Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers

Julia and I, probably Grandpa too, wish y’all a fine feast today, minus chemical poisoning.

(Pic: Brittanica)

Poisoned cows, adulterated milk

Firstly, apologies to Julia … “her OoL day” is today as a rule, “mine” is tomorrow.  However, my Thursday post needs to come forward as the topic has now exploded across the net, esp. on X.

I’ve been ordering my food from Morrisons but a few months back, they removed pints of milk or 500ml and instead sell only quarts of whole, semi and skimmed. I use whole but noticed that it had a special “m” designation if whole, sourced in … yep … Wales.

I was thinking I’d escaped the evil stuff, took my current plastic container out and checked where it’s from … yep … from Wales (in very fine print).

This is the state of our food supply just now.  Starmer, Sunak, Gates and Blackrock head all need executing … legally of course, by proper officers.

Reader Bill has posted over at Unherdables:

“ Posting here as comment to long for ool:

Arla Foods creates new collective project with Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi to trial the use of Bovaer®

British farmers that make up the UK’s biggest dairy cooperative, Arla, have joined forces with some of the biggest retailers in the country to tackle methane emissions. In a first of its kind joint initiative, the project will see a collective effort across the food industry to trial the use of Bovaer®, a feed additive that reduces enteric methane emissions from cows on average, by 27%*

As part of its FarmAhead™ Customer Partnership initiative, Arla will work alongside retail partners Morrisons and Aldi, and with Tesco on its new Future Dairy Partnership initiative, to highlight how feed additives can be introduced to normal feeding routines. The new project which will also involve around 30 of Arla’s farmer owners, aims to provide a better understanding of how these feed additives can be rolled out across a larger group of farmers.

Paul Dover, UK Agricultural Director at Arla Foods, comments: “We know that reducing methane is a big opportunity when it comes to improving our carbon footprint at farm level and feed additives like Bovaer® have huge potential in helping us tackle this issue. Bringing partners together from across the food & grocery industry in this kind of initiative highlights the support there is for British farmers in transitioning to more sustainable farming methods.

“We are extremely excited about this new collective way of working alongside our retail partners and the possibilities that feed additives, such as this one, present. However, rolling them out at scale will not be easy due to the cost involved, so it’s important we understand more about their usage potential and then work together with the industry, government and our partners to support farmers if we want to harness the opportunity they present in driving down emissions.”

Arla’s Bovaer® trial will provide a more practical understanding of how to scale the use of feed additives, how it impacts on farm operations and the opportunity to work more collaboratively with the feed industry.

In a joint comment, Morrisons, Aldi and Tesco say: “Through collaboration as part of Arla’s FarmAhead™ Customer Partnership, we have the ability to address some of the climate challenges facing our food system. It is this collective approach that is really going to make a difference. Being involved in using a feed additive is a great way of testing out where we can drive change at scale to bring down emissions.”

Andrew Barraclough, Arla Farmer owner and one of those involved in using Bovaer® comments: “Working on initiatives that help reduce our impact on the environment is something that I am extremely passionate about. We know that feed additives have a lot of potential in helping us to reduce emissions, but they can be expensive, which adds to the overall cost in producing milk.

Farmers are trying to accelerate the transition to more sustainable dairy farming, but we can’t do it alone. It’s why collective initiatives like this between Arla and its customers are so important for farmers – we need the wider industry to come together and support us if we are going to drive change.”

As part of its ongoing commitment to reducing the impact of dairy production, Arla has ambitious science-based targets, including reducing CO2e emissions from scope 3 by 30% by 2030. Its FarmAhead™ Customer Partnership brings together retail and partners like Morrisons and Aldi, with Arla’s data and measurement tools. This allows customers to support farmers with innovation, research and new ways of driving down emissions to lead on-farm sustainability and be at the forefront of decarbonising dairy.

Arla and Tesco also recently announced the Future Dairy Partnership, a farmer-led partnership which aims to put sustainability at the heart of the dairy industry. The Future Dairy Partnership aims to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions, enhance animal welfare and protect and restore nature, whilst promoting a shared vision for the dairy industry to collaborate to build a more resilient and sustainable future.”

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Bill has done some more research … in comments at unherdables.

Caveat Emptor, Labour Voters!

A government policy to create 100,000 new nursery places using spare capacity in English primary schools is “unlikely to work”, according to research. The research blames a geographical mismatch between capacity and demand, while leaders in the sector have raised concerns about staffing, the provision of sleep areas for the youngest children, toilets that are too big and sinks that are too high for nursery age children.

Another Labour campaign promise spirals to the ground in flames, like a novice pilot in 1918 who tried to tackle Von Richthofen... 

The success of the policy is critical as the government is under pressure to create sufficient places to fulfil its promise of 30 hours of free childcare a week for eligible parents of children aged from nine months to three years from next September.

And is it not gouing to meet that anywhere? 

FE says London is the only region where spare reception space will meet and could exceed additional demand for nursery places, as schools in the capital’s rolls fall due to a declining birthrate. Elsewhere, only a small proportion of projected demand will be met by spare capacity – just 13% in the East Midlands, 25% in the east of England and 32% in the West Midlands.

Ah. Well, to Starmer's mob, no doubt London's all that counts, so they'll probably simply declare victory regardless.  

Socialism equals destruction

A nice explanation:

Parhaps A Name Change Is In Order?

Heaven nightclub has been shut down immediately after a bouncer was charged with raping a drunk woman who had been turned away from the venue. The world famous gay club had its licence suspended for 28 days following an emergency hearing at Westminster council on Friday.

Sound a lot like the Other Place. 

The woman said she was attacked by a bouncer on November 1 and was then “ignored” when she tried to report the assault to other club security staff, the meeting was told.

The expedited licensing review heard that detectives arrested the suspect at Heaven on November 11.

Subsequent enquiries showed that the arrested man was not permitted to work in the UK and may have “provided a false name to his employer in order to gain work”.

Morenikeji Adewole, 47, of Dunlop Close, Dartford – also known as Olu Julius or Olusolu Alabi – was charged with rape on Wednesday, the Met Police said.

Is there anyone in the security industry who can do a good job and appropriate due diligence, because it doesn't seem like it... 

Amy Lame, who was Sadiq Khan's night tsar until last month, appeared to disagree with the decision to revoke Heaven's licence. She wrote on Instagram: "Our community is being held to double standards, targeted by institutional homophobia and is the victim of legally questionable interpretation of licensing regulations. Let the battle commence."

They aren't shutting the place because it's full of irons, Amy, but because it's full of dodgy security staff and unsafe! I'd tell you to wind your neck in, but from photos, it appeard you don't have one. 

British boots to walk into Russia and wage war?

There's an Xer called @WarClandestine (from Washington DC) whose main topic is biolabs in the Ukraine:

"Source material between America’s top scientists and health officials @NIH, recently made available via FOIA. Thanks to @Jim_Jordan and @JamesComer ... we have the emails sent to Fauci and Collins pertaining to C19 origin. https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Letter-Re.-Feb-1-Emails-011122.pdf "

"For all of this to make sense, you must be privy to the reality that the US NIH did indeed create C19 in Wuhan. Which has been largely accepted as the reality and confirmed in the emails between Collins and Fauci."

Either way, western nations are being fed pap by the bought MSM, resulting in:

As long as what takes? Therein lies the Lie, one of Starmer's and the entire Uniparty's Lies. Clandestine makes it clear in many places that Putin's no angel, the former USSR is no angel and longtimers here know I lived there with a pro-Russia gf, having a pro-Uke mate, so I saw both sides.

Putin is most certainly no angel but he's charged with defending Russia's borders and if this means stepping in following the 2014 colour overthrow of the Kiev govt, in order to protect the resource rich, Russian speaking Donbass from daily missiles to civilian areas, Hamas-like, then what does any observer who remembers Cuba and the Bay of Pigs expect is going to happen?

Clandestine:

By the MSM of course, which then spreads to entertainment, the judiciary, all aspects of society ... to the point where the whole societal paradigm changes, the hegemony, the Woke zeitgeist ... mainly to cover the crimes of our own shadow govts. From Clandestine comments:

And this is the fundamental, the base issue, in trying to discuss this with sheltered westerners. But now Two-Tier Stalin has upped the anti yet again ... British boots on the ground in the wrecked Ukraine ... and that's a whole new ballgame because, hiding behind NATO skirts or not, Russia, from Putin down to the majority of people, perceive that the British rogue govt plans to attack Russia directly.

Stop for one moment and think of it. What are the three most militarily sufficient nations on earth? China, Russia, the run-down USA, no? So what does WEFer Starmer plan? To declare on two of those. Anyone see any small departure from reality in this?

Alex Christoforou on the insanity of Biden, Blinken and Nuland

And Why Should It Have?

Oliver and his publisher, Penguin Random House UK (PRH UK), have conceded to Guardian Australia that no consultation with any Indigenous organisation, community or individual took place before the book was published.

It's a children's fantasy novel. Why on earth should anyone have to consult anyone before publication? Except maybe a test audience of children, to see if they like it?

But let the reflexing cringing begin!

“I am devastated to hear I have caused offence and wholly apologise for doing so,” Oliver said in a statement to the Guardian. “I am listening and reflecting and working closely with my publisher on next steps.”

Oh, good grief, man, show some balls and tell the race grifters to fuck off! 

PRH UK also issued a statement saying it apologised unreservedly.

“Penguin Random House UK publishes this work and takes responsibility for the consultation, or what we would call an authenticity read of the work,” the statement said. “It was our editorial oversight that this did not happen. It should have and the author asked for one and we apologise unreservedly.”

And that's why you will be forever beholden to these charlatan activists! 

Neither author nor publisher has committed to withdrawing the book from sale, however, a move Natsiec said must happen immediately to rectify the harm caused. The body’s chief executive, Sharon Davis, said the book perpetuated harmful stereotypes, trivialised complex and painful histories and “ignores the violent oppression of First Nations people, raising serious concerns about the cultural safety of First Nations readers – especially young people”.

If your 'young people's' safety is compromised by reading a book, then their parents have failed them. 

Davis said such errors exposed the author’s “complete disregard for the vast differences among First Nations languages, cultures, and practices”, while the book’s reduction of First Nations beliefs and spirituality to “magic” was “a longstanding stereotype that diminishes our complex and diverse belief systems”.

Readers are invited to ponder the chutzpah here, give the furore over the Aboriginal Telescope that David Thompson highlighted. 

Dr Anita Heiss, a Wiradyuri author and publisher-at-large at Simon & Schuster’s First Nations imprint, Bundyi Publishing, said Oliver’s book confirmed what she had been advocating for over many years. “First Nations peoples need to be involved at every stage of the process from acquisitions to editorial, to sales and marketing. Only then will our stories be told with the complete respect they deserve,” she said in a statement. “There is no space in Australian publishing (or elsewhere) for our stories to be told through a colonial lens, by authors who have little if any connection to the people and place they are writing about.”

It's called 'fantasy' for a reason! Do  we have to strap Neal Asher to the next one of Musk's rockets so  he can write about sci fi? Lock Stephen King in a haunted house in Maine so he can write more horror? 

No, of course not. 

Sing Something Simple

 

I attended a classical concert the other evening. The music, which has always been the great ‘pull’ for me was great, as any live performance of Vivaldi’s by four superb musicians is promised. But as I sat, before the concert began, I realised that I was gazing at the result of maybe forty-odd years of change within our Nations in one thing which used to be essential, but now is virtually non-existent. That ‘one thing’? Religion.

Many years ago, religion stood firmly in my life. Raised in a Catholic family, went to Catholic schools, was a regular Church attendee, we almost expected a fortnightly visit from one or more of our Parish priests, we knew them all by their first names; in other words, the whole shebang. But times and attitudes change, at least to those who retain an enquiring mind. I retained my religious activities for years, but  a mixture of scepticism and plain common sense made me question much of the works and workings of the Catholic Church.

The end came, for myself, in two body blows. I learned of the massive shame of sexual abuse by Catholic Priests against children, and the extent that these crimes, were both known about and silently tolerated by the Catholic Hierarchy both in GB&NI as well as America. I also reacted whilst listening to a sermon from our parish priest. I heard this man, who has never had to do a proper job in his entire life, tell the congregation as we neared a General Election, that we should all be voting ‘Labour’, as the Tories were close to a course of ruining the Nation. I stood up,  said my piece against the clown who dared to tell an Englishman how and who to vote for, and left that place, never to return.

But thats just me. So what was I looking at which indeed was a measure of the change, both on the Catholic and Church of England’s authority in Great Britain & Northern Ireland (GB&NI). The concert was held in the majestic main chapel of Ushaw Seminary College, where five Archbishops and a Cardinal, over some 150 years, came into the priesthood. By some reckoning, over 2,500 priests passed through those imposing buildings. But the Seminary itself closed in 2011, due to the lack of men prepared to enter the Catholic priesthood. This monumental series of buildings, which must have cost millions to build, now sells itself as a place for families to relax, as well as multifarious other activities.

The C of E, which is, to all extent the State Religion, fares not much better, and the Leadership, under the care of the former Archbishop Welby, is itself fractured by the constant push to accept homosexual marriage as ‘Acceptable’ to the Church Bishops and Laity.

So, apart from the Evangelical Churches favoured by some, what is the only religion which daily extends its sinister reach in every city and town in GB&NI? It is of course Islam. They tried to spread their ideology into the West before, and were successful in Spain for over two centuries before being thrown out: and the  naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 at the Battle of Lepanto when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire.

But now we see, due solely to the machinations of Tony Blair’s Labour Government’s loosening of immigration rules and visas, a Muslim population  of some 3 millions, with another 150,000 illegals also doing sweet fuck all and getting free lodgings, health care. Those Muezzin Calls will be creeping ever nearer, where once all that was heard was the sound of church bells ringing on a Sunday morning.

The utter mad greed summed up in one case

At Capitalists@Work, Nick Drew (moniker) wrote about how both state and mega corporations combine to screw you over.  Compounding your “crime” in their eyes is that if you secured a good deal they didn’t … then their greedy eyes are having none of that.

This entitled sense of "always look for the easy life, we deserve it" soon hit me again in a slightly different variation.  In the firm I was working for we had cannily acquired a long-ish term contract for purchasing gas at a deeply discounted price, from a seller for whom the gas was more-or-less an unwanted by-product.

Somehow, word of this deal got out (it always does).  So then I get a delegation of senior managers from big industrial companies based in the area where we'd be taking delivery of the gas (some for our own use, some for onward sale).  Their pitch was as follows (and I'm not making this up):

"Now look[2].  We all know you've bought a big slug of gas at a price of 40.  You've got to share this windfall with us.  We'll offer you 50.  You've a moral obligation to sell it to us."

Where they came up with '40' is anyone's guess.  I politely replied that their numbers were way off-beam: that we'd be delighted to sell them gas; and that they'd pay something based around market price[3], like anyone else.

"But whether it's 40 or 45, it costs you much less!  You must sell it to us at cost-plus.  What's 'market price' got to do with it?"  

Nick goes on to conclude:

 Nothing changes.  I suppose you can argue that EDF, as a state-owned monopoly, is in a slightly different position.  But the attitude remains the same:  what's mine is mine, & what's yours is up for negotiation.  Now hand it over. 

Links:

http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/11/the-eternal-attraction-of-cushy-deals.html

http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/11/uk-nuclear-madness.html

What Sort Of 'Improved Access'...?

We joined Claire Wood, who is from Manchester, and Clare Birnie, from Bradford, on a sunny autumn walk around Swinsty Reservoir near Harrogate to learn more about their plus-size outdoor experiences. The women are part of the Yorkshire branch of Every Body Outdoors - a group dedicated to improving access to the great outdoors for plus-size people.

It's the wide outdoors, what more do these landwhales need?

"There is no competitive element, we're not racing (Ed: *stifles comment*), we've got no target," Ms Wood said. "It's literally just because outdoor spaces are traditionally not welcoming for those of us in bigger bodies." 

In what way? Well, by just being there, it seems.

She said she had never tried to join a "traditional" walking group because she assumed she would slow everybody down and was worried that she would need to stop for a rest while the rest of the group carried on without her.

Ms Birnie, 40, who described herself as a "comfortably fat woman", recalled a time when she tried to join a walking group. She said: "I'm actually quite an experienced walker with my husband, we've been going out for 15 years, but I wanted to go on a group hike.

"I contacted the organiser and said, 'By the way I'm in a bigger body, I am capable and happy walking a distance and I can absolutely achieve what we're looking to do, but I just will be slower'."

"It felt like they didn't even look at what I'd written," she said angrily when referring to a walk she went on with the group. "Within the first 200m they had just bounded off with the rest of the group and it made me feel very unwelcome.

"It made me feel very excluded and I got very upset during the day."

FFS, she actually thought everyone else should slow down so she could keep up with them. How utterly narcissistic! 

It also campaigns for clothing, gear and representation for plus-size bodies in the outdoor movement. Ms Wood said there was a lack of outdoor clothing available for plus-size people. "We have money to spend, there's money to be made, we want to buy these things, we need these things," she added.

Well, if manufacturers aren't making them because there's not enough demand, have you thought of starting your own business? 

Rebecca Dawson, one of the founders of Every Body Outdoors, set up the clothing company Vampire Outdoors in 2022 because she was so fed up with not being able to find suitable outdoor clothing that fitted plus-size people. She has been a keen hiker for more than 10 years and said: "It's 100% a problem. There is a size bias to people doing outdoor activities.

"A lot of clothing manufacturers and retailers don't recognise that people in bigger bodies want to do outdoor activities, including the more adventurous things like long-distance hiking and mountaineering."

See? That's how it's done, ladies.