- “Amanda Pritchard reveals NHS is preparing yearly Covid booster scheme” – Amanda Pritchard said the NHS is already putting plans in place should it be required to deliver a yearly Covid booster vaccine campaign – similar to the annual winter flu jab programme, reports MailOnline.
- “Germany hits panic button – Merkel to follow Austria and lock down 14 million” – Germany is planning on locking down 14 million unvaccinated citizens in a bid to tackle increasing case numbers, reports the Express. In the piece, Toby comments: “Given its history, I hoped Germany would be a bit more inhibited about curtailing the rights of a part of its population on the grounds that they’re dangerous and unclean. But apparently not.”
- “Sturgeon warns Covid passport system may be extended before Christmas” – The First Minister tells Holyrood that her administration will decide next week whether restrictions currently in force should be tightened from December 6th, reports MailOnline.
- “Nicola Sturgeon ‘leaving pubs in the dark’ over vaccine passports extension” – Businesses are in limbo as the First Minister postpones a ket decision until next week, saying she wants to discuss practicalities with those affected, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ireland introduces new coronavirus restrictions including midnight hospitality curfew as country battles fourth wave of infections” – The measures will be implemented from Friday, with Covid passes, already required for indoor hospitality, now necessary at cinemas and theatres, reports Sky News.
- “Evidence for Community Cloth Face Masking to Limit the Spread of SARS‐CoV‑2” – “Of 16 quantitative meta‐analyses, eight were equivocal or critical as to whether evidence supports a public recommendation of masks, and the remaining eight supported a public mask intervention on limited evidence primarily on the basis of the precautionary principle,” write the authors of a new critical review for the CATO Institute.
- “Pfizer Submits Covid Pill for FDA Authorization” – Testing found Pfizer’s pill to be 89% effective at reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid when taken soon after diagnosis, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- “Are the Scientific Journals Censoring the Science? Part 2” – Sonia Elijah writes on the unprecedented removal of peer-reviewed papers showing efficacy of ivermectin as a Covid treatment and preventative in TrialSite.
- “Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna raking in $1,000 every second from Covid vaccine, research shows” – The top three Covid vaccine makers are making around $65,000 per minute as wealthy nations snap up their products, while plans to offer the jab to poorer nations at a discount have largely fallen through, new research, reported in RT, reveals.
- “The Covid Children’s Crusade” – Against ethics and evidence, public officials push vaccine mandates for kids. John Tierney comments in City Journal.
- “Shock as BBC admits Covid figures error” – A rare treat as a BBC official apologies for an error made while reporting Covid figures, as told in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Europe heads the stampede to medical apartheid” – “While the media engaged in a classic diversionary tactic, they virtually ignored perhaps the most concerning pandemic news out of Western Europe so far,” writes Tom Penn in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “More states sue Biden’s White House over Covid vaccine mandate” – A dozen states have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, arguing the administration is trying to “federalise public health policy“, reports RT.
- “‘Most vaccinated’ place on earth cancels Christmas” – Amid a surge in Covid cases, Gibraltar has canceled official Christmas events and “strongly” discouraged people from hosting private gatherings for four weeks. Gibraltar’s entire eligible population is vaccinated. RT reports.
- “Portugal makes it illegal for bosses to contact employees outside working hours” – Portugal has made it illegal for bosses to contact their employees outside of working hours in a bid to increase the rights of those working from home due to Covid lockdowns, reports the Express.
- “Why is there lack of concern over burning coal?” – Judged by the benchmarks set by Mr. Sharma and Boris Johnson before the conference, COP26 had failed – thanks to China, writes David Rose in the Mail.
- “The electric revolution will kill off traditional British sports cars” – The end of the road is in sight for small-scale premium car manufacturers given the huge cost of building electric vehicles from scratch, reports the Telegraph.
- “The eco elite won’t admit it, but it’s time we learned to live with climate change” – Global agreements to limit warming have failed. Our best answer now is to invest in adaptation, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “COP26 and the cynical exploitation of ‘indigenous peoples’” – The West uses indigenous groups as a stick to beat poorer countries that want to industrialise, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “I just graduated from a British university. They’re broken” – Higher education in the U.K. is not about broadening the mind, it is about indoctrination and ideological compliance that crushes intellectual development and debate. It needs shaking up, badly, writes Ramsha Afridi in RT.
- “Could Cthulhu swim right?” – “Both shame and status affiliation are the result of a dominant social narrative or national mythos, interweaving deception and truth, controlled (and largely believed) by the top of society,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Amanda in East Sussex says the booster programme is about ‘control and fear’” – A caller tells talkRADIO: “Every single day they are chipping away at our civil liberties and freedom. Where does this end? It ends when we say no more.”
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“Removal of peer reviewed papers [from scientific journals] showing efficacy of Ivermectin” (Trial Site News).
I knew these journals were bent, but this is ridiculous.
Is this paper, this behaviour, this idea, this group, WITH THE PROJECT? Yes or no?
If YES, fine, we welcome its contribution, and for its part it will welcome guidance.
If NO, crush it, delete it, say it never happened, or demonise it, ghettoise it, or spook it up with the same effect.
It’s not as though we didn’t know that higher education is utterly corrupt and has been for years.
The reason why 18 million people found Neel Kolhatkars Modern Edukayshun amusing 6 years ago is that was so recognisable.
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Good grief! Never saw that before. It’s brilliant, and now horrific! Thanks for the ref. Here’s the link https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM
Thanks, I don’t know how to post links from an Android, there are those who think posting Y00Tube links somehow profits that company.
My own view is that the more people who have access to this sort of material the better.
We are now in the new world order but the globalist aren’t done with you yet. This fall they are going to do something even worse which is why I strongly suggest you do this right now
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Ridiculous in a free country, totally standard practice in a totalitarian state.
If you haven’t seen it the latest Dr John Campbell video is at the bottom of this link. It compares Ivermectin with ‘Pfizermectin’ . One costs 5c the other $225 per tablet. Guess which is best? The video includes references to peer reviewed papers on ivermectin efficacy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/biden-admin-plans-imminent-booster-expansion-orders-10m-courses-pfizermectin
$225.00 × 8billion world population, my mini calculator has run out of 0s.
You mean the Dr. John Campbell who in every video has a board prominently in the background cautioning ‘Maintain 2 meters DISTANCE’ and ‘Wear a Mask.’ I smell cattle.
No you smell ‘clever chap’. He keeps pumping out real information , most of it not complementary to the official position, by appearing not to rock the boat. If you listen to what he says about ivermectin for instance he very quickly states the criminality of not using it everywhere, but he does it in such a way not to incur the immediate censors.
Similar to the editorial stance here at DS?
“‘Most vaccinated’ place on earth cancels Christmas”
You ain’t getting in Santa, vaxx pass or no vaxx pass.
Meanwhile, “cases” in Romania (which was believed to have 30% “vaccinated” last I heard) continue to fall off a cliff. And if all-cause mortality is as bad as has been suggested for the “vaccinated”, we really are getting into crimes against humanity territory.
In those days a decree went out from Caesar aGatesus, that all the world should be vaccinated.
We couldn’t half use a saviour…
Jesus Christ lives.
And He will return. Soon I hope, I must say I don’t rate man’s chances this century without divine intervention.
Give it time. We’re still in the Fifth Trumpet I think. The Sixth Trumpet lasts at least 3.5 years, followed by the “bowls”… so a little ways to go yet in my opinion.
https://txti.es/fifthtrumpet
Modern day Plague of Locusts being reported from Egypt this week.
Daily Express, NY Times and others.
Didn’t they have quite a big one in Somalia or somewhere last year? I can’t remember how it finished up, but failed states are never healthy.
Correction it is actually a plague of scorpions.
Has he been vaccinated?
Mary and Joseph had been turned away from the inn because their “Libertas Pass” hadn’t been renewed. The stable was, however, classed as an ‘outdoor area’.
And they didn’t have baby Jesus quacksinated either. They fled the country just in time before Herod’s inoculation squad got to work on Bethlehem.
It’s perhaps heartening to note that the Daily Mail commentariat have moved seemlessly from criticising lockdown regulations to criticising the semi compulsory nature of the vaccine programme, recognising that discriminatory lockdowns are coming our way, that forcing untested vaccines on children is evil, that the vaccines fail in their supposed objectives, that boosts will become a permanent annual feature and, in some cases, that this was always the plan.
Lockdownsceptics.org used to publish each day one or more appropriately titled pop tunes ( Rock to Classical, not particular) as nominated by readers.
My favourite being
“there ain’t no Sanity Clause” (The Damned)
as appropriate for Chistmas
That is bull.
All British sports cars built upon parts bins. Everything from Engines down to switches. Most had unique body panels. But they can still be made as in the past.
In general the car industry will have to change. It is forever evolving. Company take overs collapses etc. These are different to the issues of making electric cars
Who was it who mentioned his light-bulb moment when he read an article in a newspaper about something within his own area of professional knowledge and expertise and saw how full of utter nonsense it was, and then realised that the same is likely true of all the other newspaper articles he’d been reading, he just had lacked the direct knowledge to see it in the other cases?
I had that moment with my local paper some decades ago precisely as you describe. Almost every article that made reference to my particular area of experience got it wrong.
Once I phoned the editorial desk to complain about a relatively minor such error. I could tell the guy wasn’t interested until I told him they had printed exactly the same error the previous year when reporting on the same annual event.
His reporter had simply copy’n’pasted last years erroneous content.
At which point he wanted to know date and page number . . .
Me too; current example is the Uni Lecturer’s union striking about their pension scheme, essentially that they must pay more.
These wankers do not get how dangerously financially unstable their pension scheme is…how ironic is it that those who “educate” others cannot apply that skill to themselves..
It might have been Michael Crichton, but DYOR.
@M, (1969 Nobel prize for physics, Dr. Murray Gell-Mann) ,
but has anyone noticed that there’s still no ‘flu this year
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-cases-covid-england-phe-latest-b1805124.html from Feb 2021]
A recently retired but still active former ookice officer (30 year stint) mentioned that IRL* yesterday as gauged each other for lockdown/vivid scepticism.
Seems we are both on the same side but sadly it was a short conversation.
*Do we still say ‘IRL’?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/
Michael Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia effect to describe forgetting how unreliable a source is in one area when you trust it in another area. In Crichton’s words:
I think about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect when I read news stories that totally botch science or statistics. Most of the time when I read a news story that touches on something I happen to know about, it’s at best misleading and at worst just plain wrong.
Yesterday I had the opposite experience. I was trying out a new podcast, not one focused on science or statistics, that was mostly correct when it touched on statistical matters that I’ve looked into. They didn’t bat 1000, but they did better than popular news sites. That increased my estimate of how likely the podcast is to be accurate about other matters.
By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann? Crichton explained
How right he was.
I just read the same sentiment in Unsettled? by Steven J. Koonin.
Which has lead to me basically cancelling any subscription and terminating any interest in News.
Anyone who gets a booster shot must be brain damaged. Fauci warns the vaccinated.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dr-fauci-just-issued-urgent-201846228.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWVtb3Jlcm9ja3MuaXMv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACy2biaohrBrtj6CaKyFDS4msQkznejPvXL_pWWsbVgO_Zr3ffk4aSEHvcIdEGtej_QCCbcrwIvKL_-B9PmrP7GuyknZLApp5CprPa-LfmTZ_otMRCHj4eCoCBKsS17FBKFcBNblGuWiZatp96zRY4eE5zK1xR0gSoEmfKKxv_g3
I read that as Fauci recommending people not to look upon the booster as a bonus but as an
‘an essential part of the primary regimen’
But then he gives the game away with
‘an absolute essential part of the program’.
More news: look at how Sajid Javid talks to those who criticise “health” provision:
https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1460716716951056395
Someone called David Atherton left a message on some advertising company’s website, saying
And guess how the Ayn Rand-loving toerag at the Department of Health responded?
Like this:
Anyone who can cr*p on anyone else is walking 10 foot high right now. They have been since March last year.
Javid is probably running around so hard trying to serve his masters in Big Pharma and in Technofascist Cull Centrale generally, for scraps from their table, that he doesn’t know which way is up – all he knows is that anyone below him in the caste system is a piece of dirt. What a vile little
manthug.Perhaps Javid is remembering what Adolf Hitler said about WW2: “If we win it, we will go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time; if we lose it, we will go down in history as the greatest criminals of all time“.
Same as bozo after the Liverpool ‘incident’ on Sunday. ‘Incident’ = Islamist terrorist attempt to blow up Cathedral on Remembrance Sunday.
Full of praise and respect for all of the emergency and security services, who were nowhere to be seen, yet not a word about the heroic actions of the Taxi Driver who prevented it. (The fact that main bomb did not explode being neither here nor there).
How about Sajid Javid go back to Chase Manhattan Bank and stop murdering our children with his lethal injection nudge programme?
I think their line of thinking now is similar to that of AIG when it sold CDS on mortgage securities: if it goes right, we’re heroes, if it goes wrong, there’s no one left to claim anyway.
It went wrong and they were wrong, of course.
Maybe there’s the sound of the penny starting to drop for David Atherton – it’s not about what is best for you or your health, there is no logic to it, they will jab you with any old shit and they do not care.
Lots of work here by Shellenberger and Boghossian, and some good observations.
However:
“Michael Shellenberger and I wrote “Woke Religion: A Taxonomy” to help people understand the woke religion.
I want to be crystal clear about something: bigotry and racial discrimination are real and they have no place in society. Yes, there is ongoing racism. Yes, there is ongoing homophobia. Yes, there is ongoing hatred of trans people. These are morally abhorrent and we all need to work together to bring about their end. The woke religion, however, is not the way to stop these moral horrors. It is making our shared problems more difficult to solve.”
These are mere assertions of modern “moderate woke” dogma, that the author has put in to protect himself from attack, and signal his virtuous compliance with modern intellectual convention. In reality, there is nothing inherently “morally abhorent” about “racism”, “homophobia” or “[disapproval] of trans people”, unless these attitudes are selectively defined in such a way as to incorporate abhorrence (eg “hatred” contains its own moral freight).
Disapproval of other races, disapproval of people who engage in homosexual behaviour and disapproval of trans-sexuality are all opinions that in other times and societies (including our own, in the past) are or were regarded as perfectly acceptable, or even as mere common sense. Such attitudes are moral taboos in our society as a result of a century or so of change, incorporating at times quite heavy and systematic indoctrination.
It’s perfectly ok to disagree with or disapprove of these attitudes (so long as one tolerates their free expression). But viewing them, per se, as inherently “moral horrors” or as “morally abhorrent” is naive, ignorant, and contains the very same woke intolerance that the authors are fighting.
Do you feel a need to approve or disapprove of two consenting adults next door on the basis of whether or not they have sex with each other in private?
Already illegal in some circumstances, so clearly some people do.
Doesn’t seem much point going into our personal positions on these issues. All I’m pointing out is that these currently taboo positions are not objectively morally abhorrent. They are just attitudes regarded as unacceptable by elite dogma in our particular society.
100 years ago they were regarded as mere common sense, or basic decency. In another 100 years that might again be the case.
Is anything objectively morally abhorrent?
I’m not woke. I’m against gay marriage and gay adoption and I supported Clause 28. It’s just that I don’t care what consenting adult neighbours do with each other in the bedroom – or indeed whether they have sex with each other at all – and so I can’t approve or disapprove of them as people on the basis of such a consideration.
“Is anything objectively morally abhorrent?”
As far as speech is concerned, arguably advocacy of eg murder, rape in its original sense, pederasty, child (pre-puberty) molestation generally …. I’m sure one could come up with more.
“I’m not woke. I’m against gay marriage and gay adoption and I supported Clause 28. It’s just that I don’t care what consenting adult neighbours, whether straight or gay, do with each other in the bedroom – or indeed whether they have sex with each other at all – and I so can’t approve or disapprove of them as people on the basis of such a consideration.“
OK. What do you want, a cookie?
As long as you don’t advocate criminalising or silencing opinions other than your own, you can hold whatever opinion you like.
I agree 100% with you, I don’t find homosexuality the least bit attractive, natural, interesting or admirable. Good luck to them, it’s there lives, but please don’t feel the need to include me in what I find abhorrent.
But my truth & inspiration comes from nature! Homosexuality is not found in any other species in the wild. Warning to anyone claiming otherwise, it’s fake news & i’ll defend the fact.
LOL that phantom down voter, the odd thing is if you find my views objectionable, why read them? If you haven’t read them, why downvote?
Why discriminate?
Homosexuality is widespread throughout the animal kingdom from gay-play by juvenile Orang Utans to 10% of domesticated rams who will only couple with other males.
not my downtick btw.
Homosexuality in other mammals is impossible, there’s only one species in the genus Homo, Homo sapiens.
Homosexuality is a sexual preference! I.e. sexual intercourse with the same sex. Despite the nonsense published in the Daily Mail there is NO record of same sex intercourse in other mammals or birds!
Anything that happens in captivity is irrelevant because captive animals can not perform natural behaviours, and they perform aberrant behaviours to compensate. “Gay play” is not same sex intercourse, it is likely not sexual at all, that’s just subjective deflection, researches just seeing what they want to see.
Domestic animals are selectively bred to be highly driven breeders, some rams are just giant testicles with legs, they will shag anything with a woolly coat because they’ve been breed to be driven by the urge to procreate, (sex machines).
Animals often display behaviour that’s misinterpreted as sexual, when in fact it’s dominance behaviour or simple bonding behaviour or just play that has no sexual intent.
10% of domesticated rams will mate only with other males to the exclusion of females.
The only time I reference the Daily Mail is to look at readers comments on articles linked from DS, they are generally of more interest than the articles themselves which I very rarely read at all.
Prove it?
‘Domesticated’, read my first comment, “wild” i.e. natural.
‘Homo’sexuality has nothing to do with our genus, and everything to do with ‘same’ (hence ‘hetero’). For more information on your other point, ‘Biological Exuberance’ by Bruce Bagemihl documents same-sex behaviours in 450 species of animal.
Like it or not, discrimination is natural, its function is part of a survival instinct of our primitive part of our brain, there’s a biological reason for sexual dimorphism, YES attraction to the opposite sex is ‘normal’ same sex attraction is an evolutionary dead end, genetic suicide! It has no biological function, which is why it was shunned & taboo in past cultures.
Some argue homosexuality is a response to over population, i’m not so sure of that. Other hypothesis for homosexuality is that it could be a genetic trigger to environmental conditions, eg. your upbringing. One thing is a fact homosexuality exists, it must have an ecological function. Self-destruction seems to be a human flaw.
“One thing is a fact homosexuality exists”
Maybe. Certainly homosexual behaviour exists.
“it must have an ecological function.”
Not necessarily. It could be a side effect of drives that exist for other reasons (which I think is what most non-religious views would have been of it, in the evolution era, until a few decades ago)..
If it exists, it must have a function, I always view everything through the lens of natural process, not subjective emotive civilized dogma.
If it survives in nature, it must have an ecological benefit.
Not, as I pointed out, if they are side effects of something that gives sufficient benefit to outweigh any costs. So if a genetic change were to arise that gives people greater intelligence, say, but also gave rise to a greater tendency to incontinence, if the former were sufficiently beneficial to outweigh any breeding effects of the incontinence then the genetic change would likely persist and propagate through the species. But you couldn’t say that the incontinence “has an ecological benefit”. You’d regard it as something bad and try to find ways to control it.
Hmm I see your thinking. But Darwin’s theories of natural selection still stand, only the most successful mutations survive, survival of the fittest, where those best suited to their environment out compete other species or others of the same species, incontinence may have a benefit that you can’t identify but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Few species have evolved to control their environment, ants & humans are very much alike in that regard.
Ancient Sparta imposed State sanctioned ephebeophilia on its young adult soldiers who only settled down to ‘normal’ family life when they left the army.
Sadly for Sparta this resulted in the slow reduction of their army from 10,000 full Spartiates at its peak to few hundred at its final demise.
You might have thought someone would have noticed at the time.
There’s one thing i’ve learned about history don’t believe everything you read in history books (or wikipedia), it’s often just the fantasy of historians.
The ways of the Spartans were widely commented upon at the time. Wikipedia is far from my first port of call, run as it so often is by misinformation artists.
Didn’t have a choice, did they!
We all know what happened to Roman civilisation, I can see our own civilisation going the same way, all civilisations seem to go the same way the more deviant their behaviour becomes.
Someone of the stature of Chris Hitchens passed his Oxbridge entrance by answering a question about possible causes for the fall of Romes civilisation.
He did so by listing as simple bullet points the first hundred reasons that came into his head.
Christianity.
Sexual deviance.
Lead pipes.
Not enough Chistianity.
Usurpation
Mercenaries
Plagues & disease.
Life of luxury
Barbarians
Too many Emperors
The idle urban mob
Changes in the climate.
and so he went on and on
btw, Sparta is in Greece.
How big was the Roman Empire, what’s Sparta got to do with my point?
The Greatest Empire The World Had Ever Known.
What did Rome have to do with my post about Sparta?
The whole area of classical studies is a little suspect on the topic of homosexuality generally. A suspicion of a lot of advocacy-based interpretation and translation, dressed up as scholarship, over the centuries…
For certain, Greek attitudes to homosexual behaviour were a long way from modern “gay rights” ideology.
One view is that homosexuality leads to a pool of adults who are not committed to raising their own families and so can concentrate their efforts in other directions.
This might explain their over-representation in the creative fields but does not supprt the argument for gay adoption. Elton John springs to mind.
But that’s self-defeating aberrant behaviour, the only true meaning of life is to pass on your genes, evidently being gay would assure the extinction of your bloodline.
As you point out gay adoption suggests those instincts to have offspring exist in individuals who are gay & adopt. But I guess it could be for social acceptance, seen to be “normal” to fit in & not be excluded by society.
Maybe as we live in large social communities, gays are sacrificing their own bloodline to contribute to the greater good of the community where resources are unconsciously perceived to be scarce.
In my view the act of adoption is either a lifestyle choice, an act of compassion or an attempt to negate reproductive inadequacy.
It does not and cannot fulfil natures basic aim. That the genes which occupy your body are reproduced within your offspring.
“But that’s self-defeating aberrant behaviour, the only true meaning of life is to pass on your genes, evidently being gay would assure the extinction of your bloodline.“
The argument that used to be used to respond to that was that it is a matter of familial shared genes. So by assisting the reproductive success of your brother or sister, you are assisting the promotion of half your own genes in each case, and the theory was that having childless relatives around could be a net benefit. Don’t know if that’s changed, but it’s basically the same argument that explains general familial preference genetically.
I’m not particularly advocating that argument, just recalling it.
What consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes is their business and no one elses, not mine, not yours or not the authorities.
But why do we have to be told about other people’s sexual preferences, then judged with approval/disapproval if our personal beliefs find those acts repellent?
Peoples sex lives are a private matter, I wish they’d keep it that way. And sex isn’t love!
“Peoples sex lives are a private matter . .”
Absolutely but it’s a two way street which is why I object to gay couples who seek out ‘straight’ b&bs who don’t want them having gay sex in what is the owners private home.
Same goes for gay couples who won’t take no for an answer from a baker not wanting to bake a cake celebrating their predilection when there are plenty of other bakers who will.
That’s a tricky subject, where I can see both sides of the argument.
But I would say you shouldn’t take your personal beliefs to work, if you can’t separate personal principles & your professional responsibility, then you’re probably in the wrong job.
e.g. a catholic doctor refusing to prescribe contraceptives! You don’t have the right to impose your personal beliefs on others in a professional capacity.
We have an independent local petrol station, one of the few, who does not sell USB charger cables because he doesn’t believe in mobile phones.
Don’t blame him. But its not the same thing.
It is as you say a tricky one. My solution would be to bar discrimination in government services, or in very large corporations, but regard the freedom to discriminate as basic liberty in smaller businesses and in private life.
There’s also a problem where public attitudes are intentionally twisted by massive, systematic elite and regime propaganda, such as on pc issues and covid panic.
Quite, GPs are private businesses but they contract to the State and, despite Cameron’s lying promises, patients are allocated to their state GP.
Any in solely private paid for practise should be allowed to discriminate, patients can always go elsewhere.
Depends what you mean by racism. Clearly the natives of St. Kilda, whose feet had developed to be better adapted for the cliff climbing on which islanders depended, were more useful to that island than other races. However, for our church, regarding any part of humanity as intrinsically of less worth, including by virtue of “race”, is morally abhorrent. We have always considered each person to be of ineffable value, though obviously we may disapprove of some things they do.
Since you mention a century of change, it is worth remembering that there were no restrictions on immigration until the Aliens Act of 1905. Winston Churchill said the following about the matter: ‘Future Prime Minister Winston Churchill opposed the bill. He stated that the bill would “appeal to insular prejudice against foreigners, to racial prejudice against Jews, and to labour prejudice against competition” and expressed himself in favour of “the old tolerant and generous practice of free entry and asylum to which this country has so long adhered and from which it has so greatly gained”.’ In fact, I understand that, whilst there has always been “racism”, it got considerably worse after naturalist Charles Darwin published his “favoured races” nonsense.
“Depends what you mean by racism. ”
Yes, obviously.
“However, for our church, regarding any part of humanity as intrinsically of less worth, including by virtue of “race”, is morally abhorrent. We have always considered each person to be of ineffable value, though obviously we may disapprove of some things they do.”
That’s fine, as long as you understand that it is just a particular religious belief. Of course, “racism” does not have to mean holding different races to be of intrinsically less worth, it could just be recognising that there are differences between races (something that is self-evidently true, to all but those who regard ideology as above truth). Apparently it’s “racist” now not to kneel at a football match or to declare that “all lives matter” – people have lost their jobs for that.
“Since you mention a century of change, it is worth remembering that there were no restrictions on immigration until the Aliens Act of 1905. ”
Interesting that for some reason you feel the need to associate race with immigration. Regardless, the reason there were fewer formal impediments to immigration in the past was simply that they were not needed. International travel was difficult, dangerous and rarely undertaken, and settling in a foreign land was fraught with hazard. People did it, for profit or out of dire need, but not usually in any significant numbers, by comparison with today.
As I’ve noted before, immigration is always about the numbers.
” Of course, “racism” does not have to mean holding different races to be if intrinsically less worth, it could just be recognising that there are differences between races (something that is self-evidently true, to all but those who regard ideology as above truth).”
I believe it’s called ethnology. Blimey, you should see the ethnology article in my 1906 encyclopaedia.
The Aliens act was the result of the arrival of large numbers of destitute Jews fleeing poverty and persecution in Russia, many ending up in Stepney.. Of course, any immigration should be properly managed and done with the consent of the settled population. And it does seem wrong that hundreds of people can cross the channel illegally each day, with most staying in Britain, and many never detected, whilst I can not go to France because of my personal medical choices. Right now though, I am rather more concerned about the creeping medical apartheid in Europe and Britain.
My concern here is not really to promote any particular opinions on these topics, but rather to highlight the severe harms that dogmatic antiracism and the other pc dogmas have done and continue to do in this country, and the illiberalism inherent in the current social settlement.
Right, for that we need to define “dogmatic antiracism” and to demonstrate what these “severe harms” are. Certainly, the ghettoisation of a country into different groups which have little to do with each other and little in common can be a recipe for trouble. And we have seen how the forced federation of the Soviet Union ended up. The sort of ideologically driven trouble stirring we saw from the Blair government continues to strike me as a dangerous thing, and their barb against the Conservative party that the BNP vote is lower under a Tory government can be turned around and interpreted as a boast that the BNP vote is higher under a Labour government. To Labour, I suppose, it is seen as a price worth paying, or a sign that they are doing something right. However, I see it as a sign that they have sown discord and resentment, and I don’t see how that can be a good thing. As I’ve said before, it is shameful that their policies resulted in hatred of Polish people where none existed before.
“As I’ve said before, it is shameful that their policies resulted in hatred of Polish people where none existed before.”
Indeed, as I said last time, I agree with you on that (indeed Polish people and culture were widely viewed with respect and affection in Britain in the past). This kind of resentment and division is the likely consequence of mass migration, and it was the unholy alliance between elite profit interests and antiracist ideology that enabled, politically, the Blairite opening of the floodgates.
The problem is perhaps easier to see for you, given your particular beliefs, in relation to the other pc issues (but the same applies, mutatis mutandis, to “racism”).
We are currently seeing the same process occurring with trans ideology as we already experienced with antiracism and promotion of homosexuality more widely, decades ago. It is generating more resistance mostly only because it clashes with another powerful identity lobby, feminism. Note that few if any of the current pontificators about feminists losing their jobs to trans lobby activist activity had anything to say about the treatment of eg Charles Murray, or any of those hounded and “cancelled” by antiracist mobs. Much the same hatred of dissenters and hounding of people as we are seeing on trans issues occurred on the other pc issues, decades ago.
If the trans lobbies succeed as completely as the other lobbies did, then the next generation will regard any slightest criticism of trans ideology much as most today do criticism of antiracism – with visceral unease.
Here’s some ‘racism’ for you. Most of the worlds top track athletes are Black, East African to be specific.
Conversely there are precious few top Black swimmers.
Does it mean people are different? Yes. Does it mean some are worth less than others racially? No.
Yes, that’s a good example of pretty much exactly what I was talking about. Suggestion that the differences in outcome in such areas are even in part genetic in origin have fallen foul of the “racism” taboo. The situation is far worse when it comes to even a whiff of discussion of the possibility of genetic origins of intelligence, where the line between difference and worth is even harder to see. Even a Nobel Prize in genetics is no defence against cancellation for that thought crime.
The problem is that when topics become demonised and taboo-ised in the way the pc topics have been, honest and rational discussion becomes difficult, even almost impossible in many cases, and society is warped. That’s not a bug it’s a feature – the intention of the creators of such taboos is to warp society. But it’s not necessarily a good thing.
Agreed, I’m sure my opening remarks above about Black athletes would get me cancelled from most of academia, or worse, even though both statements are demonstrably correct.
But as the woke get wokier and wokier they will eat themselves into ever smaller in-groups just as the left generally do.
The bottom line is that it becomes impossible to trust establishment science on any areas that have been taboo-ised in this way. Much as the official science relating to covid is twisted by the elite need to push panic, so there is a general promotion of science that follows pc dogma and suppression (both active and passive) of anything that would tend to question it.
Yeah but, StKildans were commies!
Competition between races is a natural process, self-importance & superiority is instinctively self-preservation, discrimination of “outsiders” a survival instinct, the problem with civilization is our unwillingness to accept our primitive lizard brain/survival instincts.
Of course society a.k.a socialism is a survival strategy, socialism a niche to facilitate evolutionary success, but passing on our own genes is what drives our survival, outsiders mean competition for resources and lessen our chances of successfully raising offspring.
StKildans were socialist but ecological overshoot forced them out, being cruel selfish commies they threw their pet dogs off cliffs before they left.
I recall an article written by some lefty libtard commie progressive who had discovered non native fossil remains among Vikings in their Norwegian homeland.
She used this to celebrate the wonderfully vibrant multicultural nature of Viking society which included Celts, Saxons and Slavs.
Stupid **** failed to recognise that these ‘others’ were f*cking Slaves.
Or food LOL
There are numerous examples of adaption to local environments ranging from Nepalese Sherpas tolerance of high altitudes to some Pacific Islanders who can stay underwater for 15 minutes in their search for clams or whatever.
In the latter case if one of them grows up not diving but starts later in adult life he is initially at a disadvantage but his latent adaptive trait soon comes through. ie it is not the result of intensive childhood training.
Evidently Winston liked to change his spots, just as bozo does.
Virtually everything to do with sex and sexuality (I suppose I ought to include ‘gender’ but won’t) is a cultural construct that has varied greatly from place to place and from time to time.
One example is when Julius Caesar came in for criticism after it became known that he had ‘consensual’ sex with pirates who had kidnapped him. Not for the act of sex but that he had taken the ‘submissive’ role.
Folk who insist upon being “Wokier than thou” can carry on as much as they like in their tiny world of ever decreasing a*sholes.
“Prison rules” attitudes are pretty common in human societies. But I tend to regard such allegations against elite figures as pretty suspect. However, the fact that they are seen as serious slurs is sufficient for your point.
“Amanda Pritchard reveals NHS is preparing yearly Covid booster scheme”
This is now beyond insane. Sweden is only 68% vaxxed, mostly over six months ago now so getting down to 0% efficacy, and the country is free, with no lockdowns, mask mandates or school closures. Meanwhile, Gibraltar has 100% vaxxed and 40% Dose 3, and they have a massive surge of infections and are “cancelling” Christmas. Now, the regime in London has said British people will have a booster every year, or else. Each booster increases risk of injury or death.
Enough.
They are in the ‘if it’s going pear-shaped and you can’t cover your a** anymore, double-down’ mode.
Also known as Nero decrees.
Cheer yourself up, read the Daily Mail comments
They know a great deal more than they are supposed to.
We keep hearing more and more bad things about this dodgy vax. Dodgy trials of it, the fact that it doesn’t prevent you from catching or transmitting the coof, more vaxxed than unvaxxed in hospital (so you are classed as unvaxxed until 2 weeks after your last jab to skew the figures), young people dying from sudden heart complaints following the jab, places with high vax rates have high covid rates as well…..I mean, tell me, WTF is going on?
In a sane world, somebody, just somebody, with some authority would say “Hang on a minute, something’s not right here”. But because we don’t live in a sane world any more, nobody does. Any pockets of questioning sanity are swiftly stamped on, labelled “anti vaxxers” or “conspiracy theorists”, portrayed as nutters, selfish, morons.
I am completely at a loss as to how we can stop this juggernaut. I do believe though, that as government after government keeps promoting this madness, the harder it is for them to back down. So they have to keep going, no doubt hoping that something will happen to get them off the hook.
After all, are they going to say “Sorry, we got it all wrong. We’ve locked you down, stolen your liberty, ruined businesses, stopped people from having vital medical treatment, injected you with an odd concoction that the majority of you don’t need, killed off old folk with neglect, given children future heart problems, taken away the jobs of people who wont take our jab…..but hey, let’s not mention that now, eh? Mistakes happen. We’ll forget it if you forgive it, and we can all be pals again, what do you say?”
Something is very, very wrong. Just put the events of the past 2 years under the spotlight of your own common sense, and you just know that this ain’t right, none of it.
For anyone who still harbours good thoughts about the vaccines, which I have taken for reasons other than covid, they need only to look at the much reported case of Gibraltar which is 100% vaccinated yet has just announced the cancellation of Christmas because of the rising number of ‘cases’.
“Germany hits panic button – Merkel to follow Austria and lock down 14 million”
Given the country’s recent history, those 14 million are getting off light.
14 million pissed off Germans will not be something to be taken lightly.
Do they think we’re all retarded? We know the injected can spread just as much virus as the uninjected. We know the injected can be hospitalised at the same rate. They don’t even get a very big advantage as far as death is concerned either. Last time I checked, in the 40s cohort, unvax 2 per 100,000, vax 0.4 per 100,000. Do they not realise we know lockdowns are about punishing people until they submit to constant injections?
They will push people until they start getting nasty. I’m reading more and more online people saying that a life of lockdowns, climate rationing and coerced lethal jabs is not a life worth living, and that they’ll go out fighting. The regime will push Westerners over the edge if it keeps meting out this communist crap.
Yep, the most dangerous animal is the wounded and cornered one, and there’ll be plenty with nothing to lose soon enough. I’ll probably join them, live free or die and all that (incidentally the motto of the US state of New Hampshire, I wonder how freely they’ve been living). However there’s a case to be made that this is part of the ‘plan’, if the plan is destruction and rebuilding. I half think the leaders are chuckling to themselves thinking “jeez what the hell do we have to do to provoke some actual outrage in these docile sheep? Don’t worry about the script for riots and chaos, they’re actually just volunteering for the slavery programme quite freely.”
N.B I’m speculating of course, this is one of the many trains of thought I go down when trying to process what I see unfolding.
bozo must look back at all the opportunities he had during 2020 to call the whole thing off if only it hadn’t been for SAGE, Hancock and later Carrie badgering him.
As a German I may say that Toby made a very apt and appropriate comment in the Express story and thank him for it.
Sadly, he is also quite right on the British danger and abolition of ethics, as can already be seen in Scotland.
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Impoverishing billions of people to create more billionaires. RFK Jr.
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Good post, should be more like this.
Anti_facist please note.
Top link is RFK Junior with the same speech you linked to yesterday on bitchute saying he was banned by y000tube.
Not saying that he won’t get cancelled as soon as they notice. 23k views thus far after 2 days.
“This Pandemic has impoverished the world and created 500 new billionaires”
Brief trip as a day patient to the underwhelmed Secondary hospital yesterday.
No Covid/lockdown signage so the anti smoking
policy was back on display.
‘
This door in, 
that door out
’ bollocks abandoned.
‘
Keep to the left
’ stickers on corridor floors worn and ignored.
No sanitizer at the main Porters Lodge entrance. 1 solitary 6″ token bottle
sat unused at departmental reception.
As with the main hospital the only sign of Covid Calamity was all the staff wearing masks
which now just looks likes medic normal.
During the entire covibollox plandemic I have not once sanitized my hands, worn a mask or respected any signage….. I stopped smoking 25 years ago but when they started banning it everywhere it made me feel like starting again just to break their rules.
I was more interested to note that NHS staff were no longer taking the Covid ‘threat’ seriously on a day to day personal level.
Particularly as a good part of the site is occupied by former working from home bedwetters who instituted these regulations after they went back to work after 3-4 months of Covid during which time front line staff had carried on more or less as normal.
Local online leads with the hotel element of a major city centre development being abandoned. Its location would have been attractive to the business community and visitors to the university rather than holiday makers.
It’s about time these people caught on. It was perfectly obvious over a year ago that the business sector of the hotel trade was never going to be the same again.
Lockdown meant that tens if not hundreds of thousands of businesses people, including the likes of lawyers and those ‘in IT’, no longer needed to go traipsing around the country criss-crossing each other in/over Birmingham and Reading.
Instead they can work remotely, source more work locally or sub it out.
Much the same goes for University visitors though that permanent reduction will have more to do with ever enhanced distance learning, itself much boosted by Covid/lockdown.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/16/nhs-delays-height-pandemic-linked-thousands-extra-non-covid/
Nearly 10,000 more people than usual have died in the past four months from non-Covid reasons, as experts called for an urgent government inquiry into whether the deaths were preventable.
An enquiry? what will that prove? Only how to waste money.
Not a single mention of the element in the room…
Elephant!
Nicola Ceausescu gives passive-aggressive warning of further government domestic abuse as an end in itself which will never end.
There, fixed it.
“a yearly Covid booster vaccine campaign – similar to the annual winter flu jab programme”
But, of course, this is nothing like the rationale for the ‘flu injections.
“Ireland introduces new coronavirus restrictions including midnight hospitality curfew as country battles fourth wave of infections”
Have a look at the data. Ireland has absolutely no problem. This is so f.ing ridiculous.
The critical paper on ‘face masks’ contains this phrase :
“unprecedented events such as the COVID-19 pandemic”
How can you trust evidence as loosely grounded as this?
Re your comment yesterday.
1. You misunderstood my post.
2. I will choose my heroes as I see fit, thank you.
The amount of posted irrelevance from obsessives obsessing about homosexuality is quite concerning in terms of the image of this site.
Oops, did somebody say something you’d prefer was not said again?
Perhaps if you did less worrying about “the image of the site” based on below the line opinions that have nothing to do with the site ownership and management, you’d be less of a dupe for the censors.
“Obsessive” = someone who has a strong opinion about something, that RickH doesn’t like.
… and out he predictably pops from the obsessive box
You’re really a bit thick if you think that.
Mixing in irrelevant obsessions like this immediately devalues the force of the hard evidence about SARS in the perceptions of many who might come across the site. I’m sure 77th Brigade is proud of you.
Comical that you believe your idea of what is “irrelevant” on a site termed “Daily Sceptic” is anything more than just what you want to define as unacceptable for your own personal reasons.
This is not a site exclusively devoted to campaigning on the particular issues RickH is obsessed about.
“out he predictably pops from the obsessive box”
When you make your predictable and regular attempts to exclude issues you think ought not to be discussed here, I am likely to respond, because I have a particular hatred for that kind of attempted control of opinion and expression, which is a plague on our society.
Eventually, presumably, you will grow up and learn to ignore or engage when someone discusses something you want suppressed, or you’ll manage to browbeat the owners into restricting discussion, or you’ll give up and fuck off.
But it’s worth observing also that rather than letting the discussion you hate get buried, you’ve now created more discussion about discussion of it. Well done.
Leave it aht Mark, ‘e ain’t woerf it.
I ain’t afraid of ‘im! I’ll take you all on…
Why do I detect that the people who say they don’t care what people get up to in private, do in fact secretly obsess over the details of what they assume people might be doing and not recognise that these practices are also common in all sexualities (or that some couples have never gone in for any of these practices or have outgrown the urge or need).
It is incompatible for the makers of statements like this to also oppose same sex marriage or withholding any of the other rights that apply to others. Frankly such types are on a par with pedophile hunters in cynically taking the moral high ground whilst vicariously ‘enjoying’ their own sense of normality and superiority.