- “NHS productivity lags as recruitment fails to keep pace with demand” – Despite increasing staff numbers, services in England are struggling to match pre-pandemic treatment levels, reports the FT.
- “Majority of Covid hospital deaths were due to untreated bacterial pneumonia” – U.S. Hospitals sticking to the strict hand-me-down, highly profitable ‘Covid protocol’ may have doomed a majority of the patients admitted with COVID-19 who went on to die, says the Epoch Times.
- “Fight this sinister power grab by the unelected, unaccountable WHO” – Liz Evans of the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance raises the alarm about the Pandemic Treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations in TCW: Defending Freedom.
- “Fury at Starmer plan to block new North Sea oil and gas projects” – Industry, business and political leaders in the northeast of Scotland have unleashed a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s “deeply unserious” plans to block new North Sea oil and gas projects, reports the Times.
- “Woke GP clinic slammed for asking parents if their baby is trans non-binary” – A GP surgery is under fire for asking parents to say if their baby is trans or non-binary, according to the Sun.
- “Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin” – The BBC is finally getting round to investigating the lab leak hypothesis. Only three years late!
- “€600m budget needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet climate goals” – The Irish Independent has uncovered Government documents showing that the EU expects Irish dairy farmers to cull 65,000 cows a year to meet climate targets.
- “Upheaval Interview: Matthew B. Crawford” – An interview with philosopher and author Matthew B. Crawford in N.S. Lyons’s superb Substack, The Upheaval.
- “The university union may be beyond redemption” – According to Professor Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator, the UCU is now worse than useless.
- “Moment furious motorist drives through Just Stop Oil mob” – A motorist has been videoed telling Just Stop Oil protestors he will run them over after the eco-clowns targeted a number of London’s bridges for rush hour this evening, reports the Mail.
- “Lord of the Rings fans are angered by a black Aragorn in new card game” – A furious dispute has erupted among fans of The Lord of the Rings over a decision to make the fictional character Aragorn black – or, rather, Black – in a new collectible card game, says the Mail.
- “Cover-up row over ministers’ WhatsApps” – The Government is withholding messages to the Covid inquiry to protect Rishi Sunak, says Boris Johnson ally, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid inquiry head is a rare example of a public servant doing her job – and ministers are running scared” – Isabel Oakeshott is impressed by Baroness Hallett, the woman leading the official Covid inquiry who has asked to see ministers’ WhatsApps messages.
- “National Trust Chair opens door to restitution of colonial treasures” – National Trust Chair René Olivieri says the organisation is developing a restitution policy following calls for the return of colonial artefacts, reports the Telegraph. Let’s hope it doesn’t have any Benin Bronzes!
- “At 34, Jon has incurable bowel cancer – all because the NHS turned into a Covid-only service” – Jon Chapple’s diagnosis was delayed due to the pandemic, says Allison Pearson. Now his only hope is to raise money so he can be treated in Germany.
- “Ron DeSantis says he will ‘destroy leftism’ in U.S. if elected president” – The Florida Governor tells Fox News that two terms in the White House should be enough for him to consign woke-ism to the dustbin of history.
- “Decolonising the countryside and other news from Year Zero” – Guest column by the redoubtable Emma Webb in Konstantin Kisin’s Substack.
- “Statement on AI Risk” – A ‘we-the-undersigned’ letter from various scientists and researchers warning of the dangers of AI. Steve Sailer points out a flaw in the reasoning of these alarmists.
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“National Trust Chair René Olivieri says the organisation is developing a restitution policy following calls for the return of colonial artefacts, reports the Telegraph. Let’s hope it doesn’t have any Benin Bronzes!”
Why? Send it all back! We’ve got plenty of our own interesting stuff.
The National Trust’s only reason to exist is to conserve what they have, in most cases, been given by the owners. That is, they hold the nation’s heritage “in trust.” Imagine a trust fund for an orphaned child deciding off its own back that the inheritance was earned unjustly, and so giving it away.
Yes, but the Benin Bronzes are not really our inheritance, are they? Maybe I am a philistine but I really don’t care about stuff from Africa. I suppose it would be sad if nice foreign paintings got sent back to Holland or France – but this is unlikely as those are all by white people.
Everything came from somewhere else, even us. How far back do they wish to go with their restitution policy? One hundred, two hundred, three hundred years? Or just back to the days of slavery? Has anyone actually seen the Benin Bronzes? My great grandfather was a soldier and he was in Africa in the last years of the 19th century. He had a few artefacts and now I have a few. Many years ago, I had the idea of returning these to the country of origin. I actually flew to the country in question and visited the centre of where these artefacts came from, way out in the true Africa away from the coast. I went to its pitiful museum and talked with the curator. I showed him pictures of these artefacts. He was keen to have them. When I got back, I called an old school friend whose family had been in that part of Africa for many years. I told him what I intended to do and he said ‘Don’t. They’ll just sell them.’ That might have been true but I still have them with me. The thing is that most parts of Africa are poor and they need the dosh. They can’t indulge in museums to look after the artefacts – that might be a rather sweeping statement but in essence, anyone who has been to Africa, will know that this tends to be the case. So, although the idea of giving everything back is at heart a noble desire to appease one’s guilt, the fact that the artefacts reside in a place where many more people have access to them and can appreciate them is maybe a better thing. I don’t know.
I agree about the access. My desire to see them sent back is nothing to do with nobility or guilt, I just want to be left alone. The Africans can do what they like with them – in fact if they melt them down and upset virtue signalling white people then so much the better.
Yes, that ‘noble’ and ‘guilt’ thing is meant to be ironic.
Steve Sailer is usually worth reading. Depressing stuff generally. Steve Sailer Archive – The Unz Review There’s a big BTL comments section with decent quality debate.
He was shaky on covid though.
“Isabel Oakeshott is impressed by Baroness Hallett, the woman leading the official Covid inquiry who has asked to see ministers’ WhatsApps messages.”
It may be that Hallett is sincerely doing a job she thinks needs doing, but the questions she won’t be asking (was there a pandemic, can lockdowns ever be justified) are the only really important ones.
Regarding the article above about a black Aragorn, we went to see the new Disney movie The Little Mermaid yesterday and she was played by a black actress. Actually all of her sisters were from every ethnicity possible, lol. Personally I have no problem with fictional characters being cast as a different ethnicity to the original, it’s the characters based on actual historical figures, such as the recent Cleopatra, where it all gets a bit ridiculous.
Very good new paper taking a retrospective look at the plandemic and focusing on the many reasons for the breakdown of trust between the public and authorities that is now evident as a result of us being continually lied to and abused.
”Another driver of people’s growing distrust of science has been the experience of adverse events following administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The adverse event rate is significantly higher than any previous vaccines, including those previously withdrawn due to safety concerns.
For example, during the swine flu epidemic of 1976–1977 in the U.S., less than 500 reported cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) were sufficient to halt the vaccination program out of 40 million vaccines administered. The prevalence of GBS following swine flu vaccination (5–10 cases per million doses) is comparable to the GBS rate for COVID-19 vaccines, where estimates range from 1.8 to 53.2 cases/million doses. This is just one of the many safety signals associated with COVID-19 vaccines.
Safety concerns being dismissed by public health agencies without sufficient evidentiary basis to rule out these dangers violates the bedrock bioethical principle of informed consent [171]. Considering the harms that have come to light as a result of post-marketing surveillance, the data at the time of approval was obviously insufficient to show safety, meaning that all recipients of the COVID-19 vaccines were, by definition, unable to give fully informed consent.”
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8430/3/2/23
Indeed. And we know nobody who was warned of anything other than the usual – sore arm, might feel a bit fluey. Whereas the Pfizer docs listed over 1200 side effects, many extremely serious &/or life threatening.
The whole medical profession failed us. Don’t expect that to change. My wife had a post cancer CT scan a year back. Pumped her full of iodine. Came down with acute Hyperthyroidism. A known side effect – was she warned? No, was she hell. Add to that, she has very small veins. So they struggled to find one in the arm they should have used. So shot her right arm full of it. Despite her notes saying clearly NOTHING was to be done intravenously into her right arm. as all the lymph nodes were removed when she had breast cancer surgery. She told them not to, and they just did it. She was sick as a dog for months. Hyperthyroidism is horrible. So at the next one, they gave her half as much – same again.
My advice? Keep healthy, avoid the NHS except for trauma. They are good at emergencies, and such as Orthopaedics – but cancer, bloody hell. Friend of ours diagnosed with prostate cancer in September has ye to receive his first treatment, EIGHT months later.
The NHS is gone. Look after yourself.
This is a good article, written off the back of the viral ”nobody’s safe until everybody’s safe” video. Highlights the sheer absurdities that we were, and still are, meant to accept just because an alleged ”expert” says so. And it’s any wonder there is now growing public distrust and a decline in general vaccine uptake is the natural consequence?
”That brings us back to nobody is safe until everyone is safe.
Ostensibly, the meaning behind this mantra preached by everyone from the President of the United States down to commentators on late night tv was that the vaccine would not protect us from Covid-19 until we had all received it. It could also be inferred as: this medicine is the first in history that doesn’t begin to work for you until everyone else has had it.
Given what we have seen of the shifting goal posts of what it meant to be ‘fully vaccinated’ and ‘protected’, everyone who chanted along with this mantra has blood on their hands for anyone and everyone who has died or suffer some form of adverse event from the injection.I think it could more correctly be said that everybody was safe until we were told time and time again that nobody was safe.”
https://lawhealthandtech.substack.com/p/the-unvaccinated-were-never-the-problem
“Decolonising the countryside and other news from Year Zero” The onslaught against our culture continues only it now turns its attention towards the mainly white, middle class countryside full of rose gardens, cream teas and nostalgia. The war drums of change beat mercilessly – everything has to go, everything must change to reflect modern Britain and its diverse population…only it isn’t. Britain, England, UK, Great Britain or whatever you want to call it is still, the last time I looked, a predominantly white Christian culture. That’s not a racist statement, that’s just how it is. Those who wish to bin our history, our traditions, our culture and the rest are the progressive woke tribe. They want us to apologise for how we are and for what our ancestors did. That mahogany chair is a symbol of oppression, tea is a symbol of oppression, cream is too white and fatty, that painting depicts a mainly white motif of white supremacist thinking…and on and on and bloody on it goes like a tank crushing Spode teapots and strawberry jam jars under its metal tracks. What it wishes to replace it with is never as good. A mish-mash, some quite good but some truly awful, and we are meant to applaud – how inclusive we are, how virtuous…no, after you, let’s plant bougainvillea in Northumberland and palm trees in Sheffield – to replace all the trees that the council cut down – let’s have a Last Night of the Poms (intended) and consign ourselves to the back seats so we can play an increasingly smaller part in our own society and watch as it is transformed before our very eyes into a ghastly chaotic amalgamation of every minor ethnic group that ever had the good fortune to be washed up upon these accepting and tolerant shores. Let’s cut down the rose gardens, get rid of the ancient apple orchards, cut down English oaks and plant mahogany trees…it’s gone full on Saruman the White : ‘Burn it, burn it all!’ At the bottom of the substack article – thankfully not behind a paywall – are the comments and the best one I saw was the first one and it said:
I miss the 90ties… People were stupid in private then.
A terrific post Aethelred.
Thanks, HP
“Majority of Covid hospital deaths were due to untreated bacterial pneumonia”
People putting their trust in hospitals and dying unnecessarily makes my blood boil.
Wonder if these vaxxed but ”positive” peeps will be going home to inadvertently kill Granny, FFS!
”A COVID-19 outbreak unfolded at a conference held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) despite most attendees being vaccinated.
About 1,800 CDC staffers and others gathered in April in a hotel in Atlanta, where the CDC is headquartered, for a conference focused on epidemiological investigations and strategies.
On April 27, the last day of the conference, several people notified organizers that they had tested positive for COVID-19. The CDC and the Georgia Department of Public Health worked together to survey attendees to try to figure out how many people had tested positive.
“The goals were to learn more about transmission that occurred and add to our understanding as we transition to the next phase of COVID-19 surveillance and response,” the CDC said in a May 26 statement.
Approximately 80 percent of attendees filled out the survey. Among those, 181 said they tested positive for COVID-19.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/most-infected-in-covid-outbreak-at-cdc-were-vaccinated-agency-confirms_5297678.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=DrLoupis&src_src=partner&src_
I wonder if there was a session to discuss the incidental findings of the Cleveland hospital study that the more COVID injections someone receives the more likely they are to be infected. Probably not.
I have seen an article that stated 99.4% of respondents to the survey were ‘vaccinated’.
“€600m budget needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet climate goals”
If you think what’s happening in Holland is bad ,wait and see what will happen in Ireland when the irish farmers kick off! I’ve spoken to many of them and the concensus is “if they try this, we explode!”
This will be their last straw if this maniacle irish coalition government headed by the puppet master Eamon Ryan gets its way!
And I for one will be joining any protests to stop it, along with the vast majority of the non farming community I suspect!
I hope Ireland does kick off because I suspect there is no shortage of armaments across the Emerald Isle.
What are they going to do with carcasses!?
Burn them, Bury them! While half the world is staving! Just to save co2?
“How dare you” (greta)
Good Morning all….I have never understood how hospitals in the US got away with this..as many people were calling it out from the beginning..(especially as Fauci probably had financial ‘skin in the game’ in relation to the manufacturers Gilead)
https://brownstone.org/articles/why-are-hospitals-still-using-remdesivir/
“Why Are Hospitals Still Using Remdesivir?Nobody believes in Remdesivir anymore. How can you possibly make a case for it? Remdesivir is so lethal it got nicknamed “Run Death Is Near” after it started killing thousands of Covid patients in the hospital. The experts claimed that Remdesivir would stop Covid; instead, it stopped kidney function, then blasted the liver and other organs.
When I heard that Remdesivir is still being used, I couldn’t believe it. How could hospitals be so brazen as to push this killer drug, even after the lawsuits started flying? Fourteen California families are now suing three hospitals, claiming their loved ones suffered wrongful deaths from what they call “the Remdesivir protocol.” Expect other lawsuits to follow, because the Remdesivir carnage was nationwide.
Allow me to translate the bureaucratese. “Even though we acknowledge the Covid emergency is over, the federal government will continue to pay lavish bonuses to hospitals who kill their patients with Remdesivir through the end of the fiscal year.”
Money; it all comes down to money. There’s SO much money in the Covid con game. The CARES Act of 2020 slathered $2 trillion across the country to deal with Covid, and lots of it went to hospitals. The 20 largest hospitals enjoyed a 62% increase in their combined net assets during those glorious Covid years, providing many top executives with a $10 million salary or more. “
The full article is worth a read…..
I had a look and it can still be used in the UK..but it looks as though there are appeals underway against its use….I suspect people will be given it all the same, and who ever thinks their doctors haven’t got their best interests at heart??
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PRN00453-RPS-ICCP-Remdesivir-and-molnupiravir-for-non-hosp-patients-with-COVID-19-May-2023.pdf
“Moment furious motorist drives through Just Stop Oil mob”
I see just stop oil still have their private bodyguard team, sorry police, walking along side them!
And let’s not forget this:
The Highways Act 1980 which states under section 137 (1): “If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to [imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or] a fine [or both].”
The Police are NOT upholding the law unless of course JSO have been GIVEN lawful authority. Next time a motorist gets frustrated push that in the Police officers’ (why not Constables?) faces and ask them why THEY are not doing their jobs.
Too right! The guy that tried to do the cops job for them gets arrested and the law breakers get protected! What a crazy mixed up world this is becoming
And what he heck is this, in your neck of the woods, Dinger? Next they’ll be putting warnings about diabetes on packs of red meat!
”May 22 (UPI) — Ireland has approved a new law making the country first in the world to require cancer warning labels on alcoholic beverages.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signed the Public Health Alcohol Labeling Regulations on Monday, which will require labels that show calorie content, grams of alcohol, risks of cancer and liver disease and the dangers of drinking while pregnant.
The law, however, won’t take effect until May 2026 to give businesses time to conform to the rules.
“I’ve signed the regulations so that … labels must contain details of calorie content, grams of alcohol and risks of liver disease and cancer,” Donnelly said in a statement posted to Twitter. In a separate statement to the country.
Donnelly noted the new labels would bring alcoholic beverages in line with other products that are already required to feature health risks on packaging.
“With that information, we can make an informed decision about our own alcohol consumption. Packaging of other food and drink products already contains health information and, where appropriate, health warnings. This law is bringing alcohol products into line with that.”
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/05/22/ireland-Ireland-cancer-warning-labels-alcohol/6151684757554/
It makes you weep! Why doesn’t Stephen Donnelly put labels alerting us to all foods that are good for us? That don’t cause any health problems?
Why weren’t warning labels put on covid vaccines? Or cars? Travelling in general?
Sleeping? Waking up? Walking? Breathing? LIVING?
It makes you sick! What’s it make you? Sick!
Commendable work by the furious motorist.
Of course what Fishy and the rest are hoping for is that a motorist will snap and plow through a herd of these useless morons. It will happen.
Well, it’s not all bad then?
https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/eu-issues/the-trial-of-prof-sucharit-bhakdi-who-is-trying-to-silence-the-leading-scientific-voice-warning-us-about-mrna-technology/
The Trial of Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi: Who is Trying to Silence the Leading Scientific Voice Warning us About mRNA Technology?
Interesting article about who the people are behind the complaints against Prof Bhakdi….and how they are still ‘out to get him’…..
Anyone who sails too close to the wind of truth is going to be nobbled. As the saying goes, you know you are over the target when you get the heaviest flak!
Matthew Crawford certainly sounds good, judging from your excerpt.
Kant is certainly needed to make sense of all the conflicting “science” thrown at us.
Yesterday evening we had the pleasure of the company of Ivor Cummins at our MD4CE meeting – what an absolute gentleman & he is excellent company, the sort of dinner guest who would be a joy to host – the recording of the meeting is most definitely worth your time. The conversations after his presentation were very interesting & Ivor explained how he has managed to remain on youtube & that Jacob Norgarden’s knowledge & research is vital to get out to inform who is behind all this evil & just how long in the planning it has been.
You can view the recording here: https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
..big fan of Ivor..one of the first ‘sceptics’ and sane voices I found at the beginning of the scam…
will have a listen later tonight, thanks….
So am I, became an even more respectful fan of him after the meeting. One is normally disappointed in the subject of one’s fandom – Ivor didn’t disappoint. A very humble & knowledgeable man who is open to learning.
https://www.technocracy.news/hohmann-the-entire-world-is-clamoring-for-a-global-pandemic-treaty/
Our future laid out for us. This is not pretty.
Dr. Suneel Dhand’s latest report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRax-QpCSw&list=WL&index=7 re. The increase in young people’s stroke increase. 9 1/2 minutes.
https://www.technocracy.news/german-outrage-over-the-countrys-oil-and-gas-boiler-ban/
It’s getting closer.
https://www.farminguk.com/news/labour-unveils-plan-to-give-councils-new-powers-to-buy-land-cheaply_62698.html
A short update on Kneel’s plans to destroy the farming industry and set the starvation train in motion.
WATCH MY LIPS! there is no such thing as artificial intelligence!