News Round-Up

• “Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The U.S. Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic” – In an eye-opening interview with Current Affairs Professor Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of U.S. lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight – as he accuses senior U.S. Government scientists of dissembling and obfuscating about their involvement in such research. For those short of time, the Naked Emperor has picked some of the best quotes.
• “This economic crisis isn’t down to war… it’s the bill for our Covid panic – just as I foresaw” – Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday says that while the Ukraine war will make things much worse, the main reason for the Western world’s plunge into recession is the ridiculous over-reaction to the coronavirus.
• “CDC Claims Link Between Heart Inflammation and COVID-19 Vaccines Wasn’t Known for Most of 2021” – The Epoch Times reports on the U.S. CDC’s false claim that there was no known association between heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines as late as October 2021.
• “Twitter Censors Pfizer-Injured Israeli Covid Vaccine Director” – Kanekoa reports that Twitter censored Professor Shapira, a top Israeli physician who claimed that monkeypox is related to mRNA vaccination via its immune suppression effects.
• “Doctors Criticise Fauci for Saying Covid Vaccines Induce ‘Temporary’ Menstrual Irregularities” – The Epoch Times reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent comments on menstrual irregularities met with serious rebuttal from gynecologists, who say COVID-19 vaccines should not have been injected into pregnant women without adequate safety testing.
• “CDC Issues Dire Warning to Gay and Bisexual Men” – The U.S. CDC on Friday updated its monkeypox advice to suggest people most at risk, namely men who have sex with men, “take a temporary break” from those behaviours to help “contain… the outbreak”, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Germany’s Largest Health Insurer Reveals one in 25 Clients Underwent Medical Treatment in 2021 for Covid ‘Vaccine’ Side Effects” – Dr. Paul Alexander highlights data from Techniker Krankenkasse which show that in 2021, a massive 437,593 insured, or one in 25, received medical treatment for side-effects of vaccination – a huge increase on previous years.
• “Novak Djokovic’s wife Jelena gets into Twitter spat with Racquet Magazine after it called out the unvaccinated 21-time Grand Slam winner for ‘entering tournaments hoping they’ll change Covid rules’… as star looks set to miss U.S. Open” – Djokovic withdrew from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal on Thursday because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and is therefore not allowed to enter Canada, the Mail reports.
• “Now is Not The Time to Let Putin Save Face” – Cathy Young on Persuasion argues the West needs to keep supporting Ukraine.
• “Why The West Is Easing Its Sanctions On Russia” – Irina Slav on Oilprice says that while the EU remains determined to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, a shortage of energy and food is forcing the group to ease sanctions.
• “The miserable truth is that our leaders don’t want us to have cheap energy” – Politicians, in hoc to eco-extremists, have come to believe that consuming fuel is intrinsically sinful, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Eco-warriors who stormed Tory hustings are ‘globetrotting hypocrites’” – Two eco-activists who heckled Liz Truss at the Eastbourne event were accused of being hypocrites who have racked up thousands of carbon polluting airmiles themselves, the Mail reports.
• “Biden Administration Calls For Censorship On Energy” – John Hinderaker on Power Line reports that Gina McCarthy, the Biden administration’s National Climate Advisor, is openly calling on tech companies like Facebook and Twitter to censor any dissent from Biden’s views on energy.
• “Make Freedom of Speech Liberal Again” –  Tunku Varadarajan writes in the Wall Street Journal that a former ACLU president has urged the Left – and all of us – to re-embrace the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections for freedom of speech.
• “Why the Tavistock had to fall” – Dr. Kathleen Stock in UnHerd says its ideological roots were rotten from the start.
• “How the woke left learned to love Big Brother” – The British Left’s silence on state censorship is shameful and revealing, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Hate-crime awareness courses scrapped by Hampshire police” – Report in the Telegraph that critics have expressed concern that courses are being used inappropriately and could challenge legitimately held political beliefs.
• “Ex-mandarin with ‘no economic experience’ lined up for Bank of England role” – Responding to the likely appointment of former environment department permanent secretary Dame Clare Moriarty to the Bank of England’s board, a Government source told the Telegraph that “appointing a woke ex-mandarin with no economic experience and whose first priority is diversity and inclusion to a pivotal post at the Bank of England would be reckless in the best of times”.
• “Who is Sandi Toksvig to lecture Justin Welby about sin?” – Gareth Roberts in the Spectator says that Toksvig’s open letter to Justin Welby about the Church of England’s attitude towards same-sex marriage is a safe rebellion against a creed on the back foot.
• “How ‘taking the knee’ spoiled football” – Patrick O’Flynn in the Speccie says the BLM gesture showed Premier League football fans where they stood in the matchday pecking order.
• “Rishi Sunak refuses to rule out lockdowns” – Watch the Prime Minister contender tell Esther McVey on GB News (at 10:50) that “it would be wrong” for anyone to rule out such measures in all circumstances.

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