News Round-Up
- “U.K.’s faltering Covid wave continues to fizzle as cases plunge 26%” – Government dashboard statistics revealed another 39,656 infections were recorded over the last 24 hours, falling a quarter on the tally last Wednesday, the Mail reports.
- “The end of masks on Tubes, trains and buses” – Transport for London said it will no longer be a “condition of carriage” to wear masks on its services, the Mail reports, as most of the remaining Covid restrictions in England come to an end.
- “People’s Convoy truckers set off on drive from California to DC” – People’s Convoy organisers and participants argue the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and mandates are unconstitutional and claim the “Government has forgotten its place”, the Mail reports.
- “Freedom Convoy donors bank accounts are unfrozen by Canadian officials” – Police reportedly ordered a freeze on more than 206 bank accounts, including one valued at $3.8million Canadian dollars, and also ceased transactions involving 253 cryptocurrency addresses, but the Mail reports the accounts have been unfrozen following outcry.
- “What would really happen if we took 10 days off for a cold in Britain” – Boris Johnson has suggested we have much to learn from Germany on workplace sickness, but could the same approach really work here, asks Harry de Quetteville in the Telegraph.
- “‘I sued them for playing the piano’: neighbours flood the courts with lockdown disputes” – One couple found themselves on the receiving end of a £50,000 claim, according to the Telegraph.
- “German Public Health Insurer: Vaccine Side Effects Maybe eight to 10 Times More Frequent Than Officially Reported” – German publicly regulated health insurer the Betriebskrankenkassen reports substantially higher vaccine adverse effects than the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, the country’s vaccine regulatory body, writes Eugyppius on his Substack page.
- “The Silver Lining To The Covid Vaccine Bust” – The silver lining to the failure of vaccines, according to Louis-Vincent Gave on TrialSite News, is that China might look at Western nations ending restrictions and engineer its own about-turn.
- “The Freedom Movement in New Zealand Has Truly Begun” – Olivia Pierson has just spent a week in Freedom Village on parliament grounds and reports that a freedom movement has truly begun in New Zealand at last.
- “Woman who refused to wear a face mask was unfairly sacked” – An employment tribunal in Leeds ruled Laura Convery was a victim of disability discrimination and unfairly dismissed because of her anxiety which caused her to suffer panic attacks, the Mail reports.
- “January Covid deaths were around half the total on Government’s dashboard” – Dashboard recorded 7,014 deaths, but ONS data show just 3,797 cases in which virus was the main cause of death, reports the Mail.
- “How much did the Covid crisis cost?” – As with most problems, our national debt will only get worse the longer we take to face up to it, and with restrictions ending, excessive Government spending should end too, says Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
- “Covid has created a capitalist nightmare” – Big Tech and Big Pharma are more powerful than ever, argue Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “MPs slam ministers over ‘waste, loss and fraud’ in Covid response” – The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report which is highly critical of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the Treasury over waste and fraud in the Government Covid response, the Mail reports.
- “Superdrug undercuts Boots and pledges to sell Covid tests for just £2” – Lloyds Pharmacy, which has 1,500 stores dotted across Britain, has started to offer five tests for the price of £9.49 on its website – £3.51 less than the same offering from Boots, according to the Mail.
- “Be honest about Net Zero cost or public will reject it, Government warned” – Sir John Armitt, the infrastructure tsar, says ministers must be sincere about green targets, even when it is not “politically expedient”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Will we be ‘nudged’ into Net Zero?” – Green technocrats have long relied on behavioural science to bypass democratic debate, writes Philip Hammond in Spiked.
- “Analysis Of Winter Extreme Rainfall” – Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That says that the European Climate Assessment and Dataset provides no evidence that winter rainfall is now more extreme.
- “Why is the National Portrait Gallery cutting ties with BP?” – Rejecting donations from BP or the Sacklers will do nothing to alleviate climate change and will not free a single person of their opiate addiction – but it will make our cultural life more impoverished, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Spectator.
- “The case that changed the gender debate” – Stonewall’s strategy of ‘no debate’ has backfired, writes Maya Forstater in UnHerd.
- “How the woke BBC smeared Baden-Powell as a Nazi sympathiser” – Flawed research and out-of-context quotes have wrongly tarnished Baden-Powell’s and the Scouts’ legacy, write Tony Ransley and Steven Edginton in the Telegraph.
- “Trans privilege” – It is an outrage that Lia Thomas is allowed to compete against women, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Phil in London says he ‘doesn’t care’ about the situation in Ukraine and is more worried about Trudeau’s ‘brutal dictatorship’ in Canada” – talkRadio tweets the concerns of a listener.
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So, things are getting lively in the Donbass and The Ukraine (a country which might have a genuine far right issue) has declared a 30 day state of emergency.
Compare this to Peterloo Trudeau’s fatuous invoking of “emergency” powers over a peaceful protest in Ottawa. I’ve been asking for some time if the Crook Fauci is in prison yet. I think I should also start asking if the criminal regime in Canada have been suspended from the Commonwealth yet.
Meanwhile, Stateside, good luck to the People’s Convoy “marching” on D.C.
“Loud explosions heard in Kiev” (various news outlets).
Good old Brussels (and Strassburg and Letzebuerg) regime bringing peace to Europe. No wonder we voted for independence
Bally air raid sirens now by the sound of it. Good morning Kiev.
That’s where blind adherence to political ideology leads. See also my post below.
Reportedly columns of armoured vehicles reportedly heading “South”, “possibly in the direction of Kiev” from the area of the Ukraine/Russia/Belarus border now.
How quickly they have put sanctions on Russia and cry foul play. While 2 years on who is punishing USA and China for the leaked bioweapon that the world overreacted too.
Money talks, doesn’t it? Fauci still not in prison, I suppose?
Sanctions harm most those adopting them. And regularly ‘help’ those they are supposed to harm.
It’s a bit like sinking all your exporting ships as they leave port toward the Baltic.
Here’s a really funny exposition of the absurdity of protectionism and the like
https://www.truefreetrade.org/pft9.htm
The Emergencies Act has been revoked. Turdeau backtracking like it was his considered decision but it’s actually because it had too much opposition. See his quotes about democracy. Hypocrisy off the charts. He’s a slimy, duplicitous weasel dictator! https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/immediate-emergency-situation-is-over-pm-trudeau-revokes-emergencies-act-1.5793047
I like what this conservative MP has to say in the House of Commons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39CK2izUFww
Agreed, but I believe that the reason for the u-turn was the stampede to remove funds from the bank accounts, including by foreign investors
Yes the ‘almost’ bank run happened immediately.
A very strong signal
It goes to show just how ignorant and low quality, low IQ the leaders we keep electing are. And how we the people are even more ignorant for electing them. Every time. The worse they get, the more we double down and elect them.
There’s nothing like ‘people power’ and it would appear nothing works better than civilians voting with their money en mass! Wonder what lasting impact this low public confidence will have on the Canadian banks.
If the freezing of bank accounts was at the behest of the Davos Deviants then their thinking appears a bit “slack” shall we say.
Yes undeniably a huge factor in the fast U-turn. But coupled with the fact the senate was majorly opposed to this act being in place.
Russia invades Ukraine on the same day that the Pig Dictator ends the Covid psy-op rules. Probably just another ‘coincidence’.
Peking Piffle stops sanctioning English citizens; starts sanctioning Russians.
It is very annoying to keep seeing how the enormous power of tech and pharma companies is mistakenly attributed to “capitalism”. Pharma companies have enormous power because the state aggressively promotes their products. And relieves them from liability. Their power is the power of the state given to them by the state. Same thing with the tech companies. They started their censorship under pressure from the state and state institutions to do so. They were investigated after Brexit and Trump’s election for supposedly promoting “misinformation”. In other words, the losers of those two contests, with the backing of the state went after the tech companies to make sure the “misinformation”, i.e. information and opinions the establishment didn’t want people to see, stopped. Banks also have enormous power. Why? Because they have extraordinary powers given to them by the state in exchange for them acting as agents of the state. As a reward, they aren’t allowed to fail, people are forced out of cash and into using banking services. Attributing the enormous power of some companies in particular industries is to understand nothing about capitalism and free markets. It is just the parroting of a lazy, ignorant narrative. These companies are… Read more »
And what happened? Facebook has seen an unprecedented decrease in users, with hopefully people moving to platforms that will not censor them. I wonder if the state will come for the likes of LS eventually?
I seem to remember a story that the Salvation Army or someone like that runs some sort of ethical financial services, but of course not many people know about it as there’s not much money in it – what I call the dock leaf effect (nobody’s going to tell you they cure nettle sting as you can just pick your own).
Given that Europe relies on Russia for 35% of its gas, it seems to me that the West has a genuine death wish and that we are witnessing civilisational collapse.
Our hi-tech world will not survive a reliance on wind power. Turbo-philia will mean no banks, no digital cash and no Facebook.
“The West has a death wish”.
Hard to deny:
And I dare say plenty more besides. It is hard not to conclude that the West is not suffering from some sort of psychosis.
It probably helps to be a bit more precise. It isn’t ‘the west’. It is the over bearing state that messes everything up with its central planning.
To take one of the examples you have given, the country with one of the worst demographic ticking time bombs is China. And that is thanks to decades of their one child policy. Not exactly a problem created by the west or capitalism but rather central planning.
And yet somehow the most effective wealth creation system that we have, which is capitalism and the free markets gets somehow blamed for our problems.
Yes, pretty psychotic.
Free trade was one of the issues at Peterloo, and effectively of the truckers’ protest. One of the major problems in recent times has been the protectionist behaviour of the EU, which hasn’t done third world countries any favours, and I suspect that many business people in Africa welcomed Britain leaving that protectionist bloc. Free trade between democratic nations has absolutely created great wealth, and indeed taken more people out of extreme poverty than anything else in history. And another of the problems of the Brussels regime is overbearing state powers. And as for China, ironically Taiwan has a similarly low birth rate without having used coercion (and Japan for that matter). China reportedly imports wives from Korea and the Philippines, and I fear for their future, and how their regime will react when things get bad.
One of the problems with “free trade” is that capital and labour have very different mobility rates.
Another is that there’s usually someone around who figures that a killing can be made if certain freedoms are curtailed.
I agree that capitalism is a brilliant creator of wealth, but I do not agree that the state necessarily “messes everything up” – not for all forms of capitalist enterprise.
State actions in the last two years have surely assisted in extremely effective wealth creation for some enterprises (big Pharma, certainly); as well as in the destruction of a good deal of small and medium enterprises (not to mention a marked decline in the wealth of many present and former employees of one kind or another, across the world).
Mass formation psychosis coupled with the 2030 agenda. It’s all part of the plan
But of course “The West” isn’t a being with the capacity to have a wish.
Is there, instead, a set of operating principles which tend towards particular ends of the kind you describe?
Those operating principles need not be consciously articulated – they might just be “the way things are”.
The Commonwealth (pre Peterloo Trudeau obviously)??
One variety of operating principles; operating practices can be another matter altogether.
Stressful times test any principles and reveal what can be the rather stark machinery beneath. Like the original Peterloo.
Regulatory Capture has blurred the boundary between Companies and the State.
We live in a global corporatocracy. Democracy, as promoted to the little people, is an illusion.
No wonder Klaus Schwab is promoting the Global Public Private Partnership. This term is a mere formality to cement what is already in place.
If you’re in any doubt, study the history of glyphosate, GMOs, pharmaceuticals, environmental protection, public health, banking etc and the lack of any effective regulation in areas of importance like these. By ‘regulation’ I mean regulation in the interests of the majority of people.
The nature of psychopaths (e.g. lack of empathy, lack of any moral compass) gives them a powerful competitive advantage to take control of whatever they need to control in order to amass more wealth and power.
Yes, I know that is the prevailing narrative. But the order of things matters. The state first gives itself powers over people and then allocates some of them to companies. Without state powers, companies have nothing to capture.
Now we’re getting into the area of the history and evolution of the state.
Isn’t the relationship between the “state” and “companies” a little more symbiotic?
stewart, The process you describe whereby “the state first gives itself powers over people and then allocates some of them to companies” implies that there is effective separation of state and companies. This separation, in practice, is not as clear as it needs to be for effective regulation and lawmaking. For example, see the following analyses of conflicts of interest among members of the JCVI and SAGE:
https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2022/02/jcvi-conflicts-of-interest/
https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2020/11/sage-conflicts-of-interest/
As well as direct conflicts of interest, there is the issue of lobbying by companies and their PR company representatives, which is rife, and the revolving door syndrome, whereby government officials and senior corporate staff move between each others roles.
Do you think that capitalists can exert pressure or influence over the state?
What I think you are alluding to is monopoly power. And yes, there is no capital in that at all. A monopoly as you know is where a market for a good has been cornered in some way to make the owner granted that monopoly – always by government of all party’s – able to set the price of the good, rather than leave it to the open market. Sure, there is capital at work in the market. But relative to monopoly, that capital is a thin slither at the top of that chart, which then gets heavily taxed, thus causing bankruptcy and unemployment at the smallest hiccup in biz! While the monopoly profits go fully untaxed in the end after huge claw back from the higher prices given by we the people. Whats the real problem here though, over and above the big biz getting all the goodies? Well, the biggest monopoly of all is that in private ownership in land. It’s untaxed, in the end, and is always the first thing to be bailed out during the recessions it’s a root cause of. If you find this hard to believe go ask all 27 million UK home owners.… Read more »
Over 6,000 “cases” reported in New Zealand today, 28 times more than their previous high before the last few weeks. I wonder if “saint” Jab-sinner will be panicking?
Maybe Phil should wake up and get his priorities in place as Russia lobs missiles on Ukraine.
Ukraine has been lobbing artillery shells on its own population in Lugansk and Donetsk for the past eight years.
Yes, that civil war provoked by the new regime (after the 2014 coup) and its move towards the EU
Apparently people in Donetsk are hoking that they are the safest they’ve been in 8 years!
Meanwhile, Putin talks of the “denazification” of that region. Presumably Peterloo Trudeau will welcome this…
I cannot any media outlet mentioning the Biden Crime Families involvement in Ukraine.
That is where Old Joe as O’Bamas VP told the Prime Minister (live on TV) that if the state prosecutor who was investigating his son Hunter and his brothers accepting bribes from Ukranian mobsters, then he -Joe- would with hold a billion dollar aid package.
Result? The prosecutor was fired and the junkie Hunter got paid mega bucks for a non job in Ukraine.
Strange how the lame stream meeja all suffer from selective amnesia.
Mark Steyn mentioned it tonight. Naturally.
Some commenters on the DM tube article are loudly proclaiming that they will be clinging to their face knickers.
To protect themselves.
At least they’ve abandoned the this-is-for-others nonsense, which they plainly never believed. Did anybody?
Don’t they know it’s a filthy habit?
I suspect that some will not be giving up their crutch any year soon…
Here in the Netherlands our mask mandate ends tomorrow, though it’s staying in place on public transport for now, for some unfathomable ( and obv unscientific ) reason. It’s an interesting social experiment going to the shops. Although I’m seeing a few more going ‘face commando’, the vast majority are still wearing their virtue-signalling talismans, and ( worst of all! ) many wearing them outside, despite there never being a mandate for outdoors. I do think that the majority of these brain-donors are not so much frightened of catching a cold ( after all, my presumption is that if they were that paranoid then all the mask-wearers will be vaxxed ) but frightened of not conforming and what others will think. I’m afraid we have a pandemic of cowardice and conditioned obedience, in my opinion. It’ll be interesting to see how many are still wearing the damn things after the mandate is officially over. Possibly these will be the true hypochondriacs, shit scared of catching a cold, the others will drop the masks like good little automatons, awaiting further instructions.
If it is anything like my market town in Suffolk, many people will carry on wearing those damned things “out of politeness and to make the vulnerable feel safe”.
Then they must actually enjoy wearing them then because that excuse is piss poor and not fooling anybody. They’re pathetic hypochondriacs, all jabbed to the max of course, but daren’t admit it. But their signalling speaks volumes. Sad bastards!
We should start fining people for wearing a face mask now.
Could I, though, request an exemption for Jacinda and Nicola?
In the supermarket yesterday a woman sneezed into her mask 3 times. I guess it was good she had a mask on, as she had her arms full of the goods she wanted to buy and there was no way she was able to raise a hand or elbow.
German health insurers seeing massive number of claims for treatment resuting from vaccine injury –
They estimate 3 million Germans will have been injured across the country.
But absolutely nobody is going to be looking at this truly horrendous hard data, ( which suggests probable actual vax *fatalities* in Germany alone of *30,000+*, hundreds of thousands more across Europe and the US, millions across the world, caused by govt “health” policies ), because there’s a War in the Ukraine!
There had to be a really big event to distract from this.
Here is gato malo’s more detailed take on it;
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/german-vaccine-side-effects-data
On the question of little Fidel Trudeau changing course with the frozen bank accounts.
If anyone has some spare time Theconservativetreehouse.com has extensive coverage of it.
It is a long read but worth while – as our great host would say.
Thank you Toby and team for your great work.
At no time in 2020 was there a ‘crisis’, nor has there been one since.
Difficulties been through, are going through and yet to endure are direct result of actions of WEFetal’s puppets throughout World, including, by look of it, Putin.
It’s all just pandemonium solely, intentionally created by weak-minded indoctrinated puppets carrying out orders from WEFetal.
Not by their precious virus (or any of their other excuses).
I flatly refuse to use their new term for a cold or call their agenda anything other than abnormal or tests anything other than tests.
Ahhh the green revolution marches on directly costing me a £532 increase to my dual fuel gas and electric bill from April. Thanks Greta, can I assume you’ll cover my costs?
And how many of the ONS figures were genuine? I’ve witnessed our local doctor deliberately mislabelling my partner’s prescription to protect the covid narrative.
She needed sleeping tablets due to stress from the threat of the NHS ‘vaccine’ mandate. The doctor wrote on the prescription that she was worried about Christmas!
I wonder many relatives in their grief and confusion of losing a loved one would notice or challenge a wrongly described death certificate?
FDA quietly advises that people who’ve had the Covid vaccine may get “false positives” in *Syphilis* testing. Now why would that be happening? Couldn’t be that that some people have vaccine induced autoimmune disease that is getting picked up by other kinds of medical testing, now could it?
https://www.cdc.gov/std/FDA-alert-12-20-2021.pdf
***BREAKING NEWS***
More people died this weekend in Chicago, than the war in the Ukraine (excluding the brutalised ethnic minorities)