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by Michael Curzon
27 August 2021 12:16 AM

  • “Parents demand final say over whether children get Covid jab” – Officials have admitted that if consent is not given children could still be vaccinated, but claimed such a situation would be rare, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Confusion over Covid jabs for over-12s in England ahead of new school term” – Vaccine body the JCVI is understood to have concerns about the affect of the jab in young children on other inoculations, reports the Guardian.
  • “Natural immunity is stronger than vaccination, study suggests” – “Double jabbed, previously uninfected people are 13 times as likely to get Covid compared with the naturally immune,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Ministers doing bare minimum to stop Covid travel test ‘rip-offs’, says Labour” – Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, has been urged – again – to name and shame firms displaying misleading pricing, reports the Guardian.
  • “Scrapping the PCR stealth tax would give tourism a much-needed boost” – “If the Prime Minister really believes in a more ‘user-friendly’ travel system that “gets the industry moving again”, his Government should take action and scrap VAT on PCR tests,” writes Bill Bowkett in CapX.
  • “Covid cases rising in all but two regions, figures from Public Health England reveal” – London, which has twice been the epicentre of England’s pandemic, has the lowest rate of infection, and has actually seen the number of ‘cases’ reported decrease, reports Sky News.
  • “100,000 AstraZeneca doses close to expiry date could be thrown away” – NHS England had promised to collect excess vaccines from GP sites – but plans have been “seriously delayed”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The FDA did not grant full approval to the Pfizer shots” – “In the sense that the term ‘FDA approval’ is generally understood, the Pfizer Covid vaccine is not approved by the FDA,” writes Carl Schwitzer in American Thinker.
  • “Why Do Public Health Agencies Reject Natural Immunity?” – “As has been explained many times before, a positive test result is not the same as active infection,” writes Dr. Joseph Mercola in Mercola.
  • “Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins” – “With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the pandemic, the Chinese authorities are not the only ones dismayed,” writes Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
  • “Trainspotting star calls KLM ‘scamming c***s’ for refusing Covid test” – Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has branded KLM “filthy scamming airline c***s” after they refused to let him on a flight with a negative NHS Covid test, reports MailOnline.
  • “Delta Variant May Acquire Total Vaccine Resistance” – “According to a new paper, while our mRNA vaccines are effective against the most common SARS-CoV-2 variants, ‘identifying likely breakthrough variants is critical for future vaccine development,'” reports Trial Site.
  • “Nursing Homes Keep Losing Workers” – U.S. nursing homes have a long-term care problem: 18 months after the Covid crisis began, their staffs are still shrinking, reports the Wall Street Journal.
  • “Woman is carried out of Texas school board meeting for foregoing mask” – A Texas woman who refused to wear a face mask was lifted by two police officers, chair and all, out of a Northside Independent School District board of trustees meeting on Tuesday, reports MailOnline.
  • “Have the Channel migrants completed their ‘Passenger Locator Forms’?” – “The rules invented to travel anywhere in the age of Covid are so daft they could only have been developed by bureaucrats,” writes Frederick Edward in his latest column in Bournbrook Magazine.
  • “Tetlock and the Taliban” – In his latest substack update, Richard Hanania explains how a humiliating military loss proves that so much of our so-called ‘expertise’ is fake.
  • “Climate change and the brainwashing of the world” – “The same bad actors who brought us coronaviruses as a pretext for removing liberty are now lining up to do the same with climate change as the excuse,” writes Lucy Wyatt in TCW Defending Freedom.
  • “Fact check: what caused the German floods?” – “Never mind the caveats, the uncertainties, the rogue extremes produced by climate models, the only message that will have gone down among the public will be that climate change has made deadly floods nine times more likely,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Extinction Rebellion doesn’t care what you think” – These supple-handed sons of privilege aren’t remotely interested in winning over ordinary people, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
  • “Latham’s law” – “The Australian people need to reclaim their self-respect, to stop politicians from treating them like children,” writes Mark Latham in the Spectator Australia.
  • “Could these classic children’s books be next on the woke watch list?” – After Rachel Adamson, of charity Zero Tolerance, claimed The Tiger Who Came To Tea could “lead to rape”, FEMAIL takes a look at what other children’s classics are at risk of being ‘cancelled’.
  • “Teachers in Scotland will be given ‘anti-racism learning resources’” – Education Scotland has introduced the new guidance over fears that groups impacted by racism are not currently sufficiently represented in the curriculum, reports MailOnline.
  • “What is happening to the mainstream media and can it ever be saved?” – Author and journalist Glenn Greenwald joins Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster on TRIGGERnometry to discuss whether big tech censorship could destroy free speech online.

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patb
patb
3 years ago

Time one of us stood up and delivered a ‘kill shot’ to one of the Cabinet traitors.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  patb

We all get the frustration and anger, but criminal incitement, even clearly rhetorical hyperbole, is Not helpful to DS, and also, shows we have lost the moral compass ourselves.

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patb
patb
3 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Just a play on words. Some nutters, e.g. James Delingpole, have referred to the vaccine as a ‘kill shot’ for months.He has many supporters on here, making sensible people despair. This will now get downvoted, which just proves the point.

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me too
me too
3 years ago
Reply to  patb

Alfred North Whitehead:

  • The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Scrap VAT on PCR tests [for foreign travel]”.

No, scrap PCR tests, you vile, cruel inhuman criminals. And sack Grant Shapps/Dick Turpin.

My friend was afraid today that she would die because of the current difficulties (not least the pointless PCR tests) involved in getting her urgently needed medication from abroad. Scrap them now.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Ring the Daily Mail…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“FDA didn’t fully approve Pfizer shots”.

Ah. And immunity from liability is to continue for “many months to come”.

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PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

No, they are playing games – they are using the “full approval” to mandate the vaccine everywhere but they haven’t approved. Pure typical lies by the Biden administration.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  PhantomOfLiberty

Not that the scum in this cuntry are doing any better or acting with any more honesty. The main difference is that Bozo and co still have enough mental acuity that their evil is owned by them!

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

That’s the only immunity the shot provides… Legal immunity from harms caused by the manufacturer.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Woman carried out of Texas school meeting for foregoing mask”

But never mind, Harry Kane’s staying at his “vax” apartheid club, according to the Mail’s ad…

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

FORGOING mask. Unless the mask went in front of the rest of her and that is why she was carried out. Presumably the zombies were wearing their nappies on the backs of their heads. Would make just as much sense as wearing them over their stupid no-faces.

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

It is strange how the mask thing has gone in the UK, this morning I may well call in to our village coffee morning where mask wearing has virtually gone. At our Parish Council meetings there is now very little mask wearing, a lot of people now seem to carry a mask in their pocket but only put it on if there are others wearing one. It is strange that rather uniquely England had a very liberal face mask exemption policy which became understood and accepted by all and this seems to have fed through into a general decline in face mask wearing now that the law has gone.

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PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago

Cannot understand why you keep on running these pictures of Richard Baker, Moira Stuart etc

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Adamb
Adamb
3 years ago
Reply to  PhantomOfLiberty

I quite like them! Harks back to a simpler time when you could trust the bbc news (I think…)

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Adamb

Or, rather, a simpler time when some thought that one could trust the beeb on anything.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Adamb

Only because you personally (like most others) didn’t mind the lies and manipulations of the BBC back then. It’s only when it is turned against something or someone a person cares about that it is usually noticed.

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PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I do think there was a lot more to be said for the BBC in former times however flawed – there were people in there struggling to get out the truth and the World Service was genuinely impressive. There was a repulsively smug element also. I think the final straw was the Hutton Inquiry since when it has been the creature of the Whitehall machine. Richard Baker was among the people I liked but now it is all a bit irrelevant.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  PhantomOfLiberty

Yes there was still questioning and proper journalism back in the day. Now replaced by propaganda.

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patb
patb
3 years ago
Reply to  PhantomOfLiberty

It’s because they are so old, there is no copyright cost.

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PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago
Reply to  patb

Yes, I have considered that but perhaps it would be off-putting to younger people – perhaps no image is required.

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jenfie
jenfie
3 years ago

The article about the FDA not approving the Pfizer vaccine is incorrect. It has been authorised by the FDA for people aged 16 plus – and the authorised vaccine is now called Comirnaty. It previously wasn’t allowed to be named as it was under Emergency Use Authorisation, which is standard practice.

For under 16’s it is still only under emergancy use authorisation, as this has only recently just been granted. So it is officially still lisenced under both systems, depending on the demographic of the person taking it. There is further complication because millions of old batches of the vaccine labelled as EUA are still in circulation, so there is a lot of detail in the authorisation letter about the legality of those doses, and the liability issues for people who have had one shot of EUA pfizer and one shot of Comirnaty. This has caused a lot of confusion, perhaps delibrately so!

There is a really good walkthrough of the legalities of the authorisation debacle in the Last American Vagabond –

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/unjustified-dishonest-dangerous-fda-approval-pfizers-injection-clearing-up-confusion/

and a follow up episode here:

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/fdas-sneaky-sidestep-liability-after-approval-criminal-nature-process/

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  jenfie

The jabs they are using are not licensed.

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Adamb
Adamb
3 years ago

“Double jabbed, previously uninfected people are 13 times as likely to get Covid compared with the naturally immune,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.

I hope this study gets some traction, it’s pretty devastating for jab fanatics.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Adamb

Yes – bound to be covered in depth by the BBC and Sky!???????

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

And yet always known from the beginning, by all the “scientists” lying to us.

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thinkcriticall
thinkcriticall
3 years ago

Very informative.Lee Merritt, MD ~ “What is VAERS and What Does It Show?”https://rumble.com/vkoyqr-summit-sessions-the-science-lee-merritt-md-what-is-vaers-and-what-does-it-s.html

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. – updated useful information, resources and links: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
  • “Scrapping the PCR stealth tax would give tourism a much-needed boost” – “If the Prime Minister really believes in a more ‘user-friendly’ travel system that “gets the industry moving again”, his Government should take action and scrap VAT on PCR tests,” writes Bill Bowkett in CapX.

What use is this Cap X if it publishes this kind of drivel?

An entire system of utterly pointless testing bureaucracy squatting on top of international travel like a monstrous toad and the best this Bowkett character can come up with is “oh the government should exempt it from a 20% tax”?

How does forcibly testing and isolating travellers from Spain, say, contribute anything more than imposing such requirements on travellers from Cornwall, or Scotland would? It doesn’t. The disease is not particularly significant anyway, now, but is certainly globally endemic and as well established in the UK as anywhere in the world..

End all this panic nonsense. Now.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Australia’s shame!

Moment armed cops in full PPE pull Covid-infected ‘public health enemy number 1’ from his lair after two weeks on the run – and as his mask fogs up from COUGHING he declares: ‘I have proof I’ve been isolating the whole time’
A scene from The Prisoner, or from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil? No, Australian bedwetters arresting a man for going outside with a cold

Aussiepolicestate.jpg
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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

I’ve been doing a little research into an all-in-one *solution to the fake vaccine, quercetin, vitamin D and zinc all in one package. Apparently it’s important to get quercetin mixed with an absorbent material like vitamin C because on its own, it’s effectiveness drops massively.

I’m doing this research for two reasons: mostly for my mother who has been double jabbed under the influence of my covid-fanatic dad via the BBC/Sky/bullshit. The second reason is for myself and partner, as I’m aware that the ‘double-vaxxed’ pose a risk to the rest of us. I’d like to say my own immune system will keep me safe, but thanks to Fat Fuk Pfizer Pfeffel Pig, I’ve never been so unhealthy in my whole life.

Best pack I’ve come across so far is this one: Efficaci Premium Immunity Supplement Vitamin C, Zinc, Vitamin D3, Probiotic – 60

Are there any thoughts on this?

*for want of a better word

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

J4mes – I have had a quick look at it. I cannot see the ingredients in it, which is important, as aside from the C/Z/D3/probiotic, if it has nasty fillers etc which might not be beneficial it might not be a good thing to take and I don’t see any mention of quercetin. ‘All in one’ things might sound like nirvana, or seem handy, – but one size does not fit all, as, for example, people with adrenal fatigue might not tolerate the zinc well and might have to omit that part of it, and the “probiotic” strains used might not be very good [or contain high enough quantities]. I know it is tedious, but I tend to pick quality products and use them separately the way they will have maximum effect. So I take separate supps of C/ D3 (Now foods is a good brand – get it on iherb or amazon) and probiotics and take Source Naturals “Activated Quercetin” which contains vitamin C magnesium and bromelain alongside the quercetin. I don’t take it all the time and tend to reserve it for times when I feel I have been exposed and might need it as I tend to eat a lot of dietary quercetin sources. Hope this helps. My parents are also double jabbed, fully believe the death figures [sigh]; I can see my mother in particular is harmed by her jabs and I fully expect them to stick their arms out for the booster shots. I can say nothing as the rest of my family thinks this is the way to go – the guilt I feel about knowing the harm being done to them and having to say nothing cripples me.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Thanks for the good advice, Milo. I saw your reply a comment I made yesterday, apologies for not responding.

I too could not quite see any reference to quercetin on the ingredients, and by default, I always have a lack of trust in the authenticity of products available for purchase on Ebay. I’ll take a look at the individual products that you have recommended.

Sounds like you’re in the same position as I am regarding your family. It gives me nightmares to think of what could happen to them this winter, especially my mother who already has respiratory problems and seems visibly weaker since getting the double-jab.

The most infuriating thing is that they worry about me – they believe I’m endangering myself because I refuse to get the fake vaccine. It doesn’t occur to them that I’ve gone for a year and a half without the jab and nothing has happened to me! But I can’t get sense through to them, they just parrot the same crap they’ve heard on the TV and forget anything I’ve said to them by the next time I see them.

Although I get angry at them from time to time, I remind myself it’s the politicians and collaborators who fully deserve my wrath.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

“The most infuriating thing is that they worry about me – they believe I’m endangering myself because I refuse to get the fake vaccine. It doesn’t occur to them that I’ve gone for a year and a half without the jab and nothing has happened to me! But I can’t get sense through to them, they just parrot the same crap they’ve heard on the TV and forget anything I’ve said to them by the next time I see them.”

indeed J4mes we do seem to be in exactly the same position. I know I cannot say any more to them as they have closed their ears and refuse to listen to the truth – as if the BBC news says a thing is real then to them it is indeed real. And my siblings have also fallen for the whole thing so I have to be very careful about what I say. So though I know they face taking something which will likely cause further harm there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. I am sad to say that this time next year I don’t know if my mum will still be with us. In an ideal world I would try to put together some kind of little anti-jab [clot!!!] protocol and try to nudge her into taking it…..

Most of the supps that help can be bought on amazon or iherb uk. And someone else here put up a study about L lysine being proven to both prevent and treat the virus so that might be worth looking into.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Personally I tend to buy separate “ingredients” from a reliable source like BigVits who never used to spam me but now do, a bit.

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Encierro
Encierro
3 years ago

Yesterday’s post on population density explanation of Covid deathsI was sent this link to yet another way of country ranking. Again this does not make any sense.
Covid Resilience Ranking

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OnceIWasARemainer
OnceIWasARemainer
3 years ago

I’m starting to think we should ALL travel like those cross-channel migrants, with whom I have the deepest sympathy for whatever hellholes or poverty they are fleeing. No covid tests, no border guards, no customs… This is the way to genuine freedom, keep countries independent but take away their ability to control the flow of people and produce at borders. At that point market forces and indivdual self-interest will work together to make the world a richer place, and boost up the poorest too, as well as giving countries which respect freedom and attract goods/people flows to increase their power and export liberty to those places which badly need it.

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