Killing the elderly

Wasn't sure where to run this ... across the way or at OoL.  Because of our Grandpa here, let it be here.

Rolf (Sackerson) has written a chilling post:

https://rolfnorfolk.substack.com/p/our-dying-rooms

Is it incompetence or is it official policy for hospitals to kill the old?

Actually, not just the old. Long pre-Covid times, the wife of a friend of mine contracted an infection and was taken to hospital. When her husband got there he found her unattended and untubed in bed (this was when hospitals had beds.) She needed fluids to flush out the toxins, but had nothing and the nurses seemed unable or unwilling to do anything and there was no doctor in sight.

More at the end of that link.

The vital importance of the definite article, geopolitically

 Zelensky threatening the American people for not paying enough:

In the Russian language, there are no articles “the” and “a(n)”.  Therefore, in any translation into English, e.g. book, meal, road, the article needs to be inserted to precede the noun.

In the Russian language and also in the Ukrainian, the word root is (transliterated) “u krai-enya” or “at the edge”, perhaps “on the edge”.  It means at the edge or border with Russia or historically, the edge of the land of the tribe Russ, Kiev being the parent city. 

In the very name is the geopolitical situation.  In both languages, the translation is the same into English … the Ukraine.

Zelensky though, installed puppet of 2014, found it politically expedient to do as the CIA and NATO wished him to when speaking in English and call it without “the”, meaning  a western-aligned new nation (Timoshenko etc.)  However two regions in the east are majority Russian speaking, plus they sit on the remaining natural resources. And they translate it as “the Ukraine”.

Thus, if you are aligned with the CIA, Washington, NATO and the Ukrainian fascist organisations such as Azov battalion, then you’ll drop “the”.  If your sympathy is more for the Russian stance on the matter, you’d use “the”.

No Doubt Lockdown Will Be Blamed For The Delays...

 Boy, don't those wheels of justice grind slowly...for some?

A coroner who bullied staff and lost sensitive documents about murder of a schoolgirl on a train has been sacked.

Don't rush to judgement, eh? 

Chinyere Inyama was dismissed from his position after an investigation was carried out into claims he misled the Chief Coroner.

The controversial coroner has been the centre of several scandals since he was appointed in 2013, including in 2014 when he left a sensitive police document about the murder of 14-year-old Alice Gross on a train.

Screw with the public, no-one seems to care much. But mislead the Chief Coroner? That's a no-no, even if you do hold a RaceCard™... 

The vastly funded "fact check" industry

Consider, dear reader:

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/fact-check-fact-checkers-falsely-claim-they-are-fact-checkers

It would be a herculean effort for the conservative movement to scale up anything close to the left’s fact-check industry. The mainstream media, social media, and most other media channels have pretty much been captured by the left already.

And to be honest, conservatives are less apt to spend their days churning out clickbait for use in Twitter warfare. It’s a tactic much more in vogue with the self-righteous left, who can’t imagine that anything but its preferred policy is the scientific truth above all else, despite what the actual truth may be.

Much credit can be given to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who endlessly called for fact checks during her debate with then-candidate Donald Trump. When you aren’t winning a policy debate, it’s much easier to appeal to a supposedly “third party” judge who is on your team already.

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/taking-a-closer-look-at-snopes-and-debunking-the-debunkers

Note very well that Clinton didn’t simply say that she wanted laws to be enacted and enforced even if religious believers disagreed with them. She went much further and specifically said that religious beliefs—and by extension the believers—have to change. Make no mistake, Clinton and her confrères have in mind a worldwide mission of “religious reform.”

Snopes:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/snopes-suspends-co-founder-mass-plagiarism-staff-revolts

Firstly, they're accused, not of false debunking, the real claim, but of a side issue. The article's been archived but in a post at N.O. in March, 2021, I quoted the article:

Five years later, and Mikkelson's just been suspended by Snopes after BuzzFeed uncovered massive plagiarism - including instructing other Snopes writers to 'cut-and-paste' mainstream breaking news stories without attribution, and then alter them after the fact.

Then we get into Factcheckdotcom ... one of many supposed "fact check" services, all funded by someone not stated and they got stuck into a Daily Mail article, which in my eyes is shoddy anyway, going off at tangents and not nailing Mikkelson for outright unsupported declarations of "false".

At this point, I'm inserting in this post my own claim that the antiWoke are often lazy in their digging, not comprehensive, easily bored and not willing to follow through and then archive. Just the DM gap between the article and comments is filled with huge, lurid adverts but if you do spend time in comments beyond commenters just chorusing the "Snopes are leftwing fraudsters" trope with no facts to back it up, a really dispiriting response, upon which the left can immediately say, "Aha, there's the quality of rightwing debate," and on the strength of that article, they have a case for saying that.

Until we get to one commenter midway:

I emailed them at snopes one day when they had an article denying purina dog food was poisoning dogs. They responded that I was incorrect so I replied and attached a jpeg of my check from the class action suit that purina paid out. They never responded.

But even there, he has no facility, in a controlled comments section, to run that jpeg.

Sometimes though, a serious site gives chapter and verse on shoddy "fact checking", e.g. today's Daily Sceptic:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/22/fact-checker-disseminates-misinformation-about-vaccines/

... and immediately, the issue of nailing the bastards, the Herculean task, the need for resources and database we unherdable cats simply do not have ... which if you read throught that, they do seem to nail ... is a small victory on a peripheral issue, major to Toby but minor to the world.  And what will now happen to Toby's post? Well, if you yourself archive the url, it's something I suppose, but hardly earth-shattering.

I myself can be accused, by myself, of lazy archiving and filing, despite a legit counter claim that N.O. has been taken down four times and though I do have, somewhere, on a stick, something on Snopes, it's not retrievable.

Why not?  Because I'm one man only, of a certain increasingly mentally doddery age, as are most on this side of politics now, who is actually running a blog or two daily, which requires my attention on that.  Julia here has her own blog, full time work, p,us a homelife.  In short, we're not set up, as funded "fact check" sites are, with the database access they have.

They win, if only through the vast organisational capacity and narrative capture of hearts and minds. Example?  Rewriting Roald Dahl, right at this moment. At least we were outraged enough to post posts on it showing how the revisionists had altered Dahl's texts.

Now what everyone should be doing is at least keeping a copy on file of that comparative jpeg of the alteration, in order, five years from now, to have something to point to.  Frankly, this is a young person's game, polit-blogging ... but where are these required young people?

They're on Twitter and Gab with the 140 character limits, not researching but simply retweeting and liking.2

Lazy.

No, say the young ... we have families, jobs, home renovations, driving the kids here and there, football, there's so little time. 

Well, I counter ... how come Snopes and so many others can find the time?

Answer ... they're funded to research fulltime.  Look at Media Matters, Demos, Information Awareness ... they appear, fully funded, do their damage, disappear and new ones appear.  Are any individual young people in their 30s and 40s in such a position?  Of course not.

And finally in this post, the very fact that I have spent an hour and a half finding urls for the post is a vital hour and a half I've not spent on N.O., plus the email load of the morning.  The good side is that we at least have three or four people sending material, which keeps us ticking over. And Julia?  She sticks to her rails and keeps on ticking over too.

So, given all the aforementioned, how can we moan that the globo Woke left have captured the narrative and the hearts and minds of the population, when so few on our side are doing the hard yards?

Plus look at the length of this post itself. Anyone still with me here?

Always Finding The Cloud In The Silver Lining...

During the past few years, we have witnessed a revolution in working life. When home working became more common during the Covid pandemic, many assumed this would be a temporary change. Yet according to data released this week by the Office for National Statistics, between September 2022 and January 2023, 16% of the workforce still worked solely from home, while 28% were hybrid workers who split their time between home and the office.

Hurrah, the 'Guardian' has found a success st...

Oh, wait! 

But what the data makes starkly clear is that the working from home revolution has not touched everyone’s lives equally. The ONS survey found that workers on salaries of more than £50,000, people with degrees, Londoners and white people had the highest rates of home or hybrid working – and were less likely to be required to go in every day.

So..? Isn't that a function of the jobs they tend to be concentrated in, more than anything else? 

There are many people working in the service, care and transportation sectors, for instance, who can’t work from home at all.

Well, yes.  

Overall, though, this revolution could change work and our lives outside work for the better – but to do so, it must be accessible to more than just the highest paid, most privileged workers.

How do you plan to allow a black Northern plumber to work from home to balance it out then? 

In the end, the faceless ones get to everyone

The story breaking just now:

O'Keefe says he's packing his personal belongings and no longer has a job at Project Veritas following the board's actions. "I don't have the answers to why they've been doing this...but I'm confident those reasons will come to light."

Time for anyone following veritas to unfollow them.

Continued:

Sorry but I do feel that James is making a tactical error here.  Apart from the egregious toads who did it, there are good staff too. He feels for them, ergo he hesitates to go … just as the toads are counting on.

Thus he’s locked into an organisation we’ve stopped following. If he posts under the Veritas banner now, he is compromised. Someone needs to take him aside and explain this.

There's Something Toxic In London, All Right...

But it's not the air, it's something that rhymes with 'air'...

A scheme charging some motorists £12.50 a day to drive in London to cut air pollution has been accused of using data that is ‘complete nonsense’. In an open letter to those opposing his plans, Mr Khan said toxic air led to the premature deaths of 4,000 Londoners each year. He said: ‘Research by Imperial College London shows Bromley has the highest premature deaths linked to air pollution with an estimated 204 lives lost in 2019.’

Ah, really? 

But Bromley Council leader Colin Smith said the study commissioned by City Hall ‘chose to ignore Bromley’s much older population profile’.He said many elderly residents spent ‘their younger years in inner London experiencing the smogs and smoke-filled pubs of yesteryear’. He added: ‘It is complete nonsense.’

Like anything spouted by this jumped up little popinjay.  

Around 4,000 Londoners die prematurely every year as a result of poor quality air, with those in Outer London some of the most vulnerable due to their age and therefore hardest hit. ‘Sadiq refuses to sit back and do nothing when lives are being lost and urges these local authorities to support his plans to bring cleaner air to every Londoner - wherever they live in the capital.’

Then if you really believe this, why are you telling motorists 'It's OK, pay £12.50 and you can suffocate kiddies with your exhaust all day long!'..? 

A forgotten man, but One who should be remembered for one Magic Declaration

As I wrote some sixteen years ago:-

In retrospect, Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, was a disaster on wheels for America, his foreign policy strategies, among which was the removal of support for the Shah of Iran, thus helping place Khomeini and the mullahs in charge, and the signing away of the Panama Canal to a bunch of low-level criminals and drug-runners. 

But the one shining item in his portfolio was his acclaim of ‘Human Rights’, not the wishy-washy union- and liberal-friendly crap which is so loved by the European Union, but the real package, the freedom to worship, even if it’s a mish-mash of ideas like Falun Gong; the freedom to congregate, even in a place like Tiananmen Square and talk about honest reform of government; the freedom to say “get stuffed” to a uniformed bully; the freedoms laid down by the United Nations in 1948, but have long since been either forgotten or misplaced.

He said in 1997, during a Foreign Policy speech,

“The great democracies are not free because we are strong and prosperous. I believe we are strong and influential and prosperous because we are free. Throughout the world today, in free nations and in totalitarian countries as well, there is a preoccupation with the subject of human freedom, human rights. And I believe it is incumbent on us in this country to keep that discussion, that debate, that contention alive. No other country is as well-qualified as we to set an example. We have our own shortcomings and faults, and we should strive constantly and with courage to make sure that we are legitimately proud of what we have.”

We learn this morning that Carter has taken, sensibly, the decision to refuse all further medical intervention for his illnesses; his family has stated that he will be receiving ‘hospice care’ at home, as he lives out his final days. 

His Presidency ended in ignominy, with the Iran Embassy hostages only freed some thirty minutes after Ronald Reagan took the Oath of Office.

Carter spent the rest of his years working for charities he had helped sustain. He gave few political interviews, preferring to live out his years with his wife in seclusion.

The gainsaying trolls

The tactics used by gainsayers are both simple and far-reaching, comprehensive. There are gameplans they invariably follow.

For example, a genuine pundit calling out miscreants over inconvenient truths gets the marginalisation first.   So Mark Steyn gets shunted off GB News as unpalatable for M25 bubble eyes and ears … they like their “truths” in more respectable form within the three wise monkeys bubble.  Lively debate over an approved, narrow range of topics, everyone happy, boat rockers marginalised.

Private Eye’s anonymous ‘MD’ has written an article in the magazine this week about what’s behind the recent excess deaths and whether the vaccines could be involved. For a mainstream piece on the topic it’s unusually polite and balanced – it refrains from any scoffing or offhand dismissal, though naturally rules out vaccines as unlikely.

I just look at that and shake my head sadly.  For a start … even considering Hislop’s Woke left rag as a “mainstream piece” is risible and reveals all Will Jones’s and Toby Young’s limited range of reality in comfy Greater London.

There’s an organisation called VAERS who have been tabulating adverse reactions, there’ve been undertaker shots of the clots, in a phone call I had with the NHS itself in 2021, she was the one introducing the topic, not me. Our site across the way has been listing these adverse events since 2021, we’ve posted pdfs and reports, even from the Lancet … but in piecemeal form, as and when they’ve arisen.

That’s before we even get o the anecdotal.

For example, just imagine one of these gainsayers had seen the posts by Grandpa on his beloved wife and the treatment she’d had … and then this person swoops in and demands, “Proof?”  Anyone losing an elderly loved one to the Hancock lunacy as well … it’s one thing demanding evidence, quite rightly, at which we say, “Posts passim,” but it’s quite another to ride in on a high horse with zero contrary evidence, demanding, “Proof?” In a weaponised fashion.

Especially with the campaigns of suppression going on, e.g. the same treatment now given to Dr. Simone Gold that was given to Mark Steyn, that was given to James O’Keefe … and what of Julian Assange by the way?  They wait till all mention dies away, then quietly extradite to the very people he exposed.

There’s a quote on a quite different issue, early dating of the bible … no, I’m not bringing religion into it, I’m bringing in shoddy scholasticism which applies right across society, esp. in the judiciary:

Sir Norman Anderson, describing himself as "an academic from another discipline” who has browsed widely in the writings of contemporary theologians and biblical scholars, wrote in Lawyer Among Theologians, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1973, p15, about the quality of the criticism of the anti-Christian 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."

A perfect example was Brexit when one group of lawyers was quoting English common law and various acts along the way, against EU lawyers who were quoting an entirely different set of acts of their parlmt. There was no middle ground. One lot had might on its side, the realpolitik of 2010, the other was relying on specifically English judicial history.

Broadening this still further, consider those, e.g. on GB news or Gabbard or Hannity, who make all the right noises on things of small consequence, e.g. thundering on about “free speech” or “democracy” as broadly as possible, then quoting dumping Newsmax as a dastardly plot by the PTB … quite ignoring GB News and Steyn or quite ignoring Newsmax’s own censorious style which we’d called out.

It’s a much used tactic, used for example by Breitbart of late … the controlled opposition.  If you want the real opposition at any given time, ferret out the marginalised and mocked, I’d suggest, such as former doctors and nurses who’ve used their names … and then are never heard from again.

It’s no way a zero sum game …

 … forget this rushing into opposed camps at loggerheads, e.g. in JFK in 1963, in which it suddenly became Single Bullet Theory versus collusion.

Will Jones, in the Daily Sceptic mailing this morning, raises more questions than he resolves:

Dr. Engler has argued that “it was the manner in which healthcare was delivered which was relevant to the death rate, not the spread of a virus” and his analysis has been picked up by others. Dr. Jessica Rose has stated that “what has taken place over the past few years is government-assisted termination of our elderly using such tools as the injections themselves, lethal cocktails of respiration depressing drugs upon declaration of ‘Covid positive status’, improper do not resuscitate (DNR) declarations and use and neglect (starvation and dehydration)”.

The crucial words in all of that, indeed in the entire article, are “not the”. It reads as if it’s a zero sum game, an either/or, whereas he himself also quotes:

It’s not based on any single, fallible measure such as PCR testing, but on a host of factors that together build a clear picture.

This post is not specifically about the health thing, as against the climate thing, as against the Ukrainian thing, as against the justice system and so on. I’m looking at this as just one example of the malaise.

For example, were we in a family law court which was deciding on custody and assets, the person presiding is either female or male. Were it to be either a wispy-bearded tree hugger with LBGT leanings … or our Julia … I know which I’d choose straight away for justice and/or fairness.

Which in itself blows open the gender issue, one of my fave topics. No, I’m not arguing that there are more than two biological genders … but I am arguing that there’s more than one factor involved. In A&E with my heart attack, a Spanish lady orderly smiled upon my situation stuck on a trolley, plus the cardio lady was good … I even briefly had a private room … but then the odds took over and my last night before the op was appalling, in the hands of student age nurses never bothering to wander the wards but spending the night shrieking with laughter over whatever was entertaining them in their room.  Someone near me died that night … then they all rushed out, hysterically.

If I’ve rushed to the Anti-Woke label, it’s simply far easier than using left-right, it’s more accurate, easier to focus on the first thing needing to be excised … globo-Wokery … plus it includes former left, former right, plus (genuine) centrists. It’s more useful than using twenty words to describe my stance.  But that doesn’t mean that many issues the Woke latch onto and abuse are not based, originally, on genuine concerns.  They can be.

How does this relate to the health thing? Well it just seems logical to me, personally, to self-isolate, to avoid like the plague medical centres where sickness visits, to avoid supermarkets, to take care of diet and mild exercise, to stay busy, sipping a tonic and lemon concoction now and then, to keep my place reasonably clean (ongoing battle). Without being fanatical about it.

Because health fanaticism, imho, is one of the biggest issues in itself. Nuff for now.