- “Us For Them’s urgent call to action on Covid jabs for children” – The campaign group says people should email their MPs ahead of Tuesday’s Parliamentary debate on childhood vaccinations in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “GPs who won’t see patients are hurting the NHS” – “I used to love the NHS but, increasingly, I feel my relationship with it is on the rocks,” writes Dr. Max Pemberton in the Mail.
- “Top scientists say they won’t take third jab until poorer countries have vaccines” – Many researchers, doctors and nurses say they are uncomfortable having a further jab, when others around the world need it more, reports the Telegraph.
- “Innova’s iniquity, Part 2: Protected by the U.K. regulator” – “The Government and its agencies have failed to be transparent by not providing the data/evidence to support the argument for the exorbitant cost of the DHSC/NHS Test and Trace scheme,” writes Sonia Elijah in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Is this still about the virus – was it ever? The Week in Review” – Michael Curzon and S.D. Wickett discuss the winter lockdown plan, child vaccination and vaccine passports at home and abroad in the latest Bournbrook Magazine podcast.
- “Just how accurate is the John Snow memo?” – Dr. Scott McLachlan writes that “there’s a group of people, many of whom are severely underqualified to be making these pronouncements, who have been pushing the lockdown, long Covid and vax narrative with fearmongering in the mainstream media”.
- “Covid Early Treatment” – Based on promising peer-reviewed pre-clinical and early clinical results, Swiss Policy Research has added artemisia annua and arginine to its Covid early treatment protocol.
- “Scottish Covid vaccine trialists ‘treated like second-class citizens’” – Novavax volunteers fear that the start of vaccine passports next month could put them at a further disadvantage, reports the Guardian.
- “The Dutch Ditch Social Distancing” – Protestors mocked social-distancing rules in the Netherlands this weekend by dancing and partying like free people.
- “The Police Association ditches presumption of innocence. Allegedly…” – Does the Victorian Police Association no longer believe in the presumption of innocence? It certainly doesn’t look like it does.
- “How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants” – Private contractors cost taxpayers millions while demonstrating few clear results and papering over weaknesses in the country’s public health system, reports the Washington Post.
- “Mounting fears of a 1970s-style three-day week as Britain’s energy crunch deepens” – Rocketing power prices and a gas storage crisis threaten the recovery and leave the U.K. at the mercy of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, reports the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Environmental hubris has left Britain vulnerable to Putin’s gas blackmail” – Of course Russia will take advantage of Britain’s shocking failure to safeguard its energy security, writes Simon Heffer in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Our eco-obsessed Government is sleepwalking into an energy crisis” – We could be facing a hard winter of higher energy bills and even blackouts, writes Rob Lyons in Spiked.
- “Kwarteng to hold emergency meeting with gas chiefs over price crisis” – The Business Secretary says he will let small suppliers go bust to protect consumers from higher prices, reports the Guardian.
- “Is this the end of white America?” – The far-Right is obsessed with the Great Replacement, writes Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Lib Dem Ed Davey defends party’s trans rights stance amid activist row” – Ed Davey insists the Liberal Democrats believe in free speech, despite the party’s decision to bar a member from running for Parliament over her views on transgender women.
- “Black Lives Matter training among new diversity courses offered to NHS staff” – The courses cover white privilege, unconscious bias, authentic allyship and the intersectionality between race and gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘The costs, in retrospect, seem far greater than any benefit’” – Toby talks to Mark Dolan on GB News about why he became a lockdown sceptic early on in the pandemic.
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A reminder that sheer waste on a massive scale, actively induced inefficiency and productivity loss, and spending that actually harms our society, government and businesses, are not new with the covid panic, even if that hysteria arguably took these things to new heights of societal self-harm.
But we’ve been doing them to ourselves for decades, via the parasitic political correctness industries and lobbies.
Societal self-harm on an industrial scale. The essence of modern US sphere culture.
Black good. White bad. Training done.
and the advanced course: if you’re white, then white really bad.
“Call to action on Covid ‘jabs’ for children”.
What is actually being done to hold teachers and medics to account on this? Will children be fully informed of the risks of this, and proper efforts made to ensure free and informed consent? What measures will be taken to spot possible peer pressure or coercion? Will “vaccinations” be taped so that there is evidence if there is a suspicion that the requirements of the law have been not followed in full?
If people have to let their children in school during this time, it might be an idea to question schools on this, make sure they are fully following the law with regards to free and informed consent, that there is evidence of what they actually do, and hold them to this. Of course it would be better if you can home school.
The always comical sight of one bunch of elite mis-rulers trying to blame another bunch of elite mis-rulers for the problems that both have created.
There are two disastrous errors meeting here – the climate alarmists’ obsessive campaign to harm the nation with national virtue signalling on CO2, and the interventionist national security/foreign policy elite’s literally stupid policy of confrontation of Russia – a country that is in reality no plausible threat to us and with whom we should have no real major conflicts of interest.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost and the Telegraph – home of the national security/foreign policy hawks that have mismanaged our foreign affairs for decades, is seeking to blame the climate alarmists while trying to boost their own stupidity by blaming Russia for the consequences of our own government’s incompetence.
Popcorn time, at least for those with the foresight to have installed a wood burner.
Looks like Christopher Booker might be right after all. That Christmas carol could be strangely apt this Winter – “when a poor man came in sight, gathering Winter fuel”. UK “climate” measures were always more pointless gesture politics than anything else.
In some ways, I might like to leave NATO and have better relations with Russia, but at the same time, I don’t want to leave the Baltic states at the mercy of Russia. I suppose they may be alright while they are in the EU – and if NATO survives well enough without us – but there is already tension between Belarus and Lithuania (who Russia would obviously support) and an escalation of the sort we have seen in The Ukraine and Georgia (and Moldova) would be bad for all of us. If they thought they could get away with it, I’m sure they would try something sooner or later
Even in Soviet times, there was a suspicion that they believed in Mother Russia more than socialism, and it should not surprise anyone when Russia aggressively pursues its national interests Or when Putin pursues his interests, there was an interesting interview on GB News (Talking Pints) the other day with an Anglo-American businessman about what happened to his business interests in Russia.
NATO should have been discontinued, with big victory parades and medals, when its supposed raison d’etre disappeared with the end of the Soviet Union.
All it has done since then is inflamed our elites’ deluded sense of their own importance, encouraged them to strut about on the world stage causing trouble, and enabled us to be a more useful tool for US elites. Neither of which is good for ordinary Brits. Any gains are more than rubbed out by the inevitable costs.
May be true enough. But what worries me is the cast iron political rule of unintended consequences. From where we are now, how could we get out with the least possible damage? And what would the consequences be? And then there are Rumsfeld’s unknown unknowns.
Costs, and unknown unknowns, apply equally to being in alliances as to being outside them.
Put it this way, if our being in NATO results in us getting dragged into a war with Russia, or our new shiny toy for the elites the “AUKUS” deal, and other far side of the world pacts, result in us getting involved in a war with China, all the gains of all our modern treaties in modern times will be rendered trivial next to the huge costs we will likely pay.
These are games elites love to play, because they reap the bulk of the short term benefits and the nation as a whole bears the risks and the costs if those risks come to pass. Private gains, socialised costs.
Toby has done a fantastic job for the anti-lockdown cause, and while the criticism of the lack of cost-benefit analysis is entirely valid – and telling – I think we can go further and rule out lockdowns a priori, not just contingent on a case analysis by the government. John Tamny of AEIR makes the point that when an outbreak is seen to be serious, people will naturally isolate themselves and avoid crowds, just through a sense of self-preservation. There is no need for coercion.
I would add that if an outbreak in your community is serious the probabilities are very high that you will have acquaintances who have died from the illness. Instead, what we got were government figures which added in those who died with – rather than from – the virus, high death rates from nursing homes due to misfeasance or malfeasance and constant gas-lighting against the evidence of ‘your lying eyes’. Lockdown of the healthy was never part of the long-established pandemic response and they should be removed altogether.
“when an outbreak is seen to be serious, people will naturally isolate themselves and avoid crowds, just through a sense of self-preservation. There is no need for coercion.“
Indeed.
And the key advantage of voluntary response by free people is that it is inherently flexible and rapidly responsive to individual circumstances, and to changes in circumstances, unlike state coercive policies which are inflexible and slow to respond to new information and changing circumstances
The essence of the lockdowner mentality is a refusal to trust their fellow human beings with liberty, and this reflects the top down control preference of both authoritarians and radicals, and its prompt and largely uncontested implementation reflects the political and social dominance of those types throughout most of the US sphere.
Agreed. So I don’t understand his prominent, almost ostentatious, use of the words “in retrospect”, seeing as Toby Young was among the few early/almost immediate critics of lockdown; hindsight played no part in his and others’ condemnation of the measures. Anyone able to think normally/freely in March 2020 knew right away that it was a bad idea, either from a human rights angle or because all previous pandemic planning had disrecommended it. Why does he say “in retrospect” here?
Good point. Toby is too accommodating!
In addition, we’ve seen from covid (in case we were not already aware) that governments cannot be trusted to save emergency powers removing basic freedoms for actual, real emergencies. It’s too easy to concoct and prolong an emergency, with compliant media, opposition and institutions, and a dozy populuation, to grab power.
Steve Kirsch’s email to Robert Wachter chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, on vaccine safety.
Steve Kirsch’s challenge to Janet Woodcock acting Commissioner of the FDA on vaccine efficacy and safety..
“VAERS data is not over- reported”.
No, I thought it couldn’t be. Anyone reading this care to try and prove otherwise? And while we’re at it, when are we going to get the all cause mortality data for “vaccinated” compared to “unvaccinated”? Until we do, I don’t see why anyone should feel compelled to take these “vaccines”.
People feel – are – compelled for reasons that have nothing whatever to do with medical benefits, for either themselves or others.
“Top scientists say they won’t take third jab until poorer countries have vaccines”
Uttar Pradesh – which has utterly crushed its covid rate using ivermectin – says ‘vaccines? thanks for the virtue signalling but we don’t need your stinkin’ vaccines.’
(more here: https://trialsitenews.com/msn-showcases-the-amazing-uttar-pradesh-turnaround-the-ivermectin-based-home-medicine-kits/)
If this can be 100% proven, does that mean that the experimental gene therapy drugs will no longer be able to be used under emergency authorisation? Or would they just find a way round it, like with the JCVI business?
The EUA statute requires there be no readily-available effective therapies. (Hence the big pharma propaganda campaign against ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine et al.)
Of course, they’ve hedged their bets by securing the FDA’s rushed licensure of the biontech-Pfizer application. That product is not currently available but could, i suppose, be made available if necessary. Big pharma prefers the current set-up, however, because the EUA approach allows them full immunity.
Big pharma propaganda campaign? It wouldn’t be the first time of course. As I’ve said many times, they did something similar with laetrile/vitamin B17. Hence the ban on apricot kernels (harmless to me at any rate) being sold as a food by the EU.
Nice virtue signalling!
From ‘The Dutch Ditch Social Distancing’ I propose this becomes the new “pure-blood shimmy” https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1439616242516733961?s=21
NEWS ITEM: “The Police Association ditches presumption of innocence. Allegedly…” – Does the Victorian Police Association no longer believe in the presumption of innocence? It certainly doesn’t look like it does.
Well, the head of the police union in Victoria is now judge and jury, too, by the looks of it, by blurting out that the anti-lockdown protesters (including 74-year old ladies) are criminal filth who therefore deserve everything they get (pepper spray, rubber bullets, etc.) from his members whose violent assaults on protesters the union boss will defend to the hilt.
As I keep banging on about, I was a union rep (school teacher and public/civil servant) for all my four decades of employment and I am utterly dismayed by how most union leaderships have basically shut up shop during Covid and thrown their members under the lockdown/passport bus by not defending their jobs or full wages when threatened by lockdown/furlough, by not opposing the wearing of a hideous masks all day at work, and by supporting the requirement for employees to prove their ‘immunity status’ to keep their job.
The Seamen’s Union, once a grand old union, has now said they will not oppose ‘No Jab No Job’ in their industry. The Independent Education Union (which covers school teachers in the private/religious sector) will not represent a teacher member who was sacked for questioning the efficacy of masks in class, whilst they also think that employer-run, mandatory ‘vaccine re-education’ courses (yes, really, they are called that, with a straight face) are appropriate for union members who have refused the Glorious Jab and face the sack.
As we used to sing on picket lines, ‘Which side are you on? Which side are you on?’. I don’t like the answer we would be getting nowadays.
Phil
South Australia
Truly shocking, Phil. I am so sorry to hear what is going on in Australia.
This is what Chairman Dan appears to have in store for the unvaccinated undesirables if they continue refuse to be ‘re-educated’:
https://www.vic.gov.au/victorian-quarantine-hub
Thanks, Sweyn.
The quarantine ‘facility’ is, appropriately enough, to be located “at the site of an existing animal quarantine facility” – the unvaxxed are sub-human, after all, and can be treated as such.
It is only meant to apply to unvaxxed travellers returning from overseas but will also cater for unvaxxed travellers into Victoria from interstate within Australia. The general unvaxxed who are not travelling won’t be herded into the camp (sorry, ‘facility’) at this stage but I wouldn’t put anything past the authoritarian mob under ‘Emergency Powers’ Dan Andrews. The general unvaxxed won’t be placed in them, surely? There are some things the governments of Australia will never do – these famous last words have been proven wrong time and again, from lockdowns to mask mandates, from curfews to closing playgrounds, from banning singing in Church to coerced medical experimentation, etc. etc.
The gloom Downunder gets darker by the day and the dinky-di Aussies who once would have called BS on such nonsense are few – or keeping their powder dry, let’s hope.
Only a matter of time before Dan and Gladys round up the naughty ‘anti-vaxxers’ and put them into these prisons. And then the Chinese surgeons will be sent in to harvest their organs.
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/urgent-request-from-project-veritas-shocking-covid-vaccine-series-launch/
Oh I can assure you, here in the Netherlands, nobody ever paid a blind bit of notice to anti-social distancing anyway. Not indoors, outdoors, anywhere. It was never enforced by staff any place either. We didn’t need a ridiculous rule to be lifted to gather together. Normal behaviour for the win!
Not quite true – I was at Schipol airport in January where they were insistent on keeping 2 metres apart or being fined 135 Euros. Also very thorough at asking for “Your papers!” and having a good stare at them.
I haven’t been to the airport in a looong time, alas. I can imagine they’re stricter there as it’s so busy and security being a priority in any case. But the day to day venues people frequent, they couldn’t give a toss in my experience.
Reports say that the fines issued for not wearing a masks in public transport were a fair bit.
In Dutch.
Yes, saw that. I rarely get the train but when I do, I shove my mask under my chin and have a bottle of water, coffee cup with lid or a packet of nuts to hand, for instance. If you’re seen to be eating or drinking they can’t do shit. Some journeys you never see an inspector doing the rounds anyway. I think these fines are for people who’ve outright refused to wear a mask, so my method is the better one I think! lol
However all is not well in the country.
The interim government (yes there is still no formal coalition government) has decreed a long lead in to a new passport regime.
News about this is in English is not prolific.
The new regulations are taking 10 days to be introduced. One part changed was the use of passport for terracing. It will no longer be needed.
The government are desperately looking to somehow change the law of the land so that employers can see if there employees are vaccinated. Privacy is a big thing for the Dutch I personally cannot see this going down well.
https://nltimes.nl/categories/health?page=0
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/category/corona/
Naturally these threats have given an increase in those asking to be vaccinated. Question remains is it enough. At one time it was 70% to obtain “herd” immunity now that has gone up to 80%.
Indeed. It was bound to happen. As predictable as night follows day. The terraces thing is laughable! They were getting in a tiz wondering how the “unvaccinated” would be able to go indoors to use the toilet, FFS! This week I am perfectly able to frequent these establishments but as of Sat I am a social pariah and must sit outside in the cold, passively smoking, with the other walking bio-hazards. Businesses won’t get a cent off me if they’re complicit with the segregation of society, thereby enabling the discrimination of former patrons. Fcuk ’em! Nobody with a shred of integrity, vaxxed or not, should show support for this medical apartheid.
That is what it is medical apartheid and how Toby, Will and co should be framing this despicable policy.
Just like the use of the word anti-vaxxer. There are words that can be used to counteract this.
apartheider
segregationists
Good suggestions! I absolutely bloody hate that ridiculous, derogatory label. Just a means of invalidating somebody’s opinions which are opposed to their own, and the media love to use that term I’ve noticed. Your terms are more succinct than my “science-denying, dogma-following, sociopathic cockwomble” anyways!
I wonder how long this aparthied will go. Another issue is in countries that have implemented some sort of segregation we do not read anything about how it is affecting the businesses. We heard a lot about when they were closed, but this must be affecting them too.
Oh I think we’ll end up like Italy if people don’t stand up and fight back instead of being gutless, apathetic push-overs. We need to take a leaf out of France’s book! Before long they will be only allowing people in the workplace who have a ‘vax pass’. Are you in the NL? If so I don’t know if you’re aware of the huge collaboration of 80 protest groups to join together on Oct 3rd in De Dam, Amsterdam. There are many protests going on all over the country at weekends, so they’re gonna do one mega one as it’ll be more impactful.
Looking at the energy crisis links and others like this one;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10007017/Call-axe-green-levy-amid-fuel-crisis-fears-Power-chiefs-demand-help-customers.html
I cannot help but feel that it is about time we had a real crisis to shake this country out of the malaise it is in and the complacency that we can afford the current plethora of self indulgent policies, whether it is covid, climate change or diversity. Even now, in the news, the articles on the energy crisis are interspersed with articles about travel and holidays.
The Mail article suggests the energy crisis will need multi-billion pounds of tax payers money but that can only be done by ‘printing’ loads more money, how long will the World financial system put up with the UK flooding the markets with increasingly worthless pounds? I suspect that covid has already run us well down that financial track. Could this energy crisis be the reality check this country needs? it will be painful but it may be the way that covid ends, when people are cold and hungry they may stop wittering on about covid, the trouble is it might then be too late to recover back to a sane operational country.
Patrick Holford is doing a webinar on 13 October on ‘All things Covid’ where he’ll cover what to do if you get covid including vitamin C, D, zinc and Ivermectin. He’s a level headed expert in the field of nutrition to treat or prevent illness.
https://www.patrickholford.com/events/allthingscovid
Elsewhere in the ‘news’, a financial adviser who died recently has his name spread across all the major papers because they claim he was an ‘anti-vaxxer’ who died of covid. I’m not interested in reading any of the bullshit they’ve written, but I think I speak for every sane person when I say that I’ve never seen such disgusting so-called journalism – and that’s one hell of a statement.
It wouldn’t surprise me one iota if people who oppose the false vaccine are being done in by TPTB and their deaths being celebrated by the media as proof of the deadliness of their new god. We’re in a war, make no mistake.
Meanwhile, Hancock has reared his cretinous balloon-shaped head to share his own hatred of those who refuse to believe in their new religion. The newspapers have gone from laughing and mocking this evil idiot to taking him very serious when he says: “In all my time in public life, I have never come across a group so blinkered and dangerous as anti-vaxxers”.
Let’s just wind the clock back to when the government repeatedly said the fake vaccine would be for vulnerable groups only. The change of language and their general nastiness is astonishing, but we should expect it to continue to get worse as we move into a very tough winter. I just hope someone is logging each name of these evil swines.
Surely Wankok,s disgusting vomit counts as hate speech?