News Round-Up

• “China has tested lockdown to destruction” – Dr. David Livermore in Spiked says Beijing’s Zero Covid experiment has ended in catastrophic failure.
• “Stanford professor revealed to be blacklisted by Twitter” – The Mail reports on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s appearance on the Ricochet podcast to discuss how Twitter attempted to block his controversial thoughts about the COVID-19 pandemic.
• “Covid vaccines: ‘We flew the aeroplane while we were still building it’” – Interview in Nature with recently retired head of vaccine R&D at Pfizer, Kathrin Jansen, discussing the lightning speed development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the implications for vaccine platforms.
• “Flawed Covid definitions, data and modelling” – Watch the end of year review from Professor Norman Fenton.
• “Serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines: a systematic review” – New pre-print from Peter Gøtzsche and Maryanne Demasi finds that “serious and severe harms of the COVID-19 vaccines have been ignored or downplayed, and sometimes been deliberately excluded by the study sponsors in high impact medical journals”.
• “FOIA’d Contracts Show CDC Expected up to 1,000 VAERS Reports per Day for Covid Vaccines” – Josh Guetzkow reveals that the CDC anticipated large numbers of adverse event reports, “with up to 40% of the reports serious in nature”.
• “Wot No Cash?! Central Bank Digital Currency, Digital ID & Freedom” – Watch the video from Together Talks, where Toby and others tackle the topics of money, Digital ID and surveillance and how the ability to spend anonymously is linked to our freedoms.
• “Clinton Judge Strikes Down Montana Law Banning Vaccine Mandate and Sharing Employees Vaccine Status – Says its ‘Unconstitutional’” – The Gateway Pundit reports that a Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge has ruled that parts of Montana’s ‘vaccine discrimination’ law were unconstitutional.
• “Twitter Files Confirm Censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration” – Phillip Magness and David Waugh in AIER say that until the NIH releases more information, the Twitter Files raise more questions than answers.
• “We Now Have A Clear Estimate Of The Rate Of Vaccine Injuries” – ‘Mid-Western doctor’ writes that the public is starting to turn on the vaccine programme.
• “Tucker Carlson interviews Dr. Aseem Malhotra on the corruption of medicine by Big Pharma” – Watch the top cardiologist chat with the U.S. TV host.
• “Why running electric cars could soon get a lot more expensive” – Dwindling returns from fuel duty leave the Treasury eyeing further charges, the Telegraph reports.
• “The green war on cars is about to take a mad new turn” – The introduction of ‘traffic filters’ is what you might expect in a totalitarian state, not Oxford, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “WhatsApp raises threat of U.K. shutdown in encryption row” – The messaging app chief says he is prepared to see app blocked rather than weaken security, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Frank Report XLVIII” – Frank Haviland in the New Conservative with his take on the week’s top stories.
• “Jeremy Hunt faces Tory rebellion over £7bn Government spending on ‘woke’ projects” – MPs write to the Chancellor to demand that ministers cut spending on equality and diversity measures in order to reduce taxes, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Sussexes are on the wrong side of the race debate” – In using the empty language of Critical Race Theory, they prove that they don’t really understand Britain at all, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “New Set of Twitter Files Detail Events Surrounding Trump’s Permanent Ban From Platform” – Independent author Michael Shellenberger published Part 4 of the ‘Twitter Files’ on Saturday night, the Epoch Times reports.
• “Court Permanently Blocks Biden Administration’s Transgender Mandate” – A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the Biden administration’s bid to force doctors and insurers to perform or pay for gender-transition procedures even if they object on grounds of conscience and medical judgement, reports the Epoch Times.
• “An important tweet from Elon Musk” – Steve Kirsch is pleased to see Elon Musk tweeting about the need for law enforcement to go after Anthony Fauci.

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