- “Hamas ‘executed victims while abusing them in front of families’” – A harrowing new report claims that Hamas terrorists raped and mutilated Israeli civilians, leaving an “apocalypse of bodies” as gunmen swept through southern Israel on October 7th, reports the Mail.
- “Gaza ceasefire vote: Tory and SNP MPs storm out of Commons” – Senior ministers launched a furious attack on the Commons Speaker, accusing him of breaking parliamentary protocol to help Labour avoid a rebellion over Gaza, according to the Times.
- “Lindsay Hoyle has lost control of the Commons” – Labour MP and Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle faces a tough challenge winning back MPs’ trust, says Katy Balls in the Spectator.
- “Lindsay Hoyle has become a menace” – The Labour party is not very good at electing prime ministers but it is very good indeed at electing House of Commons Speakers, remarks Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Prince William should keep quiet about Gaza” – Prince William has made an intervention in the Israel-Gaza conflict. The Prince was wrong to do so, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Islamist extremism ‘not being effectively tackled by Government’” – Islamist extremism is not being effectively tackled by the Government, the independent reviewer of Prevent has said, fuelling a “dangerous” surge in antisemitism, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘You don’t copy the losers’” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan publish a provisional list of institutions and individuals who pushed for Zero Covid.
- “U.S. vaccine injury compensation programme has 10-year backlog of claims” – Individuals injured by a COVID-19 vaccine might have to wait over a decade for a decision on compensation eligibility from the U.S. Government’s vaccine compensation programme, says Megan Redshaw in the Epoch Times.
- “NHS heart care waiting lists double in less than three years” – The British Heart Foundation labels figures “staggering” as 40% are left waiting longer than 18 weeks for an appointment, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘I have glimpsed the terrifying future of lazy, defenceless, near-bankrupt Britain’” – We are living so far beyond our means we have become entirely detached from reality, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson ‘demanded one million dollars’ to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson” – Boris Johnson has denied asking for a million-dollar fee for an interview with Tucker Carlson, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour told to drop ‘Get Kemi’ operation after PMQs hounding” – Allies and supporters of Kemi Badenoch have warned Labour not to mess with the Business Secretary, as Sir Keir was accused of orchestrating a ‘Get Kemi’ campaign, reports the Express.
- “Metropolitan Police investigation of Dan Wootton finds no evidence, Met decides no further action” – Dan Wootton always said lurid allegations made against him by Byline Times were a smear campaign. Looks like the police think so too, says Guido Fawkes.
- “British nuke sub missile launch fails as Trident misfires and ‘plops’ into sea” – A Trident missile dramatically misfired and crashed into the ocean yards from the British nuclear submarine that launched it, reveals the Sun.
- “Britain is increasingly defenceless – and Putin knows it” – The failed Trident launch has severely undermined the credibility of our nuclear deterrent – and the Kremlin will take full advantage, warns Hamish De Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “The failed Trident missile launch is a big embarrassment for Britain” – The latest misfiring of a Trident nuclear missile is a big embarrassment, especially at a time when Nato is trying to convince Putin of the strength of European defence, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The court ruling that could stop eco-protesters escaping punishment” – As a string of climate activist trials reach the courts, a defence used to acquit many of those charged could soon be unavailable to them, reports the Telegraph.
- “These posh eco-loons need to check their privilege” – The upper-crust halfwits of Just Stop Oil are causing misery to ordinary people, writes Julie Burchill in Spiked.
- “‘Green Choices’ briefing unveiled as campaigner labels policy proposals ‘undemocratic’” – The U.K. Government unveils a new proposal to promote ‘green’ behavioural change, with a prominent campaigner labelling the policy proposals “undemocratic”, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Britain must work with EU to halt onslaught of Chinese EVs, warns Renault” – Carmakers in Europe face declining demand for pricier EVs amid cheaper alternatives, reports the Telegraph.
- “Electric car charger pulled over fears hackers could use it to attack National Grid” – An electric vehicle charger has been taken off sale amid warnings that foreign hackers could use it as a weapon to cause electricity blackouts, according to the Telegraph.
- “Environmental activists sue Government over changes to climate change strategy” – Environmental activists have taken the U.K. Government to court over changes to its climate change decarbonisation plans, reports the Epoch Times.
- “‘There is no climate emergency; it is a hoax’: Dutch climate expert Emeritus Professor Guus Berkhout” – In Liberum, Arthur Blok profiles Prof. Guus Berkhout, founder of Clintel, a global climate change and policy foundation, who maintains there is no climate emergency.
- “Welsh Government backs carbon sequestration plan” – Wales has some of the most expensive electricity in Britain, but the financial geniuses who run Wales have a plan which will push energy prices up even higher, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “When (and why) heat pumps suck” – In very cold weather, heat pumps suck, writes Ron Barmby in WUWT.
- “Labour’s woke nightmare” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin explains how Labour plans to import U.S.-style culture wars.
- “Banning ‘conversion therapy’ is a threat to religious freedom” – The right to convert is inseparable from religious freedom more broadly. It must be protected, says Jacob Williams in Spiked.
- “Free speech is under attack all over” – From nutty defamation verdicts to federal warnings about ‘misinformation’, from French efforts to criminalise vaccine criticism to Germany’s crackdown on AfD, democracies no longer want debate, laments Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “‘What shocked me about the culture at Yale’” – “I grew up in foster care. I wasn’t prepared for what I found on campus,” says Rob Henderson in an extract from his new memoir in Persuasion.
- “Think drug legalisation is a good idea? Visit Fentanyl Land” – There are two responses to fentanyl and tranq: legalisation or the Singapore model. Both have their drawbacks, writes Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “I regret it and I apologise” – Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, apologises for breaking parliamentary rules to allow Kier Starmer to save face and placate a mob of violent Muslim extremists. Will it save him from a ‘no confidence’ vote?
— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 21, 2024
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Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle expresses his ‘sadness’ at the outcome of today’s chaotic events in Parliament over the vote on a ceasefire in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/tYIf3mhFlz
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latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
‘You don’t copy the losers’
‘Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan publish a provisional list of institutions and individuals who pushed for Zero Covid.’
Where did the idea of zero covid come from?
Jeremy Farrar: ‘ I know what it is like to deal with the science and politics of a new disease.’
‘(Jeremy Farrar) appeared at a press conference at Davos on 23 January 2020 with Richard Hatchett, the head of CEPI and a White House adviser during the HlNl outbreak of 2009; and Stephane Bancel, the now superstar head of biotech company Moderna. Stephane was already working with CEPI on other vaccines and only that week had inked an agreement with Richard to start work on a coronavirus vaccine.’
‘Richard pointed out that ‘when you don’t have treatments and you don’t have vaccines, non-pharmaceutical interventions are literally the only thing that you have . . . isolation, containment, infection prevention and control, and these social distancing interventions’. And yes, Richard nodded, there was indeed a precedent: how US cities shielded themselves during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. ‘We found that cities that introduced multiple interventions early in an epidemic had much better outcomes,’ he said. He was referring to a 2007 study of how 43 US cities responded to the arrival of Spanish flu in 1918: those that closed schools and banned large gatherings for long periods earliest in the pandemic fared best.’
‘But such measures, Richard added, come with drawbacks: they are hard to sustain and create mass anxiety, making the search for vaccines and treatments even more urgent. That’s why CEPI had signed three deals; researchers could start working on vaccines straightaway‘
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/21180503/INQ000208834.pdf
The 2007 study?
‘These findings demonstrate a strong association between early, sustained, and layered application of nonpharmaceutical interventions and mitigating the consequences of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in the United States. In planning for future severe influenza pandemics, nonpharmaceutical interventions should be considered for inclusion as companion measures to developing effective vaccines and medications for prophylaxis and treatment.’
‘..our retrospective study is consistent with the results from recent theoretical models of the spread of a contemporary pandemic, which highlight the value of early, combined, and sustained nonpharmaceutical interventions to mitigate a pandemic.’
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/208354
That study requires careful interrogation by those a great deal better qualified than. myself. Is it consistent with the models or designed to be consistent with the models?
Just to really lay the groundwork for all this, Farrar announced at that Davos press conference:
”We are about six weeks into this outbreak and this virus can now clearly spread between humans,’ I told the audience, explaining it could be passed on like influenza, through coughing and sneezing.
‘It is not SARS. The virus is in a similar family as SARS but this looks different … and the difference is probably it is easier to pass between human beings.
I think we can expect many more cases in China and many more cases in other parts of the world.’
In other words: ‘PANIC’
The rest is history.
The moral? As Dr Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan almost say:
‘Don’t follow losers!’
And who funds the above mentioned Coalition for Epidemic Coalition Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) responsible for the early funding of an early covid vaccine)?
Correct! Well done! You do!
And, knock me down with a feather, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who contribute as much to it as do the EU Commission…..and Jeremy Farrar’s (until 2023, when he went to WHO……Give me strength!) Wellcome Trust…..
Ooops!
https://cepi.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023_12_01-CEPI-Investors-Overview.pdf
‘The Wellcome Trust, Britain’s biggest charity, is ramping up spending on science research to £16bn over the next 10 years, with a focus on funding next-generation Covid vaccines.’ 11 Jan 2022
Is that research completely altruistic?
You can be the judge of that.
‘Sir Jeremy Farrar, the director of Wellcome and a former member of the government’s Sage advisory committee, hailed a “phenomenal year,” and said the investment returns marked “a step-change in Wellcome’s ability to fund….’
‘Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome, received a pay package worth £515,216, up from £483,788 in the previous year.’ 12 Jan 2022
So how much are we paying him at WHO….?????
What a war criminal Farrar is turning out to be.
Seeing as the DS has neglected to include any stories on Assange’s second day in court, here’s a couple:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/02/assange-final-appeal-your-man-in-the-public-gallery/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/21/dvxd-f21.html
A fine essay from a veteran socialist in Unherd today:
https://unherd.com/2024/02/julian-assange-is-no-fool/
Zizek spoke to Spectator TV too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPYuQALmlLU
Yes, truly appalling that the DS is avoiding any and all discussion other than us few commenters. Here’s a round table discussion by Consortium News – starts at 4 min, sound rather quiet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5SyH2UUwbc
Remember the days when you’d be able to book a tried and tested holiday destination without having to worry about the safety and security of that particular area? Well I think the days of booking a last minute city break to Paris or a family getaway to Tenerife are possibly unlikely to return at this rate;
”The number of illegal migrants arriving on Spanish territory in the first six weeks of 2024 is almost six times more than the corresponding period last year, official figures show.
A total of 12,262 new arrivals by land and sea were recorded up to Feb. 11 compared with 2,568 arrivals in the first six weeks of 2023 — a difference of 493 percent, according to weekly data published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The vast majority of arrivals are boat migrants from Africa — 12,204 sea arrivals and 58 land arrivals were recorded.
The vast majority of newcomers are exploiting the geographical vulnerability of the Canary Islands, southwest of the Spanish mainland, where 10,902 migrants have landed so far this year. The extent of the crisis can be measured by the fact this figure is up 902 percent for the same period last year — a time when local leaders on the Spanish archipelago were already sounding the alarm regarding unsustainable levels of illegal immigration.
The total number of arrivals since the turn of the year is already more than a fifth of the total figure recorded last year, despite usually being a time of fewer crossings due to adverse weather conditions, and more than a third of all arrivals in 2022.
The Socialist government in Madrid is under pressure to contain the crisis from conservative opponents and local government leaders in the migrant hotspots who have expressed security concerns.
The number of reported rape cases in the Canaries has skyrocketed amid the immigration surge in recent years, rising in 2022 to 167 cases compared to the 91 reported the previous year — an increase of 84 percent — and more than double the 73 cases recorded in the last pre-pandemic year of 2019.”
https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/illegal-arrivals-into-spain-soar-by-500-in-first-six-weeks-of-2024-but-socialist-pm-sanchez-rewards-morocco-with-e45-billion-funding-package/
Perhaps, instead of throwing good money after bad defending Ukraine’s borders, countries should start looking after their own citizens for once and take robust steps to defend their own borders.
On GB News this morning it says that our Home Secretary has signed an agreement with the EU’s Frontex Border Agency to help them stop migrants crossing into the EU. Your item, Mogs, about the invasion of the Canary Islands shows clearly that this Agency has no desire to stop the migrants comming in – it is obvious that the EU wants them to come in continuously, so as to create major humanitarian crises, when they will then activate their latest ‘Pact for Migration’ and push forced quotas of migrants to ALL EU countries. The Suicide Pact of Europe as Marine Le Pen has called it.
Cracking article by Stephen Karganovic (no he’s not Russian) on the hypocrisy surrounding Navalny’s death, noting the timing of the many statements of outrage: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/21/an-opportune-death-hypocritically-mourned/
Putin doing him in whilst enjoying some positive attention via Tucker, during the Munich Security Conference and whilst Russia is winning the war in Ukraine is really pretty unlikely.
Sadly 98% of people probably think that he was some major figure in Russian politics and a genuine threat to Putin, given the sophistication of the western media operation.
Stefan Karganović is a Serb-American numpty who has spent years denying the basic facts regarding the genocide in Srebrenica.
He is writing in the Strategic Culture Foundation, an online journal registered in Russia, directed by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and closely affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The outlet plays a central role among a group of linked websites that proliferate Russian disinformation and propaganda.
One of its core tactics is to attract authors who are Western fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists, giving them a broader platform and obscuring the Russian origins of the journal.
This tactic helps the site appear to be an organic voice within its target audience of Westerners.
Oh for heaven’s sake!
Have you seen this video released only an hour ago by Navalny’s mother, who said they are trying to blackmail her into agreeing to a secret burial? They interrogated her alone for 24 hours without her lawyer, and made her sign the death certificate saying he died of natural causes.
The want to secretly bury Navalny. They threaten his mother. – YouTube
“I don’t want special conditions”, she said.
“I only want everything to be done according to the law.”
These performative antics in Parliament show what a pathetic joke our politicians are.
A vote on a Gaza ceasefire. What’s the point? It’s obviously not going to have any bearing whatsoever on what ends up happening there. Israelis and Palestinians (or whover is actually fighting) aren’t going to go “hold on everyone, the British Parliament has voted for a ceasefire, so stop shooting!”
It’s just Team A spotting a weakness that can be exploited in Team B. “Look, look, see how anti-semitic Team B are, look!”
These morons have time for that, but no time to do anything about the WHO treaty about to be foisted on us, or to figure out how to balance the books. How about they trawl through all the laws that have been passed over the last few hundred years and see how many they can get rid of? A bit of housecleaning. They are lawmakers after all, how about cleaning up the house?
Nah, purile, playground antics is all these idiots are good for.
It did look like a charade, but its worth observing that the motion was made by the SNP, perhaps in the hope that it would help them campaign against Labour in Scotland in the forthcoming General Election. Were it not for the Speaker’s change of mind, the SNP could have undermined the Labour front bench via their ‘Gaza ceasefire’ motion, especially if it revealed the internal conflict in Labour.
“ A harrowing new report claims that Hamas terrorists raped and mutilated Israeli civilians, leaving an “apocalypse of bodies” as gunmen swept through southern Israel on October 7th, reports the Mail.”
How many of these BS reports are you going to highlight, have proved to be lies?
All so far. But you can’t wait to give them top priority when you do the headlines.
So dumb.
Apropos of nothing, Ann Coulter is always worth a read. You could very easily replace USA with UK in this piece: We’ll Get To Your Country Later – Ann Coulter
Thanks tof. A good read. Mind you good old common sense does tend to be a worthwhile read these days.
Wonderful article by Ann Coulter, as always. This was particularly illuminating:
“Merely to maintain those 750 [US bases around the world] costs us more than $130 billion annually, to say nothing of the hundreds of billions of dollars required to build them in the first place.
By contrast, the absolute highest possible cost of a border wall — as calculated by people adamantly opposed to a wall — is $25 billion.”
Only one thing is incorrect, when she names US politicians who “all support the entire Third World moving here. Curiously, they also all support nonstop wars.”
So does the AntiChrist Drumpf, best friends with “Tsar Putin”, upon whose Palace gates Putin placed an exact replica of Tsar Nicholas’ imperial eagle symbol, shown on clips of the storming of the Winter Palace by Bolsheviks.
Putin’s palace. The story of the world’s biggest bribe (youtube.com)
She went off Trump after he failed (in her eyes) in the execution of his promises regarding the wall and many other issues, and failed on covid. She’s much keener on DeSantis. I generally agree with that position.
Oh good. She’s one of the few American Patriots who has at last seen through the AntiChrist Drumpf. I also agree that DeSantis would have made a great President, having already proven his abilities, before the Globalists forced him to withdraw.
DeSantis would have got my vote, for a number of reasons. Sadly Trump is very popular with the Republican base. I really don’t know who I would vote for now, if anyone. Trump was a disappointment on covid, but the alternative is so damaging I might still vote for him.
“Labour told to drop ‘Get Kemi’ operation after PMQs hounding”
Yes, all you naughty people daring to criticise the Globalists’ Choice for next UK Prime Minister must be quiet, swallow her outright lies, Nigerian corruption, suffocating mediocrity and “diveristy hire” promotion far above her abilities, because the Globalists have decided what is best for all you British peasants.
And unless Harry & his heirs are removed from the line of succession to the throne, Harry may end up as Regent in charge of Prince William’s three children, while favouring his own half-African wife and sprogs to replace them. Will it be like Richard III and “The Princes in the Tower” all over again?