New “Guide” Teaches UK MPs to Spot “Conspiracy Theories”
Kit Knightly
The British government has issued a new guidebook to all sitting MPs to help them spot “conspiracy theories”.
Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt MP, who commissioned the guide, has warned that:
The proliferation of conspiracy theories across the UK is deeply disturbing. They are deliberate campaigns to spread disinformation and fear […] If they go unchallenged we risk the public being conned and their wellbeing potentially damaged. These campaigns are also a threat to the health of our democracy. It is essential that we give the public and their representatives the tools they need to combat this phenomenon.”
And claimed the aim of the new guide was to:
protect the public from the damaging effects of misinformation and safeguard the integrity of our democratic process,”
Which sounds just lovely, doesn’t it?
Oh, and just in case any of you are still caught up in the party politics illusion, the guide has full cross-party support, the Shadow Leader of the House called it “a must-read”.
The report was co-written by “experts” representing several non-governmental organisations, and fact-checkers including:
- FullFact – funded by (among others) Google, Facebook and the Open Society Foundation.
- The Institute for Strategic Dialogue – funded by (among others) the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, Facebook, over a dozen national governments and the UN.
- Global Network on Extremism and Technology – The academic research arm of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a thinktank “designed to prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms”…and which is funded by (among others) Facebook, Amazon, Youtube and Microsoft.
In short, it’s all a rather incestuous funding pool of the same handful of tech giants and billionaires paying “experts” to tell them what they want to hear.
But we probably shouldn’t judge until we’ve read the “guide” itself, which is tricky because it doesn’t seem to be publicly available (seriously I looked everywhere, if you’re aware of a copy online post it in the comments and we’ll add it the link here).
Fortunately, our old friends at the Guardian have given us a little taste, here’s three things they’re warning about.
The Great Reset, which the Graun describes as…
…a vague set of proposals from the World Economic Forum to encourage governments to move to adopt more equitable policies, the concept has been hijacked by conspiracy theorists claiming it is a bid by a small group to exert control.
…which is wonderful, because it’s essentially admitting it’s true and then pretending it’s not.
The Great Reset is, indeed, a WEF initiative. It was launched in June 2020 with the backing of world leaders and captains of industry, it aims to totally and completely rebuild the way our society works, including how we travel, what we eat and where we live.
You can read about it in Klaus Schwab’s own words here, or see their handy diagram:
How is that NOT “exerting control”? How does one go about transforming the farming, travel, taxation and employment policies of every nation on Earth without “exerting control”?
Eating Insects is another “conspiracy theory”, apparently. With the Guardian warning that:
[conspiracy theories] have included claims – fuelled by attempts to reduce meat consumption – that the WEF wants to make people eat insects.
The only problem being that the WEF really does want people to eat insects:
Like, a lot:
You know what? The Guardian wants people to eat insects too. So does the BBC. And Time. The list is endless.
This is – to use an overused word – gaslighting of the highest degree.
They are at once saying “hey, we all need to eat insects to save the world”, and then claiming anyone who repeats it back at them is a conspiracy theorist.
To encompass how mad this is you have to picture it being done on an interpersonal level.
Imagine a double-glazing salesman comes to your door, wearing a double-glazing company logo and holding a double-glazing sales catalogue and says “I think you should buy some double-glazing”.
To which you reply, “No thanks I don’t need any double glazing.”
At this point the man screams “Double glazing? Who said anything about double glazing!? You lunatic!” storms off down the path, gets in his double-glazing van and drives away.
It’s just that insane.
Climate Lockdowns are the third “conspiracy theory” the Guardian warns us about, claiming:
The ISD identified “climate lockdown” as the catchphrase for the conspiracy that the climate crisis will be used as a pretext for depriving citizens of liberty.
But climate lockdowns are not a conspiracy theory either, they were first posited in a report in October 2020 published by Project Syndicate and the World Council for Sustainable Development. The proposed lockdown included banning private vehicles, the consumption of red meat and “extreme energy-saving measures”.
Since then we have been inundated with peer-review studies, claiming lockdown is good for the environment.
The Guardian itself headlined, in March 2021:
Global lockdown every two years needed to meet Paris CO2 goals – study
It was such an unpopular story that they sneakily changed the headline.
It’s fairly clear that “climate lockdowns” are far from a conspiracy theory, that they were planned and then abandoned (or delayed) due to public anger at the first lockdown.
*
So, it looks like at least three of these “conspiracy theories” MPs are being “warned against” are actually…true. At least partially.
Oh well.
Still, it’s reassuring to know that unnamed experts from billionaire-funded NGOs are writing “guides” teaching our elected officials about the dangers of wrongthink.
What a great way to “safeguard the integrity of our democratic process”.
Hat tip to Edwige, who posted this story in the comments yesterday.
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Quite whether this alleged guide exists is one thing but Penny Maudant is an idiot for sure and a nasty piece of work.
‘runty pan demon’ is one anagram of her name. That is one way of putting it.
I mention her here.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/05/30/time-times-and-half-a-time-the-times-monday-12th-may-2023/
https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Conspiracy-Theory-Guide.pdf
Is this the guide that Kit was looking for ?
It kind of has an over-riding theme to it, wouldn’t you say? One which reminds me of David Aaronvitch’s book, ‘Voodoo Histories‘ from back in the day.
I don’t read much below the line here which seeks to actually discuss the document in question (linked in previous comment). It would be accurate to say that it focuses primarily on antisemitism as much as, or more than ‘conspiracy theories’ in general, although it could be argued that, like much before (Aaronovitch’s book for example), it tries to make the case that antisemitism is a common theme to conspiracy theorising. (eg Table 1 in the guide has a diagram linking all the theories it puts forward as ‘case studies’, with ‘Antisemitism’ at the centre singularly highlighted in orange.) Neither The Guardian article nor Kit’s summary of it, really portray the guide accurately in that regard.
The authorship and sponsorship of the guide are also, it is fair to say slanted toward those who might have a particular interest in antisemitism. As well as the three sponsors mentioned by Kit, there is the CST which specialises in work on antisemitism, and the author is a Jewish Israeli journalist Arieh Kovler. The guide is published by the Antisemitism Policy Trust.
Good call, and good reference, though perhaps lost on the ignoramuses
OMG, it’s all on steroids now. We are a part of a group or RF/EMF sensitive people in Eugene OR, that has been, for over 7 years, lobbying to not accept SMART METERS replacing our existing perfectly better analog meters. Many in this group are made seriously ill from wi-fi RF broadcast by smart meters. EWEB, a “public utility”, has threatened some with disconnection to electricity, and just yesterday has turned off the power of two of our friends. Other utilities in the area are not allowed to service EWEB customers and allow choice for analog meters. The City of Eugene, our state representatives, the Legislature, the Mayor and City Council don’t care that citizens are being made electrically homeless and have done nothing. A local TV station, KEZI, has published news reports that edits out our health concerns and ADA rights to protect ourselves from harm, that California and other states and localities have mandated utilities offer customer choice, by law.
Why is EWEB and the entire state being silently run by CORPORATE POLICY replacing law? That’s the $64,000 question. The totalitarian madness that has occupied the minds of our ruling elite everywhere, is a threat to Humanity.
The irony of “conspiracy theorists”, aka speculators, is that speculation is THE predominant operation in this financialized economy, which is causing actual damage. There is a reason that speculators were once hanged for criminal offenses.
Looks like another vaccination push:
https://dumptheguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/09/whooping-cough-five-babies-england-die
Suzanne Humphries’ book is damning about all vaccines – but especially about this one.
Usual numerology included – a big fat Crowleyian 93 gets pride of place. They’ve another up about a girl being cured of deafness by gene therapy – the gene involved happens to have OTO in it (twice).
let’s give them a pat on the back for this guide and encourage them to produce more … we are eager to see the guide to spot warmongers, human rights abusers and war criminals* in government. we are waiting for the guide to spot psychopaths and dinosaur white supremacists in government and deal with them as an enlightened democratic nation would do.
* the guide for MPs to spot a war criminal in government, and opposition, would be giving them a simple mirror, wouldn’t it?
The guide is actually quite a good read. If you’ve ever wondered what some of the terms bandied around actual mean or where they originate, then it’s a help.
Seems to have been written in late 2023 (there’s a comment to that effect on page 7). No mention of conspiracies surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict, for example.
However, the guide has a tendency to suggest that antisemitism is at the core of most conspiracy theories. That terms such as ‘elites’, ‘globalists’ ultimately all refer back to the “people of the book”; Which I don’t believe is true. Such terms are used more broadly.
And whilst it’s clearly the case that antisemitism is rife in alt-circles (especially since Israel’s Special Operation for the de-Hamas-ification and demilitarization of Gaza), antisemitism is certainly not the only conspiracy theory around. Nor even the predominant one.
Conspiracy Theories. A Guide for Members of Parliament and Candidates
https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Conspiracy-Theory-Guide.pdf
Here’s the thing, the more breathless screeching one hears about “raging anti semitism” the more sick of hearing it some of us are. The cult of victimhood grows really tiresome. But then that’s the point of it, isn’t it? Divide and conquer always works.
You’re probably right. Everyone seems goaded these days by external forces into a view they might not ordinarily hold
“the de-Hamas-ification and demilitarization of Gaza”
Impressive!
How about
A fair point. Which others have posed, perhaps less (verbally) creatively. In other words, why is there war anyway?
My take is that wars determine the future. Which is why we don’t worship lumps of stone anymore as ‘gods’. We have posterity to thank for that.
There may be better answers
The latest conspiracy theory is that there’s something called international law.
Smart Meters: Paraphrasing a county council Local Resiliance Forum Meeting..
Electricity outage: Smart meters will be used to balance load in the event of grid shortages.
Question: Is there any provision for emergency supply to those community members that need electricity to run emergency medical equipment, breathing equipment, monitoring equipment etc. Is there provision for electricity supply for the communication system radio repeater stations the emercency services would be using in the event of communication system failure due to electricity supply failure?
Answer: That’s unhelpful, Shut up or we’ll cut your funding ^.^
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/08/ftse-100-markets-latest-news-currency-interest-rates-cuts/ (odd url considering it’s a report about pushing for mandatory smart meters)
World Economic Forum calls to reduce private vehicles by eliminating ‘ownership’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/world-economic-forum-calls-reduce-private-vehicles-by-eliminating-ownership
Transport Minister Threatens Germans With “Indefinite Weekend Driving Ban” To Meet Mandated Emissions Targets
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/transport-minister-threatens-germans-indefinite-weekend-driving-ban-meet-mandated
Just some more conspiracy theories being pushed by our betters, move along. Get back in your kill box peon.
Special provisions during a supply emergency will mean that the VIPs are exempted. Those mansions and pools require a lot of power and water.
Great article!
I am a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy theorist. I am proud of it.
https://amg-news.com/yes-the-cia-killed-president-john-f-kennedy-your-government-is-a-lie-jfk-was-killed-by-the-cia-with-help-from-the-pentagon-and-state-department/
The CIA invented the phrase “conspiracy theorist”.
When the Society of Friends were dubbed Quakers as a term to undermine their successes they took the label on board and even used it themselves. It totally disarmed those who wanted to discredit them.
Yes, I am proud to be a conspiracy theorist, from the fake moon landings through to Dr David Kelly, 911, all the fake epidemics and pandemics to the efficacy of so-called Covid-19 vaccines.
By the way can any of the moderators or editors let me know please whether they received my article on the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko? Thanks.
One of the BBCs ‘top 100 women’?
That says it all.
Out and proud!
Is there anything to know about Penny Mordaunt? From her Wikipedia….
“The daughter of a former paratrooper… Through her mother she is a relative of Philip Snowden, the first LabourChancellor of the Exchequer. The actress Dame Angela Lansbury was her grandmother’s cousin, thus she is distantly related to former Labour Party leader George Lansbury… To support her time at university Mordaunt worked in a Johnson & Johnson factory, and became a magician’s assistant to Will Ayling, a past president of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle and of the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians…. Mordaunt has attributed her interest in politics to her experiences whilst working in hospitals and orphanages of Romania in the aftermath of the 1989 revolution…. Mordaunt was commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve, serving from 2010 until 2019… “. There’s more – but that’s plenty to be going on with. It would be nice, just once in a while, to find someone in the news who didn’t connect into the military and/or an elite bloodline.
As for the alleged conspiracies, say they’re a good thing and they’re real; say they’re a bad thing and they don’t exist. It’s a vanishing act the “International Brotherhood of Magicians” would be proud of!
BTW I noticed the Fraud removed this story from their main webpage qute rapidly – to replace it with more global climate warming change fear porn which was hysterical even by their standards. It boiled down to yet another “scientists who believe in climate change believe in climate change” – and the solution was of course more centralised power (they avoid the phrase “global government” because they know how toxic that is but it’s clearly what they meant). Yesterday just happened to be almost the first decent day’s weather in the UK for six months.
Yeah right, we actually went to our favourite cliff overlooking Irish Sea walk today. No good days here since last October.
Here’s a group in Australia taking action against the WHO:
https://alignedcouncilofaustralia.com.au/
Taking action AGAINST … (enter your favorite enemy) is a completely useless effort, waste of energy par excellence.
1) Taking action against the WHO will accomplish absolute shit, it’s bound to fail.
2) Taking action against implicitly acknowledges their authority.
3) Taking action against is a negative act that produces nothing constructive, nothing positive; nothing is created.
4) As per 3), taking action against wastes energy that would be better used to take action IN FAVOR OF.
5) Taking action against is bullshit.
Taking actions against is an act by a bunch of fucking losers who don’t have the brains to come up with something better than those their acting against.
When was the last fucking time some action against something actually had some impact? Like never?
Rejecting a bullshit narrative (thereby encouraging others to do likewise) is taking action against something.
But if you rather we just lie down and say, “Yeah whatever!” or perhaps attempt our own purely personal “positive” action in our toilets …. Good luck with that.
The pushback in Austria and Germany stopped the compulsory vax.
Stop beong contrary for the sake of it.
It’s not big and it’s not clever.
Its the same bozo under a new name, insisting on its daily expletives. In these times, every hasbara does what it can. I made the mistake of down-voting it instead of ignoring.
They took action to reclassify cannabis as a schedule 3 drug, this was like yesterday and should have some impact especially against those opposed to it.
What do you suggest?
The MSM enabled the dumbing down of the masses. It took about 150 years.
Then along came the most fortuitous military invention of all time: the WWW, and hey presto. It threw a spanner in their works.
It’s gonna a while to undumb the masses, but every chink in their armoury of deception is a step forward.
Otherwise, it’s pitchforks and sticks at the barricades. Or, in the US, 300 million guns.
There is an existential dimension here you may be overlooking. Namely, something that exists carries greater weight than something that does not exist.
Taking action, e.g., against war is actually a far more positive enterprise than taking action for peace. This is because war is humanity’s natural condition, whereas peace is practically non-existent.
Ukraine is the poster child for the existential dimension. Since at least February 2022 Ukraine has been in a constant state of war; no peace whatsoever exists within that country. Peace, therefore, can only come into existence when war ends. So it would seem to be of greater merit to be against the war than to be for peace.
Off topic, but I did try to reply to you earlier on but it would not post. A red warning came up and said I could not reply to an unauthorised comment, even though it already had two ‘downticks’. Must have been a good one!
This comment is entirely factual. BTW: the topic we were discussing was entirely relevant and interesting. Whatever glitch stopped exchanging views about the language was unfortunate. Independent of this comment, the commenter is fluent in three languages. Most people are barely competent in one!
The number of people even aware of the who’s plans is tiny. Much like the 2018 compact for migration which is enabling the flooding of Europe with an alien culture as per the GR. We really are up against a huge problem.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/who-are-you-the-world-health-organization/
Current spin: Inhouse and municipal police in US universities (a) attack protesters against genocide in Palestine (b) do nothing as foreign thugs attack students.
Not very different from what happened on “9/11”. The chosenites arrested got released from detention, freed of charges and flown out in special planes. Patsies from central and west Asia got kidnapped and sent to secret prisons including Guantanamo Bay as “evil-doers”.
This comment will be repeated if censored again.
Guess nobody got it yet?
Bit like the new Syd Barrett film, Have you got it yet.
Not seen that yet.
Sherlock Holmes saw The Hidden Hand of Moriarty
in all of Londons crimes,
Conspiracy Theorisers see The Hidden Hand of
Soros in Every Trouble and behind Student Protests…
German government ministers see sinister “Cunning
Enemies of Democracy” behind dis- and mis- information.
The Germans dont do ‘Naming Names’, they like
to keep their options open…
The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. Give ’em an inch and tthey’ll take a mile.
So call me paranoid.
“Reds under our beds!”
“The Commies are coming!”
“They’re taking over South America!”
“Asia and Australia are gonna fall!”
“”They’ve got WMDs!”
“The terrorists are everywhere!”
“The Taliban will control the opium fields!”
“Viruses are coming!”
“The virus will kill billions!”
“Conspiracists must be eradicated”
“Our democracy is threatened!”
“The sky is falling!”
Etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
Excuse me while I puke.
Western governments should pressure Israel to stop its
genocide of Palestinians because Israel’s genocide is
radicalising Youth and there are not enough government
paid Youth De-Radicalisers to de-radicalise the radicalised
youth…
western governments have deep hatred for these youth in question. secret police is radicalising these youth. they call it something like ‘proactive counterterrorism’.
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/australian-federal-police-questioned-over-13yearold-boys-radicalisation/news-story/1f1bf21cba9f121a9d2d0d50ca9c9c81
Most societies, countries are built, in one aspect, on the foundation of the family unit. Ie a Father, Mother and children. Indeed in nature one can observe a very similar structure a male, female and young offspring otherwise the species becomes extinct.
Furthermore, the parents of the offspring will fight tooth and nail to defend their offspring. Yet, an Orwellian ideology/ mindset/ brainwashing has become ingrained in the mindset of a small very powerful part of the West . Namely, paedophilic practices, perversion and other twisted practices which are accepted by this powerful, but minuscule subset, as the norm.
Not that many decades ago persons/ groups who advocated these twisted practices and working with children would have have been arrested/ tried/ convicted and banished from ever being in contact with children. Yet, these deviants have been allowed not only to instil this ideology into the public domain but also to be anointed by the establishment.
Which begs the question, who in the West, is protecting our children and our children’s children ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFzXn1La9ks
Nobody. Everybody are dancing around the gold calf. Take the money and run: https://youtu.be/-WCFUGCOLLU
No, no, try this one:
In 1984 I took my best-beloved of the time to see the Steve Miller Band at the Hammersmith Odeon as then was. Steve was drastically overweight, like Lowell (George) Jerry (Garcia) and too many others so we worried about him, BUT
almost immediately the entire audience, 4000 people were up and dancing including the bouncers and security staff.
This one sort of captures the atmosphere of that gig.
Steve Miller Band Live From Chicago Take The Money And Run (youtube.com)
Cheers ‘flying A’
“ Nobody…” Not true, there are many many groups fighting this despicable, deviant, demonic ideology.
https://scottishfamily.org/
Even with the recent name change of Boy Scouts of America to Scouting America, it leads one to believe they are scouting children for ….?
The City of London plus their satellite entities in Wall Street and elsewhere, who are running the show because he pays the piper calls the tune, no very well the ancient maxim from Aristotle of training the child and you have the man or in their case a slave.
“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”
― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle
That’s a Jesuit maxim.
City of London = Londinium 43AD. Roman London. Same exact area.
City of London and the Crown Temple Inns of Court which oversee all law worldwide, are satellites of Rome – the Holy See, Vatican. As are Moscow, Geneva, Luxembourg, Monaco, Singapore, UN (all faux nation states including the BRICS) IMF, DC, Brussels, CERN, World Bank, BIS, CFR, OPEC, Trilateral, WEF, Bilderberg, Tavistock, DTCC, Cede & Co etc.
All roads lead to Rome.
Pitty Penny Mordaunt only just now brought out the guide to fellow pollies to “protect the public from the damaging effects of misinformation.”
It would have served human kind more had not the same people spouted the “safe and effective” message everywhere a couple of years ago.
Now look what they’ve done with this dangerous mis and disinformation: The UK is still suffering from the excess deaths and waves of disabling illnesses as a result of having received these toxic injections.
I get the feeling that Ms Mordaunt has modelled herself on Margaret Thatcher.
If that’s the case, the South of Spain is lookin good. Start packing Folks.
I already did that for eleven years. Spain has its wee problems tambien.
The Fascists never really went away, and they can be pretty blunt when met head on. They even had Fascist and Socialist separate bars and cafe’s.
And then there are the WEF-linked royals…
I hear Mexico is a better option. Over there, if a politician does badly for the people, they have him killed with compliments of the cartels.
Which would make the cartels Mexico’s true government.
I thought the new U.K banking laws and the new disabled welfare pension laws which will effect you middle lot would of made ‘some’ alt media news.
A Complete news blackout on the alt media front…
My links on it have gone into pending.
The new rules mean anyone in receipt of Social Security benefits, including the state pension, can have their bank accounts surveilled.
It was discussed on The Sonia Poulton Show with Lord Prem Sikka on TNT Radio dated 29/4/24. Skip to approx 18 mins 50 secs to listen to the interview.
https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/lord-prem-sikka-nigel-pauley-danny-bamping-on-the-sonia-poulton-show-29-april-2024/
Surveilled = adding AI algorithms for social credit to those accounts, switching them over to tokens-coupons first, deciding who will have their income source eliminated or get their “booster” shot.
The opposite of the “UBI” plans authorities and the WEF previously touted. Their bait and switch is obvious already. The faux authorities don’t want to pay out pensions (funded by taxes and the birth certificate bonds and Cestui Que Vie trusts) to the elderly or disabled.
Basically, only those who can generate profits for the parasites at margins high enough versus their consumption, won’t be targeted for elimination. That’s why they were so focused on the over 50’s during the faux pandemic. A booster shot, to continue to receive “benefits”.
Yes, the state pension will be a thing of the past. The minimum age to receive it keeps being pushed back a year or two at a time. On top of that the pension pot is rapidly becoming empty since it would seem that contributions to National Insurance by employers and individual taxpayers have not been ring-fenced by government.
In addition, private pension managers are not in good shape either, as the £65 billion bailout by The Bank of England in late 2022 of several fund managers demonstrated. Those hoping for a happy retirement through their private pension schemes may well be in for a shock in coming years.
Yes. Those pension funds going broke all the time from bad investments… Not a coincidence. Another wealth transfer mechanism.
The fascinating thing about one savant text after another and one comment after another is that none of them even attempt to deal with the subject matter, the issue at play.
The predicament faced by humankind stemming from an unsustainable socioeconomic model that is on a crash course with itself. The physical reality of the world, finite resources, damaged environment. Cultural decadence, intellectual degeneracy.
All you hear is how the evil THEY after the benevolent US, the implicit message being preservation of the utterly fucked up status quo.
The status quo is a continuation of the same. You like to twist things to convey an inverted image.
Did you change your name?
Yes. He was Sociolog, Sociopath, Klaus Schwab and now Technolog.
Banned for offensive rants.
Soon to be homolog, analog, monolog, backlog, waterlog, bs-log, sawlog, Magog, bore-us-blog, toilet-clog, bump-on-a-log.
None of those IDs are banned btw. That entity, if it is one entity, just decides not to use them anymore, after a while. Usually about the same time admin catches on to their mischievous ways hehe
Lol. Oh, interesting. Like if a comment goes to pend, decides it’s time for a new persona so he doesn’t have to wait between psychotic rants. Thanks
Catalog, travelog, oh-my-god…… I’ll stop.
It’s addictive. 😀
The clowns circling the wagons!
They’ve been circled since the 1970’s, in a blatant way, anyway.
I wrote this in early 2020. I think it’s more or less my first ‘Covid’ song.
It begins ‘The government are circling the wagons,
in the good old-fashioned way,
but if you can’t spot the patterns,
I just don’t know what to say.’
U.K.
The above is Its not as bad as the disabled, sick and the poor and pensioners being issued coupons instead of money in the biggest welfare reform shake up since the 2008 banking bailout known as the welfare reform act of 2012 where they made government funded videos called ”benefit streets”demonizing the poor before they brought in a decade of austerity.
this link is horrifying in what they going to do.
Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper
this link …The government is considering making it harder to claim disability benefits and even replacing cash payments with vouchers or one-off grants, as part of its latest “brutal, ideological attack” on disabled people’s support.
at the exact same time New Banking law will effect the disabled, sick and the poor and pensioners and there colleagues friends or family who send money into there bank account will also have there bank accounts looked at.
this link….DWP could violate human rights with plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said it is ‘committed’ to its plan for bank account surveillance in spite of legal advice which has warned that it may breach privacy law
So The Grauniad dismissed The Great Reset (TGR) as a vague set of proposals.
In fact, so vague, that the future (at the time) King of England gave a special speech at the opening of TGR in 2020. Then, in 2021 the whole theme of Davos was TGR.
What do the hacks at The Graun have to say about UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030? Since, I don’t ever read that rag, I wouldn’t know but I can imagine, probably nothing, since its goals are set in concrete. Nearly every country in the world has signed up for it and it is occuring here and now on a global scale.
I know some Graun -fans.
They have a Kafka-esque relationship with reality. The world is happening but for them it happens with a different rhythm.
Their dinner will be magically sourced from no-guilt Waitrose because they drive their EV there but ALWAYS use their re-usable hessian shopping bags.
In fact, Waitrose self check-outs now have a button “Own bag -hessian” which gives you an ambrosia point.
Ambrosia points are the latest, most brilliant invention of the modern age.
They can be exchanged for Waitrose’s full range of induction compatible cookware in the next life
The Graunistas must all have their ‘myWaitrose’ cards. A free Cafe Nero ground coffee with every purchase in store, so long as they remember to bring their own REUSABLE cup. Because everyone walks around with a ceramic mug or bone china tea set in hand.
No being cheeky and sneaking in with an empty paper McDonald’s cup…tut, tut, no free coffee. Besides, only chavs would do that. Strangely enough, Waitrose stopped the free coffee for a while blaming “chavs” for abusing the system.
Chavs in Waitrose? The chattering classses would be apoplectic.
I knew there was something suspicious about those air miles points scams when the supermarkets brought them in several decades ago. They’ve been logging every item people buy and eat and then using that as insider info for market rigging and profit taking. That’s what was elucidated in Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars: Gathering data on what populations consume more or less of after each artificial shock or chaos psyop.
So well-off Western offspring, aka the woke.
There are few women more daunting than Penny. I can see her brushing aside Keir Starmer as if he didn’t exist after the coming Labour Government.
I thought that the only conspiracy theories that were to be believed were officially sanctioned ones. Conspiracy theories are, after all, just a reflection of a mnidset so provided its an approved mindset then you’re all good.
For those who like to dig a bit deeper there’s an old (~2000) book worth reading called “Them” by Jon Ronson. He wrote this with the rather tongue in cheek notion that if the world is being controlled by ‘men in smoke filled rooms’ then it should be possible to find them. Its worth reading because some of the conspirators he talked to eventually were blown up (unfortunate term, that) into full size villains but more importantly he was surprised by eventually finding exactly what he was looking for. It obviously doesn’t cover the more way out theories — so far no lizard people — but it gives you some perspective on how to evaluate contemporary theories. A lot of them will be off the wall but one or two….
Penny Mordaunt. She, that shaketh the Coronation Spear at Conspiracy theories.
A modern Minerva. Perhaps born too from the head of Jove fully armed , brandishing her lance/spear at all-comers (albeit with a little modern help from ‘FullFact’).
Another Shake-speare in the making
The first lesson of 2020 was the centralisation of the “free Western media”. The second lesson was the ferocious, relentless, one-dimensional, soul-destroyingly boring repetitiveness of it. Nothing changes. Nothing can change. Thus:
· “Evil covid oh my God! It’s comin’ for ya! No no no no no no no! AAAARGH!”
· “Vaccines! Vaccines! Get yer vaccines!”
· “Loony Right Wing conspiracy loons! Everywhere!”
· “Let us check the facts! Forever and ever!”
· “How to spot a conspiraloon!”
· “How to tell when your family is being destroyed by conspiraloonery!”
· “How to protect you lovely little puppy from conspiraloons!”
Though I take it as almost an admission of defeat that we are now hearing about MPs being “taught to spot conspiraloons”.
First, MPS don’t need to be taught. They already know the mantra they have to spout. They know that any concession to the vaguest hint of scepticism of the news grinder will banish them to Conspiraloon Land.
Second, nobody but nobody gives a flying fuck what MPs think or do.
And then you get the roll call of The Organisations:
· The Committee to Defeat Hateful Tin Foil Bastards
· The Board of Really Sensible Facty Facter Finders
· The Committee to Stop Little Kiddies From Being Infected by Tin Foil Pedos
· Bill & Linda’s Nice Cuddly Vax Friendly Campaign Against Cospira-Cow Farts
· The Global Network to Hunt Down Extreme Radico Subversico Hate Fuelled …. sorry, what were we talking about?
Etc.
But of course it grinds on and on. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone up there just pulled a lever and the media simply regurgitated the last four years of media fun: every single item produced exactly as it was before. Why not? Everyone is now used to endless repeats on the satellite channels. And no-one now can tell the difference between “The News” and “The Walking Dead”. Because there is no difference.
The problem is that would all be ok in a sort of way if it was just the Eurasia part of the world.
That Eastasia and Oceania are involved too it all smells a teensy, weensy bit…………..off.
Edwige this, Edwige that.
I never get a hat tip.
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I like Edwige. Not sure about the numerology stuff. But he’s mostly spot on with the rest.
It was only a jape.
Own Nothing – Be Happy (feat. Klausi McSchwabbin’) 🔥
Klaus Schwab’s Greatest Hits
Ida Akuen has an X/Twitter, help me, account(?).
Why don’t those of us who can, ask her how her “owning nothing” is coming along? I understand she has a significant net worth that includes real estate. Her hubby is a big solicitor in DK. He also probably has a fair number of assets to liquidate before he owns nothing.
Awful … shameful … these folks drown in hypocrisy the way fish swim in water … they haven’t the slightest clue.
She has stated that she feel pity for those who will be left behind;
The anti-vaxers, those without Digital ID, Digital Money, Voice ID, Face ID, DNA ID, Walk ID, without Mrna nanobots, and who dont have Digital ID Wallets. The off grid duffers. The simpletons.
They will be left on a railway station where the financial train will never arrive………..LOL.
It’s just for us plebs. Not for them. They get to keep everything. We don’t.
How is that NOT “exerting control”? Because everything the WEF say is predicated on permanent growth—sustainable development—which is absolutely impossible. Why worry about an imaginary future scenario premissed on nothing? Oh, you’d have to think about what the future might really contain? You’d have to come up with plausible alternatives grounded in actuality?
‘Climate lockdown’? Of course energy is incapable of being destroyed so it will exponentiate eternally, no need of restriction. And all that energy burning activity is good for the environment, don’t ya know plants thrive on CO2? Think of all that fertility, all that fecundity, all that money, all that property!
Deprived liberty? To exponentiate energy use, extractivism, expropriation of labour from the subhuman Unpeople we never mention? To pollute, destroy habitat, and make the place less habitable for us, dispossessing our subhuman workforce, what is left of biodiversity, what is left of commonpool energy and mineral reserves…. Oh, what a conspicuous consumer liberty!
At what point is it going to dawn on anybody that all this free-market freedom and liberty we are being deprived of was in fact deprived from subaltern Unpeople of who we dare not speak? And that the freedom to burn energy is consequential for everybody, born and unborn? Everyday with the “they stole our liberty” without “we stole their liberty” as completely eliminated from our rhetoric.
“Conspiracy theories” disable critical thinking or even description of actually existing actuality and all but eliminate questioning the brute matter of fact of the earth. How convenient? MPs want to deprive conspiracy theorists of their ability to deprive their shared global Unperson of their liberty, their property, their health, and their lives. Defended by feigned indignant identitarian morality as the earth burns. There is no ‘climate’, but that never stopped anybody enabling the consummate destruction of the whole earth to feed their egoic fantasies. It is almost as if resistance is tacit compliance to deprive the Rest? MPs to deprive conspiracy theorists of their ability to fantasticate furiously. Pick the spineless morality out of that and form an identity if you can.
Todays people walk on sidewalks made by yesterdays people.
So true.
My Dad had a rubbish childhood in Glasgow slums when his Dad died of TB aged 29 before NHS in UK when my Dad was 9.
He worked his socks off to make things better for us than it was for him and he did a fantastic job of it.
Yet here I am complaining about semantics when I have an embarrassment of creature comforts.
We don’t know we”re born.
So did mine. His Dad died in a tractor accident so he was adopted (due to catholic guilt and shame that would be dumped on a single mother). Many of my relatives died in the Flu epidemic of 1918, whole families over night (a real epidemic).
I know it is futile, but when is anybody going to take the ecologic situation seriously. And the economic situation of planetary-scale poverty caused by the liberty that MPs are going to deprive ‘us’ of? What was free of us raping ecology and treating the rest of humanity as fodder for our fantasy?
Absolutely nothing. My Dad worked like your Dad to provide for us. In his old age he was absolutely fucking mortified about how that turned out. He said to me without prompting that this ever expanding economics is going to kill us. By the end he did not want to be here any more. If ‘we’ want a different future ‘we’ are going to have to confront actuality without offloading blame onto scapegoats.
How old are you ?
Did you not realise that “growth’ and ‘GDP’ are two cheeks of the same arse ?
It”s a Ponzi scheme and we’ve been riding it on the backs of the “other” world forever.
Problem is, ‘cos the “other’ world have been making all this stuff for us using our tech and money they’ve gotten a bit smart and want a piece of the pie.
Time to throw the game board in the air……………………………..
Sixty-three. I could not agree more. We have to take stock and rethink the global economy. That economy has to be an ecology. The relevance is that any liberty ‘we’ had was liberated from the Rest, leaving them in poverty.
If we throw the game board in the air, we have to throw all this ‘then/us’ separation in the air too. I can guarantee another instalment of ‘them’us’ language-gamification later today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow…. so when does this game end?
MPs are depriving nobody of anything that they did not deprive for themselves. Any actual transvaluation or rule-changing has to begin with the rhetoric of deprivation and loss of privilege nobody was entitled to in the first place. We exported production to consume what others produce for us, how are we to produce for ourselves without a change of infrastructure?
“Why worry about an imaginary future scenario premised on nothing” – why wouldn’t you be worried about that, when the driving force emanates from a collaboration of governments, think tanks, scientists etc, the finest minds of our generation (apparently) implementing this now, whatever their end-game is (which probably isn’t based on sustainable growth ultimately). You are probably conversing with the wrong crowd if you think we have any direct bearing on this.
Its not their end-game, its ours. It is good we are questioning the projected future. It is bad we are doing it to prolong economic fantasy. When the politician says we are going to grow the economy and stop migration, do the people say that it is growing the economy that displaced Unpeople that led them into economic migration? No, they do not. They say grow the economy and stop migration.
It ain’t the think tanks etc that are the driving force, it is the people…. maybe with the exception of a current few? ‘Green’ growth is impossible because it was always impossible, it never produced ‘freedom’ or liberty except from reality.
My point was that when will the conspiracy return to actuality? Because it seems to be being ramped up to fever pitch. Any site that invokes “white double consciousness” ain’t gonna return to ecologic actuality any time soon. Of course, ‘we’ are all entirely innocent and being put upon. How do you think that ‘we’ became the highest materially wealthy group ever? By reciting mantras of morality?
I doubt the majority of people ever venture out into the alt media online into ‘conspiracy’ territory. Their eyes and ears are perpetually glued to the truth-telling TV.
Probably. But then again, as I am at pains to point out; economic actuality is in the holistic activity of everybody, everywhere, all-at-once, all-the-time…. and nobody can envisage that, apparently. So ‘we’ cannot speak of the majority of the people, which is convenient.
You mean this kind of wealth disparity, don’t ya?
There are national leaders, but only self-appointed world leaders.
Correct. And the national leaders are appointed by the world leaders.
Who will fact check the fact checkers? Off Guardian – that’s who.
Keep up the good work!
Dig the conspiracy theory of them being “deliberate campaigns”…
It’s never a ‘conspiracy theory’ when it’s the establishment promoting the conspiracy theory. That’s why Russiagate was never called a conspiracy theory, for example, even though that’s exactly what it was.
Just like with everything else, it’s one rule for them and a different rule for us peasants.
Poor old government getting conspirational over this shit.
Russiagate wasn’t even a conspiracy theory — theories require evidence!
BORIS FORGETS HIS ID !!!
Bojo who walks around with a team of Mi5 /special branch officers for protection etc who would of vetted the poling station with sniffer dogs – bomb squad etc then last minutes after all of that the key holder wont let Bojo post his vote because he forget his ID.
beam me up scottie if you fallen for that bullshit.