Lockdown Rebellion Returns
Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph reports that the Covid Recovery Group of Conservative MPs is now as many as 100 strong and enjoying increasing clout with Number 10. The return to tiers was, he claims, a concession to the rebels, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy with the result.
It all sounds a bit ungrateful, given that it’s not even a year since Boris Johnson personally won an 80-strong majority for his otherwise-doomed party. But many Tories feel that a national collapse is underway, because the Government cannot think its way out of lockdown. Last week, the Chief Whip finally persuaded the Prime Minister of the seriousness of the situation: there are now about 100 MPs in the “Covid group” of rebels. They wanted a local lockdown system, judged on clear criteria and answerable to parliamentary scrutiny.
What they got yesterday was intended to quell the mutiny. No more Vallance and Whitty horror shows, with blood-curdling slides drawn from data which falls apart on further scrutiny. No more “illustrations” or “scenarios” showing 50,000 cases a day or 4,000 daily deaths. In its place, new criteria for judging local lockdowns: virus infection levels, especially among the elderly. The rate of virus growth (or decline). Pressure on the NHS.
In theory, it’s just what lockdown sceptics asked for: a transparent, evidence-based way of judging the new system. But the way the map has been drawn has led even pro-lockdown MPs into revolt as many find their constituency under tougher restrictions than before lockdown. They ask why their constituency has been lumped with others – and how they can justify voting it through. “This is like one of these old colonial maps where they draw a marker pen through territory they don’t recognise,” says one MP.
The new system is riddled with maddening inconsistencies.
Kent is regarded as one homogeneous lump and been placed into Tier 3, having had no special restrictions before lockdown. All of Buckinghamshire has ended up in Tier 2, in spite of places like the Chilterns being almost as Covid-light as Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. York, too, is back in Tier 2 – in spite of having less Covid than before lockdown. In the Commons yesterday, MPs queued up to ask: where is the logic?
It’s looking like MPs will get a cost-benefit analysis, but not the one they’ve been pressing for.
No 10 has made one final offering: to publish assessments of what local lockdowns do to the economy, society and wider public health. This is intended to persuade MPs that the Prime Minister will now look at things in the round and judge local lockdowns by more than simply the virus levels. This would do much to assuage those who argue that officials should talk about risk to cancer treatment, or the chances of furloughed small businesses making it to Easter. But those who have seen the ideas for the report predict that it will be underwhelming, and unlikely to win over any wavering MPs.
In a press release put out by the Covid Recovery Group, Harriett Baldwin MP, a former minister, said:
I voted for the current lockdown on the basis that it would give us a 28-day period to develop a new and enduring strategy for living with the virus that doesn’t require us to keep having to live under cycles of damaging lockdowns and severe restrictions, and to reform NHS Test & Trace so that only the infectious individuals and their close contacts have to isolate.
Over 23 million of us were living under Tier 1 restrictions before the lockdown – that figure will be under 1 million in December. There is no logic whatsoever in having a month of lockdown only for people to have to live under an even more severe set of restrictions afterwards.
That’s why we must see the evidence, the data and the cost benefit analysis – published in full and on time – so that we can assess whether or not the current strategy is working, and make sure we know if we are being asked to vote for something with an end date and which will explicitly save more lives than it costs.
While Labour continues to support the Government’s Covid strategy no Tory rebellion can realistically succeed. However, relying on opposition MPs to bail you out is never a good look for a Prime Minister and often means his (or her) days are numbered. And what if Keir Starmer sniffs an opportunity and switches to opposing the measures? The new tier system, in which the majority of English citizens have been placed in a higher tier than they were before the four-week lockdown, looks to be a massive own-goal by Boris and is bound to poll badly. Starmer may conclude that opposing the measures – and calling for a continuing national lockdown instead – is a way to ingratiate himself with Labour’s traditional voters in the Midlands and the North who’ve been placed in Tier 3, particularly those that deserted the party for the Conservatives last December.
If Starmer does decide to abandon Boris the CRG will find itself in a strong position in the run-up to next week’s vote. Some realistic demands would be:
- More granular differentiation between tiers, so, for instance, the whole of Kent doesn’t have to be plunged into Tier 3 because there are over 500 cases per 100,000 people in Swale, even though there are only 120/100,000 in Ashford. (See MailOnline for the fury this has unleashed.)
- Meaningful reviews of the tiered restrictions every fortnight, followed by a Parliamentary vote, instead of asking MPs to approve the current arrangements until March of next year and place their faith in Matt Hancock to decide which areas to move in and out of different tiers.
- A proper cost-benefit analysis of the impact of the tiered restrictions so MPs can make an informed choice about whether to support them every two weeks.
- The replacement of Sir Patrick Vallance as Chief Scientific Officer with Prof Sunetra Gupta and Chris Whitty as Chief Medical Officer with Prof Carl Heneghan. Okay, maybe that would be too great a humiliation for the PM, but at the very least Gupta and Heneghan should be invited to join SAGE, alongside Dr Mike Yeadon, Dr Clare Craig, Prof Karol Sikora, Dr John Lee, Prof Ellen Townsend, Prof Allyson Pollock and Prof David Livermore.
If the stars align, we might just be looking at a turning point.
Stop Press: According to today’s Times, Boris faces a growing rebellion on his back benches and won’t be able to count on enough support to get his proposed measures through without Starmer’s help.
Tell Your MP How PCR Testing is Fooling the World
Today, Lockdown Sceptics is publishing a brilliant new briefing document for MPs that explains very clearly (with oodles of illuminating graphs) how the fatally flawed PCR test, which was never designed to be used on an industrial scale, has given the false appearance of a deadly autumn epidemic when in fact the underlying signals, such as GP respiratory consultations, hospital admissions and overall deaths, are normal.
It is authored by Dr Mike Yeadon, Dr Clare Craig, Jonathan Engler and Christian McNeill, and comes with all their expertise and experience as they set out in clear terms the issues and the evidence.
From the introduction:
Across Europe, including in the UK, we see the following:
1. Daily ‘cases’ sky-rocketed in Europe as Autumn arrived.
2. Daily deaths labelled as ‘Covid deaths’ rose in line with ‘cases’ – to levels apparently higher than at the Spring peak.
3. BUT: Total all-cause mortality does not reflect the above.
What is behind this conundrum?
The central thesis of this paper is that we have a major problem with PCR-testing.
This is distorting policy and creating the illusion that we are in a serious pandemic when in fact we are not.
This is causing:
– Excess deaths due to restricted access to the NHS.
– An NHS staffing crisis which is exacerbating matters.
– Unprecedented assaults on civil liberties and the economy.
What we need to do about this:
– Stop mass-testing using PCR in the UK and replace with Lateral Flow Tests where required.
– Other recommendations as detailed later in this document.
We’ve given it a permanent home on the right-hand side. Find it here.
There is also a PDF version which you can download and this is the best one to use for attaching to an email and sending to your MP. Or you can use a website like Write To Them and include a link to the PDF.
Definitely worth reading in full.
Oxford Vaccine To Undergo Extra Trial
In what appears to be an admission of serious problems that need addressing, AstraZeneca has announced that it will run another trial for the Oxford vaccine. The Telegraph has more.
The drug company behind one of the UK’s leading coronavirus vaccines is set to run an extra trial amid growing questions about the jab’s performance.
On Monday, scientists from Oxford University and AstraZeneca revealed that their vaccine had achieved an overall efficacy rate of 70% in Phase Three trials. However, this rose to 90% in a sub-group, a finding researchers said was “intriguing“.
It was then revealed that this had stemmed from an error when some of those in the study were given just half a dose for the first jab when a full dose had been intended. Those given the intended dose saw efficacy rates of just 62%.
The company has said it will run extra trials to satisfy regulators after US health officials revealed that nobody in the group with 90% efficacy rates was above the age of 55.
Lockdown Sceptics contributor Barry Norris is not impressed by the spin coming out of AstraZeneca as they manage the PR of their disappointing (and botched) trial results.
There’s been no proper scientific release of the data; it’s all just been leaked out selectively and they breached trial protocol over the doses and switching to give the placebo group saline rather than meningitis vaccine, which was the original plan. I also suspect – and this is also true of the mRNA trials – that the antibody response fades from the data presented as we develop antibodies against the vaccine.
Things will start to get very interesting when and if the Astra vaccine is rolled out. People will realise that the vaccine hurts and comes with side effects which in most people will be worse than getting COVID. When people who have taken the vaccine still get COVID (as the response fades) there will be complaints and what if it heightens the risk for otherwise healthy adults through inhibiting the natural response? If it wasn’t for COVID the trial would already have been called a failure.
Astra now saying they will do more trials. Normally this is an admission that the first trial failed and isn’t enough to get the vaccine approved. Coincidentally, this was announced at 4.30pm on Thursday, just after the UK market shuts and with US markets shut for Thanksgiving – and not even a proper press release, again.
They are claiming that this will not affect UK authorisation but I think it will. If they haven’t done enough for the American FDA – of which this is a tacit admission – then are we saying in the UK we have lower safety standards?
Stop Press: A poll has found that almost half of doctors would not take a rushed Covid vaccine. A poll of readers of Medscape UK found that of 308 UK doctors, 4 in 10 would not get a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as one is approved by the MHRA. Medscape has the details.
Online polling took place 18th-23rd November after the positive Pfizer/BioNTech results but with most responses received before the positive news about the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
Of those who wouldn’t have the jab at this stage:
– 56% cited safety concerns
– 27% would rather wait
– 7% mentioned personal health reasons
– 14% had other reasonsOverall, 59% said vaccination for healthcare staff should not be compulsory. Among those who wouldn’t have the jab at this stage, nine out of 10 were against compulsory staff vaccination.
Are We Over-Counting Excess Deaths?
How many more have died in England and Wales in 2020 than in a normal year? To calculate the number of “excess” deaths, most of us follow the ONS in comparing this year’s figure with the average of the previous five years. But is this a fair representation of how many deaths are above what would be expected? Not when the population is ageing, explains Ross Clark in the Spectator.
Not only is the population of England and Wales growing; it is also ageing. The population of over-70s, for example, has grown over the past decade by an average of 2% a year. Therefore, year on year, we should expect deaths to rise – simply comparing this year’s mortality rate with the five-year average does not give us a like for like picture. A more enlightening view is provided by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, which publishes a weekly ‘mortality monitor’ in which it compares this year’s mortality rate with last year’s, adjusting for the change in population profile over the past 12 months.
Its analysis shows that deaths in week 46 were 1,442 — or 13% — higher than they would have been had 2020 had the same mortality rate as last year. Compare it with the standardised mortality rate for the years 2015 to 2019, on the other hand, and excess deaths for week 46 of 2020 fall to 1,388.
By this way of counting 2020 was only running at 6% above average mortality by mid-November (see graph above). Many of those extra deaths are the result of lockdown, not the virus, of course.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: An article in the Johns Hopkins Newsletter published on November 22nd summarised the findings of Genevieve Briand, Assistant Program Director of the Applied Economics Master’s Degree Program at Hopkins. She analysed all-cause mortality in the US in 2020, comparing the data to deaths in previous years, and found, to her surprise, that 2020 was less exceptional than it seemed at first blush.
After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September, which includes the period from before COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. to after infection rates soared.
Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
“The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals,” Briand said.
Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged. Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths.
These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.
But how is this possible? After all, hasn’t COVID-19 killed over 250,000 Americans this year?
When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018, she noticed that instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease. Even more surprising this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes.
This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19. This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.
Needless to say, the article no longer appears on the website of the Johns Hopkins Newsletter – far too heretical. But you can read an archived version here. We’ve made a copy in case the enforcers of Covid orthodoxy remove that too. If it’s gone by the time you read this, email us and we’ll send it to you.
Update: AIER have published an analysis of the article here.
Hospitals That Kill
After yesterday’s story about Covid spreading around hospitals, a reader writes to tell us how this happened to people he knew.
How your story yesterday about hospitals not protecting people from Covid rang true. Two days ago our neighbour died at home after coming out of hospital from 15 months’ unsuccessful treatment for leukaemia. Half that time was spent recovering from the stroke caused by the first bout of chemo. The second bout of treatment ended recently when he gave up on it all and was discharged to come home to die. Guess what? He’d also just caught Covid in hospital, having spent months and months in virtual isolation to protect him, after an infected person was brought into the ward so naturally he’ll go down as a Covid statistic. He was 60.
Last week a close friend’s father-in-law died too. He was in his 90s and had acute renal failure. He was whipped into hospital where he tested negative for Covid twice. By the third test he’d caught Covid too after another infected person was brought in and successfully infected everyone in the ward. Of course, he’s gone down as a Covid statistic too.
Now, both these men had terminal conditions and would have died anyway, probably at the time they did. But nothing can alter the fact that we have been suffocated by precautions to protect people like them from Covid only for the health service we are supposed to be protecting actually to allow them and the people in adjacent beds to catch the wretched disease. In this incredible bizarro world we are being exhorted to save the NHS from being crushed by a disease it’s actively spreading.
Covid spreading in hospitals both increases the true Covid death toll and inflates the number of those who die “with Covid”. We need to get much better at separating those with highly infectious disease in the healthcare system.
Dear Deirdre…
A reader has decided to write to Deirdre, the Sun‘s agony aunt, about a relationship that’s gone south.
Dear Deirdre,
I’m starting to suspect that there might be a problem with my relationship. Please tell me I’m not going crazy.
At the start of this year I started going out with a new man, Boris. He was charming and seemed very clever – he’d been to Oxford and could read Latin. He’d “been around the block” a bit, if you know what I mean, and he was a bit overweight. But he was good fun and very decisive. He liked to “get things done”, which was a big appeal.
Anyway, in March he started to change. He went down the pub one evening with his friend, Neil, who’s a bit of a weirdo to be honest, and Neil told him all about this “Chinese bat flu” that was going to wipe out the human race. Neil showed him all this stuff on his phone that he’d got off Wikipedia and he did some calculations on the back of a beer mat showing that the population of the UK would basically be wiped out in six month’s time unless we completely changed our way of life.
When Boris told me about Neil’s predictions I thought he was having a laugh. Sadly not. The next morning he went to the corner shop and bought all the loo roll and Pot Noodles then he insisted that we stay at home completely, no going to work or socialising, and only going out to buy absolute essentials.
He’s a clever guy, so although I had my doubts I assumed he knew what he was talking about, and creepy Neil was good at maths and had once been on Countdown. Anyway, Boris said it only needed to be for three weeks – to “flatten the sombrero” or something (don’t ask me!) so I thought I’d play along, maybe it was a mid-life crisis or something.
Anyway, three weeks came and went, and still Boris wouldn’t let me go out and see anyone or go back to work. I didn’t complain though. It’s hard to explain – he’d spooked me so much I kind of stopped thinking critically about what he was saying. And it wasn’t too bad at first. I was a bit worried about the financial impact of not working, but Boris said he had lots of money in the bank. And it was quite nice to have a bit of time off. We watched Tiger King on Netflix and I bought a lot of stuff off Amazon to take my mind off things.
After several months things got ever so slightly more normal. Boris said that we could go out again and go to the shops and talk to people, but we still had to “stay safe” at all times and stay two metres apart from other people. I could even go back to work for a bit. I kind of played along with it, thinking he was about to lose enthusiasm for the whole bat flu situation. Then, in the middle of summer, out of nowhere he suddenly announced that we had to wear masks whenever we went to the shops! This was when things started to get really weird. He even wanted to wear a mask when we made love, but I drew the line there.
Then he got angry with me one day and said I hadn’t been taking the rules seriously enough. I should say at this point that Neil and these other creepy blokes from the quiz team down the pub, Chris and Pat, were obsessed with this thing called the “R number”. This had something to do with how much bat flu there was going around. Every day they would call Boris up and tell him that the “R number” wasn’t coming down enough and there was too much bat flu, and Boris would go white and say how sorry he was. Then he would take it out on me and give me these long lectures. One day Chris and Pat sent him this really scary chart, showing how we were all going to die again unless we acted straight away. I remember Boris asking if this was a prediction, and for some reason this made them furious, and they kept screaming over and over “it’s a projection!”, which really confused him.
Boris sat me down and said the “R number” was still too high, and it was all my fault for not following “the rules”. I must have been forgetting about the two metres, or not wearing the mask, or not singing Happy Birthday while I washed my hands or something. He said that he had no choice but to introduce a “Three Tier” system. Tier 1 meant things were bad, Tier 2 meant that they were very bad, and Tier 3 meant that they were catastrophic. We were only allowed to do certain things depending on what Tier we were in. This was the only way we could “save Christmas”. I asked if there could ever be anything lower than Tier 1 and he just shook his head and said that was obviously impossible. He called up Chris and Pat and they said that we could start off in Tier 2. This meant I had to wear a mask even when I was driving in my car and no-one else was around.
We went on like this for a while, until one day Chris and Pat called Boris and gave him a stern talking to. Another “projection” – the R number was going to get high again! Boris then started shouting at me, and accused me of having taken my mask off in Lidl. It was back to “lockdown”. This meant no meeting anyone at all, no going to work, nothing. This went on for a month. I started getting very anxious and worried about everything. Plus I had a really nasty shock one day when I happened to see Boris’s credit card statement. He was tens of thousands of pounds in debt! I started crying and shaking and having some very dark thoughts.
I think Boris realised how upset I was and he sat me down and said he knew that it was tough but it was all for my own good. He didn’t like locking me up like this but I had given him no choice. Then his tone changed and he said that there was some good news – the “lockdown” would end in December! I was overjoyed, until he revealed that the “lockdown” would be replaced by the return of the “Tiers”. Only this time it was even more serious. I could forget about Tier 1. It was just Tier 2 or 3 from now on. To be honest, I couldn’t even understand what the difference between these Tiers was. It was something to do with eating a “substantial meal” and “the rule of 6” – total gibberish, really. Boris did say that we could have five days off “the rules” at Christmas so that I could see my mum, but we would have to sit two metres apart with the windows open and not use the same serving spoons.
I asked him if the more serious “Tier system” meant that the bat flu had got worse. And here’s the weird thing – he said that there was actually less bat flu than before. This made no sense, and I tried to get him to explain, but he started muttering “hands face space” over and over again and talking about the toot of the distant bugle. I used to find that stuff quite charming but to be honest it’s got really annoying and I’m not convinced that he’s in his right mind.
I just don’t know when all of this is going to end. It’s unbearable – the bizarre rules that change every second of the day, the uncertainty, the endless control over my every action, the lack of freedom, the fear and anxiety. I think the mask is starting to make me ill. I just can’t see any hope for the future.
And here’s the thing. I’ve got a friend who works in a hospital. She says that the bat flu was actually real, and it was quite nasty, but it wasn’t anything particularly out of the ordinary. They coped with it without much difficulty and it seems to be going away now. They are having a pretty normal winter in her hospital – certainly no busier than usual. So why the Tiers and the masks and the rwo metres and the massive credit card bill? It doesn’t make any sense to me any more.
I’m at the end of my tether. What should I do?
Yous sincerely,
Anonymous
He hasn’t yet received a reply, but he imagines it might go something like this.
Dear Anonymous,
You asked me what you should do. I’ll tell you. Pack your bags and leave this man, right now. This is not normal behaviour.
The constant control, the limiting of your freedoms, the psychological manipulation, the false hope, the small rewards for good behaviour, the forced financial dependency – these are all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship.
Perhaps he can’t help himself. He seems to be a deeply deluded man. He probably wants this to end as much as you do.
This is not your fault. But it needs to stop – now.
Round-Up
- “Majority of public sector workers to be given pay rise, Rishi Sunak announces” – So much for a public sector pay freeze, in the Telegraph
- “We need a dose of vaccine realism” – Characteristically witty piece from Lionel Shriver in the Spectator
- “The Government is throwing the hospitality sector under the bus on the strength of a back-of-an-envelope calculation” – Ross Clark in the Telegraph wonders why the hospitality sector has become the whipping boy
- “Manufacturing error clouds Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine study results” – More on the woes of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the Telegraph
- “We don’t have to listen to the BBC any more” – Jeremy Paxman in the Telegraph lays into his old employer while promoting his new podcast, “The Lock In”. He’s already done great interviews with Lord Sumption and Professor Sunetra Gupta (clearly a sceptic)
- “Ofcom is right – the BBC’s shameful ‘yoof’ obsession is repelling viewers with brains” – Simon Heffer in the Telegraph joins in the Auntie-bashing
- “Eton College dismisses teacher amid free speech row prompted by lecture on masculinity” – Appalling story of a teacher sacked from the elite boys’ school for daring to challenge the radical feminist view that there’s something fundamentally toxic about masculinity. Eton has gone woke
- “North East Covid cases continue to fall as expert says tougher tiers ‘hard to justify’” – Chronicle Live go to Prof Carl Heneghan for some sense amid the chaotic tyranny
- “The Lasting Consequences of Lockdowns” – Ethan Yang on the AIER blog on the long-term dangers of 2020’s lockdown obsession
- “Has lockdown affected your mental health?” – King’s College London seeks volunteers for an online study of personality and mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic. “Personality profile for all and £10 expenses if you complete the follow-up.” Study code: 57894876
- “It makes sense. Warmer winter, less flu deaths. More of the most susceptible people living so next epidemic worse.” – Insightful tweet from Michael Levitt on the “dry tinder” idea, responding to “IFI44L”: “Across the globe as a whole, winter 2019 was the second hottest on record for the planet’s surface… ‘analysis of US influenza between 1997-98 to present indicates that warm winters tend to be followed by severe epidemics…'”
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Three today: “I wasn’t born to follow” by The Byrds, “Living in hope” by The Rutles and “I Think I’m Gonna Kill Myself” by Elton John.
Stop Press: “Safetyland“, the latest tune from lockdown sceptic rockers MediaBear, is out now.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, McDonald’s has been accused of the weird woke crime of “cultural appropriation” because it introduced a sandwich based on a Jamaican recipe. The Mail has the story.
Fast food giant McDonald’s has been accused of “cultural appropriation at its finest” over one of its new Christmas menu items.
The chain announced a new Jerk Chicken Sandwich for its festive menu, which also features a double Big Mac and a Celebrations McFlurry. But it is the Jerk Chicken Sandwich which has caused the biggest stir – and not all for the right reasons. While some have taken to social media to praise the burger, others have hit out at McDonald’s accusing them of “cultural appropriation”.
Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity. It is particularly controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.
Jerk chicken originates from Jamaica and is believed by historians to come from indigenous Taino people and Maroons – descendants of Africans who were enslaved in the Caribbean islands.
One person tweeted: “The more I think about it the more I’m bothered by the McDonald’s ‘jerk chicken’ attempt. It shows me one of two things: 1) They don’t care to respect the culture or 2) They have zero diversity on their team.”
Another said: “Jerk Chicken Sandwich, yet there is not one McDonald’s in Jamaica.”
One person tweeted: “Who approved McDonald’s Jerk Chicken Sandwich?”
Another added: “Disrespect to the fullest. McDonald’s slapped a dead sauce on top of a crispy chicken and called it Jerk Chicken Sandwich, unreal.”
By this twisted logic there should surely be a ban on the sale of all Jamaican jerk products to non-Jamaicans, and on all non-Jamaicans enjoying them.
Stop Press: FSU Legal Advisory Council member Andrew Tettenborn has written in CapX on the Universities UK Critical Race Theory capitulation that we flagged up in yesterday’s Woke G.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (takes a while to arrive). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £1.99 from Etsy here. And, finally, if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face masks in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you want be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration, a petition started by Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya calling for a strategy of “Focused Protection” (protect the elderly and the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with life), was launched last month and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it ever since. If you Googled it a week after launch, the top hits were three smear pieces from the Guardian, including: “Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’.” (Freddie Sayers at UnHerd warned us about this the day before it appeared.) On the bright side, Google UK has stopped shadow banning it, so the actual Declaration now tops the search results – and Toby’s Spectator piece about the attempt to suppress it is among the top hits – although discussion of it has been censored by Reddit. The reason the zealots hate it, of course, is that it gives the lie to their claim that “the science” only supports their strategy. These three scientists are every bit as eminent – more eminent – than the pro-lockdown fanatics so expect no let up in the attacks. (Wikipedia has also done a smear job.)
You can find it here. Please sign it. Now over 700,000 signatures.
Update: The authors of the GDB have expanded the FAQs to deal with some of the arguments and smears that have been made against their proposal. Worth reading in full.
Update 2: Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration are involved with new UK anti-lockdown campaign Recovery. Find out more and join here.
Update 3: You can watch Sunetra Gupta set out the case for “Focused Protection” here and Jay Bhattacharya make it here.
Update 4: The three GBD authors plus Prof Carl Heneghan of CEBM have launched a new website collateralglobal.org, “a global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures”. Follow Collateral Global on Twitter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many JRs being brought against the Government and its ministers, we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
First, there’s the Simon Dolan case. You can see all the latest updates and contribute to that cause here.
Then there’s the Robin Tilbrook case. You can read about that and contribute here.
Then there’s John’s Campaign which is focused specifically on care homes. Find out more about that here.
There’s the GoodLawProject’s Judicial Review of the Government’s award of lucrative PPE contracts to various private companies. You can find out more about that here and contribute to the crowdfunder here.
The Night Time Industries Association has instructed lawyers to JR any further restrictions on restaurants, pubs and bars.
And last but not least there’s the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. You can read about that and make a donation here.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
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And Finally…
In his Spectator column this week, Toby lets on about the unusual sleeping arrangements that writing Lockdown Sceptics – and having the house rewired – have created in his home.
I’ve moved out of my home. No, Caroline and I haven’t broken up. It’s just that we’re having the house rewired, which means we have to be out of our bedroom by 8am Ordinarily, that wouldn’t matter but about eight months ago I started a blog about lockdown and I’m usually up until 4am working on it. We have almost 7,000 subscribers to our daily newsletter and I want it to be waiting for them when they wake up. And superhuman though I am, I can’t survive on four hours’ sleep a night.
I haven’t gone very far. I’ve stuck a blow-up mattress in the garden shed that doubles as my office. But, weirdly, the children seem to think this is a prelude to divorce. Given how many of their friends’ parents have separated — the divorce rate in England and Wales is 42% — they’ve become experts in the telltale signs, and apparently Mum and Dad sleeping in different bedrooms is one of them. My efforts to reassure them have been in vain. Earlier this week, I explained to 13-year-old Freddie that it was only a temporary measure, but he just stared at me anxiously. “Don’t you and Mum love each other any more?” he asked.
And it’s not just the kids.
Even my mother-in-law has become a bit suspicious. She came to lunch last Saturday – she’s in our support bubble – and because she’s an expert on everything to do with home improvement I asked her if she thought it would be possible to add an extension to my shed and get a lavatory plumbed in. The idea would be to create a separate bedroom with an en suite bathroom. “That way, we could Airbnb it,” I said, rather unconvincingly. She arched her eyebrows and adopted an ironic tone: “I thought it was supposed to be a man cave, not a self-contained flat?”
Needless to say, Caroline has no objections to my sleeping in the shed – she says she sleeps better because I don’t disturb her when I come to bed in the middle of the night – but is slightly irritated that after supper, when the children are refusing to do their homework or are fighting with each other, I just slip out of the back door clutching a bottle of wine and a bowl of nuts. In the past, Caroline has complained that I’m more like a fifth child than a parent, but at least I would occasionally play the role of a more experienced older sibling – helping the others with their ties, walking them to the bus stop, telling them what to do if they got into a fight: “Hit first, hit hard and hit often.” But now I’ve been transformed into a kind of lodger. I smile at the children across the kitchen table, flirt with their mother a little and then retire to my room for the evening.
So now we know the secret of how Lockdown Sceptics gets published at 4am each morning.
Worth reading in full – very funny.
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Here’s a whole dossier of interesting coincidences.
There was nothing random about finding the exact coding from the internet that led to finding a vaccine “cure” within an afternoon was there? I call bs and also, yes we’re going there, scientists are Satanists too. Do ya think they could have had some diabolical help? Wake up and smell the eugenics agenda, it needs outing now!
Coincidence piled upon happenstance, piled upon randomness, piled upon similarity, piled upon mirror images, piled upon..? An awful of it about, but it’s about as random or coincidental as champion darts players hitting the bull, or Lineker coming out with something woke and wet.
Piled upon fraud.
Interesting you didn’t refer to Lineker’s footballing prowess – and funny!
Oh come on! Dr David Martin who head’s M-CAM international made the world aware of this fact in Nov/Dec 2021….If only the dopey indoctrinated demographic had been paying attention eh.
July 9th 2021.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-david-martin-dr-reiner-fuellmich-july-9-2021_RlmKScwsMf6ATEG.html
Yes he did …but how many have even heard of him?
Nobody who watches BBC etc, that’s for sure. That’s why you have to follow The Corona Investigative Committee, Bannon, Del Bigtree, Yeadon, Malone etc
The dopey indoctrinated demographic have already allowed themselves to be thoroughly suckered again, this time with the Ukraine distraction.
And for those of us who are further down the rabbit hole, David Martin was the main star of Mikki Willis’ docu “Plandemic 2” and presented a clear papertrail of patents attached to coronavirus. Still a great watch (1hr 15m) https://odysee.com/@sosinforomania:0/Plandemic-2-INDOCTORNATION-(RO):6
Another “No shit Sherlock,” moment.
So, it used to take 10 years to trial a vaccine: next time it looks like are there are not going to be any trials at all.Roll up your sleeves everyone!
ttps://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1496781019814535169
“Today we have pledged £160 million to Bill Gates.”
Gotta keep the wealth transfer going.
Talk about rubbing our faces in it.
They can pledge all the money they want. Have they any idea how many people now recoil from the word “vaccine” in horror?
When they pass their ‘Bill of Rights’ ( abolition) Bill they will be dragged people out of their homes to be vaxxed by force …”In the pubic interest for the greater good.”
( Forced vaccination was the norm ( including children) in the second half 19th century- with heavy casualties)
Napoleon had 100 days.
They didn’t end well.
Blame/thank the Prussians for that!
I’m sure CEPI will be very grateful to you, Sajid! Looks like the ‘future health threat’ is going to be pulled out of your bag at any moment … not like you have planned it or anything.
There is a man who has now revealed his true character and it’s not s pretty sight!
You can’t cut vaccine development to 100 days, all you can cut to 100 days is creating a candidate vaccine without having done any clinical trials.
If Bill Gates tries to dispute that, he needs to be banned for life from ever being involved in any healthcare endeavour, ever again.
It’s about time there was a politician with principles and balls who told Bill Gates where to get off……
Google
Gatesnotes.com perfume poop
Gates is a dangerous idiot or a psycho. I can’t decide which.
It is another interesting coincidence that India has banned the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from ever setting foot in that country ever again.
After the video posted here earlier in the week, with Gates exhibiting autistic body movements, I’ll vote for dangerous idiot. He seems as disconnected from other people as you can get.
? Autism doesn’t make a person an idiot.
He’s ultra-greedy, ultra-amoral, and an extreme sociopath.
“Underpants” were the genius’ topic as I recall, which he compared to wearing masks all the time.
Strangely sick.
“Idiot or psycho? Quite obviously both!
Banned in India? Never mind, he is still welcome at Borry and Carrie’s gilded gaff!
Gates should have stuck to developing toilets and Windows. Maybe it’s why a 100 day vaccine is akin to bad software swimming in recycled toilet water..
Bill Gated needs to be banned for/from life…period!
Javid has said a lot recently
When a Covid is a flu is one example.
https://twitter.com/Maggi1238/status/1496802384407900164
Javid is morphing into something of a WEF monster !
Mr. Goldman Sachs isn’t one of “them”, surely!!
Two guys who are moderately well-known (the Reading guy presumably only in local news) for their outspoken Corona-affinity immediately jumping up and explaining why this is certainly all natural is also an interesting coincidence.
We can debate and study till kingdom come and all these oohh ahh moments of “clarity” are coming too little too late for me. I realise we as a human collective are not all on the same page, regarding thinking for yourself, but how come the bs detectors are always switched off when it comes to science! Would have thought they would be constantly on, likewise journalists and educators. There are millions like us, I bet, that are in a state of wtaf every bloody day and now the craven media have the brass neck to say it’s back to normal. Apoplectic does not come close.
Please excuse the outburst, I really do appreciate you fine people for keeping some semblance of sanity in these cloistered internet halls.
Hypochondria has been encouraged for years. Poke that bear and all sorts of things arise.
As for science, the vast majority have no scientific education worthy of the name.
If only it were only hypochondria. Under a certain former labour PM, doctors started being paid for prescribing Statins and blood pressure medication. The threshold for requirement is constantly being lowered – nudging by interested parties with big advertising and sales budgets makes people think it’s good! Whole man checks, well woman clinics, free scans, increased numbers of mamograms, smears. They’re even inoculating neonates against Hepatitis B. It’s a sexually transmitted disease, FFS! Not all babies have Prince Andrew and Gary Glitter as Godfather!
Here’s another one… Reading guy Simon Clarke, microbiologist, is a fellow member of Reading University’s “Live Forever Club” with Kevin Warwick, the clown who has done some work promoting microchip implantation (letting himself be called “the world’s first cyborg”, for example).
(Somehow I guessed there might be a close connection between Clarke and Warwick and went looking for it.)
Let us not forget that for about six months we were all told we couldn’t even consider the possibility that this virus was created in a lab. All the “investigative reporters” at all the mainstream media sites knew they could not investigate this possibility and did not.
It took one “independent” journalist writing a piece so persuasive that the authorized narrative actually changed. This actually gives me hope that all the other faux or dubious narratives might also be debunked if the right journalist or researcher actually pursues investigations he or she is not supposed to pursue.
Now writing such stories is just half the battle. Once he (she) has done his research, completed his interviews and written his article, this person then has to find some news site with a significant audience that will actually publish such a piece. Good luck with that too.
Come on, everybody knows it was bats wot dun it.
Pussybats. That used to be rat-bats. Supposedly.
Gotta love it when “conspiracy theories” become accepted by the MSM eh?
The MSM don’t operate on rigour and logic, it doesn’t sell papers/get high ratings/get high clickthrus.
I wish that weren’t the case, as I like rigour and logic.
But we have to accept that the MSM isn’t like a court of law, it’s much more akin to a football crowd…..
Every so often the market switches from a voting machine to a weighing machine…
A kangaroo court (for pussybats)?
“Gotta love it when “conspiracy theories” become accepted by the MSM eh?”
It’s not uncommon – see “911”.
As soon as someone tells you not to consider a possibility, you should always consider it. However, you have to be rigorous in how you go about proving your hypothesis…
I’ve come to believe this: Any hypothesis that officials and scientists will NOT seriously investigate …. is probably true.
For example, public health officials and scientists will not seriously investigate the possibility this novel virus was spreading throughout America before January 2020. I know the CDC has never spoken to One American who had COVID symptoms in November or December 2019 and later tested positive for antibodies.
There are at least 17 such Americans who have been identified in press reports.
What are we to make of the fact that the CDC won’t even talk to one of these people, or even look at any of their medical records, etc?
I know what conclusion I’ve reached.
The following is obviously speculative: Considering that COVID is perfectly harmless in the overwhelming majority of cases, this must have been spreading in China for a while before it got noticed.
It getting noticed involves
This means an additional delay, presumably of at least some weeks, before the message gets out. Considering that Wuhan is an industrial center with lots for manufacturing of goods for export and all the travelling of people from and to all of the world this involves, the idea that Sars-CoV2 wasn’t spreading around the globe long before January 2020 seems very implausible to me.
You make excellent points. People that doubt my hypothesis say that a whole lot of people would have been sick and dying before January – in such numbers this could not have been missed. My answer is that: No, 99 percent of people with this virus are going to be fine and think they have a mild cold or maybe a normal case of flu or bronchitis. Some people were dying – but the deaths were missed or mis-diagnosed and millions of people WERE sick in November, December and January before March 2020. They all thought they had the flu. Some did have the flu, but a lot did not have the flu.
BTW, I think more doctors than most people realize knew that something strange was going on because there were many people showing up with flu-like symptoms who were testing “negative” for the flu. I have no doubt some of these doctors or health care providers shared their views with public health agencies in their states. No one has ever admitted this happened, but I actually know (from my journalism and at least one source) that this happened.
At lest some Public health agencies acknowledged that there was a virus just like COVID spreading in their patients months or weeks before the CDC says this virus had begun to infect Americans.
And whatever we do, let’s not consider the hypothesis that 5G might cause widespread harm…
“Might”?
Isn’t that pretty much what the late, great Christopher Booker was doing for years? I was worried that there would be nobody to take up the baton from him, and certainly it is big boots to fill, so I very much there are people who have done so. There is perhaps shades of him in Mark Steyn.
‘Sceptics’ are easily suckered. Do you know that a major part of any psyop is that the perpetrator must control the narrative (bat flu) and the counter narrative (lab leak).
So if sceptics are easily suckered what are anti-sceptics then?
My experience is that the “skeptics” are ignored and/or ridiculed. Their specific claims are never really rebutted. For example, regarding my “early spread” hypothesis, I’ve asked dozens of times why no officials even interviewed any of these sick people who later tested positive for antibodies (several multiple times and several with detailed clinical medical histories). To this day, nobody has answered this question. What do corrupt officials do when they know they can’t answer a question? They don’t even try to answer the question. They just hope nobody else keeps asking these questions.
But would anything be published on the MSM?
As far as I know there are SEVENTEEN different elements in the virus that are patented.
Ergo, lab leak is the only possible reason for what happened.
Depends when they were patented, whether they were patented based on identical motifs in other sequences etc.
Given the obsession with patenting nowadays, it would be easy for enormous number of coronavirus patents to have emerged the past 20 years, many of which cross over onto SARS-CoV2 sequences.
“Lab origin” follows. “Lab leak” doesn’t.
It’s a loooooong chain. Coincidence? (I don’t think so but it would be nice if a specialist would confirm/deny).
“Dr. Simon Clarke, a Microbiologist at Reading University”… Wellcome Trust investor, major grant recipient, professional liar and fully paid up shill for the pharmaceutical industry, says….
Create the virus.
Create the vaccine.
Job done.
Pocket the proceeds.
Side effect: wrecked world.
Dr David Martin in the film Plandemic showed the patents back in 2020.
Gain of Function, anyone?
Nothing to see here, I am sure.
Synthetic AIDS yeah?
The genocidal criminality of Klaus Schwab’s Moderna and his other pharmaceutical companies might just pale into insignificance if the Ukraine situation gets out of hand. And, alarmingly, there are many signs that it may very well get totally out of hand.
This is a quote from Vladimir Putin in regards his “deNazification of the Ukraine”:
Putin has basically warned the West that if he deems it necessary he’ll use nuclear weapons to protect the Russian homeland. I believe this warning is much more than simple sabre rattling.
Bear in mind that as NATO moved military forces up to Russia’s borders, these forces would have brought with them tactical nuclear weapons. The Kremlin will view battlefield nuclear weapons with a range of anything from 100- to 200 miles on Russia’s borders as a severe threat.
In 1963 the United States would not tolerate Soviet nuclear missiles just off its borders in Cuba. Yet, today, the West expects Russia to tolerate nuclear missiles all along its borders in Eastern Europe.
As for Putin’s claim he’s ‘deNazifing the Ukraine’, this is actually hard to be argued with. The BBC, in conjunction with other of Klaus Schwab’s NGOs, has over the last decade spent millions infiltrating and moulding the Ukraine’s media. The idea is to make the Ukraine’s media like the legacy media in the West, where it will churn out a constant stream of Schwab/Soros approved propaganda.
The UK Column has investigated and reported on the BBC’s Nazi activities in Ukraine.
If Klaus Schwab ever gets full control of the Ukraine media, his next steps will be the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, and the importation of hordes of single young male immigrants from the developing world.
What the BBC, Schwab, Soros and the myriad of NGOs have been at in Ukraine over the last 10-years is Nazism at its finest. The Russians are not going to tolerate their children, or their neighbour’s children, being indoctrinated that they are inferior to Blacks and Arabs; or being persuaded that they should change sex at 4-years-of-age; nor will they tolerate their cities and towns being overrun with hordes of unschooled immigrants.
If Putin and the Russian people allow Schwab’s Nazism to take hold in the Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until it seeps across the border into Russia itself.
Schwab, Soros and Gates are running the West. All three clearly have personality disorders; every one of them is somewhere on the insanity spectrum. Boris Johnson is also suspected of having a personality disorder – birds of a feather flock together – and the UK’s minister for Foreign Affairs clearly has an intelligence disorder.
Klaus Schwab is so deranged that he couldn’t stop himself from bragging about how he has been able to infiltrate his minions into government leadership and cabinets worldwide. A James Bond villain would not be stupid enough to reveal his plan to take over the world whilst he’s only halfway through it – all publishers would reject a manuscript with a story line this inane.
Think of it, the senile Biden and buffoon Johnson are taking orders from the deranged and mentally unstable Schwab in regards Western policy towards Russia and Ukraine.
The sad bottom line of all this is that if any Western European countries get nuked, their people can only blame themselves, because, after all, they voted for the political cretins that over the last twenty years have been crapping in Russia’s front yard.
Basically, people can vote again and again to have their own children and countries destroyed with CRT, transgenderism and open borders. But when their idiotic votes cause these stupid ideologies to be implement in other people’s countries, expect some blowback.
When people continually take it up the rear end from deranged sociopaths like Klaus Schwab, the eventual climax will be very unpleasant.
Schwab also boasted that Putin was his minion.
Yeah, that’s right.
I’ve theorised in previous posts that the Russia, Ukraine & West rivalry was nothing more than Schwab’s minions flexing their muscles at each other, and Schwab happy with this because it distracts from the COVID-19 genocide.
Hitler’s grandfather was supposed to be an Ashkenazi, which is of the same breed as Schwab and Soros.
Did you know that a member of the Dutch royal family gave the Nazi’s 60 thousand barrels of oil to invade the Netherlands? Or that chemical companies in Nazi Germany liaised closely with bigwigs in New York’s financial district throughout the war?
WWII wasn’t simply white-hats against black-hats, it was much more complicated than what school history teaches. And it started in a very similar way to the current territory dispute in the Ukraine.
Schwab and other Ashkenazi bigwigs won’t mind too much if it gets out of hand because it’s only us little people that will suffer. And, besides, the COVID-19 plandemic was a scheme to depopulate us anyway.
The Ashkenazi, Henry Kissinger, paved the way for Putin to get power in Russia. My hope is that Putin has turned against the Cabal and is now putting the Russian people first – albeit I doubt this happened.
By the way, note Hitler and the Nazis and how the last four letters of Ashkenazi on their own spell Nazi. These people love symbolism and signs.
The Nazis didn’t call themselves “Nazis”. That was a term of derision used by their opponents. “Nazi” as well as coming from “national socialist”, from which it was coined by analogy with “Sozi” for “social democrat”, was already in use as a mocking snob word for a stereotypical Bavarian Catholic peasant, a short form of the name “Ignatius”.
Is anybody reading this surprised that they didn’t already know it? Here’s another fact about the NSDAP that isn’t well-known: it was a party for men only.
Many true facts the wide recognition of which wouldn’t especially hurt anyone are still kept under wraps because those who are considered suitable characters for roles as “influencers” must have minds that “think” within very tightly defined boundaries.
When they hear something they didn’t already know, they MUST respond by “thinking” “that can’t be true because I would already have heard it”.
I once had an argument with a Church of England official who got really nasty with me when I told her that the signatories of the Magna Carta were all excommunicated for signing it. She just couldn’t process the information. She said she’d “read” “history” at Oxford and if it were true she’d already know it. Silly c*w.
Ashkenazi in German is Aschkenasisch.
Naczi was a derogatory term used by opponents (Communists) of Hitler to refer to his National Socialists party. It was a term which was ultimately coined by German Communists.
Groups of people came into Europe from the Caspian Sea area around 700 A.D. One tribe which came in was the Ashkenazi, and another tribe which came to Europe at around the same time were of the same racial grouping as the Ashkenazi. These two cousin tribes had a long history of rivalries between them that stretched back centuries.
Hitler is reputed to have been descended from the Ashkenazi tribe via his grandfather. The German descendants of the rival tribe mentioned above are reputed to have been predominantly involved in Communism in 1920/30s Germany.
A school of thought is that the German Communists took the end pronunciation of Aschkenasisch, which is “nasisch” and which in English became shorted to Nazi, as a means to insult Hitler’s ancestry and as a means to hint to German supporters of Hitler that he was not a full-blooded German.
The German Communists at this time would have had to have been subtle in pointing out Hitler’s non-German ancestry, because the Communist leaders were also not of pure German ancestry.
Who’ll ever get the real truth of hisorical matters, as the winners always write the history. And it’s in the winner’s interests to keep hidden from Europeans that cult-type tribes which originated in Asia played a big part in starting WWI and WWII.
As for your question:
I for one (think) I know what is motivating Putin and agree with you that NATO and its nuclear capability was (already had) gotten way too close to Russia’s borders. Most Americans will probably end up supporting war with Russia (or are at least outraged at this invasion). However, if Russia had military bases in Canada or Mexico (or Cuba), Americans would be rightfully concerned.
BTW, How in the world does the price of gold plunge $52/ounce in about one minute (at the opening of U.S. precious metals “markets”) at a time when all the headlines say that WWIII is imminent … and also when prices are going up seemingly by 10 percent per month? My takeaway: As it turns out, the threat of global warfare and run-away inflation are actually bearish for the “safe haven” assets. Go figure.
When I looked at the movements of the gold price over several decades I reached the conclusion that it is subject to very powerful long-term manipulation that cannot be deduced from the movement of indicators in the rest of the economy.
The real question is why anyone even tolerates Schwab in the first place? Does he have his own private nukes? Does he have his own private chemical/biological weapons?? What is it that this lunatic possesses that makes Bill Gates kiss his ass?
That’s what amazes me. How Schwab hasn’t had the last millimetre of every part of his life dissected by the world’s media?
He’s clearly pretty deranged, yet everyone seems to defer to him.
Why?
Why? “Family connections”?
Even in parts of the Sceptic community I see references to Putin having been part of Schwab’s Young Global Leaders programme. Maybe, maybe not. Let’s say he was perhaps involved at some point but for his own benefit and not Schwab’s.
Putin therefore knows exactly what’s coming and has prepared accordingly. Russian intelligence will certainly have been deployed against Schwab and doubtless has its own people embedded and reporting back.
It would be extremely stupid to under -estimate Mr Putin.
If Schwab is destroyed by his own hubris Putin simply walks in and takes over.
In this podcast from Whitney Webb-Unlimited, Moscow based journalist, Riley Waggaman, talks about how Putin seems to be fully on board with Schwab’s COVID-19 plandemic and the gene therapies, and also about how Russia is working with JP Morgan on a cryptocurrency.
You can’t get any person or entity that is more Klaus Schwab or Cabal than JP Morgan.
Perhaps Putin has drawn the line at Critical Race Theory, transgender rubbish and the importation of the Third World into his part of Europe? That Putin will take what benefits Russia from Schwab, but will reject the rest?
There’s also the fact that Putin has exiled many very wealthy Russians (Ashkenazi?) and many of these came to the UK and made large donations to the Tory Party, and got residential permits. Alex Thomson, in the UK Column, talks about this.
It just might be the case that these very wealthy Russian oligarchs that donated generously to the Tory Party were part (Ashkenazi) of Schwab’s Cabal and Putin got rid of them. Time will tell.
By the way, I’ve noticed that my original post has already got four downvotes. I suspect it will get many more as the evening goes on, and that most of these downvotes will be from conservatives and solely against what the attached picture represents.
When you put the bald truth to some conservatives about how their country is and has been manipulated and used in the worst possible way, they refuse to countenance it in any way, shape or form. They just reject it out of hand.
A big part of fixing the West will be convincing conservative people that for over a century their countries and citizens have been manipulated and used and driven into needless wars for the sole benefit of a few psychopaths that have control of their economies.
or maybe a convinient war was the required distraction for both “sides” once the wheels fell off the great narrative.
Could well be so, and like WWI, will last for years instead of the troops being home by Christmas. And then give rise to a second war.
As long as the money men run the show, very stupid things will be done. And the sheep will keep on suffering until they get the brains and guts to get rid of the money men and their puppet politicians.
As if to underline this point: This guy absoloutely nails it
“Putin just bailed out the central banks”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20O7dB89CZk
The alliance between Jewish mafia bosses in Russia (who are the majority at the top level) and ethnic Russian mafia bosses (one can also mention Chechens, Tatars, Georgians, etc. at a less influential level) has held for a long time. Putin’s background as head of the FSB gave him a bird’s eye view of this, or perhaps you could say a Bonapartist view, because while the mafia is the mafia it still doesn’t f*** with the renamed KGB.
There hasn’t been a large-scale mafia war in Russia but there could have been. “Democracy” is just a load of old boll*cks that is dear to the kind of Muscovite “Islingtonian” who speaks to US and British “journalists” at dinner parties. (Maybe they dream of one day staying in expensive hotels which DON’T have shaven headed thugs doing the “security”.) The truth is that for the last 30 years if another power wanted to knock the stuffing out of Russia from the inside, mafia war would be the way to go. And they haven’t managed, not even using figures such as Berezovsky (backed by the British elite), Khodorkovsky (backed by the German one), etc.
Ukraine now – which is just as much a “mafia state” as Russia – is very much under non-Slav control. Zelensky saying he can’t be a Nazi because he’s Jewish is really taking the p*ss.
Perhaps the alliance between Jewish and non-Jewish organised crime networks in Russia is going to become, shall we say, somewhat stressed? I really don’t know, but the emperor’s network will certainly have drawn up contingency plans.
I agree with you.
Putin is the only well educated, gender secure and rational adult in the room.
What better way to learn Schwab’s devious, contaminating methods than from the inside? After all, Putin was in ” Soviet Intelligence”.
“Putin has basically warned the West that if he deems it necessary he’ll use nuclear weapons to protect the Russian homeland.”
That’s not new and should not be a surprise.
Meanwhile, here is Theresa May:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94vl0qo02zI
The research, development, production, and stockpiling of strategic nuclear weapons have never been anything other than crimes against humanity. They are designed to obliterate cities.
“Strategic nuclear weapons” should be a phrase that incites the same emotions as “Auschwitz”, but sadly for all but a very few people it doesn’t.
You accuse me of needlessly rehashing well known information and then go on to say this:
If there was ever a needless rehashing of well known information, you’ve just done it there.
“The eventual climax will be very unpleasant”. do you mean we will all be engulfed in very nasty, stickily toxic white stuff?
The question is: “Will we be happy?”
You’re always so smutty, David. Does make me smirk though.
E-mail from a friend this morning:
Here is the news that Trudeau has backed down:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/immediate-emergency-situation-is-over-pm-trudeau-revokes-emergencies-act-1.5793047
A forensic dissection by Canadian Senator Don Plett of the motion for the Emergencies Act:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZO3OhqCUY
This may be why Trudeau has withdrawn the motion.
I haven’t yet watched it … too much material. I’ll watch this evening.
– Professor Lawrence Young
Jeff Childers picks up on the same quote from Young:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-thursday-february-7f4
2^19 is about 1 in 500,000
Surely 4^19 (the number of nucleotides) is the correct calculation – about 275 billion.
The question is whether that sequence confers a competitive advantage to viruses containing it over the random noise of the other 275 billion sequences?
If it does, you only need a few cycles of viral infection to turn 1 in 275 billion into 20% of all particles.
That’s how these ‘variants’ suddenly take over in a matter of weeks/months.
probably!
I think i divided by 2 (as it’s reversible) too early.
LOL. What a day of ‘conspiracy theories’ coming true..
On the same day Russia is ordered to invade Ukraine, nice timing.
Is this the specific molecule that prevents DNA repair? If so, it’s the one that is likely to cause the most long term damage. It therefore serves a functional purpose, not just a random sequence.
“a tiny snippet of code – we’re talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides.”
Easily detected by the Innova lateral flow tests! I mean, the LFTs do let us all know it’s ‘Covid’ and not anything else…. right??
One of the things that all should be wary of is saying that ‘that couldn’t happen in nature’.
Sometimes things DO happen in nature. Would you believe that a key protein involved in triggering cell division (studies of which won Professor Sir Paul Nurse the Nobel Prize) is so well conserved between fission yeast and humans that you can take the human protein and use it to restore normality to yeast mutants with deficient cdc2 proteins? Well, it is true. So if you can have incredible conservation of sequences between yeast and humans, you sure as heck can have conservation of sequences between two human viruses. Particularly if such sequences are critical to certain aspects of the viral life cycle.
One of the other interesting things to emerge from the DNA sequencing revolution was that the same function in nature can emerge via completely parallel evolutionary paths. So you find the same enzymatic function in two apparently totally dissimilar sequences. It’s called ‘convergent evolution’. It’s nothing new, I was taught it in my undergraduate biochemistry degree back in the mid 1980s.
I’m not saying this didn’t come from a laboratory mutation, I’m simply saying you should be careful before saying: ‘it’s not possible that it occurred naturally’.
SARS-COV2 also has 3 HIV genes, and genes from a cone snail that injects neurotoxin into it’s prey.
You want to explain how a bat got together with a cone snail, that lives on the seabed, before catching/whist infected with HIV?
the 19n sequence most likely came from the cell lines used in serial passage GoF reseach. The FCS on it’s own is not the smoking gun, that’s only 12n, but together with the 7n it sure looks that way. They were trying to make HIV and Cancer vaccines, the paper trail is long and damning, as DRASTIC has been pointing out since the beginning. The cover-up is also well documented, and is arguably more damning.
JC Couey explains how in his stream with Charles Rixey last night
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1405895445
JAG_Docs_pt1_Og_WATERMARK_OVER_Redacted.pdf cover up background info leak
https://drasticresearch.org/
https://prometheusshrugged.substack.com/
So do/did the vaccines work against these modified viruses? I think I already know the answer but have they made things better, worse or no change after 2 years of house arrest, god knows how many billions, mental health issues, suicides etc.
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1484987210508255233
Kevin McKernan explains the counter argument.
I seem to be hearing the word ‘coincidence’ an awful lot lately.
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Perhaps this ‘coincidence’ is why NHS staff have started to call the heart damage issues they are having to treat Myo-coincidentalitis.
Key Genetic Sequence – a piece of something.
“By chance” – my rear end. “Unrelated purpose” – ditto. That’s biowar research (and production) they’re talking about. And the specific development to which they refer probably wasn’t even so groundbreaking either, given that it was patented. I imagine a lot had been done before then. This could even have been a commercial spinoff from military research. There have been a hell of a lot of those.
SARS, of which SARSCoV2 is a variant of the same species, has been subject to AT LEAST 20 years of research by the major powers: secret military research both offensive and defensive. That is part of how really-existing “science” works, and it should be seen as obvious. No I don’t have direct evidence for it, but the circumstantial case should be accepted with 99.99% confidence.
It’s not going to take long before biowar, which has hardly been spoken about in “polite” circles for a very long time, is made to explode into public consciousness. The same may also be true of electronic warfare.
As I was typing this, I heard some cr*p-artist on BBC Radio 4 state that “we have to accept there will be a considerable degree of self-harm”. He was talking about the war that has started in Europe. (He wasn’t so direct as to say the City of London in large part depends on Russian money). That will be the new line too. It’s also known as “Can’t get your hospital operation? Lost your job? Can’t get enough to eat? Then blame Crazy Pyoo-tin.” And it implies “Don’t be against this war. This is a war of good against evil, so you think anyone should care about your health or employment or wellbeing?” The same idea can also be rendered as “Here, take these jackbooted kicks in the teeth. Putin made us do it.”
Absolute gold from Brendon O Connell, this is where its at!
109. Crazy New York Mother Takes On Israeli-Russian Espionage Ring (Dont try this at home…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsMongp7BA
It can’t be true. I know that, because a Chinese lab would never cheat on a patent.
It’s all coming out now isn’t it?
“The blatant conspiracy” exposed in all its naked glory!
‘No, no …it’s all just a “coincidence” ‘- how much longer can they “hold the line” of this diabolical facade?
Morsel for Armageddon-watchers: Russian navy in Mediterranean heads for Tartus in Syria.
It takes an untrustworthy rag like the Daily Mail to qualify something many of us knew about donkeys ago for DS to take it seriously and report it themselves.
At this rate it’ll not be until next year that they accept there hasn’t been a global pandemic since 2019. By which time it won’t matter anyway because we’ll probably have been obliterated by the Chinese Communists.
They are willingly killing children, babies. You’ve got blood on your hands doctors. You may not pay on this earth but you WILL pay after you die
We have to call them out on this. They have to pay before they die! Any doctor who is injecting this shit without informed consent in writing from the patient is leaving himself open to being sued at least. They will then be left high and dry by the Medical Defence Union.
The problem is, people aren’t connecting illness to the injection. We have to make people aware. When someone tells you they’ve got shingles or breathing problems or tingling fingers or even cancer, your first question has to be “after which vaccination?” If enough people ask, it might sink in.
“people aren’t connecting illness to the injection. We have to make people aware. When someone tells you they’ve got shingles or breathing problems or tingling fingers or even cancer, your first question has to be “after which vaccination?” If enough people ask, it might sink in.”
You’d like to think so, but, sadly no. Or at least not in my personal experience. Maybe it is me and I’m just not doing it right. My mother has been very badly harmed by each of her jabs – in the space of 12 months she is a shadow of what she formerly was – and yet she keeps going back for more.
She got shingles after her second jab, and when I pointed out that there were a lot of cases of shingles occurring after jabbing the whole [all jabbed] family jumped down my throat. I realised at that point that there is no good in trying to help people who don’t want to be helped however much I love them and just want them to be well.
A LOT of people cannot cope, mentally I think, with the fact that they have volunteered for a procedure which has harmed them.
Peter Dascak (EcoHealth Alliance), who collaborated with the Chinese in early 2020 to quash the lab-leak theory coming out at that time, said in 2015 –‘We need to increase public awareness of the need for countermeasures (to a global coronavirus outbreak) such as a global coronavirus vaccine. A key factor is media hype. Investors will follow if they see profit at the end of the process.’
In November 2019, Moderna had the vaccine developed, for a pathogen that had yet to appear. Investors were seeing profit at the end of the process.
“It’s a coincidence Jim, but not as we know it”
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