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by Jonathan Barr
6 May 2021 2:02 AM

  • “Covid outbreak throws London G7 summit into chaos” – The Prime Minister is defending the decision to hold the G7 meeting in person after two members of the Indian delegation fell ill, according to the Telegraph
  • “Pneumonia and flu now kill more people than Covid” – The Times reports that Flu and Pneumonia are killing more people than Covid
  • “Almost a third of recent Covid deaths in England and Wales not caused by virus” – The weekly ONS data shows that nearly 33% of people included in the official Covid death count died primarily of other causes, with the virus simply mentioned on the death certificate, the Telegraph reports
  • “The ‘Covid deaths’ which are not caused by Covid” – “We have become conditioned to hearing frightening daily death figures,” writes Ross Clark, commenting on the ONS figures for the Spectator, but “the wider picture is of overall mortality running only slightly ahead of a normal year”
  • “The new care home scandal” – Writing in the Spectator, Kate Andrews highlights the new scandal in care homes – residents living in ‘prison-like’ circumstances
  • “Britons fly via Turkey to avoid costly quarantine” – British travellers in ‘red list’ countries are stopping off in Istanbul to avoid border quarantine and the £1,750 bill, according to the BBC
  • “Shame of Starmer, the Covid lapdog who didn’t bark” – Lockdowns were Starmer’s big opportunity to “live up to his core responsibility as Leader of the Opposition”, says Bill Wright in the Conservative Woman, but “he was just not man enough”
  • “The Criminalisation of Dissent” – “One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalisation of dissent,” writes CJ Hopkins in Off-Guardian, and “Germany has been leading the way”
  • “Boris, stop frittering our money on lockdowns – it’s time to listen to the science and let us out” – “We’re in £2 trillion of trouble now and the overwhelming majority of Britons want the freedom to earn our own livings,” writes Emily Hill in Mail+. “Not in 13 days or two months. Now.”
  • “Covid Vaccines: Necessity, Efficacy and Safety” – Off-Guardian republishes the latest update from the Doctors for Covid Ethics after it was censored by Medium
  • “Forgotten victims of the NHS Covid response” – Dan Astin Gregory and Professor Karol Sikora discuss the toll that prioritising COVID-19 patients has taken on people with other diseases, including cancer, for the Pandemic Podcast
  • “As a society, adults are responsible for looking after children, not the other way around” – Watch Dr Ros Jones explain to Mark Dolan why she thinks healthy children don’t need the vaccine on talkRADIO
  • “From Pandemic to Endemic” – The latest ZOE app data
  • “Germany calls for ‘global reset’ to fight pandemics” – Heralding the launch of a World Health Organisation’s research hub, German Health Minister Jens Spahn called for a “global reset” in the fight against pandemics, Reuters reports. Yikes!
  • “Serbia in ‘world first’ as citizens offered €25 to have Covid vaccine” – Euronews reports that Serbia will pay its citizens 3,000 dinars as a reward for getting the vaccine, a sum equivalent to around 5% of the country’s average monthly salary
  • “Cabinet introduces Coronapass for access to venues after lockdown ends” – The Cyprus cabinet has decided to introduce a “Coronapass” for people to get into hospitality venues, churches, gyms, and shops, according to the Cyprus Mail
  • “New Brunswick reports first death linked to AstraZeneca vaccine” – A person in their sixties received the jab mid April and died just over a week later, Global News reports
  • “Lockdowns only delay COVID-19 cases, witness testifies at hearing on Manitoba’s restrictions” – Dr Jay Bhattacharya was an expert witness for a group of churches challenging lockdown restrictions in Manitoba, Canada, according to CBC. He argued that lockdowns only delay deaths from Covid, they don’t reduce the overall quantum
  • “In critical shift, US now backs patent protection waivers for COVID-19 vaccines” – The Biden Administration has said that it supports waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, ABC reports
  • “Imperial College Predicted Catastrophe in Every Country on Earth. Then the Models Failed” – “COVID-19 has produced no shortage of doomsaying prophets whose prognostications completely failed at future delivery,” writes Philip W. Magness at AIER. “No greater example exists than the epidemiology modelling team at Imperial College-London (ICL), led by the physicist Neil Ferguson”
  • “Is This Our 1914 Moment?” – In an article for AIER, Joakim Book seeks to reconcile his pessimism at the “long-lasting horrors that will come from last year’s authoritarian power grab” with his confidence in the world’s progress
  • “The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown” – In the Atlantic, Emma Green examines the curious US phenomenon that liberals are more likely to be anxious about Covid than conservatives
  • “Covid Vax Opponents and Rigid Proponents… Are Both Anti-Science?” – The U.S. pause on the Johnson & Johnson jab “illustrates deep issues with science communication”, writes Dr. Vinay Prasad in Medpage Today
  • “Venezuela to begin clinical trials of Cuba’s Abdala vaccine candidate” – If the trials of the Abdola vaccine are successful, the Government of Venezuela is planning to produce enough doses for four million people according to Reuters
  • “The Government seem only to be looking at the harm caused by Covid rather than the harm caused by lockdown” – “If the Government is going to set itself up as the nation’s doctor they ought to follow medical principles,” says John Lee on talkRADIO – one of them being “First do no harm”

Mike Graham: "The government seem only to be looking at the harm caused by Covid rather than the harm caused by lockdown."@Iromg pic.twitter.com/fzk18nca5G

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) May 5, 2021
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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

Hmm, I’m struggling with this one, I think the influx of dinghy people fleeing the famine & tyranny of France might have had a bigger impact.

But hey let’s not blame the refugees, they didn’t ask for their own countries to be blown apart, politicians created this mess, so why expect those that caused it to fix it!

Unjustified wars created these monsters.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

What about the swarming majority who aren’t fleeing from a war-torn country, but towards a generous welfare State?

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Sarcasm doesn’t always work well in text, unless you know something about France I don’t?

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Question though: what has Prevent ever actually prevented?

The only thing I’m aware of terrorist huggers achieving is to make themselves easy targets.

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Prevent has prevented Sir David Amess from ever speaking his mind again …

Prevent is a waiting room for future patsies.

MG

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

It’s hardly surprising if a terrorist government goes soft on terrorism.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

I understand from the politicians and media that the reason David Amess died is that people like me don’t use their real name when posting on the internet.

I know I might be going out on a limb here but I don’t think that is the reason he died.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Apparently it’s because of a young man who was already radicalised, was locked in his room for months on end, watching Youtube videos of a guy using his own name and now Mark Zuckerberg, who owns Twitter, has to make everybody use their real names when posting knob gags or cat videos.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

The last time I used my real name on some web site, it led to some asshole impersonating me to publish badly written gay porn masking as frantic sex contact requests there, something the people running this site consider to be free speech.

I also don’t believe that anyone ever died (or will die) because I found this rather off-putting.

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

The biggest terrorist attack against the british people ever may have been perpetrated by the pushers of the experimental covid ‘vaccine’. Details here….

https://www.independentinformation.co.uk/resources/articles/covid-vaccines-safe-effective

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Aleajactaest
Aleajactaest
3 years ago

some points to remember from this tragedy:

The murderer was not a constituent

What was the murderer doing in another consituency

How did the murderer get an appointment with his victim outwith his constituency?

And is it merely coincidental that the murder victim was a strong proponent against the coercion of the jabs, pro-Brexit and vehemently anti-lockdown……

Occam’s Razor. This was a false flag.

Last edited 3 years ago by Aleajactaest
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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

It seems fairly clear that this particular MP was targeted, for whatever reason. It wasn’t a random event.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Also the visitor at no10 last Xmas. I’m not saying that all folks with Somali heritage know each other, but the person who did this is the son of a former political advisor to the PM of Somalia.

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago

The murder of Catholic, Conservative / Tory MP, Sir David Amess on October 15, 2021

On Friedrich Nietzsche’s “God is Dead” 177 th birthday.

It is reported that police refused to allow a Priest to give David Amess the last rites.
 
The media is already priming it’s audience with “perhaps we will never know the real reason why” …

What nobody is addressing is why his Somali assassin, traveled from his central / north London home, 50 miles to the Essex county coastal town of Leigh-on-Sea to murder a sitting MP, when there are plenty of other MPs holding constituency meetings nearer to home.

This was an attack on democracy.

Here’s why Sir David Amess was murdered :

From the pov of his real assassins, not the nominal patsy, his unforgivable mistake was to be a staunch Brexiteer and member of Leave Means Leave …

David Amess was murdered on October 15, 2021 = 666 days into Boris Johnson’s Tory government – the State Opening of Parliament and the Queen’s Speech and the introduction of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019-20, all on December 19, 2019.

The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019-20 became the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 giving legal provision for ratifying the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

The UK’s EU Referendum project began when the, then leader of the opposition and future Tory PM, David Cameron, announced that “if he became PM, a Conservative government will hold a Referendum on any EU treaty”. This offer was announced on September 26, 2007 = 666 months after David Amess was born on March 26, 1952 – hence why David Amess was selected as the victim rather than any other Euro-sceptic Tory MP.

October 15, 2021 also, just happened to be = 666 months and 666 days since Boris Johnson was born on June 19, 1964.

Kabbalistically, this is clearly an attack on the Tories for reasons of Brexit. No doubt about it.

Note : This is the second “666 day terrorist attack” on recent Tory governments, both occurring 666 days into their term, the State Opening of Parliament and the Queens Speech.

The first was the 2017 Westminster Attack on March 22, 2017 = the 666 th day of David Cameron’s Tory government which began on May 27, 2015.

I very much doubt whether the patsies are the ones with the keys to the kabbalistic calendar …

MG

Read more on event scheduling and scripts, here :
https://www.whataboutthewhen.com/introduction.html

****

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Mode RNA

“Kabbalistically, this is clearly an attack on the Tories for reasons of Brexit.”

For fuck’s sake, Scottie – beam me up!

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

RickH – why don’t you get your angst off your chest?

What is it exactly that ails you?

Is this a new information rash or some deeper allergy?

I might be able to help soothe your mood …

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Mode RNA

No. It’s just that there’s enough total bollocks around without you confecting more garbage and adding it to the heap.

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Oh well. If you are only able to spew invective, but are unable to substantiate any of it, maybe I cannot help after all.

In the meantime, a little gripe water, a little sleep followed by some reading with a clear mind, might just help.

Read more on event scheduling and scripts, here :
https://www.whataboutthewhen.com/introduction.html

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago

The murder of Catholic, Conservative / Tory MP, Sir David Amess on October 15, 2021

On Friedrich Nietzsche’s “God is Dead” 177 th birthday.

It is reported that police refused to allow a Priest to give David Amess the last rites.

The media is already priming it’s audience with “perhaps we will never know the real reason why” …

What nobody is addressing is why his Somali assassin, traveled from his central / north London home, 50 miles to the Essex county coastal town of Leigh-on-Sea to murder a sitting MP, when there are plenty of other MPs holding constituency meetings nearer to home.

This was an attack on democracy.

Here’s why Sir David Amess was murdered :

From the pov of his real assassins, not the nominal patsy, his unforgivable mistake was to be a staunch Brexiteer and member of Leave Means Leave …

David Amess was murdered on October 15, 2021 = 666 days into Boris Johnson’s Tory government – the State Opening of Parliament and the Queen’s Speech and the introduction of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019-20, all on December 19, 2019.

The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019-20 became the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 giving legal provision for ratifying the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

The UK’s EU Referendum project began when the, then leader of the opposition and future Tory PM, David Cameron, announced that “if he became PM, a Conservative government will hold a Referendum on any EU treaty”. This offer was announced on September 26, 2007 = 666 months after David Amess was born on March 26, 1952 – hence why David Amess was selected as the victim rather than any other Euro-sceptic Tory MP.

October 15, 2021 also, just happened to be = 666 months and 666 days since Boris Johnson was born on June 19, 1964.

Kabbalistically, this is clearly an attack on the Tories for reasons of Brexit. No doubt about it.

Note : This is the second “666 day terrorist attack” on recent Tory governments, both occurring 666 days into their term, the State Opening of Parliament and the Queens Speech.

The first was the 2017 Westminster Attack on March 22, 2017 = the 666 th day of David Cameron’s Tory government which began on May 27, 2015.

I very much doubt whether the patsies are the ones with the keys to the kabbalistic calendar …

MG

Read more on scrkipts and event scheduling, here :
https://www.whataboutthewhen.com/introduction.html

****

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thedarkhorse
thedarkhorse
3 years ago
Reply to  Mode RNA

Interesting calculations, Mode….rather more than just a “coincidence”, I think.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

I don’t think there’s much virtue in publishing disproportionate scare stuff on another topic in a ‘sceptical’ site.

Quite predictably, the random (in the probability sense) nutter attack and killing of Amess has been used by the oppressors for their own ends. You have to guard against being had – yet again. In comparison with the planned Covid scam, ‘terrorism’ is a minor issue.

Last edited 3 years ago by RickH
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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

Apparently Amess was very keen to promote open debate about the vaxport, something this non-democracy is quickly stamping out. This killing has all the hallmarks of a false flag – especially with the MP’s reaction. They’d already decided that freedom of speech online should be shut down and they’ve very clearly chosen this incident as the pretext. Yet the two ends don’t meet. It’s inexplicable that a politician killed by a supposedly angry muslim should result in closing down free speech.

Official narrative can never again be trusted without intense scrutiny.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

As I have pointed out before, and been severely reprimanded for, it also scares MPs just before a vote on draconian laws

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thedarkhorse
thedarkhorse
3 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Precisely. The patterns of “convenient” major incidents happening, to be followed shortly by horrible new laws has become all too common. It really is in your face; well it is in mine, if not in others’

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Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago
Reply to  thedarkhorse

Mine too but when I commented on 16th re news of that day, 3 comments in reply ridiculed and gain-said it. I see some comments that seem to have fallen for government’s standard trick of inciting hatred too. I despair when even scptics do that

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Old Bill
Old Bill
3 years ago

The trouble is with terrorism is that it rarely afflicts the right people.
If this had happened to the Scottish fishwife instead there would have been dancing in the streets of Glasgow for a week.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago

Which terrorists – government?
How many times have governments set someone up to get rid of someone high-profile who is not complying with government?
Government wants to divide and conquer us.
So, useful for government if one set-up can also be used to trick public into rowing about religion, ethnicity etc.
Diversionary tactics often used by culprit as smoke-screen.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Yes. Actual ‘Terrorism’ (a political definition) has had very little impact compared to the other establishment scare story – Covid. The link is the use of both as control narratives.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago

I’m pretty sure radicalization is among the goals of the current policies. You’d have to be completely brain dead not to understand what they are doing to social integrity, and the only reaction of the perpetrators is to keep pouring more oil into the fire by increasing the censorship and repressions against dissenters. That’s a sure way to convert completely normal people into domestic terrorists.

After all terrorism is an expression of weakness and helplessness mixed with anger against overwhelming forces of some authority which the terrorist (elsewhere known as guerilla/insurgent/revolutionary/freedom fighter etc.) seeks to stand up against regardless of personal sacrifice.

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

“Terrorism is theater. ”

Brian Michael Jenkins. International Terrorism: A new kind of warfare. 1974

https://www.whataboutthewhen.com/

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago

BTW, today in Germany they shot down the chief editor of Bild, the big boulevard Springer-owned newspaper which frequently criticized government’s handling of the pandemic. Meanwhile, Spiegel, the green-communist newspaper which greatly supported all things government all along the way, published revelations about how Bild’s chief editor has “acted inappropriately toward women” during his employment.

So here we have one more “mainstream” newspaper which will not report any more. It’s surely going to piss off many of its rather unsophisticated readers… who knows, maybe some of them will decide to take matters into their own hands and become “terrorists”.

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Bob Fleming
Bob Fleming
3 years ago

The following article has an interesting take on the motives:

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=88132

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Bob Fleming

Short version: Amess was a Quatar lobbyist. Quatar said to sponsor current acting president of Somalia. Father of murderer tweeted a lot of critical stuff about this person.

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Mode RNA
Mode RNA
3 years ago
Reply to  Bob Fleming

Thanks Bob.

Very difficult to make sense of any of that.

I find it very disappointing that the journalism and comments accept without question that the msm like The Times for example will be actually informing it’s audience accurately concerning deep state affairs.

All the media ever do in such cases is tell you what they want you to know. Nothing more. That is reason enough to provoke some independent thinking, rather than slavish, pseudo analysis of stories in The Times.

The really short version would be : The Times – telling you the truth about statecraft and assassinations.

Give me strength.

MG

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George L
George L
3 years ago

Ah yes ‘Terrorism’ yet another of those hobgoblins we’re constantly threatened by.. invented by the likes of the CIA, MI6, MI5, and their ilk..

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