Most of us I expect, first found this site after yelling into the void, “Am I alone in thinking… the very ancient shouldn’t be isolated in nursing homes for their own safety… that masking children is malevolent” and so on. The gush of relief it wasn’t just me fearing that Whitty et al. were fouling everything up was immense. Alas that dread hollow of thinking differently from the majority has yet again engulfed me. And this time there seems to be no Toby Young or Peter Hitchens to calmly reassure I’m not alone.
Am I alone in thinking… it’s wrong that all children are now tracked?
See: silence. No intake of breath. No tutting. No muttering disapproval. No national debate. No phone in on LBC. No social media backlash led by J.K. Rowling. No podcasts with lovely Right-leaning mothers sounding the alarm. No reports by Big Brother Watch wittily entitled Big Mother Watch. Nothing.
All our children are tracked and no-one bats an eyelid.
It turns out everyone’s been doing it for years; I only noticed on Saturday. My 15 year-old son was at a party and the pick up was down some complicated farm track. I was the last parent owing to getting lost. On the way home I asked my son if any other parents were late. “No, they put a pin in where their child is.” Like some batty old Aunt I kept asking him how they knew where to go – I also had the address but the postcode didn’t correspond to the house. He sighed in exasperation, “They’re all tracked, so you see where the person is, put a pin in Google maps and drive.”
“Tracked? What do you mean? What for? The parents know where you are – they dropped you off? What? Tracked all the time? Why? How long has this been going on? But you’re all 16 – isn’t that creepy? Should I be tracking you and your brothers?”
“NO!” he finally said to shut me up, “I love being the only one who’s not tracked.”
On the fringes of the sceptic movement are those who worry about the implementation of a Chinese style social credit system, and even further away are those who suggest the next step in this top-down control will involve micro-chipping babies in the same way we do cats and dogs. As far as I can see this fresh vision of misery has already arrived: all children are tracked and have been for years, and it doesn’t concern anyone.
Perhaps I’ll be accused of neglect for not tracking my six-foot-two sons. What an odd thought. The eldest was in Sicily last week on a field trip. Imagine if I did track him and saw his little blob (I honestly have no idea what an avatar of a real-life person looks like on a tracking app) teetering on the edge of Mount Etna, or the sea, or in a bar. What would I do with that information: message him and tell him to get to safety quickly? Ignore or panic? All options seem pointless.
“But he might be dead,” suggests my husband helpfully.
“Well in that case he’ll be dead,” I snap, “And tracking him won’t help.”
“Or kidnapped then, or injured.”
“It hasn’t happened yet.”
“Michael Mosley,” my husband adds with due solemnity.
My questions are these: are children grateful for being tracked because it’s stopped them worrying about themselves dying, becoming injured or kidnapped? In which case, being tracked has solved millennia of panic, and we can all sing praises to the beneficent god of Life360 – though I’m not sure recent child mental health statistics back this up. Or am I alone in thinking that it is morally outrageous and socially damaging to track children. What about freedom? Adventure? Exploration? Independence? Growing up? Not tracking human beings?
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What’s really happening?
‘Russian reporter Vladislav Ugolny says Russian soldiers are stuck on the islands of the Dnipro river delta as the water froze, and travelling by boats became nearly impossible.
To quote my friend…….’there is no option other than to wait…….there’s no food…..everyone there will have to be sent immediately to the hospital for treatment.’
So there it is….’
Also:
‘On Sunday night, Ukrainian air defences shot down one of the Russian air force’s very rare, and very valuable, A-50 radar early-warning planes, likely killing all 15 people aboard—potentially including high-ranking officers. A Russian Ilyushin Il-22 command plane was damaged in the same attack.
Down one A-50, the Russian air force may have just two of the jets left; the other six A-50s reportedly are in need of upgrade and overhaul. Unless the air force is willing to risk the last two flyable A-50s, it must make peace with its new inability to provide radar coverage over all of Crimea.’
Still bleating your pro Ukraine b0££0ck$. It’s not our war. Leave it to terminally corrupt Biden and War mongering NATO.
It is not our war…..yet……
Belarus is already part of the new ‘Union State’, Ukraine next, then Moldova.
That gives the ‘Union State’ a frontier from Kaliningrad to the Black Sea, encircling the Baltic States.
Then it becomes our war….
Maybe better to do something now?
Who to believe, every Western government with a Russian border or some random punter on the interweb……
Tricky……or not really.
Not our war ever but we are paying for it anyway. Who to believe, concerned UK taxpayer or war mongering Zelensky fan boy. No, not tricky at all
The lack of a definite or indefinite article, as usual, gives the game away.
‘1. The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine……..
4. The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression…..’
It has been our war since 2014. You just didn’t notice.
What game, it’s not a game and you are delusional. It’s not our war, never was our war and never will be our war. It is however disgraced ex prime minister Boris Johnson’s vanity war, he needed one to bolster his Churchill credentials and which he deliberately prolonged and which for some reason current prime minister without mandate Sunak wishes to continue. If you want war go ahead, fill your boots, but not with my taxes.
English is clearly not your first language.
I very much doubt that you pay any tax in Britain, if any at all anywhere.
You don’t sound as though you are old enough.
You’re an idiot, you can’t respond to my comment so you resort to accusing me of being a Russian troll. I was teaching English when the best part of you was trickling down your mommy’s thigh.
Having your mum help you with your comments is not really working for you, is it? Presumably your dad was also Salvador Dali.
Intemperate language invariably indicates a fool and a poseur who has lost the argument and, indeed, the plot.
Not working for me? I’ll be the judge of that. As for your bizarre non-sequitur, is that all you’ve got? As I said, fan boy, you go ahead and start all the wars you like, just not with my money.
Yes European countries have been having a fertility crisis for years now, with native births falling below replacement level, so the Leftards’ answer to this is to make up the numbers ( thereby replacing us natives slowly but surely ) using limitless immigration instead. Because actually finding out the reasons why young people aren’t having babies, or are stopping at just one kid, and then doing something about it, is just way too reasonable and too much like hard work. If you voice concerns about the continuing demographic changes though, you will be the target of the predictable ”Nazi”, ”racist” and ”xenophobe” slurs, just as this Belgian MEP has found out;
”Once conservative MEP Tom Vandendriessche exposed the globalist migration scheme, threats of a parliamentary investigation were launched, accompanied by smears and false accusations, including likening his words to Nazi terminology, as globalists sought to silence any opposition to their agenda.
The European Parliament, dominated by radical left-wing politicians, has initiated an investigation targeting Tom Vandendriessche, a member of the Flemish conservative Vlaams Belang party. Vandendriessche has fearlessly exposed the European Union’s calculated agenda of ‘organized replacement’ through its migration policies.
In his powerful Parliamentary speech, Vandendriessche emphasized that the EU’s migration pact falsely claims to tackle illegal migration. He stated, ‘With the EU migration pact, they claim to address illegal migration. This is an absolute lie. There is no upper limit on the number of asylum seekers, and there is no mechanism to deport fraudulent asylum seekers. Therefore, the asylum chaos will continue.’
Vandendriessche went on to reveal the underlying purpose of the EU migration pact, citing a statement from controversial European Commissioner Ylva Johansson. She openly admitted, ‘There are too few European births, and she aims to replace them by importing 4.5 million non-Europeans annually. This represents a deliberate and organized replacement strategy.’”
https://rairfoundation.com/great-replacement-belgian-mep-stuns-parliament-exposes-their/
So glad to see that the good old Coudenhove Kalergi plan for a Europe of Mongs is going so well .
And who says a gently declining population is a bad thing? A rapidly rising one has not turned out too well for living statndards, has it.
Mogs the immigrant invasion of Europe has been planned for and current national governments are complicit in enabling this. The aim is the destruction of Europe and Western nations.
Low birth rates are simply a symptom. Why would young people want to bring children into this world while their societies are collapsing on a daily basis?
Deliberate destruction.
Is this the same Mogwai who called me a ‘Nazi’ and ‘Gestapo agent’ last week? Sauce for the goose……….
What’s ”sauce for the goose” got to do with anything? I called you those names because 1) you were sneaking around, covertly tampering with my posts for reasons unknown, not even bothering to leave any explanation, and 2) I was wanting to check you were reading what I posted. Which you were, and obviously still are.
Tell me, is there anyone else on your ”Naughty List” or am I ‘the chosen one’? When does my probation end?? Do you get a ”red alert” notification straight to DS Mod HQ whenever I post anything? Bizarro..
More on this ongoing issue of immigration and the significant impact family reunification has on demographics. And the fact the Leftards continue to dismiss anyone speaking out about this as ”racist” or that the ‘Great Replacement’ is just mere far-right conspiracy theory, when there are many sources of data to back this up, is just farcical;
”1976 is the year of the “family reunion” in France of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the architect of the institutional construction of the European Union. Giscard d’Estaing had recently expressed regret over the reunion. “The idea of bringing in immigrant families seemed natural at the time. With the massive increase in immigration from Muslim countries, it has instead produced deep divisions in French society.”
It starts with the wife and children, then come the wife’s parents, the other children of the wife’s parents and their children. And so on, in a demographic chain that has become repopulation.
A number? Christopher Caldwell provides it in the latest Compact: “By the middle of the century, a fifth of France will be Islamic.”
Caldwell in an essay for the Claremont Review talks about another country that is generous with family reunification, Sweden:
“The Pew Research Center has predicted that, by 2050, if it receives a moderate amount of immigration, Sweden will be 20 percent Muslim. If it receives high immigration, it will be 30 percent Muslim.”
Family reunification of migrants in Germany will reach a new record this year.
The former Belgian senator Alain Destexhe talks about the “avalanche effect of family reunification” in Le Figaro. “In Belgium, 50 percent of immigration is linked to family reunification. This type of immigration is, by definition, exponential and, literally, infinite, through the recognition of refugees, fake or gray marriages, the endogamous character of most Turkish and Moroccan marriages, massive fraud, etc. The almost mechanical consequences of family reunification on demography are never explained.”
37.3 percent of Belgian citizens have an immigrant background. In Brussels this percentage is already 82.5 percent, in Antwerp 62 and in Ghent 41, reveals sociologist Jan Hertogen. “Without immigration, Brussels would only have 250,000 inhabitants, Antwerp half of those it has today.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383744
Chain migration, the gift that never stops giving !The problem is in what its called .To a westerner “Family” , is normally Western Nuclear ie mom Dad Children , not extended family including 3rd cousins and uncles etc Any famly reunion should be limited to children only and 2 maximum so we dont get families with 15 kids arriving to suck on the welfare teat for life…
Indeed and now the US and the Western press are giving cover for genocide.
This will be the end of the old global order with the US globally vilified much like the Nazis.
““New WEF participant does the unthinkable at 2024 Davos meeting””. Whereas Javier Milei actually did indirectly in a much longer and more nuanced manner.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Pfcd0gWNIog?feature=shared
“Escort services ‘completely booked’ as WEF begins”
I hope those escort agencies have good ESG ratings and meet the required DEI requirements….
Beware a sudden global emegence of monkeypox !!!
The clientele wouldn’t be seen with a counterfeit Rolex so it seems safe to assume these will be real women.
Yes but they are the ones promoting the Alphabet agenda so I am not so certain lol
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