- “The SNP’s Covid reckoning” – In the Spectator, Iain Macwhirter says we now know from evidence to the Covid Inquiry that Scottish Government ministers were as prone to offensive language as Dominic Cummings.
- “Male Infants and Male Rat Pups Disproportionally Affected by mRNA Covid Vaccines Given to Pregnant Mothers” – Igor Chudov on a mysterious sex difference demonstrated by two separate studies.
- “The insane experiment behind the Covid pandemic and Disease X, Part One” – TCW‘s Paula Jardine says if ever a cure was urgently needed, it’s for the unrelenting medical nihilism of “pandemic preparedness”. Find part two here.
- “Electric car acceleration ‘makes crashes more likely’” – Electric car drivers are having more accidents because they are not used to the powerful acceleration, driving up premiums, a top insurance broker has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “What is the real purpose of the German nuclear phase-out, and why is the policy shrouded in so much silence and mystery?” – Eugyppius on the German Government’s fights to keep secret records related to the shutdown of the country’s last nuclear plants.
- “Climate change to push up home insurance bills 20% next year” – The Telegraph reports that a supposed increase in the frequency and severity of storms is driving up U.K. insurers’ costs, according to accountancy firm PwC. Except, of course, there’s been no change in these things.
- “Teacher who showed Muhammad cartoon still in hiding three years later” – The former head of religious studies at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire is unlikely ever to return home, his family say, according to the Times.
- “Britain halts aid to UN agency after claims staff helped Hamas attacks” – The U.K. has suspended funding for the main UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees after 12 of its employees were accused of taking part in the October 7th attack on Israel, reports the Times.
- “The ICJ has been captured by antisemitic propaganda” – South Africa’s case was a self-evidently absurd ploy designed to further undermine Israel’s right to self-defence, but the judges failed to recognise this, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “‘Weakened’ Ukraine can’t launch offensive against Russia and must focus on defence, say US officials” – Ukraine is too weak to launch another counteroffensive against Russia this year and should concentrate on defence, U.S. officials have said, the Telegraph reports.
- “Mean Girls has nothing on the malice of academia” – Janice Turner celebrates Jo Phoenix’s tribunal victory over her intolerant, woke employers in the Times.
- “Did German domestic intelligence services collaborate with Correctiv journalists to smear Alternative für Deutschland and incite the current wave of protests ‘against the Right’?” – Eugyppius smells a psy-op.
- “‘Disbelief’ as under-manned Royal Navy seeks to re-deploy officers to diversity and inclusion team” – The Royal Navy is redeploying marines and sailors to become diversity and inclusion officers to enhance the “lived experience” of personnel amid ongoing recruitment challenges in manning its ships, the Telegraph reports.
- “Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain” – Don’t blame Reform: Sunak’s party is unravelling because it succumbed to socialist delusions that were impossible to implement, says the Telegraph‘s Janet Daley.
- “Political correctness is strangling comedy – and with it our British sense of humour” – Today’s sitcoms present a right-on, offence-free world in which many of us simply do not live, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “Government statistics body worried about triggering staff over transgender census questions” – The Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggested that staff might not feel “safe” after its methodology for counting transgender people in the census was questioned, the Telegraph reveals.
- “The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism” – Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk debate in Bari Weiss’s Free Press.
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Electric car acceleration ‘makes crashes more likely’: The other side of the coin is that the other side is not aware of it, and may assume that there is enough time to nip across the gap, etc.
So says the DT. The rag that gleefully supported one of the biggest socialist coups in history in 2020. Too little too late. The ship has sailed.
Bah! Germany could have signed that declaration. 3 times nothing is…?
Morning All
I was looking for some commentary to send to my brother on Chemtrails – he had never heard the term. I thought the DS is bound to have written about this, given its nefarious anti-democratic nature and related denials by the MSM, but nothing at all popped up on entering “chemtrails” into the Search Box.
DS Team – not sure if you agree that this would be a good topic for a researched article.
Morning Michael,
A good place to start is Dane Wigington’s website: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
He has been following this for a very long time. If you search for geoengineering online you’ll come across various articles purporting to be about ‘combating climate change’ or similar. Anyway, hope this helps.
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Thanks Aethelred – that looks ideal.
Chemtrails seems to be one of those baffling so-called “conspiracy theories” because the evidence is pretty clear – I’ve seen with my own eyes on numerous occasions one or two planes creating a latticework of clouds in beautiful clear skies. I don’t live anywhere near a flight path and most days you wouldn’t see any planes in the sky at all. And yet, there seems to be a resistance to looking at it from sceptical sites. For example, the word “chemtrail” doesn’t appear on the Conservative Woman website when you put it in the search bar. I doubt the DS will cover it but thanks for raising what I consider to be an important issue.
Thanks for that insight, DS99.
“Curiouser and curiouser” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell, from 1984.
Morning Mike I also have become interested in Chemtrails which I previously dismissed , due to having too much other stuff to digest ! We now live near the Welsh border & you can see criss cross patterns which are like layered waffles amongst the clouds ! Something is taking place & it won’t be for the best !!…
Evening, Freddy – totally agree with you.
“The ICJ has been captured by antisemitic propaganda”
Article behind a paywall but anyway – was under the impression that the whole right to self defence thing wasn’t part of international law for an occupying force which Isreal is identified as being with regard to Gaza, the West Bank, Golan Heights and the southern part of Lebanon. This has been discussed many times by numerous geopolitical experts over the years and particularly in the last few months. It appears to be a particularly West-centric viewpoint which ignores both existing law and the overwhelming view of world opinion, especially the Global South. Don’t exactly know what the complaint is anyway as Israel and it’s supporters – as expected – have completely ignored any and all measures the ICJ have stipulated. If you’re above the law, why complain about it?
What’s probably getting them rattled isn’t the ICJ interim decision per se, but the consequences of it on the global ‘street’: As Dr Razmy Baroud, editor in chief of the Palestine Chronicle has noted in a very thoughtful piece:
We should no longer submit to the direct accusation that boycotting Israel is an act of antisemitism. To the contrary, boycotting Israel now… Read more »
Given the following views:
Legally, the Israelis are occupiers.
Ideologically, all the non-Jews are occupiers.
Which one is consistent with the response of the Israeli regime?
International law?
That’s just fiction. Only when it suits.
“‘Weakened’ Ukraine can’t launch offensive against Russia and must focus on defence, say US officials”
Good idea because this (labelled ‘fake’ by Russian authorities, ring any bells?) is what it is like for Russian families:
‘The Russian government has turned its backs on soldiers and their families.
We’re being betrayed and exterminated by our own people. […] We were f*cked over and you’ll be f*cked over. All this time, all they showed us was lazy stability, reliability, and safety. We remember how the president promised that reservists wouldn’t be called up, that only professional volunteers would fight in the special military operation. And then they sent our loved ones to Ukraine. The promises proved empty. Many will never return. Mobilization turned out to be a terrible mistake. We were punished for our law-abidingness. Behind the smokescreen of stability, our men pay with blood, and we pay with our health and tears.
The president has declared 2024 to be the Year of the Family. It’s ironic, given that wives are crying without their husbands, children are growing up without fathers, and many have already become orphans. Meanwhile, a satanist cannibal who re-offended after his first prison sentence will be released again in six months,… Read more »
Dr Mark Trozzi, professor, ER specialist & covid warrior, has his licence revoked in Canada, an egregious political decision that has nothing to do with patient care.
https://drtrozzi.substack.com/p/unrepentant-cpso-revokes-dr-trozzis
In reaching its decision, the Tribunal rejected Supreme Court cases, dating from 1939, which hold that Canadians enjoy an absolute constitutional right to express minority opinions on any subject. This allowed the Tribunal to rule that the College has a right to regulate the expression of its members in the name of the public interest.
The Tribunal’s ruling also rested on the prior discipline hearing decision, where the Tribunal found that Dr. Trozzi had caused harm by spreading misinformation, even though expert witnesses for the College failed to tender evidence that Dr. Trozzi’s statements had caused harm to a patient or a member of the public.
In support of its ruling, the Tribunal also rejected a 41-page report Dr. Trozzi submitted in 2021 in which he defended himself against the College’s initial allegations, citing 29 references from mainstream sources such as Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, Public Health Ontario and Statistics Canada. This was done without mentioning that the College’s main expert witness, Dr. Andrew Gardam, had admitted on cross-examination during the… Read more »
“Britain halts aid to UN agency after claims staff helped Hamas attacks”
Article behind paywall.
Britain, Italy, Canada and Australia followed the United States in withdrawing financial support for the UNWRA for Palestinian refugees. [Plus Germany and Finland so far. Ireland following international law and maintaining payments pending investigations.]
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-canada-australia-united-states-funding-unrwa-united-nations-hamas-israel/
-while 400,000+ people literally starve. Its payback for the ICJ interim decision.
As Max Blumenthal notes:
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1751110691103113456
“2003: GW Bush justifies invading Iraq with testimony by Ibn al-Shaykh Al-Libi, who was tortured into confession by CIA-trained Egyptian security services.
2024: Biden [and Sunak et al] justifies cutting UN aid to Gaza with testimony by Palestinian detainees tortured into confession by Israeli security services.”
And as posted elsewhere: ‘So an allegation that 7 people from 30,000 employees derived from intelligence ( confessions) made under torture from prisoners and without any court ruling or evidence presented is now acted upon by western nations. Hypocrites to the procedures of law. As the west always says, wait for a court to prove allegations especially when its against politicians for corruption etc. All this the day after an adverse IJC finding against Israel’ [which has wanted UNWRA out of Palestine for years] How convenient.
Do Sunak and… Read more »
“they could eventually be done for complicity in genocide”
Quite the opposite, I think we can safely conclude they know it will never happen.
The same people just presided over the killing of swathes of their own electorate without consequence other than the odd embarrassing headline.
“The SNP’s Covid reckoning”
Its not the language. I can overlook the language. It is the utterly narcissistic way that they treated the entire situation, and the opportunism of using it for other ends that should hang them. It was nothing more than a game that they were playing. However it was one that required the deaths of real people who were doing nothing more than being caught up in a gigantic game of ‘who’s got the biggest dick’..?
“‘Disbelief’ as under-manned Royal Navy seeks to re-deploy officers to diversity and inclusion team”
Disbelief, really.? Its exactly what I would have expected from something that has lost its connection with core values, and its true mission. Its very sad.
Here’s a little video of when our Navy was filled with courageous recruits.
https://youtu.be/gFeUO1R3-eg?t=161
“Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain”
The late George Carlin used to talk about ‘where interests converge’. That there didn’t need to be a formal conspiracy driving us towards a totalitarian future, because the people driving it went to the same university, same country club, their children went to the same schools, and so on. They didn’t need it writing down. They knew what was good for them, and they didn’t rock the boat.
This in my mind is what has happened to parliament and our MP’s. Far too many people with the same outlook on life and all things. The Labour party in government is likely to bring this to a whole new level. No longer the Union man off the steel-works shop floor, arguing with the landowners and bankers. The Commons are full of people who have went to the same Universities, read the same subject, go to the same dinner parties and gained their work experience in local councils, Think Tanks, NGO’s and charities.
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