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by Luke Perry
29 December 2021 11:42 PM

  • “The Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip” – “It seemed at one time that our weak and malleable Prime Minister would forever be at the grip of SAGE and their scary graphs. However, events in the Christmas and New Year period reveal that the Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip,” argues William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine.
  • “This New Year could mark the beginning of the end for Covid restrictions” – Omicron is spreading so fast that many of its consequences are already baked in. The Government has chosen to tough it out, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
  • “Adnams brewery boss says sector lost 50% of Christmas trade” – Dark months are ahead for the hospitality industry, the Chief Executive of Adnams says, reports BBC News.
  • “Ministers must be ready to cut the Covid isolation period” – The prospect of living with Covid as we do other respiratory viruses is far closer than many might imagine, says Telegraph View.
  • “How likely is reinfection following Covid recovery?” – “We have looked at the published evidence and can conclude based on the existing body of evidence, that reinfections are very rare, if at all, and based on typically a few instances with questionable confirmation of an actual case of re-infection,” writes Paul Elias Alexander for the Brownstone Institute.
  • “Duke University orders staff to get booster by February 1st or face the boot” – “Duke joins a raft of elite U.S. colleges which are pressing ahead with booster requirements, including Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, and Dartmouth,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Too many have cashed in on our Covid fear – and nothing will be ‘normal’ again” – From mindsets to material things, the virus is now the core around which the rest of life is bent to fit – and that changing seems unlikely, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
  • “NFL has created ‘two-class system’ for vaccinated and unvaccinated, star fumes” – Aaron Rodgers has accused the NFL of a ‘two-class system’ when it comes to distinguishing between vaccinated and unvaccinated players, reports RT.
  • “America’s least-vaccinated states led in-store holiday shopping” – “American shoppers flocked to brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, with especially strong sales in several states where the rate of full vaccinations against the Covid virus are less than 60%,” reports Reuters.
  • “Covid isolation rules may be relaxed to stop Australia’s pingdemic” – “The Australian Prime Minister is considering easing Covid rules after surging cases of the Omicron variant overwhelmed testing sites and put thousands into isolation, stifling businesses and disrupting summer holiday travel,” reports the Times.
  • “Haxey Hood 2022 cancelled for second year due to Covid” – Organisers cancel the ancient face-off which sees rival Scottish villagers locked in a mass scrum for hours, reports BBC News.
  • “Why it’s time to embrace ‘Plan Living With Covid’” – “There’s those who favour a light touch approach and those who want imposed restraint. Perhaps now is the moment we can look beyond these arguments, toward a near future where Covid lives with us and we with it,” writes Dr. Chris Smith in the Telegraph.
  • “Fauci urges Americans to have a ‘vaccinated, home-related’ New Year’s” – “Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he ‘strongly recommends’ against going to large New Year’s Eve gatherings this year as the highly contagious Omicron variant causes massive case surges nationwide,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Why are Joe and Jill Biden masking up on the beach when they’re alone?” – “Joe and Jill Biden have worn masks to walk their dog alone on a beach while on their Delaware vacation. The Bidens, who are booster vaccinated, covered their faces for no apparent reason,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Is the West becoming pagan again?” – The successor to Christian civilisation may resemble the present-day iconoclasm known as woken, writes Christopher Caldwell in the New York Times.
  • “The left doesn’t own minority voters” – Unless left-wing parties drop their woke dogmas, they’ll struggle in the increasingly diverse West, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
  • “How the woke’s war on words took over 2021” – Language has been the most important terrain on which the culture war has been fought. But in 2021, the policing of words gained unprecedented momentum to reach nonsensical levels, says Frank Furedi in RT.
  • “Seven ways in which the left is now the right” – “One major way it’s distinct from those other strands is that it has adopted many ideas that are fundamentally right-wing or conservative,” writes Dr. Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
  • “The greatest curtailment of liberty” – Toby appears on the Sketch Notes On podcast to talk about the Government’s relentless campaign of fear to ‘nudge’ the public into complying with lockdown restrictions.

"The UK Govt pumped out a lot of scary propaganda that led to people becoming quite frightened…

They were proved more willing to tolerate what Lord Sumption described as 'the greatest curtailment of liberty in the history of these islands."

Podcast: https://t.co/owdVbIvZvi pic.twitter.com/UIFgdKwoRS

— lucy johnston (@thelucyjohnston) December 29, 2021
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“U.S. University orders staff to get booster” (MailOnline)

I wonder just how many of these universities have connections to China or the pharmaceutical industry…

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Star
3 years ago
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I doubt there is a single significant research university in Britain (maybe define as belonging to the Russell Group) that does not have major connections to Big Pharma. This sector of the economy is twice as big as “defence” and runs on patents. The universities are the junior partners in almost any cooperation with Big Pharma.

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Hugh
3 years ago
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Isn’t this the sort of thing one does if one wants to execute a coup d’etat (they don’t need to bother about the army, who just do what their masters, with their PPE’s from big pharma universities tell them)?

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago
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aren’t they all prostituting themselves to Chinese student money or is that just the UK and Australia?

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
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In the US there are 8 million Chinese nationals enrolled in our colleges and universities.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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EIGHT million? ! I hadn’t even realised there were that many students there altogether!

(P.S. I hadn’t realised you were American! I was shocked about that FSSP story recently…).

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
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All.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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Just to be clear, if America is the last hope of the free world (as Dr. Mike Yeadon and others have stated), does that mean we’re in trouble?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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Yeadon has a fair point. Where else is there mainstream organised political resistance at the highest levels to the totalitarian mandate culture, other than in the US Republican Party?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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The next president of the “United States” Donald Trump recently stated his support of the “vaccines” – a bit worrying surely if the pharmaceuticals are the ones executing a coup d’etat and establishing totalitarianism?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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The “vaccines”, not the mandates.

Weren’t you the one just now singing the praises of Diane “zero covid” Abbot, for her late conversion to that position?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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Being opposed to the mandates is the least I would expect from a member of America’s Republican party. He purports to be someone who can drain the swamp, a swamp I suspect to be infested by people in the pharmaceutical industry and their proxies.
The point about Dianne Abbott is that at the moment, if I had been voting in that Shropshire by-election, I would have voted for someone who opposed the mandates rather than someone who supported them, regardless of party. And I think the result was as good for us from an anti-lockdown, anti-mandate point of view as we could realistically expect. If she had been the vehicle for registering my disgust with the vote in parliament that week, I would have put other things aside and voted for her, regardless of other personal politics and previous votes.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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And perhaps I would have done the same.

But my point about the likes of Abbott remains valid.

“Being opposed to the mandates is the least I would expect from a member of America’s Republican party.”

You expect a lot more from them than from our “Conservative” Party have delivered, then.

But there is much more than that. Trump is facing flak within his party even for that stand. The spirit of the party is against hiding from covid more generally, even though many of them see no problem with novel medical treatments like the “vaccines”.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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The “Not The Conservative” party.
They’re about as conservative as the Republican party are loony left republicans (like Ken Livingstone).
I haven’t the least confidence that we’ll get a genuine conservative when Peking Piffle goes in a year or ten.
Owen Patterson would’ve made a good leader, and I still wonder if he was hung out to dry a bit for (things like) standing up to the “green blob” Would they have done that to Tim Yeo, who gained financially from wind turbines? Would they really?

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
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Yeo is small beer compared to the apostate Gummer, now head of the UK Climate Change Committee, who spent a large part of his parliamentary career furthering his “green” business interests. The thorny question of conflicts of interest apparently don’t apply with that quango. The behaviour of Gummer is copiously illustrated by his expenses when an MP; mole hills and rooks’ nests an’ all.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
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In reality, Trump is the swamp.

He is also Captain Underpants.

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago
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Yes dear, I am sure you are right in your own mind.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
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Trump is a longstanding cronyist, he bragged of bribing politicians, he is a Keynesian, a protectionist and a New York liberal.

Of course he’s the swamp, he always has been and always will be.

His moronic cult berate free market economists, branding them communists and they claim Trump is draining the swamp with his Keynesianism.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

(Actually, I do seem to recall the Japanese government came out on this side recently, but they are hardly hugely influential around the world.)

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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Only G7 members, third largest economy…
You’re right though, they won’t stop it.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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But as I said, not hugely influential around the word, certainly compared to the US superpower.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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We could have done without that American presidential election being rigged – which is why they did it, I suppose…

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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Certainly the result was a disaster, and certainly it was rigged (primarily by systematically biased media coverage and tech meddling).

Remains to be seen whether the elite leftists can hold onto the tiger’s tail by maintaining the rigging, or if they will reap the whirlwind they have sown. (Mixed metaphor? Sue me!)

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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(Maybe you’ve been reading Life of Pi… 🙂 )

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

You’d put your faith in politicians?

The places where there is the most popular resistance include Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean. The economies are globally insignificant, but the people are extremely well informed about what Big Pharma is capable of, having suffered it for many years in a big way. They have the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world because of the use of chlordecone that was okayed by the French government. This year people launched an indefinite general strike, forcing the French authorities to delay their plan to sack healthworkers who refuse “vaccination”. It is unlikely Macron’s “vaccine pass” will be imposed on these territories except by military rule. The state will have to declare war on the population and then win that war. Consciousness there is currently way in advance of what it is in Britain and, taken as whole, in metropolitan France too.

In Europe? Austria and France are on the list, but who knows, some inspiring resistance movements may arise in other countries too.

The structure of the resistance won’t be based on existing political structures or economic structures either. A country that is peripheral economically may suddenly rise to prominence as the site of exceptionally strong and inspiring resistance.

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Hugh
Hugh
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With the best will in the world, I think the Guadeloupe business may be difficult to replicate in big European countries unless things change substantially.

Incidentally, is it true about the (vaccine “hesitant”) Amish not having a problem with autism? And what about measles? A lot of the current hostility about the “vaccine” hesitant, I think, stems from the MMR business (which I was not involved with), so it would be good to properly nail the issue, as well as draw attention to some of the harms previously perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry in the third world.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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I don’t see any basis for hoping for any good to come from revolution. At most, it’s a desperation play.

Historically, revolutions result in terror, slaughter, and totalitarianism, even if they succeed.

The American secession could be claimed to have had reasonably good results, but that was really a transition of power between sections of the elite – from remote to local.

That’s maybe the best we can hope for here.

But short of war, genuinely populist (ie, opposed to elite misrule) and conservative (ie seeking to revert to historical cultural and social norms, not to build a brave new world based on grand theory) politicians are our only hope.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
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“America’s least-vaccinated states led in-store holiday shopping” – “American shoppers flocked to brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, with especially strong sales in several states where the rate of full vaccinations against the Covid virus are less than 60%,” reports Reuters

Outrageous – normal people doing normal thigs

Stand in the Park Sundays from 10am – make friends & keep sane 
Wokingham – Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD  

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago
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Does this mean they are offering only short term contracts?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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Well I think a few of them might possibly be struggling after five or ten years of four boosters a year…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“NFL’s two class system for vaxxed and unvaxxed”. (RT)

Didn’t the so-called United States do something like this once before? Maybe they should take the knee…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Fauci’s ‘vaccinated’, home related new year”

That crook still not in prison then?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“The left is now the right” (Substack).

Told you, Mark! 🙂

Take each idea on its merits. In any case, in the current climate, the fact that Dianne Abbot voted against health apartheid is more important to me now than the fact she is Dianne Abbott.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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““The left is now the right” (Substack).
Told you, Mark! ”

As far as I’m concerned, as highlighted in a piece by Thomas Sowell linked here earlier today by Julian, “the right” is not defined other than as that which resists the left, just as conservatism is similarly defined as resisting radical change. For me, these are pretty much the same thing.

So Carl’s title is the equivalent of writing that “white is now black” (not talking about race here).

“There may be moderate or extreme versions of the left vision or agenda but, among those designated as “the right,” the difference between free market libertarians and military juntas is not simply one of degree in pursuing a common vision, because there is no common vision among these and other disparate groups opposed to the left—which is to say, there is no such definable thing as “the right,” though there are various segments of that omnibus category, such as free market advocates, who can be defined.
…..
Conservatism, in its original sense, has no specific ideological content at all, since everything depends on what one is trying to conserve.”
https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/sowell-the-left-right-dichotomy/

In other words, the left remains the left, defined (imo) by its seeking to impose radical change on society and on humanity, to build a better world according to the designs of its clever elites. It just shifts its particular preferred objectives, and its focus on methods and obsessions intended to achieve those objectives. So the modern woke left abandoned the discredited C19th/C20th obsession with class and control of the means of production and with material force, and turned to the modern methods of achieving power and destroying resistance to radical change by “reforming” institutional and cultural obstacles. Instead of being the vanguard of the muscular proletariat, they are the chief whiners of the victim culture. But the goal of radical, directed change to build a better world is the same.

As for Carl’s piece, it nicely highlights lots of fine ironies, without making the case it claims to (at least, on the definitions of terms outlined above):

1. Adopting things from other cultures is bad

Just routine hypocrisy from leftists, and nothing to do with “the left now being right”. As Carl himself points out, this is not really a matter of the leftists resting change, rather it is just another pretext to hammer and undermine the formerly dominant culture.

2. What your ancestors did matters

This one’s a bit of a fantasy as well. I can assure Carl that leftists have perfectly happily hounded people for who their parents or ancestors were, from communists hounding the families of kulaks and traitor classes to race-based persecutions of jews by Nazis and non-Hans by Chinese communists.

3. Large corporations can be a force for good

This merely reflects the capture of large corporations by the woke left. Surprise, surprise, when they are on their side they see them as good.

In reality of course, power is power and it matters little to the victim whether it is wielded by a state apparatchik or a corporate owner.

4. Some religions shouldn’t be criticised

This is really nothing to do with religion (except to the extent it conveniently doubles as another attack on Christianity), of course, just an extension of the modern leftist dogma about “minority” victimhood.

5. People should be addressed by their titles

This one’s just a bit daft.

6. Academics need to sign loyalty oaths

7. Profanity should be removed from TV and radio

These last two are merely reflections of the rise to confident power of the radical left and its consequent abandonment of its former pretences to liberal views on freedom of speech and of opinion.

So no, the left is not “now the right”. The left remains the left, and the right opposes it. But many of the particular positions held by the old left of the C19th to mid-C20th have been abandoned, or revealed as having been hypocritical falsehoods.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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“Free market libertarians”.

I seem to remember that the Peterloo massacre was on people that were protesting against the corn laws that favoured land owners but meant the poor went hungry. This massacre lead to the founding of The Manchester Guardian. And there is a Free Trade Hall in that town today. Free trade between independent free nations has been the best thing to happen for the world’s poor. As such, I would find it extraordinary if being a free market libertarian was characterised as something to be shunned by the left. Same with the Brussels (and Srasbourg and Luxembourg) regime, which has acted as a protection racket and been a terrible thing for many people in Africa. Of course, I could be misunderstanding the left as being about helping the poor, rather than merely about collectiveness and the poisonous doctrine espoused by Karl Marx (I seem to remember some truly vile stuff in the later verses of the Red Flag). Still, Dianne Abbott and Peter Bone can both oppose health apartheid, so some of the issues immediately facing us do seem to cut across politics.

In any case, as I understand, the terms “left” and “right” stem from French revolutionary politics – a politics I whole heartedly reject.

I’m not saying this stuff’s not important, but in the current context, maybe there are more immediate considerations.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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“I would find it extraordinary if being a free market libertarian was characterised as something to be shunned by the left.”

Then you must be ignorant of most of the C20th, during which the free market was regarded almost universally on the left as “capitalist” conspiracy. Originally, it had indeed been the domain of radicals. (Though purists would hold that there has never been a true free market in practice – these terms referred inevitably to “relatively” free market economics versus relatively less free controlled economies).

Free trade between nations is rather a different issue from free market economics in general. It does indeed make the world’s poor richer, at the expense of working people in wealthier nations, but only by “exploiting” them.

“I could be misunderstanding the left as being about helping the poor“

Charity is about helping the poor. Genuine charity, not the coerced theft that is socialist tax-funded “charity” with other people’s money. The left rationalises its own power and abuses by claiming that its radicalisms will build a better world.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I seem to remember that the “United States” with their lower taxes give a higher percentage of their GDP to charity than places with higher taxes (2% compared to 1% in the UK as I recall). And that their per capita wealth is also greater than high tax countries (twice the UK’s? Or was at one time). And with money being better spent by charities than big government, it is debatable whether high tax means more caring. Of course, it only works if people are charitable…

(I’m ignorant about a lot of things. But I do tire of this notion that the left is somehow more caring about or better for the poor than the right).

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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“it is debatable whether high tax means more caring“

If anyone here was arguing for that, it was you, with your suggestion that being on the left (generally favouring higher taxes) might be “about helping the poor“. I certainly wasn’t!

As for the big “charities”, I’m profoundly dubious about their claims to charitableness. As far as I can see, they are mostly about making absurd salaries for the management, building personal empires and exercising political power.

Charity begins at home, and small is beautiful, seem apt.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Ah yes, I meant to add that the left is perceived as being concerned for the poor, but in reality they can be more concerned about political purity (hence the “all equally poor” conundrum). If people on the left wish to oppose free markets, or support the European Union (or indeed make us all equally landless, moneyless and all joint winners at musical chairs), I would wish to challenge them on that. They certainly do appear to have opposed the free markets and they need to be constantly reminded of how damaging this is to the poor they profess to care for (and the same with their bog standard comprehensives in Hull).

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Certainly there are abuses by charities – Cancer Research UK is owned by pharmaceutical companies. But there are good charities too. The point is that the state spends money badly, and you can choose which charities you give to.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Incidentally, I’m rather keen on distributism, which I don’t see as fascist, but simply fairness and common sense and giving people a stake in their country and thus an incentive to look after it and defend it.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Nothing wrong with distributing, as long as it’s your wealth you are distributing. The simple reality is that if all the champagne socialists and virtue signallers of the left got together and sacrificed their own luxuries, they could easily fund all the welfare spending they could want.

I’d even respect them for it and chip in myself. That would be true charity.

I’m in favour of a healthy mittelstand and robust, secure small and family businesses myself, which is the best way of ensuring a widely distributed ownership imo.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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The trouble is, all (most of?) the common land was stolen through the various monstrous enclosure acts (and going further back, the Normans, whose descendants still own a disproportionate amount of English land, stole a lot of land in England). Of course, I don’t wish to forcibly remove land. Still, we have allotments, and there are plenty of ways this could be expanded on without doing anyone an injustice. Rights come with responsibilities. Why shouldn’t people who go to prison for certain things have as a possible punishment the loss of some or all of their land, to be distributed to landless people who fulfil certain criteria of basic decency? And then there’s absentee landlords. There are landowners who already have an obligation to allow access to footpaths across the land after all, so there is nothing absolutely wrong with expecting certain duties from some landowners.

I think a lot of the left/right dichotomy could be summed up as being about family, land and tradition. And a lot of the current evil relates to the harm being done to small businesses through the current shambles (and one reason I opposed the EU is because it works against small business) whilst benefitting large corporations that already have too much power.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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“there are plenty of ways this could be expanded on without doing anyone an injustice“

Well yes. Wealthy people could buy land and bequeath it to the common good(a lot of Victorian parks came into being that way).

“And a lot of the current evil relates to the harm being done to small businesses through the current shambles (and one reason I opposed the EU is because it works against small business) whilst benefitting large corporations that already have too much power.”

Indeed. I recall VDH’s recent book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America:

Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses The Dying Citizen

It’s about having a strong, independent middle group of citizens who are not beholden to government or dependent on welfare, who can say to elites: I don’t care what you think about me”.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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That’s where America has a big advantage over us.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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Yes. Like I said, being a Roman citizen meant something, regardless of race or creed!

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I remember a story that only about 600,000 of the 2 million population of the slave state of Qatar were actually citizens. Whether that will work for them in the long term, or whether they can simply send them away when they’re finished with them in such a state, I don’t know.
And then there’s the Swiss system where to become a citizen, you are expected to learn more about local shops and customs than the locals sometimes know themselves. Actually they manage things quite well there, even if it is not a proper country in the traditional sense

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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“China is an endemically racist society”.

So maybe they are nationalist socialists then (like the nasty Nats).

Now does that make them left wing or right wing?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Incidentally, I recall the Whig party were reformed not long ago, and stood in an election. I don’t know if they were anything to do with The Independent Whig. I think they’re some sort of “progressives” or feminists.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

“In any case, in the current climate, the fact that Dianne Abbot voted against health apartheid is more important to me now than the fact she is Dianne Abbott.”

More fool you, because Abbott remains the poisonous buffoon she always was, and retains all the foolish and dangerous political views she has always held. She remains the Diane Abbot who signed up to the literally moronic “zero covid” resolution of the Socialist Campaign Group in January 2021.

She deserves credit for taking a stand on this issue, just as Johnson deserves credit for his occasional stands against the further reaches of covid insanity, but in neither case should it override the long track record of the politician concerned.

An ally of the moment is indeed an ally. For the moment. But only a fool forgets the long established track record of such a temporary ally.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I think someone posted, all the other things can be sorted out afterwards, but if the health apartheid becomes entrenched, it’s game over.

I stress, at the moment. With the health apartheid, and the social credit score apps that may follow from it, it may be very hard to turn back from it if it isn’t stopped soon. However, if this threat is seen off, your points re. the woman with the hideously difficult to spell correctly name would absolutely be valid concerns for the future. Sometimes, we need to ally with people we would not normally do so for the greater good, like Churchill and Stalin, or in that film, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, when the Methodist had to go to a Catholic church.

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Encierro
Encierro
3 years ago

Dr. Robert Malone.Has been removed from Twatter.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1476241697034186754
Don’t know who he is?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwmalonemd
now you can find him here
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

What a surprise. I wonder if they will remove everyone from the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists? Is it them or Face Book (who recently admitted their “fact checkers” are left wing opinion) that employed Nick Clegg?

Last I heard, they were said to be losing people over this nonsense and becoming boring. Seems they’re getting worse if anything.
(Incidentally, didn’t one of them change their name to something daft?).

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Malone’s banning isn’t the surprise. The surprise is that he was allowed to stay for so long.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

He just joined GETTR as well, and a hoard of his Twitter followers jumped over as well.

https://gettr.com/user/rwmalonemd

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Username1
Username1
3 years ago

Switched on BBCs Radio 4 just after 6am this morning, they linked the weather report with Covid restrictions – to paraphrase
“It’s going to be very mild, so ideal for holding your outdoors New Year’s Eve parties”. Switched radio off.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Username1

Best things on radio 4 (perhaps the only good things) are the shipping forecast and the National Anthem (unless you’re a republican!).

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The snag is they’ve changed the broadcast time for the shipping forecast from 5:20 to 5:34 – just after “news briefing”, so check your watch before turning it on!

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Username1

That takes me back to when I used to listen to Radio Tirana for a laugh. “Triplets were born on Tuesday to parents who thanked Comrade Enver Hoxha for his wise leadership of the country.”

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Not in the roundup, but Sir Nigel Farage was questioning “boosters” every three months for ever on his show today. Better late than never, I guess!

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I caught the last 40 minutes of his show for the first time yesterday. Farage was much better than I expected he would be (apart from that ridiculous section at the end where he drinks a pint with his guest). He raged against the idea of endless boosters and hammered the lies that a “vaccine” protects others. He even had a doctor on who unequivocally stated that “vaccines” don’t prevent infection or transmission and who came close to admitting that Omicron may be safer than boosters. I think I’ll give the show another try next time.

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court
court
3 years ago

There’s a long way to go but does anyone else think the tide has turned over the last couple of days? I feel the narrative is starting to crumble.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  court

There’s encouraging signs but we’ve been here before. Remember those “irreversible” liftings of restrictions (which in any case still left some important ones in place)? I can’t see things being allowed to return to completely normal any time soon.

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milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago
Reply to  court

I wonder how many families watched the new James Bond over Christmas? The quotation at the end (from Jack London’s work) is especially pertinent:

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” 

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

I saw it a couple of months back and it was terrible, although I did make a point of noting down the quote.

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  court

The question I’d ask is this: “Is the omicron bullshit scaring as many people and scaring them to as great an extent as was intended?”

No, in the sense that there’s a lot of opposition to the ramping up of restrictions.

Yes, in the sense that there’s a hell of a lot of self-testing and many are doing their nut and thinking they’ve got “Covid” if they’ve got a runny nose or a headache, even in late autumn or early winter!

At the same time, it may possibly be true that deep down many hypochondriacs know they are hypochondriacs and that a minor cold isn’t the bubonic plague. In any case, the death rate is low. The rulers will have noticed that that’s a big weakness in their story. Next time, they’ll do something about that.

Pfizer won’t want to miss the chance to spike up millions of children, probably by the spring.

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

You know it’s bad when all the customers I see in the local corner shop are masked up, something that hasn’t happened up until this month. My one consolation is that the owners of said shop still have them under the chin – no doubt just to be used in case one of their customers has a meltdown.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

It rather begs the question what will happen if we’re ever faced with a serious disease.

And Pfizer needs shutting down, along with Fauci’s gain of function research labs.

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Idris
Idris
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

My family tested themselves everyday over the 4 Christmas days despite the fact they have all had boosters and weren’t mixing with anyone else. That’s 6 people times 4. No wonder the LFTs have run out. Logic says they are designed for people who have symptoms to see if it’s Covid not people with a hang over.

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
Reply to  court

TPTB are determined to install a global totalitarian regime, whatever it takes for however long it takes. They are not giving up or going away.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Susan

That’s nice.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  court

The new narrative will be:

“Since we got rolled over by this Omicron – just imagine what horror it would have been if it had not turned out mild – we must redouble our efforts to prepare for the next deadly pandemic. Therefore, all measures must be kept in place, yeah, hardened to make them withstand this new undefined threat. Foremost, we must ‘learn from our mistakes’ and keep our trusted vaccine passports while making sure that they become an established element of life, and rewrite laws, so that in the future it no longer possible that a small group of unvaccinated could subvert our society like we experienced during the Great Corona Pandemic. Such great investments have been made that we must make sure that they do not go to waste.”

Or something.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Your sacrifices must not be in vain. etc

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  court

Seems to be weakening in the States. But we may have to go through much economic anguish and increasingly obvious vax death and injuries before it stops.
el gato malo thinks it is over though

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

Tha Gaardyun gets a very special lump of Christmas coal.
An online poll conducted by the staunchly left Guardian newspaper seeking nominations for “Person of the Year” has been turned off, sparking speculation it was shut down when author J.K. Rowling took the lead.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

The new Boaty McBoatface (or Colin Bell End).

I sometimes wonder why they do these polls…

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

“The Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip” – no, a sufficient number of backbenchers have threatened to oust Boris Johnson now he’s become a vote-loser, having needlessly lost the recent by-election, a by-election that would not have taken place if he had left well alone.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

Which is why the government’s scientific advisers are losing their grip 🙂

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Phil Shannon
Phil Shannon
3 years ago

ITEM: “Covid isolation rules may be relaxed to stop Australia’s pingdemic” – “The Australian Prime Minister is considering easing Covid rules after surging cases of the Omicron variant overwhelmed testing sites and put thousands into isolation, stifling businesses and disrupting summer holiday travel,” reports the Times.

Ah, so ‘The Science’ is flexible, after all. All the mandatory testing and quarantine requirements for those deemed ‘close contacts’ of positive ‘cases’, specified in exquisite and soul-numbing detail by the infectious diseases ‘Experts’ and public heath bureaucrats, turns out to have plenty of wiggle-room when the pingdemic starts to seriously affect productivity by taking out a large chunk of the workforce who are required to act their supporting role in the Covid farce by sheltering from the virus.

So, with, for example, almost 5,000 South Australian ‘close contacts’  forcibly holed up in their bedrooms, a figure you could multiply by at least ten nationwide, our useless Prime Minister has called for a ‘a gear change’ to get business back to health. The virological ‘Science’ will now be amended to ride on the coat-tails of what is politically necessary.

Seems to me that the old folk wisdom concerning a bug that is going around – three days coming, three days with you, three days leaving you – would have had far fewer workers (and no healthy workers) sidelined for less time than the elaborate theatre of a fortnight’s house arrest for ‘close contacts’ (and all the other risible Covid palaver, for that matter). But wisdom (folk or otherwise) has been MIA during this whole regrettable, sad affair.

Phil
Adelaide

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

They’re all following the science even though they’re all doing different things. They’re following it in different ways, you see…

If thousands starve in Africa as a knock on effect of their restrictions, or if millions of Australians lose their freedoms, it’s no big deal. But if the politicians find they won’t be able to get their Amazon orders delivered…

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
The house of cards is beginning to tremble and they’re looking for a dignified exit.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Do you think so?
3 weeks to flatten the curve it is then…

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

They can only shift the goalposts so many times. Hardcore covid cultists will cling, but the semi-awakened mass in the middle are starting to ask questions.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

But everyone’s wearing masks in corner shops?

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

Meanwhile, back in Idiot Britain, Bozo thinks it’s a really good idea to let healthy NHS staff isolate themselves for ten days at a time, while the survivors do nothing but push needles into cretinous arms and the Hell Service falls to pieces around them.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I was saying the other day that this mass testing and isolation has to end (as the South African chief medical officer pointed out). Knowing them though, it’ll likely drag on for months or even years. The country’s buggered. A pity too, it used to be a pretty nice country.

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Star
Star
3 years ago

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-urges-crackdown-anti-vaxxer-25812438

“Labour called for an urgent crackdown on dangerous anti-vax conspiracy theories online, warning they could be stopping people getting their jab and therefore slowing down the nation’s recovery from the crisis.”

Clearly we are antisocial elements who spread dangerous ideas in order to sabotage national revival.

“NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: ‘Given the high level of Covid-19 infections and increasing hospital admissions, the NHS is now on a war footing.’ “

So if you want your hip operation, you can forget about it.

This is how the NHS in the form it has taken since its foundation ends.

An Online Safety Bill is due to be brought forward in the New Year, including measures to tackle fake news.

A Government spokesman said: “We have one of the highest Covid-19 vaccine uptake rates in the world and over the past year have been providing people with advice and information about vaccines in one of the most extensive public health campaigns ever launched.”

He said the counter-disinformation unit “continues to work closely with social media companies to identify and remove dangerous disinformation about vaccines”.

He added: “Our tough new online safety laws will force these companies into action.

“Now that Parliament has provided the necessary scrutiny of the legislation, we will introduce it as soon as possible.”

“I am good. My colleagues are good. The state is good. We are the best in the world. There is danger. We can handle danger. My farts smell of custard. I have no mental problems. Death to those who question the goodness of the state. To question me is to question the state. They are the same thing. To question the state is to betray the nation. It is insane. Only subhuman evil scum do it. Follow the science. Follow the data. I love the royal family. I love Pfizer. KILL THE SABOTEURS. KILL THE DISEASE SPREADERS. KILL THE ENEMIES OF THE NATION!”, the Professor added.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

But pro “vax” conspiracy theories (like 90% of people in intensive care?) are alright…

I guess we’ll know there’s a problem if Toby gets shut down or censored (of course they may be leaning on him already…).

Are they going to get those “fact checkers” that are really just left wing opinion (according to Face Book) to decide what is fake news?

“Dangerous disinformation about ‘vaccines’ “.

Maybe they’ll do something about Devi “!00% safe” Sridhar (on children’s news too!). Won’t they?

Goodbye free speech? Save uis, Toby!

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago

A lot of headlines and editorials very recently seem to be trying to paint Boris Johnson as entirely innocent of the crimes against humanity perpetrated with lockdowns and gene therapy mandates, that he was “struggling against evil SAGE” etc.

But there’s no need for any of this sophistry. The entire government of Boris Johnson, and all health advisors who fought for lockdowns, mask mandates, gene therapy mandates and boosters are all on record. It’s all public. We have their names. They are all guilty of crimes against humanity. They’re not getting away with the excuse that they thought it was the right thing to do, or that was the advice.

They were advised against this madness from the very beginning by respected, intelligent people who they chose to silence and supress and censor and then they went on to murder hundreds of thousands people via lockdowns, hospital and GP closures, delayed treatments and dangerous vaccines.

We will not stop until justice is served.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

They’ll get away with it alright. Sorry, but look at Tony Blair (and Bill Clinton).

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

After Thousands Of Parents Refused To Comply, California School District Reverses Child Jab Mandate

a San Diego judge struck down the mandate this week, accurately pointing out that a school district has no authority to mandate medical procedures for children.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Very worrying that anyone thought they should have this power. Haven’t they heard of the Nuremberg codes (or VAERS)?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

That’s all it ever takes: a bit of non-compliance.If Britain’s population wasn’t 90% zombie, the whole shitshow would have ended almost before it began.

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DS99
DS99
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

This is worth watching – in brief she talks about the robust legal framework which would make mandating vaccines illegal. You may need to do your own legal work though but there are resources out there if faced with a no jab no job situation. Given the online harms bill, might be a good idea to get some stuff printed off just in case.

Anna deBuisseret – No Jab, No Job – Senior UK Lawyer – NHS – Employment Law (bitchute.com)

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Laurence
Laurence
3 years ago

Between 13 and 19 December, according to ONS estimates, around 1.74m people in the UK had COVID-19.

According to the government official website (coronavirus.data.gov.uk), 541,872 cases were diagnosed by testing over that 7 day period so, allowing for a few who isolated on the basis of unreported home tests cancelled out by the sensible few who haven’t succumbed to the ridiculous peer pressure, around 1.2 million people are going about their daily lives whilst infected. Now there’s a good chance that many diagnosed on the 13th, 14th or even 15th were uninfectious by the 19th, so we’re probably locking up maybe 150,000 that, even on the government’s terms, shouldn’t be. And of course that means that actually 1,350,000 or so people are free to carry on their lives while infected.

And good luck to them. It’s the same for people who had the common cold before this obsession with one virus started, and now Omicron is here, the risks of serious effects are massively reduced.

But I’m sure the government knows what they’re doing and it’s much safer to have 1.35 million people than 1.74 million people wandering around with a mild infection.

Of course, they have to wear bits of paper over their faces when they go to the cinema or supermarket, but that is a small sacrifice to pay for ‘stopping the spread’ – just a society stunting the facial recognition development of the very youngest and damaging the social interactions of all.

But I wouldn’t worry – all this completely unnecessary and valueless testing is only costing the country around £1,500,000,000 per month, which could alternatively be used to, say, pay 600,000 people in the hospitality sector whose lives have been destroyed by the government £2,500 per month.

You’d think the government would welcome the arrival of a fast spreading mild version of the virus crowding out the worse previous variants, and an excuse to scrap their unbelievably misguided policies of the past two years and let the people free. But that’s assuming the priority of the government is the people, whereas it’s clear that the priority of the government is the government.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Laurence

I wish they’d tell me who these 1.74 million people are, I’d love to know if I had it!

It’s a similar scam to the climate scare. Think how much irrigation and flood defences could be built if they weren’t wasting money trying to engineer better weather years from now.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Return the upland boglands.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Adnams of Southwold. The quintessence of East Anglia.
Drink their beer now before it’s too late.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I think Sir Nigel Farage once expressed his love of Broadside. Jolly good stuff.

What’s happening to them then?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Incidentally, business rates, which particularly affect traditional town centre businesses, along with other issues such as nonsense over parking, really do need looking at. One could be forgiven for thinking it is government policy to destroy town centres.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

(Incidentally, Bishop’s Tipple is really nice too although I’ve only ever seen it in one place. Beware of getting men started on beer!).

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

How about Greene King? The kings of Bury St Edmund’s.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Funny you should mention that, I was just going to say that King’s Foil would probably be better for me (if it was real).

There was a lovely little independent real ale shop I used to go to sometimes in Norfolk, on a farm. Nelson’s Blood among other things. It would be so sad if these places don’t survive the government’s current assault. It feels like they are destroying the things I used to love about this country bit by bit. Well they can stuff their big pharma coup d’etat. We fight on…

I was just looking at the map of Norfolk in my 1973 AA atlas – a forest of historic churches, and many of them under threat today. So many precious things being destroyed.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

I hear that Hobson’s “Old Prickly” of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire is good.
Can’t say so myself as I’m a non drinker.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

There’s got to be a joke in there somewhere!

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Nightingale wards/hospitals to be bought into operation.
WHAT?, AGAIN!!!!

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

Maybe professor pantsdown’ll be right…

Did they ever actually use them last time? And moreover, do they have the doctors to staff them this time? They urgently need to sort out the pingdemic rather than fool around with gesture politics, this stuff’s killing people.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago

““it’s clear that none of this is working. not vaccines, not mandates, not masking, not distancing, closures, or tracing. it’s all just baroque and baffling pandemic pantomime as pointless as it is pernicious.”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

It’s been clear at least since the Belarus all cause mortality figures up to March came out. The stuff people have said since then to the contrary is little more than dissembling

(Btw are you a poet by any chance? 🙂 )

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

No, I’m quoting a poet who doesn’t know it.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

One thing is working to end the plandemic, evolution, you can’t keep a good virus from evolving, many people predicted back in April 2020, SARS-CoV-2 would become less virulent more contagious & no worse than a common cold over time, i’m very proud to say I was one of them.

The common cold also kills immunosuppressed.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

And quite likely ends up on some death certs along with something else, thus jacking up the numbers.

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

Interesting read for those interested in monetary policy. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

Very true, and valid for its lapdog UK and the EU as well:
“These, then, are three of the historic blunders that have forfeited for us the unique position America held at the close of the Cold War.
First, alienating Russia by treating it as an incorrigible and permanent enemy by pushing our alliance onto its front porch.
Second, pursuing a globalist trade policy that China exploited to become an economic and military rival of the United States.
Third, America’s plunge into the Middle East, with our forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and then Syria, Libya and Yemen.
They availed us nothing and led only to death and destruction.
Of the passing of that preeminence we had in 1991, let it be said: We did it to ourselves.”
https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/how-we-forfeited-the-fruits-of-cold-war-victory/

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

This is a very interesting and novel take on and explanation of the policies, mandates and restrictions (their absurdity and illogic are actually deliberate musts), plus another one of these absurd, recent nuggets (also quoted below).

“The Covid narrative is insane and illogical…and maybe that’s no accident”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/29/the-covid-narrative-is-insane-and-illogical-and-maybe-thats-no-accident/

“Take the situation in Canada right now, where the government has enforced a vaccine mandate on healthcare workers, meaning in British Columbia alone over 3000 hospital staff were on unpaid leave by November 1st.

How have local governments responded to staff shortages?

They are asking vaccinated employees who have tested positive for Covid to work.

Whether or not you believe the test means anything, they notionally do. In the reality they try to sell us every day, testing positive means you are carrying a dangerous disease.

So they are requesting people allegedly carrying a “deadly virus” work, rather than letting perfectly healthy unvaccinated people simply have their jobs back.

This is insanity.”

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

The absurdity of Covidian doomsday cultism is part of its purposeful assault on the mind

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Nightingale wards are well named.
Like the bird itself, everybody has heard of em but nobody has ever seen one.

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George Morris
George Morris
3 years ago

Not a lot of news in today’s bulletin. Has anyone else noticed that positive tests in the London area are falling, in some places quite sharply? (Daily Telegraph interactive area map)

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Mezzo18
Mezzo18
3 years ago
Reply to  George Morris

As people realise that it really is just a cold, they will stop doing them, particularly if they can’t get hold of the things.
I still cannot believe that there are people, who do not work in personal care, who do this every day. Why?!

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DS99
DS99
3 years ago
Reply to  Mezzo18

My sister (who visits my parents every couple of months) suggested to my elderly parents that it would be a good idea if me and my family all did lateral flow tests before seeing them (I see them three or four times per week). Basically the sheer insanity of doing lateral flow tests has taken hold and now all manner of people think they have the right to request you do one before seeing them – that’s precisely how this insanity takes hold.

I keep thinking about the 2019 focus on plastic pollution and the focus on bloody cardboard or metal drinking straws – as if plastic drinking straws (used by a few disabled people, cocktail drinkers and kids) was ever any sort of a problem compared with the tsunami of plastic that Covid has given rise to … and yet not much of a peep out of anyone about it?

When do you think the insanity will finally peek and we’ll come to some sort of sane and sensible way forward?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  DS99

Ah yes, they are planning to ban single use plastic cutlery now, and never mind about the tide of masks. (But seriously, something does need doing about plastic in the oceans. And birth control chemicals in the aquatic environment which the Green party refuse to oppose because they’re more Marxist than green really).

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes – how long before airlines are forced to use metal cutlery, I wonder!

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  DS99

There appears to be a deafening silence from environmental NGOs when it comes to plastics related to Covidian rituals – disposable face nappies obviously being the worst and most widespread of the lot, followed by LFTs, and all the plastic screens, etc, produced as part of the threatre.

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Mezzo18
Mezzo18
3 years ago

Haxey is on the Isle of Axholme, a remote, fenland area in North Lincolnshire. It is not in Scotland.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mezzo18

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PaulMac66
PaulMac66
3 years ago

Just been reading some interesting testing stats. For every thousand people the UK has carried out over 5000 tests… yup you’ve read that correct. The only countries I can find who trump us is Austria, Holland and the UAE.

Our World in Data.

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago
Reply to  PaulMac66

Operation Moonshot.
The most gigantic totally senseless waste of money ever.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Hear hear.

I wonder how many of us have managed to avoid them altogether…

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Hands up from me and the Mrs.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Me too.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Yup: me plus better half. Surely most here have resisted??

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

I certainly have – never yet had a test or worn a mask.

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DS99
DS99
3 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Even the name is just so totally overblown.

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DS99
DS99
3 years ago
Reply to  PaulMac66

The only small consolation is that the UK is almost peek insanity … to be fair, the Austrians and Dutch are under more pressure than us atm so maybe we are peek insanity. No idea what’s going on in the UAE.

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

I’d add this one from Prof. Dingwall for the DT to Lilico’s and Lytton’s.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/29/must-confront-covids-vested-interests/

“What are the obstacles to this shift? Two are clearly influential: the material interests of those who are profiting from the pandemic, and the political interests of groups who want to reshape the way in which British people think about health and illness.
There is a growing Covid industry of companies selling security interventions. Some vaccine manufacturers are enthusiastically promoting repeated boosters. The private gains from PPE sales are so notorious that the Treasury should be considering a war profits tax. There is a burgeoning trade in ventilation and air-filtration equipment. Behind the push for vaccine passports are software companies with digital ID packages in search of customers.”

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