News Round-Up

• “CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that Covid lab leak was likely: Whistleblower” – New whistleblower testimony to the U.S. Congress alleges that the CIA offered to pay analysts to bury their findings that Covid most likely leaked from a Wuhan lab, reports the New York Post.
• “Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reveals Stanford University’s attempts to derail Covid studies” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker presents a first-person account by Professor Bhattacharya, who sheds light on the commercial interests influencing Stanford’s science and media criticisms.
• “The Centres for Disease Control just admitted the truth – the vast majority of people now hospitalised for Covid are mRNA jabbed” – On Substack, Alex Berenson presents the “strongest proof yet” that Covid vaccine shots simply do not work against Omicron.
• “Vaccine uptake and deaths – where are we heading?” – The probability of death for the triple vaccinated keeps growing with time, claims Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on Substack.
• “EU chief boasts about vaccine passports, calls for more global digital collaboration – paving the way for digital IDs” – EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appealed for an international regulatory body for AI and digital ID systems, similar to coronavirus vaccine passports, reports Reclaim The Net.
• “Judge rules teachers can get jobs back with back pay after refusing COVID-19 vaccine” – A New York state judge has ruled that 10 employees fired by the New York City Department of Education for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, have to be reinstated with back pay, according to the Epoch Times.
• “FDA has gone rogue” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided ‘emergency use authorisation’ for the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine boosters. But where is the public health emergency, asks Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
• “Further analysis of U.S. Nursing Home data proves, once again, the vaccines made it more likely for the elderly to die” – For every nursing home where the infection fatality rate decreased after the residents were vaccinated, there were 6.5 nursing homes where it increased by a comparable amount. That’s a disaster, says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
• “Halve meat consumption to protect planet, urge scientists” – The authors of a new study want people to halve the amount of meat they eat to help combat climate change, reports the Times.
• “When will our leaders admit that achieving Net Zero will cost trillions and is unachievable?” – How can the gravely indebted U.K. afford to splash the cash on grand, almost certainly corrupt and futile, international eco-projects, asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Five cars destroyed at Sydney Airport after battery from luxury electric vehicle ignites” – Firefighters were called to a parking lot at Sydney Airport as flames engulfed a luxury electric car and then spread to four other vehicles, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
• “Trade unions refuse to back motion condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” – Two unions have refused to back a motion condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with one warning imperialism exists on “both sides of the conflict”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Chinese children vastly outperform their white British peers, report finds” – A Government report has found that children of Chinese ethnicity in English schools vastly outperform their white British counterparts, reports the Telegraph.
• “Selfie with Jacob Rees-Mogg used as ‘evidence of far-Right extremism’ by police” – A former civil servant says counter-terrorism police used a selfie he’d taken with Jacob Rees Mogg as evidence that he was a “far-Right extremist”, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC axes Róisín Murphy songs, interviews and concerts from programme” – Singer Róisín Murphy has been cancelled by the BBC after criticising puberty blockers, reports the Mail.
• “Róisín Murphy is too good to cancel” – The roaring success of Róisín Murphy’s new album marks a humiliating defeat for the censorious trans lobby, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Help children to explore their gender identity, museums told” – Museums should be places where children can explore gender identity, according to new guidance advising cultural institutions on transgender inclusion, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trans activists have taken over our museums” – Gender ideology is being shoehorned into every corner of cultural life. Enough, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “The student mental-health crisis is a myth” – Therapeutic entrepreneurs have distorted the data on student mental health, writes Ashley Frawley in UnHerd.
• “Sunak needs to pick a side in the gender debate” – The Government’s cowardly refusal to tackle gender ideology in schools speaks volumes, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Hadley Freeman: Cancel culture is worse for women – it’s disgraceful” – Journalist Hadley Freeman left the Guardian citing an “atmosphere of fear” around gender issues. She tells the Evening Standard’s Katie Strick about her fight for freedom of speech, her new book and why she refuses to be silenced.
• “Missouri transgender clinic will no longer use puberty blocker on kids” – A St. Louis transgender clinic, under investigation for alleged harm to children through hormone drugs and gender-transitioning surgeries, will now stop the practice, reports the Mail.
• “The pullback from youth gender transition has begun” – U.S. states are pressuring hospitals to stop prescribing puberty blockers, writes Eliza Mondegreen in UnHerd.
• “Academia’s missing men” – Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite, says Lawrence M. Krauss in Quillette.
• “We are repaganising” – Writing in First Things, Louise Perry delves into the historical impact of Christian morality on Western values and examines the ethical challenges posed by abortion and infanticide in an increasingly secular world.
• “Yes, Australia’s Labour Party misinformation bill could jeopardise free speech online” – Australian experts and groups have warned that the draft Communications Legislation Amendment Bill will have a chilling effect on free speech, writes Jay Daniel Thompson in the Conversation.
• “Eventbrite deletes James Lindsay’s ‘Save Our Kids’ event” – A ‘Save Our Kids’ gathering in Calgary, organised by cultural critic Dr. James Lindsay (of ‘Sokal Squared’ fame), has abruptly been removed by Eventbrite, which claimed it was “hateful, dangerous, or violent”, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “‘The unvaccinated are the problem…’” – In a video compilation on X, Jan Jekielek of the Epoch Times reminds us of the hysterical attacks on the unvaccinated during the pandemic.

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