- “A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes” – A major study in Nature finds that Covid treatment molnupiravir drives the creation of new virus variants.
- “Civil servants given go-ahead to work from the beach” – Civil servants have been given the go ahead to work from the beach in “exceptional circumstances” following a long-running battle with Ministers, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid Vaccination in Iceland: A Failed Experiment” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson estimates that only 20 lives were potentially saved in Iceland by COVID-19 vaccination, while 60-70 may have been lost from it.
- “NHS forced to spend almost £65m to make ambulances Ulez compliant” – The NHS has been forced to spend nearly £65 million to make hundreds of ambulances compliant with London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme, the Mail reports.
- “Polar bear sea ice habitat update at November 15th and problem bears in Western Hudson Bay” – WUWT reports on abundant polar bear habitat this autumn across the Arctic so far, with only Hudson Bay sea ice formation a bit behind schedule.
- “BBC ‘hypocrisy’ row as reporter racks up air miles to criticise global emissions” – Panorama’s London-based Richard Bilton took flights to Dubai, Alaska, California and Berlin for a programme on climate change, according to the Telegraph.
- “Russian artist jailed for seven years for anti-war protest” – A Russian artist has been jailed for seven years for replacing supermarket price labels with messages against the war in Ukraine, reports the Times.
- “NewsGuard Boasted of Government Ties in Censorship Pitch to Twitter” – NewsGuard, the purportedly impartial media rating service that has created a blacklist of disfavoured news organisations, boasted of its ties to the intelligence community and to other arms of the federal Government in a pitch to Twitter before Elon Musk bought the company, Breitbart News reports.
- “Elon Musk vows to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X” – The billionaire has promised to hit back against a “fraudulent attack” on his company by media watchdog non-profit Media Matters for America, reports the Mail.
- “The Tories have changed direction – but they may not be headed where you think” – David Cameron’s return to office seemed to signal the triumph of the Conservatives’ centre-Right wing, but things aren’t what they seem, argues the Telegraph‘s Tim Bale.
- “Corrupted by extremist Islamists, the Left is now openly anti-British” – We will lose the battle for hearts and minds if we allow ourselves to become radicalised by this hateful ideology, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “If Gen Z have become fans of Osama bin Laden, there’s only one way to snap them out of it” – The young may not mind that he was a mass-murdering jihadi terrorist. But wait till they hear how problematic he was, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “First U.S. state to decriminalise hard drugs may be set for swift U-turn” – The authorities are leading demands for Oregon to recriminalise heroin and fentanyl after addicts took over the streets of major cities, the Telegraph reports.
- “Senior civil servant wore Black Lives Matter lanyard at official meeting” – The senior health mandarin, who is required to be politically impartial, also displayed a poster supporting striking miners in one meeting, says the Telegraph.
- “Why is antisemitism so rife in UK academic settings? I have never found student life more difficult” – British campuses have seen more incidents in a month than in all of 2022, but support and understanding are in short supply, says a student at Oxford University in the Guardian.
- “Sex assault centre at Canadian university denies women raped on Oct 7th” – Samantha Pearson, director of the University of Alberta’s sexual violence centre, was among those signing a letter downplaying the rape and sexual assault of women on October 7th, according to the Mail.
- “‘Shocking’ scale of U.K. Government’s secret files on critics revealed” – Dossiers were compiled by 15 departments after scouring social media activity to vet people invited to speak at official events, the Guardian reports.
- “Maternity hospital downgraded over use of term ‘mother’” – Cambridge University Hospital Trust received a low grade on an NHS diversity assessment because staff only use the term “mother” when discussing maternity leave, the Telegraph reports.
- “Yvette Cooper raises Labour MPs’ safety with police after Gaza vote threats” – Several MPs have seen their offices attacked and received threats for either refusing to back a ceasefire or for voting in favour during a vote in the Commons last week, according to the Telegraph.
- “Oxbridge scholars accused of ‘white domination’ after defending Industrial Revolution hero’s legacy” – The editors of a prestigious academic journal have accused Oxbridge dons of “white domination” for defending a hero of the Industrial Revolution, the Telegraph reports.
- “UK finally sends plane-mutiny rapist back to Somalia after five years” – It has taken five years to send Yaqub Ahmed back to Somalia – with Ministers forced to offer concessions, including a stay in a luxury hotel with armed protection, to break his relentless cycle of dubious human rights appeals, reports the Mail.
- “Do we really need more diversity on Gardener’s World?” – Monty Don is retiring in a couple of years as presenter of Gardener’s World, and the Spectator‘s Melanie McDonagh is dismayed that he’s already calling on the BBC to appoint a ‘diverse’ successor.
- “Pro-Palestine protesters target Pret as police battle crowds in London” – Pro-Palestine protesters targeted a string of stores across Manchester on Saturday including McDonald’s and Starbucks as gatherings in London threatened to turn ugly following a day of more than 100 protests around the U.K., according to the Mail.
- “Parents fear ‘spurious’ domestic abuse arrests over trans children” – Parents of children who believe they are transgender have written to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) calling for a review of its guidance on gender identity amid fears it could lead to “spurious” charges of domestic abuse, the Telegraph reports.
- “Here’s a major coffee chain in Jordan serving a new ‘Holocaust coffee’ (that’s the name!), with the slogan ‘I feel the Arab taste’” – Dr. Eli David posts on X about the “genocide coffee”: “It is served with blue and white marshmallows (Israel flag) which are burned before serving.”
Here's a major coffee chain in Jordan
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 18, 2023serving a new “Holocaust coffee” (that's the name!), with the slogan “I feel the Arab taste”.
It is served with blue and white marshmallows (Israelflag) which are burned before serving.
Genocide coffee ☕
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Net Zero Means Powerless Defenceless – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Campaign to stop your local council destroying local countryside and finances with such schemes.By the way there has been some success on Wiltshire, Surrey and Berkshire stopping some 5g towers at least.
The Islamification of Europe: The French Edition. But seriously, why, given the not-so-long-ago barbaric events in France, then there’s the recent riots, would the government continue to let these ‘people’ in and put French citizens at increased risk? One can only conclude that it’s because the government hates the populace;
”According to an Ifop poll released on October 28, 72 percent of French citizens believe that a large-scale terrorist or genocidal attack against non-Muslims, similar to Hamas’s October 7 onslaught on Southern Israel, can happen in their country.
As Ifop’s chief executive, Frederic Daby, commented for Le Figaro, the “Black Sabbath” in Israel reawakened memories of France’s “Black Friday”: the Islamist killing spree that took place on November 23, 2015 at Bataclan Theatre and other places in Paris, leaving 130 dead and 416 injured.
Not to mention other Islamist attacks, including the point-blank shooting of Jewish children at Toulouse in 2012, the massacre of journalists and cartoonists at the premises of Charlie Hebdo in 2015; the slaughter in 2016 of an 86-year-old Catholic priest, Jacques Hamel, while he was celebrating a mass; the murder and beheading of high school teacher, Samuel Patym in 2020; and, last but not least, the assassination of two more high school teachers on the third anniversary of Paty’s murder, on October 13 this year.
For many years, it was assumed that Muslim immigrants would assimilate over one or two generations, as previous Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist immigrants had done. The case of the Jews, the Armenians, and the Orthodox Christian Russians, who preserved much of their ethnic/religious identity while becoming fully French was seen as a worthy precedent.
Eventually, a different reality emerged. Most Muslims were not interested in joining the French mainstream as one “community” among others. What they had in mind was to be recognized as a “nation,” with a separate culture and separate laws, along the non-Muslim French. Demographics were on their side.”
https://www.meforum.org/65215/a-gaza-of-her-own-is-france-heading-toward
Lazy Sunday Vibe to you Mogs 👍, It’s looking like these protests are changing focus to just being a vehicle for TROP to gain more power ! You have definitely had that in the recent past on your patch just like the French & the UK ! Trying to appease these zealots as they get bolder by the week is a bit like standing still on the Beach as the incoming Tide laps your ankles & being stupidly cocksure that you eventually won’t drown .!
Hey wor Freddo! 🙂 Yes and here’s the lovely Princess Kate meeting a disrespectful misogynist who sees her merely as a second class citizen, irrespective of her status. That put her in her place! 😮 And why the heck is she wearing a head scarf? She’s in flaming England, not an Arab country. The royals have bent over for Islam, evidently then. Shameful, Kate, shameful. 🙁
https://twitter.com/dave24144975/status/1726143447176978726
Missed by many of us initially but this clip reveals a double insult. Firstly, Kate has dropped British protocols in Britain which is insulting to the real people of this country by adopting muzzie standards of dress – covered head to foot and headscarf – and by accepting that scruffy old muzzie’s refusal to shake her hand. When he refused her hand she and young Willy should have performed a military about-turn and exited promptly. Their failure in this regard confirms they have little if any loyalty to this country or its people.
The most obvious insult of course and almost as grotesque as the first is the scruffy old muzzie’s total refusal to conduct himself in line with traditional British manners. There’s a big ph#ok off to the Royals and the people of this country.
Of course there is another angle. It seems inconceivable that the Palace would have been unaware of the insult that the scruffy old muzzie was likely to proffer so what is really going on?
I’ll say this again, and this is more aimed at the anti-Israel posters on here that seem to have become a little rabid in their beliefs: what, exactly, are you supporting? Because it seems to be very clear to me that one, completely predictable, outcome of the uncritical pro-Palestine support is the emboldening of radical Muslims everywhere and the acceptance and normalisation of radical Islam. That will feed directly into the streets you live in, and will ultimately impact your life and your children’s lives. This conflict is far more complex than it first appears to be. Be careful what you wish for.
Radicalising Muslims is precisely what happens when Western governments support slaughtering babies, and bombing ghettos/refugee camps, starving and cutting off supplies to 2.3 million people.
This idea that people who want the attacks to stop are anti Israel and that this fuels extremism has causality reversed.
You sound like those people who got upset for you not getting the vaccine and putting them in danger. No common sense at all.
Correct. But there’s more than one way you radicalize people. That’s one of the many things you don’t consider. Your increasingly deranged posts show you’ve chosen to believe all the pro-Palestinian propaganda being meted out by the BBC and The Guardian amongst others.
Here’s one of your beauties:
According to you, almost the entire act of terrorism was fabricated. You make these bold claims with zero supporting evidence. You fail to consider any counterarguments. Your belief in one side of the story is absolute, and it looks pretty radical to me e.g. “the zionists seem to have mind controlled this site”. Like I say, there’s more than one way to radicalize people, but you know that right? Because, you know, your superior common sense?
The most sane position, in my mind at least, is not to have joined in the shitshow and be used as a tool for one side or the other. But you have the right to choose. And you have, you’ve chosen to stand alongside all the people pushing lockdowns and ‘vaccines’. You’ve joined the ranks of “I believe in the current thing”. Enjoy.
The UK government was behind the lockdowns and jabs.
The UK government uncritically supports Israel, while continuing to import huge numbers of Muslims.
If Israel succeeds in its ambition of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians, how many do you think will end up being resettled here? 200k? 300k?
And the onus isn’t on AYM to disprove the “decapitated babies” story.
Of course. I don’t condone, in any way whatsoever, the Israeli response. It’s at least as inhumane as the Hamas attack. I am simply trying to ask people that are uncritically supporting a side if they have considered all eventualities of their support.
Your point about resettlement is a good one, I don’t deny that.
And, yes, the onus isn’t on AYM to disprove anything, but something cannot be believed/disbelieved on blind faith alone. That is just evidence that you have unwittingly fell for one sides propaganda.
“It’s at least as inhumane as the Hamas attack.”
I disagree. The Israelis don’t target civilians and give prior warnings of their targets, which are Hamas bases and installations.
The initial stomach churning claims of atrocities against civilians and babies are becoming harder to establish factually. The 40 babies claim is not verifiable by the named list of victims already published. One is a baby apparently although how many children were killed is not clear. The 1400 deaths now appear to be close to 1200. Of these about half are military or police, once again looking through the lists of names shows this to be correct. That appears to have occurred in the first phase of the Hamas operation on the bases surrounding Gaza. Keep in mind that unusually, the forces at the border were denuded by an order to move large sections of the military to the West Bank (remind anyone of the absence of military during 9/11?). The success at overrunning these border bases meant the second phase of the operation to stack the nearby kibbutzim and take hostages went into play.
Haaretz has come out with an article today reporting on the investigation into the events on October 7th where they have found that the festival incident was not planned by Hamas although in their secondary mission of taking hostages it was opportunistically targeted.
Further reports were that a helicopter did make it to the festival and that in the process of trying to kill Hamas fighters, many Israelis were killed in the crossfire or by virtue of the well known Hannibal Principal. 368 people were killed at that event alone. Further evidence of Israeli “friendly fire” was found in the remnants of the long line of parked cars that were clearly hit by large calibre and incendiary weapons that Hamas did not have, or did not have in sufficient scale to cause the damage.
Similar evidence of friendly fire occurring at the kibbutzim indicate that it may be the large number of civilian casualties were actually caused by Israeli artillery and gun ship activity.
None of this exempts Hamas from killing civilians and I’m sure they are responsible for some portion. Nor do I approve if civilian hostages, in particular women and children. But I can see what the calculus was as Israel holds thousands of Gazans hostage in prison 5-10k many of which are women and children.
Now this all ignores the glaring question, how did this happen without Israel’s knowledge? It can’t. So what does that mean?
So I’m not going to buy the lies from Israeli government sources and Western media. I won’t apologise for wanting an end to this farce of a campaign to continue its carnage. It’s nothing but bloodlust and vengeance based on lies to attempt to paint Palestinians as sub human and make supporters feel good about their desire for carnage.
I haven’t seen much uncritical pro-palestinian support on here.
I’ve seen plenty of discussion that reflects how maddeningly complicates the issue is.
And of course plenty of comments like yours suggesting that one side is right and the other wrong.
But uncritical ? Not much at all.
? You’re reading the same posts as me surely? Like the one I quoted. And you think that’s not uncritical?
And I’m not suggesting that one side is right and the other wrong. Exactly the opposite. You can read any one of my posts, and see that what I have been saying is not to choose a side. That there is propaganda being pushed by both sides and to choose a side is to inflame the situation and division. It’s a trap. What I have become concerned about is the increasingly radical views being posed by some pro-Palestinian supporters. Views that appear to condone, or simply dismiss, the atrocities committed. My position is, and will remain, sceptical (of both sides) and neutral.
Here’s another one for you Stewart, from GlassHalfFull:
It’s these kinds of posts that concern me. Posters that have decided there is a single truth, and that truth is the voice of Hamas.
I think I understand your argument. But I don’t agree. I don’t see those positions as uncritical. I see pro-Palestinian arguments.
The killing of civilians is a very interesting issue.
And before I say anything more, just to clarify, I despise wars, I think they are instigated by elites for their psychopathic aims and paid for in blood, sweat and money by ordinary people, most of whom probablt didn’t want any part of it.
That said, there is often a point in wars at which civilians become fair game. This is not what I want or believe should be the case. It’s just an observation of fact.
In the second world war civilians became fair game. As they were in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq or Libya. And that’s just “our side”. Perhaps we think we are morally exempt because we say we try to minimise civilian casualties or like in the case of the atom bombs, we claim they were ultimately saving lives. But the fact is that our morally superior side has killed civilians in war knowingly and deliberately and justified it.
So, without agreeing with the argument that killing Israeli civilians is justified I can certainly accept the argument without branding the person extremist or uncritical or anything else.
In any case the whole thing is a mess and honestly everyone except Israelis and Palestinians should stay well out of it. That’s my view.
Well, I see it like this: I don’t expect the evil bast*rds that inhabit our governments to show any humanity, but I expect us, the people, to show humanity. Once ordinary people start posting some of the stuff I’ve seen posted, and also accepting/normalising it, then that is an indication that ordinary people are losing their humanity. That troubles me.
I wholeheartedly agree with your last paragraph.
The coffee is not called “Holocaust coffee” but “Holo-gosta” a play on the company name according to Jerusalem Post. In bad taste but we in the UK used to excel at sick jokes, now seemingly gone due to political correctness.
See also Starbucks CEO using an analogy from concentration camps to explain their mission.
Oh, that’s alright then. Thank God for that. There was me thinking that a wordplay on gassing children was beyond the pale, and that people excusing this ‘joke’ had a completely broken moral compass. I’m glad you’ve shown me the error of my ways. Jesus.
“In bad taste”
More froth than a Gosta coffee.
Nice snippet of what you posted, except you excluded the all-important “but…” i.e. your poorly considered acceptance of it.
More bitterness than a Gosta coffee, but with a sour aftertaste.
I just wasn’t accepting the X post placed on this article which did not give the full story. It is more likely to trigger outrage which is perhaps why it was chosen.
Osama bin Laden or ‘Our man in Afghanistan’ as far as the CIA was concerned. The article is paywalled but hopefully gives a true picture of this US asset.
Try https://archive.is/
It gets you past paywalls.
Tic tock has banned any mention of the Osama letter. Now Twitter x has banned hatey words on Israel which will result in a suspension. I guess Elon is trying to make up for being accused of the dreaded antisemitism slur as he was complimented by the anti defamation league head Greenblat.
“Musk: Terms Such as ‘Decolonization’ and ‘From the River to the Sea’ Will Result in Suspension From X’Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension,’ Musk wrote, after some of the word’s largest companies suspended ads on the platform which has come under fire for platforming antisemitic and racist content”
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-11-18/ty-article/musk-decolonization-and-from-the-river-to-the-sea-will-result-in-suspension-from-x/0000018b-e2ce-dffa-adef-e6ce41b40000
Not sure why we are still supposed to believe the ex CIA assert had anything to do with 9/11 but I forget this site is only sceptical about Lockdowns, masks, jabs and made made climate change…
He defo was not as he seemed !
Just a general veiw, but doesn’t agreeing with hamas, Islamification, jihad and Osama bin Laden mean your agree with nazi ideology? So we now agree with nazi Germany that the Jews deserve everything they get? If this is the new western world then world war is much closer that we imagine, Lest we forget, Seems we have!
DS might want to rethink its branding.
In what way? Not quite with you?
Red, white and black.
Oh, gotcha👍
I was just inferring that if ,today, we can except, applaud even, the deaths of 6 million people of any race colour or creed be they aborigine or Algerian, then the human race seems to have lost any compass it ever earned for being human!
Cheering the deaths of people who ,as we see it, dont believe or accept our ways or ideologies surely can never lead to anything good?
Better to avoid the inferrence and just condemn the deaths of our fellow humans. It takes significant funding and propaganda to encourage the masses into war which highlights it is not a natural or desirable state of affairs.
Totally agree, I just believe the unessassary deaths of people on any side is so much more degrading to the whole of humanity if it is done under the advocacy of them being different in some way!
https://youtu.be/3XBlGEU2GH8?si=lWBkRhLoaTGBJlq1
12 hrs after this statement, just saying!
Why would anyone think the appointment of Cameron signified a possible move to the right in government policies. The Cameron-Clegg and Cameron govvernments continued the globalist left wing policies of “Dave’s” hero Blair. Besides, the FCDO is meant to promote and defend UK interests overseas and that should not be a materially left-right issue, save for thei globalist outlook. Have government spinners been telling journos that Dave was necessary to move the government’s policy stance? If so they ought to have laughed in their faces.
“Do we really need more diversity on Gardener’s World? not sure about that but Cuntriphile never lived up to my expectations
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/18/maternity-hospital-downgraded-use-term-mother-diversity/
Who or what is paid to carry out “diversity assessments” on UK hospitals? Could the people responsible let us all know how this shocking non job improves medical care?
But what’s a few more terrorists though, when you’ve got god know’s how many already here and arriving every day? I love the way they say confidently that the number is now at 25, when that’s just the fraction they know about and have intel on. Then there’s all the ones getting radicalized right under our noses at the mosques by the extremist Imams spewing their hate for Western civilization. If the police can’t shift a load of pro-Hamassholes out of a train station then I have little hope they’ll find these buggers;
”HUGE MANHUNT UNDER WAY AFTER 6 TERROR SUSPECTS WITH LINKS TO PAYMASTERS IN IRAN SNEAK INTO THE UK ON BOATS FROM FRANCE
Security sources have revealed that they are believed to have made their way across Europe from Syria and then crossed the Channel to get to Britain.
WE WARNED YOU YEARS AGO!
A manhunt was under way last night after six suspected terrorists landed in Britain, having crossed the Channel in a small boat.
The foreign nationals all have links to Islamist groups and are believed to be backed by terror paymasters Iran.
They are thought to be on a mission to target the Government or public services.
The radical group arrived in the UK illegally from northern France weeks ago after travelling across Europe from Syria.”
https://twitter.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1726144524391494002
“They are thought to be on a mission to target the Government or public services.”
I am sure DS members could provide these mercenaries with a shortlist of suitable names for their jihad enterprise. First name begins with F.
The government doesn’t need any outside help to embarrass it. Their COVID response was a mass-casualty event far surpassing what any terrorists are capable of but it’s interesting that this report claims that is not the intention.
Should be required reading for FSU directors:
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/what-ever-happened-to-the-freedom-of-speech/
And a new story and a new name:
MH370 was shot down by the Americans over the Nicobar Islands at 18.40, 8/3/2014, in about 7°N 95°E.
So finds journalist Ashton Forbes with impeccable detail and unimpeachable evidence.
Suffice it to say that the names Julian Assange and Edward Snowden will now be joined by Edward Lin.