- “Germany announces new Covid measures for fall, expecting another wave of infections” – The German Government has presented its plans for new Covid measures over the winter months, CNBC reports. They involve a lot of mask wearing! Eugyppius gives voice to his anger here
- “New systematic review claims masks work. No way.” – “That is preposterous,” writes Steve Kirsch as he lays into a new systematic review of mask studies which claims that masks “provide nearly a 90% risk reduction of getting infected”
- “A New Low in Mask Studies” – “It’s a masterpiece of bad ‘science,’ poor methodology, and purposeful misdirection,” writes Ian Miller as he takes aim at the same review for the Brownstone Institute
- “As vaccine toll rises, Twitter doubles down… but the edifice is starting to crumble” – “Twitter remains determined to silence communication of vaccine injuries,” writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom, but “the omerta is thankfully breaking elsewhere”
- “The murky road to lockdown – Part Two: The deeply sinister way ahead” – TCW Defending Freedom publishes the second of Paula Jardine’s articles on the lockdown policy, this one looking to the future
- “Al Gore compares ‘climate deniers’ to the Uvalde police” – Al Gore has compared ‘climate deniers’ with the police who failed to stop the Uvalde school shooter. Xin Du hits back at this “crass and asinine comparison” in Spectator Australia
- “Report Reveals the Climate Alarmists’ Propaganda Machine Is No Match for A Small Group of Honest Scientists and Academics” – The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has released a new report on ‘Climate disinformation’ and it reads more like “an admission their climate alarmist propaganda has failed” says Rhoda Wilson on the Exposé
- “Pass energy costs on to consumers to encourage them to save power, says IMF” – The IMF has told Governments that they should let consumer energy bills rise in order to encourage energy saving, according to the Telegraph
- “Britain’s lights will go off this winter” – “Our dependence on renewable energy is a major problem,” says Philip Pilkington in UnHerd
- “Could rising energy bills spell the end of working from home?” – MailOnline calculates that workers will start heading back to the office this winter as travelling to the office ends up cheaper than heating a home for the working day
- “Germany (still) refuses to go nuclear” – Germany’s light are going out but its Government still intends to proceed with shutting down the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants, writes Katya Hoyer on UnHerd
- “You don’t have to be Mr Toad to think that Mark Drakeford’s 20 mph Welsh speed limit is mad” – “Sure, let’s have slower traffic where appropriate,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph, “but blanket limits will just strangle the economy”
- “People with ‘extreme hatred of Britain’ could be deradicalised under Prevent scheme” – Rishi Sunak plans to widen the definition of extremism to include people who have an “extreme hatred of Britain”, according to the Telegraph. Does this mean Guardian columnists would be referred to Prevent?
- “Diversity zealots have created a dangerous new religion – we must get serious about taking them on” – A broadside on diversity dogma, delivered by Suella Braverman M.P. in Mail+
- “New Civil Liberties Alliance joins lawsuit against Biden administration for Big Tech censorship collusion” – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, representing Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, has joined a lawsuit challenging government-directed censorship of Covid topics on social media, Reclaim The Net reports
- “David Davis: ‘Government poorly understands its Online Safety Bill’” – The Christian Institute highlights David Davis’s recent warning that “the real danger lies with the subtle pressures on free speech that the Bill will impose”
- “The Left’s Suppression of Speech” – Dennis Prager joins Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker on the latest episode of Free Expression to explain why there is so much censorship of conservative speech by the left
- “Why does the New York Times keep putting the boot into Brexit Britain” – “Ever since Britain had the temerity to vote for Brexit six years ago, the New York Times, America’s most prestigious newspaper, has had it in for us,” writes Andrew Neil in the Daily Mail
- “How ‘The Blob’ smothered the Tavistock scandal” – “The civil service is determined to crush any dissent against gender ideology,” says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in Spiked
- “When did memes become a police matter?” – “We need to put our dim-witted, would-be Stasi back in its box,” writes Simon Evans in Spiked
- “The collapse of the ‘diversity’ industry can’t come soon enough” – Far from promoting racial cohesion, hyper-political HR activists have normalised racism in the workplace, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph
- “The ISIR Vienna affair” – Dr. Noah Carl laments the cancellation of Emile Kirkergaad by the International Society for Intelligence Research
- “Forget dragons, Beowulf now takes on his biggest foe – a university trigger warning” – Students at the University of Aberdeen have been warned that myths and legends from the Middle Ages contain references to death, blood and eating disorders, the Telegraph reports. Who knew?
- “In defence of Beyonce” – “The singer was wrong to bow to criticism over her ‘offensive’ lyrics” argues Tom Slater in the Spectator
- “It doesn’t surprise me that they’ve finally decided to ditch it” – Toby tells Colin Brazier why he is “pleased to see the back” of taking the knee
'It doesn't surprise me that they've finally decided to ditch it'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 3, 2022
Gen Sec of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young, is 'pleased to see the back' of Premier League players taking the knee before matches.Watch on the GB News YouTube channel: https://t.co/vgWokeWaCp pic.twitter.com/x1fmryn7D6
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Andrew Neil’s article is a good one. His only failure is to imply that the New York Times is still a decent paper. Like the Washington Post, it’s a Guardian-style rag with a similarly lax attitude to objective reality.
Andrew Neil became a non person as far as I am concerned when he unleashed his vile tirade against those refusing “the vax” so I have no interest in anything he has to say. He’s a Next Tuesday Warrior and needs to F O back to France.
Totally agree. Is he back-peddling on anything he said re the jab and the unjabbed yet I wonder? He’s burnt his bridges as far as I’m concerned and now he’s in my ‘Nobhead’ folder.
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After watching the BBC’s ‘Unvaccinated ‘ program I decided to complain about the bias and misinformation in this program.
Yesterday I got a response:
“Dear Dr.
Thanks for contacting us about ‘Unvaccinated’, broadcast on 20 July.
With UK Covid infections on the rise, this programme sought to understand why some people remain unvaccinated against Covid-19.
To fully explore this debate a group of unvaccinated strangers, each with their own different reasons for not getting the vaccine, were brought together to discuss their views and the programme fairly represented what happened over the 6 days of filming.
Your feedback is valued and has been seen by the ‘Unvaccinated’ team.
Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.
Kind regards,
BBC Complaints Team
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
Please note: this email is sent from an unmonitored address so please don’t reply. If necessary please contact us through our webform (please include your case reference number).”
I am so pleased they told me what the program was about…..
No words … or too many for a reasonable comment …
Well, what did you expect? You provided them with an e-mail address. Hence, they spammed you with self-marketing with the proper political undercurrent of the day. Presumably, a commitee of consultants worked the details of the wording out during a two-week discussion the BBC was billed for based on a hourly rate of £350. It’s probably not too much of a flight of fancy to assume that each of these consultants was also a part-time BBC employee who worked on this during his freelancing spare time (with the work time busily spent ticking boxes about time spent ticking boxes).
This is strange, interesting and a bit fun. Perhaps you’re already aware but multiple countries ( maybe all but I haven’t time to check ) are being individually told that their temperatures are rising faster than the rest of the world. As Dave Cullen demonstrates in the below vid, you can type into a search any country followed by “temperatures rising faster than rest of the world”, or similar wording, and you will find that country. I did the Netherlands, Poland, S. Africa and Mongolia. All of them are apparently getting hotter than the rest of the globe. The text isn’t always in the title so you may have to click on the search result but its highly probable its there. I just found NZ is rising “slightly faster” than the rest of the world. Have a go;
https://odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9/cc:eaa
Here is a brief article with multiple other examples of this long-used propaganda/misinformation technique. Its from 2010! They really have been manipulating and taking the Mick out of the masses for donkeys’ years haven’t they?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/24/faster-than-everyplace-else/
Impending climate catastrophe garners clicks >>> ad revenue.
It’s Marketing 101. There are companies set up to build algorithms with the sole task of generating attention-grabbing headlines.
The snake will soon start to eat its tail. I think it has already started.
Found something interesting but unsurprising. I did my searches on Google, which I’d normally avoid like the plague, but if you use Duckduckgo, you don’t get so many results. I checked Japan on DDG and couldn’t find anything but Google Japan and you get a “Japan warming faster than the global average” article right at the top.
So huge differences in these search engines, but given the subject matter, hardly a revelation.
Marketing bods don’t know other search engines exist. They’re all students of Google SEO.
I’d be getting the hell out of Kazakhstan as disaster is imminent. Those temperatures are forecast to “rise faster than the global average”. Well if the World Bank is telling us so then it must be true. OK, I must step away from the screen…this is a bit addicting! LOL But it truly shows how preposterous this all is doesn’t it?
https://reliefweb.int/report/kazakhstan/climate-risk-country-profile-kazakhstan
Indeed. If you could get the algorithms in question and dig down a little you’d probably find that Kazakhstan has been selected for the hottest doom because Borat is a very popular local celebrity and he came from Kazakhstan and anything involving Sacha Baron Cohen is always popular in the news so let’s piggyback that click traffic.
This is literally how it works. But once the algorithm is set going, it becomes uncontrollable to the point where it will be obviously ridiculous… to sceptics. The masses believe it all because the smartphone says so, obviously.
Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity.
There is not a single ‘Earth’s Climate’ as implied by the Climate loonies, so it is possible comparative slight temperature variation – and other meteorological factors – occurs between different parts of the World – it is natural. This happens on a short time scale and over longer periods.
El Niño and La Niña events alter relative regional temperatures as those airstreams move over the Earth. In fact headlines about ‘increasing temperatures’ are usually due to El Niño event, or recently a change in airstream direction bringing hot air from North Africa over Western Europe.
it is impossible for every Country to be getting warmer relative to everywhere else, not least because their temperatures are included in the (meaningless) global average to use as reference point.
And there are never headlines reporting cooler or return to usual temperatures during La Niña events.
Climate is non-linear.
Maybe the “Unvaccinated” team would be interested in the stats from SA. Very hard to get hold of, with so little published since the beginning of Omicron, which made me suspicious that all was not well with the vaccine brigade. Turns out that end april, in our low vax rate country, 50% of those in ICU had been vaccinated.On the plus side, in midwinter, all numbers are so low they are no longer being produced daily.
In a just and honest world (!), those of us in the human race who have not succumbed to having the novel, incompletely tested mRNA juice administered to our person will be in great demand. We are the only vestige of anything approaching scientific control in what is – in effect if not in intention – a very badly conducted global experiment.
The mask study covered in Brownestone is being pulled apart all over the place. Here’s Chris Martenson taking a closer look at it in this 16min video. The derision is deserved. The authors should be ridiculed to the moon and back and be made to answer for producing this piece of bilge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDzXLYjjT0&t=93s
Should we start insisting that we go back to only publishing peer-reviewed articles?
i know it won’t stop all rubbish publications, but will at least add another barrier.
This will just lead to the review process being stuffed with suitable peers. There’s real money to be made with selling throwaway plastic (and cloth) face-crap, hence, statistics collections demonstrating how absolutely essential throwaway face-crap is will never really be in short supply.
By publishing the crap muzzle study, Brownstone are doing what any honest journal does, opening & engaging in debate. Comparison with the over 150 studies collated by Dr Paul Alexander clearly demonstrates the mediocrity of the crap muzzle study.
FB & Twitter algorithms will be happy for the study to be republished & a careful poster can get just ripping apart of the study up.
The study is useless, muzzles only protect the backsides of the arse lickers who impose their use.
The Brownstone text on the new mask meta study is far too rabid. This tends to put people off. This is obviously another Chinese copy & paste job of the kind the people behind masks4all release periodically to help them sell their wares.
Out of 1732 surveys about pretty much anything related to face coverings (including one about people wearing gas masks while performing surgical procedures), 61 sounded vaguely useful on the outset. After the reported outcomes of 13 of these had been averaged, some suitable numbers had been generated. Hence, the experiment was a success and a paper could be published.
Mission accomplished.
Addition: All of the factually applicable of these 13 surveys recorded correlations between something covering someone’s face and positive corona tests results. That’s not a proof of causation. And that some event X occurred with a relative frequency[*] of Y when observing Z (Z being far smaller than the population of most villages) people during an interval of time in the past doesn’t mean X will occur with a probability of Y for the W members of a much larger group (so much larger, that Z / W = 0 for all practical purpose) in future.
That’s something Herr Lauterbach should have learnt in secondary school long before somehow faking his way to an Abitur (German university qualification).
[*] relative frequency = times the event occured divided by the number of members of the observed group
First I’ve heard about this and this vid is a month old. Apparently the WHO are wanting to change the name of Monkeypox in case it sounds racist and offends people. Sounds like a wind-up but nothing surprises me these days. But what on earth would you change the name to I wonder? Anyway, the lovely Dr Suneel Dhand is back with all the gen;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0JQzY2TQ4&t=0s
Here he is again in a new vid talking about deaths related to Moneypox outside of Africa. But here we go again with the ‘from’ or ‘with’ question of causality. If people have co-morbidities and/or are immunosupressed anyway ( HIV positive for example ) then wouldn’t you then be at greater risk from this disease than your average, healthy Jo?
Dunno about the UK but they started vaccinating ‘vulnerable’ groups here in the NL with the smallpox vax. Last I heard only approx 40% of eligible people turned up. It remains to be seen how popular this particular vax roll-out will be…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx1LP3CA2ok&t=1s
They’re probably going to rename it Sars-CoV3 and claim it spreads exclusively from unmasked children to unionized public sector workers who are then all going to need to go to hospital before dying there which will cause the health system to collapse because this group includes all NHS frontline staff. And the children are all going to die from it, too. It may take them 70 – 90 years before this happens, but – frequenltly – they’re going to succumb to it much earlier. Maybe already in their 30s!
Countermeasures include closing all pubs where straight people go for something other than having anonymous group sex. The latter kind of establishments will be allowed to stay open because of their inherent social and cultural value. Further, everybody must wear a mask when going to any kind of restroom, be it day or night or public or private (there are still morons in the UK doing that and each and everyone of them secretly yearns for the return of mask mandates as they make them feel safer).
In plain sight again… Promoting war as ‘good for the planet’….!!!
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3187260/pelosi-taiwan-and-climate-why-military-conflict-might-be-good
Bringing the agenda into the open.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/farmers-to-be-paid-5-000-to-cull-cows-712590
It’s all about control of resources & access to those resources.
https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2020/06/23/architecting-the-beast-system-ai-control-of-food-supply/
https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/food-trust
I’ve been travelling around a good bit lately , has anyone else noticed / got a feeling that we are much more claustrophobicly Diverse since lockdowns occurred
