Free Citizen

2022-06-28

Dr Clare Craig (diagnostic pathologist from the UK) tells Del Bigtree how it was done.

"How bad is it?"

"We couldn't have asked for a more messed up trial"

"... let's not look at a clinical outcome as a primary measure, let's look at antibody blood tests... "

"... it's not about protection, it's just a measure that they fancy using... "

But it gets worse...

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2022-06-28

The education system is supposed to be the springboard from which the lives and careers of our kids are launched, so it's quite important that we should understand what goes on there.

Of course, if you think that the State is perfectly competent to educate your kids then you send them to a state school and you can sit back and put your feet up, or you can send your kids to a private school and pay for the privilege.

As a last resort you can home-school them yourself (unless you fall foul of the new provisions in the Schools Bill).

Either way you probably get to attend a parents' evening where the teachers will tell you what they want you to hear, but what further access do you need and what questions are you entitled to expect an answer to when you believe you may have cause for worry?

Lord Frost - A Genuine Free-Thinker?

2022-06-27

Readers may know the "Fourth Reich" better as the G7.

"... we are dealing with the end of an era"

With the war in the Ukraine hopefully in its last stages, it will be interesting to see whether Zelenskyy sues for peace or whether he is replaced by somebody who will.

All in all a recommended edition of the Fulford Monday review, whether you are a subscriber to his service (when you get to read the whole thing) or not.

(And if the latter - don't worry about nuclear armageddon - just know that its off the table)

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2022-06-27

Once a again John Rappaport lobs a grenade into the confusion and gets to the nub of the matter.

What are we here for? How should we live? What is it we want a government to do for us?

Politics is the battle of ideas, the reconciliation of conflicting imperatives, waged via the conflation of truths half-truths and outright falsehoods and the resulting confusion in the minds of the people.

Rules of the game:

• if they are telling fibs half-fibs or fibbing by omission then be wary
• if they are creating confusion and obfuscation, be wary

Roe v Wade is going to create a political tsunami of epic proportions that will bury (so they hope) the contention over the validity of the Nov 2020 elections for ever. 

2022-06-27

The Federal Reserve of the USA is traditionally regarded as the most influential national central bank in the world.

Due to its latest decision to raise interest rates, and to the huge volumes of financial securities it purchased under QE in earlier times of lower interest rates, the book value of those securities has taken a significant hit. They don't pay as much, so they would sell for less, giving the Fed a loss should it either decide or need to sell them. Technically it could decide not to sell them until interest rates drop again, thus avoiding realisation of any loss, but a forced sale before then would realise the loss.

So will the Fed now run at a loss? Would it matter?

Might it even become insolvent? What would that mean?

These are a few of the most important questions of our time, and the AIER thoughtfully publishes an exploration of the implications. 

Ukraine - How Did We Get Here?

2022-06-25

Well, with summer now in full swing (unless you want to travel by train or plane... ) we have news!

If you can trust it.

The Press Gazette ("The Future of Media") reports on the tanking trust ratings earned by the various news-stand titles, and the current state of play for trustworthy TV news.

It's an interesting analysis, one primary point being that (allegedly) the broadcast TV news tends to be believed more than the newspapers, and whereas a minority makes it over the 50% threshold, none can boast 60%.

And if you are looking to identify the brands that increased their trust rating over the recent years, your hopefulness exceeds your realism.

"Overall, the Reuters Institute report this year found that in part due to a decline in trust, nearly half (46%) of

2022-06-25

Perhaps it really does take a war to concentrate the mind.

Human beings tend to follow their habits and rightly so - if it works don't change it. Habit enables us to navigate the daily routine without applying a great deal of thought to the process.

The problem with that of course, is that when the process becomes inappropriate, the tendency is to continue as per established habit, which no longer produces the required result. 

Rethinking established habits is hard work though, and we are not in general well disposed to volunteer for the task - and when the habit is a group-think affair, getting the group to rethink is an order of magnitude more difficult than just having one person do the rethinking. Now add in everybody's differing vested interests and we can see that the agreed way forward may be tricky to iron out.

So a German scientist (from the relative financial security of retirement) making the case

2022-06-24

Further to our previous report on this Bill, the Together Association has has been able to get barrister Francis Hoar to draft and submit written evidence to the House of Commons Committee on the Online Safety Bill.

His evidence is forensic, a model of clarity of thought and exposition, and damning.

" ‘Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative … Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having...’ [7]

"9 Yet the Bill that the Committee is considering will criminalise offensive speech if it might foreseeably cause a person

2022-06-24

Larry Fink, Black Rock, and...  Aladdin?

Watch, listen, learn...

Conflicts of interest? (Nothing to worry about... ).

"No-one can compete without Aladdin"

'You will own nothing, and be happy'

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2022-06-24

Well, I'll let you come to your own decision about that suggestion .

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Mark follows on from the news report.

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2022-06-24

a) The infamous Roe vs Wade judgement has been overturned - this in effect permits individual states the right to determine their own laws relating to termination of a pregnancy.

b) The Second Amendment covering the citizens' right to bear arms has been upheld, with the New York restrictions on "concealed carry" being overturned as restricting the right to self-defence and therefore incompatible with the Constitution.

Two resounding (if much delayed) victories for the traditional American Constitution.

Some of the dissenting opinions are interesting not because they dissent but because the reasoning behind the dissent fails to

2022-06-24

Agro-chemicals, fertilisers and pesticides are big, big business, dominated by big companies.

Of course, big business supported by big government is an almost unstoppable force where money speaks louder than votes and the transparency over the flows of money is less than obvious.

And the bigger (and thus more remote) the government, the more easily obfuscated the transparency becomes.

Whilst the big players seek to distract us with lurid (and some would say absurd) claims of CO₂ trashing our climate, the damage being done to our farmland flora and fauna by industrial pesticides, and to the very soil itself by overuse of artificial fertilisers, goes unheeded - until the shelves in the shops are emptied.

The EU is an object-lesson in how to construct a government that reflects the priorities of big businesses (with regulated access to lobbying the Commission directly) rather than the priorities of the

2022-06-23

Apparently, according to Amir, the Mossad have been busy embarrassing the Iranians...

I note his remarks on Mohammed bin Salman's relationship with president Erdoğan.

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2022-06-23

I'm not able to verify any of the assertions in this video (dated 15 June), but she seems genuine and if there is substance to her assertions and if you have any information, then you have someone to report it to, and if you don't then no harm done.

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"UK Government Child Trafficking"

2022-06-23

Just to remind everyone that UK Column in addition to its usual slots on Monday Wednesday and Friday lunchtimes now does a Thursday slot a well.

Today Brian Gerrish takes us through matters Ukrainian war, Ukrainian destruction and reconstruction, the Falklands, the Russian enclave in Kaliningrad (ably assisted as so often by Alex Thomson); also the Uvalde Texas school shooting (which Mark Anderson still hasn't given up trying to understand) and lastly Debi Evans with her much awaited report on the goings-on within the MHRA-UKHSA-Bill-&-Melinda-Gates-Foundation axis (we can trust them, they're independent).

Next up, door to door polio vaccines for all kids?

"Vaccine-derived poliovirus has the potential to spread, particularly in communities where vaccine take-up is lower"

So... the vaccinated may ... spread the vaccine-derived virus... to the unvaccinated...

2022-06-23

American history is littered with events large and small including political assassinations (JFK being the most notorious), Unidentified Flying Objects (or Unexplained Aerial Phenomena as we must now call them), unexplained crashed phenomena (AKA Roswell), alleged false flag events (most notoriously 9/11), and much else that defies agreed explanation. 

That's a pretty broad spectrum of alleged phenomena, linked only by the inability of the various concerned parties to agree on their true nature.

This video doesn't solve all the problems but it does present a reasoned and logical exploration that may help us all to think about the bigger picture.

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Summer Solstice Update from Israel

2022-06-22

John O'Looney, undertaker, recounts his experience with the NHS.

"They're insane mate, you wouldn't believe it... "

"Whether people choose to believe it or not I really don't care, I know what I know... "

And more...   "It's only going to get worse as well... "

"... literally, they've drowned from kidney failure... "

"... I've never seen so many people 'not need' a post-mortem who've died suddenly, that just never happened... years ago... if you dropped dead suddenly, you didn't have a choice... you had a post-mortem and that was it... "

Forewarned is forearmed.

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