436 Responses to Midweek 30th August 2023

  1. MarkyMark says:

    FREE TEA AT THE END OF THE DRIVE!

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  2. MarkyMark says:

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  3. MarkyMark says:

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  4. Terminal Moraine says:

    Royal medals for “the very best science and evidence…”

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    • moggie63 says:

      You get a medal for flushing a country down the toilet?

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      And Independent Sage are back from their summer hols next week with something they call “looking forwards with lessons learnt”.

      Will any of those lessons be about the consequences of forcing experimental biotech on populations?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
        The coronavirus was expected to devastate the continent, but higher-income and better-prepared countries appear to have fared far worse.

        Share full article

        https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/health/covid-africa-deaths.html

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      • tomo says:

        “Perfesser” what a devalued title that is these days

        what a gruesome crew

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      • MarkyMark says:

        MEMBERS
        Professor Danny Altmann (Dec 2021 – )
        Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London

        Professor Karl Friston FRS (May 2020 – ) (On sabbatical Jan 2022 – )
        Professor of Imaging Neuroscience/Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, University College London

        Dr Zubaida Haque FRSA (May 2020 – )
        Former Executive Director, The Equality Trust. Dr Haque is also a Commissioner on the Hamilton Commission.

        Professor Aris Katzourakis (Jan 2022 – )
        Professor of Evolution and Genomics, University of Oxford

        Dr Tolullah Oni (June 2020 – ) (On sabbatical Jan 2022 – )
        Public Health Physician Scientist and urban epidemiologist, and a Clinical Senior Research fellow with the University of Cambridge’s Global Public Health Research programme.

        Professor Christina Pagel (May 2020 – )
        Professor of Operational Research (branch of applied mathematics), Director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit & co-Director of the UCL CHIMERA hub, University College London

        Professor Stephen Reicher (June 2020 – )
        Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews, participant in SPI(B), SAGE sub-committee

        Dr Helen Salisbury (August 2021 – )
        General Practitioner (GP) and Senior Medical Education Fellow at the Department of Primary Care, Oxford University

        Professor Gabriel Scally (May 2020 – ) (On sabbatical Dec 2022 – )
        Visiting Professor of Public Health at the University of Bristol, Former President of Epidemiology & Public Health section, Royal Society of Medicine (2019-2021)

        Dr Kit Yates (October 2020 – ) (On sabbatical Sept 2021 – March 2022)
        Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath

        Professor Sheena Cruickshank (April 2022 – )
        Immunologist and Professor in Biomedical Sciences and Public Engagement at the University of Manchester

        Professor Trish Greenhalgh (April 2022 – )
        Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford

        Dr Binita Kane (April 2022 – )
        Consultant Respiratory Physician, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester School of Biomedical Sciences, Respiratory Programme Lead at Health Innovation Manchester

        Dr Duncan Robertson (April 2022 – )
        Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford

        Dr Lennard Lee (Jan 2023 – )

        Associate Professor and Medical Oncology Consultant, University of Oxford

        https://www.independentsage.org/who-are-independent-sage/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      JCVI ‘largely opposed’ to Covid vaccination for children under 16
      This article is more than 2 years old
      Exclusive: Members of government’s expert committee disagree with politicians and Jonathan Van-Tam

      Coronavirus – latest updates
      See all our coronavirus coverage
      Rowena Mason and Jessica Elgot
      Sat 7 Aug 2021 07.00 BST

      https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/07/jcvi-largely-opposed-to-covid-vaccination-for-children-under-16

      ………………………..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The district’s Covid-19 response center has registered just 11 cases since the start of the pandemic, and no deaths. At the regional hospital, the wards are packed — with malaria patients. The door to the Covid isolation ward is bolted shut and overgrown with weeds. People cram together for weddings, soccer matches, concerts, with no masks in sight.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/health/covid-africa-deaths.html

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      A couple of psychos please as punch with the trail of destruction and business closures they inflicted on the UK.

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Luckily the BBC is there to hold power to account. If not share it to far and wide. Recalling when the BBc tried very hard to make Welsh NHS part of the English government.

    It’s a Labour of love.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I do find the BBC less than worth checking first, if at all.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Keir Starmer: It’s wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’

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      • Scroblene says:

        If anyone has a spare couple of days, then this explains a lot…

        Click to access Michael_P._K._Keath_1983.pdf

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        • MarkyMark says:

          From John Gatto, it’s not just children that don’t want to know about the real working world anymore. Swap child for adults in the following article …

          The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth, but nobody wants to grow up these days and who can blame them? Toys are us. … Time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family. I’ve said my piece. Thank you. {naturalchild.org – john gatto – jan1990}

          relates to Westerners: Guilty of Reading the News {atestoneinstitute.org 27sep2017}

          – this is also why NewsPapers should link to a report if it is mentioned and not make it paywall’d

          https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/27/mid-week-open-thread-126/comment-page-2/#comment-869762

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      • JohnC says:

        This whole story makes me laugh.

        It seems that like climate change, the crumbling concrete suddenly reached extreme importance earlier this morning. Even though both are just on a very gradual slope of ‘dangerousness’ which has been going for decades.

        The more I pay attention to the state of our MSM and government, the more convinced I am that we are in the process of destroying ourselves from within.

        Never mind : there are plenty waiting to replace us. And when they eventually leave the stone age like we did, the same will happen to them. And whoever comes after that. As it has throughout history.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vote in Wales aged 16
      Join ISIS aged 15
      Change gender aged 10
      Enjoy MOhammed aged 9
      Marry MOhammed aged 6

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    Society: You don’t want to be a father? You’re NOT a real man!
    Society: You don’t want to be a mother? You go girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’
    Published
    3 October 2012
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19815831

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    • JohnC says:

      What a shame the racist Lammy missed out the word ‘black’ before ‘fathers’.

      Because THAT is the truth of it.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    https://sonar21.com/is-the-mainstream-media-a-relic-of-the-past/

    “There was a time when all of the cable news shows would permit a debate about the war in Iraq, for example. Now? Complete shutdown of anyone who speaks out against the U.S. policy in Ukraine. Col. Doug MacGregor is one of the rare exceptions. He appeared several times on Tucker’s show, and a few others. But now that Tucker’s gone, Doug and I are relegated to doing internet podcasts. Great! Instead of trying to discuss the complexities of the Ukraine/Russia war in five minutes, we can spend 30 minutes to an hour and a half going in depth.”

    BBC has ‘what you need to know’ Editorial for propaganda, and ‘disinformation bunnies’ for censorship.

    The most egregious of their efforts are proudly collapsing complex stories into 60 second fluff pieces…. and labelling them as such.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
      ― Mark Twain

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Hell is certain people, in tv studios.

    https://x.com/yisraelchaiadam/status/1697657603847749770?s=61

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Of course, this could not happen here.

    https://x.com/toadmeister/status/1697632961246507176?s=61

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian “ministries of truth” that will ensure wrong thoughts are not allowed in a bid to tackle disinformation online.”

      …………………….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Netflix is now the truth.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China’s state censorship provisions.[1][2][3]

      The public learned of Dragonfly’s existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5]

      In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have “effectively been shut down” after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6]

      However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]

      In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      YOUTH ….
      https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity_en

      About

      Are you between 18 and 30 and looking for an opportunity to help the wider community, in Europe and beyond?

      18-30

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Evicted from their 7-year home in Milan’s former public baths which will become a mosque

    ^^

    The mosque, the first to be built legally in the Italian city, will replace the former public baths which for seven years have been occupied by a group of migrants who can’t afford a home in Milan’s rental market.

    For the past seven years, the dilapidated former public baths in Milan’s Via Esterle, an imposing building that bears the scars of time on its tired facade, had been the home of a group of migrants and low-paid workers legally living and working in Italy.

    That changed this week when local authorities forcibly evicted them after the building was sold to be converted into a mosque.

    https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/01/evicted-from-their-7-year-home-in-milans-former-public-baths-which-will-become-a-mosque

    Published on 01/09/2023 – 07:00

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    • JohnC says:

      A youtube commentator I watch was saying today how Ukraine have so much dirt on him Hunter and Joe that if they stop their support, they will be absolutely ruined if the stories of the bribery and corruption come out.

      And I have to say that from what I’ve seen about Joe, I can absolutely believe he would let so many people die for his own benefit. He is a nasty, dirty b@st@rd. We sometimes saw the crack when he went off-piste and some unvetted journalist who irked him. Which of course is why all his interfacing with them is now carefully chorographed beforehand.

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    A great British week – starting with an air traffic breakdown and ending with broken schools ….. third world Blighty … new thread time …

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