- “Covid cases plunge by a quarter in a week, and deaths sink by a third” – Even Tim Spector has admitted it is “reassuring” to see infections falling, reports the Mail.
- “Omicron doctor attacks U.K. Government ‘pressure’” – The South African doctor who discovered the Omicron strain has given an interview to German newspaper Welt in which she reveals she was ‘pressured’ by the U.K. Government among others into describing the variant as more dangerous than it really is, reports the Spectator. Story also in ZeroHedge.
- “London Tube and bus passenger numbers recovering after lockdown” – The easing of working from home restrictions on January 19th is likely to have influenced the recovery, reports BBC News.
- “Freedom Convoy protests disrupt traffic at border for third day” – The Freedom Convoy protesting Covid mandates blocks the busiest border crossing to the U.S. as a GM plant in Michigan is forced to cancel a second shift due to lack of supply for production, reports the Mail.
- “Ottawa trucker: Why we’re not going anywhere” – Freddie Sayers in UnHerd speaks to Tim, an unvaccinated trucker-turned-protester, who tells him what first motivated him to join the convoy and why he still isn’t moving.
- “What the Truckers Want” – Rupa Subramanya on Common Sense has spoken to 100 of the protestors gathered in the Canadian capital and says what’s happening is far bigger than the vaccine mandates, many of whom are vaccinated – it is about opposition to life under Government control.
- “Canadian truckers are the wrong kind of protesters” – A mantra much employed by Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau is ‘diversity is our strength’ – except of course when the little people disagree, writes Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Authoritarian Trudeau has no excuse for his irrational assault on freedom” – Like Jacinda Ardern, Canada’s ‘liberal’ leader has abandoned the fundamental tenets of democracy, writes Michael Taube in the Telegraph.
- “Canadian truckers – the movie!” – The ‘David and Goliath’ movie that fickle Hollywood will no doubt one day make – a surefire hit around 2030, writes Gail MacDonald in Think Scotland.
- “The Spirit Rises: The Photography of John Napper Inside Australia’s Protests” – See images from the Canberra Convoy in a Sense of Place.
- “Brussels joins Paris in banning Canada-style ‘freedom convoys’” – The Paris police prefecture said the convoy was an “undeclared mobilisation”, and those taking part risk a two-year prison sentence, a three-year driving ban and a €4,500 fine, reports the Mail.
- “Six ways holidays can still be ruined by Covid, even after isolation is scrapped” – Your next overseas jaunt could still be halted, should you or a close contact return a positive test, either pre-departure or in country, writes Greg Dickinson in the Telegraph.
- “Just how impartial are the SNP’s Covid experts?” – Those heading up Scotland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Professor Devi Sridhar, have had some well-documented trouble separating their fandom for Nicola Sturgeon from their public health role, says the Spectator.
- “U.S. plans to roll out COVID-19 shots for children under five years in February” – The U.S. Government is planning to roll out COVID-19 shots for children under the age of five as soon as February 21st, according to a document from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Reuters reports.
- “Education Secretary says masks in the classroom ‘inhibit learning’” – Nadhim Zahawi said masks made it “much harder to communicate, much more difficult for children to learn” when schools reopened at the start of January, reports the Mail.
- “Backlog of patients waiting to see a dentist stands at 40 MILLION” – There is now a backlog of 40 million appointments, but half of all practices could stop offering any NHS care from April, research from the British Dental Association has revealed, according the Mail.
- “Joe Rogan Turns Down $100 Million Offer: ‘No, Spotify Has Hung in With Me’” – The comedian and podcast host told an audience in Texas that he will not accept a $100 million offer from Rumble, as it emerged that it was his choice to remove some of his older content to avoid causing offence, reports the Mail.
- “Breaking the silence” – Read the account of Dr. Dave Cartland in Insights From Beyond the Grave – another GP who’s had enough of the silence and lies.
- “Have doctors blindly become foot soldiers of the global elite?” – Why have so many leading medical organisations been seemingly blind to the basic human indecency of forcing staff to take an experimental injection, asks Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment across all health and social care” – Government consultation seeking views on revoking provisions which require COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of deployment in health and social care settings.
- “Is scrapping self-isolation safe?” – The Prime Minister hasn’t yet committed to lifting all restrictions at the end of the month and is watching Denmark closely, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Assessing accuracy of Covid death diagnosis” – HART’s take on when a Covid death isn’t a Covid death.
- “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs” – New paper from Dr. Peter McCullough and colleagues setting out evidence that vaccination, unlike natural infection, “induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health”.
- “Durham University told its Covid policies are a ‘disgrace’ as donor suspends support” – Retired financier Mark Hillery, who has donated more than £7 million to his old college, objected to the continuation of restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed, the true cost of Net Zero insanity: £18,000 a year for every household” – In 2010, the World Bank concluded that simply adapting to climate change would set economies back just 0.17% of GDP, perhaps £120 billion per year in current prices – meaning the bill for decarbonising the U.K. economy is around five times the cost of the whole world simply adapting the problem away, writes Andrew Mountford in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Let them drive Teslas!” – Once driving is made too expensive for lowly ordinary citizens, the roads will be left to the pampered enjoyers of public-sector largesse, writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
- “National Grid to drain electric car batteries at times of peak demand” – Trial will see cars plugged into grid to ease burden on Britain’s creaking energy infrastructure, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC’s bias is making the energy crisis even worse” – The national broadcaster conveniently ignores that it is Government policy that has landed us in this mess in the first place: rushing into a Net Zero target, phasing out coal and nuclear power regardless of the dependability of wind and solar alternatives, running down the North Sea, demonising the few companies still willing to operate there, closing down gas storage facilities and effectively banning fracking, even though we have plentiful reserves in the U.K., writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Sorry Justin Welby, but rewriting our history should be ‘difficult’” – That those who wish to erase our heritage cannot see why their project might be contentious is part of the problem, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Looking Back on British Universities” – British universities have largely lost their way and Vice-Chancellors are more likely to refer in graduation speeches to zero carbon policies, and equality and diversity than educational excellence or contribution to society, writes Roger Watson in Country Squire.
- “Nurses ‘sacked for speaking out about transgender patients on single-sex wards’” – The House of Lords heard that medics are “inhibited” from speaking out about NHS policies for fear of being branded “bigots”, reports the Telegraph.
- “When did artists become the mob?” – “The arts industries are quickly ossifying in orthodoxy. Dissenters are punished. For me it was far-left extremism. For the podcaster Joe Rogan it is going rogue on Covid. Those who happen to agree with dissenters learn to zip it. And so develops a culture of compliance,” writes ex-Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall as he launches his new show on Spectator TV.
- “Eight weeks ago modellers were producing scenarios saying it would be a very bad winter. Actually the exact opposite happened. In reality viruses will take care of themselves” – Watch Professor Carl Heneghan talking to JHB on talkRADIO about the failure of the Government modellers and the end of the pandemic.
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They’re at it again::
“BREAKING: The Ontario government says it has effectively frozen all donations made to the trucker convoy through GiveSendGo. It is now a criminal offence to have any “dealing” with money from donations through this platform.”
https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1491905305009131521
Tucker Carlson very definitely on the right side, almost alone at the top end of the mainstream media:
“In Winnipeg on Friday an anarchist called David Zegarac drove his jeep into four people who were protesting vax mandates….Of course police are treating the incident as a hit and run, nothing political. It’s not “domestic terrorism” or anything – David Zegarac has views they agree with, he’s a “progressive”, a true believer. How much is he a true believer? Well if you look closely you’ll notice that Zegarac has his mask on, driving alone in his car, during the assault. Prima facie evidence of mental illness”
Tucker: Crumbling regimes always resort to this
anarchist?
HE’S A OMMUNIST!
HE THINK the people are owned by the state, not the other way around.
Left anarchists are functionally the same as communists – leftists who believe they are entitled to smash all existing structures in pursuit pf their idea of the greater good. Left anarchists never honestly confront how order is going to be maintained without something that functions as a state and are always very keen to crush dissent in the forms of political incorrectness and conservatism of any kind.
The only anarchists worthy of respect are those on the right, whose anarchism is basically self reliance, personal responsibility, “stay off my land” and “leave me the f alone”.
Zegarac pretty obviously is of the leftist variety.
How would you describe Kropotkin?
It’s decades since I’ve looked at any of his stuff, but from memory classic left anarchist stuff, full of handwaving nonsense about magical communalism protecting people and property from predators and rival groups without serving as de facto states.
Used to think it could work (in its more property-respecting and less collectivist forms) in my naive youth, but grew out of it.
That tweet is no longer available. What a surprise!
I am not au fait with this. What does this mean? If I donate from the UK will the Truckers not be able to access the money?
Surely this action cannot be legal.
Well it appears to be legal as far as Canadian courts are concerned, so far. It appears there will be workarounds, but certainly money given to GiveSendGo for the truckers cannot legally be moved further into Canada. But they can still move it in the US I understand, and probably get it to the recipients by other means.
Probably means a lot of it will go missing, mind.
Why the Ottawa truckers protest has turned to cryptocurrency for fundraising
Thank you.
wow reading this bit, imagine if the state seizures the funds completely? its interesting they use the word “criminal code” now, what can the state justify the truckers are doing as being criminal?
The donations have not been seized by the government, merely frozen, but seizure could be the next step.“This is the section of the criminal code that the Ford government is using
to freeze the funds,”Brian Lilley of the Toronto-Sun explained via Twitter. “Note, they have been frozen, not seized at this point, in accordance with a ruling today by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.”
Doctor Who Helped Discover Omicron Says She Was Pressured Not to Reveal It’s Mild
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That tweet is no longer available. What a surprise!
Its quite scandalous that one of the headlines reads,
“Omicron doctor attacks U.K. Government ‘pressure the South African doctor who discovered the Omicron strain has given an interview to German newspaper Welt in which she reveals she was ‘pressured’ by the U.K. Government among others into describing the variant as more dangerous than it really is”
thats really bad considering it sounds as if the state wanted to mislead the country and to keep lockdowns longer and coerce people into taking the jab. This is going to come back to bite the state and doctors in the future as more people will think, “well, are you telling me the truth”
Absolutely. That was the message over and over, from the Government, from ‘Boris’, that it was imperative to have the boosters to fight ‘Omicron’.
And ‘Sir’ Witless Liar said that everything he’d heard about Omnicon was bad.
Bad for his ongoing terrorism campaign, he meant, presumably.
ITEM: “The Spirit Rises: The Photography of John Napper Inside Australia’s Protests” – See images from the Canberra Convoy in a Sense of Place.
Even as actual (i.e. non-MSM) reporters and photographer-journalists capture the extraordinary vitality, and refreshingly plain ordinariness of the hundreds of thousands of Normal Australians descending from all over the country to Parliament House in Canberra for a monster rally this weekend, the Covid bitter-enders are doing their level best to discredit the new truckie-led movement for freedom.
The former Trotskyist newspaper I used to write for in an earlier political life has run with the line that the protest is another regrettable eruption of “far-right pandemic populism”, whilst a more mild-mannered centrist-liberal publication has ‘exposed’ the “fake foreign websites” behind it all. See, it’s all Trump’s doing, or Putin-Nazi truckers or something malignant like that. They all agree that the protesters are “selfish” for parading their Aussie flags and not wearing masks at a super-spreader event “while people are dying from Omicron” …. zzzzz ….. zzzzz.
The establishment corporate and state media are simply ignoring it at this stage but will focus with heat-seeking-missile intensity on any crazies who do make an appearance and they will be hoping against hope for any scuffles with police (which will be started by police, I can guarantee that) to give them a ‘January 6 Capitol insurrection’ story they can go nuts with rather than talk about the issue of freedom from useless, damaging, illogical, unscientific, liberty-crushing, soul-killing Covid restrictions.
But as numerous other countries are beginning to turn the page on Covid, even Australia’s useless Prime Minister, and all eight state premiers, in their latest National Cabinet communique, are talking about treating Covid as the flu and ending restrictions – no concrete details, no timeframes and the phrase ‘treat like the flu’ has been run up the flagpole before to no effect – but the imminent swamping of Canberra by fed-up Aussies seems to have prompted a bit of “it’s time we moved on” from the government elites.
Thanks for this and all your writing, Phil. Please share any links you can provide!
Thanks once again for your reporting, Phil.
Our hearts are always with the embattled human beings in the Accursed Antipodes. We will all come through this.
And the pols can cut off travel, but they haven’t cut off the internet. We can see what’s happening elsewhere in the world.
YET!
and they’ve tried haven’t they with the anti-narrative censors they misinform people are doing “fact-checking”
The more they cry it’s fake they more the MSM reveal how fake they are.
The article by the GP Dave Cartland is dynamite, albeit long and a little difficult to read in that typeface. But if it was published in mainstream media it would have a huge effect. If only…
Unfortunately, I don’t think it would make much, if any, difference if published in MSM. He would just be dismissed as another ‘anti-vax loon’.
From the HART piece:
“One doctor told me of an incident where a man died in the emergency department from a massive brain haemorrhage as a result of a burst aneurysm. When he came to relieve the doctor after his night shift, he asked him to do the death certificate. In his exhausted state he responded, “but we haven’t got his covid test back yet.”
The situation isn’t funny. Far, far from it. But the imbecility of that remark can only be described as comical.
I thought aneurysms were usually rupture of the aorta, nowhere near the brain. Whatever, covid paranoia gone to the extreme.
You can have an aneurysm in the brain, in fact you can have one in any artery. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) are the ones that most people are aware of because of the monitoring of males over 65, and if caught early enough can be prevented from bursting with stenting. Aneurysms in the brain can be treated by tying off the aneurysm.
So the Education Sec ( yet another of the Effnik Minority Mob who now seem to rule our lives) thinks that muzzling children in classrooms is a bad idea.
So why dud the cowardly imbecile bring it in?
Because he’s a very lovely man who only wants the best for our children
https://waketfupweekly.substack.com/p/the-dark-fascist-connections-of-the
Some really excellent articles/papers listed in the Roundup today. Thank you very much! Especially the McCullough paper, the HART article and Dr Garland piece. I’ve still got Neville Hodgkinson”s latest to read too.
That McCullough et al. paper is jaw-dropping. I’d urge everyone to try and read it as far as you can.
If you were deliberately designing a drug to reduce life expectancy with plausible deniability, these mRNA vaccines would be it.
Among the detailed analysis of how cancer protection is disabled by these injections there are already one or two real-world examples listed, e.g.:
Analysis detailed in a recent case study on a patient diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma called angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma provided strong evidence for unexpected rapid progression of lymphomatous lesions after administration of the BNT162b2 mRNA booster shot [56]. Comparisons of detailed metrics for hypermetabolic lesions conducted immediately before and 21 days after the vaccine booster revealed a five-fold increase after the vaccine, with the post-booster test revealing a 2-fold higher activity level in the right armpit compared to the left one. The vaccine had been injected on the right side. It is worth pointing out in this regard that lymphoid malignancies have been associated with suppression of TRAIL R1 [57].
Joe Rogan and Spotify are beginning to remind me of my mother and her second husband. ‘He’s not the bastard you think he is, and I’m going to marry him.’ Didn’t last.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/omicron-doctor-attacks-uk-government-pressure-
Interesting comments from Aaron Bell and Sajid Javid on 14/12/2021 during the debate on mandatory vaccination of NHS staff, which as we all know, was passed:
Hansard minutes:
‘Aaron Bell
Newcastle under Lyme Conservative:
My right hon. Friend may be interested to learn that Dr Angelique Coetzee gave evidence to the Science and Technology Committee this morning, and, rather contrary to her piece in the Daily Mail, she actually endorsed what the Government are doing. She said that the boosters were definitely the absolute priority, but she also referred to masks and avoiding mixing. When asked specifically about the covid pass proposals, she said that they sounded like a proportionate response to the requirements of the situation.
Sajid Javid:
I thank my hon. Friend for sharing that with the House. I think it is important to hear that support from South African experts too.”’
I suspect she was subjected to some degrees of persuasion from that committee to agree with the U.K. gov narrative which has continuously over exaggerated the impact of the virus from day one in order to impose draconian restrictions.
Brilliant find!
Yes questions should be asked in the house about JAvid and he should apologise to the house!
Shared by GvdB today.
For all those who got jabbed and are now worried. https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/resources/spike-protein-detox-guide/
Another collection of McGowanly ridicule, which includes a contribution from the High Pontiff of The Western Lands himself. Masky Mark clearly hates the idea that anyone can be better than him at anything, including making him look like a fool.
McMore McClown McMockery.
The articles on electric cars and their integration into the grid system via smart meters takes me back to the start of the covid nonsense when we all had to do as we were told for the ‘common good’. We must all now do as we are told on energy ‘for the common good’ the trouble is who decides what is the common good? it is as if the covid stuff was to soften us all up to more readily accept all the common good stuff that is being shovelled on us in the name of the climate.
Smart meters are supposedly optional but increasingly if you want to connect up an electric car charging point or a heat pump to your electric system you will be obliged to run them via a smart meter. I suspect that when the current fixed price energy deals run out, the best new deals will only be available via a smart meter. Smart meters are the vax pass of the energy world, not compulsory but you will find it hard to avoid them. Smart digital stuff is creeping in everywhere. The smart meters can and probably will be used to control when and how you use energy, all in the common good of course. After the last 2 years I am afraid I do not trust them an inch with all this stuff but it is coming and I fear they are as determined on this as they were on the covid nonsense.
Unfortunately I can’t read the article in the Telegraph (paywall) but the title seems to imply that at peak times if yo have an electric car plugged into a charger & it is fully charged, then the charger will ‘reverse’ its actions and take power from the battery and convert it to 230v 50 Hz and feed that back into the grid. Please, anyone who has read the article, correct me if I am wrong.
The problem is that this cannot be done by the electronics circuitry in a standard charger. That will have what is called a ‘Switched Mode Power Supply’ which takes 230 volt mains and converts it to 48 Volts supplying up to 20 – 25 – 30 Amps until the battery is fully charged. That circuit will only do that one task. A completely different circuit, called an AC Inverter, would have to be fitted in the charger unit do do this ‘reverse supply’. I assume chargers won’t have that fitted??
Electric cars have inverters inside them, which can (and do) operate either way. Even my petrol hybrid has 3 of them (DC to 3 phase AC for traction and vice versa for regen braking). The traction motor is variable frequency 3 phase, and no doubt full on EV cars are similar.
Most of the EV cars will take in single phase AC and rectify it to charge it’s batteries, and can export AC as well, if it’s inverter complies with the requirements to do so. Some also take in DC directly – typically for ‘fast charging’. New ones have the Combined Charging System (CCS) connection plug points.
Domestic branches of the local network already accept output from inverters from DC to AC, e.g. I have an in house inverter that chucks out surplus from my solar panels on the roof. It only works when the grid is live, so as to run at the grid frequency, and to avoid electrocuting the workers when there’s a fault.
There already are standards re charger units to do with export limiting and the like, e.g.: https://www.energynetworks.org/assets/images/Resource%20library/ENA_EREC_G100_Issue_1_Amendment_2_(2018).pdf
GiveSendGo have put out a statement on Twitter to say Canada has zero jurisdiction over how they manage their money. All donated money flows to the recipients including The Freedom Convoy campaign
Enjoying the music on Classic FM. It is regularly interrupted by stomach churning propaganda from the government. Here’s one of the latest.
‘The air is full of Covid particles’
What, pray, is a Covid particle?
Do look at the article – What Truckers Want. It’s a great piece of journalism. The photos are great – portraits of some of those involved. MSM has been reporting on this in such a biased way – it’s disgusting. This has to be one of the most symbolic events of the whole pandemic – they stand for so much for all our freedoms. They need to win for all of us.