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Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s story
Reading Lesson
Read this out loud one sentence after another….
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Yo Sir Jasper
SWMBO read it to me the smart…e
Yo Sir Jasper
SWMBO read it to me the smart…e
Morning GG
Morning everyone.
Good morning.
Joe Biden visits Israel as hundreds die in Gaza hospital strike. 18 October 2023.
Joe Biden is due to arrive in Israel on Wednesday amid growing tensions over who is responsible for the bombing of a hospital in Gaza.
At least 200 Palestinians died in the incident at the Anglican-run Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday evening.
Well I suppose there could be a better time to visit! In fact any other time than right now would qualify. It is an incredibly stupid move, even without the hospital bombing, because it links the United States in the public mind to the Israeli campaign against Gaza. It makes the US look complicit in anything that happens. How can they negotiate in the face of such a perception? It destroys any credibility they might have had as acting in good faith. The Jordanians have already pulled out! This visit has in fact enhanced the probability of the war expanding!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/17/joe-biden-visits-israel-hundreds-die-gaza-hospital-strike/
Morning, Araminta.
A moron being advised by morons or something more sinister?
Morning Korky. There are all the signs that brought about WWI. Hubris. Incompetent leadership and delusions of invincibility!
Agreed. How many cloth ears are in the White House?
SIR – Hatred towards races and religions brought the world to its knees in the last century.
Who in their right minds could teach such hatred to their children again?
Elizabeth Griffin
Shrewsbury
Muslims…always Muslims.
Those who ignore the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it.
And in so doing they generate fear and loathing of them. Before the 2001 WTC attack ( whether it was an inside job or not, Muslims celebrated it) I used to find Islamic art and culture interesting and bore Muslims no ill-will. I do not trust any of them these days. If they appear moderate they will change their spots when they sense there are enough of them.
3477752+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Dt,
The facts are now clear: mass illegal migration is a terror threat
We must exert better control of the numbers, and clear out extremists before they kill
The facts are now clear: mass illegal migration is a terror threat, as is continuing to support the lab/lib/con coalition
purveying party.
I distinctly remember when the cottaging PM (bog man) lifted the entry latch the village idiot, known country wide for taking idiocy to a new level remarked ” top flight treachery that will
resound through future generations for as long as peoples have rear exits,” (bums) he had a way with words did our village idiot.
And so it came to pass…….
We must exert better control of the numbers, and clear out extremists before they kill us.
When the real UKIP was operating this was a
major issue, we wanted ” controlled immigration” whereas the majority was supporting / voting for Mass uncontrolled immigration parties, and STILL ARE.
Xi Jinping welcomes ‘dear friend’ Putin in Beijing. 18 October 2023.
The leaders have a shared vision for a new international order to counter the US and other democratic nations.
I don’t doubt the International Order bit but “US and other democratic nations”? Where would they be?
I was of course here during the Cold War and even then knew that we were not as lily white as the PTB made out. Still my faith didn’t waver because I thought that overall we were on the side of the Angels. The only Freedom and Democracy that was available was here in the West. No longer. The truly depressing part of this new division in the world is not the difference between the two parties but, that for ordinary people, neither is worth supporting!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/17/biden-israel-hamas-palestine-gaza-putin-xi-jinping-beijing/
Waaay back when the Soviet Union imploded, I recall saying that this was a Bad Thing, as there would be no counterweight to the US, allowing them to do what they liked. Seems that was the case, and, nature abhorring a vacuum, a pile of nasty states has rushed to fill it. As well as the US behaving like a bully, ‘cos they can.
Morning, all Y’all. Frost last night, clear & sunny today.
Good Morning Folks,
Chilly gloomy start here
How does the BBC decide when a terror attack has taken place?
White people involved it’s terrorism, non whites it’s mental illness
Bet that this will be ignored by the BBC:
https://savebritain.org/man-who-attacked-queens-coffin-identified-as-a-khan/
Mental illness, its quite a common excuse with certain types of people.
What happened to the relatives of the 10 year old girl who was found murdered in her home
near Woking ?
Quietly hushed up.
Mustn’t upset “the community”
Thank goodness for the modern equivalent of getting out of the chair to change channels or even turn it off.
In recent years I don’t think I have ever found it so necessary to do so, so regularly. And not for the same reasons.
MI5 chief warns of Iran-backed terror attacks in the UK. 18 October 2023.
The head of MI5 has raised the spectre of Iranian-backed terror attacks in the UK in the wake of the war in Israel.
Ken McCallum, the security service’s director-general, addressed the conflict for the first time while at an unprecedented security summit also attended by intelligence chiefs from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
He said the “monstrous attacks” on Israel could increase the risk of terror atrocities in the UK and raised concerns about the threat from Iran.
Mi5 can always be relied on to oppose the UK’s enemies. Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, the Far Right, etc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/17/mif-chief-ken-mccallum-warning-iran-back-terror-uk/
I wonder if the Left supporters of Hamas living here realise they they attacked, murdered and raped Israelis that were Left learning
One of the most major ongoing problems within the bounds of ‘the religion of peace’ is they only believe what they want, or are told to believe.
Hence the problem they have with the rest of mankind.
Good morning, chums. I overslept today. Enjoy your day, whatever the weather. In my neck of the woods it will be sunny this morning. Time to do my weekly shop a little early in the week. Then I shall hunker down at home for the next seven days when there is a forecast of non-stop rain.
Morning folks
Has storm ‘Babet’ (?) put the wind up anyone yet?
1800 ish apparently.
But don’t leave the washing on the line.
Weather App for here is forecasting 18mph max speed at 16:00 hrs. I guess that’s so it doesn’t break the 20mph speed limits around here…..
I remember another weather forecast on the 15th of October 1987 that was a bit Fishy.
It started 3 hrs early.
Absolutely nothing on the South Coast so far. It was supposed to come in last night.
It’s raining here, but not particularly windy.
Excellent article. Are the wheels coming off?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/17/great-lockdown-scandal-has-only-just-begun/
Telling sentence: “…not only were many people warning about collateral harms at the time, expert authorities weren’t even being asked to consider such warnings.
Why did the experts need asked? If they could see the issue, why not study it? Or, were/are they all in thrall to money? What would that say about their judgement and expertise?
Madeline Grant is an excellent writer.
She can manage both funny and profound.
I’d respect her more if she had said it at the time, or if she talked about excess deaths now!
I think she’s pretty new to the DT.
Within the last year, I’d have said.
Can’t read it Obs. Unless I pay.
The great lockdown scandal has only just begun
Nobody bothered to model the harms it caused, and almost nobody has shown humility about the mistakes
Madeline Grant
PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER
17 October 2023 • 8:00pm
Reinforcing orthodoxy: Neil O’Brien MP co-founded a site to discredit scientists and journalists challenging the consensus
Credit: Jamie Lorriman
I’m often amazed by our collective amnesia over lockdown, given
the amount of time we spend discussing problems that are manifestly
caused, or exacerbated, by it. Inflation, waiting lists, a crippling
mental health crisis, persistently-high school absences, a growing
academic attainment gap; these are just a few examples.
Is there
an element of guilt involved? So many added their voices to the feverish
calls for ever more stringent measures. So many delighted in dobbing in
their neighbours when they snuck out for a sneaky second walk, or a
kindly but illicit visit to an elderly neighbour. Yes, it was a
miserable time for most of us, but that doesn’t fully explain the
resounding silence.
Professor Mark Woolhouse of the University of
Edinburgh, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on
Modelling (SPI-M-O), was a rare voice of reason throughout the hysteria.
It was he who rubbished the notion that elimination was ever possible,
and the SNP’s Anglophobic claim that Covid was “reseeded” into Scotland
from the Typhoid Marys of England when the first lockdown ended. He
repeatedly warned that using worst-case predictions (those “graphs of
doom”) to shock people into compliance could trigger a general loss of
scientific credibility. All this proved prescient.
This week, while giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, Prof Woolhouse
made a particularly damning declaration. Though lockdown was often
framed as a last resort which no one wanted to impose, he begs to
differ. “The harms of the social distancing measures – particularly
lockdown, the economic harms, the educational harms, the harms to access
to healthcare … societal wellbeing … mental health – were not included
in any of the work that SPI-M-O did and, as far as I could tell, no one
else was doing it either,” he told the inquiry.
So his team was
never even asked to model the harm lockdown might inflict. Nor were they
asked to consider alternative ways of mitigating health risks. “The
question of how to avoid lockdown was never asked of us,” he added, “and
I find that extraordinary.” Too right. This ought to be a national
scandal. Saying “hindsight is always 20/20” doesn’t cut it; not only
were many people warning about collateral harms at the time, expert
authorities weren’t even being asked to consider such warnings.
Myopic decision-making
was accompanied by an equally damaging tendency to view the public as a
faceless bloc, ignoring the risk levels different individuals faced. So
back in March 2020, the nation was, in Woolhouse’s words,
“concentrating on schools when we should have been concentrating on care
homes”.
This led to two of the pandemic’s most colossal mistakes
– the neglect of vulnerable elderly patients and lengthy school
closures, even though children were 10,000 times less likely to die from
Covid than the elderly and the evidence for school transmission was
patchy at best. We are still counting the cost, especially to less
privileged pupils.
Eventually lockdown began generating its own
absurdist logic, akin to the topsy-turvy world of a Gilbert and Sullivan
opera. Conventional wisdom like “protecting the vulnerable” was cast as
fringe quackery. Some condemned herd immunity as a conspiracy theory,
rather than indisputable scientific reality and, indeed, the basis for
vaccination.
Meanwhile “you can’t be too careful” carried its own
dangers. Overstating the (tiny) risk of outdoor transmission led to
limits on even the most socially distanced forms of sport. Even solo
walking in the wilds of the Peak District elicited a rapid visitation
from the boys in blue. All this despite the well-documented health
benefits of vitamin D and exercise.
Many commentators took great delight in smearing sceptical voices as dangerously cavalier with human life. The MP Neil O’Brien co-founded a website
designed to discredit journalists and scientists who departed from the
sage consensus on lockdown. I still feel aggrieved about what happened
then; being accused of having “blood on your hands” is distressing and
makes you fearful of weighing in. No doubt voices on both sides of the
debate made mistakes, but creating an atmosphere of anxiety and
intimidation – rather than open inquiry and good faith – is hardly
conducive to sensible policy-making. And so it has proved.
Meanwhile, in Sweden, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell stuck to the well-established principles of scientific inquiry
and communicated with the public as rational adults. In hindsight, and
compared with our own febrile public debate, it’s amazing how heretical
this now looks.
Tegnell also displayed refreshing transparency
over Sweden’s mistakes, such as care home outbreaks. Yet we have seen
little of this humility or soul-searching in Britain. Prof Woolhouse is
one of few experts to express regrets about the ravages of long
lockdowns. Why have so few politicians done the same? Or members of the
public, for that matter?
Perhaps because we have ultimately learnt
very little. In spite of Sweden’s experience and the mounting evidence
of irreversible harm to children, a recent YouGov poll found that people
still overwhelmingly believe school closures were the right decision;
almost 60 per cent, with just 29 per cent disagreeing. As Jonathan Swift
said, “falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it”.
Thanks Phizz I’ll read it after my porridge. 👍
As all that crap started, I recorded the daily statistics in a spreadsheet (“Nerd” really is spelt that way) with the date, and also comparison figures with a selection of sttistics. This was the official Norwegian govt figures. this similar for the UK.
Shows how over-hyped the whole thing was. Data from Feb 2020 to March 2022.
Ah… as the page starts to open, hammer away like a woodpecker at the ESC key. That screws over their paywall. If it at first doesn’t succeed, refresh the view and as it’s starting to load…
A timely click or tap on the X net to the Home icon to the left of the address bar will halt the loading of the page – sufficient to read the text but before the block against non-subscribers comes into effect. The page slider on the far right gives a clue as to when the text has been loaded.
Not worth real money…
Ooh a down vote.
Pity the Telegraph didn’t see these harms while they were happening, and while their own cartoonist was trying to tell them!
Oh yes, that’s right – they sacked Bob Moran.
Putin and Xi hail ‘mutual trust’ at Beijing meeting. 18 October 2023.
Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed “mutual trust” between Russia and China as he met with Vladimir Putin for talks in Beijing.
Putin met his “old friend” Mr Xi at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on the sidelines of a major forum.
“The political mutual trust between the two countries is continuously deepening,” Mr Xi said, according to Xinhua news agency, hailing their “close and effective strategic coordination”.
These protestations have no more reality than the “Special Relationship” between Churchill and Roosevelt during WWII. They serve to give notice that they are united for the present but that is all. It is worth noting, despite all the rhetoric, that Roosevelt was to some considerable extent jealous of Churchill’s gifts and undermined him on occasion, most notably with Stalin, and that the latter did not attend his funeral. States do not have friends, only impermanent allies!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/18/russia-ukraine-putin-zelensky-war-latest-news-live/
Good Moaning.
If only he’d paraded down Regent Street draped in a Palestine flag, then he’d have been left to mourn in peace.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12641439/Frail-widower-87-slams-police-six-officers-raided-home-bundled-van-kept-cell-15-hours-wrongly-accusing-murdering-wife-just-learned-passed-away.html
What a terrible thing to happen to that poor man who was dedicated to his wife.
Who ever ordered the invasion of his privacy should be sacked pension withdrawn and immediately. What horrible bastards.
Launched from the hospital grounds?
I still suspect there were explosives stored within the hospital too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12643229/Israel-blast-Gaza-hospital-Palestine-video-rocket-misfire.html
Totally agree.
There were more than central heating boilers in the basement.
Shiny metal objects that were not necessarily pipework.
It will make me sick to see the begrudging way in which those sub-human worms at the BBC will report the story when the attack is shown conclusively to be perpetrated by Palestinians.
I fear that it will never be proved conclusively, either way, but I live in hope.
I’m waiting for BBC ‘Verify’ to confirm the accuracy of the IDF report…….
That is why I threw my TV away years ago. Why subject myself to a daily raising of my blood pressure? It can’t be healthy!
They won’t. That would undermine their entire worldview.
Morning all 🙂😊
No surprises, grey and likely to rain all week.
This terrible hospital explosion in Gaza as Dopey Byedon arrives in Telavive. To all those sceptical people out there, might seem planned as away to drum up more support for the hamas terrorist group.
As we already know from many past experiences, self sacrifices are their specialty.
It’s almost impossible to believe that Israel would have carried out such a terrible action.
There would have, as has been established, no gain for them in this current situation. Except support from their allies and islamists on the streets of Western society.
Anyone who has been educated outside the medieval beliefs of Islam, would smell the terrible stench of the proverbial rat.
Never trust an Arab.
Good morning all,
Dull, grey skies at McPhee Towers this morning. Rain forecast to arrive after 9am, wind in the east, 9 – 11℃ today.
The DT seems to have caught up with independent internet commentators:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8f4e9f25377c59a6e720de820bcbd781d49f151c6b6eb64360c451d650cf7a1a.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/17/brussels-terror-attack-illegal-migration-threat/
To which the only response can be “No shit, Sherlock. What took you so long”. No doubt those words or sentiments expressing them will be found in the comments below the article. I think it’s worse than that. I think it’s an army in waiting which already outnumbers our own army.
Over on the War Room can be found one of Trump’s speeches in Iowa. In the speech, after mentions of The Wall and an attack on EVs that has some entertaining snippets, is the part where he addresses the mass immigration into the USA and the imminent threat posed by so many unknown and hence unvetted, “strong young men”.
It is without doubt a deliberate ploy to flood the UK, the USA and elsewhere with undeclared numbers of young men to form terrorist units. How will Sunak, Braverman et al. explain away their lack of action when trouble erupts?
They won’t explain it. They will resign, leave Britain and go and live somewhere else.
But the problem cannot be blamed only on Sunak and Braverman. The people who are really to blame are those who did not heed the perfectly clear warnings of Enoch Powell. Instead of addressing what he said they just resorted to abuse and called him a racist.
Funny how old clichés hit the nail on the head. A stitch in time could have saved nine but now there are so many stitches needed that the darned situation is beyond darning!
Blair set about massive race replacement deliberately to create a client class who would always vote Labour. The state loved this as these are criminal, welfare addicted, social service demanding wasters who consume masses amounts of services, contribute nothing, cause huge discontent and are simply vermin.
The only solution is to get rid of them. Cut off the welfare, cut off the housing benefit, forbid health care except in cash up front, deport the criminals permanently. To do that means leaving many treaties that we should have already but sunak refuses to do anything until his masters let him. That’s why he’s in office. He wasn’t elected.
Interesting that France claims to deport 30,000 criminals a year.
How many does Britain deport?
They probably deport them to here!
Blair set about massive race replacement deliberately to create a client class who would always vote Labour. The state loved this as these are criminal, welfare addicted, social service demanding wasters who consume masses amounts of services, contribute nothing, cause huge discontent and are simply vermin.
The only solution is to get rid of them. Cut off the welfare, cut off the housing benefit, forbid health care except in cash up front, deport the criminals permanently. To do that means leaving many treaties that we should have already but sunak refuses to do anything until his masters let him. That’s why he’s in office. He wasn’t elected.
This was obvious in 1997. That it has taken 25 miserable years of hard left hogwash, lies and spin, endless diversity strength! gormlessness to get through your thick skulls is astonishing.
It was OBVIOUS. They’re savages. The difference is for 25 horrible years the Left have poured poison into this country and people have been raped, stabbed, children assaulted, drugs rampant, crime soaring – and all because big fat state wanted a client class.
Morning, all. Bright and breezy here, a good drying morning is forecast ergo, the washing is on.
The “vaccine” and all that that farrago of obfuscation and outright lies has created has erupted in the EU. Excellent four-way discussion about the developing legal situation and how the cover-up is being managed.
EU -Discussion Around the Legality of the Vaccine Arrangements in the EU
Good morning all.
Looks like being a pleasant day to begin with before Storm Wot’sit’sname rolls across. Thin hazy cloud with a tad under 6°C outside.
I was planning a run to check up on Stepson this morning, but I might bin that idea after the disturbed night I’ve had. I appear to have caught the DT’s lurgy.
I missed this one, but apparently the “Woman of the year” is a man!!
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1712481802391282156
And of course the eunuch known as “India” Willoughby is gloating about it:-
https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1714323753079844947
Are they all eunuchs?
There’s no such thing as a free eunuch, or so I’m told….
There might be a meat and 2 veg going spare..
But they’re not. That’s the problem. This stinks of very 1984. Obey, conform! A man in a dress is NOT a woman. It’s a man in a dress who needs psychotherapy.
When’s the Man of the Year taking place? Will normal toxically hetero-sexual, women-threatening men be allowd in?
I have two to put forward. Andrew Tate or Anders Breivik.
Lunatics are definitely in charge of the asylum!
It’s perfectly clear to me that when creating the creatures for the Garden of Eden God made a big mistake when only two examples of humans were created….
Genesis V i – ii
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Hoodagest that these lines could stir up so much trouble?
First the feminists could not understand that the term man referred to the human species of both sexes. This failure of understanding has led to a rape of the language when a word such a ‘chairman’ has to drop the man and become ‘chair’ and a handyman has to become a handyperson and a socialist politician has to be known as Harperson.
And then look what has happened to that phrase male and female created he them.
What a confusion of pronouns and genders has arisen!
I just don’t play their game. Female thespians are actresses, there are no ‘flight attendants’, there are stewards and stewardesses (or hostesses)and there are firemen, not fire-fighters.
There are firewomen, too. There are a couple at our local station. Hopefully they underwent the same physical strength test as the men.
The same bloke who cost Budweiser … their business? Apparently a man is now promoting women’s underwear. We live in insane times. The hope is that eventually this nonsense goes away and these people following this insane trend will simply disappear into the asylums they belong.
With luck, Virgin Atlantic will disappear too for being associated with this filth.
Hope you feel better soon x
Just a reminder of the words of Mahound:
“The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the
Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say,
‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him.'”
Someone will have to explain to me why Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called Abrahamic religions. I see it with Judaism amd Christianity but why does Islam simultaneously bear genocidal hatred towards Jews yet revere Ibrahim, a proto-Jew?
It’s just because Abraham (Ibrahim) is a revered figure in Islam. Everything in Islam is second-hand; the Judaeo-Christian culture looked back to Abraham so of course Islam has to as well. They called Mohammed ‘the ear’ because all he did was listen to what other people said and repeat it as if it was something new and amazing.
Just a reminder of the words of Mahound:
“The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the
Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say,
‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him.'”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/80ad4ebc28ded298e51e4f9b04aca01ce4a4830c0a5eba3bdacddace7138d18f.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/18/israel-palestine-latest-news-biden-hamas-gaza-day-12-live/
“The Israeli Defence Forces has released a 30-second video they claim exonerates them over the hospital blast in Gaza second.
“The compilation of aerial images purports to show the aftermath of the explosion which the IDF claims is definitive proof that the blast could not have been caused by an Israeli strike.”
Interesting that the DT is hedging its bets and says ‘purports to show‘.
No matter how much evidence there is that Hamas bombed the hospital the countries and people hostile to Israel will never believe it.
“Truth is the first casualty of war” comes to mind as does the song lyric of Paul Simon – “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
Clearly the Jihadis thought Israel was not killing enough Palestinian civillians so they took matters into their own hands. Not that the Marxian cultists in the West are ever going to accept that.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/17/nigel-lawson-memorial-westminster-ex-tory-chancellor/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
Our last great chancellor. RIP Nigel Lawson.
And a great opponent with calm and logic of the climate change tax scam.
Shadowed the D-mark. And it was his predecessor who had done the unpopular work.
We are told that this was done in secret and that MT didn’t know about it for some time. It caused the falling out between them which led to his resignation and the installation of Mr Underpants.
Indeed. It was Patrick Minford who alerted MT to this.
Hi Pip. He was one of the few politicians I was truly sorry to hear that he had died. He will be greatly missed.
Listening to his son, Dominic he seemed at peace and was ready to go.
Good morning, JR.
Morning Pip! Although it’s now afternoon. Just came back from hospital, respiratory appointment. Appointment set wrong day so back again tomorrow, the correct day. How are you after your scare?
Still doing tests. More blood tests tomorrow am. Ultrasound in the afternoon. Doc also wants to send me for a colonoscopy because i have the symptoms of bowel cancer after the stool FIT test results. Earlier in the year a different Doc sent me to A&E with a suspected heart attack. It wasn’t.
I do feel better than i was. I think i had a viral infection.
Good you’re feeling better. God protect you from cancer, lets hope that is an error.
Thanks. I don’t believe it is. I had a haemarroidectomy some years ago and regular prostate examinations and it was all fine.
Good!
Our last great chancellor. RIP Nigel Lawson.
Apart from his German period.
He at least admitted his mistakes.
His name is an anagram of “we all sign on”. Quite appropriate for a Chancellor!
From the days when one could respect politicians. Now, with no exception, they are all scum.
He freed millions of people from the tax man. He gave the City its freedom to make money. He campaigned for Brexit and was very sceptical of climate change.
We have no one like that now.
This is the most dangerous moment in decades – and it’s only going to get worse.18 October 2023.
“Now may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades”, says Jamie Dimon, the world’s most powerful banker. For once, it is possible to agree with the hyperbole of the JPMorgan chief.
Virtually all today’s major challenges, from climate change to mass migration, debt relief in the developing world to economic stagnation among richer nations, require global cooperation and solutions. Yet events conspire to bring about the reverse.
At the International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, last week, policymakers were filled with foreboding. The IMF’s latest economic forecasts, prepared before the Hamas assault, had pointed – almost incredibly, given the speed and size of the monetary tightening of the last year and a half – to a soft-landing in the global economy.
Yep! We are doomed! Doomed by the stupidity of our own Ruling Classes!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/18/most-dangerous-moment-decades-only-going-to-get-worse/
As guitar solo’s are flavour of the month here is mine…https://youtu.be/Oh5uPTCbB5s
I have always loved Mark Knopfler’s finger picking on an electric guitar
The crowd seemed to like it too. All smiles.
I passed him in a corridor at TV Centre once. Those were the days, my friend. He was there to be interviewed by Parkinson.
Did he smile at you and say, “Why-aye, Sue, man!”?😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwSDX95wCs
Did he smile at you?
Nah. I remember. He was deep in conversation with someone. Didn’t notice me!
377752+ up ticks,
Dt,
Shut down Britain’s gas network and roll out heat pumps, Sunak told
Sir John Armitt warns natural gas supply must end by 2050 for UK to hit climate targets
Latest from the killing field of England, old jonny armpit ought to be hit by a bucket of liquid shite.
He is adding to the fifty shades of how to kill your granny AKA
de-population, the lab/lib/con coalition are wide open to any such suggestions preferable with a cover reason to fool the supporting / voting fools, again.
You can rack up a great many premature deaths in the intervening 27 years.
I am waiting for the ruling political reptiles to put making the
ownership of wood / coal in their manifesto’s a capital offence,
because the current electorate wood go for it.
Over the years it would be double dicey getting about on account of ice & monkey balls if left to the likes of j,arnpit & co.
In our area we only have one engineer qualified to do maintenance on heat pumps.
Plenty of businesses happy to install them for a price, but maintenance?????
Who, or what, is Sir John Armitt?
Here he is:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Armitt
I wonder if he’s heard of Professor Will Happer?
He looks old enough to be well out of the way long before 2050.
I know people moan about contacting their surgery but I phoned in my repeat prescription yesterday to the dedicated answering service. I’ve just had a phone call from the receptionist to say the message was garbled (mobile signal was failing) and as she’d recognised my voice had rung me to find out what medicines I needed.
Good service !
We don’t have a dedicated line to order. Have to do it through the practice site or as i use now…Boots online.
I have tried to get my Meds in synch. I ordered the Ramipril which would have done it and it was refused. The following day i had an email telling me now was the time to order the bloody thing.
There is no substitute for a human being at the other end.
Phone? My surgery is all webby. No speech allowed!
“Ireland’s Israeli ambassador calls hospital attack a ‘war crime'”
Yeah, good luck selling that over there. Look how horrified they were at the sight of an Israeli flag in Brussells:
‘Minister Eamon Ryan has said Ireland has been consistent in its support of the Palestinian people’
https://www.thejournal.ie/meps-eu-commission-israel-flag-6190706-Oct2023/
Ireland, like Wales and Scotland, are thoroughly invested in the Marxian cult, since they see themselves as ‘oppressed’ and England as the ‘oppressor’.
Looks like the Muslim protesters in Baghdad agreed when they shouted “Death to France, England, America and the Zionists”
I hope the people of his country remember what he has said next time he asks them to vote for him.
Good morning. These are people who tell us they have the good of the planet in mind with their dimwitted wickedness.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tarableu/p/bird-armageddon?r=10qzvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It’s so weird that Biden called Hamas ‘the other team’. It’s like he thinks this is a hockey match.
At least he didn’t use the phrase ‘batting for the other side’.
The ragheads would have issued a fatwa against tho old pervert.
He wouldn’t understand Batting.
Working the other side of the street. I’ll get me handbag.
Many years ago a good friend lifted up my handbag and noted that hitting someone with it would be no idle threat. Nothing has changed. I have the occasional clear out and try to be good but it doesn’t last!
Look for the video footage of Janet Yellen asserting that America absolutely can afford another war.
It’s not real for them, because their children and grand-children won’t be on the front line. My contempt for rich, safe warmongers knows no bounds.
Agreed, BB2.
SIR – Hatred towards races and religions brought the world to its knees in the last century.
Who in their right minds could teach such hatred to their children again?
Elizabeth Griffin
Shrewsbury
I am currently reading a sort of historical novel about the Ottoman Empire.
I read this passage yesterday:
Living separate lives in separate villages [in east Anatolia- Turkey], Armenians [Christians] and other tribesmen [Muslims] had been assiduously at each other’s throats, committing against each other the banal but vile atrocities so frequently rehearsed by those who are deeply addicted to the orgasmic pleasures of extreme mutual hatred.
Multiculturalism will never bring harmony if an incoming people refuses to integrate with the indigenous people.
Islam and Christianity are completely incompatible particularly when the incomers are not prepared to integrate at all and where the leaders of the indigenous people are weak and too ready to concede.
Good morning Sguest! I’ve been hoping you’d have some words of wisdom for us on the current ME crisis.
Here are mine: what a shitstorm.
Talking of the off switch earlier Vine this morning went to a break and said when we come back we will be talking about the bombing of the Gaza hospital.
Or words to that effect.
A punch on the nose might help steer him the right direction.
We can always hope he gets run over by a steam roller when he’s out on his bike bugging motorists.
I’ll do it! No fee needed!
I’ll fight you for it!
Get to the back of the queue, Sue!
(Sounds like a line from a refrain!)
Hair was a very popular show in the late 1960s.
I remember thinking the lyrics of this song very apt: they are still very relevant today especially among the woke who claim to care about social injustice and abstract, remote grievances while being completely callous and insensitive towards those actually near them.
How can people be so heartless?
How can people be so cruel?
Easy to be hard, easy to be cold.
Oh, how can people have no feelings?
How can they ignore their friends?
Easy to be proud, easy to say no.
Especially people who care about strangers, who care about evil and social injustice.
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend, I need a friend.
How can people be so heartless?
You know I’m hung up on you.
Easy to give in, easy to help out.
Especially people who care about strangers, who say they care about social injustice.
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend, I need a friend.
How can people have no feelings?
How can they ignore their friends?
Easy to be hard, easy to be cold.
Easy to be proud, easy to say no.
It seems sentiments have changed a lot since the late 60s.
Harmony and understanding……………. Back seat now.
Paul Nicholas use to sing in a band Paul Dean and the Dreamers. Often seen at Canada Villa Youth club Mill Hill.
I had a friend who played Guitar in the band mid 70s.
Socialists seek to change the world, with no regard for the world immediately around them. Conservatives know that they cannot change the world, but seek to improve the world immediately around them.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/18/protests-middle-east-palestine-lebanon-us-embassy-iran/
BTL
Why do Muslims want to live in France or England?
Few Christians are happy to live in Islamic countries and those who do so are treated far worse than Muslims are treated in Christian lands.
They are following instructions.
BBC 9th September 2014 https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=7c1d8c98a30618acJmltdHM9MTY5NzU4NzIwMCZpZ3VpZD0xZmQ0Y2MxNi01OTEwLTZiOTYtMzZiZS1kZmJmNTgyODZhNWUmaW5zaWQ9NTIzMw&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=1fd4cc16-5910-6b96-36be-dfbf58286a5e&psq=Why+are+muslims+so+agressive+&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLW1pZGRsZS1lYXN0LTI5MTIzNTI4&ntb=1
They want to live there to forcibly convert the kuffar (who will then have to pay jizya to live in a muslim land).
And “once more unto the breach dear friends”
As the thousand plus year war continues. And the London police have other ideas but common sense. Capitulation.
Khant said only two weeks ago that he is strictly against hate crimes, it seems the police he now governs has other ideas.
A man was march off the holding a union jack within the last two weeks.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pro-palestine-protesters-who-waved-jihadist-flag-did-not-commit-offence-say-police/ar-AA1imtn2?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3d1f6fee75804a17aab086ed3adf62b5&ei=37&fullscreen=true#image=2
Another of your mutant URLs, Eddy!
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It’s all very well The Fakir using the P-word but what will he do when the members of The Ropery begin rampaging through the streets of the UK?
I put this up yesterday and it didn’t get much of a response. Following on the piece by Vernon Bogdanor, I’ve highlighted the passage that should make the UK establishment very worried.
Allison was on a roll today – not only the above article but a great piece on EVs and the dangers of Lithium Ion fires! Sadly I suspect she will be cancelled any time soon.
Insurance companies are beginning question where you park your EV, if it’s in a garage, attached to the house, they do not want to cover your home.
If a fire started and you EV burned to the ground, the insurers wouldn’t pay out anyway. The entire purpose of insurance companies is to cheat, defraud, lie, steal and deceive you.
Understood, but what they are saying is that your home and contents will not be covered at all.
You can’t blame them. I said only last week this would be the natural outcome. You will be required to have additional separate insurance for having an EV on your premises. Makes sense.
Can we? Yes. Why? Because despite having a violent criminal gang of fanatic psychotics forced on us by the state we haven’t en masse hanged them.
This Christian country of ours, as was, is no more. The police should have prevented any kind of demonstration next to or around the Cenotaph. How very very sad that our politicians have brought this country down.
“Very very sad” just doesn’t come close to what I really think about this so-called government. They are the utter dregs. They are worse than that. I loathe and despise all of them.
Every single thing they do is wrong. Every single one. Back to front, idiotic, the exact, precise opposite of the right choice. The question is why?
The WEF. Our govt has been told to criticise and ignore all aspects of our culture, to break down our nation state. So that the WEF and its NWO can ‘Build Back Better’. As if. Government has had its orders. High treason is afoot.
I totally agree. As I have written to my MP several times.
I can think of only one thing that would prompt HMG to make such appalling, costly and counter-productive decisions – money.
We are not governed by the conservatives we are governed by unseen unelected bodies. Such as the UN, WEF, WHO. Not forgetting people like Bill Gates and George Soros of course.
Somnolent plod can’t be bothered to do what they are paid for but these guys can…https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12642667/Britains-private-police-suspected-burglar-court-shoplifting-spree.html
‘Somnolent plod’ carry out the diktats of their political rulers. Those political rulers carry out the diktats of the WEF, the UN, the WHO, the global corporations, and ‘Big Pharma’. This is the way of the modern Western world. Get used to to; it will never improve.
If the police are no longer of the people, for the people then they’re just a state run militia and have no right to enforce law.
They stopped being public servants as far back as 1978.
I wrote a book on hedgehogs. 😁
Paper would have been easier! 🦔🦔
Biden arrives in Israel wanting straight answers to tough questions.
Who am I?
Where am I?
Why is my left leg wet?
…and my pants full of shit.
Urgh! 🤮
Forget the iplayer post. This woman is the bees knees…https://paulacarnell.com/
It says she is an “international bee expert”. Where does she find these “international bees” that she professes to be an expert in?
So she’s a bee hiveior expert
She does seem very knowledgeable. Thousands of different types of bees but only 11 types of honey bees.
Oberst said they had been having problems with theirs. Thought it might help.
Very kind, thanks.
https://order-order.com/2023/10/18/watch-biden-offers-words-of-wisdom-in-tel-aviv/
A direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F6i1b3Y-bU
Why am I here?
Afternoon All
As Archduke Franz Biden arrives in Israel…….
Medley Time
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“If the ‘good guys’ won World Wars I and II, then why is the world being ruled by a bunch of self-appointed Bolshevik organisations, like the WHO. UN and WEF?”
There will always be Dictators. Always have been. It was ever thus. They come in many forms and guises. The current lot simply noticed the failings of the former lot so resolved to achieve their power and influence while not making the same mistakes as their predecessors.
Yep. The enemy didn’t change, they just learned how to get their own way. Hitler used a war machine, the UN uses bureaucracy, the WEF blatant corruption, fraud and theft.
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You appear to be on a roll Phizee…!
That’s progress for you!
Too true.
Do you have access to BBC iplayer?
No.
I would buy that T. paper happily.
I don’t think i would want that representation in my house.
The electric car revolution is set to get even more expensive
More spacious parking facilities will be needed because of the risk of fires
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/electric-car-revolution-to-get-even-more-expensive/
BTL
A damp squib.
Light the touch paper, retire and await the thing to fizzle a bit and then go out!
An appropriate metaphor for the electric car? It will never take off but it may go up in flames!
More spacious parking facilities?
How spacious?
I don’t want my car parked within two hundred yards of one of those feckers.
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Many might prefer to take their chances in the Gaza Strip….just saying.
What is this obsession with the Jocks to be ruled by fish?
First it was Salmond, then it was Sturgeon, now it is Bombay Duck.
I knew there was something fishy about Useless
The BBC is on the verge of declaring a week long period of mourning. It turns out the rocket/fire that killed more than *800 innocent women and children has been proven to be an Hamas rocket that went astray and set fire to an explosives dump in the hospital cellars. There is a reward out for the capture of the persons who revealed the facts in an unguarded telephone call after the event – it has greatly embarrassed the BBC . . . again. *Number of dead claimed on a live BBC broadcast.
BBC activists belong to a cult, and cultists are not well known for letting facts change their minds. The NPC meme sums it up perfectly.
I wonder – is that the correct spelling of cult in regard to the BBC?
Danger to life as rare red warning issued ahead of Storm Babet. 18 October 2023.
A rare red warning for rain has been issued by the Met Office for parts of Scotland on Thursday, meaning “very dangerous” weather is expected that is likely to pose a “risk to life”.
The agency warns of “exceptional rainfall” of up to 250mm in places as Storm Babet continues to rage across the UK.
The Met Office said that in the areas of Montrose, Forfar, Brechin and Inverbervie in eastern Scotand there would be “exceptionally heavy and persistent rain” from Thursday evening.
There’s never been a storm in the UK before!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/uk-weather-storm-babet-live-latest-updates/
More sensationalism and propagandisation. For many, it works.
377752+ up ticks,
Yet another anti health request dropped on the doormat this morning, the second in three weeks.
Thanks but no thanks.
Coronavirus Plushie
@c_plushie
Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St. Georges Hospital Medical School London.
Cancer patients relapsing after the #COVID19 vaccine.
Please watch the full video of 18 UK doctors calling for the immediate suspension of the mRNA vaccines here:
https://rumble.com/v21sncg-uk-doctors-call-for-government-investigation-of-mrna-covid-vaccines.html
This little video on Twitt is a masterclass in demolishing a BBC-type journalist. Pierre Poilevre is being slightly disingenuous though, as he must know the currency is beyond saving and the bankers won’t let him stop printing. Or perhaps he really does intend to try and tackle that problem. Anyway, enjoy!
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1714297158474846256
Thank you. (I love the “Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge” – common sense analogy)!
The fruit being sold by modern universities is rotten to the core.
Could we have him over here? Oh, hang on. We did, in Truss. The Left were so terrified of a low tax, small state ideology exposing their miserable hateful socialist agenda that they knifed her and imposed their own choice – an unelected, unaccountable statist who does nothing until his masters approve it.
He eviscerated, verbally, that brain-dead pinko nonentity.
I would love to eviscerate it non-verbally.
Obviously an ignorant twat eating whilst being intervewed
My reading of the clip is different.
Eating the apple was part of the technique, a brilliant way with those short and sharp responses to disconcert and take down the idiot interviewer.
Like Jimmy Saville eating a banana during his interview with Andrew Neil?
Brilliant. I forgive him munching while talking.
It’s a set-up!
Ooh you are suspicious! I reckon not – but neither do I think Poilevre is going to save us.
Ths interview resulted in this being published:
“When asked why Canadians should trust him with their votes given his demonstrable track record of flip-flopping on key issues and what some consider his use of polarizing ideologically-infused rhetoric suggesting he simply takes pages out of the Donald Trump populist playbook, Poilievre became acerbic.”
Not a setup, some of our media are stupid enough to attack a politician with unsubstantiated innuendo.
It was the sheer unlikeliness of the staging…
Hello all!
Apologies if this has already been posted, but I thought it was rather good
“The Return of Rational fear” by Gareth Roberts in The Spectator
‘I don’t feel safe’ is the cry of students the western world over at the prospect of hearing terrifying opinions such as ‘there are two sexes’ or ‘your skin colour shouldn’t matter’. This bluff talk of ‘hate’, terror and even, incredibly but regularly, ‘trans genocide’, used to come over merely as pathetic and entitled. Singer Will Young telling the Labour conference that he was ‘terrified’ of the Tories winning the next election would, the week before, have been merely laughable. Coming days after the slaughter in Israel, it sounded unforgivably crass and narcissistic.
This is, I think, less a coherent political ideology than a sickness of western affluence mixed with old-fashioned stately snobbery
Perhaps partly because of the Young-style claptrap that’s accumulated over the last decade, genuine fear has become an almost embarrassing thing to express, even in our emotionally incontinent age of public confession on ITV2. But as jazz pianist Blossom Dearie sang, in the final recording of her long career, ‘It’s All Right To Be Afraid’: ‘There are shadows, there are strangers, there are problems, there are dangers’. Let’s be honest. We are worried and for real this time.
This was particularly clear in our attitude to the demonstrations this Saturday in support of Hamas, for that is obviously what they were. How else could we understand the images of paragliders worn by some protesters? They blew the lid off our polite fictions, all of our ostrich-heading and finger-crossing. Because there you had it – thousands of people marching through British cities celebrating unimaginable savagery, cheering its perpetrators and blaming its victims. The worst display of ethnic hatred this country has seen in centuries. And still, we are expected to squirm and nod and look the other way. To not even acknowledge to ourselves that we feel afraid.
How did we get here? This has all been enabled by that section of the white middle class we still call left-wing, liberal and progressive, despite the fact that they are not left-wing, liberal or progressive. As many have noticed, they’ve said very little about it or muttered about it all being very sad and ‘complex’, which is a far cry from the customary infantile simplicity of their view of the world.
I think this is mainly because they’re only interested in racism when the white working class can be blamed. That’s what it was always all about for them. Let’s consider their schtick. There was the preening and posturing over Black Lives Matter (now revealed for what they always were to anybody with eyes to see). There was the enthusiastic adoption of crank American academic ideas like white privilege. There was an endless stream of TV dramas about how awful and easily led the lower orders were and are.
It has all been a pathetic, proxy class war, a game to reinforce their social status. All the while, they have ignored the ethnic hatreds of a sizeable minority of immigrants who they welcomed in large numbers seemingly because they hoped it would annoy their social inferiors. In Orwell’s memorable phrase, they are people playing with fire who don’t even know that fire is hot.
This is, I think, less a coherent political ideology than a sickness of western affluence mixed with old-fashioned stately snobbery. (And for the avoidance of doubt, if there are a group of people I truly detest in this country, it is these people. They’re always accusing their detractors of hate for this or that ‘community’ – I want to correct them, ‘no, no, it’s you’.) Are we really going to go back to taking them seriously, despite this clear illustration of what they have brought to us?
Yes. We will have no choice – because, after all, they have the workings of our society. Almost every institution is corrupted top to toe, riddled with this rubbish, including the ones that are there to protect us. Westminster Council approved the erection of a stand marked ‘No Apartheid’ in Whitehall, right next to the Cenotaph. The BBC almost totally ignored the marches in its Saturday night news bulletins (they were all over Will Young like a rash days before). They won’t call Hamas terrorists, but they will call a rapist ‘she’ if that rapist so desires. The famously vocal ‘anti-racist’ celebrities like Gary Lineker, usually so keen to compare everything to 1930s Germany, have tweeted not a dicky bird about either the slaughter in Israel or the mass display of racial hatred on Britain’s streets.
It is, understandably, preferable to hold on to the belief that the institutions are still functional. Their weakness and obliviousness is a horrible and scary thing to have to confront. And that brings us back to fear.
Suella Braverman, incredibly, released a strongly worded statement – ‘the police are coming for you’ – the day after the marches. On the day itself, the police stood meekly by as the marchers chanted anti-Semitic slogans and waved Hamas flags. This is the same police force that swoops on people who post edgy memes on Facebook. It’s easy to intimidate middle-aged women in their homes, after all. Actual crime and real, visceral racial hatred must be very upsetting for the police.
But then, we are all cosseted and cradled, and we’ve all been living in a strange and unprecedented historical bubble of peace and plenty, in which we have routinely assumed that western liberal democracy is up to the job of nullifying the eternal human potential for evil. It is rational to be afraid of what we saw this weekend in London. Acknowledging that fear would, I think, go a small way to start bringing us back to reality. Maybe then we can begin to figure out what to do about it.
Like Rod Liddle and Douglas Murray, Gareth Roberts has become one the Spekkie must reads.
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But those brought up on ‘old Maths’ will understand!
Most of us here will!
Not me. Is the answer 42?
Has your life lost its meaning?
Is he at sixes and sevens or just at six times seven?
Nah, he’s just 37.5 new pence short of a load.
Trust you to come up with the answer to life, the universe and everything!
Can’t see the point of non-decimal fractions.
It’s pointless debating with folk like you, it always results in division.
}:-O
Go forth and multiply!
I should be so lucky, but I’m happily married, so that doesn’t add up.
You’re so square!
Rooted in my old fashioned standards.
I’m about to go out, so I’ll log off.
Rhythmically?
Which fraction? The funny bone?
Even I got that one!
Edward Dowd
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“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
~Garry Kasparov, chess master
Good point. We get wave after wave of saturation coverage of horrors. Covid, Ukraine, now the middle East. Always death and destruction.
F the media and the Twitter bots pushing this stuff.
Too many building up so another batch
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Unless it’s April Fools’ Day I’ve just come across a BBC news item that I can actually believe:
“A 14-year-old cat has broken the Guinness World Record for the loudest purr – from the comfort of her favourite cushion.
Bella, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, achieved a purr measuring 54.6 decibels, equivalent to the volume of a boiling kettle.
Her feat was captured by an official adjudicator and an acoustic engineer who blocked out all external noise.
Nicole Spink, Bella’s owner, said she “couldn’t be more thrilled”.
I’ve often wondered about Mongo’s bark. He doesn’t very often, preferring that odd ‘whuff’ dogs do. But when he goes for it in anger or worry it’s a proper earth mover.
Did you see my response to your question yesterday re solar panels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVorjJCNCFQ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12643989/Iranian-kingpin-ran-huge-Europe-wide-people-smuggling-operation-saw-10-000-migrants-come-UK-illegally-boats-jailed-11-years-NCA-crackdown.html
I wonder how many of those thousands are sleeper jihadists supplied from Iran.
Thousands.
No deportation order?
Thought not.
Re the hospital
I err on the side of it being a Hamas or other Jihadist rocket hitting by mistake.
What seems strange is, that looking at what appears to be very little damage, that there should be so many casualties.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12644709/Furious-Hamas-slam-Israels-outrageous-lies-blame-Gaza-hospital-bombing-IDF-chief-claimed-wiretapped-call-video-misfiring-rocket-satellite-photos-prove-didnt-fire-missile.html
From all the photos, it seems it was the car park that was hit with whatever. Quite a few killed considering there weren’t that many cars parked.
Indeed.
Right. But the media are still reporting the official Hamas figures that a million people were killed or whatever.
So long as its less than 2.3m, it has to be true..
Fumes from burning EVs can be dangerous.
From the IDF evidence it was only the hospital car park that was hit from what they claimed was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile that had a flameout and disintigrated during its flight path over the hospital towards Israel.
The Luton airport car fire was far more intense and everybody escaped.
The Luton one wasn’t a sudden explosion per se, so although I take your point, I don’t think the two are strictly comparable.
I have just found out that the hospital that was bombed in Gaza was run by the Anglican diocese of Jerusalem – so it was a Christian hospital.
https://fr.aleteia.org/2023/10/18/gaza-un-hopital-chretien-sous-les-bombardements/
The Israeli line is that it was not they who bombed the hospital but Hamas or another Jihadist group whose rockets fell short and hit the hospital by chance.
What a coup for the terrorists if the bombing of the hospital were deliberate. Not only have they hit a hospital run by Christians but they can blame the Israelis for doing it.
I’ve been wondering about the reports of there being two explosions.
Was the second one inside the hospital, because there have not been pictures in the press, as far as I am aware, to suggest why so many died and were injured.
https://cdn.braze.eu/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/652fb7525c53370a736e9f24/original.jpg?1697625937
Russia: [In indignant voice] Well, Israel, if this was a rocket fired from Gaza, then show us the satellite images to prove it! [Folds arms in smug assumed victory while glancing over to watch the nodding and clapping from Iran]
Israel: Here’s the satellite imagery showing it was fired from Gaza.
Russia: … [nervous shuffling of feet] …erm, peace talks?
Inflation, tragic mass killings and heavy rain, could the news get any worse?
Newsflash: Ms Gerta Thunburger has been charged by Police with an offence, and she gave an address in … Darset (aka Dorset).
Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni called for an investigation into the death of Issam Abdallah, the Reuters video journalist who was killed Friday when he was struck by a shell that originated in Israel while filming cross-border fire between Israel and Lebanon. The rocket launcher he was carrying was undamaged.
This is what pathetic little men with oversized egos get up to. Coming to your town next.
Sadiq Khan Signs Up Londoners for the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ by 2030 With Meat Cut to WW2 Levels of 44g a Day
By Chris Morrison
Khan to plebs – I’ve taken your horrible cheap cars off the roads, now I’m coming after your nasty, smelly, unhealthy food. By 2030 you will be on Second World War calorie rations with plenty of vegetables, and little or no meat. That’s because I have signed London up to implementing the Planetary Health Diet with just 2,500 individual calories per day. Now you know I love statistics – did I tell you that my globalist friends inform me that banning your burgers and meat pies will help save 11 million lives each year?
The Planetary Health Diet (PHD) is the work of the EAT-Lancet Commission. It is predominantly an organic vegetarian plan and is intended to provide a “balanced, nutritional” and climate-friendly diet for all 10 billion people around the world. In 2019, London mayor Sadiq Khan led the way, signing up London to implement the diet for all by 2030. The PHD was one of the first to suggest that individual calories should be cut to Second World War levels and meat rationed to just 44 grams a day.
Through the C40 group of 100 city mayors, Khan additionally signed up to the ‘Good Food Cities Accelerator’. This committed a sub-set of 14 cities around the world to work with residents, businesses, public institutions and other organisations “to develop a joint strategy for implementing these measures by 2030”. Of course, at one level the idea that an increasingly despised Khan will “work” with Londoners to trash traditional diets in favour of ones based on organic grains and vegetables is laughable. But then 15 years ago, so was the idea that older cars owned by the less well-off would be forced from the roads by a Labour mayor under the guise of a so-called climate emergency.
As always, it is a good idea to look at what the global elites are writing and planning, often in plain sight. The PHD is the work of EAT, a non-profit, green activist operation that says it is dedicated to transforming the global food system to mitigate climate change. To pursue its aims, it has a number of partners including the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Needless to say, the show is funded by numerous foundations channelling money, often described as philanthropic, to fund ways to control rather than gain outright ownership of the means of production. Often described as ‘stakeholder capitalism’, the money buys influence, if not effective control, over wide swathes of industry, politics, media, academia and science.
EAT is based in Oslo and was founded by the Stordalen Foundation, Welcome Trust and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). The founder and Executive Chair is Dr. Gunhild Stordalen, who is reported to be linking “climate, health and sustainability issues across sectors to transform the global food system”. She is said to advise the World Economic Forum, and was named a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the Davos operation in 2015. In 2011, with her former husband she established the Stordalen Foundation, which went on to start the EAT Initiative with Johan Rockstrom and the SRC.
SRC is chaired by Johan Rockstrom from the Potsdam Institute and he is the activist’s activist. No climate scare seems too outrageous for him to promote. In May 2021 he told the Guardian that a Potsdam climate model showed that warming on Earth had not passed 2°C over the last three million years, a claim easily debunked by recent historical scientific evidence. SRC has a long list of foundation funders comprising individuals such as Wallenberg, Walton and Packard, corporates such as L’Oreal and Ikea, and Government institution’s including the European Commission and the British Foreign Office.
Next year will see the publication of EAT-Lancet 2.0, hoping to build on the findings of the first publication and “accelerate” the 2030 agenda. To help this along, there will be new elements such as a greater focus on diversity, food justice and something called “social food system goals”. In addition to the work of the Commission, a 12-month global consultation will be conducted, “with the aim of increasing local legitimacy, buy-in and adoption of the Commission’s recommendations”. Use of IPCC-like modelling is promised to evaluate “multiple transition pathways to healthy, sustainable and equitable food futures”.
Whether any of this will actually survive a direct democratic vote is of course the key question. Citizens in New Zealand have just turfed out a green, anti-farmer administration, the Dutch Government hangs by a thread following a local war on the agricultural sector, while Irish rural voters are unhappy about plans to decimate beef herds. And as we have shown in past articles on the Daily Sceptic, one group of eco extremists trying to turn the world vegetarian is going to conflict with another attempting to re-wild the planet, and another banning nitrogen fertiliser and cutting crop yields by half, and another planting vast monoculture acres for bio-fuels, and another growing building materials for future mud and grass hut housing… to be continued.
I would be interested to know what proportion of the typical “new Londoner” that has moved in is vegetarian or principally vegetable based.
Pretty high would be my guess, so it’s merely yet another focussed attack on the deplorables.
The standard argument of the anti-colonial left is that the native people were there first and so the incoming colonists should get out. And indeed most of the colonists have left.
By this same argument:
Islam and Christianity are incompatible so it is up to the Islamists to get out of Britain – the indigenous Christian population were there first.
Erm, I think the Druids etc. might have been here before the Christians…
I do miss the Druids……..sigh
Oooh you dear soppy romantic, you! xxx
I don’t know how many trees they chopped down, but it appears they did get planning permission to build a single storey structure in An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty near Amesbury and it’s still there today despite the Romans….
Ahh, but, but but,
Blacks built Stonehenge and they were Muslims before Islam was invented, ‘coz Blacks were sooo advanced.
/sarc.
I know – where did all that colossal black brainpower go? No evidence at all.
Didn’t you realise that the Oozlum bird was black?
Ohmygosh, that slipped my little brain…
“Moved in” or been moved in without our agreement. I wish to heck that Khan’s parents hadn’t been allowed in – and many, many others.
And just how does the jumped up little shlt intend to enforce this?
Presumably each food outlet is given planning permission and licensed – by the local authority.
How did it work in the war? Ration books, having to register with one butcher/greengrocer.
It seems there are a lot of opinionated folk who are keen to be volunteer guillotine testers!
Except there are no guillotines and they know it.
They aren’t high tech so easily replicated….
There is nothing — and I mean nothing — “balanced and nutritional” about asking (or telling) a natural carnivore, me, to eat weeds or other assorted putrid vegetation. I shall never do so and I will destroy anyone attempting to kill me by making me do so.
I have never been so fit as I am now, eating a proper, delicious, and nutritional diet of meat, meat and more MEAT. I intend to go on eating MEAT for the long life that I have planned for myself.
If I am ever prevented from acquiring, cooking, eating and enjoying beef, pork, lamb or duck, I shall simply start to enjoy barbecued muzzie!
Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07c19e4f92579e33a9f7af466e123ce60216f04ac4b913010f5f94d2f5fc130d.jpg I do not require food on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays; my natural carnivorous lifestyle keeps me nourished and sated.
Yesterday I ate this for my solitary meal. Two slices of black pudding fried in lard with a dollop of HP sauce; three Danish pølser (hot dog sausages) warmed in water and served with a little Dijon mustard, a little ketchup, and a few crispy fried onions; mushrooms fried in butter; and a small portion of home-made potted beef. The only vegetation on my plate was the crispy onions (and the tomatoes in the ketchup). Mushrooms are not vegetables, they are a eukaryotic organism that is as near to plant materials as it is to animal.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07c19e4f92579e33a9f7af466e123ce60216f04ac4b913010f5f94d2f5fc130d.jpg I do not require food on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays; my natural carnivorous lifestyle keeps me nourished and sated.
Yesterday I ate this for my solitary meal. Two slices of black pudding fried in lard with a dollop of HP sauce; three Danish pølser (hot dog sausages) warmed in water and served with a little Dijon mustard, a little ketchup, and a few crispy fried onions; mushrooms fried in butter; and a small portion of home-made potted beef. The only vegetation on my plate was the crispy onions (and the tomatoes in the ketchup). Mushrooms are not vegetables, they are a eukaryotic organism that is as near to plant materials it is animal.
Yuk – I think that would make me sick. I would even give up other pork as well.
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Be careful Grizzly.
Lots of meat in your diet could afflict you with gout.. very painful .
Sorry, Maggie, you are reading old, discredited data. Meat does not give you gout. I can show you dozens of references from carnivores who will confirm this.
I will continue to eat food that I want to eat, not what I am told to.
Exactly. But we may be priced out, I suppose. Let the vegans eat vegan – it doesn’t seem to help their mental faculties.
He’s over stepped his authority again. An investigation into his motivation might be advisable.
A rat from here.
He’s a modern version of Guy Fawkes
Dangerous.
Nothing will be done about it – he’s a slammer. Nuff said.
Letting these people get away with their disgusting audacity reflects heavily on our parents and grandparents efforts to save this country from previous invaders, often involving mortality. All fir nothing.
Our political classes stink, I hate them all.
So do I. They are stinking excrement.
I had an email informing me that it was a statutory requirement for local councils to achieve net zero by a certain date! We’re doomed unless the electorate comes to its senses and elects people who will return the place to normality by repealing the lunacy.
BBC Verify working its magic….
“We consulted experts to establish whether the available evidence – including the size of the explosion and the sounds heard beforehand – could be used to determine its cause.
So far the findings are inconclusive. BBC Verify has shown the evidence to a number of weapons experts, some of whom say it is not consistent with what you would expect from a typical Israeli airstrike.
J Andres Gannon, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, in the US, says the explosion appears to be small, meaning that the heat generated from the impact may have been caused by leftover rocket fuel rather than an explosion from a warhead.
Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) in the UK, agrees. While it is difficult to be sure at such an early stage, he says, the evidence looks like the explosion was caused by a failed rocket section hitting the car park and causing a fuel and propellant fire.
Mealy mouthed.
It still doesn’t explain the huge casualty figures that are being claimed by Hamas, 500 + I’ve seen quoted.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/they-believed-it-was-safe-death-toll-rising-blast-gaza-hospital
Each car must have had dozens of occupants and there must have been a tent city in the car park as well.
From the photograph, if it is the hospital in the background, it seems to show some broken windows.
It is said that a large number of folk were sheltering in the safety of the hospital grounds on the basis that the IDF wouldn’t target a hospital facility. They were probably right in that assumption.
Yes, I read in the WaPo that in the centre of the hospital was an open courtyard where many locals were taking refuge, because it was considered safe.
I haven’t see other corroboration, but the deaths to injured figures seem very high.
Ah, from the ‘Land of Milking it and Money’….
It was down to 200 this morning.
Truth coming out?
Or the horrible realisation that it was an own goal and the numbers needed lowering.
It doesn’t mention that they are all under nine years old:
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I didn’t know they had Covid in those days.
One for the ex servicemen on here:
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Lined up for corporal punishment.
That’s a bit stiff
Three line whip?
You should be so lucky! :o)
Don’t tempt him, he might know where you live!
Major in vest ment
Just a drill session for the next parade.
A little light relief.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91c5e4f7260752802652b2308551bd939c2fc1a48e50a62f8efba7fd8da4e913.jpg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-67147288
BBC Verify confirms that it was right wing climate change deniers who set fire to the wind turbine.
Achtung! Spitfire…
A little light relief.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91c5e4f7260752802652b2308551bd939c2fc1a48e50a62f8efba7fd8da4e913.jpg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-67147288
377752+up ticks,
Have the areas below also been lost to the islamic English population replacement campaign ?
Much of the world’s gas comes from Hamas headquarters. This war could affect us all
Winter is coming, and Iran sits next to the Strait of Hormuz
Carboniferous Bowland
In the UK, four areas have been identified as potentially viable for the commercial extraction of shale gas: the Carboniferous Bowland–Hodder area in north-west England (Lancashire and the Midlands) the Carboniferous Midland Valley in Scotland. the Jurassic Weald Basin in south England.
What will the slammers do when they have destroyed this country – what a miserable existence they will have. No bennies, no politicians kow-towing to them, no music (I bet they listen to it on the quiet). And all those “decent majority muslims” here won’t know what’s hit them.
A distant cousin (the sort of girl no decent parent would want their son to marry, 6 brats by 3 different fathers), married a British-born slammer (he fathered the youngest 3).
This man has just taken his 7 year old daughter to his ‘homeland’. My ‘cousin’ shared a photo he sent, showing the child with some of her cousins in the street. I wonder what the child thinks – litter everywhere and ‘all sorts’ of filth.
Betrothal planned. I wonder if your cousin will ever see her daughter again. But ‘ litter everywhere and all sorts of filth ‘ applies equally to many urban centres in the UK.
I hadn’t thought of betrothal.
Just showing what chattels will be available soon. Otherwise why just the one girl child.
Sometimes children don’t notice that kind of thing, Sometimes they do, and I dread to think what might happen to her if she voices an opinion to her father.
The relative, for all her faults, seems to be quite particular (which she got from her older relative who brought her up), so maybe her child could notice.
I’ve not met the father, though I get the impression he is under his wife’s thumb – unusual for a slammer. Certainly, she’d play merry hell if anything untoward happened to her child.
Just looking in and signing out. Been to Hatfield University. Not a white face to be seen – except on the staff, of course. Litter and filth wherever the young people (lotsa slammers) gather – bus stops etc. What a weird place the “Galleria” is….. Nice church in Old Hatfield – with some, er, different funerary monuments…!
Hope I haven’t missed the end of the world.
A demain
There’s bound to be a repeat……!
University now, that’s posh. It was Hatfield Poly when I went there
They didn’t even let me in… :-((
Are you still visiting the land of song at the weekend.
That’s the plan, terrorism and wealther permitting.
Flying to BRS, staying at CWL, then driving to Devon.
Be great to meet again – Monday 23rd, hope to have lunch at the Blue Anchor, East Aberthaw (my favourite boozer) – could you come over, Capt. KP?
Will plan on that. I still have your number, mine is the same. Avail any time if yr plans change.
We’re revisiting the plans – there’s too much crammed in to Monday, including the drive to Bideford. Might you be good for a beer Sunday night instead?
That would suit. Let me know what is best and if time is short, we can leave it to your next visit. Being ‘old’ these days, I am always wary of over extending my itinerary and ending up knackered!
Will do… replanning this evening, when SWMBO is home.
Will plan on that. I still have your number, mine is the same. Avail any time if yr plans change.
You should have told me you were coming over. I would have hung a banner from a bridge!
I’d like to know who it was who first put the fun into funerary?
The same guy who put laugh in slaughter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfBbQjNroY&list=WL&index=59 Anyone who is genuinely interested in prolonging their good health might want to watch (and listen to) this.
Utterly off topic
We’ve had a lot of rain, but it’s been very warm and then very sunny at the end of the day.
The sky cleared and the temperature is now dropping very rapidly.
Mist started to form at the bottom of the valley about 20 minutes ago and I’ve watched it creeping up the hills surprisingly quickly.
Where I could see several miles a few minutes ago It’s now down to a few hundred yards, except directly across from us.
It’s like floating on a cloud.
End of the world, matey.
But it was fun while it lasted…
That’s the spirit!
On the level, me.
Should we call you Bubbles?
You’re bursting so to do, so whine ot?
A very long time ago I worked with a bloke whose nickname was Bubbles (due to his cheery disposition). One day he had to tell an apprentice electrician that he was never going to make the grade and become a qualified electrician. He took the lad aside and said gently: “Son you will never become an electrician all the while there is a hole in your arse….”
Cruel, but there really are times it is better not to string people along
A very long time ago I worked with a bloke whose nickname was Bubbles (due to his cheery disposition). One day he had to tell an apprentice electrician that he was never going to make the grade and become a qualified electrician. He took the lad aside and said gently: “Son you will never become an electrician all the while there is a hole in your arse….”
That’s a some what Blithe remark….
Good Evening.
Nun finer.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/18/france-nun-rugby-tackle-environment-protest-ardche-watch/
Praise the Lord!
Tackled eh? Nice Try did she attempt the conversion?
“A member of the Notre Dame missionary family hurled herself at an activist as he tried to prevent the construction of a church near Ardèche”
I’ve a hunch Sister Ethmerelda did the right thing.
Does the name of her friend, ‘Quasimodo’, ring a bell?
Yeth.
I’ve a hunch it does…
There’s no such thing as a free hunch, so I am told…..
Do not ask for whom the bell told?
Is that a Camp analogy?
You rang?
I have just seen Babet through the lounge window back at home:
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Are you in your holiday home again?
It’s his electric car…
Yes, until tomorrow when son and family take over for a week.
Rain is now here at Lowestoft but should be clear by tomorrow morning.
Not happy with Wordle today.
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Adieu?
ARISE , Sir Sos! My first wrong’un for months
They must have seen your posts the other day, and set a trap.
Worked out rather well for me. My average is going down too. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0c7d5c27497cb2d3a93f09f2107259070e7513283d1d47051560794ef1585806.jpg
Not that bad:
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It’s a hard life….
Earlier today, under the usual fairly close supervision, I spent an hour and a half peeling, chopping, grating, zesting, crushing, weighing and measuring.
HG then does her magic.
Butternut squash with large prawns and shrimp Louisiana.
Deee lichh iouss.
And sufficient for both of us to eat today and tomorrow and two to freeze. It freezes brilliantly.
You might wonder about the “both of us to eat” bit.
It’s so good, it shouldn’t be wasted on a wife!
Luxury food at a relatively low cost on a per meal basis
Any spices?
Loads, but I only need to take them from the jars!
The BBC News channel saying it, as it most probably is, at the moment!!!
Amazing.
Israel isn’t totally at fault and the hospital probably was an own goal.
Sickening anti-Israel bias in the West sees the world teetering on the edge of the abyss
The speed with which so many gleefully rushed to judgment over the hospital attack was disgraceful
ALLISTER HEATH https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/sickening-anti-israel-bias-handing-victory-to-hamas/
We have just been subjected to a grotesque masterclass in misinformation, moral inversion, anti-Semitic hate-mongering and hypocrisy.
Within minutes of Hamas claiming, with zero proof, that Israel had bombed a hospital, the world erupted into instant, unequivocal condemnation of the Jewish state. The pent-up rage on social media, the utter certainty with which the allegations were repeated on the broadcast media, the uncritical acceptance of the vilest propaganda from terrorists, the willingness to attribute the worst possible motives to a tiny democracy fighting for its survival: it was a chilling spectacle – the successful whipping-up of a global lynch-mob, a terrifying glimpse into the darkest corners of the human psyche.
Millions of people in Britain, Europe, America and the Middle East knew – they just knew – that Israel must have bombed the hospital, that Hamas’s claims must be true. Isn’t that what an “illegitimate” nation of “settlers”, “ethnic cleansers” and “war criminals” would do? The sense of relief, of glee, from the Israel-haters was palpable.
Their sickening coalition of two-faced virtue-signallers, hard-Left activists, Islamist extremists and old-fashioned racists had kept quiet over the past few days, refusing to condemn the pogrom of 7/10, destabilised by a Hamas genocide that contradicted their worldview. But their cognitive dissonance – the gulf between the reality of jihadist massacres, and the anti-Israeli propaganda that they have imbibed – was becoming unbearable, and they couldn’t wait for confirmation of their detestable prejudices.
Now, they thought, a little over a week after the worst murder of Jews since the Holocaust, the normal order of things could return, and Israel could again be blamed for the death of women and children. To call such people useful idiots is far too kind: the extreme, irrational demonisation of Israel is the new blood libel of our times, an attempt at inflaming passions and provoking war, terror, death and destruction.
As Jake Wallis Simons argues in his brilliant, eponymous book, Israelophobia is the latest manifestation of anti-Semitism. The grossly disproportionate criticism, the hysterical denunciation, the virulent double standards, the delegitimisation and dehumanisation: this allergic reaction to Israel is so acute it can only be explained as the current iteration of the world’s oldest hatred.
The same people who spent days claiming that the massacre and incineration of babies by Hamas was “unverified”; who didn’t believe witness statements from Israeli doctors or soldiers; who conveniently ignored the fact the murderers had live-streamed their atrocities; who wanted to view every piece of evidence, every picture, every video for themselves before finally, almost reluctantly, accepting that Hamas had indeed committed war crimes – these very same people all immediately jumped to judgment.
Hamas’s word was enough. No proof was needed. The bias, the lack of objectivity, point to an abhorrent, endemic culture of anti-Semitism among swathes of the West’s cultural elites, even among those who see themselves as “tolerant” and “liberal”.
We should all care about the truth, however inconvenient or upsetting. I don’t know for certain what or who caused the explosion, but having scrutinised the evidence and especially the judgments of trustworthy open-source experts, it appears very likely that it was an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired. It seems very unlikely that Israel was to blame. If the evidence were to change, I would change my mind. So why have so many of those who rushed to condemn Israel remained silent now that the facts point to Islamic Jihad as the guilty party? Or is that a stupid question?
It should be obvious that Hamas are despicable liars, and that many of the civilian deaths inside Gaza have been caused by their own failed rocket launches. Palestinian deaths are helpful to the terrorists – in effect, a suicide cult who don’t value their own people – as they can blame Israel.
It is also sadly true that all democracies – America, Britain, France and Israel – sometimes get it wrong, and even tell untruths in wartime. At some point, it is inevitable that Israel will accidentally hit civilian targets. Yet anybody who understands anything about Israel, about the Israel Defense Forces’ legal apparatus, about the values of its people, knows that it is more committed to a clean war than almost any other democracy, let alone all the tyrants and fanatics that surround it.
The critical point is that this conflict – and the death of Palestinian civilians – is entirely the fault of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iran and other terror groups. It is they who inflicted a pogrom on Israel. It is they who don’t believe in Israel’s right to exist, and don’t believe in the peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews. It is they who hide among civilians, and store bombs in schools. It is they who are responsible for forcing Israel to defend itself, with an inevitable, tragic impact on civilians. We must hold the terrorists morally responsible for every death, Israeli or Palestinian.
Depressingly, Hamas’s psy-ops are succeeding. The pro-Israel alliance is fraying. The Iron Dome camouflages the scale of Hamas’s daily attempts at massacring Israeli civilians: the IDF’s strength is paradoxically its central weakness in the info wars. Much of the West is petrified at the prospect of a prolonged ground conflict, and cannot stomach large-scale casualties, for fear of a domestic political backlash. Yet without entering Gaza, how can Israel punish the murderers and destroy Hamas?
There is such a thing as a just war, one conducted for the purposes of self-defence, even one that requires invading another country and fighting street by street until total victory is assured. It is what happened in the Second World War, when the Allies liberated Europe, and in myriad other conflicts, though Israel would be far more restrained than most Western armies ever were. There is a fundamental, profound moral and legal distinction between deliberately torturing, raping and exterminating women and children, and the accidental, tragic death of civilians used as human shields as a result of careful, considered action taken by a law-bound army engaged in self-defence.
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden are holding firm, to their great credit, but the global anti-Israel propaganda is reaching a crescendo. The world is inching ever closer to the abyss, and Hamas’s stooges are helping to drag us into another dark age.
Observed by me to Second Son: Was there such a TV-fest of talking heads a week or so ago, when hundreds of Israelis were killed by Hamas? No.
I rest my case.
A powerful piece.
Are we surprised by this though?
Sickening anti-Israel bias in the West sees the world teetering on the edge of the abyss
The speed with which so many gleefully rushed to judgment over the hospital attack was disgraceful
ALLISTER HEATH https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/sickening-anti-israel-bias-handing-victory-to-hamas/
We have just been subjected to a grotesque masterclass in misinformation, moral inversion, anti-Semitic hate-mongering and hypocrisy.
Within minutes of Hamas claiming, with zero proof, that Israel had bombed a hospital, the world erupted into instant, unequivocal condemnation of the Jewish state. The pent-up rage on social media, the utter certainty with which the allegations were repeated on the broadcast media, the uncritical acceptance of the vilest propaganda from terrorists, the willingness to attribute the worst possible motives to a tiny democracy fighting for its survival: it was a chilling spectacle – the successful whipping-up of a global lynch-mob, a terrifying glimpse into the darkest corners of the human psyche.
Millions of people in Britain, Europe, America and the Middle East knew – they just knew – that Israel must have bombed the hospital, that Hamas’s claims must be true. Isn’t that what an “illegitimate” nation of “settlers”, “ethnic cleansers” and “war criminals” would do? The sense of relief, of glee, from the Israel-haters was palpable.
Their sickening coalition of two-faced virtue-signallers, hard-Left activists, Islamist extremists and old-fashioned racists had kept quiet over the past few days, refusing to condemn the pogrom of 7/10, destabilised by a Hamas genocide that contradicted their worldview. But their cognitive dissonance – the gulf between the reality of jihadist massacres, and the anti-Israeli propaganda that they have imbibed – was becoming unbearable, and they couldn’t wait for confirmation of their detestable prejudices.
Now, they thought, a little over a week after the worst murder of Jews since the Holocaust, the normal order of things could return, and Israel could again be blamed for the death of women and children. To call such people useful idiots is far too kind: the extreme, irrational demonisation of Israel is the new blood libel of our times, an attempt at inflaming passions and provoking war, terror, death and destruction.
As Jake Wallis Simons argues in his brilliant, eponymous book, Israelophobia is the latest manifestation of anti-Semitism. The grossly disproportionate criticism, the hysterical denunciation, the virulent double standards, the delegitimisation and dehumanisation: this allergic reaction to Israel is so acute it can only be explained as the current iteration of the world’s oldest hatred.
The same people who spent days claiming that the massacre and incineration of babies by Hamas was “unverified”; who didn’t believe witness statements from Israeli doctors or soldiers; who conveniently ignored the fact the murderers had live-streamed their atrocities; who wanted to view every piece of evidence, every picture, every video for themselves before finally, almost reluctantly, accepting that Hamas had indeed committed war crimes – these very same people all immediately jumped to judgment.
Hamas’s word was enough. No proof was needed. The bias, the lack of objectivity, point to an abhorrent, endemic culture of anti-Semitism among swathes of the West’s cultural elites, even among those who see themselves as “tolerant” and “liberal”.
We should all care about the truth, however inconvenient or upsetting. I don’t know for certain what or who caused the explosion, but having scrutinised the evidence and especially the judgments of trustworthy open-source experts, it appears very likely that it was an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired. It seems very unlikely that Israel was to blame. If the evidence were to change, I would change my mind. So why have so many of those who rushed to condemn Israel remained silent now that the facts point to Islamic Jihad as the guilty party? Or is that a stupid question?
It should be obvious that Hamas are despicable liars, and that many of the civilian deaths inside Gaza have been caused by their own failed rocket launches. Palestinian deaths are helpful to the terrorists – in effect, a suicide cult who don’t value their own people – as they can blame Israel.
It is also sadly true that all democracies – America, Britain, France and Israel – sometimes get it wrong, and even tell untruths in wartime. At some point, it is inevitable that Israel will accidentally hit civilian targets. Yet anybody who understands anything about Israel, about the Israel Defense Forces’ legal apparatus, about the values of its people, knows that it is more committed to a clean war than almost any other democracy, let alone all the tyrants and fanatics that surround it.
The critical point is that this conflict – and the death of Palestinian civilians – is entirely the fault of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iran and other terror groups. It is they who inflicted a pogrom on Israel. It is they who don’t believe in Israel’s right to exist, and don’t believe in the peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews. It is they who hide among civilians, and store bombs in schools. It is they who are responsible for forcing Israel to defend itself, with an inevitable, tragic impact on civilians. We must hold the terrorists morally responsible for every death, Israeli or Palestinian.
Depressingly, Hamas’s psy-ops are succeeding. The pro-Israel alliance is fraying. The Iron Dome camouflages the scale of Hamas’s daily attempts at massacring Israeli civilians: the IDF’s strength is paradoxically its central weakness in the info wars. Much of the West is petrified at the prospect of a prolonged ground conflict, and cannot stomach large-scale casualties, for fear of a domestic political backlash. Yet without entering Gaza, how can Israel punish the murderers and destroy Hamas?
There is such a thing as a just war, one conducted for the purposes of self-defence, even one that requires invading another country and fighting street by street until total victory is assured. It is what happened in the Second World War, when the Allies liberated Europe, and in myriad other conflicts, though Israel would be far more restrained than most Western armies ever were. There is a fundamental, profound moral and legal distinction between deliberately torturing, raping and exterminating women and children, and the accidental, tragic death of civilians used as human shields as a result of careful, considered action taken by a law-bound army engaged in self-defence.
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden are holding firm, to their great credit, but the global anti-Israel propaganda is reaching a crescendo. The world is inching ever closer to the abyss, and Hamas’s stooges are helping to drag us into another dark age.
Observed by me to Second Son: Was there such a TV-fest of talking heads a week or so ago, when hundreds of Israelis were killed by Hamas? No.
I rest my case.
Storm Babbette, blah
We had to dash to Weymouth this morning to meet up with friends who were on their way back to Northampton at midday,
The sea was rough, the atmosphere was misty rainy but not too much of a blow ..
We had a slightly rough spell for a couple of hours here at home at about 1300 hrs. then it became a drizzle , so went to the chemist for usual pills and gave Pip a quick gallop , he needed a good run to let off steam and a few lumps of you know what.
Drizzling now, but mild as anything , 14c.. yes and I have opened a top window ( behind the closed curtains in living room , Moh doesn’t know because he is a shut window sort of person and feels the cold )
What storm .. ?
When is it supposed to arrive?
Hasn’t it been and gone ?
I like your car avatar.
I think it’s going to miss us here and hit Scotland more.
Despicable thought for the day.
Which would be the better world:
One without Muslims
One without Jews
One without Christians
One without, well you get where this is going.
One without any religion or “ism”?
Or, for Grizzy’s benefit:
One without humans.
I’m in two minds between Muslims and humans.
Well, that’s to be expected.
You’re a
mola mola!
Ah, he’s Sunny then!
We’d certainly be better off without islam.
North-east drivers told ‘do not travel’ during life-threatening Storm Babet
Police have warned people to stay at home while a red weather warning is in place on Thursday and Friday.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6225230/travel-warning-storm-babet-aberdeenshire/
How effing pathetic of the Press & Journal!
EDIT: The “hammer the esc key” approach allows reading to the article here, too.
Perhaps it’s time that the family of anyone who is killed under any circumstances due to “forecasts” by “experts” should be able to sue the expert for every last penny they have.
Then, just maybe, these morons would stop “forecasting”.
It’s advice at the moment, but it will soon be mandatory.
I can’t see many employers accepting that as a reason for not going to work.
Another (wicked) thought for the day:
Of course the Israelis deliberately struck a Christian hospital, they were trying to make it appear that Hamas did it, to create anti Muslim outrage.
Oh what a tangled web we weave??
The reality is that the Israelis would avoid such places like the plague, to avoid creating yet more enemies.
My money is on an own goal.
Look who I have found https://thecoconutwhisperer.blogspot.com/2023/10/how-brussels-became-terror-capital-of.html#disqus_thread
I hope Hat’s OK
It is/was one of his many blogs.
I had a positive response from him and a few of his friends about a week ago.
So did I.
Ah so that is why a few of you have arrived at the blog today, it looks a lot like nttl.
Evening, all. A mixed day. It was dull with occasional sun so I went and had a coffee with Kadi as Oscar thought it was too cold to venture out (so far, so good). When I got back I thought I’d make a start on the veg plot, forking it over and removing the weeds. I’d barely got started when it started to rain! Plan B. I had a £20 voucher for Halfords so as there was something I wanted, I thought I’d use it before it ran out. Their website wasn’t exactly the friendliest, but I persisted. I put the code in, it accepted it, removed the £20 then charged me the full amount! I got in touch with an “agent” by chat (it was too late to phone) who said it couldn’t be altered, I’d have to cancel and start again. There was nowhere for me to cancel. No, they would have to do it. It would take up to 72 hours. In the meantime I checked the progress and it was ready for delivery! What do I do? Oh, take it back. Yeah, right. The nearest store is 16 miles away which is why I chose home delivery. Well, refuse to accept it when the courier delivers it. That’s if I can catch the courier. They have a tendency to drop things off on the porch of my studio (over 100 ft from the house) or leave it on the green bin by the back gate (even father away!). I tell you, do NOT buy from Halfords on line! I used a debit card (silly me, but I’ve had no problems with other purchases) that is on-line only. Cue even more hassle trying to stop the purchase there. I am, to say the least, fuming.
As for the headline; simple. If it’s a muslim atrocity, selon El Bebeera it’s a lone wolf attack. If it’s a protest by a normal person driven beyond endurance it’s a far-right extremist terrorist atrocity!
I’ve never had any trouble buying from Halfords on line except you can’t get your forces veterans discount but I can get my Blue Light Card discount – strange
I’d never tried before, but there was an item I fancied buying and since I had the voucher, I thought I’d get it from Halfords. It’s a complete mess and has left me very miffed!
Odds are that if you try to reuse the discount voucher, you will be told that it has already been used.
That was my thought, too.
London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone does NOT apply to the M25, even where the motorway passes within London’s boundary. Other than that, the ULEZ boundary is that of London’s outermost boroughs, up to but not into neighbouring counties.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-where-and-when
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/motoring/m25-ulez-is-in-map-new-zone-expansion-london-when-pay-charge-2579084
I suspect that the thought of Khan bringing the M25 into his control would result in him drowning in his own saliva…
Great to see you back again Stig.
Seconded.
And thirded!!
Fourthed !
Fifthed!
Sixthed!
Well for years I have suggested that they build a big wall beside the M25 and box London into its own little world.
Then you could build a dam across the Thames at the Dartford tunnel and switch what is left of London to hydro electric power.
Oi! I’m just inside the M25 but I’m not in London, I’m in Hertfordshire.
Gaza sur Thames then!
It’s the Gade here – Thames miles away!
Ah well, it is for the good of everyone. Just wear your water wings to bed at night.
Actually we are thinking of moving away at some stage anyway. Probably Devon or Isle of Wight.
No different from the LEZ then. It always struck me as ridiculous that thirty feet or so below people were being penalised for driving older cars while any old jalopy could travel on the M25 (when things were moving) over the LEZ with impunity. It convinced me it wasn’t about pollution but about making money.
Not just money – also CONTROL
Good evening all.
A wasted run to Stoke today. Tried phoning step-son to make sure he remembered I was visiting, but got voicemail every time.
Drove there via Ashbourne & A52, he was not in.
Visited Stoke Market, a couple of decent butcher’s stalls and one with a fair selection of cheese, then retried his flat, still not in.
Driving home planning to detour and stop off at a couple of places, phone rang. Pulled into a side street to answer it, it was Graduate Son who advised me stepson had come over to visit me!!!
Hare-arsed back down the A52, getting home in less than an hour(!!!) where I gave him a bit of a verbal roasting.
Turns out his phone was switched to Aeroplane Mode!!!
An hour or so after I got back, he left to walk down to Cromford Station.
Tried calling him about 7ish to see if he’d got home safely, guess what? Straight to bloody voicemail again!!!
I HATE saying it, but one of these days I’m going to hit him and if I do I’ll pummel him into the ground!
Perhaps time for a break and leave his mother to deal with him for a while?
Probably true, but BoB is a genuine Good Samaritan of the type we all hope will be there in extremis; so will do what he thinks is right!
Sadly, my ex-wife, he mother, died 29y ago.
Sorry to hear that. Difficult to deal with family problems alone. I imagine a bit of time out before returning to help might be useful.
You are an absolute star Bob, dealing with that wretched being .
Your patience has shone through , and especially over the many years when the lad has caused heartache and decision making due to his terrible problems .
You won’t – but venting to us is a good stress-buster. We are happy to listen.
Well he had made the effort to visit you. You obviously got your wires crossed as to who was visiting who.
It seems to me that it was step-son who got his wires crossed and not BoB, Hertslass.
Yes I agree, but at least step-son had made the effort. Mind you, I know the irritation when one can’t get through to someone because they have a mobile that only seems to be switched on when they want to make a call…
Or, as is frequently the case with me, has forgotten it or left it on charge 🙂
Took ages to get SWMBO to NOT switch the phone off until she wanted to make a call, finish the call, and switch off again.
The British Museum was the “victim of an inside job” when approximately 2,000 artefacts were stolen from its collections, the chair of trustees, George Osborne, has said.
The museum, one of the most visited in the world, has been dealing with the aftermath of the thefts, which highlighted internal failings and led to the exit of its director. On Wednesday, it also announced plans to digitise its collection.
“Essentially we were the victims of an inside job by someone, we believe, who over a long period of time was stealing from the museum and who the museum had put trust in,” Osborne told parliament’s culture, media and sport committee.
“Quite a lot of steps were taken to conceal [thefts] … a lot of records were altered and the like.”
Osborne said there were “lots of lessons to be learned” as a result, and that the thefts had prompted changes, including updating the museum’s whistleblowing code and policy on thefts, as well as tightening up security.
The museum, which holds treasures such as the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon marbles, sacked a member of staff over the thefts, which are also being investigated by the Metropolitan police.
It has said the stolen items included gold rings, earrings and other pieces of jewellery dating back to ancient Greek and Roman periods, as well as small objects such as gems that were often set in rings.
Osborne also announced that the stolen items that had been recovered would be put on display. “There is a lot of public interest in these objects … 350 have now been recovered and titles have been transferred to us so we have the makings of a good exhibition that was not previously planned,” he said.
During the hearing, Mark Jones, the museum’s interim director, said steps had been taken “to improve security and [we] are now confident that a theft of this kind can never happen again”.
He added: “But we cannot and must not assume that the security of the collection, in a wider sense, can be achieved simply by locking everything away.
“It is my belief that the single most important response to the thefts is to increase access, because the better a collection is known – and the more it is used – the sooner any absences are noticed. So that’s why, rather than locking the collection away, we want to make it the most enjoyed, used and seen in the world.”
The museum said the digitisation project would take five years, with 2.4m records to upload or upgrade. Its collection totals at least 8m objects.
Jones conceded this was a “big task”, but added that “more than half is already done and when it is finished it will mean that everyone, no matter where in the world they live, will be able to see everything we have – and use this amazing resource in a myriad of ways”.
The museum, which has resisted calls from many countries, including Greece, to repatriate historical treasures over the years, launched a public hotline last month appealing for help in locating the stolen items.
Asked about the steps the museum had taken to stop something similar happening in the future, Jones told MPs: “We have changed the rules governing access to strong rooms: now there is nobody who is allowed to go into a strong room on their own and that, with a whole lot of other measures, should ensure that kind of theft that has happened couldn’t happen again.”
was the “victim of an inside job” when approximately 2,000 artefacts were stolen from its collections, the chair of trustees, George Osborne, has said.
The museum, one of the most visited in the world, has been dealing with the aftermath of the thefts, which highlighted internal failings and led to the exit of its director. On Wednesday, it also announced plans to digitise its collection.
“Essentially we were the victims of an inside job by someone, we believe, who over a long period of time was stealing from the museum and who the museum had put trust in,” Osborne told parliament’s culture, media and sport committee.
“Quite a lot of steps were taken to conceal [thefts] … a lot of records were altered and the like.”
Osborne said there were “lots of lessons to be learned” as a result, and that the thefts had prompted changes, including updating the museum’s whistleblowing code and policy on thefts, as well as tightening up security.
The museum, which holds treasures such as the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon marbles, sacked a member of staff over the thefts, which are also being investigated by the Metropolitan police.
It has said the stolen items included gold rings, earrings and other pieces of jewellery dating back to ancient Greek and Roman periods, as well as small objects such as gems that were often set in rings.
Osborne also announced that the stolen items that had been recovered would be put on display. “There is a lot of public interest in these objects … 350 have now been recovered and titles have been transferred to us so we have the makings of a good exhibition that was not previously planned,” he said.
During the hearing, Mark Jones, the museum’s interim director, said steps had been taken “to improve security and [we] are now confident that a theft of this kind can never happen again”.
He added: “But we cannot and must not assume that the security of the collection, in a wider sense, can be achieved simply by locking everything away.
“It is my belief that the single most important response to the thefts is to increase access, because the better a collection is known – and the more it is used – the sooner any absences are noticed. So that’s why, rather than locking the collection away, we want to make it the most enjoyed, used and seen in the world.”
The museum said the digitisation project would take five years, with 2.4m records to upload or upgrade. Its collection totals at least 8m objects.
Jones conceded this was a “big task”, but added that “more than half is already done and when it is finished it will mean that everyone, no matter where in the world they live, will be able to see everything we have – and use this amazing resource in a myriad of ways”.
The museum, which has resisted calls from many countries, including Greece, to repatriate historical treasures over the years, launched a public hotline last month appealing for help in locating the stolen items.
Asked about the steps the museum had taken to stop something similar happening in the future, Jones told MPs: “We have changed the rules governing access to strong rooms: now there is nobody who is allowed to go into a strong room on their own and that, with a whole lot of other measures, should ensure that kind of theft that has happened couldn’t happen again.”
WHAT?
The British Museum has an inside thief who has been plundering the artefacts?
WHO
WHY
WHEN? https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/18/british-museum-thefts-were-an-inside-job-says-george-osborne
Will the loss of our country, to ‘incomers’ be included in the audit
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12416899/British-Museum-thief-selling-stolen-artefacts-eBay-three-years-ago-bosses-did-expert-told-spotted-Roman-jewellery-sale-online.html
The British Museum worker sacked after
being accused of stealing priceless treasures was today revealed to be a
‘world expert’ on ancient Greece who had worked there for more than
three decades.
Peter John Higgs, 56, was fired this summer over jewellery, gems and precious metals spanning more than three millennia of history that vanished from the museum’s vaults over a number of years.
Mr Higgs, who has not been arrested by police, was dismissed after items were found to be ‘missing, stolen or damaged’. Today
it was also claimed that he was named to bosses three years ago – after
items such as jewellery from the venerated Townley Collection of
Graeco-Roman artefacts allegedly went up for sale on eBay – but kept his job.
Big outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe. Caused by climate change, obvs. I’m surprised it’s not my (our) fault. Likn to Al Beeb Radio 4 programme below. (I listen to this as I know the reporter who is a nice lady despite working for Al Beeb).
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/health-check/id261779764?i=1000631777636
I remember Zim from when i spent a month there in 1996. A wonderful place even then.
Worth buying this book and reading it.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dd29b2e0d8b70a438eb4830ea9e4c9ebeeb82e92ebd1dababcc01520739839ab.png
Is there a chapter on when you found and joined NoTTLe, Mr Tracey?
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1714741444437545201
This is happening now !
Well at least they are praying and not spraying….
Or slaying.
They aren’t praying, they’re marking their territory. If Christians had held a vigil, plod would have moved them on (if they didn’t arrest them).
Where’s a catapult and a good supply of pebbles when you need them?
Chesil beach!
Yo T_B
Look at these, you may like them
https://www.thecaddycompany.co.uk/creative-tops-durdle-door-premium-placemats-set-of-6
The mayor wants people to stop driving in London and wants politicians to set an example so he has arranged all of these bike racks for them.
.
Nice one, Richardl_
Are they asking for forgiveness. Thought not. How the fuck were these illiterates allowed into Downing Street after they desecrated our Cenotaph at the weekend.
I do not wish this scum to remain in my country. They should be rounded up and sent back to their countries of origin where doubtless they will be able to practice their rituals without offending the British.
Good time to exercise a machine gun or a bluddy great bomb – could take out no 10 as well.
Mortars. five rounds, airburst, FIRE!!
“England qualify for Euro 2024 after Jude Bellingham stars in Italy win” says headline
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/10/17/england-vs-italy-euro-2024-qualifier-live-score-updates/
Read the above carefully: how can “Ingerland qualify if Italy win”, as the headline says.
Fixed: England qualify for Euro 2024 after Jude Bellingham stars in Italy defeat.
DT will now either employ me as a Sub Editor, or remove my Comment
Snow plough required.
Just had a hot lemon augmented by honey and rum and am about to slather some Vick onto my chest, then I’m off to bed in the hope, but not expectation of a better night that last night.
G’night all.
Ah, Vicktory! Or Great Expectorations!
Ah, Vicktory! Or Great Expectorations!
Sleep tight and sweet dreams BoB x
I rarely remember my dreams, but I had a nightmare this morning before I woke up. Someone was trying to get into the house and his accomplice stole two pots of plants from the windowsill. When I chased him down the back path, shouting “bring those plants back, you bastard!” I left the back door wide open! Then I woke up. The weird thing was, although it was my house and garden, I don’t have windowsills on the outside, just sloping bricks, so there couldn’t have been any pots resting on there to be nicked.
Dreams are weird that way.
But, had you left the door undone?
No, although I do occasionally, if I’m just going out to drop something in the bin or clean up the path after Oscar, leave it open. I’m only out a minute or two at most on those occasions and the dogs are around and about. Plus the front gate is secured and no one can get in that way so I feel secure.
Those were representational pots – dreams have a funny way of mixing stuff together, don’t they?
I don’t know what they represent. I didn’t have a very good day yesterday, generally, and today fuming has turned into incandescence; the item Halfords overcharged me for was dumped on my studio porch this morning. I found it when I took the dogs out. The driver had obviously tried to deliver at the front because the gate had been opened and left ajar (it’s chained up to stop people leaving it open and letting the dogs out onto a busy road) so had Kadi had a mind to do so, he could just about have squeezed through. I had to ring up and got a Nigerian (from the sound of his accent) to go through the whole rigmarole again. More expense in the phone call and he wanted me to hang on while they discussed it at their end! I told him to ring me back when they’d decided what they were going to do; whether they will or not is anybody’s guess. They are going to “investigate” and move the case up in priority. Even so, any refund will take a week. I told him that if they cancelled the order and collected it, I would NOT be reordering from Halfords! If they’d only got their act together and refunded the money straight away (or better still, not overcharged me in the first place) I would have been praising them for their swift delivery. In the event, this only added to the problem. Grrr! I am NOT a happy bunny!
Something dear to you you were unaware you had is taken from you.
I don’t know. I’d just bought a passiflora in the sale, but it definitely wasn’t that which was taken (it’s about six foot long and winding round the greenhouse in flower now!).
A petition for you.
End the UK’s membership of the WHO.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648609
I’ve signed it, although I doubt it will do any good.
Signed – 317.
I signed at 269 an hour ago so it’s not too bad for a petition in its early stages. I know ‘they’ don’t take any notice of these things but it may just give them pause for thought, and one never knows what may happen en route to the petition’s completion, the pace of events is hotting up now. Night night, Ndovu.
358 Signatures 02:10 19/10/2023.
408 @ 0745
Signed. But it will do no good, having already been informed by HMG that they are committed to blah blah blah. And this was regarding the International Health Regulations, where the WHO commands whether there’s an epidemic and what “treatment” we should all be subjected to with no questions asked.
It is unbelievable and shocking how the sovereign rights over our own bodies are being blown away. The increasing lack of care and compassion in society over the past decades has been grooming the population into an apathetic acceptance for when they wake up to what has been worked on them whilst their heads were in their phones. It is terrifyingly mediaeval. I shall hold out to the very end and go by my own hand if necessary, and not that of the state, that is if I’m not carried off to an extermination camp first.
I also am determined not to be dictated to by the state. It is my body not theirs.
I never thought you would be otherwise, vw.
Well they can just un-commit themselves, can’t they!
Good night, chums. Sleep well and see you all tomorrow.
Brave lady.
https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1714705656203063805?s=20
She’s not wrong either and it should be a nation-wide drive.
I hope she has protection at her surgery and at home. I wouldn’t be surprised if she were attacked.
It’s raining sticks here and I’ve just had to insist Oscar went out. He came back in soaked, unsurprisingly. To show how far he’s come, he let me dry him with a towel without making any protest whatsoever. Who knows, maybe I shall be able to brush him eventually!
Same here in Herts Conners, most of the afternoon and evening. Chucking it down.
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I realise some posts are a bit long but this one is worth listening to in its entirety.
It should be noted that Covid Booster uptakes are presently at 2% whereas initially uptake was 98%.
The principal argument is about INFORMED CONSENT. This argument is developed because the actual “vaccine” administered to billions of people was a different product to that given Emergency Use Authorization. Not that either product was efficacious or prevented transmission etc.
Some may have noticed the immense drop in the share prices of both Pfizer and Sunak’s Moderna. Hopefully these corrupt companies selling a chemically sophisticated version of snake oil will be put out of business. We have witnessed enough and suffered enough from their dishonesty and greed.
For those who wish to know more about the great Covid scam: Posted by Robert Barnes on Locals: Pfizer Lied, People Died:
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/pfizer-lied-people-died-whistleblower-case-update–legal-panel/
I can’t bring myself to watch or listen.
Our adorable youngest (4 in Feb) grandson has a serious illness that needs treatment at a major Cambridge hospital. The hospital has forced his parents to have him jabbed, his treatment might have been effected if not.
The hospital should be reported for coercion. How can the people who do this sleep at night?
I agree but the younger generation don’t and tend to believe and even trust such people. They had no option.
They were informed that if he hadn’t had the jab they would not be able to continue the vital treatment.
I agree about the younger generation but to use a sick child as a weapon in blackmail is unforgivable.
Fingers crossed for your young grandson.
We nearly came to an argument over it. But it’s not my responsibility, but I have an opinion. I just hope i’m wrong.
We can only use the wisdom of our years but it’s not worth breaking the family apart. That’s what the evil PTB want.
Good morning, all – Thursday’s new page is here.
Good morning, Geoff, and thank you. Now going back to catch up on zeds.
Good morning and thank you.