- “Now Tory candidate for Manchester Mayor defects to Reform U.K.” – The Tories’ candidate for Manchester Mayor has defected to Reform U.K. in another body blow for Rishi Sunak, reports the Mail.
- “What might the U.S. owe the world for COVID-19?” – A US-funded laboratory origin of COVID-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs in Common Dreams.
- “Is there a mortality data set by mRNA vaccine exposure we can trust?” – To understand excess mortality rates in affluent countries, you need to ask two questions, say Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan. Do the data exist and, if so, what is their quality?
- “DNA contamination in Covid vaccines does get into human cells, new evidence shows” – Regulators and fact checkers claim that plasmid DNA contamination in the mRNA Covid vaccines can’t change your genomic DNA, but new evidence suggests that it actually can, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
- “Nah, you are safe in the MHRA’s hands” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson urge signing a petition for parliamentary debate on the MHRA’s handling of adverse reactions to Covid vaccines.
- “Furlough didn’t save millions of jobs. Its true costs are only now becoming clear” – Sunak was right to worry about his £70 billion furlough scheme. It has led to a welfare crisis, not a jobs recovery, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Mental health culture has gone too far, says Mel Stride” – The Work and Pensions Secretary warns that Britain’s approach to mental health is in danger of having “gone too far” and the “normal anxieties of life” are being labelled as an illness, reports the Telegraph.
- “Terrifying threat of ‘underpopulation’ is laid bare” – Experts say that global fertility rates have hit an historic tipping point and are unlikely to recover, according to the Mail.
- “Downing Street admits U.K. is in the grip of a ‘migration emergency’” – Downing Street admits the U.K. is in the grip of a ‘migration emergency’, but refuse to force through its Rwanda deportation flights law before Easter, reports the Mail.
- “The Bank of England has committed its latest misstep” – If monetary policy remains too tight, the danger is a pyrrhic victory over inflation, warns Dr. Gerard Lyons in CapX.
- “Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger” – The SNP’s new hate crime law covers anything said anywhere – even in your own home, warns Lucy Hunter Blackburn in the Spectator.
- “Adam Smith Institute report” – The father of modern economics would likely be turning in his grave at the notion of taxing education, says Mr. Chips on Substack.
- “National Trust bosses accused of ‘abuse of power’” – A new report accuses the National Trust of an “abuse of power and a subversion of democracy” over changes to voting at its annual meeting, according to the Telegraph.
- “Channel Four says ‘no evidence’ bosses knew of Russell Brand accusations” – Channel Four has found “no evidence” that staff knew about the accusations made by four women against Russell Brand in a Dispatches documentary prior to it being aired in September, reports the Mail.
- “Jeff Zucker’s Fleet Street misadventure” – The former CNN and NBC boss Jeff Zucker wants a new media empire. Is that even possible in 2024? asks Michael Wolff in Intelligencer.
- “Biden administration announces rule aimed at expanding electric vehicles” – Joe Biden has announced new rules that will see as many as half of all cars sold in America run on electricity by 2030, according to the NY Times.
- “Furious Lee Anderson slams Nike for ‘woke’ St. George’s Cross on new England kits” – England’s new European Championship football kit has sparked a major row over a multicoloured St. George’s Cross, reports GB News.
- “Scottish Parliament staff banned from wearing rainbow lanyard” – Scottish Parliament staff are no longer allowed to wear rainbow lanyards – or other accessories that show support for social movements – at Holyrood, according to the BBC.
- “Pheasants are ‘queer’, museum tells visitors in LGBT exhibition” – Pheasants are “queer”, according to an LGBT history guide for visitors of Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, reports the Telegraph.
- “Western civilisation is being driven to oblivion by the false prophets of ‘diversity’” – The woke revolutionaries reject real equality in favour of a permanent revolution against fairness and merit, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Ben & Jerry’s vows to continue social justice campaigns under new ownership” – Ben & Jerry’s has vowed to continue with its controversial social activism under new ownership, as parent company Unilever prepares to spin off the ice cream business, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ben & Jerry’s activist campaigning risks melting Unilever’s ice cream dreams” – The Telegraph’s Ben Marlow reacts to news that Unilever has decided to hive off its ice cream operations.
- “Why the West won the battle of civilisations” – In Australia, Konstantin Kisin gives the Centre for Independent Studies his politically non-binary opinions on culture, politics and comedy.
- “What happened at the Supreme Court Monday, and what it means for Berenson v. Biden – and free speech” – On Substack, Alex Berenson provides an update on two crucial Supreme Court cases concerning free speech, and discusses how they might impact his upcoming lawsuit.
- “Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant enables man to play online chess with his mind” – A paralysed 29 year-old man is believed to be the first human patient to benefit from ground-breaking neuroscience technology being trialled by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, reports the Telegraph.
- “Good news!” – Penny Mordaunt confirms that on Thursday, April 18th, there will be a debate on the COVID-19 pandemic response and trends in excess deaths in the main House of Commons chamber.
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Meanwhile, also in Germany, if you were confronted by someone with a machete who wanted to kill you would your first instinct be to sing? Are they basing this on evidence that singing has proven more effective at scaring off a would-be attacker than merely screaming ”help!”? Bizarro;
”As knife crime becomes more of an “everyday” part of life in Germany, more and more people are concerned about how they should respond if they are attacked or threatened with a knife. The Berlin police’s tip to “sing loudly” has now been dropped from their website after being widely mocked on X.
“A screenshot of our homepage has been circulating for a few days, according to which we recommend that in the event of an attack, you irritate the perpetrator through unexpected behavior, such as singing,” write Berlin’s police. However, they then go on to write that they have removed this advice from their website.
“This is recommended by the professional associations for psychiatry, among others. However, this advice does not correspond to our police experience and has therefore no longer been part of our recommendations since 2023. The flyer was already updated, now our website is too.”
However, the “tip” also sparked broad coverage in the German media, with Berliner Zeitung writing in response to the advice, “What sounds like a bad joke is actually meant seriously. The police give Berliners tips on how to deal with violent situations on their website and write that ‘statistically speaking, many will never get into” such a situation. On the other hand, 48,200 physical assaults were recorded last year, the highest number in 10 years, which reduces many people’s sense of security.”
https://rmx.news/crime/germany-after-being-widely-mocked-berlin-police-drop-recommendation-to-sing-if-you-face-a-knife-attacker/
For everyone who is concerned about migration or being attacked by a knife wielding follower of the Qu’ran who wants to part your head from your shoulders, there is some light relief.
You are of course one of Starmfuhrer’s ‘Far Right’. Although it seems it is his national socialist party which is in fact antisemitic racist and fascist with the Far Left rent-a-mob supporters calling for the murder of all Israelis and Jewish people ‘from the river to the sea’.
You can now advertise your new found ‘Far Right’ status and concerns with a range of ‘Far Right’ T-shirts and personal accessories like ‘Far Right’ shopping bags.
Found here:
https://loveteesfreedom.teemill.com/collection/new/
Far Right about Everything
far-right extremist (organic double-sided bag)
“Far Right about everything’
far-right extremist (organic men’s T-shirt)
“Far Right about everything’
And yes, Black people are just as scared as the rest of us and are By Far White in Spirit even if not in skin colour – I know from discussions – same fears as the rest of us.
Of course, not all muslims want to cut our heads off and they are scared too of being thought they agree with that.
But it is in Qu’ran. Just dandy for extremists who want to claim God’s blessing.
“Far Right about everything’
far-right extremist (organic double-sided shopper bag)
far-right extremist (organic bag)
far-right extremist (organic women’s scoop T-shirt)
And many other options.
The WEF version of the ‘Far Right’ in the UK is – its the Russians and Chinese spreading misinformation on the internet – as described in the article extracted below and republished by the WEF.
The problem is this appears to be WEF and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) misinformation. As we learned on 7th August from the BBC:
Unfortunately, the BBC piece is by Marianna Spring who is an expert in misinformation in rather more ways than one according to an accusation concerning the contents of her CV.
However, I can only go by news reports of that and cannot say if the accusation is true or not.
However it was reported in Spiked, The Telegraph and very many other legacy media newspapers and those reports remain online as this example and online search show:
The misinformation of Marianna Spring – spiked
marianna spring cv misinformation
So who knows what the truth is?
But RUSI provides no hard evidence to back up its claims.
It could after all be our own government or those connected with the WEF or the US government – who knows what the truth is.
The question is – who benefits.
Follow who benefits is the same as follow the money.
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How Did Foreign Actors Exploit the Recent Riots in the UK? Joe Morley-Davies
28 August 2024 8 Minute Read
The amplification of far-right narratives by foreign threat actors during the recent UK riots demonstrates the need for greater attribution and understanding of influence campaigns in an increasingly populated world of disinformation.
Another difficult result for proportional representation where you end up with the team the least people voted for just like our results.
I wonder what a second round of just the top three – CDU, AfD and BSW – would bring? It could go either way for AfD.
Probably the same as France – idiotic white people vote for their own destruction
You summed it all up perfectly:
“Idiotic white people vote for their own destruction”.
They baffle me and make me more angry than the immigrants – at least some of the legal ones.
Of course most are just useful idiots manipulated by evil people for evil ends.
The “Far Right” label is a very deliberate mechanism for rendering all those votes ineffective.
It makes the the party so toxic that any coalitions are impossible. After all who wants to associate themselves with “far right extremists”.
That’s what they’ve done in Germany. That’s what they’ve done in France with Le Pen. That’s what they’ve done in the Spain with Vox. That is what they are trying to do in the UK with Reform.
In a system where coalitions matter the “Far Right” label is in effect the deliberate disenfranchisement of anyone who votes for any of those parties. If they can’t stop them, the next best thing is to isolate them.
That’s what the Spectator (no less) is doing in England now, with a cover displaying three arms of people wearing brownshirts raised in a Nazi salute and with Alt Reich written on it, presumbly, a play on alt-right and asking “Is the German far right about to go mainstream?”
Politically, the AfD is really just what the CDU was before Merkel turned it into the Alt-SPD. But the people with the Nazi stickers don’t really care for that. You’re either in favour of all their political cause, from climate policies and limitless mass immigration to the transexualisation of mankind. Or, one of these stickers gets applied to you.
The people running the Spectator ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, not the least because they’re violently pro-Israel and the AfD, like all German mainstream parties, obviously supports this as well.
The Liberal Progressive coalition of handwringing UN/WEF parasites are determined that any right of centre thought is to be illegitimate and even criminalised.
It’s probably more correct to write right of left instead of right of centre because the AfD is absolutely centre-right. It’s just that this is nowadays really far to the right of all other larger German parties. Even CDU top-candidates (Friedrich Merz) will drop soundbits re: How they abhor the concept of German Nation. That’s not how they handled this topic in 1990.
The BSW will reach a deal with the other parties and form a coalition against the AfD – that’s my bet. They will make some concessions to the BSW, and the BSW will scale back their demands – it’s win-win for both of them.
Haha, it’s The Times, so of course the article resembles a desperate attempt at a smear campaign;
”Alternative for Germany (AfD) is widely regarded as the first hard-right nationalist party to win a regional state election since Nazi rule after seismic election results on Sunday.
Saxony and Thuringia have long been AfD strongholds and the party is most popular among Germans in the former Democratic Republic (East Germany). It has thrived in areas where issues of economic and political integration persist after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The party has been characterised by its anti-establishment, populist views.
The AfD was founded in 2013 in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The party protested Germany’s efforts to bail out poorer countries in the European Union. It was originally envisioned by economists as an anti-Euro party.
It soon morphed into a movement focusing on the issue of migration after the 2015 refugee crisis when then-chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to more than a million refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Islam does not belong to Germany,” read the party’s 2016 manifesto. An AfD tagline from 2017 read: “Burkas? We’re more into bikinis”. “Unser Land zuerst,” which translates to “Our country first!” was written on AFD campaign banners in 2022.
As real wages dipped to below 10 per cent below their pre-crisis trends last year, many seemed willing to blame immigration.
The AfD’s immigration platform marks a major departure from the status quo. Policy ideas include doing away with individual asylum hearings and setting up holding camps abroad that prevent people from entering Germany.
The party has said it wants to cap immigration, which would aim to reduce migration down to net zero.”
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/what-is-afd-hard-right-germany-politics-saxony-thuringia-pnkrmx5p0
Reminded me of this quote from LOTR:
“Authority is not given to you to, steward, to deny the return of the king.”
It’s one thing to form coalitions “naturally” but another to do it specifically to deny the will of the people.
How long can this situation across all of Europe hold – where the peoples wishes for democratic representation are thwarted by our out-of-touch Elites?
How is 30odd % of those who voted “the will of the people”? Were I German, I would have viewed this election as a referendum on immigration. The majority voted to have more of it (or I guess like some here were deluded into think the sabre-rattling from the nominally “right wing” party would turn into action).
That’s a gross misinterpretation because people vote tribal, ie, they vote for other people they believe to know and happen to trust, not neccessarily for what’s in the manifestos of the various parties before the election and absolutely not for what members of the government do or want to do afterwards which wasn’t in any party manifestos (like Starmer’s internet persecution of the faa rite or his Finally end smoking! initatives).
It’s usually telling to interpret the outcome of PR elections in the reverse, based on the assumption that people voted for the party they wanted to govern. For Thüringen (let’s Kviy this a little and extend the courtesy to use the proper names to Germans), the outcome was thus
67.2% opposed to the AfD
76.4% opposed to the CDU
84.2% opposed to BSW
86.9% opposed to Die Linke (SED)
93.9% opposed to the SPD
96.8% opposed to Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen
All of these parties a strong to overwhelming majority of the people doesn’t want to govern minus the Greens will get seats in parliament based on this vote of extreme popular disapproval. Shome democracy, for shure!
Lastly, there’s the theory behind PR voting systems which claims that the party which got the largest vote share is the one which won the election and which is thus entitled to govern. That’s based on the assumption that all parties are created equal and all democratically legitmated parties, which the AfD obviously is, must principally be willing to cooperate with all other demcratically legitimated parties, details to be threshed out in coalition negotations. This means the AfD wouldn’t stand a chance to implement any faa rite policies unless its coalition partners would agree to that which they obviously wouldn’t. But this doesn’t matter here. It was decreed that the AfD represents the wrong kinds of German who really ought to be disenfranchied to “save democracy” and as this would look kind-of bad when done formally (stripping about ⅓ of the people of their right to vote) it can perfectly well be achieved informally which has the exact same effect, just without anyone having to admit that. Sixtuples all around!
It’s time people started reading manifestos, though those often contain lies. IMO if you’re voting for any of the Uniparty parties in whatever country you live, you’re not paying attention and deserve what you get.
That’s like saying people who opted into getting covaxxed deserve sudden deaths and other serious health problems and I don’t think so. The responsibilty for misselling something rests with those who did it and not with those who fell prey to it.
I certainly don’t wish anyone dead.
Democracy only works if people pay attention.
An observation like that marks you as enemy of the ‘democracy’ which only works because people don’t pay attention.
Indeed. I wonder what things would look like if people really did pay attention? Part of the problem I think is that our expectations are always increasing, and expecting forever better government is unrealistic.
Sadly one might as well say it is time people started believing what the BBC publish and broadcast.
Here is a main take-away of the recent elections and of the Conservative Party leadership contest.
1) who is spelling out exactly what the problems are that need to be fixed?
2) who is spelling out exactly how they are going to fix them?
Remember Starmer’s ‘smash the gangs’?
A meaningless soundbite which he kept repeating without being explicit about how that would be done.
Now he is going to put the blame on Germany and France for his continuing failure to ‘smash’ any gangs.
He met Shultz and Macron supposedly to get their help.
To date – zero gangs smashed.
And that will hardly change at all.
Both countries have failed and judging by the recent German elections the ruling elites want to continue with unfettered illegal immigration across Europe despite the concerns of large number of voters.
Indeed.
And look at how weak governments become with PR.
Nothing can be done.
A transferable vote system might be better which sees only the two or three parties gaining the most votes with seats in Parliaments and forming governments.
It is not ideal but better to have a government which can act than one which cannot.
I’m generally extremely opposed to try to make anything work by making it more complicated. But I’m convinced that attempts to fix the system of self-governing parliaments are a fool’s errand, anyway. The original purpose of a parliament was to represent the people in dealing with a king in two areas: Trials of serious crimes and taxation. Starting from the middle of the 19th century, parliaments have instead ursurped the position of the king, thus leaving the people without representation. Parliamentary government is really a contradictio in adiecto: An entity which governs cannot ever be a parliament.
Your thriving ‘democracy’ hard at work. ‘Your vote counts’. ‘Saving our democracy’, ‘saving our rights’, ‘our freedoms’, ‘our free speech’, ‘our values’…..
All horseshit.
Statism. You get one choice: Elite Statism – which will implement whatever the hell they want to.
As Europe sees swings away from Liberal Progressive tyranny, we in the UK are swimming against the tide and have just elected a mass immigration, phony planet saving, pensioner murdering bunch of UN hand wringing parasites for the next 5 years.
How many votes did Kevin Phillips-Bong (Slightly Silly) get?
Precisely the same thing happened in the Netherlands with Geert Wilders.
But how strange is this!
German Jews feel ‘sucker punched’ after first election of far-Right since Nazis (msn.com)
Really? German Jews don’t complain about the Islamic Horde invading Germany, but as soon as German Patriots vote to oppose the Islamic Horde invading Germany, the German Jews shriek about “Nazis”??? Whose side are they on???
That’s especially idiotic because the AfD is adamantly committed to everything German parties are supposed to be committed to be considered mainstream which obviously includes being pro-Israel and pro masssive state support for Jews living in Germany “because of historical responsibility” etc. It’s just that these “representatives” and their far left political allies really don’t care. You’re either one of them. Or you’re a Nazi!!1. What opinions you actually happen to hold on any particular topic really doesn’t matter for that.
Thanks for that clear explanation. Here is a confirmation of that:
American activist Barbara Lerner Spectre calls for destruction of European ethnic societies – YouTube
Jewish American activist Barbara Lerner Spectre said in Sweden,
“I think there’s a resurgence of Anti-Semitism, because at this point in time, Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural.
And I think we’re going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which MUST take place.”
“Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century”, she said with a patronising smile.
“Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a HUGE transformation for Europe to make.
They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of OUR LEADING ROLE.
But without that leading role, without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
Perhaps she should turn to the apartheid state of Israel and sort that out first!