- “Japanese Researchers Investigate Intracranial Hemorrhage Deaths Possibly Caused by Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine” – Two Japanese medics have written a paper analysing potential adverse events associated with the Covid vaccines in Japan.
- “Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the significance of COVID-19 variants.” – How scared should we be of variants?
- “The Boys Who Cried Wolf” – Throughout 2020, the media reported a “scientific consensus” about the pandemic’s origins without providing any evidence it was zoonotic.
- “GM Warns Chevy Bolt Owners Not to Park Within 50ft of Anything You Care About” – In the wake of a series of severe battery fires, General Motors has just issued a safety recommendation not to park your Chevy Bolt within 50ft of other vehicles, in case it catches fire.
- “Rupert Murdoch celebrates his 90th birthday with TV comeback bid” – TalkTV, with its star presenter Piers Morgan, stands to let 90-year-old media mogul show he can succeed where GB News has stumbled.
- “The curious lack of opposition to Italy’s vaccine passport” – Protests in Italy against ‘Il Green Pass’ have been pathetic, writes Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator. Why?
- “Lone MP puts his head above the parapet for vaccine victims” – A tribute to Sir Christopher Chope in the Conservative Woman.
- “Experimental reactor could hand China the holy grail of nuclear energy” – China is due to fire up an experimental nuclear reactor this month that could revolutionise the atomic energy industry.
- “Anti-vaxxers in London march against plans to give children Covid jab” – Thousands of vaccine sceptics descended on London yesterday holding signs reading “stay away from our kids” and a boy held a card with “I’m a child, I can’t consent”.
- “Bank of England spends £27,000 on diversity consultants” – Payment to Delta Alpha Psi, which increases ‘race fluency’, came weeks before appointment of Oxford-educated white man as Chief Economist.
- “Handrails won’t kill you but Covid Hezbollah might!” – In his latest column for the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens laments that people travelling on the London Underground are tumbling down escalators in greater numbers because they are afraid to grasp the handrail for fear of catching Covid.
- “Their warnings proved inaccurate, but ‘experts’ still have Boris’s ear” – From the first appearance of the virus, SAGE has been accused of over-egging its predictions in order to frighten Ministers into taking drastic action.
- “Now the Lancet U-turns over Covid lab leak theory” – The Lancet has agreed to publish an alternative commentary which discusses the possibility that Chinese laboratory research might have played a role in the emergence of the virus.
- “Found out: Facebook’s week of shame” – Somewhere deep within the ranks of Facebook’s 60,000 workers, someone reached breaking point. They downloaded mountains of damning documents and handed them to the Wall St Journal.
- “University of Exeter professors ready to rebel over request to use tweets not textbooks” – Professors have branded it an “erosion of standards” and accused senior leaders of pursuing a “Wokefinder General” attitude on campus, reports the Telegraph.
- “Prove your Covid status if you want to party, U.K. students told” – Student unions are going further than government guidelines, in an attempt to avoid virus outbreaks like those of last year, according to the Guardian.
- “Covid in Australia: we outback nomads are putting the virus in our rear-views” – Every autumn in Australia, a procession of campers migrates from the south of the country to escape the winter and enjoy the sunshine in the north.
- “Closure of Covid taskforce leads to ‘brain drain’ ahead of winter” – According to the Independent, the Governmment’s Covid Taskforce is being “hollowed out” just as it might be needed more than ever.
- “Melbourne Freedom Protest Highlights” – Video footage of the protests in Melbourne on Saturday.
- “Anti-lockdown protests erupt in Melbourne and Sydney” – Anti-lockdown protests erupted across Australia with demonstrators shutting down streets in Melbourne and protestors using an app to navigate around Sydney roadblocks, according to MailOnline.
- “Why have British police treated eco activists with kid gloves, when they’ve clamped down so hard on lockdown protesters?” – Astonishing footage of police officers seemingly facilitating an environmental ‘protest’ that brought a motorway to a halt is all the proof you need that law-breaking eco activists are held to a different standard to anti-lockdown protestors, argues Prof Frank Furedi in RT.
- “Scientific Distortion: A Tale of Two Paradigms” – The latest blog post from Omar Khan contrasting modelling with empirical data.
- “Our leaders have done their utmost to drive wedges between us” – Neil Oliver on GB News says the coming months and how we respond to measures the Government puts in place to try to control the virus will define who we are as a country.
— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 18, 2021
'Our leaders have done their utmost to drive wedges between us'
Neil Oliver says the upcoming months will define who we are as a country, amid the possible introduction of vaccine passports and lockdown restrictions. pic.twitter.com/RNa4exFvXJ
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“I’m a child, I can’t consent”.
Have they given all cause mortality figures yet for “vaccinated” (including within 14 days of “vaccination”) compared to “unvaccinated”? Because none of us can give free and informed consent until they do.
The distortion and suppression of statistics that are vital to reach an informed opinion on this has been an absolute disgrace, and people need to be held to account on this, even if it takes 30 years like with Hillsborough
It may take thirty years (though I doubt it), but the truth will out.
I can’t wait 30 years to see Justice done. I want Bozo and his Junta hanged asap.
How long did it take with thalidomide? A few years? Certainly not thirty.
No, but that was before total control of the media and the surge in wokeness!
It took 10 years for Distillers to acknowledge responsibility. The drug was licensed in 1958 and withdrawn 3 years later. It took a long drawn out law suit that ended in 1968. The difference is that Distillers did not have immunity from responsibility whereas the vaccine companies do.
… and re. thalidomide, as I recall, the testing was actually more thorough than anything in this shit-show.
The German manufacturers did some trials, which the British government took at face value and licensed for use. The USA authorities did not take those results at face value and did not license its use in the States. The US had a few cases of birth deformities which they put down to mothers taking the drug obtained from outside the USA.
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Peaceful protests will get you nowhere.
These tyrannical monsters know they will be hanged for what they have done so there’s no way they are going to submit to peaceful protests.
We have to take back what’s rightfully ours by FORCE, however bloody that may turn out to be.
Sounds like advocacy for the Light Brigade.
What happened to the Angry Brigade?
Just tried to attend a Stand in the Park, walked half an hour to get there, arrived at 10am, walked all round the Common for nearly an hour, found noone, anywhere, neither wearing yellow, carrying yellow, or gathered in a group. Now wondering how many hundreds of the SitP events listed on the site, or the unofficial support site, are actually “live”/real/actually happening. This particular one appears to have completely died.
The recent Hillsborough conclusions have been anything but justice. I was there.
“SAGE has been accused of over-egging its predictions from the first”.
Is that why the government continued with lockdowns and restrictions after the estimate presented at a SAGE meeting on 15/07/2020 of 75,000 non-Covid deaths as a result of lockdowns (as reported by LS on 26/09/2020)?
A reminder of those figures again:
However, they might have had rather less excuse for ignoring the UN estimate from around the same time of 71 million being pushed back into extreme poverty because of global lockdowns.
“Anti-lockdown protests in OZ”.
Sounds like things are pretty bad there. If lockdowns were expected to kill 75,000 in the UK – and that was a SAGE estimate from July last year – how many people are the more extreme, and seemingly never ending measures in Australia going to kill? Can anyone claim seriously that Australia’s measures will save more than they kill? And how many children are being harmed by these measures?
Thanks for your concern, everybody in Blighty. Yes, it is absolutely dire in the land of Oz, where the authorities (who mistook their lockdowns and border closures as the magic key to our relatively low Covid stats during the virus-hostile spring/summer of 2019 when the virus first hit) are still glued to their Zero Covid goal which means, to them, stopping the virus by stopping the movement of people including protests that they deem to be super-spreader events.
Hence the extreme force used to stomp out the protests in the lockdown states (NSW, Victoria, Queensland) where the police are acting as the paramilitary wing of the state Premiers and Chief Health Officers, under an extra-legal regime of perennially-extended emergency powers.
The only thing they are crushing, however, is dissent – and, regrettably, most of the population are asleep (and this includes the formal ‘civil liberties’ organisations who disapprove of protests during a ‘public health crisis’). Once you accept that anything goes in the holy name of ‘safety’, then you can wave goodbye to personal freedoms, civil liberties, the economy, bodily autonomy, etc. etc. It might take something as serious as cancelling the Ashes Test series over lockdown/quarantine/testing requirements to wake some people up, especially the double-jabbed who were looking to their treat of a day at the cricket!
When ‘public health’ and ‘public safety’ are fetishised, based on dodgy ‘science’, then authoritarian ‘public order’ is not far behind – the New South Wales Police Force “Public Order and Riot Squad” (pictured in the DM) is straight out of the dictatorship playbook from the 1960s Central, Latin and South America military juntas. That this paramilitary policing is not about controlling a virus is ironically summed up by the picture in the DM of the Sikh police officer with the blue mask of shame across his copious beard unaware that beards make the usless mask even more useless than it already is.
So we have the edifying sight of 70-year old ladies knocked to the ground and pepper-sprayed by our Covid heroes in blue (but perhaps she was in disguise and was really one of those “500-700” “angry young males” spoiling for a fight who were the cause of all the violence, as the top cops routinely assert).
The DM’s coverage, by the way, is pretty lamestream, laying into the protesters for bringing their misfortune on their own heads – “footage showed several protesters without face masks, sitting together in close proximity and picnicking on the grass”. No better than terrorists, really. Just like yours truly who was amongst those anti-social-distancing extremists “spotted gathering in Adelaide with maskless crowds packed close together”. ‘Spotted’, eh? There were five thousand of us in Adelaide and not a mask in sight, so not too hard to spot, then.!
Here’s another extremist from our Adelaide rally.
And don’t be fooled by her ‘Ban The Bomb’ earrings – she is a Public Menace!. Quick someone inform on her to our wonderful police who are keeping us safe.
Hang in there bro
A moving personal account about the vaccine passport dystopia in Lithuania:
https://txti.es/covid-pass/images
And no exemption for a pregnant woman whose doctor says she is at risk if she has this “vaccine”! Someone really should do an alternative cartoon for those who don’t have the opportunity pass. It is evil what is being done to people in Lithuania and their diaspora who are effectively barred from returning home, causing a lot of stress – with stress being a massive risk factor for bugs like Covid. These policies are murderous.
It’s a pity they don’t learn lessons from their Scandinavian neighbours.
Thanks for that insight.
The. ‘cry wolf’ link is a dud, can anyone restore it?
If it’s only the DT again, however, don’t bother.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/lab-leak-media-khaled-talaat
The correct link for ‘the boy who cried wolf’ is this:
The Boys Who Cried Wolf – Tablet Magazine
My cousins husband (75) has been in hospital for nearly 3 weeks with ‘Covid’ apparently, I say apparently because he had a positive PCR test which we know are more wrong than right. His oxygen levels were very low and he was put on high oxygen. They wanted to incubate him but my cousin said no! They refused to consider Ivermectin because there was no proof it worked for Covid
. He’s had an Xray of his chest and there is some scarring, my cousin said he had a nasty cough last year which lasted for a couple of months, so is this Covid or just the NHS ramping up the fear factor for Winter?
Intubate.
Thanks
We need another name for the Daily Mail they keep using headlines screaming anti-vaxxers.Here is another written by Winkcock.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10004495/MATT-HANCOCK-time-never-come-group-dangerous-anti-vaxxers.html
That Hancock article is a new low, even for the Mail!.
Most of the comments posted on it are vomit inducing. No mention of midazolam anywhere…
There were only 50 apparently, most of them probably moderated, so nothing to write home about.
Hancock shows he is a natural immunity denier yet again, does not acknowledge these vaccines do not stop transmission, oh I could go on picking holes in the article but my head might explode. The propaganda in that article is shocking.
Hancock should be strung up, given no food and water, and overdosed with Midazolam.
The mendacious little b@stard! I couldn’t even finish the article, the urge to stamp on my device was so hard. Mind you his ugly little mug in the image in the article, under my foot, would have very satisfying.
Glad your reaction was as strong as mine Helen. It shows just how mendacious or dumb Hancock is. Discredit anyone who attempts to raise issues by calling them antivaxxer, dismiss anyone in the population who is not grateful to government and pharma as crazy and ungrateful, having no insights into limits of vaccines and how mass vaccination might be harmful.
I don’t know how the vaccine thing will end but I can’t see how they will continue with whole population vaccination on an annual basis, so perhaps they will step it down when the WHO declares the pandemic over? But I foresee if you are going to be employed in health, social care or any public sector job mandatory covid and flu vaccination will be required. It might be pushed back but anyone trying will get labelled anti anti vax. I don’t know what our future holds but I am glad we found each other here for support.
‘Daily Excrement’ would seem more fitting!
I think part of what’s going on with The Daily Mail is over-compensation for having given credence to Andrew Wakefield’s ideas. I don’t say this to dismiss any legitimate safety concerns there may be over MMR or any other vaccines, but the stuff linking them to autism was fraudulent. Pharma and those wanting to indulge in some easy pro-The Science™ virtue-signalling used the opportunity to wage a culture war and The Mail feels it has to take sides.
Which is part of the tactic – using the generalized term ‘anti-vaxxer’ to link a rational scientific view on gene therapy to a fraudulent campaign.
But perhaps Hancock is an asset – as long as people are reminded that he was sacked for blatant hypocrisy and deception.
There seem to be 2.8k comments listed, 1.5 comments listed for Sarah Vine’s article about having compassion for Boris Johnson but they don’t seem to be visible.
I have noticed over the past few days that comments on the Daily Vaxxer is a little up the creek. For example; Top of page suggests loads of comments and below there are none.Maybe they have been hacked and the website has a virus?
Australia’s finest, showing the world what they’re made of.
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1439202909971836936
Video of the event in question:
https://twitter.com/John92318516/status/1439179867476561922
See that big fat uniformed thug, who violently pushes the lady over, casually pepper sprays her in the face and swaggers off as if he’s a big hard man? He needs to face consequences. Also his little Hitler accomplice, watch him bending over to spray pepper into the face of the old lady on the ground threatening nobody, then stand up as tall as he can make himself and stride off, waving his pepper spray as though he’s done something fine and worthy.
Utter scum, uniforms notwithstanding.
Another view of the incident:
https://twitter.com/Ipredictedthis/status/1439259726227771393
Let’s face it, there are good and bad in all police forces everywhere, and it’s a job that requires toughness at times. But when that hardness is turned against the weak and utterly non-threatening, for peaceful protesting, merely because that protest is seen as politically unacceptable, a line is crossed, both individually by the more thuggish officers such as the two involved in this incident, and institutionally, by the organisation as a while.
Funny though, hardhat workers took their meal breaks in the middle of a busy Melbourne street on Friday because they couldn’t use their lunchrooms. Because covid. Where were the police? Nowhere near the workers, so far as I know.
They should be prosecuted. What they are doing is unnecessary to prevent a crime, they are gratuitously injuring that woman. It is really the equivalent of kicking someone.
The Daily Mail article quoted in the News Round Up has the picture captioned as “One man was seen holding his face in agony…”
I notice the Russia Today site correctly notes this is a 70-year old female, knocked to the ground, and then pepper-sprayed (what sort of “policeman” does that?). It also carries some comments highly critical of the police.
LOL! I’d missed that comical Daily Mail piece in the Round Up. Again, worthy of Pravda at its cynical best.
“The Daily Mail article quoted in the News Round Up has the picture captioned as “One man was seen holding his face in agony…”
I liked the sheer manipulative nudginess of: “Two law-abiding women wearing masks watched on in horror as protesters clashed with police in the inner-city“
See how the Good Citizens are shocked by the disgraceful behaviour of these antisocial hooligans!
some great comments in the article in the mail article –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10005077/Their-apocalyptic-warnings-proved-inaccurate-experts-Governments-ear.html#comments
Wuhan lab is actually owned by Glaxo Smith Kline. As is Pfizer. Bill Gates more or less owns Pfizer. Bill Gates funds Imperial and Kings Colleges London. Matt Hancock’s wife works for Glaxo. Matt Hancock’s former job was “vaccine modeller” for London School of Tropical Medicine – also funded by Bill Gates. The WHO is funded by Bill Gates. The WHO changed the definition of pandemic – twice. On last count Bill Gates had increased his investment portfolio 20 times since the “pandemic”. I could go on and on here. Get it now?
Bill Gates also funding MHRA Medical Health care products Regulatory Agency in the UK. Bill Gates also funnelling 31m to Chris Whitty through research grants etc. Why is Bill Gates so involved?
Clearly he’s taken all those unkind comments about Windows Vista to heart.
This strange idea that GSK owns Pfizer seems to be widespread, but is complete bollocks.
LOL – goes to show I shouldn’t believe everything I read…
But is felt so true!!!
But he’s a philanthropist, no really he is, no conspiracy to see here…
I continue to fkin love Neil Oliver.
Likewise.
“I would no more seek access to a place demanding my papers than I would attend a dog fight. Those are not my kind of places”. Neil Oliver
Yes, we won’t go there and we will find other places together with like minded people.
I think they might find them for us…
Heart , head and guts in the right places.
Furedi has always been reluctant to properly and fully confront the harmful antiracist ideology that he has been culpable in pushing for most of his life, and it’s very noticeable that here he very carefully confines his comments to the approval of the authorities for climate alarmism, to contrast with their heavy-handed thuggery against antilockdown and anti-“vax” dissidents.
But without looking at the wider examples, eg of police kowtowing to BLM types and statue-defilers, while cracking down on statue protectprs, one cannot see the bigger picture, which is one of contrast between elite approved “protest” and elite-hated dissident expression.
And the latter is the truth that needs to be confronted by the likes of Furedi – the degree to which his life’s work has become the dark side.
with the apparent validation from Caroline Lucas, a politician advocating breaking the law!
That Eric Clapton thing has caught on with a few Australian musicians too.
Dr. Fauci: “Heck, No, I Haven’t Been Vaccinated”
By Michael Baxter from REAL RAW NEWS
The Deep State’s primary Covid-19 vaccine peddler, Dr. Anthony Fauci, boasted to colleagues at the NIH that he has not taken and will not take the Covid jab, said a former NIH employee who claims Fauci personally fired him in June for “violating or considering to violate non-disclosure agreements” pertaining to vaccination protocols.
Our source, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, told Real Raw News that he’d been wrongfully terminated—unjustifiably because he never signed non-disclosure paperwork on the Institute’s Covid-19 policies. And the reason he never signed said paperwork is that he had worked for NIH’s Division of AIDS, which was largely excluded from Covid-19 plandemic response meetings and vaccine development.
For ease of reading, RRN will refer to our source as Brian Stowers. RRN has vetted Stowers’ education and employment history, and we found no reason to believe he had a vendetta against Fauci or that he would engage in deception; his credentials seemed unimpeachable. As a Level 2 lab technician, his primary duty at the NIH was spinning blood through a centrifuge and passing results to his superiors. Nothing glamorous.
Although he had no exposure to Covid-19 data, he had been exposed to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s hubris and overbearing presence.
“At least once a week, Fauci made rounds through the departments. He liked to stick his nose in everyone’s business, belittle and ridicule people for no good reason. Anyway, on February 15, 2021, about two months after the FDA gave emergency use authorization to Pfizer’s vaccine, Fauci strolls into our department and tells us that we ought to encourage our friends and family to get vaccinated at the earliest possible date. But he tells us lab workers—there were about 9 in the lab at that moment—to delay getting vaccinated until, as he put it, ‘we see what happens,’” Stowers said.
A long, uncomfortable silence followed Fauci’s statement, our source added.
According to him, one lab worker asked Fauci why the vaccine was safe for friends and family but not for NIH employees.
“Fauci’s face turned red. He was clearly angered by the question. He started berating us, telling us we weren’t qualified to question his judgement. If we didn’t follow his guidance, we’d be jeopardizing the health of our friends and family, Fauci told us. He was on a tirade for like 5 minutes, and cussing like a sailor,” Stowers said.
Then Stowers asked Fauci, respectfully, whether he had been vaccinated.
“What kind of question is that? Not that it’s any business of yours, but, no, heck no, I haven’t been vaccinated. And I don’t plan to be, at least not for a long time, if at all…If I take the vaccine and get sick from it, then what? I’m too important here to take that risk. You all are, too—that’s why I’m telling you to wait. But you can be replaced; I’m irreplaceable. The administration needs me to helm this response,” Fauci reportedly said.
Four months later, unexpectedly, Stowers received a termination letter claiming he had violated the Institute’s confidentiality clause. The notice bore Fauci’s handwritten signature.
“I knew fighting would be pointless. I got 6-month’s severance package and figured that would be enough to hold me until I found new work, and I have,” Stowers said.
In closing, Stowers said Fauci never wore a mask inside NIH facilities, only when, in Fauci’s words, “outsiders and interlopers and media” were nearby.
Real Raw News
This account of Fauci behaviour agrees perfectly with Alex Berenson’s substack piece about him, ( a few weeks ago? ), the overweening ego etc. … So I believe it. Classic dubious drug dealer who never uses own wares.
There is a view, though, that says Australia and New Zealand, not Sweden, are the great hopes for the western world. Bear with me, and I’ll try to make the case for that.
The Covid Panic has been a huge consolidation and extension of collectivist authority over individual lives and liberty, pretty much everywhere. The longstanding arrogation of responsibility for and therefore power over people’s health and therefore behaviour has been pushed to spectacular new depths of interference, extending even to punishing the expressing of dissenting opinion about the issues involved.
Sweden has resisted, to some extent, and provided a great “control” for lockdown and mask insanity, but, firstly, has been relatively easily sidelined, and second has ultimately shared the core harmful doctrines – that covid is a public health emergency and that the state has the responsibility and the right to control behaviour in response.
Lockdown dissenters have mostly hoped that as time passes, evidence comes out, and fear recedes, calmer heads will prevail and it will have to be admitted that there was a gross overreaction. The more optimistic hope for some kind of revelatory inquiries and a great reckoning.
But this is mostly a fantasy, for several reasons. First, when pretty much the entirety of the media/political/etc elite have been essentially complicit in a crime or error, there is no such reckoning. The Iraq War was a prime example of this, where the elites came together to cover up for the real, serious misbehaviour, and settled for admissions of relatively minor “errors in execution”. There was no recognition that the real harm was the waging of an interventionist war of aggression based on lies. The political figureheads were reelected (Blair in 2005 and Bush in 2004), and the criminal blundering was repeated in slightly different flavours in Libya and in Syria.
The UK regime, like most in the US sphere, has largely gotten away with the crimes of lockdown and ongoing crimes of coerced “vaccination”. Recriminations will be bogged down in arguments about data, and by elites and their institutions (courts, media, academe, political bodies etc) engaging in massive arse-covering. In the US there is more life in political resistance, thanks to their political opposition actually opposing, unlike ours, and making some of these things the political issues they should always have been. But the elite media and social media likely have enough power there to ensure nobody too radical gets into a position to do them any harm,. We’ve just seen them manipulate a senile, corrupt old man into office against one of the most popular presidential reelection candidates in US history, and the Biden regime is busy packing the US courts with its placement to ensure there will be no repeat of the insurgent Trump victory on 2016, and turning the state security apparatus on conservatives. Likely any Republican wanting to gain the Presidency in future will have to come to terms with the elites behind the Democrat win, before being allowed any power.
The most we can really hope for is a slight, sheepish retrenchment for the worst examples of medico-fascism, but that will only last until,the next panic, and the next turn of the ratchet..
The only real hope to overturn the medico-fascism that appears to be the future for us all, is for a US sphere regime or regimes to push too hard, too fast, and to be overthrown by populist people power and, if necessary, actual populist revolution. Enter Australia and NZ, the only countries whose governments seem to actually both believe in the zero covid lunacy, and think they have a chance to actually implement it.
If they push hard enough, for long enough, there’s a chance there might be an actual populist uprising that might actually displace enough of the elites to make real change.
But it seems a long shot.
Yes Mark I agree with this. It would seem that people who dissent will struggle. We can keep trying but I do feel that the dominating elite will keep their control.
“It would seem that people who dissent will struggle.”
If you aren’t struggling, you aren’t really dissenting. You’re just some kind of duped BLM/XR etc type, turning out to justify elite policies and suppress resistance to them.
A depressing analysis, but seems to me by far the most likely outcome.
As far as Aus and NZ go, I’d doubt that the leadership there seriously believe in zero covid any more, if they ever did. I would assume the thinking now is to keep locking down until they’ve fully vaxxed everyone and then drift into something like the situation we’re in – mass vaxxing and boosters, testing, threats of lockdowns, possibly acted upon just to show the threats are real, vaxx passports for various things, travel restrictions. Sadly I don’t think they will push too hard, too fast.
I suppose the only optimistic note is that there do seem to be some limits beyond which most governments have not gone, either because they didn’t think it was right or more likely they didn’t think they could get away with it. We had “Freedom Day” here, at the second time of asking, and the promises made have so far been kept, and it has made life a little more tolerable and allowed millions to earn a living again. Obviously it’s not what we need and want in terms of moving on properly, but it’s better than nothing. But one could equally view this with pessimism – in knowing when to ease off the gas, the evil loons in charge ensure this nightmare continues for a long time and the slow decline of civilisation continues.
“But one could equally view this with pessimism – in knowing when to ease off the gas, the evil loons in charge ensure this nightmare continues for a long time and the slow decline of civilisation continues.”
Indeed. This is exactly how the radical ratchet works.
I think England is a place where things could suddenly flip. In many ways it’s at the centre of the web of lies and I believe that it is potentially heading towards one of the greatest levels of cognitive dissonance of any nation.
Openly persecuting minorities within its borders is for example a largely alien concept unlike in many other countries. The UK, but particularly England, culturally prides itself on not engaging in such behaviour. It’s a point of identity. I think that to a person England will struggle to do this with even a remotely clear conscience. I’m not saying it won’t happen, but I think that along with other exacerbating factors it will lead to a very public socio-cultural and emotional breakdown.
My experience of the English is that they repress opposition to injustice because through the exercise of soft power injustice has generally been avoided. I’m not sure what led to this. I think a combination of fruitful empire and the necessity for the elites to stay on people’s good side in order to maintain wealth led to a series of unspoken agreements and boundaries. But we are no longer led by these people, and we no longer have an empire exclusively under our control.
Australia and NZ have similar problems but I think they have a much shorter cultural memory, a system that’s far more a result of colonial imposition than organically grown, and far more influenced by open political conflict based on the US model. There’s a limit to what I can say, I’ve never been there, but I think the English psychological problem is far further down the road to an inherent breaking point that is about something much more fundamental than covid. I think the cultural “depression” in the UK, the sluggish indifference and lack lustre response to anything on either side of the divide is evidence of this.
The way I see it is that this is about far more than viruses and power struggles, it is about identity, it is about culture, it is about what people feel comfortable being in themselves and interacting with one another. England is a long way down a road of alienation and self repression, far further than almost anywhere else. This affects all age groups but particularly the young who appear to be almost entirely lost and who’s insecure “comfort” is increasingly based on temporary, shallow and fragile constructs. This crisis deepens (or shallows, depending on how you look at it!) this problem and the Great Reset is its distillation. You won’t simply own nothing, you will BE nothing.
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
You express the optimistic view very well, in response to my setting out the pessimistic view. I hope you are closer to the reality of how things will go in the UK than I am.
““Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the significance of COVID-19 variants.” – How scared should we be of variants?”
Another excellent piece by Sunetra Gupta. Concise, free of bullshit and informative. Gives the lie to all the nonsense about ‘the Delta Wave’ – that sadly finds a voice ATL here at times.
She’s a bit unsceptical about the ‘vaccines’ for my taste, but otherwise the information here should be in every rationalist’s armoury against the ‘Variant’ nonsense.
Sometimes it seems as if the media propaganda is working 100%, but then real life happens. A wedding in which covid was never a thing, no masks, no distancing, then a UK holiday, going into shops unmuzzled where the staff smiled. The push back has to be continuous and bold, the compliant are the problem.
I think I would say that it’s not a ‘push-back’ – more a neglect.
The propaganda fear switch can be thrown again very easily.
I agree for some, but I was surprised by some relatives I met up with who had been almost covid hysterics, masking, distancing, talking about mass graves, the whole bag, who are now voicing doubts about the whole thing.
We can but hope.
This is good.
Far fewer masks and paranoia here, though it took some time after “Freedom Day”. OTOH I just watched someone leave a neighbour’s house, masked, get in her car and drive away still masked.
IMO while some become more cynical others will go the opposite way. Don’t know yet which side will be more numerous. The forthcoming lockdown and remasking will be key.
“ I cannot even be bothered to discuss the, er, lack of usefulness of loose cloth masks again. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.”
I can empathize with Hitchens over this. I have increasingly felt that arguing rationally on the basis of overwhelming evidence is a lost cause when you are dealing with the sort of programming by propaganda that has taken place.
I am astounded that the recent egregious acts of potential child abuse are greeted with such a lack of fury by individuals who would have previously been up in arms about infringements of personal liberty. I’ve even had one such chide me for using the serious term ‘child abuse’ to describe such a well-intentioned policy!
“I have increasingly felt that arguing rationally on the basis of overwhelming evidence is a lost cause when you are dealing with the sort of programming by propaganda that has taken place.”
Indeed. You can’t reason someone out of a position they have adopted for reasons other than reason (as various people have said in various forms over the years).
“I am astounded that the recent egregious acts of potential child abuse are greeted with such a lack of fury by individuals who would have previously been up in arms about infringements of personal liberty. I’ve even had one such chide me for using the serious term ‘child abuse’ to describe such a well-intentioned policy!“
And then they will support a policy of injecting children with a treatment that is net harmful to them, “for the greater good of society”!
We seem to be in agreement, Mark.
And very much not for the first time.
Our differences are real, but so are our points of agreement. Such is life.
Neil Oliver’s piece to camera is really excellent. I think that he is eloquently capturing the feelings of many in the sanity camp.
Neil Oliver’s a little sentimental for my tastes, but I generally agree with him on the substance, certainly on covid issues:
‘[Vaccine passports] will not exclude me from anywhere I want to be… anywhere demanding such an abomination from any citizen is nowhere I would enjoy being‘”.
Since Jan 21 I’ve seen increasing number in Britain subtly defying – it’s our way, it works.
Seeing reports of number on peaceful demos is a morale boost for others of same opinion who would otherwise feel alone and their cause hopeless.
So many individuals ‘accidentally on purpose’ forgot about lines, arrows and sanitising stations that retailers in area quietly removed or moved them out of our way. Many ways of making inches add up to a mile and of acting as a group.
A hundred individuals separately ‘bending’ the rules rapidly becomes a thousand and out-numbers police who can’t deal with widely scattered ‘mishaps’.
Whenever a demo goes violent it damages its own cause in the eyes of those who support the cause but not violence. Violence is counter-productive. Government wants us to resort to violence, giving it an ideal excuse to hit us all even harder.
If you’ve ever encountered an obstinate person, you’ll know how very effective obstinacy is. Government can over-come violence and will be ready for it but there’s no over-coming obstinacy.
MK Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela called it ‘passive resistance’, I call it obstinacy. All 3 were combatting extreme, powerful repression and found that violence didn’t win. This time, we have no leaders but we can do it ourselves.
Court cases will not win while oppression remains, nor will they stop it. Court cases are for next. Now is for us to do.
Way each needs to find is under or round, not over; each choosing a way that suits them, creating so many different ways, government can’t cope with the variety.
Nice bit of thinking, unreg.
Thanks, but all I did was think back to my school-days and progress from there
Nice pickup of some of the Aussie uniformed thugs getting a bit of proper response:
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1439535095623335938
Good stuff. Hope a few of the uniformed thugs woke up with some injuries comparable to the ones they were dishing out. Shame it wasn’t the two who pushed over and pepper sprayed an elderly lady.
Great tackle at 0:17. This guy’s played a bit of rugby.
And the comical Daily Mail response, more worthy of Pravda than anything approaching a free press:
Cowardly moment protester wearing a black hoodie attacks THREE cops as anti-lockdown demonstrators overpower officers in Melbourne – and police blame ‘angry males’ for the violence
The story admits that the police initiated the violence by trying to forcefully prevent the protesters from expressing their dissenting opinion to the Australian government’s disgraceful, totalitarian behaviour, but comedically still tried to blame the victims for responding to the repression to which they were subjected.
As for calling the bloke who charged a mob of police thugs equipped with protective gear, batons and pepper spray a “coward”, well personally I’d like to see the “journalist” or editor who wrote that text tell him so to his face…
Oddly, no mention in the Mail, that I saw, of the disgraceful, thuggish pushing over and pepper spraying in the face of an elderly lady by these state enforcement operatives, posted in the comments here earlier.
Not read the Spectator article (behind paywall)discussing the lack of response in the Italian public. It can be the strange seeing support of the Draghi administration from Salvini’s party but according to this report lots of demonstrations in Italy against covidpass
https://twitter.com/rosenbusch_
18.09.2021, Großdemonstrationen gegen Gesundheitspass, Bilder aus: Mailand, Rom, Neapel, Turin, Genua, Padua, Cagliari, Livorno, Florenz, Bologna, Trento, Modena, Verona, Brescia, Udine, Treviso , Triest. 120 weitere Städt
Meanwhile, our Dear Leader reveals her vaccine passport plans…
I notice the Daily Mail article about the Australia protests does not seem to allow for comments…I wonder why…