- “Met police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick insists she won’t resign as she backs police” – MailOnline reports on the ongoing fallout from the heavy-handed policing at Saturday night’s vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common
- “Until lockdown is eased and basic liberties are restored, our society will be in peril” – The sense that authority is being wielded fairly is dissipating rapidly, warns Patrick Flynn in the Telegraph
- “We willingly gave up liberty, yet are shocked to find out we are less free” – There was nothing surprising about what happened at the vigil for Sarah Everard says Rob Slane at the Blogmire
- Conservatives are about to ban the right to peaceful protest” – Archbishop Cranmer highlights a sinister restriction on peaceful protest within the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which is due to be debated this week
- “What would MLK say in an age of COVID-19 segregation?” – With many people now facing a choice between civil disobedience and Covid restrictions, Martin Luther King’s words remain as relevant as ever, says James Jeffrey at the Critic
- “Professor Lockdown says you can enjoy summer” – Neil Ferguson is “80% sure” that Brits will be able to enjoy the summer, according to MailOnline
- “New QE variant conceals inflation menace” – “We face either spiralling borrowing costs or quantitative easing for infinity,” says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph
- “Violence breaks out at anti-lockdown protests on eve of Dutch election” – A protest in The Hague on Sunday was heavily policed, MailOnline reports
- “Italians prepare for a widespread lockdown on Monday” – It’s been over a year since Italy enforced its first lockdown – and another one is one the way. The New York Times reports that most regions in the North will be shutting up shops and schools, and residents in the rest of the country will not be permitted to leave their municipality
- “Fauci says US could follow Italy’s lockdown path if COVID-19 restrictions lifted early” – The New York Post reports Fauci’s warning to America
- “EU’s ‘vaccine passports’ will only be valid with EMA-approved Covid jabs” – Vaccinations from unapproved companies will not count, according to euronews
- “Norwegian Medicines Agency notified of blood clots and bleeding in younger people after vaccination” – The Norwegian Medicine Agency is asking people who feel unwell after the AstraZeneca jab to talk to a doctor as soon as possible
- “Leave the choice of restrictions to the market” – “What’s wrong with allowing businesses to choose their approach to customer safety, and customers to choose which business they patronise?” asks Ramon P. DeGennaro at the AIER. “Nothing at all.”
- “Does Covid Have You Feeling Like a Fraud at Work?” – Many are doing more than they need to at work for fear of losing their jobs, writes Cordilia James at the Wall Street Journal
- “Ontario lockdown ‘not supported by strong science,’ says former Chief Medical Officer of Health” – Dr. Richard Schabas, former Chief Medical Officer, has written to Ontario Premier Doug Ford criticising the lockdown policy
- “Sydney on alert as more exposure sites added after hotel quarantine worker tests positive to COVID-19” – Covid quarantine defences breached down under, 9 News reports
- “This week on The Pulse, we talk vaccine certification” – Watch the latest episode of The Pulse from the Health Advisory & Recovery Team
This week on The Pulse, we talk vaccine certification.
— HART (@hartgroup_org) March 14, 2021
“If we brought in vaccine passports, we are going to be increasing the restrictions on our freedom and human rights permanently” says Dr Liz Evans.
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Not even New South Wales police? Good grief.
In that case, can I just say that a woman is an adult human female; that gender is masculine (eg der Hund), feminine (eg die Katze) or neuter (eg da Meer), and has nothing to do with blokes going into women’s toilets. Now pin me to a wall, you halfwits. And I (think I) have said before, and I say now, don’t use twitbook.
I now take the position that if your child claims that they are a spirit/soul occupying a body with non-corresponding sex organs, then the appropriate solution is to bring in an exorcist.
Well in Germany it looks like they’re making a rule whereby you can get fined a lot of money if you ‘deadname’ a trans person.
”Under the bill, German citizens would be fined $10,800 for “deadnaming” a trans-identified person, which is referring to said individual by their previous legal name, according to Reduxx. For example, if John Doe decides to change his name to Allison Doe, and someone were to refer to him as John after the legal name change, that individual could be fined.”
https://humanevents.com/2023/08/27/german-cabinet-passes-bill-that-would-make-it-a-crime-to-deadname-a-trans-identifying-person-10800-penalty
I read this article and was totally disgusted by the Police actions .
Its a hurty words ,if such a thing exists, issue .
The force used, intimidation , timing , deprivation of her liberty and sheer erosion of her basic rights for an unsubstantiated civil issue .Totally over the top and shocking .
For a wanted person or terrorism perhaps but not in this case.
All involved directly should be suspended immediately and who ever authorised this operation should be sacked forthwith.
The chief constable should also be penalised and the lady concerned must have massive damages awarded in the millions .
That should stop other forces doing anything similar .
Its just not proportional actions to the complaint by any stretch of the imagination.
Finally all the “hurty words” crap laws should be abolished Facebook and other social media sites should carry an upfront disclaimer that what gets said there stays there .
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Seriously, isn’t it about time UK politicians took a proper stand against totalitarian far left Communist tyranny and horrendous human rights abuses? (And no, I don’t hate the Chinese, I love the many brave dissidents within the PRC, in Hong Kong, and of course Taiwan who refused to submit in 1949).
If you are serious about totalitarianism and human rights abuses why not start with the UK…or Europe..or The West…..?……not some mostly made-up hobgoblin that is caricatured by the MSM as the enemy?
Did the MSM tell the truth about Convid? Global warming? Ukraine?…but what they say about China just must be true?
Has the EU just enacted one of the most draconian anti-free speech laws ever??
It’s lucky I suppose that Steve Tsang’s views coincide with the ‘latest enemy’ narrative and those of the SOAS, of which he is a director..and which is funded by the UK Government, The EU, and the Wellcome Trust ..to name a few….
Personally I’m putting this with the stories, which have proven to be untrue, about the Chinese opening ‘spy’ police stations all over the world…!!
In reality nearly 4 million Muslims now live in the UK, and that’s only the ones we know about…the majority of the small boats arriving are also full of young Muslim men……I’m way more worried about how that will affect my children and grand-children’s lives in the UK …..that’s a REAL thing……..(by comparison a paltry 400.000 Chinese people are resident in the UK….)
Thanks. It seems that though most hip Westerners have realized that their media lie most of the time, they buy it 100% if the subject is China.
What could explain this odd lacuna in their discrimination?
Anyone?
I did – my first post was about abuse by the UK police.
I should add that our people have been covering the abuses by the CCP against Christians and expectant mothers for many years (as well as their Darwinist indoctrination) so I speak advisedly with regard to these particular tyrants. Just because our government is bad doesn’t mean other governments aren’t bad or, in this case, worse.
“Jordan Peterson ruling empowers woke bodies everywhere to discipline members who express unpopular opinions”
The irony is that this is not about unpopular opinions, as Jordan Peterson is insanely popular. It’s about un-elite opinions, which maintain their hold on society by constantly claiming to be popular.
Compare the use of “proletarian” by the Bolshevik elite in Soviet Russia.
“TikTok’s U.S. e-commerce business at risk of losing over $500 million by 2023”
Nothing will be done despite promises because Biden is in the pocket of the Chinese. The MSM have wholly failed to report about his multiple psydonym personal email accounts through which he was conducting business with his son with the Chinese. Also all the flights, including flights to China, with Hunter Biden hitching a lift on Airforce Two. The Chinese therefore have leverage and the inside data and access to reporting sources who can ensure the evidence of corruption makes it to the first headline position.
So the Chinese can destroy him at will and the nasty, corrupt, senile old fool handed them the power to do so, all in exchange for a few million.
We all know it, but it is the power to elevate this exact same news as we already know to news sources where other politicians feel compelled to act that is important – and currently politicians still pretend the real and most popular new media powers Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson, etc don’t exist. They live in a parallel world of “let’s pretend,” powered by the likes of Broadcast News, the New York Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian etc. The pretence is that the establishment outlets are still the biggest and most listened to and the electorate do not already know the truth.
This circular system of utter corrupt gaslighting pretence has become so visible, it is like the wreck of a ship being exposed at low tide. People point to the ship, talk about it, take picnics next to it, but the politicians simply pretend it doesn’t exist.
All the time they continue with this utterly contemptible and cowardly pretence, I can hardly bare listen to a word they say.
Net Evil for Farmers
Typo – first line, para 4.
“India wants the world to target per capita emissions”
Of that evil plant food!
Astonishing, that report about the Welsh woman arrested in the middle of the night for posting gender-critical comments online. Astonishing too is the WalesOnline report, which can’t really believe the story is true. It speaks about the woman ‘claiming’ that this or that happened five times in the first seven lines – and 16 times in total.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-treated-like-serial-killer-27585690
It’s about time these compensation awards are taken from the salary of the most senior copper who authorised this thuggery.
…funnily enough I’ve just put a comment similar on one of the stories ATL…but I’ll repeat it here……who made the complaint in the first place?
Everyone should know who they are so that their name can be dragged through the mud as well as the accused……and as this led to compensation..shouldn’t the tax payers know exactly who they have to thank for more of their money being spent for another ‘miscarriage of justice’??
Clare Craig has written a short substack in relation to the new ONS deaths by vaccination status for the first five months of 2023….she’s not impressed…
https://drclarecraig.substack.com/p/who-are-all-these-extra-vaccinated
I look forward to any information she and others are able to extract by analysing the raw data in Table 5.
…yes she mentions table 5 and says more info coming on that in the next week or so….
BBC News Ulez: Criticism as home counties refuse road signage
Typical rubbish reporting by Aunty. No mention that if a motorist is unaware of the ULEZ restriction until after they have passed the last opportunity to turn away and avoid it that they will have good grounds to appeal the charge or fine.
Khan/TFL need to pull the ULEZ border inwards if they want to give motorists warnings.
The eminent political scientist John Mearsheimer talking to Aaron Mate about the situation in Ukraine….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2451jFeZp0
For those unfamiliar with Mearsheimer … this is his very famous, and now considered by many to be prophetic…. presentation in Chicago……
’Why is Ukraine the West’s fault?’
From 2015….(which Mate mentions in the interview…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Short article and worth a read…
https://www.city-journal.org/article/no-masks-please-were-rational
No Masks, Please, We’re Rational
Maskaholics are incorrigible. The rest of us should pay them no heed.
Unfazed by data, scientific research, or common sense, the maskaholics are back. In response to an uptick in Covid cases, they’ve begun reinstating mask mandates. So far, it’s just a few places—a college in Atlanta, a Hollywood studio, two hospitals in Syracuse—but the mainstream media and their favourite “experts” are working hard to scare the rest of us into masking up yet again.
Never mind that at least 97 percent of Americans have Covid antibodies in their blood as a result of infection, vaccination, or both. Never mind that actual experts—the ones who studied the scientific literature before 2020 and drew up plans for a pandemic—advised against masking the public. Never mind that their advice has been further bolstered during the pandemic by randomized clinical trials and rigorous observational studies failing to find an effect of masks and mask mandates. Scientific evidence cannot overcome the maskaholics’ faith.
It’s tempting to compare them with the villagers in Cambodia who erected scarecrows in front of their huts to ward off the coronavirus—but that’s not fair to the villagers……
Is there any cure for maskaholism? The “fact-checkers” at Science Feedback seem immune to genuine science feedback, but there ought to be someone at Facebook with the sense not to keep employing them. The CDC’s current leaders and their media acolytes are probably beyond hope, too, if only because they’d have to admit how wrong they have been for so long. But there’s no reason for the rest of us to heed them. The next time someone urges you to put on a mask, tell them you’re already protected against Covid by your magic scarecrow.
“Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, urged Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to make his position on Ukez clear, saying in a letter: “You have the power to stop it.”
From The Telegraph referenced above.
I suspect Mr Harper is extracting the urine.
Unbelievable.
…they should do this with all climate protesters…the ‘action’ starts about 10 mins in…
Love it…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84
August 27 2023 Black Rock Desert, NEVADA – “30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let’s talk, get off the fucken road” – Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blockade, made arrest at gun point.