- “Sajid Javid says over-50s will ‘probably’ need another Covid booster” – The Health Secretary said it was “possible” that there would be an autumn booster “probably for those that are 50 and over”. But he added a “final” decision was yet to be taken by Britain’s vaccine chiefs, the Mail reports.
- “Remote learning considered due to Covid absences – councils” – A rise in Covid absences in schools has prompted Scottish councils to consider temporary measures, reports BBC News.
- “Would we lock down for COVID-22?” – Already the historical narrative is turning against coronavirus measures, argues Ed West on his Substack page.
- “Germany lifts Covid restrictions – and people aren’t happy” – Germans are anxious about their sudden freedom, writes Katja Hoyer in UnHerd.
- “The Kids Aren’t Alright” – Treating children the way Government officials did during the pandemic was morally wrong, write Ryan Sullivan and David R. Henderson in AIER.
- “Moderna Reverses Stance. Seeks Emergency Authorisation for Fourth Shot” – In a seemingly quick reversal after contradicting Pfizer’s request for a fourth shot, Moderna has suddenly asked the FDA to approve an emergency request for an additional booster shot of their vaccine, according to TrialSite News.
- “Is the WSJ Taking on the COVID-19 Vaccine Powers-that-Be? Allysia Finley Defends Florida’s Surgeon General on Resisting Healthy Child Vaccination” – The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley, member of the prominent business paper’s editorial board, has gone out on the proverbial limb and aligned with Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who announced on March 7th that in the Sunshine State children wouldn’t need COVID-19 vaccines, says TrialSite News.
- “Record Surge of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Heavily Vaxxed South Korea – What’s Going on?” – Not only one of the most vaccinated peoples in the world, but the population of South Korea is also one of the most boosted. Yet SARS-CoV-2 rages at record levels leading to record deaths, reports TrialSite News.
- “Are the Court of Protection Vaccine Rulings for Autistic and Mentally Handicapped Adults Unlawful?” – HART provides a detailed look at the legalities from guest author Philip Ridley.
- “A Decent Democracy” – Dr. Hugh Willbourn suggests that bringing back the selection of political council members by lot would be a positive way to improve our democracy after the ravages of the pandemic.
- “More evidence on Covid vaccine deaths” – Guy Hatchard in TCW Defending Freedom on some disturbing data from Germany and New Zealand.
- “mRNA flu shots move into trials” – COVID-19 provided an opportunity to show that mRNA vaccines can work. Now, drug companies – led by Pfizer, Moderna and Sanofi – are racing to apply the technology platform for influenza, reports Nature.
- “Real Scientific Inquiry Requires Dissent. But That’s Not What the CDC and JAMA Want” – The scientific method requires the free and open dissent from any scientific hypothesis by either empiric evidence contrary to the hypothesis or the logical extension of the hypothesis to an absurd conclusion; it is only by successful defence against dissenting opinions that scientific hypotheses become accepted as truth, argues Dr. Gilbert Berdine in Mises Wire.
- “Spina absentia” – ‘Modern’ Libs could learn a thing or two from Ron DeSantis, writes James Allen in Spectator Australia. He had core commitments to freedom and individual autonomy and against despotic lockdowns and rule by a coterie of public health modellers, and was smart enough to take on the reporters at the regular press conferences. His popularity rocketed.
- “Secretary-General’s remarks to Economist Sustainability Summit” – António Guterres tells the worthy gathering that countries “could become so consumed by the immediate fossil fuel supply gap that they neglect or knee-cap policies to cut fossil fuel use. This is madness. Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction”.
- “Boris Johnson prepares planning overhaul to speed up nuclear power plants” – The Prime Minister is considering reforms that would make it easier to build new reactors after meetings with industry, the Telegraph reports.
- “Cost of charging electric cars on the street hits new high” – Calls mount to close a VAT loophole that leaves drivers without home charging points paying more in tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Virginia Tech swimmer bumped out of finals by Lia Thomas blasts NCAA” – Reka Gyorgy claims her spot in the NCAA finals was stolen due to Lia Thomas being permitted to compete in the division. She has called on the sport authority to revise its transgender rules, the Mail reports.
- “Why can’t we tell the truth about Lia Thomas?” – Every linguistic concession we make to the trans movement, the harder it gets to defend women’s rights, argues Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Brisbane private school students are identifying as cats” – Mail report that a handful of students believe they are animals and have asked to be called “furries” by their peers at Brisbane Girls Grammar School.
- “Who is really winning the war in Ukraine?” – Getting an accurate picture of who is winning the war in Ukraine has become increasingly difficult in the information age. Military analyst Bill Roggio gives his view to Freddie Sayers in UnHerd.
- “Minority ethnic people who don’t hold the correct progressive opinions about racism are penalised and are punished in a way that white people aren’t” – Toby on GB News discusses whether ‘woke’ universities are out of control.
'Minority ethnic people who don't hold the correct progressive opinions about racism are penalised and are punished in a way that white people aren't.'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 21, 2022
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Roggio is creditable in admitting to the limitations of our knowledge, though he’s a bit pathetic in his assertion of right and wrong. Anyone in 2022 who refers to illegality of a war as though it has any meaning for a rival to the US borg, after Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, really is hopelessly naive.
Really the message of this piece is how humiliated all the chumps should be who have been part of serving up, or who have swallowed whole, all the propaganda nonsense about Russian military failure. Sayers seems to be rather sheepishly aware of this, on some level.
Roggio: “The Ukrainians are putting up a hell of a fight – far better than I think most people – even the Pentagon didn’t think they had this long to hold out against the Russians”
What he doesn’t mention here is what is clearly vital – that the Russians have been fighting with extremely reduced use of heavy firepower and considerable efforts to avoid casualties. There does seem to have been a stepping up of the use of firepower (though still not targeting civilians) after it became clear that the early hopes of the Ukrainian regime seeing sense had not been realised.
Sayers is still flailing around like a conformist infant, deep in delusional wishful thinking based on his own complete ignorance of military affairs and all the lies he’s been fed, though:
“It is still quite remarkable that Mariupol is not under Russian control. We’re now in week 4 of this campaign. there’s been heavy bombardment of it for a lot of that, it’s completely surrounded…and yet, it’s holding out! You could say it’s quite remarkable that they haven’t managed to take Mariupol.”
Roggio lets him down pretty gently, as he absorbs the basic common sense of modern warfare that you bypass resisting cities and reduce them afterwards.
Roggio: “If there’s one thing I’ve learned from all this, it’s that the Russians are not a conventional threat to NATO”
Welcome to the grownup world, Mr Roggio. I’ve been pointing this out for decades, and the usual response has been infantile fantasies about Russian tank armies surging towards the North German Plain and the Fulda Gap, as though we were still dealing with the Soviet Union.
This is the reality of the Cold War fantasies that motivate so many of the US sphere dupes (such as our host here, Toby Young, I think).
Sayers’ summing up shows that he really wasn’t paying attention, though.
“Not a conventional threat.” This depends on what you mean by conventional. Do you simply mean non-nuclear? If so, then the hypersonics may alter the equation.
If a Kinzhal destroyed the NATO HQ in Brussels, what conceivable response (short of a nuclear one) could there be from NATO?
If Russia launched a missile at Brussels with a Mystery Meat warhead, what response would NATO have to make while it was in flight?
This is Putin’s specific concern about the “non nuclear” missiles that NATO have been creeping closer to Russia’s borders for decades. You don’t know the warhead until it hits, and which is the only nation on earth that has actually used nuclear weapons?
So I don’t think he needs any lessons on the risks of rapid escalation.
I don’t disagree with your conclusion.
My question as to a NATO response remains unanswered, however.
‘If Russia launched a missile at Brussels…’
Don’t tease.
Hypersonics aren’t particularly game changing for conventional warfare, at least in the European context, they just add less easily defended against missiles to the mix, making it harder to defend key strategic assets such as airbases, carriers etc. Where they are key is in the area for which the Russians developed them, as a counter to the implicit threat of the US developing anti-ballistic missile defences that would have rendered all Russia’s existing nuclear weapons undeliverable, and thereby freed the US and its satellites to do to Russia what they did to Yugoslavia (the clear ambition of elements of the US deep state).
Saying that “Russia is not a conventional threat to NATO” is not saying that Russia can’t land hits on NATO forces, merely that there is no possibility of a substantial Russian invasion of NATO territory succeeding (other than superficially and temporarily, or on fringe areas particularly favourable to Russia, such as the Baltics).
Does territory matter anymore? The calculating in Moscow may simply be about the best way to destroy your enemy.
It does if you live on it!
In the end, the only way to really force your enemy to surrender is to occupy land, or credibly threaten to do so – that’s how the “air only” attack on Yugoslavia was concluded, by standing up a credible threat of a ground invasion.
That doesn’t mean you have to occupy everywhere. In the past nations often surrendered when their capital was taken.
The bottom line is that short of the overwhelming devastation that nuclear weapons bring (Japan), there are few if any examples of air and standoff strikes alone bringing a nation to its knees. People will take a lot of punishment as long as hope remains.
It’s Russian strategy that’s not the conventional threat – they don’t do ‘Shock & Awe’ like USA. In other words they don’t/won’t do what the perpetual Cold War warriors continue to believe.
“Anyone in 2022 who refers to illegality of a war as though it has any meaning for a rival to the US borg, after Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, really is hopelessly naive. “
Here’s a good explanation of this point:
International Law Is A Meaningless Concept When It Only Applies To US Enemies
“It is entirely possible that we may see Putin ousted and brought before a war crimes tribunal one day, but that won’t make it valid. You can argue with logical consistency that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is wrong and will have disastrous consequences far beyond the bloodshed it has already inflicted, but what you can’t do with any logical consistency whatsoever is claim that it is illegal. Because there is no authentically enforced framework for such a concept to apply.
As US law professor Dale Carpenter has said, “If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law. Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law.” This is all the more true of laws which would exist between nations.
You don’t get to make international law meaningless and then claim that an invasion is “illegal”. That’s not a legitimate thing to do. As long as we are living in a Wild West environment created by a murderous globe-spanning empire which benefits from it, claims about the legality of foreign invasions are just empty sounds.”
And here’s an example of how the US sphere elites are so shamelessly confident in their own total immunity to punishment for ignoring the supposed law, and even to honest criticism of their own hypocrisy on the topic, that they feel free to call for vigorous enforcement upon others of the very same laws they so openly ignored.
Gordon Brown here is basically the equivalent of Jack the Ripper calling for the book to be thrown at Peter Sutcliffe, if Jack were a member of the government.
Gordon Brown and John Major back Nuremberg-style tribunal for Putin
Gordon Brown and John Major – both useless, thieving, political pygmies.
Well, Rafael Nadal has just been defeated in straight sets by Taylor Fritz in the final of the Indian Wells tournament in the US. The press are saying, rather coyly, that Nadal’s shock loss to the world no. 20 was because Nadal was suffering from a “chest issue” which he picked up during his semi-final which had made him out-of-sorts from the off and required a medical timeout after the first set.
Now, a shoulder or pec or any other biomechanical issue would not raise any eyebrows but “the chest” houses a rather important organ (the heart) which seems to attract the attention of the Covid vaccine. We know Nadal’s attitude to the vaxx (get it or else), and we know that no unvaxxed players were allowed to participate in the tournament (hence Djokovic’s absence) so was Nadal feeling the pangs of myocarditis, pericarditis or some other vaxx-induced ailment? Will Novak be entitled to a wry smile?
‘Chest issue’? Sounds like the set up for a Benny Hill joke.
“It’s tough for me to breathe”, Nadal told the press afterwards. “When I try to breathe, it’s painful and it’s very uncomfortable … it’s like a needle all the time inside there”.
So, it could be a strained pec or a strained rib cartilage (I did that once as a result of an over-exuberant hoik over mid-wicket and the pain was acute) but Nadal went on to say that “I get dizzy a little bit because it’s painful. It’s a kind of pain that limits me a lot. It’s not only about pain, I don’t feel very well because it affects my breathing”. The dizziness and feeling of being unwell don’t accompany soft tissue strains in the rib area (which are easily diagnosed anyhow) – sounds much more like a problem with the heart pumping enough blood to the brain which would indicate actual damage to the heart muscle, a typical outcome of a Covid vaxx cardiac injury.
Still, make a deal with the devil (get vaxxed to the max and win an Aussie Grand Slam with your main opposition sidelined because they declined the vaxx) and the long-term health bill could get quite expensive.
Yes, I get costochondritis in my back, and sometimes in the front because of RA. It is extremely painful, and it makes breathing deeply very difficult. But I don’t get dizzy and unwell, and it’s not in the heart area. I can actually physically locate the pain and apply light massage, or a cold or hot pack to help relieve it. It’s actually more of a nuisance than anything else. I’d know if was in the heart! Having a health condition myself makes me a little bit more knowledgeable of how human the body works.
Hmmm, and he’ll mysteriously have become infected with SARS-Cov-2 and his aliments will be attributed to Covid-19, not the vaccine. Surely this lazy, uninquisitive narrative has been played out countless times?
Well you can get away with that once [covid infection and ailment attributed to that] but if it happens on a repeated basis?? you can’t keep calling it covid infection – surely people wouldn’t continue to keep believing that???
Staind frontman Aaron Lewis slams U.S gov’t and mainstream media’s pandemic and Ukraine war narrative
He’s not wrong…
I don’t know anything about the band or the frontman, but this is the level of pissed off-ness imo that Americans and Brits should be feeling about their respective elites.
“We need to come to grips with something, people. This is our country. We own the most corrupt country in the world,” Lewis began. “So my question is, what are we gonna do about it? Because we put these people where they sit, to become corrupt and to sell us out all for their gain and not for ours. They’re supposed to represent us, not themselves. And they’re all guilty of it — 90% of ’em.”
“I don’t know who’s worse — the Democrats that are trying to destroy this country or the Republicans that sit idly by while they do so,” he said, calling for the removal of corrupt politicians in Washington D.C. through the ballot box.
“They all need to be removed,” he continued. “We need to start voting for people that aren’t lifetime politicians because those are the most lecherous, snake-in-the-grass pieces of sh*t that you can ever possibly put into power.”
“The next governor needs to be you. The next senator needs to be you. We need to pick from our peers, people — people that have good ideas that we can stand behind; not these f*cking snake oil salesmen that tell us everything we wanna hear,” said the 49-year-old singer. “And until we wake up, this country is going off the cliff, people.”
“We have no order. We have no president,” stated Lewis. “Every single day that goes by, we lose standing in the world. Everyone’s laughing at us. Everyone is positioning themselves against us. And it’s not us — it’s the government that we put in power.”
“These are the people that are making us look bad throughout the entire world — the same people that have you convinced that we all need to support Ukraine even though all of their money laundering systems, all of their everything, the way that they get all their kickbacks and they wash everything is all through the Ukraine,” said Lewis,
…
“Look what happened over shutdown,” said Lewis, referring to the lockdowns that crippled businesses for many middle class Americans following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Look how many small businesses got bankrupt and closed forever. And look how the big corporations made billions and billions of dollars.”
“They just took all that wealth out of our hands and they put it in theirs,” he continued. “They took your jobs. They made you believe lies. They made you believe that a vaccine was gonna keep you safe. They made you think that a f*cking mask was gonna keep you safe. They made you think that avoiding your friends and your family and staying locked up in your house was gonna somehow keep you safe.”
“But guess what — didn’t we all get COVID? Didn’t every single of us in this f*cking room get COVID and live to tell the tale? We’re okay. I survived. I didn’t stick that poison in my f*cking body. I did just fine. I had it twice. I’m not f*cking dead,” said Lewis to applause from the crowd.
“Don’t believe a word they fucking tell you — not one word,” he said, before speaking on the war in Ukraine.
“You know, as f*cked up as it sounds, maybe we should listen to what Vladimir Putin is saying,” Lewis said. “Maybe, just maybe, when Klaus Schwab and George Soros and every other dirty fucking earth-destroying mother*cker all jumps on the same bandwagon, maybe, just maybe we should fucking take a good look at that. Why are they trying to protect Ukraine so much? What do they all have to lose?”
He’s not wrong there!
Good on that man. More people like this desperately needed.
Maybe you shouldn’t offer the choices of socialist dictator, Mr Lewis.
Definitely, Mr Lewis, you shouldn’t assume George Soros is in some meaningful way different from Putin and, certainly, don’t just decide right and wrong by who advocates what.
Your pronouncement on that subject is that of a second-hander.
Somebody give that guy a medal. He nailed it with every single word! Bravo for truth tellers.
Ron Desantis 2024, he’s literate, has his own hair and is in no way Captain Underpants.
Lady C and I were just discussing this earlier this evening, wondering when they would anounce it… and, as if by magic, here it is.
“Spring booster” and “Autumn booster“? Bollocks!
Nice, friendly sounding names for just another dose of the same shit you’ve already had 3 of!
Spring and autumn boosters? That far apart? How will that ever use up those expiring jabs?
As an over 50 who hasn’t had the first, second or third dose, I doubt I’ll be having the fourth.
Old Jabbit chops can stick it where the sun don’t shine.
how will i ever catch up I sometimes wonder – if they force it on me that is
Where are we at with boosters? I’ve lost count. Is this the fourth and the fifth in the autumn or are we still on four? I’ve lost count now. I’ve had none and, like the old Elton John song, “I’m still standing!”
Paul Joseph Watson on the not so wonderful adventure of going to fight in Tha Uke.
From the comments:
“We are in a similar naive state that we were in at the beginning of WWI, except it’s not a longing for adventure but a longing for Internet likes.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1udDZIByHd4
I don’t see any women volunteering. Maybe the equality thing was just a bad dream.
Maybe some will be going over to marry a Nazi.
Great commentary from Catte Black on Off-Guardian, in which she asks:
Is Russia REALLY “fighting globalism” in Ukraine?
It seems the Russian managed to target the training facility near the Polish border by homing in on an unusual number of +44 phone calls.
De facto, yes imo. They represent a separate power centre, and that’s what’s vital. They also resist a lot of the woke ideology that drives the US sphere borg that is globalism.
Yes it would be nice if they would stand apart from all the bad stuff that’s going on, but we aren’t in an ideal world,by a long, long way.
When Russia goes down and its devastated successor states are incorporated into the US and Chinese spheres, we will be only one divide away from the ultimate disaster that is global government – the end of liberty and of human progress, possibly forever.
The article on South Korea doesn’t mention another important point. It is one of the most mask mandated and mask compliant countries on the planet. Yet another example of the futility of face nappies.
Air Force Veteran Forced to Choose Between Getting Vaccine or Dying
https://www.theepochtimes.com/air-force-veteran-forced-to-choose-between-getting-vaccine-or-dying_4345065.html
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Isn’t the situation in S. Korea a clear example of ADE? Bit strange the article didn’t even mention such a possibility. If they’re having more deaths now, with a variant which is significantly less pathogenic than the original back in 2020 when there was NO vaccine, then wouldn’t this suggest that it’s the mass “vaccination” with a leaky, non-neutralizing product that is to blame? Wonder what Robert Malone’s take on it would be..But either way, to keep chucking more of that same leaky product at the problem is just sheer madness. A perfect example of the cure being worse than the disease here I think. Time to face the elephant in the room, SK.
Strong plea to DS to have a major focus on the many evil legislative changes that are in the pipeline and are being slipped in with minimal publicity and limited consultation.
You did a piece on the Human Rights Act reforms, but there is a whole load more happening.
Neil Oliver’s take https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/neil-oliver-even-after-all-this-time-no-one-seems-to-like-the-online-safety-bill-very-much/251873
…and the absolutely terrifying WHO Pandemic Treaty should be right up your street.
Thanks for the link – beautiful ending!
Shouldn’t the “final
solutiondecision” about the “top up” to the “booster” to the “full course” of experimental mRNA therapies by taken by recipients using informed consent, rather than by “vaccine chiefs”?“mRNA flu shots move into trials” – COVID-19 provided an opportunity to show that mRNA vaccines can work. Now, drug companies – led by Pfizer, Moderna and Sanofi – are racing to apply the technology platform for influenza, reports Nature.
And Jesus wept. “mRNA vaccines can work.” I guess that’s a very subjective usage of the term: “work”.
mRNA flu shots … sounds delightful.
“mRNA vaccines can work.”
I suppose they ‘work’ in terms of maiming and killing but not very good at protecting from a dose of the Scooby.
COVID-19 provided an opportunity to show that mRNA vaccines can work. Now, drug companies – led by Pfizer, Moderna and Sanofi – are racing to apply the technology platform for influenza, reports Nature.
Now there’s a surprise! Anyone who thought the Scamdemic was just an opportunity for Big Pharma to carry out massive Human trials without the usual ethical rules and regulatory costs, evidently were wrong.
Apply to influenza. Why, ‘flu vaccines are so effective?
mRNA vaccines showed that idiots in Government would provide free sales and marketing for, and even force people to take the snake-oil.