Millionaire eco-tycoon Dale Vince appeared to call Hamas “freedom fighters” last year and then waged a war of censorship against any media which reported his words. But the Guido Fawkes blog is standing up to him. The Telegraph has the story.
During an interview with Times Radio, in which he was asked whether a Hamas terrorist attack was Palestine defending itself, Vince said: “I think one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, right? That’s how it works.”
Angela Rayner, now Deputy Prime Minister, branded the comments “appalling”, while a slew of media outlets published reports suggesting the businessman had expressed support for the terrorist group.
Yet rather than backtrack, Vince has stood by his remarks and launched a wave of libel lawsuits against his detractors.
Now the tycoon is stepping up his assault as he seeks a court order that would effectively block access to the right-wing Guido Fawkes blog.
For Vince, who donated £5m to Labour in the run-up to the General Election, the campaign is the “most important piece of the puzzle” as he tries to clear his name. But the move has sparked accusations that Mr. Vince is using a tactic most commonly deployed in copyright cases in an effort to silence his critics.
Following widespread coverage of the comments, Vince went on the defensive.
Lawyers for the businessman filed a string of lawsuits, claiming the clip was used to imply that he was supporting Hamas’s actions, including “mass murder, kidnapping and rape”, during the October 7th attacks.
He has already successfully sued GB News and the Daily Mail for libel over their reporting as both outlets agreed to pay “substantial” damages and cover Vince’s legal costs.
In addition, Vince has started proceedings against Reform Chairman Richard Tice and Tory peer Shaun Bailey, while legal threats against a trio of current and former Conservative MPs triggered swift apologies.
Now, though, the former Just Stop Oil donor who switched his allegiances to Labour last year, has stepped up his campaign with a lawsuit against Paul Staines, the Editor of political blog Guido Fawkes.
Staines has long boasted that his Irish nationality and the fact his blog is hosted in the U.S. means he can ignore British court orders. However, the blogger has declared that on this occasion he will forgo any safe haven protection and defend the lawsuit head on.
In a blog post last week, he said: “We have no intention of apologising for reporting and commenting on his disgraceful equivocation. We’re going to make a stand and defend free speech and our reporting of the words he said.”
Staines also said he has given Vince the opportunity to “put on the record unambiguously that he does not think Hamas are freedom fighters”, but that he declined to do so.
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“If this were a normal drug, it would be taken off the market.”
Exactly this. And here is the reason why it never will be;
“Because the mRNA vaccines fall under the PREP Act definition of “emergency countermeasures,” their production is not subjected to the same testing and quality control regulations as licensed pharmaceutical products. Their production and deployment resemble that of military products during World War II.
The legal framework for this bonanza was established by the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness) of 2005. This authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deploy a wide array of “Emergency Countermeasures” in the event of an infectious disease outbreak. When invoked by the HHS Secretary, the PREP Act provides immunity for the “manufacture, testing, development, distribution, administration, and use of covered countermeasures.” On February 4, 2020, HHS Secretary Alex Azar declared COVID-19 an emergency and invoked the PREP Act.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/of-central-bankers-and-hhs-secretaries
Quality commentary such as this is worth a DS sub. by any measure.
Thanks Mogs.
Only a bit of fun Mogs. I know it’s over the top but the sentiment is genuine.
The hilarious dichotomy between Reps and Dems reg. its efficiency is a strong indication that we are basically just dispensing and dealing with a (toxic) placebo.
Worth noting that Republicans and Independents track reasonably well, it’s the Democrats that are the clear outliers.
Exactly. And one of the main reasons they will never take these death shots off the market is because now the floodgates have opened for other traditional vaccines to be changed over to an mRNA platform, as they can manufacture and get them to market way quicker, therefore proving to be more lucrative to Big Pharma. So if they removed the Covid jabs due to the major safety issues then this would be an admission that all future mRNA products are also unsafe. Sort of puts the kibosh on the whole thing really, especially the depopulation plan, which appears to be going swimmingly doesn’t it?
The mRNA system, now authorised is effectively a licence to kill.
007!
Government agencies are all-in on the mRNA clot shots, they wont change.
What is interesting is that here we have a major polling company openly admitting that they cannot publish the results of their own poll in full because they will face censorship. This is astonishing. The land of the free? Not so much.
“A 7% major side effect rate is unprecedented. We know from the V-safe data that this effectively means that the side-effect was so bad, they had to seek medical attention. If any drug had that kind of safety profile, it would be immediately pulled from the market. Would you take any drug with that kind of side-effect profile? Of course not. It’s off the charts! However, because we are told it is a safe and effective vaccine, people do what they are told despite the lack of safety. That’s how science works.” (My emphasis)
Note that the schools that did not properly teach logic and independent, critical thinking are also culpable in this shambles that has resulted in so many deaths and injuries. If they had, it would have been much harder for the corrupt drugs companies and their collaborators to pull this off.
Shocking, not shocked.
Many of use including myself, predicted this disaster. That is why we are unstabbinated.
41% minor and major injury. 150K dead in the US, I am guessing 50 K dead from the stabs in the UK.
Against what? 0.03% IFR….the same as the flu, average age of death 84. Not so with the stabbed dead and injured. Average age is in the 50s.
And yet Tards still want to play Rona. Diapers, more Quacksines, more LDs.
A friend’s husband (2 x AZ, 1 x Pfizer) had a major heart attack 3 weeks after the Pfizer booster and has now had another 5 months later 48 hours after having the ‘flu jab.
My friend says his brother is an NHS Consultant in A & E and they are seeing a lot of heart attack and myocarditis patients. So the NHS knows there is a serious problem ….. and they know why.
She has – finally – said they will not be having any more jabs.
“That’s how science works” is a bit pejorative, at least to those who actually have a proper understanding of the term. Something like “That’s how political abuse of science works”, or just “that’s how politics works” might be more accurate.
That said, there is no doubt that most products that had such bad results in reality would be withdrawn from the market, along with a serious risk of prosecution for many of those concerned.
This is poor science. The effectiveness and safety of vaccines can only be determined by Randomised Control Trials before they are approved. The trials were obviously inadequate and proved nothing. This is the message that needs to be repeated and those responsible need to he jailed. Because of the lockdowns and failure of health services it is difficult to determine what is causing the claimed increase in deaths and other issues. A survey of 1000 people is not reliable.
Agreed but surely it gives you a big red flag. Also when I did a Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) course admittedly many moons ago we were told anything over 30 is a large sample.
Wow, just lovely. If the jab commercials were honest: “May cause fever, chills, blood clot, stroke, heart attack, sudden death….and runny nose”