We’re reprinting a piece that appeared in the Australian recently by the Commercial Editor Steve Waterson, who has kindly given us permission. He wrote it just before a two-week lockdown in the city was announced, following the recording of 18 new positive test results. Here is an extract:
Not much has changed in the last year. Our visionary ‘leaders’ have come up with nothing new, save a revved-up vocabulary to keep us on the edge of our toilet seats: the anthropomorphised, cunning and clever virus hides and pounces when we least expect it, for it is a “beast” that, unlike any other matter in the universe, travels “at the speed of light”.
So scary is it that everyday descriptions are inadequate. Only the language of airport thrillers and Hollywood can capture the Clear and Present Danger of Jason Bourne’s Delta Variant; that’s why borders have to be “slammed shut” and the virus “hunted down”, “crushed” and “eliminated”. “Flatten the Curve”, an early instalment of the Pandemic Wars franchise, was nowhere near sexy enough.
Sadly, instead of action heroes leading us to safety (whatever that looks like), we have premiers tootling by again in their clown cars – parp, parp! – stuffed with their supporting cast of chief chuckle officers and assorted buffoons, blindly seeking a way out of the quagmire of hypocrisy and contradiction they have created.
Worth reading in full.
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“Joe Biden’s imaginary friend” – well, now that Lionel Shriver has finally come to her senses over Biden, that is surely the only sort of ‘friend’ that he has!
Wow: my first first comment!
I think he’s done well, a double first without paying £27,000 in University fees, what’s not to admire?
I think they ought to go away and rethink their whole world view.
I know it’s Colonial matters, but given the danger of us being dragged into Ukraine on the orders of whoever is in that rabbit suit (my money’s on Jen Psaki), it’s worth watching in full Biden’s reaction to it.
There are some slow motions clips around, but you can see it clearly enough here: startled alarm, and confusion.
It seems clear that he’d forgotten where he was and what was around him.
This is a man suffering from dementia, who has to be told when to sit and where to stand and what to say.
It’s elder abuse, and wrong on a basic human level. He’s only being kept in-post because he’s still (barely) capable of following instructions.
But it really does beg the question: who is in the suit, issuing the orders?
“who is in the suit, issuing the orders?”
CPMAJO (aka “the Presidents’ Conference”[*]) surely nominated somebody to succeed Sheldon Adelson as their main pet-handler?
Note
*) The apostrophe is in the correct place.
Oh I say, don’t tell me they’re like the EU, with five presidents? (Who does he phone when he wants to speak to “Europe”, anyway?).
A question I’ve oft asked about the dangerous fantasy of an EU military. Who is its commander in chief? Because if the answer is “it depends” then that would be genuinely horrifying.
This is all such a metaphor for the state of America, and the world.
What cracks me up is all those years when the progressives/left/woke crowd were literally losing their collective minds with Trump Derangement Syndrome, how Trump was such a terrible human being, blah blah blah, and then they replace him (let’s not even get started on the stolen election) with Biden.
So that was their moral of the story: Trump represents the epitome of awful, now stand back and let the Left present their rejoinder: here, humanity, is the epitome of the anti-Trump, a man fit to lead, fit to be President, fit to embody all the great values of tolerance, decency and morality: we give you, the hair-sniffer, the actual racist, the out-to-lunch, senile, doddery old doofus, Joe Biden, with his charming family. Oh, and don’t worry, we also have back-up: heels-up Kamala Harris with the inane giggle, the word salad, the vacuous grin.
So that put us all back in our place, didn’t it. Got it. We see it now. The Donald, so bad, the Joe, so good.
And over the cliff we go. We had a good run, humanity, while it lasted.
Much of the world’s population has never known Fordism-Sloanism, or “Keynesianism” as posh Brits and those who are subservient to posh Brits call it. Perhaps Keynes meant something more than is usually thought when he wrote “In the long run, we are all dead”. The increase in absolute living standards for much of the population in what was only ever a relatively small part of the world was only meant to be temporary. When that fact hits home we might have anticipated some kind of resistance, were the growth of schizoid smartphone-carrying mind rot not so advanced. Nowadays does it even make sense to talk of a fact hitting home?
Guy Debord wrote of “the social reign of appearances where no ‘central question’ can any longer be posed ‘openly and honestly.’ ” All I will say to that is “AND THEN SOME”.
Too bad we didn’t get Sarah Palin, that would have annoyed them!
It is sad to see but you have to question what his family are thinking to put him in that position
Surely, so long as they can keep Joe in situ, the family are protected against all their ‘chickens coming home to roost’?
Mainstream media covers up pilot cardiac arrest because they don’t want to create vaccine hesitancy
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-covers-up-pilot
When health officials and academics write of “vaccine hesitancy” they really are passive-aggressively asking for a smack in the mouth. They sound like rapists – “You know you want it”.
I’m not vaccine hesitant. I am “vaccine”-aware.
This has been the problem with The Covid Scam since Day 1 … no-one running the fraud has had their teeth punched down their throat.
In a non-violent way, of course
Far too many academics love this condescending expression, with its assumption that we’ll come round eventually and realise that we’re just being silly and childish.
And yes – they do sound like rapists: well, they’re saying “No”, but I don’t believe they really mean it.
I’ve been vaccine-aware, but I’ve transitioned to vaccine-resistant.
The longer it’s gone on, the more concerned I’ve been at the lack of recognition of the scam by those around me. They’ve all been jabbed and they’ve all suffered covid. They must have bought wholesale the ‘if I’d not been jabbed, I’d have been toast’ shtick. I seem to represent the inexplicable anomaly in their midst.
Maybe they don’t want to create air travel hesitancy (though I understand the co-pilot simply takes over).
Funnily enough I was watching Broken Journey yesterday – “shall we have some music with breakfast?”.
There is so much info now about the consequences of the reset, is anyone going to stop the rot?
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich – URGENT WARNING to the World: AIDS Will Be Their Next Move!
https://rumble.com/v112ehz-dr.-reiner-fuellmich-urgent-warning-to-the-world-aids-will-be-their-next-mo.html
OT: I’ve been speculating for some time on what the consequences would be in a conflict with China where they simply shut down their ports.
Well, it looks like they haven’t bothered to wait for an open declaration of hostilities.
This is Shanghai today. Circles are stationary vessels. The knock-on effects of this over the coming weeks and months are going to make for… interesting times.
Oh goodie! And later perhaps someone will call this an annus horribilis.
Incidentally, Toby is talking about how Queen Elizabeth supports QPR. Funny, I’d always thought she supported Arsenal…
Weeks and months? Try years! I’m told that there are still repercussions to parts supply from the delays caused by the Evergreen container vessel getting stuck in Suez for just six days, just over a year ago…
Suddenly on this train North (direction Oulu via Tampere & Kokkola) only 10% of passengers are wearing face masks; the Finnish government apparently said, last week, that they are now only ‘recommended’.
Masks were only recommended anyway, I don’t think there was any law about wearing them, just ‘you are required’ announcements. Not in shops, anyway.
Now, because the Government says it’s safe to take masks off they all do… like the sheep they are. Baaa!
Our host here revealing one of the delusional underlying bases for his inclination to buy the Official Truth nonsense on the Ukraine:
“Aren’t you slightly concerned that this could be .. a bit like… which side you were on during the Second World War?”
[I think he means to refer here to the runup to WW2, because the fact is that we are not at war with Russia, yet.]
The simple fact is that there is no ideological or systematically expansionist basis for the Russian position here, in stark contrast to the position with Hitler’s Germany (or with the Soviet Union, for that matter). There is just no legitimate parallel to be made, on that side.
Toby just refuses to look at the history of US sphere military aggression, political subversion and economic hegemony that makes “our side” the bad guys now, whereas the Soviets and the Nazis were the bad guys in previous years. He seems to lack the basic intellectual strength to be able to grasp that his side are not necessarily always the good guys. Nor does he seem able to make the leap from resisting the catastrophic cultural and political consequences of the woke liberal globalist ideology that is destroying our own culture and society, and the implications of that for the global situation – it is the US sphere that is now the global menace pushing its ideology onto the rest of the world without limits or constraints, because their cause is just and resistance or dissent is evil.
On the other hand, of course, there is a clear ideological parallel between the forces Toby is siding with, that are being used to push the Ukraine into hostility to Russia, and Nazi Germany (because they are actual nazis). but despite its sheer nastiness and scope for future terrorism and political violence, imo that’s relatively trivial next to the aforementioned issues.
“Something you’ve read in the Telegraph or the Guardian”.
Coming to something if they’re two cheeks of the same rear (though I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised these days).
“Telegraph or the Guardian“
Neocon woke globalist interventionists versus woke leftist globalist interventionists, and both serving the woke globalist establishment’s goals.
As you say, two cheeks of the same backside.
I do wish otherwise sensible people would stop using the term ‘neocon’. It is entirely anachronistic, it wasn’t accurate even in its ‘heyday,’ and it subtracts from the real problem, which is an utterly leftist problem.
Can I use the term “neomalthusian”?
If you’re correct, then is the space between them what’s called ‘the squeezed middle’?
There is an additional problem here, which perhaps can be summarised as, “Your historical sins will find you out”.
The steps leading to WW2 have been simplified to ill effect. All manner of pacts, alliances and agreements were made along the path to war; then disappeared into the historical mists. The Concordat and German re-armament are brushed aside; Munich turned into a farcical shorthand for “Gosh, we should have been tougher”.
Because most people today have no idea of how either the War (or the Holocaust, for that matter) began, WW2 can be made to serve some bizarre historical purposes.
Manifestly wrong! Russia’s neighbours have every reason to fear Russian intervention:
Even before Putin, Russia has refused to let the ex Soviet republics enjoy true independence. Putin wishes to assert the right to control their foreign policy, their defence, aspects of their culture and their economic relations with the EU.
But the more Putin threatens his neighbours, the more he drives them into the arms of NATO. The fact is that Putin has never attacked a NATO state. This has been noticed!
“The fact is that Putin has never attacked a NATO state. This has been noticed!”
Whereas NATO states have frequently attacked non-NATO states and for the flimsiest of reasons viz Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
You need to understand that NATO states are not the same thing as NATO. It’s not as if NATO countries can afford two separate armies, one for their own actions and one for NATO.
Afghanistan however was a true NATO action – in fact it’s the sole use of Article 5 to date (ie collective defence following 9/11). Libya was NATO led, although it did not involve boots on the ground.
Whereas Russia has constantly menaced and occasionally invaded its neighbours. Russia has never obtained UN support for any action, ever.
Since James asks, does anyone know – are chemtrails a thing?
(And the reverse osmosis of water thing probably is worth getting, I’ve heard stories about some of the stuff going into water).
James, why go down the rabbit hole which is chemtrails? Aviation fuel is just dirty stuff, no conspiracy, just greed meeting the needs of industry and consumers. Some of these ‘alternative’ ideas are used to undermine the genuine conspiracy theories.
Why did aviation fuel suddenly become much dirtier in the last 10 years or so?
I didn’t know it had – some people think the Twin Towers are still standing, hidden by ‘alien stealth technology’ and that the planes that hit them were holograms… where does the ‘nuttery’ start and stop?
Oh I say!
Best ask the (black) squirrels…
On the subject of the so called “chemtrail” an unscientific description used to discredit those concerned about geoengineering. There is definitely something strange going on when you can see the planes criss crossing a blue sky creating fake clouds and dimming out the sun. I’m not 100% convinced but https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ is a great resource for the inquisitive.
Numerous orthodox scientists have discussed spraying various substances into the stratosphere in order to block the sun. It is considered to be technically easy and cheap for them to do.
I believe it was site favourite, Bill Gates, who proposed SCoPEx, a plan to release millions of tonnes chalk dust into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and stop global warming?
Another idiotic thing to add to the list of ‘What could possibly go wrong?’
But you have ‘convinced’ yourself to an extent that planes are creating ‘chemtrails’.
“Something strange going on”…. yup, sums it up.
I live in the Midlands.
Most days you can see the high altitude jets leaving their trails that slowly spread out forming a wide wispy cloud like barrier that blocks out the sun.
You see them being pumped out regulalry.
Anyone that claims these are water vapour contrails should go and get an extra booster.
What about the noxious exhausts from cars, buses, lorries and diesel trains? A Government plot for depopulation, no doubt.
Here is a Met office apparatchik from 2015 explaining how geo engineering works.
(5 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmwSVLFnvUY
Here is another scientist giving an interview on the BBC Hard Talk programme about how you can pump chemicals into the atmosphere in order to reflect the sun and save us all from the deadly warm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceGJTCF5tyY
Here id the House of Commons 2009/2010 Geo Engineering regulations
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/221/221.pdf
If you you think those lunactics aren’t spraying God knows what into the atmosphere you are a fool.
See, this is the problem when you start photoshopping stuff… James and Toby are clearly photoshopped into the picture, but what about the rabbit? Is that real, or is it some crack about Biden’s mental state, casting him as a modern day Elwood P. Dowd?
Doesn’t take long for the doubts about what you are seeing to become doubts about what you’re reading, and then your reputation is gone…
Obviously its Biden’s new defence secretary who originally identified as a man, then a woman, then non binary, and now as a rabbit, do try to keep up with the times.
Some people just want to see ‘conspiracies’ all around them instead of the bleedin’ obvious.
Yes, it is indeed just the Easter bunny. o more, no less…
No more I mean!
There was a piece on Mark Steyn’s show about said rabbit. Hilarious…
In 2008 the Gates Foundation arranged with Professor Hiroyuki Matsuoka of Jichi Medical University in Japan to manufacture a revolutionary type of GM mosquito. Through artificial genetic alterations, instead of infecting victims with yellow fever or malaria, the insects would instead be made capable of administering vaccines – as for COVID-19. Gates initially paid Professor Hiroyuki $100,000 to begin this process, and offered $1,000,000 to any technician successful in creating what he called “flying syringes”. Gates planned on mass-producing these gene-therapy mosquitoes and distributing them worldwide.
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/covid-vaccinations-and-oxitecs-flying-syringes/
He is a psychopath.
Globalists are trying to inoculate as many people as possible so that their great reset aka depopulation 2030 plan work. Hospitals in USA are refusing life-saving Ivermectin. Get Ivermectin therapeutic https://www.ivmcures.com
It has been an interesting political journey in the last two years or so. As a lifelong left winger, very pro EU I only found myself an avid supporter of The Sceptic because as a scientist I knew the lockdown measures are complete nonsense, a face mask is never going to stop nano particles etc. However as that all receeds and other subjects come to the fore I feel a parting of the ways is imminent. When I start to once again read right-wing views saying that Brexit is the best thing since sliced bread, when very clearly it was the last thing we needed on top of the scamdemic, or Justin Welby should not be criticising the inhumane and financially insane policies on asylum seekers ( it costs 3 times as much to send them to Africa than keep them here), then perhaps normality is finally returning, albeit slowly. I wish The Sceptic well, it has helped keep my sanity over the last two years and for that I am grateful, I will continue for a while yet, but inevitably its views will make my blood boil and I will return to my former alliances. So thank you Daily Sceptic, it has been fun. Maybe future events will see our views once again converge.
And what a wonderful thing it has been to have left wing scientists like you posting on here.
As for Rwanda, I take your point though I do wonder if Rwandans will feel slightly insulted by the rush to condemn their lovely country as not good enough for this role. And also note that there are plenty of people in Africa (and certainly in Ghana and Somalia) who have had reason to complain about the EU.
With Toby writing in the Spectator, there was always likely to be right wingers on here (and never mind that the Spec is a liberal journal!). But please don’t take it to heart. In any case, it is surely healthy to read things one disagrees with. I was one of the presumably few people who read both the Guardian and the Telegraph, so I have an idea how both sides feel, and don’t regret it for a minute. For me, the big enemy today is the bubble of group think, and reading things one disagrees with is surely the best of inoculation against this!!! All the best anyway, whatever you decide, and thanks.
I will add that when I went to the London demo, the thing that struck me was the many different backgrounds of people represented there – and I thought it was wonderful.