- “Amy Winehouse statue’s Star of David covered with pro-Palestine sticker” – Police are investigating after the star of David necklace on the statue of Amy Winehouse in Camden was covered over with a pro-Palestinian sticker, reports the Standard.
- “Spineless Starmer would sell British foreign policy to the largest voting blocs” – Keir Starmer’s stance on Gaza and Israel was a sobering and powerful counter-argument to that of his critics – and then he caved, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s antisemitism dilemma” – On the Battle of Ideas Substack, James Heartfield explains why the Labour Party can’t seem to shake off its problems with antisemitism.
- “The woke wing of Hamas” – From London to New York, young radicals have become foot soldiers of Jew hatred, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Islamism is exploiting Britain’s political vacuum” – Europe‘s leaders have allowed Islamism to thrive, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “U.S. moves to stop Israel’s invasion of Rafah” – The U.S. says that Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah “should not proceed under current circumstances” as it tries to use the UN to stop it, reports the Telegraph.
- “The deliberate lies in the Washington Post” – The Washington Post ran a piece heralding the Arab journalists killed in Gaza. But Investigative journalist David Collier points out the paper ignored the links between those journalists and Hamas.
- “Largest Covid vaccine study yet finds up to three times greater risk” – Covid vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have been linked to a small but significant proportion of heart, blood and neurological disorders, reports the Mail.
- “‘Our paper critical of the Covid vaccines will be retracted by Cureus!’” – The paper Steve Kirsch co-authored with six other authors calling for a vax moratorium will be retracted by the journal because the publisher won’t allow any paper that is counter-narrative to be published, says Kirsch. Download it here before it disappears.
- “First-trimester Covid vaccination is 28% more dangerous than third-trimester, another study shows” – For a safe vaccine “not affecting pregnancy”, the trimester in which it‘s taken shouldn‘t matter, says Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “New Zealand OIA request reveals the Covid vaccines increased your risk of dying” – An OIA request to the New Zealand health authorities shows that the vaccines didn’t protect people from Covid. It killed them, writes Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “The Wuhan Cover-Up by RFK Jr.” – “The Wuhan Cover-Up does a better job than any other book or article I have read at exposing the trends, forces and institutions that brought us the Covid catastrophe,” says Debbie Lerman on Substack
- “From Zika to Covid and the corruption of science” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton highlights his recent discussion with Dr. Randy Bock on a range of issues relating to the Covid years.
- “Labour vows to ‘eliminate’ fox hunting” – Labour has vowed to eliminate fox hunting within its first five years in power, saying there is not a majority in “any part of the country” that wants it to continue, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mass immigration is bringing a European-style populist revolt to Ireland” – Republican voters are turning against Sinn Fein as they reject the party’s open borders policy, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
- “The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill” – The Republic of Ireland could soon become one of the worst violators of the right to free speech in the Western world, warns Paul Coleman in the Critic.
- “High energy costs are a choice – and an act of national self-harm” – Governments like to claim that globalisation means that our destiny is beyond their control. That’s wrong, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Men and women’s brains do work differently, scientists discover for first time” – The brains of men and women operate differently, scientists have shown for the first time in a breakthrough study, according to the Telegraph.
- “Defence minister defends military’s ‘woke’ policies as necessary to represent modern society” – Andrew Murrison, the Minister for Defence, People and Families, tells MPs he is “guilty as charged” if he’s accused of wanting to make the military a more inclusive and diverse workspace, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan puts ‘anti-U.K. propaganda’ on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square” – The London Mayor has been accused of promoting “anti-British propaganda” with a shortlist of woke sculptures for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why is the NHS indulging ‘breastfeeding’ men?” – Discharge from a transwoman’s nipples is not breast milk. Stop pretending otherwise, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Cathedral apologises as transgender activist eulogised at funeral as ‘mother of all whores’” – A New York cathedral has apologised for holding a “sacrilegious” funeral for a transgender activist eulogised as the “mother of all whores”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Disney: a billion-dollar casualty of woke” – Disney is paying a heavy price for trying to shove identity politics down our throats, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Nick Clegg boasts 60% of Meta staff used for censorship” – Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg has let slip how much effort goes in to sanitising the platform, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Shocking” – A video posted on X shows a man at a pro-Palestine rally, who held a sign saying Hamas is a terrorist organisation being aggressively removed by the police, rather than having his right to counter-protest protected.
We are now in the absurdist position in this country where standing with a sign that states the law will get you carted off by the police. The authorities should have protected his right to counter protest. Instead they aggressively removed him. Shocking. pic.twitter.com/RZkItgQZMr
— Heidi Bachram(@HeidiBachram) February 18, 2024
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I remember seeing this Romanian MEP with a handful of others denouncing the covid lunacy when it was in full swing and drawing hope from their actions.
And then I saw the zero impact it had and my eyes opened even wider to the total farce that is our system, the EU and the joke we call democracy in the west.
It works if rulers act with restraint, but when they don’t and they bulldoze over everything and everyone to impose their own policies you realise our freedom and democracy is in the gift of our rulers.
It’d nice that this MEP denounces what many of us see, but in terms of effect, it could be him, me or Bugs Bumny saying it. It will move the dial exactly zero degrees.
Pessimist!
Realist
I’m still glad he is saying it – someone has to, and he has the guts to do it. I believe it is having an effect because it can’t only be here that Terhes and his group are re tweeted and cited.
Thank God for his like.
Let them. All good people with rational things to say and who have a desire for freedom speak face-to-face anyway. The control freaks are unwittingly forcing the creation of the alternative world they so fear.
Optimist!
Being optimistic is exactly what they don’t want us to be. Love always wins. Value and encourage individual interactions. It’s the only way to beat the Borg.
That’s why they closed the pubs down during the Covid lunacy. They couldn’t possibly have people discussing the lunacy and concluding that it was unjustified and completely moronic.
Yes..it’s truly Orwellian, Well I’m not joining in, neither should you, and if enough of us don’t it won’t work……how are they going to ban, or correct, or stop millions of us?
They can say anything they fricken want..it doesn’t make it true or feasible…just like I’m never having the jag, and I’m never eating ze bugs!!!?
I’m aware that in my lifetime that real fascism and communism has been overturned..and I suspect it’s just the little things..the people who just don’t go along..
the little acts of rebellion…and at least now we also have more ways to communicate than ever before no matter how hard they try to stop it….…some other ‘platform’ will pop-up….
…it really bothers them, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop it if it didn’t…
David and Goliath
David won that battle I recall.
Controlling information through intimidation and explicit controls saps government credibility and makes rumors spread more readily, thus creating ever more work for busy censors. Media Control in China, He Qinglian.
He Qinglian’s censorial officedates back to Tang times.
The Chief Censor is responsible for making Chinese media a consistently reliable source of information so, in case of an epidemic or a war, everyone can trust what they’re being told.
Chinese media provided consistently reliable Covid information so everyone followed it and only 80,000 of them died – even though only 7% of them were ever locked down. They also kept the economy turning over nicely during the drama: GDP grew 14% in those three years.
With no trustworthy information sources, we Wessies split up, got lost in thickets of misinformation, and 1.2 million didn’t make it.
Friends fall down laughing when I tell them that the current dynasty has never lied nor failed to keep a promise (though so far none has claimed the prize of $100/occurrence).
Here’s a funny thing: when I tell Chinese friends that I’ve never found the government lying or welching on a promise they look at me oddly.
Eventually they say something like, “But, um, why would the government lie to us? What do they have to gain? What’s the point?”.
It’s a different world. We must destroy it without delay.
“In 2023, Canadians reported an all-time low trust level of 40%.
Additionally, trust in English speaking Canada was much lower (37%) than in French Canada (49%).
Additionally, the report found that attitudes towards publicly-funded outlets like the CBC “are more negative.” ”
True North report
The don’t care about disinformation. They want to stop unapproved information.
You cannot take the Fascist and Communist tendencies out of the EU “Elite.” They know nothing else. It’s what and who they are.
Yes spawned from Nazi Germany
“Cristian Terhes, a Romanian MP and Member of the European Parliament,” At least one member has a modicum of common sense. That’s one more than I thought possible!
Unless people on mass say this. ——“I have an education and I own a dictionary and I will choose my own words and thoughts”, then freedom is gone, if it isn’t already. ———–I want a million people to stand with that placard in their hands outside every government building in Europe. We need to STOP this tyranny now or it is the Fourth Reich.
If there is some infallible person or people making the decisions about what is the ‘truth’, please refer me to them.
I would like to meet them.