2021-02-28

Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota reviews South Dakota's reaction to the Covid emergency:

"Covid didn't crush the economy - Government crushed the economy"

"South Dakota is the only state in America that never ordered a single business or church to close, we never instituted a shelter-in-place order, we never mandated that people wear a mask, we never even defined what an "essential business" is because I don't believe that the governors have the authority to tell you that your business isn't essential"

"In South Dakota I provided all of the information that we had to our people, and then I trusted them to make the best decisions for themselves, for their families, and in turn their communities"

"Dr Fauci told me that on my worst day I would have 10,000 patients in my hospitals - on our worst day, we had a little over 600"

The Psychology of Bad Politicians

2021-02-26

James Corbett of the Corbett Report delivers a very well-constructed review of the Trump presidency and how it fits within the American (global?) "democratic" system.

What was the point of Trump? Was he the man to fix the system and "drain the swamp", or was he the necessary distraction that enabled those behind the scenes to take the world into the next phase of their plan for our dystopian future?

James brings a welcome forensic analysis of past pronouncements and events that gives real pause for thought, building a convincing case that Trump was not the man that many hoped (and prayed) he would be:

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As of today, it's hard to disagree

2021-02-25

Now that the UK has "left the EU" our defence policy is as opaque as ever, and our defence budget will no doubt now be more stretched than ever given the predations of government policy in response to Covid.

So whither now our armed forces, and in particular, the army?

Adrian Hill writing for Briefings for Britain outlines some draft proposals for maintaining our fighting capability whilst significantly reducing manpower costs but maintaining numbers - a fine trick if it could be pulled off!

He sensibly contrasts the UK approach with the techniques adopted by other countries, and concludes that we have much to learn if only we had the will to do so.

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2021-02-24

During Mrs May's tenure, the House of Commons became the house of chaos as opposing factions seemingly bent every rule in the book and every  convention in Parliament in a futile bid to overturn the verdict of the People without taking the blame for so doing. The squabbling and scheming reached epic levels and the cartoonists (to misapply a quote from Harold Macmillan) had "never had it so good".

Contrast that with the current state of play where Boris and Matt get by without bothering to present their diktats in the House, Her Majesty's loyal opposition is so loyal that it only ever argues for the restrictions to be tighter, and with very few honourable exceptions no serious attempt is made to do anything other than tow the party line and support the government.

In this article for Brexit Watch Ian Logan points up the situation over Brexit where

2021-02-24

I'm becoming ever more reluctant to post on the Covid topic since there is little new to say; however, this article in the Mail Online in response to Johnson's "road map" is topical pertinent and (mostly) well-founded. In the end though the only thing you really need to know is this quote:

"The more SAGE gets wrong, the more Mr Johnson clings to its view of the pandemic"

The author however continues the dishonourable MSM tradition of assuming that only a vaccine can provide any immunity - in point of fact the disease has been with us for so long now that herd immunity may be the decisive factor - indeed the rapidly evaporating case numbers could be evidence for this, although predictably enough nobody seems to want to mention this possibility.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même

2021-02-23

Professor Saad may not be a familiar name but Peter Whittle has done us all a service by featuring him on "So What You're Saying Is...".

As an evolutionary psychologist he doesn't fall neatly into any of our normal categories, and as an academic one wonders, given his forthright views, how he has managed to survive without being cancelled, but he does share an interesting explanation of his longevity, an explanation which perhaps more of us need to emulate.

Oh, and he's very entertaining with it :)

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2021-02-23

The medico-political Covid situation is confusing on multiple levels which will clearly not be resolved any time soon, but just when you thought that there can't possibly be any more new hypotheses to discuss, along comes Matt Ehret with another.

It is widely accepted that electromagnetic radiation can be damaging to our health. X-rays, gamma rays, nuclear radiation, ultra-violet sunshine are all acknowledged to be damaging, whilst sunlight (excluding damaging UV) is known to be beneficial both physically (allowing the body to generate vitamin D) and mentally (cheering us all up :) .

Infra-red can be damaging if it causes us to heat up too much.

All other radiation is thought to be harmless . . .   except where it isn't, such a microwave radiation which causes us to heat up and is used for that purpose in microwave ovens (and for communications purposes in WiFi at low levels thought to be safe by regulators but disputed by campaigners).

2021-02-23

The US Supreme Court yesterday dismissed cases that it had previously declined to expedite, concerning challenges to the validity of the contentious presidential election processes followed by the various swing states.

The Court simply declined to hear the cases, no reasons were given. However, the decisions were not unanimous.

The Epoch Times has the details.

2021-02-22

Ben Habib explains what he is up to - he is taking Boris to task for the Northern Ireland protocol that is currently dividing the Union.

“Today we are writing to the Prime Minister. This government is driving a coach & horses through the Act of Union. We have no option but to take legal action”

Whilst it's good to see initiatives like this that take the preservation of the Union very seriously, surely the point is that Parliament should be taking the lead here?

The very fact that politicians are now resorting to legal action speaks volumes about the fiction that Parliament is composed of those who represent the views of the people.

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2021-02-22

Bitcoin recently appreciated significantly when Elon Musk bought a vast tranche.

Since then it's seemingly done nothing but go up in value. So what to do - is it about to collapse or will it go on up for ever and make its owners extravagantly wealthy?

I have read many articles on crypto but I have not invested any actual money as yet. Should I now break the conservative habit and buy in?

Catherine Austin Fitts gives us a wholly different take on what is going on here, and I suspect that her analysis will come as something of a surprise to many.

She succeeds in relating the financial elements to  our real-life needs and experience, as well as to the global political and financial situation - she paints a very complete picture.

Essential

2021-02-21

This utterly preposterous idea is, believe it or not, seriously being touted by those who think they can bully or manipulate us into accepting whatever they say as the gospel truth - or at any rate a plausible alternative to it.

The AIER now feels compelled to take this absurd threat seriously, not because it has any merit, but because the associated politics has all the hall-marks of a totalitarian agenda that they would steamroller across the world whether we the people want it or not.

"Those who follow this philosophy fail to recognize the glaringly obvious truth that suppression tactics have not succeeded because they run contrary to human nature"

"The ZeroCovid

2021-02-21

The BBC reports:-

"Matt Hancock acted unlawfully when his department did not reveal details of contracts it had signed during the Covid pandemic, a court has ruled"

When the Covid pandemic struck the government allegedly threw all its normal procurement processes out of the window as it seemingly fell over itself to place orders for PPE.

Many questioned the rationale for placing such orders with suppliers who appeared to be manifestly unsuitable under all normal sourcing criteria, but in any event the government was still under a legal obligation to publish details of its procurements within 30 days after the event.

It appears that this obligation was not fulfilled.

2021-02-21

For those of us who still wonder why seemingly all previously accepted tenets of epidemiological, medical, statistical and governmental good practice were promptly thrown out of the window a year ago, possibly never to return in our life-times, Lockdown Sceptics take the bull by the horns and introduce the hitherto unmentionable (in gentlemanly circles) idea there might be a motivation in fraud.

Personally I think this idea is long overdue an outing - any rational enumeration of the possible causes of the current imbroglio must include fraud on the list, and given what we know about human nature, it seems ridiculous that this possibility should be excluded from investigation merely on the grounds that somebody somewhere may think it to be in bad taste.

Logic is impervious to taste, and as far as I know bad taste has never been known as a sure preventative of criminal

2021-02-21

The government has released it first report on the adverse events reported following UK Covid-19 vaccinations.

The "Yellow Card" system records unsolicited reports of vaccine adverse events, as reported by members of the public. As far as I know these are analysed as reported without moderation or verification.

Report any Coronavirus vaccine or other Yellow Card event here.

Whereas the MHRA asserts that it has proactive systems for monitoring adverse events, the above Yellow Card system is not proactive, as it relies upon the initiative of members of the public

2021-02-21

It seems that North Dakota is following in the footsteps of South Dakota in seeking to ensure that no Federal laws or Executive Orders that they deem to conflict with the US Constitution will be respected.

Whilst legally arguably superfluous, this will make it much easier for such unconstitutional measures to be disregarded since such action would be much less likely to result in a lawsuit.

Natural News has the story.

Once more we can see the strength of the decentralised American model where the powers of the federal centre are strictly limited by the constitution, thus ensuring that each state retains autonomy in its own affairs.

I can't help but wonder if there is a lesson (or several) for the future of the UK in there somewhere?

2021-02-19

Robert David Steele is a very well-informed and assertive individual (who I think could learn to interrupt a little less frequently) and Matt Ehret is a Canadian who seems to be enormously well read in geopolitics and its history.

They make up  formidable duo.

Here they discuss the causes of the current financial/geopolitical state of the world, and very interesting they are.

So, without further ado, please watch:

See more at Matt's web-site The Canadian Patriot.

See the RDS blog at phibetaiota.net.

2021-02-19

Texas freezes in the grip of very unaccustomed sub-zero temperatures, accompanied by widespread electricity black-outs as the power grid effectively collapses due to inadequate supply.

Wind turbines are frozen stiff, solar panels snowed over, natural gas coal and nuclear generation are maxed out but nowhere near making up the loss of renewables.

Oh, and the planners didn't plan for unusual but not unprecedented severe winter weather.

Doesn't that sound a bit like the UK?

Sounds like just the same green energy planning mindset as in the UK.

Makes you think . . .   will we be next?

Here is another report from Texas, this time from Del Bigtree of

2021-02-19

Lock-downs were instituted in the West when Neil Ferguson infamously predicted some wildly improbable death tolls if they were not. Notoriously, Sweden did not follow that advice, and lived to tell the tale.

Ivor Cummins (of Fat Emperor Podcast fame) has given us the list of published papers which investigate whether lock-downs have worked.

So don't hang back - plunge in!

Of course Ivor is not the only one to have reviewed the literatures and identified similar papers.

See also: 

2021-02-19

I am greatly blessed to live in rural Hampshire, but that makes it easy to forget that many others are not so blessed.

This video is a compendium of a small subset of the collateral damage, the subset that has children who cannot go to school, who are stuck at home with a parent, who have no friends to visit and no parties to be invited to.

Kids are by nature resilient but there is a limit to their resilience when the oppression is never-ending - and we all know their tolerance of delay from the infamous question "are we nearly there yet?".

Anna Brees has done us a service to release this small glimpse of misery on behalf of all the many who are similarly suffering. I hope some representative of "authority" is listening.

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