News Round-Up
- “The gall of lockdowners supporting China’s anti-Lockdown protests” – Michael P. Senger takes aim at the political and media elites who are now proclaiming their support for China’s anti-lockdowns protests but who were not so long ago out to demonise the anti-lockdown protests in their home countries
- “Brazen, shameless hypocrisy of the West over China lockdown protests” – Niall McCrae gives the same hypocritical elites both barrels in the Conservative Woman
- “The deposition of Anthony Fauci” – Steve Kirsch provides a round-up of the most interesting takes on Fauci’s recent testimony in the case of Missouri v Biden, in which the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana are suing the Biden Administration for colluding with Big Tech over Covid censorship
- “Prof Fukushima goes nuclear” – Guy Gin highlights a video clip showing Professor Masanori Fukushima of Kyoto University “bluntly explaining the various problems with the Covid jabs to officials from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare”
- “CDC employees struggle to get research published because its findings counter public health dogma” – ICAN tells of how CDC-affiliated authors struggled to get a publisher for their study, entitled “Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination”. Its results showed that “vaccinated persons can spread Delta”
- “Was measles outbreak in Samoa a test-bed for the global Covid lockdown?” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Paula Jardine recounts the drastic response to a measles outbreak in Samoa which took place shortly before the Covid lockdown in Wuhan
- “Switzerland, facing an unprecedented power shortage, contemplates a partial ban on the use of electric vehicles” – Eugyppius reports that the Federal Council of Switzerland has published legislation for various measures to conserve electricity, ranging from temperature restrictions on fridges to limiting the use of electric cars
- “Threats to Freedom of Expression: COVID-19, the ‘fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm legislation” – “Freedom of expression is evaporating,” writes Dr. Piers Robinson for Pandata, and legislation relating to misinformation will “make an already bad situation much worse”
- “Google to introduce behavioural ‘interventions’” – Reclaim the Net reports on Google’s ‘Info interventions’ project, a scheme which would activate an accuracy prompt when a user scrolls through a feed which may contain content labelled as misinformation
- “Apple makes it harder for China protesters to speak out” – Apple has released an update to its operating system which limits the use of the Air Drop feature on iPhones sold in China, the Times reports, making it harder for Chinese protesters to share messages with each other
- “EU: WEF graduate Thierry Breton threatens to ban twitter from Europe” – Igor Chudov points out that Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner threatening to ban Twitter, is a graduate of the WEF’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow”, class of 1998
- “Amy Gallagher: Leading the fightback against wokery” – The New Conservative’s Frank Haviland interviews Amy Gallagher, the nurse and psychotherapist who was accused of ‘racist’ and ‘prejudiced’ views while attending a woke training course at the Tavistock and Portman trust. She is now suing the NHS
- “A&E delays are worse than ever… how bad is the crisis in your area?” – More than 11,000 ambulances spent at least an hour waiting outside of English hospitals last week before handing over their patients, MailOnline reports
- “Re: Understanding and neutralising COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation” – The U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance responds to a recent article in the BMJ which called for further action against misinformation and made several disparaging implications against the Alliance
- “The use of phrases like misinformation and disinformation are very disturbing rhetorical devices” – Dr Clare Craig responds to the same article on behalf of HART
- “It’s not racist to ask where someone is from” – The Buckingham Palace race row has revealed the toxicity of modern ‘anti-racism’, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked
- “Male criminals belong in men’s prisons” – Writing for Spiked, Jo Bartosch welcomes the news that a transgender sex offender has been put in the correct prison
- “Be it resolved: Don’t trust mainstream media” – Read Matt Taibbi’s opening remarks at the recent Munk Debate in Toronto, where, alongside Douglas Murray, he argued in favour of the motion “Don’t trust the mainstream media”. The pair won a resounding victory
- “Anti-science right-wingers protest common Sense Covid restrictions” – Thousands of right-wing, anti-science extremists have converged in Shanghai to protest Chinese President Xi’s common sense Covid restrictions, the Babylon Bee reports
- “Now that Twitter stopped censoring the truth about Covid, watch this” – A quick video delving into past headlines to tell the story of the Covid jabs and their declining efficacy
- “You would hope that out of this chaos would emerge someone with a backbone, a natural leader” – Toby joins Mark Steyn on GB News to discuss whether now is the time for a new right-of-centre party
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Regarding the Times article about Apple above ( which I haven’t read as I have no time for paywalls ), I had no idea what a horrible and unethical company they were until I read this fine substack from A Midwestern Doctor, which covers many things as well as the current protests in China; “The current protests we are facing are a result of this system being used excessively. Things in China have now reached the point that many Chinese citizens are willing to risk relocation to a concentration camp (which is not a pretty subject to discuss) to protest what is happening (similarly many Iranians have recently been imprisoned or worse for protesting against the government). China’s government is predictably responding to this instability with even more heavy-handed tactics and initiating a downhill spiral of unsuccessful propaganda (which will be revisited later). As stated before, I believe this cycle is ultimately being initiated by China’s economic instability. China’s present situation should make the absolute futility of our preferred method for managing COVID-19 apparent. Even with an elaborate system that tracks every (vaccinated) citizen, imposes draconian lockdowns at will, and tests on an almost daily basis, nothing can be done to contain… Read more »
“China’s present situation should make the absolute futility of our preferred method for managing COVID-19 apparent”
And that’s the problem. The doctor believes in convid when the reality is that the C1984 is basically a rebranded ‘flu which was introduced in order to get Agenda 2030 up and running. Which is why I have little time for endless talking about C1984.
With ref the recent royal racism crisis; I read what was apparently a fairly complete account of the dialogue, and Lady Hussy was in my opinion racist and/or extraordinarily dumb/demented because she appeared to repeatedly refuse to accept that the local community project representative in front of her was a British citizen, a British resident, and insisted on knowing where their “people” came from. It sounded as if Lady Hussy simply couldn’t conceive of such an obviously black person being British, a British citizen and resident, and was impatiently condescending/contemptuous in her efforts to “get at the truth” of where this person “really” came from … or was being provocative/deliberately obtuse/offensive. There was definitely something wrong. I do understand why her reactions caused offence, even distress.
The person she was speaking to was very clearly not ethnically British and had apparently changed her name from a British one to Ngozi Fulani, so it was perfectly reasonable to ask about her origins.
Not after she had already answered that question and said she was from England.
PS. I also thought that it was a mountain out of a molehill when I first read about it, but reading the account of the full exchange I understood why it was upsetting.
…. people, on both the giving and receiving ends of such reactions, used to laugh about this sort of thing, laugh it off, dismiss it as just business as usual; it was normal, etc ….
.. but it can’t be very pleasant, especially in a situation where you believe that you can’t answer back, can’t say what you think about the reaction, etc.
I agree with Fulani that Lady Hussey shouldn’t have lost her post over it though. *That* is where the lack of proportion lies.
I think the big problem is that the setting/context didn’t allow or encourage Fulani to speak up, to call Lady Hussey out about it at the time. She didn’t seem to think that she could say what she thought to Lady Hussey, the occasion and the place ( and Lady Hussey’s title too ?) silenced her.
I remember a black colleague recounting the time there was National Front march along her street when she was a young girl. ‘What are they shouting?’ she asked her father. ‘Go back home’ said her father. ‘But I am home’ she replied.
It was interesting to hear what Nigel Farage said about it all, on his out-and-about programme last night, between 19:00 & 20:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWB3_45yPg The gist of it being that Hussy was the ‘victim’, as it were. He was probably right by saying that this wouldn’t make the press anywhere else!
2 thoughts come to mind:
1 If she really were “racist”, she wouldn’t even have spoken to her in the first place.
2 Being from Liverpool, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked if I have Irish ancestry – is this any different?
Yes, what she said was thick-eared, heavy-handed and inappropriate but to say it was “racist” is, to my mind, stretching the definition.
This post suggests the trigger for the questions might have been the mismatch between the accent (West Indian) and the name (African): https://www.unz.com/isteve/ngozi-fulani-is-actually-marlene-headley/
“Switzerland, facing an unprecedented power shortage, contemplates a partial ban on the use of electric vehicles”
It’s ironic that Switzerland imports a lot from Germany & France these days. It’s long been using hydro electric generation, and of course the difficulties outside the border encouraged it’s development, along with electric traction on the railways.
They could turn CERN off, that would save a bit of electric (1.2 terrawatts in 2012, probably a lot more now).
Today’s onshore wind farm story: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/12/onshore-wind-farm-ban-could-have-added-800m-to-household-bills/
Remember the original SARS virus? Neither do I, other than some vague memory of it causing panic then it seemed to disappear.
Why did that one vanish but this new one seems to be hanging around? What was different this time around?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/01/the-real-reason-behind-chinas-zero-covid-policy/
The brilliant Kit Knightly at Off-G providing a superb explanation of China’s role in the Scamdemic.
Truly insightful piece – thanks for posting…
This is the effect of suppressing and censoring information:
Before, we could assume most information was closer to false and pick out what we deemed to be closer to true for further debate. This worked well because those amplifying closer to false information were lost in the sea of all the other assumed closer to false information.
Now, we are to assume most information to be closer to true (because it’s been filtered) and pick out what we deem to be closer to false and remove it. Those amplifying closer to false information now have more status because most information that we see has to be assumed to be closer to true until it is verified and/or removed.
The more information is removed the more we must assume the information we see is closer to true, even if it isn’t.
Posted in error.
Another cause of death unknown:-
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/orange-is-the-new-black-actor-brad-william-henke-dies-aged-56-3359683
It was possible he was injected given he had worked on a NBCUniversal production: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
https://screenrant.com/law-order-svu-warren-leight-unvaccinated-actors-response/
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/01/the-real-reason-behind-chinas-zero-covid-policy/
CONCLUSION
To sum up, China’s “zero covid” approach forms a vital piece of the overall pandemic narrative, working in conjunction with Western governments as a deliberately stark contrast:
-It promotes the idea that vaccines work and helped prevent further lockdowns here.
-It shines a flattering light on Western governments, who appear less draconian by comparison.
-It serves as an argument for the effectiveness of lockdowns and other authoritarian measures.
Perhaps most importantly, the supposed difference works to corral and control public debate.
Traditionally leftwing critics of Western capitalism are forced to defend vaccines and lockdowns by their ideological loyalty to China.
Conversely, right-wingers have China’s “socialist” practices to point their fingers at, whilst praising Western capitalist pharmaceutical innovation for saving us from the need for tighter lockdowns.
Each side is controlled by their ideology, not realising their loyalties are being used to position them inside the permissible spectrum of opinion.
I posted a link to this excellent Kit Knightly article this morning.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/12/doug-casey/global-government-vs-the-people/
I’ll go so far as to say that Central Bank Digital Currencies and digital “health passports” are the most dangerous threats to the freedom and independence of the average human being in modern history—perhaps in world history. They will control where you can go, what you can do, and what you can own. They’re both very big deals, and they’ll be daily facts of life before 2023 is over. It’s very disturbing that we don’t hear either of them discussed anywhere. They should be taken with the utmost seriousness and stopped.