News Round-Up
- “Sweden Ditches Barbaric ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care for Kids” – The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare recently published new treatment guidelines which completely abandon recommendations that children with gender identity issues undergo so-called ‘gender-affirming care’, according to PJ Media.
- “The NHS waiting lists hit hardest by Covid” – The NHS England backlog hit a 7.2 million in October, the highest figure since records began 15 years ago. MailOnline identifies the hospital departments with the longest waiting lists.
- “Australia and Canada impose Covid tests on Chinese travellers” – The imposition of Covid Tests on Chinese travellers is growing around the world, according to MailOnline.
- “‘Veganuary’ can make you depressed, experts warn” – The Mail on Sunday reports that turning vegan comes with a higher risk of broken bones, mental illness and miscarriages.
- “Don’t let eco-zealots cancel the convenience of flying” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph makes a heartfelt case for not cancelling air travel.
- “Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill” – Shadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell says she’s going to strengthen the Online Safety Bill if Labour win power, as reported in the Observer.
- “I’m an expert in public health. Which is why, aged 38, I’ve qualified as a personal trainer” – Devi Sridhar has got a new quiver to her bow. Does a new career in personal fitness beckon?
- “Police Scotland denies labelling paedophiles ‘minor-attracted people’” – Police Scotland tell MailOnline that when it referred to paedophiles as ‘minor-attracted people’ it was quoting from another report, not intentionally using a euphemism designed to downplay sexual offences involving children.
- “The raw truth about legal crowdfunding” – Tony Dowson demonstrates pretty conclusively in the Critic that Dr. Louise Raw’s efforts to crowdfund so Jeremy Clarkson can be prosecuted for being rude about Meghan Markle are doomed to failure.
- “It’s time to give the diversitycrats their marching orders” – Yours truly in Spiked asks whether we’ve finally reached peak woke and can expect the movement to lose momentum in 2023.
- “I understand ‘The Most Important Thing’ for our rulers” – Bill Rice Jr. looks at the year ahead.
- “Final thoughts on 2022” – Daily Sceptic contributor Russell David looks back at 2022.
- “The right to access cash will soon be enshrined in law” – Treasury Minister Andrew Griffith writes in the Telegraph about how the right to access cash will be enshrined in the Financial Services and Markets Act.
- “Lockdown madness has ended four decades of economic stability” – Liam Halligan identifies some disturbing economic trends in the Telegraph that he traces to the disastrous lockdown policy.
- “China’s zero-Covid policy has put the country into turmoil” – Ian Birrell documents the chaos in China resulting from the sudden abandonment of the zero-Covid policy.
- “NHS ‘seriously compromised’ over ‘gender ideology’, report claims” – In a foreword to a new report by Policy Exchange, Nimco Ali says the health service is ‘seriously compromised’ by ‘diminishing the rights of women and girls’.
- “Extinction Rebellion to halt disruptive protests as ‘nothing has changed’” – Extinction Rebellion has announced it will no longer be engaging in disruptive protests as they’ve made little difference, according to the Times. How could they, when the Government in Westminster is doing more or less everything XR wants?
- “Climate-related deaths: 2020-22” – Bjørn Lomborg has posted a graph on his Facebook page showing that 98% fewer people died in 2022 than a hundred years ago from climate-related natural disasters like floods, droughts, storms, wildfires, and extreme temperatures.
- “Durham University’s most generous benefactor has decided to donate to the Free Speech Union instead” – Watch me talking to Andrew Doyle on Free Speech Nation about how the FSU is tackling the free speech crisis in Britain’s universities.
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“In summary, we are not merely watching genocide; we are witnessing the permanent rejiggering of the economic order by malicious, anti-human Luciferians who celebrate death and destruction. Every person who takes another booster shot is inadvertently working on their behalf, by the way, helping to achieve their malicious aims.” (NaturalNews, c/o HP).
Now that’s telling them! Like I say, Malthusianism is a horrible thing. I’m with Tiny Tim! I always thought it was ridiculous to be afraid of babies (and warm weather).
(NB Thanks to Toby, who I don’t doubt has been working very hard over the Christmas season to fix the problem some of us had been experiencing in posting – can I nominate him for the real New Year’s honours?).
I’d like to nominate the former benefactor to Durham University. Great news for the FSU.
Seconded!
Hugh – are you able to post a link to the NaturalNews article? Thank you
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-29-ed-dowd-7500-americans-are-killed-or-disabled-each-day-vax-jabs.html
Here you go Michael. It’s a dark read.
Thank you, HP. Well worth a read and a listen.
And here’s Andrew Bridgen letting rip:
https://expose-news.com/2023/01/02/covid-virus-was-a-manufactured-bioweapon-says-mp/
Woo, hoo!
Go get ’em Mr Bridgen.
This is a MUST read.
Thank you. Very interesting interview.
Wow, nice one! 🙂 This guy has shot up in my estimation. I hope he never shuts up spreading the truth and challenging the BS, calling out his atrociously, yellow-bellied, conniving, arse-weasel colleagues. We need more Andrew Bridgens in this world and I hope he does a Malhotra and goes on any podcast and channel to be interviewed that will have him. Rock on!
Damn right Mogs.
“In his Parliamentary speech, Mr. Bridgen talked through the evidence and how we have got to the position where unsafe vaccines are being administered to the public thanks to Big Pharma’s lobbying of politicians, their advertising power, and control of corporate media and the scientific community. Pfizer reportedly made $45 billion out of the vaccine last year, Mr. Bridgen told Taylor. “That’s half of their worldwide profits. So, you can buy a lot of influence with that.””
Oliver Wright (now working for the Times muppets) was writing about exactly these issues and exactly this company for the Independent back in 2014, and now people are apparently dying because the same things are still going on. I still say the Times muppets and similar media organisations should face professional and possibly legal consequences for seemingly ignoring this issue.
See here for Wright’s 2014 articles. Refresh page to reveal whole article?
Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
“Gender identity issues” – as in tomboys and cissies? Now I wonder if you can say that on Facebook…
As in January? No, it’s Advent that you should be giving things up – and then making merry through the Christmas season, twelve days at least. Penance and mortification are good things, as is a balanced diet, but that doesn’t mean we should never feast, and meat, fish and dairy products can have their place in the diet (and it seems that cholesterols are good after all). I think it was the Seventh Day Adventists (one of those minority groups like the Amish who every so often teach us something) who taught us that red meat in the diet doesn’t necessarily mean worse health outcomes (sorry, I can’t remember exactly where I read it – Phillip Day maybe?).
There is normally a post-Christmas drop in mood. The thought of eating Vegan for the month wont do anything to cheer you up. Interesting that they push Veganism not Vegetarianism. Do you have to give up your leather shoes too.?
I hate the new year, always have. I find it depressing after all the Christmas hype and festivities. Back on the treadmill, another year of unfulfilled expectations beckons…January is nearly unbearable for me, a dead month, filled with doom and gloom and I look forward to the calendar turning to February. I do ‘Dry January’ as I find it helps my inner strength. I like an occasional glass of wine and a chilled G&T but challenging and imposing restrictions on myself for the month helps me to focus on the trials and tribulations of the unfolding new year and strengthens my resolve to not let the b******s get me down! I’m vegetarian and don’t consume dairy or egg products, either. I do it because I can’t bear the thought that a creature suffers life changing restrictions or loses its right to life in order that I live. There are so many other food choices to eat in this world that won’t affect my conscience. I respect others food and lifestyle choices – to each, their own – and I’m comfortable with mine. My ‘new year’ comes into being from March onwards. The excitement and promise of new beginnings in Spring… Read more »
There’s only one thing humans eat that’s never been alive, salt! So if it doesn’t move around and have big doey eyes then it’s game for giving up it’s life? Animal or plant, its living.
Just a thought
Although fruit is actually the plant’s way of dispersing its seeds and prolonging its species so you can eat that with a clear conscience, if you are so inclined, as it’s meant to be eaten.
I find that giving thanks for one’s food also changes the nature of one’s relationship with it although I can’t always admit to doing this every time!
Equally, why do some animal species produce millions of offspring? It’s because nature budgets for most providing food for other species, ensuring just enough survival for a healthy population. Rabbits breed like rabbits because they’re a food source for many others. If they weren’t eaten, overpopulation would soon cause collapse.
Well said! I don’t mind whether any one is vegan vegie or meaty but before we had evolved enough intelligent to decide what to eat we ate what was available and thought nothing of it, that’s why we have canines and incisors for ripping and cutting meat and molars for grinding vegetable matter, I think we should consider our natural state in nature before choosing any particular diet wether it be for belief or conscience
I think – or rather – feel that one’s belief or conscience always guides one’s diet unless one doesn’t think about it and just eats anything. I get the incisors stuff and that I can eat meat – and very occasionally do – but I do try and be conscious about what I eat and, as much as possible, remember to be grateful for the life given to further my own.
One further thought re being a carnivore. Most of the animals we eat are bred by farmers for that purpose; and those animals would not have had lives otherwise. As long as their lives are “pleasant” (for want of a better word) and their deaths are not cruel in any way, it is arguable that it is better for them to have experienced life than not to have lived at all – albeit they are not going to contemplate it in terms of “a life worth living”.
Agreed. Although I don’t think there are enough animal welfare checks in certain places such as abattoirs or even farms. Awful stories over here in the NL about pigs being boiled alive and not stunned and slaughtered first because checks are not being carried out. I think we just presume these things are being taken care of by authorities but they are not always. Obviously just refusing to eat meat purely for ethical reasons is not tackling the cruelty and lack of welfare standards being maintained, so I think this is where we should focus our attention. Not eating meat does not get rid of cruel practices unfortunately.
I’m sort of with you although ‘hate’ is too strong an emotion for me personally on this. Even today, the invisible machine of human progress (?!eh?) has kicked off after its temporary lull and the roads are full and noisy again. January has a hard edge to it perhaps due to its short days, cold and wet, and the drop as you say after the Christmas build-up plus the dystopian future that is being planned. I’m a veggie too but do eat eggs and cheese, butter but only organic and free range. I live on an organic dairy farm and although I have come to understand the true nature of livestock farming, this farm is better than the vast mega dairy farms that have cows milked relentlessly round the clock. Nevertheless, it is not ideal but these farmers provide a service for people and I would never interfere with or judge another person’s dietary choices apart from the crueller aspects such as veal and pâté de foie gras etc. I am looking forward to the Spring too but since I try to practice being more present, I have to be aware that it is January, it is cold and dark… Read more »
Where do you get your free range butter Aethelred?
Balance nutrition as a Vegan is IMPOSSIBLE without supplements.
Ergo, a Western Luxury Holier than Thou diet.
I would say that, being a Carnivore. Three decades ago Veggie. A diet which can provided full nutrition. Veganism is a good way to enfeeble yourself, that’s for sure.
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=veganism+vegetarianism+anxiety+depression&segment=startpage.brave
As an adult I suppose you can do what you want in relation to diet…but I remember my neighbour, a bluff forthright Yorkshireman once saying to me that as some one who shot birds to eat them it was one shot and food on the table, and no other animal involved…whereas when he did his crops he had to basically kill everything that might live in the field and dig them up, anything that might land on them, or otherwise try to eat them! He said it was the slaughter of millions, but because most of them hadn’t got fur, nobody cared!! I’ve never forgot…..!!
LOL!
I’m back on ‘Ketovore’ next week. So basically high in animal protein with some low carb veggies plus intermittent fasting and exercise. It’s what I find to be my optimal diet for my physical and mental health. And your body lets you know when it’s got all the nutrients because you just cannot over eat and no cravings. You have to find what’s right for you and what you can maintain effortlessly, that’s the key. It’s not for everybody but it works for me because I’m not a person that can do moderation. If there’s a loaf of bread in I can’t just limit myself to 1 or 2 slices, or a packet of biscuits I can’t limit to a few per day only. It’d be like expecting an alcoholic to do well on half a lager a day! lol Drip feed me carbs and I just crave more so abstinence it is.
As in the “legal but harmful” nonsense? You know, sometimes I wonder if they actually want to save the “Conservative” party from oblivion. If they actually are a uniparty of course, perhaps it makes sense…
Devi “100% safe and effective” Sridhar. If there was any justice…
What on earth is this flake doing anywhere near the handles of power.?
I couldn’t get past the ‘I’m an expert in public health’…LOL,!
“I’m an expert in public health.”
😀 😀 😀
If you say so Dev. FFS!
The Times muppets. When are we getting that story on big pharma corruption then? Muppets!
If XR have given up, does that mean we are resigned to our fate..? Or that they know the demonisation of CO2 is bullshit after all?
Perhaps their puppet masters have decided they have done enough to advance the passage of the Public Order Bill?
Andrew Bridgen MP said in a meeting yesterday evening that he’d told a Times reporter that he wouldn’t even allow his cat to defecate on it, if he had a cat that is, such is his regard for the rag.
Summat’s afoot.
“Durham University’s most generous benefactor has decided to donate to the Free Speech Union instead” – Watch me talking to Andrew Doyle on Free Speech Nation about how the FSU is tackling the free speech crisis in Britain’s universities. Fantastic news, and the first good news story of 2023. If I ever have to use the FSU’s services, I will owe a great debt of gratitude to people like this who have allowed me to join for a very reasonable price. It sounds like simply being a proper practicing Christian puts you in the firing line at this institution (Durham University), and I seem to remember that the supposedly Christian Durham cathedral banned “unvaxxed” from its carol service in 2021 – no room at the inn? What a mess! “79% of students say that students who feel threatened should always have their demands respected”. To my mind, a bit of a loaded question and I wouldn’t worry too much. And a happy Christmas, and a happy and prosperous new year to one and all. No, I don’t believe it much either, but I live in hope! Peace and good will to all men, or whatever you’re allowed to say these days. And… Read more »
Ian spent 5 weeks in Ukraine because he’s addicted to trouble but, like a true addict, invents it when he can’t find it in real life.
In actual, existing China, there were no deaths up to Dec 24, by which time Omicron had peaked in megacities like Wuhan, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou… with zero deaths.
Nor is that surprising. China’s clinical success with Covid puts our hospitals to shame. Covid is very treatable, so long as people are reasonably healthy.
Urban Chinese are far healthier than their US cousins, outliving them by ten years. And 96% of them are vaccinated with a more effective, less toxic vaccine than ours, they have plenty of hospital beds and ICU units, public health awareness is at an all time high. Omicron morbidity is low.
Three years of Dynamic Covid Zero grew the economy 4% pa, built up public health and shifted China’s exposure from completely unvaccinated against deadly Delta, to 92% fully vaxed against wimpy Omicron.
Thousands of people now work in the Covid industry, and their only objective is to perpetuate it forever.
Not sure if this was sarcasm. Anyway, not sure why we’d trust any “official” report coming out of China.
“deadly Delta?”
You need to ease up on the wacci.
Reposting this from last night. Bret Weinstein speaking with Dr. Aseem Malhotra on the Darkhorse Podcast about the experimental vaccines. Quite a long one but well worth the listen, both are excellent throughout.
Covers a lot of issues in a straightforward way. Certainly one to pass on to friends and family who are open to finding out more about the experimental vaccines. Includes a discussion of the problems with big pharma in general and big pharma capture of regulators and universities etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKQ0krjLpo
This documentary is very well done and I’m confident you’ll like it. ‘Anecdotals’ is made by a woman who was vax injured and so decided to interview other people damaged by the clot shots and take a closer look at questions raised by the whole vax campaign.
It’s really heart-wrenching actually listening to their testimonies and hearing how these injuries have turned their lives upside down, or from people who’ve lost loved ones to the jabs. Many familiar experts are featured, unfortunately the same goes for the criminals spouting lies and promoting their hate and division. Highly recommended. ( 1hr 20mins duration )
https://www.anecdotalsmovie.com/
We heard from John Watt & another jab injured chap Alex M yesterday in our meeting. Heart rending. One good thing came from it is that a medic offered to help one of them pro bono. This poor soul has had to pay privately for a scan which has shown harm & he was told this by one specialist, his more local specialist then told him that the scan result was a false positive & no treatment is required!
The NHS medics who are routinely denying any harms & access to treatment are just evil in my book.
Good to see that Igor seems to have taken an interest in the whole depopulation thing and focusing on if it’s happening intentionally. Here’s his new article where he shares his discovery of an old Times story on the usual suspects ( Gates, Soros, Rockefellar, Bloomberg etc ) forming a billionaire’s club to discuss the issue of ‘overpopulation’. I think we can expect more to come from his sleuthing endeavours.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/curbing-overpopulation-bill-gates
If depopulation seems implausible, it’s worth thinking about what you’d do if you were a billionaire or politician who believes the population is 15% too high. That these guys have that belief is beyond question. So what can they do about the problem?
Nothing? Such people are not prone to living with inaction.
Promote contraception? China’s draconian one child policy scarcely registered on the population rise there – they know it won’t even stop population growth, let alone restore it.
That just leaves killing a large number of people, and reducing future fertility. On that model, the fact that any depopulation creates demographic imbalance that devastates economies is just less killing work to do. But unlike the other two possibilities, this one does not attract support amongst those lined up to be murdered, so it will not be in the public domain… except by the giveaway of talking about reducing overpopulation.
If you believe there is a massive, devious, ruthless, murderous conspiracy to de-populate the world – rather than simply corrupt, greedy, short-sighted, closed-minded and wilfully-blind people tragically cocking things up – you have to admit the ruthless murderous conspirators are not doing a great job of de-populating the world:
Since 2020 the population of the world has increased, not decreased and is now around 8 billion for the first time. At this rate there won’t be a decrease in the population of the world within the lifetime of any of the ruthless conspirators, or within the lifetime of their children or grandchildren.
So, either way, they’re cocking things up.
“So, either way, they’re cocking things up.”
That is your view. However, even if they are “cocking things up” mass murder is mass murder.
I agree. Again, simply working on the basis of “powerful people think the population is 15% too high already,” the difficulty of doing much about it soon becomes obvious. Even world wars merely slow the growth for a year or two. But a nuclear war – now that might do the job, if only people could be persuaded to foment one.
Although I said I agree, i must add that there is good evidence that the population increase has already peaked, and in the next few decades the actual numbers will level off. That’s without nuclear war, mRNA poison, fertilizer embargos or anything else anti-human.
Igor will soon be on the same page as me and thee Mogs.
Excellent news about FSU’s new donor.
Good morning! Yesterday evening we were joined by Andrew Bridgen MP for our MD4CE meeting. He is completely over the jab injury brief, personally angry at the harms & lies inflicted on the public & voted against every covid measure other than the first lockdown. The video of him speaking & answering questions will be up shortly, hopefully later today. He’s currently in Washington to meet with Senator Ron Johnson, courtesy of his AZ injections which he now regrets. His take on the capture of MPs is depressing as there are incredibly few who speak in the age old tradition of ‘without fear or favour’ as the majority are in fear of losing their candidacy for the next election (Smarmer has issued an edict that if anyone contradicts party policy, they won’t be selected) & that there is rather too much favour happening. His loyalties as an MP in order of priority are country, constituency, party. Some MPs are privately on side re stopping mRNA jabs but not willing to speak publicly. He is more scathing of the MSM as he knows many journalists who are fully aware of what is being suppressed but fear loss of job if they… Read more »
Thanks, Bertie. Yes, Andrew Bridgen needs our support like nothing else but what happened to Christopher Chope who initially took the lead on this? He seems to have dropped out of sight as has that other MP for Devizes whose name I can’t remember.
We need to work on the MSM and the Medics this year and try and get more onside. I can understand that some will have families and mortgages and probably not be in a place where they could earn another income readily but they must have consciences unless they’ve buried them beneath a mountain of justificationary bullshit. I would ask them how their descendants will view them and their legacy in that they took the King’s shilling or the Judas silver in order to save their sorry asses.
Many thanks BB. Oh for a few more with the humanity and bravery of Andrew Bridgen.
“The right to access cash will soon be enshrined in law” – Treasury Minister Andrew Griffith writes in the Telegraph about how the right to access cash will be enshrined in the Financial Services and Markets Act.
This is surely good news but, since I am a ‘daily sceptic’ and not just an occasional one, I have to cast my sceptical eyes over the details and wonder what they are up to now. Is this another bit of the gaslighting process, making it seem that actual hard cash was never going to disappear altogether and that I’ve got my sceptical knickers in a twist? Mmm. I wonder. I was – probably still will – get some car window decals made up about the importance of cash and maybe a t-shirt as I believe that this is an emotional issue and we know how much people are inspired by emotional issues and not factual ones. Also, this idea that something is ‘enshrined’ in law, doesn’t mean it can’t be unenshrined when the devious shysters deem it necessary? Nothing is sacrosanct these days, not even the Church.
I’m entirely in agreement Aethelred. When I saw the headline my first thought was – what are they up to now?
Doesn’t matter if legislation to protect access to cash is in place if companies are doing everything to prevent folk from paying for services with it.
All train ticket offices are now earmarked for closure. Have to be able to track who travels & to where in order to enforce lack of freedom of movement.
Please sign this petition that way they can’t say that they didn’t know that folk opposed this.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/622391
This article is over two years old & adds to the body of evidence that the toxicity of the spike protein which the bioweapon injections promote production of was already known to the manufacturers yet they still went ahead with the roll out.
It would certainly benefit from a KISS ATL article as it’s pretty complex stuff!
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2010722117
From Dr Mike Yeadon on toxic by design vaccines & how the covid bioweapon is just the latest one. https://rumble.com/v1twn2s-infertility-by-vaccines-a-diabolical-agenda-chd-films.html If you’ve not seen this short (30minute) film by Children’s Health Defense, I strongly urge that you do so now. What was uncovered in Kenya, involving WHO & later on, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is truly shocking. For a number of years, there was an official if unpublicised campaign out of WHO to develop then deploy vaccines designed to induce infertility in African girls and women of childbearing age. WHO publicly stated the vaccination campaigns were against tetanus. However, careful analytical work undertaken by a number of independent companies and universities confirmed the presence in batches of vaccines destined for use in the field contained not only tetanus toxoid (as expected) but hCG, a essential hormone of pregnancy. It’s also the hormone detected in urine & is the basis of widely-used pregnancy test kits you can buy in any pharmacy. The government officials claimed there was contamination and that the Catholic Doctors association were scheming in some way. They failed to anticipate the quality of the analytical work. If the presence of hCG was a contaminant, it would… Read more »
In other words -“brewed to a recipe.”
Here we go…..who knows what will come out? I can hardly wait!!
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Breaking: Elon Musk announced that “Fauci Files” will be released later this week.