rob martin

Overworked ...

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

Firefighters are tackling 19 wildfires across England and Wales. The Tintwistle Moor wildfire has burnt an equivalent of 350 football pitches.

Now is the time for immediate and substantial investment in the fire service. We must rebuild resilience to properly protect the public.

@UnionSteveW on ITV News

[rob martin @robmartin6]

@fbunational Don't forget the hundreds of call outs to smell of smoke... because of these fires 30 miles away or more

[rob martin @robmartin6]

@unlimited_ls Bang on see it so often out with the towels then don't appear until after lunch... great work

[Virtual Mage @virtualmage17]

Desert Strike (SNES) 🚁🔥

One of the most unique games on the system at the time…

Where does it rank among the SNES classics? 👀

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours:

1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone.

2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's manifesto and nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it.

3. The Labour gvt confirmed we will "align" with the European Union, directly going against the 2016 democratic vote for Brexit & forcing the British people to pay billions for laws they'll never be able to influence.

4. The Labour gvt confirmed that while Islamist sympathisers & antisemites are free to march on the streets of our capital city, & while it welcomes former allies of al-Qaeda into Downing Street, it has banned conservative activists from joining a peaceful protest against mass immigration in London.

Put all these things together and you get a sense - just a sense - of how hideously authoritarian and illiberal this Labour government really is.

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

A freedom of information request has revealed that, once again, the UK Met Office has been publishing temperatures from weather stations that don't even exist.

"The numbers were actually coming from a model that was inventing data from phantom neighbouring stations."

"This is the foundation of the UK's climate record."

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Matt Berry (52 today) gave the greatest James Bond audition of all time. Just give him the goddamn role already.

[rob martin @robmartin6]

@TansuYegen Yes all.good but can he pass backwards and sideways after receiving the ball in a promising position

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.

He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.

He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.

Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.

The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.

Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.

The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.

By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.

This is the system that exists today.

The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.

The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.

The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.

Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.

The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.

The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.

It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.

You are the customer.

The corridor is where you live.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨GMB SHOCK: RANVIR SINGH DROPS RED PILL LIVE – “STARMER ISN’T RUNNING BRITAIN… THE DEEP STATE IS!” 😱

The Penny Drops On Live TV: Starmer Is Just A Shop Window While Unelected Powers Run Britain 😳

Even mainstream favourite Ranvir Singh sounded like a so-called conspiracy theorist on Good Morning Britain today.

While discussing the Mandelson scandal, she dropped this jaw-dropping truth:

“I’m afraid it taps into that very deep feeling, that the people we vote for are not the people who are running the country. The people we vote for are the front face, a shop window, but there are these unknown, unelected, highly paid, very influential people who are more powerful than the prime minister. We see the tip of the iceberg. We think we’ve got a democracy that’s open and fair. We don’t!”

Wow!

It won’t last long though. She and the rest of them will be back to parroting the same old establishment talking points by next week. They will never learn.

[Oddball @CaptDrimmie]

Miliband must be removed as soon as possible.

BREAKING: £31 BILLION gone.
OpenAI has just pulled the plug on Stargate UK.
Their reason? Ed Miliband has made British energy so catastrophically expensive that one of the world’s biggest tech giants has walked away.
Keir Starmer stood next to Donald Trump late last year and promised Britain would be an AI superpower.
Ed Miliband just killed it. For UK net zero (0.8% of global emissions). For Greta. For nothing.
£31,000,000,000. Gone.

[Richard Thomson @RichardTomo5]

Rachel Reeves only knows how to raise taxes.

Britain already has its highest tax burden since WWII - and things are getting worse, not better.

The problem isn’t too little tax. It’s too much waste.

Cut the waste:
Carbon capture – £9.4bn
Net Zero – £30bn
Foreign aid – £7bn
Migrant accommodation – £4bn

That’s over £50bn saved and with that you could raise the basic rate of income tax to £20,000 and get the economy moving.

Stop taxing Britain to death.
Start cutting the waste.

[rob martin @robmartin6]

@JChimirie66677 Sounds like utter chaos....

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

This can't go on. It just can't.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

A group of guys, an Englishman, two Scots, and a Welshman aren’t allowed to have a dog according to their landlord. They spot a neighbor walking a dog and decide to email, offering to walk it whenever needed. The neighbor responds… with a handwritten letter from the dog.

[rob martin @robmartin6]

@MidnightMuse___ Just finished 72.hour fast enjoyed it and felt good throughout

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century.

More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise.

The Maldives haven't sunk, they've exploded with growth: 12 new airports, expanded international terminals, record tourism of over 2 million visitors a year, and more than 170 resorts, with 7 added in 2024.

Instead of disappearing under the waves, this so-called "paradise in peril" has shown no statistically significant sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

Here we have another 'climate catastrophe' headline completely undone by time.

[rob martin @robmartin6]

@gofishh77 Love it