In a surprise move, the local government of West Australian mining town Port Hedland has voted to call for the immediate suspension of the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines pending an investigation into evidence of excessive levels of synthetic DNA in the shots.
At a special meeting on Friday night, Port Hedland Councillors voted five votes to two to notify every one of Australia’s 537 local councils of the evidence of the DNA contamination in the vaccines and associated risks.
“We are gravely concerned about the potential health risks posed by synthetic DNA contamination, including the dangers of genomic integration, cancer, hereditary defects and immune system disruption,” the letter says.
The council will also send letters to every health practitioner within the Port Hedland area strongly urging them to share this information with patients contemplating receiving any Pfizer or Moderna Covid modifed-RNA (mod-RNA) vaccines.
The council will join federal MP Russell Broadbent in calling for the suspension of the mod-RNA Covid vaccines until an urgent and thorough investigation has been carried out into the DNA contamination matter, after independent testing of Australian vials of Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines detected residual synthetic DNA at levels up to 145 times the legal limit.
In several letters to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last month, the independent Member for Monash included warnings from leading scientists that “excessive synthetic foreign DNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles can integrate into human cells, potentially leading to genomic instability, cancers, immune system disruption, and adverse hereditary effects”.
Port Hedland Councillor Adrian McRae, who brought the motion, said on Friday that he hoped the vote “will be the ripple that creates a bigger wave across the country, and perhaps the world” on the issue of Covid vaccine safety.
The evidence
During the two-and-a-half-hour special meeting, councillors reviewed an analysis of Australian Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines by molecular virologist Dr. David Speicher, which showed that levels of synthetic DNA in the vials “far exceeded” the allowable regulatory limit set by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
Councillors heard that the TGA has denied the validity of Dr. Speicher’s findings. However, Moderna’s protocol for measuring DNA levels in its Covid vaccine, released in response to my Freedom of Information request to the TGA (FOI 5286), calls the TGA’s claim into question.
First, most of the document was heavily redacted, in keeping with the TGA’s tendency to opt for secrecy over transparency when it comes to grave matters affecting the health of millions of Australians.
Second, the TGA-approved method for measuring residual DNA levels is unlikely to detect the bulk of the contamination, particularly small fragments.
As detailed further in a letter to be sent to the WA Health Department,
Alarmingly, Moderna, through its own patent filings, had specifically warned about the inadequacy of such testing methods for detecting residual DNA, especially DNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).
Despite this warning, the TGA has relied on these insufficient methods, which grossly under-detect the true extent of contamination. Moderna’s patents also highlighted the risks of insertional mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, yet these serious risks remain inadequately addressed by the TGA’s current testing practices.
Councillors heard a recorded address from internationally lauded Professor of Oncology Angus Dalgleish, who warned of “the potential public health consequences” of the mod-RNA vaccines, including cancers, immune disorders and genomic integration.
Professor Dalgleish, who is the lead co-signatory on Broadbent’s most recent letter to the Prime Minister, said he had seen an upsurge in aggressive, fast-progressing cancers in his oncology practice amongst patients who had received Covid vaccine boosters, particularly colorectal and blood cancers.
“My own research has shown that the boosters suppress the T-cell response and switch the antibody response to tolerising. That means this is the perfect example where you have switched off the policing of foreign invaders, virus, etc., and cancer, allowing it to grow uncontrolled,” he said.
Having previously sat on the scientific board of mRNA technology company CureVac, Professor Dalgleish emphasised that he is well placed to understand and speak to the risks and benefits of the Covid mod-RNA vaccines, which he said are more properly called gene therapy-based.
Professor Dalgleish said that Australian authorities’ failure to properly investigate the issue of high levels of DNA contamination in the Covid vaccines was a “critical gap” in the public health response, and he urged the Port Hedland Council to take the matter seriously and to advocate for immediate public health responses.
“We need our health authorities to begin monitoring these trends, develop testing protocols for those exposed to synthetic DNA contamination, and prepare treatment pathways for the inevitable rise in vaccine-induced conditions,” he said.
Professor Dalgleish’s address was presented only to councillors in a closed part of the meeting, but approximately 50 members of the public assembled in the gallery during the rest of the meeting to hear from Port Hedland residents, who shared their support for the council’s action to raise the alarm over high levels of synthetic DNA in the Covid mod-RNA vaccines.
In a striking statement, local Aboriginal woman and funeral director Sharon Todd told the council that she had witnessed “an alarming increase” in untimely deaths of Aboriginal people which she observed worsening since the introduction of the Covid vaccines to Port Hedland in 2021 (before community spread of the virus).
“Anecdotally, the strange and aggressive cancers that we are now seeing in my profession is frightening to say the least,” said Todd.
“Among the Indigenous community across WA, I personally have had several family members who have died or been diagnosed with these aggressive cancers.”
McRae, a local businessman and son of a fourth-generation farmer and grazier family, brought some anecdotes of his own.
McRae said that his company, GBTK, had just finished the construction of a cold body storage facility, which was commissioned by another local Pilbara funeral director.
“They told me that in 2020 at the height of Covid they were doing on average one funeral a week. One.
“Since the injection rollout they are doing over one funeral a day. It’s almost a sevenfold increase.
“It’s frightening, and everyone in our government wants to tiptoe around the big fat elephant that sits right in the middle of the room.”
Rates and rubbish
The motion to warn Australians of the DNA contamination in the mod-RNA shots was supported by Councillors Adrian McRae, Sven Arentz, Lorraine Butson, Camilo Blanco and Deputy Mayor Ash Christensen.
Councillor Blanco, who formerly served as Port Hedland Mayor, said that although healthcare is not normally within the remit of local government, he considered the evidence presented to be “a real and undeniable threat to public health”.
Blanco reasoned that the lack of action from federal and state authorities on the DNA contamination issue necessitated intervention by the council to protect the well-being of the Port Hedland community.
“It’s clear to me… that there are holes in the responses from Government agencies here, and I want answers to clear this up,” said Blanco, adding that he took three doses of the Covid vaccines himself and is not an anti-vaxxer.
“I think this is a historic motion that is going to have far-reaching implications for the health and safety of every Australian.”
Councillor Lorraine Butson, who has worked as a nurse for over 47 years, said that within the last two years she had seen a significant rise in cancers, pericarditis, myocarditis and other medical issues related to the vaccines.
Prior to the vote, the council’s administration warned that sending out these letters would almost certainly compromise state and federal Government relationships, resulting in extreme reputational and financial impact.
However, Councillor Arentz said that he felt supporting the motion was “the right thing to do”, a statement echoed by Deputy Mayor Ash Christensen.
Christensen said that he was a “simple human being” with a “not very great education”, but that the motion was in alignment with the principles of scientific debate.
“It goes without saying that this conversation will be had over, I’m assuming, decades when the truth does finally come out around the real health ramifications and the issues created by the injections that were brought forward,” he said.
The motion was opposed by Mayor Peter Carter and Councillor Ambika Rebello. Rebello said that as healthcare is not in the remit of local government, it was inappropriate for the council to take a position on the issue.
“As local government, our roles relate to roads, rates, rubbish, recreation, local town planning and, to an extent, housing, childcare,” she said.
“A debate on health issues pertaining to the evils of gene therapy and vaccine is not the business of council.”
Rebello also suggested that McRae brought the motion to drum up publicity for a run at federal office, but McRae told me there’s “no chance” he will stand for office at the 2025 federal election.
In an interview on 6PR radio yesterday, Carter called the Council’s vote “disappointing” and reiterated that the council should stick to managing “rates and rubbish“.
“This is something that we shouldn’t be entertaining at all,” he told 6PR breakfast hosts Millsy and Karl. “Seriously, it’s not the role of local government.”
But in his closing statement on Friday night, McRae told those present, “Sure health is not in the remit of local government, but looking after our people most certainly is.”
Carter also told media that those attending the meeting in the gallery on Friday night do “not represent the whole community”.
But several councillors I spoke with yesterday took umbrage with Mayor Carter’s statement and said that the council’s vote represented the majority view within the community.
Comments under a post on the town’s official Facebook page about the Friday night vote are mostly positive, with commenters expressing approval of the council’s decision and some calling for their own councils to follow suit. The town has since turned comments off under the post.
Small town, big impact
Situated in Western Australia’s northwest Pilbara region, Port Hedland is a small town with outsize impact as Australia’s iron ore mining capital. As reported by Alison Bevege over the weekend:
Port Hedland, 1600km north of Perth, is the economic engine of Australia, strategically vital due to its deep-water port for bulk mineral exports from the Pilbara.
The port’s supply chain was estimated to be worth $103.7 billion or 4% of Australia’s entire national economy in 2022-23 and is expected to contribute about $156 billion in royalties and taxes to both the WA and Federal Governments over the next 10 years, according to the Port Hedland Industries Council.
Port Hedland’s local government area has a population of about 16,000 people and a local economy valued at $3.7 billion in 2020-21.
Port Hedland’s local government is also exceedingly colourful.
In 2020, then Mayor Camilo Blanco was ousted after the state Labour Government suspended the Council – just one year after Blanco moved to charge mining companies council rates, boosting the town’s revenue considerably.
Peter Carter succeeded Blanco as Mayor, only to make the news for trying to do hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of deals without any funding behind him, and having to step down from a school board after he was seen being fed strawberries by a woman in a hotel room in Vietnam during a video meeting.
In 2022, the town again made headlines, this time for its plan to sue WA Premier Mark McGowan over his Covid vaccine mandates, which applied to more than 75% of the workforce. The mandates were deeply unpopular in the mining town, although the council later reversed its decision to challenge them in court.
Last year, Carter launched defamation proceedings against Blanco for statements he made in a council meeting. This year, Carter faced and survived a vote of no confidence.
Meanwhile, McRae became an internet ‘Pro Putin’ sensation for congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his “transparent and comprehensive victory” after scrutineering the Russian election as one of only a few Australians invited to participate.
Port Hedland has also been hit hard by the Covid vaccine fallout. McRae said that five out of eight representatives on the previous Council believed that they were injured by the Covid vaccines, and workers in healthcare and other frontline professions have a plethora of injury anecdotes to tell. Such stories remain mostly undocumented by the local press.
It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that Port Hedland is the first local government in Australia to make waves on the Covid vaccine DNA contamination issue, and it is unlikely to go unnoticed.
In fact, WA Premier Roger Cook responded yesterday, slamming the council for going “off the rails” for passing the motion on Friday.
“One, vaccines are not dangerous. They are important for saving lives and keeping the community safe,” Cook told the press.
“Two, the town of Port Hedland should stick to its knitting. It should stay focused on the services to the people in that community. It should lift its game.”
Cook occupied the role of Health Minister during WA’s jab rollout during 2021, when the majority of West Australians were coerced into getting double vaccinated.
With the Labour Government’s vaccine mandates, Cook achieved over 90% community vaccination coverage, along with an exponential increase of adverse event reporting associated with the Covid vaccines, at 24 times the rate of all other vaccines combined.
Media response
Media coverage of the Port Hedland Council vote has so far labelled the Covid vaccine DNA contamination and associated risks a “conspiracy theory” which has been “debunked by health authorities”.
Needless to say, aside from glib flip-offs, neither media outlets nor health authorities have provided any scientific evidence to disprove evidence of excessive synthetic DNA contamination detected mod-RNA vaccines from Australia, Germany, the U.S., and Canada.
Nor has any evidence of testing for contamination effects such as genomic integration or cancer formation been provided. The TGA required no testing for carcinogenicity and genotoxicity before approving the mod-RNA vaccines for use, and the only vaccine batch testing results released by the TGA were fully redacted.
As someone who has been involved in Port Hedland’s local government for years in both as Mayor and Councillor, Blanco said he’s seen media smear campaigns in action before.
“In my experience with government, the police, and other agencies that wield power – if you’ve got dissenters that oppose the position of interest groups, they actively go out there in the media and discredit the source of the information.
“They did it to me when I was Mayor. They did it to dissenting doctors who were demonised during Covid, and now they’re doing it to us on this,” he said.
Pressure builds to stop the shots
The Port Hedland Council joins a growing chorus of government officials and health experts calling for the mod-RNA shots to be stopped until the safety risks have been properly assessed.
In December last year, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo called for a halt to the Covid mod-RNA vaccine programme over the DNA contamination issue, noting the risks of genomic integration and cancer formation.
Dr. Ladapo noted the lack of evidence for the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) claims that contaminant DNA poses no risk, and pointed to obfuscation on the part of the regulator about the presence of the SV40 enhancer sequence in the Pfizer DNA contamination, which scientists say increases the risk of the synthetic DNA entering the cell nucleus.
In Slovakia, the commissioner for a Government investigation of the country’s Covid pandemic response, MP Peter Kotlar, has reportedly called for a total ban on the mod-RNA vaccines in his report to the Government.
A bloc of parliamentarians from the European Union is lobbying to suspend the mod-RNA shots over safety concerns, including Christian Terhes (Romania), Christine Anderson (Austria), Ivan Vilibor Sincic (Croatia), Mislav Kolakusic (Croatia) and Francesca Donato (Italy).
Japan recalled three lots of Moderna Covid vaccines in 2021 after a different kind of contamination – stainless steel fragments – was discovered in the vials, with two men aged 30 and 38 dying after being injected with doses from contaminated batches.
In late 2021, countries including Germany, France, Finland, Iceland Sweden and Denmark halted use of the Moderna vaccine in young people due to concerns over cardiovascular risks.
India did not approve either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines because regulators did not agree to the companies’ requests for indemnity from liability in the event of adverse effects.
And a number of African nations refused the Covid vaccines altogether. “We are not yet satisfied that those vaccines have been clinically proven safe,” Tanzania Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima told the press in 2021.
McRae said the Port Hedland Council is now liaising with CEO Carl Askew to ensure letters to local governments, health practitioners and federal and state officials go out in a timely manner.
Blanco said he has fielded calls from more than 15 other local government councils since the motion was passed in Port Hedland on Friday night.
“I’ve been contacted by so many councils that are ready for this,” he said.
“They can’t just ignore this. We want genuine answers.”
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“Protesters chanting ‘Jihad’ may not be arrested, say Met ahead of pro-Palestine march”
VAR for political protests.? What will they think of next.
“What do we want?”
“An intellectual jihad making an irrefutable case for a separate Palestinian state that will persuade Israel to be reasonable.”
“When do we want it?”
“As soon as negotiations can be organised”
Nothing to see here, Lads.
Interestingly, Sir Desmond Swayne is something of a free speech absolutist on this issue, despite him being pretty pro-Israel. ‘Jihad’ (desmondswaynemp.com)
I agree with him and don’t think it’s an odd position to take…
There is no free speech, if you ban anything you don’t like…
..and as long as it’s just part of a protest, and no one is targeted or threatened I don’t think it’s a big problem..if it gets out of hand we have plenty of laws that cover it….….
I agree with you and with him – his view is not odd but refreshing.
I am fairly pro-Israel too, but think free speech has to be given the broadest possible space.
“Diners hit with ‘carbon footprint charge’ on restaurant bills” – Scheme aims to tackle global warming by charging £1.23 per cover
I’m surprised the charge isn’t £6.66
Oh look, another tax to provide arms for Ukraine…
We need to rework that ULEZ comment by Lee Hurst earlier in the year:
‘According to the govt, you eating food is causing such bad climate change in the world that each year you are literally destroying the environment.
You absolute b*astards.
However….
If you give them £1.23 per cover each time you eat out, the environment can go f*ck itself.’
That is one charge I will never pay.
In fact if I go in to a restaurant that is pushing this crap I will walk out and give them a flea in their ear.
Sleepwalking towards digital dystopia
– latest leaflet to print at home or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
“Protesters chanting ‘Jihad’ may not be arrested, say Met ahead of pro-Palestine march”
….but anyone in the vicinity silently praying for peace in their heads might be….
Is Europe destined for civil war? I’d have thought that sounded far-fetched not so long ago but looking at the state countries are in now, the crime levels thanks to a certain demographic and the rights they are afforded, the lack of power the police now seem to have, who are reduced to just enablers, alongside the politicians who are making it all possible and are doing nothing to stop it, I can see how this is a distinct possibility.
”No sane person, according to Thucydides, wants the worst form of war, which is civil war. It is for this reason that Europe needs to better understand what it has done to itself. Europe doubtless intended to “do good” but has demographically overwhelmed itself with people who Europeans may have imagined were fleeing tyranny, but who in fact were bringing tyranny with them. Three measures seem worth considering.
The first is a moratorium on immigration. Europeans will have the greatest difficulty integrating the populations already present in their countries. They may not even be able to. Many do not seem to want to integrate into European culture; they appear to want Europeans to integrate into theirs. It should by now be obvious that adding millions of newcomers every year will not solve the problem.
When the Italian Navy intercepted illegal migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and sent them back to their point of origin in Libya, not only did the ECHR condemn Italy for this “obvious” breach of human rights; the Italians had to pay 15,000 euros ($17,000 at the time) to each of these illegal migrants in the name of “moral damage”. This kind of money is equivalent to more than 10 years of income in the countries of origin of Mr. Hirsi Jamaa and his companions: Somalia and Eritrea.
In 2016, Somalia’s GDP per capita was an estimated $400 ; Eritrea’s $1,300. Everyone, of course, heard about the Hirsi ruling. In Africa, especially, many understood that if they could reach the Mediterranean, European navies would now be obliged to ferry them directly to Europe.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20103/europe-civil-war
I don’t understand all the hand wringing over the lack of integration. Does no one remember that since tge Blair government went searching the world for immigrants the political class has called for multiculturalism and acclaimed it’s supposed benefits to us all.
Well, we’ve got it but few can see the advantages except those who came here to live safer than in their own countries at our expense and those who hated us all along.
I would rate that as among the most successful of all the policies promoted by the political class in recent decades. They have got what they wanted and all at no cost to them.
I don’t think, or I hope we aren’t, near a civil war yet!!…..but certainly I think mass unregulated immigration is going to be THE big question to decide in relation to who you vote for…throughout Europe…We have seen it already…
In Britain of course I won’t be voting as we have no choice, as they are all ‘for’..until someone new appear I’m knackered….
Sweden’s right-wing government said on Friday it would make it harder for non-European immigrants to receive social benefits, saying it wanted to dissuade migrants from arriving, and better integrate those who do.
In your protest coverage, you seem to have missed the one yesterday about Jewish protestors shutting down Grand Central Station.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2023/10/28/protest-new-york-grand-central-israel-gaza-palestine/
Back to your substack piece again, modularist. It’s been disappointing just how little coverage there has been of both UN activities and the various mediation negotiations that are taking place to defuse this horrific situation, let alone demonstrations by non-allied groups of all denominations urging peace.
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a major resolution on the Gaza crisis, calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142932
I was just about to post the same link with a comment from Mike Yeadon, Robin Monotti & Cory Morningstar’s Telegram.
I’ll post the comment anyway.
“UN General Assembly adopts Gaza resolution calling for immediate and sustained ‘humanitarian truce’ | UN News
120 votes in favour, 14 against and 45 abstentions.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142847
This part is noteworthy. See how many countries voted against condemning the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct 7th;
”BREAKING: The United Nations General Assembly just voted on an amendment to condemn the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas.
It failed to get a 2/3 majority to pass with 55 countries voting against and 23 abstentions.
Ambassadors even applauded after it failed.”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1718003966787694852
What does that tell you?
It tells me that large parts of the world either don’t read this conflict the way our media does or that they don’t share our values. Probably some of both.
In polling, 3/4 of the UK public wants an immediate ceasefire; this is not reflected by our media either.
Many of those people marching today will be people who are concerned about the civilians of Gaza and who want a ceasefire and peace. That will not be reflected by the media, which will smear them as jihadists and Hamas supporters/apologists.
Yes…the split is pretty much ‘the west’ and the rest….I suspect some voted, not from conscience but from ‘allegiances …’ either way…
I think though that this should make the Western countries as a whole just stop and have a re-think…this is the moment when they go all out against the ‘rest of the world’ or not….!!
Indeed!
Now here’s an example of ‘free speech’, and how it’s evidently a one-way street. Riddle me this; if shouting for a jihad and gassing the Jews is tolerated ( because free speech ), why is this guy not allowed to state actual fact? See the reaction of the Muslims and how triggered they are, but he’s done nothing wrong ( <2min );
https://twitter.com/ApostateProphet/status/1718091017302274334
He’s referring to what is written in their Koran yet he deserves to get lynched? Double standards, much?
”According to ahadith reported by Bukhari, the Prophet of Islam “married Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed [i.e., consummated] that marriage when she was nine years old.”[2] He was at this time in his early fifties. Many Islamic apologists claim – in the teeth of this evidence – that Aisha was actually older. Karen Armstrong asserts that “Tabari says that she was so young that she stayed in her parents’ home and the marriage was consummated there later when she had reached puberty.”[3] Unfortunately, her readers are unlikely to have volumes of Tabari on hand to check her assertion; contrary to Armstrong’s account, the Muslim historian quotes Aisha thusly: “The Messenger of God married me when I was seven; my marriage was consummated when I was nine.”[4]
https://www.jihadwatch.org/the_truth_about_muhammad
Norman Finkelstein’s ‘teach-in’ on Israel, Hamas and Gaza.
https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/rehosted-umass-amherst-teach-in
Captain Obvious needs to ask; Does anyone know why these people can’t be taken to a closer and more suitable Muslim country? Has peak Jihad not been reached yet in the UK?
”The UK has started the evacuation of AFGHAN REFUGEES, eligible for asylum, from PAKISTAN
The first flight carrying 132 refugees landed at London STANSTED AIRPORT at 3.15pm yesterday
Around 3000 AFGHAN REFUGEES will be flown to England and put in HOTELS over the next 6 weeks
They have been in Pakistan since last year when the UK authorities made accommodation arrangements a prerequisite for repatriation
Their repatriation became a contentious issue for the UK government after two refugees, eligible for the relocation, filed a case in a London court, forcing London to expedite the repatriation
On Thursday, a chartered flight with 132 Afghan refugees onboard departed the Islamabad International Airport for London’s Stansted Airport at 3:15pm.”
https://twitter.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1717799787502699006
FFS.
“The challenges ahead for GB News as Ofcom gears up for battle”
That horse was broken when they turfed out Mark Steyn.
Plus:
“Boris Johnson joins GB News as presenter and commentator”
Any bets being taken for how soon an anonymous Ofcom complaint is made? First show, perhaps?
Bozo the traitor on GB News. I won’t be watching. In fact the only GB News I watch now is Neil Oliver.
I literally would rather make myself blind than watch Boris…the evil turd…!
UN vote. 140:14, 45 abstentions (including UK), for an immediate ceasefire.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-resolution-urging-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-passes-with-overwhelming-majority/
Correction, 120 for.
Israel and the USA voted against the ceasefire…along with twelve other countries..there were 45 abstentions including the UK (fecking evil cowards)
All communications have now been cut off with both the WHO, the UN and other humanitarian groups having lost all communication with their colleagues in Gaza…
Make no mistake, I believe a truly evil act is being carried out that will stain the people committing it forever….
“Carpet-bombing two million Palestinians in the dark.
This is “counterterrorism”. This is “self-defence”. This is “democracy”. This is “civilisation”.
This is what Western powers have shown unconditional support for……”
“Please can we stop equating Hamas and Israel” – Boris..
Exactly who is equating them?
I haven’t seen one word in any Western MSM to that end.. Not one….and I don’t think the general public think it for a moment either….
So who exactly is the comment aimed at?
Maybe there’s another question, which you don’t want to answer, which is can we stop equating the innocent civilians in Gaza with Hammas? That, I think, is the question you don’t like people asking…
As far as I can see it’s only people like Boris and the rest of the ‘London luvvies’,
(all of who seem to appear in this round-up) putting up a mostly imaginary straw man, just so they can tear it down…..which is much easier than tackling the real problems…
People see right through you..and as I’ve said a million times..this doesn’t help the people you seem to think you are helping….
Quite. The main equation I see is between Hamas and the Palestinians.
..It gives me no joy actually to point out these realities..I think that’s why a lot of people want to leave DS, or are very fed-up….
Daily we are bombarded with ‘everybody is anti semitic stories…’ from the London echo-chamber…..
..but never the ‘are Israel’s current actions right or wrong’ stories …
We all see the dissonance behind the fact that anyone talking about, or to Israel, has to mention October 7th…or else they are somehow anti-Semitic….but no one is allowed to follow that with any talk of Gaza or Israel’s actions…
I suppose it’s up to us to try to claim some balance by posting the ‘other’ stories….like the one you posted about Grand Central Station?
As I have no allegiance to Israel, I don’t feel that pointing out anything to do with the conflict is off the table..as it has never been with anything else..
UN…Palestine…
”It’s been confirmed that 53 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed since October 7
These people dedicated their lives to their communities. One colleague died collecting bread. He leaves behind 6 children.
We are beyond devastated, as this unspeakable suffering continues.”
The DS can be as closed-minded as it wants in ploughing one furrow..but the rest of the world aren’t following..and I wish they would wake up at least enough to accept there isn’t just one story out there….
I’m not leaving because it is one of the few places that does not censor BTL.
Spiked does not censor BTL either, but I did leave after Fraser and Tom attacked Andrew Bridgen on spurious grounds, which pales in comparison in contrast to their articles over the last three weeks. They still defend free speech, but they just made me too angry over Bridgen when only he, with some support from Chope & McVey, is the only person in Parliament standing up for the truth and against the WHO.
I am disappointed with TY’s editorial line here, but I’ll stay.
I see the Daily Sceptic’s tiresome campaign against electric vehicles continues. Toby, sort Will out, please.
What makes you think it’s just “Will” or that “Toby” is an EV enthusiast?
Where is this “tiresome campaign”? I mean, I’ve seen plenty of sceptical reporting regarding the supposed benefits of EVs, their apparent downsides, and quite correctly IMO plenty of opposition to attempts to impose EVs on a market that clearly doesn’t want them.
If some firm wants to make EVs and sell them, and people want to buy them, and someone wants to install charging stations, let them do so – just not with my tax money thanks, and as long as manufacturers are free to make ICE cars and I am free to buy them, forever.
My brother (a Tesla owner) received a message from Tesla offering benefits for making new contacts for them. Another from Octopus for green energy contacts. His thought was that the only other person he knows who would want a Tesla already has two. Why might that be, and why would green suppliers need to hold recruiting drives at all, the technology being so superior?
I suppose that all the rest of the country are bucking market forces by reading disinformation from the Daily Mail or DS instead of the enthusiastic reports of their betters. That’s what comes of not centralising the economy enough so that the plebs have to see reason.
The only EV owners I know are rich people or people who have them via the firms they work for, with huge subsidies from the taxpayer.
EV’s are a political solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Even if the problem did exist, and reducing CO2 was a benefit, EV’s are a lousy way of achieving that. The only reason that EV’s have got any traction at all is that big companies and public bodies buy them for their ESG value, and then there’s the obscene amount of tax payer money being throw at private individuals to buy them. Take that away, and they will die faster than the market for a Betamax video recorder.
I think EVs could well be a key issue in the looming net-zero challenge. The net-zero politicians have demanded that this technology just steps in and replaces ICE vehicles, but they do not do this. Yes they are a mode of transport but you cannot run them the same way you run ICE vehicles, in my view individual ownership of an EV is not a viable option, if you are going to use one it needs to be on a lease option or via a car club. They are too much of a liability to justify individual personal ownership.
The motor industry is an important part of the UK economy, are the politicians OK to see the motor industry decline along with the UK economy? Will they petulantly restrict petrol and diesel supplies and push ICE vehicles off the road? In my view given current technology, resources and finance; we can only hope to have 3 – 5 million EVs on the UK’s roads. If they push all the ICE vehicles off the road that is a lot of current motorists who will no longer have a car. This would have huge and dramatic social and economic impacts, Are we ready for all this, do the politicians really know where all this is heading?
To my mind that is why all the articles about EVs are important.
perhaps if you wrote a considered article countering the tireless campaign and supporting the case for evs DS would include it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/27/british-lawyers-call-on-government-to-press-for-ceasefire-in-gaza
More than 250 British lawyers, including eminent KCs and professors of law, have called on the UK government to press for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying serious breaches of international law are being committed.
The lawyers have written to the prime minister, Rishi Sunak; James Cleverly, the foreign secretary; and Grant Schapps, the defence secretary, setting out what is in effect legal advice regarding the Israel-Hammas war.