“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.” NOTE – If anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: [email protected].
BREAKING NEWS – a brand new, free website has been launched by a consortium of doctors in Australia. It provides a truthful one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about SARS2 and Covid: https://cmnnews.org/
GOOD NEWS – ‘Jav-the Chav’ is now in charge – thank God – certainly a more sensible fellow among the rabble. “Several senior Tories suggested the presence of the more libertarian Javid around the table, instead of Matt Hancock, was likely to have tipped the balance towards a bolder approach. Downing Street insists that his presence was not the deciding factor, pointing out that Boris Johnson has been insisting since before Hancock’s humiliation that the 19 July date would be a “terminus”.
But one government source conceded that “having the health secretary as cover definitely made a difference”. Another senior Conservative who knows the players well said it was evident that the decision had been reached without “the counterbalance of Matt”.
The prime minister’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has repeatedly portrayed Johnson as anti-restrictions, and Conservative MPs have been increasingly vocal in calling for the public to be given the freedoms they were promised vaccination would bring.
Javid’s arrival appears to have cemented that view. The health secretary is such a fan of The Fountainhead, the libertarian fable by the American author and philosopher Ayn Rand, made into a 1949 film starring Gary Cooper that he once confessed to reading the courtroom scene aloud to his future wife. In it, the character played by Cooper in the film, Howard Roark, forcefully defends the right of individuals to make their own decisions, rather than be subordinated to “the collective”.
Javid’s aides insist he is motivated not by ideology, but a hard-nosed assessment of the costs of continuing restrictions, not just for the economy but for the NHS, which has built up a huge backlog of non-Covid work. And ministers appear to have taken the view, “If not now, then when?” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/06/why-ministers-stuck-to-19-july-for-lifting-englands-covid-rules
AS I have previously opined, the Hancock saga is not going away – here is the latest debacle now capturing his mates. “Lord Bethell, the Health Minister who sponsored a Parliament security pass for Matt Hancock’s aide Gina Coladangelo, is under formal investigation, a watchdog has confirmed.
The minister – a friend of the shamed former Health Secretary – faces calls to be sacked over the pass given to Ms Coladangelo, after video of her kissing Mr Hancock in breach of Covid rules was published. He’s also sparked anger after it emerged he held 27 meetings – including nine which resulted in lucrative Covid contracts – which went undeclared for more than a year. The Lords Commissioner for Standards today confirmed Lord Bethell is under investigation over his “use of facilities“. This is a report from the Mirror newspaper: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/health-minister-pal-who-gave-24471978 AND more putrid evidence leaks from government investigations about Hancock’s devious and possible criminal activities. “The watchdog will probe the use of all private correspondence channels used by ministers – which could include tools like WhatsApp – after concerns were raised about the former health secretary’s email, as well as private emails from health minister Lord Bethell.
The ICO has the power to seize evidence and even recommend criminal prosecution if information has been deliberately destroyed, altered or concealed. Hancock is reported to have routinely used a private account, according to leaked minutes of an official meeting at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The minutes said Hancock was only dealing with his private office “via Gmail account” and said he did not have a departmental inbox.
The former health secretary resigned for breaching social distancing guidelines for an affair with his close aide. His use of emails will form part of the investigation. Bethell, who oversaw the award of Covid contracts, has also faced calls for his resignation after the Guardian revealed that a number of emails were copied into his private email account. His address was copied into at least four official exchanges relating to a businessman who was attempting to get government contracts during the pandemic.” Full details in the Guardian report: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/06/investigation-launched-into-private-email-use-in-department-of-health
ALSO – as I have said many times, Britain is a very secret society where the government aims to control all aspects of its mismanagement and major cockups by suppressing all negative news. As well as having total control over its propaganda and mouthpiece – The BBC – it uses The Secrets Act to move against anyone considered a threat to its plutocracy.
“Most threatening of all to the public knowing what the government is doing are proposed changes in the Official Secrets Act which would treat journalists, whistleblowers and leakers as if they were spies. A little-noticed 67-page consultative paper issued in May by the Home Office and titled Legislation to Counter State Threats (Hostile State Activity) says anybody revealing information that the government chooses to label as a state secret would be liable for prosecution. The papers define espionage particularly broadly as “the covert process of obtaining sensitive confidential information that is not normally publicly available”.
Critics say the proposed legislation would leave journalists and others facing the threat of 14 years in prison for publishing whatever the government may say is damaging to national security. The burden of proof for a successful prosecution would be reduced and juries would not necessarily be told why some disclosure poses such a serious threat.
In Priti Patel’s introduction to the document, the home secretary portrays Britain as beset by enemies at home and abroad who pose a mounting danger to the nation. Her declared purpose is “to empower the whole national security community to counter the insidious threat we face today”. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/06/the-uk-government-is-launching-a-multi-front-attack-on-freedom-of-expression-in-the-name-of-national-security/
AND – Hat Tip: John Ward at ‘The Slog’ who has the inside on where all this is taking us. “The Slog was also early into the idea that Project Wuhan possibly represented a joint op between the PRC and the US. That’s still a long way from being proved, but there are myriad unexplained events (the military games, the faked Chinese panic, the Fort Detrick closure, the line from Wuhan back to Fauci and so forth) that leave one suspicious.
Do not comply any further. Do not obey blatantly stupid rules. Do not trust anything the media tells you. Prepare for guerrilla politics at local level. Withhold payment of any debt for which these opportunists did not have a mandate. Connect with others off-grid, and form cells to thwart insane policies. Flatly refuse to offer up our children for vaccination. And use every available outdoor space to declare your allegiance to freedom over feudalism. Onward to July 19th and changing our lives after the Covid Spamdemic.“ Read on for a very sound analysis: https://therealslog.com/2021/07/06/something-rancid-comes-this-way/
NOW that we are moving to more ‘freedom’ I have been reviewing historical philosophers, and guided by Dr James Alexander, I am focusing on Hobbes, who was ruled by fear of a Spanish invasion of England in 1588. It is my way of evaluating the ‘New Normal’ into which we are rapidly descending. “Hobbes’s theory is a theory of the absolute necessity of being ruled. There is the state, on the one hand, and the state of nature on the other. The state of nature is a supposed original state of all humans. He memorably called it the place where man is a wolf to man, and – in one of the most often quoted lines in our literature – where life is “nasty, brutish and short”. But this state of nature was not just an original state: it was also the state to which we might return at any point. It was, in short, the world of exit: the world of chaos, anarchy, distemper, civil war: a picture of what the world would be without the state.
His political theory has generally been celebrated by recent commentators because it emphasises the need for politics in the most extreme or fundamental manner. He does not say that the state is the living embodiment of justice on earth, or the manifestation of the natural law, or the safeguard of our liberties and rights, or anything like that. It is simply an artifice whereby scared men and women agree to surrender their powers to a sovereign. How is this done? The most important novelty of Hobbes’s detailed argument is that it is done by representation.
In the state, the civil state, we do not have power. We have surrendered it. We are not ruling and ruled in turn. Instead we have security. And our security is entrusted to an entity which stands for us, and guarantees our security. Forget about liberty – a slight matter. In the endless problem of how to balance liberty and security Hobbes is, alas, on the side of security. Hence his invention, the security state. And – given the historical shifts which have followed since the eighteenth century, in terms of the increased power of this state, not only in terms of taxation, but also regulation, education and eventually inoculation – this security state has been behind the emergence of the thing which Foucault and others since the 1970s have called biopolitics and the biosecurity state.
Hobbes’s state was for security. He was against anything which was a threat to the body politic. An important metaphor, the body politic. The state was a body, threatened by various mortal enemies. Hobbes warned of the danger of intestine worms to the body politic, and anything cancerous. He would have been opposed to political viruses, had he known about them: it is almost certain that he would have used the word ‘virus’ as a metaphor for something dark and dangerous had he known of it. His state, we may now say in 2021, was antiviral. It was for integrity, unity, order and safety. It sought a political vaccine. It was distanced from empire, church and other states. And it was masked.
The modern state, the Hobbesian antiviral state, is a state which has managed what we might until now have supposed impossible – certainly in the West where there is the long tradition of basing our politics on liberty or law or justice or proportion or discussion. For it has succeeded in imposing its own hidden image on the face of its citizens. Man, according to the Bible, was made in God’s image. But the state has defeated this. Man is now made in the image of the state. The state is a person, a counterfeit of us, masked, visaged so it looks like us. It is not a real person, but a fiction, a crown without a head, a king without scalp or oil or ritual or corpse, a rickety framework of straw and scaffolding which we have to believe in somehow.
And now, in a final stroke, thanks to the scare caused by the over-reactions of a rising biosecurity apparatus and its now almost entirely socially mediated civil society, the state has disguised the faces of its citizens – who now, in praise of the state, turn, take the knee, and publish photographs of themselves masked and visarded to indicate how they have complied with the order to inoculate themselves with an experimental nanotechnology. These citizens are no longer free. They have turned themselves into miniature reflections of the state behind its mask. The state stares at them, cold and pitiless, behind a mask. The mask of the state looks like them, looks human (like a vast Leviathan frontispiece), looks caring, and assures them, in fraudulent words and with forceful injunction, that they are safe. And now the citizens stare back at the state wearing masks of their own: but these masks are cold and pitiless in appearance, since they imitate the pitilessness of the actual state, the state behind its mask, that reality of straw and scaffolding. They signify nothing except submission to the state. The citizens are in every other sense dehumanised. They are alienated from everyone else. But beneath the mask they enjoy a warm (and moist) sense of having been saved by the state. https://lockdownsceptics.org/a-political-theory-of-covid-19-or-hobbess-coviathan/
AND talking of Hobbes, here is the concept in action today in the British Biosecurity state. With people like this cretin advising Boris we have even less opportunity to get out from under their Nazi yoke: “There is something deeply Hobbesian about the view to which [Steve] Reicher subscribes [he is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews.] His research is in the area of social psychology, focusing on social identity, collective behaviour, intergroup conflict, leadership and mobilisation He is broadly interested in the issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship.: the idea that the leviathan must take responsibility for every aspect of our lives, since left to our own devices we’re simply incapable of making sensible decisions. The difficulty that somebody in his position faces, of course, is that once that logical leap has been made, everything is up for grabs – the state might as well make all significant decisions for everybody for ever, since it alone possesses the advice of the ‘experts’, and since we’re so damned untrustworthy and stupid. Perhaps he finds that idea appealing, but if he does, he is in a tiny minority.” https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/07/05/pro-lockdown-sage-advisor-stephen-reicher-thinks-caring-about-freedom-is-selfish The trouble is, these crass morons are in charge of our future, they need to crawl back into their ivory towers of academia. We have far too many mad ‘experts’ advising our government and MIA is common sense.
BREXIT: Looks like Britain is never going to agree with the EU. “Coveney told RTÉ’s This Week the article was “a very strange way to make friends and build partnerships” coming two days after the EU and the UK agreed to extend the deadline over the sale of sausages and chilled meats.
In the piece, Frost and Lewis say Wednesday’s agreement was “welcome” but that it addressed “only a small part of the underlying problem”, claiming the “process to resolve all these difficulties” was “creating a series of rolling crises as we lurch from one deadline to another”.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/04/uk-eu-relations-deteriorate-strange-david-frost-remarks
VACCINE ADVERSE REACTIONS: I guess everyone is familiar with these reports now, so I will not be logging them every week. I will continue to monitor the reports and will add any significant results as they occur. In many cases authorities are not registering events in UK, USA or Europe: https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/07/09/phe-released-a-report-showing-68-of-covid-deaths-in-the-over-50s-were-people-whod-been-vaccinated/ AND – is this the start of an exponential increase in deaths from the Covid-19 vaccines? Horrific increases in adverse reactions last week: https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/07/13/30-of-deaths-reported-to-vaers-after-covid-19-vaccines-occurred-in-one-week-2000-more-deaths/
ONE IMPORTANT POINT to note is the following: “Natural protection following COVID-19 disease is around 90 per cent at six to seven months, which means those with a history of infection do not need to be vaccinated (indeed, should not be vaccinated, as adverse events are more frequent for them).
AND – The major cluster of deaths is in the first days after vaccination, due to a systemic inflammatory response, mainly in older subjects who appear to have had COVID-19 infection prior to vaccination. The cause of death is likely antibody and sensitised T cells, generated from previous infection or vaccination, reacting with high levels of the spike protein, encoded by the mRNA or the DNA vector vaccine, being expressed on cell surfaces, and circulating in blood, following injection of a genetic vaccine.” Read the full revealing article: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/public-health/2021/06/covid-19-where-are-we-going/
CONCLUSION: Natural immunity works – leave it to nature to cure you. “Turner et al. published in journal Nature recently that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans (a source of protective antibodies). The authors concluded that “prior Covid infection induces a ‘robust’ and ‘long-lived humoral immune response,’ leading some scientists to suggest that natural immunity is probably life-long”. This is a long article but worth it: https://trialsitenews.com/asymptomatic-covid-spread-used-to-shut-down-the-economy-and-close-schools-was-false/
AND TO END – some sarcastic laughs: https://off-guardian.org/2021/07/12/14-covid-skeptic-memes-to-get-you-through-the-day-part-7/
To be continued next week.
Correction: Britain is a very psychopathic society.
And has been at least since the begin of the British Empire.
Can’t disagree on this one m, thank you for reminding me!
This was so well done, I have to share the courtroom speech here.
The individual versus the collective… when is the majority a tyrant?
Can you imagine a movie like that being made today? I cant.
Not a snowball’s chance…
I am sure it was “boundary pushing” in its day. That is how we got here.
Brilliant Ghost, well found thank you. I have filed it and will send it to the cabal of our leadership. It might not change anything but it will make a point!
“…these crass morons are in charge of our future, they need to crawl back into their ivory towers of academia. ”
– Austrian Peter
They may be crass morons, Peter, but they are most certainly criminal psychopaths with the kind of bizarre ideas they have about yours’ and my freedom and dignity.
Life needs to be made difficult for them. Very difficult.
Flying lessons, from the tops of those towers perhaps?
It will be Auntie. Watch as the Brits take back their rights – we do have a strong constitution and rule of law (I think) – it will now be tested.
AP,
In the “South Africa” article I asked if you sill want to move there. The post shows several clips of the extreme violence that has broken out just in the past week. Seems the place is unraveling into civil war. Wondering if that has affected your decision.
If you saw he question, and didn’t want to answer, then that’s OK. Just ignore my inquiry.
“Cry, the bedevilled country: I weep for my homeland of South Africa, as I watch its disintegration from afar ”
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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/529434-south-africa-unrest-zuma-natal/
Good article, thanks Stucky, and this gives me hope:
“This inflammatory rhetoric of a race war, inciting the masses to mobilise against an ethnic minority, to destroy all vestiges of so-called white monopoly capital, has been countered by the spontaneous emergence of ad hoc multiracial militias, who have been patrolling their neighbourhoods armed with an array of weapons to keep would-be looters at bay.”
I would rather be where I can see the enemy than here under s veil of secrecy and hubris.
Sorry Stucky, I missed your note. We are happy to return because actually the result was a resounding success because all the communities came together as vigilantes and militia to defend their ground. Road blocks we set up very quickly and the mob were turned back.
It remains a tinder box because of the massive unemployment (36%) and youth (50%), poverty and yes, starvation which can only get worse. We love our South Africa – they say that once you have Africa’s soil between your toes you can never leave. It feels like that – there is no rationale – pure emotion and lots of sun!
I do admire your optimism and resolve!
That’s sun addled brains for ya.
I hope ‘Jav-the Chav’ can lead Oz down a better path.
Last week the Aussie press said they would no longer refer to instances whereby a shark munches on a human as “shark attacks”. Sharks have feelings too …. or a least tree-hugging environmentalist retards do. Not kidding! Instead, such incidents will now be referred to as “shark encounters”.
Next up? Blow-jobs will soon be called close encounters of the third kind.
One of the discerning features of our ‘woke’ cancel culture is the renaming of so many obvious things. It is the first evidence of a slide into totalitarianism when the perps take over the dictionary. We must push back and keep speaking our truth.
Americans are getting so sloppy with the language that it is due a reform.
Ken, I must confess that I admire the way Americans describe things. I can only revert to that memorable phrase uttered when Challenger exploded and Huston said: “We have a major malfunction”. Classic, because if had happened to Brits I guess that they would have said: “Holy shit” – much less descriptive.
And this is what America has given to the English language – a very forthright and correct assessment of a given condition: Sidewalk rather than pavement; hood rather than bonnet; trunk rather boot; fender rather than bumper; There are so many differences yet we still understand each other and that is the root of our companionship.
Lawyers, Politicians, Journalist, Lefists, and other Criminals have a lot of empathy with blood thirsty killer sharks and are quick to defend their honor.
Tucker Carlson did his show 14Jul2021 about a whistleblower LtCol who said one million young male illegals have been secretly flown out of Del Rio on USAF transports to other USAF bases over the last 6 months and then bussed to big cities. Kamala has continued Hussein’s program but instead of Muslims, it’s mostly Caribbean Blacks. Airman have been ordered to keep silent and prevent pictures etc. This is High Treason. Ref: “Tucker Obtains Whistleblower Report On Military Flying Illegal Immigrants”. What are the Republican Congressmen going to do about it???
Many of the CV-19 Shot’s mRNA strands attach to Vein cells and manufacture “spike proteins” that are in the blood flow. They cause microscopic blood clots that travel to the brain and clog capillaries which causes gradual loss of brain function; and to the lungs where they lodge in the capillaries and cause shortness of breath and an increase in Pulmonary Blood pressure, which enlarges that side of the heart, which kills the Patient over 2-3 years. When I explain some adverse effects of The Shot to Idiots, they say something like “Everyone has their own opinion”. I say “Opinions are not equal, I taught Biology”.