- “Joe Biden may be forced to declassify intelligence into COVID-19 origins” – Joe Biden is under pressure to declassify all U.S. intelligence about the origins of COVID-19 after the House and Senate voted unanimously for the information to be released, the Telegraph reports.
- “Scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory ‘as they feared ban on high-risk experiments’” – Scientists dismissed the COVID-19 lab leak theory because they wanted to continue doing dangerous ‘gain-of-function’ experiments to make viruses more deadly, Anton van der Merwe, a Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Simon Case warned Boris Johnson of the ‘terrible’ consequences of lockdown” – WhatsApp messages obtained by the Telegraph show how Simon Case, the country’s most senior civil servant, insisted “we have to be brutally honest with people” over the consequences of lockdown – including the effects on “non-Covid health”, mental health, education and jobs. He wasn’t arguing against doing it though.
- “Was Sweden right about Covid all along?” – The land of common sense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data” – Michael Simmons in the Speccie with a deep dive into the mortality data that show, whichever way you cut it, Sweden wins.
- “First do no harm” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson suggest that the option to do nothing is underrated.
- “Ukrainian healthcare is better than the NHS” – Despite the war, you can still see a doctor when you need to – no wonder refugees go back for treatment, writes Maria Chaplia in the Telegraph.
- “Iatrogenic deaths: was it mishandling society or mishandling Covid?” – El Gato Malo looks at U.S. excess deaths in 2020 by climate zone and concludes that the death spikes are connected with the virus, but a large proportion of such deaths are likely due to faulty treatment protocols.
- “Three Dots: Well, that was weird…” – Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse report on the evidence that the former and Matt Taibbi gave before the House Committee on the Weaponisation of Government this week.
- “Anatomy of the sinister Covid Project, Part 5” – Paula Jardine in TCW tracks the development of military virus and vaccine research in the years leading up to the pandemic and its connection with SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA inoculations.
- “Lockdown-loving bishops, where is your remorse?” – The egregious failure of the Church of England’s bishops to question, let alone resist, the Covid dictatorship must not be overlooked, writes Julian Mann in TCW.
- “BBC is caught in fresh impartiality row over new David Attenborough show that will not be aired on regular TV amid claims that Beeb bosses ‘fear rightwing backlash’” – A Wild Isles episode that focuses on themes of the destruction of nature across the U.K. reportedly won’t be broadcast to fend off criticism from the Right, according to the Mail.
- “The Green Economy’s Heart of Darkness” – There is no such thing as clean cobalt, writes Noel Yaxley in Compact Magazine.
- “Bit of an eco-hypocrite, Leo! Jet loving DiCaprio heads to green fashion awards in LA – after travelling 12,000 miles in two weeks to chase models in Europe” – The actor has proven to be something of an eco-hypocrite once again for heading to a green fashion event in LA after clocking up 12,000 airmiles in two weeks, the Mail reports.
- “‘Misgendering’ is not a crime” – Still less is it terrorism, writes Tim Dieppe in the Critic, marking the acquittal on appeal of Christian street preacher Dave McConnell after he was previously convicted of the spurious crime of ‘misgendering’.
- “Ofsted chief’s warning over explicit sex education lessons” – Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Ofsted, tells the Telegraph she has warned the Government that the current relationships and sex education (RSE) guidance places no limit on what can be taught.
- “The Thing That Swallowed Britain” – Dan Hitchens writes in Compact Magazine about ‘the Thing’: “That combination of postmodern identity theory, religious fervour, pseudo-therapeutic ’empathy’, dogmatic moralism, private bullying and ritualised public humiliation which has swept through Western societies over the last decade.”
- “Colonialism and the culture wars with Nigel Biggar” – In the CapX podcast, Professor Nigel Biggar addresses the question, How bad was the British Empire?
- “ChatCCP? – The ‘Know-It-All With Flair’– Chatbot’s Hidden Agenda” – Randall Bock suspects an ulterior motive to the AI technology.
- “The rise of hyper-tokenism” – Why do TV shows insist on presenting Britain as far more ‘diverse’ than it actually is, asks Patrick West in Spiked.
- “J.K. Rowling-backed petition for Government to make clear that ‘sex means biological sex, not sex as modified by gender recognition certificate’ in Equality Act will be debated in Parliament” – The Harry Potter author was among those to support the proposal which seeks to “make it clear” that “sex” and “gender reassignment” are separate protected characteristics, the Mail reports.
- “BBC faces revolt after Gary Lineker told to step down over migrant Nazi jibe” – Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have refused to appear on Saturday’s flagship football show after the corporation said the presenter breached its guidelines on the use of social media, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup” – The BBC knows that “if it allows big names to wax lyrical on politics, in defiance of the rules, then it would have no way of stopping other Beeb people from using this licence payer-funded entity as a personal soapbox,” writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “If Gary Lineker says things like this in future, will it cause financial loss for the BBC? I think maybe” – Watch Toby on GB News discuss the free speech nuances of Lineker’s provocative social media output.
‘If Gary Lineker says things like this in future, will it cause financial loss for the BBC? I think maybe.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 10, 2023
Toby Young addresses the ‘difficult nuances’ of Gary Lineker being asked to ‘step back’ from his Match of the Day role.GB News YouTube: https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/75kz1ZcFfa
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I have stated more than once on DS that as far as I am concerned once cash goes it is game over. I see no evidence suggesting I am wrong.
I agree with you HP. We are few though and they are many. Unless we have an Ace up our sleeve, we’re goonered. I continue to use cash when I can and luckily most places down where I live take it but go to London and you might as well be handing them flapjacks. The arguments against cash continue to proliferate and the main thrust of these arguments seems to be about the bother of cash, the inconvenience of it in some sort of Orwellian double-take because if the internet is down or the card machine not connecting then cash is the only convenient exchange for goods etc!! Although stamps now appear with Chuckles on them, I haven’t seen any coins with his head on them – this should tell us all we need to know!
Thanks Aethelred. I must admit that I have heard that Chuckles does not have his head on our coinage so that tells a tale.
(I know where I’d like to see his head.)
I always use cash. Fortunately, up here amongst the dark, satanic mills nobody is currently refusing cash. That I know of.
Good to know that cash is still alive out in the sticks.
The less I see Chuckles’ head the better I think! Better not think too much about his head actually, especially in view of his ancestral namesake!
Sorry to disabuse you both – King Chuck’s head is now on coinage, I got some from the post office the other day. Although both the PO chap & me said that after so many decades of Queenie, somehow it was just wrong….
Chuckles on a coin with a WEF background!
100% agree that it’s massively important.
“ask whether a libertarian approach could help”
I’ve got strong libertarian tendencies, but expecting a large powerful state to have such tendencies is pie in the sky and historically hasn’t been the case. Recent events suggest to me that liberty is most effectively preserved by making tyrannical measures logistically hard to enforce, and by the mass of citizens simply refusing to comply.
I think we’re well aware here on this forum, because we are not stupid (which “anonymous IT reporter” seems to think we are), that cash facilitates crime. Lots of things that make liberty safer also make criminals life easier, but I am more worried about the government committing crimes than I am about small increases in crime. Perhaps improving detection and much longer, punitive prison sentences might be a better approach.
My view on cash crimes, which after all tend to centre on tax avoidance, have certainly become more liberalised shall we say, these last four years.
Crimes with biggest financial impact all done by corporates and governments without cash.
Facilitates crime is a red herring. All so-called human or basic rights limit what government is allowed to do. As they’re universal, this necessarily means all criminals have them, too. And because they’re criminals, they might end up using them for criminal purposes. But since nobody, including the government, has a priori knowledge of which people are criminals and which actions will turn out to be criminal, this simply can’t be helped. Either people have rights. Then, criminals will have them, too. Or people have no rights. Then, everything becomes a lot easier for government, including dealing with criminals. Says the government, at least. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Minority Report!
What is your evidence you are right?
CBDC’s will be part one of…
‘You will own nothing…’
Once the kinks and bumps are ironed out slavery is inevitable. It doesn’t take any intellectual prowess to work that out.
Yes the removal of cash per se doesn’t perhaps lead to disaster – it’s what comes after which is the replacement of money handled by private banks with a CDBC where all transactions go through (eventually) World Government. It’s another “utopian” solution that will lead to the opposite of utopia. I’m rather afraid that “Anonymous IT Reporter” is a closet utopianist who still has some misplaced faith in human nature.
Maybe we will end up trading in other items, out of ‘the system’ if you like. I am just being optimistic, it is Friday after all.
Yup check out Redacted on Rumble, look for the WEF video where they interview Whitney Webb on CBDCs for the latest on their push to eliminate cash. Whitney is a proper journalist, you wouldn’t get Peston or any BBC journalist asking the real questions that she does.
Thanks Ron.
Thanks for the link, Ron. I’ve watched it now & it is truly disturbing. We are certainly heading for the precipice like lemmings but we are being kept in the dark by the MSM except for forums like this.
Completely pointless article.
As I wrote in a past comment, most so-called ‘crimes’ involving cash transactions are more properly described as financial transactions the government doesn’t agree with, either because of tax evasion or because of violations of government rules on trades of goods, eg, buying illegal drugs. The government has an obvious interest in making such transactions impossible by assuming that every transaction is principally meant to violate some law unless proven otherwise, ie, forcing all economical transactions under blanket government surveillance and enabling the government to deny those it doesn’t like.
When everybody has the right and the ability to engage in economic activity without prior government approval, ‘criminals’ will obviously have it, too. But that’s similar to approaching people in the street: Absent Corona rules, that’s usually allowed. Hence, criminals can do it, too. Corona measures must thus urgently be reintroduced to fight crime. Says an anonymous IT reporter. And the answer is “Get stuffed!”. Emphatically.
Brilliant demolition of nonsense arguments.
I think the people who can get a bank account but don’t want one, should get together with those who can’t and want one.
Maybe betwixt the two groups something can be worked out?
The problem in Britain – and it is a problem – is thanks to welfare statism, many believe services are free. But every activity has a cost and that includes banking.
The banks made a rod for their own backs by offering free banking, the concept being the cash-float the bank would have in current accounts could be invested, cover operating costs and yield a return.
As so many expenses have increased over the years, this model doesn’t work anymore. Instead of introducing bank charges – the way it used to be – they have reduced services.
The answer is to introduce charges, so non-profitable accounts aren’t a loss, and those who prefer cash, which is expensive to handle, can pay an extra fee for this with banks and retailers.
There is plenty of shoplifting going on and it ain’t just cash. food, jewellery etc. I bought a car for cash yesterday, just over 2k….The first I’ve ever had delivered before viewing because Billy no mates has nobody to drive him to the garage! Because I don’t do online banking and the trader didn’t have a card machine, I just said I’d pay extra for the delivery providing the car is the condition that was claimed. So I had to drive 20 miles to my nearest Bank branch and because I know the girl who counted my money she asked “buying anything nice”….So I told her. Come to think of it, I wonder if she was obliged to ask because you hear a lot of stories of Banks asking what you’re doing with your own money.
CASH IS KING USE IT OR LOSE IT!
When I first started working I was paid weekly in cash. It was only since the 1980s that employers started insisting employees have bank accounts. And of course there’s been no non cash financial crime committed since that happened has there!
I am Treasurer of a small Not For Profit which, for very old legal reasons which we can’t change, is a Limited Company.
I recently tried to switch our bank account to Lloyds for various very legitimate reasons but without success. The application can only be made online and if you cannot comply with their requirements/enter data TO THE LETTER the application will be automatically rejected.
We can’t comply TO THE LETTER – not least because they require exactly 100% of Shares to be allocated and the Shareholder identified – and we have 19 Shares. 19 into 100 works out at 5.26 and about 8 other decimal places% each …… and they only permit 2 decimal places ….. so we will never be able to honestly comply with their requirements!
Another problem which couldn’t be overcome was their requirement for every Shareholder’s email address and mobile phone number to be entered. A number of Shareholders are very elderly and have neither …. so they couldn’t be entered.
Despite several conversations with several “the-computer-says-no” so-called customer service personnel the impasse could not be overcome.
In my personal life, I am using cash as much as I possibly can. I am part of the “awkward squad” which is doing its level best to prevent the imposition of CBDCs and a social credit system. I ditched my Nectar card several years ago, the only store card I’ve ever had: my data is not for sale for a penny or two off my shopping.