News Round-Up

• “China’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy is an exercise in autocratic hubris” – In a leading article, the Telegraph says Xi calls the strategy “the people’s war”, but how much longer the people will put up with it is another matter.
• “Chairman Xi” – Benedict Rogers in Persuasion writes that China faces a return to totalitarian rule.
• “China’s President has said there will be no change to the country’s Zero Covid policy which has meant frequent lockdowns and economic disruption” – ‘Stats Jamie’ notes that Jeremy Hunt’s wife regularly appears on state-owned China TV and he is also known as a supporter of a Zero Covid approach.
• “More than 700,000 over-50s quit work since pandemic” – The employment rate for people aged over 50 drops from 42.3% to 41.6% in three years, the Telegraph reports.
• “No balanced coverage of Covid vaccines in legacy media, says Peter Doshi” – Dr. Maryanne Demasi reports that Peter Doshi, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and Senior Editor at the BMJ, has spoken out about how the mainstream media have ignored important data on COVID-19 vaccines.
• “What the data tells us” – Steve Kirsch with a 52-slide deck presented at the FLCCC conference in Florida on October 15th 2022 summarising “some of the most important statistics for the vaccines on safety and efficacy”.
• “‘This is playing with fire – it could spark a lab-generated pandemic’: Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid strain with an 80% kill rate” – The Mail reports on the hybrid of Omicron and the original Wuhan virus which killed 80% of mice infected with it at Boston University.
• “Can We Please Not Freak Out About the Chimeric Omicron Experiment” – Alex Berenson seeks to restore calm as he points out that while the engineered variant has an 80% fatality rate in mice, the original strain had a 100% fatality rate in mice, but clearly that doesn’t tell us anything about what it will do in humans.
• “The U.K. Covid official narrative” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write that the official narrative is a stool with three very wobbly legs.
• “Longing for the Pandemic” – Read Dr. Tom Jefferson’s 2009 interview with Der Spiegel on the false prophecies of influenza experts, the overestimated effect of vaccination and the great benefit of hand washing.
• “FOI reveals Shocking Extent of Avi Yemini NZ ban” – Rebel News reports that the New Zealand authorities blocked the reporter from entering the country over fears coverage would “incite and agitate people with opposing views”.
• “How Can Severe Mental Illness be the Deadliest Covid Comorbidity?” – Aaron Hertzberg in Brownstone on the shocking evidence of mistreatment and neglect during the pandemic.
• “How College Mandates Shattered My Dreams” – Phoebe Liou writes for Brownstone that her hope is that her story sheds light on the discrimination many students are currently facing across the country.
• “Europe’s self-inflicted depression” – Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked says that European industry has been sacrificed to green ideology.
• “Why solar is not the solution to the energy crisis” – Steve Kirsch writes that next generation nuclear power is clean, efficient and environmentally friendly, whereas, according to Michael Shellenberger, solar farms use 300-600 times more land than other energy sources and produce 300 times more toxic waste.
• “Just Stop oil protesters close Dartford Crossing after scaling QE2 Bridge” – A teacher, 33, and bridge engineer, 39, are the two people who climbed the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in the early hours, the Telegraph reports.
• “Sweden Refuses To Share Nord Stream Attack Data, Opts Out Of Joint EU Investigation” – Zero Hedge reports that Sweden has refused to join a joint international investigation into the recent attack on the Russian-owned Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines and has refused to share what it knows, citing national security concerns.
• “The strange death of liberal Sweden” – Ed West writes that the Nordic nation has seen the sharpest drop in trust of any European country as gang violence intensifies and spreads.
• “JPMorgan Chase deplatforms National Committee for Religious Freedom” – The bank has demanded a list of donors and preferred candidates, presumably so it can vet them before reopening the account, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “Kanye West to buy social media app Parler” – American rapper Kanye West (a.k.a. Ye) has proposed to buy Parler, the social media platform popular among U.S. conservatives, reports Reuters (also in the Mail). Which might have been a good thing, were he not prone to anti-Semitic outbursts online…
• “The ‘right’ amount of concern about racism” – For the last few years, the United States and much of the Anglosphere have been in the throes of a moral panic around racism, writes Dr. Noah Carl. This only makes getting the right definition and proper level of concern about it all the more tricky.
• “Biomedical scientist who posted ‘only women have a cervix’ on Twitter is struck off after tribunal ruled he was ‘inflaming gender discrimination’” – Retired scientist Malcolm Needs, 67, of Devon, refused to attend the “kangaroo court” and sent a message saying he is “happily retired”, reports the Mail.
• “BlackRock Downgraded by UBS Over Growing ESG Investing Risks” – BlackRock’s focus on the latest Wall Street craze – ESG investing – has turned into a risky affair for the world’s largest asset manager, UBS said, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Ten PayPal alternatives – for privacy or free speech” – Reclaim the Net offers some alternatives to the financial technology giants that harvest data and censor users.
• “Obama: ‘people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells’” – The former President speaks out once again on the recent rise of speech police, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “The new lawlessness gripping America” – Sean Collins in Spiked says that after the 2020 BLM riots, mindless nihilistic destruction is now tolerated by the elites.
• “Graham Norton’s Twitter account disappears after BBC star stumbled into trans rights row involving J.K. Rowling and Billy Bragg following interview where he ‘downplayed cancel culture’” – The BBC chat show host has reportedly ‘deleted’ his account days after facing criticism from the Harry Potter author over his comments on trans rights and ‘cancel culture’, the Mail reports. Is the accountability he was so keen on?
• “I think the problem Liz had is that she never really had the courage of her convictions… and now she’s a dead woman walking” – Toby, who voted for Liz Truss, tells Mark Steyn on GB News she has “reduced the Conservative Party to a smoking ruin”.

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