- “Tory fury at ‘outrageous’ £2.2m bonuses for DVLA staff” – The Mail reports that figures slipped out by the Department for Transport this week reveal that staff were handed nearly £2.2million in “performance payments” for the last financial year.
- “Health chiefs declare two new ‘variants of concern’” – Only a small number of cases of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 have been identified so far, but analysis of the available data suggests they are likely to have a “growth advantage” over BA.2, the Mail reports. Erm, the BA.2 wave is over, so of course a new variant would have a ‘growth advantage’ over it. When do you think the scientists will work out that Covid comes in waves?
- “England’s Covid outbreak shrinks to its lowest size since mid-December” – Covid cases have continued to collapse with the outbreak now reaching its lowest level since mid-December last year, with just a million people infected in England last week, the latest ONS data show, reports the Mail.
- “Spain will allow unvaccinated Brit holidaymakers to enter ‘within days’ – but they still have to have a negative Covid test” – Spain’s tourism minister this week made the unexpected announcement of an imminent change to the current rules for all holidaymakers from outside the EU, reports the Mail.
- “First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tests positive for COVID-19” – Ms. Sturgeon will work from home over the next few days and told followers she would “hopefully” be back out and about later next week, the Mail reports.
- “Thousands wait months for powers of attorney to care for loved ones as civil servants work from home” – A huge backlog of a third of a million applications are still pending as staff at the Government agency stay away from the office, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. CV Family A Letter to my MP” – Watch the stories of members of U.K. CV Family, a support group for vaccine injured people who did what they were told was the right thing to do. They were injured as a result and now they are being ignored.
- “Conference of Conscience – Australian Doctors Finally Speak Out!” – Watch Australian doctors speak about their pandemic experience and how they have been threatened with suspension or deregistration if they dare voice their genuine concerns as physicians.
- “Don’t let the Government scapegoat others over impending food shortages” – It’s all well and good blaming Putin for impending food shortages, but the idiocy of our own politicians should not be overlooked, says Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
- “A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic Preparedness” – These proposed rules and structures, if adopted, would fundamentally change international public health, moving the center of gravity from common endemic diseases to relatively rare outbreaks of new pathogens, and building an industry around it that will potentially be self-perpetuating, writes ex-WHO malaria chief Dr. David Bell at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Politicians should not manage drug and vaccine regulation” – Their horizon is too short; they will screw it up, says Dr. Vinay Prasad.
- “Covid Vaccine Blood Clot Issue ‘May Be in the Hundreds,’ but ‘Heart Issue Is in the Thousands’: Cardiologist” – Dr. Sanjay Verma, an adult cardiologist practising in Coachella Valley, California, has seen many more cases of heart inflammation since the Covid vaccine rollout, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Monkeypox: The Next Big Scare” – Health authorities in the two continents have thus far identified only a few dozen cases, and while there’s no reason for concern at the moment, here’s what Jordan Schachtel at the Brownstone Institute says convinced him to put this on the radar: the U.S. Government decided to order millions of doses of monkeypox vaccine.
- “Why won’t you ‘do whatever it takes’ now, Mr Johnson?” – Johnson can hardly expect the public to understand that there are limits to Government power when for the last two years his Government has wielded unprecedented draconian powers on our liberties never before used in peacetime, writes Laura Perrin in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus” – Even without China’s cooperation there is much important information that can be gleaned from U.S.-based research institutions, information not yet made available for independent, transparent, and scientific scrutiny, argue Neil Harrison and Jeffrey Sachs in PNAS.
- “Finland Loses Main Gas Supply After Refusing Payment in Rubles” – Russia is cutting Finland off from its natural gas supplies as relations between the two neighbours sour over the Nordic nation’s decision to join defense alliance NATO, reports Bloomberg.
- “Wimbledon stripped of ranking points over Russian player ban” – The decision effectively reduces Wimbledon to an exhibition tournament, the Telegraph reports – but with the Government backing the tournament organisers, the stand-off over penalising tennis players for their country of origin is set to continue.
- “World has just ten weeks’ worth of wheat left after Ukraine war” – Food supplies are being rocked by Russia’s invasion of the ‘breadbasket of Europe’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Dr. Pavel Podvig: How likely is a nuclear war?” – With Finland and Sweden seeking to join NATO, is nuclear war more likely now that it was three months ago? By trying to push Vladimir Putin to the brink, is the West actually increasing the chance of a nuclear incident? What actually is the sequence of events that would lead to nuclear conflict? UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers speaks to Dr. Podvig, who runs a website dedicated to analysing Putin’s nuclear capability.
- “Germany prepares for gas rationing as Schröder quits Rosneft” – German regulators are drawing up plans to ration gas to the country’s businesses in the event of Russia cutting off supplies, the Telegraph reports.
- “France’s big bet on hydrogen is doomed to fail” – Emmanuel Macron’s ambitions to make the country a leader in green hydrogen technology have likely put Renault on the wrong track, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “If food prices are on the rise, why ‘lose’ 1,000,000 livestock?” – Ciarán McCollum on Scaled also isn’t sure how you go about ‘losing’ farm animals.
- “HSBC faces calls to sack financier over anti-climate change tirade” – The Mail reports that Stuart Kirk, the Global Head of Responsible Investing at HSBC Asset Management, made an anti-climate change speech at a conference this week. Courageous.
- “Idrissa Gueye and the problem with Pride” – Pride is no longer about celebrating gay freedom but rather has become a globalised orgy of virtue-signalling, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Michaela’s unspeakable truths ” – ‘Progressive’ teaching methods ruin lives to make middle class people feel good about themselves, says Marie K. Daouda in the Critic.
- “Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ in disarray as chief quits after death threats” – President Biden’s plans for a Disinformation Governance Board have been put on ice after its head resigned amid an outcry that it was a ‘Ministry of Truth’ designed to fight information his administration did not like, the Times reports.
- “Twitter To Hide Tweets Share False Information Crisis” – Potentially risking Elon’s wrath over free speech, Twitter says it will hide tweets spreading misinformation during a crisis, reports Silicon U.K. Tech News. And of course, there is always a crisis.
- “Netflix axes woke Antiracist Baby show aimed at preschoolers before it airs as it slashes projects and fires 2% of staff after 200,000 subscribers fled” – The struggling streaming service is pulling the plug on the show based on the work of Critical Race Theory scholar Ibram X. Kendi, as well as several other shows, reports the Mail.
- “Reclaim Party Livestream on the Online Safety Bill” – Watch Toby discuss the proposed legislation with Laurence Fox, Dominique Samuels and others.
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Good morning all and especially huxleypiggles
Good evening all and especially Susan!
Protect us Lord while we are awake, and safeguard us while we sleep…
Good morning one and all and I don’t even care that that’s all I’m saying!
Good morning, all – what an explosion of good will!
If I keep on scrolling down, perhaps I’ll discover some time in the next 48 hours that minor parties opposing mandates look likely to gain power in the Australian Senate.
Has anyone examined any entrails?
Good morning, Trabant
What a pleasant way to start my reading! I echo your greetings to hp.
Just returned from voting in the Oz elections. Apart from the occasional masks, all looked normal: smiles, exchanges of greetings, democracy sausages, tea and coffee, buying cupcakes to help with the local fund-raisers.
Tonight, we’ll see.
Good morning, all.
What’s a democracy sausage?
An Australian who believes there’s democracy in Australia?
There’s voting.
A hot dog – very basic: bread roll, sausage (with onion if you like), choose your sauce. In certain electorates, there are vegan sausages. They’re so popular that a website advertises which polling booths supply them (not all do).
Because voting is compulsory, a turn-out is guaranteed: so community groups (including schools and churches) set up stalls selling all sorts of things very cheaply.
Politicians turn up and buy to prove that they are men and women of the people. Then they forget all about it.
I handed out how to vote cards for the LibDems in Perth electorate. Can’t say I have much hope for our man, it’s still very much under the sway of Labor. And masks were worn by somewhere around half of the people who walked by.
Conversation with volunteers of other parties was pleasant, though. And one of the Labor ladies arrived in a mask, but once we get chatting she removed it. I’m counting that as a win.
The only tense moment was when a woman threw a sign for the Liberal candidate at my feet and said ‘That was on my lawn!’ I did the Boy Scout thing and moved the sign to the Liberal fellow’s truck.
Well, it’s done now; and Morrison’s conceded.
The Senate vote will be fascinating, given the size of the new cross-bench in the House of Reps.
Albo’s relative willingness to compromise, honed in his years as Leader of the House, might produce some interesting results.
Thank you kindly AE. I do hope there is some positive news from Oz. And soon.
Congratulations on the no.1 spot and thank you.
Can I suggest that it is a crime against humanity to threaten doctors for voicing genuine medical concerns? I want my second opinion!
I’m taking that as the good omen – thanks, Hugh.
I’ll settle down to watch while I eat my polling booth cupcakes.
“Conference of Conscience – Australian Doctors Finally Speak Out!”
Good and sensible people treated like criminals; lost to their professions; and suffering distress and outrage as a result.
They hit doctors hard and fast; especially in Victoria. They were a critical line of defence: people uncertain of what the government was telling them would ask their doctors – and they encountered doctors who had already been threatened.
That flapping noise you can hear is a combination of covid, climate panic and Ukraine policy chickens coming home to roost, with the panicking of US sphere globalists as they start to myopically notice the (always inevitable and easily foreseeable) consequences of their own “cosmic cretinism” looming on their short horizons.
And as the inevitable and always easily foreseeable crumbling of the Ukrainian defences begins to accelerate, we approach the period of greatest danger, because the globalists and neocons will always double down without regard to costs and risks rather than admit defeat and face taking responsibility for their own actions.
An excellent edition of the Duran, highlighting the truly spectacular inadequacy of the leadership elites in the US sphere, and their breath-taking arrogance and infantile sense of entitlement.
Ukraine update & Wheat for Rubles has collective west in panic mode
“We have the economic situation, where we are seeing a shift now from gas and oil, which was what we were talking about last week, to something that I think has really got the collective west panicking in a really big way, and that is food. And wheat, because the collective west understands one thing – that maybe, with oil and gas, maybe they could get away with pulling a fast one on the people, and having them propagandised, and maybe they can skate by with rising prices for gas and electricity. Maybe. That’s what they were thinking. But when it comes to people going hungry, now you’re starting to see them panic……because they know that when people go hungry, that’s when revolutions, and real regime change, starts.”
And here’s the Dreizin Report comment they referenced from last November/December pointing out that a famine year was already baked in for 2022:
https://thedreizinreport.com/2021/11/16/the-famine-year-approaches/
So much for the Telegraph’s propagandist smear.
Thanks. Interesting and alarming.
Let’s go Brandon! I wonder how much the energy situation in the “United States has got since Beijing Bidden’s (possibly fraudulent) presidential election victory?
I would like to add the prevention of UK (and other countries) from becoming energy self-sufficient – easily achievable by my calculations – to the lengthy list of contemporary crimes against humanity. The numbskull at the Guardian who would have happily banned the late, great Christopher Booker, would appear to be collaborators in what looks like being some quite large scale starvation.
And with nuclear reactors in the Ukraine apparently not receiving routine maintenance, how much of a risk is there of “another Chernobyl”?
how much of a risk is there of “another Chernobyl”?
For current levels see link below, you may need to check radiation box in settings.
https://www.windy.com/?49.838,30.366,5
Why shouldn’t you wear radioactive underpants? ‘Coz Chernobyl fall out.
“how much of a risk is there of “another Chernobyl”?“
Probably not insignificant. Fortunately for us, the original Chernobyl wasn’t actually a big deal, except in our panic response (sound familiar?) Radiation danger is real, but generally massively over-hyped.
The sense of entitlement is indeed breathtaking. How dare the Russians act in defence of their country and its interests?
Perhaps it’s what happens when you become part of the US sphere. You know that Daddy (US Biden) or Mummy (EU Ursula) are your bosses, despite their manifest incompetence, and you’re just happy to belong to the family.
The Russians, meanwhile, are pointing out that they’re perfectly happy to assist those countries that don’t treat them as a species of vermin.
Russia continues to fulfill its obligations, ship food to countries in need — statement – Society & Culture – TASS
Russian Foreign Ministry: “Russia continues to fulfill its obligations on existing commercial contracts and ships food aid to the population of developing countries in need. Since February 24 this year, over 6,000 tonnes of Russian food was shipped to Lebanon, Tajikistan, Sudan and Cuba through the World Food Program. A total of 20,000 tonnes of grain was sent to Sudan and Cuba via bilateral channels”.
Perhaps more countries will soon be describing themselves as “in need”.
There’s a youtube channel that follows shipping stuff in detail, it looks like they’re (the west) trying to make grain shipments from Crimea into a thing, a bulk carrier with 26k tons of grain from Crimea was turned away from Lebanon (after western pressure) because it was “stolen”, it rerouted to Syria instead.
It’s not like Lebanon has a food crisis or anything… oh wait
“Perhaps it’s what happens when you become part of the US sphere.”
Probably inherent to being the dominant power. The elites and their tools just get used to being able to avoid consequences for crimes and blunders.
“EU Ursula”.
“EU Von Der Lyin’ “?
I’ve just read this article by Escobar (which I’m sure you’ve seen):
Russia Rewrites the Art of Hybrid War | The Vineyard of the Saker
He makes an interesting suggestion regarding the possibility of Russian anticipation of the theft of over $300 billion in Russian foreign reserves; based on analyses by Glazyev, who predicted in 2015 that the Americans were entering a self-destructive phase.
Escobar believes that if the Russians choose, they could nationalise as much as $500 billion worth of Western assets in return.
I tend to avoid Escobar. Not because he isn’t very intelligent, informed and articulate, but because he’s been around a long time and so have I, and I tend to find he’s a bit over-enthusiastic for the cause. Like Andrei at the Saker.
I’ve come a cropper before through taking Escobar’s analysis and predictions too seriously.
For instance, in that piece he makes a lot of good points, but:
“Moscow is fully aware that going public with illegal work on banned biological weapons is an existential threat to the US Deep State. Especially when documents seized by the Russians show that Big Pharma – via Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and Gilead – was involved in several “experiments”.
is rather over-egging the situation, imo. In reality it most likely doesn’t matter that much what Russia can expose. Those who are within the US sphere will mostly simply be told, and believe, that it’s “Russian conspiracist propaganda”.
It will have an impact at the margins, and will help to influence those in the less aligned regions that are open to influence against the US sphere. But in itself it’s not “an existential threat to the US Deep State”, and the US elites won’t view it as such. They won’t like it, for sure, but it’s not a weapon that can force them into unlimited concessions.
I might be wrong on this, because eventually there will come a “tipping point” at which the US sphere propaganda machine simply stops being believed, much as happened with the Soviet system, but imo we are still quite a long way from that. There’s a lot of ruin in a global hegemon before it finally collapses.
The part of the article which interested me was the part I quoted: in that it suggested a possibility, rather than making a prediction!
That said, Escobar is as I noted an intelligent, informed and articulate commentator. He puts his finger on the main strategic military risk in the Ukraine here:
“The Russian General Staff will be adjusting their tactics for the major follow-up in Donbass – as the best Russian analysts and war correspondents incessantly debate. They will have to face an inescapable problem: as much as the Russian methodically grind down the – disaggregated – Ukrainian Army in Donbass, a new NATO army is being trained and weaponized in western Ukraine.“
This will determine the military outcome in the Ukraine – the extent to which the US sphere can stand up an effective military force in western Ukraine to replace the defeated one in the east, and the extent to which they can effectively utilise it to counterattack.
At the moment, it’s hard to see any way in which they can either sustain Ukrainian morale for such an effort, or deploy, secure and distribute sufficient fuel to make it an effective offensive force, but predictions in such complex areas are always doubtful.
The least worst outcome likely for the neocons, if they can build up a force that can at least hold its own ground against the Russians (and they will resist much more effectively in the west, where they are not so much an occupying force and will have enthusiastic popular support, if national morale survives the loss of the east), seems to be a “frozen conflict”-type situation, with the US comprador regime holding on in western Ukraine but unable to recover any of the lost territories.
I’m not sure about the resistance in the western Ukraine, where the Polish issue complicates matters. And “national morale” has been compromised by a persistent pattern of misrepresentation, of a constant pretence of victories.
When Goebbels shifted German propaganda to a “backs to the wall” approach at the Sportpalast speech in February 1943 following the surrender at Stalingrad, he at least had genuine victories upon which he could stand.
If real hunger occurs in the West some politicians will swing. And as soon as a couple have swung others will face the same fate.
Can someone please explain to me how ‘bonus’ payments for delivering a legally required service to a captive public works?
I get that sales people get commission on every sale they make in a free market, but civil servants don’t sell, they demand, with threats. It’s a protection racket anyway so the ‘bonus’ is inherent in their extorted earnings.
Because they were all working from home, there was money left in their budgets and government works on the basis that if you don’t use the budget you are allocated then you get less next year? Hence ‘bonuses’ to sponge up the underspend…
If they’re that keen to unload superfluous money, I’ll gladly take some of it off their hands. Always anxious to help, me.
Yes me too plus they could help out some homeless or those using food banks. I’m disgusted with the profligate use of our money by this bunch of shysters.
I worked on a contract for a while at the Property Services Agency which in those days was the outfit that did maintenance on Government property. We dealt with the MOD and i remember my boss saying that towards the end of the financial year, they would have to use up the remaining budget so would retarmac the paths/roads through the army camps, whether they needed it or not. Thus the taxpayer is shafted on a regular basis.
A similar thing happens/happened with the UK foreign aid budget didn’t it? So money ends up getting spent on flood defences in “Yugoslavia” when therre are places in Britain that badly need them.
Yes…what’s a ‘bonus’ all about? Ridiculous and it’s OUR money! Did we agree to this?
I didn’t. I wasn’t aware of it until now.
I think nowadays a great many people get a bonus every year, big or small, it’s just an expected part of the remuneration package, whether it’s public or private sector. I don’t know how much performance comes into it! I remember years ago getting a Christmas ‘bonus’ of a £10 M&S voucher or something similar. And we got a profit share in another company i worked for if the company made enough profit in the year, that was paid out equally to every employee. But today, it’s just another perk in a lot of jobs it seems.
I’m public sector, no bonuses for us, not even an Xmas freebie. My employer won’t even try, as they don’t have the systems or competence to properly design and manage such a scheme, and they know it… However, I can attest to the need to spend budgets by the end of the financial year, which is why you see roadworks starting up in Feb/Mar. Use it or lose it…
Excellent. Still some shreds of decency in the politicised and commercialised world of sport.
Ouch!
Hotel California folks. Spain’s birth rate is around 1.6 children per couple (sustaining a population requires a birth rate of 2.1) so “you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!”
I get that but struggle with the ‘why’… why do we want to sustain a population that is 33% higher than it was, just in this country, sixty years ago? Even yeast moulds understand that perpetual population growth is undesirable. I know it’s the only economic model we’ve got but perhaps recent events are suggesting we might look for a better one?
I appreciate the point you are making and would agree with the argument that we have become a very over crowded island.
If we were to assume no emigration and no immigration then the current birth rate for England and Wales of 1.61 and Scotland of 1.1 then the population would be in decline and would reach the levels of sixty years ago but it would keep declining with an ageing population and fewer younger people. A replacement level of 2.1 would stabilise the population (again assuming no emigration or immigration). So at some point people would have to be encouraged or even incentivised to start having more children given the current birth/fertility rate.
Governments have addressed this problem for years now by having mass immigration as the solution. Often times immigrant communities have a higher birth rate and so you can see the ethnic demographics of the U.K. and most other western countries changing quite dramatically.
Whereas in Hungary, rather than filling up with 3rd world in-breds who hate everything about us, the leadership there are incentivising the population to reproduce with big tax breaks, cheap mortgages and cheap loans. And it’s working.
How come Hungary got all the clever politicians?
A stupid policy. On a finite planet, perpetual growth doesn’t work.
Japan’s population has been slowly falling since 2010. (They don’t like foreigners either.)
The wealthy western birth rate is generally falling below sustenance level of 2.1 children per couple.
Developing nations are above the 2.1 level.
There is a clue here. Wealth, and welfare rich people don’t feel the need to have children to support them in their dotage.
Children are a necessity in developing nations to support the elderly.
Instead of handing out condoms it would seem common sense to provide support for the elderly so they don’t need children for support.
Wealth is also delivered by cheap, reliable energy which is only readily available from fossil fuels. Renewables are a recipe for disaster as it will suppress developing nations ability to progress.
The greens are viciously subjecting these people to generations more of misery.
UK birth rate is low at 1.8, so below sustenance level.
Why, then, do we have a housing crisis?
Because big money (like Blackrock) is buying up hard assets like domestic housing due to declining trust in currencies; then renting the houses out to immigrants (and Ukranian ‘refugees’). Same is happening with land, e.g. Gates is now the biggest landowner in the US.
You will own nothing etc
What is not said is that there are still mask rules in place. Taxis, buses and trains they have to be used. Feel a bit sick, want some paracetamol? Go to a chemist and you will need a mask. Read on a forum the other day if the Spaniards know some sort of secret. They often drive cars with their masks on. Even alone. Country is indoctrinated. Find somewhere else to go on vacation and sped your €Rubbles.
Breaking news: HSBC Global Head of Responsible Investing to be replaced by Global Head of Irresponsible Investing.
HSBC issues statement: There is no place in the New World Order for Responsibility.
Certainly the lengthening list of contemporary crimes against humanity (which now incontrovertibly includes preventing nations from being energy self-sufficient) are not responsible actions in the normally understood sense.
You’re still functioning in the old paradigm. Keep up!
You will own nothing and be happy. Bound to work out well.
Ukraine produces 3.4% of the world’s wheat.
Plus, like the sunflower oil, it’s all last year’s harvest, this year’s is still growing in the fields, or it would be if the Russians hadn’t exercised their right to roam… but, India, Russia and Ukraine are not exporting at the moment, so that’s the second, third and ninth largest producers out of the game. Not sure about China who are the largest?
The world will be a healthier place without sunflower oil.
Nasty trans fats.
”According to Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control, Ukraine’s wheat production accounts for 11.5% of the world market, while Russia’s share is 16.8%.”
That’s exports. Most wheat is domestically produced. So the percentages depend upon whether you include domestic sales or not.
It took a world war between UK/Germany/Italy/USA/Japan etc. before rationing was introduced in the UK.
We’re supposed to believe a minor punch up un a tiny corner of Europe is going to starve the world?
As I’ve intimated elsewhere: the world is a considerably more crowded place these days?
So?
These overtly racist policies are from the playbook of apartheid South Africa, segregated USA and most notoriously Nazi Germany. We’re talking about singling out young male and female athletes based on their backgrounds and banning them from working, and as we do it we smile and congratulate ourselves on being such wonderful people.
I hope they take them to court for infringement of their right to work, perhaps the Jolly One could start another crowdfunder for the case?
I have to admire Guaye too, for standing up to the rainbow crowd in the football world. He must have a case for discrimination, as a practicing Muslim, though I doubt that he’d get far if he was a Christian – the happy clappy archbish would probably disown him…
When the Finns are smashing up their furniture to throw on the fire and keep warm, they can at least be comforted by the knowledge that they started it by destroying the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance which they signed with Russia in 1948.
Russia started the aggression…. and many houses in Finland are heated with wood… and there’s a lot of forest in Finland.
Just how the British are going to be able to pay their upcoming electricity bills is anybody’s guess.
The West broke Russia and won the Cold War. It then promised it would not expand NATO to the east, asset-stripped Russia and expanded NATO right up to its borders. Then in 2014 it staged a coup and topped the democratically-elected Yanukovych out of power and replaced him with a puppet. Then it told that puppet Ukraine would never be in NATO but not to let the Russians know this, and purposely gave Moscow the impression Ukraine would join NATO in order to draw Russia, a country with a shrinking population and the GDP of Italy, into a war. Then the Finns broke the Neutrality Treaty.
But yeah, the Russians started the aggression.
Was it Bill or was it Ben?
(And I think the little EU knew something about it…..)
“Just how the British are going to be able to pay their upcoming electricity bills is anybody’s guess.”
Well we could stop exporting electricity to the EEA as we’re currently doing.
Russia didn’t start the aggression. west Ukraine bombarded Donbass with artillery for seven days before the Russians intervened entirely in accordance with UN Article 51.
The article states that UN members are authorised to come to one another’s aid if attacked and only need inform the Security Council of their actions, which Russia did.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine confirmed the artillery assault.
Monkeypox: The Next Big Scare
Is there a connection between the mRNA vaccine (gene transfer technology) which is apparently made with genetically modified monkey virus and the above or is it a coincidence?
https://medium.com/the-eta-zeta-biology-journal/monkeys-dna-and-covid-oh-my-df8951ed859c
My thoughts too
sounds like an excuse for the maskists to enforce their fetish on everyone else.
Because masks worked so well at stopping covid.
Doctors, eh? What are they? My only interaction through an unfortunate couple of months has been by ‘phone and, on both occasions, they passed me on to someone else, which the Practice Nurse who seems to do the actual work these days, might quite as easily have done herself…
There was a “tabletop exercise” about weaponised, vaccine evading monkeypox performed at the Munich Security Conference, March 17, 2021. We all know what happened after the Covid table-top exercise!
“When do you think scientists will work out that COVID comes in waves?”
And that the “waves” follow “vaccination?”
Scientists don’t think in waves. They think in tramlines.
Particularly medical ‘scientists’. Western medicine slavishly followed false doctrines for two thousand years, persecuting or freezing out anybody who had more enlightened ideas. Bleeding, purging, suppurating wounds, medicines containing mercury, you name it, they killed you with it. After about a century of comparative enlightenment, medicine has now returned to its previous condition.
Yes, most medical practitioners are only able to earn a living because most people have been poorly educated or not educated at all in how to look after their own health, and so have to pay other people to do it for them. The medical industry/profession is inherently/intrinsically a corrupt or at the very least misguided thing, making a profit from social dysfunction, including systemic inequality and both under-and-over eating, etc.
They’re redressing the balance now with the advice that we should only go to hospital if we’re dying, thus separating out those with insufficient medical knowledge from the rest of the herd… Darwinism in action, I suppose?
To sum up, it seems to be run by quacks and crooks.
It’s got worse in my (68 y) lifetime, not better.
Not to mention washing your hands between patients…
It appears they think in $$, ££ etc.
“Pride is no longer about celebrating gay freedom but rather has become an orgy of virtue-signaling.”
What virtues are they supposed to be signaling? How about putting the period after “orgy?”
321…downtick
Pride has always been a sin rather than a virtue.
“Biden’s Ministry of Truth in disarray…”
No more “El Nina” jokes, then.
Farmers keep livestock on land that they can’t plough. Growing arable crops is far more lucrative and much less work. Arable crops grown in much of the north and west of the UK are of poor quality and likely to be used for cattle feed rather than human consumption. Agricultural infrastructure; grain co-operatives, dairies, auction marts, abattoirs, machinery suppliers, is appropriate to the type of production in the area in which it is located, as are the curricula of local agricultural colleges.
I’m losing the plot – I’ve posted this already within the last hour somewhere on the site but where, I don’t know! Probably in a totally, unrelated topic.
Here goes, second attempt.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836461/Spain-allow-unvaccinated-Brits-enter-days-require-negative-Covid-test.html
Ooh goody, Spain will allow anyone in who has – willingly or otherwise – offered their arms to be repeatedly injected with a substance that, at its best, is useless and not effective – and at it’s worst, unsafe and harmful; a substance that neither treats, prevents nor protects the recipients from catching or transmitting an alleged deadly infection.
Those who have not been injected – unless they jump through hoops to demonstrate they’ve recovered from the ‘deadly’ infection within a given timeframe – must pay to have a dodgy, disreputable test that entails enduring a thoroughly unpleasant, risky procedure of having a stick / swab thrust down the throat, then rammed up the nose by enablers of rogue government policies. A test that has the potential to inflict real bodily damage to an individual.
No thanks, Spain. No holiday or travel is worth the coerced or enforced loss of bodily autonomy. You can stick your concession to allow the uninjected to travel to your country to fill your hotel beds, bars and swell your coffers.
To put it bluntly – Spain, you can stick your sun, sea and sangria.
Totally agree. I like Spain well enough, but if they will only welcome me so grudgingly, they can stick it.
What’s the situation with masks out there now?
I’ve just checked as I was unsure. I think the following information is current.
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/spain-lifts-face-mask-requirement/
Masks still required on public transport, on health care premises and when receiving treatments.
I posted this above… More thoughts …
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/21/news-round-up-436/#comment-805640
I’m guessing there are a lot of elderly people on this site who are too old to travel abroad and are are envious of those who can.
You’re guessing? Neil Ferguson may have an opening for you as a research assistant.
I have friends and relatives who are ”too old to travel abroad” (or think they are) and they, having seen the ”good old days” when travel was easy, feel nothing but sadness for the young ones who now can’t travel freely without jumping through hoops.
Not ”envy”.
Surely the word ”unlicensed” should be used when speaking of experimental drugs of any kind.
Correct – in the U.K., the jabs only have temporary authorisation under regulation 174.
Yep. If the majority refused to play along the corrupt medical coercion edifice would fall in a couple of weeks.
Cheating in the Eurovision. Surely not.
Doesn’t appear to affect the winners though.
https://www.voici.fr/news-people/gros-scandale-a-leurovision-2022-six-pays-ont-triche-lorganisation-prend-une-mesure-sans-precedent-729751
Ukraine’s win has as much legitimacy as Biden’s. Discuss.
“Watch the stories of members of U.K. CV Family, a support group for vaccine injured people who did what they were told was the right thing to do. They were injured as a result and now they are being ignored.”
Am I being a bit mean for think that the Gov shouldn’t compensate everyone who was injured by the jibby jab? The people who were blackmailed into it then fine but we all have free will and it’s not like you had to do masses of your own research to conclude that most people didn’t need it. We can’t afford any more spending! And perhaps I’m being cruel but if they’re injured because they believed the nonsense about perfectly safe, fully tested, protecting others etc then it’s sort of their own fault?
While I agree we don’t need any more spending I do think you are being a bit harsh. If you think back to the vaccine rollout, the sheer onslaught of propaganda and subsequent pressure and blackmail that was heaped onto people to take these jabs was extraordinary. For some reason this didn’t work on the majority of commenters here, but at times I found it really difficult to stand firm. And that is having refused a vaccine (swine flu) before.
An experiment was done whereby a person asked a stranger to take care of his bag at a railway station for a few moments while he dealt with a problem. In almost every case the stranger was honest. For most humans if we are trusted totally by a fellow human we don’t let them down. Governments are, of course, an exception.
When was that? I think I’d probably alert the police if a stranger was asking people to mind his bag these days…
No, not the government; individual Ministers, MPs, ‘Health’ advisersand, of course, Big Pharma – now there is a fully justified case for a windfall tax!
Absolutely because when you say should the government compensate, you actually mean should the poor old taxpayer compensate.
I disagree. If you rely on professional advice and it turns out to be negligent, you may sue the architect, engineer, accountant or lawyer if s/he fouls up.
It’s similar with medics. They probably get a longer training than chartered engineers or accountants do. After maybe 5-10 years working under the supervision of others, they’re considered to be competent as, say, a partner in a general practice.
I’m not a lawyer. From my knowledge, some of these people probably have a valid claim against the NHS or more likely their general practitioner for negligence. However, medical cases seem to be difficult.
I don’t think they have a chance against the government … sorry. Its statements were vague reassurances and were worth nothing.
Monkeypox takes over from food shortages takes over from Ukraine takes over from Covid.
Some of us are not going to see the pattern. But those people are already on their fourth covid jab. When they’re gone hysteria will be harder to find than baby formula.
”Covid cases have continued to collapse….”
And they’re not ”CASES” anyway, are they? Just positive not-fit-for-purpose ‘test’ results.