Enjoy the small things which government cannot take away from us
Another week has gone by. The G7 and the NATO summit have gone, Biden has gone back to the USA. Sunak has presented his Budget. These events certainly have happened and we can trust our MSM when they write that they took place. Everything else in the MSM has become so utterly untrustworthy that it’s a waste of time to open the papers, watch the news or listen to the radio.
We’ve lived through the covid years with the scare graphs, the fear porn, the disastrous work of the ‘nudge’ unit which ‘nudged’ most people of this country to submit voluntarily to the loss of our civil liberties. Many felt they had to go along for fear of losing jobs and livelihoods. We remember how dissenting, eminent scientists were ‘cancelled’, their arguments not heard.
When publications such as the former ‘Lockdown Sceptics’, now ‘Daily Sceptic’, gave them room we learned that the government numbers and graphs were untrustworthy if not outright lies. That was the first time many people recognised that and how they were lied to. That was the first time when distrusting the MSM went mainstream.
When the woke ‘culture’ overwhelmed universities, local councils, government departments, we were glad that the Daily Sceptic took up some of the most ludicrous examples and we were glad that the Free Speech Union existed, taking up the worst cases of ‘cancellation’.
That was the second time when people realised that the MSM were no longer doing their job properly, that they were only presenting opinions. Unbiased news items, untarnished by interpretations, by ‘nudges about how we should think, were only available in the despised alt media.
Now, after four weeks of this war in the Ukraine, hate speech and racism have become acceptable. De-platforming and cancelling people are now good. News, unbiased news, are unobtainable. The nudge unit must be working full out, unofficially and behind the scenes, so that even the usual critics of this government, even the Free Speech advocates, have silenced themselves and have taken the knee to ‘Russia bad’. They’ve accepted, unquestioned, our being cut off from Russian news sources.
It is as if the government string-pullers, the nudgers, the providers of ‘guidance’ on what and how to write, have learned from the covid years. They’ve stoppered up all possible sources of contrary information which ordinary people might access. Meanwhile the ‘journalists’ who’ve learned to copy and paste what government ‘sources’ provide them with are providing us with war propaganda which people who are still able to access other sources debunk on a regular basis.
The latest debunking came yesterday, in a subscribers-only video by Paul Joseph Watson who showed that a famous Ukrainian video showing how they’d shot down Russian helicopters was actually based on a video game. Nobody in the western MSM had even noticed – or worse: if they had they weren’t allowed to say so.
We’ve often talked about ‘projection’, a tool used by the Left and the lefty MSM. Pre-emptively accusing xyz about going to do something which they themselves are going to do is a well-known propaganda instrument. The MSM are happily using this method across the board, the latest being warnings about ‘false flag events’, that Russia might use bio~ or chemical weapons.
These warnings, based solely on Ukrainian propaganda, should worry us all because Biden said such attacks would be the red line at which NATO would be forced to act. The ‘scenario’ for such alleged ‘false flag’ attacks is being carefully prepared. Putin and Russia are now said to become ‘desperate’ because Ukraine is ‘winning’, according to Mr Z.
Why should we therefore believe the ponderous ‘explanations’ and ‘interpretations’ of the MSM opinion writers when they base their comments on such dubious sources, without even checking if they’re true or not? Who is holding a pistol to their heads?
However, the malaise goes deeper than that. How can we trust any reports, any videos from either side when technical manipulations are easily detected but not called out? How can we even refute news from ‘the other side’ when we’re not allowed to see them for ourselves?
So what are we being softened up for by the propaganda nudges we remember so well from the covid years? Is it an ongoing war in Ukraine, kept going by the west in the hope of creating a second Afghanistan for Russia? An ongoing war behind which our governments can hide their insane economic policies because they can blame it all on Putin?
Isn’t such ‘perpetual war’ the perfect occasion for the PM and his green cronies to implement Net Zero by the back door? Isn’t it the perfect occasion to scrap even more of our civil liberties when for example there will be food shortages because of ‘sanctions’? Biden, after all, has already warned that these are coming.
What about our energy security? It’s easy to boast that we’ll be ‘free of Russian gas and oil’ when spring is coming and we won’t need to heat our homes. But what about maintaining the supply chain when diesel is becoming scarce on the world markets? Use electric lorries? Where are the batteries going to come from when stuff like nickel or rare earths are becoming unavailable?
What concerns me even more is that our elected representatives, that government and the MSM are so obviously not trusting us at all. They are relying on ‘nudges’, on behavioural ‘science’ and fear porn to prepare the ground for more restrictions.
This started in the covid years and is still going on with incessant tests being demanded to even access ‘Our NHS’. They don’t believe us unless we offer proof, from being who we are to showing that we’re not lepers. Will we have to show them in future that we are ‘thinking right’ and have accepted their latest propaganda paroles?
That’s why I’m in despair at this weekend, not just because of the dangerous situation which may well lead to nuclear war, but also because we are being driven into a totalitarian system of thought control where Free Speech has finally fallen. If we cannot inform ourselves freely because it’s made physically impossible then how can we criticise government and government propaganda with proper arguments?
It was difficult during the covid years but even then people were able to access different sites enabling them to make up their own minds. That has now gone. It has become so bad that I cannot find it in me to trust any side, western or Russian. Frankly, I wonder if it’s worth it to spend extra hours on the PC just to try and find out who is lying how and about what.
We’re learning not to trust because we are not being trusted. Perhaps it’s time to stop hitting our heads against the wall of indifference and hatred which our propaganda ministry has created. Perhaps it’s time to stop carrying the torch for Freedom when, like the Israelites of old, people are more concerned with fleshpots and golden calves. I can’t even blame them for this – it’s all they know, they no longer can know better.
Perhaps it’s time to look at our culture and history while we still can. Perhaps it’s time to talk about gardening, about music, about ancient philosophers. The clocks go forward tomorrow. The garden birds are in full voice, the spring flowers are out, the shrubs and trees are displaying a green haze.
These are the small things we can enjoy, these are the small things neither Whitehall nor the MSM can take away from us.
General Flynn being interviewed on the X22 Report: very interesting.
“Flynn/Clark – Arrogance & Selfishness Will Be The Downfall Of The [DS], Patriots Are Winning”
https://rumble.com/vylrg4-flynnclark-arrogance-and-selfishness-will-be-the-downfall-of-the-ds-patriot.html
Not that I ever read the Daily Star or any daily newspaper (lie sheet) for that matter, the front page headline in the Daily Star this morning pretty much sums up my thoughts, and read ‘Absolute Berk must walk the plank, says absolute Berk who refuses to walk the plank. For anyone who doesn’t understand who the berk in question is, its Boris Johnson. Sorry to upset you with those headlines Biscotte……..
Can we continue to afford our venal, loudmouthed and headline attention seeking politicall blabbermouths, : who take it as their right to stir the political sewage.. I find best to blot it all out. I cannot waste my life
That is also my impression: the value West does not want peace at all, but is using the Ukrainian ‘heroes’ as spearheads to ruin Russia and introduce a war economy in western countries. The EU poodles more or less go along with it, Germany more and more: instead of “dependent” gas from Russia, now fracking gas from the USA. This will make the construction, shipping and US gas industries happy.
The destruction of Putin has been on the cards ever since it was glaringly clear he was not Yeltsin. It was even clearer he was no Yeltsin after he sent US foundations packing from Russia, became very popular with Russians, put its economy on a sound footing and modernised his military. And once he laid down his marker in Syria to protect his naval presence in the Med and successfully kept Assad in power then the US may have felt it was losing influence. Ukraine’s internal Maidan revoltion in 2014 was no doubt seen as an opportunity to continue the provocation of Putin in the hope he would make an error of judgement leading to his downfall and possbily Russian civil disorder resulting in opportunities of US corporate plunder and restoring pax americana. Only the denouement remains.
I agree that we can’t believe anything either side are saying, and I do sincerely hope that we can’t believe Biden who, yesterday, said that a food shortage was coming…
Joe Biden is an absolute clot, and his buffoonery knows no bounds. I wouldn’t believe anything that spews forth out of his mouth. He and Johnson are in equal measure quite the worst leaders ever to grace national and international political arenas. Johnson is a national embarrassment and so unstatesmanlike. How anybody can take him seriously is beyond me, and his appearance this week at the G7 and NATO conferences with uncombed hair and standing there at the photoshoot with both hands in his trouser pockets which were then placed within his suit jacket pockets just proves how slovenly he is. The saying ‘shiny shoes, shiny mind springs to mind here, which would not apply to Johnson. He behaves like a 6th form student rather than a prime minister, and is a disgrace in my book. We deserve better leadership than this.
That was my impression Colin Hussey, a disgrace indeed.
Biden comes across as a clot because he is clearly suffering from dementia. A comparison of his earlier speeches with his ‘performance’ since he became POTUS shows that clearly
We shouldn’t blame him. What comes out of his mouth, policy wise, is all written for him by his puppet masters. They do not have dementia but certainly have mental issues of their own, inhibiting rational thought. It is cruel what they are doing, both to him and to the world. But they need to keep him alive, so to speak, until next January, then Harris can serve two and a half terms; in their dreams. The problem there is that she too does not have dementia, and is not almost 80yo, but is even more brain dead than Biden. And the next in line, Pelosi, has trouble with her programming and is prone to lapse into gibberish; they need to take her back to the lab for an overhaul, or lock the drinks cabinet.
Indeed Colin, when I saw him on the news wandering about like a lost soul I had exactly the same thoughts. An absolute disgrace who I wouldn’t trust to brew up, let alone lead our country.
Unfortunately it is probably the only true thing he has been given to read since he became fake-president. It was baked in to the plans as one more plank of ze Fors Industrrrial Rrrrevolution.
I wouldn’t give the government the benefit of the doubt by saying it is simply that they do not trust us, and benevolently believe they know better. Bumbling incompetence too is always raised by people who make all the logical factual arguments and then continually moan that they just do not understand why the government cannot see this and is acting and in this or that way. But mass nations around the world with widely differing political and geographical make ups, do not all ‘bumble incompetently’ at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way. Occam’s razor. There is nothing benevolent about any of it; be it climate emergency, Covid, jabs or war. It is a deliberate and malign agenda. IMHO, of course.
I’m quite happy with Greenwhich Mean Time. As Peter Hitchens (also a GMT fan) once pointed out, changing the clocks is equivalent to the government saying everyone must get up and go to work, school etc., one hour earlier than previously. Monstrous.
Indeed Stout, absolutely unnecessary now.
You sound how I feel Viv. Here’s a thought, hire a large plane, gather up all the warmomgers and nudgers and fly them into Kyev for a jolly get together. They can all stand in front of an #greenscreen to show how brave and clever they are. The plane will either be grounded with no fuel available or just return without them. Ah well, one can dream.
Viv did you forgo to add the last word “yet”?
No, because they can’t stop spring, they can’t stop birds singing, they can’t stop flowers growing. And they’re not capable of plugging up all our ears and blindfolding us so that we cannot enjoy them.
They will have other things engaging their attention – like: how to deal with the unintended consequences of sanctions, from inflation to food rationing and blackouts.
I get and approve of the sentiment, but never say never. Mount Tambora exploded in 1815 and the monumental amount of dust injected into the stratosphere encircled the Earth blocking sunlight and causing the year without summer: 1816. Earth’s temperature dropped by, some say, three degrees. Snow in June, freezing temperatures in July, a killer frost in August, failed crops and near-famine conditions.
The Banker’s war in Ukraine is obviously not yet causing enough food shortages and chaos. Gates and his philanthropic buddies now want to block sunlight to reduce Earth’s temperature – well that’s the excuse used. What could possibly go wrong (or in their case, right)?
‘ because they can’t stop spring, they can’t stop birds singing, they can’t stop flowers growing…’ But I am becoming afraid that They can with all the poisonous chemicals they spray everywhere, A couple of days ago, I saw a fly, an actual fly, buzzing around in my flat. It was wonderful — I hadn’t seen a fly for ages! The next morning, he was dead on the floor.
Sonya……….in all fairness, the life span of a fly is not that long. If my memory serves me correctly a male fly lasts for about 15 days and a female fly about 28 days. So maybe when that fly flew into your place of abode via an open window or door it had reached that upper stage. On the other hand hand, maybe it heard Boris Johnson sounding off on the radio or TV……..
Yes, indeed Viv. Gardening and walking season well under way. Lets ignore the fear mongers, nudgers MSM, keep our faith and let spring recharge our batteries.
Jake………I agree with you in part there. The walking season however lasts all year with me, being a member of the Long Distance Walking Association and doing 20 plus miles every Saturday irrespective of what season it is, or whether it is sunny, windy or raining. Apart from getting outside into the great British countryside and listening to the birds singing and wild flowers bursting out of the ground, it is a good way of clearing one’s mind of political clutter and the ills of the world, and yes, staying fit.