News Round-Up
- “Italy, the ‘far right’ and the muted opposition to vaccine passes” – Why is it that only the supposedly “fascist” Fratelli d’Italia are opposing Italy’s Green Passes, asks Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator.
- “Australia is showing the perils of a zero Covid strategy” – How has it come to the point that Australia needs to call up the military to eradicate a virus that is now endemic in the world, asks this Telegraph editorial.
- “All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others” – Ramesh Thakur in the Spectator Australia worries that lockdown enthusiasts have got their priorities wrong.
- “The Republican probe into the Wuhan lab proves conspiracy theories aren’t always wrong” – This is no longer just an argument over the origins of COVID-19, writes Eliot Wilson in the Telegraph. It is becoming a battle over how we deal with scientific inquiry.
- “Traveller in Heathrow hotel quarantine reports rats in room” – A musician forced to quarantine in a Government-approved hotel has described having to move room twice because of a “disgusting” rat problem, the Evening Standard reports.
- “Guardian: COVID-19 Lockdowns are Driving Up CO2 Emissions” – Ditching the commute might seem an easy climate win, but other factors such as the relative inefficiency of home heating outweigh the CO2 savings, says a story in the Guardian as reported here by WUWT.
- “NHS app tweaked to ping fewer Covid contacts and appease business” – Ministers bowed to pressure from business and moved to ease the “pingdemic” by tweaking the NHS COVID-19 app, according to the Times.
- “I’m a pingdemic liar. Admit it, you are too” – We are cutting back on social contact – but is it really the pandemic or do some of us just not want to go out, asks Stuart Heritage in the Times.
- “Civil servants will continue to work from home despite Sunak’s plea to ‘get on’” – Civil servants are not being ordered back to their desks in Whitehall despite ministers’ praise for office working, reports the Times.
- “Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go Into the Office Again” – A new survey shows 65% of workers who said their jobs could be done entirely remotely were willing to take a 5% reduction to stay at home, Bloomberg reports.
- “The U.S. Economy’s Prospects Looked Bright, Until the Delta Variant Surged” – Gross domestic product grew at a 6.5% annual rate in the second quarter and the economy exceeded its pre-pandemic size, but slower growth is expected in coming months, reports the WSJ.
- ““I Will Not Be Leaving Quietly” by Five Times August (Music & Lyric Video) 2021” – Dedicated to all those fighting for truth and freedom, courtesy of Oracle Films.
- “My own country of Canada just kicked me out because my Covid immunity was acquired naturally and not from a vaccine” – Rachel Marsden in RT writes that when she went home to visit her mother, Canada tried to force her into a Covid detention facility, threatening fines and police action, as they didn’t recognise her natural immunity.
- “The Road to Totalitarianism” – A warning from C J Hopkins in OffGuardian.
- “We must be free to be ‘grossly offensive’” – The case of the ‘Grenfell Tower effigy’ shows our laws on online speech are wildly authoritarian, writes Andrew Tettenborn in spiked.
- “U.K. Asset Owners Pledge to Push Managers on Diversity” – A group of pensions and consultants, totalling $1.5 trillion in assets under management, will require asset managers to disclose information about the gender and racial makeup of their firms, reports Institutional Investor.
- “In defence of proselytising” – We should thank religious nuts, especially dissenting Christians, for most of the liberal rights we take for granted, writes Stephen Wigmore in the Critic
- “The shame of BBC Sport” – Framing your opponents as hateful is the politics of the kindergarten, write Rob Jessel and Madison Smith in the Critic.
- “Brentford end refusal to take the knee ahead of their first Premier League season” – The club confirmed their players would join the other 19 top-flight teams in performing the anti-racism gesture, the Telegraph reports.
- “How artists lost their courage” – Keeping silent is the price of a successful career, writes Jess de Wahls in UnHerd.
- “Put the animal sentience bill out of its misery” – Lobsters and the like are given no more protection from cruelty under this legislation but bureaucrats will thrive on it, writes Matt Ridley in the Times.
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Coronapanic resistance: Kate & Luc’s, then and now
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OulnOSHeAEF4/
This was a video shot at Kate & Luc’s in June, after they reopened following Luc’s vindictive harassment by the authorities. He is still waiting for the disgraceful “assaulting police” charge to be dealt with. (You can see his face brutally assaulting PC 17185’s fist at the start of the video.) A bunch of completely separate resisters just happened to turn up at Luc’s cafe on the same evening completely independently and had a good time completely coincidentally. A real collection of extremist desperados, as you can see.
This is now a monthly event, so feel free to drop in at Kate & Luc’s and ask about it (or message me here).
Luc earned our support when he took authority’s fist for us in the thick of the lockdown. Unfortunately not enough stood up beside him, back then, to achieve the breaking of that disgraceful policy, but that wasn’t Luc’s fault. A number of people here on LS said they contributed to his support fund, which has helped him to deal with the consequences of his courageous stand.
That’s 213, Burnage Lane, Burnage, Manchester. Heroes.
If there is not a list of businesses which have made a stand against this shambles, it might be worth compiling one
And I hope that womble in the yellow jacket was sacked and prosecuted.
Sometimes hard to see how this “regime is better than the CCP innit?
I think realistically we can support businesses in our own areas. And we should exchange info here so that people can occasionally support other businesses outside their own areas, as I would Kim’s place, for instance, if I were down in Saffron Walden.
I’d be very happy if Toby were to push his “open for business” idea here again, along those lines.
SW is just down the road, what’s the story on Kim’s place?
Full on lockdown sceptic who used to post here in the early days about the trials of trying to run a cafe in corona-zealot-run SW.
If you search for “tea rooms Saffron Walden”, it will be obvious. It’s entertaining to read the Google reviews – lots of highly positive reviews from neutrals and sceptics, and lots of highly negative views from panickers.
I haven’t visited myself as it’s a long way out of my neck of the woods, but I’ve spoken to people who have, and it sounds like all’s well there – a well run business that’s coping with the slings and arrows while making no secret of their recognition that things are far from right.
“The shame of BBC sport”.
Yes. According to GB News, if I contacted our impartial public service broadcaster to say that men pretending to be women should not be permitted to compete in women’s sport, or that male sex offenders pretending to be women should not be allowed in women’s prisons, they would report me to the police. Absolute madness.
A nice juxtaposition, that indicates the depth of the political problem we face. Not a problem with a particular party, but a wholesale moral bankruptcy of our entire political hierarchy, across all major parties. The Conservative Woman is so ashamed of the behaviour of the nominally “Conservative” Party that they are changing their name to avoid any risk of being associated with them: “we are no longer prepared to risk the reputational damage of having the word conservative, albeit with a small c, in our name. We think it is irreversibly contaminated.” Our new title – farewell to the contaminated C-word Meanwhile, old Labourite and socialist George Galloway declares (referring to the identitarian wokeists of the modern Labour Party): “if what they stand for is left, I’m not left.” Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle The Podcast Episode 7: George Galloway I’m obviously on completely the opposite side from Galloway on economic politics, but he speaks from a position of intelligence and deep experience on the topics of the Labour Party’s divorce from the indigenous working class it was supposed to represent, left/right, free speech, and social-ism. “Working class people in Britain long ceased to think of the Labour Party… Read more »
The “not the Conservative party”? The late, great Christopher Booker was on to them years ago..
Meanwhile, George Galloway is a pro-life Catholic. The woke mob seem irredeemably hostile to such people – and indeed Muslims and Jews these days – remember that school in Birmingham?(Galloway, of course, represented an area of Bradford with a large Muslim population).
Oh, and the Liberal Democrats who don’t represent liberals or democrats. Though, commendably they did at least oppose “vaxports”.
“Meanwhile, George Galloway is a pro-life Catholic.“
I remembered Galloway being reported as having converted to Islam, but was this ever confirmed?
“The woke mob seem irredeemably hostile to such people – and indeed Muslims and Jews these days“
Indeed. As Peter Hitchens wrote: “The Rage Against God is loose“, and it’s no coincidence that the wokeists embody it just as much as their Soviet and other radical predecessors did (only, so far, with fewer guns and prison camps – give them time).
German chief pathologist sounds alarm on fatal vaccine injuries
“The director of the Pathological Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Peter Schirmacher, has carried out over forty autopsies on people who had died within two weeks of their vaccination. Schirmacher expressed alarm over his findings.
Published: August 3, 2021, 12:42 pm
The regional daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported: “Schirmacher assumes that 30 to 40 percent of them died from the vaccination. In his opinion, the frequency of fatal consequences of vaccinations is underestimated – a politically explosive statement in times when the vaccination campaign is losing momentum, the Delta variant is spreading rapidly and restrictions on non-vaccinated people are being discussed.””
No idea how reliable this is. It’s clearly from a non-mainstream campaigning source.
Presumably not less reliable than the Guardian?
How could it possibly be less reliable than the Grauniad?
It is very reliable, a fact.
It has been reported in many other outlets, but the MSM is trying to ignore it. There have been official reactions to his findings by the PEI, for example.
These reactions were all along the lines of ‘can’t be, no underreporting etc. and a bit of ad hominem stuff, of course’.
The pathologist stood firm and maintained that the people commenting as such have no pathological competence, whilst he has.
The problem is that the system works – it’s nigh impossible to bring such information to the attention of the gullible if it does not carry the imprimatur of the mainstream media.
Here’s a link posted by Dr Robert Malone to a report in a German medical weekly:
https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/126061/Heidelberger-Pathologe-pocht-auf-mehr-Obduktionen-von-Geimpften
Google translate: “In Baden-Württemberg, the pathologists therefore worked with public prosecutors, the police and resident doctors, reports Schirmacher. More than 40 people have already been autopsied who died within two weeks of being vaccinated. Schirmacher assumes [believes] that 30 to 40 percent of them died from the vaccination. In his opinion, the frequency of fatal consequences of vaccinations is underestimated ”
Schirmacher is not a lightweight figure, he is described as acting chairman of the German Society of Pathology, director of the Institute of Pathology at Heidelberg University Hospital.
Inevitably the piece also reports lots of experts and authorities denying his conclusions could possibly be true.
Am feeling a bit down today and despite that many of my family and friends are sceptics too, they just don’t seem to get this one.
Some friends of ours had a premature baby recently (I’m not sure exactly how premature but I’m guessing 30-32 weeks). They’ve just shared their birth announcement and I was shocked to hear that:
They were not allowed into the neonatal unit to see or hold their baby for TWO WEEKS.
In the pictures they’ve shared of them sharing their first bonding time together – the parents are wearing MASKS.
Am I the only one who is utterly horrified by this?! I have checked the covid guidelines for the neonatal unit and it just says parent visitors only, no siblings. I have heard stories of parents with positive covid tests or contacts not being able to see their newborns but I didn’t realise it was still happening. Surely unless the parents aren’t coughing and sneezing everywhere their baby needs to experience their faces? Babies need to be touched and cuddled the idea that a nurse had been doing that whilst they weren’t allowed makes me so angry. 😭😡
All part of establishing communal nurseries a la Brave New World!
The left has always believed bearing and raising children is far too important to be left to individuals and families. By “guiding” it, they can make the world a better place.
Oh do stop your interminable idiot ranting about the imaginary army of the ‘left’ of your fevered obsessional brain. You need to get out more.
Still unable to respond as an adult when your defensive response is triggered, I see. Here are the basics of how adults ideally address material they find threatening or unsettling:
1 Stay calm.
2 Choose a response from the following:
(a) Ignore, or
(b) Address the issues raised.
Your preferred response, as evidenced here time after time, is slinging insults and demanding they stop saying what you don’t like to be said. The playground response of the infantile.
Marxism has only killed 100 million people last century, we need to give it another chance.
I’m more worried about the Thatcher/Reagan legacy that we now labour under in this takeover by unbridled capital.
No – I just haven’t patience with a serious issue is being compromised by idiot hobby-horse riding by obsessive delusion and ignorance.
Usually, I don’t respond, but the degradation of this site from a serious forum about Covid to a platform for an excess of interminable whingeing self-abuse is damaging. This certifiably bonkers degree of pathological ignorance is handing the opposition ammunition by the day.
Either stick to the knitting or go cluck on a website more appropriate to the Roderick Spodes of this world posturing their barmy political fantasies.
More of the same, I see.
Masks don’t work, if you can still breathe, airborne respiratory illnesses can still spread, why “Medical Professionals” seemingly can’t comprehend this simple fact is beyond me.
Utterly appalling. But this seems to be the behaviour now being normalised in hospitals. I saw a video just recently where medics/nurses/whatever were determined to shove a PCR test swab up a new born’s nose. The parents were having none of it and a scuffle ensued. What shocked me most was the callousness and inhuman way the staff treated the parents and the baby, like they’d been brainwashed. I actually thought I was watching fake video at one point but on further investigation, and from hearing about other new parent’s experiences, I fear it was true. The dehumanising process is now starting…at birth.
A friend of ours had a miscarriage and her partner was not allowed in with her.
Fucking disgusting. Truly disgusting.
“ group of pensions and consultants, totalling $1.5 trillion in assets under management, will require asset managers to disclose information about the gender and racial makeup of their firms, reports Institutional Investor.”
Great, I can use it to channel my “GetWokeGoBroke” share-shorting strategy.
Another Round Up with chatter and little of real significance.
I note, in contrast, the lack of references over the last week to the high-quality inputs from the ‘Doctors for Covid Ethics’ Symposium. It seems the Mail and Telegraph are more informative!
I am enlarged-heartily sick of Milquetoast articles like this anonymous Telegraph “view” asking why, oh why, “Australia needs to call up the military to eradicate a virus that is now endemic in the world”.
There is of course no sane, rational answer to this question, but neither is the real answer obvious enough to most readers for this to serve as a useful rhetorical question.
It’s long past time that what remains of our press started making clear statements, not “asking questions”.
In this case, the explanation is that Australia is ruthlessly crushing all opposition to a despotic regime Hell bent on implementing a Great Reset and ushering in a crony-communist world government run by sociopathic oligarchs like Gates and Soros.
If you can’t even say it, how are you going to resist it?
Missouri governor pardons couple who pointed guns at protesters
The ultima ratio, and why the US is in the end in a better place to resist the woke cultural revolution.
BLM and similar “protests” are of course not really protests at all, they are intimidatory mobs. The message is: don’t dare resist the elite dogmas we are signalling our adherence to, or you will face the anger of the mob.
That’s why they are lightly policed and encouraged by the authorities, who are happy for their ideologies to be imposed in this way.
To stand up to a mob, you need guns. That’s the sine qua non. That was the lesson of the famous “roof Koreans” of the previous wave of “antiracist” thuggery in the early 1990s. The general truth that “when seconds matter, the police are only minutes away” is never more true than when law and order breaks down.
Oh, come on. Kneeling is not an “anti-racism gesture”. It is submission to anti-White racism, and crony-communism.
If you surrender the language, you surrender the argument.
Presumably Will, like Toby and most of the chatterati in the societies of the US sphere, has internalised the ideology of antiracism, and the manufactured taboo against “racism”.
That ideology holds that there is something called “racism” that is always and necessarily evil, and that any and all measures to fight, suppress or oppose it are by definition good. “Racism” itself of course is then defined to suit the needs of the moment, operating as a “motte and bailey” fallacy – first demonised by reference to the most obviously evil extremes and then extended to cover whatever they want to attack.
In practice therefore there is little functional difference between “antiracism” and “anti-white racism and crony-communism”. Antiracism is used as a wrecking ball to destroy institutions that stand in the way of radicalism – see for instance how the Met police were transformed into the woke militia they are – in the hierarchy at least – today.
Leavers were right about immigration Why won’t the Left admit the truth about open borders? BY PAUL EMBERY Embery I think has been one of very few prominent Labour activists to avoid the zero covid nonsense, and here he speaks relative sense (for the Labour Party) on immigration. “The rapidity with which support for open borders has gone from being a fringe position to dominant on the British Left ought to be one of the major talking points of politics.” Oops, he mentioned “the Left” when on here we all know that doing so is “unserious”, thanks to Rick ‘s repeated dictats. One should only ever rant about “the right”, of course. Regardless, Embery asks a good question: how did the organised British Left go from sensible conservatism on borders to its modern pro-immigration zealotry. Embery makes some good points, though he omits to mention that the left (oops, I did it again) has often had internationalism at the heart of its ideologies (though in fairness he does mention “Trotskyists, anarchists and hyper-liberals”). Of course, one of the reasons the dramatic change he highlights has not been talked about much is the active suppression of dissent – and even of discussion… Read more »
Speaking of right and “far-right” resistance to the coronapanic, here’s Senator Malcolm Roberts of Australia’s One Nation party ripping into the Australian government’s contemptible policy of panicked totalitarian thuggery:
“The side that is locking people up for the crime of being healthy, arresting protesters, pepper spraying kids, beating up grannies, banning books and electronic messages, censoring social media, sending threatening letters, forcing small businesses to close, urging people to dob in dissenters and banning safe drugs that have worked for 60 years are all on the wrong side of history.”
Transcript and video here: https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/on-freedom/
16 and 17 year olds do not need parental permission to have the jabs.
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID.
And since this seems to be the topic of the day, here’s another very senior politician saying the right stuff (I won’t say what political side he’s on, to avoid upsetting the delicate): Sen. Rand Paul: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again. Choose freedom “Speaker Nancy Pelosi — you will not arrest or stop me or anyone on my staff from doing our jobs. We have all either had COVID, had the vaccine, or been offered the vaccine. We will make our own health choices. We will not show you a passport, we will not wear a mask, we will not be forced into random screening and testing so you can continue your drunk with power rein over the Capitol. President Biden — we will not accept your agencies’ mandates or your reported moves toward a lockdown. No one should follow the CDC’s anti-science mask mandates. And if you want to shutdown federal agencies again — some of which aren’t even back to work fully — I will stop every bill coming through the Senate with an amendment to cut their funding if they don’t come to work. No more. Local bureaucrats and union bosses —… Read more »
And a non-politician this time, again saying the right stuff: https://rairfoundation.com/dr-hodkinson-slams-covid-psyops-reputations-will-be-slaughtered-pack-of-lies-from-start-to-finish-video/ Dr. Roger Hodkinson, after talking about the disgraceful threat of a lawsuit against Dr Peter McCullough: “The big picture with the vaccines is that they weren’t needed, they’re experimental, they’re dangerous, they have all kinds of complications …… but also, people are being intimidated into taking them in a most Machiavellian fashion. In Canada children are being offered free ice cream, in my own province a lottery is being offered, those kinds of inducements are totally inappropriate. But to get to the point of ineffectiveness, so we not only have an unneeded dangerous vaccine, but it’s also now becoming very clear that the vaccine does not live up to its initial promise. It’s not “98% effective” as they were originally saying. No, nowhere close. There are two big horror shows that could happen. Underline could – we don’t know. Of course, that’s the whole reason for clinical trials, that have not been done. Clinical trials are done because we don’t know what we don’t know……What we do know at this point in time with respect to long term consequences is this: two separate issues, both of great potential concern.… Read more »
“Last time I checked, pregnancy takes nine months. So how can you conceivably check on the potential for female infertility if you are only doing a trial for six months, and intentionally excluding pregnant women in that niitial trial. So… those are the serious long term risks that we could be faced with. … I think the dominoes are starting to fall, and when the dust settles from all of that, if I can mix my metaphors… there’ll be blood in the gutter. Reputations will be slaughtered because ths has been a pack of lies from start to finish, a pseudo=epidemic of fear, that was really in the grand scheme of things nothing worse than a bad seasonalflu, with certain exceptions for older people and with co-morbidities, and in previous years we’ve handled that perfectly effectively ourselves with a liberal dose of what’s generally known as common sense. That was all that was needed! With extra protection for the elderly. And so when the general public starts getting wind of how they’ve been manipulated, literally, with psyops to force them into complying, there will be retribution at the polls, and this horrible…moment in medical history will be remembered by the… Read more »
It’s been a great few days for stirring declarations of truth from [right wing] politicians on the covid nonsense. Here’s Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida letting Biden have both barrels:
“[Biden’s] solution is he wants to have the government force kindergartners to wear masks in school! He doesn’t believe the parents should have a say in that, he thinks that should be a decision for the government. Well I can tell you, in Florida, the parents are going to be the ones in charge of that decision!”
“We can either have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state, and I can tell you, Florida, we’re a free state….if you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way…. if you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way”
“So, why don’t you do your job, why don’t you get this border secure, and until you do that I don’t want to hear a blip about covid from you!”
https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1423001657642651648
Just been down our high street in our little Shropshire town where if you’re lucky, you might see one copper in five years and lo and behold, I saw four (4) of em at once, walking up and down the street until they arrived at one of our cafes, where one of em (masked up of course) entered; now this particular cafe since “freedom day” has never insisted on customers wearing masks, sanitizing, and social distancing at all.
Perhaps they stopped there just for a cake and a drink or perhaps I’m becoming paranoid.
No harm in dropping in there for a chat, see if they’re having any trouble, surely?
Yeah, I’m a “regular” there anyway so I’ll see what I can find out.
Drugs raid (not cafe).