- “Researchers develop oral shot to kill Covid before it infects the body” – Researchers in Japan have developed a Covid vaccine in pill form which, when given to monkeys, saw them produce the necessary antibodies to protect against Covid without visible side effects, reports the Mail.
- “Do you know what ‘safe and effective’ means according to the CDC? I’m going to tell you.” – The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recommends updated COVID-19 vaccines for everyone six months and older. The evidence for its safety and effectiveness is unconvincing, says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “Trump is afraid of his COVID-19 record” – Donald Trump doesn’t want you to remember what he said and did during the pandemic, writes Pedro Gonzalez in the Florida Standard.
- “Tony Blair: Tax junk food to tackle obesity” – Tony Blair has urged ministers to tax junk food so it is too expensive for the poor, according to the Mail.
- “The worrying decline of the male teacher” – One in three primary schools and one in four secondary schools do not have a male classroom teacher anywhere in the school, writes Kristina Murkett in the Spectator.
- “‘Digital skills’ will take care of themselves; it’s the other skills we need to worry about” – Dr. David McGrogan challenges the prevailing trend of overemphasising digital skills in schools and instead advocates for traditional education that imparts knowledge not easily acquired elsewhere.
- “The cruelty of the scientific method” – In Harrumpf, Tom Forrester-Paton celebrates the scientific method and cautions against accepting claims without empirical validation.
- “Ofgem chief warns over ‘reality’ of high energy bills this winter” – Brits have been warned that they face the “reality” of energy bills being as high or “worse” this winter than last year, reports the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan’s ‘war on motorists’ continues with biggest ever 20mph rollout” – Sadiq Khan has launched his biggest ever rollout of 20mph zones in what drivers have labelled the latest ‘war on motorists’, says the Telegraph.
- “M Zero: Glasgow’s road to nowhere” – Glasgow is unique among Britain’s major cities in having a motorway running practically through its centre. But this vital infrastructure is soon to be culled by Net Zero, warns Niall McCrae in TCW.
- “Vegan vigilantes are crushing the countryside” – Rural communities are living through a time of extreme intolerance, with the livestock farming and field sports communities on the front line, says Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph.
- “Germany’s Lindner blasts EU over ‘enormously dangerous’ green plans” – Germany’s Finance Minister has criticised Brussels politicians for proposing stricter clean energy building rules, cautioning that they could provoke a voter backlash and bolster the far right, reports Politico.
- “Gotham’s airheaded carbon law” – Set to take effect next year, the Climate Mobilisation Act will make living in New York costlier than ever, write John Ketcham and Jordan McGillis in City Journal.
- “SNP delays ban on conversion therapy amid warnings it could criminalise parents” – The Scottish Government has postponed a ban on conversion therapy amid fears it could criminalise parents who question their child’s wish to change gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “Teachers and parents are ‘crying out’ for clarity on trans issues” – The U.K. Children’s Commissioner has warned that teachers and parents are “crying out” for school trans guidance to give “clarity”, says the Mail.
- “BBC denies purging Róisín Murphy tracks after backlash to puberty blocker comments” – The BBC has denied Róisín Murphy was removed from the airwaves because of a trans row over her comments about puberty blockers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Róisín Murphy and the limits of the new authoritarianism” – The roaring success of Róisín Murphy’s new album, Hit Parade, suggests that cancel culture has finally met its match, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “To hell with woke publishers” – The gatekeepers of the publishing industry are riddled with a nasty strain of identity politics, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “BBC Scotland axes satirical cartoons after SNP complain” – The Spectator’s Steerpike eyerolls over BBC Scotland pulling satirical cartoons of politicians from social media, following criticism from members of Humza Yousaf’s Government.
- “The Left’s dangerous embrace of cancel culture” – Identitarians believe they’re speaking truth to power. They’re not, says Umut Ozkirimli in Spiked.
- “Banning smoking outside pubs is another step on the road to misery Britain” – The Government’s war against smokers needs to stop, argues Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
- “The dystopian rise of videogame censorship” – Call of Duty players will soon be subjected to AI-driven speech surveillance, warns Thomas Osborne in Spiked. You read it here first (h/t Jack Watson).
- “Australia is on the verge of a massive mistake” – In Country Squire, Prof. Roger Watson predicts that the Australian proposals for an indigenous voice will be approved, foreseeing dire consequences.
- “Book review: Elon Musk” – How can someone be so smart and so dumb at the same time, asks Dr. Scott Alexander in his Astral Codex Ten blog. Good summary of Ashlee Vance’s 2015 biography of Musk ahead of the Walter Isaacson magnum opus.
- “Apple calms angry mother nature but forgets to tell her about the lithium mines” – The Naked Emperor cringes at Apple’s latest ad featuring CEO Tim Cook and a symbolic Mother Nature, discussing environmental concerns and promoting climate-conscious behaviour.
- “Australian broadcaster Alan Jones utterly schools a panel of climate zealots on the reality of the climate scam” –Wide Awake Media has posted a video of Australian broadcaster Alan Jones – legend – letting off truth bombs in front of a panel of eco-fanatics on ABC’s Q&A.
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Absolutely bloody mental. Just have a read. Now promoting self-defense is a crime in France.
”After a migrant allegedly raped a French woman so brutally with a broomstick that she was forced into a month-long coma, two dozen right-wing protestors marched outside his home in Cherbourg, France. However, they are now facing criminal prosecution and up to five years in prison for an “unauthorized gathering” and for “promoting self-defense” despite the French government’s glaring inability to protect its own citizens.
The demonstration, which took place on Sept. 9, 2023, in the Provinces district, was on behalf of 29-year-old Mégane, who awoke from her coma but remains between life and death. The French government may have special reason to pursue Argos, the right-wing group that organized the protest, as the group is the direct heir to the French group Génération identitaire, which was banned by the government in 2021. Génération identitaire became a thorn in the government’s side after it ran a series of civil disobedience protests against the state of demographic transformation in France and the government’s failures to control illegal immigration.”
https://rmx.news/france/self-defense-a-crime-french-activists-face-up-to-5-years-in-prison-for-protesting-outside-house-of-migrant-accused-of-raping-29-year-old-megane-until-she-entered-a-coma/
madness
Familiar echoes of the brutality dished out by the Met following the women’s protest at the murder of Sarah Everhardt (?) although the implications are frighteningly unjust.
At what point do citizens have the right to stand up for their rights given government failures?
Were we in the UK not told last year that our energy bills were being capped and subsidised by government, and would have been higher without the subsidy?
Welcome to the price of clean, renewable solar and wind power (and gas).
Nuclear power, now!
The planned impoverishment of the British people. Nothing this effing government – not the one that is waiting in the wings – does is for our benefit. They send money and arms to Ukraine for an unwinnable war, house migrants at great expense, spend billions on pointless vanity projects such as HS2 but help subsidise people’s energy bills because of the criminally high energy prices? Not a chance. Let the old people shiver in their homes, let single parents go without while trying to feed their children and keep them warm, ignore the thousands of homeless people locked into cycles of drugs and despair and more. As Orwell rightly predicted – ‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.’
Spot on Aethelred.
Does anyone know why compact nukes are taking so long to get to first pyre-production version. What is being developed is surely a version of the submarine power plant that is well understood.
we need dozens soonest with a delivery rate if one a month.
Is the ‘Covid vaccine in pill form’ developed by Japan called Ivermectin??
LOL!
Got ‘nonced’ again…..and unable to post until now!
Morning all!!
Thought we’d have a nonce-free day for a change. Invalid or able-bodied, nonces are not welcome around here!
Still finding it difficult even now!! Posts just won’t upload!!
I can assure Prof Roger Watson that Australia will not be voting “yes” in the ridiculous “Voice” referendum. We had a referendum to eliminate race as a factor in full citizenship (ie to give Aborigines the vote) – one of only three referenda that got up – so we will not be voting to re-introduce racism. Besides which the “yes” campaign is totally under-water and sinking fast. It won’t be close.
What on earth does it take to get these proven dangerous migrants deported? They shouldn’t be Europe’s problem. And heads should completely roll for whoever was responsible for this catastrophic incident with a tragic outcome. Can you imagine if the victim was your loved one? Horrendous. What the hell are we allowing into our countries?
”After an African migrant escaped from a psychiatric hospital in the German city of Wiesloch and killed a 30-year-old saleswoman, he will again avoid jail time. Instead, he is being sent back to the same psychiatric clinic he just escaped from, and the Green party is now being blamed for the incident
The 33-year-old suspect, Ahmad M., who came to Germany as an asylum seeker, was attending a “work therapy” session, which is offered by the Nordbaden Psychiatric Center. Despite his violent history, he was permitted to work at an unspecified location due to “progress” doctors said he had made in his psychiatric condition. While working there, he escaped the location and ran into downtown Wiesloch. Although accompanied by psychiatric staff, they lost sight of the man, who then proceeded to find a target he picked at random.
At 1:00 p.m., he stabbed Lisa S. to death while she was working inside the TEDi discount store located inside the “Kubus am Adenauer” shopping center. Police say he stole a knife from a bakery, which he then used to kill Lisa S.”
https://rmx.news/crime/after-migrant-stabs-german-saleswoman-to-death-he-is-sent-back-to-the-same-mental-hospital-he-just-escaped-from/
There was a similar incident in a park in Bolton in March 2020. The victim was a little girl riding her bicycle. The details can be read in a Wikipedia article called the Killing of Emily Jones.
We find that among other things Christian Lindner is concerned that policies his party has pushed into law may be fuelling the popularity of AfD. In other words he’s concerned about losing his position of power, not the impact of the policies on people.
We also find that
In other words he wants the power to impose his own restrictions on the German people without interference from the EU. Faster bad decision-making in Brussels is not a good thing.
Some good news. Use of cash has increased: –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66796263#comments
This has happened despite banks closing branches, which reduces the number of cash points and places for businesses to deposit cash.
Every Sceptic should memorise these figures from Alan Jones.
Those who argue against greenism because of cost, inconvenience, lack of tech etc miss the mark when the whole cornerstone is flawed.
Do it now, keep it handy …
CO2 as % of atmosphere = 0.04
Man made CO2 (excludes volcanoes, cows, the sea) = 3% of the 0.04.
UKs contribution is 1% of the 3% of the 0.04
Ie if my maths is correct 0.000012%
“Researchers in Japan have developed a Covid vaccine in pill form which, when given to monkeys, saw them produce the necessary antibodies to protect against Covid without visible side effects, reports the Mail.”
Yes it’s called Ivermectin, isn’t it?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12512507/Tony-Blair-says-tax-junk-food-expensive-poor-obesity.html
Bliar “said ministers needed to help ‘create the circumstances’ in which poorer families choose healthy food, and likened the situation to the fight against smoking when he was in No10 – which included a ban on publicly lighting up indoors.”
I am sure Bliar did an enormous amount of work to assist our farming industry when he spent those 10 years in Downing St, well apart from slaughtering 11 million cattle and driving many farmers to suicide. And I am sure Bliar updated the school curriculum to ensure that by age 16 every child could cook at least two weeks worth of meals from scratch. Didn’t he? And I am sure that the undermining of traditional Britain and family values had nothing to do with eliminating family cooking skills.
So, as usual Tone, STFU and get back in to your coffin you treasonous, evil POS.
…how about making healthier food and organic food cheaper and more available?
Is that too difficult? Not enough power, control and money in that?
“CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, and human beings are responsible for 3% of that 0.04%”
This may be technically true, but it is disingenuous and does our side no favours. If, over a period of 100 years, human beings emit 3 units of CO2 and nature (volcanoes and oceans, say) emits 97 units, we are 3%. But if, over the same period, nature (plants, say) absorbs 97 units of CO2, we constitute 100% of net emissions.
We can win the argument on the strength of our case without resorting to such duplicity.
I see no ‘duplicity’ in NeilofWatford’s figures from Alan Jones. The duplicity lies in the alarmist argument MichaelM has repeated. The earth’s current atmospheric CO2 concentration is said to be 410-420ppm ( 0.04%) although a gas that is 62% denser than air is not uniformly distributed throughout the atmosphere and this concentration varies by location and elevation. Furthermore there are much larger quantities of that gas dissolved ( again in non-homogenous concentrations) throughout the planetary water masses as well as CO2 sequestrated as hydrocarbons and carbonates amongst other organic materials. The earth has always been in a dynamic equilibrium with far greater concentrations of atmospheric CO2 proven in core samples from the past. No-one can say how many chemical reactions any of the CO2 that makes up current average atmospheric concentration has been through, which source was it’s alleged to have been emitted from. CO2 is CO2 – that is it . As an assessment of current atmospheric CO2 percentage emitted by human activities it is entirely reasonable to represent an estimate of the current anthropogenic contribution in the atmosphere to be 3%.
Thank you for an excellent put down of the Michael M nonsense.
Maybe I don’t understand your point entirely, but what is disingenuous about him saying, truthfully, that these morons are upending life as we know it for something which humans are 99.9+ not responsible for? And, thus, pretty much unable to alter?
Seconded.
His hypothesis seems to be that CO2 molecules are different according to their origin. Ones produced by nature are reabsorbed by nature, he thinks, whereas one’s said to originate from ma’s activities are distinguishable and remain in the atmosphere for ever.
Man’s CO2 emissions are not distinguishable, but they are incremental to the net emissions produced by natural causes. If man did not burn fossil fuels, the CO2 in the atmosphere would be significantly lower (by much more than 3%) than it currently is.
The disagreement seems to be over the margin of error of the 3%. See previous reply. But for information, in 1991 I worked with a marine scientist on other research. He was seconded to a certain UN committees dealing with climate. Together we agreed a calculation of the anthropogenic addition as 4.5 % +/- 1% in what I recall as a 380ppm average concentration, not greatly different from the 3% figure mentioned
My argument is simply that we should not assert something which is demonstrably false, since that will undermine our credibility. For Richard (seconded by HP) to assert that, of the 420 ppm of the atmosphere that is CO2, only 3% (or 12 ppm) is due to fossil fuel emissions is just not credible on any level. Our emissions can be measured and do go out into the atmosphere.
For the avoidance of doubt, I do not buy the man-made catastrophic climate change narrative at all. In particular, I don’t buy the greenhouse effect and the role of CO2 in it, which is the point we should argue. Likewise, even if the greenhouse effect does apply to CO2, there is a strong argument that further CO2 increases (from the current level of 410-420 ppm) will have little effect due to wave-length saturation.
MichaelM – you will have to do somewhat better than your continued assertion that ” of the 420 ppm of the atmosphere that is CO2, only 3% (or 12 ppm) is due to fossil fuel emissions is just not credible on any level” You first repeated an assertion that All of the atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic by virtue of the fact that the much larger emissions (32.3 x) from natural sources “nature (volcanoes and oceans, say) ” are or could be exactly balanced sequestration by” nature (plants, say)” leaving a curious small residue of 3.09% entirely due to anthropogenic sources. That argument fails on a number of counts. Principally, were that correct.and were humans to cease emissions activity due to some catastrophe, possibly due to a successful push to net zero (although other measures would be needed for the real emitters such as India and China) then the atmospheric CO2 concentration would tend to zero % CO2, It has been estimated that at concentrations below 180-150ppm plant life would start to die and some new cyclic equilibrium would be achieved where the decomposition of dead plants by bacteria would start to add to atmospheric concentration. But as I said before, atmospheric concentration itself is an artefact due to non homogeneous distribution.
You are probably correct that anthropogenic CO2 is not precisely 3% of current average atmospheric concentration but as an estimate, it is not likely to be an order of magnitude different. So maybe the precision of 3% is somewhat in doubt. But if you or others can show by scientific means it is greatly different, I’d be quite interested
I agree that mankind’s total emissions could be monitored i.e. measured by instruments everywhere but it would be an enormously costly endeavour with analysis difficulties with CO2 content in process exhaust gas. It is easier to mathematically model emissions if the inputs of various hydrocarbon fuels and burn rates are known. CO2 is emitted in the general range of 2.7 to 3.3 tonnes per tonne of fuel. I have done this professionally in various scenarios from Marine transportation to Motorsport. The results have generally run counter to dogma.
We are certainly in the same camp on most other things; the greenhouse effect is not applicable to the atmospheric model and I completely agree the spectral absorption of CO2 to solar irradiance decreases roughly logarithmically from about 280ppm where 90% saturation occurs. This is the principal falsehood which Arrhenius et al postulated and has been gleefully siezed on by the climate alarmists.
“You first repeated an assertion that All of the atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic”
I wasn’t asserting anything of the kind. I was simply making the point that it is disingenuous of our side to argue that humans represent only 3% of CO2 emissions. This is because nature is both an emitter and an absorber of CO2, whereas humans are just an emitter.
And my argument does not imply that CO2 in the atmosphere would fall to zero if humans ceased to exist. After all atmospheric CO2 varied between around 200ppm and 6000 ppm (or more) prior to industrial times. What it does imply is that, of the increase from 280ppm in 1850 (pre-industrial times) to 410ppm now, humans’ contribution is likely to be much more than 3%. This is simply the logical deduction that if humans are 3% of total emissions we are of tautologically more than 3% of net emissions (ie after deducting CO2 absorptions by plants etc).
Are you seriously stating that Co2 has got anything to do with seasonal weather?
Do you actually believe in man-made climate change?
If your answers to the above are yes then how on earth does 3% of 0.04% affect climate?
HP – my point is that we should not be disingenuously arguing a point which can be easily refuted. It’s just not a good debating strategy, especially when we have much better (ie valid) points to support our case. Man’s contribution to the CO2 in the atmosphere is much more than 3%, however much you wish to assert otherwise.
No, I do not believe in man-made climate change – and there are strong arguments in support of that position. Of which, an assertion that man’s contribution is 3% of 0.04% is not one, in my opinion.
From Alex Berenson
Again from the @CDC’s own data…..
1 million mRNA Covid shots for teens will prevent..
0-1 Covid deaths
and CAUSE
100.000-200.000 severe side-effects
Yes, you read that right!
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2023-09-12/11-COVID-Wallace-508.pdf
pages 52-65….
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-approves-new-covid-vaccines-infants-minimal-data-testing/
Unconscionable’: FDA Approves New COVID Vaccines — Even for Infants as Young as 6 Months — Based on Minimal Data or TestingThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the new vaccines are “formulated to more closely target currently circulating variants and to provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.” However, the vaccines target the XBB.1.5 variant, which “is declining in the U.S.,” according to CNBC.
The view from Children’s Health Defense…..
I feel we need to keep this in the news….as it is so demonstrably wrong (evil!)
As I keep saying..…..what’s not to see and understand?
Rustler @TheRustler83
305,000 ‘COVID’ deaths in America before the vaccine roll-out in December 2020
1,150,000 ‘COVID’ deaths in America to September 2023
845,000 ‘COVID’ deaths AFTER 677 Million doses of the COVID-vaccine
Source: CDC
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
Test.