- “Drone pilots had the means to swerve the bombs away, but chose not to” – It was not a single rogue missile that killed seven aid workers in Gaza but three precisely targeted missiles, says Paul Nuki, Verity Bowman and Lilia Sebouai in the Telegraph.
- “The world turns on Israel after World Central Kitchen slaughter” – World leaders have vented their fury at Israel following a deadly drone strike on a convoy of aid workers, reports the Mail.
- “Al-Shifa Hospital and the crisis of the West” – Why are so many in the West buying into Hamas’s lies about al-Shifa? asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The Scottish Hate Crime Act has descended into farce” – Scottish Police are already overwhelmed with bogus complaints of ‘hate’, says Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
- “Police urged to reveal if non-crime hate incidents recorded against Yousaf and Rowling” – Police Scotland have been accused of political bias after refusing to record a non-crime hate incident (NCHI) against Humza Yousaf despite logging one against a Tory MSP, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tories on course for worse election wipeout than 1997” – A YouGov survey of 18,761 people predicts that Rishi Sunak will suffer the Conservatives’ worst result on record, according to Sky News.
- “If the Conservatives won’t stand up for our Armed Forces, who will?” – Labour have not committed to spending 2% of GDP on defence and are vulnerable. But we cannot counterattack them without ammunition, says Mark Francois in Conservative Home.
- “Does Reform believe in democracy?” – For the third time in recent years, a party created by Nigel Farage is threatening the Tories fading hopes of re-election, writes Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “‘I should decide if my vulnerable adult son has a Covid vaccine – not a judge’” – A mother’s instinct to protect her son – a 24 year-old with complex medical conditions – from the COVID-19 vaccine could be overridden by one of Britain’s most powerful courts, says Steve Bird in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. Government use of behavioural science strategies in Covid-event messaging” – In a paper published by the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain, Dr. Gary Sidley critically analyses the Government’s controversial ‘Look them in the eyes’ Covid messaging campaign.
- “NHS waiting list could be two million people longer than previously thought” – An official report reveals that the NHS waiting list could be two to three million people longer than previously thought – with many waiting more than a year, reports the Mail.
- “Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing” – According to high-ranking Ukrainian officers, the military picture is grim and Russian generals could find success wherever they decide to focus their upcoming offensive, reports Politico.
- “British Gas customers face £175 bills for smart meter checks” – British Gas customers who mistakenly report their smart meter is faulty could be at risk of a penalty charge, says the Standard.
- “Solar farms are taking us back to the dark ages” – Even green campaigners fear solar farms are damaging the planet, consuming land that could be left to nature, writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Climate movement and its socialist and religious vibes” – In an interview with Freedom Research, Kaarel Ots, head of Nasdaq Baltic Exchanges, says the climate movement has become a socialist religion.
- “Not even Elon can save EVs from disaster” – Western policy on decarbonisation seems to be driven more by emotion and boosterism than by what is technologically feasible, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany over proposed trophy hunting ban” – The Southern African country of Botswana has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany over a row about conservation, reports the Express.
- “The assisted-dying lobby has already won” – Emotive arguments rule our secular age, laments Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “The inhumanity of ‘assisted dying’” – Matthew Parris has said the quiet part out loud: assisted suicide is about ridding society of ‘unproductive’ people, writes Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “Deutsche Bank to roll out ‘reset and recovery pods’ for menopausal women” – Deutsche Bank is preparing to roll out “reset and recovery pods” with reclinable chairs and temperature controls for menopausal women at its new London office, according to the Telegraph.
- “Female head teacher sexually harassed male worker by saying he looked ‘fit’ in Speedos” – A judge has ruled that inappropriate comments made by senior women to younger men have “no place in the modern workplace”, reports the Telegraph.
- “SNP conversion therapy ban risks criminalising prayer and parental guidance, solicitors warn” – Scottish solicitors warn that SNP plans to ban conversion therapy risk criminalising prayer and parental guidance to their children, according to the Telegraph.
- “Non-binary patient who wants a vagina and a penis sues health chiefs” – A non-binary patient in Canada is seeking taxpayer-funded surgery to create a vagina while also keeping a functional penis, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Transgenderism is a social mania’” – The Telegraph’s Chris Harvey talks to author Lionel Shriver about the “disadvantage” of being male, “evil” hate speech laws and why universities are “destroying” themselves.
- “BBC’s Wolf Hall returns with diverse cast of Tudor courtiers” – The BBC’s new Wolf Hall series will use a diverse cast to portray Tudor courtiers, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk would ‘definitely buy’ Disney shares if billionaire activist wins board seats” – Elon Musk has vowed to take a stake in Disney if billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz wins his battle to secure a seat on the entertainment giant’s board, reports Fortune.
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I just had a ‘job advert’ appear for the following so-called ‘company’
A special ‘jobs for the victims of transphobia’ network.
Unsurprisingly I won’t be applying.
This pertains to the point I made last night about why on earth do countries have double standards when it comes to dying legally. So we have countries that somehow deem it barbaric or unethical to kill a murderer/child rapist etc, even those who professionals think are beyond help and will reoffend, but somebody who is either suffering greatly physically or who has depression that is not being alleviated gets to opt in to legally end their lives. Somehow the latter is classed as ‘ethical’ and acceptable. Why the contradiction in law?Here we have a Dutch example, but I’ve read of many others. And for the record, I am pro-euthanasia if a person is suffering and they’re beyond help, e.g cancer, MND, MS, but I am also pro-capital punishment;
”The culture of death continues to expand in many decadent western cultures, making Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide increasingly normalized options for people that seem plagued by the lack of competent healthcare.
The Netherlands is one of the leading nations pushing for these practices, having become the first to make assisted suicide legal back in 2001.
Since then, it’s become an increasingly ‘popular’ option among the population, with over 8 thousand deaths per year.
It is now reported that a physically healthy 28-year-old Dutch woman has decided ‘to legally end her life due to her struggles with crippling depression, autism and borderline personality disorder’.
It’s a growing number of people in these decadent Western societies choosing to die rather than live with conditions that can be treated.
“More people are deciding to end their lives while suffering from a slew of other mental health problems like depression or anxiety amplified by economic uncertainty, climate change, social media and other issues.”
Oh my: people want to die because of climate alarmism?
Critics have noticed how euthanasia became an ‘acceptable option’ brought to the conversation by physicians and psychiatrists – when previously it was meant to be the ultimate, last resort.
Healthcare professional give up on patients much more easily than before: it’s the culture of death.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/culture-death-physically-healthy-young-woman-suffering-depression/
The position of the state and its elite ring masters is wholly hypocritical.
As you say, they oppose the killing of evil men and women (mainly men) and among the powerful reasons are these:
1 it is wrong in principle for a state to kill its own citizens, and
2 if a mistake is made the consequences are irreversible and horrific
However, the state and opponents of capital pubnishment are not consistent. The permit or authorise the killing and injury of innocent citizens dozens of times a year:
A they authorise police marksmen to take out disturbed people waving chair legs because, they claim, there is a danger to the public. No due process and no appeal.
B they release convicted criminals who have not served their full (inadequate) sentences who go on to commit murder, rape and other violence and theft before their given sentence time has passed.
C they go overseas and kill, or cause the killing, of people in places we hae no business to be – Iraq2 and Afganistan are just to examples but the revolutions in North Africa were engineered by the west and caused great loss of life.
So the state does kill people and many of them are British and visitors to Britain. It will not disclose the numbers but if you watch the news it is not insignificant. I have no doubt that more people per annum are dying ithout cause than ever happened when we used the rope. And these were wholly innocent whereas those cases of murderers allegedly hung wrongly were agreed to be guilty of something pretty unpleasant and at least they had due process – members of the public killed, raped or attacked by early released criminals have no chance.
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I was trying to flatten the grass around one of the boards.
Then I gave up.
It was going to take 3 weeks to flatten the grass.
If the Conservatives won’t stand up for our Armed Forces, who will?
1968 USSR (Russia) invades Czechoslovakia
Britain’s defence spending drops from 7% of gdp in 1959 to 6% in 1968
My grandfather stops watching the BBC
2014, 2022 Russia invades Ukraine.
Britain’s defence spending drops from 2.57% of gdp in 2010 to 2.2% in 2024
I stopped watching the bbc a long time ago but I will now be voting for Reform.
I have never come across such despair within those who have spent their entire careers in uniform in the service of Great Britain.
The spending is irrelevant. As we on here know government and NGO’s are always adept at spending money but rarely if ever wisely. Spending on armaments is simply agreeing to pay whatever those in the field of supply want to charge. So the 2% is complete bollox as usual.
This is, as you must know, mainly nonsense. There is a much greater emphasis on commercial off the shelf, utilisation of small to medium sized suppliers, within defence procurement, all of which creates more competitive pricing.
Nevertheless, as you will also know, our own domestic defence procurement system is, also, a complete shambles, and there is a large body of opinion antipathetic towards defence manufacturing in this country, without which manufacturing we are comprehensively fecked.
But then again, we are comprehensively fecked……..
Clearly you have never worked in the Civil Service nor are you aware of government procurement procedures.
A greater compliment would be hard to conceive. Thank you.
Nevertheless, if you are not aware of the increased emphasis on COTS and SMEs, then you are all at sea.
Aren’t they all faulty? What does this mean? It means shut up or we will punish you even more. Wonder if there have been faulty smart meters that charge the customer nothing! (I doubt it).
Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing
Let’s be honest here. Ukraine has been at great risk of its front line collapsing since 2014.
Europe does not care. The only eu member to sign the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 was Britain…..and then, very sensibly, we left the eu.
We know Putin’s plan……because he told us so that we would get out of the way….Odessa then Moldova then the Suwalki corridor (Polish).
He is not thinking in a 3-5 year timescale. He is looking decades ahead, as did ‘Mein Kampf’:
RIA NOVOSTI 04 April 2022:
‘The operation to denazify Ukraine, which began with a military phase, will follow the same logic of stages in peacetime as a military operation. At each of them, it will be necessary to achieve irreversible changes, which will become the results of the corresponding stage. In this case, the necessary initial steps of denazification can be defined as follows:
— liquidation of armed Nazi formations (which refers to any armed formations of Ukraine, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine), as well as the military, information, and educational infrastructure that ensures their activity;
— the formation of bodies of people’s self-government and the police (defense and law enforcement) of the liberated territories, protecting the population from the terror of underground Nazi groups;
— deployment of the Russian information space;
— withdrawal of educational materials and prohibition of educational programs at all levels containing Nazi ideological guidelines;
— mass investigations to establish personal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, the spread of Nazi ideology and support for the Nazi regime;
— lustration, publication of the names of accomplices of the Nazi regime, involving them in forced labor to restore the destroyed infrastructure as punishment for Nazi activities (from among those who will not be subject to the death penalty or imprisonment);
— adoption at the local level, under the supervision of Russia, of primary normative acts of denazification “from below”, a ban on all types and forms of the revival of Nazi ideology;
— Establishment of memorials, commemorative signs, monuments to the victims of Ukrainian Nazism, perpetuating the memory of the heroes of the struggle against it;
— the inclusion of a complex of anti-fascist and denazification norms in the constitutions of the new people’s republics;
— creation of permanent denazification bodies for a period of 25 years.
Russia will have no allies in the denazification of Ukraine. Since this is a purely Russian business. And also because not just the Bandera version of Nazi Ukraine will be eradicated, but including, and above all, Western totalitarianism………’
It is not an exact parallel. Of course it isn’t.
But it is like deja vu all over again.
P.S. If Britain had not signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, the U.S. might well not have signed it and Ukraine would not have voluntarily given up its nuclear warheads. We would have no idea, by now, where many of those warheads were and we might, almost certainly would, be looking down the barrel of a nuclear war right now, if not already embroiled in one.
That is how shortsighted, utterly useless, the eu is
And, make no mistake, that utter hopelessness is leading to war, if not in the next 3-5 years then certainly within 20 years and, quite possibly, within 10 years.
Not our business? Say that again in 2034 and see how it looks……..
There are no happy endings in war, and there certainly will not be any mad scenes of jubilation in Trafalgar Square this time around………
If Ukraine had not given up its (Russian) nuclear weapons we probably would no longer be here because the narcicist Zelensky would have already lobbed them into Russia, with world=ending consequences.
Well, he would have had to do that manually, in person, since Ukraine possessed no delivery system.
But you may very well be correct that Putin’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 would have occasioned the use of nuclear weapons by Ukraine. That country was actively looking for delivery systems prior to 1994.
And therein lies the utility of nuclear deterrence. Would, then, Putin have invaded Crimea?
The Budapest Memorandum was a fudge; part of the ‘good intentions paving company’ whose end destination is well known.
“Putin’s invasion of Crimea in 2014”
You keep saying that Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, whereas it was in fact pro-Russian armed men within the Ukraine armed forces that took control of government buildings, airports, etc in Crimea. Russian armed forces were carrying out military exercises on the border with Ukraine but never actually invaded.
If you want to describe that as “an invasion”, at least put it in inverted commas.
My dear fellow, where have you been?
‘“In order to block and disarm 20,000 well-armed [Ukrainian soldiers], you need a specific set of personnel. And not just in numbers, but with skill. We needed specialists who know how to do it,”.
“That’s why I gave orders to the Defense Ministry — why hide it? — to deploy special forces of the GRU (military intelligence) as well as marines and commandos there under the guise of reinforcing security for our military facilities in Crimea,”
Putin March 2015
I very much hope you enjoyed your stay on North Sentinel.
Your sarcasm is charming, I’m sure, but that doesn’t sound like an invasion to me.
That would be a skilful and successful invasion, then……
‘The annexation of Crimea was the smoothest invasion of modern times. It was over before the outside world realised it had even started.
And until Tuesday 18 March, when a group of pro-Russian gunmen attacked a small Ukrainian army base in Simferopol, killing one officer and injuring another, it was entirely bloodless.
For much of February, thousands of extra soldiers were quietly sent in to the bases which Russia was permitted by treaty to own in Crimea. Civilian “volunteers” moved in too. The plan was carried out secretly and with complete success.
The first obvious sign that Crimea was being taken over was on Friday 28 February, when checkpoints were established at Armyansk and Chongar – the two main road crossings from mainland Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula.
These cut-off points were controlled by men wearing a variety of uniforms: Ukrainian army, Ukrainian police, as well as camouflage without national insignia. Several wore civilian clothes.
When I tried to get through the Armyansk checkpoint on Saturday 1 March, together with a BBC cameraman, these men were hostile and threatening.
They stole the bags containing our body armour from the boot of our taxi, and went through our suitcases aggressively, pulling out the things inside and dropping some of them on the road. They took our camera away and filched the expensive electronic recording cards from it, together with the camera battery.
They knew exactly what they were looking for. There were more bags containing body armour piled up at the side of the road, where other journalists had tried to get through before us.
The men at the checkpoint were stopping everyone except local people from passing through. I found it hard to work out what was going on.
It was only when one of them, wearing a police uniform, called out “Welcome to Russia!” that I understood – their uniforms might be Ukrainian, but they were sealing off Crimea on behalf of Moscow.’
I claim no insight into the mind and intentions of Putin, although he is the same age as me and cannot go on forever! But all of this begs the question as to what should be done? At present the Western Powers seem to be pressing Ukraine to carry on like some gruesome re-run of the Monty Python Black Knight sketch, with ever more death and destruction which this article indicates might ultimately prove futile.
It does seem to me that the world has changed a lot in the last 3 years and is still changing, Russia has forged trade and security links with China, BRICS and other non western countries, it does seem to me that it is very sensitive to keeping all its new partners on board. Maybe I am unduly naive but I do feel that clever skilful diplomacy and statesmanship can be as powerful as bombs and bullets and it is high time we gave them a try as the bombs and the bullets do not seem to be working too well.
Unfortunately that ship sailed in 2022.
The annexation of Crimea in 2014 was thought to be the extent of Putin’s territorial ambitions.
We now know the full extent of his ambitions….and let us not fool ourselves that Putin is a one man band. He has a political party. What is that party called? Why, it is called the ‘United Russia’ party.
The clue is in the name.
‘Beginning in 2012, Putin began to refer to a distinct Russian civilizational identity and explained that “the self-definition of the Russian people is that of a multiethnic civilization.” Included within this civilizational framework are ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in former Soviet republics that extend beyond Russia’s national borders. In 2020, Putin appeared on state television and said that Russia’s unique civilizational identity needed to be protected via genetics and technological sophistication. This ideology positions contemporary Russia as a global bastion of traditional values and national conservatism. Most of all, it argues that the Kremlin has a duty and right to defend the interests and culture of Russian-speakers all over the world. Putin rejects the Westphalian state system for an irredentist vision of an expansionist Russian civilization.’
I missed the Crimean uprising against Russian annexation.
No. You are not too late. It is still happening.
https://t.me/atesh_ua/267
Unlike you (apparently), I am not a fluent Russian, or is it Ukrainian, linguist.
But you can read?
I can recognise the letters in Cyrillic but not the words.
Here you go:
‘“I recall attending the Crimean Tatar rally on February 26, 2014, with other supporters. There were Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian flags. Pro-Russian forces organised a spontaneous rally with Russian flags on the opposite side. I was aware that Crimean Tatars had organised the event, but I was unaware of any pro-Russian rallies. I asked what pro-Russian activists wanted. They responded that they wanted a referendum. I noticed a few people I knew. They were radical and marginal. Then clashes broke out. People were injured. I helped one of them. He had been beaten; when I pulled him from the centre, he was filthy and covered in bruises, but there was no blood on his body. He was helpless, lying on the ground, and could be trampled by the crowd. Unfortunately, I am unsure of this man’s future.”
During the winter of 2013 and 2014, Ismail co-organized and participated in public actions in Crimea in support of Ukraine’s European integration and in solidarity with Kyiv protesters. He had lived in Crimea since 2004 but was forced to leave at the age of 28 due to threats from pro-Russian forces.
These and other stories are compiled in the book “People of the ‘Grey Zone’: Witnesses of the Russian Annexation of Crimea in 2014” by Anna Andriyevska and Olena Khalimon
‘Mejlis, the main representative body of Crimean Tatars, was banned as an “extremist organisation” in 2016. Two deputy heads, Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, were arrested in January 2015 and May 2016, respectively. On October 25, 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saved both and exchanged them for two Russian spies. On September 4, 2021, Nariman Dzhelyal, the sole Crimean Tatar leader in Crimea, was arrested on charges of “sabotage” for his participation in the Crimean Platform’s inauguration summit in Kyiv on August 23.
Criminal cases were initiated against Mejlis Head Refat Chubarov and charismatic leader Mustafa Djemilev, who were barred from entering the peninsula. The Mejlis office is now located in Kyiv, while approximately 30,000 Crimean Tatars were forced to relocate to mainland Ukraine. Some of them joined the Ukrainian Army as volunteers or contractors.’
Another effect of the full-scale war is a shift in the nature of resistance. The popular “Crimean Solidarity” movement is an example of peaceful, nonviolent resistance to the occupiers. It is a human rights organisation that not only defends the rights of those arrested and falsely accused but also supports their families.
Crimean Solidarity is more than a human rights organisation; it is a sizable community. Moreover, its members frequently assume the role of journalists, disclosing information about the persecution of Ukrainian citizens in Crimea.
Other nonviolent movements include “Zla Mavka” (a partisan movement founded in Melitopol) and “Yellow Ribbon.”
Activists of the “Yellow Ribbon” frequently share photos of Crimea and other temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, depicting Ukrainian symbols or handwritten notes reading, “Crimea is Ukraine.”
‘In addition, more aggressive forms of resistance exist in Crimea. Their activities include sabotage, killing of military personnel and the most vicious collaborators, reconnaissance of military facilities, troop deployment and movement, and the transfer of critical information to Ukraine’s military and security forces, etc. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) greatly benefit from new partisan structures like the Crimean Tatar-Ukrainian “Atesh”; these underground fighters have received a lot of support from Ukraine’s recent success in the Black Sea as well as from repeated attacks on the Kerch Bridge and Russian military infrastructure on the peninsula.’
A protest rally is not exactly the same as an uprising. Your desperation to justify your position is letting you come up with threadbare comments.
Sabotage and assassinations are terrorism.
Okay. You can’t read.
The only people who were relaxed about the annexation of Crimea and the invention and support of a faux partisan activity in the eastern provinces were western politicians who were too busy with Net Zero and wokishness.
While Bush and Blair (with Tory enthusiastic support) wanted to strutt their stuff by blasting away in places we had no business to be, the rest of the time since Reagan and Thatcher the western leaders have been weak. They wanted to believe “The end of history” because it meant they could spend the money on other things and allow later generations to suffer the consequences.
“Maybe I am unduly naive but I do feel that clever skilful diplomacy and statesmanship can be as powerful as bombs and bullets and it is high time we gave them a try as the bombs and the bullets do not seem to be working too well.”
I think we are probably all a bit naive about the workings of the US military-industrial complex. Julian Assange talked about a strategy of “never-ending wars”.
“The goal is an endless war, not a successful war” – Julian Assange 2011.
‘Julian Assange’s mental health is “not well”, says human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. “There have been concerns for a long time,”
Are you actually trying to smear one of the truly heroic figures of our time? Shame on you…
I am simply quoting his lawyer.
Everyone is quite capable of drawing whatever conclusions they will, without any silly vapours from you.
Of course the killing of the aid workers could have been a deliberate ploy to divert Western opinion from the assassination of Iranian generals in the Iranian consulate in Syria a few days ago. It was clearly not an accident or oversight but a deliberate act in violation of the Vienna Convention.
I bat you all missed the outraged headlines in the British media.
I dont proclaim to know the reason for this terrible attack but I was under the impression the IDF mistakenly through a hamas gunman was it one of the vehicles?
Friendly fire incidents are not new and not uncommon, I certainly hope that’s what it was and not intentional!
Well, that’s all right then. You are not suggesting that they thought the gunman was unaccompanied, are you?
The Vienna Convention provides for protection of all diplomatic premises. When I last looked, people are different from premises.
Not at all, Iam hoping it was some kind of mistake! but it’s getting difficult to find an excuse for this action, I would have gone with a false flag operation but isreal have taken responsibility! so what do we think happened then?
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder says the World Central Kitchen (WCK) vehicles were targeted with a missile, through the roof, with Israel having the exact coordinates of the convoy as WCK coordinated their movement with Israeli forces. Israel admitted responsibility for that attack on a World Central Kitchen convoy in which seven aid workers, along with their Palestinian driver, were killed in central Gaza in a ‘targeted attack’ by Israeli forces that has drawn global condemnation and forced the charity to suspend operations in the region.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240403-unicefs-james-elder-says-israel-had-exact-coordinates-of-wck-convoy/
Careful FFFOR, my post about this yesterday got a lot of downticks – seems a large chunk of DS readers don’t like to be reminded too often of repeated and ongoing Convention violations (Geneva & Vienna) by the rogue state in the Levant. All while Syria & Iran are asked to show ‘continuing restraint’ and no country affected by the deaths of their aid worker citizens will take any further action.
I am sorry I missed your post. Take a belated up-tick from me.
It is not clear to me why attacking a general from a country which boasts about how it is supporting and encouraging HAMAS could be contrary to any convention. Iran is in this fight and we all know it.
Please supply evidence of their boasting.
“Palestinian fighters are ready for a ground assault by Israel, and in the past few nights, we witnessed some glimpses of this defeat. As soon as the internet reconnects in Gaza, we will see images of burning tanks and the killing and capturing of Zionist soldiers.”
“That mighty army and unmatched security, power, and splendour of the Zionists collapsed on October 7” in the operation al-Aqsa Flood (the codename for the war Hamas declared on Israel), a manifestation of Hamas’ depth of intelligence and operations.”
Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff, Iranian Armed Forces
‘….we are honoured to announce that we gave them the technology of how to make Fajr-5 missiles and now they have their hands on plenty of them.”
Mohammad Ali Jafari, Commander, Iranian revolutionary guards
Israel stands alone in the area and its obvious desire is to completely clear the country of Palestinian Arabs: it is doing this by destroying their residences, destroying all supporting infrastructure and destroying the people, whether they be men, women or children. Only USA and UK (?) fully support Israel’s endeavours, with USA sending daily deliveries of weapons (including 2,000lb bombs) as well as millions in financial support.
By attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria, Israel is clearly provoking Iran to enter a war with Israel, which would then result in USA involvement. Neither Iran nor other countries in the area are interested in entering a war with USA, nor being on the receiving end of one of Israel’s atomic bombs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/02/non-binary-patient-who-wants-a-vagina-and-a-penis-sues-heal/
FFS. Hilarious though. It’s going to be pretty crowded down there isn’t it? Maybe enough room still for a little cupboard between the vagina and the bum hole to store some pleasure toys? These people are clearly mentally ill and need psychiatric help, not the addition of more sexual organs. You can imagine the guys thoughts after the op – “ahhhh, that’s so much better. I never felt like I was born in the right body and didn’t fit it, but now I have one of each and a little storage section as well for my KY jelly, now, I’ll fit in everywhere… errr, well, I’ll definitely be welcome in the gay community… hmmm, well, I’ll definitely be welcome in the lesbian community… ughh, don’t suppose the heterosexuals are going to be too keen on a penis AND a vagina either…. shit, I’ll see if that surgeon can chop the cock off. That storage section will definitely come in handy though!”
Thanks for the link to the Dr. Gary Sidley paper: “U.K. Government use of behavioural science strategies in Covid-event messaging”. It’s worth reading, and presents an insight into the current structure of Government. It’s not just to do with the C-19 panic either. E.g. it states that “Many government departments employ their own in-house behavioural scientists.” and lists numbers of Civil Servants in that role in several departments (page 6).
It appears that we’re actually shelling out for “Behavioural Insights Consultancy and Research Services” in the private sector as well.
I have just printed off the 21 page report to read at leaisure. This project took a huge move forward under Cameron-Clegg. It amounts to state run propaganda and nothing less.
I intend to send my layman’s thoughts to the author.
This is a very valuable survey and analysis of the use of behavioural science by HMG (Nudge Units). The use of the Covid episode as a basis for the work is understandable but it should be more firmly stated that the official beginning of such practices by government in the UK was 2010 under the Cameron-Clegg administration. There is no information provided on the use of such activities before then nor on the scale of use other than during Covid.
My own conclusions are better formed after reading this report but in general little changed from when I first heard of the Nudge Unit in 2010. These are:
1 It is undemocratic in principle.
Governments in what claims to be a democratic country should not seek to persuade the public towards any course of action or opinion other than for explicit and clear public safety issues and to encourage conformity with existing law. The use of Nudge Units in general is not warranted because the public do not know what is being done to them. It is not sufficient to refer to reports of the Institute of Government or of other more official bodies because the public do not even know they exist and the Main Stream Media (MSM) have not reported it in any significant way.
The use of Nudge Units during Covid was undemocratic because there was significant disagreemenmt with the strategies adopted and individual right to decide on medical interventions as over-ridden.
2 Nudge Units reduce personal freedom.
By defining a narrow Overton Window around any subject the government is able to exclude those with contrary opinions from joining any debate. This certainly happened during Covid but one must suppose it has happened and it is happening on a wide range of subjects.
Was it used in the Brexit referendum, was it and is it still used to mould public opinion on national independence, globalisation, immigration and Net Zero – one supposes it must have been and still is used, otherwise why would so much resource be committed to it.
3 The Nudge Units are unaccountable
No reports are made of the activities of these units. There is no Parliamentary oversight as there is even of the security services. We do not know what projects are in hand, who authorised them and why. Will there be Nudge activity towards the preferred talking points of the Westminster political parties (or the government party) in the run up to the next General Election, for instance.
The activities are secretive and have no place in an open democratic society, which we aspire to be.
4 Political direction of such activities without accountability is unacceptable in a democracy.
It is clear from the information gleaned for this report that it was at political and not a technical or even bureaucratic level that the tone and character of the programmes were constructed. It is also clear that a number of specialists were uneasy about the ethical issues but their resistance seems to have been limited (none of them resigned or went public) and in any event those concerns were ignored as far as we can tell.
5 Unintended (one presumes) side effects have not been recognised.
The effects of the fear campaign have resulted in psychological damage to many people ho still struggle to live a normal life out of their homes.
The economic effects have been damaging and we see large numbers who cannot bring themselves to work from the workplace on a full time basis. Meanwhile as many as millions of older people have left the labour force early and remain too frightened or demotivated to return. Instead they live off small pensions before they had planned to start using the funds and already, and if not then very soon, in poverty.
6 Using behavioural science to influence the public on a mass basis suggests they are not doing what the self-regarding elites consider good for them. This represents everything we suspect is wrong with politics and politicians today. Government is traditionally thought to be FOR the public not something done TO them.
Horrific investigative article on ‘Lavender’, the AI system being used to eradicate Hamas operatives, along with their families and neighbourhoods.
Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets. …
…the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses….
“We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
“‘I should decide if my vulnerable adult son has a Covid vaccine – not a judge’”
And yet the court decided that the issue of giving puberty blocking drugs to children was not a matter for the courts, but for the medical profession – which is therefore assumed to be above the law.
Inconsistency or what?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/does-build-back-better-mean-controlled-demolition/
A short article making many of the points that a few of us on here have been making repeatedly these last couple of years. The so called cock-ups are simply deliberate acts intended to destroy our current way of life. As I have stated more than once, in order to ‘build back better’ first they must destroy. Who would argue that Fishy is not intent on destruction? Bloody hell he’s even leading his own party to a wipeout. Do we need more proof?
Wolf Hall – Mark Rylance was superb in the original series, hopefully he’ll return in that role.
“The inhumanity of ‘assisted dying’” – “Matthew Parris has said the quiet part out loud: assisted suicide is about ridding society of ‘unproductive’ people, writes Kevin Yuill in Spiked.”
Professor Yuill’s powerful article is packed with surprising historical information on euthanasia, and well worth reading.
There is still an Elephant in the Room, however: the vast majority of people choosing, or chosen, to be medically killed are Ethnic Europeans, already the World’s Smallest Ethnic Group.
Encouraging this is very convenient for the Globalist Anti-White Agenda.