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NeilParkin
3 years ago

Rochelle Walensky’s Terrible Testimony” and “Round the Government garden on a back-pedalling bicycle” 

If there is one feature of our modern society that causes a loss of trust faster than any other, it is the rapid doubling down on things that are patently stupid when they get challenged. If large sections of our citizens are being told to wear such a thing, then at minimum, the authorities should be able to put forward a reasonable case that goes beyond ‘because they are’…

acle
acle
3 years ago

The ONLY thing to do with Ofcom and state sponsored tv is to switch it off and stop paying the license fee. We did this two years ago and I have not regretted it once.

out of the many lessons learned over the past three (!) years, one is very much that petitions are useless.

Mogwai
3 years ago

What is going on with these toxic train crashes and the recent big toxic warehouse fire in the US? People are rightfully asking questions and feeling suspicious. Some interesting details in this ‘stack.

https://truth613.substack.com/p/worried-about-the-water-part-1-this

ebygum
3 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

There is a great deal of animosity towards the Biden administration it would appear from reports in the MSM in the USA, about their failures to assist the people in Ohio..…so this should put the cat amongst the pigeons!! LOL!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-visit-east-palestine-toxic-train-derailment

Trump to visit East Palestine after toxic train derailment

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Yes, interesting, Mogs. You would have thought that the transport of highly toxic life-threatening chemicals by rail would be a highly regulated business. That there would be safeguards in place to stop such a thing happening because of what we are seeing here. Things like train speed, amount of chemicals transported, containers of chemicals, reason for transport of chemicals, suitability of the train and track and staff etc etc etc. But no. I read yesterday that there are about a 1000 train derailments in the US every year. 1000! Apparently that’s ‘normal’. Much as I always wanted to travel by train through the great US hinterlands, I don’t think I would be taking the train, Chattanooga choo choo or not, anytime soon. Couldn’t get into the country anyway under current prohibitions. Anyway, my point is…what is my point?…oh yes, it is about the systematic destruction of all that supports life – water, food, transport!), fuel, heating etc. The fact that this can happen there is in part due to the nature of the msm there – they don’t ask questions, they are not curious and can’t join the dots. Any time I see a youtube of US msm, it’s full… Read more »

Mogwai
3 years ago

And speaking of coincidences, this Marburg situation in Equatorial Guinea reveals another one. This is a good article also exposing the extent of the corrupt WHO. Seems Marburg is transmitted via body fluids and infected surfaces so this is going to be another Monkeybollox methinks, a.k.a, a nothing burger, though they’ll try their damndest to have us believe otherwise.

”Although a repurposed dangerous vaccine is selling well, Monkeypox has not had the frenzied success of Covid.  Perhaps Gates will make good on his promise with Marburg?
An eerily accurate prediction made by Gavi’s “Vaccines Work Series” in April 2021 asked The Next Pandemic: Marburg? With incredulous clairvoyancy the article begins with a fictitious story about Marburg affecting Equatorial Guinea for the first time ever. It goes on to describe the disease, it’s potential for disaster particularly in relation to international travel, and the need for R&D of vaccines and diagnostics.”

https://nzdsos.com/2023/02/17/marburg-misgivings/

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

If we start from the assumption that the virus manipulators are toying around, gain of function, with different strains of virus or pathogen or whatever it is they are doing in a bid to find the perfect toxin to create another even bigger worldwide panic but not powerful enough to kill themselves in the process then it all begins to make sense. It seems to me that this is what we are witnessing and the ‘Catastrophic Contagion’ exercise is all part of that. They’re clearly not done knowing that we came through Covid, batted away their experimental gene therapy treatments, and are now going all out to seek some sort of retribution. The WHO are meanwhile, while they’ve got the world leaders in thrall, going all out themselves to get their pandemic treaty ratified. This would be the prize and it would be coming into being alongside the digital ID and CBDCs, which spells game over. BUT I get the distinct feeling that their plans are unravelling quicker than a ball of wool in a Magimix. They are getting distinctly desperate and I can only imagine that their next step will be worldwide cyber attacks followed by heavily censored internet… Read more »

BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago

Marburg symptoms also usefully mirror bioweapon injection side effects…

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

An eerily accurate prediction made by Gavi’s “Vaccines Work Series” in April 2021 asked The Next Pandemic: Marburg?”

Well fancy that? It’s enough to make you think they’re trying to tell us something. 😀

Mogwai
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yeah, in Equatorial Guinea too, of all places! Enough of these damn ”coincidences” though. It’s crazy. I think it was Ellie that shared the fact the movie ‘White Noise’, released last year, was based on a toxic train crash that also happened in Ohio. This guy from east Palestine even starred in the movie. How freaky is that? 😮

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

Free Lemming
3 years ago

‘“The Futility of Trigger Warnings” – British universities are repeating the mistakes of their American counterparts, writes Amna Khalid in Persuasion.’ It’s always bemused me, why do people think a country with the cultural maturity of a toddler is a good example to follow? They even chose a man that was/is clearly suffering from advanced dementia to lead them. How psychologically screwed have you got to be to vote for someone that is mentally incapacitated just so you can get one over the other side? This should be written in law: if American society is moving in one direction, the rest of the world must move in the opposite.

WyrdWoman
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Shouldn’t the phrase ‘trigger warning’ have a trigger warning attached? Being reminiscent of guns and stuff, it might upset the same people who are upset by Peter Pan, The Railway Children and anything to do with Aslan, etc.

transmissionofflame
3 years ago

“Diversity and inclusion” are pernicious ideas and until they are utterly rubbished in the minds of the general public our civilisation will continue its rapid decline.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago

And who are the greatest supporters of the EDI jobs bonanza? The cretins with EDI in their job titles. No shit Sherlock.

transmissionofflame
3 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

True, but the general concepts of “equality” and “diversity” and “inclusion” are widely accepted now by the general public and anyone who suggests they are not valid goals is denounced as a hateful person. There exists solely some divergence of opinion on how far it should go and what form it should take, but the basic aims are now firmly embedded in modern thinking. Just to be clear, I am against blanket discrimination of any kind as it’s morally wrong and usually daft.

ebygum
3 years ago

Ron De Santis, is on a roll….not only on the ‘health alert on vaccine safety’ storyATL, but also on the indoctrination of kids in school…I wish we had just one of his calibre in Government….

https://flvoicenews.com/judge-rejects-lawsuit-to-block-k-3-parental-rights-in-education-act/

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FLV) – A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit seeking to block Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act which prohibits lessons teaching grades K-3 about sexual identity and sexual orientation.
The law also prevents school districts from withholding certain information that is “critical” to the child’s mental health…

“Democrats have dubbed the bill “Don’t Say Gay,” even though the bill does not tell teachers not to say the word “gay.”
“You have a right to know what curriculum is being used in your children’s classrooms,” DeSantis said. 
“And why someone would want to lock parents out of that, why they would not want parents to be involved in that is really beyond me,” DeSantis said….

Top Bloke!

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago

So when people say “the law is an ass” what they mean is “Judge Wilkinson is an effing idiot”?

EppingBlogger
3 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

The judge is probably not an idiot. He is efficiently exploiting his position in the criminal law system to advance his political and social values. His actions ought to result in his removal and recent judgements and sentences of his should be examined for sarnie evidence of political motivation.

don’t make the mistake of thinking all these bad things are errors. They are wilful and evil.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago

“Banning Seymour Hersh’s ‘Offensive’ Ideas” OK, I’ve had enough of this crap! I think it’s about time that we, the people, pushed back at the blatantly obvious attacks on free speech enacted by unseen, unaccountable entities on the social media platforms. We need some sort of mechanism that stops them just disallowing any content they don’t like. There needs to be real live human beings involved in the process, people who we can contact and this needs to be put into a transparent lawful framework. If you are banned by Facebook or Youtube, they simply don’t provide anything other than you haven’t abided by their community guidelines. What a bunch of horseshit! It is against any tenet of a free society – and yes I know we don’t live in a free society any longer but nevertheless we are not quite in Stalinesque purges territory just yet – to not be allowed to express opinion or facts that counter a dominant narrative. This is something that needs to be pushed up onto the parliamentary schedule or we just start a massive campaign about it. Something other than allowing it to continue. OK, MPs are largely useless but we need grassroots… Read more »

BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago

Publishers of material which they know will result in removal & censorship due to the controversial nature of opinions/news which challenge their position/narrative need to become more savvy & publish on platforms like Rumble & Odysee as well as on Youtube so that the removal from Youtube can be used as the flag to direct folk to the platforms which don’t yet censor.
A bit of responsibility to safeguard keeping that material in the public domain is required.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago

Agree, Bertie, but I feel I want to delve into the mechanisms that keep censoring perfectly reasonable content. Reasonable to reasonable thinking living human beings that is!

BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago

You won’t get any reasonableness out of the hidden hands behind the censors that’s for certain! The need to control the flow of information to keep their plans on track & the fear that it will, & is, going awry as more information finds its way into the public domain. We are winning, we will win in the end. It’s just going to get a lot worse & very messy in the meantime for a number of years. The level of pushback against ULEZs, 15 minute cities is greater than they envisioned given how compliant the public were with lockdown. Numbers are waking up to the fact that restrictions on travel will & are having real impacts on business, families & emergency services. By rushing everything out the hope was to overwhelm but the rush has only served to waken the public to the horrors of their vision of how ordinary folk should exist. There was a huge protest in Sheffield last week when barriers were installed in Crookes which resulted in the barriers being removed the next day. Massive local resistance works. I’ve written to my 3 local councillors asking them to explain/discuss 15 minute cities & UK100 membership.… Read more »

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago

You misread me, Bertie, WE are the reasonable ones, not they.

BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago

Apologies for doing so. I know that we’re the reasonable ones. Thank God that our numbers are growing, slowly, but growing.

ebygum
3 years ago

I’ve read a few comments from Sy Hersh, who has said the media did exactly the same when he uncovered the My Lai Massacre….he’s also said there is more to come.
I hope so, because it might just be the one thing that tests the EU, and makes them stop and think…before following the US blindly into WW3….

Freedom of speech is an inviolate cornerstone of real democracy, so we are left in no doubt that ‘they’ don’t even think that is worth having, and are openly in contempt of it……people really need to understand that they are determined to pull us towards fascism…

ebygum
3 years ago

Lancet Meta-Analysis of 65 Studies Across 19 Countries Shows Yet Again…
Natural Immunity > Vaccine Immunity ……!

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02465-5/fulltext

Our findings show that immunity from COVID-19 infection confers substantial protection against infection from pre-omicron variants. By comparison, protection against re-infection from the omicron BA.1 variant was substantially reduced and wanes rapidly over time. Protection against severe disease, although based on scarce data, was maintained at a relatively high level up to 1 year after the initial infection for all variants. Our analysis suggests that the level of protection from past infection by variant and over time is at least equivalent if not greater than that provided by two-dose mRNA vaccines.

I want to say Boom..but we have been here before..but surely the groundswell of evidence is getting impossible to ignore…?

which I suppose is why all they are left with is the kind of arguments spouted by Walensky…(ATL)…”we have no RCT evidence, and it’s against all the actual evidence there is, but it’s obvious masks work!”

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

So is The Lancet doing a reverse ferret?

It’s a bloody comic.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago

“Roald Dahl goes PC in a world where no one is ‘fat’ and the Oompa-Loompas are gender neutral” And my final bit of outrage this morning comes on the tails of this article – the ethnic cleansing, so to speak, of children’s literature and I wonder where this will stop so I have imagined other books and what the woke police would say: Lord of the Rings – clearly the Fellowship of the Ring is male dominated so the Woke version will have Frodo as a girl – Frodolene – and Gandalf as a gay wizard. Gandalf the Gay not Grey. Legolas the Wood Elf will be totally trans of course, dressed in black chiffon with big boots. Sam Gamgee will be Frodolene’s girlfriend, a Male trans, now identified as Samantha. Gimli the Dwarf becomes Gimli the Miner in a sort of YMCA sort of way and to not identify him as a diminutive human type. Aragorn – bit of a problem there with his being an alpha male so maybe make him a ‘them’…etc etc Stig of the Dump – well keeping him living in the dump is clearly against all woke principles as it’s ageist (stone age man… Read more »

transmissionofflame
3 years ago

who knows when this madness will stop” It will only stop if enough people push back. Appeasement has not worked. For every inch that is conceded to these bastards, they will ask for two inches more.

AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago

Exactly, hence my urge to ridicule it!

john ball
john ball
3 years ago

on the judge being lenient to the just stop oil protestors, one hopes the judge due to pass sentence on 17 March on the 2 out of the 4 defendants convicted recently of violent public disorder in Hyde Park at the end of the massive 24 April 2021 march, will take a similar lenient attitude. it seems that bringing the charges in the first place was wholly political, as everything stemmed from the police’s violent unprovoked attack on the few remaining in Hyde Park, and neither of those convicted actually hurt anyone or intended to do so.