News Round-Up

• “COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness drops near zero within months: study” – Booster doses were also shown to lose effectiveness over time, according to the Epoch Times, citing a new review study published in JAMA Network.
• “Yet another attempt at downplaying worrying results” – The results of a new study strongly confirm concerns over vaccine-related menstrual problems. Why do the authors knowingly misinterpret their own findings, asks Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
• “How to fight for Covid truth” – Every day brings more news of extreme efforts to promote biotech vaccines and cancel those asking questions. In TCW, Guy Hatchard says launching ad hominem attacks or expressing violent sentiments will simply play into the hands of those policing the official Covid narrative.
• “Like a tweet, lose your job” – The President of Thomas Jefferson University may lose his job for liking tweets from Alex Berenson on his personal Twitter account. The episode marks a warning against those in mainstream institutions that any deviation from prevailing orthodoxy – no matter how minor – will not be tolerated, according to Brownstone.
• “Unrepentant Covid arch-villain re-emerges to give the vaccines credit for ending the pandemic and insist that lockdowns and school closures remain policy options in the future” – Christian Drosten has resurfaced with an odious media interview, demanding that the vaccines receive credit for ending the pandemic, according to Eugyppius.
• “FDA approved Covid vaccines based on ‘similar’ product’s preclinical studies” – The FDA decided to relax their regulations and only test the lipid nanoparticle shell in animals and bypassed testing of the contents (mRNA and spike protein) in animals or humans, according to the Epoch Times.
• “FDA issues emergency warning for 500,000 Covid tests” – The FDA issued a warning to consumers to stop using a certain COVID-19 at-home test due to the potential for bacterial contamination in the product’s liquid solution, reports the Epoch Times.
• “The dirty secret behind premium ‘green’ energy deals” – Experts say millions of households are being “duped” into believing their electricity is clean, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pay $50 trillion now or pay far more later” – If you think that the pandemic countermeasures business is a racket, get a load of the climate countermeasures racket that Biden’s Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk is proposing, says Dr. Peter McCullough.
• “Bill Gates powers up bid to build new nuclear reactors in Britain” – The Microsoft billionaire is set to enter Government competition to develop designs for a new fleet of low-cost, zero-emission small modular reactors, according to the Times.
• “Marine controversy could leave SNP-Green alliance up the creek” – Humza Yousaf’s determination to press ahead with conservation measures designed to protect Scotland’s marine environment has become the latest flashpoint for his embattled ministry, exposing divisions within the SNP and exacerbating concerns that the Green Party is exercising disproportionate influence upon the Scottish government, reports the Times.
• “New Jersey Democrats slam Biden administration approval of congestion pricing plan for New York” – Under New York’s congestion pricing plan, drivers entering Manhattan at peak hours could pay an extra $23 toll, according to Fox News.
• “Blasphemy codes are still with us. If J.S. Mill were alive today, he would be fighting wokery” – The liberal era through which we have lived looks more and more like an interregnum between different forms of despotism, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Airbnb to fight Michael Gove’s ‘communist’ holiday let crackdown” – Senior leaders at the U.S. tech giant will pressure the Housing Secretary to water down his proposals, warning of “unintended consequences” from the Government’s controversial reforms, reports the Telegraph.
• “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the Coronation stirred every emotion” – Looking like a couple of elderly polar bears on tour, the ermine-cloaked majesties were the centre of a day that was huge and hideous, exquisite and sacred, all at once, writes Rachel Cooke in the Guardian.
• “Denver Councilwoman proposes taxing ‘white-led businesses’” – Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca says new taxes are needed to redistribute wealth to minorities as reparations for the harm of capitalism, reports Fox News.
• “Virginia GOP asks state to investigate university costs, including DEI departments” – Virginia Assembly’s top Republicans asked the state’s governmental watchdog group to study the cost efficiency of public universities and, more specifically, the increasing cost of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) departments on college campuses, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Texas AG launches probe into medical centre over potential ‘illegal’ trans procedures on minors” – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into Austin-based Dell Children’s Medical Centre after an undercover video released last month allegedly showed staff at the facility saying that they had patients transitioning as young as eight years old, reports the Daily Wire.
• “Ron DeSantis gets set for 2024 with culture war blitz” – Ron DeSantis told supporters to “buckle up” as he prepares to announce a run for U.S. President after Florida Republicans passed a series of “culture war” bills, reports the Times.
• “My part in Vice’s downfall” – Brash Millennial upstarts were once the future of news, writes Aris Roussinos in an insider account of life at Vice News and why it didn’t work out in UnHerd.
• “Why should lesbians sleep with men?” – Sexual preference is now a moral crusade, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
• “Transgender athletes’ bogus wins in women’s sports shows lack of common sense” – Those of us who relied upon common sense and fair play to win the day – or at least break even – are now holding losing tickets, writes Phil Mushnick in the New York Post.
• “LGBTQ activist claims Bud Light will ‘go extinct’ after its parent company distanced itself from Dylan Mulvaney controversy” – Stacy Lentz says LGBTQ activists may join conservatives boycotting company, reports DailyMail.com.
• “Drag performer speaks out against allowing kids to attend drag shows” – Kitty Demure said kids “do not belong in drag”, reports Fox News.
• “I don’t, in any way, sympathise with their position, but I do defend their right to protest” – On GB News, Toby criticises the Metropolitan Police for arresting the organisers of a republican protest on the morning of the Coronation.

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