A carrot is just another form of stick
On the attribution & ascription of names, characteristics, causes, & values.
Off the Cuff
Parliament has just mandated vaccines for all staff in UK Care Homes and vaccine apartheid is being implemented in France
RAVES AND RIOTS – CREDIT CREATION & DESTRUCTION
Vinca Petersen I walked past photographer Vinca Petersen‘s exhibition at EDEL ASSANTI on Mortimer Street in London yesterday. Some of the images on display are taken from the 90s Teknival Scene and Reclaim the Streets. Edel Assanti organises photography exhibitions…
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Osborne to Chair British Museum where Nigel Boardman, BoJo’s pick to whitewash the Government Greensill inquiry, is already Deputy Chair
Nigel Boardman, who Boris Johnson handpicked to run the post-Greensill review of high level corrupt appointments, is also a trustee and should now resign from both positions
The Years of the Week
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Jordan Ellenberg: Shape
Jordan Ellenberg wrote the bestseller: How not to be Wrong back in 2014. Here he is in conversation with Weapons of Math Destruction writer Cathy O’Neil
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Protected: Sliding doors
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Whistleblowers & Double Agents2
This one goes out to the never edit crew
Whistleblowers & Double Agents
This one goes out to the never edit crew
Murdoch, Kissinger, Wolfensohn, Cohn
I love the way these guys preach borderless globalism one day and merciless flag-waving the next. Gaslighting-as-a-service In 2000 Rupert Murdoch hosted a discussion on the Global Role of the UnitedStates in the 21st Century. The main speaker was the…
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Open Secrets
G7 Tax Deal maintains illicit corporate financial flow
Infosys deal means Sunak must resign
Chancellor's family directly benefit from mini India Trade Deal
No Corruption Please, We’re British!
The changing nature of what does and doesn't count as corrupt
MAPPA / Stalking Register
A stalking register needs proper monitoring of whoever is on the list
Magnitsky Rules Rob Smaller Countries
Uk adopts Magnitsky "anti-corruption" Rules to steal money from smaller countries.
Standards in Public Life
Government Reply to Committee on Standards in Public Life Few will read the Government’s reply to the Committee on Standards in Public Life
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#StalkingRegister U-Turn, Jo Johnson #DomesticAbuseBill
The Conservative Lord Jo Johnson as been voting in favour of the Government's Domestic Abuse Bill and against a #StalkingRegister.
Jim’ll Fixit for BoJo: Dyson hires PM’s brother straight after instructing Boris to evade tax
Billionaire hired PM's little bro immediately after ordering Boris to evade tax
#DriverlessCrash #ColliderScope
From Driverless Crash to New German Green Leader
Hell hath no fury like a Mandy Scorned #HartlepoolByElection
Westminster has no appetite for an independent candidate in Hartlepool
UK Nuclear Disaster on the Cards #No2ESO #Hinkley #EdF
Rise of the Working Class Shareholder?
Astraddle Synthetic Biology (the most magnificent of promotions)
Synthetic Biology is the Answer I’m no scientist. But I think science is important. The open discussion of science is crucial in a free society. A matter of life and death. The society which does not permit open discussion of…
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Make jocund music though the boughs be bare
Why England Is Conservative by Alfred Austin Because of our dear Mother, the fair Past,On whom twin Hope and Memory safely lean,And from whose fostering wisdom none shall weanTheir love and faith, while love and faith shall last:Mother of happy…
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Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in another corrupt Media PR operation
Andrew Bailey is referred to in this FT piece as though he has some sort of track record preventing fraud. He doesn’t. For some reason, “comments have not been enabled for this article” Bailey was asked about lessons learned from…
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How the City went Woke ?
Woke This Way The Times of London tends to issue anti-woke UK Government propaganda from behind a paywall. A paywall that is thankfully not impossible to bypass. In today’s business section is the following offering: It is interesting to see…
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The Apple of Anarchism, Anachronism, & Discord
A is for Apple, Anarchism, & Anachronism Luddites I miss the Luddites. Not the ones up in Nottinghamshire that broke frames. I mean the ones from a few years ago who were scientists against technocracy. Dave King ran the group.…
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Who runs this place? #AskDeloitte
The Government pays Deloitte to tell them how to tell the world that it is ok for the Government to pay Deloitte.
Murdoch backs Hancock over Mandatory Vaccines for care workers
“It is an unprecedented and controversial step. But ministers should press ahead” – The TImes Over the course of eight paragraphs today’s Times argues that the jab should be mandatory for all care workers. It goes a little something like…
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Pasta, Bellini, Siddons, Pound, Fulke Greville, Orton, Orbison
Alina, mi amore, brevita gran pregio
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Voodoo Tiled ( Slight U-Turn )
Standing Next to a Mountain UK Government in Coal U-Turn Last night Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, U-Turned and blocked the application for the deep coalmine near Whitehaven in Cumbria. Fracking was recently blocked in the UK, despite the government…
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US invoke Navalny, Skripal, Magnitsky to oust Putin
The boys and girls over at the State Department / Bloomberg must think the public believe anything. Their latest offering suggests the UK / US axis wants to place sanctions on Russia. This is due to chemical weapons usage and…
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More Press Intrusion
The Times has just published a story about the personal life of an academic who was held hostage in Iran for three years. I see no news value in it whatsoever. What possesses them to publish a story that simply…
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Fears Intemperate Dacre would use “Online Harms” to Kill Free Speech
A row is brewing over the Government’s apparent preference to appoint the notorious right wing newspaper editor Paul Dacre as Head of Broadcast Regulator Ofcom, with powers to police Independent & Social Media, and special exemptions for newspapers.
Prominent Anti-Press Regulation Editor Paul Dacre to run BBC & Social Media Regulator OFCOM?
Critics decry naked political appointment of editor who has arguably done more to polarise political discourse than anyone except Nigel Farage
How I learnt to stop worrying & love the vaccine
Were every Frenchman who claims to have been in the resistance be telling truth there’d have been no room for Nazis.
Killer Bee Brexit
Bee-Killing Brexit Pesticide Wu Tang Killer Bees UK Government Launches Genetic Engineering Consultation
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Unreliable Journalism from James Ball
Right wing investigative reporter James Ball has attacked Julian Assange once again. This time in the Sunday Times. But is there anything new in his article?
Ex-Grenfell Minister to Run COP26 Climate Talks
Alok Sharma to run COP26 Great Reset Build Back Better Scam
The Sunday Times’ Recurring Thalidomide Technique
We all know the press is able to play down the significance of one scandal and play up the significance of another.
The Chakrasonic Combovers by Al-Khemikal Spitz
Limitation, imagination, serenade me once again, dumbfounded by unbounded beauty, lovely plumage make good pen
Comment is Banned
Comment is Banned They used to say on the Guardian website that comment is free. But now it’s more a case of Comment is banned. Why? In the Guardian opinion section, of the 20 main articles, only 3 have a…
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A Fine Line
Be Kind - stop them knowing anything at all - and keep looting.
Hancock’s secret meeting with Zuck
NHSX Spook Matthew Gould gives away UK medical data and attacks independent media
Orwellian UK Free Speech Debate
Whereas inequality has tended to be lowered only after serious struggles, at this point the struggles themselves are being outlawed.
Body Snatch Brexit
It’s only a year since I said I was dreaming of a Brown Brexit. As if by magic, UK policy in the organ donation space has opened up. How did they do it? By getting rid of free will. Opened…
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Koch’s ‘Stand Together’ ‘Philanthropy Movement’ co-opts Black Lives Matter
Philanthropy as a service
Anti-mandatory vaccines doesn’t make you Anti-Vaccine
But don't argue with these people, they're always right
Half Food Bank users repaying Government Emergency Loans
I've been going to North Paddington Food Bank in Westminster for four weeks.
Death of Elizabeth Dixon: 20 Year NHS Cover Up
Still waiting for the truth
Desperate for “sensible” Celebs to promote Covid Vaccines, UK Government enlists GCHQ & Army in War on Sceptics
Government openly engaging in psychological operations with same teams and tactics as in Afghanistan