Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley with today’s UK Column News.
NHS direction "stuck on stupid": Pandemic cannot be declared over
00:21 Chuckle Brothers Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance forecast a prolonged period of excess death of British people (reported by titles including Daily Mail)
00:44 Graphic on screen: ONS all-cause mortality statistics
01:05 Mike Robinson hunts through UK Government websites: Department of Health & Social Care has no mention of the death forecast, but does carry messaging including:
- Get boosted
- £22.5 million cancer research funding for mRNA platforms
- NHS delivering on winter plan: Health Secretary Steve Barclay says “absolutely vital to use cutting-edge technology”
Mike Robinson commentary: Staggering that beds aren’t coming back after shutdown yet data analytics are being ramped up
Patrick Henningsen commentary: Apparent attempt to rehabilitate the sultans of lockdown; the problems catalysed by their policies were predictable
—This is a Big Agriculture model: patients administered by PowerPoint like livestock; slick presentation will suggest everything is rosy
Mike Robinson resumes his hunt for UK Government hosting of the Chuckle Brothers' prophecy:
- DHSC: no
- Covid page: no
- Public Health page: no
- Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report page: yes, well buried
05:28 So what do the Chuckle Brothers say? Inter alia, NHS morale blamed—but Whitty and Valance drove the mood of lockdown
Mike Robinson analysis: Whitty is blaming the public for not having heard the supposedly intended subtleties of his “stay away from our NHS” messaging
Patrick Henningsen commentary: A declaration that the pandemic is over is unconscionable because it would trigger a tsunami of lawsuits against Big Pharma and government bodies for pushing emergency-use products
Bill C–7's second anniversary: Canada pioneers industrial-scale suicide of the unwanted
10:39 The Bridgehead: Canada’s new euthanasia law [passed in December 2020] threatens your loved ones who suffer from mental illness (March 2021)
Horrifying data picked up by independent media; Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is leading a Five Eyes strategy of suicide in place of mental illness prevention
Canadian medics can now decree the death of people incapable of consenting, on the basis that they were previously induced to express such a will
13:52 Graphic on screen: Huge rise year on year since 2016 in medically-assisted suicides in Canada
14:21 Unexpectedly informative article: CBC (Canadian public broadcaster)—Federal minister says she's 'shocked' by suggestion of assisted deaths for some babies
Vanessa Beeley commentary: How much of this irreparable damage to babies is caused by Covid vaccines?
Qualtrough said it should not be easier to access a medically assisted death than to get a wheelchair — but it is.
16:36 Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova draws pointed comparisons between Third Reich’s T4 programme and Canada’s euthanasia drive: money-saving
18:31 Ian Miles Cheong tweet: Canadian clothes retailer Simons is actually using suicide to market their products
19:01 Clip: Canadians being encouraged to end it all—All Is Beauty (Simons)
20:36 MercatorNet: A Canadian retailer exploits a young artist’s euthanasia to market its fashions
If La Maison Simons really valued “community, connection, and compassion”, it would be subsidising housing and medical care for people like this. Instead it is exploiting the death of a young artist to burnish its brand as a champion of progressive values.
The American Conservative: Canadian Capitalist Culture Of Death
21:28 New York Times: New York City to involuntarily remove mentally ill people from streets
Patrick Henningsen analysis: Industrial death numbers; the supine response says a lot about Canadian society and politics, revolving around nihilism—children brought up for half a century now really to believe they have no future
24:50 Clip: Redacted—The connection between euthanasia and eugenics—Canada’s paediatric society says it’s basically OK to eliminate children, as long as the child is categorised as a “mature minor”
Vanessa Beeley commentary: Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather ran Nazi propaganda in occupied Kraków and was closely connected to Joseph Goebbels, who commissioned Ich klage an (I Accuse), a blockbuster Nazi film portraying suicide of the ill as heroic
Human augmentation: Musk makes a hash of his pitch
27:53 Elon Musk Show and Tell livestream yesterday on his latest efforts to interface the human brain with microchips: implantation trial within six months
28:30 Clip: Musk fumblingly describes his overall goal: “create a whole-brain interface”, a generalised input/output device to access the soul—and asks how the risk of supposedly super-intelligent computers can be mitigated
Patrick Henningsen commentary: Actual researchers know we are actually nowhere near the trumpeted “singularity”; artificial competence is not artificial intelligence—but this should be understood separately from Musk’s free speech aims on Twitter
33:06 UK Ministry of Defence’s boffin department Dstl boasts “pioneering AI trial”
34:06 UK MoD also has a Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Mike Robinson analysis: Supposedly, AI is only a problem when in the adversary’s hands—but British defence thinking openly says now that it thinks the enemy is found at home
Patrick Henningsen commentary: Be more concerned about what your local health service and police force is deciding to do with you using AI—the hallmarks of a technocracy
Third-world election fraud: Now available back home
37:13 AP (syndicated by the Independent): Bulgarians protest reinstatement of paper election ballots
Patrick Henningsen analysis: We Continue The Change party and Democratic Bulgaria political alliance—of unclear funding—insist on electronic voting
Patrick Henningsen commentary: Recall that when US ballot companies pioneered electronic voting, they did so for régime-change ends in Latin America, not at home—the back-end server owners are said to be able to swing Brazilian elections
40:35 Just The News: Arizona Governor-elect Hobbs ultimatum to county board: Certify her election or face felony rap—Mojave County board supervisors threatened with arrest and criminal charges if they would not roll over and accept the proclaimed election result
Patrick Henningsen commentary: Half of Arizona does not accept the state’s official election results, which could be decisive nationwide; this could erupt into a much bigger fight
Free speech online: Incompetents flushed out; The government will dox you now
43:57 Washington Examiner: Musk says Twitter 'interfered in elections' and 'failed' public trust
Patrick Henningsen reminder: Twitter even shut down the account of the New York Post, the fourth-largest newspaper in the USA, as if its editors hadn't vetted the Hunter Biden laptop story
Three telling tweets by Elon Musk:
47:09 Reuters cites Twitter’s former head of censorship, Yoel Roth the partisan, as casting Musk’s Twitter as a cauldron of hate speech
48:07 Clip: Roth’s blasé attitude, feigning a sense of danger and pretending expertise in the political phenomenon of hack-and-leak
50:41 Washington Post: Musk’s ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say
Times of Israel: Israel’s Foreign Ministry jabs Twitter for new lax attitude toward hate speech
NBC News takes the hype to another order of magnitude: Elon Musk’s Twitter risks opening floodgates of hate speech and extremism in India
AP (syndicated by the Independent): German police raid and question online hate speech suspects—Germany’s annual purge of anonymous persons online
New York Times: Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door (September 2022)—misattributing a quote gets a man's door battered down
Patrick Henningsen commentary: If the Germans are crowing about government doxxing for upsetting politicians, are the Five Eyes doing it to their own citizens in a less declared fashion?
German law enforcement’s doctrine:
The accused bears the risk of spreading a false quote without checking it
—predicated upon the nonsense that a falsely-attributed quotation is a threat to a politician’s very safety
Patrick Henningsen analysis: Governments are hereby showing social media platforms that they will intervene directly if the platforms are not up to the censorship task set for them
“Hate speech”: the perennial problem is political, not legal
1:01:40 EU foreign affairs supremo Josep Borrell reports to G20 on his “diplomatic speed-dating” on the “global battle of narratives”: “For now, we are not winning”
Borrell particularly concerned that “our partners” have not swallowed the approved narrative, and need to be have it reinforced (with lip service paid to cultural sensitivities)
1:02:07 Tech HQ: Twitter will be banned in Europe unless it abides by EU’s Digital Services Act
This tendency has already started voluntarily, with Rumble removing itself from France rather than submit to censorship
1:03:12 Politico: What is DSA? What Europe’s new content moderation law means for the internet
In the event of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war or a pandemic, the Commission will be empowered to require Big Tech firms to quickly adapt their services to deal with potential disinformation.
1:03:47 European Digital Media Observatory: The EDMO network expands to all EU Member States through six new hubs—no EU country must be beyond the reach of punitive anti-dissidence measures such as freezing bank accounts
Mike Robinson commentary: We must be building a much better type of society with all this control of narratives(!)
1:05:13 Daily Telegraph: Britain is sleepwalking into censorship and we're running out of time to stop it— opinion piece warning that Britain will become one of the world’s most draconian countries by dint of the “disinformation terrorism” label
1:06:20 BBC—Online Safety Bill: Plan to make big tech remove harmful content axed
Mike Robinson commentary: The Bill will still affect even people running a small online forum, and the Government is insisting on pushier platforms
1:09:15 Patrick Henningsen commentary: Twitter has just stopped policing “Covid misinformation” but certain buzzphrases, like “preventing homophobic speech”, are so broad-brush as to allow anything to be construed as offensive—and Musk’s new management has only removed the Covid straitjacket, not the others
1:12:55 Mike Robinson review—Online Safety Bill new amendments
New section after Section 135 requires Ofcom to publish a report on the impact of the regulatory framework—thus requiring platforms to protect the “right” news sources from being too bothered
1:13:42 New section after Section 152, ensuring that holders of certain licences are exempt from charges of false communications—that would be approved sources as long as they stay within the trammels set for them
1:14:20 And just for the laughs: Centre for Information Resilience, a yah-boo narrative tank
1:14:50 Fox News: White House’s former ‘disinformation czar’ Nina Jankowicz registers as a foreign agent—the Centre for Information Resilience is the British NGO for whom Jankowicz (Biden's Mary Poppins) now works
UK Covid-19 Inquiry—the fix is in?
1:15:27 Inquiry now set up https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk
Mike Robinson analysis: The Chuckle Brothers' precooked apportionment of blame (first segment of today’s news) will have been intended to feed into this inquiry, to set its tenor
1:16:05 Daily Telegraph: Covid inquiry risks ‘whitewash’ with its focus on lockdown advocates, MPs warn—concern over potential for biased selection of core participants in the inquiry
1:16:30 Independent: Next Covid strain could be more dangerous than Omicron, scientists warn
Mike Robinson commentary: Evidently, the Next Pandemic™ is on its way by hook or by crook