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by Will Jones
15 January 2022 12:17 AM

  • “The U.K. economy has returned to its pre-pandemic size” – Nearly two years after the U.K. experienced its biggest economic collapse in 300 years, the economy has returned to pre-pandemic levels, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
  • “Polish scientists find gene that doubles risk of serious Covid” – Polish scientists have found a gene that they say more than doubles the risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19, a discovery they hope could help doctors identify people who are most at risk from the disease, reports Reuters.
  • “‘We failed’: Denmark’s media is waking up to its flawed Covid coverage” – An editorial in Ekstra Bladet, Denmark’s leading tabloid, berates the Fourth Estate – including itself – for failing to hold ministers to account during the pandemic, writes James Lewisohn in the Spectator.
  • “The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins” – During the most critical weeks leading up to the obvious spread of the virus all over the Northeast of the U.S., leading to huge carnage in nursing homes, public health officials in the U.S. and U.K. were consumed not with a proper health response but with fear of dealing with the probability that this virus was man-made in China, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker on the Brownstone Institute.
  • “The Covid cover-up: the biggest scandal of our times” – For almost two years much of the media has been ignoring one of the biggest stories in the world – the growing evidence that COVID-19 came from a lab, writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
  • “The lesson of Partygate is that lockdown laws are an ass” – As Boris Johnson sits lamely on political death row – literally cowering at the scene of the crime, No. 10 Downing Street – virtually everyone is missing the point, says Dan Wootton in the Daily Mail.
  • “Welsh Government ‘overreacted to Omicron’, as costly Covid curbs had little impact on cases” – Mark Drakeford denies that scrapping the restrictions is a U-turn, despite data showing case rates remained practically equal to England, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Florida Is Living With Covid – and Freedom” – The state’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, interviewed by James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal discussing his advice against tests for the asymptomatic, his opposition to vaccination mandates, and life in Los Angeles under lockdown.
  • “Omicron 91% less likely to be fatal compared to Delta: CDC study” – The evaluation of more than 70,000 infected Californians saw those with Omicron less than half as likely to need hospitalisation as those with Delta, reports the New York Post.
  • “China’s Zero Covid tyranny is backfiring badly” – President Xi’s inability to backdown on a failing strategy threatens the country’s growth miracle, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Major Molnupiravir Study Led by University of Oxford Full Throttle While Ivermectin Study Languishes?” – A major antiviral study opens in Wales involving the delivery of antiviral tablets via mail to the study participants, but where are the results of the Ivermectin trials, asks TrialSite News.
  • “U.K. Midwives Union: Stop COVID-19 Mandates Now!” – The Royal College of Midwives, a health care worker trade union and professional association, is opposing vaccine mandates for its members, TrialSite News reports.
  • “Everyone in the court agreed there had been a statistically significant rise in deaths in males 15-19 since May. The ONS also agreed that this needed investigating. No one claims to know why. However, they spent hours on excuses about why they couldn’t release data” – Read Dr Clare Craig’s report from the disappointing court hearing on Twitter.
  • “Omicron Death Rate in South Africa Peaked at 15% of Delta Wave” – Severe disease in the Omicron surge was about half that of the Delta-led wave, reports Bloomberg.
  • “Why I spoke out against lockdown” – Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how lockdown failed to protect the vulnerable, the catastrophic errors of the Covid modelling, and the suppression of critical voices during the pandemic.
  • “The Lost Country of the Pacific” – Can a couple of curious explorers reunite Australia with the rest of the world? Anything’s possible with the help of Lamb, according to Australia’s annual Lamb ad.
  • “Extinction Rebellion priests who said faith forced them to break the law given ‘perverse’ acquittal” – Former ministers call for urgent review of judicial guidance as a another jury acquits defendants who do not deny they have committed the unlawful actions of which they are accused, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Plan B restrictions to be scrapped as Boris Johnson plots fightback” – Prime Minister scrambles to secure political survival in the wake of Downing Street parties scandal, starting with return of social freedoms – though not completely ending the mask mandate, according to the Telegraph.
  • ““How Bad is my Batch”” – Dr Robert W. Malone on his Substack page tells the story of his near-fatal vaccine injury and its connection with a ‘bad batch’ of Moderna vaccines.
  • “Woman who ‘wrote Government Covid rules’ held ‘boozy’ party during Christmas restrictions” – The Telegraph reports that ‘dozens’ of officials from the Cabinet Office’s Covid taskforce attended the event to mark Kate Josephs’ departure.
  • “Expect another Omicron wave in early summer, SAGE says” – You what?! More of the modelling that got the last wave completely wrong by the sounds of it, in the Guardian.
  • “James Treadwell and the true meaning of ‘cancel culture’” – James Treadwell, a professor of criminology at Staffordshire University, says that he is “being investigated for transphobia” after his employer received “formal and official” complaints about his gender-critical views on Twitter, writes Patrick West in the Spectator.
  • “‘My job is to help women give birth, but I was banned from using the word “mother”’” – With gender-neutral language becoming obligatory for midwives, RT speaks to one home birthing attendant who has had enough of the “Orwellian trans takeover” and believes it’s time to confront it.
  • “How our universities became sheep factories” – Our great institutions are now instruments of political indoctrination, writes Arif Ahmed in UnHerd.
  • “How the radical Left turned American cities into slums” – America’s drug addiction crisis is made worse by progressive politicians, argue Michael Shellenberger and Steven Edginton in the Telegraph.
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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Direct action, Geordie-style

“Im seeing lots of comments that the jab van in South Shields today was not shut down with even some comments saying they won’t believe it until they see it in the media (LOL) It WAS indeed shut “

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Supreme Court betrays America and authorizes outrageous vaccine mandate
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-01-14-supreme-court-betrays-america-and-authorizes-outrageous-vaccine-mandate.html
Mike Adams

Please come and join our friendly peaceful events.

Saturday 15th January 5pm 
 Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign 
 “No More Lockdown”  
Bring torches, candles and other lights  
Meet Corner of Castle Hill & High St, 
Windsor SL4 1PQ

Stand in the Park Sundays 10am  make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane 
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD  
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

@Marshender Twitter

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Based_UK Twitter

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

While I would like those three films to be for real I somehow doubt it.
Ok, they managed to get a minimum wage security guard to listen a bit and even got some attention from a police constable but there was nobody there with the authority to close that operation down which looks more like they were just shutting down the shop at the end of the day as usual.

Mind you it would be interesting to see such a jab van exhibited alongside a Zyclon B gassing murder van sometime in the future to demonstrate how not to do things.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

No way to know, without continuous film. Might be the hassle was enough to get the to close up shop.

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Marshender Twitter

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Based_UK Twitter

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Marshender Twitter

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Based_UK Twitter

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

For added hilarity, try “I won’t believe it until I hear somebody say it who’s wearing a uniform”.

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Marshender Twitter

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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@Based_UK Twitter

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
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https://twitter.com/MockingJayNorth/status/1482070815931781123?t=Y98vKAV8Z6hkHOqkSsFRww&s=19

https://twitter.com/Marshender/status/1481956332911702018?t=oSvK7BGpciAopEh0zWVb9Q&s=19

https://twitter.com/Marshender/status/1481967125036154880?t=ORu3mu6HUoE4E7btIFXWSQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/Marshender/status/1481950502438977536?t=awuaj7c1KAw8nVAPiFTaqg&s=19

https://twitter.com/Marshender/status/1481948269550968844?t=fR9aY2Gha5R2-CvcTauJzA&s=19

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Check out @Marshender on Twitter for videos from South Shields.

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
Reply to  Massimo Osti

Check out @Based_UK on Twitter for videos from South Shields.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

“This Tuesday – two days ago – the DOJ announced the creation of a new Domestic Terrorism Unit. What will it do? Well it will target “anti-authority ideologues”. “Anti-authority ideologues”. Now, keep in mind, this country was founded by people who were “anti-authority ideologues”. That’s why they created America and baked the idea of opposing authority – so it doesn’t get too big and take over your life – into our founding documents.”

Tucker: This is worse than we thought

Hey, Yanks, I’m an anti-authority ideologue

(I need a Spartacus meme here, I think)

But remember that we live in what is basically a satellite state of the US, politically aligned with US Democrat ideologies. As the US goes, so we go, and the continuing criminalisation of dissenting speech is taking us in that direction.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
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Couldn’t we diverge from “America” just this once?

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Here’s to invoking Article 13 of the NATO treaty!

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Should have been done in 1991 after the justification for its existence vanished. but like most big government institutions, it was far too useful for other purposes to be allowed to disappear merely because it was useless and hugely costly.

But don’t worry, I’m sure the security apparatus will be able to gin up a big “Russian threat” any time your anti-NATO feelings get too strong.

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I’m an anti-authority ideologue too. Didn’t realise just how much until this scamdemic came along. It’s fed me to the brim and now I’m fit to burst.

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Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

You are what we need, then.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The Daily Mail tried this on about 4 days ago, picked up here at DS either in the Roundup or BTL comments.
They published a half arsed report about ‘Alpha Men Arrise’, a supposed 700 strong right wing (“linked to the BNP”) anti-vax group led by ex-military men who were ‘training’ and whose ‘targets’ include vax centres and schools.

Total fabrication of course with vague photos and blurry videos that could have been about anything. Their star portrait was of a middle aged guy in Army surplus fatigues with a mis-identified regimental cap badge.

This ‘story’ was later picked up by the Daily Express, The Scotsman and others but their reports were entirely of journalists quoting each other.

‘Miles Dilworth’, the Mails intrepid undercover reporter who bravely infiltrated ‘Alpha Men Arrise’ lifted the entire thing from an article on Vice News a couple of days earlier.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I thought it was the ‘Alpha Men Assembly’. Here you see them ‘in action’ bashing up empty cardboard boxes.

The comment below is not mine.

“Any of the TB anti-vax massif joined the group.. Alpha Male Assemble? black dressed, anti-vaxxers preparing for direct action next month.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10360603/Anti-vax-conspiracy-theorists-video-fighting-combat-training-strategy-meetings.html

Pictures / videos look like a mixture of Morris dancing and The Village People doing YMCA

They certainly look Well ‘ard!”

alpha men.jpg
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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

My silly mistake, I put ‘assemble’ in search.

That boxing vid, lifted from the original Vice report, looks more like Russian football hooligans who like to film themselves practicing that sort of thing though usually in greater numbers.

The subheader in your two week old* Mail link says 2,800 Telegraph (app) supporters, that number was later reported to be 7,500 in the Express.

,*the report linked to here at DS last week must have been a second attempt.

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Telegram, surely? 🙂

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Yeah, was early🙄

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Obviously very serious subversives, the way they use “social media”.

And my goodness, look at how well drilled they are:

comment image

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

I’m a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Alpha Men.

Self-parody avatar at the ready; the best cover for a true ‘People’s Athletic Society’.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Morris Dancing’s supposed to look well ‘ard. All about showing your virility – or so I heeard. Apparently it didn’t actually originate in England though.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

The point about stories like that is that they don’t need to be particularly credible, they are just planting seeds and giving references for future use, when needed to justify repressive measures.

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

It’s hard to maintain that US handling of any satellite state is Democrat-dominated, given the role of the CIA’s National Endowment for Democracy, in which both Republicans and Democrats (the actual parties, not just registered members) are involved.

Is there a Democrat bias in any other institution of US hegemony, such as the Fulbright Program for instance? Fulbright is important in US domination of world academia – keeping up the flow of the “brain drain”.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

It’s not that US “handling” is Democrat, it’s that we are politically aligned with the Democrat wing in the US – all of our mainstream parties fall within the Democrat range of opinions, broadly. Socially and culturally, and therefore politically, we are akin to a NE US Democrat fiefdom state. There is no formal or effective representation here for the kinds of genuinely conservative and “anti-authority ideologue” (to coin a phrase) attitudes quite widely found in the southern US, for instance, and represented in the US Republican Party to a significant extent..

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Bunch of authoritarian wannabe technocrats (“A group of 270 scientists, doctors, professors, and healthcare workers”) have noticed that there’s someone, somewhere getting away with disagreeing with them. Clearly that can’t be allowed to continue….

Joe Rogan Under Fire As Scientists Make Plea To Spotify

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arany madar
arany madar
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Thanks for this. Joe Rogan’s Covid scepticism is relatively tame, and it took him a long while to express it. I wonder what the technocrats would do if they ever had to face down a seriously hardline sceptic?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  arany madar

Mostly, they don’t need to, because such people are excluded from any medium that has a significant audience. What makes the authoritarians burn about Rogan is not just that he isn’t toeing their line, but rather that he goes outside the window and has a huge reach.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

There are good reasons why Joe Rogans podcast is the most listened to in America, those 270 nobodys are about to find out what those reasons are.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

CNN in particular are sore about Rogan having humiliated them on covid, and are seizing on this and running with it:

“Brianna Keilar

@brikeilarcnn

Joe Rogan gets schooled on his podcast and still won’t concede he is wrong about the myocarditis risk of being unvaxxed.

We spoke to one of the 270 health experts calling on Spotify to address Rogan’s Covid misinformation.”

https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1481987667583815684

I think they are going to find that doubling down when they are on the wrong side of history is not going to do anything to recover their huge losses in audience and credibility.

But the real aim of this kind of campaign is to put cultural pressure on the corporate owners of Spotify, to push them to shut him down.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Daily Mail reaching new depths of sheer nastiness and dishonesty today, with a particularly slimy hit piece on Dr James for daring to question the elite narrative rather effectively, and a profoundly misleading piece claiming “vaccine”-induced resistance is better than natural resistance to covid.

Revealed: The very odd world of the top consultant who confronted Sajid Javid over mandatory jabs for NHS staff (but got his facts wrong) and has now become the poster boy for global anti-vaxx movement
If you’ve any decency you’ll feel the need for a long hot shower after reading this piece by  “GUY ADAMS INVESTIGATES FOR THE DAILY MAIL“. Ultimately, he descends to the lowest level of hit-piece construction, when he obviously felt he couldn’t do the job effectively based on honest information, and resorted to quoting extensively from other unrelated people in an attempt to smear Dr James with their opinions.

Nasty stuff.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Why vaccine immunity is better than natural immunity (and why unjabbed Novak Djokovic is so wrong to claim he’s protected by antibodies after a recent bout of Covid)
This one begs for a thorough “fisking”.

“The trouble with this argument is that, firstly, the unvaccinated and unboosted make up the majority of those in intensive care. And secondly, just because you have antibodies against a previous strain of Covid, that does not mean you are protected against catching, or spreading it to more vulnerable people such as patients with cancer or pregnant women.

A study published in December, by researchers from Imperial College London, concluded that the protection against Omicron, if you have had a prior Covid infection ‘may be as low as 19 per cent’. A course of vaccines — the double dose plus the booster — on the other hand, offers something like 75 per cent protection.”

Amazing how some of the most “vaccinated” countries seem to be faring no better than some of the least, then, in terms of spread, eh Mosley?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

We could do with Oliver Wright investigating pharmaceutical industry corruption for the Times.

The Mailicious have long been dishonest, and don’t I know it!

And any news on the disaster presumably befalling the “unvaccinated” Amish?

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Adamb
Adamb
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Calls himself ‘Dr’, but from what I can see he’s worked for the BBC since 1985.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

This Mail article finds almost nothing with which to criticize Dr. Steve James.
The BBC ‘fact checked’ Dr James’ claim to Javid that the Astra Zeneca(?) vaccine only provides protection for 8 weeks when actually it can be for as long as 12.
Still proves the Drs. point that it doesn’t last for very long at all.

The article also allows us to see that those nurses clearly felt they were being bullied when Javid questioned them about compulsory jabs for healthcare workers.

This very lengthy Mail article uses the beginning and end to try to represent Dr James as some sort of new age Buddhist freak quoting him as saying
“Most of the harm that has happened to Buddhism has come from Islam”
What’s wrong with saying that?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

“This Mail article finds almost nothing with which to criticize Dr. Steve James.”

Hence its lengthy resort to smearing him by association with members of an unconnected online org.

They did love “vaginal steaming”, though, and referenced it at least a couple of times iirc.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Do you think they would say a word against him if, for example, he happened to be black and/or muslim?

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The DM lost all credibility a long time ago. Its a junk paper as is the Express.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

I don’t know. All the newspapers have lost credibility through the covid panic. The Mail, on balance, has been better than the Guardian, for instance. More extreme in both directions, but much less consistently ideologically totalitarian.

The Mail, which I tend to follow online mostly because it has the most accessible free website, has had some of the nastiest stuff (like that “Guy Adams” hitpiece), ad regular coronapanic propaganda pieces, but also quite a lot of sceptical material. The content tends to be less crassly panicker than the front page and headlines, which suggests to me that the editorial staff have been at least somewhat split.and the owners have not imposed a hard line.

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Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The Mail are, as usual, playing a cagey game. Largely they are in lockstep with most of the MSM but they like to tip their toe into the ‘sceptic’ waters but usually caveat such articles with a disclaimer that the article is a personal opinion or a ‘controversial opinion’.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The Mail seems to like producing provocative headlines but, as you suggest, the accompanying text is often more balanced.
This gives their readers the opportunity to vent their spleen in the comments section which are now approx 90% sceptic of Covid/lockdown and, on balance, at least in favour of free choice about vaccines.

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Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I see the article gave the final word to that bedwetter supremo, Peter English. Why don’t they write an article how wrong he has been with his 24/7 doomsday predictions?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Angel Eco Warrior

“Why don’t they write an article how wrong he has been with his 24/7 doomsday predictions?”

I think we both know the answer to that one…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

I wonder how many deaths of 15-19 year olds there have been connected to the experimental “vaccines”. Quite a significant issuev vreally, with no deaths from “covid” among healthy 15-17year olds, the last I heard. Worrying if this critical information is not being released.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Suicides too. Anecdotally there appears to have been an increase since the start of the implementation of covid restrictions on society, which have had a particularly negative impact on the lives of young people, those at least risk. I wonder if it will be borne out by the official data.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Should have said …those at least risk from Covid (but greatest risk from suicide).

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Official data is likely worthless.

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Jo
Jo
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The link to Clair Craig’s twitter feed is worth reading, if you can. Very concerning. On several levels.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Jo

The one on neuro-degenerative diseases? Do you have to be signed up to Twitter to see it?

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kate
kate
3 years ago

https://www.bitchute.com/video/pNsIjAFitsG2/
Reiner Fuellmich talking about the upcoming criminal charges against Teodros Gates Fauci et al. He says they have help from some in the German intelligence services the police and the army. The pharma companies have no immunity because this crime is premeditated and deliberate.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  kate

I wait with bated breath as to whether this happens or not.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

“Upcoming” is all you need to know that this is just another fantasy.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

The good Doctors legal actions do seem to have been pending for a very long time.

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arany madar
arany madar
3 years ago

Good update on the situation in Russia:

Putin Hesitates on the Road to Political Suicide

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OliveTrees
OliveTrees
3 years ago
Reply to  arany madar

I love the phrase he uses for QR codes: “cattle tags”. That’s as good a description as any.

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arany madar
arany madar
3 years ago
Reply to  OliveTrees

Marko’s good at putting punchy and witty headlines.

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FrankiiB
FrankiiB
3 years ago

Plan B to go? (Telegraph)
B***S. Masks to stay. Vax mandates for NHS to stay. Tests. isolations.

And this is Boris at his weakest?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago

Roundup 1. UK economy rebounds to same size as before Pandemic. Spectator.

This can only be the result of the huge increase in activity by the non productive public sector.
All those small businesses that crashed and burned during lockdown are still crashed, their bankrupted former owners still living on friends sofas and on the dole.

Shops.
Restaurants
Bars & Pubs
Beauty and Nail bars.
Hair Salons
Dentists
Gyms,
Hotels and B&Bs.
Vast swathes of the entertainment sector.
Music venues and Events industry.
Hospitality in general
Private Hire taxis and Blag Cab operators.

The list goes on and on.

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jwills
jwills
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I’d guess construction is still making up for the shut down and running hot atm. Could be wrong but everyone seems busy.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  jwills

I was thinking more of single owners and small partnerships that bore the brunt of Lockdown One.

Construction has still to confront the drying up of demand for new hotels, student residences, shopping precincts and offices, some of which have already been cancelled or scaled back in my small city while others will be completed because of contracts leaving the developers with major headaches.

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Yep. And GDP was only artificially held up by new government debt.
The real damage was and is far greater than the headline GDP number and still there to stay.

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Draefend
Draefend
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

That was the story that jumped at me actually. I work(ed) in Travel Industry and knowing some sales figures of a large travel operator, they are nowhere near (less than 60%) pre-shitstorm scam levels. Airline schedules are at least 30% down due to routes being cut.

That’s just an industry I know a great deal about not to mention your list above. Just driving past permantly closed pubs, restaurants, small local shops gig venues etc makes you realise the immediate impact.

At least big pharma and tech have done well, so that’s a relief.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  Draefend

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the proportion of GDP now assigned to multinational coporations versus local businesses, versus two years ago. I think we cna predict what it will show.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

This is certainly a headline that warrants close investigation. The only way the economy has not shrunk is by taking in to account Rishi’s printing presses. This is amongst one of the biggest lies being told.

Absolute BS.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

I am deeply suspicious of the governments sudden u-turn on covid. I do not believe they have suddenly seen the light. They honoured the scientists who prolonged the scamdemic with knighthoods, Fauci has said PCR tests don’t work, and now we hear restrictions are coming to an end? I don’t believe it! Something is going on!

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Encierro
Encierro
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Oh you are just a conspiracist. 😉

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

All looks pretty much the same to me:
people in face masks everywhere
3rd jab still being given, 4th on its way
travel restrictions remain in place
Test & Trace still operating

The only thing that’s changed is the date. Today is Saturday 15th January 2022. People who want their Vaxx Passes to remain valid are going to have to get the next jab! The clock is ticking.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

My 2 jab vaxpass remains valid until mid February, I don’t think bozo will demand booster to remain ‘fully vaxed’ because there are just too many of us.
Even more so for 4th jab so his whole ‘policy’ is unravelling or Covid is being allowed to fade into the background as the major players distance themselves from their actions against it.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

They are clearly going to struggle to impose any meaningful vaxpass system when a significant chunk of the population is stubbornly “unvaccinated”

Millions of Covid vaccines ‘may need to be BINNED’ if young people don’t come forward for their booster jabs as data shows just HALF of eligible 18-24 year olds have already come forward
The authoritarians are either going to have to whip up another panic to stampede the herd again, or abandon vaxpass and go straight for a central bank digital currency/social credit system. The latter gives them pretty much all the benefits they would have gotten from the vaxpass, and more.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Usual nudge unit wording in that headline – ‘ ‘their booster’. Implying that it’s personally assigned to them and they are being totally unreasonable in not taking up the fantastic FREE opportunity to risk serious side-effects…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

a white elephant. Of epic proportions.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Seriously, does anyone actually believe it now when professor pantsdown says “6,000 deaths a day” or whatever?

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Hopefully yes: my parents are double jabbed only. But I fear not.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Sadly you are spot on, I believe.

They are manipulating ever more deeply (this time with supposed covid liberalism – yet no restrictions have actually gone) in order to create the psychological space for a sucker punch (probably vax passports, criminalisation of unjabbed, and the first steps to other nefariousness).

They row back so we sigh in relief, then suddenly reverse tack and apply the coup de grace.

Except we know this and have ‘reserves’ of our own.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Nobody who is switched on will believe in their claimed rowing back – they could drop it all now, but the best they are offering is to retreat very slightly (but not including the significant measures) in a few weeks. It’s just buying time to try to see off the coup being attempted against Johnson.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Calm before the storm. I still think something BIG is going to be showered on us around March. Financial crash?

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

These pieces of filth have enjoyed fifty plus years of being able to commit any crime they want, including things like 911 and the Kennedy assassination, and having carte blanche to get away with it via their hold over the mainstream media. They have done remarkably well at keeping their secrets relatively secret. Until now, they thought their winning run would go on forever. Now their cover is completely blown, and unlike with 911 where there was just a small handful of dedicated truthers and people of good conscience trying to warn their fellow man that a group of disgusting criminals are controlling the world via false flag terrorism, violence and deception, we are now in a situation where some of the most highly esteemed professionals on Earth are on the case. They are never going to get away with this. You could say they have simply put too many noses out of joint. There is nowhere to hide when the light of truth shines on evil.

What these scumbags have done to the world is so profound. They have injected billions of people with a serum that destroys health for which they have no medical requirement, on the back of pure terrorism. They are the terrorists, they always were and while we keep complying with their criminal system, they will keep running these scams. Its ALWAYS them and its ALWAYS a concocted load of lies and bullshit. People have only submitted to this evil due to the terrorism. They are also injecting kids and forcing kids to participate in Satanic rituals at school, in the form of mask wearing for no reason. This is a step too far.

These criminals believe that you and your family are ONLY put on this Earth to be their slave. That is what they believe. Thats why you have pondlife like Albert Bourla making statements that they will be putting chips in tablets which will monitor whether you have taken their poison – “for compliance”. This is a taste of the mindset of these antihuman lowlifes and how they see you and your family as there purely for their benefit. God only gives you a long life because if he didnt, it would be like a farmer losing his donkey and he would lose his money. You only get a life because otherwise they would lose their money. This is the mindset. Are you going to spend your life and raise your children to be slaves to the likes of Albert Bourla. Because that is the plan – for you to be a chipped tagged controllable cluster of cells whose only purpose on Earth is to serve and act as manipulatable entities for these people.

But folk are now waking up. However they can still be managed and controlled. They will throw a few bones, throw prominent people under the bus. ALL DESIGNED TO KEEP YOU STUPID IN THE CORNER THEY HAVE SO GENEROUSLY GIVEN YOU. They will do what the Danish media is doing and apologise. DONT FALL FOR IT. Its all DAMAGE LIMITATION. Their game now is to keep you sweet and onside so they can continue in their system of crime fraud and deception.

THIS IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THIS CRIMINAL SYSTEM TO ITS KNEES ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Parliament needs to be dismantled and abolished. The three manin parties are NOTHING BUT TOOLS OF THESE CRIMINALS and should be viewed as HOSTILE AND A LIABILITY TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE. The MSM needs to be sued out of existence. The NHS is now a branch of the military and needs to be renamed and re-built.

We need to get ALL the FREEMASONS out of OUR government. They are a BIG part of the problem.

Last edited 3 years ago by ComeTheRevolution
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

Yes, I heard someone tried to dismantle parliament once before. There was something on the BBC about it before. It didn’t do his cause any good though.

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Encierro
Encierro
3 years ago

News from Canada.
Quebec, Canada, are planning to impose a tax on adults in the province who refuse to get vaccinated against Covid for non-medical reasons. Another addition to the collection of ways make society fractured. Link in English.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe tested positive. If we ever want to get back to any sort of normal then testing positive should have to be accepted and not make headline news.
Link in English.
News from Poland.
Health advisers quit over lack of science influence on Covid policy. Since when is any government following science? They all act with differing regimes.Link in English.
Italy.
Police are issued pink face masks, and say they are damaging the image of the police.
News in English.

News is of various new variants seem to be posted around the web. A week ago there was IHU found in frnace. Yesterday a new version of Omicron was about to hit us and another newspaper said that this new version was due in the summer.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Taxing non muslims was Islam’s most successful tactic when converting newly conquered populations.
Sometimes it was so successful that rulers discouraged such conversions because they were losing too much tax revenue.

In the current climate of inclusivity Italian Police Officers should welcome being provided with pink facemasks even though its association with gayness or femininity is entirely a mental construct of their own making.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Cops in pink face masks – that makes my day. Hard to look tough and authoritarian in a Barbie mask!

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Arum
Arum
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Possibly this is a cunning plan for getting rid of masks?

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago

https://trialsitenews.com/uk-midwives-union-stop-covid-19-mandates-now/

Somewhat ironic – the midwives union is against mandatory vaccination for staff but the coercion of the professions clients – pregnant women to be injected – continues.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago

Roundup last “How the radical left left turned American cities into slums” Telegraph.

Can’t read because paywall but reader Mark in his second comment above links to a Tucker Carlson Fox News video in which he asks

“Would you rather walk alone late at night through a city that votes 90% Democrat or one that votes 90% Republican?”.

Says it all.

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MTF
MTF
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Would you rather walk alone late at night through a city that votes 90% Democrat or one that votes 90% Republican?”

Surely the answer is that Democrats would prefer the former and Republicans the latter.

Anyway – most Americans can walk alone at night through most of their cities with little fear and certainly with much less fear than in the 1990s.

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Aleajactaest
Aleajactaest
3 years ago
Reply to  MTF

Please try in any of the big D cities and report back for us.

You might need to use a seance cos you’ll be in the Spirit world.

Last edited 3 years ago by Aleajactaest
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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  MTF

“Surely the answer is that Democrats would prefer the former and Republicans the latter.“

Obviously not, if you know anything at all about US society.

That was the whole point of the comment.

The more superficially plausible riposte is usually that it’s supposedly just because of poverty, but the reality is that there are an awful lot more just as poor Republican rural towns where you won’t get shot for your watch. Different culture and policing attitudes.

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Doom Slayer
Doom Slayer
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Keep tapping Esc quickly just as the page loads to get around paywall

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

No Esc on Android keyboard.

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Star
Star
3 years ago

“Aged 24 and keen to embrace modernity, Malbin was unsurprised that the first part of her training was not focused on medical matters, and instead was called ‘Cultural Competency’. That meant she and her fellow students were taught to erase the words ‘mother’ and ‘woman’ from their professional vocabulary. The replacements were: ‘birthing bodies’, ‘birthing people’, ‘menstruater’, ‘people who bleed’, and ‘chestfeeder’.”

Why not just “Heap of molecules with National ID Number 9205018184, Google Registration Number 09t601-586910, DNA on file with reference 101-4-058282ABFD1, designated as subject to medical process no.73489?”

I mean there’s gotta be respect for the individual, like, ‘n’ culture. How much more respected and valued can a person be than if they get their own unique Google number at birth?

Funny, because I thought concepts such as “mother” and “woman” had been deeply embedded in human culture for tens of thousands of years, but clearly I was wrong.

Last edited 3 years ago by Star
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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

“Funny, because I thought concepts such as “mother” and “woman” had been deeply embedded in human culture for tens of thousands of years, but clearly I was wrong.”

All the more reason for those seeking to break down existing culture and institutions in order to build something better in its place to hate it.

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Arum
Arum
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

As it’s about changing the culture, I think we need to make song titles more suitable for an audience of trainee midwives – e.g. ‘no menstruater no cry’

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Arum

“It’s raining people with a penis”?

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

The Djokovic problem seems to be that he will cause ‘civil unrest’ in Oz, when people see a fit healthy unvaccinated person from Europe while they’ve locked the population away from the world because its too ‘dangerous’. What’s amazing is that allegedly half the population can’t see that.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Is the Australian state’s stance based on cowardice, true belief covidianism, fear of a rampage by the brainwashed populace, or fear Djokovic will win over the populace?

Whatever, I think they made a strategic error by trying to be ‘hardline’ and ‘rule of law’ at the same time.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

‘allegedly half the population’
You can cut a small segment out of an orange and call it half, but that doesn’t make it equal in size to the other piece.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

It’s all very Soviet and Communistic isn’t it. They will be building a moat around Australia next…

Last edited 3 years ago by BJs Brain is Missing
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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Given the subterranean IQs on display in our halls of power, all I can say is: don’t FFS give them ideas.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

They’re trying to walk it back (a little) in Queensland. It won’t be without a price.
“Yeah, okay, I’ll come back… but there are conditions.”
“More money?”
“No, I want to punch the Chief Health Officer in the face when I start work each day.”
“Fine. Be here at six am to start work at nine.”
“Arrive at six to start at nine?”
“That line to the Chief Health Officer’s face is really fucking long…”

Un vaxxed nurses return.jpg
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Arum
Arum
3 years ago

Universities = sheep factories and an advert for lamb on the same round up – maybe I am becoming a conspiracy theorist?

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

“Major Molnupiravir Study Led by University of Oxford Full Throttle While Ivermectin Study Languishes?”

Ridiculous headline, two very different studies Molnupiravir Study is to prove how great it is! Ivermectin Study to show how bad it is, they seem to be struggling with the latter. But don’t worry, i’m sure there’s no bias & they’re both funded by big pharma, so there will be no surprises.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

RT article:

“My job is to help women give birth, but I was banned from using the word mother.”

Reports RT after speaking to “one home birthing attendant.”

You couldn’t make this up.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

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MTF
MTF
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I read this with several pounds of salt. To start with it is in RT (remember what RT stands for). It is an interview with just one person and lacks any real evidence or detail . Her website blows her credibility. She is a self-described doula not a midwife and is heavily into self-promotion. The training where:

she and her fellow students were taught to erase the words ‘mother’ and ‘woman’ from their professional vocabulary. 

appears to be a fertility awareness teacher program (fertility awareness is a posh term for the centuries old rhythm method of birth control). She was kicked off after two months. How can it take more than two months to learn to teach women to use the rhythm method? I would say the article says much more about her than childbirth in New York.

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

DAN WOOTTON: The real lesson of Partygate is not that Boris is a lying hypocrite (we knew that already) but that lockdown laws are an ass and always have been

Even more worrying than this was the fact that so many people were following these stupid laws without question. It’s concerning to think that if scared enough practically an entire country could be so very easily duped into adhering to the most nonsensical laws and were even prepared to not only snitch on those who didn’t abide by these senseless rules but were even prepared to standby and see those who failed to take-up the government vaccine offer segregated and even imprisoned in camps .

Screenshot 2022-01-05 at 21-19-57 Maajid أبو عمّار on GETTR.png
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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

This response to the “Partygate” situation is quite encouraging though:

WakingUp.jpg
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micah
micah
3 years ago

There is an arrogance among the so called experts bordering on narcissism.
it is very difficult for individuals to stand up to these individuals whenever the state uses police powers!

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dopamineboy
dopamineboy
3 years ago

Rolling Stone magazine recently attacked Dr Malone for “undermining the efficacy of the vaccine.” Here’s my response. https://mauihawaiitheworld.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/why-does-rolling-stone-spread-misinformation-about-covid-and-vaccines/

Last edited 3 years ago by dopamineboy
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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  dopamineboy

Rolling Stone is a trusted source on Covid now? Things have changed. They should go back to articles about how your favourite band smuggles its drugs through customs.

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