- “Sweden did exceptionally well during the COVID-19 pandemic with its open society” – No wonder the news media are totally silent about the data that show Sweden’s open society policy was what the rest of the world should have done, writes Peter C Gøtzsche in the Institute for Scientific Freedom.
- “Eco-cultist lawyers are undermining the rule of law” – A group of 120 ‘top lawyers’ have signed a ‘declaration of conscience‘ stating they will not prosecute ‘peaceful climate change protestors’. These misguided lawyers seem to consider the rule of law as just another impediment on the path to their utopia, writes Matthew Scott in the Spectator.
- “Word-Policing Away the Biggest Threat to Public Health” – The deeply disturbing silence surrounding the damning conclusions of the World Obesity Federation is one aspect of the assault on the freedom of speech, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “U.K. trans critic Kellie-Jay Keen stopped by Auckland protestors” – Kelly-Jay Keen was doused with tomato juice at her Auckland rally on Saturday, part of an appalling attack that has only further damaged the credibility of the radical trans movement, the Mail reports.
- “JK Rowling blasts ‘mob’ at trans critic Kellie-Jay Keen rally” – JK Rowling has slammed trans rights activists in New Zealand, calling the scenes in Auckland “repellant”, the Mail reports.
- “Why did it take Seb Coe so long to see sense over transgender athletes?” – World Athletics has decided to protect women’s sport by restricting it to females. This decision should be welcomed by everyone, but why did it take them so long? asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Farewell, Nicola Sturgeon. Nobody is going to miss you” – Spare me the eulogies. The outgoing first minister was a dreadful leader, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “JK Rowling brought down Sturgeon… and she’ll bring down Humza Yousaf too” – The SNP front-runner urgently needs to realise that gender self-ID is political Kryptonite – and drop the whole idea, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “I don’t want to live in a country where some politicians get to disqualify others” – Whatever you think of Boris Johnson, the process being used to investigate him is a travesty, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Is it bonkers to see Charles as first republican King?” – The most progressive monarch Britain has ever seen is ironically being cancelled by a Leftist mob, writes Sarah Vine in the Mail on Sunday.
- “Andrew Bailey has nobody to blame for this inflation mess but himself” – Explaining the crisis as ‘greedflation’ is an embarrassment to the Bank of England, writes Michael Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “How necessary is Ofsted?” – The result of the latest Ofsted brouhaha is likely to be a typical English fudge, writes Toby Young in the Spectator.
- “Lessons rulers learned from Iraq? Make a better job of deceiving us” – Just as there were in 2003, there really are now people, high in American politics, who think that the USA is itself so good that it is entitled to make war on countries it disapproves of, directly or indirectly, writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
- “America is being consumed by a terrifying new madness” – With Trump potentially facing arrest, the only question now is whether America is about to drive itself off a cliff, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Woke extremists are taking over America’s colleges” – Even I, someone who some may assume would be on the side of so-called ‘social justice warriors,’ was bullied out of my dream job, writes Dr Tabia Lee in the Mail.
- “Three weeks to flatten the curve became three years to flatten the society” – Watch this montage of some of the most deranged moments from the Covid era.
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There is clearly something going on beyond just ideology. Why is the trans agenda being pushed so hard and who is behind it? Unscrupoulous politicians looking for the next victim group to ‘champion’ and then abandon when they’ve moved on to the next? Depopulation enthusiasts happy to help people to sterilise themselves? Pharma companies, surgeons and
psycho-the-rapistspsychotherapists who stand to make big money off of all the drugs, surgeries and treatments?If someone with expertise in the field notices an increasing number of children bringing up concerns they hitherto had not, and the children doing so are increasingly younger, it suggests the children are being fed ideas and they are not voicing these concerns out of their own awareness.
Are we all being groomed for a time when a 5-year old suggests that he or she is “attracted to an older person” and we should then accept this as normal and encourage it? This whole development is beyond insidious. A child cannot have a sip of wine or one puff of a spliff due to concern for longer term damage (which we rightly deem them too young to comprehend), but pumping them full of hormones and chemicals is just hunky-dory?
One of the things that really bothers me about this is that I do not doubt that there are children, teenagers and adults who are struggling with some type of identity crisis, depression, anxiety issues, however one wishes to term it. It would now appear that most of that will quickly be categorised as some type of gender issue, drugs will be administered, and whatever is truly causing their unhappiness will be ignored. When they remain unhappy after self-identifying or fully transitioning, they are then abandoned, as their use as political victims is over.
A partial explanation, perhaps, is that on the one side activists have an ideology and a well-tested playbook of infiltration and propaganda. I noticed it a few years ago when you would have half a dozen articles in one day in (say) The Independent on gay marriage, homophobic attacks, rainbow flags etc. That’s all gone, because society was successfully conditioned, but now there are half a dozen articles at a time on people going trans, on transphobic attacks, and flags like a Dulux patch-chart.
On the other hand, the rest of the society (probably thinking they’ve outgrown religion), has no ideology and so caves in to the one on offer, failing to notice that they have been groomed over decades to an ever more bizarre belief system in which they can’t even be sure that the ground under their feet is real. As you rightly say, paedophilia seems the new rising star – and that was on the agenda way back when Foucault and the trendy left were advocating it in Paris in the late 1960s.
Look for the origin of the trajectory in the first intellectuals to advocate the abolition of the family. Abolish the most fundamental human ties, and atomised and confused individuals can be manipulated at will (ie, the will of those who stand to gain).
The trans push is being used so that once ‘transness’ is made normal the push to legitimise paedophilia will be ramped up. I am convinced that paedophilia is at the root of our current problems. One way or another too many people have been trapped in paedophiliac webs which is why they so readily go along with the orders of the Davos Deviants.
The grooming gangs issue has never been fully investigated and it is now clear why – too many officials are caught up in this. They dare not let the people know what is really going on.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/wef-pedophilia/
This is a disturbing read. Whether we believe it or not an awful lot of world politicians appear to have been compromised and this article suggests the reasons why and how.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-07-oregon-hospital-expansion-gender-mutilation-children-castration.html
And there’s more.
As it’s (see other comment) based on the necessarily religious assertion that humans are a composites of souls and bodies which are inherently different from each other and that there’s some procedure/ deity pairing souls with bodies which doesn’t always work (and they’re doubtlessly secretly convinced that it really never works) what’s going on here is simple: It’s a cult (and a particularly digusting and dangerous one as it glorifies chirugical multilation of teenagers to turn them from biologically functioning mammals into bizarre fantasy creatures).
Sounds to me like they want to make trans compulsory!
How did we let things slide this far?
It’s almost as if there is some sort of Common Purpose infiltrating these organisations one by one.
It bears repeating here that the ideological basis of this nonsense is the Christian body/ soul duality, something people with a Christian background have been strongly conditioned to believe in. But who is the trans-god Stonewalls claims to have created its souls somehow ‘trapped’ in bodies (as opposed to the conscience being a function of the body just like the digestive system)? If they’re preaching in xis name and seek to proselytize, they ought to tell us. Also, their status should be changed from charity to an organization of the Scientology-type, ie, a modern day (pseudo-)science religion.
Some of us Christians are hylemorphic dualists, rather than Cartesians, and that’s a lot more consistent with the biblical view and totally opposed to the “wrong body” idea. Who would want to worship the god who can’t even get his assembly process right?
One of the points I was trying to make is that Stonewall, being modern, certainly rejects the notion of a god and especially, the Christian god. They’re just stealing the concepts and hope nobody notices this (a very common practice for all branches of wokery). But without one, their central theological (for it is one) axiom makes no sense.
A fair observation though this duality of soul separate from body has never been used as some sort of subversive mechanism within Christianity and its teachings – as a Christian my soul being separate from my body gives me great comfort knowing I won’t need my body after it dies (to continue on somewhere). If Christianity – The Religion had some nefarious intent, the orthodoxy would’ve eventually used it for some evil purpose – off the top of my head.. you can commit suicide with no consequences to your soul (which is separate).
Maybe you can, I’m not all-knowing of course but there’s something inherently negative about suicide, conversely challenged by our celebration and respect for life. Of course some might argue Jesus committed suicide on the cross though that is surely misguided. Jesus did not desire to die, it was the Romans and the state of humanity at that time that put him on the cross. Jesus was giving us a reason for hope.
So where there are similarities in this duality of body and soul within Christianity it’s never been used for evil so the similarities are only coincidental – why our leaders within the CofE should know better. Why this more recent push to use it as a mechanism to confuse our young is evil at its very core (at least with no definitive evidence – I’m open to change my opinion but on the face of it it’s highly subjective). That and other more disturbing trends like arguing the case to rid ourselves of the so-called useless eaters is all borne out of pure evil in my opinion.
They’re certainly not coincidental. The w-hucksters have also misappropriated the original sin in various forms, eg, white privilege, male privilege, (completely idiotically) German privilege (some American actually came up with that) and I’m convinced they’re either doing this intentenionally to exploit the already existing acceptance for the concepts in their target audience or because it comes naturally (so to say) to them because of their own Christian background.
I think this makes an important counter-argument here: People can only be trapped in their bodies if these just something like a garment they’re forced to wear. Hence, someone preaching such theories ought to be able to answer the question If people are separate from their bodies, what are they and where do they come from?
Again, fair enough though with those examples and beliefs like that, some might argue they’re not Christian anymore (or perhaps never were). I’m reluctant to get too bogged down in to the orthodoxy and dogma of Christianity, it’s riddled with inconsistencies. The best way to describe my personal beliefs is I am a Christian (because I was brought up that way) and find comforting fables to explain things and live my life.. but I’m not religious.
Christianity and by extension.. Religion is a funny phenomenon, our humanity trying to define the impossible. Sure there are fundamental beliefs that are formulated with no proof or perhaps even make sense, that is its power which can be used for good AND bad – why it’s difficult to argue against your comparison.
On the whole though it’s been a force for good, though if out of context with all other commandments this duality of body and soul suddenly becomes its achilles to argue the case of sex and gender being separate it’s a subversion of its true meaning – a meaning of there being more to life that this simple existence – not.. you’re a woman in a man’s body etc etc. That’s a perversion of our confusion with the unexplainable. A longing for there being something more than just our physical body. (as I said, I’m open to change my opinion, but on the face of it with next to no evidence, there’s no doubt we’re experimenting with children’s lives).
Interesting discussion RW