- “China’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy is an exercise in autocratic hubris” – In a leading article, the Telegraph says Xi calls the strategy “the people’s war”, but how much longer the people will put up with it is another matter.
- “Chairman Xi” – Benedict Rogers in Persuasion writes that China faces a return to totalitarian rule.
- “China’s President has said there will be no change to the country’s Zero Covid policy which has meant frequent lockdowns and economic disruption” – ‘Stats Jamie’ notes that Jeremy Hunt’s wife regularly appears on state-owned China TV and he is also known as a supporter of a Zero Covid approach.
- “More than 700,000 over-50s quit work since pandemic” – The employment rate for people aged over 50 drops from 42.3% to 41.6% in three years, the Telegraph reports.
- “No balanced coverage of Covid vaccines in legacy media, says Peter Doshi” – Dr. Maryanne Demasi reports that Peter Doshi, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and Senior Editor at the BMJ, has spoken out about how the mainstream media have ignored important data on COVID-19 vaccines.
- “What the data tells us” – Steve Kirsch with a 52-slide deck presented at the FLCCC conference in Florida on October 15th 2022 summarising “some of the most important statistics for the vaccines on safety and efficacy”.
- “‘This is playing with fire – it could spark a lab-generated pandemic’: Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid strain with an 80% kill rate” – The Mail reports on the hybrid of Omicron and the original Wuhan virus which killed 80% of mice infected with it at Boston University.
- “Can We Please Not Freak Out About the Chimeric Omicron Experiment” – Alex Berenson seeks to restore calm as he points out that while the engineered variant has an 80% fatality rate in mice, the original strain had a 100% fatality rate in mice, but clearly that doesn’t tell us anything about what it will do in humans.
- “The U.K. Covid official narrative” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write that the official narrative is a stool with three very wobbly legs.
- “Longing for the Pandemic” – Read Dr. Tom Jefferson’s 2009 interview with Der Spiegel on the false prophecies of influenza experts, the overestimated effect of vaccination and the great benefit of hand washing.
- “FOI reveals Shocking Extent of Avi Yemini NZ ban” – Rebel News reports that the New Zealand authorities blocked the reporter from entering the country over fears coverage would “incite and agitate people with opposing views”.
- “How Can Severe Mental Illness be the Deadliest Covid Comorbidity?” – Aaron Hertzberg in Brownstone on the shocking evidence of mistreatment and neglect during the pandemic.
- “How College Mandates Shattered My Dreams” – Phoebe Liou writes for Brownstone that her hope is that her story sheds light on the discrimination many students are currently facing across the country.
- “Europe’s self-inflicted depression” – Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked says that European industry has been sacrificed to green ideology.
- “Why solar is not the solution to the energy crisis” – Steve Kirsch writes that next generation nuclear power is clean, efficient and environmentally friendly, whereas, according to Michael Shellenberger, solar farms use 300-600 times more land than other energy sources and produce 300 times more toxic waste.
- “Just Stop oil protesters close Dartford Crossing after scaling QE2 Bridge” – A teacher, 33, and bridge engineer, 39, are the two people who climbed the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in the early hours, the Telegraph reports.
- “Sweden Refuses To Share Nord Stream Attack Data, Opts Out Of Joint EU Investigation” – Zero Hedge reports that Sweden has refused to join a joint international investigation into the recent attack on the Russian-owned Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines and has refused to share what it knows, citing national security concerns.
- “The strange death of liberal Sweden” – Ed West writes that the Nordic nation has seen the sharpest drop in trust of any European country as gang violence intensifies and spreads.
- “JPMorgan Chase deplatforms National Committee for Religious Freedom” – The bank has demanded a list of donors and preferred candidates, presumably so it can vet them before reopening the account, reports Reclaim the Net.
- “Kanye West to buy social media app Parler” – American rapper Kanye West (a.k.a. Ye) has proposed to buy Parler, the social media platform popular among U.S. conservatives, reports Reuters (also in the Mail). Which might have been a good thing, were he not prone to anti-Semitic outbursts online…
- “The ‘right’ amount of concern about racism” – For the last few years, the United States and much of the Anglosphere have been in the throes of a moral panic around racism, writes Dr. Noah Carl. This only makes getting the right definition and proper level of concern about it all the more tricky.
- “Biomedical scientist who posted ‘only women have a cervix’ on Twitter is struck off after tribunal ruled he was ‘inflaming gender discrimination’” – Retired scientist Malcolm Needs, 67, of Devon, refused to attend the “kangaroo court” and sent a message saying he is “happily retired”, reports the Mail.
- “BlackRock Downgraded by UBS Over Growing ESG Investing Risks” – BlackRock’s focus on the latest Wall Street craze – ESG investing – has turned into a risky affair for the world’s largest asset manager, UBS said, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Ten PayPal alternatives – for privacy or free speech” – Reclaim the Net offers some alternatives to the financial technology giants that harvest data and censor users.
- “Obama: ‘people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells’” – The former President speaks out once again on the recent rise of speech police, reports Reclaim the Net.
- “The new lawlessness gripping America” – Sean Collins in Spiked says that after the 2020 BLM riots, mindless nihilistic destruction is now tolerated by the elites.
- “Graham Norton’s Twitter account disappears after BBC star stumbled into trans rights row involving J.K. Rowling and Billy Bragg following interview where he ‘downplayed cancel culture’” – The BBC chat show host has reportedly ‘deleted’ his account days after facing criticism from the Harry Potter author over his comments on trans rights and ‘cancel culture’, the Mail reports. Is the accountability he was so keen on?
- “I think the problem Liz had is that she never really had the courage of her convictions… and now she’s a dead woman walking” – Toby, who voted for Liz Truss, tells Mark Steyn on GB News she has “reduced the Conservative Party to a smoking ruin”.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12739817/poppy-sellers-victoria-station-surrounded-pro-palestine-protestors.html
Plod obviously too busy looking for the coco nutters to deal with real criminals –
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/12/met-police-search-pro-palestine-protesters-hate-crime/
The Met – the joke that just can’t stop.
You are so right
Thanks Dinger
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/12/suella-braverman-pro-palestinian-marches-cannot-go-on/
It’s beginning to look like Suella has not exactly played a blinder. Despite the anticipated civil war which would have provided a sort of legitimacy for more stringent anti protest legislation the sad fact is that nothing really kicked off this weekend. This dismal result for the Davos Deviants may well mean that Fishy has been placed on notice. So what next?
Should we expect a bombing or a shooting and will it be pro Hamas or a right wing extremist, or even a mixture of the two?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/11/sadiq-khan-advisers-israel-settler-colonialism-genocide/
It would not be difficult at this time to make a case against the khant charging him with ‘conspiracy to commit genocide.’
If Gaza is being “colonised” by Israel, the West is being colonised by Islam
No two ways about that.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/12/how-multiculturalism-fuels-hate/
Good to see that Frank has caught up with me.
It’s the whole point of multi-culti.
Indeed.
I have been wondering for years how my life has been enriched by multiculturalism and all I can come up with is Ska, Reggae and Ganga. Fortunately these delights do not come with heavy doses of islam.
Vesta introduced me to curries
years ago and as a now pretty decent cook I have no problem putting authentic Indian cuisine on the table. I therefore see no need for further imports thank you very much. In fact it is clear that huge numbers of said imports do not wish to be here as this weekend proved, so realistically we should be assisting their repatriation
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/cut-taxes-or-drown-in-debt-warns-thatcher-economist/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ignored-danger-signals/
“The purpose of randomised controlled trials is to make comparisons such as these. At the time of this report in May 2021 it was already clear that there was an unexpected rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England. Not only were all these alerts ignored at the time, they have continued to be ignored ever since despite increasing evidence that there is a risk of sudden cardiac death associated with these novel drugs.”
Another good demolition of the “safe and effective….”
I had to google ‘boondogle’. I see the word ‘boondoggle’, ie spelt with double o, means: A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.
They forgot monetary motivations.
Useless Solar Power Industry Risks Bankruptcy – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Campaign to stop your local council destroying local countryside and finances with such schemes. By the way there has been some success on Wiltshire, Surrey and Berkshire stopping some 5g towers at least.
Good on Germany for banning the protests. However, I wonder if this is yet another temporary ban, like the one that came into place early last year.
”Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now announced a ban on Hamas activities in Germany. The organization Samidoun, which is affiliated with the Palestinian terrorist group PFLP, will also be banned. “Whoever supports terror organizations like Hamas commits a criminal offense,” Scholz said.
Banning the actions and organizations means their gatherings and activities are no longer permitted, nor can their logos be used. Organizational assets may also be confiscated. Whoever persists despite the ban would be committing a criminal offense.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also intends to take action against other supporters and sympathizers of Hamas in Germany. This would include people who collect donations for the organization. At the same time, she is examining the possibility “of deporting offenders from the Islamist scene, if they are not German passport holders.”
But there are supporters and sympathizers. ‘We must therefore assume that that the number of people in the supporter scene is in the thousands,” Middle East expert Guido Steinberg, from the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), told DW. The group of sympathizers is even broader. While supporters take concrete action in support of Hamas, for example, advertising or collecting money, sympathizers often do not figure publicly at all, Steinberg explained.
“These bans are one of the most important instruments a democracy has to prevent money flowing to terrorist organizations,” Hans-Jakob Schindler from the transatlantic think tank Counter Extremism Project (CEP) told DW. However, he added: “It is always difficult, because in Germany associations and non-profit organizations enjoy a certain degree of protection, and investigations by authorities such as the Office for the Protection of the Constitution are limited when it comes to finances.”
The line is crossed when violence is openly called for or endorsed. “As long as individuals restrain themselves in this regard, it will be very difficult,” Schindler explained, adding that suspects usually pay close attention to what they say, so as not to attract attention from the authorities.”
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-takes-action-against-hamas-supporters/a-67085873
A reminder of the luxurious life the Hamas top brass billionaires get to enjoy from miles away. It’s easy to talk of a ”nation of martyrs” and sacrificing the people of Gaza for a cause when you are so far removed from real life there and incur no personal risks;
”The three Hamas billionaires have stolen, from the people of Gaza, eleven billion dollars. They luxuriate in their residences, and luxury suites, in Doha, as well as in their villas in Beirut and Istanbul, where they have been photographed lolling on beds, working out in private gyms, flying about in their private planes, eating at the most expensive restaurants, completely indifferent to the conditions in which the people of Gaza live. Think of how many apartments, electricity plants, water purification plants could have been built in Gaza with those eleven billion dollars. The only people trying to help the Gazans directly — thus avoiding sending aid through the thieving Hamas rulers — are the Israelis, who until October 7 had been providing jobs to 20,000 people from Gaza, who earned between three and five times as much working in Israel than they could have earned at home, even assuming there were jobs to be had in the Strip.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/hamas-billionaires-getting-the-attention-their-riches-deserve
“…as the Government considers tougher protest laws. ” No. It just needs the useless, common purpose goons of the met to enforce the existing laws instead of posing for selfies with terrorist supporters.
And spot the risk of abuse of power by certain politicians. I seem to remember there was a fair bit of that recently, perhaps a few years back.
Congratulations Eldred, once again you have picked the dumbest DM articles you could to rile up division.
Biased much?
Skeptical of division politics…not a jot.
From what I’m seeing BTL, it looks like the more prolific DS posters are united. The rest of us can only look on in horror at the disappearance of any broader, more nuanced discussion, while the rest of the world looks on in bewilderment.
Thankfully there are indeed great BTL contributors.
In
we find:
It sounds like dementia.
In other news, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is sacked, thereby confirming the mandate for two tier policing. We are living in an ant-white apartheid state.
Disgraceful. I had to find the link; I thought you may have been juststirring the pot.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/13/suella-braverman-sacked-rishi-sunak-cabinet-reshuffle/
“SNP’s Stephen Flynn slammed for ‘refusing’ to sing national anthem at Remembrance service”
I too chose not to sing ‘God save the King’, mostly because he is a captured globalist cnut. How disappointed his father would have been.
I largely agree but the whole Windsor tribe are affiliated if not actually deeply embedded amongst the Davos Deviants and have been for God knows how many years. They work for themselves and couldn’t give a F about the people of this country.
He isn’t the King as his mother abdicated when she signed sovereign powers away to the EEC in 1973 & as a mere head of state signed further sovereign powers away in 2001 with the Nice Treaty, at which point the Barons invoked Article 61 of the Magna Carta.
If one’s parent has abdicated, then there is no crown to inherit. All he could inherit is head of state, which has no regal function.
One cannot sing ‘God save the King’ for a non-existent one.
So many dilemmas for those of us who want to show support for our nation and the values we thought we stood for. Are there any songs, anthems or symbols that faithfully represent what we have lost?
We need a Verdi to write an unofficial national anthem for Great Britain – chorus of the Hebrew Slaves became the unofficial anthem of the repressed Italians. I really don’t know when it comes to English/GB anthems as the two are conflated – think sporting events, England anthem is ‘God save the King’ unless it’s the Commonwealth Games when it’s ‘Jerusalem’.
A lot of folk songs are about local areas & whilst lovely don’t capture what is required for a national anthem.
I’ve embraced my rugby national identity when it comes to an anthem – Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau – despite being from Yorkshire originally.
“Met Police officers pose with child protester waving Palestine flag”
OMG!
Let’s have some balance in the reporting.
Flags at UN facilities around the world are today being flown at half-mast, to honour the memories of the 101 Unrwa staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
Civilian deaths in Ukraine vs Palestine (bear in mind that Putin has been labelled a war criminal whereas Netanyahu hasn’t).
Under the Geneva Convention, the use of civilian buildings to hide military people and armaments means that attacks on such are legitimate.
And if you want genocide, do yourself a favour, educate yourself out of your ignorance, and read the Hamas Charter and the Quran.
Hint. One of the first things Muhammed did was to behead hundreds of Jews.
You probably should learn the difference between the Hadith and the Quran.
And you are wrong about the Geneva convention as well.
Some of the demonstrations globally over the last couple of weeks demanding a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, millions involved. All N@zis, obs.
https://twitter.com/shawna_burley/status/1723203772199899312
Israeli doctors comprehensively breaking the Hippocratic Oath.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/israeli-doctors-urge-the-bombing-of-gaza-hospitals/
Frontline reporting from docs inside Gazan hospitals courtesy of Medcins Sans Frontieres. Snipers shooting inside hospitals wounding staff and patients (I understand a nurse has been killed).
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/voice-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-we-are-alone-now-no-one-hears-us
Emotional piece from Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize-winning journo with 15 years experience reporting on the Middle East.
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/11/chris-hedges-the-horror-the-horror/
Middle Eastern Eye doing live updates. All made up Jihadi nonesense, obvs.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/
A different view of the march in London on Saturday (damn, even RTE was more balanced than the UK MSM).
Even amid a shocking spike in antisemitic incidents, members of the British Jewish community still attended the march to show their solidarity with Palestinians.
“I feel especially as a British Jew that it’s really important to show up and say Israel is not the same as Jewishness,” said Rebekah, who did not share her surname.
Speaking about her mother, the child of Eastern European parents who survived the Holocaust and fled for New York, Rebekah said: “She feels like this war that’s happening in Gaza is a desecration of the memory of those people who died in the Holocaust.
“It feels quite personal because we’re being used as a justification, Jews more broadly and especially in the UK, to shut down debate and peaceful protest,” Rebekah added, referring to claims that all criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-one-million-protesters-take-part-historic-london-protest
It looks like some don’t like the whole truth, when it conflicts with their point of view, given the number of negative ticks.
Quite.
And finally – don’t forget the international community, many actors from which are working night and day to bring an end to the genocide.
Thank you for getting some balance on here.
I tried.
There’s no need to ban any marches by whomever wishes to do so, just don’t allow them in the first place on certain days that are important to British values!
Contradictions in terms:-
Military intelligence.
Police powers.
Border force.
Government intelligence.
There’s a worrying increase in the state intervening on the behalf of the NHS via the Courts to let people die who either want to try treatments elsewhere or whose parents want to do so.
An eight month old is the latest victim of a new form of state sponsored euthanasia:
“ Indi Gregory loses her fight for life: ‘Angry and heartbroken’ parents who fought to continue treatment for the terminally-ill eight-month-old say she has passed away after ‘the NHS took away her chance to live’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742237/Indi-Gregory-loses-fight-life-Parents-fought-legal-battle-save-reveal-eight-month-old-passed-away-life-support-switched-off.html
You will note that this has nothing to do with the Middle East so knee jerk down-ticking my post shows you guys can’t even be bothered to read.
Unsurprising really.
“No good deed goes unpunished, but lying for the establishment is a path to success…” says Neil Oliver: https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-but-lying-for-the-establishment-is-a-path-to-success-says-neil-oliver
So they want to rename the Magellanic Clouds, the Straits of Magellan, etc.?
Well, they´d better rename Newton´s Laws: he must have held some unorthodox views.
And that fellow, Einstein, didn´t he support Zionists?.
Balls to king Charlie Chortles, how about god save us!