- “Israel defy pro-Palestinian crowds and are through to Eurovision final” – Israel singer Eden Golan has made it to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest following a public vote, despite thousands of protestors calling for her to be excluded from the competition, reports the Mail.
- “Sunak tells university bosses to come down hard on Gaza antisemitism” – Rishi Sunak orders university bosses to clampdown on antisemitism amid fears the U.K. could import violent protests like those seen in the U.S., says the Mail.
- “Vice-chancellors warn Rishi Sunak over non-student ‘agitators’” – Leading universities raise concerns that non-student “agitators” are infiltrating on-campus protests over Gaza to “stir division”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Hysterics for Hamas” – Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos? asks Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “BBC failed to correct student over Israel genocide claim” – The BBC is accused of fuelling anti-Israel sentiment after a pro-Palestinian student claimed the country had been found guilty of a “plausible genocide” in an interview, reports the Telegraph.
- “Biden threatened with impeachment for withholding Israeli aid” – Republicans have seized on President Biden’s threat to withhold U.S. weapons from Israel , with at least one saying he should be impeached, says the Mail.
- “Zadie Smith has failed the Palestine purity test” – Novelist Zadie Smith has been monstered by the anti-Israel mob for daring to recognise the humanity of Jews in an essay in the New Yorker, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Prepare to welcome boarders” – In the face of an existential threat – Islamic mobs running wild every Saturday – our police and legal system seem paralysed, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Christian preacher challenges arrest for protesting Islam” – A Christian preacher is appealing a ruling which upheld his arrest outside Southwark Cathedral for displaying placards protesting against Islam in the wake of the Oct 7th terrorist attack, according to Christian Concern.
- “AfD politician convicted for warning about gang rapes” – A German court has upheld a verdict against Rotenburg AfD leader Marie-Thérèse Kaiser for incitement to hatred after she quoted official statistics about the number of Muslim migrants involved in violent crime, reports the European Conservative.
- “Five babies die of whooping cough after surge fuelled by lockdown” – Health chiefs say Covid lockdowns have fuelled England’s unprecedented epidemic of pertussis, according to the Mail.
- “The WHO’s naive global vaccine plan won’t withstand contact with reality” – The WHO is better off ensuring that, next time, the death toll inflicted by a pandemic is not multiplied by a botched response, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “We did it! 22 attorneys-general in the U.S. have told Joe Biden that the WHO will not be making public policy in their states” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass celebrates 22 American states giving the finger to the WHO’s pandemic accord. Now for the other 28…
- “New FDA study reports elevated post-vaccination seizure risk in toddlers” – On the Illusion of Consensus Substack, Rev Arora asks the FDA how it can still recommend Covid vaccinations for children despite the newly emerging risks. Their response is all-too-revealing.
- “Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic goes RICO” – Fauci is now in the sights of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Will he be held to account? Hope springs eternal, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “South Korea’s birthrate is so low, the President wants to create a ministry to tackle it” – South Korea’s leader says he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the country’s deepening demographic crisis, according to CNN.
- “Soaring immigration is fuelling Britain’s housing crisis, says Bank’s chief economist” – The Bank of England’s chief economist says “large increases in immigration” are piling pressure on Britain’s housing stock, after net migration hit a record-breaking 745,000 in 2022, reports the Telegraph.
- “Dominic Cummings unveils plans for new party to replace the Tories” – Boris Johnson’s former advisor unveils plans for a new “Start-Up Party” which he claims could replace the Conservatives, says the Telegraph.
- “The vindication of Kate Forbes” – The appointment of Kate Forbes to Deputy First Minister will infuriate many on the nationalist Left. But the truth is she represents the views of a great many Scots – including half the members of the SNP, writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.
- “‘I hate hate speech laws’” – The most horrible places to live are those where you live in terror of letting slip some stray remark, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Councils scrapping apostrophes is just another sorry sign of Britain’s decline” – If we’re now dropping the punctuation mark from traffic markings, the road ahead does not look good, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Gordon Brown selling Britain’s gold reserves cost the country £21 billion” – Analysis suggests that Gordon Brown’s ill-fated decision to sell off Britain’s gold reserves in 1999 has cost the country £21 billion, according to the Mail.
- “Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech” – The Guardian reports that Hong Kong is demanding the removal of a protest song, popularised during pro-democracy demonstrations, from the internet following a court ruling banning it.
- “Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging” – A court in Iran has sentenced acclaimed movie director Mohammad Rasoulof to eight years in prison, a flogging, a fine and confiscation of property for ‘national security crimes’, according to the Guardian.
- “Classic cars of future risk being killed off by Net Zero” – Concern is mounting among motoring enthusiasts that cars not yet classified as ‘historic’, are being scrapped due to Net Zero targets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rodney McInnis: GHG Lab – a defensive tool for threatened industries” – On the Tom Nelson Podcast, Rodney McInnes joins Tom to discuss GHG Lab – a novel “engineering approach” to computing the greenhouse gas (GHG) effect on the Earth’s temperature.
- “Autism school signed up to LGBT charter pushing ‘pseudoscientific’ trans ideology” – A Scottish school for severely autistic children has signed up to a controversial LGBT charter pushing “pseudoscientific” transgender ideology, reports the Telegraph.
- “How gender ideology breeds toxic law” – In the Brownstone Institute, Ramesh Thakur advocates justice for all before social justice for favoured protected groups.
- “The ‘nice guy’ LGBT campaigner who became leader of Eunuch Maker cult” – In the Telegraph, Max Stephens profiles Marius Gustavson who, over four years, made £300,000 from 22,800 subscribers paying to watch ‘human butchery’ on their screens.
- “Is Critical Race Theory Marxist?” – On his Psephizo blog, Ian Paul explores the connection between Marxist ideology, Critical Race Theory and church initiatives aimed at tackling perceived racial injustices.
- “Students accused of blackface win $1 million payout after arguing it was acne mask” – Two students expelled from a leading private school in San Francisco for “blacking up” have won a $1 million payout after they argued they were in fact wearing acne face masks, reports the LA Times.
- “Is journalism back? New York Times editor goes ballistic on Biden, ‘safe space’ era” – Five years of bitterness between Joe Biden and the country’s most influential newspaper has burst into the open, paving the way for a press comeback, says Matt Taibbi on his Racket News Substack.
- “Just another day in the U.K. Parliament” – Andrew Bridgen questions Penny Mordaunt about AstraZeneca’s admission of vaccine-induced blood clots and its global withdrawal, and gets labelled a “conspiracy theorist” for his trouble.
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Regarding South Korea’s declining birth rate ‘problem’: it occurs to me that, perhaps, in some animal way, the herd is well aware of diminishing resources and harder times ahead and is naturally restricting the expansion in numbers to preserve what’s left for those already here?
Endless growth is surely impossible, given the finite resources contained on one small planet? Even yeast is aware of Malthusian realities…
Birth rate decline in itself is not an issue, it’s decline to below replacement rate that is. The decline is not uniform. Rich countries are I think all at or below replacement rate, poor countries (Africa) not so much.
Pandemic Treaty Marxist Tyranny – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Thursday Morning B3340 & Basingstoke Rd, Riseley, Wokingham
AstraZeneca vaccine is binned:
How the early warnings were ridiculed
conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccine-efficacy-and-safety-a-timely-reminder-of-our-early-warnings/
Martin Neil and Norman Fenton
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/soaring-immigration-is-fuelling-britain-s-housing-crisis-says-bank-of-england-s-chief-economist/ar-BB1m7dTG
Wow, give the man a gong. Who would have thought enabling thousands in whatever form, shape or fashion, to enter and remain in Britain would create a housing crisis?
Talk about stating the bloomin obvious!
“Wow, give the man a gong.”
Acute and timely observations such as these are what we pay these titans of the economy for.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13401817/Gordon-Browns-decision-sell-Britains-gold-reserves-Chancellor-Exchequer-1999-cost-country-21-billion-analysis-suggests.html
A mere drop in the ocean compared to what the Conservatives cost the country with their scamdemic schemes and transference of wealth.
Then again, they were strongly supported by Labour…
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2023/04/what-russias-first-gas-pipeline-to-china-reveals-about-a-planned-second-one?lang=en
What’s really going on?
I believe this is what is known as ‘getting to the business end of the action’
‘In 2023, Gazprom, delivered 22.7 billion cubic meters of gas to China……..the average cost of these gas deliveries was approximately $245 per thousand cubic meters — about $5.5 billion in revenue over the year. To put this in perspective, if Gazprom had sold the same volume of gas in the European market instead, where the average gas price in 2023 was $550 per thousand cubic meters, it could have earned $12.5 billion from these sales — at least twice as much as from sales to China.
Looking ahead to 2025, Gazprom’s remaining European exports are expected to decrease by half again, to 12 billion cubic meters per year, if Ukraine doesn’t extend its gas transit agreement with Russia. (Kyiv has already said it plans to let the agreement expire.) On today’s European market, gas slated for 2025 delivery costs an average of $400 per thousand cubic meters. This means that with the loss of sales through Ukraine, Gazprom stands to lose about three billion dollars in revenue each year.’
‘….a precedent has already been established, and Russia is now in a far worse negotiating position than in 2014. Finding itself at the mercy of a monopsonist buyer, there is very little it can actually do.’
Oops!
Less money for Gazprom means less money from Putin.
Expect more of this:
‘Armenia is in the middle of a major pivot away from the Kremlin and toward the West. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, it has broken off ties with Russia at an unprecedented pace….’
Gabriel Gavin March 2024
And this:
‘Don’t worry. The cheque’s in the post’
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/dominic-cummings-unveils-plans-for-new-party-to-replace-the-tories/ar-BB1m76Yv
It looks like another visit to Durham, Barnard Castle and Specsavers is drastically needed if DC lacks the insight / foresight to see that any ‘new’ party with Tory connotations will still be infused with and carry the stench and guilt of the Conservatives treacherous actions and behaviour during – and following – the scamdemic.
He was a major force behind lockdowns and the “vaccines” (Manhattan Project) – in his case probably done for ego, because it excited him. Unspeakable.
This shows how out of touch people like Cummings really are. The idea is a dead duck from the start.
Wow. So let me get this straight… the more people that need a house, the more houses you need to build? That’s some deep thinking sh*t right there. We surely need a catalogue of studies to prove this whacky theory. And some modelling. Thank the Lord we have these really smart people like the ‘chief economist’ who, I’m sure, has spent many years contemplating this complex puzzle. Without these intellectual giants the proles would be completely lost. God, why are so many people such utter blo*dy morons?
Just another day in the U.K. Parliament
That response from Ms Mordaunt, arrogant, ill informed, even stupid, is why she and so many others like her are about to be kicked out on their backsides.
If she was doing her job properly, she would have looked into the subject in a great deal more depth.
Had she done so, she would not have repeated the profoundly stupid nonsense that the astra zeneca vaccine saved millions of lives. Failing to prevent either the contracting or transmitting of the virus, it manifestly could not have.
Had she cared to delve into the, in any case dodgy (because not many are encouraged to use the system), NHS yellow card side effects records, she would, within ten minutes, have spotted the following:
‘As of 23 November 2022, for the UK, 177,925 Yellow Cards have been reported for the monovalent and bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech, 246,866 have been reported for the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, 47,045 for the monovalent and bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna, 52 for the COVID-19 Vaccine Novavax and 2,130 have been reported where the brand of the vaccine was not specified.’
Astra Zeneca total suspected adverse reactions 885,000
Fatal outcome 1,456
https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/idaps/CHADOX1%20NCOV-19
The Astra Zeneca vaccine has been withdrawn for commercial reasons, indeed, but any politician aspiring to lead his or her country (in this case, foolishly) should delve a bit further.
No-one wants to buy the Astra Zeneca vaccine because of the number of yellow card reports and fatalities associated with that vaccine.
Ms Mordaunt, if the house of commons was of any use at all, should be recalled to apologise for misleading the house.
But the house of commons seems to be of little use to any of us, its paymasters, any longer.
Still, at least we will most certainly have the pleasure of kicking out so many of its current inhabitants.
Vote against your incumbent m.p., wherever you are and, if you cannot, in conscience, do that then, at least, do not vote for them.
As we have discovered, they, none of them, are our friends…….
“That response from Ms Mordaunt, arrogant, ill informed, even stupid, is why she and so many others like her are about to be kicked out on their backsides.”
Not so sure about that. Labour’s projected share of the vote is aa few points ABOVE what they got last time. It’s true that the Tory vote is going to suffer because of the rise of Reform taking advantage of dissatisfaction on the political right, but I think it’s wishful thinking to believe that the Tories are being kicked out for all the right reasons. Of course, Labour will be worse – but you know that!
Is the House of Commons any use at all?
Ask the MP who tried just the other day to discuss the cost to taxpayers of at least 6 years’ illegal immigration.
Attendance in House: NINE.
Nine MPs out of 645 attended this debate on the most pressing issue for most taxpayers and patriots.
We need a Referendum Party to achieve self-rule.
Most of the MPs are redundant/clueless/ useless/lazy parasites who couldn’t care less that our borders are breached daily by invaders who take us for a ride with the help of self-enriching sleazy lawyers and enabling judges.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/09/day-of-unity-or-day-of-sorrow-russians-celebrate-third-victory-day-since-invasion-a85082
But only one tank?
And what a very weird tank it was……..
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1788488643113365875?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
‘At a World War II memorial park in Moscow — where an exhibition of captured Western military equipment opened late last week — a small group of mobilized soldiers’ relatives came to lay flowers.
The action — organized by Put Domoi (Way Home), a group of mostly wives and mothers of mobilized soldiers — was meant to symbolize the resistance of the relatives as they called for the return of their loved ones from the front.
“Did our ancestors truly sacrifice their lives so that we would be drawn into this war [which is not called] a war?” Put Domoi said on social media.“Today is a day of sorrow for us and not a parade with fanfare.”
Terrific substack cross post by Joel Smalley from Mark Oshinskie noting the slow erasure of the false narrative around the plandemic. Worth a read, if only to confirm everything us ‘grannykilling conspiracy theorists’ have been saying.
https://metatron.substack.com/cp/144467042
But the Overton Window has been opened. Thus, the media backpedaling will continue, albeit slowly. Vaxx injuries and NPI-induced damage are not emerging trends. They’re established trends that deserve much more coverage than they’ve received. The lockdown/mask/test/vaxx supporters have been thoroughly wrong throughout. They have no credibility chips left.
I derive little satisfaction from watching their pro-vaxx/NPI case crumble. Firstly, unlike in a courtroom, where judges and juries are, at least in theory, focused on what witnesses say, most peoples’ attention is too scattered to notice the Covid fearmongers’ reversals. The media’s retreat has occurred very slowly. As the backtracking fearmongers have cynically calculated, the public’s Covid fatigue will blunt anti-media anger.
Secondly, these media’s concessions come far too late to have much practical benefit. Team Mania’s social, economic and political objectives were accomplished in 2020-22. Sadly, this damage is permanent.
Dr Meryl Nass picks up on a letter sent to the WHO signed by 161 NGOs, picking up on the sinister surveillance and control aspect of their plans and the trampling of agreed procedure to push them through.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/are-the-pandemic-treaty-negotiations?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
https://twn.my/announcement/20240428_Open-Letter-to-the-Director-General-of-the-World-Health-Organization_FINAL.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
We therefore call on you to take measures:
“AfD politician convicted for warning about gang rapes”
Rotenburg.. Says it all really!
In summary:
1 “Rishi Sunak orders university bosses to clampdown on antisemitism”
I doubt he has the power to enforce his wishes. The right answer is to challenge the competence and performance of the governing bodies of all universities where this and other woke behaviour is tolerated, encouraged or paracticed by the authorities themselves.
Dismiss the boards and appoint conservative ones. Sunak and the Civil Service would have to consult outside their usual contacts to find conservatives to do this because they don’t know any.
2 “universities raise concerns that non-student “agitators” are infiltrating on-campus protests over Gaza to “stir division”,”
Who would have guessed. And those are meant to be dbright people running serious centres of learning.
3 “A German court has upheld a verdict against Rotenburg AfD leader Marie-Thérèse Kaiser for incitement to hatred after she quoted official statistics about the number of Muslim migrants involved in violent crime”
They just keep confirming our suspicions about the depth of their commitment to democracy.
4 “The WHO is better off ensuring that, next time, the death toll inflicted by a pandemic is not multiplied by a botched response”
No surprise that Fraser Nelson agrees the WHO should have supra-state powers – he just thinks WHO should use them in a particular way. It reminds me of the Conservative MPs over decades who criticised the ise of their power by the Institutions of the EU while supporting our subordinate status as a member state.
5 “The Bank of England’s chief economist says “large increases in immigration” are piling pressure on Britain’s housing stock, after net migration hit a record-breaking 745,000 in 2022”
The report for 2023 is to be announced in a couple of weeks so it has taken this genius 50 weeks to gigure this out. Actually the population boom stated under Blair so he is decades late in realising supply and demand have two sides, err “supply” and “demand”.
I just wonder what this has to do with the BoE. They should focus on keeping money supply under control so inflation does not happen. They should advise governments against spending what they have not got but it is decades since HMT balanced the books and there has been not a wimper from the Old Lady.
6 “The most horrible places to live are those where you live in terror of letting slip some stray remark, says Lionel Shriver”
A result of 14 years of Conservative Party led government. This alone is enough to justify their utter destruction.
7 “Andrew Bridgen questions Penny Mordaunt about AstraZeneca’s admission of vaccine-induced blood clots and its global withdrawal, and gets labelled a “conspiracy theorist” for his trouble”
The political class elites still think whatever they will to be so will come to pass.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13401253/Biden-threatened-IMPEACHMENT-withholding-Israeli-aid-fuming-Republicans-insist-no-military-earth-protect-civilians.html
Hardly a problem for Sleepy, he’s not even on the planet most of the time.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/soaring-immigration-is-fuelling-britain-s-housing-crisis-says-bank-of-england-s-chief-economist/ar-BB1m7dTG
745,000 and the rest.
We got a problem!
Every time Penny Mordaunt attempts to get the better of Andrew Bridgen she digs a bigger hole for herself. She has gone beyond shill grade and now comes across as that which she is – incredibly stupid.
“Classic cars of future risk being killed off by Net Zero”
And just this morning, two evil old women inspired by Net Zero were arrested for trying to smash the glass case protecting the Magna Carta in the British Library. One of them, an Anglican vicar, actually said “I’m a Christian”…blah, blah, blah, forgetting that Almighty God is in charge of the planet He made, and He doesn’t need her help in taking care of it.
Shame on both of these women! I hope they get jail time, and that fake vicar is defrocked.
Two women in their 80s filmed trying to smash glass protecting Magna Carta (msn.com)
It turns out that this evil “vicar” woman Judith Parfitt is the same one who actually interrupted the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral with her female “partner” and Just Stop Oil vandals. She should have been defrocked by the Archbishop after that Satanic stunt.
Is nothing sacred? Now Just Stop Oil eco-zealots invade St Paul’s Cathedral and interrupt Thanksgiving service with silent protest | Daily Mail Online
Just Stop Oil target the Magna Carta: Fury as Anglican priest, 82, and retired teacher, 85, use hammer and chisel to try and smash protective glass then glue themselves to display – before pair are arrested by police at British Library | Daily Mail Online
I hope they were peeled off the displays and none too gently, either. Sick and tired of these numbskull zealots.
Good idea! Freedom of speech and protest does not mean Freedom to Vandalise, or ride roughshod over the democratic will of the people.
If the public wanted all these Green Extreme policies, we would have voted for the Green Party, which would have a majority in the UK Parliament. But we didn’t. The Greens have only one measly MP.
And if these two had been Muslim women, they would have been arrested for terrorism. There is no difference between the Palestinian woman who slashed that historic painting at Oxford, or BLM throwing that historic statue into the river, and these two British women vandalising the Magna Carta. How on earth did they manage to get into the British Library with a hammer and chisel? If the glass had broken, the shards might have slashed that precious document, part of our shared English history, and the foundation of our democracy. It was an attack on all of us.
I hope Archbishop Welby will order that fake vicar to be defrocked for bringing the clergy into disrepute.
Wait! I just found out that the very first draft of the original 2015 Magna Carta was actually written by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton. This shows how Christianity was closely linked to the “birth certificate of democracy”, as some have called it.
So our own current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has even more reason to order the defrocking of the evil female “vicar” Judith Parfitt, for vandalising the Magna Carta written by his predecessor.
What a load of absolute twaddle by Penny Mordaunt. All Andrew Bridgen thus far has been campaigning for and speaking about is the need for a dispassionate review of whether the vaccines are a candidate for a major contributor to the excess deaths (given the clear correlation between their rollout and the onset of excess deaths in this country and many others). At no point has he ever “promoted a conspiracy theory” – this is nothing more than a meek attempt at smearing and discrediting the man, not a rebuttal of any facts or statistics he has presented.
Ex navy Penny Mourdant well versed in following orders. This time it is from Big Pharma however. Never really liked this useful idiot.