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Thousands Call for Release of Hostages at Pro-Israel Rally in London

by Richard Eldred
14 January 2024 5:00 PM


Thousands have rallied in London’s Trafalgar Square for a pro-Israel event, commemorating 100 days since the October 7th attacks and calling for the release of all hostages in Gaza. The BBC has this report:

People gathered in Trafalgar Square carrying Israeli flags and holding pictures of some of the 105 people still believed to be being held.

A chant of “Bring them home now” was also heard. …

The London event coincides with a 24-hour rally being held in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Speakers in London included Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who appeared remotely on a large screen and said that “this battle belongs to the whole free world”. …

People in the crowd told the BBC they were worried the hostages were being forgotten and that they felt compelled to attend and show support for Israel.

Speaking from a stage set up beneath Nelson’s Column, one organiser said he had “never been prouder to be Jewish”.

The audience also heard from Conservative peer Lord Pickles and Labour MP Christian Wakeford.

Lord Pickles said that Gaza could be rebuilt and peace brought to the Middle East, but that such a process could only begin if “we bring the hostages home”. …

The weeks following the October 7th attacks saw what the Metropolitan Police described as a “massive increase” in antisemitic incidents in London.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Suela Braverman attended the rally and couldn’t help crying when hearing from relatives of the hostages. The Telegraph has more.

Stop Press 2: The BBC reported on the rally, but claimed it was to mark 100 days since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, not 100 days since the October 7th massacre.

WTAF @bbcnews??!!

The crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square today weren’t there “to mark 100 days since the start of the Gaza war”

They were there to mark 100 days since genocidal, antisemitic terrorists attacked Israel and brutally murdered some 1300 Jews!

Fuck you BBC pic.twitter.com/JXCMz39xA1

— We Stand With Israel (@SussexFriends) January 14, 2024
Tags: AntisemitismHamasIsraelIsrael-Palestine ConflictLondonStand with Israel

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stewart
stewart
1 month ago

I hope the author is writing from a safe house somewhere. I don’t think the pharma companies and their shrills in the media, politics and the bureaucracy are going to like this one bit.

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kryten10
kryten10
1 month ago

Former female athletes being vulnerable? This says low blood pressure

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RTSC
RTSC
1 month ago
Reply to  kryten10

Yup. Yesterday, temp around 24c, I decided I would be able to do my usual zumba class, which I’d ducked the week before when it was around 30c. I have low blood pressure (no jabs). Partway through the class, I came over a bit dizzy so I sat down for a minute.

I didn’t rush off to the doctor.

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jane1000green
jane1000green
1 month ago
Reply to  RTSC

Who said you should? The symptoms have to be persistant for months prior to a diagnosis.

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JXB
JXB
1 month ago

“ It has observable, measurable symptoms.”

These are called “signs” – symptoms are as reported by the individual but cannot be corroborated by observation – headache, for example.

Signs may be accompanied by symptoms – eg sore throat, but sometimes have no symptoms – abnormal blood pressure for example.

Heart rate can increase due to anxiety – anxious you’ve got the latest fashionable disease with an acronym. Or for other reasons.

The biggest disease is the medical industry turning everyone into a clinical case to be treated, and nobody must die, aided and abetted by the £harmaceutical £ndustry.

If we got rid of the NHS “free at the point of delivery” (if you can get it) medical service and people had to pay for themselves, I guarantee lots of diseases would miraculously disappear, and people’s lifestyles would change for the better.

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ituex
ituex
1 month ago
Reply to  JXB

Excellent, you saved me the bother of saying virtually the same thing. Not understanding the difference between symptoms and signs is at the root of much ‘medical journalism’.

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stewart
stewart
1 month ago
Reply to  JXB

The NHS is one of many protection rackets operating in our anarchic world.

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jane1000green
jane1000green
1 month ago
Reply to  JXB

Blood pooling, low blood volume, smaller red cells, greater vein elasticity is what the research is showing.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 month ago

Yes PoTS is a thing, it seems, and females are massively over-represented among sufferers;

”Results: The final analysis included 4835 participants. POTS predominantly affects white (93%) females (94%) of childbearing age, with approximately half developing symptoms in adolescence (mode 14 years). POTS is a chronic multisystem disorder involving a broad array of symptoms, with many patients diagnosed with comorbidities in addition to POTS. POTS patients often experience lengthy delays [median (interquartile range) 24 (6–72) months] and misdiagnosis, but the diagnostic delay is improving. POTS patients can present with a myriad of symptoms most commonly including lightheadedness (99%), tachycardia (97%), presyncope (94%), headache (94%) and difficulty concentrating (94%).”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790699/

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ituex
ituex
1 month ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I know it’s from the NIH and it is technically ‘a thing’ but that doesn’t mean in any way that it doesn’t have a massive psychological component. The rush to make a diagnosis stems from the extremely lucrative rush to ‘treat’.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 month ago
Reply to  ituex

Well I’m not sufficiently interested in this topic to do a meaningful delve of the literature, so perhaps our resident doctor can shed some light. I’m basically on the fence because I don’t want to write things off at first glance as being psychosomatic, but at the same time I’m very aware of the ever expanding psychiatrists’ bible: the DSM, and the ever present medical-industrial complex, which most definitely is obsessed with profit, is devoid of ethics and whose motto is ”a pill for every ill”. The worst people for them are the healthy people, the most profitable are ones they can reel in and make ‘customers for life’ out of them. Once they stick a diagnosis on you, that’s it. There’ll be a pharma product with your name on it.
I did briefly read something about way more people being diagnosed with this POTS after the Scamdemic, but the article was trying to paint it as ‘Covid’ being the cause, as opposed to the jabs, which I think is far more likely, but that still doesn’t explain why it’s disproportionately females suffering from POTS because plenty of men also got jabbed.

Last edited 1 month ago by Mogwai
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pjar
pjar
1 month ago
Reply to  Mogwai

An indication, perhaps, that despite modern thinking, male and female biology is fundamentally different?

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jamorris
jamorris
1 month ago
Reply to  pjar

Males and females are not fundamentally different but there are differences. The key one is that males have only one X chromosome. The X chromosme is large and contains 5% of the genome. So males are 1000 genes short of a full set – it explains a great deal.

But in every female cell one of the X chromosomes is not expressed, this occurs at random so half express the X they received from their mother and the other half express the X they received from their father. The result is that every female is two slightly different individuals in the same body – this also explains a great deal.

But the important difference relates to heterozygous advantage. This is the observation that it is better to have two genes at a single locus that are slightly different than two that are the same. Slightly different genes can respond slightly differently when fighting infection. The females has heterozygous advantage on X but males don’t. The result is males have a disadvantage in fighting infection at all ages hence the observation that there are 3 male deaths at most ages for every two female deaths.

Females are less ikely to die of infection but are also much more likely to develop autoimmune disease following an infection that they have successfully overcome.

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RW
RW
1 month ago
Reply to  jamorris

Males and females are not fundamentally different but there are differences. The key one is that males have only one X chromosome. The X chromosme is large and contains 5% of the genome. So males are 1000 genes short of a full set – it explains a great deal.

An obvious, alternate interpretation is that women (I’m intentionally not calling them females) have about 1000 more genes than necessary or sensible It could also be said that this explains a great deal.

NB: This is not a value judgement I’d subscribe to, just an attempt to point out how predjudices colour our thinking.

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jane1000green
jane1000green
1 month ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It’s very hard to get ongoing, appropriate treatment on the NHS due to limited knowledge among consultants and limited funding. The experience of genuine sufferers is not of that medics falling overthemselves to make a patient for life. Both covid and the covid vax can trigger PoTS. Any viral illness can, it’s nothing new. Research is also showing key features such as greater vein elasticity, smaller red blood cells and low blood volume – you are right to be cautious about assigning psychosomatic causes to symptoms.

Last edited 1 month ago by jane1000green
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factsnotfiction
factsnotfiction
1 month ago

POTS cannot be ruled out as a vaccine (HPV/DTaP/DPT/Comirnaty) injury simply because there’s zero (real) placebo-controlled trials.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
1 month ago
Reply to  factsnotfiction

Given that I once saw – and so wish I had kept – a list of over 300 fun things that can be triggered by the covid vaccine it would not surprise me if this was a another joy along with all the other things I have never heard of.

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jamorris
jamorris
1 month ago

The clue to the pathogenesis of this new symptom complex is the females predominance and the age incidence. The latter rises to a peak in the late teenage or early adult years and then falls. These features are typical of an autoimmune process. A similar combnation is seen in anorexia nervosa, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety neurosis. All these conditions have increased in frequency in the UK and the western world in general in the last 50 years.

There are trillions of bacteria that cover the epithelial surfaces of the body. They have evolved to occupy their specific niche, gaining energy from surafce epithelial secretions and out competing pathogenic bacteria. If the microbiota is sub-optimal then pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus get into the tissues and causes chronic inflammation. The inflammation contributes to a wide range of disease in both men and women. But women are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases in which auto-antibodies develop and attack their own tissues.

The answer to this problem and many others is to drink milk daily and consume yoghurt daily. This is the only practical way in the Uk at present to maintain a supply of lactose fermenting bacteria to maintain the microbiome. It is the answer to the current epidemic of depression and anxiety occurring in the young and preventing them from working.

Don’t attack the young for the dreadful intellectual mistakes made over the last 50 years which have led to the false belief that we can improve on a diet tested ovder thousands of years.

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jamorris
jamorris
1 month ago
Reply to  jamorris

I failed to add:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323406707_Optimise_the_microbial_flora_with_milk_and_yoghurt_to_prevent_disease

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 month ago

POTS rampant amongst the vaxxed.
One of my children included.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 month ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

And yet many rush to discount the experiences of people suffering and fob them off, like: “It’s all in your head”, which is a real shame and smacks of arrogance, actually, because, unless one has any sort of medical training, how are any of us suddenly self-appointed experts and knowledgeable about such things?
I’d never be so insensitive as to assume somebody is imagining something or accuse them of “claiming victimhood”, as is the kneejerk reaction of some around here.

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