News Round-Up

• “‘Most vaccine-resistant Covid strain ever’ – dubbed ‘XBB’ – is detected in the U.S. with three confirmed cases: Mutant strain has caused cases to double in a fortnight in Singapore” – The mutant strain is another spin-off of the Omicron variant and has been blamed for Singapore’s infection numbers doubling in the past fortnight, but deaths so far remain low, the Mail reports.
• “How the Israeli Ministry of Health Became an Agent for Pfizer” – Guy Shinar on Brownstone asks why Israeli Ministry of Health officials entered into an agreement that led them to serve as Pfizer’s marketing, distribution, research and publication branch.
• “Uncle Xi gets long Covid” – Alex Berenson suggest a few possibilities of why Xi Jinping and China can’t quit the insanity of Zero Covid.
• “Jeremy Hunt: Xi’s Man in London” – Michael P. Senger writes that the choice of Jeremy Hunt to lead the U.K. Government, given his intimate Chinese relations, raises troubling questions about the British political establishment’s priorities.
• “New U.S. biodefence plans cross the line from fabulism into insanity” – El Gato Malo says all the wrong lessons have been learned.
• “Where’s Whitty?” – The Naked Emperor wonders where England’s Chief Medical Officer has gone and why he has nothing to say about the continued excess non-Covid deaths that have continued throughout the year.
• “Military officers speak out about being forced to take ‘the vaccine’” – Steve Kirsch says Bret Weinstein’s interview with the soldiers is a must-see.
• “Early 2020 expert advice in Japan: masks are pointless for healthy people” – Guy Gin busts some myths with a look back at what exactly Japan’s experts were saying in early 2020 about masks.
• “The crushing of dissent throughout the Covid era” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) says the recent actions of PayPal to close the accounts of subscribers expressing political opinions of which they disapprove represents the latest example of censorship within so-called liberal democracies.
• “Scottish Pregnancy Data” – HART takes a look at the investigation underway into two spikes in neonatal deaths in Scotland seen in September 2021 and March 2022, shortly after the booster rollouts, concluding that on the data available the cause is unclear.
• “Mother, 36, who named her first child ‘Lockie’ after the COVID-19 lockdowns insists she has ‘no regrets’ – because she and her husband had ‘the best time’ during the pandemic” – Jodi Cross, who became pregnant with her first daughter Lockie during the second lockdown in 2021, enjoyed the restriction period so much she named her baby after it, reports the Mail.
• “A personal view: Why I believe the Frankfurt Declaration is necessary” – Tobias Riemenschneider, a church leader in Frankfurt, writes in the Evangelical Times about why, in the spring of 2021, he joined with church leaders from different countries to draw up a joint declaration critically responding to Covid restrictions.
• “The Real Anthony Fauci” – Watch part one of the film based on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, which is available to view for free for 10 days.
• “Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows” – Analysis of an Arctic lake suggests viruses and bacteria locked in ice could reawaken and infect wildlife, reports the Guardian.
• “Of course climate change is a political issue” – Lauren Smith in Spiked says Greta is wrong to suggest that environmentalism is above politics.
• “The Quiet Desperation Of Woke Fanatics” – Michael Shellenberger tries to get into the heads of the woke, asking what’s driving them and how they can be defeated.
• “U.K. admits its Net Zero strategy is unlawful – here’s why” – A revised strategy which details how policies will achieve climate targets is now due by March and could include decarbonising buildings, aviation, industry, agriculture and land use, according to EuroNews. So that’s just swell.
• “European gas price falls as fears of winter shortages ease” – Gas storage facilities across the EU are now 92% full, the Telegraph reports.
• “China Halts LNG Sales to Foreign Buyers to Ensure Own Supply” – China told its state-owned gas importers to stop reselling LNG to energy-starved buyers in Europe and Asia in order to ensure its own supply for the winter heating season, Bloomberg reports.
• “Ukraine War: New Developments” – The Swiss Doctor’s (SPR’s) latest analysis of recent political and military developments in the Ukraine war.
• “As Europe falls into recession, Russia climbs out” – The Economist reports that real-time data show a subdued but strengthening economy in a setback for the NATO sanctions strategy.
• “Graham Norton gets a taste of ‘accountability culture’” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says Norton will live to regret his failure to offer solidarity to J.K. Rowling.
• “Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane” – Justin Hart tweets about his new book.

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