- “Andrew Bailey to install heat pumps at Bank of England in net zero drive” – Governor reveals proposals to help Threadneedle Street reach green targets by 2040, reports the Telegraph.
- “Banks are closing the accounts of high-profile people” – High street lenders are facing a Treasury probe after closing numerous accounts with the help of vast online indexes that scrutinise ‘politically exposed persons’, says the Mail.
- “Now scientists say climate change is making us blind” – Canadian researchers say climate change is blinding people, according to the Mail.
- “Free speech does not belong to the right… it’s a precious progressive value” – The High Court’s ruling on Maya Forstater is good news for everyone, says Matthew D’Ancona in the New European.
- “We can’t trust the Government to protect your privacy, says Signal boss” – Meredith Whittaker, the CEO of Signal, warns the Online Safety Bill will allow regulators to read private messages at will, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mexico has made it a crime to tell the truth” – Two politicians have been convicted for speaking out against trans activism, says Spiked.
- “Britain to axe E.U. laws that let banks shut accounts after Farage row” – According to the Express, Britain will now axe the ‘Politically Exposed Persons’ law that may have been a factor in the closure of Nigel Farage‘s bank account.
- “E.U. laws that let banks shut accounts over political views to be scrapped” – E.U. laws which banks have been accused of using to close customers’ accounts over their political views are expected to be scrapped under plans being considered by ministers, reports the Telegraph.
- “As a GP, my diagnosis is clear: The NHS is dying” – More on the basket case that is the NHS from the Telegraph.
- “Why eating red meat and cheese may not be as bad as you thought” – The odd steak or slice of gouda is unlikely to lower your life expectancy, says landmark report, with ‘profound implications for diets’.
- “Britain’s energy failure risks killing off what is left of our manufacturing base” – Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s latest jeremiad provides yet another wake-up call to sleepy ministers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fears for EastEnders’ future as fans switch off over ‘desperate’ plots” – Get woke, go broke: Fears for EastEnders’ future have been ignited as fans have switched off in their droves over woke storylines, according to the Mail.
- “Nearly half over-50s who quit jobs in Covid now ‘in poverty’” – Half the older people who dropped out of the workforce at the start of the pandemic have struggled financially, says the Mail.
- “How the Met Office cooks the temperature books” – The climate scaremongers are cooking the temperature books, says Paul Homewood in TCW: Defending Freedom.
- “Motorist rips banners out of Just Stop Oil eco zealots’ hands” – Having disrupted Wimbledon twice on Wednesday with confetti and jigsaw pieces, the eco-protesters continued to cause fury with their slow marches, reports the Mail.
- “The Net Zero time bomb that will make holidays more expensive” – A raft of new environmental measures are on the horizon that threaten to render the days of cheap flights history, says the Telegraph.
- “What does Caitlin Moran know about men?” – Kathleen Stock gives a bad review to Caitlin Moran’s new book in UnHerd.
- “The sludge of sensitivity” – Rhys Morgan in the Critic explains why adulterating classic literature, and attaching trigger warnings to the works of PG Wodehouse, is a bad idea.
- “Lockdowns: the Self-Inflicted Disaster” – John Tierney in City Journal says it’s not just lockdowns that were a disaster. Almost every time the executive branch of government is granted emergency powers people die.
- “As Greens double down on their politically suicidal climate agenda, the German political establishment begins to crack” – The only hope for political victory against the enormously powerful governments of Western countries is a divided elite, says Eugyppius.
- “Japanese get trained in ‘Hollywood’ smiles as masks slowly come off” – Japanese people have been wearing masks for so long, they now have to get lessons in how to smile, says Reuters.
- “I’d like to report myself for murder” – Konstantin Kisin slaps down Paul Mason on Politics Live.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/06/andrew-bailey-install-heat-pumps-bank-of-england-net-zero/
This Bailey Next Tuesday needs sectioning. He’s barking.
He’s just following orders, HP. All part of the playbook: highly visible institutions and people playing their virtue signalling games to get broad public consensus. Next, it’ll be that awful King Charles character announcing heat pumps for all royal households and other nonsense as in ‘we’re all in together’.
So true.
I know Bailey is following orders Aethelred but that does not mean he can avoid our derision.
Let’s not forget, wether it works or not, we are paying for it! Shame its not out of his personal pocket!
Absolutely Dinger.
Andrew Bailey to install heat pumps at Bank of England in net zero drive”
I really do wonder about the sanity of the Nett Zero warriors. Lets say for a moment that AGW is true and we ARE heading for a ‘tipping point’ at which the earths climate will be radically changed. Do they expect the UK to do all the heavy lifting while China and India continue to put billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.? Its a blind spot that all the climate commentators seem to have. No-one seems to press them on it either, but then the climate emergency is ‘somewhere else’ isn’t it.
Of course, CO2 is just plant food, and over the last 10 years 500 billion tons of CO2 has been produced by mankind, and the temperature hasn’t gone up at all. There’s proof of the lie right there. They are right about a tipping point, though, not for the climate, but the response of the citizen to the eco-lunacy. Air travel in about 2026 is my guess when everyone realises that its not being made more expensive. Its being turned off. I still fully expect that the citizens will have had enough of it. This date may come in a bit if Labour are in power we will be spoon-fed breakfast, lunch and dinner eco-mania.
I think the idea is to shame China into emulating our example. They will, of course, be enormously encouraged in this by calling Xi a dictator, accusing them of using slave labour for our products, and waging war on them over Taiwan.
China is an ancient civilisation and recognises true virtue when it sees it.
Shame China..? Are they suggesting that Chinese don’t love their children.? Same with India, or all the other countries that aren’t following this nonsense.? I get that there are people who think this is a real existential threat to mankind, but if it takes everyone in the world to be doing this, isn’t it utterly futile. The UK, through de-manufacturing itself, and moving to a renewables power model still produces 78% of the CO2 we did 20 years ago. At what point do you just accept that this can’t be achieved here or anywhere else and start thinking about alternatives, like mitigation of the ‘effects’.?
..it’s the last gasps of a dying hegemon, who are so busy feathering their own nests they are completely blind to what is happening in the bigger part of the world….which will get on fine without it….
we are at a real ‘Canute moment’…..
Konstantin Kisin slaps down Paul Mason on Politics Live.
Really..? Konstantin was doing the ‘talking over people, pitching strawmen arguments’ like a good leftie. Mason was essentially right what he said about international regulations and why banks act in their own interests. What Mason was allowed to get away with was how that relates to Yorkshire clergymen questioning why everything has to have a pride flag on having his account closed. Sorry Konstantin. I dont think you ‘murdered’ his argument at all. You ended up looking like the petulant one.
It’s interesting how people in these shows don’t really listen or take the time to understand alternative opinions. It’s all about who shouts the loudest and, in Mason’s case, who gets to smile as if he’s won the argument. If international banking regulations can ‘debank’ someone for an effin’ rumour, then international banking regulations (IBRs) need to be hauled over the coals. However, you know and I know that this is absolutely nothing to do with IBRs. It is about closing down a threat to the mainstream narrative. Not content with closing Farage down, it is now attacking GB News’ funding sources. Kisin could have been clearer about this but unfortunately Mason is a a darling of the commentariat, being a leftie and cultural Marxist stooge, probably with a shiny trouser bottom from sitting around in too many TV studios, and is well trained in opinion piece theatrics.
And the big news of the day, Rutte is out! Well I’m pleased to see the back of him but we’ll just get another WEF puppet in his place;
”Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the “firmness” he showed this week during discussions with other Cabinet was not constructive, but that was not the reason for this fourth Cabinet’s collapse on Friday. He does not blame himself, saying only that he “could have presented his objections more kindly.”
Rutte said, “That was not the reason the Cabinet fell.” The current Cabinet will continue in a caretaker capacity, with elections likely in November. Rutte said he does not yet know whether he will be available again as party leader, and will take time to think about it. “If you ask me now, I would say yes,” the prime minister said, giving his standard answer. “But it’s also up to the party.”
Other parties did point their finger at the current VVD leader for the collapse of the Cabinet. CDA party chairman Pieter Heerma called his attitude bordering on reckless and “irresponsibly harsh,” when speaking to Nieuwsuur.
Rutte put pressure on the negotiations by grilling ChristenUnie over there position on the influx of asylum seekers, and threatening a rare roll call vote during the Council of Ministers meeting over the matter, sources said. Heerma thinks that “borders on reckless politics”.
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/08/rutte-says-blame-cabinets-collapse-coalition-parties-say-otherwise
LOL..was just posting the article from the Telegraph..LOL!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/07/dutch-government-mark-rutte-ministers-clash-migration/
The Dutch government fell on Friday night amid deep divisions over plans to restrict the right of asylum seekers to bring their families to the Netherlands.
Mark Rutte, the prime minister, had called for a crackdown on family reunification, but that had infuriated two of the four parties in the ruling coalition of conservatives and liberals.
Mr Rutte said his coalition government was resigning as differences between the parties were “irreconcilable.”
There are deep divisions between the liberal D66 and centrist Christian Union, which oppose the crackdown and Mr Rutte’s VVD and the Christian Democrats.
Asylum applications in the Netherlands jumped by a third last year to over 46,000, and are expected to increase to more than 70,000 this year – topping the previous high of 2015 in a densely populated country of about 18 million people.
Mr Rutte wants to reduce the number of refugees to head off the challenge from parties such as the populist Farmers-Citizen Movement (BBB).
The BBB won a landslide victory in regional elections to become the largest party in all 12 Dutch provinces in a vote dominated by tractor protests against Mr Rutte’s plans for compulsory farm buyouts to meet EU climate targets.
Caroline van der Plas, the BBB leader, has called for a cap of between 50 to 100 asylum seekers per city council or regional authority, as she looked to consolidate her victory in a vote that became a referendum on almost 13 years in office of “Teflon Mark” Rutte.
Haha, yes we’re always in sync. Uncanny! LOL Yes it was all about the immigrants. This from yesterday;
”The ruling Dutch coalition has collapsed after failing to reach a deal over how to handle the number of asylum seekers entering the Netherlands, After days or talks between the key members of Mark Rutte’s Cabinet, they were unable to reach a compromise, sources close to the talks told NOS, RTL Nieuws and ANP.
It marks the end of Rutte’s fourth consecutive Cabinet.
A final attempt to reach consensus ended without result on Friday night. They were debating a last proposal from Eric van der Burg, the state secretary in charge of asylum policy.
Van der Burg reportedly put forward a proposal to prevent more asylum seekers from entering when the facilities set up for their reception becomes overcrowded. Such a situation occurred repeatedly last year, leading to international condemnation as asylum seekers were forced to camp outside the Ter Apel reception center in extremely poor conditions with limited access to medical care, clean toilets or showers.”
They’ve erected these brightly coloured box things next to the David Lloyd over here and I drive by them regularly. It was my daughter watching the news that told me what they were. They’re one room constructions for migrants awaiting housing, they have showers and toilets on site, like a camp site, and they have no cooking facilities so get meals delivered. They all have bikes outside, a basic necessity over here, lol. Anyway, its often reported that the conditions in these immigration shelters are substandard, people even having to sleep outside or on chairs, they’re using cruise liners in ports to house them, I mean, logic dictates you need to sort the present crisis not keep shipping more of them into the bloody country! And of course people cannot get onto the housing ladder due to the shortage. Of course there’s a huge impact on the Dutch and people already here, expats like us. It’s insane to just keep on going and hoping for miracles. Although I obviously do agree that kids should not be separated from their parents.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s tweet on the matter;
”After 10+ years of Mark Rutte’s globalist destruction policies, we now have a real chance of getting our country back.
From what I can tell about the situation now, I think the actual fall of the cabinet itself is all for show. The ‘disagreement’ about immigration that they’re mentioning as the deciding factor, is not the real issue, because all government parties are in favour of more mass migration, including Mark Rutte’s VVD.
Rutte just seems to think that he can trick the Dutch people into believing that he actually wants a stricter immigration policy this time around, and he thinks he can get re-elected again if he makes these false new promises.
Do not fall for it.
We cannot let him win again.
If the Dutch people stop falling for his lies and get rid of him and his globalist policies once and for all, we can actually turn things around, stop the expropriation of our farmers, push back on immigration, and take back our national sovereignty from organisations like the EU and the WEF.
In other words, this is a massive opportunity for us.
Let’s pray that enough people have woken up and will actually vote for change this time.
We will not get a second chance.”
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1677431582884241411
We seem to have been here before..and we’ve seen horrible people get re-elected. I think people fear change perhaps..anyway
This will be so interesting….
What will the Dutch voters decide?
Continue immigration?
Stop immigration?
And what about closing farms?
I sincerely hope common sense prevails.
Really, what is there to say? Except they’ve all gone NUTS!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/07/refusing-fund-spouse-partners-transition-domestic-abuse-cps/
Spouses who refuse to fund their partner’s gender surgery may be domestic abusers, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says in new guidance.
The CPS has listed nine types of behaviour which could amount to abuse of trans or non-binary people by their partners or members of their family.
These include “withholding money for transitioning,” which would include either spouse refusing to pay for gender surgery, counselling or other treatment in a way that amounted to coercive control or abuse.
Other behaviours could be “criticising the victim for not being ‘a real man/woman’ if they have not undergone reassignment surgery,” or “threatening or sharing pre-transition images,” or refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun.
Another means by which families can be destroyed. Maybe it is from crazy people but it certainly benefits cold, calculating collectivists.
Yes, I agree..just don’t have a partner..be free and single, let the rest of us pay for any children you have..just another reason to be selfish and irresponsible!?
With acts like this, it is plain to see that all institutions have been co-opted into the destruction of society, whilst appearing as champions of freedoms and rights. It is a well-worn path. Create division, break down the traditional family, pit partner against partner, race against race, religion etc etc etc. Look at the language they use: domestic abusers, victims, preferred pronouns. They are engineering a breakdown and the CPS are in on it as probably most of the judicial system. If they can break us apart so they we are worried about speaking the truth, are ashamed of our history, no control over our own finances (CBDCs) and are watched 24/7 and have to accept untold numbers of immigrants into our communities, they can create a subservient population.
That’s it Aethelred.
This is big as it is evidence of deliberate harm and fraud by pharma. Best to read the article as Kevin McKernon is explaining in plain English for a change;
”This DNA contamination is important as it is a result of a manufacturing change Pfizer performed after the clinical trial. This is evident in the EMA documents and published in the BMJ (Levi and Guetzkow). Process 1 used synthetic DNA for the trial. Process 2 was used to scale up the manufacturing and this required cloning of the vaccine encoded DNA into a plasmid for replication in E.coli. This process is materially different but was treated as a bio-equivalent.
A small 250 person test was performed comparing Process 1 to Process 2 and the results demonstrate higher adverse events in the Process 2 material and lower RNA integrity.
A recent analysis of Pfizer’s pivotal study (Levi and Guetzkow) found 1.5-3 fold higher rates of adverse events in patients after crossover and presumably receiving Process 2 material, compared with patients before crossover, presumably receiving Process 1 material.
From Levi and Guetzkow-
“The protocol amendment states that “each lot of ‘Process 2’-manufactured BNT162b2 would be administered to approximately 250 participants 16 to 55 years of age” with comparative immunogenicity and safety analyses conducted with 250 randomly selected ‘Process 1’ batch recipients. To the best of our knowledge, there is no publicly available report on this comparison of ‘Process 1’ versus ‘Process 2’ doses.”
The Vaccine Efficacy and safety was broadcasted to the world based on the Process 1 results. But the Process 2 vaccines are now known to have plasmid derived double stranded DNA in the vials. This contaminant was not part of the informed consent process nor was it present for the Process 1 RCT.”
https://anandamide.substack.com/p/executive-summary-of-the-fda-vrbpac?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Kevin McKernon was on Steve Kirsh’s Vsrf weekly update discussing this
https://www.vacsafety.org/episode-84/
And JJ Couey reviews the discussion on twitch
https://m.twitch.tv/videos/1865197062
JJ seems to think this is all a distraction encouraging us to believe there is nothing wrong with mRNA transfection as a medical treatment so long as you manufacture it properly.
Whatever. I imagine there is a reason why they didn’t use process 1 for the mass roll out. Speed and cost.
Thanks. Is this the one where Kevin debunks the theory that viruses don’t exist in 20 secs flat? I saw a clip but not got round to watching the full thing. Story of my life.
We know vax-generated spike proteins end up in the brain and this is a very good but scary paper that explains the mechanisms. Very worrying findings here;
”We have examined the extensive literature concerning the prion-like properties of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein. Furthermore, we identify pathways through which the mRNA vaccines could be capable of delivering the spike protein to the brain, which we suggest happens via exosomes released from germinal centers in the spleen traveling up the vagus nerve, increasing the risk of neurodegenerative disease. Should this happen, it would be expected that the COVID-19 vaccines would shorten the time period before neurodegenerative disease manifests in susceptible individuals. We speculate that the age of onset of neurodegenerative disease at the population level will decrease in the future in countries where vaccine uptake has been high.
Particularly concerning is the evidence that CD16+ monocytes can continuously produce spike protein for months after vaccination, possibly through prolonged cytosolic presence of mRNA or reverse transcription of the mRNA into DNA. It has become clear that the antibodies induced through vaccination wane over time, necessitating frequent boosters to raise the antibody levels for sufficient protection from COVID-19. With each booster comes a compounded risk of future neurodegenerative disease. Fortunately, Omicron variant infection has a greatly reduced prion-like capability, and thus, with the cessation of mass vaccination, the expected increase in prion-like diseases could stabilize over the coming years.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9922164/
I feel pretty confident that by 2050 at the latest mandatory euthanasia will be introduced and the excuse will be increases in the numbers suffering from dementia. Canada is already testing the water in this regard.
And eventually there will be population caps.
I am not joking.
It won’t need to be mandatory. The behavioural psychologists will manipulate people into thinking killing themselves is better for society.
Mass culling is not a vote winner but having policies that make self-disposal quick and easy is legal and, after much propaganda, socially acceptable.
OK, I admit I’ve only read the Mail’s coverage of this paper – not the paper itself. However, the article suggests one of the main possible reasons for disparity in eye damage is disparity in exposure to UV in sunlight.
Any argument they can fabricate to support their main goals will be used. What they don’t mention is the much higher usage of mobile devices and screens (blue light), the usage of LEDs in car headlights and, well, most other lighting, including those ridiculously bright streetlights, and the fact that most people wear dark glasses when it’s sunny even when the sun is not in their eyes. The latter point is interesting. For some time now, I’ve stopped wearing dark glasses because, believe it or not, the subconscious message to the brain is that you are in the shade. Because of that, the body does not produce as much melanin as it would normally do – this might be small or it might be large but it has been noted. Then people apply a largely chemical cream to their skin to stop them getting sunburned while a massive radiation source, the sun, blasts the chemical cream with radiation. I wonder what would happen in that case?! Then people wonder why they develop skin cancers, moles etc. The answer is to limit one’s exposure to all those light sources, limit one’s exposure to the sun, stop using suncream, stop wearing dark glasses unless right in your eyes or wear a hat maybe. In the tropics, indigenous people sit in the shade. The climate change argument is a complete red herring – of course!
…not the fact then that on the Yellow Card, VAERS, and EUDRA..after the stabination
blindness and eye problems increased massively?
It’s getting harder to find info on this but up to December 2022 just on UK Yellow Cards there were nearly 27.000 ‘eye disorders’…..!!
Yes, of course, that is a major one, Gummy!
Makes a change from masturbation
“Now scientists say climate change is making us blind”
So between the tropics of cancer and Capricorn where its always hot and wet, everyone should be blind?
..something else that people who are now ‘awake’ see for what it is..there will no doubt be a ‘vaccine’ or ‘treatment’ coming soon…
(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230131124430.htm)….
New vaccine targets life-threatening fungal infections, a growing health concernFungal infections cause 1.5M+ deaths each year, and there’s no vaccine to prevent them.supported by the NIH and CDC!…..LOL!
In which the poor Africans will be used as experimental fodder to make money..and ‘test’ their wares.
https://polioeradication.org/news-post/africas-largest-polio-vaccination-drive-since-2020-targets-21-million-children/
26.5.2023
The exercise, which will begin in Cameroon, Chad and Niger before being extended to the Central African Republic next week, comes in response to 14 detections of type-2 poliovirus in the countries so far this year: one sample from environmental surveillance in Niger tested positive; six confirmed cases were reported in Chad; and seven in the Central African Republic.
No cases have been reported this year in Cameroon.
wild type2 polio has been eradicated..the type two circulating now is vaccine derived,
but the WHO state this is because there is low vaccination uptake?
Can someone make it make sense why the WHO et all are pushing the vaccines…?
Seriously if there is a good medical reason I’m missing..what is it?
….or is it a ‘there’s no malaria in Florida..release the modified mosquitos..now we’ve got the first evidence of malaria..and there’s a new jab for that’ scenario…!!??
I would like to know more about these fungal infections and why people are dying from them, possible prevention and treatments etc. The assumption that a vaccine is the answer to everything is nonsense.
This week’s Highwire features a talk Del Bigtree recently gave to PERK which reviews the issues and cover ups on childhood vaccine efficacy and safety. He makes some strong points eg how herd immunity has been destroyed by mass vaccination, how measles is not especially deadly and how polio is now a disease perpetuated by the vaccines.
If it’s just started to sling it down where you are..as it’s pouring here..you could do worse than making a cuppa and have a listen to this…
Excellent discussion with Russel Brand and Tucker Carlson (his first interview since being sacked from Fox)….
Really great..and humane…discussion between two honest sensible adults…about …Trump, Fox, censorship, War, RFK, big Pharma…a bit of everything..I highly recommend it.
https://rumble.com/v2yqv78-live-tucker-carlson-world-first-interview-since-leaving-fox-russell-brand-0.html
I’ve been a big fan of Russell Brand for a long time, since he was sacked by the BBC and demonised by the mainstream media for something which was not at all his fault – it was the fault of Jonathan Ross and even more the fault of the BBC editors of the programme in question, which was not live.
But he didn’t point the finger at his friend, took it on the chin, created a hilarious stand-up show about it, and moved on to better things.
People who don’t listen to the lies of the mainstream media can see that he is a very compassionate and intelligent human being.
Yes he is…. I suspect in ‘real life’ he might be a bit more airy-fairy liberal than me..(LOL)….but I like that he champions difference….and wants and is open to inclusive discussions…..
I wish the conversation these two had was the norm..and it should be….sad that they are both labelled with the “misinformation” label by the PTB….!
Looks like a DNA & data collecting exercise…. Trust the NHS & government to have your best interests at heart?
The most powerful word we can use in these times is “No!”
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/everyone-over-40-england-sent-27234353
“Looks like a DNA & data collecting exercise…. Trust the NHS & government to have your best interests at heart?”
Exactly. And what’s the betting that access to medical services will be restricted or possibly even denied for those who refuse to comply.
Leaving aside the ulterior motives… they’ve learned nothing about the science of screening in the last twenty years, since the time we used to get urgent phone-calls at night from terrified patients who’d had a mildly elevated cholesterol on a voluntary screening at the chemist.
At the time the NHS were running TV ads urging people to get a test done, which might eventually get someone on useless statins for life. But they didn’t do TV ads urging people with acute chest pain to call an ambulance NOW and not wait until morning, as an hour’s delay can make the difference between recovery and cardiac death. Priorities set by fashion and Pharma, I suppose.
I concede that the latter ads would be completely useless now as it takes 24 hours for an ambulance to arrive and get you to the hospital.
..they can bugger off….! If I get one it’s going in the bin….!
Why don’t they just ask quacksinated or unquacksinated…..then bother the former with their heart health tests!!??
I propose we refer to the current period as “the Endarkment” or the end of the enlightenment.
wherever you turn all public discourse seems to be brainless. Whether it is doubling down on windmills or cricket commentators or interviewees telling the audience about how batters (UFH) want runs and bowlers want wickets.
it is all infantile.