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by Richard Eldred
5 September 2023 12:23 AM

  • “What’s happening with Covid in the U.K.? Experts weigh-in” – Fears of a new global wave of COVID-19 have escalated following the identification of a novel variant named ‘Pirola’, which experts are calling ‘the real deal’, reports the Mail. Haven’t we heard this somewhere before?
  • “‘A whole generation were left to die’: The Covid care home scandal” – The Telegraph speaks to several of the 30 families who are now suing the Government over the deaths of their relatives in care homes.
  • “Federal court rules against FDA over anti-Ivermectin posts” – A federal court has ruled that the U.S. FDA likely overstepped its authority when it told Americans to “stop” using Ivermectin against COVID-19, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “New Zealand PM: ‘There was no compulsory vaccination. People made their own choices’” – James Melville posts a video on X of New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins saying there were no mandatory Covid vaccinations… and also saying there were.
  • “Conflicting evidence of mRNA technology raises serious concerns about rush for use in new vaccine development” – The U.S. Government and pharmaceutical companies are investing in new mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer, fuelling a lucrative mRNA platform valued at $136.2 billion, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “Medical doctors, or social workers?” – Physicians need to practice medicine, not worry about the “social determinants of health”, writes Dr. Stanley Goldfarb in City Journal.
  • “Banks who wrongly deny accounts to politicians face fines, watchdog warns” – The Financial Conduct Authority says checks on ‘politically exposed persons’ should not feel like “the financial equivalent of someone rifling through your bin”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Douglas Murray: Send illegal migrants to Islington – see how liberal opinion likes it then” – Illegal migration now seems to have got so bad that the Government is relying on the weather to bring the numbers down, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
  • “Turn on your heat pump when wind is blowing, Government pleads” – Families will be urged to turn on heat pumps when the wind is blowing and charge their electric cars at night under Net Zero plans to save energy, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Council confirms low traffic neighbourhood in Fenham to be scrapped” – A low traffic neighbourhood in Newcastle is to be scrapped after city transport chiefs said it had made traffic worse on surrounding residential streets, reports Chronicle Live.
  • “Unsafe and ‘looking like a dump’: How Brighton’s controversial eco policy went to seed” – Brighton’s Green council’s decision to ban weed killer has created a city full of unsafe, overgrown roads and pavements, writes Boudicca Fox-Leonard in the Telegraph.
  • “‘The green movement is a disinformation campaign’” – In Spiked, Michael Shellenberger explains why climate change is not the end of the world.
  • “Rise of the six-figure Substackers: How bloggers are raking it in” – Bloggers including British writers are raking in six-figure sums as they turn to self-publishing on the Substack platform, according to the Mail.
  • “The radical subjectivism of the Irish hate speech bill” – How is it that Ireland can have witnessed a sharp rise in the reporting of hate-related incidents just as the Irish Government’s own survey data indicates the country is becoming an increasingly tolerant country, asks Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
  • “BBC under pressure after headline omitted paedophile’s drag career” – BBC bosses are under pressure to explain why a report about a convicted paedophile was edited to remove references to his career as a drag queen, reports the Mail.
  • “On your bike, Vogue – we can see what you think of women’s sport” – When it comes to promoting diversity in appearance, women’s magazines would rather include young male faces than older female ones, writes Kathleen Stock in the Times.
  • “How should Labour approach the ‘culture wars’?” – The Left is deeply divided on issues of race and identity, says Rakib Ehsan in CapX.
  • “From Sinéad to Róisín, why blasphemous women get cancelled” – The trans persecution of Róisín Murphy echoes the religious persecution of Sinéad O’Connor, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “The obsession with trans inclusivity is making a mockery of equality” – ‘Be kind’ has become a pernicious mantra in British society, allowing some rights to be placed above others. It must be scrapped, says Kate Barker in the Telegraph.
  • “Call of Duty to introduce AI-based ‘toxicity’ censorship tools” – The globally popular Call of Duty franchise is jumping into the murky waters of AI-powered censorship, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
  • “Education Secretary Gillian Keegan swears on camera after thinking they’re no longer rolling” – Watch Gillian Keegan use the f-word when she thought the cameras had stopped rolling.

🚨 | BREAKING: Education Secretary Gillian Keegan swears on camera after thinking they're no longer rolling

"Does anyone every say, you know what, you've done a f*cking good job because everyone else has sat on their a***s and done nothing."pic.twitter.com/LiosyvpLic

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) September 4, 2023

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Excellent and on point essay by Doug Brodie;

”I believe that the globalist establishment and their puppet politicians are seeking, by any means they can, to impose their openly-announced Great Reset (aka UN Agenda 2030/21) on the global population. Unfortunately, it has a covert aim which is to reduce the people to shackled serfdom while allowing those at the top to retain their power and wealth.
The Great Reset was endorsed by then Prince Charles at its January 2020 launch at WEF Davos. That was very unwise given that it constitutes a massive attack on our democracy and freedoms. The most pressing priority of the globalists is to frighten and subjugate the people enough to prevent any insurrection when their unsustainable unfunded debt triggers a meltdown of the global financial system, with the money for pensions all gone.

I believe that the Covid so-called pandemic was a pre-planned, globally-coordinated “plandemic” in which premeditated severe iatrogenic harm was inflicted on the health and lives of the global population, expanded further below. An elaborate deception was enacted to pretend that the only hope for salvation was to get everyone vaccinated. The ulterior intent was to try to force the global population into digital straitjackets via digital vaccine passports, and to facilitate a degree of global depopulation.”

https://metatron.substack.com/p/my-heretical-epitaph

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Morning “Mogs The Prolific” you have certainly filled the space left when Swedeburg departed the DS , keep it coming 👍👏 Anyway onto the reference you made here about the former Prince of Wales & his membership in full public view of The WEF ! There is no firmer proof that the events overtaking us since 23/3/20 were & are being used to subjugate our once wonderfully happy , sad , sometime tragic crazy eclectic lives which left to our own devices good or bad created a wonderful hotch potch world where shit found it’s own level , we just do not need Chunts like Charlie Boy telling us how to live !

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Ah cheers Freddo, I think.😆 Well let it never be said that Mogwai is a ☝🪄🐴. I could never be on a par with Swedenborg though, who was basically like one of the DS team due to his many contributions. I’m not so data-centric either. A bit above my pay grade.😳
There are articles on here that I don’t even click on, such as things about heat pumps and EVs, as I’m totally disinterested in those things. However, I appreciated there’s something for everybody on this site, which ensures a wider readership, and the DS has evolved a fair amount since 2020, when we were all sitting at home moaning about lockdowns and masks. To quote a particularly unpleasant cockwomble; “Diversity is our strength” 😁

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Keep up the good work & as you eloquently pointed out “Diversity” is the mantra for Klaus,s mob etc which is why they use it to water us Europeans down !

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

And they will not stop until all their aims are met. In all the more recent developments, one can detect a slight degree of desperation which is coming out in ever more ludicrous announcements. The media play their part of course, beginning to ramp up the hysteria again with all the usual pundits telling us to obey.. Apparently there is a new variant at loose. Really? I’m not bothered and I doubt any but the more paranoid and nervy are. I’m certainly not playing this game any longer despite what the consequences may be. Masks? Lockdowns? Jabs? So yesterday’s news. The trump card in their hand is the financial meltdown. I can imagine that as I write they are putting the finishing touches to how they will enact this and how they will respond to the outrage of ordinary people who have suddenly found themselves unable to pay for things that are no longer available. Manufactured riots perhaps? Clampdowns…curfews…withdrawal of cash… They have all these tricks in their box. How will we respond? Those of us here who see through the lies. Will we, as a block, simply not comply? I hope so…I don’t want to be in the camp by myself! Hopefully though we have a lot more people onside. Hopefully there are people more powerful and influential who will rise and not crumble. That’s a lot of hope and sometimes I think it’s all we’ve got. That and faith.

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allofusarefat
allofusarefat
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Think one of their main lines of attack, disguised (as previously) as a lifeline, will be UBI for the “precariat” (currently being trialled in UK at £1600 pcm). Can’t afford your bills? Just sign up for guaranteed monthly income, all “free”. All you need do is create your digital identity wallet, receive your monthly allowance, paid in programmable CBDC, and spend it within a given timescale and on approved purchases: even get bonuses for behaviours which promote the ‘common good’. In return, you agree to make all your data available to trusted government agencies (“to help deliver improved services”) and to make over any major physical assets (land, property, vehicles) to government: don’t worry, you can continue to enjoy all your existing assets for deduction of a small monthly fee.

Sounds like collectivist hell to me, but difficult to resist for those in desperate financial straits.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  allofusarefat

Reminds me of “Secure Homes” Ffs 🤪

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Hope is the very essence of life & every avenue is being exploited by Who / Whatever to extinguish it from our lives , KRO (as Birmingham City FC fans sing ), actually good old Harry Lauders song would make a good anthem for the battle we are in ! Bit like the Dads Army theme tune ! If I knew how to do it I would post it right now 😳

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Agree with this author entirely. Transgenderism has become a very destructive, money-making scam and it feeds the medical-industrial complex. Everyone benefits apart from the patients.

”With the promise of special treatment under the ADA, and away from the black sheep treatment of yesteryear, trans-deluded people turn to mental health “experts.”
So, the psychiatric profession has gotten into the business of treating transgender patients for a profit. It seems that if you have a strong desire or strong wish or desire to be transgender then psychiatrists are ready and able to “treat” your delusion for a fee.

The medical profession and drug companies have also gotten into making a buck off of the transgender craze by prescribing male and female hormones and puberty blockers for transgender patients. Never mind the bad immediate and long-term side effects of such unproven treatments with increased risk of blood clots, certain cancers, high blood pressure, infertility, and elevated cholesterol levels to name a few — which eventually mean more pills and more money spent — or that some teenagers were victimized and transitioned before they became fully consenting adults, a truly tragic and even criminal reality.

Even more expensive are the “body mutilations” performed by surgeons who cut off healthy breasts and penises, implant vaginas made from fish skin, and facial reconstructions. Truly a tragic consequence when later in life the patients feel that they made a great mistake by trying to physically look like the opposite sex. The fact that transgenders are much likelier to suffer from depression, anxiety, distress, and suicide is just more money in the bank for psychiatrists.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/transgenderisma_tragic_moneymaking_scam.html

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

“Families will be urged to turn on heat pumps when the wind is blowing and charge their electric cars at night under Net Zero plans to save energy, reports the Telegraph.”

And there you have it – under “Net Zero” there won’t be enough energy to meet our needs, so like a guest of Procrustes we’re going to have our legs cut off.

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It’s just ridiculous. Thinking of cold winter days, the stillness and crispness of the air is actually something I enjoy, but, standing wondrously in the middle of a totally windless and silent field as the snow gently starts to swirl around will not be something heat pump owners will be looking forward to (although it might actually be warmer than in their house!) The trouble is, so many people are removed from nature these days, or alternatively, are told what ‘nature’ is doing, that they don’t actually know how weather really behaves anymore.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

The German government once again bending over for Islam and pandering to their cultural demands. ”Polygamy is illegal here but you can send for your second wives anyway, because it’s you”;

”Afghan nationals who worked with the German army during the military operation in the country have had requests to bring their second wives and children to Germany approved, a move that is posing complex legal problems.
Afghan employees of the Bundeswehr were granted visas to reside in Germany following the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and family reunification laws enabled the employees to bring their spouses and children with them.

However, the German newspaper Westfalenpost reported that in at least two known instances, subsequent reunification requests were approved to bring further spouses and children. This was confirmed by the local immigration office in the Hochsauerland district.
In one instance, the husband is living with one wife and three children while the second wife lives in a separate apartment nearby with another seven children.
Another husband is understood to be living with both his wives and nine shared children.

While polygamy is illegal in Germany, there are extenuating circumstances if the marriages have been concluded in compliance with foreign laws. The practice is widely accepted in a number of Islamic countries; however, it still creates certain legal problems in relation to citizenship. Specifically, one of the former Bundeswehr employee’s children was born in Germany but has been unable to obtain a German birth certificate because her parents’ marriage is not recognized in Germany.
This issue is something that could become more frequent after the federal government relaxed family reunification laws.”

https://rmx.news/migration/german-government-permits-afghan-refugees-to-bring-second-wives-to-country-despite-polygamy-laws/

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Been the same here for some years.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

The clip of the education secretary gives us a glimpse behind the veil, a really good look at what the people running the country are actually like; not a pretty sight.

Nothing less than a complete sea change is required.

Move out of the Palace of Westminster. It was designed for another time, another kind of parliament.

The house of commons should be relocated to Birmingham, shadow ministries set up there to gradually replace Whitehall; the house of lords….hmmmm………Liverpool…..

A complete culture change, a new ethos of service, is required in both parliament and the civil service.

Oh! And that would make it really easy to slash the size of all of those organisations as well….

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Indeed, but we also need the general public to stop thinking the government can, will or should solve all of their problems.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

And, as we know, the government has all the apparatus in place to accomplish such a change in thinking and yet we also know they use that apparatus to achieve the exact opposite.

A plague on……etc.!

Vote for independent candidates only.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
  • “Federal court rules against FDA over anti-Ivermectin posts” – A federal court has ruled that the U.S. FDA likely overstepped its authority when it told Americans to “stop” using Ivermectin against COVID-19, reports the Epoch Times.

This is encouraging. There have been a few instances of US courts enforcing the law rather than bowing to authority – not much sign of that in the UK.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
1 year ago

I am currently looking at 11 wind turbines on the hill above me. there is a fair wind, i was hoping to go windsurfing but the lakeside activity centre is not hiring today. Anyway only three turbines are actually turning, another one is barely moving so 7 of the 11 are doing sweet FA. If this is the future we are fooked

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

“ Anyway only three turbines are actually turning, another one is barely moving so 7 of the 11 are doing sweet FA.”

Oh no, you could not be more wrong. They’ll still be syphoning off our money for the owners…

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago

The fear porn being ramped up for pirola is quite apt when you know the meaning of the noun pirola….

pirola.jpg
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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

No idea what Pirola is but at a wild guess I would say a new ‘scariant’? If it is, then they are obviously mocking us. Who gets to name viruses anyway?

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

It’s the latest scariant being used to drive the fear to get the boosters into as many arms as possible.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Is evidence based medicine now impossible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYNaafntQY&list=WL&index=4 by JC – about 20 minutes.

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