The Committee accepts that Chinese influence and interference activities may be difficult to detect, but questions whether the Government has even been looking in the first place. “China’s size, ambition and capability have enabled it to successfully penetrate every sector of the UK’s economy,” it states.
The nine-member committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Julian Lewis MP, began its inquiry in 2019 and is scathing about the Government’s failure to wake up to the challenges faced in academia, industry and technology, where the U.K. has been too willing to engage in tie-ups and to accept Chinese funding with few questions asked. The Chinese intelligence apparatus is almost certainly the largest in the world, and “it targets the U.K. and its interests prolifically and aggressively”, the report states.
Sunday, 16 July 2023
The race to take over western nations
Friday, 14 July 2023
Stop 'Warning' And Start Fining!
Banks are to be warned by ministers that they must protect free speech as increasing numbers of customers are having their accounts closed for holding allegedly controversial views.
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is reportedly 'deeply concerned' that lenders are blacklisting customers they are deemed to hold contrary political beliefs and social values.
And is he prepared to actually do anything? Well, he's prepared to consider it, at least...
A Treasury source told the Daily Telegraph: 'It is absolutely a concern. No one should have their bank account denied on the grounds of freedom of expression. We expect to take action on this issue within weeks.'
What action? Hold another meeting? Send a stong letter of condemnation? Admit that this has been brewing under your noses for a long time?
What's that, Reader? You're surprised? You thought it was new? Oh no. It's EU legislation that hasn't been junked when we junked the EU.
The term defines anyone with a 'prominent public function' and originates in a 1987 initiative against corruption and money laundering launched by the G7 group of leading economies. This was designed to make banks and other financial institutions subject any PEP to intense scrutiny when setting up accounts — on the grounds that by reason of their public position they presented a much higher risk for potential involvement in corruption and money laundering than the man or woman in the street.
And, as we all know, give some people power and they will wield it in ways you never thought possible.
The PEP system came into force in this country under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, which referred to people with a prominent public position 'other than [in] the United Kingdom'. In other words, identifying powerful people from various highly corrupt nations, where political power and bribery went together like eggs and bacon. But the financial institutions here immediately applied it to members of our own Parliament — even though this did not become mandatory until the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. And not just them, but their immediate family — which, typically, include the PEP's 'parents, siblings, spouse, children, in-laws, grandparents and grandchildren'.
And all our legislative government was asleep at the switch while they did it. Or...were they?
Is it possible they knew exactly what was going on? And were content because they never thought it'd affect them?
To all true French
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Across the ditch, the "love the people" shtick begins
There are two main topics over at NOWP 386:1 ... the BBC schemozzle, plus Micron of course.
Looking at Micron first:
On April 17, Emmanuel Macron announced the start of “a hundred days of appeasement”, intended to heal the fractures in French society after the pension reform. A journey strewn with pitfalls, with a more than uncertain outcome.
So, entangled in the political slump caused by the pension reform, the head of state needed a new lease of life. Since January, opponents of pension reform, by the millions, had pounded the pavement. After a reform adopted in Parliament by force, thanks to article 49-3, the social pressure cooker does not seem to be going down.
At the end, Emmanuel Macron is trying to turn a page and open a new political “sequence”: he announces the start of “a hundred days of appeasement”, intended to mend the fractures of French society and breathe new life into its mandate.
The Head of State wants to flee inaction, “no immobility”. He sends his ministers to criss-cross France, multiply announcements, promote government action loud and clear.
What to take from that? Well firstly, for me, the utter cynicism by the "oppress by the manual" globohonchos "advising" him, from their drawing rooms, secure in their safety and reaching for their Alinsky, Machiavelli and other manuals, in that most Teutonic way or perhaps referring, Clemenceau like, to the superior elan of the French ... Micron leaning fwd eagerly lapping it up ...
And they say get out there, meet the people, they'll forget all their woes, show yourself ... their leader of action in your finery ... the people lap up pageantry and the leader deigning to sort of acknowledge them ... being of superior caste to the French, he need not do so of course, except to avert revolution.
And sadly, so many French and every other western nationality caught up in celeb culture do lap up "attention" ... I met one yesterday who was secure in the knowledge that Rishi's doing well, that the ship of state is in good hands ... at precisely the same time he spoke of his wife's operation postponed, plus the phone call from the company denying all responsibility for the accident, he having to work two jobs to make the mortgage repayment, even though Rishi has kept rates so low ... I didn't want to hear any more.
Desperate for things "to be all right", even though they clearly were not ... at this point, a black straight from Africa and a deathculter came by. The first walked arrogantly straight through us, the second stepped around the parked cars onto the road, giving us a wide berth. A third came by, indeterminate but face in a snarl ... big boy, a fighter, must have been from the hostel ... crossed the road to the other side.
Would that I were inventing that for dramatic effect but that was precisely how it happened within about ten minutes flat.
Back to the French ... you know my fear? That they'll all go home later in great excitement ... guess who walked by close to me today? Oh he looked ever so handsome.
As for that BBC paedo or gay, jury's apparently still out at N.O., I'm not personally bothering wi'it ... ah yes, the great sympathy card from the Beeb for the poor soul with mental aberrations.
Meanwhile the slaughter goes on in the Ukraine, paid for, ultimately, by ordinary westerners like you and me.
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Ukronazis love cluster bombs
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/ukraine-used-cluster-bombs-report-charges.html
The Death Of Food Banks...
You know who said this at the start? Yes, Reader, that's right. We did. All of us in the blogosphere, if we still call it that...
In 2016, when the Guardian visited, Bestwood and Bulwell kept its stock of food in one shipping container; it now has four. Food donations now cover just a third of the demand; increasingly they have to raise money to buy in food. “There has been an assumption that there’s a magic food tree but we are all getting a wake-up call,” he says.
There's no magic anything tree. If you hand out free anything you can expect demand to rise.
Daphine Aikens set up London’s first food bank, in Hammersmith and Fulham, in 2010. She quit as its manager in 2021 on medical advice after a stress-related illness brought on by endless 12-hour days. “If I had known in 2010 what it [the food bank] would turn out to be I would never have done it,” she says. “I’m glad I did it. But I would have been horrified by what it has become. I thought the solutions would have been found, the issues would be sorted.”
Why did you think that, though?
First Love focused on people’s lack of income. This could be benefit problems, lack of a job, health issues, or inability to access disability benefits. First Love had pioneered advice workers in its food bank. Bentley decided to focus the charity’s energies entirely on the advice: out went the food; in came a service devoted 100% to support and advocacy.
First Love could spend £6,000 on food parcels to try and keep people afloat, says Bentley, or it could employ two advisers for a month to transform the lives of 50 people.
Is there not already a plethora of advice from government, both main and local, then? Why would you need 'advisers' to interpret it for them?
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Cows
Manu Mac considering Potager Tax i.e. taxing vegetable gardens:
{Good luck with that pal!}
Lots of farming and related books here.. most are either not for sale anymore or are very expensive..
Here are a few lines from ''Slaughtered on Suspicion'' (a film of the 2001 Foot & Mouth Disease):
Deer roam in the same areas that the livestock grazed -- deer are cloven footed animals and are susceptible to foot and mouth -- but the government did nothing to control the deer, leading many to think that the disease was not the target -- but the farming industry itself.''
''It's the incredulity wot duz em in, guv''...
Monday, 10 July 2023
Roman Catholic Nuns, a sewer in the Irish Republic; and the Nazi Holocaust
The human condition, and indeed human nature, conditions us to be ashamed, to be horrified, sometimes to be appalled; and then, to move on. When Neville Chamberlain’s slow, monotone voice caught the attention of a listening Nation, as he stated that our Country was going to stand by its Treaty obligations, and was therefore declaring war upon Nazi Germany, he could not have imagined that the policies of the British Government, in declaring war upon a confident, highly-organised and -armed Germany because of a Treaty with Poland: would allow the uncovering of the greatest crime in modern human recorded history.
In the early days of Nazi Germany, very few people in Germany knew of the plans for the systematic murder of people, just because they were Jewish. As the war raged on, very few outside onlookers knew of the huge pressures placed upon the infrastructure of the Nazi war machine, which took entire railway systems away from the Generals who needed their fuel, ammunition and indeed armies to come to terms with the vastness of Soviet Russia: because those same trains were allocated instead to the death camps.
Some rumours, some whispered news began to filter out of the incredible (to people who believed that the Nazis were just orchestrating their ideals of Lebensraum) activities, where, instead of supporting an ever-expanding war of conquest, vast amounts of treasure were being spent building camps, and railway access to those camps, which did not make any sense, that is in terms of any normal occupying army. Those rumours, that campaign to try and get the Allies to understand that something very strange, very dangerous, was being put into operation in the conquered lands, where the Nazis ruled without any opposition at all.
The Establishment, in both Great Britain and in the United States were, to put it mildly, less than enthusiastic about Jews coming out of conquered Europe, and trying to gain access as refugees. The anti-semitism was veiled, but it was there. The MS St Louis, a cruise liner laden with Jewish families all desperately seeking asylum, were prevented from disembarking in Cuba; and all the passengers were told that the Refugee Quota in the USA had been filled, and they were not welcome. The liner returned to European waters where they were taken in, indeed grudgingly, by Britain, France and Belgium. But the only country not invaded by the Nazis was Great Britain, and out of the 937 refugees, 650 survived, and the rest went straight to the death camps.
The true nature of the camps, and the truth of the use of the railways in supporting the nature of those camps, was not uncovered until the Soviet Army began liberating and broadcasting the truth about the Nazi death machinery, about the sickening architectural significance of the sealed ‘shower rooms’ where no water was piped in, and the engineering excellence of the vast crematoriums built purely for that ‘Final Solution’. I wrote and indeed spoke about this during the campaign to stop the so-called Holocaust Memorial, to be excavated and built adjacent to Parliament. That campaign succeeded, but only through the Appeal and High Courts.
But, in reality, today I do not write about the genocide of eighty-odd years ago, instead I speak of a small village in the Republic of Ireland. Tuam was where the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home sat, run by nuns from the Bon Secours order. But before I speak of the unutterably sad facts resulting from the ‘iron rule’ of those sisters, I would remind those who watch of the sad truth that the word of the Church was Law to believers, and God’s spokesmen spoke on many issues, and the various Irish Governments allowed the Church great leeway in the manner in which it operated. Its charities, its schools and educational establishments were given preference, its teachings, especially around contraception and abortion, still carried a great deal of weight in the Republic until the real Truth became known about the real ’Invisible Government’ of that Republic
But, back to Tuam, and the Industry, yes; the Deadly Industry which grew because most young Irish girls knew little to nothing about their bodies, how they work; and the fact that most schools were Roman Catholic schools, and sex education was, literally, non-existent. The Tuam sisters based the ‘help’ given to the many pregnant girls and young women around the statement that to give birth outside of wedlock was a mortal sin, the children were the product of those ‘sins’, and they were no longer the illegitimate offspring of young women, but a ‘commodity’ to be used and abused as those supposed ‘Brides of Christ’ saw fit. There were no true obstetric medical facilities at St. Mary’s, to aid the health of the hundreds of infants born into that obscenity masquerading as a charitable maternity hospital, the strong and healthy survived; the weak and struggling infants were literally cast aside, and left to their fate.
But worse was to follow. Those babies who survived were literally marketed to the absurdly wealthy Catholic communities of America, and that trade was indeed supported by the Catholic Irish Bishops, to the extent that formal adoption papers were issued with no questions asked, because who, in those days, could question the actions of an Order of Nuns who were doing the ‘Work of the Lord’? As for those infants who were left behind, a gruesome fate was in order; when an infant died, no notification was made or written, and those sad remains were dumped into the sewers, with absolutely no records kept of those who had survived, just to be dumped once dead.
Those who read this post might reject my comparisons of the actions of a Catholic Charity operating in the Irish Republic, with the vile outcomes of Nazi Germany, Hitler and the Holocaust; but I believe that the mindless, murderous atrocities carried out by the Nazis within their Concentration Camps, where the deaths of six million and more human beings were indeed reduced to mere statistics presented to Himmler, are as one with the actions of a group of so-called Catholic nuns who couldn’t even dignify the callous dumping of 796 babies and children’s bodies into a sewer with a simple religious service, because they didn’t want to be reminded that what they were doing was both illegal and immoral.
You Know What, I'm Actually OK With This...
She told ITV's Good Morning Britain that the Government had 'no immediate plans' to impose fines but 'it is not ruled out for the future'.
Ms Caulfield, a former nurse, said there was a 'good argument for it and we are not ruling it out for the future but it is not something that we have got on the table right now'.
Asked if the policy could be in the next Tory manifesto, she replied: 'Potentially, yes.'
That's the strong, decisive Tory government we've come to know and love!
...the idea triggered a backlash from the health sector.
Wait, what? Aren't they always complaining about no-shows?
The British Medical Association said that fines for missed appointments would 'not only undermine the essential trust between doctor and patient (Ed: stop laughing at the back!), but ultimately threaten the fundamental principle that the NHS delivers free care at the point of need, for all'.
But no-shows don't generate any care, do they? And if they don't turn up, maybe they didn't need it...
The NHS Confederation said the bureaucratic costs of the plan 'could well far outweigh the money brought in by the fines'.
The NHS complaining about 'bureaucratic costs' would be laughable, if only I was capable of laughing anymore...
Sunday, 9 July 2023
Will these irresponsible monsters ever be brought to justice?
It was not just the ongoing vaccine adverse events, not just the stupidity of the masks and six foot distances beyond which the virus was taught never to go … it was the coercion, the ostracism of sane people who smelled a rat early on by karens (that word in its worst connotation was born).
Not just the sight of an armed officer confronting a mother and children on a beach, not just the concentration camps the Northern Territory govt was desperate to herd people into nor NYC’s care home scandal, not just the nightingale concentration camps here, at taxpayer expense … it was the utter insanity but in the case of decision makers … either negligent or criminal insanity.
And still the bstds are doubling down now, trying to roll out malaria this time, while still at large Midazolam Matt grins on.
Isolated from the rest of the world, the Australian state of Western Australia (WA) managed to keep Covid out for most of 2021. During that time, almost four million doses of Covid vaccine were administered to the population. WA’s vaccine safety surveillance report for 2021 has just been released and the results are grim: an ‘exponential increase’ in adverse events, with hospitals struggling to cope.
At the outset of the Covid vaccine rollout in Australia in February 2021, Health Minister Greg Hunt told ABC Insiders, “The world is engaged in the largest clinical trial, the largest global vaccination trial ever.”
Indeed, never before had billions of people been injected with vaccines that were still in the trial phase and had only been provisionally approved.