By far the best one so far. Laura you are a legend. Humble, calm, measured, respectful..but with a fire in your belly...more of you in the public square please.
@@tomgreene1843 - We're all racist in the U.S. Me? We're experiencing our annual global warming here in Florida. It happens every July/August. So I'm contributing to global warming by cowering in the AC but I also had biology classes prior to woke education. I know that without carbon plants can't flourish. Not losing any sleep over all this nudging/bullying.
I live in the US. I first heard about this “Nudge” theory I was listening to this podcast/NPR syndicated program called “Freakenomics” around 2013. I immediately called it what it is, disturbing and authoritarian. The girl I was with thought it was a good idea. Looking back at the situation in the car that day, what I find most interesting was my immediate response of disgust. I was so disturbed this was going on in England and they’re bragging about it and even have a division in the government almost made me physically sick. The girl I was with in the car was completely uninterested, and when prodded admitted she thought it was a good idea if it was aimed towards certain demographics to achieve “equity”. I always considered myself way more libertarian than most, but this event made me a radical.
In this interview I noticed that Ms Dodsworth spoke about “lawful opinions”. This is a phrase that has been repeated several times in the past couple of weeks. The first time I saw it was in Dame Alison Rose’s letter to Nigel Farage but she has not been the only one trading that concept and it is a subject I have dealt with in a couple of my own videos. There is no such thing as an UNLAWFUL opinion. We can all hold whatever opinions we want. This is a very dangerous phrase but especially ironic being used in this particular conversation about freedom of thought and governmental manipulation.
After all that's happened I think we're entitled to know who the shadowy, behind the scenes people at SAGE really are, the names, not least because we funded them to advise during the 'pandemic'. Where are they now?
BBC have always seen themselves as the gatekeepers of news for the UK. Asserting a position of authority at a time where public confidence in them is at an all time low, seems perfectly natural. Like a lot of institutions they have absolutely no sense of irony.
I rather like the 'MAAATE!' video because it's simultaneously comical & revealing of what Sadiq Khan and his advisors think of ordinary young men. Sunlight is the BEST disinfectant.
A set of higher principles. Indeed. We need God, even a God we know explicitly we are creating on purpose. There must be something bigger than all of us that sets an immutable moral standard.
Road to Davos? , What do you expect from an archbishop who is so low church he may as well be holding service in an underground car park. (not my quip , one of moldbug's)
The lockdowns and restrictions on so many personal freedoms were happily embraced by so many at the time and probably again in similar circumstances I suspect leaves me a little depressed about human nature to be honest
Turns out that one thing we got horribly wrong with Covid is that we thought that there was a herd immunity threshhold that could protect the vulnerable. Turns out we've all been infected, predominantly with Omicron.
Unfortunately - I think "herd mentality" is human nature. The majority of the public seemed to really like lockdown and all the restrictions that entailed.
I mean "religion" isn't really just one thing. There are many religions, and they're extremely different. If you define the category broadly enough to include extremely different thought systems like Sunni Islam and Zen Buddhism, you're going to wind up including trendy, modern Secular Humanism as well. I see plenty of manipulation in Atheist circles as well. We're all human.
Let’s define religion as the spiritual sphere that helps us examine our souls and connects us to eternal truths. Not Religion as an institution used to rule people.
When I did my teacher training many years ago, I was introduced to the cognitive and the affective domain. One is about facts and figures, the other is about feelings. When I taught social history, I concentrated on the latter to get the message across. I think the propagandists have definitely chosen the affective domain to get the best results.
Secretary of Digitalisation in The Netherlands Ms Van Huffelen went to Brussels (possibly ordered by Rutte/Schwab) a couple of months ago and signed a legally binding document to introduce Central Bank Digital Currency. This was a few days after the Dutch parlement had had a debate about it and 75% of the parlement had rejected the EU proposal. It was not even in the news. The MP’s were furious but we have a fait accomplis. Contract is legally binding. Same with the digital dossier ID cards. So it is not just citizens being misled, politicians too.
Thanks to everyone who questioned. The evil ones outed themselves & we now know how far they r prepared to go. Mind blowing, liberating, take no shyte, question everything!
These books are now on my shopping list I think and as for Sky news twigged them a way back, I used to get angry but now I find them laughable and as for the beeb cancelled my license also
I, too, thought my consumption of podcasts was getting me informed faster and more efficiently. I was away from books for quite a while and noticed that when I picked up books, my concentration was lacking. I'm cutting down on the podcasts, and I have made a rule that I must be physically working on a project (like gardening, or shoveling snow, etc.) while listening. I'm really enjoying books again. Actual books that I hold in my hands. My stress level has lowered.
Absolutely fantastic interview. At last we hear what I'm thinking and have thought for some years. Will Sky News broadcast this? No way. Don't ever watch it, it's like having an electronic marxist in your room.
Haven't watched it or the BBC (apart from the Queen's funeral and the Coronation) since they misrepresented and misreported the start-of-Brexit party. Sky Australia on youtube is good though!
The fires that disrupted a small part of Rhodes which was the south east corner were reported in a local Greek news paper the day after the fires started, it stated a local retired farmer was being questioned for starting the fires, the BBC must have known this.
The principle job of a journalist or a news organisation is to check and verify its OWN work, not to police and judge the work of others. This is the fundamental problem with all this fact checking and disinformation reporting; they are not investigating the issues themselves, they are investigating those who fail to conform and say the "right things". I find it frustrating that even these two fail to appreciate this basic point.
I read State of Fear shortly after publication and I’ve also returned to church recently ! I like to think I’m a fellow traveler with Laura. I’d also like to thank her so very much for putting her case so succinctly even I ‘get it’ ! 😂❤
Brilliant interview! Congratulations to Winston for his apt and well-timed questioning and to Laura for her precise, intelligent and non-panic-inducing answers (and to her fellow author for his work). I did not expect to enjoy this interview but I did! Thank you. I look forward to reading the book.
Curious isn’t it how many of these fact checkers seem to be very middlebrow, socially-bubbled, and generally naive. They seem more like appointed hall monitors, and hall monitors earn respect from no one
I agree with you guest 100% and it is scary and makes me angry as well. In addition to what she said, she needs to discover how the occult is informing those in power and much of the population.
Laura is a true heroine of our time. As beautiful as she is intelligent, perceptive and articulate. She was vaguely on my radar before 'State of Fear', but for some reason I thought of her as a leftie-progressive Guardianista. Perhaps I was confusing her with someone else. As she points out here, we are being endless propagandised regarding climate change and many other things.
The trouble with lies you tell, or share, is that you may start to believe them yourself. You become a prisoner of your own lies. And the opposite to lie is truth. And truth always wins. Because you can lie to people but it is the people who live in the reality, and reality does not go away no matter how many veils you try to throw over it. The Chinese use this proverb. ‘’The sun, the moon, and truth are three things that cannot remain hidden’’. Do you think that in China, or any other controlled society that the people cannot see?
Laura for your next book re Death and/or religion look up Professor Emeritus Nic Wyatt. I wouldn't mention his name if I thought I would be intruding into his private life. He is an expert on Ancient Near Eastern studies. Also in relation to the book you are discussing the writings of the late Mary Douglas anthropologist are well worth a read. Thank you for a most interesting and informative interview. 👋👋👋🏴🏴🏴 Nic was professor of Religious Studies at Edinburgh University but now lives in London and still slaving away.
Ecellent. This woman answering intelligent questions has already made my mind freer. But may I point out, as someone who does not live in London, that the item about the "Mate" campaign was outside my experience.
Fascinating and disturbing, thank you. In Australia, Midalia Steel runs ads featuring a dog ( a blue heeler, naturally) and the catchcry 'MAAATE!' 😁 nothing to do with the Lord Mayor of London, I hasten to add!
A brilliant dissection and discussion around the devilish practices of our current totalitarian elite. In that context, I enjoyed the word ‘calibrating’ of people’s minds, although I deem this to be a euphemism and would rather use ‘manipulating’. ‘Calibrating’ implies fine-tuning to perfection or attaining an established, recognized benchmark of an instrument or piece of machinery without any kind of malice or hidden agenda, which this is clearly not. Furthermore, we should be aware of the newly minted, misleading lingo employed most certainly by well-hidden teams of psychologists and lawyers to forge or ‘calibrate’ the tools of our Governments’ narrative to influence people’s thinking. I have been appalled by the UK’s newly found and frequently used expression of ‘Small Boat Crossings’: The adjective ‘small’, by definition, describes something of small size, or little importance or concern. Thus the fiendishly strategic use of the word ‘small’ in direct connection with ‘boat crossings’ hides and dissimulates the actual enormousness of the catastrophe we are facing of actual migrant boat crossings. This is intentionally misleading and aimed at warping our minds. It creates a false perception of the extent of the issue and tricks us into perceiving this horrific tragedy and failure of our Governments to control our borders as a ‘small problem’. Most concerning to me is that these manipulators actually consider the public as enormously stupid.
Factories were belching black smoke for a century; cars were spluttering more black smoke; trains, ditto; and of course coal fires were the norm. The air has never been cleaner, yet it's now that we're told that we're causing climate change.
I'm pretty smart and I too believe in faeries. However I might add: I know the difference between potential realities, my realities , other peoples and social realities. There is a magickal verse, just saying!
She's correct in one thing anyway, & that is that the media reporting on Climate Change is very poor. Most of those reporting\commenting appear to have little knowledge of the subject. One of the worst examples of this was on this very website. I'm referring to an interview with a ms Lionel Shriver here about two months ago. Ms Shriver was pontificating in a most arrogant manner on the subject, but it transpired that she was a total ignoramus on the subject.
It is precisely her " humble calm tones" which allow her in connection with climate change to slip in: " we are told the science is settled but it is clearly still contentious". Climate science has little to say about greek arsonists but much that is incontrovertible to say about how climate change is creating the conditions for fires. Perhaps Laura will find more sympathetic audience amongst the evangelical End of Days crowd she seems to be headed toward. Covert propaganda is worth writing about but it is distressing that the Spectator continues to weave climate denialism into every other story. What is your editorial stance on this ?
Really absorbing interview, all the better for allowing Laura to speak and say everything she wants to without interruptions, which is a habit another broadcaster continually does with Laura, also the audio quality and acoustics were excellent as if Laura was in a proper sound absorbing studio, often not the case with her interviews.
Free speech and free thinking are the same thing! Peterson explains this very wel, people can not think on their own, they need to speak with others while their thinking develops....
If you consider the climate crisis is questionable, one very useful fact worth knowing, to enable you to understand any arguments, is what is the cause. It is stated that transport, world wide, is circa 7.9 million tonnes Co2 per annum. The use of computers/servers but not including the manufactur of 300 million new units annually by 2025 is calculated at circa 1 million tonnes per hr. Puts things into perspective.
I can't help but think Laura is controlled opposition. She didn't object to the 💉, the mandates and also the nasty side effects that has. She also didn't seem to want to criticise people in the media who backed the first lockdown(e. g. Mike Graham and Julia Hartley-Brewer). I am a bit cynical, and say she has done quite nicely with selling her book.
