News Round-Up

• “Who’s driving the pandemic express?” – Dr. David Bell and Emma McArthur write for Panda that while the WHO works in the spotlight, the pandemic industry has been growing for over a decade and its expansion accelerates unabated – a web of public-private partnerships laced with financial incentives driving the pandemic gravy train forward.
• “Dai Le likens Covid lockdowns in western Sydney to ‘communist dictatorship’ in first speech” – The Guardian reports that the new federal Independent MP Dai Le compared the Covid lockdowns placed on her western Sydney electorate by the New South Wales Coalition government to actions of a “communist dictatorship”, saying her constituents were “forgotten people”.
• “Is Big Brother Britain about to become the world’s ultimate surveillance state?” – With at least six million CCTV cameras in the U.K. – one for every 11 people – the U.K. now ranks alongside China in terms of its surveillance capacity, with one London street installing Chinese-made facial recognition cameras, according to the Mail.
• “No, New U.K. PM Liz Truss Was Not ‘Always’ Anti-Lockdown” – Michael Senger on Truss’s part in the ‘Great Revision’.
• “Does a cold airway favour viral growth?” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan suggest viruses might lie dormant in our noses until the weather changes.
• “374,705 NYC kids excluded from public school athletics“– Watch the video from Restore Childhood which reports that, for a fourth year, schoolchildren in New York City will have their education disrupted, as 374,705 NYC pupils will be excluded from the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) and other ‘high-risk’ after-school activities like music because they do not have two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
• “China approves inhaled Covid vaccine” – Inhaled as a fine mist, Convidecia Air can provide good protection after just one breath, according to its manufacturer, the BBC reports.
• “Bavarian Governor: No Mask Mandates at Oktoberfest” – Eugyppius notes that “erstwhile villain-of-the-blog” Markus Söder, who once trumpeted climbing a mountain in an FFP2 respirator, says he personally plans to attend without a mask.
• “‘Mysterious’ pneumonia in Argentina ‘is Legionnaire’s disease’” – The situation in Tucuman, a small region 800 miles northwest of the capital Buenos Aires, sparked fear because of its similarities to the beginning of the Covid outbreak in Wuhan, but it was nothing remarkable, reports the Mail.
• “The Disgrace of the Old Guard” – Jeffrey Tucker writes in the Epoch Times that many of those who were once celebrated champions of personal freedom backed the lockdowns and are “in hiding today or poking their heads out from under their sofas to talk about anything and everything other than their own apostasy”.
• “The more you jab, the sicker you get” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom wonders why health has deteriorated since the 1980s.
• “Israel’s Green Pass Policy: A Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold” – Shirly Bar-Lev in Brownstone looks back on the medical coercion entailed in Israel’s vaccine passports.
• “It’s taken an energy crisis for political elites to wake up to nuclear” – Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph says a government that is truly serious about energy must consider the needs of consumers and industry above all else.
• “Update On Europe’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis” – The Europeans thought they had come up with the perfect strategy to ‘decarbonise’ their energy systems and save the planet, says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear they fully thought it through.
• “A Beginner’s Guide to Woke” – Dr. Roger Watson in the European Conservative reviews How Woke Won by Joanna Williams.
• “My ‘free speech’ college is silencing me” – Christopher Nadon in UnHerd says students are being turned into informants.
• “The Origins of Woke” – Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Common Sense says a forgotten satirical book from the 90s predicted cancel culture.
• “Have the police given up on fighting crime?” – Paul Embery in Spiked says that our culture-warrior coppers are leaving victims of violent crime to fend for themselves.
• “Boris largely squandered the political capital he’d earned” – Toby discusses Boris Johnson’s legacy as PM on GB News.

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