News Round-Up
- “Children’s ‘long Covid’ symptoms may not have been caused by virus” – An Office for National Statistics report showed just 1% of primary school children in England ‘met all the criteria’ for long Covid between March 2020 and December 2021, reports the Mail.
- “Lateral flow tests do not cost Government £2bn a month and should be kept” – Free lateral flow tests are a tiny fraction of the U.K.’s £2 billion per month free testing bill and should be kept to curb Covid spread to the vulnerable SAGE scientist Professor John Edmunds told MPs, according to the Mail.
- “Santander warns of fake NHS Covid scam” – Britons are being scammed out of £5,600 on average, with one couple transferring more than £20,000 after fraudsters send the victims a link to a fake NHS website to order a PCR test, according to the Mail.
- “Why is Putin such a Covid bedwetter?” – For over 25 years he’s projected the image of a bare-chested, macho hardman. Yet now he looks like a neurotic wimp, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Andreas Schöfbeck, German insurance executive who warned of the high vaccine side-effect rate revealed by billing data, has been fired” – His termination appears timed to prevent his participation in a meeting today with German vaccine regulators, according to Eugyppius.
- “HTL interview with Chris Green MP, who says mainstream news ‘failed’ on Covid reporting” – In a hard-hitting interview with Holding the Line, a U.K. MP is calling out tech giants and mainstream news for failing to provide balanced debate on Covid and lockdowns.
- “Jeffrey Tucker Interviews Roger Hodkinson” – Watch the Brownstone interview with the Pathologist, Clinical Researcher and Medical Director of Virology and Medical Research Laboratories, who found himself embedded with the trucker convoy as it made its way to Ottawa.
- “COVID-19 lockdowns failed: Fauci and whole lockdown crew blame public for ‘not following rules sufficiently’” – “Now as their Covid narrative crumbles before their eyes, the near-term PR goal of [Dr. Anthony Fauci] and the whole lockdown crew is to convince you, Joe Public, that their murderous Covid lockdowns and vax mandates all just sort of happened so fast in the fog of war,” writes Ben Bartree according to Patriot Rising.
- “Japan’s Covid light touch worked better than Australia’s tyranny” – Japan’s Covid light touch worked better than Australia’s tyranny, argues Harry Dougherty in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Medics should be allowed to work-from-home as 999 handlers once a week, MPs told” – Nicola McQueen, Chief Executive of NHS Professionals – which provides temporary staff to the health service – said plans were urgently needed to protect the “burnt-out workforce”, the Mail reports.
- “Cryptocurrencies are Putin’s sanctions-busting superweapon” – Despots will find it easier to get their way in a world where cryptocurrencies undermine the U.S. dollar, according to Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “Teacher suspended for showing class picture of Osama bin Laden as the Prophet Mohammed” – All Saints Academy in Bedfordshire has vowed a “swift investigation” over the “totally inappropriate images” shown during an RE lesson, reports the Telegraph.
- “What a picture of bin Laden reveals about free speech in schools” – A foreboding air of déjà vu surrounds the suspension of a teacher from a Bedfordshire school this week, writes Joanna Rossiter in the Spectator.
- “Matt Hancock’s claim ‘he fell in love’ is hilariously re-cut to music” – The former Health Secretary’s appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast earlier this week has gone down a storm with social media users left equal parts horrified and in tears of laughter, according to the Mail.
- “I’m keen that someone more tech-able than me puts the music to Simon Bates Our Tune under this” – Twitter has a lot of fun at Matt Hancock’s expense.
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Roundup 1.
“Childrens Long Term Covid . . not caused by virus”.
Not surprising since the vast majority of reported Long Term Covid symptoms/cases in children were either indicators of something else or entirely imaginary, fabricated to push a pro Social Distancing/Lockdown agenda, especially by lazy teachers.
Report does not finalize on what did cause supposed LTC.
Roundup 2.
Our CV bill is running at two billion pounds per month. A government shill says we should continue with free LFT…..YAWN. FO.
Costs/budget, who pays what for what have got naff-all to do with SAGE who are there to project projections which they’re naff at anyway.
I was hoping someone would be offended by me putting in “does does nor finalize . .” which I included just to take the piss about a recurring trend these days but nobody picked it up.
Tyre salesman says your car could do with some new tyres.
No pneumonia, no Covid whether short or long. The intensification of massified mental illness in the past two years is a given. This includes among children.
Whenever I pass a bunch of school kids out on a lunch break they queue to a chip shop or local grocery to get salty and sweet snacks. Might have something to do with not being very healthy.
The entire premise of the Mail article is misleading. It’s suggesting 1% of schoolchildren under 11 caught covid, and are now suffering from long covid. Or perhaps it’s the malicious ONS and no one at the Mail has the gumption to question it.
The reality is, of the very few children who caught covid 1% might be suffering from long covid.
“The Office for National Statistics said only one in 100 primary-aged pupils actually have the condition…….”
OF THOSE WHO ACTUALLY DISPLAYED SYMPTOMS!!!!??????
So that might round up to, possibly, 2 children in the UK………….
“I’m a lazy bastard living in a suit.”
Morning all.
You beat me KV.
Good Morning to you huxley 😚 .
3 seconds is 3 seconds matey. 🤗
( ⬇️ From impaired short term memory).
Early January 2022 I was diagnosed with Civ from a routine blood test prior to transfusion for year old Pre-Existing Condition.
Sentenced to 2 weeks Domestic Solitary Isolation which was happily spent apparantly Civ asymptomatic.
Later January I came down with extreme fatigue, severe random aches & pains plus other unpleasantness which were initially put down to PE-C (on the phone). 14 days after initial Civ diagnosis was told I was a free man able to resume my usual public routine activities (bus, shops, pub whatever)
Few days later with new symptoms getting worse I was called into the hospital where I was again found to be Cov+. Hadn’t been ‘asymptomatic’ at all, the fatigue/pains were the symptoms (all gone within a few days so then tested CV-).
Point is, they either don’t know what’s what what or they make things up as they go alongg to suit their convenience. I never have trusted the precision with which the press report “yesterdays new Covid cases”.
50,643. “643” really 🤔 ?
Have a good night.
All the best.👍
“What is canine influenza virus (CIV)? Canine influenza virus, also known as CIV or dog flu, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. The current outbreak is believed to be caused by the Influenza A H3N2 virus, a strain never before seen in the U.S.”
Roundup 3: Santander warn “fake Covid contact” texts.
The following despite my regarding Covid with supreme indifference at every level
Had two or three such texts, all headed with clearly fake NHS logo.
Sadly those who fall for these scams don’t directly pay the cost of their stupidity.
It must take an lot of effort on the part of the perpetrators to set these things up for what will be a minute return on their investment. Even sadder is that in the world of Direct Marketing (unsolicited mail-shots/phone calls/texts) a response of 1-2% is regarded as success whether that response be positive or otherwise.
Once set up and running such con-tricks, especially recorded phone calls and texts, can run for ever and ever and ever with little further cost except for contact details of addressees.
We in the critical community need to shake our heads about and check our ears, because what’s happening is that government figures and other opinion channellers in Britain are seriously telling the sheeple that Russia is losing this war. That is a lie. They are also, while not explicitly calling for a NATO no-fly zone which would almost certainly lead to nuclear war, nonetheless spreading the idea of such a zone and saying through supposedly non-government mouthpieces (such as a war studies academic from King’s College, London I heard on government radio channel number 4) that it is unfortunate there isn’t a no-fly zone. It is bonkers to think the Ukrainian airforce could impose one (which, remember, means bombing Russian airbases) without “assistance”. Third, they are cheering attacks on ordinary Russians’ living standards and security. That is the meaning of talking about Putin being overthrown and the Russian banking system being hit. I have no problem with either of these taken in isolation and at face value – and the same of course goes for the regime in Britain being overthrown and the British banking system being brought down – but they should not be taken in that way. Fourth,… Read more »
Very good breakdown Star. Your first issue first. Opinion shakers in Britain. “Russia losing this war. . .”
Not all of them. There’s a YouTube channel that posts daily maps of Russian slow but steady incursions into Ukraine from North, East and South which suggests a good reason for doing Crimea first and how Ukraine invasion was planned in advance.
Bellow is a sample that I mucked about a bit for an earlier post but I’ll get back whith their URL later.
Cf my 2nd Reply
I think this was Day Five, most of the additional pinky white is either allies or local insurgents but the amount to the same thing.
This post is not in support of one side or the other, just a reposte to some of the nonsense being aired about Russian military success. I have no doubt that they will succeed bar outside intervention, or what good it migh achieve.
Is there something “special” about how they are demonising Putin? Gotta wonder how long it will be until they call him Satanic, and I am not joking.
Yes. It’s bizarre – but then, so are the times. Hyperbolic nonsense abounds; visceral hatred is mandated.
Reasoned analysis is so last century (and it wasn’t great then).
You say that we in the critical community should check our ears but then go on to say that outlets are saying that Putin is winning this war [militarily]. I have yet to see one article saying that Putin isn’t winning [militarily]. There are many saying that he isn’t winning as quickly and easily as he expected, but that is a different kettle of fish. Like so many wars, this one is going to result in everyone involved – Russia, Ukraine, their neighbours and The West – losing more than they gain, with China on the sidelines rubbing its hands in glee.
The facts are that The West is trying to respond to a very dangerous situation and that this is going to run and run. So much of the verbiage backing Putin boils down to “you know he’s a bully, so you only have yourself to blame if he thumps you when you stand up to him”.
“for the regime in Britain being overthrown”
Think the nearest we’re going to get to this is someone ringing Susan Michie’s front door bell and running away before she opens it.
Roundup 5. Putin, Covid bedwetter ?.
That’s easy; because it suits his political agenda especially when his views are widely publicized in articles such as this.
Note, fellow meetees in your absurd photo are not wearing masks despite being too close together for Social Distancing.
So the Torygraph which once published a blog article “In Defence of Anders Breivik” now uses the obnoxious insult “bedwetter” (long-favoured Tory terminology in private) to describe Vladimir Putin. Well someone seems to have the sh*ts up them, and it doesn’t seem to be Putin.
I had to laugh at ‘torygraph’ (you doing doing the same thing as ‘bedwetter’) report of 600 Russian Active Service (all hyped and doped up) Army Unit surrendering to a peripatetic Ukranian training patrol.
Who would believe such rubbish? Oh wait ….
It would at least be good to see Facebook, Twitter, and Google smashed forever and the smartphone network taken down. Cold turkey is hard but some will survive.
Because of their overwhelming market share it’s difficult to avoid Google and YouTube (I don’t do the other stuff, “social marketing”?) but that was the position of Watneys Red F*cking Barrel beer when I first started drinking in pubs (mid 1970’s).
The only publicans that still used hand pumps were those that couldn’t afford to change to the new, ghastly, electic or gas beer dispensers or had some lingering fondness for the ‘old ways’ that required more work.
Within a very few years that had completely changed with Real Ale taking an ever increasing market share, soon to become the majority, a position it still holds I believe.
That, of course, was entirely down to the Free Market and a Consumer Choice. Had the socialists (or variants of) been in charge we would have been obliged to stick by the new rules and the brewers would have gone bankrupt.
In 1971, I was working in the Leo Burnett-LPE advertising agency on the Red Barrel account, which featured, among other things, an ad with the headline “The Red Revolution” and a Krushchev lookalike. Having spent my student days making frequent acquaintance with Party Sevens, the management evidently had me pegged as a Watney’s fan.
You may know that the colour ads were then produced on copper plates, with one for each colour separation. The agency Production Department used to recall them from the print media, to sell as scrap metal to fund the Christmas parties. I still have a couple of the agency “show” plates, with WRB, John Player Special and a couple of other client ads on them.
This did cause some family interest, as my grandfather was variously MD and Company Secretary of a small “real ale” brewery, in which I remain a shareholder.
The other fun things were the beer festivals, especially Ally Pally, at all of which, if you stood too long in one place, you’d be glued to the floor by the spilt sticky ales and beers.
I spent my late childhood, teens (1970s) and twenties in Crouch End so I know all about the Ally Pally Beer Festivals.
1st thing to learn was 1/2 pint exhibited beer glass for starters!
At the same time I worked for a BLT Telesales Marketing Agency, attached to a larger Direct Mail house and came across both Red Lion and Leo Burnet from time to time.
I daresay we would recognize each other even after 40 years.
The biggest threat to the beer industry is the major breweries.
Yeah well they got outputted in the first and biggest consumer revolution. Still a fan even though I don’t drink beer these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YeIM85SJg&ab_channel=islandonlinenews
Vladimir Putin – “Empire of Lies” Speech – Full – February 24, 2022
I agree with Putin’s analysis here, especially on the role of US and US allies – to the shame of the British.
Putin exposed the fraudulent American/NATO war machine for what it really is; a one-world-leadership, blood thirsty, greedy force that wants to dominate the entire globe, regardless of the interests of other cultures
https://thesaker.is/
Good blog for Ukrainian and Russian news
Putin is simply an old fashioned nationalist doing what he thinks is best for his badly reforme country and himself along the way.
The only surprise is that he allowed 15-20 years to pass by before acting.
Quite so. Of course war is nasty, but, heavens, that didn’t stop Bliar or Camoron!
Putin is simply an old fashioned nationalist doing what he thinks is best for his badly reforme country and himself along the way.The only surprise is that he allowed 15-20 years to pass by before acting. Putin is a thug, but he’s fully onboard with the globalist UN central bankster parasite class plan to wind down the West and swivel to the China model, read his joint statement with Xi Xi and Putin release documents extolling the creation of the New World Order that call on all states “to protect the United Nations-driven international architecture” and declare that “In order to to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” states will have to “take practical steps in key areas of cooperation” like “vaccines and epidemics control, financing for development, climate change, sustainable development, including green development, industrialization, digital economy, and infrastructure connectivity” from Corbetts post here: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need Read the link in the quote, note they refer to themselves as “sides” all the way through. It’s a long read, but understanding realpolitik can’t be done from headline scanning, if you don’t go deep you’re fresh meat for the propagandists. To understanh how China is also in with… Read more »
Excellent sent if links, thank you.
Roundup: teacher suspended, picture of Osama Bin Laden.
I don’t recall being unduly triggered by being assaulted with pictures of A. Hitler in class instead of R. Hess as intended.
Didn’t turn me into a Nazi either.
“I did Survive!”.
Must be something special.
Is this The Profit?
I think that the concern is that it was an affront to Moslems. After all, it is known that he never allowed his photo to be taken.
Roundup: Chris Green MP
“TV News got Covid wrong”.
Good for you Chis; pity you didn’t go further by reminding us that TV (and press) news reporting of Covid was paid to become full time government policy Propaganda Outfits a full month before Covid arrived at the UK.
Roundup: German insurance broker Andreas Sh??? suspended after Vaccine side effects warning.
Whatever their motives the broker will find that the side effects of Covid vaccines are a cat right of the bag.
Anyone with the slightest interest is as already aware as they chose to be.
Roundup last. Matt Hancocks love life (YAWN indeed) set to music.
Took a while but that’s the backing track to Jeremy Vines BBC Radio 2 daily incoming sob story/Mea Culpa. I expect its got a posh name but I don’t recall it.
Jeremy Vine knicked it off Simon Bates then. Back in the 80s Simon Bates used to do a daily slot with some soppy tale set to that music. It was actually quite good, But maybe I thought that because I’m a hypersensitive empath.
Aha, I knew you’d come here eventually, Jacinda!
It’s actually the theme from the 1969 film version of Romeo and Juliet…the one by Franco Zeffirelli. The music is by Nino Rota.
I remember seeing it back in the mid 70’s.
Olivia Hussey was Juliet and Leonard Whiting was Romeo.
I thought using it over the Matt Hancock sob story was inspired!
Olivia Hussey temporarily subverted my admiration for the person of one Marianne Faithfull, after the latter’s performance in “The Girl On the Motorcycle”.
It’s hilarious. Milk Tray man recounting his story of lurv to the ‘Our Tune’ soundtrack.
Actually, reading between the lines it suggests he has been shagging this bird since Uni.
Echoes of Charlie Windsor and all that.
Amazing what you learn at sites like DS. Goes to show how random and varied its readership is.
Disappointed but only a little surprised by the complete absence of sceptical articles in this News Roundup about the biggest story currently occupying most of the mainstream media, ie the western govts’ narrative about the crisis in the Ukraine.
This site doesn’t appear to be interested in questioning or debunking the establishment narrative on this issue, despite it being both hugely important *and* riddled with lies, fake news, misinformation + disinformation, all the things that this site claims to stand against.
🙁
For instance this apparently well-informed update and commentary on the situation:
https://thesaker.is/day-6-mr-president-is-ukraine-winning-the-war-not-a-joke/
How’s this?
US/NATO is in the Grip of a Daemonic Death-Wish & the Entire World is Threatened – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
Roundup: Fouci blames public for not following Lockdown decrees sufficiently strictly.
We always knew they would do that and said so here and eleswhere, at the time.
Lockdown Demands ‘not working ?’
Solution = More Lockdown, Mote Decrees, More Enforcement, More Punishment.
F*ck off Fauci you unelected little turd. (Note to Ed, not intended to be “ABUSE“, Soz if it comes over that way).
Someone in the control room knew exactly what they were doing.
This is one of the greatest live TV moments of all time
That is hilarious
Hancock really needs to be put in the stocks for a day, before being tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. I hope the people of West Suffolk have the sense to carry out the modern day equivalents.
You’d hope but I doubt it, speaking from a sleepy town in Suffolk which has become ‘home of the facemask’ these last 2 years.
My sleepy part of East Suffolk seems to be gradually weaning itself off these things, although the pace is glacial, and I doubt we will see a full melt.
A camera facing the door should have been so obvious though
Tories who say “Putin’s a bedwetter” are so funny!
The same is happening when British politicians try to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy for having been totally outplayed by Putin and the ~KGB by saying things like “Oh, so you still expect to use our public schools and our money transfer systems, do you?”
They are like nothing more than two-year-old boys holding onto their willies because they feel overwhelmed by what’s happening all around them.
They hold on to what they know and love best:
It’s all there in that single short sentence, “Putin’s a bedwetter”.
It’s madness I tell you – sisters son has suffered from bad cold-like symptoms, cold sores and rashes ever since getting the first jab, she takes him to get his second jab so he can fly out to Spain with his dad and now he’s breaking out in more cold sores and his cold-like symptoms persist and on some days are worse than before … but here’s the thing I don’t get – she can’t seem to make the link between the jab and sudden appearance of all these symptoms – its incredible. Here’s another strange thing – I’ve suffered from cold sores all my life (on and around the lips usually – horrible things) I regularly get them twice a year – once in winter and once in the summer or usually with a sudden change in temperature so if I flew out from cold, grey rainy Britian to somewhere hot, dry and sunny tomorrow say somewhere like southern Spain or Greece, within a day or two of landing I will usually get the old itching tingling feeling on the lips and then a cold sore develops the following day. But here’s what is strange and I only just… Read more »
Sorry to disappoint you, but you’re not herpes simplex free, it’s just staying in its latent state somewhere; you are symptom free. It is known that both SARS-CoV-2 infection and the “vaccines” can cause the various herpesvirus to reactivate in some people.
Do we RAELLY need the reCAPCHA thing AND automoderation?
Can somsone kindly rescue my post from the moderation bin please.
Appropriate music added to Matt Hancocks love story – what next, Prince Andrew’s Love Story?
I thought the Italian tart only let Hancock grab her bum so that her brother could get a juicy fat contract out of Matt – is that money to be paid back into the public purse, or did he get away with it?
Why does Hancock dress like a member of a fictional spaceship crew, or is he trying to look like a submariner or what?
“trying to look like a submariner or what?”
‘Muff diver’? Sorry, I mean, it’s True Luuuurve, innit?
Off topic but I’m genuinely interested in your answers…
Round my way they’re creating chaos digging up roads and pavements laying new gas pipes…. Why if they’re goung to be phased out over the next 8 years?
Only if you believe them. What they gonna heat the nation, and keep the lights on with when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine, if they do?
Are you sure they are gas pipes?
If the fascist government in the Ukraine wasn’t losing the war, it wouldn’t be publicly negotating with the Russian side – and it definitely wouldn’t be sitting down at a table with them in Belarus.
The Ukrainian delegation was led by David Arakhamia, the Georgian guy who studied for his master’s degree in management in London and who may well be the property of Jewish mafia boss (“oligarch”) Viktor Pinchuk, founder of a London-based “financial advice” company, owner of multiple TV channels, and son-in-law of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma.
My friend arrived in Sicily the night before last, thoroughly unvaxxed and holding papers that she hoped would be tenuously sufficient to get her in. Nothing was looked at, and I mean nothing, not even her passport! Yesterday she was in cafes and restaurants and was not asked for a pass once. The coordinated worldwide collapse/retreat of covid is quite striking. WTAF?!
If ongoing lateral flow tests are indicated for the coofs, why not for influenza (remember that?).
This is a genuine question, given that influenza is actually harmful to people who are not at the very end of their lives.
They should all be feeling vulnerable, as should their colleagues in the pusillanimous or positively Quisling JCVI, MHRA, Ofcom, blah blah blah.
I hope I am not deceived by the growing tick tock in the nearly Spring air.
Hancock didn’t resign because he broke his guidelines. He resigned because he was caught.
He didn’t break his guidelines because he fell in love. He broke his guidelines because he didn’t believe in them.