Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

[luka]

i want to recruit him so biscuits has got a friend

 

[IdleRich]

Haha that is not what i claimed. Very amusing though.

What did you accuse him of saying?

 

[luka]

that global warming was a conspiracy to defraud oil companies of their profits

 

[IdleRich]

Oh standard.

 

[luka]

yeah just the usual but thats the fun thing about climate change denial, it involves more creativty becasue you have to work around the fact there are obvious baddies who have invested multi millions in promoting climate change denial while twirling thier villainous moustaches

 

[version]

this is a good and long overdue counter-conspiracy theory

The pursuit of herd immunity is a folly – so who's funding this bad science?

Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda, say scientists Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving

www.theguardian.com

The government's secretive Covid contracts are heaping misery on Britain | George Monbiot

Bypassing the NHS and handing crucial services to corporate executives has led to the catastrophic failure of test and trace, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

 

[version]

This isn't why I posted it, but it also syncs up with the first essay in Death Sweat of the Cluster.

Time and again, in contracts for both the test-and-trace programme and protective equipment, sums of £108m have been disbursed. No one can explain why this magic number keeps recurring.

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groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com

The 108-Year Roscrucian Cycle Part Two

The previous post examined the 108-year Rosicrucian cycle as imparted by H. Spencer Lewis. This describes a system of alternating 108-year p...

groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

my cousin was telling me we are entering a period of global cooling just yestwrday!

Oh yes, your "left wing" cousin. 😆

 

[luka]

you can be fundamentally left wing and have all sorts of funny beleifs. left wing is a basic orientation not a checklist where you have to tick every box.

 

[luka]

The government's secretive Covid contracts are heaping misery on Britain | George Monbiot

Bypassing the NHS and handing crucial services to corporate executives has led to the catastrophic failure of test and trace, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

Monbiot is good at this sort of thing. Craner calls him Moon-bat and says he's a conspiracy crazy. I don't really trust Craner though.

 

[version]

Yeah, I like him. It's a good article. The info's out there, but he's done well gathering it all in one place like this. It's important.

 

[luka]

Wow wow. Omg. It is possible that you are joking by sending this. I must say i thought it was odd that you were sending a guardian article - i thought it had lost credibility for almost everyone, but i dont know.

I know you won't be very interested in a derailed response so i won't give one. However:
Headline uses essentially ad hominem, even though the authors specifically have called outthe think tank venue as being a declaration that this is beyond left rightpolitics. I mean its sunetra gupta for God's sake! The author has absolutely no interest in reality accusing her of being libertarian.

I will resist the urge to address the restof this tripe but would be willing to do so if it was useful to you

 

[version]

Do you actually have a cousin, or is this one your "voices"?

 

[luka]

i have several cousins.

 

[Mr. Tea]

you can be fundamentally left wing and have all sorts of funny beleifs. left wing is a basic orientation not a checklist where you have to tick every box.

Well if someone subscribes to a number of conspiracy theories popular with the right (including the far right), one of which has transparently been created to serve corporate interests, then I think it's reasonable to question whether their self-image as left-wing is really all that justified.

 

[luka]

i dont. it would just mean theyve been tricked.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Wow wow. Omg. It is possible that you are joking by sending this. I must say i thought it was odd that you were sending a guardian article - i thought it had lost credibility for almost everyone, but i dont know.

I know you won't be very interested in a derailed response so i won't give one. However:
Headline uses essentially ad hominem, even though the authors specifically have called outthe think tank venue as being a declaration that this is beyond left rightpolitics. I mean its sunetra gupta for God's sake! The author has absolutely no interest in reality accusing her of being libertarian.

I will resist the urge to address the restof this tripe but would be willing to do so if it was useful to you

Which article was this a response to?

 

[luka]

the counter conspiracy theory one. about that thing biscuits likes. barrington? that says libetarian think tanks have been spreading anti lockdown stuff

 

[Mr. Tea]

Well for a start, "beyond left-right politics" is nearly always a code for "right-libertarian", isn't it?

 

[woops]

worrying rhotoric such as the reprehensible phrase 'scientific consensus ' and much else to be concerned about with this story.
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