- “Delete the K in Monkeypox” – Dr. Robert Malone writes for Brownstone says Tedros made the declaration despite a lack of consensus among members of the WHO’s emergency committee on the monkeypox outbreak; it’s the first time a leader of a UN health agency has made such a decision unilaterally.
- “Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder reveals their mum found tragic brother dead” – Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder says he thinks the vaccine booster his brother had the day before his death may have contributed to the suspected blood clot which killed him, according to the Sun.
- “The BA.5 Wave in Central Europe Has Peaked” – Vaccines are failing, not many are dying, but people are on balance sicker than usual at this time of year, says Eugyppius.
- “Fauci Says He Is ‘Open’ on Virus Lab Leak Theory” – Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is keeping an “open mind” over claims that the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese lab, despite his long-standing assertion that the virus had a natural origin, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Pastor Art Pawlowksi’s contempt conviction set aside on appeal” – The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the injunction against the Covid protestor, his arrest, his jail time, the censorship order and fines against him were illegal, reports Rebel News.
- “Why are many treatment options still being ignored?” – HART criticises the continuing failure to recognise Covid as a treatable disease.
- “What has changed regarding asymptomatic spread?” – Dr. Clare Craig asks why a totally novel theory was adopted overnight.
- “Send in the HHS clowns” – Dr. Robert Malone on why public health officials running the Covid circus have failed America.
- “Boosters Now promote Covid Deaths in Europe” – Igor Chudov crunches the numbers and finds vaccine effectiveness against death falling fast and into negative territory.
- “The nudgers want to harness social norms. But Novak Djokovic won’t be harnessed.” – Laura Dodsworth says that a high profile celebrity choosing not to be vaccinated undermines the ‘social benefits’ of vaccination which governments have pushed hard, and this risks the ‘social cascade’ of vaccine scepticism that they fear; and so, they punish him.
- “The BBC Is Fair And Balanced” – Watch the latest Lotus Eaters reviewing the BBC’s “Unvaccinated” documentary.
- “There’s such a thing as too much sun for solar panels” – Europe’s solar industry is starting to buckle, writes Tristan Bove in Fortune.
- “Apocalypse from now on?” – Tim Black in Spiked on how the climate of fear turned a heatwave into a catastrophe.
- “Britain forced to beg Belgium for power to keep the lights on” – National Grid issued an emergency appeal to avoid a blackout last week, reports the Telegraph.
- “Buenos Aires sued over ban on gender-neutral language in schools” – The war over inclusive language is spreading to South America, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Frank Report XXVIII ” – Frank Haviland’s view of an eventful week in the New Conservative.
- “Fight with trans bullies has me on brink of ruin says Sharron Davies” – Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies says she suffered a huge drop in income after anxious employers dropped her because of her stance on the “toxic” transgender debate, the Mail reports.
- “Tory MPs will regret giving Badenoch the boot” – Kemi Badenoch is feared by a Labour party that finds it difficult to attack her. So why did Tory MPs back Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss over her, asks Robin Ashenden in the Spectator.
- “You cannot be fired for expressing an orthodox Christian view… We need to stop employers reacting in this way to Twitter mobs” – Watch Toby on GB News react to a woman being fired for voicing her opinion on heterosexual marriage.
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The Spiked article “Apocalypse from now on” overlooks what in my opinion is by far the biggest reason for the increasingly doom-laden “end is nigh” thinking of the last 70+ years; the political one, which is that the “powers that be” have not only understood that fearmongering is an extremely effective way to control/herd people but they have also ( since Bernays, invention of radio/tv etc ) developed increasingly powerful targeted tools and techniques to do that fearmongering with.
Other factors may well contribute to the “end of times” tendency, including the western diet, ( coffee and sugar and high GI carbohydrates etc, and not enough Essential Fatty Acids in good fat and protein foods ), which causes anxiety, loss of sleep, among other things likely to make people vulnerable to fearmongering, but I think it’s significant that Spiked don’t mention the political factor; deliberate systematic use of fear.
… …. inculcating and cultivating this fearful/”end is nigh” mindset in order to cow and corral the population/herd/flock.
Sheepdog herding sheep gif … I deleted it because the endless gif loop was just too annoying.
I like to term this line of thinking as “The death of now”. People who don’t like or want change see every change as killing whatever the state of the present is. They are generally myopic with what they want to learn from the past and have no vision for the medium to long term future, other than to preserve the here and now.
I had a conversation (online) with a friend about the the Catalan independence movement back in 2017. This was when they declared independence from the rest of Spain. My friend said something along the lines of “hundreds of years of history and they want to break it up”.
I asked him if he believed we have reached a point of perfection whereby nothing should ever change. I didn’t get an answer.
Here’s an answer: Nobody argued for universal stasis as value in itself.
Off topic but I don’t know where would be more appropriate; I wish that articles/posts still came with a Comments button/icon at the top/next to the title so that can go to the comments in one click rather than having to scroll.
I’d also like it if the number of comments was once again indicated next to each article headline/title listing, as it’s a very handy way to see if discussion has advanced on a topic without having to go all the way to Comments, ( I don’t like getting txt/email notifications as quickly overwhelms my inbox ).
I also wish that the change to “subscription/donation/pay to comment” changes had been explained to us in advance of the change, so that the regular commenters could have argued and complained about it freely beforehand, let off steam and adjusted to it.
I know that the site already lost a significant/substantial number of its old regular readers and commenters when the site suddenly began deleting the entire comment thread under the Daily Update, and like many others I was saddened and irritated by that change but I don’t like reddit so stayed here.
I thought the site would not risk losing even more readers and commenters with another such sudden drastic and unilateral change. But then it happened. No warning. And no way to discuss it without paying … and discussion dried up and dwindled almost to nothing so that there is now much less to read …
…. because it was the comment threads that used to keep me coming back to the site several times a day.
And they are now moribund, lacklustre
I’ve donated because I appreciated a link in the News Roundup, to a sceptical site I’d not seen before, and because I was so grateful for this site in 2020. So now I am able to comment again …
… and I wish that the site had not cut back/pruned it’s commenters *twice*, because that for me was most of the appeal, the strength of this site, that it provided that platform, that space and community, and it appears, so far, to have been lost.
NB. This is the first time that I have ever donated to an online publication platform, partly because I am mostly pretty broke and partly because I don’t like using my bank card all over the Internet and partly because I just don’t “do that”/have never taken out subscriptions to things, but I’ve done it because I want to acknowledge what a great thing it was setting up this site. Thank you.
I broadly agree; excellent post. Have you tried emailing the editorial team?
I think the comments are slowly building up, but many good commenters have gone. Nice to see some new ones.
The idea of selling advertising space doesn’t seem to have taken off – probably predictable.
I don’t understand why they didn’t go the Voluntary Work route, as so many/most financially successful charities ( with well paid CEOs! ) do, and libraries, and surprisingly large numbers of other services now. Why didn’t the DS ask for voluntary work/help with writing, editing, IT, etc, and just run a quarterly or annual fundraising drive to cover server costs etc?
I currently do 12-16 hours a week voluntary work for a charity. I’m what is framed as “unemployed”. I think I imagined that at least a couple of the people researching and writing and running the IT at DS were doing the same, and that if they needed more help it would be voluntary. Many of the commenters now gone were doing significant research work for free. And voluntarily spreading the word about the site/free PR/advertising.
Maybe you are right. I’m sadly ignorant on the subject. TY comes from a professional journalism background. Maybe it’s hard to get consistent high quality content from volunteers, especially if you want that content to be topical and on topics you as site owner/runner want to focus on.
I think advertising revenue would be the ideal income source, let’s hope that materialises.
I think it’s appalling that so many often highly skilled and/or time consuming jobs in large and established organisations are now being done by volunteers, or by people on virtually volunteer levels of pay/expenses, but the DS was founded on voluntary work, by Toby Young, it was built on the voluntary work model, ( and was still small ) and I think that they should have stuck with that, with paid jobs only for otherwise unmanageable work loads. Readers and “free to comment” regulars were doing a lot of the research and PR/advertising for nothing; their goodwill and involvement was priceless. .
PS. But it’s true that you have somewhat less control over volunteers …
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I always assumed most of the people who worked on LS/DS were paid, but I don’t know. Someone who seemed like they were in the know mentioned Toby had “backers” who were rich – think it was Hugh Osmond who said this to me. Perhaps they have now withdrawn as they feel it’s “job done” or perhaps they didn’t like the direction of the site. I am happy to pay the £5 a month but then I can afford it.
I’m just so sad about the loss of all those commenters who contributed so much and who created the community here.
Me too, but personally I think £5 is reasonable. At first glance it may be a bit counterintuitive to ask those ALREADY making a net positive contribution (those making good comments) to pay for the privilege, but if you consider that regular commenters are the most likely to be committed to the “cause” and the priority was to make sure the site was free to view, it makes more sense.
Do you have an email to contact the editorial team? I have a few minor questions I would like to ask them.
In reply to Amtrup above, I would say it’s a bit ironic that on an ostensibly ‘free speech’ platform, the actual commenters don’t get a say. Maybe they felt it would be too onerous to poll the commenters. You’re right though, the quality of the forum has suffered. I only recently decided to subscribe but, having done so, often find no comments at all under the News Round-Up.
Also, it seems people are commenting almost a day ahead of me even though I get up early. How is that possible when the DS only seems to hit my email about 5am or so on the day I read it. It means that some people are getting it the day before. How?
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There’s a link for this on every day’s News Round-up article. I think that’s where most general comments go, rather than the daily newsletter.
If you want a more general forum then try https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSceptics/
Much appreciated, ToF! Thank you.
“Britain forced to beg Belgium for power to keep the lights on”
Absolute nonsense as usual. The UK buys and sells energy all through each day, through its links with mainland Europe.
https://grid.iamkate.com/, analyses the national grid, and towards the bottom of the page are graphs showing the flows via the interconnects. This is the last months.
That’s a useful site. I often look at it – the almost real time displays of the balance between sources and demand is useful.
“Kemi Badenoch is feared by a Labour party that finds it difficult to attack her. So why did Tory MPs back Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss over her”
She’s a conservative. Most Tory MPs are not.
To the downvoter, which of my two statements do you believe to be incorrect?
There’s always one…
The downvotes as such don’t bother me, but if you disagree with a post then engage (preferable) or ignore!
Or two in this case
I agree with Amtrup, the new rules where readers of DS had to donate to comment were crudely and insensitively applied. The most wonderful and lively discussions stopped overnight. Some brilliant minds spent hours of their time composing thoughtful and also witty comments. We should have paid them! I miss Annie, Karenovirus, who was unwell and I hope he’s ok. Redhotscot and so many others. Please Toby how do we get them back in the fold?
What other sources of funding would you suggest? I’m not saying there are none, just that there do not appear to me to be any easy choices here.
Reader’s reluctance to pay a very reasonable five quid a month, I think has more to do with the fear of being identifiable than the money. They subtly wrote some wonderfully outrageous stuff. Oh and also the autocratic manner in which it was introduced – ie pay up or sod off!!
I’m no expert but unless people are using very fancy technology their posts can be traced to where they live/work as easily as any payments they make.
Dear Downvoter
You are clearly wiser than I on this subject (as you notice I did say “I’m no expert”) so please enlighten me as to how people can post here without being traced, and how they would be traced if they paid DS £5.
Chudov subtract on IgG4 antispike antibodies and the link
https://unglossed.substack.com/p/boosting-tolerance-igg4?utm_campaign=post_embed
I’ve found it hard to follow some of the science as to the dangers of repeated mRNA jabs but I get this. So clear. It’s about tolerance antibodies. Good if you are a bee keeper but not so good for against an infectious desease.
His article is a must read, understand and share indeed.
This c/should be big.
The article is way above my level of understanding on this subject.
“Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder reveals their mum found tragic brother dead.”
And Shaun believes the blood clot which killed his brother was caused by the booster.
A friend of mine died eight months ago within 12 hours of being ‘boosted.’
A massive heart attack but the coroner refused a Post Mortem as the heart attack was not linked to the “shot.”
Non smoker, hardly drank, no previous history of heart disease and not overweight. Fit for his age.
Coincidences eh?
The more I read, watch and listen to about the vaccines, the virus, digital ID, digital currencies not to mention the climate agenda and Ukraine and so on, the more I feel that we are watching a tsunami of inescapable totalitarian control coming towards us in slow motion. When you see a crime being committed in front of you, in plain sight, you don’t just ignore it, you do something about it. Individuals need to be arrested and put on trial. It really is as simple as that. The so-called security forces – Police/Army etc – should be actively doing something about this – at least, those that can see the treason being committed against the public – they can’t ALL be brainwashed can they? For me, it has got to that stage.
Sadly, I agree with you.