- “The Covid inquiry is whitewashing the lockdown” – Why is no one challenging the biggest disaster of the pandemic, asks Dr. David Livermore in Spiked.
- “The BBC is falling short on its climate protest coverage” – According to a YouGov poll this week, 64% have an unfavourable view of Just Stop Oil (only 17% have a positive view and the rest aren’t sure). Unfortunately, however, none of these people appear to feature in the contacts books of BBC producers, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly” – Government and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right, writes Bret Swanson in the Wall Street Journal.
- “Why Net Zero is on a collision course with falling house prices” – Eco targets will affect millions of properties and accelerate a house price crash, says the Telegraph.
- “Why I’ll be buying petrol car just before 2030 ban” – Matt Ridley in the Mail points out that to wean ourselves off China over the next seven years would require 100 times as much battery capacity as we have now, which is neither affordable nor feasible, nor would it achieve anything for ‘the planet’.
- “White pupils excluded from extra Saturday literacy lessons” – Parents at a Haringey primary school have been told that schools will fund the lessons for children from black families, according to the Telegraph. Breach of the Equality Act, surely.
- “Bud Light not ranked in top 10 beers after Mulvaney disaster ” – In a new YouGov survey, which polled a sample size of 1,468, the public approval of the beer slumped and it fell out of the top 10, while the popularity of other rival beers surged, the Mail reports.
- “School trans guidance may be amended to make it harder for pupils to socially transition” – The long-awaited draft document due to be published this week has been delayed while possible revisions are made, reports the Telegraph, after it was reported that schools will be told to let pupils wear the uniform of their choice as long as parents are supportive.
- “Britain’s greatest institutions have turned themselves into national laughing stocks” – From the Bank of England to the Church, august bodies are acting as if they’re run by their worst enemies, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Adults have ceded absolute power to the faux-righteous, doctrinaire young” – Grown-ups have given up across British life, allowing an ideological younger generation to call all the shots, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Now health professionals are urged to call vaginas ‘bonus holes’” – Women have condemned a charity after it suggested the vagina could instead be referred to as “the bonus hole” to avoid upsetting non-binary or trans men, according to the Mail. I actually had to double check it wasn’t April 1st for this one. File under ‘couldn’t make it up’.
- “The Captured Prosecution Service” – Read Fair Cop’s excellent letter to the CPS explaining why its new ‘trans inclusive’ guidance on domestic abuse is so wrong.
- “Dutch Government collapses following migration row” – The growing continent-wide crisis caused by mass immigration into Europe has claimed another country with the collapse of the Dutch coalition Government led by centrist politician Mark Rutte, says Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “Has the time come for the Dutch farmers’ party?” – Senay Boztas in the Spectator says that with 45,000 requests for asylum expected this year and barges, tents and sports halls full of people waiting for their claim to be processed, plus a housing crisis in full swing, the Netherlands’ newest political force BBB’s time has come.
- “Banks Go Woke” – Jack Watson in the New Conservative says the last time we bailed out the banks “I don’t recall them having a problem with the colour of our money”.
- “Gender-critical barrister wins top payout as judge issues stinging criticism of chambers” – A chambers which unlawfully victimised a barrister for standing up to Stonewall has been ordered to pay her £20,000 in costs for “unreasonable conduct”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Hunt denied bank account by Monzo” – The Chancellor is among multiple politicians to have accounts denied and cards cancelled because of “disproportionate” money laundering rules, the Telegraph reports.
- “Hollywood suffers ‘diversity fatigue’ as inclusivity chiefs step down” – Four recently departing executives are black women amid what critics call a “mass exodus”, says the Telegraph.
- “Threads: Mark Zuckerberg’s safe space” – Meta’s ‘kinder’, ‘friendlier’ Twitter rival might be the most censorious platform yet, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Christian job offer rescinded after free speech case victory” – Felix Ngole was allowed to return to Sheffield University after winning his free speech case in 2019, but his would-be-employer has now rescinded a job offer because his views do not align with their values, according to the Mail.
- “The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?” – Nick Corbishley in ZeroHedge looks ahead to the coming into full operation next month of the EU Digital Services Act, which will require large online platforms to remove ‘hate speech’ and ‘disinformation’.
- “There is nothing progressive about identity politics” – When did supporting colour-blindness, gay rights and women’s liberation become a Right-wing position, asks Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Imagine deciding to disrupt someone’s wedding. You’d have to think that it would help your cause, you were entitled to disrupt, and you were good and they were evil” – Grandiosity, entitlement and ‘black and white’ thinking define pathological narcissism, tweets Michael Shellenberger as he comments on George Osborne being targeted by Just Stop Oil.
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And how’s it going in Ukraine, really?
‘This indicates that:
a. the infantry is increasingly unable to use its own heavy group weapons (which has already been written about many times)
b. battalion 120-mm mortars and brigade artillery groups fail to support their infantry for one reason or another (training / accuracy of fire, communication / interaction, or something else)
c. the resource of our longest 152-mm barrels is wasted for trifles instead of counter-battery at “777” and other targets more significant than an AGS squad.
When I receive information from the Russian Federation about how many new “volunteer battalions” are being formed there, my hair stands on end. The question immediately arises: “Where will you get the communications chiefs for these battalions?” There are none. None. Just recently, in one wonderful chat, a person was looking for a chief of communications, right about the battalion level, for a generally very much combat-ready unit. I am not the only signalman in this chat, and we told him in unison – “There are NO SIGNALMEN AND WILL NOT BE!” And one of my colleagues added, “You do it yourself, you find an embryo and grow it as best you can.”
And what will these volunteer battalions be without digital closed radio communications working 24/7? An uncontrollable crowd of deer, which the Ukrainians, actively playing “from defense”, will very quickly send to cemeteries and hospitals. What will be the advance payment for the “3rd Army Corps” glorified by Shurygin, the state of communication in which is senseless to try to describe to those who have not seen it – people simply will not believe that this is happening? And it is happening, it is happening. The Corps will be a huge, monstrous, unruly mob of deer.
It’s all senseless to tell those who have not seen such things being performed by our military men alive. Well, that is, I saw Debaltseve, and I no longer laugh in this circus and finally I’m not surprised. I saw tanks going into battle with empty containers of dynamic protection, I saw people who came to the service yesterday, and today they are already being given an assault rifle and grenade launchers, three of them are selected as specialists, also a platoon commander, and they go into battle. And we were leading them, in fact, three officers – a physician, a signalman and a seriously wounded political officer, a 60-year-old Astrakhan Cossack, who was being transported in the troop compartment of an infantry fighting vehicle, in the tower of which I was riding, wondering how I, with one non-working hand, would pull Petrovich out of troop compartment if they hit us.
And then, and before, and after, I saw a lot of things that people will never believe until they themselves see, do not participate themselves (if someone thinks their curse words vocabulary is incomplete I suggest trying to complete it while refuelling a moving tank driving on ice).
Moreover, the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of January 2015, they had at least some backbone of people, not just trained people, but people with combat experience in the summer-autumn of 2014. And Debaltseve, as a result, came out to be a three-week meat grinder. Moreover, the enemy were the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the same year, nothing like the current ones. But … then the magic pen of the same Shurygin turned a three-week meat grinder into a three-day network-centric brilliant success, in which there was a queue to take part in (in reality, on the contrary, a bunch of those who became the officers “via connections” for good salaries in dollars, already dressed in “pixel”, wrote a report on the nearest bulletin board in the same barracks, in which right there, in front of them, shaking with fear, angry simple men “without connections dressed in “flora”, were filling magazines and checking the equipment before the battle).
In general, if the offensive itch among our military intensified by the political leadership prevails, then after the unavoidable in this case sad and senseless autumn massacre, in winter we will face a choice – either another monstrously shameful and obviously unsuccessful search for peace, or mobilisation in the Russian Federation. Of course, at first there will be shame, and then still mobilisation. Our leaders can’t do differently. Mobilisation in the Russian Federation is, in fact, the last chance to stop such massacres, because our generals will crap themselves before thinking of stacking layers of dead conscripts.’
LPR Volunteer Murz live journal account 02 Sept 22
So, not very well at all, really.
Murz thinks Putin can hold on to Kherson, but what if the Kherson ‘offensive’ is a feint to create a killing ground?
Oops.
Latest brilliant propaganda wheeze:
‘It fled from here and this is the direction of Nikopol (in Ukrainian hands). It did a U-turn. In principle, it landed and spun around’
Renat Karchaa, Russian ‘expert’
‘Everyone working in the plant knows (the rocket) is Russian.’ ‘It cannot fly and make a U-turn.’
Ukrainian former employee Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
Who to believe? U-turn if you want to…….
Only one thing is sure about the Ukrainian situation and that is that none of us, here, including you, knows what is happening there. Anything you read, watch or listen to is unlikely to be the whole truth. There may be grains of truth but in war the truth is the first casualty. All that I can surmise is how this effects us, here in the UK, and what that actually means for our lives. Right now, our society is in free fall. The war is being as an excuse for this. Why? Why is no one talking about this and why we have to support a war and fly those ghastly blue and yellow flags from just about everywhere as we pour billions of pounds into a place and ignore our own concerns? I don’t buy into the Zelensky story one little bit and don’t trust him or Putin or any of the so-called leaders and movers and shakers that are involved in the whole charade. Call me a sceptic – which is why I’m here after all – but if you smell a rat, then there’s probably a rat and I smell a great big rat in this whole sorry mess.
With you 100%. Furthermore, what excuse can be given for the grotesque and deliberate hiking of fuel bills in this country when so much as one penny is spent abroad – regardless of the so-called cause.
Oh no Bozo – guilty as sin.
You can bet your life people know exactly what is happening there. Satellite imagery, ELINT intercept; there is a great deal of information available, a lot of it open source if you can be bothered to look…..
You can get satellite imagery? ELINT intercept? I am talking about us, here, on this site, not the CIA or any of the other intelligence agencies. Of course there are people ‘out there’ who know what is happening but none of us civilians do.
Yes. It is open source, a lot of it:
Satellite imagery
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/satellite-images-show-destruction-russian-air-base-crimea-2022-08-11/
Intercept this week:
‘(R)=Russian man (R2)=Russian man 2
(R): Where are you then?!
(R2): F*ck, where, where, behind Izyum, Kamyschevaha. Yesterday I didn’t speak while next to the captain, we had a bit of an argument. He was sitting next to me, f*cking f*ggot. We have no cover, nothing. They can’t withdraw us. Commandants are saying “F*ck you, go fight”. F*ck, “we have 60 tanks here, infantry, artillery is working all day”. Where is it working? F*ck knows. At any possible opportunity it’s better to f*ck off to home, f*ck, and come back alive. […] Today the captain made [a show], like “You are not needed to us”. A situation happened with ours, I thought “Holy f*ck, you call that a situation, a guy’s liver got shot the man died in the mud”. What a f*cking “situation”. One shot the other. Can’t f*cking see sh*t at night, we are sitting without night vision. And the captain has three… anyway, f*cking devils.
(R): Finish them off.
(R2): Our own commanders need to get kicking too, yesterday I had an argument with senior lieutenant, every day, he’s walking around drunk, telling tales how cool he is, how he was shelled and he didn’t p*ssy out! Better f*ck him up and leave. Tanks, tanks, but there’s nothing to advance with…’
And so on.
Everyone knows what is going on in Ukraine, outside of this and one or two other sites.
But the ‘sceptics’ on here are not sceptics re Russia. They all row the same pro Russian boat. Curious? I am……because I’m a sceptic….
..it’s pointless … he thinks that Reuters and the MSM are telling the truth, without question. If it were Russian Satellite Imagery of which there’s also plenty, it would be fake news……
You are correct that this is the worst war for information we have ever had, and I think it’s obvious why. I don’t know why the Guardian and Telegraph bother, they could just let Ukraine post their own stuff, we wouldn’t notice any difference….
Agreed.
The readers here can look at the imagery and make up their own minds. That’s the point.
If you have Russian imagery, I would be very interested to see it?
But we don’t have to support the war at all. We live in a democracy.
A lot of the stuff being sent to Ukraine has a limited shelf life in any case.
Nevertheless this why so many of us, particularly those of us with children, support Ukraine
‘…a Russian defeat of Ukraine would turn the proactive Western strategy of economic and political engagement into one of retrenchment, where boundaries could be placed on Western ambition and internal divisions stoked to create paralysis. The question in Eastern European capitals would be that if guarantees to Ukraine were negotiable, where does this leave Article 5? Divisions would emerge between the proponents of stability, such as France and Germany – eager for pragmatic diplomacy – and those in the Baltic, Balkans and the UK who fear Russian aggression. With NATO fixed by the imperative to assure its internal cohesion it would have little capacity to ‘compete’. This would therefore open the door to a more coercive approach in Georgia and Moldova, where the objective would be to ensure that these countries remain dependent on Russia and within a Russian sphere of influence. Explicit or implicit assurances to consult Russia on European security frameworks, meanwhile, would demonstrate to Beijing that Moscow is an invaluable ally in preventing AUKUS and other alliances and/or regional security arrangements from being focused solely on the Indo-Pacific.’
And, again, we know a lot of this to be true from open source intercepts:
‘While the 9th Directorate of the FSB’s Fifth Service Department for Operational Information prepared for the occupation of Ukraine from July 2021, the 11th Unit of the Department for Operational Information, responsible for Moldova, was assessing plans for the next round of operations under the direction of Major General Dmitry Milyutin. In November 2020, the FSB’s strategic objective in Moldova was to bring about ‘The full restoration of the strategic partnership between Moldova and the Russian Federation’
FSB Outline of Operational Aims and Means, 21 November 2021.
Some important legal questions raised here:
WARNING: Patented humans???
The issue of patenting humans is now a live one given the evidence showing that the mRNA reverse-transcribes into the DNA of the human who has received the mRNA into their body.
“All you have to do is ask anybody that you know, friend, ex-friend or foe, who has received an mRNA therapy, to write to Pfizer or Moderna (whoever’s product they took) and request this :
“Please confirm that there will exist no circumstances following receipt of a Pfizer BNT162b2 or Moderna Spikevax mRNA vaccine (or other similar technology vaccination), that patent licensing rights or other means of trespass or claim of ownership – either in part or full – will ever be claimed by the company (or its derivatives or partners or any other related entity) on any human being who has received the said product either directly via administration or via inheritance, knowingly or unknowingly, from a recipient”.
https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/who-owns-who?sd=pf
I encourage everyone to write to Pfizer, Moderna and the other Pharma companies and ask them to explain their position in relation to attempts to patent humans.
See: ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY ET AL.
v.
MYRIAD GENETICS, INC., ET AL.
“Held: A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA [complimentary DNA ie laboratory created synthetic DNA] is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring. Pp. 10–18.”
“We also address the patent eligibility of synthetically created DNA known as complementary DNA (cDNA), which contains the same protein-coding information found in a segment of natural DNA but omits portions within the DNA segment that do not code for proteins.
For the reasons that follow, we hold that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated,
but that cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring.”
“It is also possible to create DNA synthetically through processes similarly well known in the field of genetics.
One such method begins with an mRNA molecule and uses the natural bonding properties of nucleotides to create a new, synthetic DNA molecule.
The result is the inverse of the mRNA’s inverse image of the original DNA, with one important distinction:
Because the natural creation of mRNA involves splicing that removes introns, the synthetic DNA created from mRNA also contains only the exon sequences.
This synthetic DNA created in the laboratory from mRNA is known as complementary DNA (cDNA).”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf
Anna de Buisseret
U.K. Lawyer
Scary!
“Next U.K. Rebellion”
This is the one that worries me most. My word are they organised. As if the invisible hand of god had been instrumental in mobilising thousands of shiny-eyed fanatics to the streets to demonise oil and us car users (as if all THEIR clothes and fuel are grown in their back gardens and they walked from the far ends of the realms to get to London). The media will, of course, be reporting on this and the police will sort of stand back and practice their macarena moves. It all smacks of an agenda in full flow, the likes of which many of us could only have dreamt of while we were protesting against lockdowns and vaccine mandates. This sort of energy and organisation, piggybacking on a whole generation of frightened and misled youth who want to force us all to the Net Zero hinterlands without, it seems, any cognisance of what that actually means in practical terms, is unprecedented. Maybe the CND marches and the Greenham Common women attracted numbers but they were vilified in the press. This is another type of movement though. It plays neatly into the WEF agenda but I bet if you confronted some of these glassy-eyed idealists (and I can’t fault their passion only their blindness) with some WEF facts, they would ridicule you as another conspiracy nutter, a 5th columnist, an agent provocateur etc. They will happily use their phones to pay for goods with no thought as to the power of actual cash, they will, no doubt, embrace the Smart Cities initiative and get behind totally deluded people like George Monbiot, forcing us to get out of the country, forcing farms to close, forcing us to stop eating cheese, eggs, meat, butter and so on for the greater good, demonising the much-needed (by plants) gas of CO2, cheering for EVs (electric vehicles) with no thought as to irony that the charging stations are most likely powered by fossil fuels and the batteries include a lengthy process of extraction, pollution and cheap labour, hurrah at the wind turbines and solar panels that are created in factories requiring power from fossil fuels and are unrecyclable and scream ‘yay!’ at the likes of Greta Thunberg and her carefully orchestrated tantrums. All the while, this metaphorical locomotive has left the tracks and is ploughing through our lives, churning up our societies, never to return to the old normal. Pubs will close, businesses will close, people will starve and shiver to death, all the for the greater good. There is no debate or at least, like the Ukrainian nonsense, if you dare question the scriptures, you will be branded as a heretic and sent to social Coventry, there to ruminate of the error of your ways. After all their zeal and idolatry has reduced our society to ashes, a figure will emerge through the smoking ruins and say ‘Now is the time to re-build our world….but…build back better’.
I may, of course, be wrong but I can see this trajectory playing out. The key indicators will be the response of the media, the police and the politicians. If they do not oppose it but, like that wet blanket Starmer when asked what a woman was, mildly refuse to comment or act or say anything, then we know that this invisible hand of, not god, but someone like Soros is fuelling it. Such a well-organised event requires money – where did it come from? That should be the first question.
Terrific post. I agree 100%.
Thanks, HP! Kind of you to say so.
One elephant in the room not yet addressed in this post-lab leak COVID-19 era, where we know so much more about ‘virology’ (or bioweapons) labs: where did HIV/AIDS likely come from?
And if power bills are going to be so high, why are we running streetlights all night nationwide? Where I live, it’s unlikely anyone at all walks around at night locally from about 1am, most nights, until about 5-5.30am… It’s often so bright outside that birds are still singing at one in the morning. Turning off the lights for three hours in the middle of the night nationwide would save massive amounts of electricity…
I’ve noticed this too. It might be tempting fate to turn all lights out for a period – utopia for the thieving scroats prowling at night – but probably reprogramming to alternate lights on / off may be better?
I know what you mean about the thieves, but people don’t tend to appreciate quite how dark things get when the street lights go out. Having spent a lot of time working in a village pub a few years ago, which had no streetlights nearby, when we closed up for the night, we had to use torches just to walk down the pavement of the main street. For thieves to operate in complete darkness, they’ll have to start buying things like infrared goggles: torches and van headlights will be too obvious. I’m not too worried about total darkness: it would do the country good to go dark and sleep for a few hours.
https://summit.news/2022/09/01/power-company-seizes-control-of-thermostats-in-colorado/
I suspect that the ongoing push for smart meter installation will eventually result in similar happening here. More control of the poor plebs…
The control freak barstewards have installed a death tower at the edge of the village under ‘permitted development’ to enable full coverage for smart meters…. & LED lights throughout the village…..
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/exclusive-proof-that-the-top-israeli
IMPORTANT
This is the single most important article on my Substack because it shows that the vaccines are dangerous and that both the authorities and scientists collaborated to cover it up so the public would never find out.
This story is bigger than just corruption in Israel. It also shows that even after the cover-up was exposed, nobody came out and said “what they did is wrong.” So it’s evidence of widespread corruption in the medical community, government agencies, among public health officials, the mainstream media, and social media companies worldwide.
Excellent review by The Covid Physician.
Yet more revealing and distressing evidence mounting daily..
https://rumble.com/v1i7g05-grand-jury-petition-against-the-cdc.html
As I’m at a bit of a loose end today, I thought I would add to my previous post about Extinction Rebellion. I went and had a look at their demands…well, here they are:
And that’s it! Three rather woolly statements which could be interpreted in any number of different ways. Their first point ignores all the alternative climate science, ignores the fact that the ice caps seem to be growing, that the Great Barrier Reef is burgeoning with new coral. It’s not telling the whole truth at all. Point 2 with its ‘Net Zero by 2025’ and its ‘new precautionary paradigm’ is completely and utterly bonkers. The last point demands a culture of participation, fairness and transparency. It is calling for the government to be led by a Citizen’s Assembly (the constitution of is bound to be XR Citizens). All in all, I find XR to be a rather shadowy organisation. It is making huge demands on the government and is threatening to hold us all to ransom through its actions which are mainly designed to paralyse normal life, essentially bashing us into submission. Any other group holding a government to ransom with threats would most likely be deemed a terrorist organisation but XR seem to rise above that now. I see them as almost crypto-fascists – their tactics are akin to national socialists in the 1930 although they haven’t beaten anyone up, I’m sure they’ve brow-beaten a few!
What is extraordinary though is the fact that they do not have any one figurehead or a group of named people. They call themselves a movement of ‘ordinary’ people but I don’t buy that. If you look at how far they’ve gone in just a few years, they have grown exponentially. They are spread throughout the world. I find the way they communicate as if it’s all quite reasonable, very alarming. Although I agree that there is a real need for system change, there also needs to be a democratic process involved in so much as we can muster such a workable process without involving those tired useless old people who inhabit the House of Commons. We can’t let ourselves be dictated to like this.
Boll Ox to XR.