Well over half a century ago one of my TV heroes was James Burke. I hung on his every word, especially during the Apollo missions which he presented for the BBC. I also loved him on the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World with its visions of a future where punch-card computers with all the processing power of a cheese grater would control our daily lives while we walked around with mobile phones the size of cricket bats and lived in houses maintained by Forbidden Planet-style robots. What I loved was Burke’s invigorating optimism.
Burke developed the idea of connections (in a programme series called Connections, no less), the notion that finding links between all sorts of unexpected concepts, processes, and materials, was at the heart of human development. Crucially, he identified that the increasing rate of making those connections in modern times was also driving an accelerated rate of change in all our lives. From that he predicted that the rate of change was going to lead remorselessly to a point when the rate of change would exceed our capacity to cope.
Burke was right. That time has arrived. And AI, with its ability to compute connections at an unprecedented level and way beyond the human mind’s capability, is already pushing change at a rate unimaginable only just a few years ago. The trouble is it’s still unimaginable because we literally cannot get our heads around what’s happening before our very eyes.
As a historian, I always try and focus on what makes our time different from others. Human beings do not change. But machines and the world around us do. I have in my house a clock made by John Tolson who was apprenticed in 1709 in London during the reign of Anne (1702–14). The clock, with a little maintenance, still works – a whirring collection of wheels and weights. The skills Tolson acquired served him for a lifetime and were good for generations of clockmakers after he died.
Today, that level of mechanization is still easily understood by human beings. Enthusiasts can still repair, and even build, such mechanical clocks just as others can rebuild 1970s motorcycles, carve wood, paint pictures, make pots and a host of other manual skills. It is entirely possible with training and experience to get one’s mind around such artefacts. Hence the 2008 completion of the brand-new 1940s Peppercorn Class A1 steam locomotive Tornado, to be joined by Prince of Wales in 2025. A bunch of enthusiasts armed with the skills, the tools, and the funding can build brand-new steam engines, just as others can build Spitfires.
But technological change means that today our houses are filled with, and our lives are ruled by, machines that are impossible for most of us even to try and understand, let alone maintain or build. You can’t fix a smartphone with a set of miniature screwdrivers (though once I did repair a computer processor with the clipped-off ends of a staple). Car maintenance is a hobby for those with old cars, not owners of current models. There are no comparable durable skills to John Tolson’s to be acquired in our digitized world. Knowledge and ability become swiftly obsolete in a relentless fury of updates.
It is also the case, as Carl Sagan pointed out, whom we were reminded of the other day in these pages by Hugh Willbourn, that we have ‘arranged things so that almost no-one understands science and technology’, despite totally depending on a world run by science. The brilliant Sagan was right, but his was a plea to set ignorance behind us. Unfortunately, we have reached the point where no amount of education is going to lead to a level of understanding that matches the pace of change that is hitting us right now.
Worse, governments are deliberately encouraging reckless change. Covid was utilized shamelessly as a pretext to digitize further our every existence and envelop us in dependence on computers, phones, and software. Environmental concerns are being used to impose change and obsolescence in every part of our lives from cars to the way we heat our homes. Regardless of what I, you, or anything else thinks about heat pumps and electric cars, we are being propelled along a travelator in which perfectly good machinery that has already been manufactured is being disposed of long before it needed to be in favour of rushing out new machines, whose carbon footprint is conveniently ignored as well as the running costs.
And if you imagined that changing to your new electric car or heat pump was going to leave you in peace for a while, forget it. Before you know it, you’ll be told both are obsolete and you need to change to newer, better, more efficient, greener replacements. All this is being done coercively through legislation, financial incentives or punishments, and gaslighting. If you can be fined for using certain vehicles in Ulez fiefdoms, then how long before you’re fined for still having an oil boiler to heat your house?
The scientific principle of hypothesizing and testing every hypothesis to destruction before it can be accepted is easy enough to understand. But it’s not intuitive to the normal human brain; we have to try hard to hold on to that way of thinking. Even scientists instinctively resort easily to preferring what they believe or would like to believe unless they can keep a grip on themselves. They are, after all, only human and they are also prey to normal human emotions like the desire to be prominent in their fields, to attract funding, to be successful, and feel worthwhile, as well as jealousy and a host of other vulnerabilities.
Belief always steps in at the point understanding gives out. For a while, from the 16th Century on, it was possible for most people to accumulate a level of scientific understanding and gradually accept the changes going round them while mastering the necessary skills to participate in that brave new world. The rewards were changes that yielded huge medical advances, the management of sewage, warmer homes, electricity and all its glories, mechanization, aviation, and a host of other innovations that have made it unthinkable we could go into reverse.
But we are no longer able in the same way to get our heads round what is driving human-caused change and the steady loss of control over our own lives. No wonder panic and the instinctive medievalism of the human mindset is setting in. I don’t think I can be alone in being frustrated by the endless updates to the electronic equipment all around us, the ceaseless changes to how we are supposed to bank, park our cars (so long we are allowed to own one), interact with the government, or any other organization. All of it is supposed to be for the better but the overwhelming effect is to make things worse, more difficult, more frustrating, and dispiriting.
This is all being compounded by an accelerating daily narrative of catastrophic change in the environment, causing us to lose sight of the fact that our planet changes all the time The last few weeks have been extraordinary with a new apocalyptic vision almost every day. They have included warming seas and now that there will have to be Ulezs for buildings, coming off the back of claims of ‘global boiling’ (made by people apparently unaware of the boiling point of water). Ludicrous waves of hyperbole that serve only to provoke fear make it impossible for any normal person to come to a balanced and informed understanding.
Unfortunately, the panic affects scientists as well. Belief also sets in as much among scientists as anyone else. There are now so many scientists, so many scientific hypotheses, so many research institutions, so many papers, concepts, claims, counter claims, critiques, and analyses – as well as the extraordinary rate of change and to say nothing of the epidemic of pseudo-science – that it’s impossible for anyone within professional science to understand or read even a small part of what they are dealing with, let alone the rest of us.
The result is that we ordinary mortals are presented with divergent scientific opinions that we cannot evaluate, each one of which we are exhorted by its proponents to accept as a certainty.
But since science is so often presented as ‘The Science’, how on earth is the average person ever going to be in a position to distinguish pseudo-science from real science?
Here’s one BBC headline from July 22nd 2023: ‘Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists.’ Read a bit further down the story and you get to ‘some scientists… say’. Two days earlier the BBC said: “A leading British climate scientist has told the BBC he believes [my emphasis] the target to limit global warming to 1.5C will be missed.”
Believes? Believing isn’t science, whether well-informed or not.
In this new world of a cavalcade of change, scientific opinions have entered a world of recreational competitive apocalypticism. Too many spend their time telling us what to be terrified of rather than doing what real scientists do, which is to solve problems.
What are we supposed to make of modelling? This mathematical crystal-ball gazing is a latter-day version of staring into the entrails of a sacrificial victim, a fantasy of knowing the future founded on the cult of numbers. It is another agent of driving change because it predicts futures we are then told to fall over backwards to avoid.
Most people cannot follow the maths involved but it doesn’t take a lot to discover that even modelling’s proponents don’t fully understand the maths either. Even worse, modellers come up with different models and then argue among themselves, dismissing each other’s methodology. How on earth can the rest of us decide what to believe and understand? All of them pretend to be able to predict the future. Any deviation from the mean is jumped on as an aberration and a sign of the impending end of the world. But the future has an unfortunate habit of going its own way, not the route that a gang of boffins decided it was going to, based only on the parameters they have happened to include in their models.
Then of course, the more apocalyptic the modelling prediction is, the more likely it is to be picked up by the credulous idiots in the press, gaining attention for the scientists involved and sales for the journalists. This toxic partnership, which Carl Sagan also scathingly identified as “the uninformed cooperation (and often the cynical connivance)” of the media, whips up the accelerating rate of change into a panic-fest of misinformation and confusion.
What we are therefore seeing is a backlash with an increasing reversion to belief, cult, and factionalism. It’s happening everywhere. Organized religion has been so debased by war, oppression, sex abuse and a host of other ills that new cults have emerged instead that worship causes, not gods.
All around us we can see these cults masquerading as informed and rational interest groups. I don’t need to name them. You know who they are. Like the proponents of medieval cults their beliefs are driven by a righteous and intolerant zeal that leads them instinctively to seek to crush their critics and opponents, some of whom are just as religious in their zealotry and opposition. A new Orwellian world has been unleashed. Free speech means silence. Inclusivity means exclusivity. Supposedly peaceful, the latent (and sometimes open) aggression and intolerance in the behaviour of many of these movements is clear to see.
Their actions are borne partly out of a desperate desire to cling on to some level of control in an age when control is the last thing we are in possession of. Terrified by the change they see all around them, some of them want to change everything back and hurl us into a revived Middle Ages.
Panic and anxiety are among the most unhelpful and destructive of all human behaviour, but they are the bedrock of totalitarianism. Unrestrained change is an unmatched way to make us all more controllable but it’s a moot point whether it’s being deliberately imposed on us or is something we have lost control of. It’s no wonder that panic and anxiety are integral features of dementia among some elderly people. Whatever problems we face as a society, driving us into panic and anxiety will do nothing to solve any of them properly. Panicking is likely to lead us into a world of unintended consequences.
We need a middle way – change can be stimulating, exhilarating, and the agent behind exciting improvements to all our lives, and human beings are superb at dealing with change. And perhaps I’m being over concerned. The most likely eventuality is that some dramatic new event or wholly unexpected change in circumstances, or perhaps just a change in the wind, will cause the madness to pass.
I need only end with the wisdom of Charles Mackay:
Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
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“Scientific groupthink”…No no no, have you learnt nothing these last two year’s? “Groupthink” may have played a part, but make no mistake, it’s the almost total capture of science, medicine, universities, scientific publications, international public bodies, governments and msm by mountains and mountains of filthy filthy globocap lucre! A story as old as time, “He who pays the piper”…
The exact process varies from place to place, but there were clear signals in Australian universities when researchers were increasingly urged to seek “industry partners”.
In other words, do the research “they” want you to do. Those likely to be difficult and independent need not apply.
The preferred industry partners had oodles of money – far more than traditional sources could supply.
Good point, remember how much the scientific community moaned about Brexit? I suspect euro money was a euphemism for “doing important research we want you to do” and not actually important research.
True but group think was a huge weapon.
The groupthink in journalism is even worse and had more of a negative effect. It’s hard to find ONE journalist in a MSM news organization who has written a contrarian or skeptical COVID story.
Janet Daley, Alison Pearson, Majid, but I grant you not many.
In America, I can’t think of any who have written stories that debunk or challenge parts of the “authorized” Covid narrative. Definitely none in my state. There must be 20,000 journalists working for mainstream or corporate news organizations in America and perhaps zero (maybe two or three) have written an article that is skeptical of the COVID narrative. What are the odds this could happen?
Perhaps they’ve been written, but not allowed to see the light of day.
Got to shout out Dan Wotten and Hitchens as well.
Neil Oliver and Joanna Blythman too.
…and Ross Clark.
There seems to be a tendency to say ”forgive them, for they know not what they do…”
If only it were true.
The censorship of debate and the promulgation of a narrative rooted in groupthink has been the most dangerous aspect of the last two years of hysteria. But so many public figures throughout the world have bought into it that they will not lose face by admitting their errors. The international groupthink will continue and inquiries will be largely whitewashing exercises.
happily these once weaponised lists such as those signing the john snow memorandum now provide a perfect place to start…
Ironically Jon Snow reported the Swine flu scandal on channel four, it Was people like Wolfgang Wodark who exposed it and the media probably not in the pockets of big Pharma the way it is now exposed what happened.
Snow – A Marxist Revolutionary -dedicated to the take down of ‘Bourgeois Reactionaries’ all his life!
His father was a Bishop- hence his nauseating moral posturing and air of sanctimonious superiority!
Snow is a Globalist and he was allowed C4 News as his platform.
Which Snow? Jon or John? Was the ‘author’ of the John Snow declaration actually called that? Or was it an attempt to link to the Dr. John Snow who debunked the ‘miasma’ explanation for the London cholera outbreak?
As for Twitter, Donald Trump has been banned due to a ‘risk he might incite further violence’.
Vladimir Putin’s Twitter account is still actively broadcasting.
It’s so nice to see that various social media platforms have got their priorities right.
I’m not sure that putting Twitter in bed with Putin is the right calculus: to the Establishment, Putin is sold as yet another mad guy (like Trump and like anyone doubting the COVID narrative). That’s why the link to the Kremlin website has been blocked – ie Putin has been cancelled so you can’t judge the case from primary sources (well, you still can, but only by searching around).
I agree with Trump that the issue is not that Putin is astute, which he certainly is, but that our leaders are dumb. Western politicians are melting down into the same self-harming hysteria over Ukraine as they did over COVID – why else would they dismantle SWIFT, and hence global finance, and so encourage China, Russia, India and the other Eastern nations to set up their own system and help bankrupt the West?
The men are puerile (or senile); the women are harpies. God help us.
Because of their stupidity, ineptness and ignorance they are also quite dangerous. This would not have happened under Trump.
And why not?
This is surely an early attempt to create a new narrative to help cover up the very clear manipulation we have been subjected to.
Groupthink and the power of social media no doubt played their part. But what about the Behavioural Insights Team, the BBC setting up the Trusted News Initiative? These were under effective government control, explicitly working with the state to publicize and maintain an approved narrative.
Then there is the involvement of the Wellcome Trust people, whose most senior staff were organizing conference calls with the CDC early on to establish a narrative.
Good narratives work because they are easy to consume and understand. The Barrington people are a bit crazy, a fringe group etc. That was the approved view explicitly established to discredit them. We now know Fauci worked with colleagues across the Atlantic here in the UK to use publications like the Lancet to do so.
That is the real focus. Deliberate manipulation to achieve their goals. We must not let them construct a new pleasing narrative that allows them to say things got a little out of hand, lessons were learned. We have been manipulated and we must dismantle the various mechanisms that enabled this, starting with the BBC, the Nudge Unit and a thorough examination of the Wellcome Trust and their role in all this.
Social media is what it is. But the actual mechanism used to establish a narrative and destroy counternarratives used more traditional means. It is these we must shine a light on.
Exactly this.
Indeed. Think of all the people you know who now tell you that they knew all along what was going on. The people who read and watched only MSM and listened to politicians and believed them. The ones who readily had vaccines to go on holiday and castigated the refusers as anti-vaxxers. I know many people like that and I look at them differently now.
Me too. I knew it was a scam the moment the government banned antibody tests. It made no sense. If this had been real, the antibody test would have been the way to go, so as to monitor the percentage of the population who had acquired natural immunity. I had my test two days before the ban, in August 2020, which showed a full antibody count eight months later. So, no jabs or masks for me or mine.
Sadly, the majority of the people turned out to be just as stupid as the government hoped they would be. And, to a remarkable extent, still are.
Sadly, many of my friends are in the ‘believer’ category. They include ‘educated professionals’ who applied no critical thinking whatsoever to the situation. A very close friend (maybe not so much now) picked up and ran with the change of jargon from ‘restrictions’ to ‘protections’ and bangs on about ‘the good of everyone’. I know for a fact that the major concern of both her and her husband was how soon they could go to France on their holidays. They manage to achieve that aim and feel things are now back to normal…
Another couple we know went on a posh cruise, costing £14,000 they’ll tell you, and were herded like toddlers round various Caribbean destinations in a P&O “bubble”. They felt “very safe’ which is another of these phrases that seem to have caught hold.
i despair sometimes, I truly despair.
“Sadly, the majority of the people turned out to be just as stupid as the government hoped they would be. And, to a remarkable extent, still are.”
Britons in their native habitat:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1396702710431424513
Too true, if it wasn’t for media and our “hallowed” BBC, would there have been as much traction in these lies and poisoned stats?
”We must dismantle….” But who’s this ”we”? It’s hardly likely to be ”our” politicians who set up all this web of coercion in the first place.
I urge that you spread it around that it is essential to read “The real Anthony Fauci” by . Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This gives as good an understanding of precisely what and who is behind the trashing of scientific debate – and why it has happened, is happening and will continue to happen.
Most here will be familiar with and or agree with the sentiments in the book, but it is crucial that we get it across to as many as possible.
Most haven’t a bloody clue why this is happening – the unholy alliance between bigpharma, big tec, the super rich and governments throughout the world. Digital ID/Control is the end game.
The most sinister of all is the stifling of any opposing views through censorship laws – imposed to stop “disinformation”. My God.
It still makes me shudder to remember Hancock saying “the science is settled, every healthcare worker must be vaccinated” and he was referring to compulsory flu jabs about four years ago. Shades of things to come….
If they succeed we can look forward to a hellish future – the very top controlling the rest of us possibly forever.
Hopefully we can succeed by continuing to expose the ghastly failure of the super new Mrna jabs – the miracle brought to us and imposed upon us by the very people referred to above.
We must also try to teach kids to actually think. Not easy given the useless teaching system we have.
Boy, you hit all of my main posting points. The situation is even worse than many people think. The corrupt groupthink (or lack of critical thinking skills among those in these groups) is replete in every establishment organization.
Too right. Usually the Groupthinkers are at the top of the organisation where they criticise nothing in the group but everything that threatens it. Like promotes like.
I’m expecting Moderna to be bankrupt by this time next year, now that would be a nice Christmas present for 2022.
That ends the responsibility for the damage done
Wait until their ‘magic’ RNA Cancer Drugs hit the market to tackle the massive spike in cancers after their ‘magic’ ‘vaccines” deliver!
Stll plenty of money to be made!
One man’s disinformation is another man’s scientific proof.
“ghastly failure of the super new Mrna jabs”
No failure in my opinion – brought in to control people. Get the jab or you will be punished. Most people travelling now are flashing their Vaxx Passes at the borders. The ‘vaccines’ have worked a treat – the ‘rollout’ continues – Jabs 4 and 5 for the UK this year. You need the ‘vaccines’ to keep the ‘Pass’ valid.
And just look at how much money has been made from flogging these ‘vaccines’!
‘Covid’ has always been about control of people, and making money. There has been plenty of propaganda – paid for out of your taxes! – to make you believe it’s about a deadly virus.
But who knows what the truth is? My sister tells me this morning that her husband has a cough, tested himself for ‘Covid’ (positive) and went for a PCR – also positive. Almost March 2022 – two years gone by and still the insanity continues.
It’s really sad that the first thing many people now do at the first sign of a cold or cough is to use an LFT. Nursery age children are tested all the time by neurotic parents who had etc comply with whatever rules have been implemented by the local authorities or private nursery owners.
School to socialise them and home for the essential teaching. Our routine was TV off after children’s tv and the news, then family teaching
Yes, agree that Kennedy’s book is essential reading. I also recomment Peter Deusburg’s book, ‘Inventing the Aids Virus’. As well as dealing with how Fauci et al created the myth that HIV causes AIDS, he goes into some detail about the history of public health funding and how it has gone so badly wrong. It is now almost impossible to take any contrary view from the mainstream and still get funding. Deusburg himself, despite being a highly respected virologist prior to his book, finds it hard to get published or funded.
Add “Pseudopandemic” by Iain Davis and “Snakeoil” or how the Chinese fooled the world!
As a postscript to Robert F Kennedy’s excellent work, please watch this.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/financial-insider-exposes-covid-fraud/
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Do “scientists” still think that women are sexually attracted to masked men?
Definitely one of the more desperate attempts to maintain the narrative. All the evidence seems to point in the opposite direction. Women are unimpressed with men scared of a virus with a 99.9% survival rate. Demonstrating your fear by wearing a mask is hardly going to sweep them off their feet
Those masks should come with a “caution, wearer may be a male feminist” warning on the front.
I doubt that is needed. Women can spot a low sperm count candidate from a hundred yards
The Lone Ranger has a lot to answer for.
As I recall, his mask was on the upper part of his face. You could still see his mouth.
Masked man. Decide for yourself…
“The Defendent”?
When Toby Young aligned himself with the US Council on Foreign Relations, he also aligned himself with its political philosophy and world view.
Whether its by monopolising a centralised banking system of debt-based theft and global enslavement while plundering the Third World for its precious natural resources, or by exercising US military force under the guise of extending democracy, the end result of CFR policy interventions is the consolidation of world power and wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
Any examination of the facts will show that the CFR has been instrumental in building and maintaining the US elites global power structure – to which all people and nations must bow.
This includes Ukraine which, following the US-funded 2014 coup, became the money-laundering centre for CFR members like Clinton, Biden, Romney. Kerry etc to Russia, which has long been in the CFR’s crosshair.
So I’m looking forward to the DS article entitled, “How political groupthink silenced those who viewed NATO as an extension of US global hegemony.“
It wasn’t groupthink; it was carefully organised and orchestrated censorship of dissent and “cancellation” of genuine experts like Mike Yeardon, Prof Bhakdi, van der Bossche and many others.
The Government and Ofcom led the way by instructing the MSM that they must follow the Government/SAGE narrative.
Exactly, the article is ridiculous – in fact just “excuse” propaganda to divert from the truth..
There isn’t much hope as long as people lack the backbone to ignore the Twitter twits or argue the case. It slows innovation and advancement to the short term benefit of a tiny minority. But … it’s human nature and we are all susceptible to some degree. But it’s shameful when it costs lives.
It could cost us in the West our whole way of life and our freedom if it is allowed to continue and the Media stay censored.!
On the subject of institutional capture by means of globocaps filthy lucre, let’s extend that argument to the unquestioning acceptance of a malevolent narrative by the obviously CRETINOUS fabulously well educated talking heads. In this morning’s Conservative Woman is an account of Mark Steyn’s interview with David Starkey on GB news by the usually sound Cathy Gyngell. Starkey pontificates on the destruction of the west sensibilities and freedoms, he talks about international law and human rights!!! Didn’t he advicate FORCED injection of the populace with an untested cytotoxin to save the planet from a “virus”? with a recovery rate of 99.8%???? F#ck off Starkey! And that goes for the rest of the brain dead commentariat as well…
I thought Small Pox was eradicated by good hygiene not vaccination. The antivax protests from what I read is because where they had vaccination, there was a higher death rate.
A slightly different perspective:
As the collateral damage to people, and healthcare, becomes daily more apparent is it being accepted that mRNA Transfections are an incredibly expensive and harmful policy, however
popular they once were.
Dr. Richard Flemming has uploaded the first 2 videos of his microscopic analysis replicating Dr. Kevin McCairns work analysing vax in blood samples. The Microscope is one of the best I’ve seen anybody using for this work so far. These results have been replicated by 7 different groups with similar results
These will be much better videos all in one place rather than trying to wade through McCairns streams. The first two parts are uploaded, McCairn says he’s waiting for Flemming to upload 4 more parts of the full analysis.
This is Richards website if you’re not aware who he is
https://www.flemingmethod.com/
This is his Rumble channel where the first 2 videos have been uploaded, 4 more parts to follow.
https://rumble.com/user/DrRichardMFleming
Microscopic analysis of the vaccines show high levels of contamination, when the vaccine is introduced to fresh oxygenated blood, the hemoglobin is stripped from the blood cells immediately, the blood cells swell, become completely transparrent, at the boarder between the vaccine and the blood sample, it shows the blood clots within seconds. This is not “normal” in any sense of regular IV/IM medical interventions or drugs.
Dr. McCairn has done control samples with saline, and other common regular IV drugs, none of which show this phenomina. These vaccines should never have been rolled out based on this analysis.
These results are damning, I find it hard to believe the manufacturers, or indeed the licensing authorities did not carry out this testing.
Question. Is it possible to ask the following of Government (and again I don’t know which department you would ask this question of) How many members of the cabinet, back benches and their advisors are members of the WEF, or who are graduates of the young global leaders programme. I think its in every ones interest in this country and in the rest of the democratic world to know how many of the people in power are members of this frankly terrorist organisation. Shwab has recently gone on record to say that graduates of his school are peppered all over the worlds governments in positions of influence. I think we need to know who is really running our countries.
He is also on record saying ‘things will never bee the same again’, why if this is just about. a virus? Many conservatives on the back bench voted out Plan B so they’re not all bad.
i only add to other comments that this article and the last one about small business are living on planet ignorant and blind. Western govts are trillions of pounds in debt – pension funds are broke due to hedge funds and no to low interest rates for years. Capitalist old school national govts have been long usurped by global leaders who know the only way out of this debt is a technocracy (with transhumanist underpinning)… they are an elite who do not want to be mob lynched because they gambled the pensions away… they are disrupting life with plandemics and climate alarm and anything else they can to bring biosecurity and a social credit system controlled by digitised central banking. So yeah, small business is being killed and anyone who speaks up is being silenced – and pharma elite have long controlled most science funding and discourse – BUT there are leaks and people find a way and solutions are being offered by the NOT blind or ignorant. Just not on this platform.
I might be wrong, but I can’t recall an ATL article about the dangers of the so-called vaccines, especially the mRNA ones. Regular articles about ‘effectiveness’ or lack of, regular articles listing some of the effects accompanied by a sanitising introduction, but nothing really aimed at the studies/work which shows the dangers they provide.
Also nothing about the continuing imposition of international travel restrictions and ‘vaccine’ requirements that form an invisible barrier for travel and create ‘prison states’ for the unvaccinated.
Its almost as if the editors of DS are satisfied with the easing of English internal restrictions, as if that is going to satisfy their aims.
Has ‘the war’ in a far off state enabled the establishment to impose editorial guidelines that discourage these continuing sceptical moves?
I hope the ‘nudge unit’ was at those parties. A mere fine will not be enough for those people. Putting them in gibbets hanging from motorway bridges would be a good start until we think of something better.
Send them to Ukraine wearing “I hate Russians” T Shirts?
First we have to find someone brave enough to knock on the front doors of the Behavioural Psychologists… anyway, that’s all “inciting insurrection” and we can’t have any of that.
“I suspect that it’ll shortly be hard to find anyone who once was in favour of lockdowns.”
Nah; their spoor will be all over the internet. Catch ’em and jail ’em.
That Piers Morgan has been making some noise in criticism of Lockdown, but he can F off with the amount of propaganda he’s been pushing on GMB.
Morgan is beyond decent comment.
Isn’t it amazing how all these writers never supported the lockdowns? I remember saying at the beginning of all of this that there would come a time when it got like with Blair who nobody ever voted for. Who it was that elected him three times for a total of 13 disastrous years is a mystery. My sister is a life long Labour supporter yet refuses to say if she voted for him. The same thing is happening in broadcasting and articles, Jeremy Vine suddenly felt compelled to deny he had ever been in favour of lockdowns even though he was one of the most vocal. Hypocrites and liars all. You are not welcome on the Dark Side.
Yes and GMB did a poll about should vaccination be mandatory, when the poll showed the vast majority rejected it, they deleted the tweet. that is when Maajid Naawas tweeted to them F you!
The GMC/NMC/HCPC haven’t helped with their heavy handed approach towards registered healthcare professionals who dared to question. See https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/02/27/vaccination-silencing-doctors-in-the-uk/
“…the Great Barrington Declaration. They, not unreasonably, believed that it would be sensible to shield the most vulnerable while allowing those at very low risk to carry on their lives,”
Everybody, including the government, appears to have forgotten the 2011 Pandemic Preparedness Strategy. This, an excellent and thorough plan, probably costing zillions to produce, says exactly what Will Jones, quoting the Great Barrington Declaration, says above. And yet, the blasted government tore it up, threw it away and went down the ridiculously expensive and damaging route that we have now seen.
Just what was the point in producing this strategy, if it was then completely ignored?
To usher in fear, compliance, divide & separate us & to use the “pandemic” as a cover to get the wheels in motion for bringing in the Great Reset.
The war in Ukraine is the next step. To divert attention away from totalitarian domestic legislation going through various jurisdictions, to hide the WHO being given the ultimate power of total control of the population in the next “pandemic” & to bring about the collapse of food chains, raise prices for basic commodities & collapse the net with ‘Russian’ cyber attacks. All the next stage of the Great Reset.
For insight & good references Mike Yeadon’s Telegram channel https://t.me/robinmg & Lawyers of Light https://t.me/lawyersoflight are useful sources of historical background information & current ones too.
The brilliant Bob Moran is on Telegram too with his pictorial commentary https://t.me/bobmoran
One good thing they could come from this war, as MPs are already asking for, is an end to this climate agenda.
Let me fix that headline for you:
How PharMafia’s Fear-think and Bill and Melinda’s Money for Lying Foundation Silenced the Last Few Honest Unbought Scientists.
Read RFK’s Fauci book to see this is nothing new. See also the alarming new death figures from Israel: we are perhaps a month or two behind them. Moderna shares anyone?
Build back… bugger. (Fast Show ref.)
I’m sorry but I’m a true sceptic. If the MSM is now publishing articles purporting to show that there really were two sides to the argument going right back to March 2020, then on the assumption that a leopard can’t change its spots, there’s something amiss.
It’s the perfect method to get sceptics to lower our guard. It also permits the powers that be to continue calling the tune, since they now own our tune as well as theirs. So, for example, when ‘vaccine’ side effects start to become a real issue, what better way to cope with that crisis than for everyone – including the unjabbed – to have a medical id/passport.
Now the closet sceptics are now coming out of the woodwork in the MSM, it reminds me of the French after WW2, they were all in the resistance (now that the Germans had been driven out and safe to speak about the occupation).
That’s a bit like now, that when Boris and pals have said you don’t have to wear face masks (for the moment), there are people claiming the ‘peaceful protests’ forced their hand and it’s a victory for freedom.
This is on par with claiming that, without the vaccines, your ‘Covid’ could have been worse.
We better get the clippers out, plenty of ladies who need their head shaving.
However much the government, et al, now claims that they were wrong to use lockdowns, I have a sneaking suspicion that if a variant they didn’t like the look of, or even a different but similar virus, emerged, they would be back to lockdowns and the favourite ‘control’ methods of the last two years. In short, I think sceptical voices would be silenced in exactly the same way as before – I have zero trust in the government’s ability to actually change the way ‘pandemics’ will be handled. They could simply say the circumstances are different to justify further lockdowns. Unless the people of this country actually had the cojones to rise up en masse and object (which they have shown they haven’t) the government will do as it likes.
I think the Great Barrington people made a major error in choosing their name.
They should have gone for Foused Protection Declaration so even the masses of dim wits that don’t read beyond the headline would have had a sense of what was being proposed.
None of this was ‘group think’. It was knowingly submitting to the Gates agenda due to having been funded by him.
There are going to be lawsuits against these people and the charges are going to have to be conspiracy to commit mass murder.
Peter Horby is going to be undoubtedly found guilty and sent to prison for a minimum of 25 years, through wilfully framing false clinical trial structures to prevent the use of effective anti-Covid19 medications using low-cost, repurposed drugs. The same is going to happen to any Minister, politician, civil servant, SAGE-like grouping and journalist who wrote article attempting to ban the use of ivermectin.
All this namby pamby talk about ‘differences of opinion’ is the scheming evil of those who knowingly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands and caused the complete trashing of the UK economy.
I wouldn’t want to be Chris Whitty, Patrick Vallance and Jonathan Van Tam in the next 24 months.
They should in a sane world have no right to legal due process, because they ensured that all their evil acts were done without any kind of legal/democratic oversight and all of them are slaves to the Gates/pharmafia/WEF agenda.
There needs to be a line in the sand here that this is not about ‘differences of opinion’. It is about those who conspired to commit mass murder silencing ethical doctors and scientists who could have saved the vast majority of those who died after the first 8 weeks.
I expect a minimum of 50% of the MSM journalists to end up in prison as a result of this….
And don’t forget the Oxford trials of HCQ and the mass overdosing of sick patents to presumably trash the drug.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/coronavirus/pandemic-treaty/
So while you’re distracted with Ukraine. Laws are being put in place.
Excerpt from this:
What’s the purpose of an international agreement on pandemics?
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That’s the same WHO whose special COVID envoy predicted grave consequences for the UK and the world in general within 14 days or less should the UK government abolish the mask mandate and the COVID pass before the 26th of January, posing as hyper-expert with the rethorical question (paraphrase) “What do these peope [UK government] know about COVID that me and my colleagues don’t?” This deadline passed 18 days ago and as we’re now obviously all dead, I didn’t write this. Considering its performance since 2020, the WHO ought to be considered a terrorist organization, certainly not a health authority.
And then, there’s this:
Health of the planet is a term only an ideologically motivated charlatan would ever use as it’s devoid of meaning: The planet is a thing and not an organism, hence, it can’t have a health. This is essentially a stated goal of completely arbitrary mission creep towards whatever someone considers to be politically desirable (the obvious, current candidate would be Prevent climate change!).
Agreed.
Fortunately some states and countries ignored the pre-ordered Lockstep disaster plans and dealt with this minor medical matter in a more rational manner, Florida in particular and Sweden to a lesser extent.
Which proves that moving to a ‘one size fits all’ “pandemic” plan has the potential for disaster on an enormous scale….
……whoops. I think I might have hit on something there
Yes. All part of the One World Government that the Davos Deviants want.
National governments are now stating that they didn’t handle the so-called “pandemic” very well therefore sovereignty will have to be given over to a supranational entity so that the next “pandemic” can be dealt with more effectively.
Anybody would think that “pandemics” came round like Christmas – when Christmas was allowed – rather than once in 100 hundred years and the evidence for the Spanish ‘flu now looks iffy.
National governments didn’t handle the non-pandemic well because they were under Lockstep orders NOT to handle it well.
Utter BS.
Deliberately deceptive diversionary rubbish!
The censorship by the Johnson Government and Ofcom silenced sceptical truth telling scientists – nothing to do with ‘groupthink’ – dozens of our most eminent scientists challenged the Covid nonsense and were deliberately no-platformed and silenced to force the CCP/WEF agenda on a gullible population!
Stop trying to cover up the massive, deliberate deception and censorship by treating us like moronic idiots with this cheap, transparent ‘apologia’ total .nonsense!
The truth is now out there!
If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
The same phenomenon as occurred in global warming … sceptics were censored and “deplatformed” simply for stating the science. This appalling behaviour has been going on for years and the time to have stopped it was many years ago when Google started downrating any site that dared to present the actual science on global warming.
(The actual science: doubling of CO2 causes 1C of warming … everything else is pseudo science bs).
“Large parts of the scientific community were completely ignored as a disproportionate amount of attention was given to virologists and epidemiologists.”
That’s not true. A disproportionate amount of attention was given to modellers and behavioural scientists and their recommendations. Medics and appropriate scientists were ignored or vilified.
Was ‘Groupthink’ controlling Fauci when he ordered the social-media ‘takedown’ of the three ‘fringe epidemiologists’ – authors of the GBD? Or was he thinking of protecting his jabs-in-every-arm policy, no exceptions, trillion-dollar scam? Tell me, someone.