Abandon Ridiculous Two-Metre Rule
I’ve written a piece in today’s Telegraph entitled: “For the sake of our economy, we need to scrap the absurd two-metre rule.” I point out that this and other over-cautious social-distancing rules will mean our economy is permanently stuck in second gear.
For most shops, the only way to keep customers six feet apart will be to introduce cumbersome one-way systems and force them to queue up outside. All very well when the only retail outlets we’re talking about are supermarkets and newsagents, but how will people observe that rule on the pavement when there are queues outside every shop?
For pubs and restaurants, due to reopen on July 4th, the two-metre rule will mean that many of them can’t resume trading and those that can will be forced to operate at less than 50% capacity.
I also point out that there’s no scientific basis for the rule.
What’s so absurd about this measure, which will decimate the hospitality trade, is that there’s no obvious scientific basis for it and many countries are much more relaxed. In South Korea, for instance, the acceptable distance in 1.4 metres, and in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and France, people are only expected to stay one metre apart.
Indeed, the World Health Organisation says a distance of one metre is more than sufficient. In Sweden, which has had fewer deaths per million than the UK in spite of not locking down formally, there is no hard-and-fast rule. People are just expected to use their common sense.
Boris Johnson is reported to be reconsidering the two-metre rule. Worth reading in full, Prime Minister.
SAGE Member Does U-Turn on Lockdown
No, it’s not what you think. Yesterday, a member of SAGE gave a press conference in which he warned that the Government was easting lockdown too fast. This is how it was reported on the BBC News website:
A scientist on the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has suggested he does not agree with easing the lockdown at this stage.
In a briefing to health journalists Prof John Edmunds, from the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine, said that 8,000 new infections a day in England, as calculated by the Office for National Statistics, was “a very high incidence” level.
“Many of us would prefer to see incidence down to lower levels before we relax measures,” he said.
He said that with an “untested” test and trace system “we are taking some risk here” and “even if we keep it flat, that’s still quite a level”.
“Lifting the lockdown is a political decision. Lifting it now, means we’re keeping incidence at this level,” he added.
The Labour MP Richard Burgon was so over-excited by this news, he linked to the BBC report and tweeted the following: “So the Government is no longer following the science. It’s a political decision and we can’t trust this Government to make the right decisions with public safety.”
But hang on a second. Is this the same Professor John Edmunds who told Channel 4 News on March 13th that “the only way to stop this epidemic is indeed to achieve herd immunity”?
I guess he’s changed his mind.
Nobel Laureate Skewers Member of Imperial College Modelling Team
A few days ago I linked to a fantastic webinar, organised out of Brazil, in which a group of scientists discussed the reliability of predications generated by epidemiological computer models and whether those predictions should be used as the basis for government responses to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Among the participants were Michael Levitt, Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford and the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Samir Bhatt, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial’s School of Public Health.
One of my concerns as I’ve watched the British Government’s disastrous mishandling of this crisis unfold is that the people behind the Imperial College modelling that informed so much of the Government’s response will never be properly held to account. This webinar, in which Michael Levitt cross-examines Samir Bhatt, may be the closest we ever get.
If you have the time, I urge you to watch the whole thing. But if you don’t, watch it from the two-hour point onwards, in which Levitt begins to lose patience with the dissembling Bhatt. A reader has very kindly made a transcript of this part of the exchange. My favourite part is when Levitt – beginning to get angry – lays the blame for the coming global recession at the door of the Imperial College modelling team, whom he thinks wildly over-estimated the deadliness of the disease. “That is an error that has cost the world many, many trillions of dollars, but it isn’t a joke. I mean an error like that is not a small error,” he says.
Michael Levitt: I’m concerned by, there’s been a massive communications gap here and you know one question that I did raise which Rui didn’t pick up, is I’ve noticed that for example, that epidemiologists and I’m not talking about you guys, don’t think anything wrong about being a factor of 10 too high but are dead scared to be a factor of 10% too low.
I mean the number of deaths caused by lockdown is way higher than anything that will be caused by Covid, unless you assume exponential growth, forever. So, therefore this is a price that the world is paying for this asymmetry. In other words, I don’t know how we handle it, you know.
Sweden is not locked down. You guys are going to have a very hard time when Sweden plateaus at 6,000 deaths, which is 0.06, 0.6 per 100,000, and you can say well they social distance, they’re Scandinavians, they’re cold, there’s high population density. But, you know, the fact remains that the plateau rate of population reached by England, New York City, Lombardy, France is basically around one month of natural death. Ferguson said a year of natural death. That is horrible. That is an error that has cost the world many, many trillions of dollars, but it isn’t a joke. I mean an error like that is not a small error.
Now you could say, oh it’s our intervention, we intervened, Sweden intervened by itself, Italy was a very intervened country. Anyone who believes that Iran intervened is crazy.
Certain countries, there’s no doubt that the one place where there’s beautiful intervention is a part of China I call non-Hubei China…
In Hubei, the Chinese were out of control, but out of Hubei the epidemic is the most beautiful Gompertz function. It was so beautiful that everyone said they must have hacked my computer, except that New Zealand has the same distribution and other countries do as well. So I am trying to understand this.
There’s no doubt that once lockdown has been forced, everyone’s going to believe it was a good thing because otherwise why did we need to do it? But there’s no evidence for it.
Samir Bhatti: It’s not about believing if it’s a good thing. What mechanism do you conjecture for the plateauing of death in the UK that’s not lockdown?
ML: It reached one in a thousand. It’s nothing to do with lockdown. The UK policy led to early saturation. The whole country was infected before lockdown was done. The same thing was true of New York.
SB: No serological data supports this hypothesis.
ML: This is going to saturate at 20% serology. We know that already. You know this assumption that 80% based on R0 is basically nonsense. You guys don’t know what you’re doing to yourselves. You guys are going to end up being responsible for a hundred billion dollar crisis to the world and this is not funny.
And you start to use clean terminology. Don’t estimate herd immunity from an R0 value, which is completely meaningless. If the R0 value is 1.3 then I get saturation at 25%. The Diamond Princess, this wonderful experiment, saturated at 25% and you can say, “Oh, it was such good lockdown. We had shared air conditioning, it was an aged population.”
It doesn’t work. In other words, there needs to be sanity checks. Sanity checks come from looking at the data.
SB: OK so we’re going to talk about the data then. So you’re hypothesis is that infection fatality rate is much lower, everyone has been infected, that’s what caused the curve to bend. A massive serological study occurred just now in Spain, suggesting that with the 28,000 deaths, 5% of the population has been infected based on serology.
ML: And I think we’ve seen that the serological studies have serious shortcomings. We’re now seeing signs there may be T cell receptors.
Daily Mail Guide to Having a Socially Distanced BBQ
This illustration is in today’s Daily Mail, based on advice from Professor Patricia Riddell, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Reading.
Prof Riddell recommended asking guests to bring their own cutlery, plates and condiments to reduce the risk of virus transmission through touching the same surfaces, and having only one person using the tongs.
She also endorsed serving food on plates from a distance rather than everyone approaching the grill, setting out seats in advance for people to sit two metres apart, and sitting alongside each other rather than face to face.
Can’t say it looks like a barrel of laughs. Bagsy not sit next to the guy with the guitar.
Brazilian Scientists Challenge Concept of “the Science”, Defend Hydroxychloroquine
A group of more than 25 Brazilian scientists have written an open letter, questioning the idea that indiscriminately locking down whole populations, as well as other responses to the pandemic, is supported by “the science”. In particular, it challenges the idea that “the science” has concluded hydroxychloroquine shouldn’t be used to treat patients with COVID-19.
The letter has been coordinated by Marcos Nogueira Eberlin. He’s a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas. Founder of the Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and winner of the prestigious Thomson Medal (2016), Eberlin is recognized worldwide as one of the most productive mass spectrometrists ever, having published close to 1,000 scientific articles. He discovered the Eberlin Reaction during his work on gas phase ion chemistry, and he and his research group introduced EASI (Easy Ambient Sonic-spray Ionization), an ionization technique used in mass spectrometry. In other words, a highly-respected, mainstream scientist.
It’s not the usual dry, scholarly dirge, but an angry, impassioned screed. (The caps haven’t been added by me.) I’m going to quote the opening few paragraphs in full because they’re so good.
During this pandemic, the term “science” has been used “ad nauseam”, that is, has been repeated to exhaustion: “Science, science, science”, “I’m pro-science”, “For from the science, through the science and to the science I guide my decisions and acts” and “I am, therefore, fully right to do so”. It is clear that the intention here is to lead all of us to the idea of decisions based on something unquestionable and infallible, as scientific as law, as the law of gravity.
Groups of “science experts” or famous YouTube scientists, many of them still “beginners” in science, some of them with a minimal or no experience in fighting pandemics, are selected by the establishment and the media to give “scientific aura” for the lockdown and the condemnation of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an ineffective drug; worse, as a deadly poison.
That disastrous apocalyptic simulations from the “Imperial College” – this pompous name that brings us to the idea of a center of excellence of infallible, omnipotent and unquestionable knowledge, an “College of the Empire” – are being used to place everyone at home, and then, to compare data as being the absolute reference of the truth. “We did something and as a result, we reduced those many deaths. Therefore: ‘blessed be the science!’”.
But what kind of “science” is that to which they are appealing? And who, in the name of this “science”, would be allowed to speak? Science (I know that there are controversies, as scientists even debate on its meaning) is “the dispassionate search for the truth about the Universe and life”. But ironically, we seek truths that we don’t even know what those truths would be like, or where they would be found. For this reason, sometimes, ironically, even when scientists find a truth that is indeed true, yet they doubt that they have found it. We literally zigzag in the dark, searching for solutions to our problems. Therefore, we sometimes say that: “eating eggs is bad, it increases cholesterol”; and sometimes: “eggs are good, eat at ease”.
Richard Feynman put it this way: “Science is the culture of doubt”. And I would add, “science is the culture of debate, of divergence of opinions”.
Rarely, there are situations in which we reach consensus in science, even a momentary consensus. Some defend the “Big Bang” and the theory of evolution, others, including myself, are skeptical of them. Some defend with data and papers the central role of men in global warming, others defend, with the same data and papers, that human activity is irrelevant. Scientists are human beings, therefore, skeptics and enquirers who can and should speak for themselves, like all scientists have the right to do, but NEVER A SCIENTIST OR A GROUP OF THEM CAN DECLARE TO BE AUTHORIZED TO SPEAK IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!
Nobody, absolutely nobody is allowed to speak for science or declare that he is “been guided” by science! In times of pandemic, this impossibility is even greater, as we face an unknown enemy. Data is still being collected and researches are being performed and published by scientists divided by their worldviews, and by their political and party preferences.
Whoever said he acted in the name of science, dishonestly usurped science prestige. For what type of “science” is this, unanimous and consensual, that no one has ever heard of? Could someone give me its address so I can confirm its consent? Its phone, email and WhatsApp?
For defenders of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the next section is manna from heaven, ripping apart the studies that purport to show it’s ineffective or, worse, dangerous.
The Manaus’ study with chloroquine (CQ) performed here in Brazil and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) [1], is emblematic to this discussion of “science”. Scientists there used, the manuscript reveals, lethal doses in debilitated patients, many in severe conditions and with comorbidities. The profiles of the groups do not seem to have been “randomized”, since a clear “preference” in the HIGH DOSE group for risk factors is noted. Chloroquine, which is more toxic than HCQ, was used, and it seems that they even made “childish mistakes” in simple stoichiometric calculations, doubling the dosage with the error. I’m incapable of judging intentions, but justice will do it. The former Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta quoted this study, supported it, and based on it, categorically stated: “I do not approve HCQ because I am based on ‘science, science, science’!”.
Definitely worth reading in full.
Incidentally, the recent HCQ study in the Lancet that led to the worldwide suspension of clinical trials of the drug and hospitals around the world yanking it from their treatment protocols has been criticised in another open letter signed by a group of scientists, this one addressed to Richard Horton, the Editor of the Lancet. It’s not quite as angry as the Brazilian letter, but almost. Also worth reading in full.
Trump Terminates the WHO
Donald Trump has said he’s “terminating” America’s relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO), having already said the international body will get no more US funding.
The US president cited the body’s ties to Beijing as he made the announcement yesterday, saying: “China has total control over the World Health Organisation.”
Does this mean we’ll now be able to challenge some of the WHO’s wilder claims about the virus on YouTube? Interestingly, the WHO has just done another U-turn – is this number 657? – recommending against the wearing of masks.
As I’ve said before, if you’re the YouTube employee in charge of removing any content that contradicts the WHO’s recommendations about how to stay safe, keeping up with the organisation’s constant flip flops must be a nightmare.
Church Leaders Threaten Government With Judicial Review if Churches Aren’t Allowed to Reopen
A coalition of church leaders has written to the Government, threatening a Judicial Review if the ban on churches opening isn’t lifted. The pre-action letter supported by Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre argues that blanket ‘lockdown’ restrictions imposed on all churches are both unlawful and unnecessary, and asks the Government to prioritise the re-opening of churches as part of its exit-strategy.
The letter, which you can read here, says the blanket ban is disproportionate, given that lots of churches closed voluntarily and those that remained opened introduced social distancing measures. It also makes the argument that the ban contravenes the separation of church and state:
While the short-term practical difference between state regulation and church self-regulation may be limited in present circumstances, the principle of Church autonomy is extremely important in the broader constitutional context, and must be protected for the benefit of present and future generations.
Among the list of 24 claimants requesting an urgent meeting with the Government to discuss lifting the ban are Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, President, Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD); Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Senior Pastor, Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC); and Revd. Dr David Hathaway, President of the Eurovision Mission to Europe.
Pastor Ade Omooba MBE, Christian Concern’s co-founder and one of the claimants in the letter, says:
It cannot be right that at present it is lawful to go to a bike shop, B&Q, visit a chiropractor or dry cleaner, and not be allowed to receive Holy Communion or engage in silent prayer in a church.
Similar legal challenges have been successful in other countries. Last week, France’s Supreme Court ruled that the French Government’s absolute ban on religious gatherings as part of its lockdown restrictions is unlawful, and ordered the Government to relax restrictions on religious worship.
The Government should lift the ban immediately or face the consequences.
Government Publishes Chart That Inadvertently Discredits its Own Policy
The Cabinet Office Briefing Room issued a chart yesterday (see above) showing that the Government’s first “test” – “We must be confident that we are able to provide sufficient critical care and specialist treatment right across the UK,” in the words of the Prime Minister – has been met. This was part of the rationale for allowing up to six people from different households to meet up from June 1st.
But look closely at the chart and you’ll see that in the small print on the left-hand side is says occupancy of mechanical ventilator beds in the NHS peaked on April 10th at 41%. In other words, the risk of the NHS’s critical care capacity being overwhelmed – something flagged up in Neil Ferguson’s March 16th paper and one of the key reasons for locking down the country on March 23rd – was exaggerated. We didn’t need to remain in our homes to “Protect the NHS” after all.
Another embarrassing implication of that number – only 41% of the NHS’s ventilators used – is that it makes a mockery of the Government’s wartime-style drive to manufacture more ventilators. Just as well, since the entire effort – dubbed the “ventilator challenge” – was a fiasco from start to finish. Not that it would have mattered if there had been a shortage and the “challenge” was a success, since ventilators are almost completely useless when it comes to treating patients with COVID-19.
Six Reasons the Cure is Worse Than the Disease
In the latest anti-lockdown jeremiad by Professor Ramesh Thakur, the former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations lists six reasons why the official response to the pandemic will end up causing more harm that it has prevented:
- Lockdowns will have a negative impact on mental health and lead to more suicides.
- With elective surgeries and routine screenings suspended, many diseases that would be treatable if caught in time will end up killing hundreds of thousands.
- People have been so terrorised by the propaganda unleashed by governments around the world that people requiring crucial care have refused to go to hospital, whether through fear of catching the virus, or because being good citizens they don’t want to trouble a badly over-burdened health system.
- The lockdowns reduced the amount of time people spent in the fresh air and sunshine, with some people being cooped up in high-risk environments like congested living complexes.
- Elderly hospital patients infected with COVID-19 were discharged into care and nursing homes to deadly effect, accounting for more than half of all Covid deaths.
- The deadliest impact of the lockdowns will be on the world’s poorest billion people over the next decade along multiple sub-pathways.
Worth reading in full.
Rioters in Minneapolis Comply With Mayor’s Order to Wear Face Masks in Shopping Malls
I got an email from a reader in Minneapolis yesterday, the American city that was set ablaze by rioters on Tuesday night following the death in police custody of George Floyd, a 46 year-old African-American, and has been burning ever since.
We’ve been a bit busy here in Minneapolis dealing with the city being burned down around us. It was oddly relaxing to think about Chinese viruses. All of the businesses I service – my customers – are either in ashes, boarded up or looted.
Here is the joke: Why did Minneapolis police stand by and watch the looters and arsonists destroy hundreds of businesses? Because the looters were complying with the Mayor’s order to wear a mask inside retail establishments.
Interestingly, that order took effect Tuesday at 5p.m. When did the rioting start? Tuesday evening….
Round-Up
And on to the round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘YouTube Cancels Another Video for Coronavirus Wrongthink‘ – James Delingpole Ridicules YouTube for censoring my video making the case against lockdowns
- ‘The Delingpod: James Delingpole Interviews Professor Dolores Cahill‘ – A double-helping from James today. In this one he interviews the dissident Irish virologist
- ‘Scots pensioner went for five days without food because she was scared to leave her flat during lockdown‘ – We’ll be hearing a lot more stories like this unfortunately
- ‘The lockdown’s founding myth‘ – Excellent reporting job by Christopher Snowdon in the Critic, thoroughly debunking the narrative that has the Government initially ignoring scientific advice about locking down the country and only reluctantly agreeing to do it once it had paid attention to “the science”
- ‘Two thirds of people contacted through tracing did not fully cooperate, pilot scheme finds‘ – Report in the BMJ about a pilot ‘test-and-trace’ scheme in Sheffield in which two-thirds of the people contacted refused to cooperate. Why then roll it out nationally?
- ‘Monkeys ‘escape with COVID-19 samples’ after attacking lab assistant‘ – No, not the plot line from the next Planet of the Apes sequel. This actually happened yesterday in India. Are these monkeys available to take over from Boris and pals?
- ‘Why most Covid-19 deaths won’t be from the virus‘ – Excellent piece for BBC Future by Zaria Gorvett summarising the case against lockdowns. Welcome to the club, Zaria
- ‘Scientists are intrigued by lack of lockdown looting‘ – The Times reports that the Government’s scientific advisors have expressed surprise over the lack of rioting during the crisis. Let’s hope nothing happens to confirm their fears
Theme Tune Suggestions From Readers
Some more suggestions for theme songs from readers: “Worry” by Blodwyn Pig, “When Will I See You Again?” by the Three Degrees (can’t believe we haven’t had that yet) and “Locked Up In Jail” by John Lee Hooker.
Small Businesses That Have Reopened
A couple of weeks ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have reopened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet.
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I don’t agree with everything John O’Looney says and I’m still not fully onboard with his ”standing army” theory, although I keep an open mind because, as we’ve seen, governments are demonstrating they’re capable of anything. Certainly the forecast for the UK is not a good one under Labour. I just think this particular theory is a bit too ‘out there’ and we lack credible evidence. What do others think about John’s claims here;
”The uk and france have combined total of about 200,000 strong armies combined.
If starmer and macron do what i think they are about to do they will throw all 200,000k men into the ukraine meat grinder to meet the same fate as the 600k already lost and all of them will be slaughtered as the ukrainian forces have been and this is believe is the plan.
This is why putin amasses forces and supplies on that border now – to meet it
Prepare to lose your sons if they are in the military.
They will die
This will then leave the UK and france with no effective indigenous fighting force of any kind whatsoever of fighting men.
None.
None to resist what is about to unfold here and in europe.
This is at a time that tens of thousands of young men of fighting age are first imported and then deployed across europe, having signed the official secrets act, men simply waiting for the order to deploy.
But When ?
common sense tells me probably as the slaughter of our troops begins or nears completion and this will coincide with faked internet and power blackouts instigated by our own governments and labelled as Putins actions against us take place.
digital ID suggested to protect us and end to cash.
Civil unrest will follow, they will possibly try to announce another pandemic at the same time and the accompanying lockdowns and we will have no military at all to stop them plundering this country and its people.
These foreign young men – this “standing army”
an army standing and waiting, will be unleashed.
Soros has facilitated and funded this invasion but he is not in charge, he does as he is instructed – as they all do.
At this point i would urge all european people, especially it seems the british and french to prepare for this potential outcome – i see this as the globalist plan in the coming days.
They know people are waking up, they won’t relinquish power now, it will be a fight to the death for us all shortly.
This is as i felt it could only ever be because you cannot reason with murderers, the moment they begin killing us all with a fake pandemic a deadly injected cure – the time for reason and lawful action has ended.
They have shown their hand, they are killers and they are killing us.
The hope for me was that if myself and people like me warned you all that enough people would wake up, stand up and act, whilst a number are it it’s simply too few and too slowly at the moment.
But it is gathering momentum..
Forget nuclear war, it can never happen, it will never happen. It is a pointless worry, so don’t fear it.
They are not allowed and will never deploy nuclear missiles.
It will be good old fashion mass killing with conventional weapons, missiles and “final solutions”
https://x.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1861856102255607826
In fact, Britain can only just about deploy a reinforced Brigade, ten thousand men, no more.
France can deploy the ‘Legion Etrangere’, again, with support arms, roughly ten thousand.
That’s it.
The idea that NATO is war mongering simply cannot be taken seriously.
NATO members most likely to be affected in the first instance would be The Baltic States. They are each the size of Wales, with armies not much bigger than the Royal Welsh Regiment.
Instead President Trump has nominated Lt Gen (retd.) Keith Kellogg, the author of the ‘America First’ peace plan, as his special peace envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
A ceasefire and peace of sorts will be forthcoming in due course, as I discuss below.
The problem? Britain and France have no formations available to act as peacekeepers to man any ceasefire line buffer zone. That is why, right now, there is sheer panic in Britain’s Ministry of Defence.
Remember that brilliant wheeze, the peace dividend?
It has left us without any peacekeepers!
And how does an undertaker know all this?
Yes I need a bit more than John’s say so, to be honest. But our hux is more up on this particular theory and how O’Looney initially came to have this information in the first place. Perhaps he’ll be round later to elaborate.
I suppose that doesn’t seem to matter in Ukraine when they abduct men from the streets to go and fight, however.
I just think if these men are meant to represent some sort of “army” then going by the amount of footage I’ve seen of them smoking like chimneys with their lardy physiques, I’m not confident many would pass anything resembling basic training.
John O’Looney reported the immigrant army story about two years ago. His information came from senior officers of the Black Watch.
Knowing that the British Army would not fire on its own people a means of emptying the country of our soldiers was required hence a bit of “peacekeeping” in Ukraine would fit the bill. With our own army out of the way civil disruption could be engineered on home soil and the immigrant army mobilised.
Miri AF has posted her thoughts on this subject which largely match mine. I have also seen videos of immigrants arriving in Ireland and being shepherded on to coaches and then delivered to ex army bases, all heavily guarded.
Common sense alone tells me that the immigrants are being “delivered” to our shores. As one investigator pointed out they are all arriving with the same life-jackets, the dinghies all come from one supplier and those fleeing “persecution” are all aged between 18 – 40 and male and strangely enough none have any documents. Isn’t the norm when you are at risk of war to get your women and children to safety first?
In the days of protests in London concerning Lockdowns back in 2020 there were several reports of so-called police officers attacking protestors who were conspicuous via their suntans and use of language not conspicuously English. An early trial perhaps. I mentioned this to a senior police officer at the time. His response was a non- committal “oh.”
I most definitely do accept John O’Looney’s opinions on the immigrant army.
https://miriaf.co.uk/invasion-of-the-flat-snatchers-2/
Thanks, hux. Yes there’s very strange things going on in Ireland, plus how they’re all arriving in the Canaries then boarding planes once in mainland Spain to be dispersed across Europe. They must think we’re thick to swallow the ”fleeing persecution” line at this point in time. It’s clearly bogus.
Monks having to leave an 882 year old Abbey in Ireland here and rumours among the locals are that it’ll be used for migrants, but of course not confirmed yet because they tend to not tell locals ahead of time, they just dump loads of these foreigners on communities because they’re scared of the pushback;
https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=eb89a4df-82ca-4255-b3ba-e3bfbcabe3b0
Mogs, I have been banging on about the immigrant army for at least three years. John O’Looney has been right so far. I believe his prognosis is right now. Before even coming to DS over four years ago I told anybody who would listen that there would be blood on the streets. Each day that passes makes this more likely.
Maybe Kneel is up for a Billy Bonus if he achieves the Deagel forecasts for UK population figures in 2025.
But seriously, how much better would society be without all these migrants? It stops being an ”isolated incident” when these horror stories happen day in, day out across Europe;
”A young family just got back from a shopping trip in the coastal city of Rostock when, just hours later, the Algerian migrant father severely stabbed his partner and then leapt from a 10-story building grasping the woman’s 9-month-old baby, which also died after initially surviving severe injuries.
According to police, the couple began a heated argument, which led to the man stabbing his partner multiple times inside their high-rise building on Roald-Amundsen-Strasse.
Afterward, he grabbed his daughter and leaped out of a window on the 10th story.
The 34-year-old man died on impact or shortly thereafter, whereas his daughter survived the fall with life-threatening injuries. When police and rescue services arrived on scene, the baby was still screaming for her life. The little girl was rushed to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save her.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-algerian-migrant-stabs-partner-and-then-leaps-10-stories-to-his-death-with-his-9-month-old-baby-in-his-arms/
It’s like certain countries have emptied their prisons and mental hospitals and sent all the inmates to Europe. All they do is wreak havoc, cause misery and have zero respect for local laws and citizens;
”An Algerian migrant has been arrested in Germany, accused of burning down his asylum accommodation center and injuring 16 people.
The fire erupted on Saturday evening in the loft space of the building in Schleiden-Vogelsang, North Rhine-Westphalia, resulting in flames several meters high.
The suspect, a 35-year-old Algerian national who was also a resident of the facility, is facing charges including seven counts of attempted murder, serious arson, and grievous bodily harm.
Local police confirmed the arrest of the man but did not provide any further details regarding a motive.
A homicide squad is leading the investigation into the fire, which authorities believe was deliberately set.”
https://rmx.news/article/algerian-arrested-for-attempted-mass-murder-after-burning-down-german-asylum-center-injuring-16/
This highlights just how callous the government’s treatment of pensioners is. I’ll bet no migrants are having to worry about ”heating or eating” this winter, in their paid for hotels , student accommodation and ‘asylum centres’. They get money for ciggies and everything! Then there’s the British homeless freezing to death while rough sleeping;
”A freedom of information request was put in to the Home Office asking to provide the accommodation and financial costs for both refugees and asylum seekers during the years 2022/2023
Accommodation and financial support costs for asylum seekers was
£5.8 BILLION
Accommodation and financial support costs for refugees was
£633 MILLION.”
https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1861835212440686683
I do appreciate these people who’ve no qualms about barging into migrant centres/hotels and filming so that we can see just how they get to live. Check out this lovely 4 star hotel. They’ve even got NHS personnel on the premises, FFS. Security always seem to be migrants too. Nice to know where your money’s going, isn’t it?
”The level of secrecy around the migrant hotels is increasingly obvious.
They not only get the better then any homeless citizen but the best possible treatment.”
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary/status/1861570079005016396
Why the cost difference ? None of them should be here ! We are under a concerted attack on all fronts , this is just one of them .
Absolutely. Import the third world, become the third world.
Worse, because they are separated from the social controls of their own cultures, and our culture is unwilling to impose its own social controls effectively.
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& Langley Common Road Arborfield,
Wokingham
He certainly is
It’s all deliberate
Geoff buys cars discusses the rapid collapse of the car industry and concludes it is all deliberate and sinister;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBaQGWpyb8&t=926s
I think the collapse of the motor industry is happening much faster than TPTB anticipated but once you unleash madness, confusion, uncertainty and crazy legal demands it sort of has an uncontrollable destructive momentum.
Putin orders Satan II nukes to be ready as soon as possible
Russia has attempted to test its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat, before but suffered a catastrophic failure.
No doubt endemic high level corruption within Russia had its part to play in that debacle.
‘Since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia has been plagued by widespread political corruption (Warren, 2023; Vasilev & Felton, 2024). This corruption has been characterized by the misuse of public funds, bribery, and extortion. It has also involved the suppression of political dissent and the erosion of democratic institutions. As corruption runs rampant within the Russian government, neighbouring countries are also recipients of corrupt efforts to destabilize their governments, erode their democracy and jeopardize the support these neighboring countries can give to the security of Euruope as a whole (Stănescu, 2023).’
Angie Holzer
Meanwhile
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-nominates-keith-kellogg-as-special-envoy-to-ukraine-and-russia-124112800264_1.html
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general in the US military and former national security adviser, to serve as the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
Kellogg’s approach to the crisis has been outlined in a research paper he co-authored earlier this year with Fred Fleitz, former chief of staff to the National Security Council during Trump’s first presidency.
https://americafirstpolicy.com/assets/uploads/files/America_First,_Russia,___Ukraine_.pdf
‘Seek a cease-fire and negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict.
The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement. Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.
To convince Putin to join peace talks……offer to put off NATO membership for Ukraine for an extended period in exchange for a comprehensive and verifiable peace deal with security guarantees…….
in exchange for abiding by a cease-fire, a demilitarized zone, and participating in peace talks, Russia could be offered some limited sanctions relief.
Ukraine would not be asked to relinquish the goal of regaining all its territory, but it would agree to use diplomacy, not force, with the understanding that this would require a future diplomatic breakthrough which probably will not occur before Putin leaves office.
Until that happens, the United States and its allies would pledge to only fully lift sanctions against Russia and normalize relations after it signs a peace agreement acceptable to Ukraine.
We also call for placing levies on Russian energy sales to pay for Ukrainian reconstruction.
By enabling Ukraine to negotiate from a position of strength while also communicating to Russia the consequences if it fails to abide by future peace talk conditions, the United States could implement a negotiated end-state with terms aligned with U.S. and Ukrainian interests.
Part of this negotiated end-state should include provisions in which we establish a long-term security architecture for Ukraine’s defense that focuses on bilateral security defense. Including this in a Russia-Ukraine peace deal offers a path toward long-term peace in the region and a means of preventing future hostilities between the two nations.’
Peace in our time…..but not necessarily in the future……
‘Russia’s recurrent attacks against Ukraine can be traced to issues of identity and security. Finkel draws on what he described as a two-hundred-year-long quest by Russia to dominate Ukraine, as detailed in his upcoming book Intent to Destroy argues that identity and security have always been the driving factors of Russia’s aggression.
To illustrate this continuity of this trend, he draws upon a case study from the early 20th century, namely the Russian occupation of Galicia and Bukovyna. As rising Ukrainian activism threatened the Russian empire, the regime responded with propaganda peddling the notion that Ukraine had been created to destroy Russia from within – a stark parallel to propaganda today. Russia also waged a war to “liberate” the Ukrainians, believing that annexing Galicia would allow Russia to reestablish its rightful boundaries.
The conflict resulted in violence and plunder against civilians, targeting of Ukrainian community leaders, banning Ukrainian publications, and switching the education system – actions closely mimicking those of Russia today.
This obsession begs the question – when will Russia’s quest to dominate Ukraine end?’
https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/intent-to-destroy-russia-s-two-hundred-year-quest-to-dominate-ukraine-eugene-finkel
In answer to your last question, Russia’s quest to dominate Ukraine will end with the complete capitulation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Western politicians and people like you have been screaming “War, war, war!” for two and a half years now, with no regard whatsoever for the loss of Ukrainian life or country. You have had several opportunities to end this conflict but are so pre-occupied with your own superiority that you cannot accept that Russia is fighting an existential threat: the threat of the country being surrounded by nuclear missiles placed there by a bullying USA, determined to play the world’s policeman (with its very own set of self-aggrandizing laws), and the US’s kowtowing European politicians.
Vernon Coleman wrote a report two days ago on how Starmer has declared war on Russia without bothering to inform the population: https://expose-news.com/2024/11/26/biden-and-starmer-have-started-world-war-iii/.
While the British mainstream media obsessed about the death of an unpleasant, hypocritical politician who did massive harm to the country and the funeral of a pop singer who was hardly a household name, “Free Suits” Starmer (famed previously for grabbing freebies, endorsing a policy designed to kill huge numbers of old people and doing great damage to farming in Britain) quietly, and almost secretly (as though the electorate had no right to know what was happening), gave permission for Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow Missiles to attack Russia. And without a wait or a thank you, Ukraine started using them. This followed Biden’s decision to start World War III by allowing Ukraine to fire American ATACMS missiles into Russia.
With all respect to the Ukrainian armed forces, I suspect it is unlikely that the Ukraine military will have been able to fire any of these sophisticated missiles without at least some help and support – and so British and American troops will have effectively fired the missiles. And so, America and Britain, without the traditional courtesy of declaring war, are now fighting Russia.
All this means, of course, that Biden and Starmer have quietly started World War III and taken their countries into what seems likely to be the world’s first nuclear war – without the authority, permission or knowledge of their electorates. When your country’s soldiers are firing their country’s powerful weapons at another country then, by definition, it’s a war.
“Since the 1990s, plans to reunite Ukraine and other post-Soviet states into a trans-continental superpower have been brewing in Russia. A revitalized theory of Eurasian empire informs Mr Putin’s every move”.
Indeed, ever since the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 a line of Russian thinkers has developed an ideology of Eurasianism.
It was suppressed during the Soviet period but burst forth during perestroika in the late 1980s. The ideology posits not just America but the whole Atlantic world as Russia’s “clash of civilizations” opponent, with Russian Orthodoxy harnessed as the glue in the geopolitical war to come.
Under Putin, the themes of imperial glory and western victimisation have been elevated to centre stage across the country.
Ukraine figured in this Eurasian ideology as an obstacle from the start. Eurasian ideologists in the 1920s were already talking of “the Ukraine problem”, presenting Ukraine as excessively “individualistic” and insufficiently Orthodox. Prominent ideologists of the 1990s identified Ukrainian sovereignty as, in the words of one, a “huge danger to all of Eurasia”.
Russia’s Eurasia project required, as an “absolute imperative”, total control of the whole north coast of the Black Sea. Ukraine had to become “a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state”.
This is the ideology which motives Putin, which led him to declare Ukraine as “a colony with a puppet regime” on the eve of the invasion.
This is the ideology which inspires and justifies his brutal war in his eyes.’
Jane Burbank: The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War
‘It now appears the Kremlin has fallen into a trap (and to say this is not – to repeat – an attempt to excuse Russia’s actions). The trap has similarities to the trap the US set for Saddam Hussein in 1990 when it said it would not interfere in his government’s dispute with Kuwait. Saddam invaded Kuwait, which gave the US the casus belli to destroy Iraq’s military.
The trap also has similarities to one the CIA laid for Moscow four decades ago, by arming the mujahideen to fight the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan.’
Both China and Germany are also party to the astonishingly successful U.S. strategy of weakening Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours.
President Trump’s peace settlement offer puts Putin in a pickle.
He needs time to re-arm but does not want neutral forces policing a de-militarised zone that prevents him from renewing his assault.
Oh dear! What to do?
Meanwhile:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1862082703140565109?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
“Labour poised to water down electric car rules amid crisis in industry
My emphasis above.
Is this a Eurasia/Eastasia moment? I’ll have to check when I have more time but I was pretty sure the manifesto commitment was to Zero tailpipe emissions by 2030. ie no new ICE or hybrid cars.
They’ll fall in line with what big brother says, if it stays at 2035 for sale of new hybrid cars. It’s only just over ten years, and no firm will develop anything new with a shelf life much less than that anyway. It’s entirely possible that some things may be legal, but not available once the manufacturers have done their sums.
After all, the regime that imposes financial penalties for not selling a high enough proportion of one thing versus another is likely to result in a shortfall in supply of what people want, unless they want to shell out for a high overcharge to cover the penalty if it is sold too early. Not sure if that will end up on actual manufacture dates, or registration dates, though.
The wish, by the government, for every car owner to change to EV’s is never going to happen for many reasons. However, what I can see happening is a series of increasingly swingeing charges for those of us that drive bog standard ICE vehicles (and who could never afford an EV even if we wanted one). Dressed up as a road tax, it has already begun to some degree. Come 2035 ICE car owners may well be charged thousands of pounds a year to keep their vehicle on the road. Of course, I would hope this current shower will be long gone by then, but I wouldn’t trust any government not to keep hold of a wonderful money making scheme thought out by a previous incumbent.
The car industry is reported to be generating a new breed of deisel generators mounted on trailers to be towed behind all EVs to power them whilst in the move.
The government offer to perhaps row back on the 2030 commitments is a deliberate charade. Major car manufacturers do not make major decisions on a week by week basis. Their planning to 2030 has been modified in light of government actions and the new plans will not now be unmodified.
Smoke and bloody mirrors.
It’s the irish general election tomorrow!
5 years more of the same old same old!
This short clip explains it all really
(For those who don’t know, the puppetician is meant to be the current Taoiseach, prime minister, Simon Harris)
https://youtu.be/cNvWALtWufI?si=acy8bXwO_4S6CBTl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHCKUTFJwo Congrats Jay Bhattacharya, new head of NIH…. By Ivor Cummins