Watching the MSM on your behalf
It’s still the Silly Season but even so, our glorious MSM present us with their favourite themes: ‘climate change’ and the Sacred Cow. A quick scan of the print editions’ front pages demonstrates this nicely: “Newspaper headlines: ‘PM failing on climate’ and ‘NHS on the brink’.” (link). A closer look reveals that the accusation of the PM’s failings on ‘climate change’ came from Greenpeace, via the grauniad – of course! – , i.e. the same people who were ‘protesting’ by climbing onto the roof of the PM’s private house a few days ago.
I am properly shocked about the PM’s ‘failings’, especially since the new ‘head’ of the UN’s IPCC is a Brit, Jim Skea, professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London, who shows his ‘credentials’ in this quote from the Times’ report (emphases are mine):
“Leaders are failing to connect extreme events such as the wildfires in Rhodes with debates about policies to cut carbon emissions, according to the new head of the UN’s climate science panel.” (link, paywalled)
It’s now common knowledge that these ‘wildfires’ were due to arson. Why then should we take yet another ‘climate change warning’ seriously when the international head honchos fail to acknowledge this? Frankly, I stopped reading this puff piece. after this introduction.
Meanwhile, “we” must be kept on our toes whenever something affects our Sacred Cow. It is strange that the Westminster MSM are reporting on the cost of the doctors’ strike, connecting this strike to growing waiting lists, but refrain from criticising said strikes, for example in this report in the DT:
“Junior doctors’ strikes cost NHS £1bn – Steve Barclay warns health service is having to pay ‘significant amounts’ to cover absence as medics prepare for latest walkout” (paywalled link)
Better not have an accident or become ill, especially since our GPs are incapable of taking up the slack. Better not ask how paying for all this might increase the ‘cost of living’ crisis for us tax-paying peasants!
There are however some intriguing articles about AI and the NHS. It’s as if some shadowy figures are trying to make us accept Ai and bots as ‘a good thing’, saving time and money. To make this look extra palatable, the DT reports that NICE is giving the go ahead for the use of AI in cancer treatment:
“It will be the first time that the NHS uses AI outside of trials. The clinical guidance says that AI should be used by doctors to speed up the contouring, or outlining, of tumours and avoid exposing healthy organs and cells to toxic radiation. Until now this has been carried out manually by oncologists, but AI could achieve this significantly faster and to the same standard, saving up to 80 minutes of planning time per patient.” (paywalled link)
So what happens to all those oncologists? Does the NHS save money when they can ‘work faster’? Will they be able to see more patients? Will these patients be treated faster? Does the NHS actually have sufficient machinery to treat yon patients or will they have to wait anyway?
Never mind: AI is ‘a good thing’, especially when it helps ill people as described for example in another ‘jam tomorrow’ report: “Scientists use AI to identify subtypes of Parkinson’s disease” (link, paywalled). Who could object to that! AI is simply so much better than our feeble brains. An accompanying article illustrates this under the headline “Bots can solve ‘captcha’ tests quicker than humans”:
“The research compared the performance of bots with that of 1,400 humans who were asked to solve 14,000 tests of various kinds. The machines consistently won. When humans were asked to solve distorted text captcha tests, for instance, they took between 9 and 15 seconds. They only got the answer right between 50 and 84 per cent of the time. By contrast, bots completed the same tests in less than a second and achieved 99.8 per cent accuracy.” (link, paywalled)
Blimey! How can we now ‘prove’ that we’re human? Is it actually too late for this anyway? There’s a strange omission in these gentle puff pieces aimed at making the use of AI less scary for us ignorant plebs: they don’t mention AI being used in the development of new drugs. I do wonder why!
Speaking of drugs: you might have heard of the wonderful ‘slimming’ drugs used by celebrities to shed a few pounds. The DT, turning ever more into a wimmins’ paper, has a piece by Ms Petronella Wyatt, an erstwhile mistress of BJ, headlined:
“A single Ozempic injection almost hospitalised me – why on earth isn’t it properly regulated? I tried the ‘revolutionary’ weight-loss jab, but all it did was leave me whimpering in pain” (paywalled link)
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind … After all, that particular drug has been regulated already, for use in fighting diabetes. I leave it to you to judge why we’re being treated to such ‘personal’ experience when our MSM refrain from writing about the far more harrowing and longer lasting experiences caused by the covid jabs.
I spare you Ms Wyatt’s hyperbolic attempts to connect the use of Ozempic with the state of western democracy. The concluding sentences of her piece are sufficient to show how intellectually mediocre she and the DT editors have become:
“Any drug holding out the promise of turning menopausal suckers like me into wood nymphs, is transient and lacks a goal. It’s merely an attempt to pave weight loss, like politics, with gold and precious stones.” (paywalled link)
Strewth! Are we expected to applaud this ‘menopausal sucker’ for fearlessly reporting her own idiocy because she produces a word salad connecting slimming to politics? How shameful.
That’s all I have for today. Regarding bots and AI, I leave you with a recommendation: watch Paul Joseph Watson’s video on the latest use of AI. Have fun watching – and have a good day.
Manufacturers make thousands at a time;, wholesalers buy hundreds and sell smaller quantities to retailers to sell to customers who go to a shop where they get help advice and all the other advantages. By selling in tiny quantities the factory would have to at least triple. the price. to include other invisible costs.
Computer marketing is a study in persuading you ( customer ), and the On Line Retailer and the manufacturer to foot ll these costs and facts of life, in a dream world of destruction and silly-ness
Let’s talk about Poor old WILKO.
Wilkinsons is the victim of Hunt and the Treasury.. Nobody else. Not even the foolish sad little
child Sunak. Wilko has the same bad luck to be British during the criminal jambori of the Civil service, the global ambitions of over large businesses and greed for bigger markets, and spite of vengeful remainers.. Our old Traditionally Companies Act 1948 purposely avoided the problem. Anticipating International co-ordination. Unfortunately America got out of control and we have our present mess and our pathetic Competition etc Act got passed instead.. Uselessly.
Sorry TG Spokes, but Wilko’s problems have nothing to do with our politicians as bad as they might be. The sad fact of the matter is that Wilko’s is a cheap jack junk shop that doesn’t sell anything that people want. There are far too many tacky shops in our High Streets selling absolute tat and junk for a little over one pound. What we are want is the return of traditional hardware shops of old where personal service meant something.
On a more cheerful note of late . . . we have been scoffing the Discovery apples today. First crop this year in the orchard. Monster double dog good taste. Super.
CH- yes, six apple trees, six pear trees, three plums and a fig tree. Next up the Worcester Pearmains in a week or two – my Dad’s favourite.
I suppose CH, cook to do the bottling and canning and I’ll have to get the chauffeur to help out with the picking and cider making. The Duisburg really needs pots five and eight sorted. A new magneto might solve the problem But needs must. Hey, ho, eh Colin?
Lord Sir Biscotte……….oh yeah, oh yeah….but wait a sec, those houses in Eaton Square don’t have gardens of their own. There’s a communal garden in the middle to which all residents have access to, so you must have gone scrumping instead. Six Apple trees, six Pear Trees (and no doubt six Partidge’s as well), and three Plum Trees, what are they Victoria plum or red plum or maybe even a Damson…….very nice. Where do you keep your 1925 vintage Silver Ghost then? How the rich do live………..
Whatever our lame duck prime minister turns his hand to, seems to end up in total chaos, farce, and incompetence in very short order. The continuing illegal immigration situation is one such issue that goes from bad to worse almost on a daily basis, where all and sundry seem to have the ability to run rings around him, his ministers and government. I just cannot believe how a government can be such a rabble and so ineffective as the one he leads. I mean it defies belief and to be honest he alone is making this country a laughing stock on the international stage. The man is incapable of making a decision and is devoid of a backbone of any sort. How illegal migrants into this country are able to dictate to our government as to how and where they should be accommodated whilst their asylum claims are heard is beyond me. We were told that this Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland Harbour could accommodate 500 persons, but so far only 39 have agreed to go on board. Agreed to go on board, they should be made to go on board whether they like it or not. In fact I would say they should be housed in the disused maximum security Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight for the duration of their stay in this country. This situation where migrants are able to waltz into this country via the English Channel without a passport or any personal documentation at their whim, is a situation of his own making. It is high time that our prime minister who seemingly doesn’t have what it takes to be a national leader, took the bull by its horns and withdrew this country from the auspices of the European Court for Human Rights with immediate effect, to enable us to deal with these illegal migrants once and for all. It is high time for this country to be fully independent of the European Union and its tentacles and learn to stand on its own two feet and be free to make decisions so that we can adequately control our own borders. I thought Boris Johnson was bad enough, but Sunak takes the proverbial biscuit with his indecisiveness and lack of common sense. This country deserves better leadership, but where it will come from the pool that is currently available I know not.
To continue Colin.
Let’s take Regulators.
In the 1970’s I and my co-director were pursuing a bent solicitor and his crony. The bank was as helpful as it dared. We brought in the fraud squad.. Nice chaps, probably retired senior coppers. But completely out of depth. Had no concept at all. The government introduced regulators. Thinking use a thief to catch a thief. Bad idea ! It transpired they ( the gov’t ) had made no provision for the ( Lets call them -Bad Habits, or peccadillos ) regulators to be properly answerable. Without the Police of Collins time, and without the knowledge, this idiocy has failed in every way
They do not want change unless it is for the worse for us
The same is true of everything you can name, from the professions, law, property, illegality, I have experience of most, and it is depressingly the same but I’m tired. People are all basically bent, but would like us all to be honest .
And, after the war, for a few years we thought we had it. Now disillusion is complete. Then the labour politicians managed to create a different kind of shambles. Based on honest stupidity. ( No longer )
I saw Heath’s headline with a momentary glimmer of hope and astonishment that he was going to reveal Net Zero as scam; phoney science to address a non-existent problem. But of course it was only momentary. His, and that of a few others slowly coming out of the woodwork, horrifying truth is cost and timescale, not Net Zero itself.
The real ‘horrifying truth’ is that it is utterly unnecessary, being merely propaganda to enable the band-wagon-jumping useful idiot, sociopaths of the Green Industrial Complex, to get rich quick, and hang the consequences to the folk they damage and impoverish, whilst the psychopaths, we all know who they are, gradually boil the frogs as they push toward a One World Government. Schwab himself is on record as saying that at that point the ‘right people’ (by which he means absolutely the wrong people) who know what is best will be in charge so there will be no point having elections. But I guess that, despite him say it, it is just a conspiracy theory.
Come to think of it, haven’t we already reached the point where there is no point having elections?
I believe Colin, that ,our country has many problems, None of which our politicians want to solve. There is a solid desire to maintain the flow of money, influence, crime, and authority. The entire edifice is built on the basis that nobody rocks the boat. Hence by mutual agreement we have the Uniparty and purchase of the media, to sustain illegal or borderline criminal quid pro quo ‘s such as gambling, drugs, reduction of industries to facilitate their removal etc. To this should be added the spineless and greedy formation of dozens of money spinning and influence sources such as Quangos, Regulators, and the new and fraudulent industries..
OK , that has got the preamble out of the way and I have to split it up otherwise i’ll lose it
The recent by-elections at which insurgent parties (sceptical of our energy suicide) had a chance to pick up protests against the uniparty failed to make any impact and illustrated LibLabCon’s stranglehold on the electorate. The zealotry of the powerful Climate Change Committee whose powers are enshrined in law will also continue and may get even worse under Starmer/Milliband. What the media gibber about is irrelevant. Politicians, so far as any see the light, will not have the courage to take on powerful lobbies, their own cultist MPS and running dogs in the media, and so there will be no repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act (which mandates a ruthless timetable). As to the NHS the problem is so large that they have no idea how to fix it, In short, government is unwilling or unable beyond incrementally making things worse.
Don’t recall the Tories outraged at activists climbing onto statues and toppling them so who gives a toss when they climb on a Tory PMs house protesting. Sauce for the goose……
Alistair Heath warns those who are buying into the Tories latest rethinking of Net Zero targets that they are through their own legislation unable to deliver. But hey! there are lots of suckers to rope in for the 2024 GE.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/10/the-public-still-isnt-being-told-the-full-horrifying-truth-about-the-net-zero-revolution/#comments
Jake……I get your sentiments, but where do you draw the line. What those Greenpeace activists did was extraordinarily stupid the other day. But apart from anything else, it was unlawful and they deserved to get arrested and hopefully charged and sent to court. What these idiots do not understand, that doing what they did is the easiest route to getting a criminal record if found guilty at court, and what seemed like a good idea at the time will have a detrimental effect on some of them getting employment. The danger is that Greenpeace will be tarred with same brush as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil with some of the inane things that they do.
AKA priests.
How many bureaucrats are working on AI .