- “Boris Johnson asked: ‘Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway?’ during Covid” – Boris reportedly said “we’re killing the patient to tackle the tumour” in contemporaneous notes revealed at the Covid Inquiry, according to the Telegraph.
- “Keeping the beaches open” – What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s Covid response from Didactic Dom, asks Robert Hutton in the Critic.
- “We can’t lay all Covid blame at Boris’s door” – The costly Covid Inquiry is becoming a frenzied witch-hunt, unlikely to answer the most vital question: Was lockdown the right policy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “‘Excess mortality’ continuing surge causes concerns” – Life insurance executives and actuaries believe excess mortality rates are alarming and could continue to drag earnings for years to come, according to InsuranceNewsNet.
- “How U.K. Government advisers helped Pfizer win $5.95 billion U.S. Covid contract” – In TCW, Paula Jardine further explores the alleged quid pro quo between American funding for the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and U.K. assistance in authorising the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine.
- “Police hold back pro-Palestinian protesters as Starmer leaves speech” – Police were forced to wrestle back demonstrators as they attempted to mob the Labour leader as he exited the Chatham House think tank in London, says the Mail.
- “Israeli envoy wears yellow star before UN Security Council” – Israel’s Holocaust memorial body has criticised the country’s delegation to the UN for wearing yellow stars to a Security Council meeting, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is Suella Braverman wrong about pro-Palestine ‘hate marches’?” – Take a step back, and it becomes apparent that the pro-Palestinian marches themselves are constructed on infrastructure of bigotry, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
- “When did journalism become a hate crime?” – Spiked’s Fraser Myers on GB News’s Charlie Peters being reported to the police for investigating Islamic extremism.
- “Not ‘just Hamas’” – Evidence suggests that Hamas, or at least its policy toward Jews, is popular among Palestinians, say Eugene Kontorovich and Erielle Davidson in City Journal.
- “The normalisation of savagery” – Societies that give up on freedom will soon find it replaced by violence, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Islamism is a failed ideology. Muslims must embrace the West” – Those who came here to escape tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind, says Hussain Abdul-Hussain in the Telegraph.
- “The shameful silence of the ‘anti-racists’” – As antisemitism has surged, Britain’s ‘race equality’ charities have mostly looked the other way, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Moolah from mullahs” – Arab countries are bankrolling American colleges and universities, with Qatar and Saudi Arabia leading the pack, write Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky in City Journal.
- “Miriam Cates blames increase in working women for rise in children going to school in nappies” – A Tory MP has blamed the rising number of women going out to work for an increase in infants going to school wearing nappies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ninety-nine percent? Re-examining the consensus on the anthropogenic contribution to climate change” – In Climate, Prof. Yonatan Dubi and others have detailed the flaws in the consensus study by Lynas et al, which (falsely) claimed the 99% consensus on the anthropogenic contribution to climate change.
- “Greta Thunberg and her Gen Z friends owe Baby Boomers an apology over climate change” – Greta and friends say ‘older generations’ have let young people down. Yet a new poll on green lifestyle choices tells a very different story, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Indonesia shelves decarbonisation for prosperity and security” – The strategic utilisation of fossil fuels is a key factor at the centre of Indonesia’s growth, says Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
- “Dictating words: The Culture-Control Left and the war against free speech” – The Institute of Economic Affairs has released a new report on the ‘Culture-Control Left’, exploring their composition, sources of inspiration and political agenda.
- “Woke campaigners are using hate speech laws to stifle free speech” – An IEA report says elements of the Left have “successfully weaponised” concepts such as hate speech to “silence their political opponents”, reports the Mail.
- “Council purges word ‘mother’ from pregnancy and maternity leave policy” – A council was accused of “writing out women” for purging the word ‘mother’ from its pregnancy and maternity leave policy to be more inclusive, says the Mail.
- “Yayoi Kusama doesn’t need a race reckoning” – Who expects Yayoi Kusama, the 94 year-old grande dame of installation art, to be woke, asks Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
- “Macron rejects gender-inclusive writing to ‘protect’ French language” – There’s been a long-standing debate between French Right-leaning language purists versus the Left and feminists, writes Vivian Song in the Telegraph.
- “Academic dynamite” – Professors Alice Sullivan and Selina Todd’s new book, Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader, is an important, if difficult, contribution to debates around sex and gender, says Debbie Hayton in the Critic.
- “‘Asexual rights’ and the endless quest for victimhood” – New forms of ‘oppression’ are being invented every week, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “The woke celebrities using their popularity to influence us” – The cult of celebrity has taken on a sinister new meaning in recent times, says Dr. Shane Fudge in TCW.
- “Is the American Academy of Paediatrics placing its own members at risk?” – New lawsuits and a panel on gender and sexuality at the AAP’s recent conference signal trouble for paediatricians who rely on its guidance, writes Leor Sapir in City Journal.
- “Canadian death cult” – America’s northern neighbour has euthanised tens of thousands of its citizens, says Michael Bonner in City Journal.
- “The Vanguard interview: Peter Hitchens” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth interviews Peter Hitchens about his new book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs.
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An observation that can’t be ignored. In these huge pro-Palestine protests around the world, nowhere does there seem to be condemnation for Hamas, either for their attack on Israel on Oct 7th or of the way they use civilians as cannon fodder and shields. The deaths to Gazans that they themselves are responsible for is never mentioned. Where are the ”Free Palestine From Hamas” signs being waved? Where is the concern for the hostages? No wonder people are tarring them all with the same brush when we see complete lack of humanity where Jews are concerned. I guess antisemitism gets to be legitimized and normalized now though doesn’t it? Silence is compliance.
”So, let’s stop pretending that the “Palestine” protests are about human rights. If they were, they’d be protesting Hamas’s terrorism. If expressing compassion for Jewish victims and, say, demanding the release of babies and grandparents being held hostage is too much to ask, they could criticize the terrorists’ use of human shields. That includes Hamas terrorists situating its military headquarters underneath a hospital, hoarding supplies inside Gaza while demanding that the world give more to aid Palestinians and refusing to let civilians under its rule escape the fighting.
But they don’t do any of that. Instead, they threaten Jews, tear down posters of kidnapped Israelis and express their support for replacing Israel with “Palestine.”
What does matter is whether moral people are willing to go along with the pretense that demanding Israel’s eradication and the murder of its population is acceptable discourse. What is needed is for all people of goodwill—no matter where they sit on the political spectrum, no matter their faith or background—to denounce these vile ideas as hate speech. What’s more, they should demand that those who support this hatred be given the opprobrium and shunning that would be their fate if they were avowed Nazis, rather than merely those who support Hitler’s Islamist successors.”
https://www.jns.org/they-back-palestine-because-they-hate-jews/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BjRyeRZGGk
Who knew that you’d need to worry about antisemitism in Germany in this day and age? Crazy. But when it’s dressed up as social justice then it’s totally okay I guess..
”The Guardian reports Germany’s antisemitism commissioner has condemned the country’s recent increase in anti-Jewish violence, warning it risks transporting the country back to its “most horrific times.”
The remarks tap into a debate that has played out across Europe, and in particular in Germany and France – home to the E.U.’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities – as officials scramble to contain the spillover of tensions sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
“People are shocked to hear news of houses where Jews live being marked with a Star of David,” he told the outlet. “Because that, of course, rings a bell and brings us back to the most horrific times we had in this country.”
Recent weeks have seen Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, vow to take a “zero tolerance” approach to antisemitism, citing the responsibility towards Israel given Germany’s role as the perpetrator of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered.
Other national leaders have echoed those concerns.
In the period from October 7 to 15, RIAS documented 202 antisemitic “incidents” compared with just 59 during the same week in 2022.
Sigmount Koenigsberg, a pointman on antisemitism for the city’s Jewish community, told the Rheinische Post newspaper the rise anti-Jewish incidents brought back painful memories of Nazi Germany.
“It is the first time since Nazi rule that this is happening again in Germany. It reminds my community very much of that terrible time,” he said.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/31/report-jews-in-berlin-forced-to-consider-is-it-time-to-leave-germany/
Just in case people are interested.
This is the reply I received yesterday after my complaint to the Covid Inquiry, following the proceedings of the 19th of October.
It is the worst form of gaslighting I have encountered for a while and I have asked them to escalate my complaint.
”Thank you for your email of 23 October to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry regarding your views on the questioning of witnesses by Counsel to the Inquiry at the Inquiry’s public hearings.
The Inquiry is required by statute to be impartial and has no agenda, political or otherwise. It has the legal powers provided by the Inquiries Act 2005, and is able to compel organisations to produce documents to it and witnesses to give evidence.
The Inquiry collects a huge quantity of evidence in the form of statements from witnesses and other documents in order to cover all aspects of its Terms of Reference. It takes into account lines of enquiry on which it has sought legal submissions from Core Participants. Witnesses are called to give oral testimony based on the requirements of the module hearings. The Inquiry will maintain its independence at all times, and it has as yet reached no conclusions on any matter currently under consideration.
Counsel to the Inquiry’s task is both to bring out a witness’ evidence and also to test it. The precise way they do that might vary from witness to witness and depend on the evidence, but it is not indicative of any view of that evidence by them or the Inquiry’s Chair. Counsel to the Inquiry endeavour to examine all witnesses fairly and give them a fair opportunity to explain their involvement in events.
The Inquiry will only express its view on the evidence it has heard when the Chair publishes her reports. The Chair will produce regular reports during the course of the Inquiry, and the first of these relating to Module 1 (the nation’s resilience and preparedness for the pandemic) is expected to be published in the summer next year.
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Yours sincerely, “
Very revealing. Asking Carl Henegan about a personal insult and a document he didn’t even sign was ‘testing’ his evidence, was it? Not the 67 pages that he actually supplied as requested? Riiiiiight…..
Utter garbage from the “Inquiry.” Gaslighting indeed.
Thank you for your efforts.
Sadly i have also seen this. Scratch the surface of an apparently ‘moderate’ western muslim, sprinkle in some disinformation circulating on community whatsapp groups and extremism bubbles up.
“Yayoi Kusama doesn’t need a race reckoning”
Good grief, the wokerati going after a 94 mentally ill woman artist. Whatever next. But – while the article professes to defend the artist from the worst excesses of CRT tropes, buried in the text is this little gem:
And her autobiography, insensitive though it may be, is a truthful articulation of reality as she experienced it.
Why ‘insensitive’? Insensitive to whom? Is no one allowed any more to describe their life experiences and what they thought and felt 20,40, 60 years ago in their own way, or does everything everywhere – thoughts, feelings, observations – have to be shaped by the current snowflake corruption of language? It’s Symes all over again…..
‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. ‘Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?’
Thanks for the reminder.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719509199162413334/mediaviewer
There is no blood or violence but this is horrific.
A man arrested for posting a comment on Facebook criticising a street full of Palestinian flags.
Plod at their finest.
https://twitter.com/daveatherton20/status/1719622046945054794/mediaviewer
And this is the very short video that he was arrested for.
Both links removed, HP. The state moves fast to stamp out anyone questioning the narrative.
I have just clicked – the links are live Aethelred. I use Brave. I don’t know if that makes a difference.
I saw those, hux. Absolutely chuffing insane. And here, for some balance, was what was apparently permitted at Downing Street last night. I guess the police were too busy tearing down posters of hostages and arresting innocent, law abiding citizens. Just hateful, nasty pieces of work who seemingly have carte blanche to go on like that. Evidently there’s a fair few of them on here too that are the same and off their nuts with hostility. No such thing as ”abuse” when you’ve got ”free speech” + anonymity to hide behind though, right?
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1719544372364976177
That’s disgraceful. The Met need to answer for this.
It’s the Khant Aethelred.
Mogs, you can bet your life the Khant is behind these police operations.
Strange. I just tried Brave as well using a VPN and still no joy. Oh well, I get the gist!
The links work for me if I remove ‘/mediaviewer’ off the end
Disgusting.
The police are totally insane now.
Besides the Zionist click bait that the DS has become, this article regarding UK use of facial recognition in policing might have escaped your notice:
Big Brother Unchained: UK Govt To Abolish Biometrics & Surveillance Safeguards As It Embraces Facial Recognition
“Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of Indian tech billionaire N R Narayana Murthy, is determined to transform the UK into a world leader in AI governance. Said governance apparently involves gutting many of the limited safeguards protecting the public from the potential downsides and dangers of AI, of which there are many. This, of course, is no accident; if there was any time the British public needed those safeguards, it would be right now, as the government unleashes facial recognition technologies across the urban landscape.
As we reported in early August, live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance, where people’s faces are biometrically scanned by cameras in real-time and checked against a database, is being used by an increasing number of UK retailers amid a sharp upsurge in shoplifting — with the blessing, of course, of the UK government. Police forces are also being urged to step up their use of LFR. The technology has also been deployed at the Coronation of King Charles III, sports events including Formula 1, and concerts, despite ongoing concerns about its accuracy as well as the huge ethical and privacy issues it raises.
According to the UK government, this is all about fighting crime:”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/big-brother-unchained-uk-govt-abolish-biometrics-surveillance-safeguards-it-embraces
Even more alarming is the fact that recent trials in London and South Wales showed an error rate of over 90%, meaning you could get nicked for a crime you didn’t commit.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition/
Time for the funky makeup and reflective glasses….
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/avoid-facial-recognition-software
Nah. Just wear a mask and pretend you’re scared of Covid – or that you identify as a Muslim woman.
I don’t really know enough in depth stuff to discuss it..but it does make me wonder how this links up with A.I?
…pretty much all the things I read suggest that over 90% of stuff we see on screens will be A.I generated within the next ten years…
https://twitter.com/JoshWalkos/status/1719110128648040880
champagne Joshi
@JoshWalkos
I’m telling you right now this technology is going to be used as an excuse to regulate the internet and force users to adopt digital id.
All it will take is enough people being fooled that it causes real world implications. A stock price plummets or a person is misrepresented and it leads to violence. The internet version of the PATRIOT Act is sitting in a drawer somewhere on Capitol Hill just waiting for the day.
This is not Tom Cruise. It’s a deepfake ai Tom Cruise created by @Metaphysic_ai
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David Dickson
@dksdata
Week 42 England & Wales – Excess Deaths
Reported Deaths under 45 are the highest on record. This is a pattern repeated worldwide.
We are beyond government cover-up inquiries or debates to empty rooms.
We need arrest warrants and prosecutions.
TIME IS UP
http://dksdata.com/ExcessDeaths
Hell no!!
https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1323-16186474-0DMUH96PB51J7E053RUS0385VT
October 30, 2023 / The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) have entered into a strategic partnership that will harness Moderna’s mRNA platform to accelerate the development of vaccines against viral disease outbreaks that threaten global health…Our partnership with Moderna will harness the company’s clinically validated mRNA platform and its world-leading team of scientists to help prepare to respond to future epidemic and pandemic threats in as little as 100 days.”
’clinically validated mRNA platform’……validated by who??….
Surely that should read “clinically
validatedinvalidated mRNA platform’……”https://twitter.com/JustLuai/status/1719633132242997463
Powerful stuff from Luai Ahmed.
Haha yes, saw that just now. He’s ace isn’t he? Knocks it out of the ballpark again. True though. I must’ve missed all of those protestors who took to the streets about the countless Yemeni civilians obliterated by the Saudis. But it’s all about the Jew hate though isn’t it? No-one actually gives a f*ck about Muslim vs Muslim wars, right? Everyone knows Israel are the villains, period. And the silence around what Hamas are responsible for is deafening.
New article from Foreign Affairs…one of the most influential US Foreign Policy Magazines….
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/why-netanyahu-must-go
Why Netanyahu Must GoAfter the War, Israel Will Need a Two-State Solution He Cannot Deliver.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/31/headlines/unicef_warns_israels_assault_on_gaza_is_killing_or_wounding_420_children_a_day
The United Nations children’s agency has warned Israel is committing rampant grave violations of human rights against children in the besieged Gaza Strip. On Monday, UNICEF’s Executive Director Catherine Russell briefed the U.N. Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, warning Israel’s assault is killing or injuring more than 420 children in Gaza every day — a number she said should “shake each of us to our core.”
Well it shakes me to my core..but then again I’m just a ‘useless idiot’..no doubt these thousands of children and babies got what was coming to them? I mean they were threatening Israel or some such…..
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/31/middleeast/jabalya-blast-gaza-intl/index.html
An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave.
A REFUGEE CAMP….
….but hey …. Rachel Riley needs a bodyguard in Waitrose……!!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust
Israel must stop weaponising the Holocaust
Scholars of genocide are criticizing the dangerous use of the Holocaust to justify Israeli mass violence against Palestinians…
(these) words constitute therefore a textbook use of the Holocaust not in order to stand with powerless people facing the prospect of genocidal violence, but to support and justify an extremely violent attack by a powerful state and, at the same time, distort this reality…
…as for the Israeli envoy wearing a Yellow Star at the UN…
My opinion ……it looks like they are trying to force people to comply to their will through associated guilt…it’s being used to shut down any debate about their illegal crimes against humanity….it’s a cynical stunt that doesn’t show them in a good light…
One of the few things Peter Hitchens has got hopelessly wrong is his attitude to drugs.
I don´t know if he drinks alcohol or smokes tobacco – or even drinks tea or coffee or eats chocolate, but his attitude is the same as those who once banned coffee (in Sweden and Prussia) or the British attempt to monopolize tea consumption in America.
Of course, the even more severe past prohibitions against tobacco all completely backfired. And we don´t need any lessons on the American alcohol prohibition – except, perhaps, Peter Hitchens.
Peter Hitchens does occasionally have a glass of beer.
Wonder what his view would have been during the American alcohol prohibition.
Something I see far too often.
The Conflation of Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Is a Propagandistic Lie
“The rhetorical implication is clear: political opposition to Israel is antisemitic. Subtlety is apparently not a priority of Israeli diplomats.
In a similar vein, the ADL, while it’s running its censorious political operations in the United States, routinely conflates legitimate political speech with antisemitism and all other manner of verboten -isms.
It’s time we stopped playing these semantical games. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are two distinct concepts:
· “Antisemitism” is defined as “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group”
· “Anti-Zionism” is defined as “opposition to the establishment or support of the state of Israel”
The former is a millennia-old religious/ethnic prejudice; the latter is a political ideology in opposition to a political entity called Israel.
Opposing the activities of the Israeli state is not tantamount to hating Jews any more than opposition to the Kremlin is to anti-Christianity. Indeed, a large contingent of Orthodox Jews — although they do not receive much corporate state media coverage due to the obvious narrative difficulty they present — oppose the state of Israel on religious grounds. “
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-11-02/conflation-antisemitism-and-anti-zionism-propagandistic-lie
Another great piece from Kit:
Why are the globalists calling “Climate Change” a “Public Health Crisis”?The answer is all to do with the pandemic treaty and climate lockdowns.
“At the same time, the Pandemic Treaty is busily working its way through the bureaucratic maze, destined to become law sometime in the next year or so.
We’ve written about that a lot too.
Consider, the WHO is the only body on Earth empowered to declare a “pandemic”.
Consider, the official term is not “pandemic”, but rather “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”.
Consider, a “public health emergency of international concern”, does not necessarily mean a disease.
It could mean, and I’m just spit-balling here, oh, I don’t know – maybe… climate change?
Consider, finally, that one clause in the proposed “Pandemic Treaty” would empower the WHO to declare a PHEIC on “precautionary principle” [my emphasis]:
Essentially, once the new legislation is in place, the plan writes itself:
…..”
Doctor receives extension to their banning from practice for failing to apologise for telling the truth about Covid
“In their ruling, the tribunal said Dr McCloskey had ‘used her judgement poorly’.
‘She has not shown any awareness of how her behaviour would adversely influence the public and that she undermined her medical colleagues, when she did not respect their contribution with regards to management of the pandemic,’ they said.
‘Given the vitriolic language she had used, Dr McCloskey was causing alarm and was forcing her own opinion on the general public.’
However, in determining what sanction to hand the GP, they highlighted there was no suggestion Dr McCloskey wasn’t a competent medic, with no issues being raised during her extensive career.
They also noted that given the unique circumstances of the Covid pandemic at the time, there was little risk of repetition of these specific events.
But, they added that considering Dr McCloskey has offered no apology or remorse for her actions, there was a continued risk from letting her practise.
‘A risk of Dr McCloskey expressing views and undertaking actions, which would constitute a risk to public health and safety, remains given her lack of recognition of her serious misconduct,’ they wrote.
Suspending her for six months, they said a review will be held at the conclusion to determine if Dr McCloskey is ready to return to working as a doctor.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12702971/GP-unblemished-40-year-career-gets-6-month-suspension-vitriolic-anti-vaxx-comments-including-one-kids-lined-Covid-vaccine-kill-them.html