This Week in the Guardian #6
This week sees more boosting of censorship, a collection of cognitive dissonance and the return of our old Russian friends.
Every week, on a Sunday, we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article of refutation.
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#DePlatformIcke
The Guardian has a story covering the campaign from two NGOs to have David Icke thrown off all social media platforms. While the article is very long on the various claims made by Icke and the D-list celebrities who agree with censoring the man, it goes into decidedly less detail on who funds the NGOs involved.
It also disregards entirely the potential ethical problems posed by large well-funded institutions campaigning for the censorship of an individual. And avoids any questioning of the idea of giant tech companies cooperating with the government to decide which opinions are allowed.
This isn’t about David Icke, it’s about setting a precedent – censorship for the public good. The Center for Countering Digital Hate and Hope Note Hate are the terrifying face of modern authoritarianism. Fascism in the name of friendliness and safety.
“First they came for the conspiracy theorists…”
The Lockdown and Doublethink
This is just a nice display of how modern journalism requires an editorial line that totally disregards internal logic.
In this article, Simon Tisdall documents all the ways in which the lockdown-generated economic crash could destroy the lives of people in the third world. And in this one Polly Toynbee goes into great detail about all the unemployed young people we’re about to create…because of the lockdown. Neither of them argues the lockdown should be ended.
Whilst here, Robert Reich says that Trump ending the lockdown would be terrible and dangerous and kill people, and Lloyd Green blames Trump for surging unemployment in the US, without mentioning the lockdown at all.
You see, ending the Lockdown is bad, because Trump wants to do it. But also, the lockdown is causing massive unemployment – both here and abroad – which could kill millions of people thanks to poverty, famine, and non-Covid diseases.
Keeping the meat-packing plants open is dangerous and irresponsible, but there are fears of panic buying or food shortages if they’re closed. There’s no word on the potential deaths caused by starvation and food shortages, which are discussed at length in other articles.
In summary, we’re told he lockdown’s effect will kill literally 10x more people than the disease has done so far, but if you want to end it you’re a pro-Trump anti-science virus-denier.
Mind-boggling.
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Perhaps a sign that the Covid19 narrative is waning is The Guardian’s abandonment of it’s happy-clappy Coke-advert approach to globalism, and return to what it does best – vilify Russia based on flimsy evidence and to very little purpose.
Firstly, by repeating the totally unsubstantiated claims that Putin is planning to assassinate the mayor of Prague. Apparently the motive is the removal of a statue of a Soviet war hero. At least, according to the “anonymous sources in Czech intelligence”, whose assertions (and existence) remain unquestioned throughout the article.
Secondly, by claiming that the coronavirus aidRussia delivered to Italy was done partly for “political purposes” – to which the response “No shit Sherlock” comes to mind.
Maybe The Guardian genuinely thinks that when NATO countries deliver aid they do it out of the kindness of their hearts, anonymously, without even a thought to geo-politics or public relations. Or maybe they’ll say any rubbish they’re told to say.
It is interesting that this story appears this week, though, and not a month ago when the aid was delivered. A sign that narrative cohesion is collapsing? Or that some people (namely Russia) won’t be welcome at the globalist party? Or maybe that they plan to abandon the “we’re all in this together” aspect of the Coronavirus panic?
Who knows. It’s reassuring to see Russophobic nonsense back on the Guardian’s front page though.
BONUS – Navel Gazing World Championships
The Guardian’s opinion section is always a wonderful source of the truly absurdly shallow. While their coronavirus coverage totally neglects the arguments against the lockdown and experts dissenting from the “consensus”, they DO have plenty of space for one novelist struggling in the lockdown…even though they wrote a book about self-isolation and for a lady to ramble on about she doesn’t mind staying inside anymore.
These are real, heartfelt thoughts…and not at all attempts to boost novel sales (the book is linked to three times), or just ego-maniacally pat themselves on the back.
Good for a chuckle.
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All told, a busy week for The Guardian. And we didn’t even cover the murder hornets, or the terrible impact the coronavirus is having on social media influencers.
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The collapsed “narrative cohesion” is no coincidence. The “authorities” no longer care whether what they are doing makes any sense to us. The only important thing is what THEY can get out of it.
We absolutely MUST realize this, if we are ever to hold these wretched “representatives” of ours to account, otherwise the picture will remain so foggy that any shrewd lawyer could successfully defend their moral purity.
Once this is all over I’m going to publish a compilation of mindbogglingly tedious Guardian articles by eyewateringly uniteresting middle-class Guardian women telling their staggeringly boring Guardian lockdown stories. It will run to several volumes – like Proust, although probably a bit longer – and I’m thinking of calling it “A la Recherche de Mon Lockdown Boreathon”. I’m sure to get some space in the Guardian to promote it, although I’ll obvously have to self-identify as a woman first.
Today, I’m self identifying as a tree. Tomorrow it may be a cat. Or a block of chocolate. Who knows? Choices, choices, Stonky. In your compilation, don’t forget to say you’re a full on ‘activist’ supporter of #MeToo and just love wearing your pussy hat. Even inside! That’ll get you a few brownie points.
These people seem to love the word ‘activist’ even tho what they mean by ‘activist’ does absolutely nothing to change the status quo or the system. And for some odd reason, they seem to have an aversion to icky poor people and those doing it tough.
Odd that. Oh, yeah, you made a comment about Polly Toynbee. What can I say?
Zzzz Zzzzz Zzzz Zzzzz…..
Actually Proust’s original title of “À la recherche du temps perdu” is not a bad description of the lockdown.
Talk about how you became proletarianized as a result of having to really rough it out following your fine arts degree. Go on to discuss how your latest art piece is inspired by this Stormzy album you’ve been listening to and how you “get it”. Also, mention how down you are, not because your full of guilt, pity and contempt, but because your a selfless activist. To guarantee it gets published, mention how you moved to ‘insert inner city area’ before everyone else.
So why are you even here then, bully?
Intelligence agencies specialize in disinformation. The deep secrets remain secret for the most part, otherwise there is the risk of revealing the assets who would have been in a position to reveal those secrets.
The probability is high that one, or more, Intelligence agency would be involved in, or had prior knowledge of, the production and release of a virus. The Harvard connections to the current virus carry with them the strong probability of a CIA connection.
Who benefits most from the current state of affairs? Big Pharma and Big Brother. Led by Bill Gates, another Harvard connection.
Who suffers most? Individuals and local Small Businesses. Amazon becomes the social distanced supplier of choice to the People. Amazon is also the cloud services provider to the CIA.
Lockdown is a blatantly obvious attempt to control the collapse of the western economies. Trump and Johnson are using scientific advisors funded by the Gates Foundation and WHO, yet at the same time the USA hands control of WHO over to China and Gates? Then the whole western world is borrowing more (NZ actually started QE) so that they can fund corporate welfare and the welfare required to pay for people to stay away from work. Sure, the virus is a great cover if your goal was to crash the economy and try to cripple the western world in order to bring in something new. Interestingly, China has not had a universal lockdown. We will discover what this is really all about in good time.
The USA has been throttling and privatising the WHO for years. ‘Handing it over to China’, is more racist, Sinophobic, bilge.
A forget-me-not from Jeff Epstein. A pal of Bill Gates, Epstein had a personal office at Harvard and was very much connected to the life sciences professors with an interest in all things transhuman, such as blending digital technology and human life.
Jeff Epstein’s personal life-timing may also have significance.
I was in the guardian comments page today, I lasted all of 20 minutes before I was deleted, which isn’t a record. I can only assume they have GCHQ supplying them with tracking info on all the comment writers, so it must be easy to spot ‘offenders’ who write facts and real things. It is a creepy place now, I don’t think any of the other comments were real, they seems weird and empty, like the ghosts of dead souls, desperate to say nothing.
Nicely put hehe
77 Brigade employ thousands of empty headed anoraks to post pre-written drivel in support of the virus hoax … it’s working!
I had the exact same thing happen to me on Craig Murray’s blog. It’s moderated in real time so anti establishment whistle blower seems to be a front for disinfo agent.
It’s moderated in real time
as is this forum, n’est ce pas?
“seems to be a front for disinfo agent.”
IS a front for disinfo agent.
Fixed.
I can only assume they have GCHQ supplying them with tracking info on all the comment writers, so it must be easy to spot ‘offenders’ who write facts and real things. It is a creepy place now, I don’t think any of the other comments were real
— you’ve missed the most simple and obvious interpretation, which is that they only need to track the paid disinfo shills, who can be assumed to be on-message, and then everybody who isn’t one can be carefully monitored for crimethink and immediately memory-holed if necessary.
Before I was cancelled at another site, to be known only as Z, I noticed a strange phenomenon connected to the delayed appearance of certain words, as if AI was querying the data that I entered in real time. I don’t mean the usual slow-down that you get from typing in a browser which makes it very hard to edit text as there is a time delay when you reposition the cursor. This was something I hadn’t seen before.
I stopped commenting on the guardian after they deleted my comments which highlighted contradictions in the said article by linking back to a previous guardian article which averred the opposite. the guardian doesn’t like criticism of the article itself..
we are now entering the search and destroy phased array stage sorry contact trace yes that’s it. had a flash back to my sas days hunting and killing for zion track and trace the technology is world beating made by the NHS can you believe it yes i will say it again the NHS they built the technology nothing to do with darpa,gchq,mi5,mi6,mossad,amazon,bill gates and google this is an NHS X project amazing A did you know a couple of years ago your doctor sold your medical files off to google and amazon did you know that ? did you know your organs are the property of the nhs when you snuff it did you know that both issues where not a scheme you consented to join but you had to contact your doctor to opt out you where given a few months because you did not opt out you… Read more »
imagine it’s 2030 …………
imagine calling yourself truther in 2020 and missing the biggest elephantine in the room ‘trump’ and selling the anon q crap which she does
half truther if that
Are there only two choices? I have seen this suggestion before that you either live in one of these surveillance cities or you start up a luddite commune. This narrative of the two future choices is going round both the alt left and the alt right media at the moment.
QUESTIONING
COVID
What everyone ought to know but may not!
Clinicians, Researchers, & Health Experts from Around the World Interrogating the Mainstream Narrative Around the Pandemic
Every Covid-19 Commercial is Exactly the Same *Cue somber piano music* We’re living in “uncertain times” but “we’re here for you” in the “comfort and safety of your home” because “we’re all in this together!” #together
From Forbes to Fast Company, the business press agrees that the eerie similarity is due to the need to cobble together commercials at short notice, using available royalty-free piano tracks and clichéd, focus-group phrases. And, BTW, it’s not a conspiracy #notaconspiracy #definatelynotaconspiracy
https://youtu.be/vM3J9jDoaTA
and all paid for by us – the ones being targetted by this fascist entity
We’re all in it together and it’s in your hands!
The Nightingale hospital in London is to be mothballed and the sixty-something patients who are currently warehoused there are to be hospitalised elsewhere. The refurbishments are to be retained in the event of it being necessary at some future indeterminate date, but meanwhile the state will be paying the rental charges for a building with facilities for 4,000 patients that will have reached a maximum of sixty users. It would be interesting to know the monthly rental charge the English tax payer is having to fork out to the middle east owners of the building. My understanding is that a similar facility in Glasgow has cost Scottish tax payers forty-three million pounds to date and costs are still rising. Another example of the NHS being safe in Conservative government hands; our NHS certainly helps the middle eastern owners, so not all bad then.
If its anything like over here (US) the problem with hospital capacity isn’t the actual bed space, its the difficulty of discharging patients who are recovered but either have nowhere to go or nobody that’s willing to accept them. (However, in a current report this has seen by the more enterprising sorts as an opportunity…..)
My experience of being in hospital and of close relatives is not difficulty in finding accomdation on discharge but getting the hospital to complete the discharge paperwork in the first place.
In fact, in 2014 I was admitted and discharged to and from 3 hospitals and still mentally scarred by the experience. My 3rd admittance (which was actually a transfer) it took 8 hours – only hastened by losing most of my blood. As I always say, the NHS are a bureaucratic, soul destroying nightmare – keep out. But they provide excellent emergency care when you really are ill and have the best surgeons. And make a good chicken soup when you finally come around.
But I guess thats all a separate story although perhaps a reason they thought the NHS might collapse with more admissions than normal.
Another symptom of a ‘society’ rotten to the core.
Better to have not prepared, eh, Shard, and had hospitals collapse under the strain. Hindsight is a wonderful conceit inflater.
I’m sure it’s all going to be explained away as a perfectly natural overreaction based on the reports received from China. Even those speaking out against it are already paying sycophantic lip service to Gates et al, presumably in the hopes of not sabotaging their careers too much, and helping people to climb down from the situation (as they see it). In so doing, unfortunately, they inevitably give credence to the mythology that’s fast emerging. However we know that Fergusson was inflating the numbers from the word go, according to Prof Michael Levitt and straying from usual epidemiological procedure, according to Prof Knut Wittkowski.
Clearly Imperial’s charlatanism and the propaganda blitzkrieg have always superseded any responsible documentation of the emergence of this postulated novel virus. Some respect for the truth must be demonstrated when this all plays out. I mean, mustn’t it?
No, you’re right. I suspect not too.
The Chinese will publish facts, which will be ignored, denied or distorted in the Western MSM sewer. And, don’t doubt, this has a long way to go.
I recognise that Russia, for instance, at a certain point in time was deporting itself well on the international stage, against a backdrop of Russophobia. I wasn’t under the impression they were beyond question and I suggest that China should be viewed similarly. States act in their own self-interest and, as we witness in our own countries, this isn’t always, or even often, in the interests of its people.
Handycock launches NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app on the Isle of Wight TOMORROW before national roll-out despite data protection concerns and warning it failed cyber security tests
Squealer No1: Health Secretary Muck Handycock announced this afternoon that the app will start being used by NHS staff on the island from tomorrow morning, and then other residents there from Thursday.
The Government and IT go together like a safari park monkey and your windscreen wiper blades…
It’s like 1984, only Big Brother is Tommy Copper.
How does patient confidentiality and General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 jive with contact tracing? Well, all your rights are dishwater as and when we decide.
Note Article (4) The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind. The right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right; it must be considered in relation to its function in society and be balanced against other fundamental rights, in accordance with the principle of proportionality.
I guess you’d be signing confidentiality away…
Like as not the code will have plenty of exploits for hackers to empty the mask wearers bank accounts and or give them the shits.
Pass the popcorn…
Those words are worthy enough, if the authority in charge is a JS Mill or the like, but in the paws of a Tory sub-fascist knuckle-dragger, say the loathsome Duncan-Smith or any of his ilk, it’s not worth a bucket of warm spit.
Interesting you bring up Mill. Was it not his progenitor (Bentham) that invented the panopticon…
He employs a strangely familiar argument:
“Morals reformed – health preserved – industry invigorated, instruction diffused – public burthens lightened”
And his words from 1798 ring true to the present topic:
“A building circular… The prisoners in their cells, occupying the circumference—The officers in the centre. By blinds and other contrivances, the Inspectors concealed… from the observation of the prisoners: hence the sentiment of a sort of omnipresence—The whole circuit reviewable with little, or… without any, change of place. One station in the inspection part affording the most perfect view of every cell.”
Yes, creepy, but Betham really believed in gaols as places of reformation. Today, it’s just to find the Badthinkers, for future disposal.
is there anybody in britain today that knows what the phrase ‘man the barricades’ means
https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2019/01/red-clydeside-battle-george-square/
bob
Try a google search and see what comes up.
My guess its a bit like ‘all hands on deck’ . Strangely I keep hearing similar expressions in these times. I had thought I had escaped the office expressions I so hated when I left full time work a year back.
Sadly its coming back. My boss in my part time job rarely used these annoying expressions which is one reason I liked him. That until recently when I was l was temporarily laid off (or furlowed?) with a ‘we will touch base in a week or so’
Luckily not touched base since.
Russia, Russia, Russia?! How about China?!?! Interesting there is no mention of China in this article when Fox News has been ratcheting up the war drums for a US-China conflict. Every major news outlet in the US has a dedicated cover story bashing China. I see little of Russia. The Chinese and larger Asian diaspora living in the west are fast becoming the new Jews of the pre-WW2 era. The greedy, sub-human mongrels sent to invade the radiant lands of a civilised western world must be stopped! Then again some form of Sinophobia has lived in western minds for centuries. Ah, what a convenient bogeyman! I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations… Read more »
America’s problem, as they have suddenly realised too late, is that they can’t go to war with their own industrial base, which is now located in China, until they have disentangled themselves from the Chinese economy, but by then it will be too late, they will have lost the upper hand.
The problem with “Russia” is our media can’t shake the Cold War habit of regarding these societies as a bunch of automatons controlled from a single source. The idea predates the 1917 revolution as well — we were going on about “Russia” in the 19th centuries and except for a brief bit around 1914 when the Kaiser took over as the bete noir with the Russians as allies Tsar Nicholas was regarded as “the bad boy of Europe”. I know that if I were an English speaking Russian (and there are plenty of them about) then I’d have quite a bit of fun stirring the pot. Churchill’s attitude to China is just the racism prevalent in the 19th and most of the 20th centuries. We actually had a go at partitioning China (which is why when it ‘unpartitions’ we then can point a finger at its lust for conquest) but… Read more »
Partition is plainly the Real Evil Empire’s ambition for China. It supports separatists, often terrorists, others mere running-dogs, demanding the separation of Tibet, parts of Chinese provinces near Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inner Mongolia, even ‘Manchuria’, a flash-back to Japanese Imperialism and ‘Manchukuo’. And have done so, with billions, since 1949.
Imagine Churchill, the architect of the Great Bengal Famine, a genocidaire at least the equal of Hitler, representing the barbarian thugs of that offshore island, Perfidious Albion, calling the Chinese ‘barbarians’. But, believe me, that racist, civilizational hatred is the new pseudo-religion of the entire Austfailian ruling garbage.
My cousin’s son died at the weekend. His name was Hamish and he was in his mid forties. I didn’t know Hamish that well, but on the occasions he came over to France I found him to be a thoroughly nice chap. Hamish had heart problems. He worked in a pub. He was laid off a month or so back when they closed all the pubs. Since then Hamish has had a monumental battle with the DWP to try and get any unemployment benefits. Hamish had recently been the father to a baby daughter, who he looked after while he was unemployed and his partner was still able to go out and work. Hamish apparently died from a heart attack. We don’t know for sure at the moment what the actual cause of death was, because there’s supposed to be a coroner’s inquest which will probably never happen (due to… Read more »
All these people who think that the lockdown is such a brilliant idea should read tragic stories like this. But they don’t…
So we have to it, somehow, bring such stories to them.
My condolences Rob.
Sorry to hear this, Rob. This sums up the reality of the situation – everyone who is dying during these dystopian times, whatever the cause and whatever their religious beliefs, is having to forego the final farewell which they and their family would have wished for. That is true criminality. Those villains making up the rules on a whim as they go along and with no thought or care for the consequences of their actions on other people must be held accountable when the truth comes out. It is also a travesty that religious and non-religious celebrants have been prepared to go along with this with barely a murmur in dissent; all the more nonsensical when we hear that the 2 metre social distancing rule is arbitrary and unlikely to have made any difference in any circumstances, and politicians and those advising them must have been aware of this. Families… Read more »
Nassty stuff indeed seeing as scores of nurses and doctors have DIED while treating patients of this disease. The hatred of doctors and nurses displayed by some of the more hard-core ‘sceptics’ is truly repulsive.
yes, every person of conscience should be a hard-core believer.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/27/coronavirus-fact-check-4-why-are-so-many-healthcare-workers-dying/
Havent we read from day 1 that the death figures of doctors and nurses was a total fabrication by the MSM?
Surely it is common knowledge by now that the novel C19 is itself a fabrication and a monstrous lie that duped the whole world into submission.
Isn’t that what has been seen time and time again on this site and other alt. media sites?
There was an interesting article recently about the notion of a ‘weaponized bureaucracy’, the idea that you can keep claimant numbers low by making the application process so Byzantine that many give up or find they’re ineligible. This has been something of a growth industry in the US in Republican (so called ‘red’) states but got thrown into reverse because it also relies on a lot of people being unaware just now nasty the system can be because it always happens to someone else (someone who’s obviously undeserving). I can’t help feeling that to our lords and masters Hamish’s demse is just acceptable collateral damange. He’s unfortunately not the only victim — a few years ago I witnessed from afar the struggles an old friend had with the UK’s system because his wife had fallen victim to multiple sclerosis. You’d think that being unable to walk and stuff might qualify… Read more »
Well said and much love.
Dear RobG,
I am sorry to hear of your family’s loss.
I can only add that I wish Hamish’s partner and baby well, and pray that they do not suffer in the immediate aftermath because of his death.
I am sure there are a great many other families in Britain suffering in similar circumstances as Hamish’s family. I hope that Boris Johnson, now that he is the father of a newborn child, might think of them when he goes to bed at night. But I am not holding my breath.
Very sorry to hear that Rob. My condolences.
Re: difficulty of getting money out of the DWP: by contrast, I have a contact in the Czech Republic, a British citizen, who teaches English through a college, but is technically self-employed.
In normal times, she teaches a mixture of children in schools, adults in small groups, or adults one-to-one. Obviously the school and group lessons are no more, but she’s still doing some adult one-to-ones via Skype. Obviously her income has gone right down.
She applied to the Czech government to a scheme to help the self-employed during the crisis: She applied online on a Monday evening, and the money was in her account on Thursday. I wonder if a self-employed Czech citizen working in the UK would have been so successful?
In addition, the Czech attitude to the lock-down seems much more civilised and relaxed than here.
The evil feckers behind all this have no idea what’s going to hit them.
indeed, it brings to mind thoughts about lamp-posts, and a comment from Lenin about the business practices of rope-merchants.
Reports out of Spain that many children have not been outside for two months. Cannot find anything about it through search engines – or in the Spanish press – though on April 18th the NYT did print: In Spain, a Call to ‘Free Our Children’, The strictest lockdown measures in Europe have left countless children bored, exhausted and sometimes depressed.
Covered in SGT report:
https://youtu.be/I51CYFBEItQ
Its true.I live in the mountains of Malaga where there are no children about.Due to fear and love.
Ian Fleming wrote the book. His friend, fellow (former?) intelligence officer Roald Dahl, did the screenplay for the film.
Rappoport eviscerates that rat Neil Ferguson and his flights of fancy, otherwise known as “modelling”
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/05/04/professor-neil-ferguson-and-the-idiot-presidents/
California Doctors Purged by YouTube Return for a Follow Up Interview (VIDEO)
“The Bakersfield doctors” hit 6 million views in 5 days before they were taken off by YouTube without explanation.
Can some folks download and make copies of this?
A report suggests that 66% of UK citizens don’t want the lockdown lifted. Now I don’t think people are that stupid and if your one of the 10 million people who have been furloughed who can blame them. 12 weeks on 80% pay for doing well nothing. Most people I know in this position are loving it. You can see family and friends (social distancing of course), and enjoy your “sunshine holiday” courtesy of the UK tax payer. Whether people will still have a job at the end is another matter. Until then it’s game on. I think Bojo will have quite a job convincing people it’s timer to get back to work.
Respectfully,
You’re talking rubbish imo.
Most I know in that position are shitting bricks they may find themselves unemployed in the very near future.
The free holiday feeling aspect of all this ended around 3 weeks ago.
And now, reality is setting in and much unease in many communities.
Off topic but sharing because Youtube has been limiting the spread of such critical videos. New interview with Dr. Erikson and Dr. Massihi from Journeyman Pictures (“Perspectives on the Pandemic”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0VRtY9oTs
According to the latest bulletin the UK lock-down is to be phased down in the near future. However, there is a slight hitch. From the Graun today. No BTL it would be too embarrassing for the PTB. ‘’The price of a bus, train or tube ticket during peak commuting hours could be raised to prevent crowding and the spread of coronavirus on public transport, according to a leading thinktank. Setting out a menu of options to end the government lockdown as ministers consider ways to reopen the British economy, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said discouraging public transport use during peak times could limit overcrowding and reduce the risks to public health.’’ Brilliant or what!? Yes, public transport is only to be operationalised when people don’t actually need or want it, like 0500 or 11 O,Clock in the evening. Is this the best that our ‘leading thinktank’ can come up… Read more »
https://youtu.be/vdytOGnUFoI
Wanktank more like.
What are the proles meant to do-walk to work? Sleep at the workplace?
In the telegraph today (my emphasis):
lol
The cashless society and vaccine sales seem like a plausible rationale for the shutdown, since it’s an effective way to usher in mass acceptance, and that’s just creating more containment of future social activity. Like the internet, control all the platforms, cash, health, info. The trifecta.
It has to be something artificial, “conjured”- since the virus itself is kind of a non-happening…
The California Governor spoke last week, easy to find on YouTube, and he spoke of his concerns over the virus in our county, Orange. A misstep, and you could tell he knew it, since the fatalities total are a bunch of goose eggs to the right of the decimal point. The population is 8 digits, and the supposed deaths “from” are still mid-double digits.
Absurd.
Could that not be Jeremy Corbyn’s spymaster ?
Two for one down at MI6 ! Don’t miss out on this great deal !
I keep getting adverts for elaborate face masks of one design or another. Just thinking, “How are those facial recognition algorithms going to work if everyone is going to be masked up all the time ?”. They’ve not thought this all through.
Other covid conundrums…does anyone have a clue what the story is with Ron Unz ?
I read somewhere that facial recognition still works with only 20% of the face being visible.
https://cvdazzle.com/
Eat your face from the inside and no one will know who you are anymore.
“Punish One, Teach A Hundred” (Mao)
Jeremy Corbyn’s conspiracy theorist brother, 73, leads his third anti-lockdown protest after claiming Covid is being used by the ‘new world order’ to inject Britons with MICROCHIPS
Except, The Gates of Hell owns the patent for such technology….
Several posters are asking how a newspaper or magazine jettisons it’s reputation for journalism and becomes a propaganda mouthpiece. The following is an account of how it is done. The Hidden Role of the CIA at Popular Mechanics https://www.bollyn.com/the-hidden-role-of-the-cia-at-popular-mechanics-2/ March 17, 2005 A brutal purge of the senior staff at Popular Mechanics preceded the publication of last month’s scandalous propaganda piece about 9-11. Pulling the strings is the grand dame of Hearst Magazines and behind the scene is her obscure husband – a veteran propaganda expert and former special assistant to the director of the C.I.A. “DISINFORMATION AND DECEPTION” “Ninety-five percent of the work of intelligence agencies around the world is disinformation and deception,” Andreas von Bülow, former parliamentary official responsible for the budget for Germany’s intelligence agencies, told me in December 2001. It is often said that USA Today is controlled by the CIA, which, like the paper, is… Read more »
Very interesting. There is also the factor of plain, old money. A newspaper like the Guardian probably can’t stay afloat on the strength of readers and advertisers anymore (and even more so in these times), so is perhaps tempted to take ‘sponsorship’ with some invisible strings attached.
Of course, the problem with that is that they become so out of touch with their readers that they don’t have readers anymore either, and therefore the sponsorship stops.
I noticed this before the election, when it seemed to be obligatory in all political columns to insert at least one derogatory remark about Corbyn in it, even when the main subject was someone else entirely. That was when I gave up on the Guardian and I havent read it since.
The Guardian certainly does take sponsorship and I fear this will be the model for all the big newspapers as billionaires replace subscribers. The impact of this on any notion of objective reporting is obvious. Newspapers are likely to be owned outright like The Washington Post by Bezos or to survive on sponsorship from the likes of Soros and Gates as does The Guardian.
Private Eye is always going on about how The Grauniad continues to put all of its copy freely online, while losing money hand over fist. The implication seeming to be that The Groaner should “go paywall”.
However, (much as I have reservations about Private Eye), perhaps all this time it’s been trying to tell us that The Groan was getting funding from other sources, explaining how this leaky boat of a newspaper manages to keep afloat.
Mind, the same question could be asked about The Torygraph. At least The Grauniad does sometimes sell out (during normal times) in my local supermarket, whereas the shelves are groaning with great piles of unsold Torygraphs and the end of the day.
Chertoff, like Robert Mueller at W’s regime FBI and this year’s kangaroo “investigation” into Trumperies, is a 9/11 retread, a walking corpse, aka zombie of our Apocalypse, now playing in a Theatre State near you. He has a long track record of deception, like all the big names from NYC 2001.
It’s not surprising that National Geographic darkened our doorstep here. They did puff pieces that we saw, on 9/11 and also Unabomber, which were clearly missioned to state a set message, a false flag, CYA for the CIA.
It is so obvious. They’re worth watching just to study their methodologies of lying, though usually pretty simple and see-thru.
Sounds like the Guardian’s progress.
ODDS AND ENDS MSNBC and Mika Brzezinski didn’t disappoint me, inasmuch, as I knew a warmongering state-run cable news show like “Morning Joe,” and a self-obsessed propagandist like Mika would do what she does best– a hatchet job. And that’s exactly what occurred this morning during Mika’s loathsome attack against Tara Reade. Instead of attacking Reade, Mika should be interviewing her as well as those who corroborate her story. And by the way, why doesn’t MSNBC play the Larry King video clip of Reade’s distressed mother. On Friday, Mika spent 20 minutes interviewing Biden about whether he sexually assaulted Tara Reade. Biden of course denied it, but what would you expect from a guy in obvious mental decline with difficulty remembering what he ate for breakfast let alone where he placed his fingers 27 years ago. In any case, just two days after Mika’s Friday interview she spent Monday morning… Read more »
Much as I loathe FoxNews, in comparison to CNN and MSNBC they seem almost sane and decent.
Especially, Tucker Carlson….
Venturing a bit further than the Graud, this defeats me:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-lockdown-end-pubs-restaurants-transport-bars-a9493971.html
Granted that the moment the MSM started the fear mantra, I just switched off – mentally if I couldn’t do it physically. But then again, I snapped out of the strange hypnotic power of the MSM decades ago. Are people really so chronically suggestible? And all it took was 6 weeks to switch them over from a life long mode of behaviour to …..whatever? It makes you wonder what else is possible.
It’s always worth scratching beneath the surface if anything on the MSM rings true since they depend heavily only “rings true”, “sounds about right”, “plausible”, “makes sense”. This particular piece of chicanery is based on the link below. The survey has a sample size of 1066 and was conducted online. I would say 1066 is hardly representative of 70 million. Moreover the pollbwas taken between tue 24th and 27th, which may have been a particularly scaremongering few days in the press. I would also say that the specific categories in the survey that show that have the higher feedback of uncomfortability are the ones that involve being surrounded by groups or crowds of strangers. This may have to do more with social anxiety than fear of the virus. Just wanted to also point point out as something similar I posted about a similar article in Irish press (coincidentally over this… Read more »
*24th and 27th April
“It makes you wonder what else is possible.”
I fear we will find out soon enough.
Yes, you do often get the feeling that there are more and bigger boots to drop.
Why otherwise would they have gone to all this trouble in the first place?
Who commissions the opinion polls? The media. They are two cheeks of the same backside trying to reinforce the same messages.
Not only is this kind of thing handy for keeping the lid on dissent at present (“the lockdown has the support of the public so how dare you protest?”) it will also be useful in the future when politicians try to wash their hands of the whole disaster by blaming the public (“you wanted the lockdown, so don’t blame us for the unemployment”).
Just because they polled public fear doesn’t mean they decoded it. Yeah, 60% of the public is fearful: not of corona, fearful of pollsters named Ipso Morti, or any other such spooks. If any of them came to my door I’d tell them exactly whatever they wanted to hear, since none of them are to be trusted anymore. How could any of them be deserving of the truth? I certainly wouldn’t be drawn to make a statement of my bravery. Not to them! Fact is, whatever trust there may have been in polls has rotted. Too many corporations fund them, indirectly or otherwise. Most people know instinctively that they are a transparent attempt to cover one’s $$ cause in popular approval. That is the fly in the poll ointment, a horsefly on steroids. I’m surprised that a “poll” would be cited about something like this, when those polled know that… Read more »
I say that from Orange County, California, where people are going maskless mostly, at least closer to the coast, and are more bored by the lockdown than fearful. There are a few of those, but they were mostly born germaphobes. We have only had 50 (so-called) covid deaths out of 3.1 million.
On with the show, oligarchs.
And now we present you with an excerpt from Warren Mitofsky’s wiki bio, as the inventor of exit polls, and longtime shill for CBS (i.e., see: BS) is the “George Washington” of polling, notice the curious syntax in the sentence “more accurate” (another great example of Wikipedia fudging with hotly contested facts, give a little, take a lot): Exhibit A: “In November 2004, Mitofsky was interviewed by PBS NewsHour regarding what went wrong with the accuracy of his exit polls for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Early poll results were leaked which showed John Kerry leading George W. Bush, conflicting with the final official outcome. Mitofsky said he suspected that the difference arose because “the Kerry voters were more anxious to participate in our exit polls than the Bush voters.” He refused, consistently, to release precinct-level polling data from Ohio to researchers who maintained that the election results were fraudulent,… Read more »
Should read, “Just the kind of elite spy you want to infiltrate the resistance”. I don’t know that for hard fact, and I don’t want to accuse without proof.
That said, there is enough evidence amassed, and I dug up a lot of it, to merely INDICT Kerry for collusion to throw and fix a presidential election. But, where’s the crime there, that’s just SIP and business as usual for some while now. Like others I join here who have been joining in the lament, we live in an unprecedentedly sick society.
I came to respect Putin a few months ago when he called out all the leadership of the West as “swine”. It’s hard to be a dues paying member of their club when you call them swine.
At least he said that. And it needs being said.
S.O.P. “Standard Operating Procedure”. Erroll Morris made a film about Abu Ghraib by that name.
Interesting that you mention Mitovsky, Kerry, and 2004. Mitovsky was never a household name to me. But I do recollect very well the details of the 2004 election. It as early days for the Internet/alternative media. We still thought there was something to electoral politics. We thought we could get the Bush detour and the dodgy 2000 election behind us and get the country back on track. Remember how motivated we were to get rid of Bush? And it looked like Kerry was the guy to take down Bush. I went to a MoveOn meeting near my hometown and ended up volunteering to go with a small team to Paris, Maine, to get out the vote for Kerry in district 2 of that state (the only state with two electoral districts). We canvassed over a weekend and monitored polling places. Went to a post-election party to watch returns. Kerry was… Read more »
Wow, Paris, Maine? I feel your pain. I was pretty intensively studying all that in 2004, since I’d been invited to guest frequently on wgdr.org and also interview people like Ion Sancho at blackboxvoting.org (he had significant minutes in 2006 emmy-nominated “Hacking Democracy” which features Bev Harris of bbv) and I wanted to make sure I had some real and significant grounding in facts, since there are so many fairy tales now. I even had several angry email exchanges with Cam Kerry, his brother, who came after me for slamming his bro’ in posts, etc. It was as long ago as then that I began to glimpse just how deep the charade goes. All the invites I had, be on radio, get stuff published, sing with big names, okay piano at a great venue: ALL of it I found out, often years later, all all, were various ops to control… Read more »
Here in Austfailia the ruling hard Right regime lost EVERY opinion poll for three years. They were bitterly infighting between the soft Right and the Australopithecine Right, and division is held to be electoral poison here. They replaced the moderate PM with a Pentecostal thug months before the election. They lost every opinion poll during the election campaign (six weeks or so). They lost the exit polls 52% to 48%, always a winning result with our compulsory voting and preferential voting. But they won ‘the vote’ and the election 52% to 48%!!?? No voting machines, just paper and pencil. How did they do it?
They did it with the postal vote here (UK) 😉
Ever more blatant.
Some interesting data on the value of shares of Big Pharma before and after “pandemic.” Make of it what you will. Percentage drop and increase in share price in February-April of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies (value in dollars): Before: ROCHE HOLDING 19/2/20 – 351,1 12/3/20 – 247,4 % – 29 JOHSON&JOHNSON 21/2/20 – 149,8 12/3/20 – 110,6 % – 26,3 GILEAD 20/2/20 – 67 12/3/20 – 68 % – 1,4 AMGEN 13/2/20 – 223 12/3/20 – 182 % – 18,3 GLAXO 10/2/20 – 1657 12/3/20 – 1404 % – 15,2 NOVARTIS 12/2/20 – 95 12/3/20 – 83,9 % – 11,6 MERCK 13/2/20 – 122,7 12/3/20 – 89,5 % – 27 SANOFI 18/2/20 – 93,7 12/3/20 – 73,4 % – 21,6 ABBVIE 13/2/20 – 64,5 12/3/20 – 74,2 % + 15 PFIZER 11/2/20 – 38,09 12/3/20 – 30,1 % – 21,2 After: ROCHE HOLDING 12/3/20 – 274,4 28/4/20 – 352,7… Read more »
This is why they HATE hydroxychloroquine etc so very much, and have their medical stooges attack it. A cheap, safe, medication used by hundreds of millions over decades, but off-patent and cheap, so it must be demonised, or even outlawed as one local ‘medical’ thug has demanded. Christ these are Evil vermin.
Further thoughts on the banning of Icke’s Youtube presentations. Now that these have been banned, perhaps his books will be banned (or burned) then they will come for the man himself – to keep Assange company presumably. We’re on a downward slippery slope and it won’t stop, until there is sufficient social and political momentum to stop it. If coronavirus hadn’t existed it would have needed to be invented. Maybe that is exactly what happened; these lunatics are capable of anything. Icke’s theory about lizard people living among us was and still is regarded as being rather fanciful. But actually it is not too far removed from objective existence. After all what is human and what is inhuman. For example when Madelaine Albright ex-US Secretary of State under Clinton blithely inform us whilst being interviewed on TV that the deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children due to US sanctions was,… Read more »
Whether you believe any of his talk about physically different lizard people (I don’t), his book that covers lizard people is mainly about research into bloodlines as far as I recall (The Biggest Secret). It’s extremely well researched, and as far as I could tell from a little hunting around, accurate in the majority of its content based around bloodline / family connections. Of course it’s far easier to divert people’s attention by making fun of the man and focusing entirely on the lizard people references, whilst pretending the mass of documented evidence showing that there is in effect a ‘club’ based on a shared, and closely protected bloodline doesn’t exist in any form and has never been researched. And avoiding all talk that these same people appear to be the very same ones connected through international business and finance and politics, and have been for quite some time now.… Read more »
It doesn’t matter what he says. He has the right to say anything he pleases.
A lot of people assert that 2000 years ago a guy who was crucified was actually the son of some god. Oh, God. Capital G. Uh-huh. Go figure.
If that ridiculous unproven assertion is allowed, then too is just about *any* assertion about any g.d. thing!
Comparing that mummified cadaver, Albright to lizards is an insult-to lizards!!!!
You really feel sorry for Ottessa Moshfegh “struggling with the profound loss of agency the coronavirus pandemic has caused”. Just as long as she doesn’t have to struggle with the profound loss of livelihood.
#DePlatformIcke
Quite simple really DO NOT support the Guardian! block their cookies and kill their ad revenue (I personally recommend the use of a pi-hole) I’m sure their paymasters at GCHQ will prop them up for as long as they’re useful.
There’s seems to be more sense coming out of David Icke than the so called mainstream media. Which tells you something is up!
The ‘New Statesman’ is equally contemptible. Have just seen an article riddled with the New McCarthyism: ‘antisemitism in the Labour Party’. All because Dianne Abbot and another Labour MP happened to speak in a meeting where Tony Greenstein and Jacqui Walker apparently also spoke. According to NS, Greenstein was expelled from the LP ‘over antisemitism’ – a falsehood. How on earth did this journal, which in my youth commanded respect from the socialist left (as opposed to the faux left), fall into the hands of these presstitutes?
I see a quick report in the Grauniad says that the Trade Minister, Conor Burns, has resigned today but doesn’t give the full story. It seems the Minister had written a threatening letter on Commons notepaper to somebody in a dispute with his father.
Where is the similar uproar we have seen at likes of Ms Abbot. I’ve never really been a fan of hers since she palled up with Jonathon Aitkin over the sword of truth affair; but let’s have some degree of fairness.
Assange, like him loath him… We live in a country that jails and basically hands a man a death sentence for publishing the truth all the while a paedophile prince is sitting happy surrounded by the best lawyers and PR gurus tax payers money can buy. Where’s the outcry? Where’s the justice? Where’s the Police?
It’s not the sound of fracking you can hear.. It’s our Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Fathers and Mothers all spinning in their graves…
The whores are running the country and they ain’t finished with it yet.
The Jewish Board of Deputies APPROVED whores.
The New Statesman has been run by Ziofanatics for years. Their talent for entryism and nepotism, and hatred of those who ‘get in our way’, are infamous. As is the cowardice of those who they seek to destroy, who seem as if mesmerised.
[edited for typo. A2]
Personally I’m down with the whole Zionism/Judaism/Anti-Semitism thing is just another tool of suppression and division wielded by the power’s that be and it works spectacularly well. The Labour leaks have shown this to be the case (oh and doesn’t that leaked report make the Blairites look REALLY bad… Don’t let them memory hole that with all this COVID 19 bollocks)
Dr Wotarg from Germany deconstructs official claims about COVID testing and therapies . Abstract of article. Covid-19 – a case for medical detectives The numerous and disproportionately frequent deaths of Covid-19 patients with dark skin colour and from southern countries are apparently also the result of a drug-related mistreatment. Affected are people with a specific enzyme deficiency, which occurs mainly in men whose families come from regions where malaria was or still is endemic. They are currently being treated with hydroxychloroquine, a drug which they do not tolerate, now being used all over the world to fight Covid-19. If this practice does not end soon, there is a great risk of widespread deaths, especially in Africa. Excerpt from Article. The SARS-CoV-2 PCR test: non-specific, medically useless, but anxiety-producing Because of the great importance for the Covid-19 occurrence, special attention must be paid to the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test – the only… Read more »
Sorry it is Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg.
Wodarg is a name I’ve never heard before, and I come from northern Germany.
The only thing that would make sense to me is that it is an ananym of Gradow.
More on Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine: https://infectiousmyth.podbean.com/e/the-infectious-myth-dangers-of-chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine-with-remington-nevin/ The Infectious Myth – Dangers of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine with Remington Nevin Remington Nevin is an MD and expert on the quinoline family of drugs, best known for their use against malaria. He has been interviewed here before, on the subject of mefloquine, which is believed to have caused severe neurologic damage, especially in soldiers who were forced to take it even after experiencing adverse effects. Similar effects are also found with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. The latter is often used for rheumatoid arthritis, and doctors there say that it is remarkably free of side effects. They forget, however, that a lot of patients stop taking it quite quickly after starting, probably because they are the sub-group that is vulnerable to side effects. Given that high doses are being used for COVID-19, and on elderly, infirm people, one can expect significant problems with side effects.… Read more »
So these harmful side-effects have never been seen in the tens of millions using them in malarial regions for decades. Or were they ‘covered up’? The anti-HCQ campaign is a real BigPharma priority,
The Grauniad: doubleplusgood duckspeak
++ungood
The Guardian speaks with forked tongue
Yeesh! I’ve just escaped from the Gradian – in my defence I was simply looking for headlines of what the latest fascist government intentions are. Wandered into a comments section. What a weird place! Full of “please don’t let me out, 31 people under 85 have died, how dare you suggest we can have our freedom back.”
Thank goodness for OffG and the voices of reason and sanity.
Many world health experts and actual doctors now believe this ‘freedom’ (they’re still a little unclear on what that is… is it the little fruity chunks that come in yogurt?) may be one of the chief causes of COVID-19. It should be avoided at all costs. [/sarcasm]
Apparently. stressed parents struggling with naughty children have been known to threaten to lock their mischievous kids in the Guardian Comments Section if they don’t behave.
That’s a very scary thought Would make me a model child for sure.
I got emptied of it six months a go, and the Mirror, and the idiotic patronising Liverpool Echo, the last two I got around by re-registering and using windscribe, but the guardian or Independent won’t wear it !!
They are all paid solders commenting now in the guardian, there are no real people there, it is a front.
I note the expression ‘Lockdown’ was said by an actor in the film ‘Chaos’ released in 2005.
The scene is that of a big city bank, that has been invaded by well-armed gangsters with machine guns. The customers are threatened with death if they do not do as they are told.
The gang force the bank manager to seal all windows and doors, via the computerised security system. The manager does this, then says to the gang’s leader:
“We are now in LOCKDOWN.”
An interesting choice of word by the authorities for the current situation.
Lockdown is what the prison authorities do in order to regain control of the prison.
Ah, nice connection of our current dots. Those semantics tell the tale.
why do 5g masts you know those phased array tel aviv crowd control spec things why do many need cooling fan systems
why do some sound like a microwave cooker
councils all over the uk have been working in lockstep for over a year chopping down trees that blcock the line of site array
slaughter in the care homes
murdering the trees
mentally ill dancing banshees in the hospitals
who during dance break call
up radio shows saying we are full we have been working 16 hours a day we cannot cope
everything cookin nicely in fuck in chicken town
Frightening 5G technology gets investigated by real scientists. Reports here:
http://www.5gappeal.eu/category/news-articles/
Quote:
“News about 5G
March 30, 2020 By Mona Nilsson
March 2020: Effects of 5G wireless communication on human health. A report from European Parliament Research Service. Link
February 2020: Geneva halts 5G and 4G+ rollout for three years. Link (in French).
January 2020: Slovenia halts adoption of broadband strategy including 5G due to uninvestigated health risks. Link.”
And many more.
Yet another politically driven venture, as with the ‘covid’ hoax.
The microwaves that cell phones emit can interact with human tissue in an entirely new way, says theoretical biologist at a government lab, April 28, 2011 https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/04/28/259412/cell-phones-microwaves-and-the-human-health-threat/ “If there’s one topic likely to generate spit-flecked ire, it is the controversy over the potential health threat posed by cell phone signals. That debate is likely to flare following the publication today of some new ideas on this topic from Bill Bruno, a theoretical biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He argues that the traditional argument only applies when the number of photons is less than one in a volume of space equivalent to a cubic wavelength. When the density of photons is higher than this, other effects can come into play because photons can interfere constructively. Bruno points to the well known example of optical tweezers in which coherent photons combine to push, pull and rotate small objects… Read more »
Moneycircus This boils down to two factors. The first is whether there is a high enough density of microwave photons from cellphones to generate a force capable of damaging biological tissues. As we know, many people have raised the question of 5G safety. I have seen both Dana Ashlie and David Icke talking at length about this and putting forward the same synopsis. Their contention, based on ‘scientific evidence’ is that, irrespective of whether they produce a force sufficient to damage human tissues directly, the photons exert a force that causes cells round oxygen molecules to spin on their axis. The resulting biological effect of this is to make it difficult for haemoglobin in the circulatory system to absorb the unnatural oxygen molecules. In healthy people this is, superficially at least, inconsequential but in people with compromised respiratory systems it could very quickly lead to respiratory and organ failure. Their… Read more »
An issue that seems important, at least to the extent of my limited knowledge is electromagnetic fields. We know that electromagnetic fields play an important role in nature with many species such as bats and bees yet this appears to be ignored in humans. Magnetoreception is present in bacteria, arthropods, molluscs, and members of all major taxonomic groups of vertebrates.[1] Humans are not thought to have a magnetic sense, but there is a protein (a cryptochrome) in the eye which could serve this function.[2] The issue may finally be receiving some attention: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/maverick-scientist-thinks-he-has-discovered-magnetic-sixth-sense-humans “Birds do it. Bees do it. But the human subject, standing here in a hoodie—can he do it? Joe Kirschvink is determined to find out. For decades, he has shown how critters across the animal kingdom navigate using magnetoreception, or a sense of Earth’s magnetic field. Now, the geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in… Read more »
The 5G topic fits right into transhumanism research. I suspect the 5G topic is being censored not only due to possible health impact on a range of animals but also due to its potential to manipulate humans. From Biophysical Journal, Feb 2000: “The hypothesis that migrating birds utilize the geomagnetic field for orientation had been proposed as early as 1859 (von Middendorff, 1859)… Among the theoretical models for magnetoreception mechanisms that have been proposed, the use of magnetite particles as magnetoreceptors and photoreceptor-based mechanisms involving direct magnetic effects on the visual transduction process have received the most attention… “In contrast, magnetite is not expected to be influenced by radio frequency fields, but only by higher energy (1–10 GHz) microwave fields (Kirschvink, 1996). One problem in designing behavioral experiments is that the lack of a magnetic response due to, e.g., radio frequency AC fields, can mean that the magnetoreceptor mechanism is… Read more »
what a rag that guardian is.
Would you like a joke?
“In these extraordinary times, the Guardian’s editorial independence has never been more important.”
Wait, what! Why are you laughing? That’s not the punchline!
“Because no one sets our agenda, or edits our editor, we can keep delivering quality, trustworthy, fact-checked journalism each and every day. Free from commercial or political bias, we can report fearlessly on world events and challenge those in power.”
:)))))))))))))))))))))))))
I suspect Titania McGrath is secretly the editor of the Guardian.
And I thought the Tory frontbenchers could deliver barefaced lies with aplomb.
David Icke does carry some truth. I know where His sources are from and He puts His own spin on them. He can be a gateway to proper knowledge. The reptillian ‘thing’ started out when people were watching videos and the mpeg compression went ary and some weird artifacts of the images occured. Even before Zecharia Sitchin, The Book of Enoch is one of the first known souces of information on Alien incursion and hybridisation. Although, the ‘Aliens’ are actually not ‘space aliens’ as such…The Old Testament is full of such incursions, starting with Geneses. Don’t look to your church to teach such knowledge, they don’t. In subverting and hiding the incursion story, God’s motivations for much of what happens in the Old Testment are removed and all we are left with is a big question mark. Why do we have an apparant murderous God of the OT and a… Read more »
If Icke is talking a load of bollox, why do the powers-that-be go to so much trouble to silence him? I think he spoiled his case with the lizards but much of what he says is bang on the mark. He points out that if you want the public do so something they would strongly resist, then create a scary scenario and the public will beg for your “solution” themselves. Playing out right in front of us at the moment!
Image the scenario: You are describing 9/11 to someone then you throw in: Did you know that kween Lizzie climbs walls like a gheko and catches flies with her tongue…Dilutes the message somewhat.
Shutting down his youtube channel or even closing down his website is not “so much trouble”. It’s basically just a few clicks on a software managing panel somewhere. Welcome to the world technocratic order.
I was referring to a tour in the 1990s, that was mostly cancelled because people who were desperate to silence him pressurised the hosting theatre groups. We were fortunate to see him in a small independent theatre.
Most of the people who comment on these pages seem to be as spectacularly stupid as your contributors, so I will leave it there and sign off. I have rather better things to do with my time than read this sort of nonsense.
Never noticed you before. Adios.
He is not even worth a “down vote”.
Mind the door doesn’t whack you on the a**e on your way out.
Yet still time to comment 😏
Remember Thursday at 8 PM, you don’t want to lose out on your Gruel
But you obviously don’t have anything better to do than comment on it.
Thank you for gracing us with your presence.
We’re all suitably grateful.
But you apparently have plenty of time to write that nonsense.
Since the “Postcards from the Edge” editorial policy of the Graun really took off – like a bat out of Wuhan, I find their Travel page rather entertaining from a totally existential perspective. I don’t think they quite grasp the gross ineptitude of their so called journalism. They seem to believe that the panicdemic has somehow materialised out of thin air. Now they’re peddling the the slogan “make us part of your new normal” FFS! Clearly being part of the disease has never occurred to the patronising bullshitters who seem to think people don’t see through their pay check prose…
“pay check prose” – excellent! 🙂
as ever. be more sustainable, take a weekend break!
Excellent article. I’m so happy to see an article that is not pointing at some ‘globalist conspiracy’. I hope this site has grown out of presenting that very inadequate description of what is really happening in world of geopolitics today.
All roads lead to Rome, and if we ignore that fact we are missing out on some really interesting geopolitical changes going on in the world today.
See, that feathered creature swimming in the pond, with the big yellow beak and orange feet, occaisionionally it makes quacking noises…
For the life of me, I can’t figure out what it is, I mean it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, but mercy me, it is not a duck…
I know, it’s a yellow submarine…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA
I did actually see a yellow submarine travelling down my Main Street. It was sureal…
It was on the back of a low-loader travelling back to Babcocks after rescuing the Ruskies.
I understand why most of the population, who don’t understand geopolitics, believing in your ‘Jewish global conspiracy’ nonsense, they know no better, but when relatively well educated people push it, then I need to call them out as shills.
Well, that’s a lot right there in that one sentence…”assumed appeal to authority, followed by a strawman, followed by another appeal to authority”.
We all know that is tools right out of the shills tool box, we are all a wee bit long in the tooth.
Call your superviser and get someone on a higher paygrade because you are rubbish.
You should know the history of your own aimless and unproven conspiracy theories, like hitlers own fantasies.
The Vatican cabal you mean?
N0, the ‘International Jewish conspiracy’ which became the ‘globalist conspiracy’ which seems so popular on this site.
FROM ‘THE SUN’ 03 MAY 2020
ICKE’S IDEAS
Why has David Icke been banned from YouTube?
•
Adam Storer
• Les Steed
• 3 May 2020, 12:43
• Updated: 3 May 2020, 12:43
‘’DAVID ICKE is a conspiracy theorist who likes to explore ideas that you would expect to see in a sci-fi flick.
But now these otherwise-entertaining ideas are causing real damage as people take them seriously and they start cropping up in worrying protests that exacerbate the coronavirus crisis and will lead to more deaths’’
Yes, the population must be sheltered from these dangerous ideas. Ban them!
So much for freedom, democracy and free-speech. First they came for Assange, next they come for Icke … who’s next I wonder.
But at least most of the BTL contributions supported Icke.
It is funny we have the population supporting the agents of the deep state, and their freedom to mislead the mob. Icke is shitting in the punch bowl of the truth.
So, let’s consider the irony of your position. We are virtually ALL here to discuss the Globalist lockstep actions largely inspired by various shadowy global organisations including the international banksters.
You are the person who thought the party was for fancy dress and came to the party dressed as a clucking ‘chicken’…
Why do you waste you time on silly fantasies, why not talk about the real geopolitics? it is very easily understood and is real.
“Geopolitics” is as “real” as pro wrestling.
“worrying protests”? That says it all!
Ban Sci-Fi why not? Ban the subversive plots of Ursula Le Guin, surely they could disturb the settled order. China Miéville is teaching our students. Cancel him immediately. Any literature that is not parked a safe distance away, say 40-50 years, could resonate with the young people. Banish and burn!
‘Fahrenheit 451.’ Ray Bradbury.
Yup. Sci-fi is inherently ‘dangerous’ because it allows us to project social issues far enough into the future that many knee-jerk emotional reactions take time to set it (though nowadays, given how easily ‘triggered’ some are, that’s not exactly true). It also gives the author a certain level of plausible deniability when criticizing the current establishment.
Octavia E. Butler, C.L. Moore, Ayn Rand (however you feel about her), Anthony Burgess,
Ralph Ellison (not sci-fi, but still)… basically, if it’s ever been on a banned books list, it should actually be on a required reading list. Ooh, and Leigh Brackett’s ‘The Long Tomorrow’ is looking a bit more prescient despite its atomic themes, given the prohibition on gatherings of people. Also interesting to consider how traditionally closed societies will be treated by the all-consuming technocracy.
Deplatforming is the new book burning.
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I wonder if the MSM/ Lit Review tendency to dismiss sci-fi as “genre” is connected with this. Those gatekeepers in turn being controlled by the intelligence agencies.
As you say, sci-fi pushes dangerous themes into the future or onto another planet, yet it is the field of writing most likely to tackle alternative social structures and topics like anarchism or resistance movements.
Meanwhile U.S. academics wring their hands over the failure of American writers to produce “the great political novel” as if Upton Sinclair, Jack London and John Dos Passos never existed – as if they would not immediately dismiss such a work as “genre fiction”.
Deplatforming is cowardice. You confront Evil, not run away from it.
Whatever happened to the idea of “I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It”?
Well, like a lot of famous phrases, it may not have come from whom we thought it came from, but nevertheless, it remains a robust and pithy expression of the kind of thing that I used to think newspapers like The Grauniad stood for.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/
Hmmm, so those 5G tower fires turned out to be very helpful coincidences.
Here was I thinking it had been done by Murican spooks to get at Huwawei, but more likely it was our own to help push ahead with the censorship of the interwebs and the purging of alternative views.
They always go after the most outrageous first, natch, those being much easier to pass off to the public as the necessary gagging of dangerous loons…
The Reichstag fire was another of those very helpful coincidences.
So we have an infectiologist here who is regularly in the news about Covid19 telling about the dangers. He took a week vacation last week, because that is what you do when you are in the middle of a pandemic. We also have statistician here who is expert in ‘risk modeling’ and defines who should get treatment or not, who should be discharged or not, etc. She is self-isolating now for almost 2 months, because that is what you do for a disease that we haven’t seen in my hospital for more than 2 weeks. And we have an expert here, an all round character who is close to being omnipotent (or so he thinks), who keeps telling in the media that we really need to continue the lockdown although all the data in the world tell that Spring has ended Covid19. I guess it is normal routine for experts… Read more »
They’re cashing in ALL the credibility chips for this one. Celebs, “experts”, our healthcare workers (who otherwise do an under appreciated job other times), surprisingly “our” traditional adversaries (Russia, Iran, Venezuela who are behaving like this is what it’s made out to be), and the myriad of well intentioned marionettes carrying water for a system actively putting them through the meatgrinder.
Incredible. You run face first into a brick wall and don’t even notice.
Hint: why on Earth would Russia et al “behave like this” i.e. cooperate, with their mortal enemies in the West? What would they possibly gain by playing along?
Honestly. People like you give conspiracy theorists a bad name.
The facts and stats clearly suggest that there are other reasons than mere common sense, or the obvious. That’s what this site has been tasked by mere common sense in displaying for weeks now, and some of those very countries, like Russia have statistically meaningless, negligible mortality from this. If you have another reason that’s been kept from the global public, please share it. But not the one that declares this specific Magic Virus is cause to suspend most human social activity, business, and everything else, crash the economy, ruin the business of hundreds of millions of people, render them hungry and/or homeless, as mandatory quarantine. Surely, not that one? _________ There is precedent. I had countless people “on my case” twenty years ago, “you and your loud mouth”, as I went my rounds telling people that the California “Rolling Blackouts” that torrid summer were a hoax. Clearly, many who… Read more »
Thanks for that, I literally laughed out loud. Best joke I have heard all day.
It is interesting that those in favour of the “lockdown” measures will not address the basic policy issue: how many lives (quality life years) will the measures save against how many lives (quality life years) will the measures cost? If the “lockdown” measures were justified surely they would be able to demonstrate it on this most basic metric?
The lock down policy is that which Johnson and his advisers assess will be the best for the Tory party, and more specifically, his leadership and his friends/wealthy supporters.
Lives don’t matter. If he felt it would benefit himself, Johnson would send kids off to be killed in the tens of thousands in an oil war, fighting for money for the rich and supporting USA imperialism. Lives don’t matter to Johnson, same as they didn’t for Blair or any of the others.
aspnaz, I suspect your attribution of motive is overly cynical. The government’s response precisely mirrors the computer simulation of a pandemic that Professor Ferguson et al modelled for the government back in 2016: Exercise Cygnus. The legislation that became the Coronavirus Act 2020 was drafted as a direct result of the exercise, as were the shutting down of health care for everything but the virus and the adoption of the slogan “protect the NHS”. However, we are not allowed access to this information as it might jeopardise “national security” and frighten us. https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/exercise-cygnus-uk-government-exercise-justifies-covid-19-lockdown
The government adopts an experimental policy that replaces the economy with lock down on the basis of an experimental, unproven computer model from a person who’s models have been shown to be overcooked in the past and have been criticized for such by his peers. No trials, no partial introduction, basically no standard procedure that any sane person would use to determine whether the policy worked, given the huge cost in terms of destroyed economy and jobs. Instead we get all or nothing, just replace the economy. Within a week or so the model is massively adjusted for being so wildly inaccurate, adjusted to be a model that could never justify a full lock down but the lock down remains.
If you are not cynical then you need to be.
Surely if the truth of the situation was made clear to the public it would be the end of all sitting MP’s and their parties. We should be calling for their immediate arrest and investigation of their motives – considering the damage that has been caused.
I don’t think our MPs or political parties are even relevant anymore – mere puppets. Corruption is deep and wide – more so then any of us would like to admit.
Even the wealthy supporters of the Tory party are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things – those pulling the strings are not supporters of the Tory party at all they would be just as happy to pull the strings of the Labour party and risk its destruction if that is what the public wanted.
I’ve probably said it before but I got very disillusioned with the Guardians ‘cut and paste it’ attitude to journalism. Also not allowing readers comment or if it goes against what they want ending it early.
Excellent.
Anyway, enough of Russophobia and fake news.
I have a “world exclusive” and can now reveal the source of the infection to be a lake in Scotland.
Apparently some Scottish nationalists had been breeding tartan bats in the wake of Brexit and exporting them to China.
One of them got loose and took a chunk out of Nessie’s cousin which had been lurking in the lake, getting itsel infected. It was missed and exported along with the uncontaminated bats in a batch destined for Wuhan. The rest you all know.
Follow this link for futher details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Doon
As private Fraser would say “we’re doomed!”
Thank you John. That is at least as plausible as any of the official stories.
SNP are going full steam on proposal to initiate ‘tracing’ of suspected infectious persons. Full on snitches’ charter being planted in the minds of the hordes on BBC Scotland now.
Talking to my ‘Guardianised’ neighbour yesterday ( I avoid it as best I can but saddled with a listening ear and a sympathetic nature it’s not easy) across the garden fence I was gob smacked how easily she continues to exhibit her total absorption of everything that rag writes. I’ve mentioned her before—she’s the seventy year old retired teacher who gets all her news and current affairs from the Guardian and the BBC. Six weeks ago she was convinced we were all going to die, although after Neil Ferguson revised his estimates from half a million to 20,000 in the space of one day perhaps she didn’t quite dust off the funeral plan. Yesterday it was the turn of the Malham Cove visitors to come within her sites. “It’s disgraceful–I’d lock them all up! They even abused a police woman who told them to go home! It makes things far… Read more »
Yes, it has always been my view, a view based upon personal experience, that the man on the street is a good deal more clued in that the semi-educated petit-bourgeois. I think Mark Twain put his finger on it thus. The man in the street is uninformed, the middle-class educated person is misinformed. If I was given a choice of opinions it would be those of the man in the street.
Which remains a good argument for the traditional jury system.
To paraphrase Jimmy Reid:- the working classes might not be able to properly rationalise it not articulate it; but they feel it. The middle classes surrender their sense of touch once the pull up the ladder behind them.
The huge elephant in the room for the Guardian is how its contribution to the demonisation of Corbyn has resulted in such an utterly incompetent government, that has been destroying the NHS for years, paving the way for the gig economy and incapable of properly preparing for a pandemic that has long been forecast.
Yes! Also( alleged) anti semitism has gone away and we are now on LGBT rights (and wrongs) These are of course the top concern of working people concerned with,jobs, secure housing.
”destroying the NHS”
That is unkind, they are redirecting it’s resources, into Corporate tax cuts.
Well they are certainly redirecting resources into the pockets of spivs like Branson, but as he doesn’t pay any tax at all, he doesnt care about tax cuts, so you’re only half right.
They are improving it. Privatising the lucrative bits, and letting the rest wither on the vine. You know it makes sense.
David Icke does carry some truth. I know where is sources are from and He puts His own spin on them. But, He can be a gateway to proper knowledge. The reptillian ‘thing’ started out when people were watching videos and the mpeg compression went wrong and some weird corruption of the images occured. Even before Zecharia Sitchin, The Book of Enoch is one of the first known souces of information on Alien incursion and hybridisation. Although, the ‘Aliens’ are actually not ‘space aliens’ as such…The Old Testament is full of such incursions, starting with Geneses. Don’t look to your church to teach such knowledge, they don’t. In subverting and hiding the incursion story, God’s motivations for much of happens in the Old Testment are removed and all we are left with is a big question mark. Why do we have an apparant murderous God of the OT and a… Read more »
Both Alex Jones and Icke are a ”gateway to proper knowledge”. knowledge about our corrupt society, but they use the credibility gained by releasing insider information, to lead the mob astray, by NOT pointing at the seat of real power in the west, the USA.
For them anything, even lizards are preferable to blaming the most obvious culprit for all these operations and crimes.
Their aim is too keep the people from realising that far from being a mysterious all powerful lizard, or some international Jewish conspiracy, creating their poverty, it is their own politicians, generals and CEO’s who they can change, if they got their act together.
The assumption that the limited hangout must make is how much info to realise as bait…
So, there is always something to be gleaned.
You do not mind if I take Scripture as my source rather than your own constant protestations.
Your provenance is the weakest one of all.
Thank you. Nice to see some common sense in the comments for once.
“Their aim is to keep the people from realising that …it is their own politicians, generals and CEOs who they can change, if they got their act together“ Have you actually listened to any of what Icke has said about ‘the pandemic’ situation? I suspect not, or if you did you are intentionally misrepresenting his contentions. I listened to Icke’s two hour interview on LondonReal about three weeks ago and he made precisely this (as highlighted above) point throughout. Unfortunately Icke has been permanently tarnished in many minds simply as a believer in ‘reptilian beings’ who are trying to take over the world. As a result his sensible and extremely well researched contentions about the hegemonic activities of ‘the elites’ (pharma, bankers, politicians) tend to be automatically discredited by default. He said that the only answer to the conundrum is for more and more people to see what is being… Read more »
I understand why most of the population, who don’t understand geopolitics, believe in your ‘international Jewish conspiracy’ which has become the ‘globalist conspiracy’ nonsense, they know no better, but when you repeat that nonsense surely you must see it is BS. With respect, it is you who needs to listen harder to what Icke is NOT saying. I have listened to both Icke and Alex Jones for years and I think I have the measure of their games. I repeat he is using insider information and real information to gain credibility as he leads his listeners away from the real centres of power. We all know where they are because we are grown ups and we know US hegemony is the only game in town. PS the US has failed in the it’s attempt to be a 5G producer so it is no surprise to me that it’s CIA operative… Read more »
Jay Dyer…?
On May 1st The Guardian (and other mainstream outlets) published an article entitled ‘UK government faces legal challenge to lockdown from businessman’ stating that ‘The government is facing a challenge to the legality of the coronavirus lockdown by a wealthy businessman (Simon Dolan) who fears it will kill more people than it saves’. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/may/01/uk-government-faces-legal-challenge-coronavirus-lockdown-businessman-simon-dolan He is also seeking the release of the minutes from this years Sage meetings. “Failure to do so [release the minutes] will result in an application for disclosure if proceedings have to be issued,” says the “letter before action” that has been sent to Matt Hancock”. It also states that ‘His lawyer, Michael Gardner, said the government had been given until Thursday to reply to the letter. If it does not come back with a satisfactory answer, he will apply for an urgent court hearing in the same way Miller did when she challenged the prorogation… Read more »
It is mentioned on the “Lockdown Sceptics” site.