ukcolumn--2020-04-15--UK Column News - 15th April 2020: The Imperial College Bill Gates Connection

Brian Gerrish , Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson are joined by Vanessa Beeley for today 's UK Column News , bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates .
START – CoronaVirus statistics update Is the cure worse than the disease – lockdown more dangerous than freedom… ?
Anyone questioning the lockdown narrative is being silenced or threatened Imperial College London : meet pandemic ‘ expert ’ professor Neil Ferguson The Gates effect : who is really driving CoronaVirus policy worldwide… ?
GAVI – the vaccine alliance : started with a $ 750 million Bill Gates donation Human Rights : destroyed under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government health policy – vaccine bonds are available… The ultra-wealthy are controlling medicine and vaccines Awakening : Bill Gates ’ Twitter account under huge attack from the public Gates : the vaccine ‘ expert ’ of UK governments ’ s DFID or the paymaster of DFID… ?
Another Gates stooge : meet England ’ s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty Sage advice… ?
Enter the UK government ‘ secret sages ’ UK government COVID-19 vaccines for profit scam… Gates ’ ideas not a benign humanitarian response to COVID-19 – this has been planned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawyer detained for opposition German lawyer Beate Bahner : we are being tyrannised by evil , evil forces Bahner ’ s website has been shutdown by German government Germany has a high number of medical and legal dissidents Committal with a single signature was the modus operandi of communist East Germany 42:37 – UK economy : OBR produces a guess at likely economic outcome of CV 47:27 – Does the EU want to survive… ?
Do the Dutch want to leave… ?
51:35 – What can we do… ?
A polite backlash is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : cheerful and still fighting

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson are joined by Vanessa Beeley for today's UK Column News, bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates.
START – CoronaVirus statistics update
Is the cure worse than the disease – lockdown more dangerous than freedom…?
Anyone questioning the lockdown narrative is being silenced or threatened
Imperial College London: meet pandemic ‘expert’ professor Neil Ferguson
The Gates effect: who is really driving CoronaVirus policy worldwide…?
GAVI – the vaccine alliance: started with a $750 million Bill Gates donation
Human Rights: destroyed under the banner of humanitarianism…
Corporations now run government health policy – vaccine bonds are available…
The ultra-wealthy are controlling medicine and vaccines
Awakening: Bill Gates’ Twitter account under huge attack from the public
Gates: the vaccine ‘expert’ of UK governments’s DFID or the paymaster of DFID…?
Another Gates stooge: meet England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty
Sage advice…? Enter the UK government ‘secret sages’
UK government COVID-19 vaccines for profit scam…
Gates’ ideas not a benign humanitarian response to COVID-19 – this has been planned
30:27 – CoronaVirus lockdown: German medical lawyer detained for opposition
German lawyer Beate Bahner: we are being tyrannised by evil, evil forces
Bahner’s website has been shutdown by German government
Germany has a high number of medical and legal dissidents
Committal with a single signature was the modus operandi of communist East Germany
42:37 – UK economy: OBR produces a guess at likely economic outcome of CV
47:27 – Does the EU want to survive…? Do the Dutch want to leave…?
51:35 – What can we do…?
A polite backlash is needed from the public
Ian R. Crane: cheerful and still fighting


ukcolumn--2020-04-14--Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained for opposition

A large number of well-established doctors and lawyers in the German-speaking countries have questioned the constitutionality of their governments ' stringent confinement measures , which are commonly being referred to by the English loan-word der Shutdown ( as there is no precedent for what to call the situation in German ) .
These measures have begun to be challenged openly on the streets of Berlin .
The medical and legal dissidents number in the dozens .
None , however , has paid such a price for that freedom of speech as the German medical lawyer Beate Bahner , who has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publicly disagreeing with the measures and policies followed by the German government .
No right to demonstrate Beate Bahner , in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg , has a 25-year career and has won three cases before the Federal Constitutional Court ( German Supreme Court ) in the domain of unlawful infringements of the right to practise one 's profession .
She has written five books on medical law , most recently an analysis of the 2016 federal act to tackle corruption in the healthcare system .
On Friday 3 April 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decrying the German government 's Coronavirus measures as `` flagrantly unconstitutional , infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of German citizens '' .
The statement argued that the small minority of the public that was at risk of serious harm in the event of contracting Covid–19 could be far more suitably protected by means of targeted measures based on the principle of adult responsibility for safeguarding one 's own health .
Noting that the Federal Ministry of Health had failed so far to supply protective equipment to medics and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tests to establish the actual rate of infection in the population , Ms Bahner went on in her press release to predict that the shutdown would have `` devastating consequences for society , the economy , democracy and above all human health '' , and indicated her readiness to take the matter to the Federal Constitutional Court , since the lockdown represented a grave violation of the constitutional principle of proportionate measures and an abandonment by the state of its duty to guarantee the liberty and health of its citizens .
Ms Bahner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nineteen-page legal analysis published on 7 April entitled Why the shutdown is unconstitutional and the greatest legal scandal in the post-1940s history of Germany .
The headings of the document are as follows : 1 .
The Coronavirus Regulations in the State of Baden-Württemberg — grounds ; citizens ' responsibilities and demands made on them ; lack of state competence to issue the regulations ; curtailment of practically all fundamental rights and freedoms ; the need to nullify all Coronavirus regulations with immediate effect 2 .
The Infection Prevention Act forms no legal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purpose of the Act ; notifiable diseases and evidence of pathogens 3 .
Epidemic containment measures — those restricted to persons actually ill or suspected of being bearers ; those applying only marginally to healthy persons ; the administrative law precedent from the measles ruling ; the unlawfulness of a blanket shutdown of institutions and businesses ; shutdown constitutes a severe and unconstitutional impingement of the freedom to practice one 's profession 4 .
The Act is meant to ensure people assume responsibility for their own health — spread of Covid–19 by droplets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every citizen 's right to immunisation ; quarantines are supposed to confine the sick , not the healthy 5 .
The local state Coronavirus Regulations flagrantly breach the Basic Law — state governments have disregarded the federal government 's lawful regulation ; the shutdown is the greatest legal scandal in the history of post-War Germany ; criminal offences by the state government and police ; the ban on demonstrations has suspended the right to resist ; fines and detentions are unlawful After these substantive sections , Ms Bahner closed her document with three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of these appeals , to demonstrate against `` coronoia '' ( Coronavirus paranoia ) , that landed Ms Bahner in trouble .
In full , it read : The next day , Heidelberg Police announced their intention to prosecute Ms Bahner for this appeal , on the grounds of Article 111 of the German Penal Code : The police notification sent to Ms Bahner , ordering her to appear for interview as a criminal suspect on 15 April , stated : Ms Bahner 's website was duly switched off that day ( 9 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next day .
Meanwhile , as previously announced , Ms Bahner had submitted a 36-page urgent motion to the German Constitutional Court regarding the unlawfulness of all 16 German federal states ' Coronavirus measures , on 8 April .
At closing time on Good Friday ( 10 April ) , the Constitutional Court faxed its refusal to hear her motion , finding it inadmissible as a matter of inferior administrative law .
On Easter Monday , a recording was uploaded of a calm 12½-minute voicemail left by Ms Bahner for her sister , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home on Easter Sunday evening ( 12 April ) .
The voice in the recording matches a previous video recording of Ms Bahner ( ironically , one in which she describes nursing liability law ) .
In the voicemail , Ms Bahner recounts : I went into the garage and found a car following me suspiciously .
After standing in front of my car for ten minutes , I sensed something was not right and ran back out of the garage .
Stupidly , I did n't run into the house , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ car on Voss-strasse and she just did n't show up again … I asked a passing car to call the police for me .
They simply kept refusing to [ respond ] for five minutes , and then I realised it had been a huge mistake to call the police , because at the moment I 'm Number One Enemy of the State .
When the police did arrive , I told them I felt threatened .
They brought the handcuffs out and pushed me to the ground with massive force .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten minutes with my hands cuffed behind my back , then they drove me around the corner to the psychiatric clinic .
There were four police officers there , three nurses , and a doctor , though she only arrived ten minutes later .
I asked to be allowed to sit down and was shown to a bench .
Then I asked to have the handcuffs taken off , since it was actually I who had requested police protection .
But instead , I was thrown to the floor again , having my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a metre ( 3 ft ) height , which nobody reacted to .
Then they asked me whether I wanted a face mask , which of course I declined .
Because I refused to move , they physically carried me to the doctor , who asked me `` why I felt threatened '' , even though they all know perfectly well who I am .
I was told I would not be given a lawyer .
She goes on to describe in the voicemail her unfamiliarity with the psychiatric facility to which she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a local lawyer who apparently had to visit clients in that clinic in the past : After a further ten minutes of description of how Ms Bahner was `` upgraded '' from the floor of an isolation cell to a proper furnished room with good nurses , she ends the voicemail to her sister with the observation : Ms Bahner 's presence at the Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie on Voss-strasse in Heidelberg , a university clinic , was confirmed on Tuesday 14 April in a telephone call by journalist Hagen Grell .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out a public statement on the case and refused to allow him to speak to Ms Bahner , but suggested that if he were able to obtain her mobile telephone number , he would be able to call her directly .
The detention has also been reported by local Heidelberg media , regional media and a national news source .
Ms Bahner 's interview for `` incitement to commit criminal acts '' is reportedly scheduled for 1 pm on Wednesday 15 April at the K6 Heidelberg Criminal Police Department on Römerstrasse .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote to the German Federal Bar Association that it should take up Ms Bahner 's case , if only because the Psychiatric Treatment Act did not in his understanding justify the committal of a person to an institution on the `` alleged perception of a police officer '' that she appeared confused .
He added : Confinement of whistleblowers in psychiatric institutions , an old Soviet technique , has previously been reported by UK Column from Lancashire ( in our most viewed ever video , an interview with social worker Carol Woods , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but remains at threat from persecutors ) ; from North Yorkshire ( in the Hofschröer case , extending to Germany and Austria ) ; from Nottinghamshire ( the case of Melanie Shaw , who is now being well looked after in another institution ) ; and from Cornwall ( the case of Emma , a mother who had reported apparent sexual grooming going on at her child 's primary school ) .
UPDATE : A statement on Ms Bahner 's website of Wednesday 15 April indicates that she was released from psychiatric committal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ afternoon of 15 April , dozens of protestors rallied in front of the Heidelberg Criminal Police building where Ms Bahner had just been interviewed for alleged incitement to commit criminal offences .
Ms Bahner told the assembled crowd that she had been given a date , apparently for a further interview .
A statement of 14 April by the Heidelberg Public Prosecutor , the body 's second press statement on Ms Bahner , announces that her prosecution by criminal police and the State Security Department is continuing and insists that the criminal proceedings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ either the psychiatric committal of the accused or any other use of force by law enforcement '' .

A large number of well-established doctors and lawyers in the German-speaking countries have questioned the constitutionality of their governments' stringent confinement measures, which are commonly being referred to by the English loan-word der Shutdown (as there is no precedent for what to call the situation in German). These measures have begun to be challenged openly on the streets of Berlin. The medical and legal dissidents number in the dozens. None, however, has paid such a price for that freedom of speech as the German medical lawyer Beate Bahner, who has been committed to a psychiatric institution for publicly disagreeing with the measures and policies followed by the German government.
No right to demonstrate
Beate Bahner, in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, has a 25-year career and has won three cases before the Federal Constitutional Court (German Supreme Court) in the domain of unlawful infringements of the right to practise one's profession. She has written five books on medical law, most recently an analysis of the 2016 federal act to tackle corruption in the healthcare system.
On Friday 3 April 2020, Ms Bahner issued a press release decrying the German government's Coronavirus measures as "flagrantly unconstitutional, infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of German citizens". The statement argued that the small minority of the public that was at risk of serious harm in the event of contracting Covid–19 could be far more suitably protected by means of targeted measures based on the principle of adult responsibility for safeguarding one's own health.
She continued:
In particular, these measures are not justified by the Infection Prevention Act, which was hurriedly amended just a few days ago. Long-term restrictions on leaving home and meeting others, based on high-death-rate modelled scenarios (which fail to take account of actual critical expert opinions), and the complete shutdown of businesses and shops with no proof that they pose any risk of infection, are thoroughly unlawful.
Noting that the Federal Ministry of Health had failed so far to supply protective equipment to medics and care workers and to conduct enough random tests to establish the actual rate of infection in the population, Ms Bahner went on in her press release to predict that the shutdown would have "devastating consequences for society, the economy, democracy and above all human health", and indicated her readiness to take the matter to the Federal Constitutional Court, since the lockdown represented a grave violation of the constitutional principle of proportionate measures and an abandonment by the state of its duty to guarantee the liberty and health of its citizens.
Ms Bahner followed up that press release with a nineteen-page legal analysis published on 7 April entitled Why the shutdown is unconstitutional and the greatest legal scandal in the post-1940s history of Germany. The headings of the document are as follows:
1. The Coronavirus Regulations in the State of Baden-Württemberg —
grounds;
citizens' responsibilities and demands made on them;
lack of state competence to issue the regulations;
curtailment of practically all fundamental rights and freedoms;
the need to nullify all Coronavirus regulations with immediate effect 2. The Infection Prevention Act forms no legal basis for the shutdown —
intent and purpose of the Act;
notifiable diseases and evidence of pathogens 3. Epidemic containment measures —
those restricted to persons actually ill or suspected of being bearers;
those applying only marginally to healthy persons;
the administrative law precedent from the measles ruling;
the unlawfulness of a blanket shutdown of institutions and businesses;
shutdown constitutes a severe and unconstitutional impingement of the freedom to practice one's profession 4. The Act is meant to ensure people assume responsibility for their own health —
spread of Covid–19 by droplets;
following the Chancellor's guidance;
every citizen's right to immunisation;
quarantines are supposed to confine the sick, not the healthy 5. The local state Coronavirus Regulations flagrantly breach the Basic Law —
state governments have disregarded the federal government's lawful regulation;
the shutdown is the greatest legal scandal in the history of post-War Germany;
criminal offences by the state government and police;
the ban on demonstrations has suspended the right to resist;
fines and detentions are unlawful
After these substantive sections, Ms Bahner closed her document with three brief appeals:
An appeal to the Chancellor and all heads of government to end the tyranny at once A call for a nationwide demonstration at 3 pm on Easter Saturday The oaths of all lawyers and judges bind us to safeguard the rule of law
It was the second of these appeals, to demonstrate against "coronoia" (Coronavirus paranoia), that landed Ms Bahner in trouble. In full, it read:
Fellow citizens, I hereby invite all 83 million of you across the nation to gather and demonstrate peacefully at 3 pm on Easter Saturday: Coronoia 2020 — [Tyranny] never again. We rise up today! In accordance with §14.1 of the Assembly Act, please give the competent authority prior notification of your intent to demonstrate.
Website takedown
The next day, Heidelberg Police announced their intention to prosecute Ms Bahner for this appeal, on the grounds of Article 111 of the German Penal Code:
He who publicly, whether in a gathering or by disseminating writing, encourages an illegal act will be prosecuted for incitement.
The police notification sent to Ms Bahner, ordering her to appear for interview as a criminal suspect on 15 April, stated:
As I have not been able to reach you personally, I inform you by this letter that due to your public call to commit criminal acts (national gatherings at 3 pm on Easter Saturday despite a ban), your website will immediately be switched off. An order to that effect is being sent to the company 1&1 Telekommunikation SE.
Ms Bahner's website was duly switched off that day (9 April) but was available again the next day.
Supreme Court declines case
Meanwhile, as previously announced, Ms Bahner had submitted a 36-page urgent motion to the German Constitutional Court regarding the unlawfulness of all 16 German federal states' Coronavirus measures, on 8 April. At closing time on Good Friday (10 April), the Constitutional Court faxed its refusal to hear her motion, finding it inadmissible as a matter of inferior administrative law.
Violent committal to psychiatric clinic
On Easter Monday, a recording was uploaded of a calm 12½-minute voicemail left by Ms Bahner for her sister, describing a massively brutal swoop on her home on Easter Sunday evening (12 April). The voice in the recording matches a previous video recording of Ms Bahner (ironically, one in which she describes nursing liability law). In the voicemail, Ms Bahner recounts:
I went into the garage and found a car following me suspiciously. After standing in front of my car for ten minutes, I sensed something was not right and ran back out of the garage. Stupidly, I didn't run into the house, because my secretary had gone to get her car on Voss-strasse and she just didn't show up again … I asked a passing car to call the police for me. They simply kept refusing to [respond] for five minutes, and then I realised it had been a huge mistake to call the police, because at the moment I'm Number One Enemy of the State. When the police did arrive, I told them I felt threatened. They brought the handcuffs out and pushed me to the ground with massive force. They kept me sitting in their car for ten minutes with my hands cuffed behind my back, then they drove me around the corner to the psychiatric clinic. There were four police officers there, three nurses, and a doctor, though she only arrived ten minutes later. I asked to be allowed to sit down and was shown to a bench. Then I asked to have the handcuffs taken off, since it was actually I who had requested police protection. But instead, I was thrown to the floor again, having my head hurled onto the stone floor from a metre (3 ft) height, which nobody reacted to. Then they asked me whether I wanted a face mask, which of course I declined. Because I refused to move, they physically carried me to the doctor, who asked me "why I felt threatened", even though they all know perfectly well who I am. I was told I would not be given a lawyer.
She goes on to describe in the voicemail her unfamiliarity with the psychiatric facility to which she was taken, even though she is a local lawyer who apparently had to visit clients in that clinic in the past:
Then I was forced to spend the night lying on the floor in some high-security Guantanamo psychiatric clinic, which I didn't recognise; it's been renovated. There was no toilet, no sink, though they did allow me water, and there was a bell I could ring, though they ignored it after the third time I pressed it.
After a further ten minutes of description of how Ms Bahner was "upgraded" from the floor of an isolation cell to a proper furnished room with good nurses, she ends the voicemail to her sister with the observation:
I have been held here for 20 hours now. If people don't finally wake up, this is going to turn into the worst régime of terror ever … We are being tyrannised by evil, evil, evil forces. Last night, I was petrified of being killed, of being forceably injected. I am fearful of being disappeared … Because I had been without a mobile phone at the time I was arrested, I had no way of contacting anyone … I have a summons for Wednesday [15 April] because I allegedly breached Article 111 of the Penal Code, "Incitement to Criminal Acts". I called upon people to demonstrate! Freedom of speech was the most fundamental constitutional right in Germany, and in the space of three months it has become a criminal act.
Ms Bahner's presence at the Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie on Voss-strasse in Heidelberg, a university clinic, was confirmed on Tuesday 14 April in a telephone call by journalist Hagen Grell. The clinic told him that it had put out a public statement on the case and refused to allow him to speak to Ms Bahner, but suggested that if he were able to obtain her mobile telephone number, he would be able to call her directly.
The detention has also been reported by local Heidelberg media, regional media and a national news source. Ms Bahner's interview for "incitement to commit criminal acts" is reportedly scheduled for 1 pm on Wednesday 15 April at the K6 Heidelberg Criminal Police Department on Römerstrasse.
On Tuesday 14 April, Attorney W. Schmitz wrote to the German Federal Bar Association that it should take up Ms Bahner's case, if only because the Psychiatric Treatment Act did not in his understanding justify the committal of a person to an institution on the "alleged perception of a police officer" that she appeared confused. He added:
I should not have to add that Ms Bahner's claims of very grave abuse have very untoward connotations of the darkest chapters of German history. The mere fact that she claimed to have been so badly abused was what prompted me to write to you. Ms Bahner is in the company of over 50 well-known experts in criticising the nationwide lockdown; I would be glad to furnish you with a list of their names. If it really is the case that lawyers critical of government measures can now be intimidated using the state legal apparatus or psychiatry, and can be professionally and socially destroyed, then it is five minutes to midnight in this country.
Confinement of whistleblowers in psychiatric institutions, an old Soviet technique, has previously been reported by UK Column from Lancashire (in our most viewed ever video, an interview with social worker Carol Woods, who we understand has recently been released but remains at threat from persecutors); from North Yorkshire (in the Hofschröer case, extending to Germany and Austria); from Nottinghamshire (the case of Melanie Shaw, who is now being well looked after in another institution); and from Cornwall (the case of Emma, a mother who had reported apparent sexual grooming going on at her child's primary school).
UPDATE: A statement on Ms Bahner's website of Wednesday 15 April indicates that she was released from psychiatric committal the previous evening. In the early afternoon of 15 April, dozens of protestors rallied in front of the Heidelberg Criminal Police building where Ms Bahner had just been interviewed for alleged incitement to commit criminal offences. Ms Bahner told the assembled crowd that she had been given a date, apparently for a further interview.
Ms Bahner's statement ends:
Beate Bahner requires no legal representation, since practically the whole legal profession and the whole judicial system has utterly failed in the past two weeks, thereby contributing to the abolition of the rule of law and the lightning-quick setting-up of the most monstrous and appalling régime of injustice that the world has ever seen.
A statement of 14 April by the Heidelberg Public Prosecutor, the body's second press statement on Ms Bahner, announces that her prosecution by criminal police and the State Security Department is continuing and insists that the criminal proceedings against her have nothing to with "either the psychiatric committal of the accused or any other use of force by law enforcement".


ukcolumn--2020-04-13--UK Column News - 13th April 2020

UK Column News - 13th April 2020

Brian Gerrish , Mike Robinson and David Scott are joined by Piers Robinson for today 's UK Column News , bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates .
START – CoronaVirus statistics update More scientific organisations are asking questions about CoronaVirus CV testing seems to produce a large amount of false positives Piers Robinson : attacked online for asking questions about CoronaVirus Attacks are designed to silence dissent , limit debate and smear questioners How many genuinely independent scientists are there in academia now… ?
15:41 – Boris discharged from hospital – delivers NHS tribute Government to insist on CV tracking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Media : 3 months ago attacked Boris , now defends him regardless… 21:38 – Ian R. Crane – good news following operation 24:10 – 2011 : Bill Gates Foundation awards $ 20 million to BBC World Service Trust Gates Foundation has also been donating millions to BBC Media Action for years BBC donations are a bung to buy media power and persuasion worldwide Bill Gates : an unqualified ‘ health expert ’ … Event 201 ( November 2019 ) : a pandemic simulation by John Hopkins University Most world-changing events have been mysteriously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lady Gaga and Bill Gates as potential ‘ follows ’ British government is in bed with Bill Gates and other billionaires & their agendas Who voted for these people to be controlling government policy… ?
Gates Foundation has not committed itself to any form of compliance The dark lord of British government and media…but just who is Bill Gates… ?
Bill Gates : just the man to make millions from compulsory CV vaccinations… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposes Bill Gates ’ vaccine agenda in scathing report Gates Foundation vaccination programs have killed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asked to leave India after paralysing 490,000 children… Robert F. Kennedy Jr : The WHO is a sock puppet for the pharmaceutical industry USA : Washington field hospital to be dismantled before ever treating a patient NHS Nightingale hospital : no updates since the announcement of it opening US Federal Reserve now excedes $ 6 trillion of money printing… International Development : a further £200 million donated to prevent CV abroad 49:16 – Twitter : police tweeting further threats to end liberty… ?
USA : drive-in church service targeted after mayor prohibits such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into home looking for a ‘ social gathering ’ … Common Purpose insisted people in power should act ‘ beyond their authority ’ The public are creating some great memes to fight back

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and David Scott are joined by Piers Robinson for today's UK Column News, bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates.
START – CoronaVirus statistics update
More scientific organisations are asking questions about CoronaVirus
CV testing seems to produce a large amount of false positives
Piers Robinson: attacked online for asking questions about CoronaVirus
Attacks are designed to silence dissent, limit debate and smear questioners
How many genuinely independent scientists are there in academia now…?
15:41 – Boris discharged from hospital – delivers NHS tribute
Government to insist on CV tracking app before lockdown is lifted…?
MainStream Media: 3 months ago attacked Boris, now defends him regardless…
21:38 – Ian R. Crane – good news following operation
24:10 – 2011: Bill Gates Foundation awards $20 million to BBC World Service Trust
Gates Foundation has also been donating millions to BBC Media Action for years
BBC donations are a bung to buy media power and persuasion worldwide
Bill Gates: an unqualified ‘health expert’…
Event 201 (November 2019): a pandemic simulation by John Hopkins University
Most world-changing events have been mysteriously preceded by a simulation…
Twitter busy pushing Lady Gaga and Bill Gates as potential ‘follows’
British government is in bed with Bill Gates and other billionaires & their agendas
Who voted for these people to be controlling government policy…?
Gates Foundation has not committed itself to any form of compliance
The dark lord of British government and media…but just who is Bill Gates…?
Bill Gates: just the man to make millions from compulsory CV vaccinations…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposes Bill Gates’ vaccine agenda in scathing report
Gates Foundation vaccination programs have killed and injured many people worldwide
Gates Foundation was asked to leave India after paralysing 490,000 children…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: The WHO is a sock puppet for the pharmaceutical industry
USA: Washington field hospital to be dismantled before ever treating a patient
NHS Nightingale hospital: no updates since the announcement of it opening
US Federal Reserve now excedes $6 trillion of money printing…
International Development: a further £200 million donated to prevent CV abroad
49:16 – Twitter: police tweeting further threats to end liberty…?
USA: drive-in church service targeted after mayor prohibits such services
UK: police smash their way into home looking for a ‘social gathering’…
Common Purpose insisted people in power should act ‘beyond their authority’
The public are creating some great memes to fight back


ukcolumn--2020-04-10--UKC News - 10 Apr 20: COVID19 Indefinite Lockdown?

Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with today 's UK Column News , bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates .
START – CoronaVirus statistics update Lockdown – when do we get out of this…has the lockdown helped… ?
A look at other countries who did and did not lockdown Non-lockdown Sweden ’ s Prime Minister : we can ’ t legislate and ban everything Sweden using ‘ herd immunity ’ - allowing the population to self-innoculate MainStream Media is strongly pushing pro-lockdown propaganda Dr David Katz : lockdown consequences…possibly graver than the virus itself Other medical experts also speak out against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to address public lockdown Northamptonshire police Chief Constable is operating beyond his authority Home Secretary Priti Patel : that is not appropriate…that is not the guidance Plymouth police move people from park benches , fly drones for observation US Professor Wittkowski : spending more time outdoors is a form of containment MainStream Media : Orwellian overtones continue… Mandatory testing and vaccination coming… ?
Imperial College London : receives $ 209 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants mandatory vaccination… 36:13 – BBC : ‘ CoronaVirus – how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changed CoronaVirus death rate is not abnormal compared to usual figures MPs handed additional £10K each to help them work from home during lockdown Reuters : fake news… Robert Jenrick MP : another lockdown breaker – what do they know… ?

Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with today's UK Column News, bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates.
START – CoronaVirus statistics update
Lockdown – when do we get out of this…has the lockdown helped…?
A look at other countries who did and did not lockdown
Non-lockdown Sweden’s Prime Minister: we can’t legislate and ban everything
Sweden using ‘herd immunity’ - allowing the population to self-innoculate
MainStream Media is strongly pushing pro-lockdown propaganda
Dr David Katz: lockdown consequences…possibly graver than the virus itself
Other medical experts also speak out against lockdown policies
UK police confusion over how to address public lockdown
Northamptonshire police Chief Constable is operating beyond his authority
Home Secretary Priti Patel: that is not appropriate…that is not the guidance
Plymouth police move people from park benches, fly drones for observation
US Professor Wittkowski: spending more time outdoors is a form of containment
MainStream Media: Orwellian overtones continue…
Mandatory testing and vaccination coming…?
Imperial College London: receives $209 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants mandatory vaccination…
36:13 – BBC: ‘CoronaVirus – how to understand the death toll’ article changed
CoronaVirus death rate is not abnormal compared to usual figures
MPs handed additional £10K each to help them work from home during lockdown
Reuters: fake news…
Robert Jenrick MP: another lockdown breaker – what do they know…?


ukcolumn--2020-04-08--UK Column News - 8th April 2020

UK Column News - 8th April 2020

Brian Gerrish , Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson with today 's UK Column News , bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates .
START – Ian R. Crane in hospital with a serious cancer condition Alternative View 11 conference can not take place as planned – further info to follow 04:38 – CoronaVirus statistics update ONS statistics being misrepresented by MainStream Media… ?
Public Health England data : a dangerous path to confusion & deceiving the public… ?
More CV speciality hospitals come on line – where are the patients… ?
USA : Dr Zeke Emanuel : we can not return @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine… UK Law Weekly : the lawfulness of lockdown Gatekeeping comes to the fore to prevent questioning of the lockdown Constitutional rights under attack across the world Man goes for a walk for exercise , gets accosted by seven policemen WHO : we need to look in families for the sick and remove and isolate them World Health Organization now working with health ‘ expert ’ Lady Gaga… A precedent has been set for home removals by police taking children 31:49 – Economy : 1.5 million new claimants for Universal Credit in last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limited but banks continue to get help… BBC : no coverage on the dangers to Britain ’ s businesses and economy Boris still in intensive care – who is in charge… ?
Dominic Raab in his first cabinet role becomes interim Prime Minister… British military providing COVID-19 support force Meet Mark Sedwill : head of everything What is the National Security Council really for… ?
46:50 – OFCOM : radio station sanctioned for misleading CoronaVirus interview The Lancet : planetary electromagnetic pollution – it is time to assess its impact OFCOM : Piers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not pursued OFCOM : a big conflict of interest which must be corrected 51:26 – Where is COVID-19 headed unless the population stands up to be counted… ?
A dictatorship is installing itself in the UK…

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson with today's UK Column News, bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates.
START – Ian R. Crane in hospital with a serious cancer condition
Alternative View 11 conference cannot take place as planned – further info to follow
04:38 – CoronaVirus statistics update
ONS statistics being misrepresented by MainStream Media…?
Public Health England data: a dangerous path to confusion & deceiving the public…?
More CV speciality hospitals come on line – where are the patients…?
USA: Dr Zeke Emanuel: we cannot return to normal until there’s a vaccine…
UK Law Weekly: the lawfulness of lockdown
Gatekeeping comes to the fore to prevent questioning of the lockdown
Constitutional rights under attack across the world
Man goes for a walk for exercise, gets accosted by seven policemen
WHO: we need to look in families for the sick and remove and isolate them
World Health Organization now working with health ‘expert’ Lady Gaga…
A precedent has been set for home removals by police taking children
31:49 – Economy: 1.5 million new claimants for Universal Credit in last 3 weeks
Assistance for businesses appears very limited but banks continue to get help…
BBC: no coverage on the dangers to Britain’s businesses and economy
Boris still in intensive care – who is in charge…?
Dominic Raab in his first cabinet role becomes interim Prime Minister…
British military providing COVID-19 support force
Meet Mark Sedwill: head of everything
What is the National Security Council really for…?
46:50 – OFCOM: radio station sanctioned for misleading CoronaVirus interview
The Lancet: planetary electromagnetic pollution – it is time to assess its impact
OFCOM: Piers Morgan mimicks the Chinese language – case not pursued
OFCOM: a big conflict of interest which must be corrected
51:26 – Where is COVID-19 headed unless the population stands up to be counted…?
A dictatorship is installing itself in the UK…


ukcolumn--2020-04-06--UK Column News - 6th April 2020

UK Column News - 6th April 2020

Brian Gerrish , Mike Robinson and David Scott with today 's UK Column News , bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates .
START – CoronaVirus statistics update Boris still infected – Dominic Raab to take over… ?
WEF : we could be vastly overestimating the death rate for COVID-19 ONS : deaths can be recorded in more than one category… Are death certificates now based on presumption… ?
USA : CDC tells hospitals to list CV as cause of death even if it ’ s just assumed… Games companies join forces with government to ensure children get the message MainStream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to avoid misinformation Some COVID-19 comments from qualified medical professionals Understanding how the government is engineering a COVID-19 crisis But why are they doing this… ?
Michael Gove : restrictions ending will depend on public compliance… USA : FED money printing hits an all-time high – how long can this continue… ?
Scotland : public fury as Scots chief medic flouts her own CV lockdown instructions The Sun ’ s Andrew Nicoll : your government has lied to you… Scottish medical officer visited second home because she knows there is no threat… ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be axed President Trump and France ’ s Macron urge increased cooperation on CoronaVirus at UN Expendable Guinea pigs : CoronaVirus vaccine to be tested in Africa… ?
OFCOM : radio station sanctioned for misleading CoronaVirus interview The Lancet : Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation causes DNA damage Precautionary Principle : good for climate change , smoking , CV but not for 5G… BBC : silent on any view except that 5G is safe and essential BBC stance backed by OFCOM who largely comprise ex-BBC staff… OFCOM : independent and transparent except when it runs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sumption : CV lockdown – we are so afraid of death , no one asks if the cure is worse Lord Sumption : silencing dissent is not acceptable 48:39 – Humour starts to pull apart the government fear propaganda

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and David Scott with today's UK Column News, bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates.
START – CoronaVirus statistics update
Boris still infected – Dominic Raab to take over…?
WEF: we could be vastly overestimating the death rate for COVID-19
ONS: deaths can be recorded in more than one category…
Are death certificates now based on presumption…?
USA: CDC tells hospitals to list CV as cause of death even if it’s just assumed…
Games companies join forces with government to ensure children get the message
MainStream Media insists public must read their news to avoid misinformation
Some COVID-19 comments from qualified medical professionals
Understanding how the government is engineering a COVID-19 crisis
But why are they doing this…?
Michael Gove: restrictions ending will depend on public compliance…
USA: FED money printing hits an all-time high – how long can this continue…?
Scotland: public fury as Scots chief medic flouts her own CV lockdown instructions
The Sun’s Andrew Nicoll: your government has lied to you…
Scottish medical officer visited second home because she knows there is no threat…?
36:40 – Scotland: juries will not be axed
President Trump and France’s Macron urge increased cooperation on CoronaVirus at UN
Expendable Guinea pigs: CoronaVirus vaccine to be tested in Africa…?
OFCOM: radio station sanctioned for misleading CoronaVirus interview
The Lancet: Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation causes DNA damage
Precautionary Principle: good for climate change, smoking, CV but not for 5G…
BBC: silent on any view except that 5G is safe and essential
BBC stance backed by OFCOM who largely comprise ex-BBC staff…
OFCOM: independent and transparent except when it runs meetings with names withheld
47:27 – Lord Sumption: CV lockdown – we are so afraid of death, no one asks if the cure is worse
Lord Sumption: silencing dissent is not acceptable
48:39 – Humour starts to pull apart the government fear propaganda


ukcolumn--2020-04-03--UKC News - 03/04/20 - COVID19 Latest

UKC News - 03/04/20 - COVID19 Latest

Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen are joined by Andrew Mather for today 's UK Column News , bringing you the @ @ @ @

Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen are joined by Andrew Mather for today's UK Column News, bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates.


ukcolumn--2020-04-01--UK Column News - 1st April 2020

UK Column News - 1st April 2020

START – CoronaVirus statistics update CoronaVirus : Dr Bhakdi ’ s five questions & the misuse of statistics BBC : why figures are an inexact science… Imperial College CV modelling of 500,000 UK deaths was WRONG London 999 call centres being overwhelmed…or not… ?
Astute UK Column viewer sets standard for COVID-19 statistics Public worldwide are beginning to ask serious questions on CV statistics 14:34 – Youngest ever head of MI5 : meet Ken McCallum British king Mark Sedwill consolidates power in cabinet office : meet Alex Chisholm 21:29 – Scotland abolishes juries… ?
YouTube interview : Wilfred Wong with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedom and justice The long war on juries…a very dangerous precedent The Scottish jury has been a feature of the legal system for more than 600 years More police and special constables on the street – police are not following the law Members of the public being confronted by police and hazmat-suited individuals Housing association One Housing apologises : project fear continues 42:16 – UK CV : body recovery teams set up to deal with COVID-19 deaths at home Wales : Llynfi Surgery suggests that vulnerable residents should not be resuscitated Anyone admitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as CV NHS whistleblowers are being targeted and threatened The crown and its agents are failing to protect us by upholding the Coronation Oath

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson with today's UK Column News.
START – CoronaVirus statistics update
CoronaVirus: Dr Bhakdi’s five questions & the misuse of statistics
BBC: why figures are an inexact science…
Imperial College CV modelling of 500,000 UK deaths was WRONG
London 999 call centres being overwhelmed…or not…?
Astute UK Column viewer sets standard for COVID-19 statistics
Public worldwide are beginning to ask serious questions on CV statistics
14:34 – Youngest ever head of MI5: meet Ken McCallum
British king Mark Sedwill consolidates power in cabinet office: meet Alex Chisholm
21:29 – Scotland abolishes juries…?
YouTube interview: Wilfred Wong with Shaun Attwood
Why juries are critical to freedom and justice
The long war on juries…a very dangerous precedent
The Scottish jury has been a feature of the legal system for more than 600 years
More police and special constables on the street – police are not following the law
Members of the public being confronted by police and hazmat-suited individuals
Housing association One Housing apologises: project fear continues
42:16 – UK CV: body recovery teams set up to deal with COVID-19 deaths at home
Wales: Llynfi Surgery suggests that vulnerable residents should not be resuscitated
Anyone admitted to hospital with respiratory problems automatically classified as CV
NHS whistleblowers are being targeted and threatened
The crown and its agents are failing to protect us by upholding the Coronation Oath


ukcolumn--2020-03-31--A letter from lockdown — Thoughts on Covid–19

At the time of writing , we are around a week into total lockdown .
This is time , perhaps , for a few reflections on the madness going on all around us .
As the economy has been partially shut down by the government in an unprecedented move , it is in the world of economics that I would like to begin .
I have long found economics to be one of the keys to understanding society and human action .
My route into this was a deep study of the economics that the state does not want people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Unlike the conventional Keynesian thought that I studied whilst at university , and its offshoot , the Chicago School , the school of Austrian economics employs few graphs and almost no mathematics .
Instead , it employs reason and axiomatic deduction to reveal truths about human action .
One of the truths it reveals is that state intervention in the economy can not improve upon the free exchange and individual choices of the people who make up a society , but it can , and generally does , make matters worse .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ears of government .
It is therefore not surprising that the Austrian economists find themselves unwelcome in the mainstream of state-funded economics institutions .
They instead live on the periphery of economic thought , saying beautiful , radical and insightful things and caring nothing for the consequences .
In economic terms , the Austrians are very Rock ’ n ’ Roll .
My personal study of economics started with grainy videos of lectures at the American University in Belgrade .
I learned about the credit cycle , and what causes it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ there are two types of lending : investment based on savings , which is beneficial , and investment based on nothing , which is not .
( “ Nothing ” here being shorthand for central bank money printing and government interest rate manipulation . )
It was a path into a world of radical ideas : from Menger to Mises , and from Rothbard to Hoppe , the lessons I learned were foundational .
When the 2008 crisis occurred , I found the apparent chaos all made sense .
Everything I had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global scale .
It was a most impressive demonstration of the soundness of the line of thought .
Now , 2008-2010 was very tough : I am in the construction business and the crisis hit very hard .
But bad as things got , the understanding provided by this previous study was a Godsend .
It allowed me to perceive how and why the crisis was happening .
It also showed me where my earlier lack of understanding had come from , to understand why I had made mistakes , what they were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them .
This was a huge benefit , for understanding the world around us in times of crisis allows not only a logical response but maintains sanity in circumstances that have the potential to destroy the human psyche .
The `` bad brother '' of economics , the Austrian School , also made it clear to me that , after the crisis , the state response was simply storing up more trouble for later and not actually fixing anything — just breaking it more badly .
This provided a basis for personal decision-making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a basis for my own independent view .
I would have to conclude that a study of economics and the Austrians made me a more complete man , as I was no longer `` the slave of some defunct economist '' ( to quote John Maynard Keynes ) .
In the period following 2010 , I got involved in supporting the beautiful campaigner Robert Green .
He had , for a second time , been jailed in Scotland due to his eloquent calls for justice for Hollie Greig and his tendency to tell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powers-that-shouldn ’ t-be very greatly .
Therefore , economic study took a back seat .
Instead , I was faced with human suffering of a most alarming type .
It was caused by use of state power to silence the innocent victims of abuse as they cried out for help and justice .
Being involved , in a small way , in this fight revealed darkly troubling things about the people and institutions that govern us .
I learned that misrule was the rule and that might made right .
In the final @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justify their own actions and had not the slightest inclination to try .
At some point , I started to form the question , leading on from Austrian economics : if the free market is the most efficient way to deliver to people those things that they want , what is the effect if they want bad and harmful and evil things ?
I was driven to consider deeper aspects of what makes us act in the way we do .
Why could those we appealed to concerning Robert Green and Hollie Greig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ address the issue ?
The conclusion I reached was that , in addition to the nature of man , culture and faith are core to this .
Andrew Breitbart said politics is downstream from culture , and I think he is correct .
However , I would add , culture is downstream from religion .
From Austrian economics , I learned that free exchange , property rights and sound money are core to a healthy society and that , with these in place , normal human action and interaction will chart its own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ each individual in a society .
Increasingly , I have added to that the question of what defines those individual desires and what the aggregate effect of errors by each of us is in formulating our plans .
What is the effect on society if such cultural building blocks as lifelong monogamous marriage are destroyed ?
What if the role of men as leaders and protectors for the young , the weak and the frail is overturned ?
What if the very idea of manliness is painted as problematic or even toxic ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ raising children is subverted and they are instead persuaded or forced to go out to work ?
What if the welfare state sees an explosion in single-parent households ?
What if the very definition of man and woman is called into question ?
What if all of these ideas and more , even more harmful ones , are taught to our children in the schools paid for by our taxes ?
What sort of society results ?
It is surely one in which our culture is changed out of all recognition .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cohesive force pre-eminent in the West , fails across a society — what are the effects on the choices and desires of people ?
Before he fell into insanity , Friedrich Nietzsche wrote : But he did so without gloating , for he had considered the possible effects of such a change : What I relate is the history of the next two centuries .
I describe what is coming , what can no longer come differently : the advent of nihilism … For some time now , our whole European culture has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade : restlessly , violently , headlong , like a river that wants to reach the end , that no longer reflects , that is afraid to reflect .
( Will to Power ) … For when Truth battles against the lies of millennia , there will be shock waves , earthquakes , the transposition of hills and valleys , such as the world has never yet imagined , even in its dreams .
The concept of `` politics ” then becomes entirely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
All the mighty worlds of the ancient order of society are blown into space — for they are all based on lies : there will be wars the like of which have never been seen on earth before .
Only after me will there be grand politics on earth .
( Ecce Homo ) So Nietzsche , who was no friend of contemporary Christianity to be sure , did seem to perceive that the response to its fall from a leading role in general society would be catastrophe and wars .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this , as the people embraced the new certainties of totalitarianism and replaced God with The Cause or The Nation to give them the needed clarity and to form the basis for action and renewed hope .
But now , in the twenty-first century , faith remains absent , and the great dictators have passed into history , for the moment at least .
What , then , has become of our culture ?
It seems that instead of nihilism and the totalitarian certainties that followed it , we now have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global warming alarmists , for example .
Every time the sun comes out , and our damp little island has a lovely summer 's day , the response is hysterical fear that man-made global warming , or climate change , or climate breakdown , or whatever the next marketing ploy is called , will destroy the earth .
We have an astroturf ( fake grassroots ) organisation called Extinction Rebellion disrupting everyday life and campaigning to tell us all , and especially our children , that the end is nigh ; that death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unless we embrace their brand of socialism and obey their instructions .
And this brings us to the most recent episode of windiness concerning Covid–19 .
Without any more evidence than has been present in dozens of previous years , seasonal flu has suddenly been elevated to an existential threat .
We are told that the only thing to do is to accept house arrest , or else we are “ killing people ” .
Our economy is shut down , our society changed out of all recognition .
And this despite there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the norm .
Experts guide government policy without , it would seem , the government officials tasked with directing our nation having the strength or wisdom to question and test the advice , to seek contrary views and to examine in detail the basis for the wild and unlikely claims made .
When outsiders and mavericks ask questions concerning the data analysis and data gathering underpinning these dark prophesies , the answers reveal only emptiness , uncertainty and error .
Despite all this , the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus seems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inclined to report his neighbour to the authorities for some slight contravention of government advice than to resist the imposition of near-universal house arrest .
Could it be that , in a society now defined by its fears , independent thought is a rare thing , both in Downing Street and on the High Street ?
And why should this be ?
I would suggest the cultural shift is merely an effect of the change in belief and loss of faith .
Our society was once based on Christianity , a most radical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the core ideas expounded by Christ was : This challenged the greatest of all fears , that of death , and did it boldly and directly .
The society that believed this was able to look death in the face , seeing not the ultimate tragedy , but merely part of life .
What , then , of our current faithless society , how can it cope with death ?
It seems that , in passing into a post-Christian epoch , we have lost the very basis for strength , soundness and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat .
The truth that there is can no longer be faced so boldly as once it was .
What , then , is a society ruled by its fears likely to do ?
• It will undoubtedly obey anyone who can offer safety , at whatever price .
• It will place trust in the medical profession and related experts and not raise vital questions .
• It will panic and destroy itself in times of crisis .
I conclude , therefore , that lacking faith , and driven by fears , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its economy and has sacrificed liberties fought for over centuries without a backward glance .
And what monster do we run from ?
One summoned from seasonal flu , corona virus and tales from China .
Without any excess death in our society , we have allowed experts from Imperial College to assure us that half a million or more will die unless we acquiesce to our national destruction .
How should we sum up such a society ?
I would suggest we should quote the words of the old proverb :

At the time of writing, we are around a week into total lockdown. This is time, perhaps, for a few reflections on the madness going on all around us.
As the economy has been partially shut down by the government in an unprecedented move, it is in the world of economics that I would like to begin. I have long found economics to be one of the keys to understanding society and human action. My route into this was a deep study of the economics that the state does not want people to know about — the Austrian School.
Unlike the conventional Keynesian thought that I studied whilst at university, and its offshoot, the Chicago School, the school of Austrian economics employs few graphs and almost no mathematics. Instead, it employs reason and axiomatic deduction to reveal truths about human action. One of the truths it reveals is that state intervention in the economy cannot improve upon the free exchange and individual choices of the people who make up a society, but it can, and generally does, make matters worse. This truth is not exactly music to the ears of government. It is therefore not surprising that the Austrian economists find themselves unwelcome in the mainstream of state-funded economics institutions. They instead live on the periphery of economic thought, saying beautiful, radical and insightful things and caring nothing for the consequences. In economic terms, the Austrians are very Rock ’n’ Roll.
My personal study of economics started with grainy videos of lectures at the American University in Belgrade. I learned about the credit cycle, and what causes it. I was introduced to the idea that there are two types of lending: investment based on savings, which is beneficial, and investment based on nothing, which is not. (“Nothing” here being shorthand for central bank money printing and government interest rate manipulation.) It was a path into a world of radical ideas: from Menger to Mises, and from Rothbard to Hoppe, the lessons I learned were foundational.
When the 2008 crisis occurred, I found the apparent chaos all made sense. Everything I had been reading about was playing out on a global scale. It was a most impressive demonstration of the soundness of the line of thought.
Now, 2008-2010 was very tough: I am in the construction business and the crisis hit very hard. But bad as things got, the understanding provided by this previous study was a Godsend. It allowed me to perceive how and why the crisis was happening. It also showed me where my earlier lack of understanding had come from, to understand why I had made mistakes, what they were and what needed to be done about them. This was a huge benefit, for understanding the world around us in times of crisis allows not only a logical response but maintains sanity in circumstances that have the potential to destroy the human psyche.
The "bad brother" of economics, the Austrian School, also made it clear to me that, after the crisis, the state response was simply storing up more trouble for later and not actually fixing anything — just breaking it more badly. This provided a basis for personal decision-making that stepped away from the mainstream, a basis for my own independent view. I would have to conclude that a study of economics and the Austrians made me a more complete man, as I was no longer "the slave of some defunct economist" (to quote John Maynard Keynes).
In the period following 2010, I got involved in supporting the beautiful campaigner Robert Green. He had, for a second time, been jailed in Scotland due to his eloquent calls for justice for Hollie Greig and his tendency to tell the truth in ways which worried the powers-that-shouldn’t-be very greatly. Therefore, economic study took a back seat. Instead, I was faced with human suffering of a most alarming type. It was caused by use of state power to silence the innocent victims of abuse as they cried out for help and justice. Being involved, in a small way, in this fight revealed darkly troubling things about the people and institutions that govern us. I learned that misrule was the rule and that might made right. In the final analysis, our wise overlords could not justify their own actions and had not the slightest inclination to try.
At some point, I started to form the question, leading on from Austrian economics: if the free market is the most efficient way to deliver to people those things that they want, what is the effect if they want bad and harmful and evil things? I was driven to consider deeper aspects of what makes us act in the way we do. Why could those we appealed to concerning Robert Green and Hollie Greig not find the courage or integrity to address the issue? The conclusion I reached was that, in addition to the nature of man, culture and faith are core to this.
Andrew Breitbart said politics is downstream from culture, and I think he is correct. However, I would add, culture is downstream from religion.
From Austrian economics, I learned that free exchange, property rights and sound money are core to a healthy society and that, with these in place, normal human action and interaction will chart its own way forward based on the desires of each individual in a society. Increasingly, I have added to that the question of what defines those individual desires and what the aggregate effect of errors by each of us is in formulating our plans. What is the effect on society if such cultural building blocks as lifelong monogamous marriage are destroyed? What if the role of men as leaders and protectors for the young, the weak and the frail is overturned? What if the very idea of manliness is painted as problematic or even toxic? What if the role of women in raising children is subverted and they are instead persuaded or forced to go out to work? What if the welfare state sees an explosion in single-parent households? What if the very definition of man and woman is called into question? What if all of these ideas and more, even more harmful ones, are taught to our children in the schools paid for by our taxes? What sort of society results? It is surely one in which our culture is changed out of all recognition.
And what if faith, so long the cohesive force pre-eminent in the West, fails across a society — what are the effects on the choices and desires of people?
Before he fell into insanity, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? (Nietzsche, The Gay Science)
But he did so without gloating, for he had considered the possible effects of such a change:
What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism … For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect. (Will to Power) … For when Truth battles against the lies of millennia, there will be shock waves, earthquakes, the transposition of hills and valleys, such as the world has never yet imagined, even in its dreams. The concept of "politics” then becomes entirely absorbed into the realm of spiritual warfare. All the mighty worlds of the ancient order of society are blown into space — for they are all based on lies: there will be wars the like of which have never been seen on earth before. Only after me will there be grand politics on earth. (Ecce Homo)
So Nietzsche, who was no friend of contemporary Christianity to be sure, did seem to perceive that the response to its fall from a leading role in general society would be catastrophe and wars. The twentieth century seemed to prove him right in this, as the people embraced the new certainties of totalitarianism and replaced God with The Cause or The Nation to give them the needed clarity and to form the basis for action and renewed hope.
But now, in the twenty-first century, faith remains absent, and the great dictators have passed into history, for the moment at least. What, then, has become of our culture?
It seems that instead of nihilism and the totalitarian certainties that followed it, we now have a society defined by fear.
Take the global warming alarmists, for example. Every time the sun comes out, and our damp little island has a lovely summer's day, the response is hysterical fear that man-made global warming, or climate change, or climate breakdown, or whatever the next marketing ploy is called, will destroy the earth.
We have an astroturf (fake grassroots) organisation called Extinction Rebellion disrupting everyday life and campaigning to tell us all, and especially our children, that the end is nigh; that death — literal extinction — awaits us all unless we embrace their brand of socialism and obey their instructions.
And this brings us to the most recent episode of windiness concerning Covid–19. Without any more evidence than has been present in dozens of previous years, seasonal flu has suddenly been elevated to an existential threat. We are told that the only thing to do is to accept house arrest, or else we are “killing people”. Our economy is shut down, our society changed out of all recognition. And this despite there being no increase in death rates compared to the norm.
Experts guide government policy without, it would seem, the government officials tasked with directing our nation having the strength or wisdom to question and test the advice, to seek contrary views and to examine in detail the basis for the wild and unlikely claims made.
When outsiders and mavericks ask questions concerning the data analysis and data gathering underpinning these dark prophesies, the answers reveal only emptiness, uncertainty and error.
Despite all this, the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus seems happy with the restrictions, and more inclined to report his neighbour to the authorities for some slight contravention of government advice than to resist the imposition of near-universal house arrest. Could it be that, in a society now defined by its fears, independent thought is a rare thing, both in Downing Street and on the High Street?
And why should this be? I would suggest the cultural shift is merely an effect of the change in belief and loss of faith. Our society was once based on Christianity, a most radical and non-conformist ideology. Recall that one of the core ideas expounded by Christ was:
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. (Matt. 16:25)
This challenged the greatest of all fears, that of death, and did it boldly and directly. The society that believed this was able to look death in the face, seeing not the ultimate tragedy, but merely part of life. What, then, of our current faithless society, how can it cope with death? It seems that, in passing into a post-Christian epoch, we have lost the very basis for strength, soundness and gallantry in the face of any serious threat. The truth that there is
… a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted (Ecclesiastes 3:2) …
can no longer be faced so boldly as once it was.
What, then, is a society ruled by its fears likely to do?
It will undoubtedly obey anyone who can offer safety, at whatever price.
It will place trust in the medical profession and related experts and not raise vital questions.
It will panic and destroy itself in times of crisis.
I conclude, therefore, that lacking faith, and driven by fears, our society has consented to the destruction of its economy and has sacrificed liberties fought for over centuries without a backward glance. And what monster do we run from? One summoned from seasonal flu, corona virus and tales from China. Without any excess death in our society, we have allowed experts from Imperial College to assure us that half a million or more will die unless we acquiesce to our national destruction.
How should we sum up such a society? I would suggest we should quote the words of the old proverb:


ukcolumn--2020-03-30--UK Column News - 30th March 2020

UK Column News - 30th March 2020

START – CoronaVirus statistics update Public Health England unable to say how many NHS people are infected UK Column asked 2 weeks ago – still no reply on this very important question Suddenly , NHS England announces urgent testing for NHS staff… BBC : Burton health consultant Amged El-Hawrani dies from CoronaVirus Another look at the euromomo.eu website Elderly patient deaths being mis-recorded… ?
18:35 – Rising unemployment causes higher death rates , Yale researcher shows Will ‘ deaths of despair ’ outpace deaths from CoronaVirus… ?
23:07 – Bank of England : latest CoronaVirus plans for the economy German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hits economy 27:22 – Peter Hitchens : still speaking out and asking questions – gets abuse… The Spectator : how deadly is the CoronaVirus… ?
It ’ s still far from clear The Sun : hysteria has forced the UK into lockdown…will kill more than CV BBC : how to understand the death toll – statistics taken from computer models As with climate change , computer models are often far from realistic NHS change agent Helen Bevan : CoronaVirus conspiracy theories ‘ could kill people ’ 37:05 – OpenDemocracy : the CoronaVirus crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the family OpenDemocracy petition attempts to bring in universal basic income ( again ) 41:48 – MailOnline : love in the time of CoronaVirus – a very toxic article Meet article writer & self-appointed ‘ marital expert ’ Andrew G. Marshall South Wales police respond to Stephen Kinnock meeting father on his birthday South Wales police come under fire from members of the public Police seem to think that official announcements have become law Police Scotland are also pushing the idea that they have powers they do not CoronaVirus lockdown : a free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social distancing will create social breakdown

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and David Scott with today's UK Column News.
START – CoronaVirus statistics update
Public Health England unable to say how many NHS people are infected
UK Column asked 2 weeks ago – still no reply on this very important question
Suddenly, NHS England announces urgent testing for NHS staff…
BBC: Burton health consultant Amged El-Hawrani dies from CoronaVirus
Another look at the euromomo.eu website
Elderly patient deaths being mis-recorded…?
18:35 – Rising unemployment causes higher death rates, Yale researcher shows
Will ‘deaths of despair’ outpace deaths from CoronaVirus…?
23:07 – Bank of England: latest CoronaVirus plans for the economy
German state finance minister kills himself as CoronaVirus hits economy
27:22 – Peter Hitchens: still speaking out and asking questions – gets abuse…
The Spectator: how deadly is the CoronaVirus…? It’s still far from clear
The Sun: hysteria has forced the UK into lockdown…will kill more than CV
BBC: how to understand the death toll – statistics taken from computer models
As with climate change, computer models are often far from realistic
NHS change agent Helen Bevan: CoronaVirus conspiracy theories ‘could kill people’
37:05 – OpenDemocracy: the CoronaVirus crisis shows it’s time to abolish the family
OpenDemocracy petition attempts to bring in universal basic income (again)
41:48 – MailOnline: love in the time of CoronaVirus – a very toxic article
Meet article writer & self-appointed ‘marital expert’ Andrew G. Marshall
South Wales police respond to Stephen Kinnock meeting father on his birthday
South Wales police come under fire from members of the public
Police seem to think that official announcements have become law
Police Scotland are also pushing the idea that they have powers they do not
CoronaVirus lockdown: a free 30-day trial of communism…
CoronaVirus lockdown and social distancing will create social breakdown


ukcolumn--2020-03-13--UK Column News - 13th March 2020

UK Column News - 13th March 2020

START – CoronaVirus ( COVID-19 ) update Italy deploys 7,000 soldiers armed with machine guns along coastline Some European countries close universities , museums , theatres , cinemas… US President Trump bans travel from EU to USA – Brexit Britain not included FTSE 100 plummets but then recovers somewhat 21 Wire article : list of ‘ mass gatherings ’ and events canceled due to CoronaVirus fears Boris makes statement on CoronaVirus MSM accuses Boris of ‘ killing ’ UK citizens – the same is happening to Trump in the US… Low wage earners will be the first to suffer financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide ‘ shutdown ’ action… ?
A new lexicon… Will there be permanent health & safety culture changes going forward… ?
Just a coincidence : the outcome of new policies may be similar to climate policies… MainStream Media cynically uses the virus to pit young people against older people The climate ‘ crisis ’ is also pitting young versus old – shades of communism… ?
23:45 – MH17 : The Trial event and press conference in the Hague update Three of the four accused are being tried in absentia – trial may take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been put on trial before investigations are completed… 29:31 – Syria : UK sends more aid to Idlib Defence Secretary Ben Wallace : 300 families will benefit – which families exactly… ?
31:10 – Chelsea Manning refused to testify against Julian Assange and Wikileaks Judge orders Manning and Jeremy Hammond to be released from jail Manning has been held and tortured to give evidence : what happened to people ’ s rights… ?
Where is the outrage from ‘ social justice ’ groups and liberal activists… ?
People must remember that this could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ICNIRP : 5G is completely safe Why is the Precautionary Principal used for CoronaVirus but not for 5G… ?

Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with today's UK Column News.
START – CoronaVirus (COVID-19) update
Italy deploys 7,000 soldiers armed with machine guns along coastline
Some European countries close universities, museums, theatres, cinemas…
US President Trump bans travel from EU to USA – Brexit Britain not included
FTSE 100 plummets but then recovers somewhat
21 Wire article: list of ‘mass gatherings’ and events canceled due to CoronaVirus fears
Boris makes statement on CoronaVirus
MSM accuses Boris of ‘killing’ UK citizens – the same is happening to Trump in the US…
Low wage earners will be the first to suffer financial problems
What are the implications of this worldwide ‘shutdown’ action…? A new lexicon…
Will there be permanent health & safety culture changes going forward…?
Just a coincidence: the outcome of new policies may be similar to climate policies…
MainStream Media cynically uses the virus to pit young people against older people
The climate ‘crisis’ is also pitting young versus old – shades of communism…?
23:45 – MH17: The Trial event and press conference in the Hague update
Three of the four accused are being tried in absentia – trial may take up to five years
The accused have been put on trial before investigations are completed…
29:31 – Syria: UK sends more aid to Idlib
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace: 300 families will benefit – which families exactly…?
31:10 – Chelsea Manning refused to testify against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Judge orders Manning and Jeremy Hammond to be released from jail
Manning has been held and tortured to give evidence: what happened to people’s rights…?
Where is the outrage from ‘social justice’ groups and liberal activists…?
People must remember that this could be done to anyone…
37:20 – OFCOM and ICNIRP: 5G is completely safe
Why is the Precautionary Principal used for CoronaVirus but not for 5G…?


ukcolumn--2020-03-11--UK Column News - 11th March 2020

UK Column News - 11th March 2020

START – Carnage : BoE announces emergency measures to deal with CoronaVirus… Fusion Doctrine at work : coordinated action between banks and across bank departments This is a continuation of establishment hysteria over CoronaVirus None of these people are accountable to the public Goldman Sachs predicts stock markets will collapse by another 15 % by the summer UK budget day today : ‘ levelling up ’ the economy ( the CoronaVirus budget ) MainStream Media propaganda is driving public hysteria and panic CoronaVirus response is completely disproportionate in relation to the threat A closer examination of CoronaVirus details and facts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing is done , the less of a problem this disease appears to be… Why are government and MSM peddling grossly skewed stats in order to spread fear… ?
CV : a number of health professionals are starting to speak out about hysterical coverage CoronaVirus is being used to push alternative , radical government agendas… 24:32 – Government inquiry : the future of journalism ( why does no one believe it… ? )
Houses of Parliament seem very concerned that the MSM is not succeeding any longer Will government start to fund MainStream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media – when have we seen that before… ?
26:57 – BBC Outside Source : what ’ s it like being the parent of a porn star… ?
Presenter & creator of BBC OS : meet Ros Atkins BBC Twitter thread links through to very unsavoury material but is open to children… BBC documentary : online child sexual abuse – don ’ t do what I did… Documentary producer and editor : meet Jamie Ryan and his dark side Documentary commissioning editor : meet Kimberley Rowell Documentary series producer : meet Anisa Subedar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re ‘ independent ’ IWF Independent Chair : meet Andrew Puddephatt OBE IWF Industry Vice-Chair : meet Becky Foreman IWF : a look at their financial partners 35:14 – Energy Systems Catapult : innovating to net zero…stop flying , eating meat , travelling Will government use a ‘ pandemic ’ to force the public to radically change their behaviour… ?
French ministry of health : cocaine does not protect against CoronaVirus… The French public immediately see through this charade

Brian Gerrish and Mike Robinson with today's UK Column News.
START – Carnage: BoE announces emergency measures to deal with CoronaVirus…
Fusion Doctrine at work: coordinated action between banks and across bank departments
This is a continuation of establishment hysteria over CoronaVirus
None of these people are accountable to the public
Goldman Sachs predicts stock markets will collapse by another 15% by the summer
UK budget day today: ‘levelling up’ the economy (the CoronaVirus budget)
MainStream Media propaganda is driving public hysteria and panic
CoronaVirus response is completely disproportionate in relation to the threat
A closer examination of CoronaVirus details and facts not being reported by MSM
The more testing is done, the less of a problem this disease appears to be…
Why are government and MSM peddling grossly skewed stats in order to spread fear…?
CV: a number of health professionals are starting to speak out about hysterical coverage
CoronaVirus is being used to push alternative, radical government agendas…
24:32 – Government inquiry: the future of journalism (why does no one believe it…?)
Houses of Parliament seem very concerned that the MSM is not succeeding any longer
Will government start to fund MainStream Media in future…?
Government control of media – when have we seen that before…?
26:57 – BBC Outside Source: what’s it like being the parent of a porn star…?
Presenter & creator of BBC OS: meet Ros Atkins
BBC Twitter thread links through to very unsavoury material but is open to children…
BBC documentary: online child sexual abuse – don’t do what I did…
Documentary producer and editor: meet Jamie Ryan and his dark side
Documentary commissioning editor: meet Kimberley Rowell
Documentary series producer: meet Anisa Subedar
Internet Watch Foundation: trust us…we’re ‘independent’
IWF Independent Chair: meet Andrew Puddephatt OBE
IWF Industry Vice-Chair: meet Becky Foreman
IWF: a look at their financial partners
35:14 – Energy Systems Catapult: innovating to net zero…stop flying, eating meat, travelling
Will government use a ‘pandemic’ to force the public to radically change their behaviour…?
French ministry of health: cocaine does not protect against CoronaVirus…
The French public immediately see through this charade