- “Hamas avoided detection by ‘going back to the Stone Age’” – Hamas fooled Israel into believing it was too war weary to fight, going “stone age” to escape high-tech surveillance and training on a mock Israeli settlement as it plotted its recent deadly attack, according to the Telegraph.
- “The mobs cheering Hamas on the streets of Britain have proved Suella right” – When the Home Secretary said multiculturalism had failed, she was not criticising immigrants who integrated into British society, but those who refuse to integrate and reject British values, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The invasion of Israel has put the failure of multiculturalism on shameless display” – Civilisation stands at a crossroads; one way, there are deluded progressives cheering on mass murderer; the other, everything we hold dear, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell in row with newspaper over ‘anti-Semitic’ Netanyahu drawing” – The Guardian has become embroiled in a row with one of its cartoonists over an “anti-Semitic” drawing he produced in the wake of Hamas’s attacks against Israel, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fury as Black Lives Matter group posts image of paratrooper and says it ‘stands with Palestine’” – A Black Lives Matter chapter from Chicago said it “stands with Palestine” and posted an online graphic of a paratrooper in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why isn’t Antifa condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?” – Antifa, those self-styled anti-fascists who love to rage against anything reminiscent of the 1930s, have been weirdly quiet about events in Israel, observes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Murdering euphemism” – In City Journal, Eitan Fischberger explains how Hamas finally exposed the mainstream media’s apologia.
- “We must confront the new anti-Semitism” – The world’s oldest hatred has made a grotesque comeback, says Tom Slater in Spiked. If we look the other way now, we surrender the right to call ourselves a civilised nation.
- “Immoral equivalence” – The efforts of the mainstream media, government officials and elite universities to avoid outright condemnation of Hamas reveal a West at war with itself, argues Juliana Geran Pilon in City Journal.
- “Same people who attacked Israel are entering U.S., says Donald Trump” – Former President Trump has called for his ban on travel from predominantly Muslim countries to be reimposed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil Service held up Covid advice to avoid working weekends, claims Cummings” – Dominic Cummings has claimed civil servants wanted to delay making a stay-at-home announcement at the start of the pandemic because they did not want to work at the weekend, according to the Telegraph.
- “Over 80% of Americans refused the last Covid booster” – Despite U.S. health authorities’ continued push for people to stay up to date on boosters, public interest appears to be waning, says the Epoch Times.
- “Covid reinfections clear faster, including in unvaccinated people” – According to a new study, COVID-19 reinfections cleared faster than initial infections, including among among the unvaccianted, reports the Epoch Times.
- “COVID-19 mRNA vaccine contaminated by mystery DNAs and truncated mRNAs” – In the latest part of their ‘COVID-19 mRNA vaccine issues’ series, the Epoch Times explores how the introduction of mRNA technology lacked an adequate regulatory framework.
- “Where were all the anarchists during COVID-19?” – In OffGuardian, two anarchist pro-freedom campaigners sit down with Winter Oak’s Paul Cudenec to discuss why the organised anarchist movement worldwide slavishly complied with Covid restrictions.
- “We have not run away.” – On Substack, Prof. Carl Henneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson express concern about the quality and credibility of the UKHSA’s review of 100 models used to justify COVID-19 restrictions.
- “GP appointments crisis sparks 80% surge in A&E sore throat attendances” – Buckling A&E departments are seeing a rise in people attending with sore throats because of the GP appointment crisis, reports the Mail.
- “Grayson Perry’s wife warns ADHD is a ‘fashionable buzzword’” – Psychologist Philippa Perry has expressed concern over the increasing number of ADHD diganoses, says the Mail.
- “Prison governor chief warns jails could run out of space within days” – The head of Britain’s prison governors’ group has warned that prisons in England and Wales may soon run out of space, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Prof. Michael Mann tweets study claiming climate deniers are misogynist authoritarians” – WUWT’s Eric Worrall takes issue with Prof. Michael Mann for endorsing a study that suggests climate sceptics target female leaders like Greta Thunberg due to misogyny.
- “The offshore wind boondoggle” – Green advocates remain undaunted by wind energy’s surging costs and questionable efficiency, writes Jonathan A. Lesser in City Journal.
- “Renewable energy won’t save the planet if it costs the earth” – It is undeniable that current Net Zero plans are astronomically costly, technologically impossible and politically unstable, says Robert Onfray in WUWT.
- “Why is Sunak being pilloried for stating biological facts?” – Gender ideologues are so out of touch they make our multimillionaire PM look like a man of the people, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “U.K. ‘has plunged down academic freedom league’” – The U.K. has fallen significantly in an international league table of academic freedom, according to the Evening Standard.
- “Edinburgh academics demand Sex and Gender book launch is scrapped” – Academics at the University of Edinburgh have been accused of an “horrific” and “nonsensical attack” on free speech after calling for the launch of a book about gender politics to be cancelled, reports the Times.
- “Black female James Bond would ‘boost MI6 diversity’” – Spy chiefs are eager for a black female James Bond because it would drive diversity in the intelligence services, says the Telegraph.
- “Denying sex change is not a crime” – Sky’s Kay Burley, and everyone behind her, have mountains to climb in making their coverage of sex and gender coherent, writes Cath Walton in the Critic.
- “Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert: I was cancelled because of seven people – that can’t be right” – In the Evening Standard, the Director of Don’t Divide Us, Dr. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, reacts to her recent cancellation by an educational conference over concerns from some attendees that her presence would make them feel “unsafe”.
- “The elite capture of the Left” – Brendan O’Neill interviews non-woke leftie Freddie deBoer in Spiked.
- “Some call it conspiracy theory” – There are countless examples of the conspiracy theory or theorist label being used to hide evidence, obscure facts and deny legitimate concerns, says Iain Davis in OffGuardian.
- “EU invokes censorship law to threaten X, accuses it of allowing ‘disinformation’” – The EU is accusing X of allowing illegal content and disinformation, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Uncancelled with Toby Young” – Toby joins Mark Dolan on GB News to discuss what impact a Labour Government could have on free speech after a report from the Institute of Economic Affairs suggests a Labour Government would be “a threat to gender critical free speech”.
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Two articles from Off-G:
https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/10/some-call-it-conspiracy-theory-part-1/
https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/09/where-were-all-the-anarchists-during-covid19/
The first above by the excellent Iain Davis.
I didn’t post these personally although I check Off-G daily because these are perhaps not the most accessible articles currently.
It is however very pleasing that Off-G is finally getting the recognition it deserves here on DS.
Much appreciated.
Excellent articles.
Thanks.
Off-Guardian has been superbly consistent in producing top quality journalism throughout the last three years that and with excellent journalists / thinkers such as Kit Knightly, C J Hopkins, Iain Davis, see also UK Column News, Todd Hayen to name but a few.
Thanks. Off-Guardian “Where were the anarchists” was helpful to know that those of us who did not comply have a common quest as Paul Cudenec and his Winter Oak.org
I liked him saying that this is a difficult time in history and encouraged people to do what ever they can to help succeed seeing off this global coup for the good of the future of humanity.
And I don’t think this had to be if you are exclusively an anarchist as I am a Christian who also avoided as much as possible to not comply with the authoritarian global control.
Covid-19 didn’t work out as well as expected for the globalist set. Resistance to mRNA and CBDC’s has grown. Climate catastrophism is seen for what it is and seen as being based on dodgy modelling.
I first noticed how atrocity turns up to sort out any of the masses who’s attitude is misaligned, right on cue, back when Assad was said to have launched a chemical arrack on his own people. That, it is now known, was unlikely to have been the case. It never made sense to me tactically. It always seemed to me the only sure purpose such an event could serve were if it were a false flag event to ensure public opinion fell in line. In that respect such an atrocity works like a button on the psyche of the population.And noticing that I then noticed how frequently such attrocities turned up at opportune times for the establishment elite. My world view shifted.
But then I am also aware of how there is fundamentalist extremism built right in to the tenets of a certain major religion that is evident to anyone who cares to look. How the Koran stands to Muslims as Christ stands to Christians. How it is therefore the immutable word of god and as such presents a logical binary. To be a good Muslim, simply put have to believe the Koran is the word of god. I won’t go into the culturally regressive beliefs this then makes it necessary to believe (and that the intelligentsia in the West refuse to face up to – as do in many respects fortunately, many Muslims themselves), but, put it this way, quoting them, quoting the truth, results in an instant algorithmic comment ban in The Telegraph.
So, to be honest between my second and third paragraph, I have absolutely no idea what to make of the news last night that Hamas beheaded scores of babies and children at a Kibutz. No idea. I am left uncomfortably and dissonantly without a gut feel, clue or opinion as to what the real story is.
https://x.com/henmazzig/status/1711732906412884432?s=61&t=AY3dxo4CPswl6wmndLEhaw
I commented on this last night under the data article. I’ve a feeling this is fake news but time will tell. I posted an interesting clip from a longer film about how these tactics are as old as the hills, used in the Iraq war for instance, to garner support. I also read that there’s 60+ fake accounts on Twitter ( surely an understatement ) going around posting fake stuff so a word to the wise, take everything we read online with a massive pinch of salt at all times. The problem is, if news channels are proven to be spreading fake news all credibility for them and other news broadcasts goes out of the window. People won’t trust anything, even something that’s supposedly been ‘confirmed’.
Why did the Biden mafia leave $10 billion dollars worth of military hardware in Afghanistan?
Now we know – a free gift for the religion of peace. It worked like a dream.
IDF can’t confirm that apparently. But I thought it was the IDF who told that US reporter on the ground this information.
https://twitter.com/RickPercoco1776/status/1711969825923412327
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-gaza-stone-age-avoid-detection/
Complete and utter bollox as I have commented previously.
Well a return to the stone age doesn’t bode well for the globalists does it if the Hamas results are anything to go by? All we need is to knock up some bows and arrows and we’ll soon have their wagons surrounded.
…sadly I think we are watching the well rehearsed trajectory of the MSM agenda…
Obviously there has been a terrible, unconscionable attack on innocent Israelis… that is not in question..but the ‘reporting’ as we all well know, takes on a life of its own, which has little to do with the truth…
It would seem, from what I have read that this story comes from one person…an Israeli backed reporter called Nicole Zedec….who said she had been told this by ‘some soldiers’….she has since ‘walked-back’ on it saying there is no firm confirmation of either the numbers or the way they died. The Israeli commander of the area has also said there is no confirmation..even though he has also repeated the story….and of course it’s been reported everywhere anyway!!
The L.A Times has similarly also retracted it’s story about Hamas raping women, they are now saying these are ‘unconfirmed reports…’
I spent most of yesterday watching actual dead babies and children being pulled from demolished buildings in Gaza…like you and many others I am torn about what to think or how to navigate the whole thing…does a horrible tragedy give you ‘carte blanche’ to commit the same heinous acts?…..and always on innocent people?
It’s just horrible…..
….just a reminder…Julian Assange claimed that most of the wars of the last fifty years had happened because of media lies….
…..besides ‘weapons of mass destruction..
In 1999 Gerhard Schroeder alleged that the Yugoslav army was setting up “rape camps” in Kosovo. This turned out to be wholly fictional story that was made up by German intelligence.
Who can forget Nayirah, choking back tears when telling of Iraqi soldiers throwing babies out of incubators?…..all untrue….
In 2022 UN officials accused the Russian government of distributing viagra en masse in order that they could conduct a mass rape of Ukrainian women. When asked to prove this they could not of course do so.
…and the Ukrainian Ombudsman for Human Rights was fired after spreading disturbing reports about sex crimes against children, allegedly committed by Russian soldiers. So, why would the former ombudsman get fired for reporting on “evil Russian war crimes”? Well, because she admitted that the reports were entirely fabricated.
Saddam, Bin Laden, XI, Putin, Assad etc ….. all apparently, according to the
MSM, evil psychopaths….
This article seems quite ironic now, knowing it’s source, but is from back in 2001……but has anything changed…..???
The way wars are reported in the western media follows a depressingly predictable pattern: stage one, the crisis; stage two, the demonisation of the enemy’s leader; stage three, the demonisation of the enemy as individuals; and stage four, atrocities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/oct/04/socialsciences.highereducation
Thank you ebygum for your intelligent, rational and balanced post and facts.
Thanks for the nice comment…..
I know it’s normal, because I feel it myself, but the knee-jerk reaction is never right….it always pays to take a breath and wonder who wants you to think that way..what is their goal?
It’s very rarely the betterment or care of ordinary people….
I just refuse to ‘hate on command’…nope, not doing it….!
Well done Gums on continuing to walk a delicate middle line when discussing this appalling situation. As well as Assange, numerous commentators have been calling out the extraordinary corruption of the MSM for years now, evidenced by the increasingly obvious distrust of it shown by the general population across the West. Why it should be believed in this situation now is beyond comprehension. Any cursory glance at UK MSM shows a level of hysterical bias and naked warmongering that defies basic concepts of humanity.
My thoughts remain with those suffering on both sides of this disastrous war.
I see CNN were caught out faking a rocket assault on Israel and the crew diving for cover. Seems they’ve got form though. Watch this. What an insult. But who in their right mind would look to CNN for any credible news anyway?
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1712027566716981307
…I have often wondered why they do these things….they only come back to bite them when they are found to be untrue..and frankly I think it makes people less likely to support whatever it is you want them to, because they see the lies and misrepresentation of events…
In the case of conflict..the horrors of it are usually very self-evident…and people are naturally horrified….…..
..so that’s why it seems like an agenda…I guess it’s like the plandemic, why do they feel you need so much coercion to believe them… if things are so ‘obviously’ bad?
I’d rather live in a majority Jewish area than a majority Muslim area. No other religion has this kind of fanaticism and obsession with world domination. And at least living in the former area I wouldn’t be worried about my daughter every time she left the house.
”The Hamas attack appears well-planned and supported by its allies in the region, especially Iran and Hezbollah, aiming to thwart possible attempts by Israeli and Saudi Arabia to normalize relations. As Israel responds, the situation won’t end well and many more civilians on both sides will suffer, especially as Hamas is known for using civilians as human shields in buildings in Gaza where they store weapons and military equipment.
While there are various political angles in this dreadful situation—including how American weakness in the region enables bad actors against its major ally—we should pay close attention to the ideology that drives Hamas.
Hamas is highly political and deeply religious. As a group, it emerged in the 1980s from the larger Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood. While there is no doubt about the political aspiration of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, they both openly and explicitly tie their militant actions to the Quran and Muhammad as sources of legitimacy. This is why Hamas named the entire operation after Al-Aqsa Mosque, due to its religious esteem, to consolidate spiritual sentiment and momentum.
To Hamas, the Jews are the enemies. Why? Because the Quran and Muhammad’s statements explicitly state so. Not only is fighting Israeli soldiers commanded and commended, but attacking Jews—even noncombatants—becomes a religious commitment, since the Quran explicitly states that the “strongest in enmity” to the Muslims are “the Jews.” Notice the designation of a religious group as an enemy. This forms and fuels hatred against humans based on their religious loyalty.
For Hamas, the Islamic designation of the Jews as enemies doesn’t distinguish military commanders from civilians—all are in one basket. Whether Hamas and its militias care about Islam and its advancement is not the issue, as they clearly use its ideological claims to advance their political agenda.”
https://wng.org/opinions/hamas-and-the-ideology-of-hate-1696852140
I don’t disagree with what you are saying..but in my opinion nothing politically lives in a vacuum, or a place of ‘all right’ or ‘all wrong’…
….it’s a fact that Hamas, which started as a fringe Palestinian extremist group, was pretty much created and bolstered by Israel….
Netanyahu himself told a meeting of his Likud Party’s Knesset in March 2019…
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas…..This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
This might not matter to us so much, sitting out of harms way, but the people of Israel will want answers as to how the actions of their Government lead to this….
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Speaking of fanaticism. Now this is a man who knows all about tolerance towards others! I don’t understand how they’re allowed to do this in the open, it should surely be confined to their mosques. All it would take is somebody to state there’s only two genders and women can’t have penises and the cops would be all over them, but this is acceptable apparently.
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1711444719606095913
Ship him off to Gaza where he can be with the “faithful.”
Looks like Malcolm Kendricks is back for a little bit at least. http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2023/10/09/what-is-wrong-with-the-nhs/
Another example of an attempt to silence an alternative view on things, albeit about Statins and Cholestrerol.
The recommended link http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2023/10/09/what-is-wrong-with-the-nhs/%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0  didn’t work as expected, but searching for “Statins” in the page it dropped me into came up with this article: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/tag/nhs/ and the top of was “Although now dead, the Cholesterolosaurus will march on
”. I’m not advertising, but he is evidently a born and bred sceptic! It may well be that fashion come and go in some medical theory.
Statins are junk products and bad for health.
Good on the Poles. They know the score and they can see most of the rest of Europe has gone to the dogs because of this.
”As the debate rages both within the European Union and Poland regarding the acceptance of a surge in Muslim immigrants, Legia Warsaw fans used Sunday’s match against Raków Częstochowa to make their stance clear.
Their banner, “We don’t want Berlin, Lampedusa, or France here,” was prominently displayed in their stadium. The game in Warsaw was attended by a capacity crowd, numbering over 25,000 spectators.”
https://rmx.news/poland/polish-football-fans-unfurl-2-massive-anti-immigration-banners-we-dont-want-berlin-lampedusa-or-france-here/
Off topic I know, but that fire at Luton Airport is shocking. Last night MSM were reporting it as started by a car (type not specified). Not this morning, it appears to be a mystery. No prizes for guessing what type of car and no prizes for knowing this info will be stifled if it was our favourite self combusting type.
A little search for records of multi story car park fires was interesting. There have been a few of them in recent years, with one of the largest being in Liverpool – similar number of written off vehicles c.f. the latest reports about Luton. They will be keen on identifying the cause, if only to work out which insurer will have to pay out.
Multi storey car park on fire at Luton Airport, all flights cancelled!
Interesting story to follow, hope all involved are ok
I parked there week before last and noticed that there was a separate EV parking arrow. Don’t know how it was enforced though. Shows that the parking system was beginning to be aware of the issue, probably more to do with weight than battery fire though. Makes one think twice about any multistorey car parks.
A few Israel articles above.
I stand with Israel.
A few years ago I stood on the Gaza border. My host, a 70yr old Jewish widow, resident of Ashkelon, told me she used to shower in her swim suit in case she needed to run to her shelter. She had 15 seconds to get there.
My request to you all: do all you can to support Israel at this time. Be practical, financial, prayerful.
First they came …
Can I ask you, or anyone really, due to my lack of knowledge around Middle Eastern politics, why does Egypt not allow the women and children of Gaza in so they can at least get safe haven from the conflict? If you could save innocent civilians, predominantly kids, why would you choose not to?
Why just women and children, why not men too?
Because jihadists don’t tend to go around with ”I’m a jihadist” written on their T-shirt. Women accompanying children are far less likely to be genocidal maniacs. Egypt has enough of its own problems, they don’t need to invite more of them in.
How about men accompanying children?
Given that Hamas are renowned for hiding amongst the civilians and using them as shields I think the Egyptians would be wise to be suspicious of any men, other than the elderly perhaps, trying to cross the border. Europe could do with taking a leaf out of their book. I think Egypt appears to value its national security more than many countries in the West, going by the constant influx of immigrants with no background checks we are getting.
Seems the IEA has followed the many other bodies who expand their activities far outside their remit. Presumably the economists at IEA find their proper work tedious so they prefer wallowing in gender issues.
LOL! Is this another tick for the conspiracy theorists??
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vacccine-booster-flu-shot-for-fall-2023-fda/
A top-ranking Food and Drug Administration official, responsible for overseeing the approvals of the new vaccines now rolling out for this fall and winter’s three respiring virus threats said this month he is personally planning to space out his vaccinations over the coming weeks.
“Some people are saying, ‘Well, could I get RSV, COVID and the flu vaccine on the same day?’ Yes, indeed, you could. But honestly, I might not,” said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
Instead, he said he intended to get the Covid shot right away and the flu shot in early October.…….However, he acknowledged that getting up to three of the different vaccines at the same time could lead to more side effects — like stronger fatigue or a small fever — in the days after getting the shots.
Spacing out the shots by around two weeks could “minimize the chance of interactions, and minimize confusing side effects from one with another,” he said. They might be a good option for people who did not mind multiple trips to the pharmacy or their doctor’s office.”
“…could lead to more ‘confusing’ side-effects”….yeah…right…!!
I was just pointed to a thread on the ghastly mumsnet, there is no hope for these people, they are fully assimilated into the matrix.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4917366-to-worry-about-getting-covid-and-flu-jab-on-the-same-day?page=1
Yes, a Darwin Award to each and every one of them.
EEK! I can’t imagine with all the information available being so blasé about my health…it must be lovely and comforting to be so dumb!!?
There are plenty on the short list over there.
““The mobs cheering Hamas on the streets of Britain have proved Suella right” – When the Home Secretary said multiculturalism had failed, she was not criticising immigrants who integrated into British society, but those who refuse to integrate and reject British values, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph”
Including that huge swathe of the Left born here who reject all that our society has given them. Would that they would emigrate.
“Would that they would emigrate.”
Too damned right. Preferably to somewhere like Gaza or Iran.
Just a thought about the policy of divide & conquer.
Recently the religious minded parents of the western world were uniting against the trans agenda being forced on young children. That group of parents included Christians & Muslims. Does it not strike one as strange that a divisive narrative has appeared to destroy that unity of child protection?
A good point BB.
Christine Anderson MEP was our MD4CE guest yesterday evening for an update on what’s happening in the EU. As ever she was engaging, generous & brutally honest with her responses.
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Very good, and thoughtful discussion on the Dark Horse Podcast. Brett Weinstein talks to Israeli reporter Efrat Fenigson, (who has been so brilliant on her reporting on the Convid debacle)……about the last few days in Israel..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IAH7PnS_E
Do we have Free Speech any more in the UK?
Fat Pig News investigates (really love this channel!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIO3fJpnXLE