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The climate brigade seem to be blind to the biggest threat to mankind on Earth. And no it’s not people who drive diesel cars.
Namely, the sun. The Earth is 100% at the mercy of what happens on the sun. a 0.1% change of solar activity either way on the sun would wreak havoc with life on Earth and there would be nothing we could do about it.
We could alternatively fry or freeze if the suns activity changed by a very small amount.
Do our scientists consider or declare this?
No!
It’s all mankind’s fault. Mankind is an easy target, that why. Bleating about man’s influence keeps numerous scientists in jobs, the single biggest reason why it is such a hot topic.
The sun like any source of energy will keep changing and eventually it is inevitable that the sun will obliterate mankind either by roasting them or freezing them to death and there will be absolutely nothing mankind can do about it. It could wipe out all life on Earth in a matter of months, weeks, days or even hours.
We are in fact living on a knife edge and at the total mercy of the sun.
Sobering thought for all those scientists trying to blame horrible humans?
digg, thank God that He has placed us all on a ‘Goldilocks’ planet!
Did not see that one coming.
Kirsty got any thoughts?
Newsnight really is a very special home of the depraved.
https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/07/neighbours-everybody-needs-diverse.html
Only a handful of different ways a fire can start, virtually all human related (intentionally, or not) – the only two exceptions are lightning and a volcanic eruption, I reckon?
Global warming and temperatures of 40oC don’t start fires… you need a temperature of over 200oC for spontaneous combustion of wood, grass, paper etc… and if it was THAT hot outside we’d be dead anyway.
My bet would be people not putting out barbeques properly, and dumping hot ash/charcoal in bins with paper, or outside in dry grass, or arson, or both.
US : Tony Heller calling out fakenews by CNN
Media claimed ‘the racist police force in a town resigned
cos they’re racist
and objected to a new black town manager”
.. https://youtu.be/ax2wOFmEm5A
HD’s new video .. is a bit late on the BBC white football team doco
“The BBC are determined to stir up racism among young people about women’s football”
.. https://youtu.be/lkW9mcy–Kc
BBC Newsbeat video that Simon mocks : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/newsbeat-62346385
Paul Homewood 2 days ago
“The BBC have shown their contempt for ordinary people who dare to question the climate dogma.
Anybody who disagrees must be re-educated!”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-was-it-really-an-unprecedented-heatwave/
Interesting theory that as we keep an eye on reducing chimney/exhaust smoke,
that actually causes UK to warm a touch
cos smokey clouds around a city dims the sun
Statistics vs fact, bbc factcheckers etc
“What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics?
October 3rd, 2011 by Ben Goldacre in methods, neurostuff, statistics | 39 Comments »
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 10th September 2011
We all like to laugh at quacks when they misuse basic statistics. But what if academics, en masse, deploy errors that are equally foolish? This week Sander Nieuwenhuis and colleagues publish a mighty torpedo in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
They’ve identified one direct, stark statistical error that is so widespread it appears in about half of all the published papers surveyed from the academic neuroscience research literature.
To understand the scale of this problem, first we have to understand the statistical error they’ve identified. This is slightly difficult, and it will take 400 words of pain. At the end, you will understand an important aspect of statistics better than half the professional university academics currently publishing in the field of neuroscience.
Let’s say you’re working on some nerve cells, measuring the frequency with which they fire. When you drop a chemical on them, they seem to fire more slowly. You’ve got some normal mice, and some mutant mice. You want to see if their cells are differently affected by the chemical. So you measure the firing rate before and after applying the chemical, first in the mutant mice, then in the normal mice.
When you drop the chemical on the mutant mice nerve cells, their firing rate drops, by 30%, say. With the number of mice you have (in your imaginary experiment) this difference is statistically significant, which means it is unlikely to be due to chance. That’s a useful finding which you can maybe publish. When you drop the chemical on the normal mice nerve cells, there is a bit of a drop in firing rate, but not as much – let’s say the drop is 15% – and this smaller drop doesn’t reach statistical significance.
But here is the catch. You can say that there is a statistically significant effect for your chemical reducing the firing rate in the mutant cells. And you can say there is no such statistically significant effect in the normal cells. But you cannot say that mutant cells and mormal cells respond to the chemical differently. To say that, you would have to do a third statistical test, specifically comparing the “difference in differencesâ€, the difference between the chemical-induced change in firing rate for the normal cells against the chemical-induced change in the mutant cells.
Now, looking at the figures I’ve given you here (entirely made up, for our made up experiment) it’s very likely that this “difference in differences†would not be statistically significant, because the responses to the chemical only differ from each other by 15%, and we saw earlier that a drop of 15% on its own wasn’t enough to achieve statistical significance.
But in exactly this situation, academics in neuroscience papers are routinely claiming that they have found a difference in response, in every field imaginable, with all kinds of stimuli and interventions: comparing responses in younger versus older participants; in patients against normal volunteers; in one task against another; between different brain areas; and so on.
How often? Nieuwenhuis looked at 513 papers published in five prestigious neuroscience journals over two years. In half the 157 studies where this error could have been made, it was made. They broadened their search to 120 cellular and molecular articles in Nature Neuroscience, during 2009 and 2010: they found 25 studies committing this statistical fallacy, and not one single paper analysed differences in effect sizes correctly.
These errors are appearing throughout the most prestigious journals for the field of neuroscience. How can we explain that? Analysing data correctly, to identify a “difference in differencesâ€, is a little tricksy, so thinking very generously, we might suggest that researchers worry it’s too longwinded for a paper, or too difficult for readers. Alternatively, perhaps less generously, we might decide it’s too tricky for the researchers themselves.
But the darkest thought of all is this: analysing a “difference in differences†properly is much less likely to give you a statistically significant result, and so it’s much less likely to produce the kind of positive finding you need to look good on your CV, get claps at conferences, and feel good in your belly. Seriously: I hope this is all just incompetence.
“https://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/
“Meaningful Transparency Commitments: the WHO Joint Statement from Trial Funders
By now I hope you all know about the ongoing global scandal of clinical trial results being left unpublished, and of course our AllTrials campaign. Doctors, researchers, and patients cannot make truly informed choices about which treatments work best if they don’t have access to all the trial results. Earlier this year, I helped out with a World Health Organisation project to get non-industry clinical trial funders signed up to making better policies on transparency. This BMJ editorial (sorry, I’m late posting it, published last month!) describes the new commitments, and why this commitment is more convincing than previous vaguer statements.
“It costs nothing for an organisation to issue vague statements in favour of transparency and integrity. This time, a World Health Organization joint statement on clinical trials transparency, signed by 15 major non-industry research funders (see box), gives unusual grounds for optimism. Where previous documents have been shapeless, this one makes clear commitments to transparency, with timelines; it promises unambiguous outcomes where compliance can be easily assessed; it gives technical details around implementation; and crucially it includes a commitment for open self-auditing, so progress can be monitored.”
More in my editorial here: and if you’re sharing, that link is a toll-free link that gets through the paywall, so make sure you do use that one, or link here. Cheers, and onward!
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.j2816?ijkey=SDvMMYZfdO04E&keytype=ref&siteid=bmjjournals
The year in nonsense
December 19th, 2009 by Ben Goldacre in annual roundup, bad science, big pharma | 27 Comments »
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 December 2009
It’s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they’d got the figure wrong by 1000%.
Nullius in verba. In verba? Nullius!
Ben Goldacre, Not In The Guardian, Saturday 26 June 2010
Here is some pedantry: I worry about data being published in newspapers rather than academic journals, even when I agree with its conclusions. Much like Bruce Forsyth, the Royal Society has a catchphrase: nullius in verba, or “on the word of nobodyâ€. Science isn’t about assertions on what is right, handed down from authority figures. It’s about clear descriptions of studies, and the results that came from them, followed by an explanation of why they support or refute a given idea.
Last week the Guardian ran a major series of articles on the mortality rates after planned abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in different hospitals. Like many previously published academic studies on the same question, they again discovered that hospitals which perform the operation less frequently have poorer outcomes. I think this is a valid finding.
The Guardian pieces aimed to provide new information, in that they did not use the Hospital Episodes Statistics, which have been used for much previous work on the topic (and on the NHS Choices website to rate hospitals for the public). Instead they approached each hospital with a Freedom of Information Act request, asking the surgeons themselves for the figures of how many operations they did, and how many people died.
Many straightforward academic papers are built out of this kind of investigative journalism work, from early epidemiology research into occupational hazards, through to the famous recent study hunting down all the missing trials of SSRI antidepressants that companies had hidden away. It’s not clear whether this FOI data will be more reliable than the Hospital Episodes numbers – “discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the HES dataset†is a standard public health exam question – and reliability will probably vary from hospital to hospital. One unit, for example, reported a single death after 95 emergency AAA operations on FOI request, when on average about one in 3 people in the UK die during this procedure, and that suggests to me that there may be problems in the data. But there’s no doubt this was a useful thing to do, and there’s no doubt that hospitals should be helpful and share this information.
So what’s the problem? It’s not the trivial errors in the piece, although they were there. The article says there are ten hospitals with over 10% mortality, but in the data there are only 7. It says 23 hospitals do over 50 operations a year, but looking at the data there are only 21.
But here’s what I think is interesting. This analysis was published in the Guardian, not an academic journal. Alongside the articles, the Guardian published their data, and as a longstanding campaigner for open access to data, I think this is exemplary. I downloaded it, as the Guardian webpage invited, did a quick scatter plot, and a few other things: I couldn’t see the pattern for greater mortality in hospitals that did the procedure infrequently. It wasn’t barn door. Others had the same problem. I received a trickle of emails from readers who also couldn’t find the claimed patterns (including a professor of stats, if that matters to you). Jon Appleby, chief economist on health policy at the King’s Fund, posted on Guardian CommentIsFree explaining that he couldn’t find the pattern either.
The journalists were also unable to tell me how to find the pattern. They referred me instead to Peter Holt, an academic surgeon who’d analysed the data for them. Eventually I was able to piece together a rough picture of what was done, and after a few days, more details were posted online. It was a pretty complicated analysis, with safety plots and forest plots. I think I buy it as fair.
So why does it matter, if the conclusion is probably valid? Because science is not a black box. There is a reason why people generally publish results in academic journals instead of newspapers, and it’s got little to do with “peer review†and a lot to do with detail about methods, which tell us how you know if something is true. It’s worrying if a new data analysis is published only in a newspaper, because the details of how the conclusions were reached are inaccessible. This is especially true if the analysis is so complicated that the journalists themselves did not know about it, and could not explain it, and this transparency is especially important if you’re seeking to influence policy. The information needs to be somewhere.
Open data – people posting their data freely for all to re-analyse – is the big hip new zeitgeist, and a vitally important new idea. But I was surprised to find that the thing I’ve advocated for wasn’t enough: open data is sometimes no use unless we also have open methods.
Changing the subject because I found this article in The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/30/bbc-disappearing-women-gender-quota-filled-trans-guests-who/
Does anyone else wonder why there seem to be so many trans gender women on the BBC and they are talked about so much when you would think there would be such a small number of them. . My Uncle who was an anesthetist said in the 1970’s it was the only operation where he felt physically sick to have to be there.
Quick on the draw and more moon on a stick edition
There’s a sad tale indicative of Britain’s increasing lawlessness reported today – no, not THAT story – let’s keep it a bit lighter for a moment hereabouts: Greggs: Police concern over planned 24-hour Leicester Square store (BBC)
Although it habitually brings up the rear in the BBC online press line up one often finds oneself enjoying the frontpage of the Daily Star. The comic tabloid, either by fluke or by design, regularly spoofs the themes of middle class right-think so topical in the mainstream media.
This morning the Star offers readers: Free Lionesses poster for your window – not even the starchy lawyerish Labour MP for Islington South, Emily Thornberry, could object to this patriotic sporting display, surely?
You think the Star is in earnest and this isn’t a spoof? Free lucky Sarina mask for every reader – that’s a cut out and keep momento – presumably requiring pasting to some cardboard, perhaps a discarded cereal packet – if you want to actually wear it this evening?
For the uninitiated: Euro 2022: How Sarina Wiegman’s ruthless European style has changed England’s fortunes (Sky News) – she’s the foreign coach brought in to supervise the England ladies – and you can look just like her in your paper Sarina mask.
I’m half expecting Valerie Singleton to pop up and say “here’s one I made earlier”
I’ll say this for the women’s football – it has brought together our lefty campaigning media, old Labour populist titles and even those residual conservative sources, in a united gushing assumption that we’re interested…
Women’s Euro 2022 final 8-page special (Observer)
Come on you Lionesses see pages 4,5,6 & 7 and Sport (Sunday People)
Roar talent. Lionesses are the pride of ENGLAND ..now it’s their time to make history see pages 6,7,8 & 9 and sport (Sunday Mirror)
England expects…the Lionesses to make us proud (and maybe even beat Germany!) (Sunday Express)
Leah Williamson, the England captain, poses during training for today’s Euro 2022 final… in front of a 90,000 capacity crowd (Sunday Telegraph)
One or two of those in the stadium may even be paying for a full price ticket.
Note how the apparent success of the women’s team is contrasted openly, or by implication, with our national disappointments in – and the obvious failings of – English international men’s football. As though it were some form of reparation or soothing balm for national pride. Or simply a further emasculation. At least we know – since the BBC drew our attention to the lack of diversity in the ladies squad – our Sarina Wiegman can’t bring on a bunch of no hope ethnic representatives to fluff it in any final crucial penalty shoot out.
You have to laugh – and make your own jokes these days: Matt is away (Telegraph) – our favourite house cartoonist there taking more time out from the office than a DVLA employee.
Newman the satirical sketch artist in the formerly patriotic Sunday Times too often either fails to hit the nail on the head or sometimes rubs one up the wrong way. Responding to the report headline: Museum opens door to returning Elgin Marbles in ‘Parthenon partnership’ the cartoonist seems to take the side of the lefty culture warriors as he depicts what we take to be a gaggle of civil servants outside an office door marked ‘Nadine Dorries Culture Secretary‘ saying “Who wants to tell Nads she’s losing her marbles?” – a gag and sentiment that would be perfectly at home in the Guardian – were the ever-so earnest Gruan ever to countenance a cartoon on the frontpage.
Of civil servants and adherence to fashionable lefty notions of the culture war and political correctness: Badenoch: civil servants prevented me learning truth about Tavistock clinic (Telegraph) – how about making an anti-conservative gag out of that one, Newman?
Sometimes you know when a digression is coming on… sadly, you’ll never see this old Thames Television TV show repeated – Quick on the Draw (1974-79) presented by Rolf Harris (there’s the problem right there) in which cartoonists were asked to draw cartoons on a given subject. Guests included wonderful nostalgic names such as Roy Hudd, Willy Rushton, Michael Bentine, Humphrey Littleton and Lynsey de Paul. It may possibly have been Eric Sykes but I recall an episode where someone sketched a middle eastern belly dancer performing her alluring gyrations to the delight of an arab sheikh (there’s another problem preventing repeats of the show right there) the comedic caption to this desert tableau was eventually revealed to be the belly dancer saying: “Little does he know I’m an Israeli paratrooper”
I digress… but I segueway to: Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden. Prince had meeting at Clarence House – and a seven figure donation from Saudis followed (Sunday Times)
More moon on a stick being offered to us by the Tory PM candidates: Truss promises an Oxbridge interview for every A* pupil (Sunday Times); Rishi: I’ll save the high street. PM contender vows to help shops thrive, punish hooligans and stop banks closing cash machines (Sunday Express) – will the nation’s high streets ever be safe enough again for a 24-hour Greggs? Which is where we came in.
One must add the corrective postscript that the Observer, the Sunday incarnation of the Guardian, would indeed countenace a cartoon on their frontpage – reference today’s spiteful: Jog on Johnson. Cartoonists’ favourite sketches of the PM
Kick a man when he’s down edition?
That rather terse acknowledgment in response suggests Horrors and his handlers may see that as perhaps not the best testimonial for him, the bbc or the cause.
1 hour 30 mins or so. The Real President, DJT’s inspiring speech a day or so ago. Well worth watching. Delivered with obvious gravitas:
Strongest hint so far that he will run again in 2024.
Occurred to me that if he, if successful again, achieves even half of what he intends, Russia/China watch out. All the more reason to get their evil work done well before he comes anywhere near the WH again. Expect accelerated behaviour from the Commies.
Contrast that with the video of Joe I linked a bit further down. The President of the USA is incapable of being allowed to talk without it being written down for him. It’s an extraordinary situation to be in – but the likes of the BBC with their shameless double standards ignore it completely.
Some receive a more balanced assessment of their downfall, including frequent references to unproved allegations and social media and “plagued” :
“Why was Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour Party?
By Jennifer Scott
BBC News online political reporter
Published
30 October 2020
“Labour has been plagued by allegations of anti-Jewish racism by some of its supporters, mostly on social media.
Since 2016 – a year after Mr Corbyn was elected leader – Labour has been plagued by allegations of anti-Jewish racism by some of its supporters, mostly on social media
But it was not the conclusion of the report that led to the former leader’s suspension, says Labour.
“The scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54746452
“Jeremy Corbyn joined Labour 55 years ago as a teenager and led the party into the last general election.
But the Islington North MP has now been suspended, pending an investigation. “
“We interrupt this broadcast … Boris Johnson’s resignation – and other amazing breaking news moments
After a shambolic and ad-hoc premiership, it’s fitting that Boris Johnson’s time in power crashed to a halt in such a chaotic and ad-hoc way. During this morning’s Today show on Radio 4, BBC political editor Chris Mason was busy filling time with speculation about Johnson’s future when he suddenly stopped mid-sentence. “As I speak to you, I’m getting a call from Downing Street,” he announced, audibly surprised, adding: “I’m going to take that call and come back on to you in just a second.” Moments later, he returned to air and announced: “The prime minister has agreed to stand down.”
BBC Newsnight humiliates Boris Johnson as it replaces end credits with resignation list
BBC Newsnight attacked Boris Johnson with a Newsnight snub amid a stream of high-profile Conservative resignations
As the resignation list rolled across the screen, a rendition of Bittersweet Symphony played in the background as the programme ran to a close.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1636718/BBC-Newsnight-Boris-Johnson-Tory-resignation-credit-Conservative-crisis-Prime-Minister-vn
Humiliated Boris Johnson forced from power – BBC News
I notice Sunak was championed all the way to the final then dropped like a hot potato once it was between him and remainer Truss. All reports about him are suddenly not as positive as they were.
Exactly the plan from the start IMHO. Give the ‘democracy’ part a choice of one.
The removal of Boris by the BBC and the rest of the Leftist MSM is a dirty stain on the principles of democracy. ‘Dirty scum’ doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about them.
Just seen on BBC News channel was a piece about the arrest of a man in connection to the fatal stabbing of a 9 year old girl.
Then a sudden change to a improvised report about an immigrant killed in broad daylight in the USA. This report was so rushed the wrong camera angle on the presenter was used and the incorrect caption on the bottom of the screen was about floods.
Reading the secret code of BBC reporting I would bet good money that the man who stabbed the 9 year girl was an immigrant (and the BBC know this) so the BBC have to quickly find a immigrant victim story to deflect.
I would say the opposite : the story has been given a kick and pushed to the top of the agenda and the vigils have started. I will be amazed now if the guy who did it is not white.
When a BAME murders another BAME in Londonistan, the BBC do their best to avoid us knowing about it in case we cotton on that they are bloodthirsty savages.
Like this one:
Man killed in Wood Green shooting named
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-62349754
His name ? – Camilo Palacio
Saving Labour? The secretive battle to oust Jeremy Corbyn
3 September 2016
For months a campaign to oust Jeremy Corbyn has been placing adverts, collecting data and imploring people to vote against him in Labour’s leadership election.
Look on the Saving Labour website, though, and you won’t find the name of a leader. There is nothing on the register of limited companies either.
When you learn who is co-ordinating the project, it comes as a surprise.
A former MP on Labour’s far left, once active in a socialist pressure group that included Mr Corbyn himself, Reg Race is not the first person you would imagine leading the charge for a more centrist party. But he is deadly serious.
“We are ruthlessly determined to make sure there is an effective opposition in this country,” he says.
He claims Saving Labour has been responsible for recruiting more than 120,000 registered supporters and affiliated union members to vote against Mr Corbyn using online advertising.
The group, he says, has amassed details of 60,000 people on its own database in just two months. There are plenty of numbers, rather fewer names.
In his first broadcast interview, he told Radio 4’s Today programme he has the support of trade unionists but will not say which ones. Nor does he name any MPs. Nor donors; those will be published by the Electoral Commission in time, he says.
Why the secrecy?
“There’s a group of us and lots of us don’t want to be out there in terms of the media because they’re in relatively vulnerable positions,” he says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37262869
Unbiased ? demonstrably not
https://www.indy100.com/news/jeremy-corbyn-laura-kuenssberg-boos-manifesto-launch-general-election-9213386
Belfield case : Again his closing speech is very strong and we see the power of narrative
Round 1 : the BBC/media clearly pushed out a careful PRE-PLANNED narrative as soon as Jeremy Vine finished his testimony
The scripted line “He’s the Jimmy Savile of Trolling” “6,000 emails”
Ask : Who are the bullies ? Who are the trolls ?
Round2 : the theme of Belfield’s closing speech was a different narrative
“I’m a normal guy,
I’m not a weirdo : I worked at BBC stations for 15 years with no run ins with managements
.. then when I got to BBC Radio Leeds they took against me and started bullying me and this had never stopped.”
( Many of the 8 accusers against him have “weirdo” backgrounds.. genuine mental health issues etc. a fraud conviction etc.)
His own tweeted summary
* “A Witch-hunt”
* BBC Gave File
* Notts👮♂️ / Percival “No Investigation”
* Jeremy Vine tape edited
* Transcript mistakes
* “No evidence hearsay”
* 29 emails NOT 6000
What he means is that it’s a BBC prosecution, cos they handed over the dossier, the police admit they didn’t do any investigation.
They’ve been using dodgy evidence all along used edited tapes, even in court, weird police transcript errors and they can’t find the police interview tapes.
The hearsay : Witnesses making extraordinary claims that the prosecution failed to back up with concrete evidence.
eg that he’d sent specific horrible tweets, yet not presented the tweets in court .. cos they never existed
eg that someone got suicidal and had “bought a rope” had “found a rope”
eg witnesses giving the email count from the totals published in the newspapers.
The BBC link the this video in one of their agenda-based ‘fact checking’ articles written by one of the children in that team.
Move it forward to 9:40 and watch Joe deliver the kind of hatred and spite which has split the USA right down the middle. It’s off the scale.
The Left truly disgust me with their hypocrisy. They are full of hate and intolerance. I can only imagine what the Democrats would have done to Trump if they had the absolute power to do it. Or how the BBC would have described such a speech if Trump had made it.
BBC #wefiles. When the comments go off piste, dial to 0.
BBC News
What happens in our brains when our strongly held beliefs are challenged?
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cnjl9s/why-conspiracy-theories-are-so-hard-to-challenge?
Why conspiracy theories are so hard to challenge
25 JULY 2022|PSYCHOLOGY
As conspiracy theories have evolved over the years, they have become a reflection of what’s relevant in our society.
Social media has had a huge role to play in facilitating the spread of conspiracy theories in the modern age, and as such they are becoming harder to combat. But what happens in our brains when our strongly held beliefs are challenged and how can we change our mindset to protect ourselves from conspiracy theories?
Video by Nic Davis, Victoria Hansen, Kristine Dueno & Michelle Fenn
Commissioning Editor: Camelia Sadeghzadeh
^^^
Bunch of new names there.
Wendy and Springster off blocking more folk? Or in Afghansitan ‘investigating’ trajectories?
The Biden Covid – No Covid – Covid again drama in the USA smells a tad fishy to me. I believe the Dems have realised that Biden is doing more damage to their party than Trump.
Could it be that they are trying to create a narrative that in the interests of protecting his health it’s time he took a back seat which would allow them to carry out a graceful coup to rid themselves of his liability with minimum Dem party damage?
Their only quandary will be that the US public are almost certainly equally if not more uncomfortable with any of the likely replacements they have.
It’s not often I’m so shocked by an interview that I think it worth posting here.
Not often either that Jordan Peterson is shocked to the extent he throws up his hands in horror and disbelief at what the future holds for us.
Many people will already know that the most dangerous thing on this planet is Socialism, with a death toll approaching 750 million people, it’s killed more than malaria in the time its been around, but the current numbers it’s looking to murder now are in excess of one billion people.
You need to make sure that you and your family are not one of them. So, here is the interview Jordan Peterson did with Michael Yon, it’s roughly one and a half hours long, but it will open your eyes to the horrors yet to come, and as Yon says the inertia now makes these events unstoppable.
Many of the major points I’ve been saying here for months, mass migration energy shortages, and famine, what I didn’t cover was Socialist intervention in these issues to make matters even worse and to kill more people.
Take the time to watch this and make sure others are aware – but not Socialists, they deserve to suffer and die for causing this:
Watching the above, If any proof were needed of BBC collusion with the Globalists, the complete lack of any reporting of the situation surrounding farmers and the actions they are taking including their reasons in the Netherlands to the people of the UK speaks volumes.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the BBC a meeting must have taken place to put into place a blackout.
It must be that the issue is not actually examined for its newsworthiness by the BBC, all it takes is a message from WEF or The UN or the EU and the BBC press the kill button.
Orwell continues to be a visionary.
some might say Bacofoil…. (I don’t)
If you mouse over the play bar on the video, you’ll see it’s chapterised
1:02 – Discipline
5:05 – Controversy
25:22 – UFOs and aliens
35:33 – Intelligence agencies
40:57 – Trust
46:20 – Greatest comedians
1:04:15 – Childhood
1:11:45 – Advice for young people
1:22:21 – Relationships
1:26:59 – Putin, Ukraine, and Russia
Thoughtful
I’m a bit disappointed that there was no suggestion for remedy to the issues raised . By the way you can watch this at x2 and it still makes sense ….
Sounds like there’s a need to increase stores of non perishable foods ….. if it is still affordable …..
After Biden – governments know that if they control the media – non reporting of important stuff like Sri Lanka or Holland or Canada then they can do the same for other WEF activities …
Alas he says there is now too much inertia to be able to prevent the famine, and famine follows famine along with pandemics caused by people eating things they would never ordinarily eat, and the corpses lying around.
Interesting he says Climate Change is a cult and those in a cult don’t know they are. They now appear to believe 1 billion dead people are a price worth paying to “save the planet” and the mechanism to do this is starvation.
Thoughtful
Yes it’s a cult – as I wrote earlier it’s like medieval witchcraft – the certainly of the disciples of green crap point to it as a cult – as well as the treatment of non believers ….
How much pain will humanity have to suffer before the cult it burnt out ?
I’m not sure it is a conscious attempt to reduce global population sizes because that can easily be done using weapons of mass destruction in high population areas …..India / Pakistan for instance ….
The WEF doesn’t have access to weapons of mass destruction and their use would require an individual to give permission and there is no real strategic reason to do so.
The starvation model is much easier for them, because of the ability to blame the cause on the non existent ‘climate change’ which many many fools will simply accept as true.
Lord god – how thick do you think I am – ?it wouldn’t take much to engineer one or two of their disciples to start something off …. I think you’ll find quite a few of the membership have access to weapons …
You seem to have a literal mind ..
Not quite a literal mind, but there are any number of people in the background any one of which could stop a launch. The other problem for the Greenies is of course the nuclear radiation and fallout which is highly polluting and the heat from the detonation all of which rather works against the original objective.
The Neutron bomb well there’s another thing, but they have become obsolete since it was discovered most people in any form of armoured vehicle or in a building with steel concrete construction or thick walls would survive.
The BBC continues ceaselessly with the ‘air pollution crisis’.
A child dies. A judge decides air pollution was a contributory factor. Cue the Leftoid wokes and anti-car zealots jumping again onto the collectivist transport bandwagon.
Sad dick Khan wants to increase the ULEZ to the whole of London.
Wow. Pollution must be at an all time high, yes?
Errrr, no. It’s at an all time low !!!!!
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/air-quality-statistics
Not that you would know this from the BBC propaganda.
“I have FOUGHT to keep climate change on the news agenda
.. with mixed results.”
A line from Harra’s lecture yesterday on R4 FooC
I had posted the entire transcript, but that was on the bottom of a long page
It’s now on its own page
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/discussion/post/2790698
So stringing out a lucrative career with the BBC is not at all connected?
“Christianity – A Toxic Religion” – Gab’s Andrew Torba reports.
https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/no-weapon-forged-against-you-will-62e48b2fb54d230c80183ead
The downfall of Western society is coming a lot quicker than I expected. Keep well and stay out of hospitals. Self-medicate as much as possible.
Get armed.
As you all may be aware there is a football match on today –
Yes it’s Sunderland v Coventry in the championship . The BBC is covering this game extensively – it’s a sell out of course – with great excitement and blanket coverage .
There has been some criticism about the make up of the teams – each player having 2 legs at the start of the match .
If you choose to watch anything else today – perhaps you’d think about others using this site and who don’t indulge in inferior third rate fare – like watching Arsenal really ….
Do the England wimmin demean themselves and their country by kneeling like the so-called ‘men’? I hope not but fear that they do (can’t bear to watch any of it myself).
Having returned from my regular walk in Epping forest – I was musing on the green crap . In The Observer today there is a review of a book by some emeritus bloke called Bill McGuire. His book Hothouse Earth is published this week and apparently says it’s too late to stop the planet going hot ..
I didn’t read the review – I won’t be reading the book – who cares ? If the planet is doomed we are just wasting any money and effort on green crap and should just get on with life .
I was thinking that we are really living in a time of witchcraft . If you substitute ‘witchcraft ‘ for ‘global warming ‘ you get a truer view of the mindset of so many eff wits .
Every bit of weather is caused by witchcraft – any thing that goes wrong is because of the same ….
We are in a witchcraft hysteria – with the poor kids being brainwashed from birth . Meanwhile those with sanity – such as the Chinese – just get on with taking over the planet – without any global warming …
@Fedup2 tut tut, “WEATHER is not climate”
… unless it helps the narrative
Stew
I was building on a comment I made the other day where I thought the zealots would make the word ‘weather ‘ a criminal term to be replaced by ‘climate ‘
It came after the’ climate forecasters ‘were bitching about being trolled and hated … get Hampshire plod and their handcuffs on the case ( they’ve made the mail on line now)
I’m waiting for those 3 plod to be tracked down off duty – perhaps with the families – to be questioned about arresting someone for ‘causing anxiety ‘….
Rishi Sunak pledges NHS no-show fines
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62366197
“Conservative leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak has said he would introduce a £10 fine for patients who repeatedly miss GP or hospital appointments.”
People are still able to get appointments to see their doctor?
Eddy Eddy
But will rishi roll on to inevitable failure and a new green card -?or will he fall on the knife he used to kill nut nut ? And save the Conservative party thousands of pounds on wasted voting cards ?
Every day another cabinet minister throws themselves at the feet of the PM to be – Jonnie Redwood for Chancellor ? Imagine …..
A vote winner for Rishi would to be impose £50 fines on doctors who are more than 30 minutes late on outpatient appointments.
There are threatning notices at my hospital outpatients about the cost of patient no shows, but none about doctors and NH staff late or no shows.
It is NOT all the publics fault!
Since the NHS can’t be bothered / is morally repulsed by getting money from foreigners treated ‘ killed in the world beating hospitals – the chance of getting a tenner out of a failed punter is – frankly – an insulting policy to get back into the ascendency .
Rishi – just give it up now rather than embarrassing yourself flogging a dead horse ..and go count your money …. His mum was a chemist you know ….
Whoever gets the brief for the Treasury will need to throw a few remainers out of the window …
I predicted Murdock would take over GBNews and get rid of the good bits with the blessing and thanks of OFCOM – here is a piece from the DT today
STARTS
Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV and its rival GB News are locked in a bidding war over a channel slot on Virgin Media that would aid their struggle to attract viewers.
The fledgling news networks are vying to secure the more prominent 604 slot on the pay TV operator’s channel guide to help stiffen their challenge to the BBC.
Such a deal would shift either GB News or TalkTV up from their respective 626 and 627 positions to be closer to the 24-hour news channels of the BBC and Sky.
Analysts have pointed to the networks’ less competitive position on TV channel menus as one of the reasons why they have not amassed bigger audiences.
The opinionated news stations are currently stuck below overseas networks such as Al Jazeera and France 24 on the Virgin channel guide, while the 604 channel sits between Sky News and BBC Parliament. BBC News HD holds the 601 position.
It comes as TalkTV attempts to organise a rematch of its Tory leadership debate last week, which it cut short after presenter Kate McCann fainted live on air.
Mr Murdoch, who also owns The Sun and The Times, held talks about investing in GB News but later decided to launch his own upstart channel.
However, his own TV network has so far failed in its attempts to dislodge GB News, the BBC or Sky, despite hiring combative presenter Piers Morgan after he left ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
Jeremy Kyle, the former ITV presenter, is poised to replace Piers Morgan on his eponymous show when he takes a break from over the summer to film a series of true crime documentaries as part of his far-reaching contract with News Corp.
Mr Murdoch’s deal with Morgan also includes a column in the Sun and New York Post, a book deal with HarperCollins and contributions to Fox News.
TalkTV’s The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn and Piers Morgan Uncensored attracted average audiences of 2,500 and 33,900 in the 7pm and 8pm slots on Thursday, according to the TV ratings compiler BARB.
GB News’ 7pm show presented by the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage secured 64,000 viewers, while its 8pm show 46,000 viewers. BBC News brought in an audience of 72,000 and 58,000 across the 7pm and 8pm slots.
A Virgin Media spokesperson said: “Like other providers of electronic programme guides, Virgin Media reviews its listings from time to time as provided for under our electronic programming guide policy. We do not comment on any ongoing discussions.”
TalkTV and GB News declined to comment.ENDS
Not BBC – but Charlie Windsor
Let’s play a game – let’s pretend you are the Prince of Wales . You are approached with an offer of a million or 2 for one of your charities . Great – right ? Who is the doner? Nice chap – he’s called Bin Laden – a relative of a chap who is now deceased ….
Well that’s okay then – let’s take the money …..
When I heard this – the republic gene not far from the surface reminded me it is there – and maybe Charlie Windsor – taking bungs from Islamic terrorist families is a year or two from being our effing King . ….
The country needs money – maybe it’s time to finish off what Cromwell started – all those properties and land can be sold off and the cash used for ‘the people ‘ – never thought i would land up sounding like Corbyn – but there is a thing about The Right And The Left meeting ….
Does rather begin to question the validity of so many ‘charities’ enjoying the Windsor in Waiting umbrella.
Two factors might influence opinions: One, the level of remuneration the majority of charity CEO’s seem to believe they are entitled to; and Two, the almost indecent levels of financial demand our heir makes of his position – including among many other costly items, staffing levels at Highgrove.
BS … On Freeview BBCnews Channel is on 231
SkyNews 2 clicks above that
GBNews 2 clicks above that
TalkTV 1 click above that
If the public can find the BBCnews Channel and , they can find SkyNews then they can find GBNews and TalkTV 1
when I go round pensioners houses they often seem to be watching GBnews
On bin day when you look what people leave out in their blue recycle boxes it’s usually the Daily Mail, Daily Express occasionally the Times or the-i ..never the Guardian
I just caught the tail end of The World This Weekend , Radio 4 one o’clock .
James Naughtie doesn’t do news , he does narrative. He likes to think it’s an analysis , but it’s subtle and not so subtle brainwashing.
So no surprise that an article on the economies of the world he takes a dig at Trump and of course, warns us all not to vote right wing .
Nibor – I find naughtie so pompous now as to be a comedy act .
Apparently we need a big leader – like Churchill or FDR to get us through the coming trouble – then he mentions `trump in the negative but for some reason – Biden Obama doesn’t get a mention …
…………but Biden is the hero who banished trump …. Are you at the stage that liberals – the bbc – don’t mention Biden at all and just hope he dies from the umpteenth bout of Chinese virus …?
The current Cackling VP would make the ideal leader of the Free World … personally I’d be really annoyed in that split second before the thermonuclear flash cremates me to know that Kamela was responsible for my demise ….
Question? –
When was the last time you heard the expression in circumstances where honesty or integrity was an integral part of the proceedings, “play the White Man”………….
Unique to GB. No foreigner would understand.
Wheelchair drag queens next?
I thought the article linked in tweet above might be satire…
– checked – it’s real………
Hearing more and more about “white privilege” and the fact that black people complain about it in a 97% white country, I wonder how it works the other way around:
“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech”
Idi Amin
“In any country there must be people who have to die. They
are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and
order.”
Idi Amin
“Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.”
Idi Amin
“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”
Idi Amin
On August 4th, 1972, Amin ordered the expulsion from the country of some 50,000 of these who held British passports. For some strange reason, in Britain people from the Indian subcontinent are usually called “Asians,” which doesn’t leave a word to cover those from farther East. These Ugandan “Asians” were entrepreneurial, talented and hard-working people, skilled in business, and they formed the backbone of the economy. However, Idi Amin favoured people from his own ethnic background, and arbitrarily expelled them anyway, giving their property and businesses to his cronies, who promptly ran them into the ground through incompetence and mismanagement.
The “Asians” he deported in tens of thousands after his decree that August day 47 years ago were lucky that they were merely deported, rather than butchered. I was student at St Andrews at the time, and joined a campaign to persuade the UK government to allow them to settle in Britain. We were successful, in that 30,000 were allowed in, and the remainder were helped to get into Commonwealth countries and the US.
They prospered. The ones who came to the UK set up businesses and ran small shops. Some went from running street stalls to become proprietors of multi-million pound grocery chains. They have been a success story contributing to Britain’s economy and society. People of Ugandan ‘Asian’ descent feature among Britain’s high achievers and celebrities, including Priti Patel, the new Home Secretary.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/when-idi-amin-expelled-50000-asians-from-uganda
Prominent Academics
MAD
The views of a professor from a prestigious American yooneeversitee are worth repeating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khiara_Bridges
BAD
Declared pandemics?
Covid, Monkey Pox, why not Socialism?
Looks like the drugs were kicking in on the girl with the nose ring and AOC eyes 😳
Fedup2 – If that’s a full, tenured ‘professor’ … ?
– one has to wonder if the HR selection process and interview panel have adopted homeopathic principles wrt candidate qualification?
The peeps who put her in post are at least as guilty of promulgating this madness as the batty bint herself.
Moulding young minds eh?
Wonderful news!
Governors of US Border States, Texas, Arizona have started shipping some of the 200,000 per month illegals to Washington DC & New York. Joy of joys! DC Mayor’s reaction? Demand the Pentagon turn out the National Guard.
Donald Trump has pledged to send the illegals back to where they came from.
About time that Channel dinghy divers were shipped to little Khant’s Tooting by default?
– overspill to Islington, Hackney and Holborn & St. Pancras (for obvious reasons)
Our bogus asylum seekers should be sent up to Scotland as Nicola Sturgeon says she would welcome them .
Interesting that the Chinese Communist Party haas decided the BBC is biased as well !
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-news-china-gloom-filter
Obviously some got off lightly last week?
Looking forward to the big match with England’s women and how top commentator Linacre covers it.
The English team is English and the German team is German. How refreshing .
Not one random collection of assorted nationalities playing another random selection of assorted nationalities !
Also unless I missed it no knees were taken ! .. Or did I miss it ?!
.. But the BBC can’t help but make two out of the four commentators “diverse” … random chance ? I think not !
.. Then a trailer for an upcoming drama which shows a clip of an angry diverse type shouting “terrorists are attacking our national broadcaster” .. That’s one to look forward to .. Not… looks like it will make Dr who’s anti brexit plot and the like pale in comparison
5pm R4 The Today Debate: Turning the Economy Around
Today
A debate ?
The first 10 mins was the carefully crafted brainwash montage you expect from BBC
Mishal Husain introduced a collage made of GOTCHAS from the today prog
(.. and the BBC audience all cried)
Followed by a clip of Starmer..
..it continued on like that
That’s #ConstantMediaGaslighting ..wages did rise, basic food is dirt cheap .. the poorest do not just eat cereal
There are real things , like property costs take a huge part of people’s incomes, the NHS is a bit crap, mad green policies have caused an energy crisis which pushes up the cost of everything etc.
Our local supermarkets are awash with cheap strawberries now ..a pound a punnet and 50p later on
I have just put 200g of Channa, chick peas to soak overnight. It makes around 6 portions of a superfood curry which costs under a pound to make.
Here is the recipe:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chana-masala
One of the things the BBC can get right!
The point to my making this is not about the cost or nutritional benefits dried chickpeas will store indefinitely and can be used to make many other dishes as well.
Thoughtful, there is widespread food ignorance in the UK.
God, your f@rts must stink.
Thanks for that image NV ! However I’d rather have a full belly than the rest of the indolent who don’t prepare, and survive the oncoming famine.
And the answer is no, on the odd occasion butterflies come out !
As gardening is judged as racist these days, I’m surprised that the BBC have programmes where they encourage this important activity of work and delight, which is a fabulous leisure act/pastime/life-saver, but is hardly ever practised by bames and similar foreigners.
It’s a British passion, which is part of our culture, and if newcomers cannot grasp that, then they only have themselves to blame.
I ignore the crap that Gardener’s World has become, and just go to important Allotment/Gardening blogs, where decent citizens share their experiences, abhor the green issues where they can, (some like ‘organic’ stuff for some odd reason, but it takes all sorts), and just get on with producing their vegetables, flowers and deploy natural issues to complement the awful rubbish dished out by the trashy ‘diverse’ bollox from W1AA, who want to kill the hope for a unaffected existence, and stifle gardening using traditional methods!
You’ll find out who is a vegan, because after just a few minutes, they’ll tell you, but there’s more to life than ‘bottom burps’ to save the planet…
I’ve met two (2) BAME people who’re really into gardening, and the rural countryside, out of what must be several hundred who most definitely are not.
One of these two was a young Kikuyu (the ‘gardeners of Africa’) woman, and the other is a retired Gurkha.
On my allotments (it’s a big site, but I think I’ve met just about everyone now) we have a nice Polish family, an Italian woman married to an English guy, a family of Greeks, and the Gurkha I mentioned above, everyone else, is British, but from all corners of these islands, both genders, and all ages/walks of life. Given there are around 200 plots, that works out at something like 1.75% non-British and 0.5% BAME – I suspect it’s typical of allotments up and down the country.
If the BBC did a documentary about our allotments they’d only film the Gurkha (who’d hate it, because he’s very quiet and shy), and then have to fly in a black girl in a hijab and a disabled lesbian in a wheelchair with blue hair – ‘cos we don’t have either of those.
You know where that portrait of Keir Starmer should be held.
Bit late responding, but you know Flots, if you really wanted to get on TV the trick would be to have a framed photo of Magic Gramps on his allotment up in your rainbow-hued shed, flying the LBGTQ+ swastika, and wear pink wellies and a sequined dress… unfortunately (for the BBC) I have none of those, but I do have a sign saying “Trespassers will be composted”.
For a Labour politician Kate Hoey seems to be a damned sight more patriotic and more blessed with common sense than any Conservative.
National treasure Joe Lycett spoke for us all
when performing at the Games opening ceremony
he said the British Government NEVER welcomes any foreigners
WGAP disagrees
“The BBC Air Pure Fake News During Commonwealth Games Ceremony”