News Round-Up
- “New York Times editorial written by Hamas-appointed mayor sparks outrage” – The New York Times has sparked outrage after publishing an op-ed by the Hamas-appointed mayor of Gaza City, reports the Telegraph.
- “Harvard board under pressure to resign after support for President Claudine Gay” – The Harvard Corporation is under pressure to resign following the board’s endorsement of President Claudine Gay, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Alison Rose’s name axed from Government report after Farage debanking scandal” – Dame Alison Rose’s name is to be axed from an official Government review into female entrepreneurship over her role in the Nigel Farage debanking scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Biden is too busy snubbing Britain to lead the West against China” – Petty U.S. protectionism undermines any effort to present a united front against Beijing, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “We are cursed to be led by ‘sensible centrists’” – The full extent of the terrible damage supposedly sensible people have done to the country is only now becoming apparent, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “Who are Drs. John Mascola, Barney Graham and Kizzmekia Corbett?” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone defends accusations made against him over the development of modified-mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
- “No.10 plans to end inheritance tax in spring ahead of election” – Downing Street is considering axing inheritance tax in a pre-election giveaway to boost Rishi Sunak’s chances of victory, says the Telegraph.
- “Prince Andrew ‘in torment’ ahead of Jeffrey Epstein doc release” – Prince Andrew is said to be “beside himself” as reports emerge that his name could appear in court documents allegedly linking him with Jeffrey Epstein, reports the Standard.
- “Blow for Khan as European drivers challenge Ulez fines” – Sadiq Khan’s TfL may have to pay back millions of pounds in Ulez fines after a legal challenge by European drivers, says the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero will hamper West and boost China, warns CEBR” – The costs of the green transition will help to push Asian countries up the world economic table, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “How the climatoids spent the summer lecturing us on the permanent drought that climate change has brought to Central Europe, and how they have earned nothing but rain for their hubris” – On Substack, Eugyppius takes aim at the media hysteria surrounding drought in Germany, despite improved groundwater levels.
- “A robot attacked an engineer at Tesla’s Cybertruck factory in Texas” – A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company’s Giga Texas factory, reports the Mail.
- “Queen’s University orders every single person on campus to comply with transgender names and pronouns or face punishment” – Queen’s University Belfast has toughened up its code of conduct so that refusing to recognise someone’s self-declared gender is now a “zero tolerance” disciplinary matter, according to the News Letter.
- “Snow White star U-turns ‘woke’ slamming of original after Disney remake backlash” – Snow White star Rachel Zegler has U-turned on her previous “woke” bashing of the 1937 original classic movie, following backlash to her now delayed remake, reports the Express.
- “This blog will be censored by NewsGuard” – “NewsGuard are angling to censor my blog”, says Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “2023 revealed the tyranny of the ‘sensitivity reader’” – From Roald Dahl to P.G. Wodehouse, no literary genius is now safe from the censor’s pen, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “The revolt against woke capitalism” – In 2023, ordinary people gave a two-fingered salute to corporate virtue-signalling, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Parish churches sit at the heart of Christian worship. But perhaps for not much longer” – Church closures are an inevitable consequence of the CoE’s suicidal new strategy, writes Emma Thompson in the Telegraph.
- “The cross and the machine” – In the Free Press, Paul Kingsnorth describes the journey that has taken him from atheism to Orthodox Christianity, with a few detours along the way.
- “Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters wreak havoc in New York City” – Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters have wreaked havoc in New York City in what appears to be a war on Christmas.
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Horrific atrocities and images coming out of Nigeria as Christians continue to be persecuted and slaughtered. These people were celebrating Christmas when they were all shot dead. But will there be an outcry as people hit the streets in protest? Not likely, wrong religion. The murderers were Muslims and we know the drill by now; ”No Jews, no news.” But in tiny Israel, imagine being able to freely not be a Jew and not fear for your life? They almost sound like a civilized country don’t they? Remarkable really.. ”Israel’s Christian population is continuing to soar ever higher as persecution builds elsewhere in the Middle East, year-end figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reveal. According to the CBS, around 187,900 Christians live in Israel, composing 1.9 percent of the population. This represents 1.3 percent growth from the year before with followers enjoying complete religious freedom in Israel that is denied elsewhere in neighbouring countries. The Christian population has been on the rise for at least the last two years. In 2021, the population grew by 1.4 percent to 182,000, and in 2022, there was about two percent growth to 185,000, according to the CBS. Three-quarters (75.3 percent) are Arab… Read more »
More calls to stop the death jabs, this time from Dutch scientists. They make good points in this 15min clip but we all know it’ll fall on deaf ears as more, not less, mRNA gunk hits the market. All we can hope for is that more and more people decide, for whatever reason, not to take the damn things. And not just the Covid ones either. Avoiding *all* vaccines is the safest bet.
”Last week (Dec 20, 2023), a broadcast on BlckBx.TV showcased Dutch molecular biologist Dr. Maarten Fornerod and the esteemed immunologist Prof. Theo Schetters, who is not only a leading figure in biology and immunology in the Netherlands but also serves as a special professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.”
https://www.aussie17.com/p/dutch-experts-dr-maarten-fornerod
“Prince Andrew ‘in torment’ ahead of Jeffrey Epstein doc release”
Babylon Bee has the list already……
https://babylonbee.com/news/exclusive-the-babylon-bee-has-exclusively-obtained-the-epstein-client-li
Paywalled…
Should be open access – I’m not a subscriber. Click past the subs page perhaps.
….or did I miss the joke?!
No joke. No problem. Will be public soon, tho’ one hopes the three names redacted will be leaked….
“This blog will be censored by NewsGuard”
Great response from Chudov. I wonder if NewsGuard realise that flagging sites like DS and Chudov’s blog probably RAISES interest in them amongst the sceptical?! Advertisers take note…
You only guard against opinions you don’t want others to have.
Streisand effect. They never learn!
“Climate Emergency” is a political term not a scientific one and it is about as credible as saying “Dangerous Kitten”.
Bullcarp. The ‘robot’ did not attack the engineer. The engineer was working inside the working arc of some moving machinery and failed to lock it into a safe mode. That may be due to foolishness on his part or unsafe practices mandated by his supervisors – perhaps compounded by an over-reliance on sensors being able to distinguish between a car component and a person.
Robot should be able of be aware of human error/failure.
Asimov
Yes. But we have yet to invent the positronic brain – let alone the way to embed the 3 laws. 🙂
These things do not have agency. They do not attack.
Someone might attack someone else using one of these. That’s as far as I’ll go on that.
Net Zero Means Powerless Defenceless
leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
The funny thing about NetZero is that it will require fossil fuel use on an epic scale, and unutterable devastation of the environment to get there…
https://web.archive.org/web/20230401005525/https://www.netzerowatch.com/britains-electric-car-strategy-is-doomed-to-failure/
When you do something that will have no effect on what you claim, you are not doing it for the reasons you say you are. ——Net Zero is therefore nothing to do with climate and everything to do with something else. ——What is the something else? ——-Sustainable Development. Eco Socialism.
“What is the something else?”
Depopulation and control as I never cease to remind our readership.
Yep CONTROL of the worlds wealth and resources and you and I ———-I never seem to get tired of pointing it out either as you might have noticed.
Depopulation? So how come the population keeps on increasing?
Is it your belief that some group of people are conspiring to depopulate the world but they are so incompetent that they keep failing?
Before “covid” I would have said it was far-fetched. Now I am not so sure. Western civilisation is certainly under attack and the welfare of me and my family don’t seem to figure much in the thinking of powerful people who seem to be setting the agenda — an agenda that makes no sense even to an idiot.
That doesn’t mean that they (whoever ‘they’ may be) are trying to depopulate the world.
And my question hasn’t been answered: If the aim of these clever conspirators is to depopulate the world, why are they failing so badly?
Some would argue they’ve only just got started on the end game – or we’re in the “pre end game”. They are playing a long game, trying to cause the collapse of civilisation from which chaos and poverty will follow. I don’t know, but some talk about “overpopulation” quite openly. My default setting now is to be very suspicious of anything global and/or promising to make things better/safer/healthier/more environmentally friendly. The usual result is less freedom and less prosperity.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/decoding-un-sustainable-development-goals-indoctrinating-children-new-fake-sustainable-world-order/5843937
god… I heartily recommend reading this article if you can spare the time – it might provide some answers for you.
Hear, hear.