News Round-Up
- “It will take more than the retreat of Covid to cure our society’s lockdown obsession” – “The virus itself is on its way to becoming just another bug, one of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. But the scar tissue where our civil liberties used to be may never fully heal,” writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “It’s getting bad again” – S.D. Wickett, Michael Curzon and Luke Perry discuss the enforcement of mandatory vaccination measures in both the U.K. and mainland Europe in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
- “Tesco’s Christmas advert features double-vaccinated Santa” – “At one point, the music stops for a breaking news announcement that Father Christmas could have to quarantine after travelling. Thankfully, Santa arrives at the airport with his Covid vaccination pass and all is well,” reports the Independent.
- “Nearly 40% of people had depression during the pandemic” – Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare System found that 40% of people reported that they were feeling some symptoms of depression during the pandemic, reports the Mail.
- “Young people paid too high a price for lockdown” – The manner in which the young were disregarded was all the more extraordinary given that the virus itself posed little risk to their health, writes Telegraph View.
- “AstraZeneca could go from hero to villain” – “AstraZeneca’s decision to start building in a profit margin on future sales of its world-saving Covid vaccine is understandable, but will inevitably bring criticism,” writes Patrick Hosking in the Times.
- “I don’t care what time of day my staff work, says IBM boss Arvind Krishna” – “Many months of working predominantly from home under Covid restrictions have prompted office-based employers to reconsider the future of their operations,” reports the Times.
- “How third vaccine jabs are boosting the chances of a restriction-free Christmas” – Covid-related hospitalisations among the most vulnerable age group are now in a sustained decline, writes Ben Butcher and Joe Pinkstone in the Telegraph.
- “What it means to experience ‘social death’” – Government is inflicting social death on any who continue to believe their bodies and lives belong to themselves and not the Government, argues Thomas Harrington for the Brownstone Institute.
- “There’s no hiding from lockdown damage now” – A raft of dire new data suggesting the cure was worse than the disease is a looming political problem for the Prime Minister, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “YouTube suspends senator over Covid vaccine video” – “Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson was temporarily suspended from YouTube for allegedly spreading ‘harmful misinformation’ after he published a video discussing injuries related to Covid vaccination,” reports RT.
- “Designated Criminal” – Reason has been superseded by the need to obey, argues David Mamet in UnHerd.
- “WHO director shies away from pushing passports for shots that do ‘not prevent Covid’” – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro questioned the WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom on the effectiveness of vaccines and immunity at the G20 summit in Rome, reports Lifesite.
- “Joshua Kimmich ‘set to miss out on $440,000’ amid strict German rules for unvaccinated workers forced to quarantine” – “Reports from Germany suggest that Bayern Munich’s unvaccinated star Joshua Kimmich could be forced to forgo around €384,000 after being forced into quarantine after he was a close contact of a teammate who contracted Covid,” reports RT.
- “Matt Hancock book deal will see him tell of heroic role in pandemic” – “The former Health Secretary is in talks with HarperCollins over a blow-by-blow account of ‘heated’ lockdown rows with ministers, aides, scientists and medics,” writers Simon Walters in the Mail.
- “Missouri Governor considering unemployment for people fired for refusing Covid Vaccines” – “Missouri Governor Mike Parson said his administration is considering providing unemployment benefits for individuals who are fired over federal Covid vaccine mandates,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Conservative judges block Biden’s vaccine requirement for businesses” – Panel of judges rules stay of requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers is in the public interest, reports the Guardian.
- “Letter to British Society of Immunology” – PANDA requested that the British Society of Immunology amend public messaging as it grossly misrepresents the data available on Covid and immunology in general, writes PANDA in a letter to the British Society of Immunology.
- “COP26: climate activists reported to police after deflating tyres of 4x4s in Glasgow as summit takes place” – The group ‘Tyred of SUVs’ also posted ‘climate violation’ flyers on the windscreens of the vehicles, reports Sky News.
- “Scottish Government puts tampons in men’s toilets” – “Period products are now being supplied to men’s restrooms visited by Scotland’s transgender civil servants, British media has revealed. The move has apparently been introduced by the cabinet to top up its equality index,” reports RT.
- “Lockdowns don’t work” – Toby speaks to Talkradio about the ineffectiveness of lockdowns and why another one should not be imposed on England.
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News from Latvia
Monday will be a day of turning the ratchet, as in Austria.
From Monday the unvaccinated, even if they are “unvaccinated for medical reasons”, will be banned from large food stores.
There may be other new restrictions on Monday too, but this is the one I have heard about.
However, the general 8-5 curfew will be lifted.
So to summarise: FEWER restrictions for the vaccinated, MORE restrictions for the unvaccinated.
Democratic apartheid (Latvia bans unvaccinated MPs from voting and suspends pay), social apartheid, economic apartheid, medical apartheid and cultural apartheid. All coming to the UK for Xmas and the New Year, all with the blessing and encouragement of the MSM and government supporters like TY.
PS: Also in Latvia those unvaxxed sacked from jobs (like the MPs) will not get benefits or compensation, so the unvaxxed will presumably have to freeze at home as energy prices soar – or maybe just die?
Preventing an elected MP from voting after they’ve got used to voting via Zoom certainly confirms this has nothing to do with health.
Even if an MP had leprosy or Ebola there are still plenty of safe ways for them to represent their constituents.
The only recent comparable event was the suspension of Catalonias MPs but that was after they had been accused of Treason.
I don’t usually swear on this forum but just fuck off.
Latvia has enough bad history from both right and left and should know better than this.
During and after WW2 its southern neighbour Lithuania famously had a large band of partisans fighting for Independence that comprised left and right, Jews, local Poles former monarchists, anti Russian Marxists, even some who had signed up to the Wermacht.
A much better lesson in unity.
I don’t know much about Latvia, or it’s constitution, but how can MP’s remove the rights of other elected members of parliament? That’s not cricket, sounds like a coup to me.
Yep looks like a coup too (see votes). Another interesting problem for the EU.
Below I just compared it to the suspension of Catalonia’s MPs after they had been accused of Treason.
The EUs stance on that was murky because they could not work out what effect it might have on an independent Scotland applying to join that sorry institution.
Latvia, along with Lithuania and Estonia, fearing invasion from the Soviet Union sent its gold reserves to the Bank of England for safe keeping. There they remained until the fall of the Communist bloc when they were used to kick start the new currencies of those independent countries.
It is unlikely this country retains that level of trust today
Is the ruling group described as ‘center right’ because of perceived anti Russian chauvinism? ie against the country’s own large Russian minority.
Why would the EU worry? Latvia has a better democracy than some other countries.
That may be so, but at the moment Lithuania has the beastliest persecution of the clean-blooded in the whole of Europe.
I have just read the ‘I’s review of the Tesco Christmas advert. While clearly a sycophantic suck up in many respects the underlying message to Govt appears to be:
Don’t dare to cancel Christmas.
Am I wrong?
Not quite sure what is disturbing me about this advert, but something is. It must have cost a lot to make and my feeling is that Tesco would not have invested in it without a nod from above that it would not be proved wrong. But I trust non of them and their hidden agendas.
I spent my first 9 years in a mixed household and barely noticed but I do tire of the ‘check our diversity’ commonplace throughout the advertising industry including this year’s effort from Tesco.
Can’t bear to watch adverts because of this ‘diversity-checking’ thing. Completely at odds with reality.
And, this sort of barmy shit will actually create friction. I am not a racist, but the off-the-scale ‘diversity’, versus reality, is really starting to have a negative effect on me I think. It makes me resentful, and this is bad. It is unfair to me, and unfair also to those groups being massively over-represented. I have never cared about the colour of a person’s skin or sexual orientation etc., but now, because of this insane non-reality portrayed as reality – it is a real turn-off for me, seeing these people in adverts etc. There is animosity, where none previously existed on my part. This is purely a result of the pushing of this non-reality.
All this pseudo-diversity and PC stuff actually creates tension/division, where before it was non-existent.
Spot on. I feel just the same.
I completely agree. Even my very elderly mother, who rarely says anything, has suddenly come out and said that she’d like to see a white face on the telly occasionally.
I’m sure that no one cared two hoots about anyone’s skin colour before it started being pushed into our faces.
The picture is a bit fuzzy but, as they have quite a few people in it, I think they have managed to tick multiple boxes. What I find interesting is the overrepresentation of Black British people in TV ads compared to British Asian people – my gut feel is that Black British are many times more likely to feature in ads, and yet there are roughly twice as many British Asians in the UK as there are Black British. If advertisers want to play a game of quotas, at least get the numbers right. I’m not stating a case for or against any of these groups, but I wonder what kind of pressures might have caused this situation. Perhaps fewer British Asian people go into acting, but I rather suspect it’s more to do with established pressure groups, who shouts loudest, and a plethora of other probably dodgy reasons.
This is a photograph of a school in my home town from 1974. This shows real diversity not the pseudo diversity that is being pushed now.
Love that photo, mainly because of all the splendid knitwear!
“What I find interesting is the overrepresentation of Black British people in TV ads compared to British Asian people – my gut feel is that Black British are many times more likely to feature in ads, and yet there are roughly twice as many British Asians in the UK as there are Black British. If advertisers want to play a game of quotas, at least get the numbers right.”
Precisely. It’s entirely skewed/warped. What matters above all else to these corporations is attracting/keeping customers – and, to that end, they will go along with anything. They don’t actually give a fig, they just want to ‘show’ that they give a fig for the latest trending cause. How come they all start ‘caring’ at the same time? Funny that.
They’ve even flown in an obese bloke from Lapland. How’s that for diversity?
Tesco might get more footfall in their stores if they reduced prices rather than spending money on video ordure like this.
I think it’s saying that you won’t be allowed to have Christmas ( family gatherings, parties, travel, markets etc ); that Christmas will not happen ( “for you” ), unless you/enough of you are vaccinated ( up to date etc ), that Xmas “depends” on the vax.
But perhaps the most unpleasant aspect of the ad is its message that the biosecurity state is so powerful that it can ban ( a semi-god like ) Santa, ( even he must obey them! ), and that they’d would be perfectly justified in doing so if he was unvaxxed.
And, having actually watched the ad now 😉 I’m struck by how it totally normalises vax-passes, and by the pressure it puts on people to get vaxxed by showing all the “ordinary” “good” groups of people desperate to have a “proper” Xmas again … but who may yet be disappointed if Santa, or someone somewhere/someone old, doesn’t have their up to date vax-pass.
The vax passes will escalate to require more and more booster shots to be valid. It’s a re-run of the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade from Catch-22.
If only we had a Major ___ de Coverley to puncture this balloon on our behalf.
Freely deciding to take the vaxx having considered the full and correct medical information beforehand is (or should be) an inalienable human right. On the other hand the subsequent taking up of a vaxx passport (or seeking to benefit in any other way from discrimination against the unvaxxed) is an act of open support for state apartheid, and is far worse than any of the supposed ‘isms’ that this pithy ad sets out to preach about. BLM and its ilk are nothing more than parts of a multi faceted Trojan horse inside which dwells elite corporate rule & open state fascism.
I have to agree. It’s a deplorable advert pushing all the usual wokery and the government master plan, but I still felt it said Don’t You Dare Cancel Christmas. It’s straddling both sides of the fence by the look of it. Thank God I don’t have tv anymore.
Good man, appropriately identifying those responsible for this egregious attack on human rights.
I know where I’d like to shove chairman nic sturge-uns tampon.
If you like Dr Sam Bailey;
Courageous Convos With Dr Sam Bailey – by Voices For Freedom
Oh, Tobes, so trusting, so naïve.
Muzzles never went away, and social credit score apps have already been mandated in the Celtic Fringes. These are a trial run for civilised regions.
If you imagine for one second that they wont be inflicted on the English (and the New English) in order to Save Our Christmas, then bless you for living in blissful ignorance.
But if you want to bet otherwise, I’ll be happy to take your fiat.
Why Wokeism Is A Religion
Introducing the Taxonomy of Woke Religion
I could spend all might going through that. Makes some good points though.
On Racism/purifying speech, what does ‘centering’ mean?
No idea, but some of it is disagreeable nonsense.
I’d have thought that, since its aim is to control freedom of thought and expression, it is all disagreeable nonsense.
One thing I think will change rapidly is the assertion that organic agriculture will save the day. Organic agriculture is to ecology what natural immunity is to health. Bill Gates is heavily invested in GM for a reason. They are already making noises about the virtues of genetic meddling in the food supply. If they have the social credit control system I believe they’ll soon wage war on organic food on the basis that it’s irresponsible and dangerous land use. They can’t control the organic food supply, they need it all to go GM.
It’ll be interesting to watch because it’ll alienate A LOT more people.
Think that war on organic already started, organic isn’t what it used to be.
Very true, but soon it’ll be “organic farms are inefficient, go GM to save lives from starvation and give more land for wildlife habitats”.
Of course the fact world hunger could be solved with a fraction of the covid budget and that they will be spraying even more pesticides will be somehow lost in translation.
They’ll turn it into another existential threat so that its adherents are essentially no better than terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Unt03UBhbU
Which big C would you prefer?
Is youtube the new scientific peer review now? I’m highly sceptical, like a good sceptic should be, about the motive of “merogenomics” touting for business.
Isn’t something I’ve ever needed & our species hasn’t needed for over 200,000 years.
What about one’s outer biology?Do one’s skin, hair, toenails, etc. follow a different system?
I saw somewhere Handjob had shares in a genome sequencing company, its just a scam, it wouldn’t surprise me if the whole coronabollox was a data harvesting scam, collecting DNA samples.
I don’t trust DNA research findings at all.
“Boris is probably a natural lockdown sceptic, you know, all his instincts are quite libertarian…” So there you have it, TY still desperately seeking that elusive government position by defending the indefensible. As a journalist and self professed free speech defender he should be hammering this PM, the leader of the most oppressive totalitarian regime in modern history, but he NEVER does and never will. Time and again I have pointed out the blatant hypocrisy of TY’s faux-libertarian government shilling, along with the LDS/DS ‘controlled opposition’ editorial policy, yet he still keeps popping up all over the place if not exactly defending the government (although he openly has done on BBC Newsnight and Sky Australia) then he would be at pains to excuse and praise his old mucker Boris, despite the de-facto imposition of a two tier apartheid fascist state. Sickening. I suspect the real reason TY was named ‘Contrarian of the Year’ this week is his contrary policy of on one hand claiming to be a sceptical freedom loving libertarian while on the other openly defending government policy (including the vaxx). Even here TY is very careful only to criticise “non-pharmaceutical interventions”. Remember also only that days ago he was lamenting… Read more »
Think TY is still seeking a seat in the lords, LOL.
I think it’s just denial – if someone you think was firmly on your side betrays you, it’s hard to take and you may be inclined to look for excuses for them. Quite a normal human reaction, though not a healthy one.
I’m fed up with this theological nonsense. It’s like the debate over whether God is a male trinity or not. Who cares what Boris’ psyche says, he doesn’t act in accordance with it.
He’s ruled his nut nut anyway.
TY’s adoration of Boris suggests he has never stumbled upon basic political philosophy pertaining to a PM,in this case Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’:
“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Therefore if a prince wants to maintain his rule he must be prepared not to be virtuous, and to make use of this or not according to need.”
Likewise, as regarding C19 emergency restrictions and lockdown:
“Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.”
And a warning to BoJo’s little helpers…
‘Whoever is responsible for another’s becoming powerful ruins himself, because this power is brought into being either by ingenuity or by force, and both of these are suspect to the one who has become powerful.”
I’m entirely happy that someone is in favour of the covid ‘vaccines’, so long as they asked questions about what went into their arm before they submitted to the jab. So far, I haven’t spoken to a single person who even knows what mRNA stands for. And neither have I met anyone who was aware that the vaxxes have only ‘temporary authorisation’ or that the pharmas are 100% indemnified against claims for damage.
Given that this information has been freely available and openly discussed (even in the MSM) for well over a year, I find this extraordinary. Emergency C19 measures were passed in Spring 2020, and not long after indemnification against claims were being discussed in June/July 2020; with one AZ director admitting that his firm would not have taken the risk to develop their vaxx without such assurances in place. Why do so many people assiduously read labels on foodstuffs, but when it comes to being jabbed with an unknown substance even a cursory ‘caveat emptor’ is not being applied?
This government, no matter how corrupt and duplicitous, cannot be blamed for everything!
Been reading the Mail comments about Wankok’s book.
Now for sweet dreams.
Even the ‘least liked’ are good for a laugh. They seem to have been written by Johnny Speight.
As for the book, I’ve nearly run out of the 30 copies of Gordon Brown’s memoirs that came my way from a skip outside Waterstones having used most of them as gifts for people I don’t like. Hancocks will be just as good for that come 6 months after publication.
Bozo should pass a law making people pay a tax if they don’t want to have the Cockbook. There would be no need for other taxes for at least a year.
First transgender officer to serve openly in Britain’s Armed forces says it will be a ‘proud moment’ when LGBT+ veterans officially attend the National Service of Remembrance
How would you know someone is trans in the armed forces? They all wear the same uniform!
How can you have equality in an organization with a strict hierarchy?
How can you have freedom of expression in an organization with a strict disciplinary code?
Liberals are going to destroy this country, undermine its entire history & sabotage future generations, everything they do is destructive, the sacrifices & losses of the past for nothing. There is no point looking to the current generation of politicians to fix this, they are the ones doing it!
How can the Telegraph publish
“Third vaccine jabs are boosting the chances of a restriction free Christmas”
in the same issue as Dan Hannon warning that
”the scar tissue where our civil liberties used to be may never heal” ?
Aus reader Gregoryno6 posted this late in the comments about the Melbourne protests yesterday.
The video he links to is quite astounding, naturally my heart sank when I noted Sgt. Mitchell was i/c Gender Equality & Inclusion Command, do not be put off!
It’s fairly anodyne until 13 minutes in when all becomes clear.
She tells it how it is being a cop in Dan’s Victoria, unsurprisingly she expects to get sacked because of this interview.
Perhaps one more skilled than I could repost the link.
Here’s the link, folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kn6AFl5G1c
Ta, I didn’t think you would be around this time of day.
I had a new blog post to advertise. Link somewhere below.
I will add this in case you come across the terms 2G and 3G. They are nothing to do with internet connections.
It maybe confusing to some and are used in context to The Netherlands and Germany.
2G means gevaccineerden + genezen. Translated vaccinated + recovered.
3G.means gevaccineerd, genezen + getest. Translated vaccinated, recovered + tested.
What is not widely reported in the English written press is that The PM of The Netherlands has implemented a short 3 week “lockdown” so that it gives him and his cabinet time to change the laws relating to the virus. The laws he is proposing is to be able to divide society into groups. Those that fall under 2G category and those who are not.
Just like in Germany. They also use the same 2G/3G terms.
ITEM: “Joshua Kimmich ‘set to miss out on $440,000’ amid strict German rules for unvaccinated workers forced to quarantine” – “Reports from Germany suggest that Bayern Munich’s unvaccinated star Joshua Kimmich could be forced to forgo around €384,000 after being forced into quarantine after he was a close contact of a teammate who contracted Covid,” reports RT. At least sportspersons in Germany are just being forced to do temporary quarantine (at this stage). In Australia, we are far more advanced than Germany in the authoritarian stakes. Vaccine resistants in the Australian Football League are being placed on the “inactive list” for the duration of their disobedience which means no games and a 75% cut in their pay. Deni Varngarten is the first victim of this in the women’s comp. Every other player, to a man and woman, appears to have been coerced (or brainwashed) into the jab in order to keep their playing career and contract intact. In the National Rugby League competition, there are around three dozen players (perhaps 3% of the total player roster) who are thought to be holding out against the jab (unlike the AFL, the NRL hasn’t mandated compulsory jabbing) but they, too, look like being given the… Read more »
“world-saving Covid vaccine”
Lol
world-enslaving snake oil
To save people having to look at the Guardian, here’s the link to the court judgement which halts Biden’s vaccine mandate
US Fifth Circuit (Federal) Appeals Court
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-60845-CV0.pdf
It will be interesting to see whether this gets to the US Supreme Court
“The Constitution vests a limited legislative power in Congress. For
more than a century, Congress has routinely used this power to delegate
policymaking specifics and technical details to executive agencies charged
with effectuating policy principles Congress lays down. In the mine run of
cases—a transportation department regulating trucking on an interstate
highway, or an aviation agency regulating an airplane lavatory—this is
generally well and good. But health agencies do not make housing policy, and
occupational safety administrations do not make health policy. Cf. Ala. Ass’n
of Realtors, 141 S. Ct. at 2488–90. In seeking to do so here, OSHA runs afoul
of the statute from which it draws its power and, likely, violates the
constitutional structure that safeguards our collective liberty.”
“Austria is planning to introduce a lockdown for millions of unvaccinated people.”
Adolf would be proud of his birthplace.
“We have very few Covid restrictions in England and cases are declining.”
Cases of what? Sanity?
Very few covid restrictions? Well, apart from vaxx passports for millions of workers, travel restrictions on the vaxxed, mass testing, masks on TFL, track and trace still contacting people to make them self isolate, self isolation for the unvaxxed, private and public bodies imposing their own restrictions, enabled and encouraged by government filthy lies, mass vaxxing of the healthy, lying covid propaganda, threats of lockdowns and more vaxx passports, coronavirus act still in force, SAGE still spouting lies, cover up of vaxx uselessness, wasting billions on covid theatre. Outwardly things appear normal. But under the surface, this is a completely different England to what we had two years ago.
It doesn’t spread as quickly as a politician’s butt cheeks for big pharma, but sometimes life demands patience.
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2021/11/14/lockdownunder-update-courage-is-contagious/
“But the scar tissue where our civil liberties used to be may never fully heal”
I don’t know about ‘never’. But the population has been primed to accept the previously unacceptable.
P.S. Does anyone know if the attendees at the Service of Remembrance were filtered for jab cleanliness? That would be the ultimate insult.
“You would have thought that it would begin to sink in that the various non-pharmaceutical interventions that governments make have almost zero impact on the rise or the fall of infections but it still hasn’t sunk in.” – Toby Young
The restrictions are for population control ahead of a technocratic takeover of society, which has a shot at succeeding because it won’t sink in to folks like you that this pandemic is a fraud.
Some friends of young Eagle go to boarding school in Scotland. I have discovered that youngsters foolish enough to submit to testing, who then get a positive test result, are put into solitary confinement. Separate building, no visitors, and forget about being nursed with copious quantities of chicken soup and hot lemon and honey. More like Steve McQueen in the cooler than sick bay with a motherly type looking after you.
Mostly they are not even sick, but even if suffering from a mild cold, children need to feel some warmth and tenderness from the adults around them. This type of segregation is training children to associate illness with isolation, neglect, being “othered”. How will they learn to look after others, if they are not nursed with loving care? It’s wicked beyond belief, abusive and inhumane.
Tempted to name the school, but they will all be the same.
You should, if only to discourage others.
Good to see that Matt Hancock is determined to ignore that most of the country think he’s a semi-polished turd.
I look forward to seeing his ‘book’ in the remaindered bins.
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