Three New Reads – April
Philip Roddis
For weeks my political focus has narrowed almost exclusively to Covid-19. It’s not that I haven’t noted other things. Increased Washington bellicosity over China, Iran and Venezuela has been hard to ignore, likewise the revelations of just how far the Labour Right went in their efforts to remove Corbyn. I’ll write on these things soon.
Meanwhile, Reads 2 and 3 of my April selection concern aspects of the pandemic, Read 1 a boy on a motorbike in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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The Disgusting Lies on Harry Dunn (1650 words)
It’s a sign of our polarised times that so many former establishment figures are gamekeepers turned poacher.[1] One such is Craig Murray, Blair’s man in Uzbekistan until he blew the whistle on its leader, Islam Karimov. Dashed inconvenient of Murray to reveal – with Karimov allowing Coalition forces to use the former Soviet Republic’s airbases for strikes on Iraq – that the man not only treated the nation’s finances as his personal piggy bank, but boiled dissidents alive.
Followers of the Assange case will know Murray works indefatiguably to publicise the serial abuses of British Justice to which this brave man has been subject, pending extradition to the USA, where he faces 175 years in jail for the crime of telling us the truth about the rather more substantial, and substantially detailed, crimes of our leaders.
Here his forensic attention to detail – ‘Journalism is tough work if you do it properly, which is presumably why the media no longer even pretend to do it.’ – is brought to bear on the starkly contrasting failure of the UK to extradite Anne Sacoolas, who mowed down young Harry Dunn as she drove on the wrong side of the road.
The lies we are being told have little to do with protecting Sacoolas. (Even Dunn’s family allow that hers was a tragic but understandable error, and the real crime her flight.) Still less are they to do with diplomatic immunity. Had her husband actually been a diplomat, it is likely that any diplomatic immunity would have been waived for a prima facie case of manslaughter.
it is hard to understand why diplomatic immunity has been insisted on … the only explanation I can think of is that it was hoped … to avoid all scrutiny of Jonathon Sacoolas’ real job, which is to spy on British citizens’ communications for GCHQ …
NB though a relatively short piece at 1650 words, I endorse Murray’s advice that an earlier 3500 worder, linked early on, be read first to make full sense of the lies surrounding this case.
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Merchants of death: Multibillion-dollar bailout for arms industry (1440 words)
One of the principal concerns of Undersecretary of Defense Lord, as she spelled out plans for the multibillion-dollar bailout of the arms industry, was the disruption of supply chains, particularly those originating in the maquiladora sweatshops just across the US border in Mexico. She also mentioned problems in India.
Thousands of Mexican workers have struck … against the deadly conditions inside these plants … as back-to-work orders are shoved through. At a plant in Ciudad Juárez owned by Michigan-based Lear Corporation, 16 workers have died from COIVD-19, while area hospitals are overflowing with victims of the virus.
The Pentagon and US Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau [are] demanding that the maquiladora workers be forced back into the plants as “essential” to US imperialism’s war machine … Lockheed relies on low-paid Mexican workers … to produce electrical wiring for Black Hawk and S-92 helicopters, and F-16 jets, while Boeing gets parts from a plant in Monterrey. General Electric, Honeywell and other military contractors also profit off the labor of Mexican workers across the border.
The piece doesn’t back up that Mexican ‘hospitals overflowing’ claim. Some, including credible experts in relevant disciplines, say the Covid-19 danger is overstated. Others, including credible experts in relevant disciplines, say it isn’t. Taken along with weak and highly confusing data, I find it too early to call but, that aside, the US Imperial War Machine continues apace.
As it has with many other aspects of advanced capitalism, the pandemic exposes the internal contradictions of the profit imperative. For the world’s foremost imperial power, armed might is an essential means of underwriting the extraction of super profits via exports of capital to the global south, where cheap labour and ‘business friendly’ regimes allow repatriation of profits over and above those achievable in the West.
But that armed might is itself a profit centre. As I said a year ago in a footnote to Profit and the Arms Economy:
There are those in arms geek circles who say Russia makes better weapons – SAMS, tanks and small arms in particular – because their primary purpose is to deter and if necessary kill, whereas the primary purpose of armaments in the USA is, one way or another, to make profits.
This piece touches on another aspect: outsourcing to the imperialised south of production not just of shirts for Primark and M & S, or smartphones for Apple, but even of the military means of enforcing that exploitation should push come to shove in the shape of a non compliant leader, or challenge from Eurasia.
A short but fascinating read.
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Pandemic, super-capitalism and struggle (2900 words)
I have in fact linked to this piece in another post but make no apology for doing so again here. I’ve read scores, perhaps hundreds, of pieces on Covid-19 but if forced to pick out just one, it would be this from Planet of Slums author, Mike Davis. It gives the biggest perspective, while being grounded in a thorough understanding both of imperialism – though he never once uses the term, preferring the ‘super-capitalism’ of the title – and relevant science.
Viruses hijack the genetic machinery of invaded cells to make copies of themselves. Viruses based on DNA have a built-in proof-reading mechanism to ensure accurate replication, but RNA viruses don’t. Influenza A, with 4 genes (corona has 8), is so error prone in reproduction it probably hovers on the edge of extinction, pushing rate of mutation to the limit, a million times faster than DNA-based viruses or cells. Spitting out so many different and inaccurate versions of one’s genome has a huge advantage in resisting the human immune system. This is why influenza A changes annually and continues to sicken humans despite many previous infections.
Mutations usually occur in the ‘heads’ of the two to three proteins on the virus’s surface that allow it to “dock” on a human cell and then enter. Those are the sites that annual vaccines target. But the “stalks” of these proteins are stable and don’t mutate. Virtually all researchers agree that the tools exist to fashion a broadband vaccine that incapacitates the invariant stalks thus conferring general immunity against all strains that might last for years. The research is out there, but Big Pharma won’t develop or manufacture such a vaccine because it is not profitable. (If given a radical design for a car that lasts for a lifetime, would GM manufacture it?)
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[1] To Murray’s name we can add those of: fellow British Ambassador Peter Ford, Reagan appointees Paul Craig Roberts and Stephen Cohen, UN weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Scott Ritter, former CIA agent Philip Giraldi. This list of establishment renegades is from the top of my head and not offered as exhaustive.
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The Disgusting Lies on Harry Dunn Big Myth 1: The power elite don’t dish out propaganda to make themselves look bad. Explanation: The power elite doesn’t care about looking good necessarily, what they care about is power and sometimes making themselves look bad is what works best for power so they’re all good with that – besides they know they’re not highly thought of in any case. Big Myth 2: The power elite do everything to cover the truth. Explanation: We are told on the internet that the power elite feel obliged to signal what they do to us to spare them from karmic repercussions. They reason that by telling us they push the onus onto us to call them out and if we don’t the fault lies with us not them. Whether or not this is true the evidence clearly shows that they signal to us what they do… Read more »
On a little further research have come up with at least one possible reason for Harry Dunn psyop.
Harry Dunn family call for blocking Assange extradition on lack of reciprocity grounds
http://french.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/23/619364/UK-US-Harry-Dunn-Julian-Assange-Extradition
When some outraged victim of your endless personal defamations of random strangers cuts your tits off, I do hope you are going to post a note in some conspiracy prone forum telling us how the alleged bandages just visible above low cut of your blouse are clear proof of a self-signalling psyop.
More words of violence, Robbo. … cuts your tits off … From previous comment. … Somebody could print that dateline in 72 point Cooper Black on both sides of a samuri sword and shove it up your arse the ½” needed to reach your brain, a.k.a. you rectum … The difference in our beliefs seems to be that I believe that many events are psyops while you do not. In my case, I put forward the evidence for my beliefs while in your case you put forward words of great violence against me. This seems, apart from other reasons, highly incommensurate with the difference in our beliefs. In my last comment I said the following: I thought OffG readers were here to help promote democracy, freedom (including the very important freedoms of speech and thought) and peace. But it seems not everyone because your words are extremely violent and show… Read more »
@robbobob…This is completely inappropriate and violent language towards another commenter. No more please.
I acknowledge Off-Guardian’s right to interpret Off-Guardian Comment Policies (in this case, #3) unequivocally and without question: that’s part of its freedom of speech, So:
OK, and apologies.
However, I also value the integrity of my own (and others’) ‘freedom of speech’, so I’ll return to this subject, in general, in non-personal terms (and its sister ‘ad hominems’ subject) tomorrow or on the weekend. Social distancing a full video camera’s length from everyone else present in my study most of the rest of today…
ANOTHER psy-op! Good God they’re busy.
They most certainly are, Richard. I virtually never watched the news in any case but now I only read non-news sections of the newspaper (if at all) because I get so tired of all the lies and psyops. It does wear me down – also the fact that I’m one of so few who seems to see them despite their making it so incredibly obvious. Just this morning I was chatting on the phone with a friend and he asked me if I’d heard of the alleged incident in Melbourne where four police officers were killed in a hit-and-run accident. Call me a crazy paranoid, Richard, but my immediate thought was, “Doesn’t sound likely somehow.” As we were chatting I searched and found this article. https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/massive-crash-on-melbourne-highway-leaves-multiple-dead/news-story/f8443cc23170c1aa229ab13847d924ae In the second sentence I saw the words, “last night after 5pm”. Now you can call me a ridiculously-jumping-to-conclusions person but right there, right… Read more »
Actually, Richard, I have to confess my analysis below is poor – it was very sloppy just like the reporting of their psyops. The “after” 5 and “before” 5 are not contradictory because one refers to the time of the accident while the other refers to when the Porsche driver was pulled over. Nevertheless “night” in relation to 5pm and the vagueness of the times still stand as psyop clues. Also, it wasn’t a hit-and-run as the Porsche driver was not responsible for the accident, however, we are told he fled the scene after taking photographs which he later, allegedly, put on FB which is still not very plausible. “Occurred” is misspelt twice as “occured”, eastern freeway is misspelt in lower case, there’s a number of “allegeds” where you’d expect the information to be certain, you have to wonder at the ability of a driver to be speeding at 140km… Read more »
Central planning without the Welfare State – is that what the Technocrats plan?
The second half of Corbett’s Why Big Oil Conquered The World explains the plan.
https://youtu.be/0wlNey9t7hQ?t=3339
We don’t have ” capitalism” we have a group of banksters running our govt and owning the media.
Yeah that’s still operating under capitalism. You’re like a cowardly Trotskyist when they say not real socialism about every socialist state except Cuba and the 74% capitalist Venezuela
That IS capitalism.
So what are all youse hand fuckers around here going to do about it?
Ignore you for starters.
I didn’t think you, in sinoparticular, would appreciate another post of mine hereabouts. Tell me I’m wrong in that assessment of your appreciation or not.
Polite Farmyard notice: Watch Out For The Bullshit And Beware Unhinged Gates
I was pondering the ‘snitch line’ initiatives introduced by police forces ,not just in the UK but around the world, and the Orwellian/Stasi implications of such a move.
As if reading my thoughts, a friend sent me, via whats app, a tweet from Bedfordshire Constabulary. I can’t upload the image here, but it read:
“Online Radicalisation
Are you worried about someone?
Are they repeating conspiracy theories?
Are they speaking to people who are spreading hate?”
The implication being, it seems, that any ‘worried’ individual should contact them so they can sort out said offender.
It would appear that the new iPlod has arrived!
I note that by using the word “Radicalisation” they are sending the subliminal message that anyone “repeating conspiracy theories” is a quasi terrorist.
Subtle, isn’t it. ‘Antisemite’=terrorwist, too.
Can’t remember where, but I did read recently that one man has already been arrested on some sort of terrorism charge for breaking social distancing rules. If memory serves, he was arrested while going into a friend’s house. Don’t think it was in the UK though.
I’ve been thinking about Gates and the Charitable sector and it’s influence. I started by looking at Forbes 100 top charities list 2019 and how much private donations mean to these companies. Here https://www.forbes.com/top-charities/list/ then I started popping some of them in the B & M Foundation funding link here https://www.gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=Funding There is some interesting correlations going back 2 decades. Not looked at other places as yet, but I think, its worth taking a look at the links. I expanded my thinking abit on my original theory around Covid 19 Mutual Aid groups And the way a small army of well meaning volunteers popped up on every street in the UK, Now in the US and Australia. Using Community organising as the ethos for its being. At first I considered they were a means to collect a massive amount of Data en mass, under the radar of GDPR regulations as… Read more »
The whole response reeks of common purpose.
agree Mrs G
Going to leave a link here to multiple, well referenced Common purpose articles here in case people want to learn more about the ‘million change agents’ and how that has been implemented since they formed in 1989
https://www.ukcolumn.org/search/node/Common%20purpose
Here’s a peek at the New World Order Bill’s decided we need to be connected into the 5G grid, allegedly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZSI0WCL8I where Dr Andrew Kaufman takes us into it…
Nice to see some evidence of independent thought in my locality: https://imgur.com/a/JCSBohV (On one of the pedestrian entrances to a skate park in the Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire) My heart gave a little leap when I saw the “We changed our minds”, but then I realised that of course the VOWHDC had not changed their minds, but someone (possibly an Off-G reader even (not me guv!)) had put up the additional poster. The pedestrian gate had only been “sealed” with plastic tape, and I guess it was the same person who cut the tape. The skate park is surrounded by a green area with some nice footpaths, partly through woodland, and there is no difficulty getting access to the footpaths. There is a car park whose entrance has been officially blocked, but you can get in on foot, and there is space for a couple of cars in… Read more »
Oh Dear, We’ve been told that we’re not going back to Normal, ever, ever again
And here we have a clear view of just what we’ve lost forever guys
Our ” normal” was not normal.
If we can use the chaos maybe we can co create a new normal .
where one group of banksters don’t own everything and control weaker minds, a normal where we have enough food and people don’t still go hungry or lack shelter.Where the most psychopathic corrupt and greedy individuals are not running the world .
Talk about fucking stupid. There’s elementary disease control on the one hand, millennia old, true, but that’s all we’ve got since youse hand fuckers pissed away the social investment needed to update it incrementally (and run a socially responsible health and age-care service to back it up, come to that) and there’s a totally crippled world economy on the other hand, with a lot of the very biggest players–e.g. the airline industry–at least as crippled as everyone else, including the locked down public– and all you hand fuckers can think of doing is thowing out what primitive disease control methods remain, as elementary as not petting your rabid dog, and assuming for the sake of hanging on to your corporately-shaped concepts of ‘freedom’ at all costs (your Gucci boots colour-matched to your new 5G phone are sooo cool) that you believe that all you have to do to get to… Read more »
and breathe …
Netflix has just added their own contribution to the Covid pandemic Fear Campaign, featuring Bill Gates, scary pics of previous pandemic victims, lab technicians staring into microscopes, health “experts”, dodgy statistics, etc,etc. It’s going to be a long running series featuring all the usual suspects and disinformation laden with lashings of unbridled fear. You have been warned.
That’s been on Netflix for some months, interestingly.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/who-controls-british-government-response-covid19-part-one
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/british-military-information-war-waged-their-own-population
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7xnhcJQik
Our sock puppets have learnt to follow the rules as laid down by someone like lovable Bill Gates- surely not, not here in our free country. It’s all just coincidences not dots to join up atall …
You will be pleased , and relieved , to know that DIFID is promoting “world immunisation week” @vaccinesworkforall , with partners Gavi and Cepi vaccines .
So that’s alright , I thought we were in trouble for a moment there .
What economic changes may be snuck in during the lockdown? Big data is central to how the oligarchs intend to maintain wealth and power. Technocracy cannot proceed, however, unless a Smart Grid is imposed everywhere at the same time, says Patrick Wood. The oligarchs balk at paying for the Smart Grid themselves. So the Smart Grid was inserted to the 2009 financial bailout package by Barack Obama. Roll forward to the financial bailout of 2020 and it may be happening again. Could COVID-19 Lead to a Cleaner World? https://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/ Inception Report – The Rockefeller Foundation Want To Jump-Start The Economy? Include A Green New Deal In The Stimulus Package Stimulus grants were offered to utilities not just in the U.S. but all around the world, simultaneously. Someone was coordinating its rollout in China, S Korea, India, Japan, the UK and more. There was a parallel movement to set up a… Read more »
IT’S YOUR TURN To sum it up, the world’s population is held captive by an international gang of super-wealthy influential sociopaths given legitimacy by the national security state working hand-in-hand with trillion dollar tech companies appropriating wealth and securing unilateral hegemony via brute force or through terrorizing psyops operations. The direct eyewitnesses to this barbarity are indigenous populations bombed, droned, or sanctioned into disease and starvation. The other material witnesses are the millions chain ganged indefinitely to factory assembly lines. I wonder if the Foxconn factory producing Apple iPhones and other fancy schmancy tech products in China still use nets to catch workers attempting suicide regularly. The other onlookers to this gangsterous barbarity are the working-poor, indigent, and imprisoned in Western industrialized nations. Flashy mainstream media news diversions do not conceal the truth from these powerless victims. Reality, has given the bombed and brutalized a firsthand unveiled view of what… Read more »
Your resume is accurate – Your concluding statement “COVID is a disorder causing a reorder; a transformation welcoming a new batch of eyewitnesses to the sociopathic thuggery previously concealed.” hits the nail bang on the head ! Thank you
Satan has authority for now…
Never has been so obvious that a choice has to be made.
I’m not a Bible scholar but I think that the bit about seeing through a glass darkly applies perfectly to TV.
Sure, but it is the message not the media.
When I came back to Christ, I was listening to a Preacher on the internet, through a monitor. I remember the moment. My speakers of solid metal seemed to dance in an impossible way. I had given up drugs a long time ago…
Sounds like you’re having flashbacks.
My mind has never been clearer.
‘There are none so blind….’
Don’t worry-it was just a flash-back.
I’m an agnostic…..
Thank God I’m an atheist!
Charlotte, I believe you had some trouble with the WSWS. I have taken the plunge myself when I went on one of my, by now, rare visits to that site. I found a curious development in the comments section. Unusually, there are now lots of “down” votes appearing as certain comments, skeptical of the official narrative, are attracting negative attention. These comments attract a lot of angry responses from the loyal site users. I was annoyed at the way one thread was going and put in a response. But then – just as unusual – I found my comment go in fast and receive an answer from a moderator, no less. (I don’t recall moderators on the WSWS.) I have responded again and now await my judgment!
Very rarely does a moderator intervene. They usually comment to clarify a misunderstanding regarding the content of their article. But you’re correct it happens very infrequently. If you don’t mind me asking, could you post the link to the thread.
I haven’t taken a daily glimpse at WSWS since every article is devoted to the horrors of COVID-19.
The regulars attack with a brutal “cult-like” viciousness. One followed me from the defunct Truthdig website where I was banned on January 7,2020, and continued to attack me on WSWS where I was shadowbanned a few months later.
The WSWS article is this one: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/20/pers-a20.html I post under the name “George” without the “Mc”. I was initially annoyed by the implication that the fact that people were avoiding hospital somehow proves that the virus must be as described. I said that you have to distinguish between what is caused by the virus and what is caused by reactions to the virus. The first reaction from the moderator – one David Brown – gave us the customary “piles of corpses” thing. I was sorely tempted to get a bit creative in my response but restrained myself. Mr Brown also responded very quickly to my second response. Such eagerness to react is something I am not used to with the WSWS and I can only assume that they are getting a little bit of unusually lively feedback on this issue. This matter has certainly brightened their comment sections up. You… Read more »
That whole thread is worth examining. Note the one from nicolas X. Sacrilege! You can always tell by the “down” votes.
Reading that article confirms COVID-19 has rendered WSWS no better than MSNBC. The article was designed to terrorize workers so they’d willingly accept heightened surveillance: “The White House has made clear it is calling for businesses to reopen under conditions in which the infrastructure to test all suspected cases, quarantine those infected, and trace their contacts does not exist.” The entire website beckens for workers to demand contact surveillance tracing…..
Well, I’m glad a few bloggers are challenging their narrative. Maxwell, who I used to get into a huge brouhaha with over Bernie Sanders is one of the few who surprisingly disagree with WSWS. They usually adore all his comments, but they’re even turning on him.
You have to laugh:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/27/pers-a27.html
Nothing in the article up to then suggests frenzy. But the WSWS has been on this hyperbolic hysterical roll for some time now and cannot stop.
The terror campaign WSWS is promoting does not serve the workers they represent who are losing jobs and forced to
line-up at food banks for hours.
We know why state-run MSNBC
and CNN are generating fear their agenda is clear–heightened surveillance and the removal of Trump.
What I find particularly offensive is loudmouth commentators and mindless bureaucrats telling the public what’s “essential.” These hypocritical slimeballs are perfectly coiffed each day. Are they practicing “social distancing” as their makeup artist and hairstylist prepare them for each broadcast.
Yep-I was banned at Truthdig for saying that some Jews hate the goyim, and at WSWS for simply mentioning, albeit unsympathetically, Zionism.
Comparing the Orange Hair Clown to Rasputin, now that is one for the books. What is surprising is that the writers signed their names to it.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/25/pers-a25.html
SEP has been a disappointment, to say the least. Their continuance of the fascist corporate state fake “Pandemic” hysteria propaganda campaign would tend to indicate a complete disregard for human, civil, political and legal rights. Socialist (in the spirit of Eugene Victor Debs) they are not. Critical thinkers they do not seem to be. Rather frightening.
The WSWS used to be my main go-to site. That has not been the case since they, like everyone else, started to sing the World War Z script. At that point I literally switched off the lot of them. The Beeb unfortunately cannot be avoided since everyone I know watches it. But I have noticed that it’s all like an odd kind of blanket censorship. Many commenters here are probably too young to recall the test card i.e. that picture of the girl with the blackboard and some light music which the Beeb showed when they didn’t have enough progs through the day. I feel as if that has returned – only instead of light music, it’s themes from horror movies. This constant drone has wiped everything else out. It’s like our reality being suddenly switched with another one as in a Philip K Dick story. The instantaneous gung-ho charge… Read more »
Well written. Good comment.
If we had to rely on people for a return to a life without masks, without lockdowns, without forced vaccination, without apps tracking you everywhere to be made impossible, then we might be in real trouble. For instance, someone I know where there is legally enforced lockdown, no legally enforced social distancing, said she and her friends have mutually decided not to go to each other’s houses, only to meet outside and stay 2m away from each other. This person’s workplace since last winter has been changed from a traditional building with separate offices to an open space workplace in a huge glass building with no windows that can be opened. She never complained or complains about this unhealthy workplace, where infections of all types can far more easily be caught, and is back working there without a thought. But no she wont see her friends, no she wont come… Read more »
sorry in the above, it should be someone I know where there is no legally enforced lockdown.
sorry also meant Trumps golf courses. (And as corrected later, no legally enforced lockdown).
Perusing your thoughtful analysis, I was going to commend you for leaving Trump aside for moment. Oh, just noted your addendum.
Still springing eternal, I see.
A very brief video clip of Pompeo and the Orange One that is worth watching for Pompeo’s fascinating choice of the words “live exercise” and Trump’s response:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/secretary-state-mike-pompeo-admits-covid-19-live-exercise-president-trump-comments-i-wish-you-would-have-told-us/5707223
Evidence of SARS and/or COVID19? (Koch&Rivers) NONE UNTIL NOW… Only lies anywhere.
Please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvcEIarencM
All very interesting and true but for the “ordinary” man or woman in the UK, Sky or the BBC are the gospel.
Thanks, excellent. A really interesting and enlightening presentation by Dr Kaufman.
Properly understood COVID 19 is a business plan. Properly understood the WHO, CDC, NHS are the medical marketing departments of investment bankers, hedge fund investors and short sellers.
Thankfully C19 Inc. arrived just in time- just as the global investment cartel was experiencing a wee bit of a crash.
Nowhere more obvious than when that odious golem, Fauci, sings the praises of hugely expensive remdesivir, on the flimsiest grounds, while dismissing A Chinese study that showed NO benefits from its use, and continues the Holy War against cheap, very safe, hydroxychloroquine, based on surveys so crooked as to be laughable, and straight, hysterical, lies. One wonders how much he gets from ‘Gilead’.
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” A.C. Dolye: Sherlock Holmes I must apologise for the lenght, this is about knowing the difference of everything they feed us this days. Yup, the best thing you can do this times of imformation over load, is to do something else, go fishing, anything, but dont read any stuff, just go blank, as I tell our child, you think to much, stop thinking, expirience or just persive the world around you, watch birds, anything, but dont think, dont prodject, just look, and I read one coment or recomandation years ago about insight, and how to get them and from where, and then I learned about the 3Bs, bed, bath and buss, from an science guy, and he explained that with been in rest, let you mind wander and… Read more »
I think the folks on here have been very kind to you.
It’s heartening that you, Phillip are endorsing Craig Murray.
All his recent legal reports are worthy of Pulitzer Prize.
Assange, Salmond, Dunns, NuLabour viral infection…
Now the ‘Alex Salmond Unit’ of the Scottish police and the senior civil ‘servants’ are after shutting him and other Independence journalists down with threat of imprisonment and bankruptcy.
Any ‘journalist’ or ‘publisher’ who stands by and lets this kangaroo action take place undefended is surely showing their true colours.
Get his defence fund past £60k get it to a £100k.
Spread the word to all you know and every web site you go to.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/04/craig-murray-defence-fund-launched
This is Assange 2.0. – I have made a donation – thank you, Dungroanin, for leading me here – Some time ago I heard all this rumour and tittle-tattle about Salmond, The usual smear – sexual perversion – the easiest way to provoke the intellectually lazy and politically ignorant masses into a fever of outrage – what has been identified as “manufacturing consent” and the reason why this is all happening is because Alex has his own show on that pariah of broadcasting – Russia Today – in which he offers a platform for many who challenge the heresies preached by the neo-liberal establishment – and so the Deep State operation has now extended its tentacles into Scotland – we must fight against this – for it us they will be coming for next – this is nothing short of totalitarianism -Salmond is a decent person of honesty and integrity… Read more »
Thanks cupid – made my evening.
Craig Murray has a lot of articles on Salmond and why he is being targeted, do a search at the site.
The SNP he led and almost delivered independence has been captured at the top. Like Labour was by the ‘Blairites’. He describes the character assassination and trial by media innuendo conducted, to stop his return.
I have no dog in the Independence but the Scots can decide again seeing how they didn’t expect to leave the EU when they were asked last time.
The lying liars and thugs of the Crown. cannot be allowed free reign any more.
As you say first they come for the journalists then they will come for us and ours.
Thanks for your sincere appreciation, Dungroanin, I have good reason to think you are a Scot. Correct me please if I am mistaken in that view. Did you see the interview on RT Alex Salmond Show, where he had a discussion with Billy Kaye – viewing at home here in London, it was fascinating. Watching this show I am continually delighted by Alex – his generosity of heart, his enquiring mind, and his warm humour. Isn’t it ironic that it always appears that those of the greatest personal integrity and consistency, are usually targeted by those for whom morals and ethics are mere commodities – to be traded and compromised for their convenience at the inconvenience of others. I am going to try to get in touch with Craig as I have many contacts who may be able to help him too. I am in complete agreement with your assessment… Read more »
I’m happy to clink glasses – bottles of Ale, not as great as pulled from a keg – but i’m sorry to disappoint at a complete lack of Scottish roots. My pseudonym affectation came from having Done with the Grauniad. As i gave up with the licence fee a few years ago fed up with being forced to pay for the propaganda, so no TV just the odd netvideo snippet every now and then. I do have a few great friends from Scotland – strangely they seem to be mostly Celtic fans! The importance of this is far reaching it. It is about stopping criticism and revelations of illegal acts and conspiracy by the State – in effect a reintroduction of the old charge of sedition, without calling it that. As Joe Lauria writes on Assange at Consortium News (weirdly maligned by O-G recently) today, a technicality is used as… Read more »
This is all good stuff, Dungroanin with a great article there from consortium news – so with regards to Julian we redact espionage and replace it with sedition – itself a charge that no longer exists under US Law – this would be comic, if it were not so profoundly unfunny – by your actions over the last two days you have shone another light into this dark cranny of mischief – they got Julian now they are after Craig – the acausal connection principle here is the RT connection – Salmond hosts a show where, to use the Overton analogy, the narrative is being conducted outside of the permitted frame and they cooked up all this sex-crime nonsense in a further attempt to undermine RT by discrediting him, whilst at the same time it was RT that broadcast this : https://youtu.be/Af5jP5UYKLg. (particularly from 5:19 – 6:07) I have contacted… Read more »
It’s the essence of the MeToo smear-even a not guilty verdict in court, and evidence of an outright conspiracy of lying feminazis, is simply ignored, and the witch-hunt continues, and spreads to Salmond’s defenders. The same process applies to ‘antisemitism’ smears-once made, you can NEVER defend yourself, evidence of more ‘antisemitism’, be defended others, more ‘antisemitism’ or be proved innocent. It is Salem redux.
How much does CM pay for your unquestioning sycophancy?
Does he pay?
Or just more libellous ad hominem?
How much you on?
Make me an offer I can’t refuse to spout shite like you do.
If your poisonous comment is directed at me, then I will just inform you that Craig Murray pays me nothing for this “unquestioning sycophancy” you speak of It is I who pays him at the moment, the sum of £2 monthly towards his defence campaign.
The feminazis in Scotland have crafted a real fascist regime in no time flat.
On a lighter note, I have never seen my local beauty spot so busy as this morning. The car park is closed but cars were parked all up the road and people, walking, cycling, running and – gasp – sitting enjoying the sunshine!
Impossible,you’ve obviously had to many magic mushrooms!
Didn’t you know the U.K. is now a totalitarian,Orwellian hell hole worse than North Korea
Well it would be if Plod had his way
….but obviously plod isn’t in charge
Frankly plod is to f@cking stupid to create such a thing
No crispy, the media is in charge and the people are enthusiastically doing plod’s job for him. Plenty of phone calls about so-and-so breaking lockdown, going out twice, standing to close to someone, hearing talking which proves they have visitors etc.
Meanwhile, plod is immune from batflu as verified by myself when 7 of them were grouped together without protection looking at something another was holding in his hand; they all got in 2 cars and a van and sped away.
I hope you’re clapping every Thursday to save the NHS from disappearing up its own arse while people can’t even see a doctor or dentist.
Such self-criticism is quite worthy crappy.
It’s already a failed totalitarian, Orwellian hell hole.
The pitfalls (maybe pratfalls) of a police state with a lack of police.
But don’t worry, they’ve got an app for that.
Good for you Thom – that’s a thumbs UP from me !
There seem to be uncanny parallels between the ‘failed’ assassination of Reagan two months after his inauguration in 1981 and the ‘near-death’ of Boris Johnson from the coronavirus three months after his election victory in December.
Did the spooky medics – or indeed someone closer to him – slip something into Johnson’s tea when he showed reluctance for the lockdown? With marriage and a baby on the way, has he been frightened into following the official line?
Note how the Twitter feed of the Prime Minister – a man who was once paid for his clever use of language – has been for weeks churning out propaganda lines so banal that Kim Jung-Un would be embarrassed by them.
Thom, I think he has been intimidated to follow the line, but it looks to me that it happened earlier, when he performed his volte face away from the herd immunity tactic. As for Johnson’s hospitalisation, move into intensive care, and then treatment on an oxygen mask, they were always carefully qualified with the phrase “… as a precaution.”. This qualifying phrase made me deeply suspicious from the start. He is famous for his verbal gaffes but it appears his handlers have put him on a tighter leash since his election as the leader of the Tory party. It is very convenient for his masters to have him out of the public eye during this (manufactured) crisis, there is then no chance of him making any flippant or off the cuff pronouncements that would damage their carefully crafted narrative. He has served his purpose by being elected and it now… Read more »
I would argue that there’s fewer people in government than Boris more susceptible to blackmail
That’s true Bob, and probably a large part of the leverage they have on him. Which is why I don’t think he was deliberately infected, or possibly not even infected at all.
He was as infected as much as I’m Catherine the Great.
From the moment he was made PM, I never thought he would last the full 5-year term. I wasn’t sure how he’d go, but I was sure he would “blow up” in one way or another. A worse than usual political gaffe; a sex scandal; be exposed as an alcoholic or coke-head. Or simply become bored with the job (as Harold Wilson is supposed to have become). And while he’s not in the highest risk-group for “COVID-19”, he never looks healthy, is overweight, and probably over-uses alcohol. Add to that the stress of the job (Prime Ministers always visibly age quicker than most people). Possibly he really was quite bad with whatever it was he had. (By contrast, Dominic Cummings, a younger skinny cyclist, seems to have shrugged off his reported symptoms). If he does have skeletons in the cupboard, we can be sure that the gentlemen at Thames House… Read more »
I thought that he had herd immunity to blackmail.
is was psycho drama
after the Thursday clap ritual on easter thrusday all the news outlets said bojo has come out of 3 days of ICU
on Easter sunday he did a short tv announcement Resurrection literally a miracle
for the dumb down comtised inoculated
ia healthy looking overwiehgt bojo with mild form of CV
if he could get it maybe we could – psychology drama also called psy op
you fell; for it so did many others
has this been posted?
Witney Webb on the AI revolution and tech war USA v China
I don’t trust this girl, she is of the ”all is now changing” CIA meme.
No sally, she is saying our betters have been planning these changes. She in no way is supporting any of what is going on. Perhaps you didn’t listen to the entire interview, and read her article and read the planning document she is referencing. I suggest you do all three before you engage in anymore – “shoot the messenger” posts.
I heard her pushing her rubbish on Jimmy Dore and TimDillon, like I said, I don’t trust her.
Webb did the most complete investigative reporting on Epstein and all of his ties to the wealthy and powerful and the intelligence agencies. Her reporting on this planning document from less than one year ago (with a link to the document itself) offers I think one of the most interesting behind the scenes look at what the U.S. intelligence/military/silicon valley conglomerate is doing and planning for behind our backs. If anyone has any information that challenges what she is reporting here please share it. I find it credible.
In fact, the sheer brilliance of her reporting, putting other alternative media operators to shame, is deeply suspicious, but I’m just channeling the paranoid atmosphere of the times.
You’re right, the CIA will serve up to the alternative media the BS they know they want to hear.
She was on last American vagabond, if that’s accredation enough…
Her name is spelt Whitney Webb – and be thankful for activists like her – they take immense personal risks in the work they do. It is pitiful to read comments criticising her – comments by those either ignorant of what is actually going on – or in full knowledge of it and colluding from their own safe spaces.
tesla said we are electric
robert o becker wrote a book called the body electric
vitamin c donates to the human body electrons
vitamin c has the power
dr klenner used gram doses of vitamin c in his community in the 1940s
in the 60s 70s and 80s another great man did the same.
Dr. Robert Cathcart, vitamin C pioneer.
Mike Davis is a genius: but he stops just short of saying “End super-capitalism before it ends us”. So why are there so few radical anti-capitalist, anti-globalist, and anti-corporatists? Why is the radical ecological critique of the World System of globalist neoliberalism so vilified? Why do we validate and legitimate capitalist statism as an electoral bad habit? Why is there no radical degrowth movement at the political level: that would at least make politics partially relevant? So many questions: so little time. Mike does not correlate in the economic carnage and collapse of the globalised market price system …and the concurrent value destruction that the CV-19 outbreak curiously parallels. As I say: CV-19 is a bad – perhaps terminal – case of globalised affluenza. So what will the ”historic agency” of class struggle be if there are no jobs to return to? Surely this is a critical point of consideration?… Read more »
”radical ecological critique”
will kill us as quickly as redical capitalism will kill us all. At least radical capitalism isn’t based on a hatred of the human race.
That is simply ridiculous and nihilistic. Capitalism is a co-participatory extinction religion. It is amazing how many are still addicted even as it is now turning on the bourgeois heartland. Oh well, I guess we stick we stick with the extinctionism we prefer then? The one we co-manifested and legitimated: even as it turns on its own.
‘sally’ has swallowed the Kool-Aid but bad.Radical capitalism, more than any other creed or cult, hates Life itself, not just the ‘useless eaters’, like sally.
“radical wealth redistribution.”…….Therein lies the problem. Has there been ANY redistribution of wealth from the 1% to the remaining 99% ?
‘ And even brilliant researchers like Mike can’t put it all together …why’
Because he is not a brilliant researcher, he is a fraud.
He talks about shit storms as if they do exist (they don’t)
He talks about a virus when he means a bacteria
He talks about essential conditions for cholera to grow (warmth) that are simply false
Continued He talks about that there is a potential for a vaccine for coronavirus, but that this has not been found yet as pharamaceutical companies do not want to find a vaccine (as that would kill the goose with the golden eggs, that is produce phony vaccines that governments will buy anyway). But he doesn’t say how he knows this. He just says it, and we have to believe him. He also says that coronaviruses heads constantly change, but not the stalks and that therefore a vaccine should aim for targeting the stalk. Nice theory, accept that I haven’t been able to find a single reference that backs this claim. And he says that vaccines will be produced, however not by pharmaceutical companies. But when one thinks about the logistics of a trial that should proof that a vaccine works, one needs millions of dollars that universities don’t have. If… Read more »
Just to save you bother in future: I am well aware of the internet propensity to strip communication of well, most of its communicational ability. Whenever I use a word ironically: I will put (not sarc) or something like it. If I do not do that: it’s because I am being sarc.
Sorry, I thought you were sarcastic and should have made that clear in my comment. It is just that it is according to the author above the line that this is one of the 3 must read articles of this month. I find that hard to comprehend since this mike Davis is definitely not a genius, which was the reason why I responded to your comment.
Yes, Blanche. You read like a more comprehensible (at least for me) McMurtry, but I can never quite accommodate the ‘we’ narrative. ‘We’ don’t exist. It’s us and them, the dead souls, the pathocrats and the brain-dead Homo consumerensis, and they will always win because they have the least compunction in utilising the supreme human sanction-murder destruction and genocide. That is why they have triumphed-they’ve murdered everyone ‘ ..who gets in our way’.
I sent a neighbour a copy of this:
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/#latest
he’s an educated man and here’s his reply:
Cheers
Long read. Some valid points but mostly speculation…also what government would totally kybosh the economy unless they thought necessary
Take care
It’ll sow the seed so don’t be disheartened. Keep sharing.
I agree with you. It can be tiresome, like shooting a fire hose against brick wall and hoping some water gets in through the cracks, but you can only hope that their unconscious mind will nurture that seed until its strong enough to stand a chance against conscious rationalizations.
Yea. I’ve had – repeatedly – the same response from a retired Professor of Medicine. Utterly frightening. They retire, sit back and watch TV, and believe it. Brain dead.
This is obviously some new meaning of the word “speculation” that I wasn’t previously aware of.
I’ve had similar experiences with intelligent and educated (not necessarily the same thing) people.
What I find interesting is that the myriad expert sources quoted in the article would (I contend) be considered credible, by your neighbour et al, if they supported the official CV19 narrative.
I have yet to see evidence of any credible scientist who can argue convincingly the case for lock down. You may have seen the Cambridge University Union ‘debate’ (8 monologues truth be told) a few days ago which Peter Hitchens was involved in. Three of the four speakers supporting the lock down were just an embarrassment; the fourth speaker, Professor Karol Sikora, spoke on that side as well but he actually spent half the time arguing that the lock down should now be lifted…so clearly the Union had struggled and failed to find a fourth convincing supporter. The other three pro-lock down speakers were all reading very poorly and hesitantly from scripts simply endorsing the Imperial College approach but with no additional or retrospective evidence over and above what the model had been based on, and no reference to the economic and other longer term consequences. The worst of these… Read more »
Why would a government put us on this train to Auschwitz unless they thought it was necessary.
yes, surely the Proper Authorities know what’s best for us.
You’d be surprised how many are looking forward to tyranny because they think they are on the winning side, and the immigrants will suffer, not them, they don’t understand that they are the target.
When Casinos and Bookies are shut down – it ain’t no scam.
Bookies were finished after the stake on the fixed odds betting machines where chopped…
Casinos, you gamble ’til you hearts content online.
The Economy was already kyboshed, wasn’t it?
Who thought Covid-19 would become the ‘Patsy’?
NOT CoVid 19-China. The race enemy.
I’m sorry, bob, but anyone who looks at the SWPRS analysis and refers to it as a “Long read” is clearly not educated. It’s the ‘go to’ document I use if I want to offer friends with poor concentration and comprehension capabilities the opportunity to see a quick summary of the key points being made, whilst avoiding blinding them with scientific jargon and technicalities. I like to think it might trigger an impulse to investigate further but, from my experience, it rarely seems to work.
I’ll second that. I’ve sent that link far and wide, and if I receive a response at all, it’s along the lines of my wanting people to die. There’s a small church just across the street from our apartment in central Paris where people from the neighborhood come and sit on the steps in the sun. After lunch, I went out to get a bit of sun, and remarked that, instead of Paris Plage, we had our own little “beach” right here. Everyone agreed. That was, at the least, a bit encouraging.
Such people as your neighbour should always repeat their words to themselves a couple of times. It may contain a next logical step, rather than being the summation. After all, it’s the neighbour who ends a question with: “unless they thought necessary”.
Hmm… necessary for what? Perhaps they kybosh the economy for another reason. Were the markets about to freeze up, was another bailout imminent?
Was there any reason why they chose not to quarantine the sick as has been done for centuries? That departure from standard procedure, not Covid per se but rather the quarantine of the healthy, that is the reason for shuttering the economy. Thus the kybosh was not a predictable response but a highly unpredictable one. Not grey and sensible and bureaucratic and understandable but neon-flashing-rainbow-Day-glo random and unusual.
bob – I think at some level for people to actually imagine that their government would lie on this scale is so challenging to their world view that psychic defense mechanisms like denial, minimization and rationalization are actually a much more common and comforting response than is rational coherent “thought” about the available information. Breaking down such defense mechanisms with factual information is difficult – because people are in fact responding “irrationally” in order to maintain a more comforting world view.
in other words, they’re mindless conformist assholes. move on, to some less privileged person who might be capable of listening.
9/11 syndrome.
Funny isnt it. Government guess work and panic is accepted at face value. A considered response to that is ‘speculation’.
No wonder the world is in such a mess.
He’s a fool.
“It is difficult to get a person to understand something, when their salary depends upon their not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
5th Read: Forget Wally, WTF are the Skripals…
1. http://johnhelmer.org/sergei-and-yulia-skripal-in-prison-together-or-in-solitary/
2. http://johnhelmer.org/how-many-witnesses-are-there-of-sergei-and-yulia-skripal-at-the-salisbury-hospital-in-march-2018-when-they-were-under-the-supervision-of-these-medical-staff/
May I suggest a 4th read, the John Ward, TheSlog
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/the-future-of-post-covid19-freedom-why-its-high-time-the-donald-and-bojo-walked-the-walk/
I always wondering if Bojo would meet his demise and Brexit would be no more………strange times!
Craig Murray has been charged with contempt of court for his coverage of the Alex Salmond trial, a trial which concluded with Salmond being acquitted by the jury – but of course there are no juries now: how convenient.
Glad to see even lawyers and political opponents rallying to his support. As Craig Murray points out, if his posts had been in contempt of court by influencing the jury, the time to act was before the jury delivered its verdict, not after. He is also charged with identifying “by jigsaw” the anonymous accusers who conspired to destroy Alex Salmond’s career – even though MSM journalists have come far closer to identifying them. “But what proves that the Crown Office is acting from base motives and not those stated is the one-sided nature of this. Only supporters of Alex Salmond – the Alex Salmond found innocent by the jury – are being pursued by this continuing Police Scotland operation. “There are literally thousands who put out “Salmond is guilty” “Salmond is a rapist” “Salmond is a pervert” posts on social media before and during the trial. Not one has had… Read more »
But none of that might matter if the case is heard without a jury.
There must be a Scottish Baraitser, surely.
where’s Nicola and her SNP in all of this?
Directing matters.
Nowhere to be seen, Bob – nowhere to be seen
Lets hope Murray does not let this distract from his usually good work. Is there a saying, stay on the offensive to defend yourself.? Something perhaps Corbyn failed to take on board.
You are right about Corbyn – he allowed himself to be thrown under the bus – and the cowards of the Labour Party sat back and did nothing – that’s why I didn’t renew my membership
Scroll up to Dungroanin’s post where he has a link by means of which you can learn all about this horrible business – and make a donation to Craig Murray’s defence fund – ultimately we owe it to ourselves to push back against this evil – it is evil, there is no other word for it.
The proposal to stop using juries was not agreed upon. In Contempt cases there are, I believe, no juries anyway.
The Scots abandoned juries by administrative fiat.
Asking for a friend:
He’s wondering if the Corona Virus has temporarily stopped the EU moving offices between Strasbourg and Brussels every month?
Also, he’s wondering why Greta couldn’t accomplish such a task?
Yes, it would be interesting if one expensive act of insanity had been stopped by an even more expensive and destructive act of insanity.
Thought experiment for Greta: work out the most efficient route between Brussels and Strasbourg by sailing boat.
No, Murray and his gang of goons er… ‘mods’ are sheepdogs to keep the rest within scope of the Overton Window.
Sadly, as a previous admirer of Murray, I’m inclined to agree with you. Note how he has ‘become the story’ yet again through his own incompetence and is asking for more money from readers as a result. The Dunn case, for all its personal tragedy, is a small beer involving small operatives compared with the crime of the century going on at present conducted by far bigger fish.
I share that view.
I used to spend some time there and when this began he seemed to share the view that this was being hyped. Since this escalated into lockdown etc. it has been very interesting that he has had nothing substantive to say on this at all. The mods particularly are very keen not to support any narrative wishing to question whats happening.
What is the Overton Window ? That is new to me – could you explain – I would be most interested to know – thank you
Basically the permitted scope of discussion.
I must admit, I didn’t know why it was called that, but it turns out it is named after this gentleman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Overton
Thanks Mike I checked the link you provided and, amongst other stuff I got this: Noam Chomsky said in 1998: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” Interestingly enough, in the context of this forum, it sometimes appears that certain contributors fashion their own “window” reading the parameters of what, expressed in the opinions of others, falls within Overton’s envelope of “thinkable or unthinkable” – we are now entering the realm of “psychological operation” which, as you are only too aware, is one of the tools of the Deep State. Changing… Read more »
These days it’s the ‘Overton peephole’, ever occluding more and more.
Message from Dracula on Twitter ……
NHS
@NHSuk
The sun may be out, but the virus is still present.
Stay at home.
at the same time handycock is pleading with people to go to their nearest A&E for any health problems ….
Your house may be on fire and a tsunami may be headed your way, but the virus is out there so… stay at home.
Ps. As part of the COVID Big Pharma projection package, neither the government nor your friendly pill pushers have any liability should you die following any of our advice.
Peter Ford isn’t a renegade,he’s an apologist for a dreadful and murderous failed state He worked as a lobbyist,along with Assads father-in-law,thus he’s totally compromised as a biased person,obviously one of little moral value Craig Murry sounds like a deranged hateful anti English racist,ironic really since he was borne in England Murray along with Assange both appeared on kremlin propaganda channel RT International,so to does Mr Cohen, a sad Putin apologist Paul Craig Roberts, has totally lost the plot,he’d have taken to world to war if Putin had followed his advice,simply a mad and frankly senile old fool as for Mr Girald I’ll leave readers to make their own minds up based upon the work of Louis Proyect,who for some strange reason seems to be some sort of hate person on Off G???? If this represents the best of alternative supposedly left wing thinking then I’d suggest the left has… Read more »
Read us, please do, some names from your Integrity Initiative list of approved writers. Preferably those in receipt of Foreign Office expenses so that we can be sure they’re taking the approved type of shekel.
Peter Ford worked for the Assad family as a lobbyist, just a fact,a fact never disclosed when he appears on RT International,or other so called alt media Two Assad regime goons are currently under arrest in Germany facing charges of torture, murder and other unpleasant stuff The families of those who’ve been killed stand outside the court with photos of those killed by Assad waiting for justice In the Putin world though these people are terrorists,so his propaganda channel likes to tell us Its claimed about 120,000 people disappeared into Assad regime jails,tortured,raped and killed, the evidence of this exists but nobody from this little list of so called renegade would ever dare go into the details would they,perhaps Vanessa Beeley could do some real journalism into this? Oh, but i forgot she did once go off the pro Assad propaganda reservation in a few Tweets about torture,but soon got… Read more »
How many of your friends, the Netanyahu goons, are under arrest for torture, murder and genocide?
All of them, without exception, are also racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and complete bounders, who kick their dogs, cheat at cards, and wear women’s underwear.
Like Jezza, they are probably also Kremlin agents, terrorists and anti semitic into the bargain.
Or so the well oiled Zionist Smear Machine and their incredibly truthful MSM would have us believe.
are you gary lineker by any chance?
I’m so sorry Crispy – I will now have to retract a comment I posted a while ago attributing you with wisdom -goodbye and farewell
Whatever 😱
Dear crappy, locked in his Tel Aviv basement, spewing hate and lies. Where would we be without him?
For some light relief and dark humour on the whole crisis.
The Tim Dillon Show:
This virus unlike all the other acts of US facsist surtvillance, gives the population the posibility to refuse to participate. To refuse to be tested, to refuse to use the app, and refuse consent through demonstration. This is our last stand, if we donlt refuse and withhold consent now, then we are finished as a free people. We will need to be tested to shop, to eat, to live, and that test will morph into the whim of a policeman or offical, which is the police state. A police state just for a virus as deadly as the flu, this is not worth it.
This is very interesting. The “Sally” posting with a capital “S” posts intelligent sane thoughtful remarks, and the “sally” posting with a lower case “s” comments are by comparison . . . well, I guess I’ll just let them speak for themselves.
I’m feeling low today and I’m fucking sick of banging my head agains the wall. For lack of sports analogies, I’ll give a sports analogy. This is like Arsenal down 4-0 at the Anfield with 5 minutes remaining and Aubameyang just went off injured- Mustafi and Luiz playing CB. About 90-95%% of the population is clueless. From what I’ve gathered, the US seems a bit more rebellious than the UK but not by much. My immediate family, except my Dad, is on board – eating up what the MSM says with a spoon. There is no large platform to be heard from – it’s all locked down from Twitter and FB to CNN, Google and the NYT – they’ve got it all. Any person who gets regular air time on the big stage is full of shit. The elite have also conditioned the public to believe that anyone who questions… Read more »
Brilliantly put.
I believe they pulled the ‘virus’ hoax now, in 2020, for exactly the reasons you state; they have everything, ‘net wise, totally controlled to prevent any dissent.
Couple that with the illogical (in a medical sense ‘lockdowns’ preventing people getting together and discussing what’s going on, and the slow destruction of small, independent businesses with enforced closures.
‘Some, including credible experts in relevant disciplines, say the Covid-19 danger is overstated. Others, including credible experts in relevant disciplines, say it isn’t.’
Would appreciate links/references for the latter group of credible experts Phil.
For goodness sake, don’t pretend that the bulk of scientists, whether incompetent, corrupt or swept away by Groupthink, do not outnumber the sceptics by orders of magnitude. Scepticism is fine, so long as it does not become self-delusion.
The operative word was ‘credible’. Has anyone come across any ‘credible’ ‘experts’ with ‘credible’ arguments that stand up to even the most basic scrutiny? I have read widely on this topic for months and haven’t.
I am frankly bemused that anyone capable of independent and critical thought is persuaded by the mainstream narrative, or remains undecided, deeming it ‘too early to call’ in Phil’s words. I really would like to know what evidence or information there is to support the C 19 narrative that has led him and others to this position.
KPS – Koronavirus panic syndrome. The media-inspired fear campaign has induced a mental illness that is much, much worse than any physical damage caused by the routine cold/flu virus.
How come my parents, born 1913/1914, both survived routine, multiple flu epidemics, to survive into their late 90’s, and I have also survived another 40-50 years since? All without a national lockdown. What is so different this time?
See: https://straightlinelogic.com/2020/04/25/the-herd-grows-by-eric-peters/#more-50278
That said, the scare campaign was clearly pre-determined and co-ordinated well in advance, with even Australia – in late summer, with virtually no cases – coming out with the same crazy “flattening the curve” language in order to immediately impose a lockdown and police state.
So the key question is – just what is the agenda and who is behind it?
Gates Foundation Behind Completely WRONG Coronavirus “Death Toll” Numbers – Ben Swann, April 24th.
Great clip. The problem we face is that manufactured narratives such as C19 don’t require everybody to buy into them; they only require a critical mass to do so. As long as dissenting voices remain in the minority, where we can be ridiculed and suppressed by the corporate media et al, the majority will carry the day. The value of sites like Off-G, the one in this clip and a few others is that, faint as they may currently be, they are beacons of sanity in this misinformation storm. As long as these sites keep doing what they’re doing, then perhaps as more people start to believe what they are seeing, as opposed to what they are being told, they will seek out such beacons. In a perverse way, continued lockdown would be better in terms of changing the minds of those currently in thrall to the prevalent narrative. I’m… Read more »
The biggest problem in these situations is that the seller of the narative will simultaneously put a lot of effort into ensuring that the consumers of the narative do not have enough data to make their own decisions regarding the narative, thereby persuading the majority to decide that they do not know enough to contradict the seller. I believe this is the biggest problem with CV: the data points received during the outbreaks in different countries have appeared to be deliberately designed to throw the average observer off the scent. They have differed in the extreme, from thousands dying almost every day in Italy to only 4 people dying throughout the whole pandemic in Hong Kong. The absurdity of the data points leads to the frustration of making decisions in the dark, so a lot of responsible, intelligent people are deciding that they cannot oppose the authorities because they do… Read more »
100% agree with you. If you read the Cabinet Office paper ‘Mindspace’ (https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/MINDSPACE.pdf), it details ongoing efforts to ‘manage’ the behaviour of us, the general public. I would hazard a guess that this situation is being exploited (has been created?) to change our behaviour patterns. I also wonder whether, when they finally end this thing, they won’t go as far as people like us expect them to. Instead they continue their decades-old strategy of incremental change. This will (as it has in the past) lead to people being grateful that they’ve only lost of few of their temporary privileges, as opposed to all of them. An exercise in expectation management, if you will. We expect draconian results so anything less than that is a bonus, however much we’ve actually lost. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a treatise on the dangers of communism, but I don’t see much difference between… Read more »
Spot-on. Whatever his intentions, the book is less a warning about communism in particular than it is about how easily any belief system can be leveraged (weaponized) into something that coerces/forces people into submission.
Every time I see some suspiciously coiffed talking head or a group of unmasked experts standing shoulder to shoulder while lecturing the viewers on social distancing, I think:
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
With you all the way.
Gates doesn’t look very well at all. Quelle surprise. He’s on a power trip – all natural joie de vivre has long since disappeared.
He looks like the “Before” picture in a laxative advertisement.
Excellent.
Last American Vagabond’s Titus Frost breaks down the latest lies and disinfo (April 25th) coming out of government.
May I mention a good read: What Really Makes you Ill by Dawn Lester and David Parker
Apparently the Germ theory is just that, a theory and furthermore it’s all based on junk science. It’s time people realised how hoodwinked they’ve been and still are of course by MSM. Gove was right about some of the “experts”, look at Neal Ferguson from Imperial college that started this! He was so wrong about Foot & Mouth remember? Now he’s walked it right back hasn’t he?
If you’re even here on this site there’s hope: But don’t the my word for it, find out for yourself before too late: Antoine Béchamp, the French contemporary of Louis Pasteur for starters …
(Dawn and David in an interview with Dr Andrew Kaufman)
https://tomaz2015.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/bechamp-was-right-all-along-vexmans-thoughts/
Background reading I’ll recommend. Thanks for your reply, yes I watched it and the other one they did with James True, also good/informative
“Mike Davis on pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow The lack of clean water and toilets, as everyone knows, is the number one public health issue in the world and the single greatest cause of preventable mortality, especially among children. ” There was a Netflix documentary on how the lovely Bill Gates was going to solve the problem of the Toilets. Bill Gates correctly identified the problem of poor sanitation. As he said the drive for clean drinking water would not solve the problem of poor sanitation. So what was big brain Bill Gates solution to the problem. Invent a better toilet. So research grants were got for a dozen or so companies to each independently over the next three plus years to Invent a better toilet. So they all applied there big brains to inventing a better toilet. Some interesting ideas were developed but each had draw backs.… Read more »
The expression ‘..slave labour in North Korea’ renders your contribution risible.
There are many more slaves in the brothels of London and Hamburg than there are in North Korea.
Indeed. And don’t forget the debt peons and wage slaves.
Clean CookStoves was a similar story – in reverse. A very expensive effort to create a biomass burning stove which ticked, superficially, the right boxes of reducing wood use and smoke.
Turns out that propane delivery is already common in the developing world as elsewhere, does not require electricity or complex technology or maintenance…. and is better for health.
Duh!
https://www.propublica.org/article/cookstoves-push-to-protect-the-planet-falls-short
It would be funny if it didn’t make you want to scream.
Unbelievable………oh no, totally believable.
Instead of putting our focus on Covid19 only, I think we should talk more about the economic consequences of it. In NL, ‘we’ just gave 4 billion euro to the KLM, while at the same time it is totally uncertain how people with small companies are going to survive the Covid19 crisis/scam. Why do the big guys always get the big money first? Michael Hudson gives some current examples from the US here ‘MICHAEL HUDSON: Just think of when, in the debates with Bernie Sanders during the spring, Biden and Klobuchar kept saying, ‘What we’re paying for Medicare-for-All will be $1 trillion over 10 years.’ Well, here the Fed can create $1.5 trillion in one week just to buy stocks. Why is it okay for the Fed to create $1.5 trillion to buy stocks to prevent rich people from losing on their stocks, when it’s not okay to print only… Read more »
Davis in the last piece refers to Cholera and Yellow Fever as viruses. Cholera is bacterial an YF a protozoan infection with the mosquito introducing it. The credibility rather ended there.
He also talks about that cholera thrives well in warm climates, like India.
But we had plenty of cholera in 19th century Europe, which was caused by a poor sewer system and poverty. Warmth is totally irrelevant. So why does he bring it up?
He also talks about the ‘stalks’ of viruses, being very stable and that if you want to make a vaccin, you should target the stalk of a virus, not the head (as pharmaceutical companies do). My question is: is this true? – If so, a vaccine could make sense. But if it is bullshitting, this guy just wants us to believe that a vaccine for coronavirus is possible, while it actually.
I seriously doubt the genuineness of this guy. Should be read with a ‘caveat emptor’ sign at the least
The cholera reference is a weird one, but yellow fever is an RNA virus (Flavivirus).
Yellow fever is caused by an arbovirus. You’re thinking of malaria, methinks.
Mutation is a form of adaption to environmental conditions, both natural and man made.
It is the survival instinct.
When the Psychos who rule have exhausted their lust they will become extinct, because instead of adapting via mutual aid, as nature does, they exploit Life.
Greed is unsustainable.
Agree absolutely.
It does, however, raise the question of how long it will take them to go extinct and whether any of us will be around to see it. I think they have quite a way to go yet before they reach that point.
Perhaps our great-grandchildren (assuming mass sterilisation isn’t implemented here as it was in Kenya) will be in a position to savour that particular victory.
What seems to be emerging politically, at least for the next several months, is the scene of a blazing house on fire, surrounded by gangs of ravenous cannibals, fighting amongst themselves as to who will be the first to sample the “dainties” from the bodies of its unfortunate residents.
The gnarls, grunts and howls are quite maddening.
More excellent work from Philip – which convinces me that we should delay no further in looking into the possibilities of developing an alternative pharmaceutical industry which should be funded for the common good, and, of course, those working within it should receive adequate recompense for their efforts. However the thorny issue of patents and ‘intellectual rights’ will probably raise its ugly head however, if such a revolution in this industry could be spearheaded by those who are still in possession of a moral compass that would always point to ethical procedure, then we just might be able to bring this treadmill of misery to a halt, once and for all. And it is in the hands of the younger generations who bear responsibility for the future – for it is one they and their offspring will have to inhabit.
Non-patentable or out-of-patent drugs alone could keep such an industry (essentially a research industry) very busy. Pharma patents are surprisingly recent, they mainly got going in the late 70s: “In most of continental Europe, until recent years, only the process of producing a drug could be patented, so once a drug was discovered, a second producer could also produce it provided they found a different way of doing so.” Germany had a thriving pharma industry before patents were introduced, as did Italy: “In Italy, pharmaceutical patents were prohibited until 1978, when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of eighteen pharmaceutical companies, all foreign, requesting the enforcement of foreign patents on medical products in Italy. Despite this complete lack of any patent protection, Italy had developed a strong pharmaceutical industry: by the end of the 1970s it was the fifth world producer of pharmaceuticals and the seventh exporter.” Quotations are from… Read more »
Of all the capitalist blood-suckers, BigPharma are perhaps the most Evil pack of ghouls.
CS, (Is that a deliberate wordplay?) Your comment, with which I more or less agree, raises some interesting questions. Attempting to modify a known toxic system from the inside, be it pharmaceutical, financial, political, or whatever, is a lost cause. Worrying about intellectual property rights and launching internet campaigns against the theft of plants, etc, while justified, doesn’t get to the heart of the problem, though it does raise the general consciousness of predatory capitalism. Here, in France, well before this virus chaos, after the protests of ’68, a fair number of people basically gave up on the city and its insanity, and moved to the country to establish (or at least try to) an alternative. Many, for any number of reasons, failed. There were, however, successes that exist today. Agricultural villages that were basically disappearing, falling into ruin due to an exodus of the young for the tinsel of… Read more »
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Not a Kenny Everett fan then Steve?
It sounds crude, but really it’s all done in the best possible taste!
Never heard of Kenny Everett. I’m an old fart.
You say that like it’s a bad thing 🙂
Just the truth. Makes no difference whether I like it or not. Besides, I’m not a Brit and haven’t watched TV since the early eighties, but for small doses of the daily intox and a few films now and then. Biggest bummer is that I’m running out of books.
Hang in there!
Ah, sorry, not a Brit. In that case, understandable you wouldn’t have heard of Kenny Everett. Very much a UK phenomenon.
So am I but he was hard to avoid on UK TV and radio in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Perhaps you were out of the country at the time, or lucky|wise enough to avoid his output. Essentially a comedic DJ.
With legs crossed of course !
You’re telling me the plot!
If you say so Philippe ! I have this feeling that we are all feeding each other – with the fruits of our wisdom and insight. This is the world of “humanity’ and is a life-condition possessed by all, even those who allow themselves to descend to the worlds of savagery and barbarity. There is no exceptionalism here – we all share the capacity and we all have the innate genius to solve problems that many, yet to be initiated into this movement of 21st Century Humanism, consider to be intractable. What is important is that we listen to each other with respect, that we are consistent in expressing our values of life, and, most importantly in the context of these on-line forums, that we do not allow our egos to drive us towards emotive and reactive behaviour. I am being continually amazed by the breadth and depth of insight… Read more »
I get the feeling you misunderstood my comment 🙂 “Oh, but I’m telling you the plot …” was a Cupid Stunt tag line during her (his) many ‘interviews’ with a either a cardboard cutout or skeletal Michael Parkinson. Got lost in misty reminiscence of a happier time when the ground-breaking Kenny Everett show was the funniest thing on TV. Sorry for any confusion. I agree with everything you wrote re this being a forum for (largely) sanity and intellectual input. I have my opinions, but I’m also here to learn and so far I’ve learned a lot. Long may that continue! I used to frequent the Guardian up until a couple of years ago, but it got so toxic, both above and below the line, that I stopped going anywhere near it. Life is too short to wade through that sort of shit on a daily basis. Enjoying your comments… Read more »
You are absolutely right -your intuition has served you well yet again ! I interpreted your comment as informing me that you are well acquainted with the issue being discussed, which I think started out with the Big-Pharma debacle. However, it is definitely the case that these misunderstandings are nothing to be unhappy about because, by virtue of the fact that we are engaging in dialogue with mutual respect as equals, only serves to deepen undertstanding for the two of us – and hopefully for others who may eavesdrop on our conversation ! So I will trust you, and many others, to continue guiding and instructing me in order that I may further develop myself as a functioning entity. Thank you for your kind comments – they are a great encouragement to me at a very difficult and perplexing time.
Glad we got that sorted out 🙂
I’m not averse to entering the fray when I feel I have to, but my preference is always for reasoned dialogue. So when misunderstandings arise (as they inevitably will) it is important to resolve them and get back to the important stuff. Like re-watching Kenny Everett clips on youtube. It was definitely ‘of its time’ and perhaps doesn’t translate well to today’s attitudes and tastes, but I like it – probably for the memories it provokes.
Nostalgia’s not what it used to be.
OK that’s all good – I will and have a look at some of the Everett clips on you tube, not so much to laugh at his antics, but more so in my interest of reading the comments people have posted up – I am sure there will contrasting views. I often wonder what people who have now passed away would think of the world we live in today – it is an extraordinary age marked by confusion and conflict and strife. If we had predicted all this back in the 1970s many would have probably dismissed it as pure fiction. Enjoy your viewing and keep safe !
I hope I didn’t build it up too much. As I said, it was of its time. Kenny was considered a bit of a radical back then! Search for Kenny Everett Cupid Stunt on youtube 🙂