Is this meant to be funny?
I gotta say you are the worst and most boring troll that has ever been on here and that’s some string to have to your bow
The Millie Obnoxious™
I’d give that moniker to others more deserving, tbh.
Me So Harney
I wouldn’t..
The Millie Obnoxious™
You’d be a worthy nominee, actually.
Me So Harney
As would you..
The Millie Obnoxious™
Lolololol etc.
How original of you.
Me So Harney
Indeed.. Trend setting
scottser
it is funny.
Tom J
It’s funnier than the Will Smith face slap.
jonjoker
Putin is neither Gaddaffi nor Hussein; he’s a tougher nut altogether to crack.
Meanwhile where is Zelenski? Off galivanting with western leaders at one gig after another.
I bet he regales them with his jokes, their latest jester.
Nigel
‘Meanwhile where is Zelenski?’
Busy being a tougher nut than Putin.
Me so Harney
Zelensky, the new Guaido..
SOQ
He’s probably writing his Oscar acceptance speech. And the Oscar for best actor in an action film is…. Volodymyr Zelenskyy… bravo fabulous darlin etc.
Tom J
Is that film based on a true story.
SOQ
Yes except the film- or in this case the tv series- came before the actual event.
Both funded by Ihor Kolomoyskyi- who also owns the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings that Hunter Biden had a nice little number in.
Tom J
Was the script written by Nostradamus, did he predict the invasion of Ukraine.
scottser
he’s probably laughing his hole off at the russian soldiers forced to camp in the red forest without any clue about the area or any protective equipment who are now wondering why they all have radiation poisoning.
also, it’s nice to see ukranian helicopter excursions into russia knocked out a fuel depot this morning without any casualties. that’s how you do war, not shelling civilian targets like putin.
Fearganainm
Five sets of fetal remains found in anti-abortion activist’s home, DC police say:
“When I asked anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy what homicide detectives pulled out of her house Wednesday, she only said, “People will freak out when they hear.”…”
I didn’t see that headline, but I see that most papers have one headline or two relating to Ukraine and rising prices.
And then five thousand miles away from Ukraine there is the NY Times – every front page headline is connected to the Ukraine war. What’s their agenda?
Fearganainm
Effect of early treatment with Ivermectin among patients with Covid-19
One has to wonder why, such a safe CHEAP widely available drug, which has thousands upon thousands of front line doctors- REAL doctors- advocating it’s use as part of an early intervention protocol, would have so much time and resources spent trying to discredit it- especially when there is no early intervention alternative.
If it was just because of concerns of safety then surely investigations into the CoVid-19 gene therapies which have no medium or long safety data, AND injuries already exceeding every vaccine before, would be a priority? As for efficacy, well vaccines just don’t work- that much is now crystal clear.
But of course we all know why such intent on discrediting Ivermectin, we all know the threat that a repurposed medication poses to the CoVid-19 vaccine EUA, which is why the pharmaceutical companies in the US blocked it’s distribution long before any “studies” were ever done.
Now, doctors have set up their own supply chains which is where the real studies are done. There are still HSE witch hunts going on because of this drug of course.
Nigel
Because it isn’t effective against covid.
SOQ
What is your nationality Nigel?
Nigel
Ivermectindoesntworkagainstcovidistanian.
paul
have you moved onto attempted doxxing, SOQ? People usually start with the information and then do the public bit after that.
SOQ
Since when is enquiring about someone’s nationality doxxing? It’s broadsheet.ie, not Derry Girls- at least the acting is half decent on that.
Anyways
Get VAXXED.
Get BOOSTED.
Get COVID.
Repeat.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I’m looking forward to the new series myself
Nigel
Yes, do, it reduces your chances of being hospitalised or dying.
Mad
They should call it Get Jabbed or Die Trying
f_lawless
The sad reality is that the scientific research process has long been corrupted by corporate interests. This has even been acknowledged top figures within the peer-review industry:
Two notable quotes:
Former chief editor of the New England Medical Journal, Dr Arnold Relman:
“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful” (2002)
Chief editor of the Lancet, Richard Horton::
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue” (2015)
It would be naive to think things have gotten any better by 2022. Therefore, your starting point when interpreting studies of drugs which have the potential to be a major threat to the profit-making capabilities of the pharmaceutical corporations, should be one of scepticism. Publication in a peer-review journal isn’t a guarantee that everything is above board and solid scientific research has been carried out.
There’s a need to probe further and seek out critiques by those with expert credentials. The ‘Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance’ group point out that the trial was set up to fail:
Several organizations associated with the trial have a paid client relationship with Pfizer, which has secured Federal government contracts worth $5.3 billion for its antiviral treatment, Paxlovid. A full list of trial sponsors and
associates can be found here [link].
It is therefore no surprise that the trial was designed to fail. In the medical community, it is common knowledge that COVID-19 becomes far more difficult to treat the longer a patient has had symptoms. Treating early is imperative. Yet the TOGETHER trial studied patients where they started treatment up to eight days after the onset of symptoms.
Furthermore, no qualified physician or scientist recommends treating COVID-19 with the low dosage of ivermectin used in the trial, nor treating a patient with ivermectin for only three days on an empty stomach, as TOGETHER did. FLCCC physicians have understood for nearly 18 months that ivermectin works best against COVID-19 when administered with a fatty meal and until symptoms resolve.”
Nigel
It’s one thing to lament that so many scientists are working for corporations – that’s where the money is, after all and scientists need to eat, and public scientific institutions should get more funding. It’s another to acuse said scientists of outright scientific fraud.
If you’re taking ivermectin with a fatty meal until symptoms resolve, there’s just as much evidence that it was the fatty meal that resolved the symptoms.
Clampers Outside
Today on Nigel Does Sciencing… Jaysus.
Please re-read that last para of yours, then read what f_law has written.
Then re-read again.
Repeat until u realise how selective your comment is and how downright dumb it comes across as a response to a call for “well-designed trials and transparent research”.
Jeeez-loo-weez!
Nigel
Go have some ivermectin and a fatty meal that’ll cure what ails ye.
f_lawless
“Scientists need to eat” – red herring fallacy. The point at hand is that the field of medical research has been largely captured by pharmaceutical corporations that have a documented track record of unethical behaviour in the extreme. That you seek to frame things in such a way that this corruptive corporate influence is airbrushed out of the situation, belies your authoritarian mindset, I think.
As the FLCCC say in their statement: “Trials of generic medicines that are funded and influenced by profit-driven pharmaceutical companies will always fail.” You yourself might be inclined to put the poor design of the TOGETHER trial protocol down to an innocent explanation. I think that would be extremely naive – especially at this late stage in the game when so much is already known about treating Covid.
On top of that, there’s been a clear pattern of behaviour in the Covid era: Firstly, there was the so called “Lancet-gate” scandal when the Lancet journal was forced to retract a fraudulent study which had found against Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid (another generic drug that was seen as a potential threat to Big Pharma profits).
Then there was the SOLIDARITY trials and subsequent RECOVERY trials, both of which were exposed as being set up to fail – late-stage Covid patients were being administered toxic doses of HCQ.
Details here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/hcq-behe
“(French media outlet) FranceSoir concluded from their extremely detailed investigation of RECOVERY that many patients died of toxic overdoses of hydroxychloroquine rather than covid 19…”
Nigel
‘red herring fallacy.’
I mean, I was agreeing with you that corporate capture of science is bad, just that the threshold for scientific fraud is higher than simply pointing out who they work for, but ok, go off
Fearganainm
Boris Johnson (partially) U-turns on conversion therapy U-turn:
Rejoice, it’s legal in the UK to convert trans kids!
Clampers Outside
You have it backward… It’ll be illegal to convert gay children into convincing them they are trans. Let kids be kids, and feck your ideological claptrap!
For a lad who gives out about stereotypes, you sure have embraced a silly ideology that is built on them.
Self awareness… *wooooshing over your head*
Nigel
Sounds more like you’ll be telling trans kids they’re not trans, they’re gay. Utilising conversion therapy on kids is the opposite of letting kids be kids.
Clampers Outside
“affirmation” as an only option IS conversion therapy. You support that.
I, and have always, supported greater understanding of each patients case which requires proper background checks and mental health valuations which you do not support when you have attacked those who say an “affirmation” only is not fit for purpose.
SOQ
The group of people whom for the past two years have been demanding that we ‘follow the science’- are now the exact same group of people who cannot define what a woman is.
Nigel
Remember when the defintions of love, marriage, parenthood and family were all threatend by gay people and the gay agenda was being pushed down people’s throats and corrupting young minds? Guess what? That’s all coming back again, and this wave of oligarch-funded christian fundamentalist-driven anti-trans sentiment is the thin end of the wedge. Don’t Say Gay!
Clampers Outside
Fear mongering!
Here is a taste of reality… Live tweets of the tribunal of Dr Webberley in the UK.
This is the level of care that was needing changing, but also the level of care you wanted maintained… ya sicko
Maintained? I’m all for better heath care for trans people. You think trans people are responsible for the level and quality of health care they receive? Do you hold cancer patients responsibe for the quality of and easiness of access to cancer treatments?
The Don’t Sat Gay Bills are real, so is the law that criminalises parents with trans kids who affirm their children’s transness.
Clampers Outside
Q1 Yes.
Q2 + 3 No.
Either you are ignora t or willfully I denial that what was being pushed was for an “affirmation” only approach and if the law were progressed as it was then that would have been enshrined in law that if a psychiatric practitioner did anything other than affirm a patient they would be liable for prosecution.
This practice is already causing problems in Australia and some “progressive” states in the US. That approach is not proper care and Boris is right to do what he has done. If you disagree with that, and a wider access of approaches to care then it is a fact that you do not advocate for better care.
“Affirmation” only treatment is not in all patients interests, and has been proven so by the continuous growing numbers of young men and women who continue to detransition. And if you disagree with that, and dismiss them, you’re excusing poor care… Which is what you have done in the past. So don’t spin nonsense about you desiring better care, you’ve pushed back umpteen times against any mention of improvement, and that’s a demonstrable fact.
Nigel
‘ if a psychiatric practitioner did anything other than affirm a patient they would be liable for prosecution.’
Well I think conversion therapy is monstrous, personally, aimed at trans or gay kids.
Detransitions are rare, and obviously tragic. Attributing the causes of detransition to ‘affirmative care’ is reductive and ideological. What about all the trans people whose experience of that sort of care was positive? What about the trans people whose experience of other kinds of ‘care’ was negative? If the only trans people you’ll bother listening to are those who detransition, then your approach is going to be irredeemably skewed.
‘you’re excusing poor care’
Trans people and their supporters clamour for better care. You’re actively sabotaging it.
Clampers Outside
You cannot claim detrans is rare because there are no official stats on the situation faced by those individuals which is a situation created by gender affirmation therapy clinics due to lack of follow up care as was proven in the Tavistock investigations.
You don’t even understand “affirmative” care if u believe I am attributing it as a cause of detransitioning… That’s a stupid, and ignorant comment. Its screwball.
Of course that care helps some trans kids. The point is that it puts other kids who are not trans on a path to transition because it only has one predetermined outcome – “affirmation”.
There is no “other care” for them to experience negatively – that is the point!
Your comment, yet again, shows you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about on this subject.
Honestly Nigel, you are going around in silly circles here making conflicting comments and spewing absolute nonsense.
Nigel
Well, yes, you spend so much timae ranting and raving and spewing insults and putting words in people’s mouths, I rarely know what you are actually on about. It is genuinely difficult to pick out anything coherent from your comments, and rarely worth the bother.
Clampers Outside
+1
How to confuse a gender identity idealogue?
Ask for definitions of the terms they use.
Job done :)
Nigel
How to confuse cancer patients? Ask them for detailed scientific definitions of their condition!
Clampers Outside
You comparing Self ID to cancer is in very bad taste. Shame in you.
Pick any other condition that requires medical treatment, demand a person receiving the treatment provide scientific defintiions of their condition and related concepts for your entertainment. Triumphantly announce you’ve confused them. Then feck off.
Clampers Outside
Nonsense! Debates are often run with prequels or introductions that clarify terms and meanings so that both sides understand what the other is talking about.
In law, the best laws are passed using words that can be defined.
Bad laws are made where meanings are vague.
Gender ideology obscures meanings, conflates sex and gender, and is full of contradictions. Never mind the fact that the leading “thinkers” on the theory cannot even agree any consensus of what is gender. And nevermind the politicians either. Keir Starmer, a trained barrister, made a fool of himself on the BBC a week or two ago tieing himself in knots because he couldn’t define what a woman is.
Beibg a man or a woman is not a “medical condition” and neither is having a confusing puberty… But hey, here come the gender identity theorists full of contradictions, clownfish and gobbledegook with a side of mumbo jumbo.
Get a grip!
Debates and definitions require good faith, which you do not supply.
Fearganainm
“By the by: the Dáil has adjourned for the week without any last-minute extension of the Covid-19 emergency powers. Without the sunset clause being extended, the powers will expire at midnight tonight.”
Bloody hell Blondie, I thought pulling a Cian was bad…
You’re an algorithm.
Hughie Luas
Hazel Chu doesn’t win again.
Broadbag
Rejoice! Clonan seems a decent sort. No doubt Chu will start bemoaning the lack of diversity in the result, before showing up at the next trough to try again, shameless.
E'Matty
Clonan is a goon selling pro NATO and pro Anglo-American regime change narratives in Irish media whenever the latest conflict kicks off. He’s a propagandist who’s writing style appeals to middle Ireland because he tries present himself as moderate. Indeed, this is the Great trick all Irish media plays. Always seeking to portray themselves as middle of the road, balanced, moderate, whilst still promoting extremist positions. Even the tone of Irish radio presenters is the same. It’s our version of the BBC voice.
Broadbag
I was more thinking of his disability activism, but as an ex-defence forces guy he no doubt has ‘leanings’ on the topics you mention.
Kali
I agree, but at least he’s not Hazel Chu!
“Back of the net” -Alan Partridge
Hughie Luas
Surely, “Bacik of the net”?
Mad
Imelda be’s in Derry in May
NobleLocks
So… what women’s sport have the poor, 100% victim trans destroyed today? :)
The Millie Obnoxious™
You must be really invested in women’s sports.
NobleLocks
Just invested in fairness and refusing to participate in useless beta-male fantasies :)
The Millie Obnoxious™
Well played. If you’ll pardon the pun.
scottser
you could hardly be accused of ‘playing the balls, not the man’.
ahem
*grabs jock strap*
Vlad X. Novichok
Ain’t it funny that fellahs that normally could not give two flying focks about women’s sports now all of a sudden are…
Mad
Jaysus – totally agree
bisted
…the headline in The Times where the Brits are urging the Ukrainians not to back down is obscene…innocent people die as the US/UK/EU fight their proxy war…
Nigel
Innocent people die because Putin invaded, not because Ukrainians defend themselves.
jonjoker
That’s true, Niggle.
Tell me though – how did the Crimean Khanate come to be part of Ukraine?
Do you think that they voted to join Ukraine back in the day.
Nigel
How did all those Eastern European Soviet Republic sattelite states become Soviet Republic sattelite states back in the day? Do you think they voted for it?
GiggidyGoo
Aaaannnndddd – Away runs Nigel
Nigel
Annnnd irrelevant comment by Giggy!
GiggidyGoo
Not at all irrelevant. You used a childish manoeuvre to dodge answering his question.
Neochildish probably.
Nigel
At least mine was relevant.
bisted
…how’s that lethal aid pledged by sleepy Joe and bungling Boris going Nigel?
TenPin Terry
Pretty darn good.
Those 4,000 British made and donated NLAWs and the extensive training of Ukraine forces carried out by the British Army have literally stopped Russian tanks in their tracks.
Mind you it’s not just military aid Blighty is providing.
British emergency vehicle manufacturer
VenariUK has started building military grade ambulances on a not-for-profit basis which will be imminently deployed to Ukraine to support medics working on the frontline.
This follows a request from the Ukraine Embassy in London.
You carry on waving your white flag Comrade Chamberlain™
bisted
…for the life of me I don’t understand why the Russians bother sending tanks in anywhere…can’t they just fire missiles at selected targets like that NATO training base which was hit by cruise missiles fired from Russia…thousands of miles away…were those dead brits carried through Wootten Bassett?
Nigel
The surviving tank crews probably feel the same, poor saps.
bisted
…at least they have survived…which is more than the nazis can expect…
The Brits really don’t get this geo-political securing of supply chains against national security threats lark do they ?- Clearly no one has read the China 2025 strategy paper – but then again no MP has bothered to read the TCA and very few have even perused the Protocol or the GFA either (all 34 pages with double spacing and a wide margin) – so no change there – is there anything actually British owned left in GB – but but but global Britain
“Ministers have quietly approved the takeover of the U.K.’s largest microchip factory, Newport Wafer Fab, by a Chinese-owned company” (Nexperia)
And despite the excitable mega thread yesterday from the newly self appointed BS experts on pertodollars and global trade financing regarding gas / Rubles. Payments – as I said yesterday the EU will continue to pay in euros or dollars and then Gazprom Bank — the intermediary for much of Europe’s gas payments to Russia — would convert the money into rubles (see my post yesterday morning predicting this as the only real world practicable solution to the impasse in the medium term
TenPin Terry
Guinness is British-owned.
* sniggers *
The Millie Obnoxious™
It is. Which makes it even more baffling that it is so hard to find a decent pint in London.
Ian - oG
Look up the Twitter account @sh_tlondonguinn*
*Thanks to the utterly baffling ‘bad language’ rules on here you will have to put the i into the twitter name above, but it’s a great laugh of an account.
The Millie Obnoxious™
A perennial favourite, especially after a stay in London a good few years ago.
Some of them are crimes against humanity.
TenPin Terry
Lots of people drinking Guinness in London yesterday where I enjoyed an excellent evening in the West End.
Mind you, none were as bad as this bad boy ..
Back in Blighty for a week or two to take care of some business.
I’ve had a pied-à-terre here for yonks.
Gorgeous morning but a wee bit nippy.
Mad
Gorgeous Galway’s loss
stephen moran
FYI – Diageo is about as British as I am – Blackrock and Vanguard are its 2 largest shareholders !
TenPin Terry
You want to see what they own in Ireland, One Vowel™
bisted
…and you complain when Russia and China embrace capitalism…
TenPin Terry
Who complains ?
bisted
…your friend Nigel…
stephen moran
Ireland isn’t a G7 country nor will the UK be they way they are going in a few years. A G7 country is meant to be on shoring and securing its supply chains given Globalization peeked in 2008. That is what China has been doing with its Belt and Road initiative. The Brits don’t seem to have read that missive either
Nigel
‘…your friend Nigel…’
You have lots of conversations with me that never actually happen, don’t you?
TenPin Terry
Nigel is my friend ?
That’s news to me as I suspect it is to Nigel …
bisted
…aha Nigel…gotcha, as Giggser would say…you’re a yank…you don’t do irony!
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I have always thought Nigel was American myself, just the cut of your gib niggie :)
Nigel
‘you don’t do irony!’
Bless you, bisted.
GiggidyGoo
Now now Bisted. Don’t be bringing me into your spats with Charger and Nige please.
SOQ
Which is why it’s entire site bar bar the offices should have a compulsory purchase Order slapped on it so that city centre housing could be built.
Diageo’s land hoarding is a disgrace- the worst in Dublin and most of those buildings are NOT in used- I lived beside it for many years so I know. In the main it is a vacant site.
Broadbag
Well said, a total disgrace!
edit: but keep the smock windmill, historically important.
SOQ
Some of those buildings are absolutely beautiful, and the street system between them is very well designed too. I would be surprised if they are not listed anyways.
And they are in the main empty shells so conversion into homes would be relatively easy. The Roe and Co building on James Street is stunning- 1920’s would be my guess?
Ah turns out to be 1940s- the style looks older. Could be put to way better uses that a whiskey outfit of course. but sure that is all about addresses- and tourism.
That’s funny.
Because Diageo so confident of its popularity in London that it’s in the middle of building a £73 million micro-brewery and event space in Covent Garden.
Guinness sales in Great Britain have grown by over 30 per cent in the last six months and one in every 10 pints sold in London is now a Guinness.
Posted this in the wrong place
Ireland isn’t a G7 country nor will the UK be they way they are going in a few years. A G7 country is meant to be on shoring and securing its supply chains given Globalization peeked in 2008. That is what China has been doing with its Belt and Road initiative. The Brits don’t seem to have read that missive either
TenPin Terry
China’s belt and road initiative involves using Chinese political prisoners to build cheap highways – like the one between the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and Galle – and other white elephant infrastructure to ensure poorer countries are in hock to the Chinese state for decades to come.
You think this is a good thing One Vowel™ ?
stephen moran
Yes their are elements of death trap diplomacy from the “hosts” perspective but from an Chinese POV they’ve secured vast tracks of arable land to sore up their food insecurity and access to minerals and rare earth metals -sure their will be a few white elephants in such an initiative as that’s what grabs the headlines but I don’t notice the regulars on here having attacks of scruples about the antics of Putin in Ukraine (perish the thought) so I’m just talking economics – my core point was that the UK seems to have learnt nothing from the recent geo strategic failure of Merkel’s “wandel durch handel” – they should be on shoring and securing strategically important supply chains (national security) not selling them off like their water, power, transport utilities (and them moaning when there is no capital investment jus dividends to johnny foreigner) or every last bit of manufacturing from car making to electronics
scottser
that’s a criticism that should be aimed at ourselves stephen. we aren’t self-sufficient in anything; we will be truly gooched when the zombie apocalypse starts.
Oro
I read something before that said that ireland and NZ are the two most secure countries if / when everything goes pear shaped. Based on climate, potential for supporting themselves agriculturally / border control.
TenPin Terry
Anyway, the world cup draw is on today.
Not much interest on here I’d say as Anyone But England™ failed to qualify.
Yet again.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
( I mentioned the draw but I think I got away with it )
Hehx3™
SOQ
3 TIPS for surviving the information war that is being waged against you
1️⃣ Seek information from the lowest status sources
2️⃣ If information is uncomfortable, dig deeper
3️⃣ Never dismiss a possibility, no matter how remote
Talking of information wars I’ve just been reading this piece by former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie on the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War and the Sun’s famous Gotcha! headline.
Fascinating stuff on changing times.
I’d agree with 2 and 3 wholeheartedly but would be wary of 1. All too easy these days to astroturf and spin up false narratives to suit an agenda. I’d be wary of all sources, manage expectations and recognise that data is a scalpel; can be moved and adjusted and applied to serve any purpose depending on the hand that wields it.
SOQ
Well I think the point is to look at who has the most to lose or gain when accessing someone’s motives.
In the case of the whole pandemic thing- the group who stood out most to me were the front line doctors. Some of those people lost absolutely everything because they went against the Big Pharma narrative- and it is still going on.
paul
Even lose/gain is muddy water. A persons status, position or audience can help them avoid any repercussions or face more dire punishment than someone else in another position saying the same thing. Trump is a great example, he defended racism, mocked disabled people, bragged about sexually assaulting people and yet was extremely popular in certain areas of America. He said himself, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” and he was probably right.
Dolores Cahill was another one. She went on truly deranged tirades but still retained support, people listened to her and backed her up. The fact that she was impossible to fire from her position at UCD was held up as a reason that she wasn’t all that bad and should be included in all public dialogue around COVID/voting/etc (Sergeant Hugh Shovlin deserves an award for his composure when faced with Dolores at full steam). To a lot of her backers, she was a useful idiot, and that’s further mud for the water, people espousing opinions being used to further another persons agenda in exchange for the ‘useful idiots’ reputation.
SOQ
What is your nationality Nigel?
TenPin Terry
Why does it matter to you so much ?
paul
wrong person, SOQ. Get the glasses on.
SOQ
Oh dear yet again- apologies. it’s just that I skim over said persons stuff you see.
Dolores Cahill’s big mistake was getting involved with that Kelly chancer because it gave the usual cretins a stick to beat her with. On the subject which is her expertise, I hope she is wrong, but I fear she may be right.
Along with Judy Mikovits, she was the first person I ever heard talking about mNRA vaccines having the potential to resurrect dormant viruses and also, damaging people’s immune systems- both of which have now come to pass, at least in part.
Again, time will tell, but there certainly is some unusual things going on.
Nigel
Y’know, I think this is the second time you’ve confused me with paul?
paul
we both have orange-y avatars, though mine is a dude boiling in a pot so who knows.
stephen moran
That is basically the tenet perfect competition – i.e. it assumes perfect information – it ignores the huge amount of time any individual would need to gather such information before making any decision, cost – its assume gathering such information even if available is virtually costless (and it doesn’t account for the opportunity costs) and it also further assumes an educational capacity to absorb the information even if gathered in a logical way before making a rational choice. That’s why people make what economists called “satisfying decisions” which are possibly sub optimal but which represents those trade offs – Hence peoples confirmation and cognitive biases and group think short cuts emerge not just because of asymmetrical information but because of time costs and educational ability
SOQ
Point one is not about information but accessing the motives of the person giving the information. It is no coincidence that the majority of experts who are challenging this vaccine corruption are retired or otherwise finically secure- or as in the case of the front line doctors, lost everything.
Compare that to the talking heads who are clearly in the back pockets of Big Pharma and / or the state, and it should not take long to figure out who’s motives are genuine and who’s are not.
Broadbag
To summarise:
1. Look in the sewer for poo.
2. If the poo isn’t gross enough, look in a cesspit.
3. Smear that poo all over your face and eat it, like a good little misinformation tool.
4. Regurgitate it and call it roast lamb, then shout at people about how good your roast lamb is and if they disagree shout at them some more about how you’re really intelligent and a ‘critical thinker’ and if only they were critical thinkers they too could see the poo-puke is actually roast lamb.
Explains a lot of beliefs and posts on here, thanks for clearing that up SOQ.
SOQ
No- but the nasty tone of your post reveals a lot about you.
Nigel
I can’t think of three worse suggestions. They’re literally designed to drive you into a disinformation morass. There are solid strategies for filtering out fake news – these are not them.
Cian
this is an April Fools joke – isn’t it?
1. look for info anywhere and everywhere
2. ensure what you find reinforces your prejudices (confirmation bias)
3. go full-on conspiracy theorist !
Isn’t it?
SOQ
Try listening to what he said again there Cian-
johnny
feckin cancel culture gone wild,I BELIEVE HIM.
“The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me down.
leading these attacks to cancel Madison,who is exposing these coke fulled OAP orgies is…..
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the House GOP leader.
“It’s just frustrating. There’s no evidence behind his statements. And when I sit down with him … I told him you can’t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole.”
Nigel
‘The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me down.’
I thought it was the Republican Freedom Caucus going after him?
johnny
(he’s given reporters a reason to ask all R’s over 60 and 70 year’s old,basically most the FREEDOM caucus,if they are coke and sex addicts,which they are…as i believe him:)
One for the Putinbots:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOyxfatVEAEka8P?format=jpg&name=medium
Is this meant to be funny?
I gotta say you are the worst and most boring troll that has ever been on here and that’s some string to have to your bow
I’d give that moniker to others more deserving, tbh.
I wouldn’t..
You’d be a worthy nominee, actually.
As would you..
Lolololol etc.
How original of you.
Indeed.. Trend setting
it is funny.
It’s funnier than the Will Smith face slap.
Putin is neither Gaddaffi nor Hussein; he’s a tougher nut altogether to crack.
Meanwhile where is Zelenski? Off galivanting with western leaders at one gig after another.
I bet he regales them with his jokes, their latest jester.
‘Meanwhile where is Zelenski?’
Busy being a tougher nut than Putin.
Zelensky, the new Guaido..
He’s probably writing his Oscar acceptance speech. And the Oscar for best actor in an action film is…. Volodymyr Zelenskyy… bravo fabulous darlin etc.
Is that film based on a true story.
Yes except the film- or in this case the tv series- came before the actual event.
Both funded by Ihor Kolomoyskyi- who also owns the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings that Hunter Biden had a nice little number in.
Was the script written by Nostradamus, did he predict the invasion of Ukraine.
he’s probably laughing his hole off at the russian soldiers forced to camp in the red forest without any clue about the area or any protective equipment who are now wondering why they all have radiation poisoning.
also, it’s nice to see ukranian helicopter excursions into russia knocked out a fuel depot this morning without any casualties. that’s how you do war, not shelling civilian targets like putin.
Five sets of fetal remains found in anti-abortion activist’s home, DC police say:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/5-fetuses-found-in-home-of-dc-anti-abortion-activist-police/3013443/
“When I asked anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy what homicide detectives pulled out of her house Wednesday, she only said, “People will freak out when they hear.”…”
https://twitter.com/NathanBacaTV/status/1509575371154460679
I didn’t see that headline, but I see that most papers have one headline or two relating to Ukraine and rising prices.
And then five thousand miles away from Ukraine there is the NY Times – every front page headline is connected to the Ukraine war. What’s their agenda?
Effect of early treatment with Ivermectin among patients with Covid-19
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115869
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPIOIqtXMAAGreS?format=jpg&name=medium
One has to wonder why, such a safe CHEAP widely available drug, which has thousands upon thousands of front line doctors- REAL doctors- advocating it’s use as part of an early intervention protocol, would have so much time and resources spent trying to discredit it- especially when there is no early intervention alternative.
If it was just because of concerns of safety then surely investigations into the CoVid-19 gene therapies which have no medium or long safety data, AND injuries already exceeding every vaccine before, would be a priority? As for efficacy, well vaccines just don’t work- that much is now crystal clear.
But of course we all know why such intent on discrediting Ivermectin, we all know the threat that a repurposed medication poses to the CoVid-19 vaccine EUA, which is why the pharmaceutical companies in the US blocked it’s distribution long before any “studies” were ever done.
Now, doctors have set up their own supply chains which is where the real studies are done. There are still HSE witch hunts going on because of this drug of course.
Because it isn’t effective against covid.
What is your nationality Nigel?
Ivermectindoesntworkagainstcovidistanian.
have you moved onto attempted doxxing, SOQ? People usually start with the information and then do the public bit after that.
Since when is enquiring about someone’s nationality doxxing? It’s broadsheet.ie, not Derry Girls- at least the acting is half decent on that.
Anyways
Get VAXXED.
Get BOOSTED.
Get COVID.
Repeat.
I’m looking forward to the new series myself
Yes, do, it reduces your chances of being hospitalised or dying.
They should call it Get Jabbed or Die Trying
The sad reality is that the scientific research process has long been corrupted by corporate interests. This has even been acknowledged top figures within the peer-review industry:
Two notable quotes:
Former chief editor of the New England Medical Journal, Dr Arnold Relman:
“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful” (2002)
Chief editor of the Lancet, Richard Horton::
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue” (2015)
It would be naive to think things have gotten any better by 2022. Therefore, your starting point when interpreting studies of drugs which have the potential to be a major threat to the profit-making capabilities of the pharmaceutical corporations, should be one of scepticism. Publication in a peer-review journal isn’t a guarantee that everything is above board and solid scientific research has been carried out.
There’s a need to probe further and seek out critiques by those with expert credentials. The ‘Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance’ group point out that the trial was set up to fail:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Statement-on-Together-Trial-WSJ-Article-Mar-18-1.pdf
Several organizations associated with the trial have a paid client relationship with Pfizer, which has secured Federal government contracts worth $5.3 billion for its antiviral treatment, Paxlovid. A full list of trial sponsors and
associates can be found here [link].
It is therefore no surprise that the trial was designed to fail. In the medical community, it is common knowledge that COVID-19 becomes far more difficult to treat the longer a patient has had symptoms. Treating early is imperative. Yet the TOGETHER trial studied patients where they started treatment up to eight days after the onset of symptoms.
Furthermore, no qualified physician or scientist recommends treating COVID-19 with the low dosage of ivermectin used in the trial, nor treating a patient with ivermectin for only three days on an empty stomach, as TOGETHER did. FLCCC physicians have understood for nearly 18 months that ivermectin works best against COVID-19 when administered with a fatty meal and until symptoms resolve.”
It’s one thing to lament that so many scientists are working for corporations – that’s where the money is, after all and scientists need to eat, and public scientific institutions should get more funding. It’s another to acuse said scientists of outright scientific fraud.
If you’re taking ivermectin with a fatty meal until symptoms resolve, there’s just as much evidence that it was the fatty meal that resolved the symptoms.
Today on Nigel Does Sciencing… Jaysus.
Please re-read that last para of yours, then read what f_law has written.
Then re-read again.
Repeat until u realise how selective your comment is and how downright dumb it comes across as a response to a call for “well-designed trials and transparent research”.
Jeeez-loo-weez!
Go have some ivermectin and a fatty meal that’ll cure what ails ye.
“Scientists need to eat” – red herring fallacy. The point at hand is that the field of medical research has been largely captured by pharmaceutical corporations that have a documented track record of unethical behaviour in the extreme. That you seek to frame things in such a way that this corruptive corporate influence is airbrushed out of the situation, belies your authoritarian mindset, I think.
As the FLCCC say in their statement: “Trials of generic medicines that are funded and influenced by profit-driven pharmaceutical companies will always fail.” You yourself might be inclined to put the poor design of the TOGETHER trial protocol down to an innocent explanation. I think that would be extremely naive – especially at this late stage in the game when so much is already known about treating Covid.
On top of that, there’s been a clear pattern of behaviour in the Covid era: Firstly, there was the so called “Lancet-gate” scandal when the Lancet journal was forced to retract a fraudulent study which had found against Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid (another generic drug that was seen as a potential threat to Big Pharma profits).
Then there was the SOLIDARITY trials and subsequent RECOVERY trials, both of which were exposed as being set up to fail – late-stage Covid patients were being administered toxic doses of HCQ.
Details here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/hcq-behe
“(French media outlet) FranceSoir concluded from their extremely detailed investigation of RECOVERY that many patients died of toxic overdoses of hydroxychloroquine rather than covid 19…”
‘red herring fallacy.’
I mean, I was agreeing with you that corporate capture of science is bad, just that the threshold for scientific fraud is higher than simply pointing out who they work for, but ok, go off
Boris Johnson (partially) U-turns on conversion therapy U-turn:
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1509632191067828229
That’ll upset Nigel.
Rejoice, it’s legal in the UK to convert trans kids!
You have it backward… It’ll be illegal to convert gay children into convincing them they are trans. Let kids be kids, and feck your ideological claptrap!
For a lad who gives out about stereotypes, you sure have embraced a silly ideology that is built on them.
Self awareness… *wooooshing over your head*
Sounds more like you’ll be telling trans kids they’re not trans, they’re gay. Utilising conversion therapy on kids is the opposite of letting kids be kids.
“affirmation” as an only option IS conversion therapy. You support that.
I, and have always, supported greater understanding of each patients case which requires proper background checks and mental health valuations which you do not support when you have attacked those who say an “affirmation” only is not fit for purpose.
The group of people whom for the past two years have been demanding that we ‘follow the science’- are now the exact same group of people who cannot define what a woman is.
Remember when the defintions of love, marriage, parenthood and family were all threatend by gay people and the gay agenda was being pushed down people’s throats and corrupting young minds? Guess what? That’s all coming back again, and this wave of oligarch-funded christian fundamentalist-driven anti-trans sentiment is the thin end of the wedge. Don’t Say Gay!
Fear mongering!
Here is a taste of reality… Live tweets of the tribunal of Dr Webberley in the UK.
This is the level of care that was needing changing, but also the level of care you wanted maintained… ya sicko
https://twitter.com/tribunaltweets2/status/1509159230582009867?t=FofN7S6csE9wBb6NOiB-gQ&s=19
Maintained? I’m all for better heath care for trans people. You think trans people are responsible for the level and quality of health care they receive? Do you hold cancer patients responsibe for the quality of and easiness of access to cancer treatments?
The Don’t Sat Gay Bills are real, so is the law that criminalises parents with trans kids who affirm their children’s transness.
Q1 Yes.
Q2 + 3 No.
Either you are ignora t or willfully I denial that what was being pushed was for an “affirmation” only approach and if the law were progressed as it was then that would have been enshrined in law that if a psychiatric practitioner did anything other than affirm a patient they would be liable for prosecution.
This practice is already causing problems in Australia and some “progressive” states in the US. That approach is not proper care and Boris is right to do what he has done. If you disagree with that, and a wider access of approaches to care then it is a fact that you do not advocate for better care.
“Affirmation” only treatment is not in all patients interests, and has been proven so by the continuous growing numbers of young men and women who continue to detransition. And if you disagree with that, and dismiss them, you’re excusing poor care… Which is what you have done in the past. So don’t spin nonsense about you desiring better care, you’ve pushed back umpteen times against any mention of improvement, and that’s a demonstrable fact.
‘ if a psychiatric practitioner did anything other than affirm a patient they would be liable for prosecution.’
Well I think conversion therapy is monstrous, personally, aimed at trans or gay kids.
Detransitions are rare, and obviously tragic. Attributing the causes of detransition to ‘affirmative care’ is reductive and ideological. What about all the trans people whose experience of that sort of care was positive? What about the trans people whose experience of other kinds of ‘care’ was negative? If the only trans people you’ll bother listening to are those who detransition, then your approach is going to be irredeemably skewed.
‘you’re excusing poor care’
Trans people and their supporters clamour for better care. You’re actively sabotaging it.
You cannot claim detrans is rare because there are no official stats on the situation faced by those individuals which is a situation created by gender affirmation therapy clinics due to lack of follow up care as was proven in the Tavistock investigations.
You don’t even understand “affirmative” care if u believe I am attributing it as a cause of detransitioning… That’s a stupid, and ignorant comment. Its screwball.
Of course that care helps some trans kids. The point is that it puts other kids who are not trans on a path to transition because it only has one predetermined outcome – “affirmation”.
There is no “other care” for them to experience negatively – that is the point!
Your comment, yet again, shows you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about on this subject.
Honestly Nigel, you are going around in silly circles here making conflicting comments and spewing absolute nonsense.
Well, yes, you spend so much timae ranting and raving and spewing insults and putting words in people’s mouths, I rarely know what you are actually on about. It is genuinely difficult to pick out anything coherent from your comments, and rarely worth the bother.
+1
How to confuse a gender identity idealogue?
Ask for definitions of the terms they use.
Job done :)
How to confuse cancer patients? Ask them for detailed scientific definitions of their condition!
You comparing Self ID to cancer is in very bad taste. Shame in you.
Another TikToky I think.
https://www.tiktok.com/@princeofnigeria01/video/7080670153091960106
Pick any other condition that requires medical treatment, demand a person receiving the treatment provide scientific defintiions of their condition and related concepts for your entertainment. Triumphantly announce you’ve confused them. Then feck off.
Nonsense! Debates are often run with prequels or introductions that clarify terms and meanings so that both sides understand what the other is talking about.
In law, the best laws are passed using words that can be defined.
Bad laws are made where meanings are vague.
Gender ideology obscures meanings, conflates sex and gender, and is full of contradictions. Never mind the fact that the leading “thinkers” on the theory cannot even agree any consensus of what is gender. And nevermind the politicians either. Keir Starmer, a trained barrister, made a fool of himself on the BBC a week or two ago tieing himself in knots because he couldn’t define what a woman is.
Beibg a man or a woman is not a “medical condition” and neither is having a confusing puberty… But hey, here come the gender identity theorists full of contradictions, clownfish and gobbledegook with a side of mumbo jumbo.
Get a grip!
Asking for definitions is basic communication.
Here is the Equality & Human Rights Commission speaking of the importance of definitions and why the partial ban was necessary due to vague definitions…
https://twitter.com/nmdacosta/status/1492215184458682369?t=P5VDumHQ_sr9NEmnnezc-Q&s=19
Debates and definitions require good faith, which you do not supply.
“By the by: the Dáil has adjourned for the week without any last-minute extension of the Covid-19 emergency powers. Without the sunset clause being extended, the powers will expire at midnight tonight.”
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1509612719602872326
The World Health Organization (WHO) has plans for a Treaty, the main goal of this treaty would be to foster an all-of-government and all-of-society approach, entering into the lala world of “nobody is safe until everyone is safe”
https://www.who.int/news/item/30-03-2021-global-leaders-unite-in-urgent-call-for-international-pandemic-treaty
A terrible beauty is born.
“A terrible beauty is born”
Explain what you mean by the “beauty” bit?
Bloody hell Blondie, I thought pulling a Cian was bad…
You’re an algorithm.
Hazel Chu doesn’t win again.
Rejoice! Clonan seems a decent sort. No doubt Chu will start bemoaning the lack of diversity in the result, before showing up at the next trough to try again, shameless.
Clonan is a goon selling pro NATO and pro Anglo-American regime change narratives in Irish media whenever the latest conflict kicks off. He’s a propagandist who’s writing style appeals to middle Ireland because he tries present himself as moderate. Indeed, this is the Great trick all Irish media plays. Always seeking to portray themselves as middle of the road, balanced, moderate, whilst still promoting extremist positions. Even the tone of Irish radio presenters is the same. It’s our version of the BBC voice.
I was more thinking of his disability activism, but as an ex-defence forces guy he no doubt has ‘leanings’ on the topics you mention.
I agree, but at least he’s not Hazel Chu!
“Back of the net” -Alan Partridge
Surely, “Bacik of the net”?
Imelda be’s in Derry in May
So… what women’s sport have the poor, 100% victim trans destroyed today? :)
You must be really invested in women’s sports.
Just invested in fairness and refusing to participate in useless beta-male fantasies :)
Well played. If you’ll pardon the pun.
you could hardly be accused of ‘playing the balls, not the man’.
ahem
*grabs jock strap*
Ain’t it funny that fellahs that normally could not give two flying focks about women’s sports now all of a sudden are…
Jaysus – totally agree
…the headline in The Times where the Brits are urging the Ukrainians not to back down is obscene…innocent people die as the US/UK/EU fight their proxy war…
Innocent people die because Putin invaded, not because Ukrainians defend themselves.
That’s true, Niggle.
Tell me though – how did the Crimean Khanate come to be part of Ukraine?
Do you think that they voted to join Ukraine back in the day.
How did all those Eastern European Soviet Republic sattelite states become Soviet Republic sattelite states back in the day? Do you think they voted for it?
Aaaannnndddd – Away runs Nigel
Annnnd irrelevant comment by Giggy!
Not at all irrelevant. You used a childish manoeuvre to dodge answering his question.
Neochildish probably.
At least mine was relevant.
…how’s that lethal aid pledged by sleepy Joe and bungling Boris going Nigel?
Pretty darn good.
Those 4,000 British made and donated NLAWs and the extensive training of Ukraine forces carried out by the British Army have literally stopped Russian tanks in their tracks.
Mind you it’s not just military aid Blighty is providing.
British emergency vehicle manufacturer
VenariUK has started building military grade ambulances on a not-for-profit basis which will be imminently deployed to Ukraine to support medics working on the frontline.
This follows a request from the Ukraine Embassy in London.
https://www.mtdmfg.com/news/venari-group-commences-building-ambulances-for-ukraine/
You carry on waving your white flag Comrade Chamberlain™
…for the life of me I don’t understand why the Russians bother sending tanks in anywhere…can’t they just fire missiles at selected targets like that NATO training base which was hit by cruise missiles fired from Russia…thousands of miles away…were those dead brits carried through Wootten Bassett?
The surviving tank crews probably feel the same, poor saps.
…at least they have survived…which is more than the nazis can expect…
And thousands of civilians.
https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1509489311108014080
Comrade Johnson
Ask Putin.
The Brits really don’t get this geo-political securing of supply chains against national security threats lark do they ?- Clearly no one has read the China 2025 strategy paper – but then again no MP has bothered to read the TCA and very few have even perused the Protocol or the GFA either (all 34 pages with double spacing and a wide margin) – so no change there – is there anything actually British owned left in GB – but but but global Britain
“Ministers have quietly approved the takeover of the U.K.’s largest microchip factory, Newport Wafer Fab, by a Chinese-owned company” (Nexperia)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-quietly-approve-chinese-microchip-factory-takeover/
And despite the excitable mega thread yesterday from the newly self appointed BS experts on pertodollars and global trade financing regarding gas / Rubles. Payments – as I said yesterday the EU will continue to pay in euros or dollars and then Gazprom Bank — the intermediary for much of Europe’s gas payments to Russia — would convert the money into rubles (see my post yesterday morning predicting this as the only real world practicable solution to the impasse in the medium term
Guinness is British-owned.
* sniggers *
It is. Which makes it even more baffling that it is so hard to find a decent pint in London.
Look up the Twitter account @sh_tlondonguinn*
*Thanks to the utterly baffling ‘bad language’ rules on here you will have to put the i into the twitter name above, but it’s a great laugh of an account.
A perennial favourite, especially after a stay in London a good few years ago.
Some of them are crimes against humanity.
Lots of people drinking Guinness in London yesterday where I enjoyed an excellent evening in the West End.
Mind you, none were as bad as this bad boy ..
https://mobile.twitter.com/doris_from/status/1279333188511424512/photo/1
Hehx3™
Not on the island anymore?
Back in Blighty for a week or two to take care of some business.
I’ve had a pied-à-terre here for yonks.
Gorgeous morning but a wee bit nippy.
Gorgeous Galway’s loss
FYI – Diageo is about as British as I am – Blackrock and Vanguard are its 2 largest shareholders !
You want to see what they own in Ireland, One Vowel™
…and you complain when Russia and China embrace capitalism…
Who complains ?
…your friend Nigel…
Ireland isn’t a G7 country nor will the UK be they way they are going in a few years. A G7 country is meant to be on shoring and securing its supply chains given Globalization peeked in 2008. That is what China has been doing with its Belt and Road initiative. The Brits don’t seem to have read that missive either
‘…your friend Nigel…’
You have lots of conversations with me that never actually happen, don’t you?
Nigel is my friend ?
That’s news to me as I suspect it is to Nigel …
…aha Nigel…gotcha, as Giggser would say…you’re a yank…you don’t do irony!
I have always thought Nigel was American myself, just the cut of your gib niggie :)
‘you don’t do irony!’
Bless you, bisted.
Now now Bisted. Don’t be bringing me into your spats with Charger and Nige please.
Which is why it’s entire site bar bar the offices should have a compulsory purchase Order slapped on it so that city centre housing could be built.
Diageo’s land hoarding is a disgrace- the worst in Dublin and most of those buildings are NOT in used- I lived beside it for many years so I know. In the main it is a vacant site.
Well said, a total disgrace!
edit: but keep the smock windmill, historically important.
Some of those buildings are absolutely beautiful, and the street system between them is very well designed too. I would be surprised if they are not listed anyways.
And they are in the main empty shells so conversion into homes would be relatively easy. The Roe and Co building on James Street is stunning- 1920’s would be my guess?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Roe+%26+Co+Distillery/@53.3437034,-6.2856668,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMZt9fnuLJ3AZ-OSCHkdDXk9Ow2AZo2xqxxS9rB!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMZt9fnuLJ3AZ-OSCHkdDXk9Ow2AZo2xqxxS9rB%3Dw203-h135-k-no!7i1500!8i1000!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x48670c386b2c6d23:0x79dd059ce3533ee7!2sJames+St,+Dublin!3b1!8m2!3d53.3431991!4d-6.2901515!3m4!1s0x48670d9543c999e9:0x2fa4f76bb730a258!8m2!3d53.3436947!4d-6.285582
Ah turns out to be 1940s- the style looks older. Could be put to way better uses that a whiskey outfit of course. but sure that is all about addresses- and tourism.
https://libertiesdublin.ie/roe-co-comes-to-town/
That’s funny.
Because Diageo so confident of its popularity in London that it’s in the middle of building a £73 million micro-brewery and event space in Covent Garden.
Guinness sales in Great Britain have grown by over 30 per cent in the last six months and one in every 10 pints sold in London is now a Guinness.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/guinness-brewery-covent-garden-west-end-london-diageo-rishi-sunak-b979662.html
Marvellous™
Posted this in the wrong place
Ireland isn’t a G7 country nor will the UK be they way they are going in a few years. A G7 country is meant to be on shoring and securing its supply chains given Globalization peeked in 2008. That is what China has been doing with its Belt and Road initiative. The Brits don’t seem to have read that missive either
China’s belt and road initiative involves using Chinese political prisoners to build cheap highways – like the one between the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and Galle – and other white elephant infrastructure to ensure poorer countries are in hock to the Chinese state for decades to come.
You think this is a good thing One Vowel™ ?
Yes their are elements of death trap diplomacy from the “hosts” perspective but from an Chinese POV they’ve secured vast tracks of arable land to sore up their food insecurity and access to minerals and rare earth metals -sure their will be a few white elephants in such an initiative as that’s what grabs the headlines but I don’t notice the regulars on here having attacks of scruples about the antics of Putin in Ukraine (perish the thought) so I’m just talking economics – my core point was that the UK seems to have learnt nothing from the recent geo strategic failure of Merkel’s “wandel durch handel” – they should be on shoring and securing strategically important supply chains (national security) not selling them off like their water, power, transport utilities (and them moaning when there is no capital investment jus dividends to johnny foreigner) or every last bit of manufacturing from car making to electronics
that’s a criticism that should be aimed at ourselves stephen. we aren’t self-sufficient in anything; we will be truly gooched when the zombie apocalypse starts.
I read something before that said that ireland and NZ are the two most secure countries if / when everything goes pear shaped. Based on climate, potential for supporting themselves agriculturally / border control.
Anyway, the world cup draw is on today.
Not much interest on here I’d say as Anyone But England™ failed to qualify.
Yet again.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
( I mentioned the draw but I think I got away with it )
Hehx3™
3 TIPS for surviving the information war that is being waged against you
1️⃣ Seek information from the lowest status sources
2️⃣ If information is uncomfortable, dig deeper
3️⃣ Never dismiss a possibility, no matter how remote
https://twitter.com/ideamarket_tok/status/1507403280938319889
Absolutely spot on.
Talking of information wars I’ve just been reading this piece by former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie on the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War and the Sun’s famous Gotcha! headline.
Fascinating stuff on changing times.
https://unherd.com/2022/04/how-the-sun-won-the-falklands-war/
I’d agree with 2 and 3 wholeheartedly but would be wary of 1. All too easy these days to astroturf and spin up false narratives to suit an agenda. I’d be wary of all sources, manage expectations and recognise that data is a scalpel; can be moved and adjusted and applied to serve any purpose depending on the hand that wields it.
Well I think the point is to look at who has the most to lose or gain when accessing someone’s motives.
In the case of the whole pandemic thing- the group who stood out most to me were the front line doctors. Some of those people lost absolutely everything because they went against the Big Pharma narrative- and it is still going on.
Even lose/gain is muddy water. A persons status, position or audience can help them avoid any repercussions or face more dire punishment than someone else in another position saying the same thing. Trump is a great example, he defended racism, mocked disabled people, bragged about sexually assaulting people and yet was extremely popular in certain areas of America. He said himself, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” and he was probably right.
Dolores Cahill was another one. She went on truly deranged tirades but still retained support, people listened to her and backed her up. The fact that she was impossible to fire from her position at UCD was held up as a reason that she wasn’t all that bad and should be included in all public dialogue around COVID/voting/etc (Sergeant Hugh Shovlin deserves an award for his composure when faced with Dolores at full steam). To a lot of her backers, she was a useful idiot, and that’s further mud for the water, people espousing opinions being used to further another persons agenda in exchange for the ‘useful idiots’ reputation.
What is your nationality Nigel?
Why does it matter to you so much ?
wrong person, SOQ. Get the glasses on.
Oh dear yet again- apologies. it’s just that I skim over said persons stuff you see.
Dolores Cahill’s big mistake was getting involved with that Kelly chancer because it gave the usual cretins a stick to beat her with. On the subject which is her expertise, I hope she is wrong, but I fear she may be right.
Along with Judy Mikovits, she was the first person I ever heard talking about mNRA vaccines having the potential to resurrect dormant viruses and also, damaging people’s immune systems- both of which have now come to pass, at least in part.
Again, time will tell, but there certainly is some unusual things going on.
Y’know, I think this is the second time you’ve confused me with paul?
we both have orange-y avatars, though mine is a dude boiling in a pot so who knows.
That is basically the tenet perfect competition – i.e. it assumes perfect information – it ignores the huge amount of time any individual would need to gather such information before making any decision, cost – its assume gathering such information even if available is virtually costless (and it doesn’t account for the opportunity costs) and it also further assumes an educational capacity to absorb the information even if gathered in a logical way before making a rational choice. That’s why people make what economists called “satisfying decisions” which are possibly sub optimal but which represents those trade offs – Hence peoples confirmation and cognitive biases and group think short cuts emerge not just because of asymmetrical information but because of time costs and educational ability
Point one is not about information but accessing the motives of the person giving the information. It is no coincidence that the majority of experts who are challenging this vaccine corruption are retired or otherwise finically secure- or as in the case of the front line doctors, lost everything.
Compare that to the talking heads who are clearly in the back pockets of Big Pharma and / or the state, and it should not take long to figure out who’s motives are genuine and who’s are not.
To summarise:
1. Look in the sewer for poo.
2. If the poo isn’t gross enough, look in a cesspit.
3. Smear that poo all over your face and eat it, like a good little misinformation tool.
4. Regurgitate it and call it roast lamb, then shout at people about how good your roast lamb is and if they disagree shout at them some more about how you’re really intelligent and a ‘critical thinker’ and if only they were critical thinkers they too could see the poo-puke is actually roast lamb.
Explains a lot of beliefs and posts on here, thanks for clearing that up SOQ.
No- but the nasty tone of your post reveals a lot about you.
I can’t think of three worse suggestions. They’re literally designed to drive you into a disinformation morass. There are solid strategies for filtering out fake news – these are not them.
this is an April Fools joke – isn’t it?
1. look for info anywhere and everywhere
2. ensure what you find reinforces your prejudices (confirmation bias)
3. go full-on conspiracy theorist !
Isn’t it?
Try listening to what he said again there Cian-
feckin cancel culture gone wild,I BELIEVE HIM.
“The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me down.
Their attacks have been relentless.
I won’t stop fighting.
I won’t bow to the mob.
They want to silence the America First movement.
I’m not going anywhere.”
https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1509543302001049612?s=20&t=y_EUEQY1gezCeGbjkwUJ4Q
leading these attacks to cancel Madison,who is exposing these coke fulled OAP orgies is…..
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the House GOP leader.
“It’s just frustrating. There’s no evidence behind his statements. And when I sit down with him … I told him you can’t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole.”
‘The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me down.’
I thought it was the Republican Freedom Caucus going after him?
(he’s given reporters a reason to ask all R’s over 60 and 70 year’s old,basically most the FREEDOM caucus,if they are coke and sex addicts,which they are…as i believe him:)
Aww. Hah.
https://ibb.co/3k88Sh0
Who are they trying to fool on that website.
British royals linked to sleaze allegations (again)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/01/prince-andrew-facing-calls-to-explain-1m-payments-linked-to-high-court-case
The nonce (and his ex-wife) in the news with yet more PR problems…
Gardaí played down warnings from HSE over safe access zones for abortion services
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40841780.html
When mother doesn’t really know what’s best for you:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sacked-solicitor-ammi-burke-has-unfair-dismissal-case-thrown-out-amid-repeated-interruptions-by-her-mother-41512291.html
“…How sweet would be their children’s fate, If they, like them, could die for thee!…”
Two men accused of Ballyfermot attack that left teenager Alanna Quinn Idris blind in one eye have curfews lifted:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/two-men-accused-of-ballyfermot-attack-that-left-teenager-alanna-quinn-idris-blind-in-one-eye-have-curfews-lifted-41511307.html
The outworkings of Brexit continue to ‘bedevil’ politics in Northern Ireland – Taoiseach Micheál Martin
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-outworkings-of-brexit-continue-to-bedevil-politics-in-northern-ireland-taoiseach-micheal-martin-41512605.html
Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/judge-upholds-ghislaine-maxwells-sex-trafficking-conviction-41512788.html