- “Covid cases among over-70s hit highest ever levels” – Office for National Statistics finds around one in 23 in the age group has the virus – a higher prevalence than at the height of the winter Omicron wave, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers failed to allow Parliament opportunity to scrutinise UK Covid laws” – A cross-party committee of MPs said the Coronavirus Act was passed in an ‘unsatisfactory’ manner, reports the Guardian.
- “N.H. House Approves Bill for Ivermectin ‘Standing Order’ in Pharmacies” – The New Hampshire’s state House approved a bill making ivermectin available by a medical prescribers’ “standing order,” meaning pharmacists will be able to dispense the medication without individual prescriptions, reports TrialSite News.
- “CDC Removes 24% of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others” – The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19 to resolve a “coding logic error”, reports the Epoch Times. El Gato Malo is suspicious.
- “Moderna seeks FDA authorisation for fourth dose of Covid shot” – Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorise a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults, reports the Associated Press.
- “Family of marketing executive, 45, who died of a stroke caused by the AstraZeneca jab say she is ‘dismissed as collateral damage’ as they fight for £120,000 payout” – Nicola Weideling suffered catastrophic bleeds on her brain after being hospitalised with blood clots caused by the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine she received just 24 days before she died, reports the Mail.
- “Wetherspoon’s pub trade returns to near pre-pandemic levels” – Pub giant JD Wetherspoon said sales in the past three weeks have been slightly below pre-pandemic levels as it more than halved its losses amid the continued recovery in trade, the Mail reports.
- “Is China about to abandon Zero Covid? Lockdown is eased in Shenzhen” – China’s southern tech powerhouse Shenzhen has partially eased lockdown measures, after President Xi Jinping stressed the need to “minimise the impact” of Covid on the economy, the Mail reports.
- “Hospital restrictions remain absurd and cruel” – Many NHS sites are still imposing draconian and vindictive policies; children are being separated from parents and dying relatives are being abandoned to a lonely end, says HART.
- “Reports of child deaths in the VAERS” – HART reviews the 28 reports of deaths of children in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System within six weeks of a Covid vaccine, arguing children have all of the risk and none of the benefit of vaccination.
- “How many times must they be told that masks make things worse?” – The evidence has been clear since early on and continues to grow that masks are hazardous to health, writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “How Volatile Is Offshore Wind?” – It is commonly claimed that the wind is much more constant and reliable in the North Sea and around Britain’s coasts than it is inland – but it’s not true, says Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “Net Zero? Let the people decide” – If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that the Government following ‘the Science’ cannot be relied upon on to tell the whole truth on Net Zero any more than it did on Covid, writes Chris Davies in Bournbrook.
- “Cut speed limits and introduce car free Sundays to beat Putin oil shock, says IEA” – The International Energy Agency has called for radical measures not seen since the 1970s crisis to cope with the fall in supply, reports the Telegraph.
- “Going full ‘Extinction Rebellion’ will not defeat Vladimir Putin” – Don’t cut speed limits to beat the Russian despot, just drill for more oil, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Tony Sewell: ‘I was cancelled for my race report – but now I feel completely vindicated’” – The man who concluded that Britain is not racist describes his anger at vocal critics who seemingly took offence without reading his words, the Telegraph reports.
- “This is the end of free speech online” – The U.K.’s Online Safety Bill is an authoritarian nightmare, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Lia Thomas’s victory is a defeat for women’s sport” – There is nothing fair or inclusive about allowing a male-bodied athlete to compete against women, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
- “Boris can’t ignore the culture wars forever” – The PM has a plan to deal with racial inequality – but will he go through with it, asks Henry Hill in UnHerd.
- “Equalities Minister says children should not be forced to take knee” – Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is “absolutely terrifying” as she branded critical race theory “morally wrong” and insisted traditional values should not be thrown away, reports the Mail.
- “Why it was a mistake for Ofcom to remove Russia Today” – In conflicts, there is always a temptation to mirror the tactics of one’s opponents – which is why it’s depressing to see Ofcom do so by taking Russia Today (RT) off air, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/pact-future-planetary-technocracy-global-crises-global-corporatocracy/5864483
I posted this earlier in the News Roundup. A long article but it does provide a wealth of information on what Global Government is all about.
It’s the biggest risk we face by far because by its very nature it is not accountable to anyone- they can’t be thrown out. That’s obviously the appeal to these people- that and the God complex. If you were a politician or “leader” of some kind you’d quite fancy a succession of well paid sinecures that the voters couldn’t sack you from
… and worse, there will be a one size fits policy throughout the world, so no way to compare and contrast other ways of doing things nor judge how well we are doing. It will be a dictatorship of do as we say or else.
Yes the point about comparisons is an excellent one
It’s a question of value to us. While there are obvious, and less obvious, benefits from a degree of global standards, excessive enforcement of them can be inimical to the concept of innovation and ensuing benefits.
I do not believe you fully understand the grotesque, wholly encompassing nature of the Totalitarian endeavour. It is not a world we would want to live in. Think 1984 plus worst nightmare. On steroids.
I don’t want global standards. I want accountability. I want to be able to sack who it is that governs me, and cause to be sacked people working for an organisation I fund if they don’t deliver what I am paying for. Anyway, do you seriously think that the people who are pushing world government are concerned with “benefits” from “global standards”?
Quite. I think some people are still making their way to what’s it’s all about though. And once you get there it’s such a brain-f*ck that the easiest thing to do is to reject it as plausible.
Wow, you’re clearly just not getting it
The idea of global governance is to force all nations to work cooperatively and in unison, as expressed by institutions such as the UN or EU. But such wishful thinking does not really materialize, as typified by exactly these institutions.
Governments, whether global or national, are run by politicians. Politicians are people who strive for recognition, live for publicity, fight for leadership, and are driven by a need to exert power and decide over others – in other words, in general, the worst of society!
My father used to say the best Prime Minister would be the one that had to be dragged screaming into office. A successful businessman will prefer to continue in business. Anyone enjoying a satisfying profession will prefer to remain in that profession. Nobody ‘in their right mind’ wants to become a politician.
Clearly, there are politicians whose ideals are to serve and better society – Andrew Bridgen comes to mind – but there is a clear danger that a majority, especially if unsuccessful in their chosen career, may wish to serve and promote some contemporary ideology, particularly if convinced the population is too ignorant to recognize the ideology’s supposed importance.
Thus large populations can easily be coerced to succumb to ideals which little interest, let alone benefit them: globalism, uncontrolled immigration, DEI, climate change, forced medical interventions, commercial sanctions, wars.
In my opinion, we need a better selection process for politicians if we wish to achieve better governments.
I think we also people to be a lot more cynical about politicians, and to expect a lot less from the state in return for the state getting out of our lives as much as possible.
Absolutely. The head of Germany’s Foreign Office (and leader of the Green Party) is famous for once saying that peace negotiations with Putin were unthinkable as long as he did not change his course by 360°, which had the Russians rolling in the aisles (she obviously meant 180°). It was not a slip of the tongue since she repeated 360° twice more. How can Germany’s chief diplomat and leader of the country’s foreign policy be so lacking in basic education?
“The Covid lockdowns are of course the paradigmatic example of this [very foolish public policy]”. How myopic! Covid was a cruelly-calculated, globally-coordinated hoax, a “plandemic, clearly judged such by Reiner Fuellmich and his large team of experts in their 2022 model trial on Covid-19 Crimes Against Humanity, see https://metatron.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmichs-grand-jury-court.
The alleged global threats to humanity asserted by the globalist establishment are not real threats at all, they are confected threats with the ulterior purpose of wrecking western economies and forcing the people into serfdom via digital straitjackets.
The main threat to this country is the United Nations which is at the centre of all our oppressions, be it the climate change hoax via its subsidiary IPCC, fake “plandemics” via its subsidiary WHO and mass immigration via its subsidiary IOM. We need to talk about withdrawing from the UN and all its evil works.
Our current situation is, let us not forget, a continuation of the C1984 Scamdemic within Agenda 2030, and in this country we are now being pushed very aggressively towards complete societal breakdown and civil war.
If those Deagell forecasts are right…Christ!
To paraphrase a 20th century revolutionary: Who will free us from government?
The bricolage of the functioning of government-as-activity being like the strands of subterranean micro fungi that link every tree in a forest to every other.
Have the globalists considered that there might be a religion that still conceives of the world in spiritual terms? One that has, in some expressions at least, an ambiguous view of the ‘laws of kings’.
Our government is working for Satan.
Great Article———-But who gets to choose this Global Government? —-The answer is NO ONE. It is a Technocratic Coup by the Liberal Progressive (Communist) blob. Capitalism that brought prosperity to half the world is to be replaced by Marxism with the Technocrats in total control of all the wealth and resources.
Are the capitalists – who want us to be slavish consumers – and the marxist technocrats – who want a minimal slave population to do their dirty work – truly aligned? Surely the conflict between the desire for consumers and the desire to preserve the planet for themselves is something we can exploit.
Good point. I would though argue that we haven’t had experienced genuine capitalism for a while now. We appear to live in an age of corporatism rather than capitalism.
Government-as-activity that spans the globe is akin to the pantheistic idea of the spirit of God as the sole force that animates everything.
Any news on how the WHO plan to choreograph a monkeypox scare into the US elections? Or is a new Covid variant ready for release?
The Monkeypox scare got laughed out of court. They’re now working on Bird Flu.
We used to have Government by consent; that is what democracy and the peaceful transition of power represented. We used to have policing by consent.
Now we have neither.
We effectively live in a Dictatorship of detached and self-selecting Elite, both Globalist and National. And the only way they can retain control is to operate a Police State. That is what we are becoming.
We are already in a Police State. Harry Miller is clear on this and I have a lot of respect for his focus on that topic. See his recent interview on the Together channel:
https://www.youtube.com/live/CIQabx8oO8Q
You just need to read H.G.Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, to understand what’s going on.
It’s all there: technocratic government by “experts”, control of population through pandemics, elimination of national identities and religions, and a limit on the global population to 1 or 2 billion.
It even mentions the year 2030.
When you read around the literature, it’s very interesting to see how often this date pops up. As well as being baked in to the UN’s Agenda2030, it was mentioned by Keynes, and just the other day, by Elon Musk:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1820799076310352124
The big irony is that with Wells it’s never entirely clear whether he was writing a blueprint, a warning, or a satire, or actually all three at the same time.
Definitely another way to bypass democratic systems of government.
Just as we have seen with all the woke and DEI nonsense which none of us voted for.
Excellent article – thank you.
When Michel Foucault describes the emergence of the state in early modernity as being, in essence, an epistemological or metaphysical phenomenon, is he referring to a postmodern or a rational epistemology? Given his status as a leading postmodernist, I guess the former, in which case, given that ideology’s disdain for logic and evidence, and for reality and reason, we should be wary of his analysis, to say the least.