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News Round-Up

by Will Jones
1 December 2024 12:29 AM

  • “Syrian rebels capture majority of Aleppo as Russia’s forces abandon bases” – Syria’s rebels seized most of Aleppo on Saturday as their sweeping advance ousted Russian forces from at least three military bases around the city, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Is this finally the end for Bashar al-Assad?” – Jihadist-led rebels have seized Aleppo airport and dozens of nearby towns on Saturday after overrunning most of Aleppo, reports the Mail.
  • “Whether Assad fights or flees from Syria, this is bad news for us all” – In the Mail, Mark Almond is deeply concerned about developments in Syria.
  • “Jewish children left ‘terrified’ as thugs pelt their London school bus with rocks before storming it and yelling ‘f*** Israel’ while frightened pupils cowered behind seats” – Jewish children at Jewish Free School in Kenton, north London, were left cowering after teenage thugs pelted their London bus with rocks and rubbish, before storming onto the vehicle and yelling “f*** Israel”, as police confirmed they are investigating a “potential hate crime”, reports the Mail. 
  • “Antisemitism at the BBC now ‘normal’ after October 7th, whistleblower claims” – A whistleblower has said antisemitism at the BBC has become “normalised” and accused the broadcaster of failing to take seriously repeated claims of antisemitic behaviour and attitudes within the organisation, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Tories willingly flung the borders wide open” – In the Mail, Dan Hodges responds to the revelation that the Tories did not ‘lose control’ of the border after Brexit but deliberately threw it open.
  • “Prepare for the National Suicide Service” – In the Spectator, Jane Stannus writes from Canada about where the U.K. is now headed, with ads promoting suicide a new normal.
  • “This is a truly dark day for our nation” – Our political class has just sanctioned death for the ‘worthless’, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “The Chagos Islands betrayal shames Britain. Here’s how we stop it” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan suggests that by pressing Starmer to consult the Chagossians on the give-away of their islands it might be stopped.
  • “Britain ‘was warned of Russian meddling in Chagos deal’” – Britain was warned of Russian attempts to encourage Mauritian claims to the Chagos Islands but chose to disregard it, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Can Bhattacharya rescue the reputation of the scientific establishment?” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s nomination may turn out to be the most important of all, says Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner.
  • “Trump more popular than Starmer with British voters” – Donald Trump is more popular in Britain than Sir Keir Starmer, polling for the Telegraph has shown.
  • “The Kamala campaign is in total denial” – Harris’s staffers are blaming the voters, the media and bad luck for their bruising defeat to Donald Trump, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
  • “Britain is about to miss out on an energy revolution” – Trump’s stress on boosting energy supply stands in stark contrast to Britain’s approach, and the results will too, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
  • “Miliband’s green energy plans only ‘artificially’ cheaper than nuclear or gas” – Ed Miliband’s plans for green energy are based on assumptions that make them appear “artificially cheaper” than nuclear or gas, according to critics, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Whitehall civil servants hold ’emotional check-ins’ before meetings” – A former senior civil servant has lifted the lid on a culture of lengthy “emotional check-ins” before Cabinet Office meetings, raising concerns that HR departments may be harming the economy, says the Mail.
  • “Navratilova condemns New York Times for calling female athletes ‘non-transgender women’” – Martina Navratilova has criticised the New York Times for describing biological females as “non-transgender women”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “I admire the women’s volleyball players boycotting my team because of our trans player” – Brooke Slusser tells the Telegraph that she and her teammates feel let down by their university over allowing the male player Blaire Fleming to participate in their sport.
  • “Historic England under fire for funding queer history trail” – Historic England has come under fire after announcing it will fund a walk to highlight the “queer” history of a Norfolk town, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Britain already has an ‘Islamophobia law’ – we’re just too scared to admit it” – Keir Starmer has no need to crack down on blasphemy when ‘community leaders’ are already doing the job for him, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “Watch Dominic Cummings – Government is Fake” – On X, “Ban the BBC” posts a clip of Boris Johnson’s one-time Chief Adviser Dominic Cummings explaining how little power politicians really have compared to unelected officials: “Cabinet is stage theatre.”

🚨 WATCH DOMINIC CUMMINGS – Government is FAKE – Cummings blows the whistle on the elected politician / civil service charade:

"Fake meritocracy, fake responsibility and a fake government"
"Cabinet is a stage theatre"
"Both sides are happy with the fake version of government" pic.twitter.com/pgYiU1lXqK

— banthebbc 𝕏 (@banthebbc) November 30, 2024

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Lurker
Lurker
11 months ago

So as the dominos continue to slowly fall and vaccine compensation and ongoing treatment bills rise who’s going to be the first to revoke the indemnity given to these companies?

Starmer has an open goal as he could say that he was only supportive based on the (limited) information the Tories were passing on.

Also if depopulation is the long term agenda what better way of achieving it than bankrupting major drug producers by passing on these bills

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

There appears to be a red arrow troll on this site.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

I believe Starmer, with the WHO and Blair far up his b******* would instigate harsher lockdowns and “vaccine” mandates at the drop of a hat come the next “pandemic” of fear.

Bankrupting, although I prefer the word liquidating, all of bigpharma would imho, actually benefit the whole of mankind – especially the so called civilised west.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
11 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

I believe that too. The whole system is broken and corrupted and the so called ‘regulators’ like MHSA need to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  Valerie_London

How about shut down and not rebuilt?

100% of all government and its agencies are influenced and corrupted for the benefit of an interest group. Every single one Without exception.

The fewer of them we have the better.

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Lurker
Lurker
11 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

I’m sure he would…

However the “political” decision here and now is to revoke it and blame it on the Tories…

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Agreed, and so would the Raven Pub Landlord in Bath. Starmer showed unwilling to listen to his concerns despite just citing official CFRs.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

I suspect Starmer and his hench women were as fully informed as Ministers.

Last edited 11 months ago by EppingBlogger
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I agree. Given that they all shit in the same pot it is unreasonable to believe otherwise.

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RTSC
RTSC
10 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Of course they were. The Leader of the Opposition is briefed on any significant risk.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Lurker

“…if depopulation is the long term agenda what better way of achieving it than bankrupting major drug producers by passing on these bills.”

Which implies that drug producers provide major health benefits to society. As far as I am concerned we are now at the point where the jury is out on that point.

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
11 months ago

So all of us who were branded anti vaccers (i spell it that way) and conspiracy theorists were right all along. A common theme.

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D J
D J
11 months ago

Covid 19 and the response to it is the most important event to happen in the world in the last decade,and politicians are almost entirely silent about it during a general election campaign.
Andrew Bridgen has been a lonely and brave voice in Parliament. His reward was expulsion from the Conservative Party. He deserves our support as an independent in North West Leicestershire.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
11 months ago
Reply to  D J

It seems difficult but hopefully not impossible for independents like him to win seats, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  Valerie_London

With reference to my reply to D J, if Bridgen can take his seat as an independent it will be a heartening sign that things are going to get better for us. And if he loses it to some Labour or Conservative cut out, then it’ll be a bad sign.

One to watch for sure.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

If Andrew Bridgen loses his seat it will be confirmation of massive vote rigging. It does happen and only idiots believe otherwise.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Good two hour interview with AB. Resistance GB. Interesting when he talks about losing his properties to HS2 and the scam that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidSG5nMkW8

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Thanks Ron. Yes a good interview, so good in fact that I watched it end to end in one sitting.

Confirmation if any were needed of the appalling level of corruption in which this country is mired.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  D J

Last decade?

Let’s see what the legacy of it is, but to me it’s looking like the most important event to happen in the world since WWII, whichever way things go.

It either marks the end of liberal democracy and the beginning of a global totalitarian era or it’s a moment of awakening that propels us to a more advanced state of freedom and self governance.

Impossible to see at this stage which way it’s going. But what you can be sure of is that things are not going to settle back into what they were before covid. That’s for sure.

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JohnK
JohnK
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Quite likely true, although it might depend on where one is – e.g. across the pond they would (perhaps) take into account Vietnam. That said, re Bridgen, the only other MP that achieved an independent in such circumstances was Martin Bell, in Knutsford, who won in 1997 – the rest of that year’s election is obviously well known.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago

Regulators aren’t there to protect the public. They are there to promote the interests of the industry they are regulating.

And you know what, I don’t want the government to protect me. Whenever it pretends to do so, it usually does the exact opposite.

Thanks but I can protect myself.

The free market generally does a perfectly good job of weeding out bullshit products and services and making the good ones thrive. And the beauty of a free market that is allowed to function normally is that it cannot be manipulated by a company.

We don’t need any regulators. We just need the free market to be left to function properly.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

The sewage & water systems need regulation, or more competition. They are in a real state in some places and have seen sewage in fields myself.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
11 months ago

For Pfizer any settlement will take years and will simply be accounted for as a cost of doing business. They made $100bn in a year from the clot shot so even a $1-2bn settlement (dragged out for a decade) probably won’t unduly worry them. Only serious jail time for senior execs will make them think twice next time

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Absolutely true.

But a court decision against them would be very useful for arguing against the whole covd response and in general for the future.

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago

Civil suits to follow against politicians and bureaucrats?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  JXB

That won’t be allowed. The whole charade would collapse.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
10 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

If we choose, and pay, there is no way to legally stop it. However “they” would find ways to make it impossibly expensive.

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johnbuk
johnbuk
10 months ago

I would suggest there may be enough evidence for a criminal case against the Directors. After all they would have “signed off” the corporate stance on these issues knowing full well they were not being truthful.

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RTSC
RTSC
10 months ago

“Regulators and public health bodies are no longer protectors; increasingly, they are the enemies of patient safety.”

Yes. And they seem to be proud of that fact. June Raine, head of the MHRA and supposed to protect the public from dangerous medical products, boasted that the so-called Regulator was now an ENABLER for Big Pharma.

“In Dr Raine’s words, this is how she deliberately set out to transform the MHRA’s role (my bold): ‘We tore up the rule book, and we allowed companies to immediately start juxtaposing not sequential phases of clinical trials, but overlapping, beginning the next one before the previous had been finished. And that large-scale manufacture being prepared, at risk. We did not know if any of these vaccines would be effective.

She should be charged with Malfeasance in Public Office.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-doctor-who-turned-her-health-watchdog-into-a-covid-vaccine-lapdog/

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-mhra-the-watchdog-covering-up-the-truth-about-vaccine-deaths-and-injuries/

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