- “Covid lockdown bombshell: Devastating cost of U.K. shutdown laid bare – new report” – Lucy Johnston of the Sunday Express delves into a new report published by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Office of National Statistics setting out the cost of lockdowns
- “‘Covid is over’ idea may threaten booster uptake in England, scientists warn” – The booster campaign is due to start on September 5th but, the Guardian reports, scientists are concerned that many of those who are eligible might not come forward
- “Taking a puff on a new inhaler could stop you getting Covid” – The Telegraph heralds the arrival of a new inhaler that alters genetic data in the lungs to stop coronavirus taking hold
- “Jill Biden ending isolation after negative Covid tests” – The first lady is out of self-isolation after two negative Covid tests, according to NBC
- “Hong Kong Reports Most Daily Covid Cases in Over Four Months” – Bloomberg reports that Hong Kong has registered 6,513 new Covid cases, the highest number since March. There were three virus-related deaths and eight new coronavirus patients are in critical condition
- “How We Lost Agency and Acquiesced to Power” – “Keeping the peace at all costs has become a sacred and unquestionable goal among large parts of our society,” writes Thomas Harrington at the Brownstone Institute
- “Pentagon Mandates Monkeypox Vaccine, But Only For Navy” – The Babylon Bee reports on the Pentagon’s latest vaccine mandate for U.S. armed forces
- “Gates Foundation Grants Support Faculty-Led Initiative to Encourage Masking and COVID-19 Vaccines in the Developing World” – The Yale School of Management celebrates the support it received last year from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for projects promoting mask wearing and vaccine delivery in Asia and Latin America
- “Ex-NHS chief resorted to paying for his own cancer care in lockdown” – Rob McMahon, a former CEO of Leicester City West Primary Care Trust who spent thousands on private cancer treatment, says he has lost faith in Britain’s healthcare system, the Telegraph reports
- “GPs could prescribe money off energy bills under Treasury plan” – According to the Guardian, the Treasury has drawn up proposals which would see people consult their GP for an assessment on whether they are struggling enough to require help with their energy bills
- “Boris Johnson secretly approves funding for £30 billion nuclear power station” – Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi have given the go ahead for financing the construction of the £30 billion Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, reports MailOnline
- “Debunked: Europe’s claimed ‘worst drought in 500 years’” – Peer-reviewed studies, data and the IPCC reveal that “drought has not increased” and “cannot be attributed to human-caused climate change”, according to Watts Up With That
- “Prince William charity uses bank that is one of world’s biggest fossil fuel backers” – The Royal Foundation kept more than £1.1 million with J.P. Morgan Chase, the Guardian says, and it has investments in a trust that owns shares in firms that buy palm oil
- “Parents launch legal fight over gender classes for three year-olds” – A group of parents has launched legal action against compulsory ‘sexuality and gender’ classes for children as young as three, the Daily Mail reports. Ministers in the Labour-run Cardiff Government insist the new curriculum will embed sex and gender themes into day-to-day teaching
- “Female RAF recruitment chief quit over diversity targets” – A leaked email shows the female RAF chief telling her boss that allocating slots on a training course based only on gender or ethnicity was ‘unlawful’, according to the Daily Mail. She resigned the same day
- “Electoral watchdog slammed as No.10 call out ‘wokeness’ in voter fraud” – The Government has highlighted concerns that the Electoral Commission has “turned a blind eye” to “difficult” types of electoral fraud due to “woke” and politically correct sensitivities, the Daily Mail reports
- “Ineptitude and institutional wokery is the tragic legacy of Tory rule” – “The first task for the new PM must be to answer why – after 12 years in office – a left-wing agenda continues unabated,” says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph
- “The fatwa and the birth of Muslim identity politics” – “The Rushdie affair transformed Islam from a private religion into a global, politicised identity,” writes Tim Black in Spiked
- “Digital ID in Canada. Is the U.S. Next?” – Should Americans be concerned that Canada is preparing to roll out digital IDs? Writing for the Brownstone Institute, John Mac Ghlionn says the “answer is yes”
- “Facebook bans New Zealand anti-vaccine mandate campaigner Chantelle Baker” – Baker, one of New Zealand’s most vocal anti-vaccine mandate commentators, has had her page permanently banned on Facebook, according to Reclaim the Net
- “This evil ‘queering’ of St Joan” – Over in the Conservative Woman, Simon Caldwell weighs in on the Globe’s portrayal of Joan of Arc as non-binary
- “Lecturer ‘sacked for suggesting drag acts are a gross caricature’” – Cathy Boardman, a former lecturer in cultural studies at a Brighton music college, claims she has been forced out of her job after she suggested that drag acts could be viewed as sexist, the Mail On Sunday reports
- “Knowing your singular ‘theys’” – A primer on progressive pronoun usage, courtesy of Andy Lambeth
- “It wasn’t Brexit or capitalism that got us into this mess – but try telling that to the new Puritans” – “It’s clear that Britain is hitting the skids,” writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph. “What is needed are solutions, not the further embrace of punitive finger-wagging”
- “A new immigration surge for social care is a Brexit betrayal” – Writing for the Telegraph, David Goodhart takes issue with the Government‘s plan for an ‘overseas hiring spree’ for social care
- “The Frank Report XXXII” – Frank Haviland offers another healthy injection of scepticism in the New Conservative. “This week’s theme appears to be ‘Mastermind’, as the powers that be amaze us with their insight into the bleeding obvious”
- “I don’t suppose the Chinese and Russian airforces are thinking about diversity?” – Diversity, equity and inclusion “has replaced the public service ethic”, says Toby as he reacts to the resignation of the RAF recruitment chief on GB News
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Worried that their gaslighting is no longer effective?
This is quite funny; a blog piece about Neptune’s lengthy 14 year transit of Pisces, from 2011/12 to 2025/6, called “The Big Lie”, ( because astrological Neptune and Pisces are associated with illusion, delusion, fantasy, believing in untruths, etc ), in which it’s clear that the writer believes in the establishment narratives about covid, vaccines, “manmade climate change”, etc, and seems to be suggesting that it’s anti-vaxxers, mmcl-“deniers” Trump, etc etc etc who are guilty of lying and/or deluded/believing in untruths.
https://starcrazypie.com/2021/06/01/neptune-transits-pisces/
Its quite funny, because it is actually rather interesting that Neptune the planet of believing in things that are not true, of nebulous/uncertain reality etc, among other things, has been in its sign of Rulership, Pisces, since 2011/12, and that is a sign associated with shifting truths, illusion, fantasy.
( And, as the blog points out, this transit is now being amplified by the “presence” of Jupiter, inflated, you might say ).
But, if there’s anything in this coincidence/correlation ( of Neptune in Pisces at this time ), the good news, for those of us who for whatever reasons have seen through the “big lie (s)”, ( and for the billions suffering from it ) is that it should be over by 2025/6.
NB. The last time Neptune was in transit through Pisces was from 1847-1862, a period notable for the Crimean War, the Taiping Rebellion, ( the bloodiest civil war ever apparently ), the fall of the Mughal Empire ( India, more or less ), the first steps towards the US civil war, ( conflict between slave owning farmers and “free state” traders ), and ( near the end of the period ) the publication of Darwin’s “Origin of Species”.
PS. Also during that period;
John Snow “invented” epidemiology …. when he traced an outbreak of cholera to a contaminated water pump ….; petroleum was first fractionated by distillation, and steel manufacturing was revolutionised by Bessemer.
Neptune will be in Aries, the sign of birth/new beginnings, from 2025/6.
PPS. Beginning of American Civil War 1861/2, just as Neptune entered Aries.
NB. Pisces is known as “the Old Man” of the zodiac, the end of things. And Neptune the planet of “realities”/belief systems.
Is this hopeful or not? Will things be better/stable/whatever after 25/26? Will the new beginnings be a world better or worse than we have at the moment?
Hopeful in that there may be less obfustication, hypocrisy, lying, illusion and delusion. Things may be more straight forward, out in the open, direct. But I don’t get the impression that things will be more stable at all. I get the impression that there is going to be much more upheaval, conflict; Pluto will be leaving Capricorn, ( sign of established order and tradition, where it has had typical Plutonian effects of destruction ), for Aquarius, ( society and technology ), in 2025. And Uranus will be entering Gemini at about the same time; the last time it did that the world divided into two, the West and Soviet blocs.
1848 was when Marx published the Communist Manifesto.
1848, the year of revolution.
Mid 1840s & on, the European potato famine that impacted far further afield than just Ireland & led to waves of immigration from Europe to the USA.
I am one of those crazy nutjobs who has never wholly discounted astrology. I have always found items of truth in the subject.
When I was a student I became extremely good at picking people’s birth signs simply through talking / spending time in their company. Upwards of 75% accuracy.
Thanks for posting.
OK now I feel compelled to ask you to have a stab at mine!
If you get it right I’ll officially be freaked out.
I will have a go Mogs, but let’s not forget I have not met you in person and not had the pleasure of your company, so my hands are tied somewhat. And, I am definitely out of practice.
My first thoughts are that you are not a Winter star sign. If I am wrong I will end it there.
Yes I know, so no pressure.
I wasn’t born in the winter as defined by Michael Fish or his colleagues.
I am leaning to Virgo or Sagittarius.
Lol, ok safe to say Derren Brown can rest easy tonight.
Here’s a clue; if zodiac signs were in any way accurate I’d either be a successful artist or accomplished swimmer by now. Alas I am neither.
A French psychologist who set out to debunk astrology in the 60s, Michel Gauquelin, ( I think ), discovered to his surprise that although traditional sunsigns had nothing at all to do with career outcomes the planet and sign just to the left of the midheaven on a person’s horoscope, ie the highest point in the sky at time of birth ,*did* correlate with career sector and success.
He was lucky doing his research in France where they register time of birth on birth certificates aswell as the date.
If there is *no* planet present in the sign to the left of the Midheaven it seemed to indicate no particular/notable success in anything.
But in support of huxleypiggles I’d say that it’s probably almost impossible to intuit a sunsign from online interaction on a forum.
Yeah I know. Just having a laugh. My Chinese horoscope sign is the dragon, if that helps. I’m not sure how you stand on the Chinese horoscopes…:-)
Interestingly, I got married in a Hindu ceremony in India ( not that I’m Hindu myself obv ) and they do something with regards to the birth times and dates of the bride and groom to determine if its a good match. I didn’t really follow as I thought it all mumbo jumbo but cute nonetheless, so I don’t know if that’s similar to our regular astrology in the Western world? Maybe all religions have something similar…
You’ll like this then…
“Dragons have an infamous reputation for being a hothead and possessing a sharp tongue.”
No.
Really?
“In ancient times, people thought that Dragons were best suited to be leaders of the world with their character traits of dominance and ambition.”
They weren’t wrong those ancients were they Mogs?
Birthday 1976?
Enough, enough I say!!!
I think I was pipped to the post of being Leader of the World tbh..
You still need to guess at the star sign……..
I have answered this, but Pisces.
Thank you Amtrup.
“think about Pisces is in terms of primordial creative energy.”
That’s one description.
Amtrup called me an old man!
I identify as neither old nor a man! What the actual chuff???
Wasn’t exactly the picture I had in mind…no, don’t hux.
Whah ???
OK thanks a bunch. :-/
2min funny with Tyler Fischer. He does make me chortle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezMKm-GwBN8
Very good!
Now watch JP, funny, but sad because it’s true…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74iqEJnb14
UNKNOWN Cause of Death? Our Latest Propaganda!
OMG he’s funny and oh so accurate! LOL And bonus points for showing our Mark Steyn in fine form too. If we don’t laugh we’ll cry. But doesn’t this just illustrate perfectly what we were discussing yesterday on the excess deaths article? So a 500% increase in footballers dying in the last year compared to previous years? Yeah well I’ll go with Le Tissier’s more expert than mine observation on this, looking at all sports people, are we really meant to just explain this away as a new pandemic of ‘SADS’, and that’s it, case closed?
If they aren’t going to perform lab work and start doing postmortems on anyone who’s in the prime of their lives and at peak physical fitness ( as well as regular mortals who are also dying with no known comorbidities ) when they just drop dead out of the blue then they’ll never get to the bottom of this leading cause of death, “cause unknown”, will they? Captain bleeding Obvious or what?? Yes some will no doubt have a genetic heart defect that’s gone undetected but I doubt there’s been a massive increase in such people. Those statistics in the vid speak volumes and this issue isn’t just going to go away if the authorities keep ignoring it.
Yes..I’ve mentioned this before but I attended thousands of football matches over 30 years, never saw one! Having discussed it with others, they agree…
one of the things that has been said about the adolescent heart problems in the Thai study is why wasn’t it done eighteen months ago, by Pfizer, or the Governments of the Western World? It’s a reasonable question…
It’s inconceivable really that a mass experiment on millions of people with new technology has had basically no follow-up! Beggars belief….
The Telegraph story…ATL ‘taking a puff of a new inhaler could stop you getting Covid”…..
A new inhaler therapy that alters genetic data in the lungs to stop Coronavirus taking hold is on the horizon.
The treatment works by sending nanoparticles into the lungs containing tiny molecular scissors that snip away genetic messages instructing the body to produce an enzyme called ‘cathepsin L’…
Firstly, predominantly the comments were ‘no thanks’..which is good..
….but am I the only person who remembers that NICE forced doctors to stop prescribing Budesonide in an inhaler because it wasn’t deemed a suitable treatment for Covid?
https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/nice-removes-budesonide-from-recommended-covid-treatments
If you read the article, the reasons make no sense whatsoever….
Money, money, money…….
The ‘nanobot’ conspiracy theory becomes reality then! LOL Honestly, I cannot think of many things less appealing than what you’ve just described! Haha…
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/cold-comfort-for-sturgeons-covid-hypocrite/
Here’s a real story about taking one for the team. The analogy with 1930’s Stalinist Russia is bang on. Actually it is difficult not to draw a laugh a minute from this piece and in today’s dystopian world I’ll take that. Sadly, the implications overall are desperately tragic and sinister in the extreme.
Of course the Dear Leader was allowed to get away with an apology when she was caught flouting her own mask rules but that’s 1984 for you.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mavericks-unite-against-the-madness/
A cracking piece – worth reading in full as it goes atl.
WE ARE THE RESISTANCE.
Excellent, and true…good comments as well…
Ref the NHS chief who went private for his own care, have just been talking to broker about our private medical insurance renewal and he said he’s getting lots of new business from people who work in the NHS. Front-line, too.
They know what’s happening.
Today, I paid £120 for my 85 year old Dad to see a private GP later this week. His health is dreadful and last time he went to an NHS GP, three weeks ago, he was co-prescribed two drugs, colchicine and clarithromycin, that carry warnings they should not be co-prescribed. He was violently ill late at night and I spent two hours cleaning up the bathroom afterwards. He continued to have bouts of involuntary diarrhoea for another 24 hours.
When he had an emergency appointment the next day, the doctor – a different one because the prescribing doctor was now on holiday – kept him waiting an hour, treated him like an aged fool, shrugged off the coprescription (which across the web warns can kill older patients) and had him out of the surgery in under 10 minutes without any drugs.
My Dad isn’t getting better, his symptoms are worse and he won’t go near the NHS now, saying he’d rather die than be killed. Out of desperation, I’m paying for him to get a 30-minute appointment where he (and my Mum) can hopefully talk calmly to someone who has a financial interest in giving them a decent service.
That’s awful, on many different levels.
Shouldn’t the pharmacist have picked up on the two meds having contra-indications too?
I hope you get some resolution from a private GP. At least he will get a decentish amount of time to consult.
Shop local! Use cash & screw the supermarkets! Farmers’ markets where possible or buy direct from the farm.
Biometric payments only incoming to a Tesco, Asda or Morrisons near you in the North West….
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/aldi-asda-tesco-lidl-morrisons-23991170
Firkin hell!
I’ve just been informed that S in L has come down with the C1984.
He is fully perforated and feeling bloody poorly.
Thank you downtickers, your attendance at the scene is much appreciated.
“It’s a numbers game Saint.”
“Too right Greavsie.”
https://youtu.be/zJukKldyzC4
Look what I just found. I think Mr Tousi is guilty of slander.
Unbelievable.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/22/12-memes-to-get-you-through-the-day-part-20/
meme Monday at off-guardian….
although the Greta meme is too true to be funny!!