Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
It’s officially now an offence to LEAVE England
After four hours of debate yesterday in the House of Commons, the United Kingdom has approved an emergency measure that will, among other restrictions, fine Brits who LEAVE the country without a qualifying reason.
Ironically, the British government insists they can legally impose these new rules because of authority that was granted to them under a law called the Public Health Act… which just happened to be passed in… 1984.
Starting on Monday, anyone who leaves England must submit papers making a certified declaration of their reason for leaving. The authorities will then retain the discretion to fine travelers £5,000— nearly $7,000, if the reason isn’t valid.
The government has provided a list of 14 valid excuses, such as a professional football team traveling for a match. This is totally fine.
But someone who wants to attend a religious pilgrimage is forbidden to travel. So is someone who wants to visit an elderly parent they haven’t seen since 2019, unless it is a parent whom the traveler “reasonably believes is dying.”
How magnanimous.
By the way, these new rules come despite Members of Parliament acknowledging in debate yesterday that 95% of Brits over the age of 60 have been vaccinated.
This means that the most vulnerable population has been administered a vaccine that they insist is safe and effective.
So… why the harsh lockdown rules?
Click here to read the new rules.
NY crowd cheers blind obedience to public health officials
Tracey Edwards, a New York Public Service Commission appointee, appeared with New York Governor Cuomo last week to encourage total ignorance and unquestioning loyalty to the public health officials.
While encouraging people to take the vaccine, Edwards said:
“I’m not asking what’s in the infusion, I’m not looking up all of the ingredients in the infusion, I am sticking out my arm and I am taking the infusion — and that’s what we have to do.”
The crowd cheered in approval.
This is what the public is being sold: DON’T read any of the research and make up your own mind. DON’T have a conversation with your doctor to make an informed, medical decision. DON’T take even a moment to weigh potential costs and benefits.
Instead, you should be deliberately ignorant and happily do exactly what the public health overlords tell you, without question.
(These are the same New York public health officials who, by the way, sent sick patients into nursing homes, killed countless people, and then covered it up.)
Obey.
California couple can’t move in to their home because of eviction moratorium
A couple paid the owner of a home in California $560,000 in cash in January 2020.
But that owner is still living inside the home today.
He has been able to take advantage of California’s Covid eviction moratorium to pocket the cash and continue living in the home rent free.
It’s hard to understand how the law could possibly apply to this situation, but the couple’s legal proceedings to take possession of their home have been stalled due to the ban on evicting tenants.
Just to be clear: this isn’t the tenant of the former owner. It is the former owner himself who refuses to leave.
Who would have thought that anyone would take advantage of California’s ridiculous laws?
Click here to read the full story.
You can now receive a Bachelor of Tolerance and Coexistence degree
A university in the United Arab Emirates has introduced a Bachelor of Tolerance and Coexistence degree.
The three year program offered by Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities is the first of its kind in the world.
The university chancellor says the degree “develops students’ understanding and respect for different cultures, civilisations and religions, so they can act as ambassadors and build bridges of communication between cultures and civilizations.”
Of course, graduates should probably start the work in the UAE— a country where homosexuality, or any perceived blasphemy against Islam, can be punishable by imprisonment, or even death.
Click here to read the full story.
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Nope, no agenda going on here folks, none at all.
What’s even more absurd than not being able to leave England?
Wanting to go there in the first place.
I’ve been there. Would never go back.
A mooslim college offers a degree in tolerance.
That there just might be the funniest thing you hear all weekend.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want a wealth tax. He also wants a 40% “exit tax”. South Africa has a similar (although more draconian) exit tax (for white people who want to get out before they’re murdered). Forbidding leaving and requiring you to leave your money behind seem related.
“Forbidding leaving and requiring you to leave your money behind seem related.” Call me paranoid, but it sounds a lot like a financial and psychological Berlin Wall. Can’t help but wonder when they’ll start with the razor-wire and armed watchtowers.
There are reasons to not leave your country. Money is not one of them.
There is already an exit tax. It applies to those who are deemed “covered”. It means that you are “deemed” to sell any assets you have in the US, whether you sell them or not, and pay tax on the deemed gains, if you dare to leave the US and renounce your citizenship. Sanders wants to make it even worse. And of course California wants to do the same to you if you dare leave California.
Next major war UK, you are on your own. No help from Canada or the USA. All men who cannot stand feminism and living under socialism. Leave ASAP and leave the kennel to Lassie.
And to think, we’ve had to save these clowns not once, but twice from the Germans. The same Germans who they now want to emulate. We really need to stop trying to save people from themselves. It’s a waste of our time, money, and most importantly, our blood.
>>>We really need to stop trying to save people from themselves.
You’re confusing a solid century-plus of American public relations effort (a.k.a. lies) with the facts. The USA assures all that we only reluctantly intervene abroad, as a “global force for good”; however, for the right interests, power-players and price, the American Regime is delighted to intervene anywhere on the planet.
Boots on the ground in Germany, Japan, Vietnam? Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan? Ukraine? Only because some areas are “unstable”… unstable, that is, from the point of view of the “highest” financiers, MIC manufacturers and assorted public-private fiefdoms (e.g. Israel Lobby).
It’s hard to be lied to or get exploited. But when the US Government-Infotainment Complex informs you that the Indispensable Nation has yet again had to go abroad, to defend human decency from wickedness, please know that you’re being soaked with the elite’s piss, and not rain drops.
And to think the Britons succumbed to this tyranny without so much as a soccer match donnybrook.
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Mao are laughing their brutal totalitarian assess off in Hades.
“But someone who wants to attend a religious pilgrimage is forbidden to travel.”
How can you get enriched good and hard if the muslims get to leave the country? If you need out, just tell them you’re visiting the wailing wall.
Muslim Hajis wont be liking that one little bit.
Auntie expects a series of “Islamluv” mostly peaceful demonstrations i.e. dhimmi throats being slit, to the shouts of “Allah hu akbar!” which will persuade the imbeciles, totalitarian traitors in charge to at least allow the followers of Muhammad to go travelling overseas and such.
A man I met today who has a family cottage on a lake in Ontario Province, au Canada is not allowed to enter the country to access it due to Covid restrictions even though they own and pay taxes on it.
You gotta love The Emirates. A large pot of money, sitting in a sea of hot sand and warm water.
The very best people from around the world clamor to work there!
The issue is not so much that they do not want you to leave. The issue is they do not want to let you back in. Because international law grants citizens the right to return. And they are afraid that their citizens will bring the dreaded virus back in.
The world is screwed.