- “Face mask law ends in Scotland: Coverings are no longer needed” – People no longer have to wear face masks on public transport or in most indoor public spaces in Scotland, MailOnline reports
- “New Zealand PM Goes on First Post-Covid Overseas Trip to Promote Tourism” – Jacinda Ardern has embarked on a six-day trade mission to Singapore and Japan to promote New Zealand tourism and education, reports the Epoch Times
- “I don’t care about partygate. It’s time for a lockdown amnesty” – “I’m grateful to Boris for inadvertently making such a mockery of lockdown,” writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph. “I trust we will never run this experiment again”
- “Fewer than Half of People in parts of England have a Covid vaccine” – MailOnline examines officials statistics to find the areas with lowest jab take-up rates
- “We have rewritten history and reimagined the rules to be more draconian than they actually were” – If we are to have any consistency in how rules are being retrospectively enforced, surely the First Minister of Scotland must now be fined too, writes Tom Harwood for GB News
- “Stop working from home, Civil Service to be told” – Ministers are under orders to get staff back into offices, the Telegraph reports, with workers who refuse to do so accused of failing to pull their weight
- “Brits cancelled more than 1.5M subscriptions in first three months of 2022” – The U.K.’s great streaming boom is officially over, MailOnline says, as households unsubscribe
- “Global Covid deaths now at lowest point since pandemic took off” – The seven-day average number of Covid fatalities worldwide was 2,813 on Sunday, according to MailOnline, the lowest since March 28th, 2020, when it was 2,735.
- “Here’s Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden” – “It was easy to understand why so many were reluctant to face the numbers from Sweden,” writs Johan Anderberg for the Brownstone Institute. “For the inevitable conclusion must be that millions of people had been denied their freedom… for nothing”
- “COVID-19: Lukashenko unveils Belarus-made Sputnik Light vaccine” – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Health Minister Dmitry Pinevich have unveiled a new Belarusian-made Russian COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Jerusalem Post
- “The horror of the new Chinese lockdown” – Karen Harradine reports on the human rights abuses taking place in locked-down Shanghai for the Conservative Woman
- “Florida judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes, other travel” – A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials, the Associated Press reports
- “Hopeless airlines cannot take us all for fools forever” – The Telegraph’s Lucy Burton takes aim at the airlines who have “completely failed to plan for a recovery in demand”
- “If Churchill falls, woke warriors can force anything” – The Left’s woke warriors target Winston Churchill because bringing him down would show they can do anything, writes Douglas Murray in the Daily Mail
- “Do we really need a GCSE focused on saving the planet?” – Writing for the Spectator, Ross Clark worries that the new GCSE in natural history may turn out to be “yet another fashionable, soft subject which is designed to indoctrinate rather than educate”
- “Government might scrap green levy that adds £153 to average energy bill” – A green energy levy that adds £153 to the average energy bill could be scrapped to ease the cost of living crisis, the Telegraph has learned.
- “Climate cowards and apocalypse peddlers” – Ben Beattie pours scorn on uncritical followers of the approved narrative in discussions about the changing climate in Spectator Australia
- “Immigration and Musk’s Infiltration” – Michael Curzon and S.D. Wickett discuss the Government’s recent immigration plan, as well as Elon Musk’s attempted takeover of Twitter in the latest edition of the Week in Review by Bournbrook
- “The Panic Reveals So Much: Elon Musk, Twitter, and the Digital…” – “The proposed buyout of Twitter – targeting the curated reality of the powerful – pushed the aggressively anti-free-expression agenda out into the light,” writes Laura Williams for the AIER
- “Modern feminism is ‘racist’ and only focuses on ‘straight, white, middle-class women’” – The Telegraph reports that Highgate School – which counts poet T.S. Eliot and one of Boris Johnson’s daughters among its former students – has been criticised for lecturing pupils on sexism against trans people rather than focusing on abuse claims by female students
- “When ‘white’ becomes an epithet” – “Conservatives must rebut the equation between whiteness and evil,” writes Heather Mac Donald in Spectator World
- “Diversity advocates mistakenly accuse black DJ of wearing blackface” – Two Arizona diversity advocates labelled a local school district racist for hiring a DJ to perform wearing blackface, the Washington Examiner reports. It turned out the guy was actually black
- “Dorsey Rips Twitter Board for ‘Dysfunction’ After Musk Accuses It of Failing to Represent Shareholders” – Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has attacked the board of Twitter, the Epoch Times reports
- “We’re ready to make Britain the safest place for children online” – Nadine Dorries and Rachel de Souza make the case for the new Online Safety Bill in the Telegraph
- “Net zero will be new Brexit for Tories, says Richard Tice” – Reform U.K. leader says Conservatives face ‘seismic crisis’ because of soaring bills and it plans to exploit anti-Conservative dissatisfaction at local elections, the Telegraph says
- “Barrister FrancisHoar joins party leader Lawrence Fox to dissect the new Online Safety Bill” – Francis Hoar highlights the free speech implications of the Online Safety Bill with the head of the Reclaim Party
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Empire of Lies
Sitrep: Operation Z
A useful update for the gullible many in the satrapies of the aforementioned Empire, especially Airstrip One, who’ve been swallowing all the nonsense about “Russian military failure”, “Russians about to run out of missiles”, etc, on top of all the obvious jingoist propaganda they fell for in the first few days (Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island etc) and the transparently manipulative “Russian atrocity” black propaganda they get all lathered up about. And my personal favourite, the Spectator’s military “expert”, professor of war studies at Kings College London, on March 14th:
“I’m gonna call this: I think the Russian armed forces are going to collapse, followed by Putin leaving power…..”
https://youtu.be/X-y_g1CSkdc
So, contrary to Dr Mike Martin’s patent wish-fulfillment fantasy (identified as such at the time by those of us less vulnerable to believing our own side’s Official Truth fantasies instead of observing reality), Putin is more secure than ever, with the Russian people far more strongly behind him and behind the war than ever, and most of the criticism in Russia coming from those who think he’s too soft, the Russians have basically destroyed the Ukrainian military as a modern, mobile force and are now proceeding to grind the static and largely helpless Ukrainian military into chum, and it’s beginning to dawn even on people in the US sphere that their elites have dumped them into an aggressive and entirely needless confrontation that is going to cost them dear, on top of all the covid panic economic chickens now coming home to roost.
Never mind “Putin leaving power”, I wouldn’t want to be in the position of the incumbents in the Empire of Lies over the next couple of years. Things are going to get very nasty indeed in many places, and that’s even assuming the gullibles don’t let the US/EU neocons drag us into a nuclear exchange.
Wars are not won by violence. They are won by starvation.
Cut supply lines, and that what Putin is doing, and Ukraine will surrender.
There are some in the West and elsewhere who would love to see a Russian attack, or an attack that could be pinned on Russia, on a position say 1 kilometre across the border into Poland or at some other point in the supply of lethal weapons to the Kiev government’s forces from the territory of a NATO member.
Without a doubt.
Articles 1 and 5 of the NATO treaty would make a response rather difficult to co-ordinate – especially as the ‘attack’ is likely to be a NATIO ‘False Flag’ operation.
Meanwhile the real victors are cashing in.
Just last year one of the ecomilitary complex gangsters in America got 35 Billion (Us billion) in arms contracts.
That was just one of about 20.
War is big business – really big.
I wonder who is making it big from the Westminster Buffoons Boris intervention?
They’ll all have their fingers in defence companies, or a ‘distant’ relative will.
Defence companies are also heavily invested in Big Pharma- so it’s win win for them!
Eisenhower, on leaving the Presidency, warned of the Industrial Military Complex threatening US democracy and J.F. Kennedy spoke of the alarming power and growth of “Secret Societies” undermining US democratic Institutions … not long before he was assassinated.
So we are where we are.
Yes, Putin is inflicting a second Holodomor
Kind of the opposite. An attack focussed as much as possible (within the constraints of modern warfare) on the military forces of the Ukraine, while (in stark contrast to UK/US military practice) leaving the civilian infrastructure as intact as possible. Only relatively late in the campaign, in the face of shamelessly open direct military assistance from the US sphere, did Russia begin to seriously target transport infrastructure.
The refusal of the Ukrainian politicians, under pressure from oligarchs, political fanatics and foreigners, to face up to military reality and come to terms is the only reason the suffering is continuing and escalating. And the only question in this regard is how much of the Ukraine’s military and how much of its future well-being will be thrown away, before the leaders are forced to come to the terms they eventually will have to face up to. The longer they hold out, the worse those terms will be for the Ukraine.
Which is what happens when the rulers answer to goals that are not the national good.
Indeed, I recall when the moral, upstanding Alliance of Goodies went into Iraq, the first thing we targeted were the power plants, and thus, the civilian population.
In Serbia, iirc, NATO started out pretending they would only target military targets, but as they got progressively more desperate at the Serbians’ refusal to kowtow, they targeted more and more “dual use” facilities, which apparently included the power stations..
Is this why Serbians are so bitter at being cast as the villains of the piece in this conflict, or was there more to it? And why did they suddenly decide to start bombarding Dubrovnik anyway?
The Serbs were in the middle of a huge ethnic war triggered by the collapse of the Yugoslavian state. They are bitter at being cast as the villains because that was intentionally done in order to manufacture consent for intervention against them.
I seem to remember that Britain are seen as the heroes in Kosovo, though whether it was a mistake in the long run to back the breakaway Turkish vilayet I don’t know.
When you pick a side in a fight you will always be the hero to the side you back, obviously (assuming,at least, that you win).
My impression at the time was that the Serbs were the victims in Kosovo, of the theft of a province via migration, unequal reproduction rates and obnoxious islamic violent criminality. When they tried to crack down on the criminality and lawlessness, it was painted as “genocide”.
Kind of a reversal of roles from the Ukraine, with the common factor being external interference by the US sphere – in the Ukraine promoting repression and in Kosovo promoting secessionists.
In the time of my 1906 encyclopaedia, there were more Christians there than Muslims. The region, I understand, is of considerable cultural significance to Serbians. I can imagine London ending up the same way in future years.
Yorkshire too.
Serbia has been a Russian ally since WW1.
Russia went to war for Serbia in 1914.
I doubt whether Ukraine has any genuine leaders who are allowed to make decisions for the good of their people. They are neocon puppets and will destroy Ukraine at the behest of US/NATO
I think you are right.
Zelensky is not in charge of Ukraine – the CIA are!
Agreed, I should have scrolled down a bit and replied here. For all the talks of atrocities, Putin hasn’t even cut off the oil and gas to Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting all-out, bragging about putting its young women on the front line, while Putin still has one hand behind his back.
But there’s a difference between cutting military supply lines (what Putin is doing), and starvation warfare aimed strategically at the entire population, which is a mode of warfare pioneered especially by our own governments, in WW1 and WW2 especially, and reflected in the “US way of war” involving massive targeting of civilian infrastructure from the start.
As former US marine Scott Ritter noted recently and I posted here:
“[The Russians] said up front: we don’t want to harm your civilian infrastructure. But the longer this war goes on, the more Russia has to target the civilian infrastructure.
If this was the United States, do you really think that the refinery that the Russians hit the other night…would have lasted nearly a month into the war? No, it would have been blown up on day one. Do you think that the train network that has allowed Ukrainian refugees to flee from Kharkhov and eastern Ukraine to Lvov and to Poland, that that train network would have been left intact? Nope! It would have been blown up on day one. You think there’d be a bridge in Ukraine today standing? No. They would have all blown up. That’s what we do. That’s what I did.
I looked at a target and we looked at the strategic importance of everything, and we killed it all. We blew it all up. You want military industry? It was all blown up. Civil industry? We called that “dual capable” by the way, because if you could produce a car you could produce a tank. We’d blow that up too. We would have take it all out.
The Russians didn’t do this. They didn’t do this until now. So the longer this war goes on, the more Russia’s going to be compelled to destroy that which Ukraine will need to reconstitute itself once this war is over. And the blame is solely on the Ukrainian government.”
https://youtu.be/SN7o-ThhFfY?t=331
The consequence of the Ukrainian regime’s fanatical refusal to face up to military reality and the active US sphere intervention has been that the Russians have had to shift to more destructive forms of warfare, closer to what the US sphere would have been using from the start..
Destroying the Ukraine by proxy is OK by the EU and NATO – fat contracts to rebuild on the way!
“Build Back Better” Schwab style in fact!
However the situation is dynamic and the Russians could well change their plans if NATO makes clear it is prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian conscript just so long as Russians are being killed.
The Russians will not allow this.
The US and Nato will not allow the Ukraine to surrender or accept a peace deal – they want chaos and endless war Syria style – surely this is obvious, as Johnson pours weapons into the country at our expense ?
The Russians must have collected a fine selection of NATO weapons by now,many,(but not all), rather old of course! They have destroyed many more on arrival!
Germany has refused to send in more heavy weapons to keep the war going – as has Hungary.
The gross ineptitude of the “Empire of Lies” is the greatest cautionary tale I can imagine with regard to the problems of dishonesty and misrepresentation.
Deceiving others dumbs people down. They learn disrespect for their opposition and develop absurdly inflated views of their own capacities.
As I understand it, the capacity of the Ukrainian state to wage war has been virtually destroyed. All they have left is propaganda and a Western media zealously fighting a war of words which is becoming less and less convincing.
My concern is that, in defeat, the US (and whomever it can dragoon into following it) will become hysterical. I see no calm capacity for rational decision-making (except perhaps at the Pentagon, where some at least seem to be shaking their heads).
Indeed. The neocons who set the propaganda an the policies for the US and UK in particular are renowned bad losers and strategic incompetents.
Not a good combination when nuclear weapons are the ultimate bad outcome.
Johnson has been stooged by the US Deep State yet again over his absurdist Ukraine stance- he really does want to be on the wrong side of history in all things !
Totally agree -“melt down USA” is upon us!
How do you see the position in the Donbas developing over the next month?
Putin will be 70 this year and he has been in power for 22 years, counting the time when he did an “Ivan Grozny 1575 shuffle” with Medvedev, and it seems unlikely he will run for re-election in 2024. Agreed that Mike Martin’s prediction of a collapse of the Russian armed forces is ridiculous. Presumably that’s what some ears that listen to him want to hear. King’s College London disgraces itself yet again.
Indeed, the question of who will replace Putin is fascinating. How do you peacefully replace a despot[*], without going through the usual revolution?
Either he will hand pick a weaker successor, or he’ll be ice-picked by a stronger one.
[*] A popular despot, and one who’s been pushed into his latest actions, but it’s not like he’s permitted a vibrant and thriving political opposition.
(For that matter, it’s not as if we’ve had real democracy in the UK).
“Either he will hand pick a weaker successor, or he’ll be ice-picked by a stronger one.“
Or he might pick, or allow, a strong enough one. After a great leader (which I think it is reasonable to describe Putin as, from the Russian national perspective), there’s always likely to be a return to the mean.
A big part of the problem is allowing for secure retirement. The US sphere has tended to destroy options for secure retirement, which has compelled our strongman enemies to remain in power for self-preservation.
So where is our” vibrant and thriving political opposition” can one dare to ask?
“How do you see the position in the Donbas developing over the next month?“
So many complexities in terms of what the various actors might do, it’s hard to see any clear predictions with any real confidence.
Unless something dramatic changes, it seems to me we’ll watch the Russians progressively grind their way through the Ukrainian military.
Evert heard of the Russian steam-roller – much feared by the German Army in 1914?
Unfortunately for the Ukraine, Zelensky is not Hindenburg.
The Russian Armed Forces will emerge from this conflict stronger than at any time since the fall of the USSR and with many hours of battle experience.
Their prestige in Russia will be massively enhanced and their modernisation continued and weapon stocks replenished on request!
They will be seen as defenders of the Motherland and Russian speakers with a status not seen since May 1945.
Some more of that ‘Russia is skrooed’ stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ami89OmwvcQ
Desperate delusion or denial.
“McCaffrey says “there’s zero chance of Russia effectively threatening the rest of NATO.””
Well yes. that’s why you were being told for decades that you need to woo Russia as an ally against China rather than pretending it’s a huge threat and trying to crush it
I’ve not been swallowing a word of it. The Saker’s a great source.
He is a good source, and he makes a lot of good points. A little gushingly over-enthusiastic about Russia and things Russian, but in that he’s a useful counterbalance to all the anti-Russian propaganda that we are suffused in.
A bit of caution needed with his flightier flights of fancy though, imo.
That’s exactly my reading. He is rather gung-ho and hopelessly partisan but I don’t really care!
Uptick for “satrapies”.
You can tell exactly how worried Putin is about progress in Ukraine by noting that he’s still supplying them with gas and oil.
For all that he’s losing obsolete equipment and a some conscripts, they’re not actually avatars of him, and this causes him no more discomfort than trimming his toenails.
The human suffering is a tragedy. But that’s rather the point – Putin is signalling that’s an acceptable cost to push tanks and missiles back from Russia’s borders.
This is no more than he’s been saying for decades in response to NATO encroachment and aggression. It’s not like we weren’t warned, repeatedly.
I’ll go back to Georgia. Around the time of that invasion, it was reported that Russia was handing out passports to anyone in the Crimea who wanted them. At the time, I thought “surely they won’t invade the Ukraine?”. But after the coup in Kiev and the EU’s provocation, it became clear they would, and there has been war in the Donbass (though not so much in the Crimea) since that time, barely mentioned for the most part in the msm. I’d like to know what and if our government have been thinking over that time. Plenty that could have been done if they’d put their mind to it. As you say, Russia made their position clear enough. We could have done something different from the zero carbon/buy gas from Russia whilst banning shale gas nonsense for a start.
As I understand it ,the Russians have gone fairly quiet and launched their “Big Push offensive” with the heavy stuff.
The objective is to re-unite the Donbas Russian speaking region and clear out the Ukrainian Nationalist units altogether.
This is a slightly uncomfortable one, as it’s an interview of a military prisoner, with all the possibilities that entails for coercion, propaganda etc. Tbh I wouldn’t have posted it except that the prisoner states that he specifically asked for the particular web journalist, Graham Phillips, to interview him, and that seems plausible (“a Brit and a fellow Nottingham lad”). And it does contain a lot of truth, that directly counters the warmongering lines we’ve been fed with by the UK mainstream media and by the professional liars of our political class.
Exclusive Interview – Aiden Aslin – British Man Fighting for Ukraine, Captured in Donbass, Mariupol
As Phillips states in the interview, there’s every possibility if he does get released that Aslin will deny everything that he said here, claim that he was coerced, etc. But bearing in mind he was only captured last week, he doesn’t look like someone who has been beaten and abused, as the mainstream media propaganda liars claimed.
Fwiw, I’m not a huge fan of Graham Phillips as a journalist, although he has produced some good stuff on the aggression against Serbia – too obviously politically and nationally partisan. I much prefer Patrick Lancaster as a witness.
Here, Lancaster encounters an apparently drunk and cantankerous old fellow on the corpse-strewn streets of Mariupol, who says the kinds of things about the Ukrainian regime that I’d probably say if interviewed about my own country’s government. In vino veritas:
Mariupol Road Of Death “Ilicha” (EXTREMELY GRAPHIC 18+)
(For those who might find the “Extremely Graphic” warning worrying, it’s only a reference to there being dead bodies around. Although the guy’s language is quite colourful, albeit in Russian)
So I pay taxes to the British government for them to help out British citizens who have volunteered to fight in foreign armies and who have been captured by other foreign armies who, as far as we know, are not mistreating them? Why can’t the Ukrainian government help out this a*sehole? Don’t they have a structure for seeking to help their prisoners of war? Surely Aslin can use that. Or maybe he wants better treatment than his comrades in arms? Or perhaps of course he has been a British soldier all along.
PS Journalists all look the same to me.
I really need to scroll down before responding today.
Yes, that’s exactly why the Foreign Enlistment Act exists, to try and stop the UK getting dragged into other people’s wars via our citizenry.
You pay taxes to the “British” government to do a lot worse than that…..
(Don’t I know it, the murdering villains).
Here, Lancaster encounters an apparently drunk and cantankerous old fellow on the corpse-strewn streets of Mariupol, who says the kinds of things about the Ukrainian regime that I’d probably say if interviewed about my own country’s government.
He may simply have had enough. He’s been observing a form of horror for eight years; and now has the air of a man who suspected that it would always come to this.
Pretty clear he was always strongly opposed to the Ukrainian nationalist regime. That, I think, was true for most in the southern and eastern “autonomist” regions.
My suspicion is we will see more de facto and de jure secessions, outside of Crimea and Donbass, as a result of this war.
Mr Aslin wants war criminals to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
I trust that he’ll apply that to himself, given that he’s breached sections 4 and 5 of the Foreign Enlistment Act. Truss creaming herself to incite
usefuluseless idiots like himself from signing up is not a defence – it just makes her an accessory.So we’re clear, that law exists in part to prevent exactly this situation: the UK getting dragged into foreign wars via its citizenry.
I’m not that familiar with the particulars of that law. Would it apply to someone already enlisted in a foreign military when the war begins? It’s not like you can usually just leave a military in wartime.
Does make me wonder if that’s why he’s so keen to emphasise that he refused to fight and told his officers he wanted to leave when the war started – possibly teeing up a defence to charges under that Act.
Not sure how all this will match up to his social media posts prior to the end.
Aslin is not a military prisoner, he’s a mercenary. Huge legal difference and one that, unfortunately condemns him.
He has form though, mercing in both Iraq and Syria.
He’s a military prisoner, using the term in a broad, and non-technical sense.
As to what he counts as in terms of the Geneva Conventions, I’ll leave that to his lawyers and the Russian authorities.
Almost half of women who gave birth in Dec 2021 had avoided “vaccination” against SARSCoV2. The figure for black women who gave birth around the same time was about three-quarters. Clearly there is a much higher prevalence of good sense among pregnant women, and among black pregnant women in particular, than there is in the population as a whole.
They were also told at the beginning of the campaign to avoid it by the government. Perhaps pregnant women, or young women generally, simply have good memories.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/18/19milllion-unvaccinated-31million-not-boosted-england/
Going off the ITV daily tracker (which doesn’t seem to be updated anymore) and Worldometer population statistics, I made it about 15 milllion who hadn’t had a dose in the UK. Still, I suppose ITV could have miscounted it (or there could be over 70 million people in the UK, I don’t know how accurate the official guess is).
85m is the figure; 600,000 “new Britons” per year since 2011, most of breeding age. If they only produce two kids per couple, which is on the low side, that becomes 12m extra. It will be closer to 15-18m in just over ten years.
I don’t know where you live but every spare piece of ground where I am they are building housing. Plus long before the pandemic response you couldn’t easily get GP appointments. A local catholic school with 2500 pupils has exactly 14 white kids (the rest aren’t Catholics, if you know what I mean). And on and on. We are sleepwalking into a cultural nightmare.
2.1 children per couple is considered the level required to sustain a population. Currently the fertility rate in the UK is around 1.8.
From memory Spain is around 1.6 and the rest of Europe somewhere in between. Japan has a real problem with the demographic time bomb, at 1.4.
But the solution should not be to replace us which is what is happening. We can explore other options, including lowering taxes for couples and families as the Hungarians are trying.
The constant fear propaganda doesn’t help. Apparently the lockdowns and all that time at home didn’t produce an explosion in babies.
We desperately need pro-natalist policies (and possibly a change of mentality, as Peking is finding out), but tptb appear to be quite happy for us to effectively outsource child rearing.
It is because they can reduce labour (work) costs this way. An influx of cheap immigrants undercuts the value of labour.
The intention is also to UNDERCUT our society. Bastards.
Also important is the cost of housing. How many couples put off / avoid having kids because they are in insecure rented accommodation (Assured Shorthold Tenancies are designed only to ‘assure’ that the landlord holds all of the cards), and cannot afford to buy anywhere?
This country needs to get back to seeing housing as somewhere to live, not a vehicle for enrichment, rent-seeking and parasitisim. The big issue is that loads of MPs (of all parties) are into the buy-to-let game, so it’s not in their interests to reform any of it.
Tax on unearned income would of course address it. If taxes on productive work were lowered, and those on rent-seeking like this increased significantly, it would benefit society considerably.
One of my big grumbles is the ever increasing cost of houssing since the 1980’s, apparently a ponzy scheme to convince home owners that they are getting richer as the value of their home is increasing.
I would add that savings should absolutely not be taxed. There is far too much debt and we should be encouraging people to save, rather than making it virtually impossible to get a return on one’s savings (unless you buy land, hence the housing situation).
Meanwhile, the demon in human form Tony Blair is demanding that even more young people rack up crippling university debts in return for worthless degrees.
What does he imagine that will do to birth rates? I think he knows very well.
He was responsible for the fees as well.
As I’ve said before, Austria, one of the few places to measure this, has a rate of about 1.0 for every atheist couple. And ironically, Taiwan’s rate isn’t very different to the CPR’s, despite the lack of coercion.
I should add that China’s working age population is already decreasing, and I see this causing them serious problems.
A thought experiment.
If the Mandarin Empire wanted to cull its aged and infirm, while professing to be “safeguarding” them, what policy could it enact to have them starve to death, alone and unseen?
Some sort of virus perhaps? Like we are seeing in Shanghai?
I knew China would lash out when their economic and demographic problems started to bite. Perhaps you’re onto something.
Oh, it’s worse. 1.58 in England and Wales in 2020, and a sporran-shrivelling 1.29 in Scotland.
Then look at who is having children, and consider that we’re comparing a fairly well known number of births against fantasy population figures – the real fertility rate is likely to lower when you count invisible illegals.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/wales-england-office-for-national-statistics-romania-pakistan-b960547.html
I’ve long assumed that the lower Scottish birth rate is because there is a lower percentage of ethnic minorities, rather than because of (ethnic) Scots doing anything very different to (ethnic) English.
The thing I particularly noticed about the 2011 census (apart from the Asian population rising from 2% to 5% (I think)) was that the white British population decreased. Admittedly part of this will be due to mixed ethnicity relationships. Still, I would imagine the birth rate is well below replacement level. I wonder how close that supermarket estimate of the population based on food sales (or any other estimate for that matter) really was?
My own estimate is about 85m. I predict whites will become a minority in the UK by 2040.
The bigger strategic question is will Muslims become a majority, or at least become the most significant part of the 18-30 age group (i.e. men of fighting age). I understand the theory is that their birth rate will eventually go down, the same as our has.
Going way off topic to brighten your morning with some pure Western Australian genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gK7BgqCFKo
“Fewer than Half of People in parts of England have a Covid vaccine” – MailOnline
Big up to Harehills, Leeds, with your 38% vaccine take up. Clearly one of the most least stupid places in Britain
The Mail are implying that it is because they are crime ridden. Still, my impression has been that Yorkshire has been more sensible through this shambles than many parts of the country. Remember the scenes when Leeds United f.c. got promoted?
You obviosly didn’t have the misfortune to use Leeds station during the lockdowns. I did quite a bit (most of the work trips I needed to make involved changing there). Moronic one-way system which entailed a tour of most of the station to get between some platforms. All waiting rooms locked (and the station is a freezing wind tunnel in winter). In the main concourse, most of the shops were shut and they’d removed most of the benches so there were hardly any places to sit. Plod hanging about but didn’t seem to hassle anyone (unlike York station, where I got ambushed by three of them one day because I wasn’t wearing a muzzle – they did back off when I said I was exempt).
I can certainly believe it. But the actual people, certainly outside the big cities (although apparently in certain areas of Leeds too!) are, I think, a bit different. Actually, when I went to Wales, there was a big difference between the touristy North Coast and inland places away from the tourist trail.
Lots of virtue-signalling in the places were it would mostly be expected! Certainly the islington-ish bits of York were bad for it, Harrogate, probably parts of Leeds. Were some unexpected pockets of resistance though – the very affluent town of Ilkley had loads of anti-lockdown, anti-mask, etc, stickers plastered about. Jobsworth signs put up by the council were evidently a particular target and got plastered with them!
Sooooooo much virtue signalling in Ilkley. There’s a Climate Emergency market almost every weekend. It’s ripe for mockery and occasional vandalism!
Yes uptake has been comparatively low in God’s own country with pockets of middle class credulousness, like where I live. And yes, I love the implied link with crime and antisocial behaviour (as opposed to… sense!)
Typical Mailicious…
I found the tool in the article quite useful. I had just been talking about this topic earlier this morning before seeing the article. I had suggested it was to do with socio-economic status and ethnicity. Looking at my area (mainly wealthy, middle class) and another area about 4 miles away, where there is a non-white majority, the difference is vast. My area: first dose 90.2%, 3rd dose 75%. Other area first dose 69%, third dose 37%. Perhaps I should move to Slough!
I found the tool depressing (but perhaps not surprising).
Maybe Betjeman was wrong about Slough after all!
I’m not sure even that’s a sufficient reason to move to Slough! However yes, areas with large Asian communities had low uptake (because they generally saw it coming!) We know several Pakistani families and they nearly all avoided it like the plague, regardless of age. They didn’t want anything to do with it.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side ended up winners as they came from behind to book a spot in the Scottish Cup final against Hearts.
Ah, I Like Salmon’s team, because the nasty nats are Edinburgh lawyers who like country dancing and centralising everything. In Edinburgh.
Good news if she wins:
Marine Le Pen: I will reinstate (unvaxxed) suspended nurses & reimburse salaries
Certainly it’s hard to feel enthusiastic about human rights abuser Manual Chevron, though I would say that I’m glad that we can vote for who we want in Britain (at least when we’re standing) rather than being forced to vote for one of two choices like in France (unless it’s a referendum of course).
You do understand the principle of having two rounds of voting, don’t you?
My objection is to people being blackmailed into voting for the odious Manual Chevron in the second round because of the only other option being Le Pen. I would not want to feel I have to vote for him.
The alternative would be to only have one round. As Macron won the first round he would now be President.
Theoretically. Or perhaps there would be more tactical voting in that round like we see in Britain (in the general election, not the European elections we used to have).
Not if Australian-style preferential voting was used – since we’re discussing alternatives.
What specific policies/positions of Le Pen would put you off voting for her?
Since I was thinking it anyway – I reckon not many people today believe that voting for Le Pen is in any way equivalent to voting for “Germany’s” Nationalist Socialist party of the 1930’s. Still, because of her National Front connection, I suppose that a suspicion that she might be in some way equivalent to them will put some people off voting for her. Historically. I understand that NF types have something of a problem with Jews, which would indeed put me off, though I don’t know what policy she actually has on this matter. I know she has been trying to move away from some of her father’s more hardline views. I suppose that some will suspect that some people will wonder how genuine this is. The point is though, I don’t have to worry about this, because here in England, I don’t have to be forced into a binary choice, both of which I may happen to find abhorrent.
“I understand that NF types have something of a problem with Jews,”
Hugh, she expelled those people more than a decade ago. She even expelled her own father from the party. For me, it is foolish to even speak of the FN in the same breath as Germany’s National Socialism. There isn’t the faintest resemblance or sympathy. All the talk of “fascism” here is nothing but media-speak which is designed to demonise anyone who departs from the approved script on fundamental issues(such as the EU, NATO’s wars etc.). Haven’t you noticed how the label “far right” is attached to anyone and everyone who defies the consensus? They even attempted it when Bobby Kennedy addressed massive anti-lockdown crowds in Berlin. Marine Le Pen’s economic programme, in fact, is far left, not “far right”.
“rather than being forced to vote for one of two choices like in France”
They had 12 candidates this year (not two). And this is not a high number by France’s standards. Also, all the candidates get equal airtime.
Yes but you’re forced into a inary choice in the second round (or made to feel guilty for abstaining).
Incidentally, I seem to remember that last time, the majority of the vote in the first round of those who voted was for Eurosceptic candidates – yet in the second round (the same as thiis time) many Eurosceptics would have felt unable to vote for Le Pen – and that is my issue – people being forced into this position (though I dare say this seems normal to people who have known nothing but the fifth republic).
Having joint nationality living in UK if I could vote I’d vite for le Pen in this point alone
It is irrelevant whether Macron or Le Pen get in. The French are unwilling to tackle their demographic issue caused by immigration. They cannot survive. Then we’ll have an Islamic state twenty miles from our border.
From what I heard, the French government doesn’t have much control of some of those banlieues anyway.
They’re no more part of France than London or Blackburn are part of England.
About that… which Islamic State is this?
That looks like merry olde England
Smells suspiciously like the promise made to return our VAT rate on domestic energy to zero.
The thing I admired about Trump was that he had a short list of objectives in his manifesto. From day one he began ticking them off. Until then, I was as sceptical of him as I was of Clinton.
I too noted this. I also noted the absolute horror from the political and media classes that he’d be so crass as to attend to his manifesto items as he had promised his voters.
It may sound naive, but the level of cynicism was astonishing. Top of his list was the wall and the intent behind it, to limit immigration and send a clear message.
But it is a good observation. I’d be more likely to vote for a party that had, say, two or three big ticket things to focus on.
“The thing I admired about Trump was that he had a short list of objectives in his manifesto. From day one he began ticking them off.“
That’s because for all his undoubtedly faults, Trump was at heart a businessman and not a politician. That was his background, unlike most of the professional, lifetime politicians.
Our corrupt political classes quickly learn that the route to political success in our system is to lie to as many people as you can get away with, having no intention of implementing those lies, which are merely tools to acquire votes. Those who learn that, and are good at lying, succeed. Those who don’t, or who can’t lie well enough, fail.
Thus our system actively, and strongly, selects for the most effective liars.
Trump had a less sophisticated view, that these manifesto promises are what an elected politician should be judged by.
Even before I was interested in politics many years ago, I maintained that the best person to run any country is a businessman. Every country is a business competing against every other country.
Then I read a couple of years ago that, in the dim and distant past, politicians in the UK were found to be so corrupt they were all sacked and replaced with part time volunteers from the business world.
Evidently the country ran like a Swiss watch.
Yes, let’s talk about Sweden.
The country that had below average all cause mortality from January 2020 to June 2021?
“No, the country that had more covid deaths than its neighbours”.
What, like Lithuania and Poland and Belgium?
“No, not those neighbours. Norway and Finland”.
Geographically isolated countries that have particularly high vitamin D levels and a low ethnic minority population?
“Well Denmark then”.
Not a vey good example as they had less restrictions than Finland but more “covid” deaths.
The place that did worst of those that didn’t go for severe restrictions seems to have been South Dakota. But even if NPI’s there would have saved lives (debatable), there is no evidence to suggest that more lives would be saved than have been cost in other countries from lockdowns and their knock on effects, and measures related to lockdowns and their knock on effects. I’m not sure that any of this will cut any ice with lockdown zealots though, and it is a testament to the power of the propaganda of big pharma and their collaborators in this shambles (and the wooly thinking of too many people) that anyone still believes that these lockdowns were a good idea.
Sorry, that should read Denmark had more restrictions than Finland and more “covid” deaths!
“If Churchill falls, woke warriors can force anything” – The Left’s woke warriors target Winston Churchill because bringing him down would show they can do anything, writes Douglas Murray in the Daily Mai
These people still trying to whitewash history are they? The past is indeed a foreign country – they do things differently there. Trouble is, these people don’t believe in diversity (except when it suits them) or redemption. If people have in good faith paid for a statue in recognition of some great service done, I don’t see that it is reasonable or right for other people, without so much as a democratic vote, to insist that the perceived faults of these people should be written on these statues (as I understand has happened in some cases) or that these statues should be taken down. No doubt every statue would be in remembrance of someone who some people would find objectionable, even the greatest Britain of all, Winston Churchill. Does that mean we should have no statues, and no culture (except in the DDR sense)? Does it? Does it really?
Their antics have nothing to do with statues or the figures they celebrate. It is about power. Erasing the past helps reset the country to something more pleasing to them. They cannot accommodate the country’s past so it must be eradicated to make them feel better. Just like how you must change your views on transgenderism, multiculturalism and gays to make THEM feel comfortable. You must tolerate because they cannot.
Naturally, if the statues go they won’t stop there. These are the people that believe you cannot be left to raise your own children because you’ll inculcate homophobia and ignore climate change. The Scottish government are still pushing legislation that enables the state to confiscate your kids if someone reports a wrongthink conversation in your own house i.e. if granny uses politically incorrect labels for gays or immigrants.
Those who live in former communist states are right, we in the west are unaware of what totalitarian types will do to us. We ignore them at our peril.
The year zero mob were never bery keen on history. The Eurosceptics used to point to people who formerly lived behind the iron curtain who detected similarities with the Soviet regime in the EU. Theoretically that might change with UK independence, but I suspect that that is not part of the plan.
Authoritarian government is in. Plenty clamoring for it. They’ll learn the hard way just like the Eastern Europeans.
Ah yes, Scotland unmuzzled – or not.
Yesterday here behind the Tartan Curtain, up to 90% of the sheep were still wearing face rags.
Meanwhile Her hero senile Joe O’Bama in America has conceded defeat due to a court ruling and now all the major airlines have given up of face rags.
I am awaiting similar sense from European airlines and other transport companies.
It will take several years for the domestic sheep to get sense however.
I estimated about 75% yesterday. A week ago it was about 98%.
My prediction is it will die off over summer then they’ll promote a new variant. Sturgeon will use masks as a “precaution” and it will be back to over 90%.
Still waiting on someone challenging the science behind the decision, of which there is none. I fear where we are so deep in the grips of Stockholm syndrome that even facts will not deter the masses because they too want to be seen to do something.
If that happens we will be back to mass hysteria.
Glasgow at the weekend, maybe 80% muzzled. John Lewis demonstrating high degree of wokeness. Having not been to a large city centre in the UK for some years, I felt somewhat adrift in an unfamiliar world. The poverty is still there, buildings are in a shambolic state, the toothless are still hanging around, but the spirit seems to have departed.
In the square by Queen’s, some sort of demo about open borders for immigrants. They seemed oblivious to the poverty and dilapidation around them, obviously charity for the down and out locals doesn’t score on the virtue signalling charts.
I visited Glasgow city centre for the first time since I left 34 years ago.
Shocking state.
Nearly 07.30, and still no cheery salutation from Hux? The downvoters must be distraught!
thirty first, and good morning to one and all. Let the downvoting commence!
(P.S. you’re right, not one single downvote this morning. What’s going on?!).
How delightful to return your greeting – good morning, Hugh!
I’ve found it really cheering today to see the below-the-line comments full of comments relating to the news items, and other information. Because that’s what I come here for. I think most people here would welcome similar comments from ‘Hux’ etc (and there was one recently), but what concert s/he went to the day before – not remotely interested, and just plain irritating. ‘Hux’ and others – just to clarify, please stay involved, and share comment/information. Also, ‘good morning’ totally unnecessary. It’s not a chat room for goodness’ sake! Not a little ‘club’ for four or five people – it’s a valuable service for thousands. The people who love to fill the below-the-line comments with silly stuff – you are in a minority, believe me. I am sure that most here were getting completely fed up with it!! (PS This site does include forums for those who would just like a chat, including some listing groups for meet-ups.)
You OK?
And good morning to you too!
Actually, it was because of the “first” thing on the old forum (when there was just one daily update) that I started trying to do a first post myself, talking about one of the articles – I thought it was a wasted opportunity to just use the first post for banter, especially with only one update per day in those days meaning that everyone would see the first comment. However, I never objected to other people doing it – free speech and all that, besides, if it cheered some people up, that was surely a good thing with all the suffering from the human rights abuses going on. As I’ve said before, there was an episode of ‘Allo ‘Allo where one of the items for the Resistance radio station didn’t have anything to do with the resistance – we need to lighten up some times. Some doubtless don’t have time or inclination to explore other parts of the site. And in the war, we would not have had that option, but we seemed to manage. It’s surely easy enough to scroll past messages that are not of interest. Trouble is, people have it too easy in this culture of instant gratification.
“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto”, according to Terence.
It was my father’s favourite saying (he translated it as “I am human, and nothing human is foreign to me”). The beauty of it moved him to tears.
I think of it as a sort of antidote to pomposity and cold utilitarianism, to the reduction of human beings to ciphers – who can indeed be locked down, muzzled and jabbed.
Only go out to do what someone else deems essential shopping; only exchange what someone else deems essential words?
A little bit of banter bonds the team. One sceptic can be ignored, a whole bunch of them with the skills demonstrated on this website make a formidable battalion for truth, integrity and real science.
I like the idea of sceptics on duty still in the wee small hours…..like cats, guardians of the night, keeping evil away.
A few greetings at shift changes reminds us that we are all humans behind the anonymous handles.
Well said AE.
Thank you, hp. It’s now morning, so I’ll wish you a very good one.
That reminds me of a film I saw, the Shillingbury Blowers, about a village band who took great pleasure in adding ornamentations and extra notes to their performances, rather than just playing exactly what was written (as they did in protest when they got a bigshot new conductor with different ideas). “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto” indeed!
That – delightfully – was what all sorts of musicians did, until they got whipped into line in the course of the 19th century. Thank God for jazz.
But I must admit that I’ve become a bit of a stickler for people who mess with composers’ instructions in certain contexts. For the classical music buffs, my affection for Toscanini reveals much (but not all) …
That, I understand, was the explanation for the held note in the last line of the tune for the Christmas carol “O Little Town Of Bethlehem (which I’ve always rather liked).
“Toscanini conducting” – Going Solo, by Roald Dahl. Though I can’t honestly claim to know much about him, despite having one or two LPs with him conducting.
I must say there is something to be said for Louis Armstrong performing “Oh When The Saints” compared to a straightforward rendition.
Think this is unfair. No one is more acutely aware of the importance and value of the site than HP and saying good morning doesn’t discredit or detract from anything IMO. I’ve been at the silly end of the spectrum of discourse quite a few times. Humour has been an important crutch through this whole affair for many people. And none of the humour ever seems to be at the expense of serious debate, which there’s still a preponderance of. Free speech means free speech!
Goodness, I’ve come out with some right nonsense on occasions. I think it’s important to let off steam though.
That reminds me, I seem to remember reading once about journalists having bets with each other about whether they can find a way of fitting a certain phrase into their column…
You make many comments relating to news items, today and other days, Hugh – as do hp and cg. I always find them interesting.
I haven’t seen one of the offended party’s comments on a news item today. Perhaps said person is relying on people like you and hp to provide comment and analysis; and is annoyed when you offer what is deemed “silly stuff” instead?
I don’t find warmth and good will “silly”. There’s a good deal of banter on this site (in response to all sorts of articles). I find it witty and entertaining. It lifts my spirits. But then I am almost certainly one of those being lectured.
I am indeed guilty of responding to greetings, thus proving myself a lesser being to be reprimanded: “just to clarify, please stay involved, and share comment/information”. Using only approved words?
Yay, let’s have some more site rules!
No greetings, Hugh! Get a grip! Toby has gone soft.
(By the way, I still miss Anti-Socialist, who left when we got our warning about profanity and abuse. I don’t remember him as profane and abusive – he was wonderfully incisive and an energetic and generous researcher).
Do you think we’ll get more warnings if this online harms bill turns out as bad as feared?
I do indeed, and I think I know the kind of staff who will be employed to enforce it.
The kind who currently suck the joy out of spectating at sporting events?
As kind, considered and thoughtful as always AE.
Thank you very much CG. I much appreciate your kind words and eloquent, thoughtful contributions.
Good evening. Sorry I am late.
Good to have you here. Please make sure you provide some useful information for DT, who is so diligent in the interests of our moral reformation.
I see that the Daily Mail has a search tool to see just how many people in you area had the jab – would like to see one that shows who the covid snitchers were in your area too – names and addresses, who they snitched on and why … that sort of thing. I know of someone who had four visits from the police after someone had told them that he had been breaking lockdown rules – as he said, it was beginning to feel like harrassment. Sanctimonious mask wearers and the boastful fully jabbed I loathed but there is a special place in hell for those who snitched to the police about anyone they suspected of breaking covid rules.
I suspect that in many cases there was more to it, just like those people in Pakistan who supposedly break blasphemy laws – a useful way of getting at people (especially non-Muslims) with whom one has a dispute (in Britain it would obviously be something else, such as a parking dispute).
Plenty of blasphemy in old Blighty these last few years
I’ll be doggoned…
(Something for Justin Welby’s next sermon?).
Hardly. For him blasphemy is the new virtuousness. After all those statues won’t throw themselves into a skip.
UK sense preponderance-ometer. Very useful!
Having seen how they treat their own people I’m going to pass.
Indeed.
Mind you – their approach probably seems light-touch to anyone from Shanghai.
BBC News reports that while Covid cases amongst manual workers have tailed off since the winter, among some office workers, cases have risen.
Strange that!
Well who would’ve thought? Maybe after all covidianism is as filthy a habit as masking…
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Investigation into cases of hepatitis of unknown aetiology among young children, Scotland, 1 January 2022 to 12 April 2022
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.15.2200318
Last night there was a discussion as to the cause of the hepatitis outbreak among children. It is not only in Scotland, but I only found data for Scotland.
The following points are important.
The children are very young
Approximately 60 cases have now been reported in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 1 January 2022
HHS is also aware of a cluster of hepatitis and adenovirus cases among children being investigated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
It is serious disease. All 13 children had been hospitalised and three children required liver transplant evaluation in quaternary care centres in England,One child went on to receive a successful transplant. Five of the 13 cases are still being treated in hospital. To date, there have not been any fatalities
Initial screening for hepatitis viruses A, B, C, and E was negative, with one hepatitis E result pending.
Five of 13 children were adenovirus-positive by PCR (two by throat swab, two by blood and one by stool)
None of the children were vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2. A novel or yet undetected virus also cannot be ruled out at this time.
There has just been an alert issued in Western Australia due to a rise in hepatitis cases –
https://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Media-releases/2022/April/Blood-borne-viruses-on-the-increase
Puzzled scientists are searching for the cause of a strange and alarming outbreak of severe hepatitis in young children, with 74 cases documented in the United Kingdom and three in Spain. Clinicians in Denmark and the Netherlands are also reporting similar cases. And in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said late yesterday it is investigating nine cases in Alabama
https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-hepatitis-outbreak-sickens-young-children-europe-cdc-probes-cases-alabama
seven required liver transplants, six of them in the United Kingdom, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) statement issued today. Two of the nine affected children in Alabama have required liver transplants, the state’s Department of Public Health announced this afternoon.
The leading theory is that an adenovirus, a family of viruses that more typically cause colds, is the culprit—up to half of the sickened children in the United Kingdom tested positive for such a virus, as did all the children in Alabama. But so far, the evidence is too thin to resolve the mystery, researchers and physicians say.
https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-hepatitis-outbreak-sickens-young-children-europe-cdc-probes-cases-alabama
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/acute-hepatitis-of-unknown-aetiology—the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland
https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/blog/2022/04/nr15.html
Post from Swedenborg on the daily update page, placed here for information.
I think we must be careful in the assessment of the cause of the new frightening clusters of severe hepatitis in children in several countries. We should not confuse the matter with introducing some rare but well-known autoimmune side effects of mRNA and adenovector vaccines i.e. autoimmune hepatitis. Those conditions never spread from person to person. The idea of mRNA virus shedding has never been proven.
The Astra vaccine contains a non-replicative form of chimpanzee adenovirus. The hypothetical problem is, if that virus still could merge with a human adenovirus in a vaccine recipient and be excreted into the environment. Scientists have not regarded this as a risk but astonishingly ERA(Environmental risk assessment) which would confirm this by checking that this did not occur, has not been undertaken (see below).This investigation, in line with in mRNA vaccines lack of studies concerning the risk of mutagenesis etc, was not needed for a vaccine to be used in a pandemic situation. Well known safety issues were deliberately disregarded to get a vaccine quick.
The hypothetical risk is if this could occur with the Astra/J&J/Sputnik vaccine and a merged adeno virus was excreted into the environment. This “new” adenovirus would then circulate in the population and small children without immunity would encounter this virus and have a severe disease in some cases.
This does not mean we should see that the children were in direct contact with any Astra vaccinated relatives. This “new” adenovirus just started to rotate in the environment with the effect coming now, much later,than the mass vaccination campaign.
This is still just one hypothetical explanation and there are many others but I think the idea that SD would have diminished the children’s immunity so much that they became susceptible to an ordinary adenovirus seem very far-fetched to me. This would credit SD too much and we have had rampant RS virus infection in kids despite SD.
There are other possibilities, toxic from something in the environment, natural adenovirus(Alabama cases adenovirus 41) finding a new niche of children to be infected.
The whole thing is really concerning and shocking whatever the cause.
Below the link and quote of the sloppy standard we had for the covid vaccines.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8147846/
“As the collection of data for the ERA are often perceived as cumbersome by vaccine developers, and considering the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the European Union (EU) adopted a regulation providing for a temporary derogation from European legislation on GMOs with a twofold objective: (i) to support the development of safe and effective medicinal products for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19 by facilitating the possibility to conduct clinical trials on medicinal products containing or consisting of GMOs as soon as possible (ii) to ensure rapid availability of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in case of emergency. This means that the conduct of clinical trials is temporarily exempted from an ERA. This regulation is temporary and shall apply as long as the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies COVID-19 as a pandemic or as long as an implementing decision is applicable by which the European Commission recognises a situation of public health emergency due to COVID-19.”
ERA=Environmental risk assessment
GMO=Genetic modified organisms
Robert Malone has been alerted to the reality of child trafficking by the elites.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/techno-facism-techno-feudalism-or?s=r
And now we finally get to the core of what has really been bothering me. I have become convinced that the new world order envisioned by the uniparty of Davos is truly, fundamentally evil. Evil is as evil does. Allow me to illustrate with two examples that have really been bothering me.
During my recent travels, others have lead me to become increasingly aware of the true evil of child trafficking, and the enormous profits associated with that commercial activity. At first I heard of “Pizzagate”, and how that was just an example of the madness of crowds facilitated by the internet. Then we had the reveal of Jeffrey Epstein, the associated cover up, and the clear documentation of involvement with many leading members of the global elite. Like the Hunter Biden laptop, initially spun as a crazy conspiracy, the involvement of members of the global elite in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking activities is now proven fact. This is essentially sexual slavery, or let’s call it by a softer euphemism – indentured servitude. Among many reasons, this really bothers me because it is evidence of emergence of an economic caste so powerful that they can and do use children to satisfy their selfish desires.
Thank you for all your posts, Kate.
I don’t like to believe in people who are “fundamentally evil”. I prefer to think of people as occasionally mistaken or misguided – perhaps because it is deeply disturbing to think of, let alone encounter, human evil.
Many years ago, I was in a railway carriage (first-class in Italy) when a very well-dressed man entered and sat down. He said and did nothing, but I became so disturbed that I decided to take my luggage and leave. My equilibrium returned as soon as I had done so. I wondered afterwards what I had found so agitating; and the only answer that occurred was that I had been in the presence of evil.
I searched for every possible explanation for the combination of horrors that struck us in 2020, and found myself reluctantly led to face the fact that, for whatever reason, there are human beings who are or have become evil. They are willing and able to treat others as objects for their profit or entertainment. Once they have crossed that line, believing themselves so powerful that they will never suffer the consequences, I think they are capable of anything.