This Christmas in the New Normal
Welcome to our third Christmas edition of This Week, where we pull out just the most seasonal, tinseliest headlines we can find, take a step back, and laugh at just what a clown world we’re all suddenly living in.
1. Wood Burning Stoves Cause Cancer
Anyone following British news or social media for the last two weeks has probably already seen this story – we mentioned it in our story on the Great Reset:
Terrifying cancer risk of trendy wood burning stoves – as experts warn they are UK’s biggest source of dangerous air pollution
Wood-burning stoves are “more polluting than cars” now, they cause cancer. And birth deformities. And asthma. And make “long covid” worse.
We need rules. And bans. And more rules. And more bans. Yes, OK, we already have regulations on wood burning, but they don’t enforce them enough, and “these people will only stop when they are made to”:
What kind of people burn wood when the Royal College of Paediatricians have asked them not to, for the sake of children’s health? Your middle class London neighbours, that’s who. They won’t stop until they’re made to. Story by @horton_official https://t.co/d7UNMgiYgP
— Fiona Harvey (@fionaharvey) December 19, 2024
I just can’t believe we’ve lived to see a time where “these people” is being used to venomously describe people who…*checks notes*…burn wood to keep warm.
This is all about clean air, you understand, and not even slightly about the fact wood burning stoves offer energy and fuel independence. That’s just paranoia.
2. …and so do scented candles
Now, maybe you’re thinking, “OK, so maybe my woodburner is illegal now, at least my cinnamon candles make it feel like Christmas”. No such luck, because here comes the Conversation with their mood-killing candle-snuffer:
Scented candles and holiday fragrances may actually harm your home’s air quality
The research is one of those pieces of research which abandons logic in pursuit of some higher truth, and includes this gem of a sentence:
If equal weights of cigarette and incense sticks are burned, the incense sticks produce around four times as much particulate matter as the cigarettes
Wonderful exemplar of the madness of “The Science”, the juxtaposition of technical truth with complete abandonment of reason. Totally disregarding a) that equal weights of incense and cigarettes are not burned, b) the differing nature and composition of their “particulate” or c) the fact people don’t put incense sticks in their mouths.
Anyway, don’t even think about staying warm or smelling nice. You’ll get cancer. And die.
Look out for “improving our air quality” to be a major talking point in 2025. More bans coming.
3. Merry Surveillance and a Happy New World
In the spirit of giving this Holiday Season, the British government has decided to gift us all the long-term comfort of security by promoting their digital ID platform!
From their press release:
Christmas celebrations are set to get a digital upgrade next year, as the UK government plans to roll out a new law allowing pub and bar-goers, as well as shoppers, to use their phones to prove their age when buying alcohol, should they wish to do so. People can continue to use physical forms of ID if they prefer.
See how it’s going to work?
It’s just like the smoking ban, where each year the minimum age to buy cigarettes increases, except in reverse.
If digital ID is the easiest way for young people to prove their age and get drunk, they’ll never need to make it mandatory. Each year the next crop of 18-year-olds will volunteer to be cattle tagged so they can go out drinking with their friends.
Meanwhile, the physical ID that “people can continue to use if they prefer” will be increasingly expensive, subject to longer and longer waiting times to acquire, and probably expire more quickly. Not to mention how bad for the environment the Guardian will tell everyone it is.
4. A Very Climate Christmas
Speaking of the Guardian, did you know “average Briton produces 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day”?
Of course you didn’t. That’s because the Guardian just paid some people to make it up. Sorry, they “commissioned researchers to write a report” which is totally different.
However it happened, the math exists and is vaguely described. It doesn’t really make any sense if you think about it for five minutes, but we don’t have five minutes. The author quickly rushes us past the numbers and into the opinions.
The Graun has rounded up a few people to talk about how bad Christmas is for the planet. That includes the appropriately named Melanie Nazareth, who warns that people are conditioned into mass consumerism at Christmas time:
“We have been deliberately sold a vision of Christmas that is based on material consumption. We are constantly bombarded by advertising and media that tells us that if we aren’t spending money on things, we are not doing Christmas properly…
Which, to be fair, is a more than reasonable point, if only she didn’t add:
…This is destroying the whole meaning of Christmas as well as destroying the planet.”
I just can’t shake the image of Klaus Schwab, the Ghost of Resets Past, hanging in the air, rattling his chains and wailing “yooouuuu will ooooown nothing and beeee happyyyyy!”
Makes it an uncomfortable read.
BONUS: Scary Turkey Germs
Just when you thought, maybe, you could have a meal or even an entire day without having to be frightened – here comes the Daily Mail to scream:
How your Christmas turkey leaves the kitchen smeared with food poisoning bugs: Grim photos reveal exactly where bacteria spreads – and will make you think twice about scoffing mince pies
The article itself is a joke. They smear blue stuff on someone’s hands, have them use the kitchen, then show the pictures of blue stuff everywhere and say “Imagine this was bacteria! It got everywhere!” like that means something.
Christmas Recommendations
I like to go outside the box with my Christmas suggestions, nobody needs to hear how good The Muppet Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life are anymore, do they?
In that vein, I would suggest Click and Collect as some gentle, well-meaning fun. Stephen Merchant is always funny. For the edgier side of Christmas, a BBC series of Robert Powell reading MR James’ Ghost Stories is on YouTube and is fantastic.
I’ve also been very interested in medieval/Tudor Christmas and really enjoy listening to Thys Yool, an album of old medieval Christmas music:
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All told a pretty hectic Holiday Season for our New Normal World, and we didn’t even mention the Christmas tree being burned in newly liberated Syria or racist dangers of confederate Christmas decorations.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
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The Bibi Files is a punch-in-the-mouth documentary film focused on the serious crimes of Benjamin Netanyahu, of which there are many. The film is such a devastating indictment of Netanyahu that it becomes safe to say: if enough men and women worldwide watch the documentary and grasp its horrifying message, – in short order the criminally insane, increasingly desperate and dangerous Benjamin Netanyahu shall find himself behind prison bars, out of power, and denied the capacity to further escalate/inflict deadly war of aggression in the Middle East region.
The Bibi Files: Documentary Film Presents the Real Benjamin Netanyahu. – THE ONENESS of HUMANITY (wordpress.com)
Another new normal: if an assailant in the West is Muslim, he stays “alleged” even if the whole attack with 12 stabs happened on stage and on was recorded video. The trail / conviction will linger.
Alleged Salman Rushdie attacker faces federal charge as he awaits state trial
My fondest wish for 2025 is that the readership for that infestation known as legacy media plummets all the way to zero so that cancerous growths like the BBC and Guardian continue to spew their sex mutilation/ planet wanking/ hysterical hypochondria bullshit in their own little solipsistic padded cells.
How apt re: the wood burning. It was a law banning the peasants from using otherwise useless fallen branches collected on the estates of the landlords that tipped the young Marx towards radicalism.
So here we are again. Full circle.
“average Briton produces 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day”?
23 just happens to be one of their favourite symbolic numbers – see ‘The Number 23’ with Jim Carrey. They just made it up… but not at random.
If only that Jeremy Corbyn was in charge…
https://dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/20/planet-climate-disaster-labour-government
Funny how he forgets everything else the Fraud has written about him to pen this for them.
One of my wishes for the new year is too see another Fraud favourite Liz Cheney in jail. Who Trump pursues in the courts once he’s inaugurated is going to be very revealing. Chris Knowles is doing some great work on the ritual symbolism of the 2024 election e.g. the Trump “assassination” (remember that? where’s the investigation?…) was on Julius Caesar’s birthday. After the “lawfare” waged on him, there’s no way they can sell Trump adopting forgive-and-forget like in 2016, some swamp creatures have to be thrown under the bus and there’s no shortage of manifest illegality to choose from.
What kind of people, Fiona Harvey? Er…well in my case I sit by a cheerful wood fire, burning wood that I have obtained myself at no cost. While I am enjoying this, I wonder what kind of ignorant townie would make a living from writing meaningless “journalism” and seek to disempower folk from one of the very last forms of self-reliance, in basic needs, that is still available to modern folk.
This blog reminds me at times of letters to the Torygraph, known among pre-Wokeist Grauniad readers decades ago, under the tag: “Outraged of Tunbridge Wells”
Because woodsmoke pollution is a (fatal) thing, there is (real) science to show it. Lung disease is real. Checked the air in Bangkok at present?, now that the forest fire season is on? Read Nicholas Creed’s Substack on it, he lives there.
It behoves libertarian woodstove lovers to get off the defensive back foot by pushing (building codes, etc. ) the Rocket Mass Heater, which turns much more of the caloric value of a piece of wood into heat. And can work as a cookstove as well.
This produces only two main byproducts, water vapour and some C02. But hardly any ash and smoke, those being unused heat. Because the RMH burns wood at a much higher temp. due to its internal design than does even an efficient traditional stove. And so gets the maximum heat out of a unit of wood.
An RMH user may be able to show that his energy use to stay warm and eat hot food is less than that caused by any other type of heating. And is also independent of any crisis or social credit points on a heating network.
The names are Iantro Evans and Ernie Wisner, permies.com has a lot to say on it. Apparently wood consumption per winter can drop by 90%.
And then there is the masonry stove, which heats via radiation and not convection.
The Don is Back in Town
“Nice canal you’ve got there!”
Shame if . . .
Or . . .
Coronavirus outbreak: Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers, claiming link to COVID-19
Global News
May 14, 2020
Some conspiracy theorists are falsely linking 5G, the fifth generation of wireless mobile technology, to COVID-19 outbreaks. Jeff Semple looks at what started this hoax, how it spread like wildfire on social media and how it ignited attacks on cellphone towers.
I used to think of Iceland as being some last refuge of sanity, but it seems they’re now as far gone as anywhere else.
https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/two-years-in-prison-for-a-tweet
Two years in prison for a tweet?
An activist in Iceland is being investigated by police for criticising those who claim that men can breastfeed.
Andrew Doyle
Dec 20, 2024
On the last episode of Free Speech Nation, I spoke to Icelandic gay rights activist Eldur Smári Kristinsson, who is being investigated by police after posting “offensive” comments on social media. He had denounced men who claim that they have the right to breastfeed babies by means of chemically-induced lactation.
If charged and found guilty, he could face up to two years in prison.
Here’s the full interview…
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Nauseating to be sure. Though the high water mark was when Happy Christmas! was hate salutations and needed to be replaced with “Festive seasonality!” Or whatever.
“People can continue to use if they prefer” so true that this is the standard modern legal disclaimer. Like you don’t have to get jabbed it’s mandatory but I you can choose not to get it. And then see how well you can live as the equivalent of a medieval outcast/outlaw.
this american Global Engagement Center (GEC) -shut down this week- a US state creation was working with the Soros foundation spewing complex propaganda both overseas and in the US.
it was right wing and at the same time working closely with the Soros Foundation!!! is that how it works?!
apparently Elon Musk was behind shutting down this agency while other republicans were ready to continue with funding its nasty operations.
If I were a Brit, I would always do exactly what the Royal College of Paedophiles suggests. Other than maybe shooting up my kid with a fake killer vax.
So it’s not the ‘covid’ jabs causing all those turbo-cancers,
It’s the smoke from woodfires, the smoke from scented candles,
and, i;m sure The Science (TM) will claim, the methane from
those bloody farting cows**
** (not to be confused with yer mother-in-laws)…
It’s all those Grannies who ducked the ‘covid’ bullet causing
the woodfire-smoke pollution which is gonna kill us all…
If the bloody government hadnt stopped their Winter Fuel
Allowance they wouldnt have to burn their wooden furniture
to stay warm…
20 big cats die of bird flu at sanctuary in Washington.They after the pets.
… and to the knights-in-gleeming-armour, at OffG, of course – thanks to you ALL, from Downunder.
Compliments of the Season and to those still in an appropriate TZ – Merry Christmas!!
And to those murdering women and children and pretending that the murders are somehow a demented ‘version’ of holy-writ … I hope your balls drop off.