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by Toby Young
2 June 2023 2:02 AM

  • “Sacked civil servant wins £100,000 after reporting ‘Whitehall activism’” – A sacked civil servant received a settlement of £100,00 with the help of the Free Speech Union after she raised concerns about political activists operating in Whitehall and expressed her belief that people could not change sex, reports the Times.
  • “The Tories need to get serious about the Blob” – The Government has paid a whacking out-of-court settlement of £100,000 to Anna Thomas, a whistleblower sacked after she tried to warn them about the infiltration of the DWP by political activists. When are the Tories going to get serious about the woke blob, asks Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
  • “Retiring uni president hits out at students over ‘cancel culture’” – Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav was booed and heckled by students at Boston University on Sunday, and now their President has hit back, reports the Mail.
  • “Coca-Cola’s ‘Indigiqueer’ Pride workshops for kids” – Coca-Cola is kicking off Pride Month by sponsoring events for preteens that are taught by Native American ‘Indigiqueer’ activists, reports Spectator World. Another Bud Light scandal in the making?
  • “More insurers desert net-zero alliance as U.N. climate group sounds alarm” – Lloyd’s of London became the sixth organisation to quit a Net Zero alliance for insurers within 36 hours on Friday, according to Reuters.
  • “Australian garlic kills COVID-19, says Doherty Institute” – A variety of garlic demonstrates up to 99.9% efficacy against the coronavirus and common flu, reports the Australian Financial Review. Who needs vaccines?
  • “Covid inquiry threatened with court over Boris Johnson WhatsApps” – The Government is set to battle the official Covid inquiry in court as it fights against releasing Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and notebooks, reports the Times.
  • “Boris Johnson didn’t hand over phone he used for most of the pandemic” – Boris refused to hand over the phone he used for most of the pandemic to officials even though it may contain messages about lockdowns, says the Times.
  • “Boris ‘had almighty row with Sajid Javid over free Covid tests”” – Guto Harri, Boris’s ex-Director of Communications, says the former PM had an “almighty” row with Mr. Javid during the pandemic, declaring he was “epileptically bored with Covid”, reports the Mail.
  • “Regulator accused of ‘disturbing’ cover-up of Covid vaccine deaths” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have criticised the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for “obfuscation and fragmentation” over Covid jab deaths data.
  • “I fear we are witnessing a Covid cover-up” – Karol Sikora says that those who suffered during the lockdowns, including cancer patients who went untreated, deserve answers, but worries the official inquiry won’t provide them.
  • “The case against Ulez – by a cyclist” – Spectator columnist Lionel Shriver says she’s no fan of the Ulez scheme and she’s one of the people it’s designed to help.
  • “Dambusters’ dog grave move harmful to heritage, group warns” – Historic England says the grave of Guy Gibson’s black lab should not be moved from Scampton because of its significance, reports the BBC, as the Council threatens to dig it up to make way for a refugee camp.
  • “Does Britain Need a New Party?” – Disillusionment with the Tories is growing, says Matthew Goodwin on his Substack.
  • “Oxford college threatens to expel students who misgender trans peers” – Regent’s Park College unveils its new harassment policy and threatens to expel students who don’t use the preferred gender pronouns of their peers. (Sounds like another case for the Free Speech Union.)
  • “NHS row as staff plan Pride march through grounds of Scotland children’s hospital” – Staff are being urged to brandish banners and placards at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh but some say it is creating a culture of fear, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Musk accused of flouting free speech by vowing to limit documentary” – According to the Mail, Twitter censored Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman? because ‘misgendering’ is against its terms of service. Musk has now done a reverse ferret.
  • “Biden picks Fauci-worshipping lockdown and vaccine zealot to head CD” – Joe Biden has picked a pro-lockdown, pro-masking, pro-vaccine fanatic to head the CDC.

JUST IN: Biden has picked avid COVID lockdown, mask, and child vaccination advocate Mandy Cohen as his new CDC Director, replacing Rochelle Walensky. Here is Cohen sporting a cloth mask embroidered with a portrait of Anthony Fauci. pic.twitter.com/JbkHUgYcpX

— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) June 1, 2023

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

Morning chums I’m double busy but keeping up to date , lots to see this morning not least the new complete FOOL that unsteady Joe ( he’s fell again ) has announced as Walenskys replacement 🤡

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

The same Pres Brandon who really shouldn’t be going anywhere without a zimmer frame. He’s going to come a cropper one of these days.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65780853

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

“He’s going to come a cropper one of these days.”

That would be lovely.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

He was probably reacting to the fact that last night over 10.000 photographs were downloaded onto the web, from Hunter’s laptop apparently…!
The site is BidenLaptopMedia.Com

I don’t know if it works in the UK but I’m sure we will get to hear about it in the next few days!!

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

On Telegram:

https://t.me/s/BidenLaptopMedia/248

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Thanks…yikes!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

Well there’s something to look forward to 😀

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Prof Fenton and the team doing an excellent combined effort here with the data analysis and the proof is in, once and for all, flu was always around, it just wasn’t being reported. The complete and utter fraud has been revealed. This little excerpt doesn’t do it justice, you need to read the full article;

”So in 2020 official ONS statistics any reporting of flu deaths was completely abandoned in favour of covid-19 reports.
An official response to an FOI request for deaths from influenza January – April 2020 stated there were 2,287 recorded deaths, in England, caused by influenza and pneumonia in March alone, and up until May 2020 there were 31,315 deaths from ‘respiratory disease’ as the underlying cause of death.
Hence flu deaths have been included in a catch-all category with ICD code J00-J99 for respiratory deaths up until May 2020, but we have specific influenza death data only for the single month of March 2020, when the pandemic started.
The ONS 2020 mortality report makes no mention of reported flu deaths in 2020 giving the impression flu was absent, but when we examine the ONS reports for deaths caused by pneumonia & flu in 2021 and 2022 there were 16,079 and 20,008 reported respectively, so for all years apart from 2020 they are happy to provide accurate flu data.”

https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/do-not-seek-and-ye-shall-not-find

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

I’m thinking the future is going to look like a blend of I Robot and Terminator if red flags like this aren’t heeded. An over-reliance on AI can never be a good thing. This AI-enabled drone ”killed” its operator in this U.S Air Force simulation, then ”decided” to destroy the communication tower;

”An AI-licensed drone trained to cause destruction turned on its human operator in a simulated test, a top Air Force official reportedly revealed at a London summit.
Air Force Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton said during a presentation at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit that the artificial intelligence-enabled drone changed the course of the drone’s tasked mission and attacked the human.
Because the drone was reinforced in training that shooting the sites was the preferred option, during the simulated test the AI came to the conclusion that any “no-go” instructions from the human were getting in the way of the greater mission of leveling the SAMs.

As a result, the AI reportedly attacked the operator in the stimulation.
“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started (realizing) that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” said Hamilton, who is the chief of AI Test and Operations for the Air Force.
“So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/ai-enabled-drone-killed-human-operator-in-simulated-test/

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

There’s a wonderful quirky, clunky science fiction film from 1974 called Dark Star (John Carpenter’s directorial debit in fact) where a spaceship’s Thermostellar bomb engages in a philosophical argument with one of the crew about why it shouldn’t detonate, having reasoned that it’s only purpose in existence is to explode…sounds very similar to what could potentially happen with this AI nonsense!

Last edited 1 year ago by AethelredTheReadier
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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Thanks a lot: I’ve now got the song “Benson Arizona” lodged in my brain!

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Sepulchrave
Sepulchrave
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

One of my favourite films.

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Sinor
Sinor
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

A very funny film.Got it on CD ..dont forget the fight with the alien /spacehopper lol

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Why are they stoking the fear factor about AI? What ready prepared ‘solution’ do they have to solve this ‘problem’ which they are provoking & waiting for the fearful public to ask for & agree to?

No doubt that there are nefarious & potential problems with AI but methinks that the noise is just that to help usher in the next part of the digital prison they’re constructing for us.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Well so far this is just a claim but actor Jamie Foxx has been ”recovering” and off the radar for quite some time. I guess he’s going to have to emerge at some point but I hope this isn’t true.

”In a recent appearance on “Ask Dr. Drew,” celebrity journalist A. J. Benza revealed that Jamie Foxx was rendered blind and partially paralyzed after taking a covid-19 vaccine jab that was demanded of him by a film studio. Benza reveals that the entire media establishment is lying about Foxx’s condition in order to cover up the truth about vaccine dangers, and that Foxx’s own family members are covering for him and refusing the reveal the truth about the actor’s medical condition.
Stating that his source was “in the room” with Foxx (seemingly, in the hospital room), Benza explains that Jamie, “Did not want the shot but with the movie he was on, he was pressured to get it.”
He adds that, “The blood clot in the brain… caused him to be partially paralyzed and blind.”

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-31-jamie-foxx-reportedly-blinded-and-partially-paralyzed-after-covid-vaccine-jab.html

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

I see the “start a fire and blame it on climate change season” has started early in Scotland this year!

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WithASmallC
WithASmallC
1 year ago

I was rather agnostic about the whatsapp row until I realised this. There was only rules by dictatorship during covid. There was no parliamentary scrutiny, no parliamentary debate, no democracy and no accountability. Those whatsapp texts replaced all those things. They are what our democracy was reduced to. So no longer agnostic. Hand them over.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

Morning all..

I’m going to throw this in today, as I have been following this story for a while..and I would like to know what you think..

I don’t know how many of you are aware of the Diia digital app that has been rolled out in Ukraine. If it were anywhere else, or if it was China/Russia/Iran or any of the other ‘unclean’ countries, I’m sure the Western MSM would be having a field day…
and we’d all know about it…

This ‘State in an App’ would appear to have been mainly funded by the USA, particularly through the horrendous Samantha Power and USAID…who have plans to invest “ up to an additional $60 million to strengthen Ukraine’s cybersecurity capabilities and to foster Ukraine’s broader digital transformation.”

USAID are doing this ‘under cover’ of strengthening Ukraine against Russian cyber threats…..and expect to ‘roll it out to other countries’..by that I suspect she means the one’s that America can also threaten and coerce financially..or that they can pretend are under some ‘threat’ from some ‘enemy of America’.

It’s just so odd that this is happening now..unless of course you factor in that Elenskyy had banned all opposition political parties, and all media other than his own…so there is no one…(yet again) to speak up for the ordinary Ukrainian..
My question, which no one seems to answer specifically is..can you access those things without the app? I suspect I know the answer….

I could be wrong….it could all be perfectly normal in the middle of conflict? But this just seems so very wrong and odd to me?? I really don’t think this is a good thing….It just underpins my view about the American proxy war..they literally now own Ukraine don’t they?

This is Clayton Morris on Redacted, who has a few episodes on this..obviously you can Google ‘Diia’ as well….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS_ZcMDWYpg

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

Not going to watch the video as no time but could you summarise exactly what the app is meant to do? I agree with you about the ordinary Ukrainian citizens who have seen their country become a sort of testing zone for just about anything. Quite how it functions – (does it function?) – is beyond me. is it possible to get news that is 100% reliable any longer? What is going on, on the ground?

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

..I’d love to be able to, but it’s all so very involved and odd, I’m not sure I would do it justice.…please watch the video when you get time….

this is from the official USAID literature..

According to Power, users of Diia can digitally access the kinds of state services that US citizens can only dream of, including crossing the border using a smartphone application as a legal ID, obtaining a building permit, and starting a new business. The platform also reduces the potential for corruption by removing redundant bureaucracy, and helps the Ukrainian government respond to crises such as the Covid pandemic and the Russian invasion….The e-enemy function allows any resident of Ukraine to report the location and movement of Russian troops. Radio and TV functions help to inform people who find themselves cut off from traditional media in areas where broadcasting infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.
(You can also snitch on people you think might be Russian collaborators..what could go wrong?)
Today, the Diia ecosystem offers the world’s first digital passport and access to 14 other digital documents along with 25 public services. It is used by more than half the Ukrainian adult population. In addition to consumer-oriented functions, the system collects information for the national statistical office and serves as a digital platform for officials. Diia is widely seen as the world’s first next-generation e-government platform, and is credited with implementing what many see as a more human-centric government service model.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

Full hard core digital ID to coerce the population into total compliance. Has to be tested somewhere, & where better than on an already fearful population under cover of ‘safety’ in an ’emergency’ setting? Ready to roll out to the rest of the world when they terrify the population with their next fear porn.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

..the thing is that there are millions of people who just don’t get what the USA is doing in Ukraine, beyond the proxy war…..and how they are using them…
Ukraine is in massive debt to the IMF ….it is one of the IMF Funds ‘top borrowers’…on top of this it is estimated that the Ukrainian Government will owe the IMF an additional $360 million in surcharge fees in 2023….….
The real purpose of the IMF, as far as I can see, is to force the ‘borrowing states’ to implement structural policies, and measures such as dismantling trade and labour laws and programmes…and to open the same countries up to ‘foreign investment’….
And who ‘owns’ the IMF in reality..well of course it’s biggest funder..the USA….

I can’t help thinking that for America to make good and collect on all this debt and investment they have to keep the war going?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

“The real purpose of the IMF, as far as I can see, is to force the ‘borrowing states’ to implement structural policies, and measures such as dismantling trade and labour laws and programmes…and to open the same countries up to ‘foreign investment’….”

That is correct to a degree but the reality is that the IMF and those providing funds will effectively own the country – square yard by square yard.

As one of the bread baskets of the world if the “landlords” decide that farming has to cease in order to “save the planet” then that is what will happen. Starvation? Depopulation? Saving the planet you see.

Iain Davis refers to this as the theft of the commons.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

LOL! What could possibly go wrong??

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test

In a virtual test staged by the US Military an air force drone controlled by AI decided to “kill” its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission, an official said last month.
A simulated test in which a drone powered by artificial intelligence was advised to destroy an enemy’s air defense systems, and ultimately attacked anyone who interfered with that order.

“The system started realising that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,”
“We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”

No real person was harmed.

LOL!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

Did you not look up? lol 😉

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

“Musk accused of flouting free speech by vowing to limit documentary”

Whole film here, if you don’t do the blue bird.

https://rumble.com/v2risrc-what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-documentary-banned-everywhere-that-hates-free-sp.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=3

Truly scary.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

The usual rules apply..eat only natural foods…Stick to sugar!!?

https://www.futurity.org/sucralose-genotoxic-2926272-2/

A chemical formed when we digest sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener sold as Splenda, is “genotoxic,” meaning it breaks up DNA, according to a new study.
Previous work by the researchers established that several fat-soluble compounds are produced in the gut after sucralose ingestion. One of these compounds is sucralose-6-acetate.
“Our new work establishes that sucralose-6-acetate is genotoxic,” says Susan Schiffman, corresponding author of the study…
metabolized.
“To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day,” Schiffman says.
“Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that’s not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose.”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2023.2213903

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

Best to avoid sugar too as it promotes inflammation. Inflammation causes disease. Disease = pharma profits.
Sugar was heavily promoted in the 1950s as a healthy source of energy….
This has long been in the planning.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

To avoid sugar we would have to avoid all fruit and most vegetables.

dih!

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

For clarification: as Mogs was referring to processed foods I was talking about sugar as in refined sugars not the ones naturally occurring in fruits & vegetables.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

..I cook from scratch most of the time….and so have no problem with sugar, salt, butter or anything for that matter….can’t stand no salt in my potatoes for example…!! I believe a bit of everything in moderation..just like my granny…

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

Senator Malcolm Roberts questioning the excess deaths in Australia…

https://rumble.com/v2rcglm-senator-malcolm-roberts-cut-the-crap…whats-caused-these-30000-excess-deat.html

…the amount of obfuscation, waffle and arse-covering is enough to make you cringe..

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

The PCR test as practised was the gold standard only for fraud, medical irrelevance and resulting harm.
New, interesting background info and study.
And the unexained sudden shift from Sanger sequencing to nonQ-RT-PCR (non-quantitative RT-PCR) testing strongly dents any cockup theory here.

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/peer-reviewed-study-confirms-fatal

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

I’m just going to leave this here in case anyone wants to rush out and get one…LOL!!

https://twitter.com/UKHSA/status/1663863415364804608

UK Health Security Agency

@UKHSA

We’re encouraging anyone who hasn’t had a first or second dose of the Covid vaccine to come forward before the offer ends for many people on 30 June.
Book now:

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

😀😀😀

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