Today’s extremists are not on the political right; they are on the radical left

 A few days before a record 781 illegal immigrants arrived on Britain’s shores from across the Channel, Matt Goodwin highlighted how “hyper-liberals,” meaning radical left-wing die-hards who support mass illegal migration, are the real extremists of our age.

The real extremists are not the ordinary men and women who want secure borders, controlled immigration and sensible energy policy, as the establishment wants us to believe. The real extremists are “hyper-liberals.”

“That’s not me saying it,” Goodwin writes; it was in an article published by The Times.

Hyper-liberals like Angela Merkel, not the populist right, are the real extremists of our age. That’s not me saying it. It’s The Times columnist Matthew Syed, who in an important article this weekend revealed just how quickly the debate is moving towards the arguments many of us have been making for years, and our readers.

Syed, who explicitly describes himself as a liberal [left-wing], makes an argument that would have been considered unthinkable in polite society only a few years ago....<<<Read More>>>...

The world is just enough: Ursula von der Leyen goes Bond villain

Leave it to a German to get EU-Europe properly encircled

As a historian who also happens to be German, that was my spontaneous reaction to Ursula von der Leyen's annual grand - and always grandiloquent - "state of the union" address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

It's not really a "union," of course, and not really a "parliament," either: technically, the EU is a confederation messed up by the ideological construct of "supranationalism"; and the parliament has no independent legislative power, but let's not dwell on the obvious.

At the head of her Commission (read: over-reaching Central Committee) of career bureaucrats, von der Leyen is the unelected de-facto leader and personification of the Frankenstein wanna-be-super-state that has long gobbled up idealistic dreams of European unity.

Once, those dreams may have been about democracy, sovereign equality, prosperity for all, and peace. But real-existing EU-Europe is very different: the European dream has come true as a nightmare, dominated by a smug and self-empowered globalist establishment, thoroughly insulated from popular participation, economically stagnant and crisis-prone, as well as unequal, and ever more militarist.

When von der Leyen boasted that, in effect during her tenure, EU-Europe had become "stronger" and "more independent," while "securing its prosperity" and increasing armament spending "by 80% in the last five years alone," only the last point bore any resemblance to reality, as the preponderant majority of the over 450 million EU citizens - really subjects - experience it.

But there is no misery a Eurocrat worth her (or his!) salt cannot make worse.

Now von der Leyen seems hellbent to take the worst of bad old German traditions to a whole new, all-EU level. As is well-known from the history of the last two world wars, Germany not once but twice first deftly maneuvered itself into being surrounded by (mostly) enemies and then lost, the first time crushingly, the second one even worse, in fact so badly it took a short half-century (and much Russian good will, as it happens) to put the country together again....<<<Read More>>>....

“Implausible” Met Office UK Climate Projections Still Whipping up Unjustified Net Zero-Convenient Fear

 Five months after the IPCC ruled that the infamous RCP8.5 computer scenario responsible for most mainstream climate doomsday copy over the last 15 years was “implausible”, what news can I bring you of the Met Office’s UK Climate Projection 2018 report (UKCP18) that based its predictions on the now cancelled modelling nonsense? Good news: the Met Office immediately withdrew UKCP18 with a fulsome apology for all the harm caused. Everything from the compromised geography A level syllabus to numerous Net Zero rules and regulations that relied on its claims have been withdrawn pending future alteration. Sorry, I must have dropped off for a moment and started dreaming. Of course, the report has not been withdrawn; of course, no apology has been forthcoming, and of course, UKCP18 is still up to all its old tricks.

On June 23rd, the Met Office produced a weather forecast for 2055 showing how the summer temperature in England under a “plausible” computer model scenario could hit 45°C along with nine consecutive days where 40°C was recorded somewhere in the country. Not bad going in 30 years, given that the UK temperature ’record’ of 40.3°C produced on July 19th 2022 by the runway at RAF Coningsby was somewhat challenged in its veracity by the fact that Typhoon jets were attempting to land at the time. The claimed record was a 60-second 0.6°C spike and over a five-minute average – recommended by the World Meteorological Organisation to reduce ‘noise’ – the temperature fell below the magic, headline-grabbing 40°C....<<<Read More>>>>...

Migrants Are Taking Britain for a Ride – and We’re Letting Them

 Britain has now become such a soft touch that migrants know they can break the law and lie and they will not face deportation, while Brits hamstring themselves with actually obeying their own rules, says Steven Tucker.

Far be it from me to cast aspersions upon the honour of the daughter of the Prime Minister of Kurdistan, but she would appear to be a woman of distinctly easy virtue. According to the testimony of a Home Office whistleblower revealed in the Times this week, the number of Iraqi asylum seekers who have claimed that they have been in a relationship with this highly accommodating lady, thereby necessitating their being allowed to stay here in the UK to escape the jealous wrath of her possessive Islamic father, is “in the hundreds”.

Meanwhile, a similar number of Pakistanis have likewise claimed asylum here from their notably homophobic home-nation on the sole basis that they are in possession of an Official Letter of Gayness from the exact same easy-loving gentleman back home who claims to have slept with each and every one of them; isn’t that how AIDS got started? It may be simpler for the British state, all things considered, to just give this single highly promiscuous individual asylum here in Brighton, before he can seduce anyone else and leave them in need of an immediate free passport.

The whistleblower’s account demonstrates how laughably simple it is for people from Muslim nations to gain easy access to Great Britain. Around 99 out of every 100 asylum applications “at best” are bogus, says the Times’s Home Office mole, with initial interviews with such liars after they land ashore being wholly insubstantial, allowing them months on end to concoct a supposedly ‘plausible’ story about them once having been kissed on the lips by Saddam Hussein in a public bazaar....<<<Read More>>>...

Killed to Order: Inside China’s forced organ harvesting industry

China’s forced organ harvesting industry is one of the most disturbing and controversial human-rights issues of our time.

On this episode of Rose Unplugged, Jan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, discusses his book ‘Killed to Order’ and the evidence surrounding allegations of forced organ harvesting in China.

They examine the victims, the alleged involvement of hospitals and state institutions, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other vulnerable groups, Western medical connections and why this issue has received so little attention....<<<Read More>>>....

The Pandemic Preparedness Narrative Gets a Reality Check

 No, pandemics don't kill 2.5 million people each year, and no, the risk from infectious disease isn't increasing. The WHO's 'pandemic preparedness' ambitions need a reality check, and a new report does just that.

While much of the debate around pandemic preparedness takes place behind closed doors, RCR had the opportunity to take part in that conversation at Australia’s Parliament House in June.

In June, RCR’s Head of Legal, Katie Ashby-Koppens, joined international experts at Parliament House in Canberra for a series of briefings with Australian Senators and Members of Parliament at the invitation of Senator Alex Antic.

The briefings focused on one of the most significant international public policy changes currently underway: the World Health Organisation’s pandemic reforms and what they mean for Australia....<<<Read More>>>....

 

Bankrupt Council to Spend £2.6 Million Removing British Flags From Streets

 Birmingham City Council is set to spend £2.6 million removing British flags from the streets despite being bankrupt and the most indebted local authority in the country. The Telegraph has the story.

Birmingham City Council said removing British flags lining the streets would cost £2.6 million, court documents reveal.

The bankrupt council – run by a coalition of Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents – said removal works would cost the equivalent of £132 per flag.

St George’s and Union Jack flags have been plastered across Britain since last year as part of Operation Raise the Colours, a movement in favour of promoting national pride.

Around 20,000 flags were installed on lamp posts across Birmingham, which will cost approximately £2.6 million to remove, according to documents submitted to the High Court.

Birmingham City Council has more than £3.5 billion of debt, the most of any local authority in the country. In September 2023, it issued a section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, after over a decade of Labour majority control.....<<<Read More>>>...

Met Office uses unreliable temperature records from Kew Gardens to record the hottest temperatures in the UK

 The Met Office operates hundreds of weather stations at locations the length and breadth of the United Kingdom. One such weather station is sited at Kew Gardens which frequently records the hottest temperatures in the UK.

A few days ago, the Met Office admitted that Kew Gardens is a CIMO Class 5 site.

“Class 5 sites should not be used for climatological purposes, I look forward to the Met Office removing the spurious ‘record temperature’ from their website,” Paul Homewood writes.

The World Meteorological Organisation’s (“WMO’s”) Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation (“CIMO”) establishes global standards for weather station siting and classification. Its classification system is a global framework that indicates how closely a weather station’s siting aligns with ideal exposure conditions.

The WMO is a specialised agency of the United Nations.

The Siting Classification for Surface Observing Stations on Land was formally introduced by WMO in 2014 and uses a Class 1 to Class 5 scale to assess the quality and representativeness of a site’s exposure for meteorological measurements like temperature, humidity and precipitation.

Class 1 represents an ideal, reference-grade site with wide-open exposure and minimal local influence, while Class 5 indicates an inappropriate environment with significant local obstructions or heat sources. It allows for broad international comparisons of data quality, with higher classes (1–2) indicating high confidence in data representativeness and lower classes (4–5) suggesting notable local exposure characteristics.

The Met Office internally rates stations as “Excellent,” “Good,” “Satisfactory,” or “Unsatisfactory,” and excludes Class 5 data from national climate records, while quoting Class 1–4 data....<<<Read More>>>....

ONS Caught Peddling Fake Heatwave Deaths Scare

Now it's the ONS's turn to push the fake heatwave deaths scare, says Paul Homewood. Dubious modelling is used to tout the manifestly false claim that summer is killing people when winter always has by far the most deaths.

Last week the Telegraph reported:

Three times more people die during cold snaps than when the weather is very hot, official data show.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that from 1988 to 2025, about 42,000 people died on the hottest days. On the coldest days almost 150,000 died, in the same period.

However, data suggest the difference between the numbers of deaths because of cold and heat is shrinking....<<<Read More>>>...

Hijacking the tragedy in Nepal for climate activism is utterly shameless

The tragedy in Nepal and Tibet is a natural disaster; it had nothing to do with “climate change.” Yet climate change alarmists are hijacking the tragedy to further their nefarious aims.

When natural disaster strikes, climate charlatans pounce.

Over 1,200 people are dead, and over 4,000 are missing after a glacier collapsed, sending flash floods into Nepal and Tibet.

Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann (of Climategate fame) wrote in the UK Guardian that Nepal’s flood reveals “the apocalyptic future that lies in store if we fail to take dramatic climate action.”

The executive director of the UN Green Climate Fund, Mafalda Duarte, shamelessly turned the tragedy into a call for cash, saying, “We see when there is will, that finance is mobilised to respond to emergencies. For some reason, we don’t see the same type of response to climate.”

Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal wants China, India, the US and other industrialised nations to compensate Nepal financially, framing it as a matter of “moral liability.” He said Nepal “will turn this into an issue of justice in the international arena.” He added, “This is not about asking for aid; it is about the obligation of large nations.”

Nepal’s flash flood was not caused by your SUV or refrigerator....<<<Read More>>>...

EU’s energy ban blamed for soaring prices as bloc faces winter crisis

 The EU's self-imposed sanctions have left European energy prices two to three times higher than in the United States and China.

Natural gas storage levels are at their worst in 15 years heading into winter, with prices potentially needing to exceed 100 euros per megawatt-hour.

German Chancellor Merz and French President Macron acknowledge the sanctions-driven energy crisis is eroding European industrial competitiveness.

Hungary and Slovakia are suing the EU in court over the Russian energy ban, arguing Brussels bypassed its own approval rules.

Brussels is pressing ahead with a total Russian energy phaseout by 2027 despite warnings of physical shortages and power cuts.

The European Union's push to eliminate Russian energy imports by 2027 is running headlong into economic reality, as top officials now acknowledge the bloc's self-imposed sanctions have left it paying two to three times more for power than the United States or China. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a Paris business conference this month that the cheap energy imports that once underpinned Europe's prosperity have "disappeared," dealing a visible blow to the continent's competitiveness — although she stopped short of directly blaming the sanctions policy for the price gap...<<<Read More>>>...

Psychiatry is a diabolical pseudoscience

 Using the example of Lindsay Clancy, Benjamin Bartee explains how psychiatrists treat patients as cash cows without giving a moment’s thought to the effects of the copious amount of drugs they dish out to “treat” a condition.

Why aren’t psychiatrists held accountable for the damage and harm they’re causing?

Bartee explains: If you poison someone, call it “medicine” and then smear anyone who raises suspicions as a “conspiracy theorist,” all of a sudden you’re off scot-free – and well-paid....<<<Read More>>>....

WHO pandemic alerts no longer require proof of illness, document states

The WHO’s latest influenza assessment states that “evidence of illness is not required” for laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A with pandemic potential to trigger mandatory international reporting.

The reporting gateway is based solely on “laboratory-confirmed” infection, a designation that relies on real-time RT-PCR testing.

WHO technical manuals acknowledge that PCR tests measure fluorescence, not the presence of a live virus, and that false-positive signals can arise from contamination, reagent cross-reactions and heat-induced chemical changes.

The new guidance lowers the evidentiary threshold for activating international pandemic response mechanisms that previously accompanied lockdowns, travel restrictions and vaccine mandates.

Health freedom advocates argue the policy shift centralizes decision-making power in laboratory data while removing observable clinical illness as a prerequisite for global action....<<Read More>>>...

Comcast Activates WiFi Motion Detection on MILLIONS of Routers, Raising Privacy Concerns

 On Aug. 18, Comcast activated a motion detection feature on millions of its newer home routers.

WiFi Motion is a free feature that turns newer Xfinity Gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the WiFi signal of the wireless network and sending a notification through the Xfinity app, according to TechCrunch .

Comcast unveiled the feature as part of Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built around the WiFi network, and it turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge, according to a ZeroHedge report.

Comcast said WiFi Motion works "without recording video, capturing images, or identifying individuals," according to the report.

The company's terms state that Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations, the report said. Comcast said a typical customer has roughly 36 devices connected to their WiFi. 

WiFi Motion works because a human body moving through a room disturbs the signal field between the gateway and stationary connected devices, such as a printer or a game console, according to Comcast's rollout materials. The feature is opt-in and, according to Comcast, does not track phones or reach through WiFi extenders.

Comcast's rollout materials stated that those limitations are choices made in software, not limitations of the technology itself.

The detection method relies on signals that have been part of WiFi networks for more than a decade....<<<<Read More>>>....

Food for Thought #1231

 

The WHO’s High-Price Pandemic Plan Is Built on Smoke and Mirrors

 The recent release of Anthony Fauci’s diaries, followed by his refusal to answer questions in an appearance before a US Senate committee by invoking the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination 111 times, highlighted a stark divide in how the Covid pandemic was handled by public health authorities. This is as true of Australia as of the US.

Repeatedly, against the certainty expressed in public to justify official statements on the origins of the virus and on lockdown, mask and vaccine policies, their private contemporaneous conversations confirm that even the top scientists were making decisions based on scientific uncertainty.

Consequently, one of the key legacies of the public-private gap is growing distrust of official claims. That scepticism should extend to the future pandemic agenda. We rely on the World Health Organisation to co-ordinate among countries to prevent scourges such as pandemics reaching our shores, or at least mitigate their effects. In doing so, we must defer to an army of international bureaucrats who work in such institutions – a deference that relies on trust.

Their salaries and careers depend on convincing us to part with more of our money to support their work. Yet, according to a new article on international pandemic financing in the Cambridge journal Health Economics, Policy and Law, the WHO and World Bank rely on dubious assumptions to calculate the return-on-investment case on which all major international efforts to mitigate future pandemics rely.

This should alarm governments. Mitigation is worth investing in, as pandemics will occur from time to time. But the article shows that current investments will have an overall detrimental effect on global health. Most starkly, it suggests a deep rot in the quality of institutions we rely on as stewards of this commonly accepted global good....<<<Read More>>>...

Hidden CIA document detailing potential cure for cancer declassified after 60 years

 A newly surfaced CIA document suggests US intelligence once reviewed research that hinted at a possible cancer treatment more than 60 years ago.

The document, produced in February 1951 and declassified in 2014, summarizes a Soviet scientific paper that examined striking similarities between parasitic worms and cancerous tumors.

The report describes how researchers believed both organisms thrived under nearly identical metabolic conditions and accumulated large reserves of glycogen, a form of stored energy.

The research also highlighted experiments showing that certain chemical compounds were capable of targeting both parasitic infections and malignant tumors.

One drug, Myracyl D, was reportedly effective against bilharzia parasites as well as cancerous growths, hinting that treatments developed for parasites might also attack tumors.

Other compounds were found to interfere with nucleic acid production, a process essential for the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells.

Experiments on mice even showed that tumor tissues reacted differently to certain chemicals than normal tissues, further reinforcing the perceived biochemical overlap between parasites and cancers.

Although the document was declassified more than a decade ago, it has recently resurfaced online, fueling outrage among some Americans who say it raises troubling questions about why Cold War research hinting at possible cancer treatments sat in intelligence archives for decades.

'The Americans knew. They read it, classified it CONFIDENTIAL, and locked it in a vault for 60 years,' one person shared on X, including the CIA documents in the post.

Another X user said: 'The CIA knew from 1951 that cancer was parasites.'...<<<Read More>>>...

China’s ‘brain chip’ drive accelerates with slew of state-backed initiatives

 China is rapidly accelerating its national push into brain-computer interface technology, mobilizing state power in a coordinated drive that could see the country outpace Western efforts led by figures such as Elon Musk.

According to a report from the South China Morning Post, authorities across insurance firms, local governments, and financial institutions have unveiled a series of concrete measures in recent days aimed at speeding the commercialization of devices that link the human brain directly to computers.

The most striking development came on Wednesday, when major state-owned insurer PICC Property and Casualty announced it had signed China’s first commercial insurance policy covering the invasive brain surgery required to implant a brain-computer interface....<<<Read More>>>...

How the Australian government uses census forms to manipulate the public

 Using the example of the Australian census form, Paul Collits demonstrates how governments manipulate the perception of what is considered normal in societies.

He uses the example of the questions relating to religion and sexuality, which are designed to manipulate the answers people give so the census results have the desired outcome to show that Christian societies are changing.

One thing to say about those trying fundamentally to change (what is left of) our society is that they believe in total victory. Another is that they know how to execute. A third is that they never, ever give up. Down to the last detail.

Whether we think of them simply – often, too simply – as leftists, or as Marxists, or as progressives, or globalists, or sexual liberationists, or feminists, or homosexualists, or climate cookers, or Islamists, it is clear that they work separately and together in myriad alliances to achieve their objectives.

And one shared objective is the de-Christianisation of the West. Another is the forced affirmation of homosexuality. As if we don’t get enough of that in our TV crime dramas. Night after night. You would think that every street in every suburb is filled, wall-to-wall, with queers.

Tonight is census night in Australia. A five-yearly cause of excitement for demographers and a cause of extreme tedium for the rest of us. Another interaction with that uniquely modern punishment … the online “form.” It shouldn’t be.

A seemingly non-ideological exercise and a non-political one. It is just about collecting information to help governments and others to provide “better service.” Believe that, believe anything....<<<Read More>>>...

Physical ChatGPT robots and people: how we will live together

 Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only a feature of computers and smartphones, but also of physical robots that can sense, act and interact with the world around them.

These robots, known as Physical AI, are designed to look and behave like humans or other animals, and to possess intellectual capabilities normally associated with biological organisms. In this article, we will explore the current state and future prospects of Physical AI, and how it could affect our lives in various domains....<<<Read More>>>...