News Round-Up

• “Fauci cautions Biden after he declared ‘the pandemic is over’” – The Mail reports that Dr. Fauci cited the constant threat of variants and only having 67% of the U.S. population vaccinated as a reason the U.S. is not out of the woods yet, as the White House clarified that there are “no plans to lift the Public Health Emergency”. Ever?
• “If It’s Over, Why the Continued Emergency?” – Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone wonders why, if the pandemic really is over as Biden says, emergency measures are still in force.
• “Rand Paul: This is the biggest coverup in the history of science” – Watch Kentucky Senator Rand Paul join ‘Kennedy’ on Fox News to discuss his recent clash with Dr. Fauci over the origins of COVID-19 and his promise that Republicans will investigate Fauci over his handling of the pandemic.
• “850 more unvaxxed NYC teachers, aides fired for not complying with mandate” – The city Department of Education has axed another 850 teachers and classroom aides for failure to comply with a vaccine mandate increasingly struck down in court, reports the New York Post.
• “Irregular heartbeat likely to be one of the reasons more people than usual have been dying this year” – Sky News reports on the latest figures from the ONS, with heart deaths in the over-80s particularly elevated since the spring.
• “New York spent $250M on tech to fight Covid that no one uses” – Politico reports that National Guard personnel are managing New York’s ventilator stockpile, one example of the equipment left behind after governments went on ill-conceived pandemic-fuelled spending sprees.
• “The New and The Old” – Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on the failure to prevent hospital-acquired infection during Covid and what the history of quarantine can teach us about how to do it better.
• “Excess deaths keep rising across EU” – The latest figures from July show 15% more deaths than normal, writes Rob Lownie in UnHerd.
• “Adverse Effects of the Pfizer Vaccine Covered Up by the Israeli Ministry of Health” – Yaffa Shir-Raz writes for Brownstone, asking: “If Israel did not in fact have a functioning adverse event monitoring system in place and its data was a fiction, and even if when it did launch a proper monitoring system a year too late, with analysis of the system’s findings completely ignored and withheld – what was the FDA really relying on?”
• “Dr. Paul Offit, one of the world’s most respected vaccine experts, is now officially an anti-vaxxer!” – Steve Kirsch welcomes him to the club, and wonders if he’ll be interested in the leaked Israeli vaccine safety data.
• “Ebola outbreak declared after rare strain kills 24-year-old” – There are no approved vaccines for the strain and Ugandan health officials fear it is spreading, with six “suspicious” deaths this month, reports the Telegaph.
• “The Fiction of ‘Sudden Adult Death Syndrome’ – A Graphical Essay” – D. V. Williamson takes a look at the mortality data.
• “Important new paper challenges IPCC’s claims about climate sensitivity” – Paul Homewood with a summary of Nic Lewis’s new peer-reviewed paper, which is a critique of exaggerated IPCC estimates of how sensitive global temperature is to CO₂.
• “End petrol and diesel car sales by 2035, urges International Energy Agency” – A report in the Telegraph that shows the IEA is still failing to ask why people still want to buy them.
• “Guardian: Leaked Plans for a Global Carbon Tax” – According to the Guardian, poor countries will demand a global carbon tax this week on airline travel, shipping fuel and fossil fuel extraction, reports WUWT.
• “German industry suffers worst shock since 1949 from Putin’s energy stranglehold” – Factories’ energy bills post the highest increase on record as Russia chokes off gas supplies, the Telegraph reports.
• “Putin cannot afford to lose: we must prepare for the war to turn even uglier” – Tobias Ellwood and Hamish de Bretton-Gordon write in the Telegraph that Ukraine’s recent major counteroffensive has so humiliated Putin that there is every expectation he will now play even uglier than he has already.
• “Putin is cornered and dangerous – the prospect of a nuclear war is now closer than ever” – The Telegraph reports that the Russian President is set to push through a series of measures that will escalate the conflict at a time when the Kremlin is losing.
• “Molly Russell inquest: Michelle Donelan says children to be exempt from ‘tweaks’ to online harms bill” – In the Telegraph, the Culture Secretary apparently failing to realise that online free speech cannot survive an effort to make the internet ‘safe’ for children.
• “Disorder in Leicester is a reminder that we can’t take social cohesion for granted” – Rakib Ehsan in CapX says that governments of all stripes have been sleeping at the wheel when it comes to integration.
• “Parents’ horror over boy, three, sexually groomed by his school” – Simon Caldwell in TCW Defending Freedom on some of the disturbing things young children are now being taught in U.K. classrooms.
• “Transgender Surgery – Common Sense and Decency are Needed” – Dr. Robert Malone wades into the trans debate, arguing the advertising, lobbying and experimental surgeries and procedures must stop.
• “This is the new battlefront in the ongoing war against free speech… financial services being withdrawn from people” – Toby speaks to GB News‘s Mark Dolan about payments to the Daily Sceptic and the FSU being blocked by PayPal. Read the Telegraph report here.

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