- “Deaths among the ghost population” – Dr. Clare Craig finds heavy biases in the ONS deaths by vaccination status data by analysing those excluded from the ONS statistics.
- “The New York Times is wrong. Mask mandates didn’t do ‘nothing’. They wrought havoc.” – The New York Times opinion piece on masks is wrong, says Laura Dodsworth. It’s not true that mask mandates did nothing: they damaged us all.
- “Mask Mandates in Healthcare Facilities are the Evilest of them All” – “Of all the odious evils prosecuted by the Government and medical establishments throughout the pandemic, mask mandates remain the paradigmatic visual symbol of the senseless capital-‘S’ Science quackery so destructive to society that contributed nothing towards mitigating covid disease or transmission,” writes Aaron Hertzberg in Brownstone.
- “Resolving the Winter Hospital Crises” – Will NHS England’s plan for winter pressures make a difference, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
- “Whatever happened to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine trial in pregnant women?” – The trial began in 2021, but over a year after the last woman was enrolled, the company just admitted it still doesn’t have the data, writes Maryanne Demasi.
- “In defence of Andrew Bridgen and his pursuit of the truth about the vaccines” – Rupert Lowe in TCW writes in support of the courageous and beleaguered MP.
- “Who killed the car industry?” – The British state’s green diktats are making drivers’ lives a misery, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “Los Angeles has first blizzard warning in decades” – As much as five feet of snow could fall in some areas of usually balmy Southern California, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Toby Young is giving our keynote lecture” – Roger Watson, as President of the National Conference of University Professors, defends in Times Higher Education his decision to invite Toby to give the annual lecture, against critics who think the free speech crisis is a myth.
- “The Power of Woke: How Leftist Ideology Is Undermining Our Society and Economy” – Allen Mendenhall writes for Mises Wire that “wokeness is poisoning the Western workplace and constraining small and family businesses, mid-sized banks, and entrepreneurs while enriching powerful corporations and billionaires”.
- “Publisher to release uncensored versions of Roald Dahl classics after backlash” – The publisher of Roald Dahl has announced that it will produce uncensored versions of his stories following a backlash over changes to his work, the Telegraph reports.
- “The collected rewritings of Roald Dahl” – A Substack summary of the changes made by the publisher and the backlash.
- “Sign our Government petition to make the Equality Act clear” – Sex Matters with everything you need to know about its campaign to amend the Equality Act to make clear that sex means sex.
- “School that banned skirts forced to close as outraged students refuse to attend classes” – Pupils rebel against the diktat to wear only trousers or knee-length shorts after teachers say girls “roll skirts to an inappropriate length”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Have sanctions really hurt Russia?” – If anything, Europe has come off worse from the decision, argues Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
- “Put word woman back into health advice, NHS told: Doctors and nurses among 1,400-strong petition demanding U-turn on woke, gender-inclusive language” – Gender-specific terms have been quietly scrubbed on official NHS England advice sites under a woke inclusivity drive and a petition is demanding they return, reports the Mail.
- “I’m a black physician, and I’m appalled by mandated implicit bias training” – The malignant false assumption that black people are inherently inferior intellectually has been traded in for the malignant false assumption that white people are inherently racist, writes Marilyn Singleton in the Washington Post (yes, really).
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And it’s goodnight from him.
Goodnight.
And a Good Morning from him!
Good morning HP! Glad (not really glad) to see you still have your downticker fan club…what is it with these guys? They must have some sort of alarm system in case any one issues a personal warm greeting…jeeze!
Anyway, we’re still here and still not eating bugs, not jabbed, not masked, not digital ID’d, not cashless, not locked up in a 15 minute city, not using any abnormal pronouns, not afraid of the weather, not car free, not outnumbered by illegal immigrants, not nuked in WWIII and England are doing very well in the 2nd Test in Wellington…life is OK!
I like your positivity, Aethelred, but am not entirely convinced we can content ourselves with living in the present when we know there is a proverbial storm coming…
I need to stay positive for my own sanity, Michael. I’m an optimist by nature anyway, despite difficult current circumstances which I won’t go into, and I’ve come to the realisation that it is better to live in the present, be present, and deal with that rather than live in dread. Of course, I can see what is coming, it is very ugly and scary but today, right now, I’m alive and breathing and free and I celebrate that. A grateful, uplifted and fully conscious heart is a greater threat to the death cult than a molotov cocktail!
I like your philosophy…. and will try to embrace it…
Thanks Aethelred. I salute your optimism.
Downtickers? Frustrated wannabee posters who realise their command of the English language is not up to the standards of regular members and therefore hide behind a little red wall.
Thanks, HP. I think you could be right. Hiding behind a thumbs down seems so sad somehow though.
Just downticked you in case all that positivity goes to your head!
Thanks, appreciate it, Dinger
Accept my Uppity Tick in return!
Your very welcome
I love you guys!
(Please downtick this statement as required)
Oh definitely worth an uptick
The Dahl situation hasn’t really changed: Penguin are using this to trick to make their critics go away. The uncensored books will be put in the adult reading section of bookshops and thus won’t sell many copies and will fade away until they stop being printed. Meanwhile, the altered versions will remain in the children’s sections of shops and in school libraries and stay in print.
The only way this ends is when the altered versions are permanently axed and the originals are returned to children’s sections of bookshops.
Well there’s no changes to the Dutch version of Dahl’s books planned as yet. Hopefully that will remain the case and be the same for other languages they’re translated into.
https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/22/dutch-publisher-will-adjust-dahls-books-time
Then we need a campaign to make bookshops put the uncensored versions in the right place.
It’s still encouraging there has been enough outcry to force the publishers to make this concession. That may be enough to make the censors think twice before trying the same with other classic children’s literature,.
It’s not a concession though. That’s the trick of this action. The children’s books are still altered. The Penguin Classics versions won’t be put in the children’s section. This fake ‘concession’ essentially says ‘We know we’re right, so we’re carrying on before and will put a separate line in the adults section of bookshops that won’t sell and we’ll discontinue in a year or two!’
As I say, the only way this ends properly is when the standard children’s editions have the original text restored. And no trigger warnings or mealy-mouthed apologies at the front of the books either!
I will mock these bland, blue meanie types with their plans to paint the world beige and take out all the colour, character, nuance and humour to fit their dull, expressionless square-box thinking. Comedians should be hoovering up the rich pickings to be had and bravely going out there and telling it like it is…Cancel Me tours perhaps. A thin Falstaff perhaps, a black King Lear, a trans god, a genderless Christ…where will it stop? Until no one is offended? Well, I’m effing offended by them and what they do to literature and books and to be honest people in media, publishing, education etc need to grow an effing backbone and stop this nonsense, this quasi religion before it goes over the top and infects everything and everyone. They need to learn that being offended is OK. It’s part of life. I’m offended every time I see a new housing estate going up in what was a beautiful area with its ugly, unimaginative houses with their postage stamp sized gardens and no trees, no shops, no community buildings whatsoever. But I’m not offended if someone calls me a twat or a conspiracy theorist or a far-right racist because I know I’m none of those things. Being offended is a choice and you can’t legislate against it although it seems they won’t stop trying.
Wholeheartedly agree Aethelred
The latest ( and probably last, according to him ) excellent essay from Doug Brodie;
”This post is about the sad reality that a great many people have been subliminally brainwashed by the establishment but they don’t realise it, so they don’t even realise they are being abused. This insidious, all-pervasive brainwashing has been going for years, hugely assisted by the suppression of truth, dissemination of false propaganda and censorship of free speech by the bribed mainstream media (MSM) operating under the Orwellian UK media regulator Ofcom which has just forced vaccine-dissident Mark Steyn out of GB News for refusing to kowtow to the false “safe and effective” Covid vaccine narrative. The good news is that the BBC’s truth-hobbling Trusted News Initiative has been served with an antitrust writ.”
https://metatron.substack.com/p/we-are-being-horribly-abused-by-lies
Bonhoeffer on collective stupidity;
I think he makes some excellent observations. Many people in the comments section sharing their personal experiences too, which all of us on here will empathise with. Of course, this isn’t just scamdemic related. There’s equal amounts of collective stupidity when it comes to any BS narrative spouted by TPTB, e.g so-called climate change. You certainly can be simultaneously intelligent and stupid, that’s for sure.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/on-stupidity
I have a group of old friends who I know would probably think I’d completely lost it if I revealed my thinking to them. Although I don’t see them now as much as I used to – not because of any disagreements I hasten to add – when we do meet up, we don’t tend to talk about any of the shitshow that is happening around us. They seem to carry on with their lives as if nothing that alarming is going on. It’s a strange situation as if I lead double life. I know that if I did start talking about things, they would counter it with what they’ve been brainwashed to think and say. Are they stupid? I don’t know. I would be more inclined to call them ignorant since calling someone ‘stupid’ conveys a feeling that they don’t have too much activity in the top drawer department while being ignorant is just that – unknowing – and some of them are smart cookies, good speakers, and witty and amusing company.
My dilemma is whether or not I reveal my hidden world – unjabbed and all the other stuff that I now know as a result of being a refusenik. Some might call me a racist or a far-right racist because I now listen to and agree with people like Katie Hopkins and because the wool is not being pulled over my eyes with this mass immigration or with the mainstream Ukraine narrative etc but I personally don’t identify as such. In fact applying labels to people is and always has been a way to bracket them so that they can be countered and I feel unaligned with anything other than the truth. They – my friends – would most likely call me a conspiracy theorist because they are unwilling to look further so they are, as you say, Mogs, intelligent and ignorant at the same time and it’s major hindrance to getting the message ‘out there’ and I am sure there are plenty of us who have similar situations going on.
Up to a point Aethelred I share your views, however I remember one of the sainted Neil Oliver’s monologues and he forcefully made the point that it was up to people like us to never stop talking about what is being done to us. I agree with him. So now, while I am never the first to raise the subject, if it is even touched upon I go in full throttle. I have made my position clear to everyone from the word go and no holds barred. In May 2020 I had my first t- shirt printed up:
Bollox to Lockdown.
Oh the bloody complaints I had about that but I just thought F. ’em!
My position on the Scamdemic, climate garbage, digital ID’S, immigration, CBDC’s etc is well known and I never refrain from reminding people.
We here have a responsibility to humanity – never forget, never forgive.
Quite agree, HP. I applaud your actions. The group of friends I refer to is the group of old mates and matesses that I’ve had for over 40 years. Nowadays however I rarely see them, or even hear from them, except at funerals or memorials and the subject matter of the banter never fully provides an opportunity to jump in with my tuppence ha’penny’s worth of views etc. The subject is never raised but if it is ever is, then I will give a full broadside – although I will probably get carried away. I am also thinking of large car stickers for my back window since we are all so often sitting in traffic in this country and I like the t-shirt idea.
A very good friend of mine who remains unjabbed continues to believe in man-made climate change. If I try to point him towards other info he says that he’s read enough (clearly not) and that he feels like he is being patronised. Basically I get the feeling that he doesn’t want to know i.e. he is a believer. He reads and posts articles from the Guardian, which I imagine he thinks is still an anti-establishment rag, on Facebook, believes that Labour will be better for the country and yesterday went to some event to recognise the suffering of the Ukrainian people. He also doesn’t see a big problem with woke. So he’s quite right on and thinks that he is a bit of a rebel and doesn’t like it if I tell him he’s missing a bigger picture – he thinks he knows (well, I guess, I do too!). However, it’s his closed mind and his unwillingness to have his beliefs challenged that is worrying. I mean he is probably still my best friend but there are no-go areas. It’s a strange friendship in that regard. I see how he is still very much asleep apart from the jab and he thinks he is down with the kidz! He lives in a different part of the country so our conversations are mainly over the phone and he’ll tell me when he doesn’t want to continue talking about something as if he can’t bear another opinion. On that note, I saw he had posted a Guardian article this morning about far-rightists infiltrating the LTN protest and I need to post my opinion of such nonsense!
Fair comment.
I do think honesty should be a fundamental part of a close friendship. For me that means, for example, exchanging views in an open and respectful way and speaking up if you disagree with something said. It feels somewhat sad if one bites one’s tongue for fear of causing “offence” or “confrontation”.
“You certainly can be simultaneously intelligent and stupid, that’s for sure.”
I agree Mogs. What has baffled me throughout the last three years is the way people who I considered intelligent and thoughtful fell so utterly and completely for the Scamdemic. I smelled BS from the off and within the first month I was digging and researching. Ninety,-nine per cent of family, friends and associates simply folded and went along with every bit of stupidity issued. And the majority of my social groups consist of highly educated people – nominally. One of my sisters even insisted on sitting in the garden when she visited our Dad even though he said he wasn’t bothered. Family members refuse to discuss the subject as do my working associates or when any aspect of the current horrors is mentioned they change the subject.
How is it that I amongst so many in my social circle ( fifty plus and then extras) saw through all the lies and BS and yet the others fell hook, line and sinker? They all had access to the same resources that I did.
My view is that many so-called intelligent people are only intelligent up to a point and in fact have a less than fully formed version of intelligence. Or perhaps their intelligence has gone too far. Their ability to stop and think was lost as the intelligent brain zoomed ahead. For many of these people the dawning reality that they have been seriously duped and poisoned to boot is now impossible to face up to.
So without a doubt it is possible and indeed not uncommon for intelligent people to also be seriously and in fact dangerously stupid.
My feeling is that many people don’t have enough historical knowledge to see that things have happened in the past and are happening again now. The long view is so important and many “intelligent” people have no historical understanding. Therefore they think that what is happening is unique or unprecedented whereas the Romans, Catholic church, Holy Roman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Napoleonic Empire, British Empire… all had ways and means of controlling the peasants and extracting taxes from them and this is again what is in store likely as not. Hence I agree with your final comment that they can be seriously and dangerously stupid.
Agreed: this all happens in cycles. We’re currently rerunning events of a century ago. However, this time the enemy wears an expensive suit and uses PowerPoint slideshows instead of a military uniform and a gun.
The reason for high house prices is because we don’t build enough houses. And people saying it’s NIMBY-ism is a fake excuse: the reality is that wealthy property firms are sitting on land they own to drive up costs and utopians in government want us locked up in small flats in smart cities. It was said by a town planner 15 years ago that my home city of 235,000 could increase its population by 100,000 without even building outside the city centre.
The reason fuel is expensive is that governments have ostensibly banned coal power except in emergencies and won’t allow further drilling for gas. It’s self-inflicted.
We have everything we need to live prosperously in our country, but fantasies and lies about impending environmental apocalypse added to a desire by elitists to control human behaviour has led to artificially-created scarcity and the generation of a sense of impending doom in order to guarantee compliance.
I saw COVID-19 for the fraud it was before lockdowns began. As soon as the COVID-19 units started to be built in hospitals in January 2020, this whole thing became inevitable: a rehearsed state pantomime to implement massive changes to our society.
The truth is: the world and the human race are pretty much fine. We simply need to start digging for coal, oil and gas again, build lots of new homes and some new roads and start bringing lots more children into the world. Meanwhile use the profits from these fuels to look for real clean energy for the future.
I appreciate your comment.
‘Have sanctions really hurt Russia’ is one of those misleading headlines.
What the article really says is that:
‘If the sanctions are designed………to hobble Russia’s ability to export its energy products, they have been somewhat less successful.’
And who could argue with that.
What does this mean for Russia?
‘“Yuanization.” Russia is drifting toward a yuan currency zone, swapping its dollar dependence for reliance on the yuan. This is hardly a reliable substitution: now Russian reserves and payments will be influenced by the policies of the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Bank of China. Should relations between the two countries deteriorate, Russia may face reserve losses and payment disruptions.’
Moscow Times 02 Feb 23
You’ve got to appreciate humour where you find it:
‘The Bank of Russia’s governor, Elvira Nabiullina, said she expects the economy to return to growth in the middle of this year.’
Moscow Times 20 Feb 23
Meanwhile, in other news, astonishing gains for Putin’s offensive in Ukraine:
‘The head of Russia’s Wagner Group on Friday said that his fighters had captured a village near Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of fierce fighting between the two sides for months.
Berkhivka “is entirely under our control,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said’
Moscow Times 25 Feb 23
Break out the vodka. Triple Stollies all round…..then the OTs-38 Stechkin…..with one round in the cylinder…..
Other Russian sources amplified Prigozhin’s claim, although a prominent milblogger stated that claims about the capture of Berkhivka are premature.
‘The big Russian offensive they are aiming for is already underway. But it’s going on so well that not everyone even sees it – this is the quality of this offensive. They have a strategic objective – to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 31.’
‘During the first open wave of mobilization, they recruited just over 316,000……More than 90% were immediately sent. No one trained them – they were sent straight to the front………A small percentage went to form new units, but the majority went to restore the units that suffered losses, they are all at the front.’
‘There are enough assault rifles for any number of people, and there are not enough armored vehicles now, but this does not bother them at all. Many units are being formed from scratch. They are going without equipment, in Ural trucks and Kamaz trucks. They no longer have BMPs or armored personnel carriers. All the equipment is being removed from long-term storage, they have already removed more than 60%, leaving about 35% that can be quickly restored. The production is single, and it does not cover the needs.’
Budanov 22 Feb 23
But it is not sanctions that represent the gravest threat to Russia occasioned by Putin’s reckless, barbaric, inhuman, invasion of a neighbouring country:
‘With its invasion, Russia hastened the arrival of an energy transition that promises to unravel its economy.’
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/13/russia-putin-war-ukraine-disaster/?utm_content=russiaswarinukraine_roundupemail&utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FP%20This%20Week&utm_term=71148&tpcc=FP%20This%20Week
Following the news that podcasts are being targetted, the censors are now coming for online course platforms. Michael Gaeta’s online herbalist/functional medicine school taken down by Teachable:
https://michaelgaeta.com
Unbelieva…well, no, totally and utterly believable in our current climate. Anything worthwhile, based in truth and evidence, that counters the ongoing narrative is considered a threat and is to be ‘dealt with’. The war that we are currently fighting is an information war. They won’t win. They’ll have to take down the internet and I can only imagine that that would be the next step – positioning it as ‘cyber warfare waged by malicious far-right conspiracy theorist hackers’…I could almost write the headline myself…
This substack just published from Dr Paul Alexander about care home deaths in Canada in 2020 & 2021. Absolutely shocking, even to me who knows about the midazolam protocols & “care”.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/shocking-80-of-all-covid-deaths-in/comments#comment-13089891
“Mask mandates didn’t do nothing”
Double negative
God the quality of the 21st century!
To Mr/Mrs -1
Do you even understand literacy?
To be fair to Laura Dodsworth, her article was written in response to a New York Times article titled, “The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?“, to which Laura Dodsworth’s response is that masks were worse than doing nothing, hence the legitimate double negative.
Whilst double negatives are often awkward, there is nothing grammatically incorrect about them. It is only when they are incorrectly used in phrases like, “I didn’t do nuffink.” that they break the rules.
Dinger, you have misquoted the headline of the Laura Dodsworth article. You’ve quoted it as:
“Mask mandates didn’t do nothing”
But the headline has ‘nothing’ in quotation marks:
“Mask mandates didn’t do ‘nothing’.”
Therefore it’s crystal clear and grammatically correct.
“Whatever happened to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine trial in pregnant women?”
Must have slipped down the back of the settee
“Los Angeles has first blizzard warning in decades”
CLIMATE CHANGE!
shout it from the rooftops! It also happened in 1989, not exactly ancient history
“Who killed the car industry?”
Answer: the car industry!
Grow some balls and fight! Stop keep taking it, own it!
In other news Singapore’s highly jabbed pop. suffering massive excess deaths. 25%. Another bull elephant dropping onto big pharmafia’s battered Trabant which somehow keeps puttering along. Maybe Sir Jeremy Farrar will save the day yet. Must dash – want to see the latest episode of Pfizer sponsored soap ‘Correlation Street’.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/state-repression-and-the-short-straight-lines/
“When we see states using not logic but an emotionalised rhetorical pretence of logic, and not law but a pretence of law, to smear, isolate and destroy their targets while discouraging bystanders from any thought of solidarity; when we see states instilling and then leveraging hate (against cartoonified Trump, Putin, anti-vaxxers, climate/election-deniers) and love (e.g., for Zelensky, Fauci, ‘Love Gov’ Cuomo, Hollywood icons, media influencers) to motivate the public to do evil and to acquiesce to evil being done all around them, we recognise the 20th century arsenal being adapted for the 21st.”
A cracking article. Worth reading in full as we say round these parts.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/25/the-world-is-ending-buckle-up/
An extremely gloomy but unfortunately highly probable appraisal of the state of our world with some excellent further links. I would urge people to read this.
https://www.shrewviews.com/p/no-other-explanation
Todd Hayen’s excellent Substack and an article on the depopulation agenda.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-politics-of-environmental-fundamentalism
An outstanding article from Simon Elmer (Architects for Social Housing) and anybody who reads this and still claims not to understand what’s going on is beyond puddled.
Brilliant.