- “Thousands of firms are struggling to hire staff writes” – Ruth Sutherland writes for the Mail that the ranks of the ‘economically inactive’ – those of working age who are not gainfully employed – have surged since Covid, with many of them having signed off sick.
- “British Airways cancelling July flights for 105,000 holidaymakers” – Britain’s biggest airline is to axe more than 650 flights from Heathrow and Gatwick in order to avoid repeat of last month’s travel chaos, reports the Telegraph.
- “Our latest polls show twice as many people died from the vaccine as from Covid” – Steve Kirsch reports the results of a second poll of 500 Americans (a representative sample), which, like the first, found reported Covid vaccine deaths to be twice as high as reported Covid deaths. Between the two, 83 out of 1,000 or 8.3% of households reported a vaccine death and 41 out of 1,000 or 4.1% reported a Covid death. (The first found 45 vaccine vs 23 Covid and the second found 38 vaccine vs 18 Covid.)
- “How Novak Djokovic could compete at the 2023 Australian Open” – Novak Djokovic could be in line to compete at the Australian Open next year, despite being banned from applying for a visa to enter Australia for three years in January 2022 over his COVID-19 status, the Mail reports.
- “Big Tech isn’t Woke. It’s Totalitarian” – Michael Senger says that Big Tech platforms openly collude with governments to suppress the speech of their own people, crafting the false illusion of consensus on political issues of their own choosing.
- “Covid leaked from an American lab and not the notorious Chinese facility at centre of pandemic cover-up, claims top U.S. professor described as ‘Xi propagandist’” – Covid was manufactured in a laboratory in America rather than China, claims U.S. economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who according to the Mail has form in repeating the Beijing line.
- “Brown’s Covid Vaccine-Injured Tell-Tale Heart?” – Dr. Andrew Bostom writes that in March 2021, two months before enacting its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination campaign, a healthy 20 year-old male Brown University student was apparently hospitalised for Covid vaccine-induced myopericarditis, but the university never disclosed this hospitalisation at the time.
- “The Covid Pass – Europe’s new Iron Curtain” – Dr. Niall McCrae writes for TCW Defending Freedom that anyone who thought that ‘living with Covid’ meant going back to normal should have learned by now that the authorities want it to stay for ever.
- “COVID-19 Boosters and Rising Excess Mortality in New Zealand” – Professor John Gibson at the New Zealand Centre for Economic Research reports on worrying mortality data from the country.
- “This unfolding worldwide vaccine disaster” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom says it is surely time for us all to awaken to this unfolding public health disaster.
- “Shock Survey: A Quarter of Young Europeans Don’t Worry About Anthropogenic Climate Change” – Generational teenage rebellion may finally be kicking in for climate change, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
- “Fury as £1.36 million-a-year BBC pundit Gary Lineker sides with Just Stop Oil eco zealots after they stormed Silverstone in protest at British Grand Prix – and claims there is ‘way more risk of death from climate change’ than their dangerous stunt” – Martin Brundle, a former F1 driver and now a commentator with Sky Sports F1, quickly took issue with Gary Lineker lending his support to the protestors to his 8.5 million followers, reports the Mail.
- “Approve a mini nuclear reactor or delay green revolution, Johnson told” – Rolls-Royce warns it will miss the target to deploy the technology unless the Government acts fast, according to the Telegraph.
- “The unravelling of Germany’s green agenda” – Its botched transition to green energy is a warning to the world, says Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked.
- “Woke Guardian U.S. news reporter is blasted over Twitter declaration that anyone who questions transgender ideology is a fascist” – One of the Guardian‘s U.S. reporters, Julia Carrie Wong, tweeted how she believes people who question ‘trans ideology’ are fascists, according to the Mail.
- “Jordan Peterson suspended from Twitter for ‘hateful conduct’ towards Elliot Page” – The Canadian psychologist refused to delete the tweet criticising the surgeon who remodelled the actress’s body, according to the Metro.
- “Sex education is becoming far too extreme” – MP Miriam Cates writes in the Telegraph that parents across the country have written to her to share their anguish over what their children are being exposed to in the classroom.
- “Nadine Dorries ‘will have power to censor the internet’” – The Culture Secretary will be able to direct decisions by Ofcom under the Online Safety Bill, reports the Telegraph. What could go wrong?
- “Online platforms could have ‘legal obligation’ to fight state disinformation as part of amendment to Online Safety Bill” – City A.M. reports that online platforms will have the legal obligation to take “proactive, preventative action” against any state-sponsored disinformation. Which I’m sure will be used entirely impartially against governments whether Right or Left…
- “‘Doctors shouldn’t call out Mr or Mrs in the waiting room’” – A London-based conference to make GP practices more ‘inclusive’ also recommended getting GPs and staff to wear pronoun labels so patients ‘feel at ease’, the Mail reports.
- “Residents will be given powers to vote down ‘woke’ new street names” – Michael Gove is spearheading the new ‘street votes’ law to give residents greater say on housing developments and other proposed changes, reports the Telegraph.
- “The One With The Nauseating White Guilt” – Marta Kauffman’s showy white shame is far more offensive than Friends’ white cast, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Architects and academics accuse UCL of instigating Bartlett ‘witch-hunt’” – Dezeen reports that architects and academics have criticised UCL for releasing a report into bullying, harassment, racism and sexual misconduct at the London institution written by legal consultancy Howlett Brown.
- “Young people gather in London for conference promoting freedom of speech and tolerance” – More than 60 young people and students from across the U.K. met in London for the annual Living Freedom conference, reports GB News.
- “The myth of ‘artificial intelligence’” – Andrew Orlowski says that alongside wokeness, there are two other modern manias that have a distinctly religious quality: environmentalism and artificial intelligence (AI). He forgot pandemia!
- “Andy Rootsey and the superb Hannah Thomas of 2 Hare Court have secured another Not Guilty verdict for Human Rights campaigner Debbie Hicks” – This is the second acquittal obtained in a series of three trials Debbie has faced for protesting during periods of U.K. lockdown.
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What food crisis?!
It’s now starting in earnest – saving the planet, by starving the people!
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“‘Doctors shouldn’t call out Mr or Mrs in the waiting room’”
I am astonished.! There are patients in GP’s waiting rooms..??
I was in one 3 or 4 months ago, (no choice, long story).
Unfortunately I had to leave before being seen as I had shat myself worrying about what pronouns the GP was going to use.
True story!
If I was waiting in A&E for something serious and they called out the wrong pronoun I’d just ignore them until they got it right.
Good morning. I’m reporting from the Netherlands, where supposedly you need evidence of vaccination to enter from the UK. Flew out yesterday. Apparently a “paper certificate” of proof of recovery will also suffice (which I have – bought it on the internet).
Nobody checked any of the paperwork anyway. No apps, no tests, no paper certificates.
Also, no farmer protests around Schipol (not by the time I arrived, anyway).
In other news, I saw June Raine yesterday. On a train platform. I was with my colleague who had to hold me back from going and asking her about when she was going to publish a report into vaccine safety, and any supportive data she might have as to how she knew the yellow card deaths were not related to the vaccine and would that analysis be published, and what she’s going to do to investigate the falling birth rate. Which was a good job as my coffee might have ended up in her face and me screaming “murderer!” at her. I think she might be senile. She looked very doddery.
Hitherto the regulator worked on the rule of thumb that serious adverse event were 10 times as numerous as reported on Yellow Cards, so if 2,200 deaths are what have been reported 22,000 deaths should their reference:
”It is estimated that only 10% of serious reactions and between 2 and 4% of non-serious reactions are reported.”
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/yellow-card-please-help-to-reverse-the-decline-in-reporting-of-suspected-adverse-drug-reactions
If you see Raine again you might want to ask her about the MHRA selling the biological components of Covid vaccines to the pharmaceutical industry?
https://www.ageofautism.com/2022/06/british-drug-regulator-mhra-develops-manufactures-and-sells-its-own-biological-products-including-va.html
Thanks for the tip-off – we were hoping to go to Lanzarote in August and the thing that’s standing in the way is the requirement to take a PCR, which I absolutely refuse to do on several grounds. “Silly dad with his principles etc…” is the kind of thing I’ve had to listen to the last few weeks. If you can obtain a so-called proof of so-called recovery certificate without sticking a carcinogenic cotton bud up your nose and posting your DNA to China, that could work.
And Raine – wow. What a dark, dark place that woman must be in.
I bought a certificate of recovery for my trip to Majorca this summer. I don’t know yet if it will work, but someone on twitter told me it had worked for him.
I’ve had covid twice, I’ve got antibodies up the ying yang. Everyone around me is coming down with some kind of omicron variant and I remain covid free (although I did have a regular cold last week, which was no better or worse that anybody’s covid….why don’t we get our knickers in a twist about that, eh?). So bored of it now. Just waiting for the recriminations to start and the heads to roll.
Couple if questions
For UK citizen traveling to Europe how long is the proof of recovery certificate valid for? What proof of infection do they need?
Country by country, but usually 180 days. You “do” an lft (ie register one as positive with NHS), get an email from NHS confirming your positive result, forward it to the doctor who signs something saying you were positive, and issues you with a certificate. Takes about 48h.
No news about the Dutch government appropriating farmland to push WEF agenda? Stopping farming when we need more food?
Pathetic, isn’t it? So they are not even concerned about freedom of speech the committee are concerned about ministerial interference with Ofcom as if Ofcom are competent to decide what you may or may not say….Truth shouldn’t be determined by politicians and it should not be determined by bureaucrats.
“Big Tech isn’t Woke. It’s Totalitarian”
Woke IS totalitarian
The best and probably only way to combat extremism is diversity of thoughts and opinions (formerly known as free speech).
For me, the most dangerous people (whether they know it or not) are those trying to shut everyone else up because eventually it will lead to full on totalitarianism.
I had an epiphany last night. I realised that nature messed up in giving us a multi layered internal filter, i.e. everything from the skin inwards, rather than N95s and above covering our faces and other orifices.
It’s not perfect and sometimes people can do with external help but on the whole I think it’s served the human race quite well.
Stop sick pay. Easy.
“The myth of ‘artificial intelligence’” is full of misunderstanding of artificial intelligence. I have been lucky enough to work in the field for most of my career. I have seen its ups and downs, but it continues along, somewhat a victim of its own success. What were some of the initial goals of artificial intelligence? Systems that do symbolic math, Programs that play chess and other hard games. Automated language translation. Robots. Automatic program generation, Natural language comprehension. All of these goals have been met to the extent that people don’t even recognize them as artificial intelligence any more.
Will programs actually become sentient? We don’t know. But it appears that consciousness does emerge from the simple operations of a very large number of neurons, and, if so, it is likely that at some point it will emerge in a very large AI system made of many many simple operations.
However, if our consciousness is non-physical, a soul or such, then sentient AI is likely to fail. We will see. AI is a very interesting field with important philosophic implications.
It occurred to me a while back that there are three types of human souls.
The old souls. They’ve been around an eternity and have much wisdom but few listen to them
Then there are the new souls. Not been around long. That’s most of us and are often restless irritable and dis contented.
Lastly there are the type that much could be written about. They are often misunderstood. That’s the fecking arseholes.
Nope. It’s a bit unclear what the original goals of MIT AI lab were (minus idly playing around with expensive equipment, that is) but the first real goal of AI was produce superweapons for the pentagon. This was in the 1980s. After about a decade of nothing of that sort materializing, DARPA drastically cut AI funding and the so-called AI winter started. This AI ice age continued until people at Google with a lot more money than brains chose to revive this nonsense-project. Since then, AI again consistently fails to deliver anything of value beyond sensational headlines.
BTW, Macsyma is a Lisp program and not an AI. That’s not the same.