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Let’s Apply Covid Scepticism to Climate Change

by Ramesh Thakur
9 June 2022 11:26 AM

Carl Bildt, the former Swedish Prime Minister, wrote recently, “The pandemic offers important lessons for managing future challenges, particularly climate change” which “warrants urgent attention”’. There are at least eight common elements linking the two agendas.

When the world’s top leaders met at the G7 summit in Cornwall last year, they copped a lot of merited criticism for hypocrisy. They social distanced and masked up for photo-ops but hobnobbed in close proximity sans masks in partylike atmosphere in private: one law for me, a member of the entitled elite, and another law for thee of the deplorable plebs. Last week the party-gate scandal continued to dog Boris Johnson. The upsetting aspect of this was not the trivial details of partying after work with colleagues. Rather, it is proof that the very people who wrote draconian rules and gave the police full licence to indulge their inner bully in a brutal crackdown that brooked no excuse, even for the most absurd, unhealthy, cruel and heartless rules, knew the rules to be nonsense. The photos of Johnson and aides partying are politically toxic because of the searing images of a masked Queen sitting alone at her husband’s funeral. Similarly, in the U.S. any number of photos show former president Barack Obama, California Governor Gavin Newsom and progressives’ darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez living it up on glittering occasions sans mask while the serving staff had to be masked.

There was a second example of hypocrisy from a British politician last week. Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees was the U.K.’s first city mayor to declare a climate crisis. On May 28th the BBC reported he had flown over 7,000km each way for nine hours to Vancouver to deliver a 14-minute TED talk calling for urgent climate action, creating over 2,000kg of CO2. This followed reports from Davos of large numbers of captains of industry and Hollywood glitterati arriving by private jets to lecture the rest of us on the climate emergency. At the UN climate talkfest in Glasgow last year, they could not accommodate all the private jets at one airport. Not to forget footage of Joe Biden’s gas-guzzling planes and limousines in Europe last year.

There are multiple examples of the disconnect between what the ‘progressive’ elites preach and practise. Harry and Meghan have been widely mocked for jetting around the world to warn people about global warming. When Harry traveled to Sicily in July 2019 for an A-list climate gathering organised by Google, he was among 114 delegates who put on a “hypocritical display of mega yachts, private jets and conspicuous consumption while billions live in energy poverty”, Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney tweeted. Swedish child-prophet Greta Thunberg’s highly publicised sea voyage to New York from Europe in 2019 raised questions on the carbon footprint in the construction of the “zero-carbon” carbon-fibre racing yacht. Some members of her sailing crew returned to Europe by plane, while others flew across the Atlantic to sail the vessel back.

A second common element between Covid and climate change is the mismatch between models that inform policy and data that contradict the models. Professor Neil Ferguson’s long track record of abysmally wrong catastrophist predictions on infectious diseases is if anything exceeded by the failures of climate change alarmist predictions. Atmospheric scientists and former IPCC members Richard McNider and John Christy note that climate modelling forecasts have “always overstated the degree to which the Earth is warming compared with what we see in the real climate”. One of the real signals of possibly CO2-induced warming is in the deep atmosphere at 75,000 feet. Satellite data had shown only one-third the warming (0.7°C) predicted by climate models.

Calls for urgent climate action based on the language of edging towards ‘tipping points’ have been made over many years. In 1982, UNEP Executive Director Mostafa Tolba warned of an irreversible environmental catastrophe by 2000 without immediate urgent action. This was repeated by another senior UNEP official in 1989. In 2004, a Pentagon report warned that by 2020, major European cities would be submerged by rising seas, Britain would be facing a Siberian climate and the world would be caught up in mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting. In 2007, IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri declared, “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late”. He added ahead of the Bali climate meeting, “This is the defining moment”. In 2009, NASA scientist Jim Hansen said President Barack Obama had only four years (i.e., his first term) to save the world from climate catastrophe. In Montana, the Glacier National Park installed “Goodbye to the glaciers” plaques, warning, “Computer models indicate the glaciers will all be gone by the year 2020”. Come 2020, all 29 glaciers were still there but the signs were gone, taken down by embarrassed park authorities. It’s hard to overstate the damage such failed predictions have caused to the climate change narrative. Used as a tactic to grab policymakers’ attention, over time it gets trapped in the crying wolf syndrome. In January 2019, Ocasio-Cortez warned the world will end in twelve years if we fail to address climate change. Don’t be surprised if around 2030, the point of no return is stretched out a bit farther once again.

The frequency of natural disasters has increased steeply since 1900, but the death tolls have plummeted dramatically, especially from floods and droughts and as a proportion of the total population. The deadly natural disasters in more recent times have been earthquakes and tsunamis that are unrelated to global warming. Around four million people (about 13% of the population) died in the great Ukrainian famine of 1932–33. The primary blame for it rests with Stalin’s policies. Mao’s farming policies contributed to the great China famine that killed tens of millions in 1959–61. Today China and Russia are among the biggest polluters and, like putting healthy populations under mass house arrest as a weird but futile policy to protect vulnerable elderly people from Covid, pressure on the little guys on the global warming block may make us feel good but will fail to do good for the climate.

Third, an important reason for both Covid and climate catastrophism is to spread fear and panic in the population as a means to spur drastic political action. Both agendas have been astonishingly successful. Polls have consistently shown the hugely exaggerated beliefs about the scale of the Covid threat. On climate change, the gap between the stringent actions required, the commitments made and the actual record thus far is used to create panic. The notion that we are already doomed promotes a culture of hopelessness and despair perhaps best epitomised in recent times by Thunberg’s cry of “How dare you” steal my dreams and childhood with empty words.

In addition to hypocrisy, model-data mismatch and fear-porn, a fourth common theme in Covid and climate change policies is the invocation of The Science. For the appeal to scientific authority to work better, scientific consensus is very helpful. Yet, driven by intellectual curiosity, questioning existing knowledge is the essence of the scientific enterprise. For the claim to scientific consensus to be accepted, therefore, supporting evidence must be exaggerated, contrary evidence discredited, sceptical voices stilled and dissenters ridiculed and marginalised.

Climate systems are complex owing to non-linear equations and dynamic linkages among multiple sub-systems like the atmosphere, land surface, oceans, glaciers, permafrost, solar variability, volcanic eruptions, cycles of planetary orbital variations, etc. The fabled 97% scientific consensus was in relation to the simple and trivial proposition that “the earth is warming due to human activity”. That doesn’t tell us how dominant human activity is as a cause of global warming relative to natural variability over long time cycles; the rise in temperature that will mark a point of no return for the stability of the Earth’s environment; and ‘tipping points’ that will push the ecosystem into a self-exacerbating cycle of rapid collapse. Gradually The Science was captured by climate activists who acted as gatekeepers to restrict entry to climate science departments to the faithful and used peer review to reject contrarian articles. By this means the claim of ‘consensus’ became self-validating.

This has proven harder with Covid, not least because the policy interventions defied settled science. We now know that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, from their perches atop the infectious diseases research funding agencies, orchestrated the takedown of the Great Barrington Declaration and smeared its three credentialled authors from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford universities as “fringe” epidemiologists. Yet, as of last week, the Declaration had been signed by 930,000 people worldwide, including 63,000 medical practitioners and public health scientists. In addition, there is now a flood of articles being published that show the lack of demonstrable public health outcomes from lockdowns against measurable collateral health, mental health, educational, social and economic damage; and the inefficacy of other measures like masks and vaccines alongside possible long-term harms from them as well. This has produced a palpable lessening of confidence in the authority of scientific experts across the board.

A fifth shared element is the enormous expansion of powers for the nanny state that bosses citizens and businesses because governments know best and can pick winners and losers. The beneficial effects of interventions are exaggerated, optimistic forecasts made and potential costs and downsides discounted. In both agendas, policy interventions have over-promised and under-delivered. For how many years have we been promised that renewables are getting less expensive, energy will get cheaper and more plentiful, yet increased subsidies are needed for just a few more years? Just like lockdowns were supposedly required for only two or three weeks to flatten the curve and vaccines would help us return to pre-Covid normality without being mandatory. Moreover, in both cases growing state control over private activities is justified by being framed as minor inconveniences in the moral crusade to save the world and save granny.

Sixth, the moral framing has also been used to discount massive economic self-harm. The world has never been healthier, wealthier, better educated and more connected. Energy intensity played a critical role in driving agricultural and industrial production that underpins the health infrastructure and living standards for large numbers of people worldwide. High-income countries enjoy incomparably better health standards and outcomes because of their national wealth. Alongside cancelled screenings and delayed treatments of other serious conditions, substantial and lasting economic damage caused by savage lockdowns to businesses and the long-term consequences of a massive printing of money, is therefore tantamount to collective public health self-harm.

Seventh, in both Covid and climate change, government policies have served to greatly widen economic inequalities within and among nations with fat profits for Big Pharma and rent-seeking renewable industries. In a biting but accurate comment, Sarojini Naidu said it required a lot of money to keep Gandhi in the style of poverty he demanded. Similarly, a lot of money is required to support Covid and climate policy magical thinking where governments can solve all problems by throwing more money that must neither be earned nor repaid. Lockdowns led to the rise of the laptop class that could work from home because the working classes kept essential services like food distribution and garbage collection going. ‘Teal’ MPs perfectly encapsulate the triumph of luxury politics where the costs of the rich suffused in the golden glow of virtue are borne mostly by the poor.

For post-industrial societies, climate action will require cutbacks to living standards as power prices go up, reliability comes down and jobs are lost. Poor countries will have to scale back ambitions to climb out of poverty. Should China, the world’s biggest emitter today, apologise for achieving the fastest poverty reduction rate for the biggest number of people in history? Should a billion more Chinese, Indians and others have stayed poor and destitute over the last four decades, so Westerners could feel virtuous?

Attempts to assess the balance of costs and benefits of Covid and climate policies are shouted down as immoral and evil, putting dollars before lives. But neither health nor climate policy can dictate economic, development, energy and other policies. All governments work to balance multiple competing policy priorities. What is the sweet spot that ensures reliable, affordable and clean energy security without big job losses? The ideological exclusion of nuclear in many countries including Australia helps the push for renewables just like the rejection of cheap repurposed pills helps the vaccine push. Or the sweet spot of affordable, accessible and efficient public health delivery that does not compromise the nation’s ability to educate its young, look after the elderly and vulnerable and ensure decent jobs and life opportunities for families?

The final common element is the subordination of state-based decision-making to international technocrats. This is best exemplified in the proliferation of the global climate change bureaucracies and the promise (or threat?) of a new global pandemic treaty whose custodian will be a more powerful World Health Organisation. Despite some resistance from Africa and some other countries, including China and Russia, the push for the treaty is well underway.

Ramesh Thakur is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy and a former UN Assistant Secretary-General. This article originally appeared in Spectator Australia and is reproduced by kind permission.

Tags: Climate AlarmismClimate ModelsCOVID-19LockdownsModellingPropagandaThe Science

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago

Haven’t civil service payouts always been an issue (except for civil servants)? Is this supposed to distract from the PPE VIP lane stories or influence civil service behaviour?

If there’s a desire to reduce spending, ending military support for the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel might be a good starting point.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

What would be the likely outcome of the U.S. and Britain ending support for Ukraine and Israel?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Who cares?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

You will do when you are sitting, shivering with fear, in one of these:

https://www.bunkershield.co.uk/

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Expensive family-size coffin which you won’t get to use if you happen to go shopping on the wrong day.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Doesn’t bother me! I’ll go out with a bang, not frightened of death because I’ve lived life! I witnessed death many times it’s nothing to be afraid of!

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Have you been under threat of CBRN armed ballistic missile attack when the sirens go off?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Yes, most of my childhood was spent being terrified of nuclear war! Now I’m really not wasting anymore time fretting about it!

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

If you don’t want to fight in Western Europe you should care.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

We may well need to fight in Western Europe but its not likely to be against the Russians.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Who are you suggesting, then?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Why? Do you think fighting in western Europe will have any effect this time?
None! If it happens it will happen, Bang!

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Israel unlikely, Ukraine possibly for the US and UK although for the UK government, getting them all killed first is likely preferential to losing face after all the encouragement to keep going.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

If Russia prevails over Ukraine they will soon go after another of their neighbours.

if Hamas etc stop fighting there will be peace but if Israel stops fighting there will be no Israel.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Why would Russia go after neighbours unless NATO makes it a necessity?

Why would they want the burden of controlling hostile populations along with all the migrants and the radical LGBTQ+ community?

If the Russian regime really wants to destroy the West, they can do nothing. Contrary to that, they have been warning of the degradation in the West for years.

They’ve already been through the Communism-thing and it didn’t work out but if at first you don’t succeed, go West and try again.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

That’s funny because, during a 28 November 2023 speech at the World Russian People’s Council, Putin defined the concept of the “Russian World” (Russkiy Mir) as “all other peoples who have lived and are living in [Russia],” geographically defined as what belonged to Ancient Rus (Kyivan Rus), the Kingdom of Muscovy, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the contemporary Russian Federation, which suggests that Putin was broadly including parts of eastern European states such as Poland and Romania in this conception of the Russian World.

Probably includes the Baltic States as well, maybe even bits of Finland where Putin has also said that he foresees ‘problems’

No doubt, if you lived in any of those countries you would be unlikely to have so much confidence in Putin, his ‘little green men’ and their future designs……

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Interesting one about the dreadful Ms Blanc and how white men are viewed in society;

”While it may once have been scandalous for employers to exclude white men from their recruitment process, fast forward to 2023 and most hiring panels appear to have decided it’s riskier to include them. Infuriated by the failure of equality to produce equal outcomes, our liberal culture demands a bogeyman, and in the straight, white male, it found the pantomime villain of its dreams. Whatever your grievance, the patriarchy will shoulder the blame because any alternative culprit is simply too ‘offensive’ to countenance—no matter how well the facts support their claim. 

Consider ‘misogyny’ for instance. I use inverted commas, because I’m not referring to genuinely abhorrent acts directed towards women (wife-beating, FGM, rape). I mean the range of behaviour that charlatan politicians feel comfortable speaking out about: juvenile banter. Irrespective of their political hue, awareness campaigns in Britain are now guaranteed to feature a white, working-class thug harassing women; a neanderthal, thankfully chastised and kept in check by a range of more enlightened non-white males. It ought to raise suspicion that everyone from Sadiq Khan to the Home Office is singing from the same hymn sheet on this. In fact, if Netflix ever releases a documentary on the grooming gang scandal across the northern towns of England, the likelihood of the perpetrators being played by white actors is a pretty safe bet.”

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/using-sexism-racism-to-improve-diversity/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Speaking of white men, try and spot one in this short clip. I think this is France but if other countries did their own compilation would you see the same thing? Do advertisers hate white males? It’s bizarre when viewed like this;

https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1736840292970516678

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
  • ““Civil servants were paid £150 million in ‘golden goodbyes’ last year” – Figures reveal that a ‘golden goodbye’ of nearly £400,000 was among more than £150 million-worth of exit packages lavished on civil servants in 2022, according to the Mail.”

Bet they all retired early. Public sector now just troughing

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Maybe TPA will get a copy of the rules on this

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
  • ““Esther McVey has a tough task bringing back common sense – it’s been made redundant” – Esther McVey must tackle the waste and wokery plaguing the public sector from the ground up, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.”

Make them fund their own pensions for starters,

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Well this is big, and I hope also for a positive outcome. There are still loads of hostages in Gaza and those kids being held captive need to be returned as a priority. The ball lies in Hamas’ court now;

”Israel is offering to pause the fighting in Gaza for at least one week as part of a new deal to get Hamas to release more than three dozen hostages the terror group is holding, two Israeli officials and another source with knowledge of the situation told Axios.

Barnea presented an Israeli proposal for how to relaunch talks on a new deal to secure the release of a group of roughly 40 hostages, Israeli officials say.

  • The group would include the remaining women Hamas is holding, men above the age of 60 and other hostages who are sick or seriously wounded and in need of urgent medical care.
  • As part of the proposal Israel said it would agree for a temporary ceasefire of a least one week, Israeli officials say. In the previous deal, Israel agreed to a one-week pause of its attacks in Gaza in return for 80 hostages.
  • Israel also suggested it might release Palestinian prisoners who were convicted of more serious attacks on Israel than those who were released in the previous deal. Israeli officials say there are dozens of such Palestinan prisoners who are old or sick, and who could be released as part of a humanitarian deal.

During the meeting in Warsaw, the Qatari prime minister conveyed Hamas’ position that Israel had to stop its attacks before any hostage negotiations could begin, the Israeli officials and the source with knowledge of the talks said.

  • Barnea replied that if Hamas wants the war to stop it needs to lay down its arms and turn in its leaders in Gaza who were responsible for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war.”

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/israel-offer-hamas-pause-fighting-hostages

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Ahuh. And what does one do with Israeli intelligence, military and political leaders that wilfully allowed Israel’s 9-11 to happen? Or the active assistance and funding of Hamas in order to prevent a 2 state solution?


You might want to start with the right premise on what happened that day.

https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/watch-israeli-government-propagandist

“The ensuing stammering by the propagandist did no favors to the Israeli position.
“It’s been two months, Tal. A lot of us have been asking this question repeatedly: how it’s possible that so many hours passed before this attack was contained,” Mika asks.
Specifically, it has been widely reported that roughly 7-8 hours (!) passed from the inaugural onslaught until the world-class Israeli military arrived on the scene in a country the size of New Jersey. Make that make sense assuming the national security apparatus was acting in good faith.
“This is a good question,” the propagandist starts. “And we are also asking it… we will share these answers when the time will come.”

Historically, this has been the line from the Bibi regime that has mostly gone unchallenged in the Western corporate media — although, notably not among the outraged Israeli populace itself.
(All of this “we need time to investigate” is merely code for “give us more time to figure out how to lie to you effectively, or else put it off until the news cycle is engulfed by the next crisis and moves on.”)
“But there has to be some immediate answer… It’s beyond a major failure,” Mika presses. “Physically to get to these victims and to this attack could’ve been minutes and it was hours.”
The propagandist stumbles through her tired talking points once more, which doesn’t deter Mika.
“That’s not an explanation,” Mika interjects at the end of the propagandist’s filibuster.
The whole exchange is worth a watch.

In her defense — to the extent government liars deserve any defense — the propagandist can’t come up with any kind of intelligible answer because it’s transparent as the waters of a crystalline Thai beach that there is no answer aside from that the intelligence services and military let it happen, which she is not permitted to admit on American television for obvious reasons.
Another interesting, and related, question is: why has the MSNBC dog Mika been unleashed by her masters on the Netanyahu government? This is a decidedly brand-new development.

The reason the press is being allowed to be critical of Israel as the slaughters continue is likely a combination of the damage to the democratic election hopes but also it adds to the weakening of the US unipolar system towards the globalist world order.

link to video clip: https://youtu.be/ovO4lLXXlLw

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
1 year ago

“Another heat pump myth has just crumbled”
This article does hint at the potential for TPTB to force the implementation of heat pumps if it does not work by voluntary means. And you can get some idea of the likely bully-boy tactics if you look at the current digital phone roll-out;

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-12882535/BT-switched-digital-landline-experience-makes-fear-elderly.html?ico=mol_desktop_home-newtab&molReferrerUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fhome%2Findex.html&_ga=2.152174971.374197714.1702919701-563423902.1680660642&_gl=1*gbl3ac*_ga*NTYzNDIzOTAyLjE2ODA2NjA2NDI.*_ga_XE0XLFFF16*MTcwMzA1NDg0NS4yNDUuMS4xNzAzMDU2NTYwLjAuMC4w

When you see how they have gone about this digital phone roll-out you wonder if they will start to adopt tactics such as remove gas supplies from whole areas in order to force heat pump adoption. We were all urged to save Granny from Covid but now Granny can freeze to death and nobody will know because her emergency phone link no longer works due to the digital phone roll-out.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago

Debate on Petition – “Hold a parliamentary vote on whether to reject amendments to the IHR 2005”

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAs1cmIPXoc

Transcript: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-12-18/debates/945EBBB4-D052-4CF7-8109-B39FF7FF919D/InternationalHealthRegulations2005

Original petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/635904

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“The BBC’s hypocrisy is now clear for all to see”

Here’s an example: just look how many times the ‘Far right’ words are used in this one article! F-ing disgusting BBC!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67762119

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago

Having posted on the Westminster hall debate yesterday (petition: ‘There should be a parliamentary vote whether to reject the WHO’s IHR amendments.’), there was a zoom meeting with James Roguski last night.
Some interesting points were made:

  • Apparently there never was a vote in the WHO assembly of May 2022 to accept the amendments, these were passed without a vote. I have not double checked this, but if correct is a major procedural issue.
  • After the acceptance in May 2022 there should have been a debate in the U.K. Parliament whether to reject these amendments. This was not done. Malfeasance?
  • The deadline for rejection was 1st December 2023, so having this petition debate on the 18th of December is slightly pointless. I am not saying that if the debate in Parliament had happened, rejection would have followed..
  • it is all about the wording apparently. In theory the WHO does not do a power grab, but a powerful bureaucratic machine will be created, which will have far reaching consequences for individual freedoms. Not sure if this is just semantics.
  • it is clear civil servants are negotiating IHR amendments behind the scenes, but which ones and in which direction. So not a transparent process.

Based on all of the above Monday’s debate was a serious form of gaslighting.
No wonder trust in politics is gone.
The only thing to do is to make people aware, consider writing to your MP.
I am interested in people’s take on all of this.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  Myra

‘……further thought should be given of how to ensure full accountability of the WHO and its public-private partners during a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern).’

https://opiniojuris.org/2023/02/27/the-proposed-amendments-to-the-international-health-regulations-an-analysis/

Very much my thoughts but a classic understatement. The WHO accepts private funding. Our parliament has to ensure full accountability of the WHO. Difficult to see how that can be achieved while the WHO receives so much private funding.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

UN Unveils Plan To Regulate Speech 

latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

07b-UN-Unveils-Plan-To-Regulate-Speech-MONOCHROME-copy
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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Part of a plan, or just a cock-up? https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-raf-wethersfield-violence GBN migrant brawl story.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

https://twitter.com/Inversionism/status/1736933229586714827

Stage 3, done on a global scale, would definitely be a catalyst for a controlled reset, and it’s seemed pretty clear to me for a while that social destruction is a primary goal. The weakness, however, is that stage 3 done on a global scale cannot be guaranteed to be controlled. If all the levers of power are known, and I think they’re pretty clear now, then they can all be destroyed – the politicians, the bankers, the ‘philanthropists’, MSM, Big Tech, Big Pharma i.e. all the elitist parasitic filth. We’d be far better off going back to candles and a far simpler form of life than we would continuing on our current trajectory.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

I don’t think the point is for stage 3 to be global.
This just needs to happen in the US. Only a United US can really stop the globalist agenda in its tracks.
Most/many people are awake in the US, they are armed and they are trying to get a President to end the destruction of the country. They are not being allowed that.
I think that it’s too late anyway, but a Civil War is still possible.

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Agreed – the next 12 months in the US will be very interesting.

There is no way the Deep State will allow Trump or RFK Jr or Vivek Ramaswamy to be elected President. They will do what they have to do to stop that happening, and I certainly don’t rule out assassination or stopping the Election from going ahead (by, for example, triggering a “national emergency”).

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  MichaelM

These actions to thwart the electorate (again) will quite likely trigger real insurrection behaviour. I think it’s also ripe for FBI style sponsored false flags from so called right wing extremists to activate martial law or some other actions like forced weapon confiscation and rounding up libertarian or other militias.

The new film coming up “Civil War” sounds like a predictive programming film covering this. Also an Obama production.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

On LBC, Keir Starmer struggles to provide Nick Ferrari with a definition

of ‘working class’ and lands on the aspiration to own a car!

Given the current trajectory on fuel prices, ULEZ, EV-pushing measures and so on, the working class is set to expand mightily over the next decade.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Sir Keir is a genius! By expanding the ‘working class’ he’s guaranteed electoral success for the Labour party!

Er. Isn’t that how it works?

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“Wasted wind power adds £40 to household energy bills, says think tank” – According to the think tank Carbon Tracker, wasted wind power will add £40 to the average U.K. household’s electricity bill in 2023, says the BBC.

I’m surprised it’s as little as £40 per year per household.

In the above article we also find

Energy regulator Ofgem said there was a “long queue” of energy projects “which could generate almost 400GW of electricity – well in excess of what is needed to power the entire British energy system”.

I smell bulls*t. 400GW ‘could’ be generated. When it isn’t we have to rely on something else. Grid scale storage or rolling blackouts?

At the time or writing grid demand was a bit less than 44GW, so on the face of it 400GW should be plenty. As long as we don’t get a calm day or we can get the sun to shine on us 24hrs a day all will be peachy.

I note that we’re currently drawing 1.23GW from France – thank goodness they have spare nuclear power with which to bail us out.

Last edited 1 year ago by soundofreason
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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
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I always thought Conservatives were against state-owned utilities but it’s okay if it’s the French state.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

And here we were around 13:30. The stations in France are no doubt glad that there is spare demand from this side of the channel to allow them to run continuously. “Base load” is what they like on plant like that.

20_12_1330-generation
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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago

Police issue a non hate crime incident achievement sticker to Conservative MP

“The Daily Mail reports that Rachel Maclean shared the post, commenting “While the Greens don’t know what a woman is, my Worcestershire neighbours the people of Bromsgrove certainly do.”
Subsequently, ‘Melissa Poulton’ complained to police about it, accusing Maclean of ‘transphobia’ and prompting the action, which will see the MP’s name kept on police records.
Poulton, a biological male who identifies as a trans ‘woman’ is standing as a Green Party candidate in the upcoming election. 
Here is footage of ‘her’ complaining about the incident.

This is Melissa Poulton, a “lesbian” who apparently thinks being a woman is simply wearing a wig.”

This “man’ is a joke surely?:

https://twitter.com/gregissnacking/status/1733880044081005020

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

“When people with advanced degrees assure us that “immigration is good for the economy” they’re surely talking about living standards? Otherwise, the assertion is almost trivial: as long as someone does one hour of work per year, and doesn’t stop anyone else from working, he has added to GDP.
But nobody really cares about the total size of the economy; what they care about is living standards.”

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/is-immigration-good-for-the-economy

Noah Carl’s main underlying assumption here is completely wrong.
While the citizens don’t care about total GDP, it’s all their rulers care about, as it correlates 1:1 with their power and standing, especially international.
Hence the US elite is intent upon fighting even against mathematics now, by trying to do everything it can to prevent China from otherwise inevitably grabbing it’s No1 spot as per total GDP.
A US citizen knows that an increase in GDP/capita in China, India is also good for him, a member of the US ruling elite is convinced it’s bad for his and his lots power (often, the latter also foolishly regard the size of the total global pie as fixed and global economics as a zero sum game for the biggest slice of it and/or the pie already being too large).
So, our modern day rulers don’t give a fig about their plebs living standards/GDP per capita, as we have experienced for decades, never more and more obvious than currently.

Once you understand that, you understand US China policy, why Erdogan wants Turks to have even more babies and why our ruling elites wrongly claim that ANY immigration is good for the economy.

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

“The almost hysterical Ukraine-supporting British government is prepared to extradite Ukrainians to whom it has granted refugee status to fight on the murderous front lines in Eastern Ukraine.” https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ukraine-war-disaster-and-uk-will-extradite-ukrainian-refugees/

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

Denis Kucinich:
“True friends would have advised restraint and a path to solve the conflict, not accelerate it, as Israel has done. True friends would have led Israel to address the cause of Oct. 7.”
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/can-israel-survive-if-there-is-no-ceasefire/

“This massacre will only increase the desire of Palestinians for self-determination.

This war is not making Israelis safe or Jewish people safe anywhere in the world. It is widely viewed as being genocidal. The nightmare paradox is that through wiping out Palestinians in order to eliminate Hamas, Israel’s security threats will increase, endangering the survival of Israel itself.

I write this as someone who stands for the survival of Israel.”

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

“…A peaceful resolution isn’t impossible, it just isn’t desired…

It’s actually pretty simple. Once Israel ruled out a true two-state solution on the justification that doing so could allow Palestine to become a military threat, and ruled out a true one-state solution on the justification that giving equal rights to everyone would end Israel’s existence as a Jewish ethnostate, the only options left on the table were genocide and ethnic cleansing”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/12/no_author/going-mask-off-about-the-two-state-solution-lie/

“There’s been a surprising number of recent Israeli government admissions that not only is a two-state solution not on the table, but that it never was.

Benjamin Netanyahu boasted at a recent press conference in Tel Aviv that he’s spent decades thwarting the formation of a Palestinian state, and that he is “proud” of doing so.

Netanyahu’s senior advisor Mark Regev told Piers Morgan that a true Palestinian state with its own military and true sovereignty was never an option for Israel, calling it “common sense” that Palestinians should at best have “less than a state”.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the Israeli government to keep up the generations-long lie that it had always supported a two-state solution but the Palestinians kept rejecting it, and claim that only now after October 7 has such a deal become impossible. But at this point in time Netanyahu is so politically desperate, and being oppositional to Palestinian rights is so politically popular in Israel, that these goons can’t resist telling the truth about themselves….”

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
1 year ago

““Keir Starmer ties himself in knots trying to define ‘working class’”. He looked like a startled rabbit staring into oncoming headlights. He sounded like Diane Abbott at her most eloquent.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“EU launches an ‘illegal content’ probe into Elon Musk’s X” – The EU has launched an “illegal content” probe into Elon Musk’s X for allegedly breaching new social media regulations, reports the Mail.

I would really like him to partition X. Ban any account from within the EU reading any content from outside and vice versa. They can then have their carefully censored content.

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