Welcome to The Revolution

The song goes:

We will not comply

With the institutions

Sick illusion

No, it won’t be televised

Welcome to the revolution

The link is a https://twitter.com/i/status/1462359657117364228

Who will win in the end?

The protesters, all around the world, I expect.

Eeee Begum!

I wonder how many in Yorkshire are now regretting that, in 1992, their cricket club abandoned its historic rule that it would only select players born in Yorkshire. But for this, Yorkshire Cricket club would not now be facing self-destruction.

The club has been accused of racism by Azeem Rafiq, who was born and brought up in Pakistan, notwithstanding that the club had appointed him as the youngest captain in the county’s history. Daniel Finkelstein has remarked recently that the current fashion for apologising about everything is typically counter-productive, but the club appears not to have learned that lesson.  Instead, it has prostrated itself in abject apology and, not surprisingly, is getting stamped on by every vindictive boot.

Wet Work

I opened up my Dolphin this morning to get to the innards of the impeller.

Sure enough: a couple of twigs.  That was what was encouraging it to stage sit-down strikes with annoying frequency.  Twigs removed. Dolphin reassembled and back to work, eager as a beaver.

Maybe I was wrong about the Covid vaccines?

Sometimes it takes a little while for cogent evidence to emerge, and when it does emerge, we should be prepared to change our minds, and if necessary admit that we were wrong.

Until recently, I was pretty sure that:

(1)          for the old and the frail, the Covid vaccines are probably a good thing to take, reducing the risk of death from Covid;

(2)          conversely, for younger people, and especially children – for whom Covid represents virtually no risk at all – the vaccine represents a wholly unnecessary risk to health.

Proposition (2) seems to me to be blindingly obvious.  None of the data suggest that children are at any material risk at all of dying, or even becoming ill, from Covid, and the data are also clear that the vaccines prevent neither catching Covid nor spreading it. Clearly, the reasons why governments are advocating the vaccination of children are political, not medical: rather, the Western world has been whipped into a state of hysteria by a tsunami of propaganda about Covid, such that forcing everybody to get vaccinated is politically popular. As always, politicians are far more concerned with what will get them re-elected than they are with the health of the people.  T’was ever thus.

But now I am not so sure that all about proposition (1), having read the paper, “Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?”, written in July, revised and accepted for publication in August, and published at Toxicology Reports 8 (2001) 1664 – 1684 in September. It is the work of seven experts in the field and concludes that for people in the age group of 65+, the vaccine is five times more likely to kill you than Covid. You can read the paper in its PDF form by following this link. Or, if you’re the sort of lazy, intellectually-challenged, blob-following useful idiot who prefers to believe what you are told by politicians and mainstream media than to actually read peer-reviewed scientific papers and make up your own mind from the data, I have

RadioDAUGHTER

My daughter Annabel has this week been making the case on talkRADIO against compulsory Covid jabs being required for travel.

Quite right too.

We do not know how many people have been killed by covid vaccinations, and by the other consequences of covid hysteria. We will probably never know, with any accuracy. This is the sort of information that governments go to considerable lengths to make it as difficult as possible to access.

But what we do know is that we need more people like Annabel, speaking out for humanity and common sense.

It is also fair to add that we do not know how many people’s lives have been saved by the vaccines. But again, there are aspects of this that we do know. Those whose lives have been saved are overwhelmingly people in old age, or whose health is already severely compromised, whose remaining life expectancy now relatively short. For those people, taking the vaccine is likely to be a very sensible choice. Conversely, those who have been killed by the vaccine, although very probably fewer in number, are typically much younger, no material risk at all of dying from Covid. They have taken the vaccine because they have been coerced into doing so by governments, refusing them their ordinary human privileges – such as freedom to move about – unless vaccinated. In very large measure, they have been lied to by governments, who tell them that taking the vaccine is necessary for the protection of others. In fact, as the governments well know, the vaccines do not prevent people from getting Covid, nor from passing it on (although they are, at least in the short term, reasonably effective mitigating the severity of the disease if a person gets it).

Secret Pentagon report warns of rioting and nuclear war

The World Economic Forum has this week pumped out a video in which Peter Schwartz predicts that we are headed for catastrophe unless we do something about carbon dioxide emissions.

I wonder if this is the same Peter Schwartz who in 2003 presented a report to the Pentagon warning that, by 2020 major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting were confidently predicted to erupt across the world. According to the Guardian at the time “The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists.”

Perhaps I missed it, but I did not see major European cities seeking beneath any rising waves in the last year or two. Venice is a bit sodden, of course. As usual. But that is not quite the same thing.  Nor did I hear of any Siberian climate Britain (rather, it seems, the weather in Britain has been just a shade better than usual?)   And surely, I would have noticed if there had been a nuclear war?

Anyway, the Guardian was not alone in 2004 in wagging the finger. It went on to note:

Marking Their COP Homework

We are likely to hear a lot of slogans from the boys and girls at COP26, but not many facts.  And if we hear any facts at all, they are likely to be so cherry picked as to be virtually meaningless.  So expect the whole gamut from totally potty twaddle to dangerous mania.

So, just a bit of balance, here are some of the key facts. Points for anyone spotting any of them being acknowledged in Glasgow over the fortnight. Not an easy spot: we are more likely to see Boris in a tutu dancing the Sugar Plum Fairy:

• The world is not in the grip of runaway global warming. It is perfectly true the northern hemisphere has warmed slightly over the past 40 years or so, but meanwhile, the southern hemisphere has cooled slightly. None of this is out of the ordinary. The world today is not as warm as it was in, for example, Roman Empire times.[1]

• It is perfectly true that carbon dioxide levels have been steadily rising; they have gone up from about 300 parts a million to about 400 ppm.  So, rather less than half a percent of the atmosphere we breathe is carbon dioxide. Those levels are way, way down on what they have been in the past. The principal effect of this recent rise has not been runaway global warming (see above) but significantly improved vegetation, which means more trees, and more crops for the people who need food.