- “The time has come to declare an official end to the Covid crisis” – The lack of an official moment-of-ending has had a consequence: the Government has never told us that the time of sacrifice is over, writes Andrew Lilico in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Jurgen Klopp says refusing vaccine is like drink-driving as it endangers others” – Vaccinations among footballers has become a more pressing issue after reports that only seven of the 20 Premier League clubs have fully vaccinated more than 50% of their players, reports Sky News.
- “Covid cases fall by 6% in a week to 30,439 with 43 new deaths recorded” – Department of Health figures show that 43 deaths from coronavirus (that is, 28 days after a positive Covid test) were recorded in the last 24 hours, down 15 from the week before.
- “Man arrested after police alerted to fake vaccine passports being sold for £750” – Hampshire Constabulary were alerted to counterfeits being produced in the Basingstoke area, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pandexit, please: The need for a Covid end date – Issue XXIII” – “The rolling Covid mandates and restrictions sidestep the most important question: what is the end-game,” writes award winning health journalist Gabrielle Bauer in the latest print issue of Bournbrook Magazine.
- “It Was Always a Con: The Covid Debacle” – “We are precariously on the crossroads between recurring paralysis and breaking free of the tripe we’ve been fed,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “The Postpandemic World Is One of Widespread Dependence on Government” – The state is making people dependent on it, both as means for control and as an outcome of many policies intended to provide relief, writes Per Bylund in Mises Wire.
- “Are Covid Vaccines Adversely Impacting Women’s Menstrual Cycles?” – A new Israeli study seeks to answer this question as mounting real-world data points to a phenomenon observed in women worldwide after receiving the second vaccine dose, reports Trial Site.
- “After sharing his opinions on pandemic rules, a university professor worries for his safety” – Professor Jay Bhattacharya says he feels terrified to stroll freely on university grounds for the first time in 35 years of studying and teaching at Stanford.
- “Fauci: ‘Too Soon to Tell’ If Americans Can Get Together for Christmas” – It’s not clear if Americans should have Christmas gatherings, says Anthony Fauci.
- “Booster jab every 6 months? 1.5 million double-dosed and recovered Israelis lose Green Pass privileges as stricter Covid rules kick in” – Israel has revoked all Green Passes issued to date, with the new guidelines limiting Covid immunity status only to those who naturally recovered or received their latest vaccine shot within the past six months, reports Russia Today.
- “Secret offshore wealth of world leaders revealed in huge data leak” – Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the documents show how 35 current and former world leaders used accounts in tax havens to accrue huge amounts of wealth and carry out transactions.
- “No, Zac Goldsmith, Teslas are not the solution to the fuel crisis” – “No, the petrol crisis is not a lesson in the delights of electric cars,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Homes may have gas cut off if they refuse to take part in hydrogen trial” – Powers to enter people’s homes and switch off their gas will only be used as a “last resort”, say ministers.
- “It’s Greta Thunberg who seems to be at the helm in Germany. But that just signifies utopian promises, not real green progress” – German politics, in its entirety, appears to be a kind of frontispiece. A strange and largely nonsensical virtue signal that goes beyond even the normal politicking of other nations, writes Brendan Heard in Russia Today.
- “Why woke is a spin-off from Christianity – minus the mercy and hope” – Woke has a Calvinist pessimism about our Total Depravity. You cannot escape your Original Sin, the best you can do is confess it, writes Tim Stanley in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “‘You think of universities as somewhere you’re going to learn how to think, but here… people are told what to think’” – Fraser Myers from Spiked talks to Andrew Doyle on GB News after it emerged that St Andrews University are making their students take diversity courses in order to study.
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Is Nigel Farage right about Putin’s invasion?
What’s really going on?
‘….at the zero line, the assault troops have their own wheel of fortune – assault, injury, hospital, recovery, back into service… And so on until they lose their fitness for service in the stormtroopers and are transferred to the rear, or until death. It is almost impossible to resign under the Military Commission with the current rules for assessing the health of military personnel in the SMO – except for paying a bribe for 400K+ rubles.’
‘Therefore, in general, during these 21 months we have become very gloomy people. Many people’s eyes have gone dark – do you know this expression? Watch films about big wars, like the Finnish “The Unknown Soldier” from 2017. There is a mask of fatigue and sadness on the face.’
‘Russia’s Victory Day offensive across Ukraine’s northern border with Russia may have aimed to capture a wide, deep swathe of territory to bring heavy artillery closer to the city of Kharkiv, 25 miles to the south. More ambitiously, Russian commanders may have hoped to march on Kharkiv itself.’
‘Neither happened. Within a couple of weeks of the offensive kicking off on May 9—the day Russia celebrates its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II—the force of 30,000 or so Russian troops got bogged down in the town of Vovchansk, just a few miles south of the border.’
‘And now the defenders of Vovchansk, including some or part of several Ukrainian mechanized, marine and airborne brigades, have reportedly defeated an elite Russian airborne brigade.’
‘…the 83rd Airborne Brigade has retreated from Vovchansk after a costly three-week deployment.
“The entire 83rd Airborne Brigade is urgently withdrawn to the rear to restore combat capability,”
“There are too many casualties, they can’t fight, there are too many 500s.”
In Russian military parlance, a “code 500” is a soldier who refuses to fight.’
‘We can’t take it anymore! Three days without food and water. No support. I don’t know what to do next…”
Russian soldier Oleg Vesnin, call sign “Fiksa”, a serviceman from the 83rd Airborne Assault Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, recorded an appeal in which he said that he is very thirsty and “can’t take it anymore”.
His comrades next to him are “Butcher” and “Fara”, but the latter “is probably dead and no one will look for anybody.”
Fiksa’s legs have failed, but he “really wants to live”, so he decided to surrender. He also advised other Russians to never sign a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry.’
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1800832716062986645
The new Rosstat data generally confirm other estimates of Russia’s confirmed military deaths based on records from Russia’s National Probate Registry.
In the last update to these calculations, we estimated Russia’s total mortality in the full-scale war up to the end of 2023 at between 66,000 and 88,000 people, with the figure most likely around 75,000.
Unconfirmed reports estimate 150,000 Russians have died on the battlefield, and over a million more have fled the country since the invasion, to avoid conscription.
‘Laughing and joking, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cruised around Pyongyang last week in a Russian-made Aurus limousine to showcase their strengthened anti-Western alliance.
The luxury sedan was intended to epitomize Russia’s domestic prowess and reduced dependence on imported technology and goods when unveiled in 2018.
But customs records show that the company that builds it uses millions of dollars in imported parts, many arriving in Russia from South Korea.
The Aurus Senat, retro-styled after the Soviet-era ZIL limousine, is Russia’s official presidential car and was used by Putin at his presidential inaugurations in 2018 and 2024.
Putin has now given Kim, believed to be a keen automobile fan, two Aurus cars.
Prices for Aurus cars – there are four models including an SUV and armoured version – start from 46.625 million roubles ($528,356). Customers include Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdymukhamedov.
Aurus sold 107 cars in Russia in 2023, according to data from Russian analytical agency Autostat. Aurus does not disclose production numbers.
($1 = 88.2455 roubles)’
28 June 2024
Monro 20/6/24
‘North Korea’s cyber-espionage efforts have been directed at infiltrating the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs……which has discovered a malware sample concealed within a backdoored software installer for Moscow.
This malware, identified as KONNI, which has been a part of Pyongyang’s cyber arsenal since at least 2014, was embedded within an installer for “Statistika KZU,” software purportedly designed for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ internal use in securely transmitting documents’
22 Feb 2024
So? What is your conclusion, you know, what you think rather than a cut and paste of someone else’s opinion.
You’re chatting with AI, or someone using AI, chap. Better use of your time is to talk to a plate.
The precise and detailed analysis is superfluous.
Farage (10 years ago): “If we keep doing ‘A’, then ‘B’ might happen”
We kept doing ‘A’, and ‘B’ did indeed happen.
From what I’ve seen from the left media, you’d think Farage wrote a book extolling his all time hero, Putin, and it was when Putin read the book that he decided on his course of action. It is squirrels, a crude character assignation to derail Reform, nothing more.
Squirrel assignations have a long and inglorious history in politics.
Covid The Great PCR Test Fraud – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, your local vicar, online media and friends online. We have over 200 leaflet ideas on the link on the leaflet.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/russia-ukraine-war-putin-demographic-crisis-social-reproduction-biopolitical-imperialism
What’s really going on?
Why did Putin really invade Ukraine?
It’s a known unknown. Only he really knows….
But, maybe, he gave us a clue:
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’
Putin 2000
‘According to UN data from the beginning of the invasion, more than 2.8 million Ukrainians had to cross the Russian border, lacking almost any possibility of leaving the occupied territories to the Ukrainian side. But the Russian authorities proudly announced numbers almost twice as high at 5.3 million, among them 738,000 children, thus showing their pride in the forced displacement of millions of Ukrainians and simultaneously articulating their hidden desire: millions of new potential citizens.’
‘…..the new manipulations of Russian citizenship reach far beyond Ukrainians alone. The amendments to the citizenship law also allow Putin to expand the categories of people eligible for simplified acquisition of citizenship, including “citizens of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Ukraine.” The inclusion of these many other countries marks out the horizons of the Kremlin’s imperialist ambitions.’
That is the real reason behind Putin’s imperialist expansionism: a ‘Union State’ of three hundred million people or more, like, you know, the USSR………
Negotiate with that……….
“Kemi Badenoch: ‘I do think David Tennant is a misogynist’”
I’m afraid I am somewhat disappointed that Kemi has decided to make this a battle. I think the sooner we get back to discussing ideas, rather than casually labelling people, the better we will all be. Casually labelling people is just crude innuendo to try and shut them up, or to ‘teach them how to think’. Both are deeply offensive.
One of my pet hates is when actors and other performers, like musicians (oh, and some ex footballers), feel that, just because they have received adulation and attention in their own sphere, it gives them the right to comment publicly on anything and everything. They are just ordinary people who have a certain skill, but that skill is not intelligent political discourse. As they say, better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are stupid, rather than open it and prove it.
I tend to agree. The same applied to people who have made a lot of money, like Gates, who naturally think that makes them brilliant at everything.
I suppose what ever your opinion is, and there’s 8bn other opinions to choose from, I feel you can think what you like. The internet makes it possible for any nobody, or know-nowt to have their opinions in front of the whole world for posterity. What, for me, has diminished are the natural social boundaries of where it acceptable to say it. Who draws the line nowadays. Is there even a line anymore. Tennant should be old enough to know that wishing people didn’t exist, is something you shouldn’t verbalise especially in front of a media audience. Kemi should also be grown up enough not to start playing his game by his rules.
“intelligent political discourse”
Not many politicians have that skill either!
The downticks, as always, are interesting. How dare you even think about implying criticism of the noble (definitely not narcissistic) ideology that is feminism. Stay focused, the one and only thing that cannot be questioned is female victimhood. Reread the memo.
“Politics is a fickle business, says Steerpike in the Spectator. One day, the idea that Joe Biden is unfit to be President is heresy; the next it is progressive orthodoxy.”
Anyone who believes the sincerity of the judgements of the MSM in this pantomime can’t even be said to have powers of discernment equal to the credulous audience of WEF wrestling. This is Big Daddy versus Giant Haystacks levels of audience intelligence. And the vaccines work, and immigration is good for the country.
When the drugs worked and no-one was asking him questions at his SotU speech, the leftie media was shouting about how Biden was ‘cogent’. Its just self delusion on a massive scale, but as with all delusions, it eventually runs up on the ‘rocks of reality’. Whatever you think of Biden, it has been a cruel freak show.
No it’s not “just self delusion on a massive scale” You are confusing the audience with the organisers of the wrestling match. The front page agenda of the MSM is undoubtedly set by the organisers and evidence of a unified and coordinated messaging is so clear it’s ridiculous. The stories NEVER reflect the stories that should be told and that would lead to the accountability for those who are stealing trillions from the middle classes by quasi-legal means.
Self delusion, as in seeing what you want to see, not things as they are. Its harder to judge when everyone is trying to tell you the same fairy-tale. However, and I include myself modestly in this, there are lots of people who have seen through the lies, I just don’t understand how so many people swallow it unquestioningly…
And a cruel freak show (if actually deserved for an unpunished criminal) since the last election campaign. “If only we had known” is as empty now as it is for COVID.
Any doctor will tell you that the only one who doesn’t think they have a problem or, are suffering from dementia, is the person who has it! the rest of the world knows but the patient doesn’t that’s why they tend to live long lives because they have no stress or worries.
Biden will never step aside because he doesn’t know he has a problem
It’s very painful for the rest of us to have to watch, I’ve seen it first hand
“The Church of England’s historic links to the transatlantic slave trade”
I pass-by a church every day, who have decided to enlist God to campaign for Labour. ‘Think, pray, vote’ is their 4ft high message. Mark 12:17 would be my answer..
Farage OWNS Smug BBC Audience Lefty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CDCQt-OHqI
He didn’t change her mind, or those of the rest of the carefully selected random audience. The left are totally in love with their delusions, and it will take more than Farage being ‘fast on his feet’ to convince them. My daughter, sadly a lefty, watched the ‘I’m a Celeb’ programme with Farage, and I asked her what she thought about him having watched him. Her comment was, ‘Well, its obvious he doesn’t like foreigners’. I asked her how she got that impression, and she said ‘because he doesn’t’. Its hard to argue against stupid.
He is still married to one.
he is known to be a buddy of Donald Trump, a foreigner last time I checked, and gets criticised for it.
Terrific from Farage.
Living in interesting times
We had some election leaflets through the post yesterday from our local MP Geoffrey Cox, it was interesting to note that his campaign is strongly focused on local issues, indeed you had to look twice to remind yourself that this was a leaflet for a Parliamentary election and not the local council.
To my mind one of the major issues that will be affecting our lives in future years will be this net-zero scam as the above article points out it is an exercise in pointless self-flagellation;
“The climate scaremongers: proof that our Net Zero drive is pointless”
And yet it is little discussed at this election; net zero is the main reason I am voting Reform at this coming election, they seem to be the only one of the main parties to be challenging this whole concept. Yes I will metaphorically have a large peg on my nose when I vote but at least if I vote reform when the net-zero immiseration effects start to kick in I can say, ‘don’t blame me, I voted Reform’.
I have been lectured and hectored about the need to defend our democracy, protect our democracy and support democratic values and yet what has democracy given me? A local MP who seems reluctant to talk about National Issues and who does not attempt to call out the net-zero scam. Indeed we have an election where net-zero and energy policies are presented which seem to defy logical analysis and will have a huge impact on our lives and yet they are not an election issue. And then we have the USA where 2 grumpy old men who should be grumbling away in the back room of the golf club’ are standing to be leader of the free world!
It is interesting what this democracy has given us, or maybe that should be terrifying?
We have an independent candidate in our constituency who does exactly what you describe. Local issues only, reads like a local election pamphlet.
Same here.
Tory election leaflet – not one single word about Nut Zero. No mention of Immigration.
Worker’s Party – not a word about Nut Zero. No mention of Immigration.
Labour – not a mention of Nut Zero. Absolutely zilch on Immigration and by God have the Labour Council shipped them in.
Nothing received from the Lib Dims.
So Nut Zero has obviously been dropped then has it?
And Immigration….?
Mendacious bastards.
Constituency : Oldham East and Saddleworth.
It’s not challenging net zero but from the election leaflets received (twice in 3 days) some are campaigning for it:
Scottish Greens are campaigning on no new oil/gas drilling and a switch to 100% renewables – effectively a net zero campaign. They also claim only they have the solutions “our planet needs”.
SNP used the “Just Transition” mantra and mention “green new deal” which might as well say net zero.
Given a set of questions which could be considered nation/international issues, only 2 of the 7 candidates in my area responded: the independent and a small Scottish party. Both gave very direct unambiguous answers which I appreciated even if I didn’t agree with them.
No response from Labour, SNP, Reform, Liberal Democrats or Greens.
Speed Limiters and the techno creep of modern life
I am a bit slow and have only just picked up on this one, Speed Limiters are to become mandatory on new cars;
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/content/news/mandatory-speed-limiters-on-uk-cars-from-2022
The creep of technological control and surveillance seems relentless, before long we will have techno tooth brushes that insist you brush your teeth for the mandatory period and which record your tooth brushing on your medical records!
Geoff buys cars has a video on these speed limiters;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB4KjmOmzY0
But of course this is all being done for your own good; now here have I heard that idea before?
This electronic control of your car can actually be a problem. My car tries to steer me back into the lane if I have moved lanes without indicating. Imagine what that can do if you have to swerve around something urgently.
It also occasionally brakes suddenly if it feels I am getting close to hitting the car in front of me. It really startles me when it does this.
This control reminds me how top down authoritarian measures can create havoc at local level… I know, too much thinking going on here ;).
I’m used to those now. In my Toyota it’s easy to switch off the “Lane Trace Assist” which you describe, but I always leave it on, but as you say, it’s necessary to use poke at the indicator to let it know you really want to cross over a lane marking – even if it’s no use to anyone outside.
The other gadget you mention is part of a Pre-collision System using it’s radar and an installed camera to detect things. All categorised as “Driver Support Systems” – not guaranteed to work every time, but they can be useful when one gets used to them. And if something in front of you has the same thing, don’t run too close to it, in case it stops before you can.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/Boy-12-referred-counter-extremist-Prevent-officers-school-declaring-two-genders-Im-gay-not-queer.html
This is what mass indoctrination looks like.
Has anyone watched Douglas Is Cancelled on ITV? It’s described by Metro as “ITV’s new ‘woke’ series” and the writer has written fairly recent episodes of Dr Who, so I didn’t have high hopes for it.
But I watched the first episode last night and I thought it was very good, well-written and very funny at times including some sharp satirical points about woke culture, especially the indoctrinated daughter who doesn’t want her father to be cancelled, who doesn’t “want to have to cancel” her father.
I don’t know who the complainers are, and I don’t know if it will turn out to be woke or anti-woke or neither, but so far, very good.
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/itv-douglas-is-cancelled-slammed-fans-switch-off
Biden has been exposed as not being a credible candidate. Doesn’t it follow that he’s nor a credible President now?
We now have a President in the US with no legitimacy. A President in France unable to exercise power. A German Chancellor with single figure support. And a likely UK PM with zero experience & the likelihood of David Lammy as Foreign Sec.
You forgot to add Zelensky who has ignored the end of his official term of office and the man in Wales ignoring a vote of no confidence
Regarding Biden’s “election” in 2020, I enjoyed this recent exchange between Senator Whitehouse and the Alabama Attorney General.
“Is Joseph R. Biden of Delaware the duly elected and lawfully serving president of the United States of America?” – Sen. Whitehouse
“He is the president of this country.” – AG Steve Marshall
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1805224736714289504
We all know (I think) that Biden’s election was not legitimate. But, almost as concerning as that fact, is that it has now become clear that he has not for some considerable time (maybe since Jan 2021) been running the country – which begs the question “Who has?”.
When Mrs Biden congratulated her husband on answering all the questions (seriously?) the unspoken part was that not only did he achieve that but managed to get the answers in the right order.
I an guessing that when he was seen closing his eyes, he was not having micro-naps but was scrolling through the script that he programmed with the previous week to get to where the answer was.
What is really going on in Kharkov region. Well for one, the Russians have now developed the capability of shooting down Patriot missiles, according to their MOD.
This is to protect the aircraft carrying their new 3000kg guided bombs which are creating havoc and fear among the defending troops.
Incidentally the defending troops are forced to stay at the front by a band of elite troops stationed behind them with instructions to shoot any of their countrymen who try to retreat. A tactic straight out of the old Soviet military handbook.
Putin must be on he’s belly beating his fists on the floor in hysterical laughter after seeing that joke of a potus attempting to speak.
America..get some self respect back for all our sakes!
Looking at the list above, we are in dire straits.
I see Starmer blames a lack of leadership by Farage for the offensive remarks while canvassing for Reform by an allegedly out of work actor. For years we heard complaints from people in parties he had led to the effect he was too authoritarian. Seems he can’t win, but that I think is the media plan.
Farage says there is something fishy about the story on Channel 4 and I agree. All the years I have worked in elections I have never heard of a journalist taking any interest in canvassing, leaflet delivery or the like unless the candidate was present and then rarely.
This guy was, apparently, a former Tory party member. There are a number of explanations for the interview with this foul mouthed man and some of them involve a set-up by either the Tories or Channel 4 (and its sub-contractor) or otherwise.
Look forward to a Guardian or Daily Mail report that Farage eats children and acts as an agent for Russian oligachs.
“The U.S. state that’s planning to physically castrate child rapists”
Well done, Louisiana! Following the excellent example of the African nation of Nigeria:
Nigeria’s Kaduna passes law to castrate child rapists – BBC News
“The Church of England’s historic links to the transatlantic slave trade” – The CofE did not invest in anything connected with slave-trading and the tainted wealth never existed, write Robert Tombs and Lawrence Goldman on Psephizo.
This is a brilliant piece of research, turning the whole “reparations” scam on its head. The Church of England should be thanking Robert Tombs and Lawrence Goldman for rescuing it from its own folly.