The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre.

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Sunday, September 21, 2025

The Real Story About The Firing Of Jimmy Kimmel

 

 

Wednesday's decision by Disney / ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for lying about the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination, the left (the architects of cancel culture) exploded with rage - saying that Kimmel's firing was because the Trump2 White House is firing comedians, destroying freedom of expression and taking away democracy. I am surprised and disappointed to see many in the British media, who I thought were slightly more sane, falling for the same hogwash.

The fury of the left has focued on their trying to defend Kimmel's insane assertion that the suspect in the assassination of conservative influence Charlie Kirk is a MAGA (Trump) supporter when all the available evidence (and there's a lot,) shows him to be a far left Trans activist with links to several left wing activist groups. Kimmel's false assertions on this alone are indefensible. 

Jimmy Kimmel, one of that new breed of 'woke' (i.e. not in the least funny unless you think calling people who hold different views to your idiots is scintillating wit,) comedians, has hosted a daily late-night show on ABC for the last ten years, during which time his ratings have dropped steadily, which is not surprising as he has  rountinely insulted half of the voting punlic of the USA night after night.

His suspension (de facto firing,) was announced after three days of mocking relentlessly and making sick jokes on air about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. According to the mainstream media commentariat, this is dangerous censorship, an attack on free speech, state control of the media, blah, blah. Such claims expose a total ignorance of what has been going on in the US.

None of that is true. 

Kimmel’s ‘sacking’ was a business decision, pure and simple. Anybody who is aware of the output from the left-wing US media such as ABC, CNN and MSNBC, will know that they still devote every hour of the day to virulent anti-Trump propaganda while for four years he could hardly find anything to criticise a senile, barely sane Democrat president for. The idea that their bosses now want to suck up to the President by firing someone who opposed him is beyond ludicrous. The cancelling of Jimmy Kimmell is purely a business decision, nothing at all to do with Donald Trump and very little to do with free speech.

The reality is that Kimmel’s unhinged rants over the last week and his claims that "The MAGA crowd are trying to score political points off the assassination," led to many of ABC’s affiliates pulling Kimmel Live from their channels – in the US, large TV companies such as ABC rely on these affiliates to carry broadcasts to local cable viewers. One of the largest affiliates cited a ‘breach of journalistic standards’, while Sinclair’s executive chairman David Smith called the remarks ‘divisive and irresponsible’.

"Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located, Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show," said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division. 

 Put simply, theses affiliates do not want to piss off half of their subscribers who happen to think Kimmel is a far - left dickhead. 

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr blasted Kimmel on Wednesday, telling podcaster Benny Johnson that Kimmel's comments were "truly sick," and that there's a "strong case" for legal action against both ABC and Disney (ABC is a Disney subsidiary). "This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney," said Carr. "These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

With this wholesale loss of syndication, coupled with advertisers also pulling ads from Kimmel's timeslot, and the threat of sanctions from the Federal  regulator, ABC had little choice but to dump the show. Executives from Disney, who own ABC, including CEO Bob Iger and co-chair Dana Walden, cited a surge in ‘advertiser calls’ as a primary factor in suspending the show. These calls reportedly started rolling in after Kimmel’s September 15 monologue, with brands expressing concerns over the ‘insensitive’ remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death potentially damaging their reputations amid national tensions.

As far as I am aware, Kimmel remains free to continue voicing his opinion about Trump, Charlie Kirk or anyone else therefore his right to free speech has not been infringed. He has not been silenced or censored. He hasn't been arrested or jailed. Nobody has put a gagging order on him. He still has his right to free speech, together with his right to find another platform that will have him. Or indeed to create his own platform out of his own pocket as others have done (e.g Graham Linehan's substack,) all that has happened is his client (I assume his contract is as a freelance broadcaster,) has decided the product he is delivering in not fit for purpose by virtue of the fact that it is damaging their revenue stream. He is free to schlepp his schtick around medialand and hope to find somebody willing to pat for it.  Welcome to reality Jimmy.

All that has happened to him is that his employers have terminated his contract, as they are entitled to do, because he has not been successful at his job. It happens to millions of people. And just like those millions, he is free to ply his trade elsewhere.

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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

German Economy In Intensive Care Due To Net Zero Disease

 

A group of German business leaders have written an open letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz demanding a roll-back of decarbonisation policies such as Net Zero before the damage to Germany's economy becomes irreversible. This is a machine translation of the text. 

Federal Chancellery
Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1
10557 Berlin

03.07.2025

It’s Five Past Twelve – Therefore, Industrial Jobs NOW!

Dear Federal Chancellor,

We are in the worst economic crisis since World War II. Last year alone, at least 100,000 industrial jobs were cut without replacement. The political promises of the previous government about a "green economic miracle" are nothing but empty words. The reality is that never before have so many good jobs been at risk as they are today.

In Germany alone, far more than a million people work in energy-intensive industries, most of them in sectors represented by IGBCE and IG Metall. Therefore, we need an Industry and Economic Agenda 2030 NOW!

We need innovations and investments for good jobs and livable regions. We don’t want subsidies handed out arbitrarily, but reasonable framework conditions so that good jobs and value creation in Germany have a future again.

As true as the complaints about paralyzing bureaucracy and delayed digitization are, it is equally true that German energy policy has become one of the most dangerous risks for business and location.

If the energy transition is an operation on the open heart of our economy, as is sometimes said, then it has so far been thoroughly botched. We have to acknowledge: the patient is at risk of dying on the operating table.

For 35 years, PV and wind have been legally privileged and subsidized. However, they still do not contribute significantly more to security of supply than they did three decades ago. Instead, they are causing grid costs in the triple-digit billion range.

The phase-out of nuclear energy and coal for Net Zero has made Germany dependent on unreliable PV and wind power and expensive gas imports. We are paying the price, with the highest electricity prices in Europe. Never before has our electricity supply been so expensive and insecure.

These high electricity prices are not only socially unjust, but they now also threaten our economy, our prosperity, and our social peace.

We demand:

➢ Electricity prices must become internationally competitive again for the economy, especially for the industry. We need an industrial electricity price of 5 ct/kWh. This industrial electricity price must not be further increased by political CO2 costs or overloaded with other requirements.
➢ Permanent full exemption from transmission charges for energy-intensive production, continuation of relief under §19.2 StromNEV, and free connection to the electricity infrastructure with the required capacity.
➢ No further burdens on the self-supply of electricity in the industry. Industrial electricity networks and CHP self-supply are important economic assets and location factors that must be strengthened in international competition.
➢ Instead of further preliminary efforts by Germany and Europe in climate protection, we expect the establishment of a clear linkage: All relevant countries worldwide must commit to equal efforts.
➢ Protection of the industry from the special burdens of the EU ETS through an effective CBAM that includes exports, excludes circumvention, and expands the product scope according to the actual competitive situation.
➢ Upgrading and modernization of foreign trade protection through a fundamental revision of the existing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy instruments of the EU, especially with regard to China.
➢ Fundamental revision of the German hydrogen strategy with the goal of pragmatic and realistic requirements for technology and objectives. For the realistic case that European and international "green lead markets" cannot be implemented promptly, competitive alternatives to H2 must be enabled.
➢ Immediate adoption of an investment-friendly legislative package to enable CCU/S, including state risk coverage and infrastructure investments without technical or industry-specific selection.
➢ Moratorium on power plant shutdowns: New secured capacity must be available before shutdowns occur.
➢ Stop the haphazard expansion of PV and wind: Approvals only for grid-compatible investments.

Dear Federal Chancellor, the German energy transition threatens to overwhelm Germany as a business location – and with it all our colleagues. Instead of further perseverance slogans and sugarcoating, we finally expect clear statements and signals about which specific measures the federal government will take to correct the misdevelopments in German energy and climate policy and make our energy supply internationally competitive again.

The actions of this federal government will not only abstractly determine the future of Germany as an industrial location. Your actions will concretely determine the future of millions of good industrial jobs. The time for empty words is over. Our colleagues will measure this government by its actions!

Sincerely,

Uwe Teubner
Chairman Group Works Council LEAG Toralf Smith Chairman of the General Works Council Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG

Stephanie Albrecht-Suliak
Regional Chairwoman IGBCE Regional District Northeast Dirk Vogeler Chairman of the Works Council ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt

Enrico Symanzig
Chairman of the Works Council BASF Schwarzheide Gmb

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Sunday, April 20, 2025

TDS Sufferers Can't See Trump's Tariffs May Seem Crazy But There's Method In His Madness

Amusing to see all the TDS victims in mainstream media, both paid journalists and ordinary punters in the comment threads, seem to have forgotten that China, aided and abetted (unintentionally perhaps, we should give them the benefit of the doubt,) by western governments, have been waging economic war for decades.

Well informed economics writers were pointing out during the 2008 / 9 financial crisis that if China chose, it could wreck the global economy by using its vast holdings of US debt (bonds,) to collapse the dollar.

Despite this being well known, western nations have continues to export jobs to the far east, run up more debt and encourage China and other 3rd world nations to dump more and more cheap, shoddy, heavily subsidies consumer goods in western markets.

Trump's tariffs may be a crude and ill considered approach to solving this problem, but no matter how much irrational hatred some people harbour towards him, at least admit his administration has acknowledged that the problem exists and needs to be dealt with. 

Throwing markets into disarray with tariffs one minute and then removing them the next may not seem the ideal recipe for boosting business confidence in both the short and long term. Not only do companies need reasonable assurances that their investments will be profitable, but they also need workers that can fulfill business needs. Trump's policies may seem chaotic but as a businessman he is playing a familiar business game.

Manufacturing is extremely complex these days. Gone are the days of plugging a worker onto an assembly line with only a few hours of training. The machinery is complex. It takes real knowledge and skill now to work in most advanced manufacturing facilities, and the United States’ labor force does not have those skills right now. What this means is that any factories that are re-shored to the United States are not going to be as productive as their off-shore equivalent. Not only with these factories be less productive, but they will also cost more to run as labor costs are significantly higher.


The only way to counter these negative incentives is through reasonable, well-articulated, and consistent tariff and domestic policy, which will include, in some form, tax incentives and/or funds for building factories and training workers. International bureaucracies like the WHO and United Nations may complain but there’s no way of getting around that. Reasonable policy will set guard-rails and co-invest; the market will still dictate what, where, and how to build. Every country that has successfully rebuilt their manufacturing base (Germany, South Korea) has done it with this combination of policies. The United States will not be the exception to this rule. 

Still, as described in Boggart Blog's Currency Wars page, China has been working to undermine the economies of the developed world for at least a decade and probably since around the tirn of the century. Politicians in the liberal democracies have been too afraid of being called protectionist, racist or nationalist to act in defence of domestic economies they have allowed the nations they serve to become dependent on China for far too many essential goods. Thrump's chaotic approach may mean there are painful times ahead but someone had to do something sometime. 

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De - Dollarisation: China, Brazil Make Deal To Ditch US Dollar For Bilateral Trades
China and Brazil this week concluded a deal to conduct trade between their nations in their own in their own currencies, ditching the established reserve currency for global trade, US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian announced said on Wednesday. This is Beijing’s latest strike against the almighty greenback in its currency war aimed at shifting the balance of geopolitical and economic power from west to east.

NATO Rhetoric About Russian Threat is 'Absurd'
The reasons being given for the latest NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, the idea that the Russian 'Russian threat' to Eastern Europe grows every day is "simply absurd," according to former US diplomat and Senate policy advisor Jim Jatras. Effectively, Jatras says, the buildup is an attempt by the US to keep Germany and France on board with Washington's world domination agenda and ...

The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly
Significant moves in the global chess game have just rendered the huffing and puffing of warmonger Obama meaningless and will break Wall Street's monopoly in controlling oil markets. The move is part of Vladimir Putin's long-term strategy of decoupling Russia’s economy and especially its very significant export of oil, from the US dollar, in effect ...

Naked Bankers Go For Gold
... That gold sale in 2013 was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery (quite a lot of it belonged to the german government) In effect the naked shorting of gold could only work because really the right hand was selling to the left hand.

The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly In a move that went almost completely unreported in mainstream media, Russia has recently opened a market for the trading of physical and 'paper' oil (futures) in Moscow in Roubles. This is the most blatant challenge yet to the domination of the US dollar in world trade.

WMD in Mayfair
Recalling yesterday's Machiavelli Blog which commented on events surrounding the unfortunate death of the alleged former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it seems the murder investigation has now found evidence of many caches (well OK, traces) of radio active toxins in various fashionable establishments in London's West End frequented by former Russian intelligence agents.

China launches global yuan payment system
China’s Central Bank has started a global payment system which provides cross-border transactions in yuan. The China International Payment System (CIPS) intends to internationalize the yuan and challenge the US dollar's dominance.

Refugee Crisis Or Existential Battle With USA for Europe
It has been clear for some years now that the USA, backed by its main NATO and EU military allies the UK and France (the FUKUS axis has been trying to provoke Russian into firing the shot that will be heard around the world and recognised as the startiung signal for World War Three.
Nothing is ever as it seems to be however, and views from middle east and far eastern journals suggest the USA is also working at destabilizing EU nations in order to force their support in its wars.

EU and US talk of war with Russia
The European People’s Party (EPP) is the largest political group in the European Parliament, and they are unerringly supportive of America's efforts to start a war with Russia. “The time of talk and persuasion with Russia is over," MEP and Vice-President of the EPP told a meeting on Tuesday, 21 April, “Now it’s time for a tough policy, and concentration on defence and security ...”

The Mediterranean Boat People Crisis - How Does Europe Deal With The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a toxic issue which is fuelling the rise of anti EU parties from France to Finnland in the north and Hungary in the east. What can be done?

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The Artificial Intelligence Takeover: Oligarchic Insanity or Socialist Stupidity?

 V N Alexander writes in OffGuardian 

"I am thrilled that the Tech Bros are tearing down the old system, I’m worried they will replace inefficient centralized control and bureaucracy with more efficient AI centralized control and bureaucracy. Collapsing the old system of governance is something, not incidentally perhaps, the WEF has promoted as necessary for the 4th Industrial Revolution, the transhuman revolution.

Elon Musk (at the helm of Neuralink, Starlink), Larry Ellison (with Oracle), Peter Thiel and Alex Karp (who founded Palantir) have all expressed enthusiasm for merging biology with technology, figuring out how to live forever, micro-managing society using algorithms and AI surveillance, and other stupid things.

They each currently have oversized roles in or adjacent to the US federal government.

Should we be concerned?"

Before the US and UK elections of 2024, during America's four years of Biden insanity and the UK's insaneyears of four Prime Ministers (2019 - 2022), along with the constant demonstration of the insanity of the “left-wing, woke” influence in politics another threat to democracy was growing from tech-moguls (The Tech Bros.) intent on using their vast wealth and truncated moral compasses to buy political influence. It is interesting how the far left has put this in the right wing spectrum when The Tech Bros are most often assocated with woke ideology or at the very least the now somewhat outdated concepts of 'progressive liberalism until we get to their ambitions to put all government and business administration matters under the control of Artificial Intelligence and then, unhindered by democratic checks and balances forge ahead with plans to implant microchips in all our brains so that we can be constantly surveiled and controlled by supercomputers in their data centres. 

Wait, who wanted this free AI? When did we vote to have our lives taken over by computers. What exactly is good about this? (Of course, vast part of younger people want it and are delighted, this is the situation because they have been brainwashed in school, by TV and online to believe cyberslavery offers a better future than freedom.) Is this good news? Is this a race, or a synchronized global pseudo-race for radical reconstruction in a mode of false competition? (Here I am already very conspiratorial, there is no way “everyone can be together in this”, they are at war – factions, states, unions..) Wasn’t there something, some kind of principled battle against these things, instead of only against the “bad guys/leftist/foreign tech”, whereby “ours” are good, or at least “inevitability, normal technological development”?

This plan could be dubbed a “better great reset”, with erasure of The World Economic Forum, the murder of the far left and the establishment of a global technocracy.People will be told, forget this stupid principled battle against the radical transformation of societies controlled by a socialist elite with your best interests at heart. Global technocracy is already a fact of life, the cyberoligarchs are here and will run your lives more efficiently than you ever could yourselves, but give us, The Tech Bros 1, absolute power and we will use them for good, let the computers choose good people to apply them for good”… And then there’s the “global technology race.” Elon and his new best friend Donald Trump announce Stargate – the next day the Chinese announce a cool open-source ChatGpt, free for everyone, everyone!

And a large part of the media fell for it: “The Chinese released this Deep Seek AI for free, for everyone, not like the nasty American capitalists!” and also “The Chinese are advancing! We have to catch up with them!"

In Russia too, AI is a hot topic, The Kremlin popaganda machine says: “We need to implement AI everywhere, in every sector of society. AI technologies have great potential to transform society and bring a better future to our citizens… We need to develop Russian AI in order not to lag behind the technological race.”

But wait, before we get carried away with the hype let's pause for reality. Thinking and learning is an iterative process involving dynamic brain waves that are emergent from complex adaptive neurons. Waves are not bits. A memory (knowledge) is a type of neural behavior that is never quite the same twice and can’t be abstracted and uploaded into a brain. I’ve studied the infamous paper that claims uploading false memories is possible: but, in fact, they can only condition past memories, that is, associate feelings (hormonal responses) with past memories.

Neuralink can’t implant ideas and doesn’t read minds. Neuralink merely interfaces with motor control areas of the brain, not with memories or thoughts or language. So, the only “bits” going from brain to computer are those that can be used to activate a mouse, click, and swipe. The nerds employed by The Tech Bros. confuse motor impulses with thoughts, and believe Neuralink will some day be able to help us achieve “symbiosis” with computers and “better align Artificial Intelligence with human collective will.” They do not seem to be aware of the difference between playing a video game faster and acting more intelligently in the world.

 

Having tried Deep Seek as I tried ChatGPT when it was launched I observe that they have an important feature in common. Both thesre 'Intelligent' systems become more stupid the more abstract the questions fed to them become. Or to put it bluntly, ask AI a question that requires thought and analysis, reason, logic or any of the other cognitive skills that define human intelligence and they're fucked.

How fucked? you might well ask.

Fucking fucked it the honest answer Artificial Intelligence could never give. 


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More Globalist Psychopathy: How the Merging of Humans and Technology Will Define The Furure
A presentation at the World Government Summit (WGS) last week in Dubai, unveiled the conference organizers agenda for a Brave New World. Titled “Government in 2071 initiative" the plan was described as a roadmap for governments to interact with “citizens and stakeholders” in effecting dramatic changes in the way the world is governed and societies are organised. Drivers of these radical changes in the way we live will be Artificial Intelligence, robotics and climate change.

World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and Artificial Intelligence to Censor ‘Hate Speech’ & ‘Misinformation’

Despite the fact that they represent only the interests of big business, big finance and themselves, the oligarchs of the World Economic Forum are now calling for a policy of merging human and artificial intelligence systems so that computer chips implanted in our brain can edit and censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is articulated trough spoken of written word online.

Could 'DNA editing' lead to designer babies? Designer babies, human / animal hybrids, these things have been in wet dream territory for scientists for a long time. But now due to techniques such as DNA editing, they are getting worryingly close to reality. And as has been demonstrated many times, scientists have zero uderstanding of where the ethical boundaries lie.

Nothing Good Has Come Of The InternetWhen a technophobe denounces the internet as anti - social, anti jobs, a force for dumbing down or a waste of time it can easily be dismissed but when the CEO of a major technology company like Sony saays nothing good has ever come of the internet we should perhaps listen..

The Robotification Of Human Society Is being Implemented

Are you ready to surrender your humanity to science, accept having computer chips implanted in your skull that will link your brain to the internet (via a Google server) and let your life be controlled by machines? That's what The Controllers are planning for you ... Is The Internet Making Us All Stupid.The more gullible and wide eyed among academics like to burble ecstatically about how the internet has ushered in a new age of creativity. We have to wonder just how much time these self styled experts have spent surfing scial networking sites
Web Induced DementiaIn most civilised societies there are laws governing what outrageous claims advertisers can make for their products. This does not apply on the web it seems, where 'revolutionary new world changing technology' means 'not fit for purpose'

Computer Cops Will Arrest You Before You Commit A Crime
Innocent until proved guilty has always been a basic principle of British and before the Union, English and Scottish justice. Since late in the ninth century when King Alfred signed into law the Liber Judicialis, the presumption of innocence has stood.Thinking of committing a crime was not punishable, only in George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" has Thought Crime ever been a punishable offence. Until now ...

Is Technology Creating Physical and Psychological Hazards In The Digital Age?
Scientific research used to be the area of work that trailblazers, those with an unquenchable desire for new experience and a hyperactive sense of adventure wanted to be involved in. Now those who label themselves 'scientists' seem to have become the high priests of an ultra - conservative religion, determined at all costs to block progess that may lead to understanding that the dogmas of the past are just wrong

The Mummers: The Controlling system And The Illusion Of Freedom
We live in a world of deception, where truth is an ephemeral thing, slippery as an eel and shadowy as a spectre. What we are expercted to perceive as reality is just spin and misinformation designed to ensure the elite maintain their control. There's eff all you can do just get on with your life, say the shills for big government and authoritarianism. But are we really nothing more than slaves of the system?

Google's Brave New World Of Artificial Intelligence - And The Destruction Humanity
Almost every day we hear scientists burbling about artificial intelligence and how very soon machines will be smarter than humans. As scientists are nowhere near as smart as humans its hard to see how science can build something smarter. The problem is of course we don't understand what contsitutes intelligence - those who think academic qualifications are the only indicator are retards. So where will this madness to replace us with machines end?

Transhumanism - What The Elite And Their Science Whores Have Planned For You
Transhumanism, the creation of - or turning us into - part human, part machine cyborgs is generating a lot of discussion and a lot of spontaneous ejaculations in the scientific community as they contemplate having their brains replaced by a computer. There are no limits on the ambitions of scientists fantasies, they even envisage creating robots that can interbreed with us, but how much is realistic?

Don't be Evil, Google Will Do It For You
Google have abandoned their "Don't Be Evil motto. Good thing really, they are becoming more evil every day. The latest plans to integrate our brains with their servers may seem like a science fiction freaks wet dream, but these creepy nerds are serious ...

Google wants to change the way you see the world
News Used To Be Important - Now It's Just EntertainmentPeople talk about technology, mainly television, cellulat telephones and the internet having given us an unprecedented ability to communicate. But have they? OK, we can trade meaningless messages with strangers on the other side of the world, we can join the cacophony of social netwoks where everybody yells at once and nobody listens, or we can sit in isolation, shouting inmto the void. But none of those are communicating. Technology has actually inhibited communication. ...

Intrusive Surveillance Technology, Internet control freaks and The Orwell-Huxley-Dick Dystiopianometer
Are privacy campaigners right to be worried about intrustive internet technology and the massive databases that log our behaviour and parse the data for patters that enable us to be targeted for advertising? Should we bee worried by surveillance or are those that raise doubts just scaremongering? The Orwell-huxley-Dick dystopianometer is rising.

So Who Is Anti - science? Those Who Question Climate Change Or Those Who Would Abolish Free Speech
It was looking as if the global warming scare was dead, then that Nazi shit Barack Obama, seeing his dream of being President Of The World slipping away, gave his science whores enough money to enable them to kick some life back into it. Now the "science" lobby, unable to put together an convinging argument against their challengers are demanding the abolition of free speech.

New World Order War On free Speech Comes To Britain - Guardian editor accused of treason
The right to free speech is under threat from intolerant, authoritarian elitists, call them The Illuminati, New World Order, Scientific Dictatorshgip, Global Elite, whatever. Their goal is absolute power and they know that while the right of free speech, the free press and free access to information exist they cannot succeed.

How academic debate is suppressed on science topics like Climate Change, GMOs, Pesticides and Toxicity of medicines
Intellectual intolerance and the supposed superiority of the scientific education have led not just to the politiciisation of science but to it's being seduced by corporate money and political power. Science was ever fascism's whore of course and the egos of scientists are easily bought. This has led to a very unhealthy emergence of dogmas and orthodoxies and an intolerance of the dissent that is essential if scientific research is to have any credibility.

Phobophobia - Fear Of Being called Phobic?
Homophobia is not fear of homosexuals but fear of thec same thing which does not make sense. Just as politically correct thinking uses the word bigot nonsensically so it's accusations of phobia are irrational - as irrational as the groundless fear familiar to those who suffer the recognized medical conditions called phobias.

The Importance Of Free Speech And A Free Press
Politicians around the developed world including leaders of the two most powerful democracies, Barack Obama and David Cameron have been falling over themselves to join the attack on free speech. On subjects as diverse as climate…

Scientists create human-sheep chimera with hopes of affordable organ transplants
A team of scientists has grown hybrid embryos in the womb of a sheep that contain human stem cells, moving the sci-fi idea of developing human organs inside animals one step closer to reality, and sparking ethical concerns. The development could potentially save thousands lives among people who are in a need of vital organ transplants.SSS

The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Your Entire Life Will Be Monitored On The Internet
We have reported many times on the Internet of Things an idea planned by the big technology companies and bevoled of control freak mainstream politicians and the creepy people who run global corporations. Those who love the idea of technology controlling us are cheering the idea ...

Google’s Eric Schmidt Greases Skids For Internet Brain Chip Google CEO Eric Schmidt greased the skids for an Internet brain chip during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier today when he predicted the end of the world wide web as an external concept. Asked how he saw the Internet developing in future years, Schmidt responded, “There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it.”

The Robotification Of Human Society Is being Implemented

Are you ready to surrender your humanity to science, accept having computer chips implanted in your skull that will link your brain to the internet (via a Google server) and let your life be controlled by machines? That's what The Controllers are planning for you ... Transhumanism: The Elite's Agenda For Total Control
Robot lovers, indestrictible soldiers with no mercy or compassion, everlasting life for beings that are part human, part machine, genetically modified humans with supernatural strength and endurance competing in future 'hungrer Games' style Olympic tournaments: the plot of some dystopian novel? No, actual items in the elite's agenda for total control.
Transhumanism and Eugenics
We have said many times that the science community is at war with humanity. Scientists are out of control, evry day we hear of some new scheme to try to control nature, be it human nature or the climate. Given what we ought to have learned from all previous attempts to control nature we can only conclude that scientists are insane psychos willing to risk destroying life to show off how clever they are.
Transhumanism: Join The Resistance
Transhumanism, the creation of - or turning us into - part human, part machine cyborgs is generating a lot of discussion and a lot of spontaneous ejaculations in the scientific community as they contemplate having their brains replaced by a computer. There are no limits on the ambitions of scientists fantasies, they even envisage creating robots that can interbreed with us, but how much is realistic?

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Sunday, December 01, 2024

Socialism and The Campaign Against Free Speech


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The Free Speech Union is bringing a legal challenge against Bridget Phillipson, whom it believes acted unlawfully when she ‘paused’ the Act. You can help pay the FSU’s legal costs by donating to this CrowdJustice fundraiser here.

In July this year, only days after the far left Labour Party's election victory returned them to government after a gap of fourteen years, the Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, issued a statement to the House of Commons saying she intended to halt the progress of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, “in order to consider options, including its repeal”.

It was fitting that the Labour Government would declare war on free speech in a written statement, posted quietly to the House of Commons website on a Friday – a good day for bad news, as any journalist will tell you – and unaccompanied by any opportunity for parliamentary debate or scrutiny. Socialists have always feared and loathed free speech as it allows people to tell the truth about what a nasty, elitist political philosophy socialism really is underneath that veneer of hypocriticl virtue signalling.

The Freedom of Speech Act was a carefully crafted piece of legislation, properly debated in both House of Parliament, designed to address the free speech crisis in our universities and media,  and put a stop to persecution of students and staff members whose opinions do not align with those of certain influential cliques. It would have strengthened the legal duty on English universities to uphold and promote freedom of speech, and it created enforcement mechanisms to make sure universities didn’t ignore that duty.

The campign against free speech is not a policy excluive to this Labour government Labour however, has been under way since the first Blair Government in May 2007 while similar ideologies were being pursued in the USA and Canada, Australia and among EU member states. 

Significantly, within months of assuming power the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act abolished capital punishment for the crime of Treason by making the maximum punishment life imprisonment. With hindsight, Blair declared his intentions. Since then successive Conservative and Labour Governments have only added further measures that whittle away ‘Centuries of Freedoms’, often in response to issues that government policies themselves have created, such as terrorism. 

It is no coincidence that in the same period, Governments have kowtowed to the ‘big is beautiful’ mantra for business and allowed vastly wealthy individuals to influence decision making. This has been aided and abetted by anything but impartial civil servants and senior police officers.

All these people have been working with the basic assumption that they are fireproof against life ending consequences. However, that which has been removed can be restored. They have closed their minds to the reality of gravity: pendulums do eventually return in direction and hanging takes advantage of this force.

This blog's contributors are libertarians and free speech absolutists, we either have free speech or we don’t.  There are no in - betweens, and if we don't have free speech, i.e. the right to discuss ideas and express opinions no matter how unpopular they may be in government circkes, we are no longer free citizens  Nobody should be exempt from criticism or scrutiny, no matter what their political leanings, religious persuasion, sexual preference, but this is evidently not the case in the Clown World inhabited by political leadrersd and opiion shapers. On the contrary, there are now more and more things we aren’t allowed to say, either in person or online, and it stinks.

”In a free society, not a single belief, opinion, ideology, religion, or attitude is above scrutiny. Your beliefs do not get a pass from the judgment of others because they are cloaked in the magical robe of religion. The West is under the suicidal presumption that there is ONE religion that can never be criticized, judged, mocked, and scrutinized. And it is not Christianity.

Likewise there are sexual orientations and identities which may not be questioned or critiised.

The quicker that this reflex is lost the safer your children and grandchildren will be. Do not pray at the altar of Suicidal Empathy. Freedom of speech is a deontological principle. Wake up everyboody.”

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