News Round-Up
- “Hunts banned from taking card payments in latest example of de-banking” – Hunts have been banned from taking card payments by a major financial services firm in the latest example of de-banking, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why I’m taking on the banks” – Nigel Farage returns to the Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his battle with Coutts and the terrifying scale of ‘de-banking’.
- “Smug banking elitists lack the common touch” – Nigel Farage is right: it’s time for the rest of the politicians to wake up and stop woke views from being imposed on people, writes Virginia Blackburn in the Express.
- “The naked persecution of Donald Trump” – American democracy is no stranger to thuggery, writes American playwright David Mamet in UnHerd.
- “Will Trump turn his January 6th indictment into a triumph?” – Despite his indictment, Trump is continuing undaunted with his Presidential campaign and this latest setback can only play into his hands, writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
- “Biden scandal” – While Trump’s problems are widely reported, the scandal engulfing the current President in connection with his son Hunter are under-examined in Britain, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “New evidence suggests mRNA COVID-19 vaccine transmission of aerosols by vaccinated to unvaccinated” – New evidence suggests vaccinated individuals can transmit antibodies generated through mRNA COVID-19 vaccination to unvaccinated individuals through aerosols, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Yet more fear mongering over Covid in children” – The usual Covid high priests, who have been wheeled out repeatedly in front of the television cameras to fear-monger about Covid, are at it again, says the team at HART.
- “Covid cover-up front page news, but hardly anyone cares” – No one believes it unless it’s in the mainstream media, but fewer and fewer people are tuning in, says Rebekah Barnett.
- “Now even the over-65s are ditching broadcast television” – Traditional TV channels suffered their steepest EVER decline in viewers in 2022 as older people turn to streaming rivals Netflix and Disney+ for their entertainment, reports the Mail.
- “Le Tissier admits his family thought he had ‘mental health issues’” – Southampton legend Matt Le Tessier has claimed that his family and close friends thought he had “mental health issues” over his controversial views during the coronavirus pandemic, says the Mail.
- “Biden administration announces doctor who offered COVID-19 misinformation as Fauci replacement” – An Alabama doctor and university researcher who offered misinformation about COVID-19 has been selected to succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Just Stop Oil say their protests have shaped Labour policy” – The Mail has obtained a tape of Just Stop Oil activists claiming their stunt outside Parliament persuaded Labour to veto new North Sea oil and gas projects.
- “Sadiq Khan facing furious council revolt as all but one bordering London refuse Ulez signs” – Sadiq Khan is facing a Home Counties revolt after all but one council bordering London refused to install signs for his hated Ulez scheme ahead of its expansion, reports the Express.
- “Inside the low traffic neighbourhoods dividing communities in Britain” – While some residents and business owners believe LTNs make areas safer and less polluted, others brand them as an attack on motorists, says the Mail.
- “Net Zero hardliners don’t know their history” – The smug assertion that critics of green radicalism are on the ‘wrong side of history’ is fuelling a backlash, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Minister faces police inquiry over ‘racist’ leaflet” – David Davies, the Welsh Secretary, is facing a police investigation over an allegedly ‘racist’ campaign leaflet about a proposed new traveller site in his constituency, reports the Telegraph.
- “Meloni sues rock star who called her ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’” – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has taken legal action against Brian Molko from the British band Placebo after the singer insulted her during a concert near Turin, says Politico.
- “Librarians told to hide books by gender-critical authors” – Libraries across the country are being advised to prevent LGBT people seeing ‘offensive’ gender-critical books, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Smartphone addiction not so smart” – A UN report says smartphones should be banned in schools across the world to protect the mental health of children. Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine, who is still at school, agrees.
- “Can Labour really be trusted on the trans issue?” – The same MPs who told us ‘transwomen are women’ now claim to be champions of single-sex spaces, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked. Do we believe them?
- “Author Gillian Philip says women are ‘scared’ over ‘cancel culture’” – A bestselling children’s author, dropped by her agent and employer for supporting J.K. Rowling, says women fear activists may target them, reports the Mail.
- “The least PC job ad ever? Company seeking ‘non-woke’ applicants” – Wallis Computer Solutions in Dalwallinu, Western Australia, is looking for a “non-woke” technician to join their crew, specifically one who values “diversity of thought”, says the Mail.
- “Did David Foster Wallace predict the future?” – According to Sarah Ditum in UnHerd, our world is more dystopian than that of David Foster Wallace’s seminal book, Infinite Jest.
- “What history teaches us about the importance of academic freedom” – James Huffman in UnHerd offers up a 1949 primer showing there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.
- “Disney’s governing body slashes EDI programs after DeSantis takeover” – Walt Disney World’s governing body has scrapped its equity, diversity and inclusion programmes, reports the Mail.
- “Australia’s divisive race referendum” – The Aboriginal community in Australia is being robbed of its agency, argues Nick Cater in UnHerd.
- “Rhodes Trust chief rejects calls for removal of Cecil Rhodes statue” – Nick Dixon on GB News reacts to the Rhodes Trust refusing to back calls to remove the statue of Rhodes in Oxford.
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When all the banks are cancelling people’s accounts, then it’s coordinated.
Banks, like any business, want customers. They don’t want to turn them away, unless someone forces them to or makes it worth their while. (A bit like business turning people away who didn’t have covid passports).
Who is coordinating this behaviour and how are they doing it?
Interesting question. O to be a fly on the wall, or in someone’s brain to hear their thoughts.
It’s quite plausible to me that there are dark forces at work. Another theory I have is that it’s groupthink, they’ve all gone a bit funny and/or they see which way the wind is blowing. I’m talking about the bosses here. They judge themselves and are judged not only by running a profitable bank but by whether they have changed the world. We’ve all been brainwashed into thinking naked capitalism is evil.
Another explanation for the apparent coordination is that woke culture has taken over.
Banks are terrified of being exposed as profiting from or even being associated with things that are seen as abhorrent, like slavery and racism and transphobia.
I don’t think Farage is at all racist, but that is a label that has been successfully applied to him by the mainstream media. So the banks, not wishing to be exposed or “cancelled”, find reasons to offload customers like Farage.
There is a whole raft of regulation and legislation designed to stop fraud and money laundering, and that is what is getting used here against individual citizens. You are right though, why should they want to have anyone ‘controvertial’ on their books in days like these. I recall the Bank of England has offered banking facilities to a few debanked companies in the past. Maybe that is a first step forwards.
That’s what they say it’s for. But it’s real purpose is to be able to use banks as a weapon against individuals, entities or even nations.
Much like the online harms bill is supposedly about protecting people but is actually to control communications.
Much like data protection laws are supposedly to protect your data but is actually about giving the state (and no one else) full access to all your data.
If we look beyond the title and superficial explanation of so many of these laws, and look at the detail and the actual use, and we discover its really about putting more power in the hands of the state and its bureaucrats. You know, in the hands of the people who actually draft these laws and given to lawmakers to rubber stamp.
Exactly. It’s always the opposite. It’s actually what THEY are up to. THEY bring in legislation against fraud and money laundering while operating wholesale fraud and money laundering in plain sight. The same process, as you point out, can be used for pretty much every law.
Maybe it’s time to cancel the banks and de-client them. I know there are many people trying to come up with ideas of what we could do to counter the power they hold over us but local schemes such as the one in Totnes and another in Frome won’t go much further. Bartering is a great idea but what if you don’t have anything to barter? Gold and silver also good but not so easily accessible by the masses plus THEY are buying it all up. Crypto, to me at least, is a hiding to nothing. It needs a computer, the internet and a power source I believe, all things that can be removed. So it comes back to the baseless but interchangeable fiat paper currency again. Somehow, we have to force the legislators to draw up legislation that protects people’s accounts and guarantees access to currency but not so easy in the current climate of totalitarianism!
Retaliating against the banks to me is like retaliating against a business that wouldn’t allow people in without a covid passport. Or without wearing a mask when it was required.
Do you get angry because they force you into certain behaviour? Yes. Do you despise them for allowing themselves to become tools of the state? Yes.
But are they ultimately responsible? No. They are forced into a horrible choice. Do as the state orders or face severe consequences.
The fundamental problem is a state bureaucracy that is being used to capture major vital elements of our society. Fascism. Everything becomes the state.
I think the banks have had a specific set of values bestowed upon them by pandering to the latest woke ideologies or political trends. Perhaps they even have ideological crusaders among their ranks. If “power corrupts” then senior management of banks have an awful lot of power at their disposal and a disturbing level of responsibility for mediating most transactions that occur. I believe that what we have seen has come about as a result of senior management of banks abusing their responsibility and betraying the public trust, in order to crusade on a chosen issue or group of issues. I don’t think the state has coordinated all this. Farage’s accounts were closed, as was revealed due to his subject access request, because his political views did not “align with the values of the bank” not the values of the state.
I wonder if a kneejerk against the banks is not the real goal: create the desire for one central, government-controlled “trustworthy” one – a British version of Gosbank.
While I would like to know..it seems more important to fight it on principle regardless……because if they get the programmable CBDC’s they want..that could be me or you, or all of us who comment against the agenda!!?
Fight we must, but who?
Not banks but governments and their bureaucracies. They need to be told to stop using private businesses as their policy enforcers.
Private businesses don’t work for the government. Or they shouldn’t if they don’t want to.
When the government and its bureaucracy goes on a crusade, be it to get us all masked, or jabbed or to stop “money laundering” or “corruption” or to make the world more “equitable”, it can’t just go around hijacking private enterprises to do their enforcement work for them.
And rhe public really needs to stop being duped into believing any of these things are embarked on for its benefit. They never are.
The public needs to wise up and stop being the useful idiot.
Nose picking isn’t good for you: https://www.gbnews.com/health/nose-picking-covid-health-workers-netherlands According to this article, “Doctors were identified as the most frequent nose pickers.”. Might have had something to do with the way the surgery group was selected?
I saw that yesterday but didn’t click out of principle. It’s just gone beyond embarrassing now, the lengths people will go to with their obsession around a flipping cold virus. Researchers seriously have nothing more worthwhile to spend their budgets on? Jeez..
“Just Stop Oil say their protests have shaped Labour policy”
Call me cynical, but I think that the £1m plus donation from JSO to the Labour Party, might not be entirely coincidental.
“Will Trump turn his January 6th indictment into a triumph?”
Assuming they watch those votes from dead people dont get counted, he’s got every chance. The problem is that the left will never accept him, and the common ground that is so desperately needed will not appear.
JSO is financed form outside the UK so a donation by it to a political party looks a lot like evasion of the election laws in this country.
unless other Westminster parties are accepting similarly “washed” funds, I am surprised they have not queries it. Presumably JSO is not a charity.
I don’t think common ground is possible. Trying to find common ground has led to the retreat and more or less utter defeat of the right (individualists who love freedom and limited government) in the face of the left (collectivists who hate freedom and want the state involved in everything). Compromise hasn’t worked.
They won’t let Trump win the Election. If they can’t stop him from being the Republican candidate, they will simply rig the election again. Who’s going to stop them?
“Meloni sues rock star who called her ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’”
So someone spouting hate against a foreigner thought that was okay? When did we get rid of the ‘self-aware’ gene..?
I shall repeat my depressing anecdote from the other day. Italian friend of mine (lives and works in Italy): “I’m not political…Meloni is a fascist…during covid I was forced to wear a mask and get vaccinated otherwise I would have been suspended indefinitely without pay from my state sector teaching job”. Editor’s note – Meloni was NOT the PM who forced people to get vaxxed. My friend is sadly a moron.
Your friend is a moron. Show your friend this: –
https://www.euronews.com/video/2021/07/30/anti-virus-pass-demo-invades-italian-parliament
Very good. Worth watching some of the speeches on covid by Vittorio Sgarbi too. I have another friend who managed to remain unvaxxed and unmasked, along with her daughter. They got a lot of flak but came through it stronger.
I’ve not mentioned depopulation for a while so here goes. Robert Malone has done an impressively thorough deep dive of the subject here, because the agenda has been a thing for decades prior to Covid of course. The Kissinger Report features heavily; ”From the Kissinger Report Executive Summary: World policy and programs in the population field should incorporate two major objectives: (a) actions to accommodate continued population growth up to 6 billions by the mid-21st century without massive starvation or total frustration of developmental hopes; and (b) actions to keep the ultimate level as close as possible to 8 billions rather than permitting it to reach 10 billions, 13 billions, or more This major objective –to not exceed 8-billion– combined with the fact that we hit the 8-billion mark in 2022 might help explain the intense urgency of so many planned and organized actions during the past three years. When we set aside Covid/virus/pandemic (the ostensible rationale for everything that’s been done since 2020), and focus instead on plans that were developed and enacted by USG over decades, and when we focus on actions that have been taken on those plans, and when we focus on the effects that have been caused by those… Read more »
I dont think this will come as news to many posters, but it certainly isnt appreciated widely that de-population is the real name of the game.
Of course, the easiest way of controlling populations is not by starvation, but by economic development. When people are richer, they dont need to have a dozen kids to be a cheap labour-force or to act as your pensions.If their education is better, healthcare better, then people have fewer kids, but also take better care of the environment, and lots of other benefits.
I note that the leaders of depopulation like Attenborough, Kissinger, Soros, have all exceeded their stay by 20 years, and yet don’t seem keen to help us out and shuffle off the mortal coil. Perhaps they should set an example.
Thanks Mogs. Information such as this helps more than my constant references to a ‘depopulation agenda.’ I do hope these two articles will be read by all DS members.
Exactly, hux. We know this has been a long-standing goal of the elites, and hardly top-secret, for many years and I think the whole scamdemic and toxic bioweapons have just ‘helped’ to further their cause. No wonder these clot shots will never be removed and more keep on coming. They serve a purpose.
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From the Dr Robert Malone article referenced above: “A growing number of experts are of the belief that the outlook is much harsher and far less tractable than commonly perceived… the conclusion of this view is that mandatory programs may be needed and that we should be considering these possibilities now.” Note from Gavin: This next section of the classified document written by CIA and USAID is uncomfortably close to other global ambitions in world history. The proposal asks if the U.S. should: “make an all out commitment to major limitation of world population with all the financial and international as well as domestic political costs that would entail” “Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?” “Would food be considered an instrument of national power?” “Are mandatory population control measures appropriate for the U.S. and/or for others?” “Should the U.S. seek to change its own food consumption patterns toward more efficient uses of protein?” Note: During the COVID pandemic, the FDA began a $5-billion program related to this, and the Gates Foundation has funded several projects along these lines. (While these pursuits are certainly not all bad, they are science-fiction projects that will change the natural food supply, and it might… Read more »
So if anybody still cannot accept that depopulation is very real they need their bumps feeling.
Yep, precisely. And that bit about those very countries being sent the toxic injections stood out for me too. There’s no such thing as a ‘coincidence’ any more, not for me anyway. They’ll pass these moves off as ”equity” of course but the receipts are all there and cannot be argued with. They can burn books but the internet will remain, and that serves us well at this point in time. What everybody said and what everybody did, recorded for posterity.
Totally agree Mogs.
“New evidence suggests mRNA COVID-19 vaccine transmission of aerosols by vaccinated to unvaccinated”
Is there a way to read this without taking out a subscription?
I don’t know the answer to your subscription question Gefion.. but I can show you a very important link to Hydrogels being transmitted to humans via aerosol spraying and the food supply. This is happening to all people.. not just the vaxxed.
In the author’s Ana Maria Mihalcea‘s own words.. “Many people do not want to face the reality that the transhumanist agenda of merging humans with machines has been underway and is currently happening in an advanced stage”.
Hydrogel Interfaces for Merging Humans and Machines – MIT Research Review
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/hydrogel-interfaces-for-merging-humans?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thanks for this George.
You’re more than welcome Hux.. I feel this is vital information that people just aren’t aware of and need to look at.
Ana Maria Mihalcea and colleagues are doing incredible work trying to get the message out, and exposing just what’s really happening with this mind blowing biological science available to the evil b@stards..
Here’s her Substack link..
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/
Wow… That’s just an amazing article. It requires rereading and a lot of thought although I’m not at all surprised but the technology.
At a mundane level I have a friend who is totally vaccinated (I am not at all vaccinated) and after being in her company I feel unwell the next day – not a joke about hangovers, bad cooking etc but something I have been aware of since I took her for her first vaccine. I don’t see her that often which is probably just as well but I do feel weird afterwards and I have wondered if she’s shedding either vaccine or virus.
Can’t access Epoch Times either, but Helene Banoun wrote this piece back in October 2022 which was picked up by loads of people at the time including, I believe, the World Council for Health. Suspect this paper might be the basis of the current re-run.
https://www.tmrjournals.com/public/articlePDF/20221114/483e983160eb24f1ef94bdd666603ac9.pdf
The use of language here is appalling. If any views where ‘controversial’ it’s those who attempted the lockdown leap in the dark and criminalised much of what makes a free society.
Absolutely.. and despite being a Portsmouth FC fan I’ve huge respect and admiration for Matt Le Tissier putting his head above the parapet and speaking the truth.. it cost him his job and a lot more besides. A real gutsy man..
“The Naked Persecution of Donald Trump…” the brilliant Babylon Bee…..(you just feel if they could they would really accuse him of this…LOL) https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-the-1996-murder-of-tupac-shakur Trump indicted for the murder of Tupac…. LAS VEGAS — The infamous unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur on the streets of Las Vegas, once thought to be a hit by the Southside Crips, is now believed to be the work of none other than former President Donald J. Trump, who authorities believe acted alone. Trump has been indicted for the murder. A charge of murder in the first degree was brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. “Tupac was murdered on Flamingo Road, less than two miles from where Trump Hotel later opened in 2017,” he said. “Coincidence? I think not!” Authorities now believe Trump fired a Glock .40-caliber pistol from the backseat of a white Cadillac while also somehow driving it. The rapper was struck four times in the chest and rushed to a hospital where he later succumbed to his wounds. This marks the 3rd time Trump has been indicted in the last few months, clearly marking him as a public menace who should not be on the streets. “Trump is a monster,” Special Counsel… Read more »
Smith not realising that his “Trump is a monster” statement marks him (Smith) out as an evil monster. Absolutely disgusting.
…as if the malaria giving GM mosquitoes weren’t enough??
https://americanfaith.com/bill-gates-funded-research-into-genetically-engineered-cattle-ticks-now-450000-americans-have-red-meat-allergies-from-alpha-gal-syndrome-caused-by-tick-bites/
Bill Gates Funded Research Into Genetically Engineered Cattle Ticks—Now 450,000 Americans Have Red Meat Allergies From ‘Alpha-Gal Syndrome’ Caused by Tick Bites.
This one might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa4H_aL5Ldk&list=WL&index=5 “Who killed the electric car? A response to Fully Charged Show”, by Geoff Buys Cars.