Folic acid should be added to rice as well as flour to prevent hundreds of cases of 'tragic' birth defects every year, experts have said today.
And it's not just expanding the range. It's upping the dose too!
Up to 800 cases could be avoided every year if the nutrient was also added to rice and doses were quadrupled, they claimed.
Why are they dragging their heels? Why aren't they rolling over for these 'experts' like they usually do?
Ministers are thought to have stalled because they feared being accused of 'mass medication' and acting like a 'nanny state'.
Oh, I think that ship done sailed...
Professor Dame Lesley Regan, a gynaecologist at Imperial College's St Mary's Hospital Campus, said there are scientific, medical, ethical and economic reasons for administering the 'correct dose' of folic acid for 'maximum protection'.
It's amazing how easy it is to ensure that these all combine to match your own personal 'ethics', isn't it?
Professor Neena Modi, an expert in neonatal medicine at Imperial College London, said ...
Women who avoid gluten or whose main source of carbohydrate is rice will be disadvantaged, Sir Nicholas warned.
And mothers from ethnic minority backgrounds, 'who predominantly eat rice, not flour', are already up to two-and-a-half times more at risk of their baby having neural tube defects, Professor Modi said.
'We have a major issue with health disparities and the current proposals will widen these,' Professor Modi said.
How dare those people not get with the programme and take their medicine, eh, Neena?
This follows on from the sentiments in part one. It looks at ways information is best disseminated by us, by pundits. But firstly:
And there’s another interesting one over there:
While the musician’s story on YT is interesting, it also applies to pundits or vloggers and bloggers, to tweeters and gabbers. To my mind, the best platform for instant feedback is Twitter (earlier, I’d have included Gab). It gives enough space to make the comment, retweet etc. and if you need more, then link to a website or vlog. If I have a “long” to post, then I screenshoot it and post it as a pic.
The engine rooms are the blog and vlog. To my mind, again, the blog is vastly better because you don’t have to sit through hours of tedium and bullsh from the presenter, in order to get the couple of minutes of pure gold. The blog is all about the scrolling wheel (oor finger), links and embedded pics and vids.
Podcasts, to me, are an utter bore, wankfests for narcissists.
One defining characteristic of the Wokerati and globocreeps is that they simply must foist it on the rest of us. Some of “us” do not appreciate it in the least and if the platform no longer lets us avoid and escape, we depart the platform.
Julia has a byline (tagline, whatever) at Gab:
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." - Power Stewart
Noble thought, the foundation of the classic-liberal end of libertarianism, (the other end being open slather licentiousness, do absolutely anything you want, no matter how many it hurts, stuff the rule of natural law and respect).
All right, let’s test that. On Gab right now (0915), there were four or five gabs … usual thing, usual topics … and suddenly, there was a full width, five inches high porn photo of two marines hard at it … ewwwww, throw up on the spot.
On Gab. I immediately went top right to the three dots to block it and yes, you guessed it … someone had disable the blocking, I could only share. I was there for one purpose this morning … to say hello to Julia, which I scrambled to do, then clicked out of there and shuddered at the filfth on screen.
Back to the key to Julia’s tagline:
… the right of people not to listen.
Or even to be forced to watch? Don’t even try to argue I had a choice at that moment. Yes, I’ve learnt to get out quick, escape, I could minimise … but that image, as it was designed to do, had burnt in and damaged my day, if not my mind. I do NOT wish to see such depravity, not interested, and furthermore … I want a mechanism in place to prevent it from being forced upon me.
There was no such mechanism. Andrew Torba had no overriding block link … the much reviled Twitter does though, it’s far more civilised.
Of those I’ve blocked on Twitter, most are cabal or Wokerati … natch … but a fair few are “our side”. The enemy produce the filth, our Daily Mail minded people rush to bring the filth to us, all the while saying, “Tut tut, isn’t it shocking?!” The enemy laughs into its lunch, fit to burst.
I. Do. Not. Wish. To. See. Other people’s nauseating filth. Esp the enemy’s.
He's Moldovan. Claiming to be Romanian. Why is anyone's claim from either of these two countries tolerated?
Stratan was detained in October 2021 after he entered Scotland from Ireland using the false identity of a Romanian called Sergei Bagrin. He was detained for five months before being freed in March with an admonition by Stranraer Sherriff Court.
Thanks, Scotland!
He then moved to Devon where he obtained the false driving licence and got a job as a delivery driver.
Stratan had already racked up four unpaid speeding tickets in two months of driving for DPD at their depot near St Austell in Cornwall. The crash with Mr Colwill occurred when he failed to stop at a Give Way sign on a country road at Ashwater, North Devon.
It's beyond bel... No. I have to stop saying that, don't I? Because it isn't.
Stratan admitted perverting the course of justice, causing death by careless driving and driving while uninsured and with a false licence.
He was jailed for a year and ten months by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court and banned from driving for five years after his release. The judge said the public would expect him to be deported on or before his release.
We wouldn't expect him to have been allowed into the asylum system in the first place...
The judge noted that DPD's ability to check on Stratan's credentials had been diluted because he was working through two sub-contractors.
And the country's ability to check on chancers, grifters and wrong 'uns coming in? What's diluted that?
This is the second of the two Zeppelin anthems, both technically brilliant songs, as well as being powerfully atmospheric, their theme ambivalent ... after all, you know words can have two meanings.
Inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, (it) centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism. Paul Giovanni composed the film score.
Now I'll have to go in to bat for the pagans here ... that's false history, the pagans preceded Christianity, unless you accept Blake's Jerusalem literally. December 25th was initially pagan. However, let's press on:
Howie, a devout Christian, is disturbed to find the Islanders paying homage to the pagan Celtic gods of their ancestors. They copulate openly in the fields, include children as part of the May Day celebrations, teach children of the phallic association of the maypole, and place toads in their mouths to cure sore throats. The islanders appear to be trying to thwart his investigation by claiming that Rowan (the gorgeous girlchild, now Britt Ekland) never existed.
Uh huh. Now to certain motifs which come up in the song further down:
While staying at the Green Man Inn, Howie notices a series of photographs celebrating the annual harvest, each featuring a young girl as the May Queen.
What is the very thing which PD has been on about since the beginning, well before this blog? What theme?
Now to Stairway to Heaven itself, a quite ambivalent theme ... after all, you know words can have two meanings.
Firstly, I went through many reactors to the song, ostensibly heard for the first time.
Criteria for me were firstly ... the reactor did not keep stopping and starting the song in order to rabbit on and on ... secondly, that it was not the live version but the original ... thirdly, that the lyrics were showing so our readers could follow them.
Of the dozen or so, I came down to a shortlist of four (to the left here) and they were interesting in themselves.
The white American kid was sadly a product of today's education, plus he had that white male imperviousness to all bar laughter and anger. The black bro from the hood ... he felt it deep, man ... his reaction was perhaps best, but no lyrics.
The white opera singer was ok but she was all about voice and not lyrics. The black gal I've run before was all emotion, as Zeppelin intended ... the lyrics weaving a web around her ... she felt the emotion but at the end, was nonplussed by the meaning, whatever that might be. Hers is the version I'm using, the analytical ones not on the shortlist all hovered around the meaning.
One girl latched onto the "in the end, there are two paths, you can always change your path, it's never too late, as Steppenwolf sang." Ah, but that's the other side's way, and Zeppelin made no secret of the out of control, destructive, do as thou wilt, womanising life, rampaging locusts.
Contrast their reality, their real life behaviour, ever and ever darker, with the pagan idyll behind the lyrics in the box, the peace and love, refugees welcome, tree hugging gaia primary colours, which a Christian might be churlish enough to call a trap for the unwary. Look at that idyll, and then at real life Zeppelin. Look at the Antifa rhetoric and framing ... and then at their actual behaviour.
Also consider this:
And this:
Or variations on that theme. That's a very Christian motif, as well as that of any sane thinker who sees what's of value in the world ... and what ultimately lies on no more than the whispering wind, almost dust in the wind.
There are two paths and which do humans unerringly choose?
Now, technically ... Zeppelin were most talented composers, with Plant's voice an extra instrument, the earlier post and some other reactors pointed out that Plant relied on Jones, who relied on Bonham, with Page controlling the whole. Love em or hate em, they were an amazing band, I was too young to appeciate this ... until a classical musician analysed every part of their composition Kashmir and I saw just how good they were.
Once again, there are two paths ... you can use your talent for good ... or go the other way.
....over a proposed NHS contract they say fails to pay them enough to see patients.
Well, since they haven't fully got back to seeing patients, why should they expect to be paid?
The doctors’ union claimed the rates on offer do not take account of inflation – and vowed to take industrial action if the Government and NHS England refuse to renegotiate.
They should refuse. Call their bluff.
The NHS is braced for strikes on four days out of five next week, with nurses, ambulance staff and physiotherapists walking out.
This is a concerted effort by unions to bring down the government. It can't really be anything else, can it?
When a politician, or a senior member of that political party, decides on a ‘Long Term Policy’ the first thing which comes to mind is the question; “Has he done his homework?” My white hair and silver beard denote my age, which also goes for the number of politicians, as well as parties, which have crossed my ageing sightlines. And, you’ve guessed it, the number of times that the answer to my original query is “No. He hasn’t even scraped the snow off the ground,” is, well; forever escalating.
For a prime example, a politician who is extremely well known for ‘policy statements’ is the well known serial adulterer, liar, multiple illegal (Lockdown) party-attendee and would-be comedian who goes by the name of Boris Johnson. His Election manifesto was fuelled by a claim that he would be spearheading a major shift in policy, which would ennoble the very weird (but possibly very well-meaning) ideology known as Net Zero by 2050. This strange ideal calls for the United Kingdom to remove, by force if necessary, the sacred cow of burning anything which produces the gas known as Carbon Dioxide. He has expanded upon this ideal by stating that petrol- and diesel-fuelled vehicles will be banned from sale by 2030.
At the same time as pushing these strange ideals, which will cost British people some £11 trillions to achieve these pie-in-sky ideals, inclusive of banning all gas boilers for heating your home by 2035; he has also pushed the whole idea of Electric Vehicles. Now my own son has an EV, and pretty smart it is. He gets an average of 240 miles-per charge, (a fair bit less during winter, because the battery don’t like the cold). He started of being lyrical about not being a fossil-burner any more, and how cheap it was to charge, and how he didn’t have to pay road tax. As he said these words, some two years ago, I smiled to myself, thinking, again to myself, that he was young, very young in terms of experience, especially when it came to politicians, policies and their promises.
Going back to the liar Boris, his time as Prime Minister, and also to this strange idea that he could turn GB&NI on its head, change the whole industrial lifeline of personal and industrial transportation, just by stating “This is what we’ll do.” Readers will note that No Actual Parliamentary Legislation, to follow up on this crass idea of changing our very way of life by the banning of petrol and diesel vehicles, has ever been even rumoured, not by the Tory party, certainly not by the more level-headed Labour Party; possibly by the Green-ies, but who gives two shits about them. The tiny bunch of loud-mouthed Lords’ members headed by the moronic Lord Deben, (he of the burger being force-fed to his unfortunate daughter at the time of Mad Cow Disease) are always foaming at the mouth about CO2 and all the other superheated bullshit which courses through what passes for their veins, but you don’t find many even moderately aware politicians mentioning the fact that if GB&NI removed all CO2 from our atmosphere, the three largest contributors of CO2, namely China, India and America aren’t doing any nearly as stupid as GB&NI.
Again that question: “Has he done his homework?” Nope, he didn’t even think about what was needed. There are 37,851 publicly available charge points in the whole of GB&NI. How many are actually needed, to comply with both car, public transport and haulage vehicle needs? Over 400,000. The Government reckons on 300,000 by 2030. I calculate they are running late by around 250,000 just by their numbers, not by actual numbers.
I return to my son, and his precious EV. When he first got it, he was working locally, and never had to worry about charging anywhere else except his home. He had the occasional trip away to the Midlands, and then had a fair stretch working away, and then found out some of the many hiccups when your source of transport depends upon electricity, instead of petrol or diesel. At any time, a third of the chargers are out of service, for a multitude of reasons, one of the main ones being that they all depend on the Internet to be able to charge up. If the ‘App’ doesn’t work, or isn’t compatible with the car, you are just out of luck. Many EV owners are just beginning to realise that they are faced with a whole new set of problems, just because they thought that things would be cheaper by EV. And then the Ukraine thingy happened, and the cost of electricity rocketed; so what do the people who fit, supply and run the various charging networks do? Their charges rocket as well: so much so that my son reckons it is more expensive now to run an EV than a fossil-burning car! And then the final branch broke, when the Government decided that they were losing too much cash by not charging for Road tax on EVs, and in a year or two’s time, bang goes that saving as well.
As my philosophy has been for the past six-odd decades, never trust what politicians say, only examine what they really achieve.
Another company to boycott. Steak and sausages will soon have to make way for tofu and soy. Lidl supermarket chain wants to focus more on vegan instead of animal products in the future.
That's significant as we're running out of stores to patronise but it also highlights the true horror of our situation ... namely that even if we do boycott the bstds, there are three things militating against "go Woke go broke":
a. We are only 10% to 25%, which does not send stores broke ... and they know that.
b. There is the convenience factor. Don't discount that if a certain store is part of your regular visiting pattern, it's hellish difficult to now cease that, esp. as the alternatives are, frankly, awkward.
c. The vast majority of normies are blissfully unaware, even if bugs are listed in the ingredients.
Phantom Digger added:
I heard during the week that Tesco is closing the deli counters in all their stores. 2,000 layoffs. Everything now pre-packaged.
If the layoffs include butchers then some of them should think about starting up their own shops or getting together with others to bring back the local butchers shops as in the old days before the supermarkets put them all out of business.
Lidl's meat is already limited. Only good for poultry. They will 'woke' their profits away over here. Tofu will emasculate the male pop, which is probably the intended consequence - end up with man-tits like Gates of Hell.
I suppose we have to look about and listen to the grapevine for local outlets ... I see a white van economy forming, a rogue economy until they send the troops in to stop it.
In one sense, the problem is an old one. To work in a newsroom is to be exposed to intense and continuous dishonesty.
The dissimulation comes in various forms: spin, outright lying, misleading but true facts, half-truths, quarter-truths, lack of context, sly exaggeration, selective amnesia, deceptive jargon, false statistics, sleazy personal attacks. After about a year any journalist with reasonable powers of observation will notice that they are working in a forest of lies.
There is no legal obligation for people talking to the media to tell the truth, but decent journalists attempt to counter the mendacity. Although they are always outgunned, they put up a fight in an attempt to present as much truth as possible.
That fight has all but disappeared.
Yes indeed. The tricks of the MSM trade are then posted and discussed in the article ... I'm going to f fwd past that and turn the spotlight onto us, the soc-media writers, whether on blog or tweet or gab. Sooner or later, by a process of attrition, being caught out by scams, by trolls, by all of that ... we learn the ropes ... or should. If not, then there's scarcely any point.
Meanwhile, the previously Woke (or just MSM fed normies) wake up one by one ... it almost never goes the other way and that's where longtimers in this blogging game have an issue.
What of those newcomers who have genuinely broken the spell, people such as Naomi Wolf, former feminazi ... or those who claim they have, such as Tulsi Gabbard? What should our attitude be towards new allies?
Caution, I'd say, with a welcoming smile, knowing there is many a trap laid.
And it's a minefield, with the most ridiculous stances by the bad side. In that first Trump debate v Clinton, the Demrat adjudicator was trying on this "factchecker" bollox, earpiece in ear ... the rules stated that neither candidate could go outside to consult during the break and yet Clinton had "special dispensation" to do just that and footage showed her consulting ... etc. etc.
Now watch the flat denial that that happened. Watch carefully anyone at all, e.g. Snopes or Politico or Real Clear Politics and the claim to be "impartial", with no a priori political convictions whatever. It's an out and out lie.
I occasionally quote Sir Norman Anderson, in Lawyer Among Theologians, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1973, p15, about the quality of the criticism of so-called intellectuals:
"At times [I am] astonished by the way in which they handle their evidence, by the presuppositions and a priori convictions with which some of them clearly (and even, on occasion, on their own admission) approach the documents concerned, and by the positively staggering assurance with which they make categorical pronouncements on points which are, on any showing, open to question, and on which equally competent colleagues take a diametrically opposite view."
As I wrote in a post elsewhere this morning ... follow the money ... this was Deep Throat's dictum to Woodward in All the President's Men but a bit of thought and we'd add "immunity from payout" plus "immunity from prosecution" as powerful motivators to lie, to act shoddily.
A far safer way is to accept that everyone is biased, at least a little, we dig and find what we said, then what they said, then consult the folders of snippets we picked up over the years and form an initial opinion. Meanwhile, organisations with heavy motivation due to all the factors listed are quite onesided, whilst stubbornly claiming to be unbiased.
How will normies ever catch up with the liars both in MSM and plants in soc-med? Sadly, only when events catch up with them. So far, mainly Pfizer has been under the hammer, now and then Moderna, today at the Daily Sceptic it was AstraZeneca. It's just a question of time until Hancock, for one, is nailed.
