- “The Reality Behind the Long Covid causing Damage to Multiple Organs Study” – The Naked Emperor skewers the latest misleading Long Covid study – this one compared hospitalised Covid patients to non-hospitalised controls and found the hospitalised patients were sicker (yes, really).
- “17 years of near-zero trend in September sea ice demolishes claim that more CO2 means less sea ice” – Arctic sea ice failed to nose-dive again this year, undoubtedly disappointing expects who have been anticipating a ‘death-spiral’ decline for ages, says Susan Crockford in WUWT.
- “PM will cash in emissions ‘credit’ to adhere to Net Zero” – According to the Telegraph, Sunak is looking to avoid breaching the U.K.’s strict carbon budgets despite pushing back the ban on selling new petrol cars.
- “On Net Zero, Britain can’t afford to be the moral model to the world” – Political grand-standing comes at too high a price, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph. “Sunak has realised this, Starmer still toys with making people poorer.”
- “Armed Met officers refuse to carry guns after colleague charged with murder of Chris Kaba” – Officers “have had enough and say it’s not worth it anymore” to run the risk of facing charges, a source tells the Telegraph.
- “Islamists are ‘weaponising’ claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on hijabs, report finds” – Islamists are “weaponising” claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on head scarves and veils, think tank Policy Exchange has found, according to the Telegraph.
- “I’ve been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics” –Alka Sehgal Cuthbert writes in Spiked about her recent experiecne being disinvited because her presence would make speakers feel “unsafe”.
- “MPs who believe ‘women have a penis’ will be named and shamed ahead of general election” – A new website will allow voters to instantly find out whether their MP thinks women must be born female, the Telegraph reports.
- “Whitehall wokery won’t be stopped unless we overhaul the Equality Act” – A web of laws and obligations are allowing officials to put diversity before delivery, and it must change, says Fred de Fossard in the Telegraph.
- “Why ‘wokeness’ is doomed to fail” – Nick Cohen reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap in the Spectator.
- “EU migration crisis puts Schengen zone ‘in danger’” – The return of border controls to prevent migrant crossings threatens the bloc’s cherished freedom of movement, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gender-critical civil servants’ views compared to ‘Nazism’ in diversity meeting” – Gender-critical civil servants were compared to “Nazis” and the “far-Right” by fellow officials in a meeting discussing diversity, the Telegraph reports.
- “The incredible meltdown of the Center for Antiracist Research” – Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s fantastically funded Centre for Antiracist Research at Boston University is in financial meltdown. Where did all the money go, asks Peter Wood in the Spectator.
- “What if Lucy Letby is not guilty?” – Peter Hitchens, with some reluctance – “I have enough enemies as it is” – queries the evidence in the Mail.
- “England ladies’ angling team wont compete after team picks trans woman” – Members of the squad did not volunteer to participate at the Shore Angling World Championships in Italy in November because trans woman Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges was also allowed to apply, according to the Mail.
- “Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To ‘Crack Down On Free Speech As A Weapon Of War’” – In her latest attack on free speech, Jacinda Ardern declared free speech a virtual “weapon of war”, writes Jonathan Turley at ZeroHedge.
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I presume that submariner Professor Peter Wadhams will find some excuse why his predictions about the disappearance of polar ice turned out to be so out of touch with reality.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/09/23/pm-will-cash-in-emissions-credit-to-adhere-to-net-zero/
This is what is known in the real world as jiggery pokery, or firkin about with the figures, aka witchcraft and for those who like to call a spade a spade – Lying.
Everything about Sunak’s supposed relaxation of Net Zero targets seems like a typical cynical political ploy. It looks like another Conservative bait and switch. Fool voters into thinking the Conservatives are more reasonable and not as bad as Labour before going ahead and doing the exact same thing as them. Basically keep up the illusion that Team A and Team B are not exactly the same thing and that voters have a “choice”.
George Carlin spoke long about ‘The illusion of choice’ more than 30 years ago. Our government is trapped between the supra-national globalists, and the woke blob of the civil service and quango’s. I fear there is no non-violent way out of this situation
No there isn’t, and with the G20 agreeing to Digital ID’s and CBDCs the net is closing.. Control our money and it’s game over.
I would argue both those things are already here and what is coming down the road is their expansion and refinement,
We already have biometric passports in a country like the UK in which almost everyone travels abroad. Notice how our borders are digitalised, the US long had an entry permission system (ESTA) as has Australia. The EU is setting up a similar digital border and permission system next year as will the UK. In time every country will follow suit. So we are already nicely put in holding pens where we can roam freely, for now.
As far as money goes, most people already pay everything by card or bank transfer. And those transactions are carefully monitored already. Try doing anything substantial out of the ordinary and see how far you get without someone holding he payment up to ask you what it is for.
Both the principles and the practice of centrally controlled digital IDs and digital money have been established, on the premise of security and efficiency. All that is left now is to see how it creeps ever deeper into our daily lives.
CBDC’s really are game over.
You may be right
This slightly cheered me up, though it’s probably too little too late
House Financial Services Committee Advances National Security, Financial Privacy, Anti-CBDC Legislation | Financial Services Committee
“Today, the House Financial Services Committee passed eleven pieces of legislation out of Committee that strengthen national security, protects Americans’ financial privacy, and prevents the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) without explicit authorization from Congress.“
Perhaps in the US, banks ask you less questions than here, or if they do ask you questions they are more closely tied to actual prevention of money laundering and less political, and perhaps US banks have a legal duty and right to refuse to disclose information to the state. The Patriot Act which authorized non specific trawling of personal communications was ruled unconstitutional in parts by several federal courts.
That’s really the question isn’t it.
There is a growing awareness of what is afoot. But is it too late?
The other issue is that the people pushing this stuff aren’t oblivious to resistance to it. They are constantly gauging what they can get away with and slow down, pause or pull back temporarily when they have to.
Case in point, Sunak’s delay of EVs. Its clearly a response to push back, but no one in their right mind thinks that’s a change of direction. It’s a tactical pause. Clearly.
Basically, they have a sense of the need to manage the push back and are getting good at it.
I think that’s about the best we can hope for, at present – to elicit lots of tactical pauses. Or perhaps it’s best to let things get to breaking point (or FUBAR point).
Genuinely I believe it’s never too late..what can be built can be torn down..
People lived with Communism and Fascism until they didn’t…..
It is upsetting and unbelievable, I agree, that things aren’t bad enough for most ….yet…
“Control our money and it’s game over.”
I have been making this point since the start.
Then how does one stop it? Or how does one work around it, as there maybe no stopping it? A velvet revolution where we just do our own thing? Not sure what the answer is.
& me
I understand why we are not allowed to call for violence in comments. That makes complete sense. However, Jacinda Adern’s assertion that “my” “our” free speech, to which I, we, have a god given right, is a weapon of war rather leaves me feeling she is the one that has introduced the concept of violence, and, given she is using it as a pretext for the use of state violence, as the state has the ultimate sanction of violence for those who do not follow the laws she is proposing, I will defend and act on my right to free speech.
If that means taking up arms. So be it. The fascists must be fought.
She was one of the worst covid restriction /Jab pushers welcomed straight into Prince Williams Climate thingy ! Lovely woman !!
“EU migration crisis puts Schengen zone ‘in danger’”
How would have thought that if you open the borders, you end up with too many boarders.?
How delicious for those who want us back in the EU for free movement, if the EU stop free movement. What excuse will they have then, except for them being wiser and more moral than thee.
The very fact that they opened the borders has caused this so called migration disaster , bodies of kids washed up on beaches was all our fault for being uncaring they said ! Added to that is the fact that these waves of unknown illegals are not jabbed or recorded both in Europe & America while we hang on the precipice of invasive digital surveillance ourselves!!… 😡🤯
Given we know how bad horse face is what does this say about Billy Windsor?
…the borders aren’t open..there literally are no borders…
“England ladies’ angling team wont compete after team picks trans woman”
I commend their actions, but it also leaves me asking why there is a separate competition just for Women. From what I know of angling, the sex of the person holding the rod is not of any significance. Maybe in shark fishing, but not for the odd Red Mullet or Bream.
Neil, read the article! A man can cast a line 150 yards whereas the average woman around 70yds and some 50yds, that means a man has much more water to fish.
Sorry, I was under the impression that fish swim about..
A good line (but the point about men v women fishing remains).
I see what you did there… 😉
Looks like someone didn’t see what I did there with the downvote but I did wonder who would be the first to spot it.
A good line…😀😀😀
I’ve upvoted you but you’re downvoted twice for this comment! Blimey HP!!
Reely?
Boom boom.
Oh come on mate! You don’t need muscles with today’s modern lightweight equipment, we’re not still using cane rods anymore! How far you cast will hardly make that much difference!
Dinger, I’ve never fished in my life and maybe you and Neil are right and it doesn’t make any difference and I owe you both an apology. Maybe women should just suck it up and not even have their own competitions. But maybe the sporting fisherwomen and their professional sporting bodies are right and the length of your cast does make a difference? Honestly, I don’t personally know.
I’ve been fishing on and off most of my life and I’ve never noticed any man sat on the bank doing any better than women at fishing!
There is a pretty good female present in fishing and from experience I’d say the catch would average out equal between the sex’es.
But I don’t see any problem with women wanting their own club and competitions, fair play to that!
Their is a huge difference between sitting on a bank and standing on a beach hoping to cast far enough to hit the deep water.
There is not an awful lot of coarse fishing that requires 50 yard or more casts.
I was just taking it to be corse fishing! My mistake, if its beach sea fishing then there maybe an advantage as bigger fish need deeper water
I know nothing about fishing. I do know a bit about tennis. Elite male tennis players will easily beat elite female tennis players, but at the recreational level there doesn’t seem to be much difference – it’s a skill sport, like fishing, and perhaps only at the outlying edge does the extra strength and speed make a big difference. I don’t think this applies to contact sports though.
Agreed👍
See my explanation.
Thanks for that.
Dinger, best not comment until you have researched.
A beach may have a fifty yard frontage where the water barely exceeds 3ft. From 50 – 90 yards it deepens to 7/8 ft and from 100yds out the water deepens to 12 plus ft.
Fish inhabit different depths of the sea and bigger fish as a rule require more water than smaller fish, ergo…
I wish I hadn’t said anything now….
No harm done. You gave us something to think about.
..the point is Neil, that whatever the sporting activity..it shouldn’t be infiltrated by men..for ANY reason….and you are correct the women are to be applauded!…
Yes Hux, I’ve just posted to explain my mistake, I thought it was corse fishing not beach angling, soz
Bolloc÷ing excepted !
“Dinger, best not comment until you have researched.”
seems a little harsh? Free speech is what this site is all about isn’t it Hux?
whether you’ve researched or not!
LOL! This is true for me…I am a girl, and I totally throw like a girl??
“What if Lucy Letby is not guilty?
Hitchens assertion that the horror of the crime, can leave you blind to the safety of the conviction is spot-on.
I think we have a troll or two in our midst (with these downvotes) and I confess I haven’t read this article or followed the trial but surely everyone, whatever they’ve done has the right to appeal?
There is no right to appeal a verdict in a criminal trial by jury in the UK unless you can show “new” evidence, or (rarely) some procedural error, or bias in the judge’s summing up or conduct. You can’t introduced new experts unless they are already on an approved list controlled by the judicial system. The Appeal Court might then agree to hear the appeal, but they are very reluctant to overturn jury verdicts. The CCRC might help and have the right to seek new evidence, but they are starved on resources. Finally any appeal process requires considerable funding, usually beyond the resources of private individual defendants.
It’s not that people don’t want to do net zero, it’s that they don’t want to be taken for granted.” Says Lord Hammond.
No, Lord Hammond, we don’t want Nett Zero. We can’t see why we are turning our economy and society on its head, to our own impoverishment. This done to satisfy arbitrary targets, chosen by scientists in response to a scientific hypothesis, not supported by science, and not followed by 70% of the Worlds Population.
All we can hope for is that by some miracle, you manage to extract your head from your colon and listen to the other side of the argument.
Question No1: How much CO2 is in the atmosphere and how much of that is ‘man-made’.?
Question No2: Describe in detail how computer models of our climate are supposed to be accurate when they ignore the actions of the sun and of clouds?
Answers
1: Man made? 0.0012%, of which the UK is responsible for 0.00002%
2: Trick question. They aren’t supposed to be accurate. Their purpose is to support the biggest grift in human history, even bigger than the Catholic Church, and you are culpable in encouraging it to happen. Maybe we should have a look at your investment portfolio..?
Real world data is clear. Over the geological long term, and the relative short term, there is no correlation between CO2 concentration and temperature. A 30 year or so correlation, as we saw at the end of the last century, the Late 20th C Warm Period, is of NO statistical sognificance whatsoever
Thanks.
Top class Neil. 👍
As previously pointed out, while man-made emissions of CO2 are around 3% of total CO2 emissions (underpinning your 0.0012% figure – 0.03 x 0.04), nature is both an emitter and absorber of CO2. So man-made emissions are tautologically a higher % of net CO2 emissions.
Well you may have heard Dr McCullough recently declare that if he had young children he wouldn’t given them any vaccines, and looking at the data it’s plain as day to see why. This is what Dr Paul Thomas has been saying ( and proving ) for years; that unvaxxed kids are healthier than vaxxed kids;
”The number of vaccines given to babies and children has increased dramatically without the necessary due diligence by regulatory authorities. Parents are urged to adopt a common-sense, ‘Safer to Wait” approach.
Growing international concerns about vaccine regulatory processes and vaccine safety have emerged following the widespread regulatory failure of Covid-19 vaccines. The Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated that regulatory bodies, once public watchdogs, are now at best incompetent and at worst have been deeply corrupted by pharmaceutical industry interests.”
https://metatron.substack.com/cp/137289597
I have never trusted the MMR vaccines…
I am not a doctor, obs….but no one ever gets infected with those three things at any one time..so why would you vaccinate for all of them at the same time? what does it do to the body?
Simplistic, I know, but I have never been able to get past it….
I have argued this many times with a nurse friend..and I think she never wanted to accept that what she did could harm someone, especially a child….but even she now agrees that Andrew Wakefield was the first person we know of who got the full ‘censorship treatment’..which is very obvious now that we know how they operate….
The trans debate is likely to be one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the 2024 general election, with many MPs especially on the Left in a muddle over the definition of a woman.
Yes, it’s a bit of a shame really. I’d be more interested in the opinions of candidates who want to impoverish us with Net-Zero – or not.
Oh, look over there. A squirrel!
I also wish that people would stop writing about sex being linked to birth. Sex is often first observed at birth by the parents, though most in the rich world will have had a scan so the scanner person will most likely notice, but sex is determined at the moment of conception.
“I’d be more interested in the opinions of candidates who want to impoverish us with Net-Zero – or not”
I take your point but to some extent those MP’s who fudge this or refuse to answer will tell us an awful lot about their intelligence, backbone and morals. This is just the type of question the scumbags hate – either / or, yes / no. And no erm, erm, erm. I am looking forward to this.
Do not get me started on bloody hijabs. I’ll launch into ‘wind-up toy mode’. Instead here’s two contrasting videos for you, both Muslim men;
https://twitter.com/khaledYousefff/status/1700149621467533427
https://twitter.com/ApostateProphet/status/1700144278150713604
Thanks Mogs – Islam eh? The religion of peace. No wonder the globalists are pushing it. Without a doubt Islam ticks all the Orwellian boxes.
OM chuffing G, what fresh hell is this?
”Now that old Bond is dead, a new woke Bond can safely rise. Even though Ian Fleming has been dead since 1964, the estate turned to other authors to prime the giant money pump. Initially new Bond novels were written by prestigious writers like Kingsley Amis or former military men like John Gardner, but in more recent years turned to anyone willing to write woke for cash.
The latest of these come from Kim Sherwood, a University of Edinburgh lecturer who is interested in “women’s stories” and was authorized to write a feminist James Bond trilogy.
How do you write a feminist trilogy around one of the least feminist fictional characters around?
Easy, get rid of him.
Sherwood’s feminist trilogy of Bond novels has the superspy go missing while she invents new zeroes to take his place. Sherwood’s “feminist perspective” on James Bond gets rid of the white man and offers an “ensemble cast of heroes who we can all identify with.”
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd and Sherwood might want to look back at how that gimmick worked for the Pink Panther movies made after the death of Peter Sellers. But Bond didn’t actually die, he’s just been canceled. When he’s not turning woke, he’s just making way.
“I want to bring a feminist perspective to the canon,” Sherwood pitched, to “create a space for all of us to be heroes.” The technical term for that is a “Mary Sue” character. But do female readers of the Bond novels really want to be superspies, gunning down villains and surviving torture?
Ready or not, Sherwood debuted the new zeroes who prioritize “inclusivity, female heroes, and heroes of colour” including a black gay disabled 004 and a Pakistani Muslim 009.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/09/woke-james-bond-novels-replace-him-with-disabled-black-gay-superspy-and-pakistani-muslim-009
Mogs, there just ain’t words!😢
Why the hell can’t the classics be left alone?
I see the new Snow White is getting a bit of a flushing. Hopefully this garbage from Sherwood will too. I detest wokery with a passion. Why would I want it on the page of a book I read for pleasure?
Die-hard Fleming fans will have a field day and the Guardian reviews will be wokery gold.
So it’s not Bond then is it? It’s a wannabe with not the wit or the art or imagination of the original..trailing on his coat-tails?
I am currently re-reading all the Bond books, funnily enough, currently on Thunderball…I will NOT be reading any of the above shite…
…can I also just say, at this juncture, I’m a woman and an advocate of women, but am as fed up as the next person with women being everywhere and doing everything, and like the mixed race family adverts and the flag waving trans ball-cocks…will they give us all a break and just shut the feck up!!
Hear, hear.
Not a very original idea, is it? She’s just taking the easy option rather than actually trying to work with a complex, established character and move him on in ways that are consistent with his history. Disney, via Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy have been trashing every single legacy movie franchise for years now, replacing beloved male leads and beautifully realised fairytale princesses with cardboard cutout bossgirls who have minimal character arcs and are just perfekt in every way. Indie, Luke, Boba Fett and the other Mandalorian, the current live action Thrawn, numerous Marvel characters: they’ve all been downgraded and/or replaced by bland soulless girlbosses and yet the writers/producers/publishers still haven’t learnt that audiences are sick and tired of this utterly worn out trope. Ah well, as the saying goes, go woke, go broke…..
Critical Drinker always worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPE7-PRL0M8
“England ladies’ angling team wont compete after team picks trans woman”
I’m sure the fish won’t care what’s between his legs when being hauled to shore!
In some sports and past times its irrelevant what sex is involved, like chess for instance, same with fishing, there’s no advantage being a man!
He’s a former rugby player, but has he still got his tackle? 😮
🤣🤣🤣👍
He’s had sex reassignment surgery so genuinely has a “bonus hole.”
As with many sports, upper body strength can be the advantage.
Well I know I say this a lot, but the shit going down in Ukraine is NOT normal, on any sort of rational political scale….
If anyone watched Elensky at the UN talking about the ‘green agenda’….and thought the same as me….WTF?
If it has to be said, again, for those who think this is about Ukraine and not America, here’s the latest fraud in the making……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9_qrS1QUE
Jesse Watters Fox News
..from about 1.25 in…..
Another few minutes of common sense from Peter St Onge..this time on Chicago’s planned city run grocery stores….!
This is so f****d up If it wasn’t so serious it would be funny….what the hell is happening in America..and the world??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJ6MJBZA00
CDC refuses to release updated information on post covid vaccination heart information….
Dr Kat Lindley
@KLVeritas
You have to ask yourself why?!
During the the meeting on 9/12/23, CDC did not mention VAERS data. When asked for it they used the data from 10/23/22 that identified 9 cases of myo or pericarditis. When asked for more current data, in their own words “When appropriate, the updated safety data will be published.”
Oh dear. Very, very guilty by omission.
Ardern (2023) “We have to censor free speech in order to protect it” reminds me of the American major in Vietnam (1968) “We have to destroy the village in order to save it”.
When I saw that a blockbuster film had been released this year about how a government spent billions of dollars developing a secret weapon in conjunction with top scientists (some having visiting mistresses, contrary to security standards), tested it once, used it on the general public causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, went on to develop and even more destructive device, then launched a purge and cancellation of any scientist who questioned or was suspected of being doubtful of the moral implications or was a whistle-blower I obviously assumed it was a current affairs docudrama about the saving the planet from a virus. On watching the film I was quite disappointed to find it was set eighty years ago and was about some novel bomb. Obviously, given the current culture of high standards of scientific integrity, extensive peer-review, transparency in political decision-making, freedom of speech and clear separation of industry, banks, academia and governments, I now realise that such a scenario being repeated in the present day is unimaginable.