Wigan Diggers Festival, Shamima Begum, Groomed By Canadian Intel, NOT The BCfm Politics Show 17Aug21

Beer And Revolution: Wigan Diggers Festival Turning The World Upside Down, But The Labour Party Fail To Appear – Andrew Neil: Investments Up Income Tax Up, Wages Collapsing, Devastating UK Economic Analysis The GBnews Investors Ignore – Shamima Begum, Groomed On Facebook To Be ISIS Bride By Canadian Intelligence, Interviewed Live On Good Morning Britain, Still Denied Right To Return To The UK – SCIENTISM: Extracts From Two Essays By G.K. Chesterton (1922) And C.S. Lewis (1958) On How Science Is Abused For Financial/Political Gain – RIP Tributes to Manfred Petritsch And Barry Wynne – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling
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EXCLUSIVE: Research into excess deaths around the world from March 2020 to August 2021 (the Covid year), with surprising results, and whether lockdowns are effective or not – OUR ANALYSIS based on an article in The Economist. Also UK deaths rates in the Covid year are about the same as 2002/2003 – but hospital beds are down a lot. – Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries – Sept 2021 – In many parts of the world, official death tolls undercount the total number of fatalities We have used statistical models to create our baselines, by predicting the number of deaths each region would normally have recorded in 2020 and 2021.

Ian Jenkins, English lecturer and poet, on SCIENTISM. Extracts from two essays by G.K. Chesterton (1922) and C.S. Lewis (1958) on how science is abused for financial and political gain, to make government policy, but what we learn from science is constantly changing, and this needs to be considered. IS PROGRESS POSSIBLE? – This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in The Observer in 1958. It was subsequently printed in the book God In the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, subtitled “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State.” …I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They ‘cash in’. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants’ ‘science’– they didn’t think much of Hitler’s racial theories or Stalin’s biology. But they can be muzzled. … To these my fears would seem very unimportant. A hungry man thinks about food, not freedom. We must give full weight to the claim that nothing but science, and science globally applied, and therefore unprecedented Government controls, can produce full bellies and medical care for the whole human race: nothing, in short, but a world Welfare State. It is a full admission of these truths which impresses upon me the extreme peril of humanity at present….

Extract from G.K. Chesterton: Eugenics and Other Evils (1922) – ...The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statutes, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen — that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the Government will really help it to persecute its heretics. Vaccination, in its hundred years of experiment, has been disputed almost as much as baptism in its approximate two thousand. But it seems quite natural to our politicians to enforce vaccination; and it would seem to them madness to enforce baptism. I am not frightened of the word “persecution” when it is attributed to the churches; nor is it in the least as a term of reproach that I attribute it to the men of science. It is as a term of legal fact. If it means the imposition by the police of a widely disputed theory, incapable of final proof — then our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are. The imposition of such dogmas constitutes a State Church — in an older and stronger sense than any that can be applied to any supernatural Church to-day. There are still places where the religious minority is forbidden to assemble or to teach in this way or that; and yet more where it is excluded from this or that public post. But I cannot now recall any place where it is compelled by the criminal law to go through the rite of the official religion. Even the Young Turks did not insist on all Macedonians being circumcised….