News Round-Up
- “‘Seven in 10’ people in England have had Covid at least once” – The Telegraph reports new estimates showing that Covid has infected more than 70% of people in England since the end of April 2020
- “How lockdown robbed the poor to enrich the elite” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s recent interview with Jan Jekielek of Epoch TV
- “Lord Sumption in the bear-pit” – Jon Dobinson interviews Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption about life in the lockdown years for Time for Recovery
- “Covid Policy Tactics Were Borrowed from the Vietnam War” – “A consensus will emerge that the Coronavirus response was, like the Vietnam War, a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, inter-generationally unjust, deeply destructive over-reaction that caused far more harm than they prevented,” writes Mark Oshinskie for the Brownstone Institute
- “Why Is CDC Trying to Put a Mask on Your Face Again?” – Jeffrey A. Tucker of the Brownstone Institute takes aim at the CDC and the Department of Justice as they move to appeal the recent court decision ending the transportation mask mandate
- “Joe Rogan rips Stephen Colbert for palling around with Dems, touting vaccine” – The New York Post highlights Rogan’s mockery of Colbert for his chumminess with leading Democrats and his pro-vaccination song
- “Serum Institute of India halts vaccine production over millions of unused doses” – The Serum Institute has stopped making fresh batches of Covid vaccines amid a global supply glut, according to the Times of India
- “‘A betrayal of China’? Debate over COVID-19 remedy turns political” – Sceptics who have questioned the value of traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen as a COVID-19 treatment are coming under attack on Chinese social media, says the South China Morning Post
- “Shanghai escalates Covid lockdown restrictions” – Shanghai authorities are set to install electronic door alarms to prevent infected people from leaving their homes, reports the BBC
- “Shanghai grandmother uses broom to fight off hazmat-wearing staff in daring quarantine escape” – The Telegraph compiles social media videos showing an elderly Chinese lady breaking out of a quarantine centre
- “I meet the brave doctors hounded for prescribing ivermectin” – James Bembridge gives the Conservative Woman an account of his meetings with Zimbabwean doctors using ivermectin to treat Covid
- “Time to raise our standards” – A passionate cri du coeur from Omar Khan on the post lockdown future of Sri Lanka, published in Daily FT
- “The Tories won’t back Boris Johnson, but they aren’t ready to sack him either” – “We could well be hearing the sound of a party deciding to stick with the devil it knows,” writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph
- “Boris is choosing to make you poorer” – “The eco tax system is totally regressive,” Ross Clark argues in the Spectator
- “The Triumph of Janet” – New Substacker Himbonomics takes aim at the gerontocracy and its unholy alliance with the Tory Party. A bit wonky, but nice combo of despairing rage and world-weariness
- “New Green NCAP emissions ratings cast doubt on electric cars’ green credentials” – Auto Express looks at new car eco-ratings which suggest that “electric vehicles in general may have similar or even a higher primary energy demand than a comparable conventional car”
- “Earth Day At 52: None of the eco-doomsday predictions have come true” – Net Zero Watch celebrates the 52nd Earth Day with a retrospective on the apocalyptic predictions that were being made on and around Earth Day 1970
- “Michael Tracey: when does anti-war become pro-Putin?” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews Michael Tracey, the U.S. journalist committed to exposing what he calls the “proxy warmongering” of Western powers
- “The Grenfell effigy and the fall of liberal Britain” – Writing in Spiked, Tom Slater sounds the alarm that a “man has narrowly escaped prison for distributing an offensive joke, in private” in 21st-century Britain
- “Plymouth University accused of ‘gaslighting’ women students over signs” – Female students at the University of Plymouth have been warned not to challenge anyone they suspect of using the wrong bathroom, MailOnline reports. Instead they should “protect them from harm”
- “Lamenting lost Bobbies” – “It seems your best chance of coming face to face with a police officer these days is to make an inappropriate comment about transgenderism on social media,” writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative
- “Why Libs of TikTok terrifies the media” – Washington Post‘s witch hunt against Libs of TikTok – whose identity it revealed this week – is “fuelled by envy”, says Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd
- “Barack Obama Calls for More Censorship: First Amendment ‘Does Not Apply to Facebook and Twitter’” – The former President has called for more regulation of social media companies, Breitbart reports, because on Twitter there is no way to distinguish between “a peer-reviewed article by Dr. Anthony Fauci and a miracle cure pitched by a huckster”. Fauci? Really?
- “Will Elon Musk Take Over Twitter?” – Daniel Friedman speculates on Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter in Quillette
- “Elon Musk is poised to collect a $23 billion bonus from Tesla” – Tesla has posted a record $3.3 billion quarterly profit, according to MailOnline, and Elon Musk is a whole lot richer
- “What do all those over-knighted nitwits have to say about this” – Mark Steyn lays it on the line about the booster shots on the latest episode of his GB News show
- “We are not going to use your tax dollars to teach our kids to hate this country or to hate each other” – Ron DeSantis makes it clear he is the most anti-woke Governor in the U.S.
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Come on you lot.
Downtickers first.
And Good Morning to the blessed.
Yeah, first tick is a downtick. I got ’em on the line.
Ain’t fishing fun?
They must lie in wait . I was getting my umpteenth cup of tea.
It’s what ‘bottom-feeders’ do. 😉 Morning Alter. And I must say I’m jealous of your proximity to the amazing creatures you have over there, the gorgeous koalas, kangaroos and other marsupials but the swimming, flying and land-dwelling deadly critters not so much! LOL
Good morning, Mogwai.
You can live with all of them – except the politicians.
True, but at least they can’t hide in your shoe ( or down your loo! ) ready to bite you and inject their deadly poison. Hang on, those last 4 words seem familiar somehow…
That’s unkind. Everyone needs a hobby.
Haha, they take the bait and you reel them in, hook, line and sinker. They’re nothing if not predictable! 🙂 Good morning on this sunny, warm day.
Good morning Mogwai.
I hope you have a grand weekend and manage to check out some new music – well, new to you😀
Ha yes I could do with some. It’s much appreciated whilst I’m stuck here glossing flaming doors! You have a good one too. Xx
Good morning, hp! Thank you for once again brightening my day.
Very kind of you AE. I always appreciate your comments.
That you keep posting is a boost for me. I can’t imagine what you are going through.
All the best.
Get a room?
Thanks hp. Appreciate the advice re trolls.
Delete
Morning, HP! Let the downticking commence. Might even downtick myself just for the pure unadulterated fun of it…wind in my hair and all that!
LOL, good vs evil. A story old as time.
Cheers Aethelred 🙂
“Doctor Jackie Stone’s encounter with the HPA was more sinister still. She told me how in January 2021 the HPA also launched an ‘illegitimate’ inspection against her. She was detained without clear charges in Harare Central Prison with the advice that charges would later be laid. Again, the HPA relied on finding anything that was wrong to incarcerate her without trial or bail. ” (TCW).
Seriously , I’d like to know how much some of these politicians and their agencies are being paid (or threatened) to stop the “horse de-wormer” (that is 20 times safer than paracetamol).
Aye, and raising one of the income taxes (“NI” my foot) to pay for his sodding lockdowns (which he continues to threaten us with). Why are these people so keen on squandering our money?
(Actually I think I know – they’ve all decided that the Greater London Council of Red Ken in the 1980’s is a great way to run things).
Perhaps it’s just a game to Boris and his pals to make the plebs poorer and poorer and see how far they can be driven into poverty before they start fighting back. Just some Jolly Japes… and any resistance can be squished by slapping them with a huge fine, and the threat of prison if they won’t pay, and homelessness if they can’t.
Lots of people still seem to have plenty of money – look at all those cars on the roads – they must have the funds to pay for all that petrol/diesel. What kind of car does your local MP drive – pop round and have a look?
Will that cause the women students serious psychological harm?
(Coincidentally, not far from Tavistock, either…).
We just hit a new level of awkward here in The Western Lands.
“The child is fully vaccinated.”
https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/mark-mcgowan/mark-mcgowans-child-hospitalised-with-covid-19-in-serious-condition-c-6546335
Oh, McClown? If he’s like most politicians, he won’t have a clue about health issues.
If you haven’t seen Mark Steyn’s GB News piece (linked above) on “boosters”, it is well worth a watch – though I somehow suspect it will pass McClown by.
“”Steyn believes that if mass Muslim migration to Europe is not stopped, Europe will turn into what he calls “Eurabia“, a future society where the European continent will be dominated by Islam. He writes, “much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear in our lifetimes, including many, if not most Western European countries.””
I wonder where Mark Steyn lives… my guess in not in Dewsbury or Rotherham!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn
Canada, I believe.
Where even the president has a black face (occasionally).
Yes, he’s very good on demographics. One of the few alert to the coming (or arguably current now) demographic crisis. A National Front (or former National Front) leader poised to become president of a major European country is exactly the sort of thing one would expect
Not sure Steyn’s ‘analysis’ really stands up to scrutiny. It seems as though he may be guilty of extrapolating what he wants to find from the data, rather than what it actually indicates, perhaps?
Poor child.
That father and an armful of poison gunk and the lurgy.
Yeah not a peep about the possibility that the vax could be the causal factor here obviously. Good advertisement for the “highly effective” jab that no healthy kid needed ever!!
Why couldn’t it have been the other way around and the stupid father ended up hospitalized instead? I hope the kid is OK after this unforgivable abuse.
SWINDON RESISTANCE: BRIDGE PROTEST, WROUGHTON (17/04/22)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ddzYIjFQPrn7/
Swindon Resistance were back on Wroughton Bridge across the M4 for our 10th consecutive bridge protest on Sunday 17th April 2022. It was Easter Sunday and lovely weather. A fantastic response from drivers as usual, and we acquired our own personal Protest Liaison Officer, who volunteered his services in future if required.
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What is happening in Shanghai should worry us all. Although it is hard tp see that happening here in the UK today, it is an indication of what could happen in the future. Seems that China, with its totally controlled society, is the petri dish for trying out new types of enforcement. The latest one to stop you even opening your front door is beyond cruel. The authorities there clearly have an unreachable agenda to get to zero Covid. Surely, Covid exists in many other places in China by the very nature of the country and its massive population so why just Shanghai? Unless, of course, it is about destroying the world’s supply chains. I have often wondered why everything seemed to be manufactured in China. Greed is probably the answer but now most of our stuff, admittedly much of it cheap rubbish, is held up and that includes spare parts for all the things that keep our western society running not to mention foodstuffs and more. It is a glimpse into what could happen to us if we had an overzealous leadership particularly if the WHO’s pandemic treaty is adopted. We must ensure this does not happen and we… Read more »
https://uncut.substack.com/p/dr-sam-white-stop-what-you-are-doing?s=r
DR SAM WHITE has submitted a case to the police complaints authority in his battle against the Government over alleged crimes in relation to lockdowns and Covid injection harm.
In an interview with journalistic group Holding The Line this week, it was revealed that Dr White and his PJH Law legal team have made the move after the Metropolitan Police informed him there was no evidence of a crime taking place – despite the submission to the police of thousands of pages of evidence supported by more than 40 national and international expert witnesses, none of whom were contacted by the police.
If unsuccessful at the Independent Office for Police Conduct, Dr White plans to take his case to the High Court so the evidence he has gathered can be heard.
Dr White describes the Government’s conduct as “evil” and is calling on doctors still administering Covid jabs to stop what they are doing and to speak out about the dangers involved.
A study from Great Britain discovered microplastic particles — present in many COVID-19 masks — in the lung tissue of 11 out of 13 patients undergoing surgery. https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/04/study-shows-microplastics-found-in-covid-masks-present-in-patients-lungs/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722020009 Polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) were the most prevalent substances present in the lungs. The microscopic plastic fragments and fibres were discovered by scientists at Hull York Medical School in the UK. Some of the filaments were two millimetres long in patients undergoing surgery whose lung tissue they sampled. Schaefer was emphatic when asked if he believed the surgical masks in general use were shedding inhaled microplastics. “As far as whether it could cause somebody to inhale the polypropylene fibres that are used to make this and synthetic polymers that are used to make the filtration of these devices — absolutely. Take a pair of scissors and cut one open. You can see that in between the two main covers that are encapsulating, these loose fibres are breaking away. They’re becoming dislodged from the cover itself, just through normal wear and tear and the agitation of putting it on and taking it off,” Schaefer said. “The heat and moisture that it captures will cause the degradation of those… Read more »
And, presumably, in the lungs of those carrying out the surgery, who spend much of every working day masked up?
Reminds me of asbestos!
There’s a very interesting analysis on the John-Henry Westen Channel of the CCP’s Shanghai lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ZVDjQ9J-E
Biden fighting a green war. The Telegraph This might be behind a pay wall. President Joe Biden has unveiled a plan to commit billions of dollars to make every US military vehicle “climate friendly”.Mr Biden, speaking on Friday on the occasion of Earth Day, said his administration was beginning the process of reducing the carbon footprint of America’s thousands of armoured and non-combat vehicles.“In the United States military, every vehicle is going to be climate friendly. We’re spending billions of dollars to do it,” the president said to applause during a speech at Seattle’s Seward Park. “Every vehicle. No, I mean it.“One thing I’ve found out as the president of the United States, I get to spend a lot of that money,” he told those gathered in Washington state.The announcement, which Mr Biden delivered from a teleprompter, appeared to be part of his push to address climate change in the US, one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters.The proclamation was met with some derision, however.“Biden is now discussing making our entire military “climate friendly” because there’s nothing that screams “STRENGTH” more than our gunners driving down the battlefield in a Nissan Leaf,” tweeted Irene Armendariz-Jackson, a Republican running for Congress… Read more »
Biden will say whatever the Easter Bunny tells him to say.
Even when it’s not Easter.
Clearly fighting wars “greenly” really matters. I don’t suppose YGAF if you’re dead, but at least you died green.
Ho hum.
And yet, the ONS site this very morning tells me that UK covid cases number only some 23-and-a-bit million. Shome mishtake, shurely?
“Memories are long in 2022, and forgiveness is short. Throughout the second half of last year a steady thirty percent of voters said that they would not be giving their first preference to the majors. Neither Liberal nor Labor can form majority governments if the poll results translate into actual votes next month.”
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/04/23/lockdownunder-update-the-impending-federal-enema/
Most western countries have a dearth of decent political parties to vote for. When you do get one that seems decent they are usually too small and immature as an organisation to be effective at anything. The only answers I can think of seem impossible to realise without a revolution and that is unlikely to be bloodless because we are too comfortable to rise up now while we can democratically. The time will come though when we have suffered enough.
The globalists almost have the pieces in place under cover of their manufactured Ukraine crisis; the online safety bill, the restrictions of protests and the power given to the WHO.
Maybe, if we survive we should push for abolition of political parties, if pursuing a representational system, and if we still have a technological civilisation left, increased democratisation via frequent referendum.
Most of our FFMPs (freedom friendly minority parties) have been on the scene for a number of years and have well defined policies on a range of topics. Frankly, if the globalists are putting some grand scheme of domination in place they’re doing a fekkin’ bad job of it. Their vaccines are lethal, and the unvaxxed survivors won’t be too interested in lives of groveling servitude.
For this election, and perhaps this election only, I’ll be voting only on the topic of the enforced lockdowns and mask-wearing and the “vaccine” mandates.
They are outrageous offences against civil liberties. Any party that doesn’t get that has lost my vote – probably for ever (or at least until they get a leader who gives a convincing and sufficiently powerful apology).
Good to see Mark Steyn chewing over the official statistics. If only we could get that shown to the government or even (I know, I know, but a man’s got to have a dream!) on the BBC!