News Round-Up

• “The CDC’s Long Covid Deception” – Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal says a recent study exaggerates the incidence of post-viral symptoms among young adults and deflects attention from misconceived pandemic policies.
• “Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon’s return to office plans” – Amazon employees are instructed to return to the office three days a week.
• “Natural Immunity Wins Again” – Ian Miller writes for the Brownstone Institute that the authorities “ignored natural immunity because it conflicted with the behaviour they wanted to compel”, but “they’ve once again been proven wrong”.
• “What have viruses and vaccines got to do with the heart?” – HART’s experts provide an explainer on how the heart is affected by infections and vaccines.
• “Idaho Lawmakers Seek to Criminalise Injecting of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines” – Republican lawmakers from Idaho have introduced a bill that will make it a crime to administer mRNA vaccines in the state, reports the Epoch Times.
• “EMA’s failure to pull COVID-19 jabs even though risk-benefit balance nullified” – An EU safety report on the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine obtained via FOI reveals damning data, according to Sonia Elijah for Children’s Health Defense.
• “Well Being: Berberine” – Dr. Robert Malone commends a supplement – and gives some intriguing background on his frustrations in trying to get repurposed drugs approved by the U.S. Government.
• “The Eye of Sauron” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan on the sinister way the New Zealand Government planned to deal with ‘disinformation’.
• “Virtue and Terror: How the New Normal was Created” – The past three years have exposed the structural flaw in Western democracy, with more disastrous consequences for its populations than at any time in recent history, says Simon Elmer in OffGuardian.
• “Vegans trying to kill off the burger just cannot get past this obstacle” – The economics of engineered ‘beef’ just don’t add up, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Why does Drax the tree destroyer get eco cash?” – What hold does the tree-destroying Drax have over our political class, asks Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.
• “Fifteen minute madness!” – Roger Watson in Unity News Network reviews Alan Miller’s appearance on Radio 4 discussing 15 minute cities.
• “Yes Minister flagged by beleaguered counter-terror Prevent scheme” – Some of Britain’s most popular sitcoms and greatest works of literature were flagged as potential signs of far-Right extremism by the counter-terror programme, reports the Mail.
• “China may win Putin’s war in Ukraine for him” – A flood of lethal military aid from Beijing could prove Moscow’s trump card in a grinding war of attrition, unless the West counters it, argues Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
• “ADL report advocates deplatforming at website infrastructure level” – Activists have been targeting hosting and service providers, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “New York Times staff take aim at editor who asked them to stop infighting” – The Editor of the New York Times is facing a backlash from some staff and contributors after he asked employees to stop publicly attacking other journalists at the newspaper, reports the Times.
• “Censoring Roald Dahl proves the ‘culture war’ is total surrender by the Right” – “The culture-war is a counter-insurgency and propaganda operation run by people who are already in the corridors of power, who have captured the flag and claimed the castle,” writes Sebastian Milbank in the Telegraph. 
• “Rishi Sunak quotes BFG as he criticises Roald Dahl rewrite” – The Prime Minister has spoken out against the rewriting of classic children’s books, reports the Telegraph.
• “Anglican church leaders around the world oust Archbishop of Canterbury as their head in historic blow for Church following decision to permit blessing of same-sex couples” – A group of Anglican leaders claiming to represent 75% of worldwide Anglicans has said in a statement that it no longer considers Justin Welby to be “leader of the global communion”, and it has “disqualified” the Church of England from being its “mother church” over the latest moves towards sanctioning same-sex marriage, the Mail reports.
• “Meghan ‘has been upset and overwhelmed by her depiction on South Park for days’ after irreverent U.S. cartoon described Duchess as ‘sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim’ in scathing episode’” – Insiders claim Meghan Markle has been left “upset and overwhelmed” at how she and Prince Harry are depicted in an episode of South Park, according to the Mail. Poor love.
• “Why can’t Harry and Meghan take a joke?” – The Sussexes are reportedly considering suing South Park over its hilarious takedown of them, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “ChatGPT lists Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as ‘controversial’ and to be ‘treated in a special manner’ – but Joe Biden and Jeff Bezos get the seal of approval” – ChatGPT has again been outed for ‘woke biases’, this time listing former U.S. president Donald Trump, Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian and Kanye as “controversial”, reports the Mail.
• “Most Scots think Sturgeon is right to quit (including half of SNP voters) in first poll since First Minister announced she was stepping down amid trans row and floundering support for independence” – Two-thirds of Scots – and more than half of SNP voters – believe Nicola Sturgeon is right to be stepping down as First Minister, a new poll has shown, according to the Mail.
• “Awaken Marketers!” – If you work in marketing and are exasperated by major brands adopting ‘progressive’ causes and calling it ‘Brand Purpose’ then this is the event for you. It’s organised by Lee Taylor of Uncommon Sense (who is also looking for a non-woke account coordinator).
• “James O’Keefe Out At Project Veritas” – Project Veritas founder and CEO James O’Keefe announced to his staff on Monday that he was leaving over a conflict in vision between himself and the board.

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