Oh Look, A New Disorder…

The number of people in the UK who have a previously little-known eating disorder, in which those afflicted avoid many foods, has risen sevenfold in five years, figures show. The eating disorders charity Beat received 295 calls about avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (Arfid) in 2018 – comprising 2% of its 20,535 inquiries that year. However, it received 2,054 calls last year, which accounted for one in 10 of its 20,535 requests for help. Many were from children and young people or their parents.

Hardly surprising, mental illness appears to be Britain's sole growth industry these days. 

Arfid is much less well-known than anorexia or bulimia. It is “an eating disorder that rarely gets the attention it deserves”.

I can't help but feel that 'getting attention' is critical here, though maybe not as the experts would have it. 

The disorder can be especially challenging to diagnose because it has such a wide range of symptoms that include:

• Feeling full after eating only a few mouthfuls and struggling to consume more.
• Taking a long time over mealtimes or finding eating a chore.
• Sensitivity to the texture, smell or temperature of foods.
• Eating the same meals repeatedly or eating food only of the same colour, such as beige.

Coincidentally, another 'Guardian' article on the same day has this: 

Young people are more likely to be out of work because of ill health than people in their early 40s, a report calling for action on Britain’s mental wellbeing crisis has found. People in their early 20s with mental health problems may have not had access to a steady education and can end up out of work or in low-paid jobs, the Resolution Foundation research revealed.According to official data, 34% of people aged 18 to 24 reported symptoms of mental disorder, such as depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder in 2021-22. It is a significant increase on the 2000 figure of 24%, with young women one-and-a-half times more likely to be negatively affected.

Shocker, eh? 

The conundrum of censorship

This is more properly an OoL type article, OoL being all about liberty and its limits.  Thing is, it keeps referring to other N.O. items and that in itself shows that such a topic can’t be contained within one post on one site but must bring in all sorts of input.

It skews discussion if posted elsewhere because readers come in, unseasoned in the solutions already proposed and reached and we don’t want to have to go through all that over and over again.  But not running it means it does not broaden its catchment.  Dilemma.

To my mind, it’s not so much the limits themselves but who applies them and for what nefarious reasons … esp. if they become institutionalised, set in rock. In fact everyone wants hardfought victories then set in rock or at a minimum recorded as precedents to be used in law.

To have NO curbs whatever on behaviour produces the situation of personal danger we’re in right now in our own country, esp. for girls and old people.  It is total licence, open slather, do as thou wilt. 

At N.O. today, in MftWC 1 f and g, appears:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-03-01-journalists-warn-of-vast-propaganda-censorship-network.html

Government, mainstream media and nonprofits are part of a “vast censorship network” that suppresses non-establishment perspectives on COVID-19 and a wide range of other topics, according to participants at Monday’s Senate roundtable discussion on “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel.”

(Article by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)

The roundtable, hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson, also focused on vaccine safety and corruption of public health agencies …

… Journalist Lara Logan, formerly of CBS News, told the panel of experts, “These are the worst of times for the media in this country” and warned that we are engaged in a “war for our minds.”

Ain’t that the truth … always has been the case, and in war, what’s the first casualty?  People are not even agreed on who’s fighting whom. We know one side … the ordinary person, the non-political class, the pleb … that side has always been known.

However, even there, many working class people will not concede the middle class who also pay much tax and therefore also fund pensions, services, benefits as being alongside them … and where do tradesmen and women fit into all this?  The self-employed?

We also know that the other side is aspirational, “boy/gal dun wells”, who are promoted beyond their capabilities into positions they should never be in (N.O. 2a today) … addicted to power over others as Richard Nixon observed:

Little people in big jobs.

They’re near universally in thrall to interests, to money, to blackmail, under threat of some kind, flattered by those “above” them.

Solution?  At Gab, the totally unfettered and “free” are now turning savage on Andrew Torba for asking for money to keep Gab afloat. Mind you, there were some awful things going up at Gab, line-crossing things for many people … but who decides on that line?

And is the solution to say to those who want at least civility … tough titty, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen?  That’s also what the drag queens in libraries teach toddlers and rainbow porn is everywhere, esp. in school libraries.

That sort of freedom … is that what we demand?

Then what sort of freedom do we demand?

Sunak and the backlash, part two

This is tweeter June Slater’s reaction to the whole crim clown show:

The media deserve all they get.

For eight difficult years I have spoken out about freedom. The freedom to leave the failing corrupt self serving EU, is where it began for me.

I have earnestly researched, caught them out in their lies, cover ups and scams. Their bias was clear, they were firmly in the remain camp. Little did we know, that even though we won, we'd failed. We didn't expect the years of stalling from politicians fuelled by media support.

From Theresa May, Gina Miller and die in a ditch Boris, they managed to deliver BRINO a costly noman's land that gave a slice of the country away for good measure. Just 11 weeks after Brino, we locked down for some mysterious virus, part of the common cold group, where a Blairite remainer scientist over egged the custard of the risk of death. Dodgy guesswork passed off as modelling.

I never expected them to go this far, crushed by our own government as Western nations followed suit and The Tony Blair Institute gleefully announced it was embedded in governments across the world to advise on restrictions.

The enslaugt of corporate communism now firmly in their grasp.

All jockeyed along by the prostitutes in the media. Happy to be paid to back up a needless fear filled narrative , responsible for more harm than good.

They also fuelled the throw away comment of labelling people ' far right', despite not having a clue what it really means.

Mixing up their facts, allowing us to be labelled Nazis, despite the fact the Nazis were socialists.

 Personally, I've managed to live my life with a degree of success, I've been a decent boss, no one left my employment because they were unhappy or unfairly treated. I've kept a clean respectable home, rescued dogs and been generous with my step children, both with my time and resources. 

I've never been on any marches, broken the law, apart from minor traffic offences. and been a support for many people during lockdown who had no one else to turn to. I tenaciously handled problems that MPs and councillors should have dealt with, where were you exactly? I have never even joined a political party, so forgive me if I take offence at being called far right, just because I can see decline in every institution and service our government is involved in, all left unchallenged by the opposition.

As for the media, I see a disingenuous approach that has the ability to steer the narrative in the wrong direction.

Yesterday George Galloway gave them a taste of what they should have had much sooner. This is not support for his politics, just an acknowledgement of the skill factor that's missing in The Commons.

He called out a prime minister that has been placed like a chess piece in the job, and has ignored obvious dangers that we have had to live with in our forgotten mill towns across the country for years, and finally steps up to the plate when MPs are at risk. Far right is the label ordinary tax paying working and retired people have had slapped on them . It's the label used for the cancelled celebrities, that had the decency to say..stop, enough.

We need change.

I am personally sick of the label and refuse to wear my verbal yellow star of contemp. Your empty virtue signalling days are over. 

Common sense is on the up. We reject stupidity on every level.

7:47 AM · Mar 2, 2024

Sunak and the backlash, part one

First of the reactions to Sunak’s speech in which he cast us as the enemy and crim clown world as the ordinary, good people:

"Mr Jenkins added that the public would be 'shocked' if they saw PC Pearson's actions."

Not so sure about that, most would be cheering him on!

The Hampshire Constabulary misconduct hearing was told in June 2022 PC Pearson and a junior female colleague identified only as PC Rich attended the boy's home on the Isle of Wight to speak to him after he hit two youngsters.

PC Pearson was tasked with reaching a Community Resolution - which are used for low-level crimes - and the boy's father was in and 'encouraging his son to listen to the officers and pay attention'. The 'naughty' boy, who can't be named for legal reasons, was said to be 'rude' and 'obnoxious' towards the officers. PC Pearson asked the child 'Why did you whack them?' to which the boy replied 'Why not?'

The uninterested youth sat on his phone and the constable, raising his voice, told him: 'Excuse me, don't talk to me like that, boy.

'You don't start talking to me like that - do you understand me?'

And the father who was present? What did he do about this child's behaviour?

Mr Jenkins said PC Rich described her senior colleague's approach as 'old school' and commented that he 'escalated the situation' which potentially put both of them in danger.

He continued: 'The situation developed by PC Pearson grabbing the boy's arm and there was a short struggle in which the boy's head hit the wall, whereby he sustained some minor injuries.

'The boy's father was understandably angry and he demanded that both officers leave the house, which they did.'

I guess we can see why the child's a little hellion... 

Mr Jenkins said: 'If it is to be suggested that the later conduct of [the boy] is relevant to show that, by June 2022, he was gradually turning into a youngster with violent or criminal tendencies, the Appropriate Authority [Hampshire police] would suggest that PC Pearson's violent actions played a role in that development.

'The boy's strong dislike for the police is plain enough from the bodyworn video material from June 21, 2022, and there are flashes of hatred after he had had his head knocked against the wall.

'His attitude towards police officers and being a law abiding young citizen is unlikely to have changed for the better after PC Pearson's actions on that day.'

I very much doubt anything's going to change his attitude at this point. Why should it? There are absolutely no consequences whatsoever for him, and those who try to impose some are stopped cold.

Am I the only one who can see that?  

PC Pearson denies gross misconduct. The officer admits that bending down and raising his voice breached a Standards of Professional Behaviour offence.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have a crisis in policing. 

A watcher is always learning

(0448) This is a good self-teaching lesson in approaching data ... take a neutral position on each item until you can't anymore. Like a white horse actually being grey, that doesn't categorically prove something is or is not.

And it doesn't preclude watching ... as someone wrote to me ... watchers watch, this is what we do. Someone wrote on what was relevant, what was not. If I snap at a person, they'll hardly send something again. Truly, there is a lesson here.

There is also trolling which I had done to me on black history yesterday, plus those who really don't know as they're not au fait with royal protocols and history but then there's a comment below I do trust about the horse being uneasy, another about that being common, another about a pale horse in scripture, plus a light green colour of the locust.

My request on everything from everyone is to take a more empirical, rather than disparaging tone in the early part of an investigation, which raises an interesting conundrum or two in itself.  

Firstly, the old 80% correct and experienced thing but the last 20% significantly modifies the truth.

The second is that someone very experienced may be conversing with someone in the early stages, as I am on royal protocols.

And lastly for now ... just because something might not be black "bear" does not mean it was not being used symbolically ... we've shown over and over Them's use of symbolism in plain sight ... their joke on us.  Here were some comments, before even seeing the video:

Embedding disabled ... so this "Celt" turned out to be a prat ... ho hum.

My interest in this is more on what lessons we, the watchers, can learn about investigative procedure. Being aware of the pitfalls, the blind alleys, the 80% 20% conundrum.

Best practice seems to me not to jump on bandwagons early, be open to new data but examine its agenda and authenticity all the same.  I'm still lineball on the moon landing and I'm lineball on this here.

If You Want This To Stop...

...then don't start to play:

The Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Girls' Basketball team dropped out of their February 8 game against KIPP Massachusetts after one of KIPP's players, who is a biological male, injured three of their athletes.

Why did they ever agree to play in the first place? If the Harlem Globetrotters were asked to play a team with a white member who'd blacked up, would they? Or would there be riots at the very idea...? 

How, exactly, is this any different?

Collegiate Charter School officials said the team decided to forfeit because the other players feared getting injured and not being able to compete in the playoffs that were a few days later.

Ladies, if you want this farce to stop immediately, stop enabling them by agreeing to play in the first place. 

Naughty Angela?

Or just misunderstood?

Of vaxxes, clots and other charming aspects

The further down this rabbit hole we go, the worse it appears to be.  There are long running sites which have been accused of exploiting other people's research but I say so what ... as long as the data is correct.  

For example:

https://expose-news.com/2024/02/25/secret-cdc-report-fauci-lied-hundreds-thousands-children-died/

Compared to other countries, the U.S. Government has been terrible at publishing relevant and up-to-date data allowing us to analyse the consequences of rolling out the Covid-19 injections. However, we have finally managed to stumble upon it thanks to an institution known as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC).

The OEC is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. And for some reason, they host a wealth of data on excess deaths. You can find that data for yourself here.

The following chart has been created using the figures found in the OEC database. Figures that have been provided to the OEC by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). And it shows excess deaths among children and young adults aged 0-44 across the USA by week in 2020 and 2021.

(H/T Steve at our place)

But over time it comes from many different sources in various countries and it supports the original contentions. 

For example:

(H/T IYE at NOWP)

Add anecdotal evidence of appalling directives, appalling treatment and plain lies and we're in the world of the anecdotal, which again supports the original contentions.

In my own experience, certain people I know have emailed that they've had experiences of loved ones being lost, to the point that if you're older, it's best to steer clear of hospitals and clinics, surgeries.

For me personally, the kickers above are the stats on what medical staff are opting for and against for themselves. For me, that's about as accurate as you can get.

It's About Time!

Grassroots police officers have launched a gender-critical network to push back against forces they are concerned have adopted self-ID policies not recognised in law. The serving officers have launched the Police Sex Equality and Equity Network, accusing the service of 'actions that embed gender ideology' within forces nationwide.

They called on bodies representing both rank and file officers, as well as chief constables, to recognise lobby groups and activists within policing in England and Wales had created a 'culture of fear' among those holding gender-critical views.

Maybe they should solicit donations from the public? 

Police SEEN have said the group intends to emulate the civil service network, which was established 'to re-focus attention on improving equality and equity between women and men'. The group said in a statement: 'Police SEEN warns that the influence of lobby groups and activists within UK policing has created a culture of fear which prevents officers and staff who believe there are two sexes and that sex is real and immutable, from speaking out, for fear of disciplinary action.

'They believe a formal internal network is desperately needed, not only to provide a voice and support for those who want to ensure the law is upheld, but also to restore political impartiality to policing.'

Oh, that it's come to this..!