News Round-Up
- “Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies” – Dr. David Bell writes in Brownstone that ‘Really Big Lies’ are based on being so divorced from reality that the listener will assume their own perception must be flawed.
- “NHS disruption driving rise in heart deaths, charity says” – The British Heart Foundation claims that ambulance delays and waiting lists are driving excess cardiac deaths, according to BBC News – but no mention is made of the role of the virus, let alone the vaccine.
- “Anti-vaxxer, 61, who went to then Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s home armed with glue and posters is cleared of plotting to do criminal damage after jury hears ‘he only wanted to get arrested’” – Geza Tarjanyi travelled to Javid’s home in Fulham, south-west London on January 3rd to stage a protest against the coronavirus vaccine rollout, the Mail reports.
- “There’s no case for mask mandates” – Gary Sidley writes in the Critic that we cannot trust models based on bogus assumptions.
- “The real permacrisis is in Western civilisation” – David Frost writes in the Telegraph that ‘catastrophes’ are part of the human condition, but what’s changed is our refusal to adapt to them.
- “Revealed, how the ‘safe’ Covid jab triggers a toxin blitz on the body” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom with an overview of the safety problems with the Covid vaccines.
- “Regional news asks if kids’ jabs increase infections” – Guy Gin says the lower infection rates in the lower vaccinated areas has led to some unusual questions being asked in the mainstream media.
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 11” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson look at the evidence for asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission.
- “Did Ebola leak from a lab? Scientists claim accident at U.S.-funded biofacility may have caused 2014 West Africa outbreak” – Virologist Dr. Jonathan Latham – a former researcher at the University of Wisconsin – and journalist Sam Husseini say there are a number of inconsistencies in the official timeline, reports the Mail.
- “‘Pandemic Amnesty’? It’s just more narrative reinforcement” – Kit Knightly in OffGuardian tears into the suggestion of an amnesty.
- “Why I’m teaching free speech to Cambridge students” – One professor tells the Times‘s Damian Whitworth how he’s fighting back against campus cancel culture.
- “Students should sign free speech ‘waiver’ to attend university, says Cambridge professor” – Professor Arif Ahmed tells the Telegraph he believes obtaining prior consent from students is a key factor in protecting academics from attacks on their material.
- “Elon Musk to sack half of Twitter staff and end working from home” – 3,700 staff are to be told their fate on Friday and ordered back to the office on Monday, according to the Telegraph.
- “Transgender criminal makes history by appearing in court as both a man and a woman” – Offences committed by Alan and Alannah Morgan – the same person – were heard at Dundee court, reports the Telegraph, which for some reason calls the absurdity ‘historic’.
- “Robert Buckland: ‘Let asylum seekers work – and pay tax’” – The former Lord Chancellor speaks to the Spectator‘s Fraser Nelson and shows he has zero understanding of the concept of deterrence.
- “Peter Hitchens on Covid, Ukraine, Climate, Racism, the Church of England and more” – Watch the Irreverend podcast’s 100th episode, with the outspoken journalist.
- “Some Thoughts On Affirmative Action” – Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian says even majorities of blacks and Hispanics oppose affirmative action in college admissions.
- “Why the Tories have failed to take on the thoughtpolice” – Laurie Wastell in Spiked writes that wokeness is now deeply embedded in British policing.
- “The paradox of Gen Z – more socially liberal, but less tolerant than their parents” – The Telegraph reports on a study that has found a rise in young illiberal progressives – ‘Yips’ – who have little time for those with different opinions.
- “Now private messages can land you in prison” – The jailing of two police officers for offensive WhatsApp messages sets a terrifying precedent, writes Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
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“Robert Buckland: ‘Let asylum seekers work – and pay tax’”
Can we let them live next door to Robert Buckland too..?
Yes, we should do what Gov. DeSantis of Florida did – sent illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, an enclave of rich mainly white liberals, who had said they welcomed everyone but then were outraged when “everyone” arrived.
One should note that the residents of Martha’s Vineyard proudly declared themselves to be a “sanctuary community” until folks rocked up asking for sanctuary. But all worked out well, the Obamas housed ALL those shipped there. Oh, hold on…
“Elon Musk to sack half of Twitter staff and end working from home”
I’m still undecided as to whether this is the best thing that ever happened, or a continuation of the worst thing that ever happened. My sceptic nerve is twitching…
Anyone who went to WEF school is not be trusted, plus he’s well involved with the transhumanism movement. So for me, yes it’s all positive atm but it’s just token gestures so he can get people onside. Time will reveal his true intentions. This sceptical guy is on my wavelength;
https://twitter.com/spiro_ghost/status/1586101474966265857
Agreed, but at the moment am enjoying the frothing of the Left over his capture of Twitter -:)
I have mixed feelings about him but I still object to this notion that working from home is some kind of skive. If your method for ensuring and measuring productivity is “are people sitting at desks in an office” then you need to check your own management techniques.
That’s based on an assumption that people that work from home won’t actually be working at home. That assumption is based on the belief that people are untrustworthy and lack conscientiousness. That belief, in my experience, is largely misplaced. However, WFH is incredibly unhealthy. It’s a form of isolation that is damaging both mentally and physically, and slowly encourages the user to accept it as normal; to begin to even like the self isolation. Like a drug, it damages the addict, but the addict doesn’t care.
WFH is just one of the many well laid traps that the elites placed in order to control movement and behaviour by recalibrating the perception of ‘normal’. It’s something we must reject.
Much as I dislike office culture – the unspoken codes that exist – it is a social setting of sorts as well where you get to mix with and meet many people from all sort of different backgrounds. In that way, it is healthy. I agree that the WFH thing is a sort of trap to get people used to a new normal where being isolated is OK even though you can take a nap, have your lunch when you like, and generally behave indisciplined if your job is not too demanding. I think most people would act differently being at home unless they have zoom meetings or deadlines to meet. It’s human nature after all. Human nature is averse – well mine is – to sitting at a utilitarian desk in a dull beige environment, making small talk and focusing on a small screen for eight hours or more a day, taking just one hour or half an hour in some cases for lunch that you eat at your desk or on a cold bench in a park and then facing the commute home. There is something very deadening to the soul about offices – taking you away from… Read more »
Agree, balance is always the key. The workplace is needed because of the social aspect of it, to break the monotony of the week and to give purpose outside of home life. It is, I believe, paramount to a healthy mind and body. I think, like you said, that doesn’t necessarily mean that people need to be in the office every day, but to rarely go in is unhealthy – in quite subtle ways unfortunately.
I feel much healthier since I started WFH full time, but perhaps I am an outlier. Sadly we will probably still be posting here in a few years’ time – check back in then to see how I am doing.
Maybe. Some of the reasons why we need to be around others are obvious, but some are far less obvious. For example, it’s critical that we spend time amongst others that have different characters and may share a different viewpoint – often these are people that we actually dislike – because by doing so we not only sometimes gain knowledge, but, more importantly, the skills of tolerance and compromise. These are traits that are fundamental to a civilised, well balanced, society. Without these, well, we get to where we are now – people locked up for vast periods of time, unable to think for themselves, unable to tolerate dissenting opinions, unable to consider other viewpoints, unable to compromise, unable to be an individual, unable to feel sympathy or understanding. Unable to be a decent human being. It is being around people that contradict our own beliefs and judgements that is actually more important than being around our friends. To live in an echo chamber only fuels the strength of the state. This is what they want.
All good points though you could turn it round and say that being in a workplace will push people into groupthink.
I did 34 years in an office (the same office as it happens, with largely the same people). I’m enjoying the break and will probably carry on like this until retirement. I would probably feel different were I younger.
We disagree, but that’s fine. Good luck my friend.
And good luck to you. I think we disagree less than you might think. I certainly think any kind of general push to get people to work from home is not desirable. I think people should be able to choose.
Some people are untrustworthy and lack conscientiousness but a decent manager will have approaches to dealing with that and simply babysitting them in an office doesn’t seem like a very effective or efficient one.
WFH can be unhealthy for some. Those people and their loved ones/people who care from them should be aware of that and act accordingly, and I don’t believe WFH should be imposed, but equally people should be treated as adults. It has been a blessing for me – I have plenty of social contact during my days, in person and online, and no desire to spend 3 hours a day travelling and no desire to listen to my colleagues chatting rubbish about the Current Thing around the watercooler.
“NHS disruption driving rise in heart deaths, charity says”
It probably is causing a lot of heart deaths, it certainly isn’t helping. But ignoring, or playing down other research that gives a more rounded view isn’t helping either.
…another question…. we know the NHS basically closed for 2+ years, so that might be a partial excuse for the UK, but are they saying that every health service in every country closed? Which I don’t think happened…so what’s their excuse for the high rate of excess ‘heart’ deaths?
The BHF is an extremely disreputable organisation. At the start of the Scamdemic I wrote to them asking for an explanation of their support for masks. The reply was so on board covid compliant it was disgraceful. An organisation that should have been speaking out against masks and other NPI’s for their adverse effects on people with heart disease chose instead to wholeheartedly support these medieval impositions.
As above – the BHF is an extremely disreputable organisation.
“‘Pandemic Amnesty’? It’s just more narrative reinforcement”
I dont want to let anyone off the hook for what we have all just experienced, but who is going to prosecute them.? The Globalist Elite control everything, bought and paid for. There wont be a Nuremburg. No-one is powerful enough to call it.
Forgiveness for this disgusting journalist and the people with the same mindset? This article from early this year is chock-full of cock and bull from a very misinformed and malicious person, who I’m sure is 5 jabs in and counting right now;
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-10/why-shouldnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers
Dave Cullen has the right idea;
https://odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9/never-forgive-or-forget:0
It took him a while, but with this, he is back to his best. https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/amnesty-yesand-here-is-the-price?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
…”There is something much more important than seeing the guilty punished: It is to make sure the crimes don’t happen again.
With that goal in mind, the first question is “Why?” Why did the majority of Americans, and an even larger majority of educated people like Professor Oster, not know the truth? The main reason “we” were in the dark is that we were purposely kept there, through coordinated propaganda and censorship…”
The linked article is a fine piece but I disagree with the author’s assertion that we do not want revenge.
I damn well DO want revenge.
Michael Hiltzick writes, in the LA Times article:
“As I observed then, pleas for “civility” are a fraud. Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness. Typically, they’re the work of hypocrites.”
And follows the above with:
Two part post, apologies.
“So what, then, is the proper response to the deaths of anti-vaxxers or other determined foes of public health? First, we must acknowledge that the enemies needing to be stamped out are the misinformation, lies and stupidity being injected into the fight against COVID.”
How damned arrogant and offensive do these people get?
I don’t think there is a single paragraph in this article that I could not readily tear apart. As a way of posting his own vicious ignorance this piece is exemplary.
Yes precisely. That’s why I say bollocks to this amnesty cobblers. As they say, the internet has all of the receipts, so it would be interesting to see if any of these worms have turned and changed their tune, Piers Morgan style, in the last two years. I wouldn’t give them the time of day and would gladly do something illegal to their faces if I could get away with it.
I read your 5G article the other day btw. 5G is something that’s only ever been on the periphery of my awareness and I’ve never looked into it in any depth, so that article was scary AF! 🙁 Something else that I thought sounded a bit ‘cuckoo’ but now is morphing into a reality as the evidence emerges and more puzzle pieces are put in place. I don’t even know if there’s any towers near me. They’re pretty hard to miss though, going by pictures I’ve seen, but I need to start paying more attention.
What is the ultimate aim then? They want to put these 5G masts up all over the place? Under the guise of progressive communications?
I share your views Mogs. Initially my thoughts on 5G tended to a degree of malevolence but I couldn’t really pin anything down. In the last couple of years though I have come to the conclusion that malevolence is the purpose of 5G. The Track and Trace business in the UK is regularly touted as a fiasco that cost the country thirty seven billion pounds and we are expected to believe this was “spaffed”, in Boris’s words. And of course the authorities make no attempt to disabuse people of this.
What is noticeable is that there has been an awful lot of infrastructure and hardware added to UK roads in the last two years and very little can realistically be said to have aided safety. So what is it for?
Track and Trace of course. Track and Trace of our vehicles.
This is heartening. Last year Nigeria launched their CBDC and it has since proven to be a huge failure. Instead the government got increased adoption of Bitcoin. So that’s satisfying.
https://financialunderground.com/articles/another-big-cbdc-flop/
That is indeed heartening, Mogs. However, it’s got me thinking about whether an exercise such as this in a large sub-tropical country in Africa translates to Northern Europe. I see people here using their phones to pay for stuff – still a mystery to me and something that I would never ever consider myself – but it’s the convenience aspect that bothers me. The take-up of the jabs and the meek compliance with masks etc tells me that there is a large swathe of the population who might just go along with it, without any thinking about its consequences at all. I would like to start a campaign to keep cash but am unsure about how to go about it. Maybe such a campaign already exists but, if it doesn’t, I feel that we need something to counter the threat of CBDCs.
Global Walkout has such a campaign, grassroots led but worth looking at & doing so that whenever you pay for goods in person you say why you’re using cash. It’s far less controversial to discuss Big Brother type implications for our lives than the bioweapon injections, especially as the current government are so unpopular. Trying to get anyone who opposes the Tories to see Starmer et al as anything but a saviour is the harder challenge, as too many default to the Tories bad, Liebour good position.
Thanks, Bertie. I’ll check it out. Agree with you about Starmer but most people are still locked into the Tory vs Labour paradigm and can’t see beyond the latest Guardian article. A very good friend of mine who likes to think he is in the know is totally hypnotised by this nonsense.
Ditto. Has seen through all the covid crap but still bought into the political lies, net zero & the sheer brilliance of XR…
Yes I had that same thought. I wonder if it’s feasible that an African nation’s experience could be extrapolated to Western countries. I see people paying with their phone too and I don’t understand the appeal. It’s not exactly a hardship to use a debit card to pay contactless or input your PIN. I remember the days when you’d pay for your groceries with a debit card and the cashier would get you to sign the receipt and check the signature on your card against it! haha There’s a steady creep on the places that are going cashless too, but so far they are too few so I can just boycott them. Though I did send my daughter on a group indoor climbing session and gave her some money for snacks but the cafe wasn’t accepting cash so the instructor had to buy her a toastie! lol She wasn’t the only kid either. The self-service tills here only accept card so they always have a queue at the one checkout where there is a person at the till. Always a huge queue and I used to wonder why on earth people would prefer to queue up when they only have… Read more »
The biggest concern about digital currency is, as we are seeing in NL’s recent proposals, is who has access to your transactions, and do they have any power to stop those transactions if you have free funds that cover them. I’m like you, I hardly use cash, but if I go to the supermarket for doughnuts, I dont want a notice to come up that my health record says my BMI is too high and doughnuts are not on my ‘acceptable purchase’ list, or that purchase is notified from the supermarket to my GP, and affects whether and how I will be treated.
As always there will be those who say, ‘Ah, they wouldn’t do that, but its only a few thousand lines of code and it COULD be done. I pay my staff on a Thursday, and their Universal credit is adjusted on Friday from my PAYE submission. This integration is already happening. The WEF have software to work out an individuals carbon footprint, out iphones monitor how many steps we do each day. Google knows everywhere we travel to. We must keep asking ‘to what purpose do you need this information.?’.
As a quick example, just a short while ago the lady in front of me in a supermarket queue had to go back to the card reader and slot it in because the contactless thingy didn’t accept her payment first time. Then I came swaggering along and proudly (well, not really…) handed her my £20 note!
I now have a print-out from the Global Walkout of credit card sized explanations, divided into 10, that explain reasons for keeping cash. I feel there should be one for those places that do not accept cash. It seems like it’s a hangover from the Covid lockdowns and some lazy business owners can’t be bothered – well, I would like them to know that I AM bothered!
That’s a good example about kids not being able to do basic sums about money but accepting everything…’cos the computer says so!
Regarding Affirmative Action in US college admissions, this channel has some very amusing snippets from US Supreme Court oral arguments on the case they are hearing on AA: Forbes Breaking News – YouTube
The lawyers for the pro-AA colleges floundering around trying to defend AA without saying Wrong things – the truth is that for whatever reason, we seem to have decided that blacks being underrepresented in elite and mid level colleges is unacceptable. But they can’t say that. It’s truly pathetic.
I note that in his speech a few days ago Biden admitted he is a threat to democracy when he said “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault,”. Move over then Joe.
Interesting article on fraudulent reporting of covid deaths in Finland.
https://beckernews.com/finland-exposes-massive-covid-reporting-scandal-nearly-40-of-covid-deaths-were-fraudulent-47692/
I doubt there is anybody on here who ever believed in the official figures. Within thirty days of a covid test? And aren’t reports circulating that hospitals tested the deceased in order to get numbers up?
There is hard evidence on death certificates from Massachusetts that PCR tests were performed on cadavers to get the numbers up.
Since I listened to Denis Rancourt on Jerm Warfare (recommended by Mike Yeadon recently speaking on Tea Time) my whole view of the Covid ‘pandemic’ has done a dramatic flip. Denis talks about ‘All Cause Mortality’ being the only thing to take any notice of and if you do, you begin to see that there really wasn’t a pandemic at all. There were deaths, yes, but for a variety of reasons which he explains in the video, there was no actual pandemic as broadcast by all of the media, world governments and health (haha) organisations. It is well worth watching.
https://jermwarfare.com/podcast/denis-rancourt-on-there-being-no-viral-outbreak
I agree completely that there was no pandemic, but there is a huge excess death rate with disordered blood being the unifying factor according to the source data of death certificates in Massachusetts. If this is happening in one US state, then the others are going to be showing similar patterns & across the heavily injected world.
I have never believed there was a pandemic. Never. Not from Day One. And I certainly drop this fact in to any conversation where possible.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11386139/Pfizer-announces-two-one-vaccine-Covid-flu.html
Pfizer announces two-in-one vaccine for Covid AND flu — which it hopes will boost sluggish uptake for both shots
Firstly..if you want people to NEVER have another flu jab, go for it…
secondly…’mRNA technology popularised during the covid pandemic’ WTF it’s not a new fu****g hairstyle!!
“popularised?” No it definitely isn’t a new firkin hairstyle and it definitely hasn’t been popularised like the latest flavour of crisps. It hasn’t even had a slow grow to popularity. mRNA technology is simply the method by which poisons are delivered in to human bodies.
“Ooh, there’s a new mRNA jab out next week, version 4.2 and I can’t wait. It’s so exciting all these new jabs, I can hardly keep up.”
And now there is a new flavour for the aficionados – the double super ‘flu plus covid jab. It’s brill.
Hell’s bells.
Yes this has been warned about for a while now. Well even the flu shot alone is a load of bollocks which doesn’t reduce morbidity or mortality at all, as in the Dr Malone vid I shared a while back. I think Mike Yeadon also mentioned it in a recent vid. All based on lies. But at least the flu shot wasn’t the blatant killer or a fraction as dangerous as the clot shots. So they’re determined to kill off these oldies ( and anyone else deemed “high risk” who is daft enough to roll up for it ) at whatever cost aren’t they?
“…which it hopes will boost sluggish uptake for both shots.” Did they really say that? Maybe there really is a tidal change occurring if this is evidence of the waning interest in the public rocking up for continuous jabs of toxins. I wonder how many rodents this concoction was tested on..?
David Icke banned from entering the Netherlands! haha The guy’s a proper crackpot so I’m not sad. Despite the fact his views align with ours on here regarding certain issues, I’ll never forget his reptilian nonsense from years ago when he seemed to have his very public meltdown and he became a laughing stock as a consequence. I’m sure I still have memories of him on Wogan in a shellsuit….Either way, I think he’s too much of a nutjob to be associated with or taken seriously. No doubt others will beg to differ…but reptilian aliens ruling the world? Really???
Having said all that, what does this say about the level of censorship and attack on freedom of speech that is now tolerated? It’s kind of worrying that they would go to the extent of banning him from the country, which is obviously no longer as liberal as it once was.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/11/dutch-ban-british-conspiracy-theorist-david-icke-from-entering-nl/
This is probably a better article as it has more details. He’s banned from all 25 Schengen countries for 2 years apparently. Reptiles = Jews allegedly. Yes, nutty AF! 😮
https://nltimes.nl/2022/11/04/david-icke-says-netherlands-schengen-countries-banned-two-years
I’m sad. He called Covid correctly when most people didn’t. ‘Nuff respect.
Regarding reptiles, I struggle to see some of the bastards responsible for this evil as human, and they seem to have a lot in common with a character in the Bible with scales and a tail.
Too right.