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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
30 May 2024 12:59 AM

  • “Three cops injured and 40 people arrested at pro-Palestine protest in Westminster which saw officer ‘struck by bottle’” – Three police officers were injured and 40 people have been arrested following a pro-Palestinian protest in London, reports LBC.
  • “Labour chaos as Keir Starmer says no election ban on Diane Abbott run” – Keir Starmer has denied veteran leftie Diane Abbott had been blocked from standing as an MP amid a major backlash against the Labour leadership, says the Mail.
  • “Keir Starmer has fired the starting gun on the next Labour civil war” – The Diane Abbott saga is threatening to deal the Labour leader a serious reputational blow to his authority, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
  • “The tragedy of Diane Abbott” – The moral fall of Diane Abbott tells a broader story about the moral decay of the Left, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
  • “Prepare for the dissolution of Britain as a nation state if Starmer wins” – The Labour Party is now a fanatical believer in the supremacy of ‘international law’ over elected U.K. governments, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
  • “Nigel Farage hints he’s open to an election deal with the Tories” – Nigel Farage has hinted that he’s open to a General Election deal with the Tories, as Rishi Sunak faces a wipeout on July 4th, reports the Mail.
  • “Farage finally faces up to Islam” – It’s taken Nigel Farage a long time – some might say an inordinate amount of time – but he’s finally gotten around to addressing Britain’s Muslim problem, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
  • “Jess Phillips calls on Prime Minister to deselect Liz Truss over interview on ‘hateful platform’” – Jess Phillips is urging Rishi Sunak to deselect Liz Truss as a Conservative candidate over an upcoming interview on Carl Benjamin’s Lotus Eaters platform, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Iain Dale to step down from LBC to put himself forward to be selected as a candidate for MP in the General Election” – LBC’s long-serving presenter Iain Dale is to step down from the station to put himself forward to be selected as a candidate for MP in the upcoming General Election.
  • “The end of the Conservatives” – Even the Right is praying for the Tories destruction, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
  • “Evening Standard scraps daily print paper as it blames work from home” – The Evening Standard is to stop printing a daily newspaper, blaming working from home and increased WiFi on the London Underground, according to the BBC.
  • “Excess mortality in Cyprus during the COVID-19 epidemic” – New findings raise serious concerns regarding the potential impact of the vaccination campaign on mortality, writes Joel Smalley on Substack.
  • “Australia calls for urgent roadmap to finalise ‘binding’ WHO pandemic treaty” – The Australian Health Minister is not taking the news of the stalled international pandemic treaty lying down, says Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
  • “Tedros must face reality” – We are facing a mass denial of reality by the WHO and its leadership, writes Dr. David Bell for the Brownstone Institute.
  • “The U.S. is not an honest broker” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nash gives three examples of how the U.S. avoids the traps it sets for others.
  • “We welcome Chris Cuomo’s changing stance” – Ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s willingness to stand corrected is a good thing and should be graciously accepted, even by people who dislike him, says John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
  • “Number of households who have never worked hits 12-year high” – Official data shows that the number of households in the U.K. that have never worked has hit a 12-year high, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Young people would learn more from National Service than any university” – Labour was wrong to dismiss a new National Service programme out of hand – it could be transformative, says Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
  • “How Britain’s biggest benefits scam was exposed by lone detective” – The U.K.’s biggest ever benefit scam was exposed by a lone detective in a quiet Balkan city after he saw the fraudsters “living like barons”, reports the Mail. 
  • “John Swinney under pressure to ditch SNP aversion to North Sea oil” – The SNP’s Westminster leader says the party should scrap Nicola Sturgeon’s opposition to new oil and gas drilling, reports the Telegraph. 
  • “Shell ‘planning offshore wind job cull’” – Shell is reportedly preparing to cut staff from its offshore wind business as part of a strategy to move away from the renewable energy sector, says Renews.
  • “Over 95% Scottish secondary schools allow children to self-identify gender” – An investigation has found that more than 95% of Scottish secondary schools are telling children they can self-identify, reports the Telegraph. 
  • “Three French drag queens are carrying the country’s Olympic torch” – Jean Genet would likely have objected to the normalising of subversion in France, says John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
  • “The EU is coming for ‘hate speech’” – The European Commission is considering including ‘hate speech’ in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes, writes Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
  • “Pre-bunking the trend toward pre-bunking” – On Substack, El Gato Malo takes aim at Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to “pre-bunk” misinformation before it spreads.
  • “BMJ slaps down Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth for unscientific trans activism” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker discusses a recent BMJ investigation revealing that the Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American promoted transgender care for children despite evidence of serious harm.
  • “Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation” – Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt returns to his academic specialty with a hair-raising warning about the digital age, says Matt Taibi on his Racket News Substack.
  • “Google’s new AI tool is telling users to put glue on their pizza” – Google’s new AI Overviews is returning bizarre and dangerous suggestions to users, reports the Mail.
  • “North Korea sends balloons carrying excrement to the south as a ‘gift’” – North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash and excrement across the border to South Korea, calling them “gifts of sincerity”, according to Reuters.
  • “Diane Abbott – Fan of Chairman Mao” – The under-fire Labour MP does her best to defend Chairman Mao on This Week and is deservedly ridiculed by Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

Diane Abbott – fan of chairman Mao, killer of 65 to 80 million pic.twitter.com/104nQl90Ra

— David Jack (@DJack_Journo) May 29, 2024

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

“Another theory – not necessarily mutually exclusive – would be that Pueyo’s work was brought to prominence via algorithmic manipulations, bots, influencer amplification, or other means, to support decisions which were taken in the days leading up to March 10th, and which were probably related in some way to the general Italian lockdown announced on that day.”

How whyever would someone have wanted to support such decisions via such manipulation?

I simply do not buy the theory that the US administration were bounced into lockdowns by some blog post, or that they were keen to emulate the Chinese whom they obviously love so much.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

If the WHO proposed global lockdowns and the whole of Italy locked down all before this Pueyo character wrote a blog, then this is just a red herring. The decision was made earlier by others. At most this Pueyo is an additional cog in a much larger wheel.

Much more striking, in my view is that one of the five advisers to Trump was a Pfizer board member. I’ll bet there were a few other pharma execs and/or vaccine enthusiasts (wink, wink) involved in the WHO’s endorsement of lockdowns.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust.

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Uncle Monty
Uncle Monty
2 years ago

My mini theory:
Marxist panjandrums inhabiting the higher echelons of public health and the civil service pushed innumerate, over cautious governments to enact plans that they calculated would bring us all closer to their utopian vision: the popular acceptance of totalitarian government control.
Unbeknownst to the useful idiot Marxists, their utopian vision also aligns perfectly with that of the Satanic elite who wish to imprison and then destroy humanity so that the Earth becomes their demonic playground.

Last edited 2 years ago by Uncle Monty
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Paramaniac
Paramaniac
2 years ago

Six days later on 16th March 2020 I wrote in The Times comments on the article entitled ‘From plague-ravaged London of 1665, words of hope from Samuel Pepys’:
“My advice as a Paramedic is to self isolate for 2 weeks and spend your time reading ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds’ by Charles Mackay. It’s the only known cure.”

Say what you want about my views (that Covid 19 doesn’t exist) but at least I’ve been consistent.

Last edited 2 years ago by Paramaniac
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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Paramaniac

I think, much like hypnotism, some people are obviously way more susceptible to it and open to suggestion then others. There’s no way even Derren Brown could get me on stage dancing the Funky Chicken, for instance, but many others would be prime targets for such elaborate manipulation. This is the double-edged sword that is the human condition, unfortunately. Sadly many will live out the entirety of their remaining lives clinging on to their delusions. I do believe Covid was a thing they made in a lab and it existed but it was never ever a threat, therefore the flu had to be re-branded and made into a virus of next-level deadly status. What with denial of meds such as antibiotics for bacterial pneumonia and ivermectin etc, the fraudulent tests and the diagnosing of every influenza-like illness as ‘Covid’ ( not forgetting the nonsensical positive test within 28 days and you go down as being a ‘Covid case/death’ to inflate the numbers to increase the fear porn ) then you can see how they pulled off the biggest PsyOp of all time. People had to die of respiratory illness, whether it be genuine or fraudulently misattributed as such, in order to get those all important death numbers up because fear must be stoked in order for the masses to be more easily controlled at all costs.
I’m a bit wishy washy really because then I listen to Mike Yeadon, who no longer thinks Covid ever existed, and I’m swayed by his reasoning. So I’ve got splinters in my bum at this moment in time tbh. The fact mass formation existed and played a part is indisputable but I don’t think that saying it was all in our heads because the world took leave of their senses adequately explains it. That’s too simplistic an explanation in my opinion.

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Paramaniac
Paramaniac
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Totally understand where you’re coming from. The possibility that Covid 19 never existed is just too mind blowing for most skeptics to contemplate.
If they could though, and understand that it is entirely possible, then it would be a far more devastating weapon to use against our mutual enemy, the ‘elites’ that were in charge of this disaster.
First off, ALL the deaths would be down to them, the Doctors, the scientists, the politicians and the media. They’re being let off by still being able to use the Covid ‘virus’ as an excuse and being able to continue to argue that they weren’t to blame. Arguing about the severity (not the existence) of the virus will just result in them getting off the hook.
Secondly the utter, utter humiliation that they went insane over an imaginary virus (and killed millions) would be too much to bare for their credibility now, and forever in the future.
We need to stop playing their game and start to hit them where it really hurts, their arrogant egos.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Paramaniac

Couldn’t agree more, but how do we hit them?

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Paramaniac
Paramaniac
2 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Spread the word!

James Delingpole:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-imaginary-pandemic-of-the-brainwashed/

Mike Yeadon:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-i-dont-believe-there-ever-was-a-covid-virus/

And the most important, as an example of hysteria over an imaginary illness having occurred before, the 2006 Dartmouth Hitchcock Whooping cough outbreak where the PCR was 0% accurate and there was NO whooping cough:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

”A Belgian married father-of-two has died by suicide after talking to an AI chatbot about his global warming fears.
The man, who was in his thirties, reportedly found comfort in talking to the AI chatbot named ‘Eliza’ about his worries for the world. He had used the bot for some years, but six weeks before his death started engaging with the bot more frequently.
The chatbot’s software was created by a US Silicon Valley start-up and is powered by GPT-J technology – an open-source alternative to Open-AI’s ChatGBT.
Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,’ the man’s widow told La Libre, speaking under the condition of anonymity.
The death has alerted authorities who have raised concern for a ‘serious precedent that must be taken very seriously’.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11920801/Married-father-kills-talking-AI-chatbot-six-weeks-climate-change-fears.html

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 years ago

It wasn’t difficult to see that they were going to try something in February and March of 2020 given the projection in terms of a complete collapse of markets. My first impresion that it was a sort of in-joke and we all knew the virus didn’t exist but we had to pretend it did. And of course given the dependence of political parties on real time metrics it became suddenly quite clear which instincts would be catered for. Now they aren’t stronger than they were before they are much weaker. And so it is good that they showed their true colours. They can’t win I see this time that we are living through as essentially a triumph.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 years ago

You shouldn’t perceive this as an expresion of energy that we have got out of our system. Apparently over forty percent of Brits hanker for the days of the lockdown. That is a pretty demoralised population. It is simply not possible to think that you can endure as a country with that level of despondency given the ruthlessness of reality. But you can’t breathe life into a corpse.

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