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by Ian Macleod
1 May 2023 12:01 AM

  • “We have to get away from the blame game” – During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on the offensive when asked about anything he may have got wrong during the pandemic, reports the Daily Wire.
  • “15-minute cities are ‘complete impoverishment and enslavement of all the people’” – Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament, believes that Covid passports and QR codes that became widespread during the pandemic were only test runs for implementing 15-minute cities aimed at tightening government control over people, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “No, Washington Post, the experts were the whole problem” – In Brownstone, John Tamny argues that “the remarkable knowledge of very few very smart people will never measure up to the collective knowledge of the citizenry”, rebutting a recent piece by the Post’s editorial board which suggested greater government intervention would have saved lives during Covid.
  • “The pertinent question isn’t whether masks work but why masking didn’t prove to be highly effective in the most rigorous studies” – Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Centre at Brown University School of Public Health, circles an answer – or at least a question – in the New York Times.  
  • “Gulf states poised to bail Britain out of energy crisis” – Bahrain and the UAE courted by Energy Secretary Grant Shapps for fresh nuclear investment, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?” – The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has big ambitions for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Just Stop Oil leaders hold secret training sessions for would-be eco zealots” – Leaders of the eco-fanatic group ran mindfulness training sessions for rookie activists to help them cope with being yelled at by furious members of the public, as they plan a summer of mayhem, reports MailOnline.
  • “Sunak is pulling the plug on the North Sea – watch U.K. oil drain away” – Windfall taxes on oil and gas producers will prevent us from bolstering Britain’s energy security, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Vegan with axe to grind leaves barrage of malicious ‘fake reviews’” – Calls for change in the law to stop false information being posted online that could have a “devastating effect on victims”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “The Guardian’s shameful double standards” – It’s the first to cry racism at other publications’ cartoons. So why the blind spot, asks Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
  •  “Barbie’s maker is just playing at ‘inclusivity’” – The launch of a Down’s syndrome doll looks suspiciously like box-ticking, says Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.
  • “The liberal Brexit dream is dying, as a declinist Europhile establishment takes over” – We have forgotten the basic rules of economic growth, while nimble economies such as South Korea gradually overtake us, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
  • “Hand-wringing over history won’t change it” – Almost everyone will have people in their family tree who were bigots, writes Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times.
  • “Why ‘woke’ doesn’t have the moral high ground” – In the Spectator Australia, John R. MacArthur explores why the much-overused “woke” has been remarkably resistant to criticism, reason and even ridicule.
  • “Teaching union set to demand more freedom to ‘educate’ young children on their gender identity” – School leaders are calling on Government guidance for teaching gender identity and ‘biological sex’ to be changed to make it easier for them to discuss trans issues with young children, according to GB News.
  • “DEI’s new battleground: the U.S. military” – For generations, colour-blindness and meritocracy have helped make the U.S. military the strongest in the world. But now our military is being bogged down and distracted by a woke agenda, says Christian Watson in the Washington Examiner.
  • “Women’s rights activists led by Posie Parker face off with pro-trans campaigners during rally at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park” – Police were forced to keep gender-critical activists and pro-trans protesters apart from each other at a rally in London today, reports MailOnline.
  • “Transgender pupils will be barred from competing against children of opposite biological sex in PE lessons under new Government plans” – The guidance, which is expected to be released within the next few weeks, will apply to all state and independent single-sex schools in England, according to MailOnline.
  • “BLM activist ruined white University of Virginia student’s reputation over ‘misheard’ remark: report” – A well-known Black Lives Matter activist allegedly ruined a fellow University of Virginia student’s reputation, accusing her of referring to George Floyd protesters as “speed bumps” and threatening to run them over – only to later admit she may have “misheard” the offending comments, reports the New York Post.
  • “‘Transabelism’: latest trans trend sees people identifying as disabled” –  Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) is now being labelled as transableism to better align it with the transgender community, according to the Post Millennial.
  • “Have we just witnessed peak liberalism?” – Watch model Chrissy Teigen channel her inner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she swans her way to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “with her servants trailing behind her to hold her dress”.

The below video reminds me of that COVID-era video of a huge team of masked servants getting AOC ready for the Met Gala by working on her hair, nails, feet, and dress while she and her boyfriend lounged around unmasked: https://t.co/33sL77c9qC pic.twitter.com/aVYVFUtxs9

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 30, 2023

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Has the world always been this nuts?

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David101
David101
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

I think humans have always been nuts. It’s an unfortunate side effect of having a high IQ. We want to monitor and control everything around us – and when that very human desire gets into politics and giant corporate entities you have the recipe for something that looks a lot like a nefarious conspiracy, but is really just an outgrowth of our evolutionary prerogative to control and become more aware of our immediate environment.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  David101

What’s an “evolutionary prerogative”?

Certainly humans are intelligent – I heard they have a million times the reasoning power of the most intelligent animal – certainly you’ll never get an animal completing a Guardian crossword or producing a car (though saying that, animals can be exceptionally good at certain things).

Certainly man has a tendency to control and spoil things he turns his hand to. Perhaps it was for this reason that we had the Tower of Babel incident – with man divided into many languages, it would be more difficult to impose bad ideas on the whole of mankind. Certainly it is a concern if unethical corporations (such as Pfizer), or China’s WHO get the power to impose their will around the world.

I’m not sure that I agree with the eugenicist elitist utilitarian idea of dividing people according to “IQ. In any case, diet and lifestyle have a considerable impact on people’s scores on these “IQ” tests. I suggest that if people are clever enough to learn something as complex as speaking and writing the English language (or for that matter Mandarin), they are capable of learning most things fairly well. And even if people do badly on “iq” tests, there are lots of other things they may be good at.

And by the way, keep eating those nuts (and seeds) – very good for you, especially apricot kernels..

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  David101

So you have no worries about evil intent? Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot were just an outgrowth of evolutionary prerogative?

You should eat a nice steak and think some more about this.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Yes..but there wasn’t the instant media, so we were blessedly saved from most of it…
We also didn’t use to live in a world where mediocrity was so valued…

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

We have to get away from the blame game”

…says man who is to blame..

Last edited 2 years ago by NeilParkin
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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Vegan with axe to grind leaves barrage of malicious ‘fake reviews’”

More law, more law to counteract the effects of the last law, law upon law…

What we need is considerably less law. What is it in our current experience, that convinces people that the Government is competent to write laws that are fair and comprehensive, and more to the point, necessary for us to live our lives. Return to the common law, now!

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Big X
Big X
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Have we just witnessed peak liberalism?”

Of course not. Just when you think they’ve run out of steam, they manage to come up with another level of jaw-dropping nonsense, and try to foist it on us…

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Who the hell is Chrissy Teigen? Never heard of her. Watching this video reminds me of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Everyone looking on in some sort of feigned adulation as she walks around in a negligee, showing off as much of her body as she can in vain attempt to be relevant. It’s just empty-headed nonsense. Meanwhile, vast parts of the US suffer from drug addiction, homelessness and poverty.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Quite agree, and I’ve never heard of her either but I don’t spend time on social media following vacuous entities and their meaningless drivel. And who would deem such an outfit appropriate for a White House do anyway? I can smell the familiar whiff of desperation from all the way over here..Get some class, lady!

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Women’s rights activists led by Posie Parker face off with pro-trans campaigners during rally at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park”

Bless you and your companions Posie. I fear the only way this will ever be dealt with is revolution. She’s putting herself right on the front line.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?”

You have to hand it to them. The perseverance they are showing in trying to push forward some half arsed nonsense that wont work but cost a fortune, so quickly after very similar half arsed nonsense that wont work but cost a fortune is admirable, but somewhat misplaced.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Won’t work, can’t work, they’re claiming to solve a problem which doesn’t exist in the first place!

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

First we were the Saudi Arabia of Wind. Then we were the Saudi Arabia of Carbon Capture. I find it very sad that no-one thought of making us the Saudi Arabia of Oil and Natural Gas…

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The Saudi Arabia of incompetent autocracy.
We would be in with a great chance of success there, at least.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

👍🤣

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YouDontSay
YouDontSay
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The UK was the Saudi Arabia of coal for quite a while.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Spot on. And if it cost a groat and was entirely successful, it would be existentially dangerous.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The cost is the point. All these nonsense schemes have to cost a fortune, it is one of the ways of stripping people of any wealth they might have.

Impoverishment of the masses is very much a central tenet of the reset and sadly very few people have awoken to this fact.

The elites are seeking to own everything on the planet and ultimately it will reach a point where we own F A and they have the lot. We won’t be happy though.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Exactly, HP. It’s us who has to pay for all this nonsense at the end of the day.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-victim-of-electromagnetic-waves-and-wilful-ignorance/

When this information starts to gain traction the “disinformation” mobs will go in to overdrive.

Very disturbing.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

IRELAND’S ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH

“Last November the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill was presented to the Irish Oireachtas. Among other things, the bill was written…

to provide for an offence of condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace

Other offences under the act would include [emphasis added]:

possessing material likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics

“Denying or trivialising” and “likely to incite hatred” are the phrases which should give everyone pause there. Dangerously vague political language.

Further, if you do possess material “likely to incite hatred”, you will have to prove you didn’t intend it for that purpose, or be assumed guilty.

In any proceedings for an offence under this section, where it is proved that the accused person was in possession of material such as is referred to in subsection (1) and it is reasonable to assume that the material was not intended for the personal use of the person, the person shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been in possession of the material in contravention of subsection (1).

Overthrowing the presumption of innocence which is the bedrock of any fair justice system.

The reason this bill is freshly in the news is that, this past week, Irish MPs introduced an amendment to include the protection of free speech guaranteed in the UN’s Convention of Human Rights. This amendment was voted down, there will be no protection of free speech in the bill.”

I don’t think the word “horrific” is too strong to summarise my views on this.

We are at War.

From the excellent Off-G.

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/30/this-week-in-the-new-normal-62/

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

…read an article that said it’s not impossible that if you watch ‘alternative media’…say Joe Rogan, and he says something controversial, then because it’s on your computer you are the guilty one! In other words only MSM, and nothing else!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Stuck for words ebg.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://youtu.be/fFWst8c_Cvk

Dogtanian.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

LOL! Juliet!! Blast from the past….

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Thanks 👍

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Good news, the jab mandate to enter Fortress Amerika will finally be lifted on May 11. Two years too late, but better late than never:

https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/biden-ends-covid-vaccine-mandates-for-feds-and-flyers/

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