Opposition opening...

Yes, I am still alive; yes I wish I was blogging more. And yes there will be an opening for some decent U.K. Parliament 'Opposition' soon. It is simply too boring these days to get wound up about the tsunami of shit we are being asked to swallow or at least wade it. Today we can be pretty sure of one thing, Conservatives will be in opposition. 

Anyhoo...I discovered a new website (it may NOT be new, I mean I only just found it): The New Conservative where Alastair MacMillan writes about there being more reasons not to vote for the current shite outfit. In the 'About' page is exactly what I wish 'The Conservative Party' were (who are not conservative, Conservative or even remotely 'right wing'): 

• Government’s first duty to protect the citizenry 
• Unequivocal freedom of speech 
• Border control Fiscal responsibility 
• The state as servant, not master 
• The law applied without fear or favour 
• Low taxes 
• An end to grooming gangs & their cover-ups 
• A robust response to charlatan wokery 
• Economic stability before Green virtue-signalling 

Look at that! Hoorah! I could add a few things - e.g. en end to postal votes except for the previous sensible exemptions [military, disabled...] but what a start, actually being what the blue wing of the Uniparty should be.

Overtly Orwellian overreaction...

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Scott Atlas is one of a small group that has been consistantly correct throughout the whole 'COVID era'. America's COVID Response Was Based on Lies [Newsweek]: 

"The tragic failure of reckless, unprecedented lockdowns that were contrary to established pandemic science, and the added massive harms of those policies on children, the elderly, and lower-income families, are indisputable and well-documented in numerous[ ]studies. This was the biggest, the most tragic, and the most unethical breakdown of public health leadership in modern history."

And there were far better ways [October 2020]:

"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." 

Like I wrote back then regarding the scam and casedemic: There is NO doubt about this. We are being lied to. Crimes have been committed.

Back to Scott Atlas: he writes that him nor other heroes trying to change the craziness by providing facts, data and alternative actions should be so naïve as to expect a direct apology from critics at their employers (Stanford University in his case) or from the government and academic public health officials but I think that is exactly what they should expect, and get, very loud and very clear. 

This madness must never be allowed to happen again and as the famous truism goes, admitting you have a problem is the first step to fixing it': Acceptance MUST happen to enable recovery. Without acceptance from TPTB and many lower done, there will be no real recovery. 

From back then too: 

Image by Steve Bright (here on Twitter)

Outed Obama (re)outed...

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Well well. "In response to new sanctions by the Biden administration" [Human Events] Russia has banned ex POTUS Barack Obama (among 500 Americans banned from going to Russia, LINK: AP). This is:

"On the heels of the release of the Durham Report showing Obama’s involvement in election interference and the Russian collusion hoax in 2016, Russia has banned the disgraced president from entering the country."

[@Amuse Twitter]. 

Had to laugh. The Durham report shows what we knew back in 2016 and was just part of Outgoing Obama's outrageous outrecuidance...him and Hillary were up to their eyeballs in sleaze and corruption and international and intentional murder of US citizens. As usual, Russia's official response to Biden's sanctions - although not "pretty damn sassy" like their response to Obama's lame duck shenanigans, is with more reason. Why? Because the Obama administration, Clinton and the DNC's direct involvement in Russian collusion has brought the world to the failing situation it is now in, they stole the 2020 election; if The Donald had become POTUS 46 do you really think we'd be where we are today?

Update: Always worth a read Mark Steyn told us too, also back in 2016 and reviewed last year: "As I think most persons paying attention now realize, the investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election."

Oncoming oppression III...

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...or is it IV, or XV?! *

Image credit Imperial War Museums [LINK]
Ministerio de Propaganda

If you tolerate this, Then your children will be next [MSP Lyrics] ...but it's already too late, your children - or at the latest their children - will be dead or slaves. Not about WWIII the West is trying to start, not about Madrid (Spanish Civil War) but certainly involving multiple equivalents of the Ministerio de Propaganda. 

What am I on about? Just yesterday YouGov (yeah yeah, know who they are and what they are...and polls suck, but hey-ho) released a poll; it coincides with the highly suspicious controlled release of Government Tweets during the pandemic, nudging us towards blaming just a few crass 'incompetents' for two years of of totalitarian oppression and gross negligence that caused multiple thousands of deaths (probably millions worldwide, and certainly more than any virus).

The poll: "In hindsight, thinking about the government's handling of the Covid‑19 outbreak, do you think their approach was generally...?"

Now, one would think, especially now with all the information that is openly being reported [facts that many - mostly unjabbed - had, by complete coincidence, or magic, or something, knew years ago] would mean that anybody even remotely lucid would say, with absolutely no doubt whatsoever, that the government's handling was absolutely and utterly bat-shit (see what I did there?) crazy; high-handed jack-booted face-punchingly fucked up crazy... 

...you'd be wrong. Thirty seven percent (37%!!!) of all adults thought the government wasn't strict enough. 

There are several break-downs of the full numbers: gender, age, region, politics and social grade.  For the most part it is similarly split: in 'Politics' no surprise the lefty liberal fuckwits wanted harder lockdown, as did Remainers. In gender, males were slightly higher than females in 'Too strict', and fewer males were 'Don't knows'; similar to females in the lower social grade: they too were higher 'Too strict' and fewer 'Don't knows'. 

BUT, the major tell, the point of this post, and the highest number throughout the poll: in the Age section (see table below): over half (51%) of 18-24 year olds thought the government's approach was 'Not strict enough'. We're fucked. They are doomed.

 

* Previous posts: Oncoming oppression, Oncoming oppression II although - rather embarrassingly - I note I used those same two titles before: the first in 2008 and 2009, and the second in 2011: several pages of Oppression posts HERE, no surprise that many are in last last three years.

'Octagonal object': overt obfuscation...

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"U.S. military brings down flying object over Lake Huron near Canadian border"...[Reuters]

WTF is going on. Nothing then four separate 'UFO's in a week? One not so unidentified was a Chinese balloon; what will this 'octagonal object' be? It doesn't matter: it is just to distract you; take your pick: Ukraine farce, Epstein list, Biden crimes, COVID jab murders, Jan 6th truth...[adding from Clown Basket: the major chemical spill/train derailment in Ohio and US navy bombing Nordstream I...] so many things to not report on... 

...oooh, look over there, a squirrel!

Update: UK version of things not to report on: Ukraine farce, Epstein list, net Zero energy hikes, hostile rape-intent fighting-age-only flow of immigration, [soon to become] gang-rape 'groomers', drag/trans/gender mental health issues, COVID jab murders, Sunak digital ID ties/oncoming CBDC, Brexit bretrayal...

Obfuscation over origins II...

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Really this blogpost was meant to be the first Obfuscaion over origins not the second (II), it is just that yesterday I began with the blog title but then got side-tracked and ended up not posting on the origins of SARS CoV 2 but on the massive failure of the response to the virus. 

Back to the opaque origins: A couple of days back eugyppius posted "Every day there is more evidence that the SARS-2 outbreak began months before the earliest documented Wuhan infections. Why does nobody care?" 

"But, nobody wants to dig up further evidence on when and where SARS-2 entered humans – perhaps because everybody knows that more chronological clarity would do anything but support the case for natural origins."

eugyppius pointed to a recent Italian study on pre-pandemic SARS-2 infections in Lombardy. Resulting from the retesting of archival samples of suspected measles cases (a similar symptom for coronavirus and measles is skin rashes). Their analyses produced 13 positive cases for SARS-2 RNA; 

 "Eleven of these samples were collected before anybody declared a pandemic. Four of the eleven also had anti-SARS-2 antibodies – including the earliest sample, taken from an eight-month-old infant on 12 September 2019. None of these patients had any relevant travel history." 

In a follow-up post yesterday eugyppius writes that "Since we’re talking about the origins and early history of the SARS-2 outbreak, it’s worth having a look at Jonathan Engler’s intriguing analysis of the all-cause mortality data out of northern Italy in the earliest days of the outbreak." yes it is worth it it and I'd also suggest subscribing to eugyppius's Substack*: a plague chronicle worth following. 

Some snippets from Engler's article below: 

"Both the lack of excess deaths overall and the lack of clusters of excess deaths are in fact totally unexpected in light of the evidence — now supported by papers studying antibodies and PCR testing data AND symptoms — of significant presence of Sars-Cov-2 in February (and earlier, in fact). "

How could an apparently highly contagious and lethal virus have spread throughout the region so much that case growth was apparently actually slowing in most areas by the end of February, without leaving any signal of increased deaths in its wake?

 "On the assumption that healthcare is organised by province, the conclusion can only be that it was the manner in which healthcare was delivered which was relevant to the death rate, not the spread of a virus, which would of course have no respect for provincial boundaries."

The fact that assumptions derived from the data from Lombardy — including estimates of the case and infection fatality rates — formed the basis of policies implemented first in the UK, and thereafter rippling across the world, makes this a question which should be addressed with some urgency. 

This is especially the case since these policies are now being recognised as having caused catastrophic long-lasting harm to much of the world’s population with little or no discernible benefit. 

I'll leave you with eugyppius's eye-opening and worrying conclusion, chiming with what many have thought for the whole COVID era, that political actions led directly to thousands of deaths: 

"Lockdowns were accompanied by a rapid collapse in influenza infections in many countries, followed almost immediately by a rise in SARS-2 mortality. It’s worth asking whether the flu and other common respiratory viruses are actually protective against novel pathogens because of interference effects, and whether our panic measures didn’t, in most cases, simply reduce the competition SARS-2 faced from other viruses. I also cling to my theory that, before Omicron, SARS-2 was an attendant-borne pathogen, which thrived particularly in healthcare environments. Emergency measures, including mass testing, had the effect of hoovering up as many SARS-2 patients as possible and putting them in environments where attendants could mediate transmission – precisely where SARS-2 does most of its killing."

* I subscribe to several allowing access across the platform. 

Obfuscation over origins...

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...of SARS-CoV-2. With credit and hat-tip to The Naked Emperor. The Lancet Commission have released their document "on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic"...ahem, anyone could tell them what not to do, i.e. what all the governments did, against their own decades-old, reliable, well thought-out, considered plans; they decided to panic and spit the dummy...as we all now know, to most people's detriment. 

Anyhooo...back to the Lancet and their "comprehensive investigation, analysis and response to COVID-19". The gist of the Lancet's recommendations I will leave for you to read on the Naked Emperor's Substack or reading the original document at [Lancet Journals website] or download and peruse at your own leisure [PDF]. The Executive Summary is enough...but not for the reasons they hope you'll believe: everyone knows for instance that the numbers of reported deaths and estimated deaths are complete hogwash. HOWEVER, regarding the image below:

The left hand side of the graphic is correct, basically a complete clusterfuck. An intentional complete and utter clusterfuck; a complete 'failure of rationality'. Anyone with even remotely functioning mental faculties now trusts the government less than before; they distrust the "Science" because real science wasn't even considered; an 'expert' (IYI) agenda 'science' was the norm. The only 'solidarity' and 'cooperation' was the patently crazy 'new' science of forget/ignore everything we know and become power-crazed rabid fuckwits whilst scaring the population to become headless chickens. The only internationally recognised health practise/protocol was "stay at home"...literally 'do nothing'. Known effective preventative measures not only ignored but trashed and ridiculed (and patently fraudulent, rushed out fake trials of "science" used to negate decades of success) previously world-leading virologists, epidemiologists, doctors etc., not only silenced but made pariahs...since proven 100% correct...minor rant over

The right-hand side of the graphic...well, there lies the real MASSIVE lie: the excess deaths I have already mentioned. Rubbish stats, a weaponised coronavirus killed a load of old people...harsh, but that is what happened. Most of the deaths could have been prevented if political intervention didn't happen...yes, you read that correctly. I'll go further: can anyone prove the vaccines COVID jabs saved a single life? Anywhere? The numbers coming out now suggest the opposite...yes, you read that correctly too. 

So, "Years of setbacks in the SDG progress"? No. As planned. Dozens of 'Western', 'advanced' countries (read highly COVID vaccinated) countries suffering way over average excess mortality figures (10% higher on average), all age groups except very old (dying anyway or dead from whatever-they-had-before-made-worse-by-the-spike-protein) or the very young (not vaccinated). Compounded by high infertility and massively higher stillbirths/failed pregnancies. Compare those advanced nations to the non-advanced/not so educated/not so vaccinated under-developed nations whose young fighting-fit non-vaccinated males are heading your way...as planned. 

A conspiracy theory too far? I'm winning about 20 nil so far. You see the trafficking across the English Channel - aided and abetted by UK Border Farce (oops), the Royal Navy, UK tax-payer funded private companies, and the [once beloved now lost] charity RNLI - but that's a drop in the ocean. 

Outing our overt overspending ocracy...

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Once again the Tax Payers' Alliance is doing a sterling service by highlighting the overt overspending of our Members of Parliament, those sent to represent the people, no really, stop sniggering at the back, that is what they are meant to do. 

This is not new, MPs and their hangers-on seem to be consumed with self-entitlement,  to claim back what most 'normal' people have to spend out of their own pockets (2nd mortgage, furniture, utility bills, TVs, donations to charities [i.e. poppies FFS!], and remember this has been going on for decades:  "ice cube tray, a fluffy duster, a toilet roll holder and tealights" [DT] and even porn!!!). What does your MP claim?  

The TPA have "revealed the average cost of an MP has increased by 29 per cent over the covid pandemic, from £157,747 in 2019-20 to £203,880 in 2020-21." 

Among the highlights is the astounding fact that the "average cost of an MP was £203,880". Remember this DOES NOT include their salary. [Full Report PDF] 

Britain’s most expensive MP was the member for Broxtowe, Darren Henry, with total spending of £280,936. Now, to not prejudge - oops too late - maybe he had set-up expenses, being a fairly new MP (2019) but Broxtowe is by Nottingham - not even half way up the country, and the M1 motorway runs through the constituency; it is between Derby and Nottingham mainline stations i.e. it is effing easy to get to London. In fact it is just a few stops up the same line as Kettering, the constituency of the least expensive MP, Philip Hollobone (£80,709. A full 200K less). Philip has CONSTANTLY been the lowest spender - or amongst the lowest - for as long as he has been an MP. 

Just as a reminder that MPs taking advantage of the pandemic and lockdown with a total spend of £132.5 million (up 4.6 per cent on previous years) is peanuts compared to - revealed last month - the [sadly unsurprising] news that there is " £17 billion estimated to be lost from unpaid business loans as any losses were guaranteed to be covered by taxpayers - that's 36 per cent of the entire scheme." [Bounce Back Loan Scheme PDF update].

Outing our overt overspending ocracy...

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Once again the Tax Payers' Alliance is doing a sterling service by highlighting the overt overspending of our Members of Parliament, those sent to represent the people, no really, stop sniggering at the back, that is what they are meant to do. 

This is not new, MPs and their hangers-on seem to be consumed with self-entitlement,  to claim back what most 'normal' people have to spend out of their own pockets (2nd mortgage, furniture, utility bills, TVs, donations to charities [i.e. poppies FFS!], and remember this has been going on for decades:  "ice cube tray, a fluffy duster, a toilet roll holder and tealights" [DT] and even porn!!!). What does your MP claim?  

The TPA have "revealed the average cost of an MP has increased by 29 per cent over the covid pandemic, from £157,747 in 2019-20 to £203,880 in 2020-21." 

Among the highlights is the astounding fact that the "average cost of an MP was £203,880". Remember this DOES NOT include their salary. [Full Report PDF] 

Britain’s most expensive MP was the member for Broxtowe, Darren Henry, with total spending of £280,936. Now, to not prejudge - oops too late - maybe he had set-up expenses, being a fairly new MP (2019) but Broxtowe is by Nottingham - not even half way up the country, and the M1 motorway runs through the constituency; it is between Derby and Nottingham mainline stations i.e. it is effing easy to get to London. In fact it is just a few stops up the same line as Kettering, the constituency of the least expensive MP, Philip Hollobone (£80,709. A full 200K less). Philip has CONSTANTLY been the lowest spender - or amongst the lowest - for as long as he has been an MP. 

Just as a reminder that MPs taking advantage of the pandemic and lockdown with a total spend of £132.5 million (up 4.6 per cent on previous years) is peanuts compared to - revealed last month - the [sadly unsurprising] news that there is " £17 billion estimated to be lost from unpaid business loans as any losses were guaranteed to be covered by taxpayers - that's 36 per cent of the entire scheme." [Bounce Back Loan Scheme PDF update].

Origin of Oh Oh Omicron...

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Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Africa-focused subsampling [Nextstrain.org] 

Now, you could read that as 'Double O' short-hand for fictional licenced-to-kill undercover agent or 'Oh Oh' as in awareness of a problem, mild alarm or worry over the realisation of an error...but...Ian Rons at the Daily Skeptic gives us his 'Bond' tongue in cheek conspiracy theory (honest, I know all the others have come true but this is a joke). however, it may be the case ("Self-disseminating vaccines to suppress zoonoses")! 

Anyhooo, a month ago Igor Chudov wrote "Omicron 'variant' likely to be man-made. It evolved from a strain that is not in circulation as of 1.5 years ago." And from almost two weeks back "Omicron is Not Normal " [eugyppius], and last week from Jonatan Pallesen [his Twitter] "It is based on a variant last seen in mid-2020." 

"That is a very odd path for a virus to evolve naturally. But a normal one if it was investigated in a lab since then." 

There are many more with so much info (e.g. Dr. B, or the Chinese!) but links lead to links and the rabbit hole is endless albeit super interesting and thought provoking. Below you'll see two more images of the evolutionary connections (Omicron's goes back to mid 2020 remember), on the right the larger view, on the left a close-up of the origin (click to enlarge) ...maybe that OO isn't so conspiratorial after all...

Images from Nextstrain via Trevor Bedford.

Origin of Oh Oh Omicron...

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Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Africa-focused subsampling [Nextstrain.org] 

Now, you could read that as 'Double O' short-hand for fictional licenced-to-kill undercover agent or 'Oh Oh' as in awareness of a problem, mild alarm or worry over the realisation of an error...but...Ian Rons at the Daily Skeptic gives us his 'Bond' tongue in cheek conspiracy theory (honest, I know all the others have come true but this is a joke). however, it may be the case ("Self-disseminating vaccines to suppress zoonoses")! 

Anyhooo, a month ago Igor Chudov wrote "Omicron 'variant' likely to be man-made. It evolved from a strain that is not in circulation as of 1.5 years ago." And from almost two weeks back "Omicron is Not Normal " [eugyppius], and last week from Jonatan Pallesen [his Twitter] "It is based on a variant last seen in mid-2020." 

"That is a very odd path for a virus to evolve naturally. But a normal one if it was investigated in a lab since then." 

There are many more with so much info (e.g. Dr. B, or the Chinese!) but links lead to links and the rabbit hole is endless albeit super interesting and thought provoking. Below you'll see two more images of the evolutionary connections (Omicron's goes back to mid 2020 remember), on the right the larger view, on the left a close-up of the origin (click to enlarge) ...maybe that OO isn't so conspiratorial after all...

Images from Nextstrain via Trevor Bedford.

Omicron outcomes, official ordure...

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[Link to Euro News article and image]*

It just keeps coming: politicians spouting shit and causing problems. This time is is Sajid avid-jabber Javid, who says [SKY 'News'] - in an amazing case of non self-awareness -  'accused those unwilling to have the vaccine of having a "damaging impact" on society.' No Jabid, YOU and other LYING politicians and their LYING not very SAGE 'experts' are the ones having that marked effect; "We are watching the data and discussing it with our scientists and our best advisers almost on an hourly basis."...it doesn't matter how often you do it if the data is already skewed the way you want it!

Everything that is going on is based on dodgy models, wrong input and blinkered observation of data. We knew this when they started taking Prof Panic's advice; amazingly, that link is 18 months ago! How time flies when you're enjoying yourself!) but now they are openly admitting their shit-fest [Spectator]

  "if you tweak one assumption (on severity) then — suddenly — no need for lockdown". 

We knew this last year but hey. As per Reg's comment there: Fucking scandalous. 

At last some MSM 'names' are beginning to question the narrative: "...this raises serious questions not just about Sage but about the quality of the advice used to make UK lockdown decisions." 

Another LYING politician is Sadiq Khan, "The really bad news is those in hospital - the vast, vast majority are unvaccinated that's why it is so important to get both the vaccines and the booster jab.". Lies, the data proves him to be wilfully misleading or just fucking lying.

COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report [UK GOV Week 50 pdf] has this: 

By 12 December 2021, the overall vaccine uptake in England for dose 1 was 67.9% and for dose 2 was 62.2%. Overall vaccine uptake in England in people with at least 3 doses was 31.4%. 

Hmmmm, not quite the numbers you expected? Is Khan admitting that if you haven't had the booster you are considered unvaccinated?

I am quite interested in the Danish data which concurs with what I think is happening in the UK:

"Omicron - which continues to appear significantly less dangerous though more transmissible than earlier variants of Covid - has been used as a cover for vaccine failure." 

* re image: don't get me wrong, I know gene sequencing is complicated, costly and time consuming so many countries just won't/can't do it....but really? Also please note: "This article and its accompanying graphics are being regularly updated by our team of journalists. The last update was on December 16."

Omicron outcomes, official ordure...

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[Link to Euro News article and image]*

It just keeps coming: politicians spouting shit and causing problems. This time is is Sajid avid-jabber Javid, who says [SKY 'News'] - in an amazing case of non self-awareness -  'accused those unwilling to have the vaccine of having a "damaging impact" on society.' No Jabid, YOU and other LYING politicians and their LYING not very SAGE 'experts' are the ones having that marked effect; "We are watching the data and discussing it with our scientists and our best advisers almost on an hourly basis."...it doesn't matter how often you do it if the data is already skewed the way you want it!

Everything that is going on is based on dodgy models, wrong input and blinkered observation of data. We knew this when they started taking Prof Panic's advice; amazingly, that link is 18 months ago! How time flies when you're enjoying yourself!) but now they are openly admitting their shit-fest [Spectator]

  "if you tweak one assumption (on severity) then — suddenly — no need for lockdown". 

We knew this last year but hey. As per Reg's comment there: Fucking scandalous. 

At last some MSM 'names' are beginning to question the narrative: "...this raises serious questions not just about Sage but about the quality of the advice used to make UK lockdown decisions." 

Another LYING politician is Sadiq Khan, "The really bad news is those in hospital - the vast, vast majority are unvaccinated that's why it is so important to get both the vaccines and the booster jab.". Lies, the data proves him to be wilfully misleading or just fucking lying. COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report [UK GOV Week 50 pdf] has this: 

By 12 December 2021, the overall vaccine uptake in England for dose 1 was 67.9% and for dose 2 was 62.2%. Overall vaccine uptake in England in people with at least 3 doses was 31.4%. 

Hmmmm, not quite the numbers you expected? Is Khan admitting that if you haven't had the booster you are considered unvaccinated?

I am quite interested in the Danish data which concurs with what I think is happening in the UK:

"Omicron - which continues to appear significantly less dangerous though more transmissible than earlier variants of Covid - has been used as a cover for vaccine failure." 

* re image: don't get me wrong, I know gene sequencing is complicated, costly and time consuming so many countries just won't/can't do it....but really? Also please note: "This article and its accompanying graphics are being regularly updated by our team of journalists. The last update was on December 16."

Obsidional obmutescent obloquy...

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The people on this list (it includes my MP who was a stalwart all through the Brexit saga too) could form the new slimmed-down UK parliament. The savings will be enormous, added to an MPs' Travel Lodge instead of 2nd homes...I digress. 

From the same link you can select those that voted 'aye' - these will not survive - and those that had 'no vote recorded' will be interviewed to see why they did not vote, some for obvious reasons (Speakers, SNP, SF etc), they may be allowed to continue. 

This craziness has to end: very slowly, but very surely, more people are realising. The hole is deep enough, just stop digging. But hey, this is just Health Protection right? All for our own good! "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...." Thank you C.S. Lewis for that quote.

To digress further, the number of great quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist) is amazing and almost all very applicable to the modern era; a half dozen of the best (the first was also so true during the Brexit division!). The Enemy Within: 

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." 

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
"Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed."
"Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice"
"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."

Omicron outbreak...Oh...

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Life continues in Clown world. yes Israel has a very high vaccination rate so any new cases of anything will be mainly in the vaccinated, but hey...get your booster, LOL. Coming to a country near you soon: especially one telling you to rush to get a booster [Metro LINK] "Health Secretary Sajid Javid insisted that the Government will 'throw everything at' the booster programme, with GPs only focusing on urgent needs and vaccinations for the next few weeks."...for something they KNOW won't work against something they KNOW doesn't need it. A virus 'they know very little about' but know "Booster shots up to 75% effective against Omicron" [Yahoo UK] ...really? 

But what's this: "Sadly at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with Omicron"...[ALJ LINK] says Boris. 

This was inevitable, but what did the patient die of? 

Boris then blows it:"So I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus – I think that's something we need to set on one side – and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population." ...sorry? What? The idea it is milder? Why do we need to set it to one side? And we all know the 'sheer pace'...so what do you mean BoJo? Not thinking of an excuse for stricter restrictions are you? You have already obliterated any Christmas dinner/drinks trade the pubs might have gotten. 

And a third jab of something we are getting VERY close to knowing causes a death surge?! FFS. Anyway, so now COVID deaths will be OMICRON deaths? 

 The Health Foundation report: What has happened to non-COVID mortality during the pandemic?

"In England, deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have been lower than usual for 80% of the pandemic. In January to September 2021, this was equivalent to about 34,000 (or 9%) fewer deaths than we would expect, based on historical mortality patterns."

"During the pandemic, deaths from eight of the nine leading causes of death in England were lower than usual." 

They have got to keep the numbers hidden somehow, before we see 'behind the curtain'. The longer the politicians keep digging down in the hole they are in, the harder their punishment will be.

Omicron outbreak...Oh...

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Life continues in Clown world. yes Israel has a very high vaccination rate so any new cases of anything will be mainly in the vaccinated, but hey...get your booster, LOL. Coming to a country near you soon: especially one telling you to rush to get a booster [Metro LINK] "Health Secretary Sajid Javid insisted that the Government will 'throw everything at' the booster programme, with GPs only focusing on urgent needs and vaccinations for the next few weeks."...for something they KNOW won't work against something they KNOW doesn't need it. A virus 'they know very little about' but know "Booster shots up to 75% effective against Omicron" [Yahoo UK] ...really? 

But what's this: "Sadly at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with Omicron"...[ALJ LINK] says Boris. 

This was inevitable, but what did the patient die of? 

Boris then blows it:"So I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus – I think that's something we need to set on one side – and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population." ...sorry? What? The idea it is milder? Why do we need to set it to one side? And we all know the 'sheer pace'...so what do you mean BoJo? Not thinking of an excuse for stricter restrictions are you? You have already obliterated any Christmas dinner/drinks trade the pubs might have gotten. 

And a third jab of something we are getting VERY close to knowing causes a death surge?! FFS. Anyway, so now COVID deaths will be OMICRON deaths? 

 The Health Foundation report: What has happened to non-COVID mortality during the pandemic? "In England, deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have been lower than usual for 80% of the pandemic. In January to September 2021, this was equivalent to about 34,000 (or 9%) fewer deaths than we would expect, based on historical mortality patterns." "During the pandemic, deaths from eight of the nine leading causes of death in England were lower than usual." 

They have got to keep the numbers hidden somehow, before we see 'behind the curtain'. The longer the politicians keep digging down in the hole they are in, the harder their punishment will be.

Obnubilation or overtly offing oldies?...

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Hidden in plain sight...This article last week from Alex Berenson (his Wiki page editors will be made to eat their words sometime soon) caused a storm: "Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age"..."And have been for six months. This chart may seem unbelievable or impossible, but it's correct, based on weekly data from the British government". The fact checker shad a field day with some valid objections...these were fine and correct BUT but couldn't hole the data 'below the waterline'. The image below caused the furour and as he reported back then the graph is correct based on the data [UK Gov pdf.]

Now Alex has followed up, acknowledging the objections and answering them: the title from last week withstands the inspection, it is valid. Please read it all. 

"What’s behind the rise in those deaths in the vaccinated elderly? We don’t know. But we’d better find out. Especially since we are now stuffing boosters into their arms."

Something is wrong.

Obnubilation or overtly offing oldies?...

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Hidden in plain sight...This article last week from Alex Berenson (his Wiki page editors will be made to eat their words sometime soon) caused a storm: "Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age"..."And have been for six months. This chart may seem unbelievable or impossible, but it's correct, based on weekly data from the British government". The fact checker shad a field day with some valid objections...these were fine and correct BUT but couldn't hole the data 'below the waterline'. The image below caused the furour and as he reported back then the graph is correct based on the data [UK Gov pdf.]

Now Alex has followed up, acknowledging the objections and answering them: the title from last week withstands the inspection, it is valid. Please read it all. 

"What’s behind the rise in those deaths in the vaccinated elderly? We don’t know. But we’d better find out. Especially since we are now stuffing boosters into their arms."

Something is wrong.

Obedible ovine or objicient oblocutor...

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Interesting and worrying stuff from the increasing quoted and watched Neil Oliver on the UK's GB NEWS (from last saturday, 20th Nov). Read it all. 

"Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes." In Austria the unthinkable is happening; 'they have history' you say, but "Other countries – Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy – are on the same path as Austria, towards locking down the unvaccinated." This in the patent and-becoming-more-obvious-every-day [accidentally-on-purpose ignoring of the fact] that the unvaccinated pose no risk whatsoever. 

Many of those unvaccinated were therefore working in shops and cafes and restaurants and so on – as lowly servants, if you will – but as soon as their shifts ended they could not be in those same places, certainly not as customers. 

Ludicrous, illogical...sinister. 

We turn blind eyes and deaf ears to uncounted numbers of girls raped and abused in Rotherham and other towns all over England, for fear of upsetting community relations. We promise never to forget the Holocaust while simultaneously turning a blind eye to the abuse, perhaps genocidal abuse, of the Uyghur Muslims in China. 

Neil has words that match my own and many others: "How on earth have we got here, and so quickly?". The totalitarian bent [as you can see from previous posts isn't solely using COVID] has come to the fore and Lord Acton's phrase is so true: "All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." In 20 months the direction of travel hasn't changed but the sidle has become a gallop. 

Coming to a town near you: "...we have a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws". 

Will you obey or will you object?

[Update 23.11.21.]: Lord Sumption in the Telegraph, "Europe's latest wave of Covid authoritarianism has set a dangerous new precedent". 

"The absence of moral scruple in pursuit of what is thought to be a public good is the first symptom of totalitarianism"

Obvious obscurantism over options...

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Thanks to Samizata HERE for the pointer to this video (on YouTube HERE). "COVID-19 has always been a treatable disease". Preventable deaths could have been 85%...EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT.

Previous testimony to the video linked to above is HERE including the four slides he mentions that were removed by YouTube. 

"...not just government culpability and malfeasance with respect to hydroxychloroquine. This is academic malfeasance."

Dr. McCullough isn't without experience, I have never seen a 166 page CV before...

Plus plenty to read up on (links from the comment at Samizdata but they've been in my favourites for many months. Thanks to Nessimmersion: "Click on tabs along the top for each treatment..." HERE. "Best site for overview of the medical evidence": HERE.

Thought the AIER article about the CDC and Common sense would add to the point that this whole saga 'does not compute'; this article not about early treatment options but the other end of the scale. the crazy and contradictory guidance: "To close, the entire Covid-19 pandemic response in Western nations and perhaps the entire world, has led to disastrous outcomes. We argue that most have taken the lead from Western nations like the UK, US, and Canada. It has been a complete disaster and the irony is that we had strong reasonable pandemic plans in place prior to the advance of SARS-CoV-2 that for inexplicable reasons were shelved by the WHO, with no apparent or at least scientifically defensible rationale."