News Round-Up
- “Neanderthal bacteria brought back to life for first time” – Scientists say the revival of old bacteria may help to create new medicines with antibiotic properties, reports the Telegraph.
- “Russell Brand’s journey of enlightenment is not political – it’s more important than that” – The fact that Russell Brand has gone from lefty hero to being branded a Right-wing conspiracy theorist speaks volumes about the kind of groupthink we are up against, say Niall McCrae and MLR Smith in the New Conservative.
- “The Government’s electric vehicle obsession is a war on motorists” – If they are to be forced on the population, it could well mean a great number of ordinary motorists being priced off the road, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Do not get Covid vaccine shots in the morning or in the evening, especially if you are young or old!” – Timing of the shot matters for Covid vaccine effectiveness, according to Nature.
- “WHO boss says pandemic is no longer a global health emergency” – The World Health Organisation has finally acknowledged that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, according to the Mail.
- “I demand reparations for my ancestors’ fall from grace” – Sean Thomas in the Spectator takes the Mickey out of the reparations movement.
- “Rochelle Walensky, who led the CDC during the pandemic, resigns” – The head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned.
- “University of Edinburgh urged to uphold academic freedoms” – More than 1,000 academics have called for Edinburgh to uphold its commitment to academic freedom, reports the Times.
- “TikTok to censor climate change ‘misinformation’” – TikTok is proving true to its roots as the creation of a tyrannical Communist regime, reports Reclaim the Net.
- “The New Puritans must be stopped” – A regressive, authoritarian ideology is cannibalising public life, says Andrew Doyle in Spiked Online.
- “‘Racist’ remarks about Rishi Sunak ‘wilfully misconstrued’, says David Starkey” – The 78 year-old historian defends himself after a remark he made about the PM was taken out of context, the Telegraph reports.
- “Professor who used Native American heritage to boost career admits she is not Mohawk” – Elizabeth Hoover, an academic at Berkeley, admits she’s been pretending to be Native American.
- “Proof that masks work” – A good Twitter thread by Dr. Simon Goddek exposing the nonsense around masking.
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Very good short piece on transgenderism by a psychiatrist, prompted by the recent school shooting in the U.S carried out by a trans person, and the disgusting response by authorities who behaved like this sick child-killer was the victim. ”Transgenderism is a mental illness. It stems from a social contagion rampant in American urban centers, spread by social media and the support of corrupt schoolteachers and administrators who have chosen to pursue child sacrifice rather than the education and protection of young people. It feeds on narcissism and victim culture, two toxic wells we have been digging for a number of years. The poison they produce has ruined the minds and bodies of thousands of American children and young adults. We now have a generation of Americans that has “identified” itself out of any possible future not filled with misery and early death. A boy who pursues a chemical and surgical solution to a crisis of identity will never draw healthy partners —men or women—and will simply enter a downward spiral of depression, resentment, and anger toward a world that promised him a medical cure for his emotional suffering. He will wind up alone and justifiably filled with a desire… Read more »
Powerful words indeed, Mogs, and a very good piece. I have often thought that the trans movement was due to a sort of collective mental illness but this piece really puts the context into perspective in a very succinct and, for trans people, highly alarming way.
Yes Aethelred, and I’ve found an entire website with plenty of evidence to support the above article. Check out the third one down. A very recent hearing of a trans ”woman”, who apparently used to work for the UK prison service, being found guilty of possessing child abuse material. If this guy doesn’t get sent down ( in a men’s prison! ) then there really is no justice. But in Clown World many other countries are enabling this extremely disturbing and dangerous ideology and pandering to these mentally ill people, usually men, by putting blokes in women’s prisons, if they get sent to one at all for their crimes. 🙁
https://reduxx.info/category/news/
I had a quick look, Mogs, and to be honest I think it is demonic. It is evil. The fact that our politicians don’t call it out shows how it has wormed its way under the fabric of our society. The current boycotting of Bud Light shows what most people think about this movement and its insidious creep into the mainstream.
Dr McDonald runs a very good short online course called ‘how not to be fooled’ with IPAK.edu. US-centric but both enlightening and enjoyable (and cheap).
https://ipak-edu.org/registration/?store-page=How-to-Not-Be-Fooled-p448227262
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/05/governments-electric-vehicle-obsession-war-on-motorists/ The phrase ”no ****Sherlock spring to mind!”, what took him so long to work that out? In my estimation the UK will struggle to replace 15% of its ICE vehicles with full spec EVs, If that is correct then it leaves 85% of current motorists having to take the bus. The article asks what will happen when the Government’s targets of the proportions of EVs sold starts to kick in next year? As well as reducing the overall car market I think this will pave the way for the importation of cheap low range micro EVs from China. You may be able to drive as far as the local shopping centre and country park but no further. This will be a huge blow to the caravan, camping, tourism and leisure industries. As the scales fall from more and more people’s eyes over the reality of this scam and deception, what will happen? I do fear that the ‘die is already cast’ on this matter. The conventional car industry is gearing up to sell much small numbers of top range EVs to the elites, China is gearing up to sell low range micro EVs to the hoi-polloi. Is it possible… Read more »
Not to mention the increase in the devastation of the poor in africa! And the planet, trying to produce all the extra materials involved in their production!
(But don’t mention that!)
No.. don’t mention the young boys mining Cobalt in Africa, or men dying in their thirties in South American Lithium mines, let alone the massive destructive pollution. Never mind the fact that unlike lead acid batteries, lithium batteries cannot be recycled, they are also unstable and catch fire..
Much easier to push that aside and virtue signal at your neighbours dinner party how green you are, and that you’re doing your bit to save the planet..
I believe too many people see the EV issue as a stand alone but like everything else it is not.
Once the 15 minute ghettos are fully operational most people will not need a car and or they will be priced out of the market. So that’s the demand side dealt with. Furthermore, the infrastructure required to support EV’s will not be available nationally.
And of course as depopulation kicks in the problem of personal transport is expected to become self resolving.
Absolutely.. after a 75% reduction of the ‘useless eaters’. Personal transport.. I beg your pardon.. get back in your 15 minute playpen Georgie boy and be pleased you own nothing..;-)
It has to be stopped, Steve, because it is utterly insane. The EV charging infrastructure isn’t there and I’ve noticed that those that are there are limited in number. Imagine the queues to charge your car just so you can get home! Also, the process to manufacture the batteries required for EVs alone requires massive amounts of energy, which can only be supplied through fossil fuels – mining, processing of lithium, transport etc and so on. In effect, it’s a dirty, far from green, industry. If we can’t turn this madness around now, we are indeed lost. The science behind all these decisions is far from settled. Indeed, it is the one thing we have to continually shout about. Meanwhile, a few of us here in my county are pushing back against councils who are rampantly pushing this agenda and trying to show them how flawed their plans are and pick holes in some of their grandstanding statements. Get this one, from the county council’s Climate Emergency Strategy: “The positive impacts on climate and ecological change brought about by the lockdown period, Global CO2 emissions dropped by approx. 17% to levels not seen since 2006.” The absolute lie in this… Read more »
“The absolute lie in this goes unchecked that most global emissions are caused by natural processes other than human”
While not disagreeing with your post, Aethelred, the big lie that we on the climate-sceptic side often put forward is that 96% (say) of CO2 emissions is produced by natural causes.
What this “lie” fails to reveal is that, since nature is both an absorber and emitter of CO2, man’s share of net CO2 emissions is much higher, especially over longer periods when natural flows would likely be in overall balance. Indeed, I would not necessarily disagree with a statement that most of the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere over the last 170 years (from 280 ppm to 410 ppm) is due to human activities. More importantly, big hitters on our side of the argument, like Richard Lindzen and William Happer, would IMO also agree that that is the case.
What on earth has Co2 got to do with any of this other than promoting the biggest lie in the world?
Move away from the language of the oppressors.
Two points, HP:
1. I was responding directly to Aethelred’s point about human-caused vs natural emissions of CO2 – it’s difficult to do that without referring to CO2
2. You clearly don’t believe in the greenhouse effect, but top physicists on our side of the argument do. They argue of course that the greenhouse effect has reached a point of saturation as regards the impact of further CO2 on temperature, and also that the Earth’s temperature and atmospheric CO2 levels have been much higher than today in relatively recent history in terms of climate.
There are different ways to disagree with the climate narrative, but each of us has to be true to ourselves. I don’t think denying the existence of the greenhouse effect is credible, but you clearly do.
Michael, as soon as you accept ANY suggestion of man-made global warming or climate change you have lost the argument because you are fighting a battle on the oppressors turf.
Man-made climate change is complete BS and those responsible for pushing it know this. They also know it cannot be proven – too many variables – but if you try to take them on on their terms you will always lose because false models, corrupted figures and so on.
Let’s assume we are now moving in to a period of global cooling as many specialists on our side are telling us, what do we do?
Our ability to keep ourselves warm is being stripped away. But still it’s man-made climate change.
Climate change? Utter nonsense.
Climate IS.
Climate changes minute by minute.
We are living on a planet whizzing through space and given all the variables impacting the climate it is in fact a wonder that said climate is pretty damn stable one year to the next.
Don’t be fooled.
I hear you Michael but are we not also ‘nature’? Whatever we do is part of the natural cycle whichever way one wishes to look at it. You can’t just take us out of the equation. There are also many other aspects why the balance has gone wrong – deforestation of the ‘lungs of the planet’ – the tropical rainforests – which has been catastrophic over the past 50 years and continues unabated, means that there are less ‘absorbers’. This, which is mainly human-caused, I would accept. Still, the numbers of our CO2 production still remain comparatively negligible. We are talking such tiny amounts overall and for this we have to alter our society profoundly. This focus on CO2 and not the elephant in the room – all the toxic pollution – is akin to looking for the culprit of a crime that never happened.
I don’t disagree with any of that, Aethelred. I don’t think man’s production of CO2 (through use of fossil fuels or deforestation) is at all a problem for the climate.
Deforestation of the planet is a red herring Aethelred and is used as a means of pushing anthropogenic global warming / climate change BS.
CO2 is already at low levels compared to times in the past, when there was ten times the amount compared to today. Not only that CO2 follows warming, not the Al Gore way round. Ice core studies have proved that time and time again. Last but not least.. its the gas of life, without it we all die.
The whole CO2 Warming thing is a pack of lies..
100% with you George 👍
My brother is planning to eco his home with a solar/battery system the quotation has rated at 2.4Kw. This is supposed not only to power the house, but recharge the Tesla as well. It won’t even boil a kettle as far as I can see.
I hope your bro is patient!
Has he looked into where the materials are coming from to make his solar panels and batteries.. and where the power is coming from for the production.. ask a greeny that and you nearly always get the middle distance stare..
https://www.netzerowatch.com/britains-electric-car-strategy-is-doomed-to-failure/
“A fast EV charger for a car draws 7kW, perhaps for six hours, and a heat pump needs 3kW, potentially for much of the day. But the cabling and substations in most suburbs were sized and installed before these technologies were even thought of. So while there is sufficient headroom for electrification of a few households, the whole distribution system will need to be up- graded if demand grows. “
“Turning to the raw materials needed to produce batteries, Kelly claims: “If we replace all of the UK vehicle fleet with EVs, and assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation batteries, we would need the following materials:
And as the graphic attached shows, nothing we do will make a blind bit of difference – other than crashing the economy and further impoverishing us all
Oh. Apparently we are not allowed to post jpg files. Uh? png OK
“Do not get Covid vaccine shots in the morning or in the evening, especially if you are young or old!”
Short version:
“Do not get Covid vaccine shots”
Longer version:
Do not get Covid vaccine shots in the morning or in the evening, or in the afternoon or at night, especially if you are young or old or middle-aged!”
Or shorter still; ”Do not get shots. Period.”
The second sentence of the Dr. Simon mask thread already talks about how people knew in 1918 that prolonged (and/or wrong, like in 99.9% of cases and people) mask wearing could lead to secondary bacterial infection of the lung, aka pneumonia.
Funny that the Northwestern study out yesterday found that most people on their ICU dying with Covid had: secondary bacterial infection of the lung, aka pneumonia!
On censoring climate change “misinformation” I have had a post on “LInkedIn” removed for the same issue. I merely said that there is no proof that humans are causing climate change and that even if that were the case, surely we’d be better off trying to develop the technology to enable us to cope with the changes (as we have throughout human history). Apparently, this is “misinformation”. Note that I did not “deny” anything. Madness.
I was suspended from LinkedIn for similar thought crimes. I can only reinstate my account by providing them with an item of government id – licence, passport etc. Why would a private organisation want this? My guess is that it is one method of notifying the govt of the identity of the wrong thinkers. Needless to say, I am still off LinkedIn.
Just in case anyone hasn’t seen this, response by the Govt to the petition to hold a parliamentary vote on whether to reject the amendments to the IHR 2005.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/635904?reveal_response=yes
Salient paras here:
‘The UK Government has a strong commitment and duty to implement international law that it is subject to. However, we have been clear that the UK will not sign up to any IHR amendments that would compromise the UK’s ability to take domestic decisions on national public health measures.
Should the UK Government wish to accept an IHR amendment, then changes to domestic law considered necessary or appropriate to reflect obligations under the IHR amendment, may be required depending on the content of the respective IHR amendment. The Government would prepare such draft legislation before Parliament in the usual way.
In all circumstances, the sovereignty of the UK Parliament would remain unchanged, and the UK would remain in control of any future domestic decisions about national public health measures including any restrictions.’
We’ll see.
I like how they continually refer to parliament’s sovereignty and not that of every living and breathing human being in this country. They seem to forget that we invented them and they are answerable to us, not the other way round.
Happy Bank Hols one and all. It’s hard to describe the air of total indifference here in my town to the coronation. Chinese bunting seems to have been distributed to local shopkeepers by the council.
Hoping that ‘victimless’ pae-do pan-dar Ghislaine Maxwell is able to join in the ceremonies via zoom, as a reward for her discretion!
Looks like Pfizer still want to squeeze the EU for as much cash as they can…and Poland are not happy!, https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/poland-government-takes-pfizer-shareholders-urge-corporate-social-responsibility-eu-vaccine When Pfizer and BioNTech struck a massive deal to supply Europe with up to 1.8 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, government officials lauded the deal. But now that vaccine demand has cratered and governments have too many doses, many officials are singing a different tune. In an open letter addressed to Pfizer’s shareholders, Poland’s health minister Adam Niedzielski called on the company to take “active corporate social responsibility” and lift financial burdens imposed by the 2021 agreement In new details recently reported by the Financial Times, the sides are deliberating half payments for unneeded—and undelivered—doses. That won’t do for Poland. The charges would be “literally for unmanufactured doses that have not yet been and will never be produced and thus will not cost Pfizer a penny,” Niedzielski wrote. And Pfizer is still planning to deliver some doses under the deal, Niedzielski wrote. This would be “utterly pointless” as most of them would be destroyed thanks to a lack of demand and limited shelf life. The sheer size of the deal, and how it came to be, was investigted by Europe’s Court of Auditors last year.… Read more »
Dr Clare Craig (not one of her impersonators)
@ClareCraigPath
This data is deaths that were registered each week not that occurred that week.
The last reported week is horrific. As high as the deaths in autumn 2020, which were used to bring in tiering and the second lockdown.
Well above what should be seen in May.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)@ONS
May 3
12,420 deaths were registered in England and Wales in the week ending 21 April 2023 (Week 16).
22.9% above the five-year average (2,312 more deaths).
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending21april2023
https://www.farminguk.com/news/sausage-producer-heck-to-discontinue-most-of-its-vegan-products_62547.html
Excellent news. A bit of a pfizzer for the eco nutters.
https://www.farminguk.com/news/farmers-told-to-prepare-as-2022-storms-saw-92m-damage_62543.html
More nanny state BS specifically for farmers and telling them what to do when extreme weather events strike. FFS!
“Stay away from barn doors.”
God help us.