didn’t put it on, because I think that like you I don’t feel very brave, but my sister-in-law did get sacked from her care home…as did thousands of others all over the world…could they have weathered that if not for knowing there was all of us out there?……
The thing is I think we’ve also been affected by the pay ops..which is why we feel uncomfortable being praised…but it doesn’t mean we don’t love our friends and family who took the Jibby jabs for whatever reasons….and just think how many names we were called…maybe not to our faces, but never forget they wanted us locked out of society, they wanted us unable to access the NHS…unable to travel, go to concerts, go to University…and much more….
I think one this one occasion we can actually take the praise….
It’s always easier to go with the flow than swim against the tide. Too many took the path of least resistance just because it was easier and they could get on with their lives and pretend everything was OK. I don’t think even the densest of people can go on fooling themselves so effectively indefinitely. “Smooth seas do not make good sailors”, and so on that note, I think we’re the dog’s bollocks in taking the decision we did and standing by it regardless of the flack we’ve had and are still having to deal with. I’ve made the not so easy decision myself that, if/when the Nazi pass comes into effect once more, I won’t go through the indignity this year of doing a test just to get a QR code to gain access to my kid’s birthday party. All venues were off-limits to the unjabbed/un-swabbed last year, but I’m not prepared to deal with that blatant discrimination again, but I’ll be writing a formal complaint to whatever venue she chooses, not that it’ll make much difference but you know… I just refuse to jump through the hoops anymore and I’ll have to cross that bridge when I come… Read more »
Step 3 of the Global Walkout was announced yesterday
https://globalwalkout.com/steps-timeline/
And a positive bit of news from over this way today, half of people polled said they won’t be getting any further boosters. I reckon it’s more than that actually, we all know polls are not a true reflection of the public attitude. Looks like more not so veiled threats from the b’stard Dutch government though. They’re just itching to make our lives miserable once again!
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/09/half-of-adults-unwilling-to-have-booster-vaccine-as-autumn-campaign-begins/
“The minister ( Kuiper)published a list of 29 ‘ladders of measures’ covering a range of sectors including transport, retail, sports clubs and entertainment venues, detailing what steps should be taken based on a ‘thermometer’ indicating the level of infection.”
Read more at DutchNews.nl:
Crikey, looks like bollokology has taken off in a big way over in The Netherlands.
“Ladders of measures?” Firkin hell, who’d a thunk it?
And moving on we have “thermometers.”
Well I suppose they have to be used for something.
Clearly Davos Deviant scripting so this crap should be over here pretty soon.
That safe & effective mantra about “vaccines” & how they have saved so many lives for decades? It’s all codswallop. Steve Kirsch has the details.
No RCTs have been done on ANY vaccine for safety!!!
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/turtles-all-the-way-down-vaccine
Surprisingly..or not…trying to find an actual RCT in relation to the flu jab is nigh on impossible….
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532873/
This one from 2019 which was a 25 year follow-up concluded…
In this study based on a RCT, we could not demonstrate a relation between one single influenza vaccination and mortality or specific causes of death in the elderly after 25 years of follow-up. Also no effect of vaccination on seasonal mortality was shown.
In conclusion, this study did not demonstrate an effect of influenza vaccination on long-term mortality in community-dwelling elderly in general. However, taking the limited power of our study into account, the consistent and relevant findings in the subgroup aged 60–64 years merit a long-term study of the effect of vaccination on mortality in the elderly.
In other words the vaccine might have an effect in a younger cohort…but do they suffer from flu that’s deadly enough to warrant it?
And exactly why isn’t anyone interested in doing a good RCT?……(answers on a postcard please!!)
“Lockdowns and Masks Hurt Kids Even Worse Than We Thought.”
These corrupt and inhuman policy mandates deserve a very simple response – prison time to every one who pushed / supported them. To target children is criminality of the highest order. I am well aware that many teachers were and still are in favour of such as masks and they too belong in court with subsequent prison, barred from ever teaching or working with children again.
Sheer bloody evil.
EU citizens, don’t worry about making a choice between heating or eating this winter, whether to keep your business going or how to keep the roof over your head. The EU Commission is going to save you from worrying your little heads with these dilemma by implementing an emergency plan.
How reassuring that the EU has your best interests at heart….
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5443
A Twitter thread on the green & sustainable solar panel industry.
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1548910544345829378?s=20&t=SyDmuj2WQzK-9OK6fxOV6A
From some EU guff called Single Market Emergency Instrument: “Allowing last-resort measures in an emergency: Under extraordinary circumstances, and only when the emergency mode has already been activated, the Commission may also make use of tools which will require a separate activation step. In this case, the Commission may issue targeted information requests to economic operators, which can be made binding. It may also ask them to accept priority rated orders for crisis-relevant products, in response to which firms must either comply or explain the grave reasons justifying refusal. Furthermore, the accelerated placing on the market of certain products through quicker testing and accreditation, including through conformity assessment, will ensure their availability during emergencies. Rules permitting such derogations are laid down in separate proposals for a Regulation and a Directive amending a number of product-specific regulatory regimes, which accompany the SMEI Regulation.” There is alot more in the article but it is all similar top-class BS. In effect the EU making clear that it can do whatever it wants, including taking over private companies the next time the Davos Deviants create an “emergency.” Funnily enough, everywhere stuff like this is discussed it’s always based on the absolute certainty that another “emergency”… Read more »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXHT8-pN5H4
Jimmy Dore show..
showing Bill Gates saying Trump wanted to open up an enquiry into vaccines (over five years ago)….and he ‘advised’ him not to!?
The good news is that Turkey, apparently are telling people to travel there to save on winter fuel bills….LOL…
while Spain??
https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/tour-operators/spain-extends-covid-entry-restrictions-to-mid-november
Spain has extended its Covid entry restrictions until November 15.
Unvaccinated arrivals must continue to show evidence they have recovered from Covid-19 within the last six months or show proof of a negative PCR or antigen test.
Vaccinated arrivals are exempt from testing requirements, although anyone who had their second jab more than 270 days ago will be required to have a booster to be classed as fully vaccinated.