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by Will Jones
24 July 2022 1:17 AM

  • “U.K.’s ‘runaway’ health spending costs £10k per household – but produces some of the worst results” – U.K. health spending is costing around £10,000 per household, with the third highest share of GDP in Europe, a major report has found, yet Britain comes second worst for life expectancy, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Aggressive Measures, Rising Inequalities and Mass Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis: An Overview and Proposed Way Forward” – John P. A. Ioannidis, Michaéla Schippers and Ari Joffe with an article in SSRN which concludes that in light of evidence regarding the health, economic and social costs, that likely far outweigh potential benefits, aggressive lockdown policies should be reversed and their re-adoption in the future should be avoided.
  • “Articles of Inquiry: The Role of Media” – Scott Morefield, Jordan Schachtel and Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone review the main issues with the role of the media during the pandemic that require investigation and suggest an agenda for more extensive investigation.
  • “If nurses strike, I think they will find that the public have had enough of them!” – Roger Watson in Unity News Network says he has no doubt a modest pay rise is deserved by nurses but even if they were asking for a modest one, this is not the time.
  • “The tipping point on vaccines and Covid policy approaches” – El Gato Malo sees more evidence that the tune is changing.
  • “Will physicians ever speak out?” – Steve Kirsch is suspicious after three doctors die in a week at Trillium Health in Ontario, Canada, shortly after the rollout of the fourth dose to staff.
  • “Children’s National Hospital Small Children’s Study: Second Dose of mRNA Vaccine OK Even if First Dose Led to Adverse Event” – Trial Site News reports on a study that purports to find it is safe to expose a child to a second vaccine dose even if he or she experienced an adverse reaction to the first dose.
  • “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Fauci’s Admission: Mainstream Media Makes No ‘Effort to Hold Him Accountable’” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it’s “astonishing” that mainstream media is not holding Dr. Anthony Fauci accountable for his remarks on Wednesday that COVID-19 vaccines don’t protect “overly well” against Covid, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “Birx Says COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never ‘Going to Protect Against Infection’” – One of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration contradicted her earlier pronouncements, saying that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “Wrong, Legacy Media, Climate Change Is Not Causing Summer Heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe” – The mainstream media has uniformly blamed the heatwaves on human caused climate change, but this attribution is wrong, says Anthony Watts in ClimateRealism.
  • “Threat to close Port Talbot steelworks is eco-blackmail” – Ministers should call Tata Steel’s bluff and refuse to fund decarbonisation, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
  • “Germany could U-turn on plan to scrap nuclear power as energy costs soar” – Reduced gas deliveries mean Germany is bracing for a tough winter, with politicians decrying energy policies under former chancellors, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change” – The BBC claims that 30 years ago, a “bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem”.
  • “Race trigger warnings placed on pioneer Enlightenment philosophers” – The Telegraph reports that Nottingham Trent University documents brand great thinkers as “supposed Enlightenment” scholars, susceptible to “scientific racism”.
  • “Edinburgh University is learning the hard way that there’s a price to pay for going woke” – Weak, pusillanimous and ignorant officials thought it would be easy to spit on the memory of David Hume, but they were wrong, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
  • “Make Kemi Badenoch Education Secretary and allow her to ‘fight the culture wars’, say allies” – Kemi Badenoch is being tipped by allies to become Education or Culture Secretary, allowing her to fight the culture wars from a key role in Government, the Telegraph reports.
  • “HSBC has answered the call of the Chinese Communist Party” – The bank almost certainly had no choice about its party cell, but it does have a choice about how it describes its relationship with its new minder, writes Ian Williams in the Spectator.
  • “Women are just collateral damage to the trans lobby” – How has a trans inmate been allowed to impregnate two female prisoners, asks Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
  • “Environmentalists who warn about the end of humanity always come up with ‘solutions’ that sound designed to do exactly this – stop having children, stop using energy and now … stop making food” – Fraser Myers wonders on Twitter about some of the solutions from the alarmists.

Environmentalists who warn about the end of humanity always come up with “solutions” that sound designed to do exactly this — stop having children, stop using energy and now … stop making food https://t.co/Lm2nypyNWD

— Fraser Myers (@FraserMyers) July 23, 2022

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Amtrup
Amtrup
2 years ago

Thank you for the link to Climate Realism. Very useful. 🙂

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago

I used to admire George Monbiot for his stance on the environment but I see now that I was completely misled. The man is mad, clearly a zealot and a fundamentalist. This sort of sweeping statement by a man who is NOT a farmer and who obviously doesn’t eat any animal products as if he knows what is best for human is dangerous in the extreme. Humans have farmed animals since the beginning. It gives us a relationship with the land that is largely unfelt and unexperienced by the metropolitan vegans. I have looked on as more and more land is given up to wildlife in re-wilding schemes, which is largely a good thing but we also need to eat and we need to grow food and for those who eat meat, raise animals and so there needs to be a conscious balance. It saddens me every time I see badgers, hedgehogs, foxes and rabbits lying dead beside the road and I know that this is just the larger mammals and there are small creatures and insects on the land, fish and water creatures in our waterways and the birds and flying insects that are also in decline. Why? Is it just farming? I agree we should not be using chemicals but modern farming seems to be entirely dependent on them because farms don’t employ all the people they used to who would look after the land. Also, the effluent from large dairy farms which is routinely sprayed over the fields is a problem as it washes into watercourses and kills off all the small creatures that bigger creatures depend on. And I guess there are other things but nothing that can’t be talked about and for which we can’t find solutions. Other factors also affect wildlife – mobile phone towers and now 5G; road and rail building; house building and more. Yes, you might be a so-called champion of wildlife, George, but to dismiss farming with such airy certainty is not helpful: it is arrogant and demonstrates a profound lack of understanding.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Monobloc needs locking in a strait jacket, throwing in a cell and forgetting about. This guy is so deranged as to be off the bloody scale.

People need to WTFU!

Stop having a go at farmers and appreciate that you are being fed.

“RE-WILDING?”

Orwell speak for taking land out of food production.

The UK has not been “wild” from the time humans occupied this land.

The whole issue about having a go at farms and farmers is seriously dangerous eco-babble.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Will the real George Moonbat stand up? He keeps u-turning on everything from veganism to nuclear power to now this! He really can’t seem to make up his mind.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

“Will the real George Moonbat stand up?”

I would prefer:

Will the real George Moonbat F O ?”

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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
2 years ago

Moonbat is as mad as a box of frogs. Anyone who doubts that modern environmentalism is a deranged religious cult should simply watch that clip.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan M

A box of frogs is way more sane!

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Trabant
Trabant
2 years ago

George Monbiot is obviously insane.
He says “Agriculture is one of the largest uses of land by humans.”
Yes George – “AND YOUR POINT IS ?! ”
He seems like one of these modern people who are – perhaps – an “expert” in one thing – but actually stupid / idiotic when it comes to many other things.
Also – the lack of critical thinking / systems thinking here :
“I’m going to think about one aspect of one thing and completely ignore the second order effects of what I’m suggesting” beggars belief.
I mean really, what does the internal mental landscape of these people look like ?!
Also – he writes for the Guardian

Last edited 2 years ago by Trabant
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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
  • ‘“U.K.’s ‘runaway’ health spending costs £10k per household – but produces some of the worst results” – U.K. health spending is costing around £10,000 per household…’

I wonder if you could get a decent health insurance policy for that in a competitive free market where the State (NHS) did not have an uncontestable monopoly on payment and provision?

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

They don’t call him George Moonbat for nothing, lol!

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